"Lianbo" is the sister ship of "Pillow Xia", and it is also the first flying scissor sailing ship of this era, and the European shipwright from Manila, Liu Xianglao's pirate shipwright and the shipwright recruited from Guangzhou' spent more than half a year together, comparing with each other, to build these two fast sailing ships.

Jiang Shore stood at the bow of the boat, looking south, and his heart was very excited.

With the help of the north wind, he could reach the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River from Inchon in just six days.

Then, you can transfer from Shanghai to Jinling, where you will meet the petty officials, and then turn back and head south......

"Shogan!"

A pair of hands stretched out from behind his back and hugged him, and Jiang Anzhi smiled bitterly.

Yu Guozhen didn't know what considerations, while transferring Jiang'an from Xinxiang, he also asked Luo Yiniang to go with him, and specified that if there was any official business, Jiang'an must discuss with Luo Yiniang.

As a result, during this trip to North Korea, Luo Yiniang really made a great contribution. At the beginning, Jiang'an was indeed at a loss, and the North Korean officials always treated him as a "special envoy of the Ming Dynasty" with more respect than closeness, and he sent a lot of bribes in exchange for praise from the masses, but there was still no conclusive letter.

It was Luo Yiniang who got acquainted with the daughter of an official in the Xianguo Hongwen Museum, and through this official, she figured out that the pro-Ming faction and the pro-Qing faction are now fighting each other in Xian China, and the pro-Qing faction has a slight upper hand, so no one wants to approach them. Then he took the route of his wife, contacted Yin Ji and other pro-Ming officials, and then exerted influence on Xianguo through them, which completed the task of this trip.

"Yi Niang, how do you feel about this trip north?"

"The world is so big!" Luo Yiniang giggled: "But I still like Xinxiang the most!" ”

"Yes, although the world is big, Xinxiang is the best." Shogishi also nodded.

When they docked in Shanghai, Luo Yiniang grabbed Jiang'an's shoulder: "Look, look, Pillow Xia!" ”

Sure enough, the Pillow was moored at the dock.

As soon as he landed on the shore, he looked at Yu Guozhen looking at him with a smile, he was overjoyed, rushed over a few steps, and immediately gave a cross salute: "Little official!" ”

From July to now, three months have passed, goodbye Yu Guozhen, although he has not seen thinness, but his skin is darker.

"Jiang An heard the prestige of the petty officials in Xianguo, and Xianguo had dealings with Jianguo, and they all said that the chief Huang Taiji was furious when he heard the news, and he wanted to welcome Azig in person, but he asked Azig to go to Shengjing to ask for guilt. Xianguo was originally at both ends of the end, but after the news of the victory of the petty officials came out, the main battle of the pro-Ming side won a complete victory, and Shen Qiyuan, Cui Mingji, etc., have been degraded, and Hong Yihan and other main battle factions have been recalled......"

Jiang An briefly talked about his activities in Xianguo, mainly to introduce the situation in Xianguo. At the end of the day, he said with some concern: "This time we reached an agreement with Xianguo to ransom Tamna Island for horse grazing at a price of 10,000 taels of silver every year, and to open the Incheon Pass for trade. It's just that I see that the domestic strife is not stopped, the lord is in chaos, and there will be a conquest at the end of the year, but I am afraid that there will be a change of hexagram at that time. ”

"By the end of the year, he has changed his hexagram a lot." Yu Guozhen laughed: "Very good, Jiang'an, you are doing a good job...... But I'm afraid you won't be able to return to Sinxiang for the time being, and in a few days, you will go to Qing' Island Pass, where I will leave most of the Gyeonggi harvest there, and I will appoint you as the acting governor of Tamna Island, and you will take charge of the affairs of Tamna Island. ”

Jiang An responded, somewhat reluctantly, Yu Guozhen smiled and said: "Your lady will go with you, at most half a year, I will send someone to replace you back to Xinxiang, this is all right?" ”

"Good, good!"

The two began to talk in detail about the gains of the trip, and Shogishi first reported on his achievements in North Korea. His biggest gain in Korea was to get Tamna Island, for the Korean court, this is just a foreign island, the number of residents on it is not large, and the annual tax on the island is also very limited, and the biggest role is the horse farm. For Yu Guozhen, this is his first reliable horse farm, the entire Tamna Island, grazing tens of thousands of horses is not a problem, there are tens of thousands of horses in the horse farm, can support a pure cavalry regiment, which is very significant for the war with Jianlu.

It can be said that Yu Guozhen's most important goal in going north this time was to use the influence of the Ming court on Korea to obtain this land that originally belonged to China, which was later called Jeju Island.

In addition to the fact that Tamna Island can graze horses, its geographical location is also extremely important, from here ships can reach the Korean mainland within two days, and can also be close to the Japanese kingdom within three days. In Yu Guozhen's plan, this is a node in the future of Northeast Asia, which must be firmly controlled by China.

Of course, he could also choose to take Tamna directly from North Korea, but in that case, he would have to send a large number of guards to garrison it, and it would also disrupt the trade routes with North Korea, as now, the "ransom" of 10,000 taels of silver per year is not much, at least he is sure that he can earn back ten times the wealth of this 10,000 taels of silver by dumping goods into North Korea.

Wool comes from sheep.

The harvest of Yu Guozhen's battle in Gyeonggi was huge, not only the title of a Nanhai Earl and the power to supervise the Nanhai countries, but also a population of nearly 10,000, nearly a million taels of gold and silver treasures, and the annual order of 5,000 Huwei B muskets from the Ming Dynasty, and the number of orders is still increasing, because the general soldiers of each town saw the advantages of this musket compared with the muskets produced by the imperial court and the Ministry of Industry, and they all donated money to change the clothes of their families.

