Kong Youde and Mao Wenlong entered Beijing.

Because they are all military generals, the emperor can see it or not, so he sent Yue Su to arrange, that is. Yue Su asked the Ministry of War to give him the credentials for arranging his appointment, Kong Youde went to Phi Island, and Zheng Zhilong went to Dengzhou.

Before taking office, of course, he had to go to Lord Yue's house, and Zheng Zhilong also wanted to meet his son. As for Kong Youde, he came with his wife, and he also led a girl named Kong Sizhen.

Yue Su was hospitably entertained in the house, the children played together, and the adults chatted and drank, so it was not lively.

The family opened a library to study, and his daughter had no companion, Yue Su saw that Kong Sizhen was very well-behaved, and had the intention to keep her studying with her daughter in the house. Kong Youde was naturally happy and agreed, so Yue Su ordered someone to go to the household department and arranged a house for Kong Youde in Beijing. Zheng Zhilong also came with his wife, and when he saw that his son Zheng Chenggong had grown into a big child, he was very happy and reluctant to give up on his son. Since this is the case, then let's stay in Beijing and live, Yue Su asked people to arrange a house for Zheng Zhilong.

Compared with Kong Youde, Zheng Zhilong's task is relatively tight, and the newly opened Rizhao Port can be regarded as his territory, so he has to follow Yue Su the next day. Kong Youde can stay in the capital for a few more days and then go to Phi Island.

That night, Yue Su also arranged the affairs of the family, urged his children to study hard, and entrusted Yue Sen to Ruan Aoyue, who was in charge of taking care of him during his absence. Yue Su left Tie Qi and Tong Zhou at home to take care of the affairs of the family.

Early the next morning, he entered the palace to bid farewell to the emperor and the queen mother, and then took Zheng Zhilong, Jiang Jie, Jin Chan and a group of subordinates to Rizhao on the fleet brought by Zheng Zhilong.

It is no secret that the imperial court opened a port in Rizhao, and the world knows about it. All the businessmen who had some foresight moved closer to Rizhao County as quickly as possible. Especially the merchants in Beijing, the big guys know that Lord Yue has gone in person, which shows how much the imperial court attaches great importance to this opening of the sea, and it may be able to get some benefits if you strike first.

Overseas trade makes money, not to mention that businessmen know, and officials also know that there are officials with heads and faces in Beijing, such as British Duke and Guangenbo, who privately send people to Rizhao.

Yue Su went to sea from Tongzhou and came to Rizhao County in a day. Wu Rumeng, the governor of Shandong, brought the political envoy, the Qingzhou prefect, the Rizhao county magistrate and other officials to the beach to greet him. Yue Su got off the boat, made a simple polite gesture, and camped ten miles away from the sea, setting up a line. Subsequently, one after another government decrees were issued from within Yue Su's line.

Since it was to open a port terminal, it was natural to build a fort just in case. There should also be a large camp of sailors, and these things will be left to Wu Rumeng and Zheng Zhilong to do.

In addition, Yue Su also ordered land requisition, and all the land near the coast outside Rizhao County was expropriated. As long as there is a master, take the title deed, go to Lord Yue to get the silver to move, even the house with the land, Yue Su gives a very high price, 25 taels per mu, and the house is also given silver according to the house price in the county. If they don't want money, Yue Su can give them back the house in the city.

This condition made the people very happy, their land, more than one mu can be worth more than a dozen taels of silver, Yue Su gave twenty-five taels, this money, no matter where you go, you can buy better land.

However, Yue Su soon discovered that the land here, which is in a better location, already has owners, and the owner of these lands is Anmin Bank.

Yue Su immediately asked people to find Li Yuanchen, and Li Gongzi was already in the city, so he was happy to arrive.

When they met in the Xingyuan big tent, Yue Su was straight to the point, and said directly: "Brother Xian, you bought all the land in a good location here, how can you let the imperial court operate?" ”

"Brother-in-law, what you said is wrong, what do you mean I bought it, Anmin Bank is also a transaction of the imperial court, and our bank is also an investment business, otherwise how to make money. In addition to opening branches on this land, our bank is also going to build shops and warehouses, which will then be rented to merchants to earn some silver. Brother-in-law, our bank won't be able to do this. Li Yuanchen said with a smile. …,

"You kid start early." Although Yue Su was unhappy in his heart, Li Yuanchen's words were not wrong, Anmin Bank was not his Li family's own business, but also the business of the imperial court. Looking at it now, the court let this kid take advantage of the loophole.

