Cao Huachun giggled and said something to Yu Guozhen that made him frown.

This trip to the north was originally because Chongzhen wanted to see him, but Chongzhen, the son of heaven, really has nothing to say in terms of diligence, although he is blindly busy, it is difficult to have free time. Therefore, Yu Guozhen has been in the capital for six days and still has not seen him.

He said that he had all kinds of opportunities, Yu Guozhen was not leisurely, he was blindly busy, and Yu Guozhen had his own strategic considerations at every step. Others think that he is just a wanderer, but in fact, in the future, he may have a huge use.

Yu Guozhen has always believed that Chongzhen is a good county magistrate, and he can be a good prefect if he works hard, but a province has already exceeded his limit.

"Summoning me to an audience after three days?"

"Your Majesty will come out to see you." Cao Huachun lowered his voice and said, and then said as if nothing had been leaked: "The roast duck in the cheap shop is good, you can use the roast duck in the cheap shop to accompany this wine, it is a rare delicacy." ”

"Cao Gong recommended it so, the younger generations of the cheap shop must be going." Yu Guozhen said: "There is another thing, the younger generation wants to trouble Cao Gong, the younger generation has some property, and wants to send people to North Korea to sell, I heard that the Korean country from the king to the subjects, they all admire Cao Gong very much, so I also ask Cao Gong to give a name, so that the younger generation can act cheaply in North Korea." ”

Cao Huachun heard this, and his eyebrows couldn't help jumping.

Yu Guozhen didn't wait for him to respond, and said with a smile: "The younger generation once heard that when Zhang Jun was an old man in the Song Dynasty, he was ordered to go to North Korea, and he was able to get ten times the profit and return. The younger generation is not talented, and it is best to have gold and silver, so as not to lose to an old pawn. If this trip is successful, I am willing to dedicate 100,000 silver to the Son of Heaven. ”

He is talking about the record in the Song people's notebook "Four Dynasties Wenjianlu", Zhang Jun, one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, is also one of Qin Hui's accomplices in killing Yue Fei, and he has a way to make money, and sent an old pawn to North Korea to deceive and get a huge fortune of 5 million.

Cao Huachun is also full of poetry and books, he is not Wei Zhongxian, who is illiterate but can be a eunuch with a pen, so when he knows this allusion, his eyes suddenly light up.

One hundred thousand silver is not too much wealth for him, but for today, it is a lot of money!

Emperor Chongzhen's more tragic place is here, when he succeeded to the throne, the previous emperor collected the blessing and copied the benefits of Wei Zhongxian's treasury, and there was a lot of surplus money in the inner treasury. When he first ascended to the throne, he didn't know what the official in the court was, so he hurriedly reduced his salary for several years, and the insufficient amount was made up for by the inner treasury. The result was very tragic, the gold was not leveled after Liaodi, and the inner treasury and silver were empty. Since then, his inner treasury has been empty, and the court officials often ask him to use the inner treasury to make up for the shortfall of the household department, and the inner officials will try to get his hidden silver from the inner treasury.

This is also the reason why he, as the king of a great empire, is willing to pay attention to the benefits of river pearls that Yu Guozhen offers every year, which is only 20,000 taels of silver. In the original history, Li Zicheng invaded the capital and plundered the imperial palace, some people say that he stole tens of millions of taels of silver, so there are not strict historians who will say that Chongzhen is petty, guarding tens of millions of taels of silver and is unwilling to take them out to raise soldiers, but they do not know that among these tens of millions of taels of silver, those from the imperial court's Chinese military officials, Xun's relatives and eunuchs in the inner palace account for the absolute majority, and those that really come from Chongzhen's small treasury are afraid that there are very few.

Yu Guozhen promised 100,000 silver, and Cao Huachun was moved.

The 100,000 silver is on the surface, and it is dedicated to Emperor Chongzhen, so at least some of it is dedicated to him. The Son of Heaven takes the big head, and he takes the small head, as it should be.

Among them, he neither needs to contribute money nor effort, but just gives an empty title of messenger. Moreover, Yu Guozhen said that when the king saw the saint later, it was very likely that he would mention this matter directly to the Son of Heaven, if he really mentioned it but was blocked by himself, with the Son of Heaven's desire for money, he would have to be hung up at that time.

"If so, then...... Our family will arrange it for you, just be the secret envoy of the court. However, Jimin, your audacity is very famous, and our family has heard it more than once in the inner palace. The affairs of Korea are related to the diplomatic relations of the vassal states, and you should be careful when dealing with them. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Huachun asked people to serve tea and water, and Yu Guozhen knew that this was a send-off, so he gossiped a few more words and got up to say goodbye.

It's a great harvest today. The follow-up of Shandong's incident can be regarded as smoothed out, and the news obtained from Cao Huachun that Sun Lin is the commander-in-chief of Denglai, so his construction work at Qingdao Pass can be started immediately. He was to build a large harbor there for future use, and at the same time to ensure that if anything happened to the north, he would have the power to use in the east of the mountain. And Cao Huachun promised to give a name to go to North Korea, which means that his next layout will be smoother. At this time, North Korea, still remembering the grace of the Wanli Son of Heaven to aid the anti-Japanese war, although it was forced by the Later Jin Yinwei to make an appointment with the country of brothers, but the Ming Dynasty still maintained respect in general.

