After spending three days in the barracks, Yang Chao returned home.

Zhu Yujiao looked lost.

"Don't the colts like those two, two-"

"Qinglou Woman!"

Yang Chao said the words for Zhu Yujiao that she was not easy to say.

Then he said, "Actually, I don't like it." It's just that Dong Xiaowan has already entered the house before. And I also promised to take a concubine. ”

Zhu Yu said: "Don't you want to be a dishonest person? ”

Yang Chao nodded: "I have always been trustworthy." ”

Zhu Yujiao asked again: "Can the horse live up to me?" ”

Yang Chao did not hesitate: "I will never fail the princess in this life!" ”

Only then did Zhu Yujiao say: "The so-called husband sings with the wife, and since she is married to a wife, how dare the concubine let her husband be a faithless and unrighteous person." The concubine will enter the palace tomorrow to meet the emperor's brother and explain to him the truth, and the emperor's brother will definitely not embarrass the horse. ”

Yang Chao nodded lightly: "I have wronged you!" ”

This matter can only be asked by Zhu Yujiao to come forward, and let her discuss with the imperial brother as the imperial sister, this is a family matter, but the brother-in-law wants to take a concubine, not a horse to destroy the Ming etiquette system.

Of course, it will definitely provoke criticism from the government and the opposition, compared to his own reputation, Yang Chao can only admit it if he is gossiped.

As for the princess, Yang Chao is indeed very apologetic.

Zhu Yujiao entered the palace with a pair of grievances, and it would not be comfortable for anyone who had just married her husband to take a concubine, not to mention that she was a princess, and her husband was not qualified to take a concubine, and she came forward to persuade the emperor to allow her husband to take a concubine, which was simply a grievance.

But she felt that she should do this, the woman's way of singing and following her husband is one thing, and not wanting Yang Chao to be embarrassed is one thing, she hopes that by letting Yang Chao take a concubine, Yang Chao can live up to her.

After meeting the emperor, this younger brother was very polite to her.

In this big wedding, the emperor's reward is actually very meager, and it is common for the princess of the Ming Dynasty to get married, and it is common to spend millions of taels. Although marrying a princess is often frugal, hundreds of thousands of taels are still indispensable, but this time the emperor only gave dozens of palace maids, and he couldn't take out too much money at all. This made the emperor feel sorry for his sister.

"Imperial sister, I have discussed with Taifu, the golden autumn Jiangnan harvest, after harvesting the autumn endowment, I may be able to give a horse mansion. I don't know what kind of house the imperial sister wants? ”

Although there are many rooms in the Yang family's mansion, the place is too small, and the emperor always feels a little wronged by his sister.

Zhu Yujiao is a little lacking in interest, these princes and princesses, after escaping from Beijing and experiencing the first predicament in their lives, they don't care so much about material things.

Seeing that her sister didn't answer, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but be surprised: "The imperial sister has something on her mind?" ”

Zhu Yujiao pondered for a long time before finally speaking: "Your Majesty, the concubine wants to take a concubine!" ”

"What?"

It's only been a few days since she married the princess, and she has to take a concubine. And he is a concubine, where is there any qualification to take a concubine.

The emperor was immediately a little displeased, and even said that he was a little annoyed.

"How unreasonable! The royal sister is not afraid, if the imperial brother is here, he will not be allowed to be bullied, so I will issue an order to reprimand. ”

"Slow down. In fact, the concubine is in the front, and His Majesty is in the back, so-"

Zhu Yujiao patiently said Yang Chao's words, but the more Zhu Cihong listened, the more cold she felt.

To be honest, he has a good sense of Yang Chao.

Since coming out of Beijing, he was terrified. Yang Chao was very polite to him along the way, but at that time he was a little afraid of Yang Chao, he didn't tell anyone about this matter, and he kept it in his heart.

A crown prince who destroyed the country. Rescued by a military general and escorted to the south, he had already prepared for the worst in his heart.

Especially when Yang Chao suppressed Jiangnan with his troops and asked King Fu to supervise the country to welcome him, Zhu Cihong had already done a good job of being Yang Chao's puppet, he was not a fool. Trained by a scholar-level scribe since he was a child, he knows the allusions of the princes who coerced the Son of Heaven.

He didn't plan to rebel against Yang Chao, at that time, King Fu was in charge of the country, if the battle failed, he would bear the brunt, as the person with the most inheritance rights to the throne, if King Fu ascended the throne, he was afraid that there was only one way to die.

However, when Yang Chao ascended the throne with him, he did not show the appearance of a powerful minister, did not interfere with him at all, and did not send troops to occupy the palace to monitor him, which made Zhu Cihong believe that Yang Chao was an important minister.