Anyway, the matter has come to this, and Yue Su has nothing to say, only said: "Then you build yours, and the court builds the court." ”

Next, both the government and Anmin Bank took action. Yuesu mainly built warehouses and shops, and as Li Yuanchen thought, the shops were rented to merchants, and the warehouses were operated by the imperial court.

However, Li Yuanchen's means seem to be higher, he has built shops and goods stores on his own territory, and has also opened restaurants, inns, and green buildings.

It is easy to do things with money, more money, and more manpower, and in only two months of work, Rizhao Port has some appearance, which is very different from before. After the store was built, the imperial court and Anmin Bank began to rent together, and the site occupied by Anmin Bank was relatively much better, especially before the shops were opened, restaurants, inns, and green buildings had already opened, which really made the businessmen optimistic, and they came here to rent first.

There are so many businessmen here, Li Yuanchen's restaurant, inn, and Qinglou are all quite good, who is called Yue Su, there is no one, almost all the merchants who come here are attracted.

But Li Yuanchen's shop was limited after all, and within three days, even the worst shop was rented out, and the merchants saw that there was no more here, so they had to go to the imperial court to rent it.

Yue Su took a look, and secretly said in his heart that his ability to do business was too much worse than Li Yuanchen.

The work of leasing the shops was carried out in conjunction with the work of shipping, and after the construction of the naval battalion and the forts, Yue Su said that the merchants would be allowed to go to sea. Since the current warships do not need to fight, Yue Su first took out 50 large sea ships and chartered them to carry out overseas business.

Now merchants who want to go to sea to trade, if they do not have a ship, can rent a warship of the imperial court, and in the warship, every fifty square meters is a unit, the rent is five hundred taels of silver, and the protection fee of two hundred taels of silver must be paid.

Although the imperial court's sea ships were large, they could only be isolated from 20 units, after all, there were still officers and soldiers on board, and there had to be a place to store artillery, shells, and other ordnance.

In addition to paying the protection fee, there is also a 100% tax payable when leaving the port.

The price seems to be quite high, but the merchants calculated, this transaction is very cost-effective, there is a court warship escort, basically there will be no mistakes, once the goods are transported to foreign countries, it is several times, or even more than ten or twenty times the profit, this transaction is done.

As a result, the merchants rushed to buy goods, and many goods such as silk, porcelain, and tea were transported over one after another and boarded ships to sell at sea.

The first batch to leave the port was to take the imperial court's warships, and the next ones were not good, the imperial court's warships were responsible for protection, and the ships transported the goods that the imperial court needed to sell. Merchants had to get their own boats, go to sea here, and pay taxes and protection fees.

In the second batch, there will be more than 80 merchant ships, and each ship will be charged a protection fee ranging from 100 taels to 300 li, depending on its size. This calculation will allow the imperial court to earn more than 10,000 taels of protection fees alone. The imperial court also sent thirty warships to accompany them to sea.

It takes at least two or three months to go to sea and return goods, or even longer. Three months later, the first batch of warships to go to sea returned, and the merchants who chartered warships to go to sea brought all the goods they brought with them were sold, making a lot of money, and came back with a lot of goods in demand abroad.

The customs duty fee is 200 percent, and the businessmen are unequivocal and pay taxes according to the regulations, and they dare not slack off in the slightest. After all, Lord Yue is still here, who dares to evade taxes. …,

As soon as the goods were disembarked, the merchants waiting on the shore came forward to ask for a price, and once the agreement was made, the transaction was immediately made.

With the passage of time, more and more people go to sea, and Rizhao Port is becoming more and more prosperous.

"Alas......"

In the Shengjing Palace, Huang Taiji's face was haggard and worried, looking at him, he seemed to be anxious about something.

Can Huang Taiji not be annoyed, last time he planned to make a detour to enter the customs, but he encountered the Ming army stubbornly defending, and his own cavalry was useless.