It is also where the Zheng family's power is weaker, and it can just serve as a dumping market for Xinxiang. In addition, North Korea's resources are also quite available, at least, North Korea still has a population.

For the desire of the population, Yu Guozhen will never be satisfied.

What era is this? This is the age of the Great Immigration! The white-skinned colonizers of Europe, like a virus, spread their surplus population around the world, causing trouble in every corner of the earth. Any unorganized nation or nation will face their frenzied invasion, and those vast fertile and resource-rich lands will also fall into the hands of these colonizers, turning them into wealth and weapons in their hands to slaughter and plunder more.

Why did Yu Guozhen have such a layout as he does now, in order to not only deal with Dongyu! It's just that to deal with the Manchurian Jurchens, he doesn't need to lay out such a huge strategy at all. He needs a large population to occupy Southeast Asia and Oceania, which are still uninhabited, to compete with European colonizers in the Americas, and to build a "green dam" in the Indian Ocean to resist the infiltration and pollution of certain extremist religious sects.

In the face of the Eastern Captives alone, his current territory is enough, and he will take the opportunity to recruit a population of hundreds of thousands, and by ten years he will have 50,000 well-trained, fully firearmed, modern infantry and 5,000 navy. It's enough to wipe out all the rogues and the captives, but what about after that?

After that, even if Yu Guozhen vigorously implements it, he will face many obstacles, and may even miss the best opportunity, so that Huaxia will return to the strange circle of dynasty change. In the face of wave after wave of colonizers, what is the use of being able to behave slightly better than the Manchus?

He stayed in front of Cao Huachun's outer house for a while, sorted out his thoughts, and reconsidered his strategic arrangement. Just when he was in a daze, opposite Cao Huachun's house, a person walked out of a family, and when the person saw Yu Guozhen, his face changed greatly, and he immediately went back again.

"Why did you come back?" Someone in the door asked.

"Shh

The person whose face changed greatly looked at Yu Guozhen through the crack in the door, with both fear and excitement in his eyes. After staring for a while, he turned around and said, "Third brother, do you remember a few years ago, when I went to do nothing with the steward?" ”

"Wuwei Tiger Cub?" The man behind him said in surprise.

"Exactly, it's the Wuwei tiger cub, he, he's coming to Beijing!"

The "third brother" behind him immediately came over, stretched out his head to look out of the door, and saw that in front of the gate of Cao Mansion opposite, a ten-year-old boy was standing with his hands behind his back. He looked up at the sky, thoughtful, as if thinking about something important.

"This guy is actually related to Cao Huachun's eunuch, no wonder he dares to kill the steward...... No wonder! The third brother muttered to himself: "We bumped into a strange fish today." ”

"What does the third brother mean?"

"This guy has an enmity with our Fan family, and he is in Nanzhili, those Ziliukou will not make a big deal in Nanzhili, and if they can't make a big deal, the court can't move at all, and it will be a little difficult for the Qing Dynasty to enter the customs. This puppy is in Nanzhili, and our Fan family can't get close to him, so naturally he is helpless, but when he comes to Beijing...... If someone stabs you suddenly, who knows who did it? ”

"Third brother, it's not proper, it's not proper, now there is a big plan in the family, it is a worthless deal, if you really assassinate him, you will inevitably startle the snake. If the master's plan is broken, you and I will have a little effort, but I am afraid that we will not be able to survive. ”

The third brother groaned slightly, and nodded reluctantly: "What you said is true, but ...... When the master's plan is completed, if this puppy is still in Beijing, we will arrange someone to find a chance to do it! ”

"Then you'll have to keep an eye on him!"

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him personally, but Cao Huachun's outer house, it's hard for you, the north side is said to have a great deal, so let's keep an eye on the faint king's cronies."

Yu Guozhen didn't know that he had become the target of other people's surveillance, but he knew that at least Jinyiwei had to stare at him. He was in a daze, called Qi Niu, and the old cow followed behind him, and the two did not ride horses, but walked slowly towards the Yujing Inn.

Three days have passed, which can be said to be fleeting. At the time Cao Huachun said, Yu Guozhen came to the cheap shop, this time-honored brand that opened during the Yongle period, can continue in the capital for so many years, and there is a force behind it. As soon as Yu Guozhen appeared here with Qi Niu and Tian Boguang, someone stepped forward and said, "But Yu Gongzi, I have already booked a seat for you, please come with me." ”

Yu Guozhen glanced at this person, and saw that this person's appearance was not conspicuous, with a beard, and he was clearly not from the inner palace. Presumably he was just acting on orders, and he didn't know who Yu Guozhen was here to see.

He followed the man into the backyard of the cheap shop, and a smell of braised duck came to his nose, and Yu Guozhen was a little funny in his heart. Perhaps because the Ming Dynasty had set the capital of Nan'Beijing, the surname Xi, who loves to eat ducks, was also brought to Bei'Beijing.

It has been around for nearly 200 years, and it is quite large in scale and has a large number of customers. Yu Guozhen was led through several courtyard gates to a small courtyard at the back of the side, the courtyard was not large, but it was quite elegantly arranged. When he arrived, the man who guided him was changed, and the man led him to the door again, and whispered, "Yu Gongzi has arrived," and the door was opened, and another person walked out.

This time, it was a white-faced and beardless internal official, Yu Guozhen's heart moved slightly, it seemed that Chongzhen Tianzi was already waiting for him.

(To be continued)