But after ascending the throne, there were always people who said something to take precautions in front of him, asking him to limit Yang Chao's military power, etc., after all, letting a general with 100,000 heavy troops guard the important place outside the city is too great a threat to the imperial court.

It's just that he has always believed that Yang Chao is a loyal minister, or Zhu Cihong has never dared to imagine that Yang Chao is a traitor, so he will always reprimand those cronies who speak out.

But Yang Chao married the princess, but he didn't know how to be grateful to Dade, but instead wanted to take a concubine, and he wanted to take a concubine in a few days.

Immediately aroused the anger in Zhu Cihong's heart, the fear of Yang Chao all the way south, also made him feel ashamed all the time, coupled with the advice of his confidants, at this time Zhu Cihong finally broke out, he felt that Yang Chao was going to take a concubine this time, it was not only humiliating the royal power, it was still coercing the imperial power, or despising the imperial power, relying on his own high merits, and he didn't take the royal family in his eyes at all.

"Sister Huang, you don't need to say it, I will never agree to this matter! If you go back, if Yang Chao dares to bear you, don't blame me for not remembering his credit! ”

Zhu Yujiao returned home with another kind of pain.

She felt that she was a little difficult to face Yang Chao.

But Yang Chao asked for the first time.

Zhu Yujiao cautiously replied that the emperor did not agree.

Yang Chao sighed: "That's it." The emperor is also in the way of face. Don't rush for a while, it's not too late to wait a few years. ”

Li Xiangjun is only twenty years old this year, Dong Xiaowan is the same age as her, and she is not yet married in the next life.

Yang Chao didn't blame her, which made Zhu Yujiao feel a little lucky, in fact, she, like the emperor, was also full of fear of Yang Chao along the way, but at that time, she was very looking forward to Yang Chao being able to send them to Nanjing safely, and she had to think that Yang Chao was an important minister early, in fact, the fear in her heart could not be relieved until now.

hugged his newlywed wife at night, needless to say, he lingered, but he felt a chill on Zhu Yujiao's body.

When I lit the lamp, I turned pale, and immediately went to ask the imperial doctor to come and see it, saying that I was suffering from the cold.

It's only October, the weather is not cold, how can you suffer from the wind cold, so Yang Chao can't help but be surprised.

This wind chill came strangely, and it went quickly. Yang Chao stayed with his wife at home for ten days, and he got better every day.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that Zhu Yujiao was actually cold-hearted. In the past ten days of contact, she felt a real Yang Chao, a person who knows how to care about his wife and is very sincere.

Ten days later, his wife's illness was cured. Yang Chao returned to the barracks.

Lao Zhang's people came back and said that the Dutchman's ship had been delivered, along with Zheng's ship.

Zheng Hongkui traded with Yang Chao last time and promised to sell Yang Chao 300 sea ships, which was the smallest ship for the Zheng family, but a brig of a big ship for Yang Chao.

Compared with Zheng's small boats, Yang Chao was more concerned about the Dutch warships, which were all large ships of more than 4,000 materials, and they were also Western-style warships with artillery, which could beat the Manchu sailors into scum hundreds of years later. Now placed in the eastern region, it should be the sharpest armament.

The agreement with the Dutch was that ten ships of 4,000 materials, at least one of which would be 8,000 materials.

The tonnage of the material is a traditional Chinese ship tonnage unit, a material represents ten cubic feet of cabin space, and the tonnage of the West, according to the British calculation method, one ton is one hundred cubic feet, and the foot is about 30 centimeters in length, and the length of the Ming ruler is about 32 to 34. The tailoring ruler, the measuring ruler and the craftsman's ruler are all inconsistent.

However, the difference between the ruler and the foot is not big, that is to say, one tonnage in the West is basically equivalent to ten materials in the Ming Dynasty.

Based on this calculation, Yang Chao asked the Dutch for a sea ship. There are tonnages ranging from 400 tons to more than 800 tons.

This is nothing to the Dutch, because the King of the Sea, which was launched by the British ten years ago, has more than 1,600 tons.

The Dutch's shipbuilding capacity was only higher than that of the British, so the warships that Yang Chao wanted were only small ships for the Dutch, but it was impossible for the Dutch to put the best warships in the East. Therefore, these ships were actually the main warships of the East India Company in the East.

Yang Chao's request was not untargeted, and he had already inquired with the Zheng family about the details of the Dutch.

The Dutch were very happy, did not play any tricks, and sent the ship as soon as possible than Yang Chao.

It is only mid-October, and Yang Chao has only negotiated with the Dutch for more than a month.

From the Strait of Malacca to Guangdong, it takes 17 or 8 days to go downwind, and it takes at least more than a month to go back and forth.

And the Dutch came from Jakarta (Batavia to the Dutch) to the mouth of the Yangtze River in more than a month, which can be described as a fate.