This defeat dealt a great blow to the morale of the Jurchens, and after returning to Shengjing, trouble soon came. The Jurchens were nomadic and unwilling to farm, and the land was cultivated by the Han Chinese. At present, the year is not good, the grain harvested is really not much, and the grain cultivated by the Han people is basically snatched away by the Jurchens, and the ethnic contradictions are intensifying day by day. Although Huang Taiji had the intention to ease, he had no choice but that the food was indeed not enough to eat, and if it was distributed to the Han people, the Jurchens would get less, and everyone would have to go hungry. Fighting the war on his own, relying on the Jurchens, these Han people, are much worse. However, these slaves cannot be starved to death, they are dead, who will farm. Reluctantly give the Han slaves a mouthful of food to eat, and don't let them die, that's it.

Huang Taiji thought that the next year would be better, but it was the same, there were not a few rains, and there was still not much grain in the field. Last year, the surplus grain in the treasury was almost all eaten, and if it went on like this, it would really not be necessary.

There seem to be only three roads in front of Huang Taiji.

The first is still the old way, leading the army into the customs to rob. However, the nine sides of the imperial court were heavily defended, and it was impossible to storm at all, and the only way was to attack suddenly, win by surprise, and kill the Ming army defending the city by surprise and rush into the pass. Who would have thought that there was an unlucky Wu Sinan in the Ming Dynasty, as soon as he thought of this person, he made Huang Taiji hate itchy, but whoever could enter and exit the pass, now they will follow his example, digging a trap at the door, affecting the speed of the cavalry raid. Raiding can't work, if you want to attack the Great Wall, how is it possible.

Article 2, negotiate peace and trade with the Ming Dynasty. Huang Taiji repeatedly proposed to negotiate peace, and the two countries traded, but every time the Ming Dynasty gave it a no, let alone negotiate peace, you want to be a minister and don't give you a chance.

The third is also a road that Huang Taiji will never take. This path is to restore the nomadic nature, withdraw from the city, and let the tribesmen continue to live as nomads.

In the imperial study, in addition to Huang Taiji, there is also Fan Wencheng. Huang Taiji specially called him here today, but since Fan Wencheng entered the house, Huang Taiji has not taken the initiative to say a word to Fan Wencheng except for courtesy. Fan Wencheng just sat like this.

Fan Wencheng's patience has always been very good, Huang Taiji doesn't speak, he doesn't speak, he just sits all the time. After a while, Huang Taiji finally spoke, "Mr. Fan, now you have seen the situation of my Jurchen. The grain harvest is poor, and the internal situation is really unstable, if it goes on like this for a long time......" In the end, Huang Taiji shook his head helplessly,

"Great Khan, the current situation, the minions have also seen it. Waiting like this is definitely not an option, we must take action. Fan Wencheng said calmly.

"Ben Khan also knows that something should be done, but now, it is too difficult to enter the customs, how else can we move? Sir, I wonder what you can do? Huang Taiji said.

"Yes! But there is only one. Fan Wencheng said affirmatively.

"What's the method?" As soon as Huang Taiji heard that Fan Wencheng had a way, he hurriedly asked.

"Emperor!" Fan Wencheng said firmly.

"Calling the emperor ......" Huang Taiji heard this, not only wondered, what does it matter how to solve the material problem. He then asked: "Mr. Fan, it doesn't seem appropriate to be called emperor now, and even if Ben Khan is called emperor, it will not solve the food problem." ”…,

"For the Great Khan, being emperor was the only way. The passes of the Great Wall are tightly handled, and the Liukou in the Central Plains have also been pacified by the Ming Court, and now my Jurchen wants to take the initiative to attack, and there is absolutely no chance of winning. Therefore, the only way is to lure the Ming Court to attack us. ”

As soon as Fan Wencheng's words came to this, Huang Taiji immediately realized and said: "What Mr. said is good, as long as Ben Khan is the emperor, the Ming court will be furious, and it is very likely to send troops to attack." In this way, the internal contradictions of my Jurchen can be resolved immediately, and we will unite to resist the Ming army. As long as the Ming army is out of the pass, it is not the opponent of our Eight Banner warriors, and after the victory, the morale of the Ming court will be shaken, and our army can wait for the opportunity to break through. ”

"What the Great Khan said is very true, and that's what the minions meant." Fan Wencheng said.

