Chapter 379: Escape

When the businessmen saw Li Ling's strong connections, they collectively lost their voices. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Dachang Qianzhuang has now become a climate, and it is not something that can be dealt with by a few dozen wealthy businessmen uniting together.

Jian Changbo also lost his confidence, not to mention that the queen has lost her favor, even a few years ago, she couldn't arbitrarily fight against the emperor.

When Li Ling got married, more than half of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty went, and even the two major secret agencies sent people to congratulate him.

What a majesty!

Jian Changbo thought that he couldn't afford to mess with others.

The merchants completely gave up their plans to come hard, and they once again gathered in Liang's house to discuss the next step.

"Can a living person suffocate urine? At the beginning, Li Jiajun was just a small militia group, won't we also form such a team? ”。

Jian Changbo was the first to speak, and in order to make up for his previous mistakes, he put forward a seemingly feasible proposal.

When Li Ling first organized the militia group, there were only 3,000 people, and the wealthy businessmen were all wealthy, and they were completely capable of paying the military salaries of several thousand people.

With a few thousand men and horses, Li Ling wiped out the bandits and pirates along the entire southeast coast, and now there are only a few stragglers wandering outside.

If they had a few thousand sailors at their disposal, how could they be afraid of the pirates?

The merchants were stunned for a moment, thinking about the feasibility of Jianchangbo's plan, if they could train sailors by themselves, they would not have to worry about the escort of the fleet in the future.

"Everyone thinks too simply, the reason why Li Ling was able to solve the problem smoothly is mainly because he used powerful firearms in the war, we don't have this kind of advantage, and the imperial court is now not allowed to recruit soldiers privately!" Liang Lao said with some concern.

At the beginning, it was only under special circumstances that the imperial court ordered people to set up a militia group, but now that the southeast coast has been decided, the imperial court will certainly not agree to anyone to establish a militia in private.

In the final analysis, firearms are the magic weapon of Li Jiajun's victory. Most of the other militias that did not have fire gas suffered from the battle against the Japanese pirates.

Everyone was silent, making firearms is not an easy task, and it is said that Li Ling also spent a lot of thought when he cast it. Even Andre, a Westerner, didn't know what the specific steps were.

"I'm going to have a notice.". Seeing that everyone was silent, Liang Lao said: "Now there are small bands of rogues wandering in the South Seas, there is no need for Master Li to do it himself, as long as Li Jiajun is willing to dispatch, I will be saved!" ”。

Liang Lao's meaning was very clear, and they still asked Li Ling to solve the problem.

"Yes, although Lord Li is not short of money, but no one will be disgusted with too much money, everyone can make a little more money to make gifts, with military expenses, can Master Li still agree?"

"And Andre, if this kid hadn't bewitched us, we wouldn't have decided to follow him for ocean trade, I heard that he had a disagreement with Li Ling. We simply tied him up and gave him to Master Li! ”。

"I still have a thousand-year-old ginseng tree at home, so why don't you give it to him too?"

The merchants were discussing with each other, and the gifts they gave were heavier than the other, and they believed that even Li Ling would not be able to resist such a huge temptation.

A small servant at the door of the living room was about to go in and pour tea for the guests, but he heard the people inside discussing fiercely how to please Li Ling.

These actually wanted to take Andre as a greeting gift, he was stunned for a moment, and entered the living room to serve the masters as if nothing happened.

Attention has been decided, and everyone began to split up.

When the servant told Andre that the others were going to take him as a gift, Andre was very happy.

Doing business alone in a foreign country, Andre was full of vigilance, and he had already bought off the family members of the merchant family.

At first, he was trying to persuade businessmen to cooperate with him to trade overseas, but he didn't expect to save himself once.

He and Li Ling don't have much hatred, and it is said that Li Ling's official fortune is prosperous now, and he should not care about himself.

But I am afraid that these businessmen will sow discord among them, and if they punish themselves in order to curry favor with Li Ling, it will be troublesome!

"My lord, you should quietly leave the capital and go back to your hometown, my lord means to sacrifice you to Lord Li in order to get the Li family army to send troops, I am afraid that the lord will not spare you!" The servant repeatedly persuaded Andre to let him go.

"Thank you, I know how to do it, I may not come to Mingguo again after this meeting in my hometown, this bit of silver is my gratitude, you take it!" Andre couldn't help but say that he gave the little guy a silver ticket of one hundred taels.

The little guy is also taking a big risk in doing this, and Andre doesn't understand why the master would control the fate of a domestic slave in the Ming Dynasty, even if he kills him, it won't be much of a crime.

The little guy thanked him again and again, and after making sure that Andre didn't give orders, he left!

