The envoy sent by Zhu Cihuan from Guangdong dragged on the road for a month before arriving in Nanjing.

They had come to Yang Chao to negotiate with him about the opening of the market in Fujian and Guangdong.

And the reason was because Zhu Cihuan sent Li Ruyue to attack Yang Chao.

It's not that these people are rubbing, but when they were on the road, they were stopped once.

Because Zhu Cihong suddenly appeared in Jiangnan, Zhu Cihuan couldn't help but panic, and sent people to intercept them in Zhejiang and replace a large number of them.

Obviously, Zhu Cihuan was worried that these people would join Zhu Cihong's side, and then they all changed to his own henchmen.

The leader of the team is also a vassal king, Zhu Youxiang, an old friend of the people of Nanjing.

When Zhu Cihuan went to Fujian to ascend the throne, a large number of exiled vassal kings in Nanjing went to Fujian again, and these people felt that it was obviously safer to follow an emperor surnamed Zhu than to follow Yang Chaoming.

Especially King Fu, he fought with Zhu Cihong for the throne, and Yang Chao is a figure of Zhu Cihong's faction, without Yang Chao, Zhu Cihong could not be the emperor, so King Fu had no reason to stay in Nanjing, he took a large group of wives and concubines, including a large number of beauties brought back from Japan such as Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter, and also ran to Fujian.

Later, Zhu Cihuan ran to Guangdong, at first King Fu did not run, because Hong Chengchou assured him that as long as he belonged to the Qing court, the glory and wealth could be kept, this guy has been staying in Fujian, he is obviously very blessed, Hong Chengchou did not move him when he entered Fujian, Jin Shenghuan did not move him when he entered Fujian, and the Zheng family, the emperor of the soil, also did not move him, he has been safe and stable, prosperous and rich.

This time, Zhu Cihuan sent someone to negotiate. Originally, there was no blessed king. Because King Fu still stayed in Fujian as the prince of peace. However, after Zhu Cihong's return, Zhu Cihuan stopped the envoys headed by scholars and sent people to Fujian to ask King Fu to lead a team to Nanjing to negotiate.

Zhu Cihuan obviously knew very well that there were not many people who had enough weight and would never take refuge in Zhu Cihong, but King Fu was definitely one, so he specially invited this old clan to come to Nanjing to negotiate on his behalf.

As soon as King Fu arrived in Nanjing. did not look for Yang Chao, first went to Dingwangfu to meet Zhu Cihong, although he secretly negotiated, but Zhu Cihong was already much smarter, and sent Zhu Cijiong to the Yang family to report the content to Yang Chao that night, it was nothing more than Zhu Cihuan hoped that Zhu Cihong would focus on the overall situation and not rise up to fight for the throne at this time, and also promised hypocritically that he hoped that Zhu Cihong would go to Guangdong, and he was willing to let Xian. He returned the throne to Zhu Cihong, but did not want Zhu Cihong to be restored in Nanjing. That's just a matter of the relatives and the enemies, giving the Manchus and ambitious people an opportunity to take advantage of the Zhu family.

Needless to say, the Manchu Qing Dynasty naturally refers to Yang Chao.

The next day, King Fu came to negotiate with Yang Chao, but he did not come to negotiate, but explained to Yang Chao that the last attack on Yang Chao was completely done by Li Ruyue, a traitor, and the emperor did not know about it at all.

Yang Chao originally wanted to spare Li Ruyue's life in exchange for opening the market, but he didn't expect Zhu Cihuan to put the responsibility on Li Ruyue.

But the city must be opened.

"Zhongyi Bo opened the market, and he also planned for the country, and His Majesty will play it all!"

It's so easy.

Yang Chao couldn't help but think in his heart that it was probably not a compromise made to attack Yang Chao, but because Zhu Cihong suddenly came back.

Obviously, Zhu Cihong's sudden return made the small court of Guangdong lose its proportion, and Zhu Cihuan was willing to agree to any condition at this time, as long as Yang Chao did not use Zhu Cihong to attack the legitimacy of his throne.

Sure enough, King Fu soon said: "Your Majesty hopes that the Metropolitan Governor will focus on the overall situation, and I hope that the Metropolitan Governor will allow me to take away the former emperor, and Your Majesty will treat the former emperor like an eldest brother." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "That's it." All right. But you have to talk to the emperor about this, and if he wants to go, the governor has no opinion. However, the matter of the city ship division is decided, Fujian Kaiquanzhou, Fuzhou City, Guangdong Kaichaozhou, Guangzhou City. Also, what about Li Ruyue, you can take it away, this scholar stays with me, except for eating for nothing, it is useless. ”

Yang Chaocai didn't care if they could pick up Zhu Cihong, he was in a hurry to open the market, and the Zheng family was pointing to this for dinner.

The Zheng Group originally had more than 100,000 subordinates, and now it has 200,000 people, all of whom are outlaws.

Yang Chao's army of 500,000 has 10 million taels of silver every year, plus equipping them with iron armor and weapons, it is about 10 million, and on average, a person gets more than 40 taels of silver a year.

Even if the Zheng family is less than Yang Chao, it is estimated that it will not be much less.

On the one hand, it is to raise people, when Zheng Zhilong was there, I am afraid that these people were still willing to follow, but now Zheng Chenggong, who has no prestige, is willing to shrink on the island to eat the wind if these people are not allowed to eat and drink well, so the salary of these heroes is not higher than that of Yang Chao's soldiers.