"Mr. Fan, thank you for your insight. Ben Khan still needs to trouble Mr. here, and then help me draft a document and send it to the Ming court, saying that Ben Khan has already become emperor and wants to become a brother state with the Ming Dynasty. Huang Taiji said energetically.

"The minions obey."

The next day, Huang Taiji summoned all Baylor and a group of ministers, and talked about the matter of becoming emperor, and the opposition was not absent, but it was very few. The three banners headed by Dolgon were fully supported, so Huang Taiji was called the emperor and changed the name of the country to Qing.

Immediately, Huang Taiji sent an envoy to Beijing, handed over the seal, stating that he was the emperor, asking to form a brotherly state with the Ming Dynasty, and hoped to negotiate peace and trade.

As soon as the seal arrived in Beijing, there was an immediate uproar, such a major event, no matter how small the emperor was, it was impossible not to go to court. In the Imperial Palace, the civil and military officials are boastful, saying that the Jurchen is rude, which is tolerable or unbearable, and they must give them some color to see. In the country of brothers, who is a brother with you, are you qualified to be a brother and brother with me? The barbarian small state is simply unbeknownst to the sky.

Beat! This time you must fight!

All the officials were indignant, and they all shouted that they would teach the Jurchens a hard lesson. In order to show their patriotism and their sentiments, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously, asking the emperor to send troops to attack the Jurchens.

When Zhu Ciyan saw this posture, he was also stunned, and he didn't know what to do. The officials of the Yue Party hurriedly stood up, first stated their position and stood with the Tartars, and then said that the war was not a trivial matter, and it was not necessary to inform Lord Yue in Rizhao and let him come back to get an idea.

As soon as he heard the courtiers mention Yue Su, Zhu Ciyan immediately had a backbone and said: "What Aiqing said is right, quickly send a decree to Yue Qing and let him return to Beijing to discuss matters." ”

"Your Majesty."

Yue Party officials immediately chimed in. The will of the imperial court was also immediately sent from Jingshi to Rizhao.

Since the opening of the sea, Rizhao Port has made great achievements, with developed commerce and rolling financial resources, earning a lot of silver for the imperial court. Li Yuanchen's Anmin Bank is even more profitable, and the business of withdrawing money and loans in different places is very busy, and there is a lot of money to be made every day.

Merchants are also happy, with the escort of the imperial court's warships, the risk of going to sea to do business is extremely low, and the profits are exchanged, which makes people wake up happily from their dreams.

Yue Su managed Rizhao Port with cronies, sent tax supervisors, imperial history, and all affairs were basically arranged. He also wanted to return to Beijing, just about to write an excerpt, the secret letter in Beijing was sent, seeing that the emperor Taiji called the emperor, the emperor ordered himself to return to Beijing, Yue Su then asked someone to pack up, ready to return to Beijing.

When the decree came, Yue Su received the decree and returned to Beijing.

The fleet arrived at the Tongzhou wharf, and as soon as they landed, they saw Tong Zhou and others waiting here. Yue Su thought that Tong Xuan had come specially to greet him.

"Subordinates, see your lordship." Tong Xuan also saw Yue Su, rushed to the front, bowed down and said.

"No need to be polite. Tong Xuan, why did you run so far to meet you, just wait outside the city, and you don't have to come like this in the future. Yue Su said kindly. …,

"Lord Qiyu, my subordinates have important matters to report to my lord, so I specially wait here." Tong Xuan said.

"What's wrong?" Yue Su asked in surprise.

"Yes...... It was the county lord who left with his son. Tong Zhou said.

"Oh?" As soon as he heard this, Yue Su was even more puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "Why did she leave Jingshi for no reason?" Do you know where you're going? ”

"It's to go back to Huguang." Tong Xuan said truthfully. But he didn't leave for any reason.

"Even if you want to leave, you should inform me that it's ......" Yue Su stared at Tong Xuan, groaned, and said, "Is there something wrong at home?" ”

"This ...... Something is wrong......" Tong Xuan hesitated for a moment, nodded and said.

"What the hell is going on, don't tell me soon." Yue Su urged.

"Yes, yes...... It's Childe, he, he'......," Tong Xuan said in a hesitant voice.