Andre quietly packed his luggage and quietly walked out of the inn, he decided to leave Jingshi.

However, his destination was not to return to his hometown, but to travel to the East to find his son.

Antonio stayed in Dongying to manage some of the affairs of Dachang Qian Zhuang for Li Ling, maybe he could help him find the goods!

"Jian Changbo, you idiots, as long as I find someone to defeat those rogues, all the ships in their hands are mine, including your goods!"

Andre thought excitedly, and he quietly slipped out of the city gate and went south.

When Jianchangbo led people to surround the inn, Andre was no longer there.

"What about the man, the blond Westerner, where has he gone?"

Jian Changbo took his family to search for most of the day but did not find any trace of Andre, so he could only call the innkeeper to him.

The shopkeeper looked at the fierce and vicious Uncle Jianchang and was scared at that time, and he said tremblingly: "Uncle, I don't know, that Westerner eats and drinks in the store every day, and he still owes us a few taels of silver!" ”。

"To the point, where the hell did that guy go?". Jian Changbo felt that something was wrong, he was a Westerner who was not familiar with the life in Beijing, what were you doing when you went out, this old boy shouldn't have run away!

"That guy ......, no, that guest left the inn early in the morning and hasn't come back yet!". The shopkeeper answered Jian Changbo's words truthfully, and prayed in his heart that Andre would not really say goodbye.

"Looks like this guy really ran away!".

Jian Changbo knew very well that Andre left Jingshi for two purposes, he either gave up those goods, or went elsewhere to find a way!

Without Andre as a greeting gift, the merchant made the gift more important.

Liang Lao is a well-known wealthy businessman in the capital, and he usually does some good things to repair bridges and roads, so he can't help but allow him to send a letter of worship to see Li Ling.

Li Ling met with Liang Lao in the living room.

Liang Lao didn't ink either, and told the matter straight to the point.

"I'll wait until Governor Liu mentions that I came to Lord Li, if I say that the elite of my navy is none other than the Li family's army, please don't shirk!"

These merchants actually wanted to borrow troops from him, no wonder they gave themselves such a large gift.

Li Ling hurriedly glanced at the gift list, not to mention the strange and rare treasures, even he was very impressed by the precious medicinal materials alone.

Precious medicinal materials such as thousand-year-old ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum are all in it.

It's just that Li Ling can't agree to their conditions, and the current Li family army has long been included in the establishment of the imperial court, and it is not his private army alone.

"As long as you send a word, Elder Liang, Li Jiajun will naturally go to Nanyang with you to suppress bandits, Li Jiajun is not my army, and I can't decide where they go or stay!"

Li Ling rejected Liang Lao's request.

"It's ......". Liang Lao didn't expect that he had brought so many expensive gifts, and he still didn't impress Li Ling.

Come to think of it, the current Li Jiajun has been absorbed by the imperial court, and as the main force of the Ming Dynasty, it has fought a few battles with the Mongols in the northwest!

Li Ling may really not have the right to transfer Li Jiajun at will.

"Then ......, Master Li is well-informed, please wait for me to come up with an idea!"

Liang Lao had no choice but to ask for the second, he wanted to hear what Li Ling had to say!

"There are a lot of militia groups formed with my Li Jiajun, and they even have some warships in their hands now, although these people were sent by the imperial court to garrison on various isolated islands, but they are not immobile, and there are also some sailors in Jiangnan, maybe they can help you!"

At the time of the Japanese invasion, many militia groups built sea-going ships, which later became merchant ships, but the naval forces on board were still very combative.

Since the opening of the sea, Nan Zhili has also begun to cultivate a naval army, and the soldiers have undertaken the task of maintaining sea power, and they should be happy to help Liang Lao and them.

Liang Lao's eyes lit up, Li Ling had indeed opened another window for them, and he meant that Liang Lao was using his name to communicate with those group practitioners.

With Li Ling's big backer, are you afraid that you won't be able to do it?

Liang Lao left the Li family with great gratitude.

After Fang Laohu got rid of Jiang Heng's hands, he quietly came to the Beijing Division, he was naturally very happy to see the eldest young master get married, but he was afraid that Jiang Heng's gang would also come to the capital, so he didn't dare to show his face.

He observed for a few days before he dared to meet Li Ling quietly.

"Young Master, you must be careful, I think Jiang Heng and others may also come to the capital, you have to be careful of these people!"

Fang Laohu definitely didn't believe that Jiang Heng would die for the jade piece, maybe he was secretly observing, trying to deal with Li Ling.

Li Ling has the secret of activating the jade tablet.

What they didn't know was that Li Ling actually already had two jade pieces in his hands!

(To be continued.) )