"May I ask Your Excellency, what is green tea?"

Jones didn't know what tea was, and in this era, Westerners hadn't accepted tea much, and they barely accepted black tea from Guangdong and Fujian, and Jones had never heard of green tea from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Yang Chao smiled and pointed to the table: "Mr. Jones drinks that." This tea is a good thing, it can cure diseases and prevent oneself from diseases. ”

At the same time as letting people sell tea, Yang Chao had already asked people to make a pot and bring it over, since it was a promotion, it was natural to let customers taste it.

"Oh, that's right. Then I'll have to take a sip! ”

After saying that, Jones took a sip of the cup, and frowned after drinking, obviously not used to the taste of the tea.

The other seafarers did not understand Chinese and could not understand it at all, so Jones drank it and told them that the tea would cure sepsis.

The seamen immediately burst into tears, apparently afraid of the infection as well.

But Jones was still skeptical, this tea with a slight smell of grass could cure the disease?

So he sent the patient to Yang Chao's barracks, watched him chew a few mouthfuls of green tea, and left a heart, let people look at the patient, and instructed that in addition to green tea, the patient should not be allowed to eat any medicine given by the Chinese, and he must understand whether green tea can really treat sepsis.

The sick clerk still ate the meat and bread that the Dutch were accustomed to every day, and then he ate a few large sips of green tea and some clean water three times a day, but after three days he really got better, and after five days he was already strong, and it was evident that he was cured.

Jones couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised and asked to see Yang Chao.

"Thank you, Lord Earl, the crew below has recovered from their illness, I wonder if Your Excellency Earl still has that red and green tea?"

Jones had apparently come to believe that that green tea worked wonders in treating sepsis.

Sepsis, also known as nautical disease, was believed to have something to do with the devil in the era of superstition. But once you recuperate on land, time will recover.

But the diet of Westerners has not changed, they are only eating fresh meat on land, and fresh meat also contains vitamins.

But compared to vegetables. Obviously, the content is still small, so it will take them ten days and half a month to recover on land. However, Yang Chao gave some green tea to his people, and it was cured in just five days, which could not help but convince him that green tea could cure diseases.

So I couldn't wait to find Yang Chao for this green tea.

"Green tea, a lot. Mr. Jones can put it in the cargo as long as he wants. Not enough for the sake of our friendship, I decided to give Mr. Jones a thousand pounds! Remember to drink tea often on the way back. However, drinking tea alone is not safe, if you are sick. Just swallow it directly. Benjue wishes Mr. Jones eternal health. ”

Jones immediately thanked him and expressed his gratitude and was honored to receive the Earl's attention.

It took twenty days to prepare the goods for the Dutch, in order to prevent those brokers from speculating, Yang Chao has been keeping it secret, but this still inevitably affects prices, and in the short term, Nanjing's silk and other goods have risen by three percentage points, allowing Yang Chao to paste in a few thousand taels of silver.

At the same time, when he was leaving, Yang Chao gave Jones a large number of gifts, of course, all of which were commodities that he hoped to develop.

Including Nanjing's most famous product, Yunjin, told Jones. The Chinese emperor's dragon robe was made of this fabric, and it was hoped that he would bring it home to make a few clothes to wear, as well as some characteristic handicrafts. For example, fans, such as embroidery, and so on.

The autumn grain in Xinjiangkou has been harvested, the tax grain in all parts of Jiangnan has also been harvested, and the autumn tax has been handed in.

In addition to supporting local officials, Huguang's autumn fu was intercepted by Zuo Liangyu, and the imperial court had no choice.

However, the autumn levies of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong were deported to Nanjing, and Zhu Cihong, the emperor, was obviously recognized by the civil official group in the south, and there were no historical pretexts for seizure, and even Jiangxi paid half of the autumn levy.

Jiangxi's taxes are not much. According to the Yellow Book of the Ministry of Households, there are 430,000 acres of land in Jiangxi. The population is 9 million, and the summer tax is 80,000 quintals. More than 2.5 million quintals of autumn grain, Jiangxi was captured by Zhang Xianzhong last year, although it was better than Hu Guang, in fact, there was a reason to be exempt from taxes, but they paid 1 million quintals.

But the most important thing is Nanzhili, Nanzhili's tax trace is more than seven million quintals, with the current price of silver, that is, more than 2,000 taels of silver, of course, the government is not taxing with the market price, the government price of a load of rice is less than one tael of silver, so in fact, only five million taels of silver are collected.

After losing the northern region, leaving only Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, it is actually the intention of officials to be able to collect so many taxes.

But this money is not enough, Huguang's taxes were intercepted by Zuo Liangyu, and the imperial court didn't have to care about Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, but the appetite of the four towns in Jiangbei was more than just a little money, and the imperial court also wanted to give the emperor a draft and renovate the palace after the autumn grain came down.

Therefore, before the autumn grain came down, they were looking forward to the autumn grain, and after the autumn grain came down, they felt that they were even more short of money.

The four towns in Jiangbei immediately clamored for the imperial court to make up for the shortage of their military salaries, they said that the imperial court lacked them three million taels, but the imperial court officials were only short of two million according to the statistics of their four towns.

I have to say that the four towns actually bullied the imperial court a little, and this is what is dominant.

