The train finally stopped unwillingly, the boiler was still steaming, and the old Zheng Le, who was driving the train, began to carefully wipe every part of the front of the car with a rag.

There was a sound of surprise around him, which made Lao Duan very proud.

Then he saw Yu Guozhen get out of the carriage behind him, came to him, and patted him on the shoulder: "Well done, Lao Duan, your car is driving very well!" ”

Lao Duan smiled innocently, not knowing how to put his hands and feet. He was selected to drive a train locomotive because he was honest, and even he didn't know the various screenings in it.

"Now add coal and water, and prepare to go back, if it goes back as well, then this locomotive can be finalized." Yu Guozhen turned back to Jiang Youzhong and said.

Jiang Youzhong was nodding, and suddenly heard someone on the periphery screaming and saying, "Uncle, uncle, the slave and maid have asked for peace to the uncle!" ”

Yu Guozhen turned around and saw Fan Xian's smiling face.

Being able to see Yu Guozhen at this time, Fan Xian was very happy in his heart, and when he saw Yu Guozhen's happy appearance, he was even more happy, and he didn't even care about how to go back, so he shouted here first.

This is the envoy of the Qin, and treating Yu Guozhen like this is detrimental to the dignity of the imperial court and his own dignity. But he is a eunuch anyway, a slave of the Son of Heaven, what kind of dignity do you want! Chongzhen was selected and chosen, and under the mutual prevarication between the civil officials of the court and the eunuchs of the inner court, he was finally selected to have a good relationship with Yu Guozhen, and there were also considerations in this regard, and when necessary, Chongzhen had to give in to Yu Guozhen.

Unconsciously, Yu Guozhen's strength. It has grown to the point that Chongzhen can't even face it. If Yu Guozhen had not conquered the Wa Kingdom, had not completely defeated the Zheng family and the Dutch at sea, and had not occupied Dayuan Island, Chongzhen might not have succumbed so easily.

"It turned out to be Grandpa Fan, how did he have time to come here?" Yu Guozhen saw that it was him, and the smile on his face did not receive: "It is rare to meet an old man in a foreign land, and I can be regarded as half a landlord here." When entertaining Father-in-law Fan - Father-in-law wants to get in the car and sit for a while? ”

Fan Xian looked at the train with some fear, but when he saw Yu Guozhen sitting on it, he gritted his teeth. Then he followed into the carriage.

The carriage was somewhat narrow, that is, slightly more spacious than his four-wheeled carriage, but very long. Yu Guozhen sat on a simple wooden chair. Fan Xian wanted to salute Yu Guozhen, but was stopped by Yu Guozhen waving his hand: "We have been friends for many years, you are here with the emperor's order, I don't salute you, you don't have to salute me, sit, sit." ”

Fan Xian swallowed his saliva, and only had a wry smile on his face: "Yes, obey." ”

I haven't seen Yu Guozhen for two or three years, Fan Xian thinks. The current Yu Guozhen, although he is no longer as sharp as a sword when he first saw him, has a bearing that sinks like the sea. Even in Chongzhen Tianzi, he had never seen this kind of bearing, Fan Xian even felt. Chongzhen's age and Yu Guozhen's age seem to have dropped, Yu Guozhen is only standing in his old age, but Chongzhen is a hairy guy in his early twenties.

Think like this, but it's disrespectful to the emperor, but it's disrespectful, who asked him to find such an envoy for himself!

Chongzhen definitely didn't expect it. I picked and chose and felt that I had picked out the most suitable candidate, but this candidate was still greatly influenced by Yu Guozhen. Fan Xian has developed his career in these years because of Yu Guozhen's relationship, and because Yu Guozhen's relationship has been neglected, so he has carefully collected everything related to Yu Guozhen, including magazines such as "Storm Collection" and "People's Livelihood Miscellaneous", and he has read them carefully every issue.

"This steam engine, in addition to powering the workshop, can also pull a car and drive a boat, which is amazing!" Therefore, Fan Xian's opening still started from the train.