Seeing that Tong Xuan couldn't say anything, Yue Su couldn't help but be a little anxious, and said angrily: "What happened, what did that little beast do?" Say it! ”

"Yes, yes...... Childe put the ...... Beat Mr. Wang ......," Tong Zhou said.

"What? What the hell is going on, he is not yet six years old, how can he still beat Mr. Wang? Yue Su was even more anxious now.

"It happened five days ago, and my subordinates don't know exactly what happened, but I just heard from Miss...... It seems that Mr. Wang asked Gongzi to endorse the book, but Gongzi couldn't recite it, and then Mr. Wang punished Gongzi for copying, and Gongzi got angry, copied the inkstone, skimmed it out, and hit Mr. Wang's forehead. Mr. Wang fell down when he got up, and when he got up, he walked away in a negative mood. After the county lord learned about it, he left the capital with his son the next morning, saying that he wanted to return to Huguang. The subordinates originally planned to go to Rizhao to inform the adults, but they heard that the imperial court had issued an order to summon the adults back to Beijing, and they were afraid that they would go over and make a mistake, so they waited here. Tong Zhou told the general story of the matter truthfully.

"There is such a thing...... Yue Su listened, and he was angry that the roots of his teeth were itching. In this year, the emphasis is on respecting the teacher, the student beats the teacher, and when the matter spreads, the student has to be scolded to death.

Where can Yue Su delay, he shouted loudly: "Prepare the horse, prepare the horse quickly!" Jin Chan, Yin Zhu, Tong Xuan, Li Haoquan, Huzi, the five of you quickly follow me back to the house, and Mr. Jiang and Li Haoran will lead the team away! ”

When the order was given, someone immediately led the horse, Yue Sufei got on the horse, took five of his men, and rushed to Beijing.

Soon, the six arrived in Beijing. Although Yue Su was in a hurry, there were a lot of people on the street, Yue Su didn't bring a guard of honor, only wore civilian clothes, no one let him, and he didn't dare to ride a horse to gallop, so he could only be patient and lead the horse away.

I didn't walk for long, but I heard two people in front of me chatting while walking, both of whom were dressed as scholars, obviously Shilin's children.

"It's really a godson, think about what kind of person Yue Su is, the minister of Tuogu, the second assistant of the court, the official is upright, and the army is well-governed, how can he teach such a son, and dare to beat his own teacher."

"What's so strange about this, this is called Liang is not right and Liang is crooked, Yue Su's fame is not right, he killed his teacher's family at the beginning, there is such a father, and it is normal to give birth to such a son."

The voices of these two people were not loud, but Yue Su and his party heard it clearly. Hearing that someone was arranging Yue Su, Li Haoquan immediately became angry, grabbed a step, grabbed the person who scolded Yue Su, and shouted: "Boy, what are you talking about?" Don't you want to live anymore! ”

The scholar was dragged by Li Haoquan, and was startled at first, but he still had some backbone, and said loudly: "What should I say to you?" Put your hands down to me, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can such a barbarian as you come out. ”

"I don't care if you say others, but if you say Lord Yue, you ......"

Without waiting for Li Haoquan to finish speaking, Yue Su said loudly behind him: "Haoquan, put your hands down, don't say more, let's hurry up." ”

"Yes!" Seeing Yue Su's command, Li Haoquan had no choice but to let go of his hand, walked back to Yue Su Shen angrily, and led the horse to continue forward.

"What kind of person, shouldn't there be a brain disease!" The scholar was just dragged by the scholar, straightened his clothes, and said very unhappily.

The scholar beside him had some eyesight, pulled him by the hand, and said in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense, I see that the person who spoke just now has an extraordinary bearing, and he thinks it has some background." The people under his command came to pull you when they heard that you said that Yue Su was not, so it can be seen that they are very likely to be Yue Su's people. Yue Suquan leans towards the government and the opposition, let's not talk nonsense, once we annoy him, I'm afraid it will cause trouble. ”

This person's voice was very small, Yue Su naturally didn't hear it, and of course he didn't have the heart to listen to it, so he hurried away with his subordinates. On the surface, he can still be quiet, but at this moment, he is already angry, his face has been lost, and there are already people in the streets and alleys who have begun to talk about it.

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