So immediately, a civil official stood up against it, saying that Yang Chao has not asked for a penny so far, and the four towns should also share the worries of the imperial court.

Yang Chao was also a little dissatisfied with the four towns, and Yang Chao didn't believe that the money they looted was only the millions of taels given by the imperial court.

They sit in Jianghuai, not to mention anything else, the salt industry alone is a profit of tens of millions every year.

Song Yingxing recorded, "Those who are in Guangling are no less than 30 million taels, and 9 million taels can be born every year." ”

The capital of the two Huai salt merchants is 30 million taels, and the interest on the loans alone is more than 9 million, and the loans are only a sideline business of the salt merchants, and the profits of the main salt industry are probably difficult to estimate.

The four towns in Jiangbei don't have to do anything, shielding salt merchants to sell some private salt, and it is not a problem to divide it into three or five million taels every year, and the news that Yang Chao received, I am afraid that the four towns really did this, why did Liu Zeqing, who was sitting in Huai'an, recruit troops and buy horses at the same time, and at the same time build a large number of buildings, it would be strange if he was short of money.

But the courtiers still hope that the court will transfer the money and appease the warlords on the one hand, and I am afraid that private kickbacks are also indispensable.

Knowing that the warlords and officials were lying on the people and sucking blood, Yang Chao couldn't move them at this time.

Especially for the warlords, the situation in the north is changing all the time.

After Yang Chao went south, he left his own people from Linqing to Yangzhou, equipped them with a large number of war horses, and let them collect information if they didn't want to fight.

Yang Chao now has faster and more accurate information than the imperial court.

But the news is still very vague, because of the conditions, the official post station has long been out of the north, and Yang Chao's biggest source of information is actually brought over through refugees who have fled one by one.

Henan undoubtedly has the most refugees, and Henan is also the most chaotic.

Originally, for more than ten years, this was a battlefield where the peasant army and officers and soldiers tug-of-war, and after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, almost all the officers and soldiers here surrendered, but after Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing.

Many officers and soldiers rebelled again, killed the officials sent by Li Zicheng, and once again raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Bandits from all over Henan also took advantage of the situation to support them, such as Liu Hongqi according to Runing, Han Jiadi according to Xuzhou, Li Jiyu according to Dengfeng, Li Hao according to Yuzhou, and Liu Xuan according to Xiangcheng, "divided into hundreds of li, with more than 100,000 people." Some of these people were local heroes, and some were unemployed heroes, and when the peasant army and officers and soldiers were fighting in Henan, they took advantage of the situation to organize regimental training for self-protection. After the victory of the imperial court, he was ordered by the imperial court, and Li Zicheng was attached to Li Zicheng after the victory. After Li Zicheng's defeat this time, they rose up again, under the banner of killing thieves and taking revenge, to attract the common people who were dissatisfied with the peasant army, and once again expressed their support for the imperial court.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty would not give up and na, and appointed Yang Fangxing as the governor of the river, Su Hongzu as the sub-governor of Hebei Province, Shen Chaoji as the sub-governor of Hebei Province, Luo Xiujin as the governor of Henan, Zu Kefa as the chief military officer of Henan Weihui, and Jin Yuhe as the deputy general of Huaiqing in Henan.

Henan was armed by local regiments, Ming officers and soldiers, the remnants of the peasant army and the Manchu Quartet, extremely chaotic, armed from all walks of life looted, and the people were poorly struggling.

The situation in Shandong was also roughly the same, with officers and soldiers, peasant armies, Manchus and local regimental training intertwined, but the Manchus slowly occupied the top, and it is worth mentioning that it was Wu Sangui, who the small imperial court wanted to canonize, who helped the Manchus quickly gain an advantage.

Shandong and Henan are close to Jiangnan, so the news received is more accurate, as for the more north, the value is limited, Yang Chao only heard some very uncertain news, some say that the Qing army pursued Li Zicheng to Shanxi, and some say that the Qing army has entered Shaanxi.

If you have to get more accurate information, you have to set up information stations in more places, but how to penetrate the north is a difficult problem.

A recent agreement by the imperial court caught Yang Chao's attention.

The small court finally decided to send an envoy to the Manchus.

Contacting the Manchu Qing Dynasty to unite the thieves, this idea has always been insisted on by Shi Kefa, but Yang Chao has always opposed it.

But there is no personal contradiction between Yang Chao and Shi Kefa, on the contrary, Yang Chao has always respected Shi Kefa, knowing that this is one of the few honest officials, and even Shi Kefa became the first assistant under Yang Chao's efforts.

At that time, there were a lot of people vying to be the first assistant, Ma Shiying, who won the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Dongge University Scholar when King Fu was in charge of the country, was a lecturer of Zhu Cihong, and Wang Ze, who was named Taifu, and even the lord Liu Kongzhao competed to be the first assistant.

Liu Kongzhao was first pressed down by the Wenchen Union, and moved out of the ancestral system without Xunchen as the first assistant, and Ma Shiying also kept a low profile for a while because of King Fu, and finally with the support of Yang Chao, Shi Kefa overpowered Wang Duo and became the new first assistant.

So Yang Chao and Shi Kefa just had political disagreements, and the emperor obviously trusted Yang Chao more, and had already vetoed this proposal, and was not allowed to discuss it again, I don't know why he agreed again this time.

Yang Chao decided to operate this matter. (To be continued)

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