"Father-in-law Fan also knows about steam engines?"

"I've seen it in the newspapers."

"I see......"

After saying a few words without nutrition, Yu Guozhen was not in a hurry, but Fan Xian was in a hurry. He thought for a while, then got up and saluted Yu Guozhen: "The slave maid came this time, with the message of His Majesty, so that the slave congratulated the Nanhai Bo, I heard that the Nanhai Bo Yang Wei is outside the territory, and the Japanese people are ambushed, and since then there is no trouble of the Japanese invaders, the Westerners are far away, and the sea does not raise waves......"

Fan Xian is still a little level, at least these sycophant words come out of his mouth very smoothly. But with Yu Guozhen patting lightly on the chair, these words stopped.

"Father-in-law Fan, we have dealt with each other a lot, you know me somewhat, this nonsense doesn't mean anything to me." Yu Guozhen said: "In fact, there are some things you don't know, just this morning, I got the latest battle report, the Tiger Guard has completely cleared the Dutch stronghold in the South China Sea, the entire South China Sea, except for the Portuguese known as Franco, almost all the forces of the Westerners have been cleared. ”

Although Fan Xian had paid attention to Xinxiang, he was still just a eunuch after all, and he didn't understand the significance of this matter, so he smiled and was waiting to compliment him again. But seeing Yu Guozhen stretching out his hand again, he didn't let him speak: "I built Faxian City in the original Batavia, and built Zheng He City in the original Manlaga. Three thousand tiger guards were stationed in each city, and at the same time the sailors were moved south to guard the harbor - the imperial court should not have known this news yet. ”

"What I want to ask is, when the Son of Heaven sent you, what was his sincerity willing to show." Yu Guozhen said: "I don't want to go around in circles and guess, that's the work of civil officials." ”

This is really domineering, so that Fan Xian thought about it all the way around the circle. Fan Xian was even directly made by Yu Guozhen's legs tremble, so he hurriedly left his seat and knelt on the ground.

"The slave is actually reluctant to come, is this forced by the emperor to have no way!" He said with a crying voice: "The slave knows that the court is sorry for Nanhai Bo, the emperor is sorry for Nanhai Bo, and there are even a bunch of bastards in the court, and they want to be Qin Hui with enough strength." Nanhaibo has grievances in his heart, and the slaves also have grievances, just because of his close relationship with Nanhaibo, the slaves have been raised and submerged in the past two years......"

He cried and chattered, Yu Guozhen couldn't help but think of the first time the two met, he came to see him on the order of Cao Huachun, and his arrogance at that time was now gone.

However, this thought only flashed in Yu Guozhen's heart, and he was not so bored that he wanted to get back all the anger he had suffered in a little eunuch. He just wondered why Fan Xian would say everything he thought in his heart without reservation.

Curious, he asked, "Tell me this...... Aren't you afraid of sending it back to the court? ”

"What's there to be afraid of, the court is almost over, just wait for someone to push it, and this court will be over!" Fan Xian said: "Although the slave is a mutilated body, she does not lack heart and eyes. Except for the emperor in the palace, who doesn't know that the court is about to end. Zhou Yanru is a pasteur, and the princes in the court want to be Qin Hui but don't have Qin Hui's skills. Where did I get Nanhai Bo. Uncle is loyal, otherwise what is the difficulty of entering the Jingshi? ”

"It's not that the imperial court is also training recruits. Do you want to learn from our Tiger Guard? ”

"The slave has seen the tiger guard, and I have also seen the recruits of the imperial court, and the recruits are compared to the tiger guards, they are local chickens and dogs."