Of course, the Dutch had a reason to play with their lives, and the person sent back by Zhang Dawei also brought back an order, which listed the names of the dense goods, and Yang Chaozai took a closer look.

The Dutch want porcelain, silk, raw silk, cloth, silk thread, mercury, and even needles and iron pots, but there is no tea in Yang Chao's imagination, guessing that the tea trade will not expand until the British come, you must know that the British in later generations are the world's largest tea drinking country, per capita tea drinking is several times that of Chinese, it is said that an Englishman has to drink two large bathtubs of tea a year on average.

Yang Chao couldn't help but feel a little pity, you must know that this is a lucrative commodity, and it would be too wasteful not to develop it.

After reading the manifest, Yang Chao immediately asked the account room to check it.

This batch of goods was all exchanged by the Dutch for ten warships, the price agreed between the Dutch and Yang Chao was one million taels of silver, the price was not low, the British cost 1,600 tons plus more than 100 guns of the Sea King was only 40,000 pounds, equivalent to 400,000 taels of silver, the Dutch gave Yang Chao ten warships, the total number of guns was only more than 200, not to mention that it was not as large as the British artillery, the number was only twice as much, and the total tonnage of the ten ships was only 4,500 tons, and it could not be converted simply to 1 million taels.

But considering that the Dutch brought the ship from the west, there must be a profit, so Yang Chao acquiesced, anyway, Yang Chao will not give a penny of this money.

As for the reason, high taxes, there is no need for a reason.

Yang Chao had to pay five times the price difference for the supply of Zheng's family, and he didn't ask the Dutch to pay a lot of taxes and protection fees.

In other words, this million taels of silver, in fact, Yang Chao only needs to give the Dutch 200,000 taels of goods.

The Dutch, on the other hand, seemed to be worried that they would not be able to get the goods for a long time, and were worried that the policy of the Ming Dynasty would change, so they not only took the ship with a million dollars, but also brought 500,000 taels of silver to purchase the goods.

Therefore, the goods that Yang Chao wanted to purchase were actually 300,000 taels of silver, which was as white as ten ships of the Dutch plus 200,000 taels of silver.

Give the manifest to the military account room, let them quietly go to the Jinchai Building, and it is more convenient to go to the exchange for large purchases.

Yang Chao also instructed that it must be kept secret, Yang Chao and affirmed, if the news leaks, the group of speculative brokers will definitely be able to raise the price by more than one percent in the short term, Yang Chao and the Dutch and Zheng's prices are the average price, and the extra part has to be posted by themselves, so confidentiality is very important.

After waiting in the army for twenty days, he finally waited for Zhang Dawei, who was driving the largest Dutch ship, accompanied by more than a dozen Dutchmen, without these Dutch sailors, Zhang Dawei really couldn't play such a big sea ship.

The leader was naturally Jones, who urgently found Yang Chao and hoped that Yang Chao would help him find a doctor, because the clerk they were wearing had fallen ill on the way and was terrible sepsis.

Yang Chao warmly received Jones and his crew, their journey ended at Xinjiangkou, and it was too risky to let them in.

"Mr. Jones, you need not be in a hurry. It's just sepsis, have you ever seen anyone on the Zheng family's ship suffer from this kind of minor disease? ”

Jones shook his head strangely, he really hadn't heard that Zheng Zhilong's sailors had sepsis, but their Dutch crew sailed for more than a month, there was such a risk, the Dutch had been strange about this for a long time, and finally they decided that the Chinese had a different constitution from Westerners, so they would not suffer from this disease.

In fact, this is a beautiful misunderstanding, sepsis is considered a devil's disease, one of the most feared diseases of seafarers in the Western Age of Sail, often after a ship has sailed, it will kill more than half of this disease.

But when they went to the East, they rarely found that the Chinese had this disease, which made them puzzled, but there were fewer doctors on the Zheng family ship than on the Dutch ship, and the Dutch even consulted the Zheng family, and even secretly inquired about others, but there was no result.

In fact, the problem lies in the eating habits, sepsis is caused by a lack of vitamins, Chinese, especially southerners are inseparable from vegetables, so before sailing is used to bring a large number of beans, a bubble is bean sprouts, which are rich in vitamins, so Chinese sailors did not receive sepsis.

"Could it be that adults understand medical skills?"

Jones couldn't help but ask when he saw Yang Chao's ease.

Yang Chao smiled: "It's just a common problem. Actually, nothing is needed, a little, well, green tea will do. ”

After speaking, he called Zhao Kang: "Go buy thirty catties of green tea, and ask for new tea this year." ”

Green tea also happens to have vitamins, and theoretically it can also treat this disease, but the best way is actually to eat vegetarian dishes, but thinking that the Dutch did not purchase tea, Yang Chao had an idea to take this opportunity to promote tea. (To be continued.) )