In addition, there are as many as 2,000 sets of swords and armor, and the musket is the cheapest, three taels and one branch, and the total order quantity of the court and the general army is 11,000 branches, and the profit is 20,000 taels. The price of the sword is also cheap, but the price of the armor is expensive, Yu Guozhen sold two thousand sets of twenty-five pounds of plate armor, each set of Xinxiang production cost about six taels of silver, but he sold it for two hundred taels of silver - this is still a cheap price of favors!

A set of Shanwen armor with comparable defensive power but heavier weight will cost three hundred taels of silver, so after the quotation of two hundred taels of silver came out, all those chief officers and officers exclaimed that it was cheap, and the profit earned was nearly 400,000 taels when they were sold!

The Battle of Gyeonggi can be said to be the best advertisement for Xinxiang's weapons and equipment, and Yu Guozhen can be sure that orders from the Ming court and the general soldiers of various towns will be endless, and with this alone, he can make a lot of money.

Of course, whether it is a musket or armor, it is an export version that is sold for export, which is better than the quality of the Ming Dynasty today, but it is weaker than the official installation of the new Xianghuwei.

"In other words, the petty official came back with 1.4 million taels of silver this time?" Jiang An couldn't help but smack his tongue: "So much silver...... It's worth more than three years of income from our new Xiang! ”

At the end of Chongzhen's eighth year, Yu Guozhen ordered the general An to be responsible, Hu Jingshui and others to help calculate Xinxiang's financial income for one year, and at the same time expected to be what the income for nine years would be. It took nearly a month, and it was calculated that Chongzhen's eight-year industrial income was 415,762 cents and seven cents, and the expenditure was as high as more than 550,000 yuan, of which the deficit could only be made up by the spoils that Chongzhen had taken from the Liukou in eight years. Chongzhen fought two battles in nine years, and his income from Gao Yingxiang was nearly one million taels, and this battle was more than one million taels, which was really a bumper harvest.

"There is still a large amount of valuable money, but there are more than 3,000 good horses captured by Jianyu, and now they are all at the mouth of Qing' Island, and after you go, transport them to Tamna, and establish a horse farm there. More than 300 Yehebe Jurchens have taken refuge in us, and these more than 300 are shepherd slaves, and their leaders are Morgeng and Sitku, and you will use them when the time comes. ”

Those Yehe and other Jurchens who surrendered on the battlefield became Yu Guozhen's "herding slaves" according to their own wishes, specializing in horse herding matters. Now they are temporarily placed by Yu Guozhen in the mountain 'Dongji'mo', just waiting for the shore to take them to Tamna Island.

"The little official will go back to Xinxiang directly?" After listening to Yu Guozhen's arrangement, Jiang An asked respectfully.

"Exactly, I'm waiting for you here." Yu Guozhen said: "But before that, I still have to go to Jinling, and there are still some things to deal with there." ”

"Then I'll take the Lianbo back north immediately?"

"How can there be such a reason, you will also go to Jinling with me." Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "Your lady hasn't been to Jinling, let her also see the elegance of the southern capital, but you have to be careful, haha." ”

was ridiculed by Yu Guozhen, and Jiang An also laughed: "The little official wants me to go to Jinling, do you have other orders?" ”

"It's nothing else, but this time there is going to be a triumphal ceremony for the Tiger Guard in Jinling City, how can you be absent from such a grand event."

"But...... When I fought bloodily, I was not ......"

At the mention of this, Jiang An felt a little regretful in his heart, he preferred to be a pure soldier, but only because of his talent in language, he was sent to the position of diplomatic envoy by Yu Guozhen. When he was in North Korea, he heard the news of Lengkouguan's victory, and only then did he learn some details of the war from Yu Guozhen, and the regret in his heart became even stronger.

"Is the war only on the battlefield, if you go to North Korea, you can persuade them to take the initiative to hand over Tamna, which will save me a lot of effort and saliva afterwards, and how much blood will be shed on the soldiers!" When Yu Guozhen said this, his mood was slightly depressed: "The battle of going north to Gyeonggi, although the harvest is huge, but the loss is not small, our Xinxiang Huwei, the veteran Xinding is a total of 2,217 people went north, killed Liu Zeqing in the east of the mountain, and fought with Jianyu in Gyeonggi, losing 329 men and 244 disabled, and losing nearly one-third ......."

"Petty officials don't have to feel too much, we are heavily favored by petty officials, if there were no petty officials, we would have died long ago. Besides, everyone knows that the court is so incompetent, sooner or later something big will happen, and then it will be either a rogue or a prisoner, and we will have to fight with them after all. ”

Yu Guozhen nodded, although he still regretted it in his heart, but Ci was not in charge of the army, since he was in this era of imminent chaos, he had to be ruthless.

Be cruel to others, and be cruel to yourself.

He said that the casualty figures, especially the wounded, meant that they would completely withdraw from the ranks of the Tiger Guards in the future, and that the pacification of these people had already become a system in Xinxiang, so he was not worried. The 573 casualties were made up in Gyeonggi -- some of the more than 100,000 people were children who had lost their parents at the age of 12 or 3 and young people who were 16 or 7 years old.

These 1,000 children and teenagers also rushed to Jinling from north to south along the canal with the boat, but Yu Guozhen took the Pillow Xia by sea, which was earlier than them.

(To be continued)