These sycophants talked too much, but they were annoying, Yu Guozhen didn't want to listen to them anymore, and waved his hand to stop him: "Say, what are the conditions of the Son of Heaven?" ”

"As long as the South China Sea Bo is under the command of the Tiger Guard, he will not take a step north, and the rest of the things. You can talk about it. ”

Huwei's beautiful performance this year really frightened Chongzhen, no matter how calm and light he was on the surface, but in the middle of the night, he often couldn't fall asleep because of this. Tiger Guard mobilized tens of thousands. The expedition to the South Seas, followed by the same number of people to the Wa Kingdom, the combat effectiveness and long-distance delivery ability displayed in it made Chongzhen deeply aware that it was not safe for him to stay in Beijing.

The capital is only a few miles away from Tianjin, and Yu Guozhen is tens of thousands of people who have landed in Zhigu. I'm afraid that I can hit the capital in a day and night!

Therefore, the imperial court has been formulating a strategy for the garrison of Jinmen, and it is necessary to build the vicinity of Zhigu into a fortress. But before all this is done, Yu Guozhen has the ability to threaten the imperial court.

"That's all?"

Chongzhen's attitude surprised Yu Guozhen, this stubborn and self-serving son of heaven really saw the situation clearly?

"Xinxiang's tax ...... Still. Fan Xian said again.

In other words, the imperial court still needs Yu Guozhen's financial support. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Yu Guozhen allocated as much as 400,000 taels to the imperial court, and for the imperial court, this 400,000 taels was not a lot.

"That's all there is to it." After speaking, Fan Xian added.

"First of all, if there is no edict from the imperial court, I will not lead troops to the north, but if the rogue is in trouble in Liangguang, I can only send troops to protect the territory, so if Yang Sichang tries to be arrogant and devour the tiger again, and drive the thieves to Xinxiang, don't blame me." Yu Guozhen pondered for a while.

"Yang Sichang is Qin Hui." Fan Xian said.

When he said this, Yu Guozhen's heart moved: "Is this what you mean, or what the court means." ”

"The meaning of many people in the court, including Zhou Ge Lao." Fan Xian said in a low voice.

Indeed, for the imperial court, the best victim to dissipate Yu Guozhen's anger is Yang Sichang, who has lost Chongzhen's patience by leading troops to defeat abroad. Yu Guozhen nodded, so Yang Sichang's fate was decided, Yu Guozhen did not feel the slightest guilt about this, Yang Sichang should have ended up like this.

"Then the second article, this year's various means of the imperial court have greatly reduced my income this year, so Xinxiang's money to the imperial court can only be reduced, only 100,000 taels." Yu Guozhen then said the second point.

Fan Xian didn't have any opinion on this, originally Chongzhen knew that it was too wishful thinking to ask Yu Guozhen to pay money now.

But then, Yu Guozhen's words made Fan stunned.

"If the court is really short of money, you can exchange people for three to ten taels of silver per person, and it is better for the court to organize those displaced people to come to Xinxiang than to let them go to Liukou. No matter how suspicious the court is of me, I am only worried from afar, and the rogue and the prisoner are the henchmen of the court! ”

"Huh?"

There is no shortage of people in the Ming Dynasty, if you count the hidden household registration, even after the chaos of the past few years, the population of the Ming Dynasty is 110 million to 150 million. With such a population size, it was not a bad thing to give hundreds of thousands of displaced people to Yu Guozhen and exchange them for the silver taels that the imperial court urgently needed. As for Yu Guozhen's ability to get these populations to grow even stronger, it will be at least a few years later, and it may even be a matter of decades of soldiers, at least for now, Yu Guozhen has not rebelled against the imperial court.

"I also have one more, that is, the new Xiang property, the Ming Dynasty can no longer use the excuse to boycott, if the new Xiang property is boycotted, I will not have the financial resources to pay the court taxes." Yu Guozhen said again.

"That's nature, that's nature." Fan Xian didn't know that among them, the trap set by Yu Guozhen, after all, at this time, no one in the Ming Dynasty could realize that economic invasion alone could shake and collapse the foundation of a great country.

He just asked for the name of Qin Hui in the court, and not to fall on his head.

(To be continued)