On the other hand, Zheng Chenggong's eyes were probably heated by Yang Chao's military exploits, and he even purchased arms and materials from Yang Chao on a large scale, from bird guns to cannons, and the iron armor was also a pair per person, and Yang Chao was not a philanthropist, even if it was an ally, it was necessary to pay, although the bird guns and iron armor provided to the Zheng family were not expensive, they were all twenty taels of silver, which was the market price of Nanjing, but the new Jiangkou workshop, which had been mass-produced, only needed ten taels of silver to produce these things, and there were cannons that cost less than thirty taels with iron molds, sold to the Zheng family for two hundred taels, which is even more profitable.

The high-paid support coupled with the huge profits and arms profits earned by Yang Chao made the Zheng family lose a lot, that is, in one year last year, he pulled 10 million taels of silver to Yang Chao, even if Zheng Zhilong could save money back then, the Zheng family couldn't stand it like this.

Therefore, the Zheng family wrote three or four times, hoping that Yang Chao would help open the city of Fujian and Guangdong.

In fact, Zheng's sea trade is still doing, and the unlimited supply in Jiangnan allows the Zheng family to still have a trade volume of nearly 10 million taels every year, but Yang Chao has taken away 3 million taels of tariffs, in addition to expenses, the remaining profits of the Zheng family are 5 million, which is not enough to raise soldiers.

If the trade between Fujian and Guangdong was opened, the Zheng family could at least earn an extra 1 million taels of silver by supplying tea and porcelain and iron to the Dutch.

In addition, if goods could be obtained from Fujian and Guangdong, the two provinces with the best iron quality in the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng clan could not only offset some of the military purchases by supplying iron to Yang Chao, but also be able to build their own weapons.

The most important thing is that they can easily build their own ships, as long as the two places are open to the Zheng family, the Zheng family's fleet will once again dominate the Eastern Sea, and then the Dutch and Guangdong pirates will once again surrender to the Zheng family, and the annual pumping will also be millions of inputs.

Therefore, if the two cities are opened, even if Yang Chao does not agree to give all the Fujian tariffs to the Zheng family, the Zheng family can recover its vitality.

It's just that the market is open, although King Fu doesn't care, but he is not without concerns.

"I also hope that the capital governor Mingjian, Guangdong and Fujian are now the feudal lands of Changguo and Guangchanghou, and if you want to open sea trade, you still need the consent of the two vassals."

Obviously, Zhu Cihuan gave a verbal check, and whether he can return the market in Fujian and Guangdong depends on the faces of the warlords Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in the two places.

But Yang Chao doesn't like to look at people's faces, as long as the emperor agrees, he can fight with confidence, these two little warlords dare to say half a word, Yang Chao doesn't mind destroying them, Zheng can't let Yang Chao send troops, it is estimated that they are willing to reimburse even the military expenses.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about this. The relationship between the two vassal ministers and the Governor is very good, and I believe that they will not hinder the Governor's contribution to the country. Let Your Majesty wait for the good news from the ministers. ”

Relationship is irreversible? Contribute to the country?

King Fu couldn't help but slander in his heart, none of these two seem to have anything to do with you Yang Chao, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, which of the two guys has not been beaten by you Yang Chao, which one of them is irreversible. As for contributing to the country, come on, who doesn't know that you opened a market to make money, don't take everyone for fools.

Although King Fu didn't believe it at all, but the negotiation ended in a friendly atmosphere, at least Yang Chao felt that the atmosphere was friendly, because he got what he wanted, King Fu wrote an edict on the spot, and ordered Yang Chao to preside over the edict of opening Fujian and Guangdong City, Zhu Cihuan had already sent him a blank holy decree covered with a jade seal, and it seemed that he was ready to agree.

After that, it was the matter of how King Fu fooled Zhu Cihong, Yang Chao stood by and watched, and definitely did not get involved, this was an internal matter of their royal family, and it was not suitable for one of his ministers to interfere, so he refused to help King Fu persuade in the name of this.

Zhu Cihong has learned to be smart, he will not know what will happen to him after leaving Nanjing and going to Guangdong, maybe he will be covered by Yang Chao, and he will want to die like in Beijing, but he doesn't want to be the prince of Taiping, and it is the best ending to fall into a trap to death, where is there freedom in Nanjing, and Xu Da, Liu Bowen, the descendants of the founding heroes, are comfortable to serve.

Yang Chao doesn't care about them, he has something urgent to do, he has to hurry up and open the city, otherwise starving to death Zheng is not good for anyone, the situation in the South China Sea is actually out of control, the Dutch are not in the Zheng family, even the pirates don't care about the Zheng family, let the situation get out of control, and the loss is the maritime authority of the Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, he was about to send someone to send the edict to Fujian to let the Zheng family prepare well, but the Zheng family came first.

Just in time, Yang Chao planned to give the edict directly to them.

Riding a horse to the Xinjiangkou wharf to wait for the Zheng family's fleet.

As a result, their big boat had just come to a stop, and from the boat jumped a big girl with dark skin.

Jumping in front of Yang Chao's horse all of a sudden, the startled horse raised its front hooves, if it weren't for Yang Chao's equestrian growth, I am afraid that he would fall.

"You are Yang Chao? You don't look good! ”

The black girl looked at Yang Chao carefully, and then talked about it.

"Jiaomei, Hugh is talking nonsense."

Zheng Hongkui walked down the ladder very steadily, generally scolding the black girl, and hugging Yang Chao with his fist.

"Uncle forgive your sins, country girl, you don't know the rules!" (To be continued......)