On the table, there is the original copy of the "Sino-Chinese Treaty of Friendship and Commerce", which will only come into effect after the approval of the regent Zhu, and there is a letter written by Jin Feng, saying that he has sent people to start exchanging silver for gold.

What Ye Zhao is looking at now is a secret letter from Guangzhou, written by Huang Wenxiu, the big treasurer who is ready to mobilize capital to build a chemical factory, mainly producing chlorine and its derived hydrochloric acid and other chemicals.

The thick secret letter, a dozen pages long, is almost a report.

It turned out that Huang Wenxiu was eyeing the technology of electrolyzing salt water to produce chlorine to produce hydrochloric acid, and was preparing to use the generator drummed out by Sanchez to manufacture industrial chlorine and hydrochloric acid.

In fact, the electrolytic chlorine hydrochloric acid method appeared in Europe 30 years ago, but because there is no generator with enough current, it has been stuck in the laboratory stage, and it will take about ten years before it can enter large-scale industrial application.

Many of the projects of various technical groups in Guangzhou have taken the form of fund-raising and sponsorship by the political axe and Taihexing, after all, the Xiguan Inventors Club was first started by Taihexing.

Huang Wenxiu is also very concerned about these projects, and heard Sanchez say that although his generator is not perfect, there is no problem with the electrolysis of chemicals with the current generated, especially the electrolysis of chlorine hydrochloric acid, which is simple and feasible.

Huang Wenxiu found a lot of relevant information, and naturally found the role of hydrochloric acid in industrial production, which led to the idea of investing in the construction of chemical plants.

Ye Zhao naturally agreed, Huang Wenxiu only saw a little prospect of hydrochloric acid, but Ye Zhao knew that chlorine and hydrochloric acid are widely used in pesticides, medical treatment, organic synthesis and so on, and many technologies and raw materials are complementary to each other.

Picked up Zhang Youcun's fold again, but Ye Zhao nodded slightly, sure enough, he didn't choose the wrong person, Zhang Youxing said that this book was very popular, and now he is in contact with the royal merchants of the major names of the city, and they are connected with Chinese businessmen, and some of the more interest-oriented businessmen really began to sign trade contracts with southern merchants, agent commodity trading, etc., probably similar to the Chinese compradors in Shanghai.

Of course, it is not only that they only value interests and are more rational; they naturally know that if they want to enrich the country and strengthen the people and help themselves, they must develop industry and commerce, and it is inevitable to cooperate with the Chinese for the time being, and it is even more necessary to learn and absorb the ideas and new technologies of the Chinese.

Although there are basically no barriers to technological exchanges among Europeans today, Ye Zhao has seen the history of a century-old technological blockade, and it is natural to have certain restrictions on commercial technology exchanges with Yue Fang, but it will not be said on the surface.

I also looked at the internal affairs office and Zhang Youcun's consideration of the domestic situation in their own country, the contradictions between the shogunate and the imperial family, the relationship between the major names, as well as their surnames and political opinions, and their positions in the contradictions between the shogunate and the imperial family.

At present, the national sentiment is high, which is obviously very unfavorable to China's trade.

was pondering about the matter of the book, and the guards told Li Jianchen and Yuan Jiasan to see.

It turned out that the silver taels that Shengchang transported to the Southern Dynasty were seized by the Northern Government, and the big shopkeeper Lei Honghui was imprisoned by the government, and the Li family, the major shareholder of Shengchang, made countless silver coins, only to find out that this matter involved the Minister of Military Aircraft Gui Liang, and in desperation, the Li family had to send people to the Southern Dynasty for help.

Said Shengchang silver number is the leader of the Jin merchants, now there are more than a dozen points in all parts of the country, in Guangzhou, Nanjing, Fuzhou three ticket number business is thriving, the war between the north and the south, said that Shengchang has almost become the only one of the national exchange of silver, now the northern merchants come to the south to live in peace, coupled with the trade and unequal, the businessmen from the south to buy industrial products, silk tea transported to the north, the money is deposited in Shengchang, and then go back to the south to withdraw. The goods traded between the north and the south were all grain, rice, coal and other resources and raw materials, which were cheap and low, which naturally made the trade between the south and the north achieve a huge surplus, and the silver from the north continued to flow into the south of the country.

Among them, Changsheng played a huge role in the circulation of silver money, almost every month there must be a batch of silver carts to solve, transported to Guangzhou, Nanjing and other semicolons, otherwise the southern merchants took the bill of exchange back to the south to exchange silver, if you have no silver to exchange, this reputation will be smashed.

I think that the officials of the northern country also feel that the situation of silver outflow is not good, so they put their heads on Yue Changsheng, which can be regarded as a disaster.

The Li family Shaodong came to Nanjing for help, and was introduced by a business partner to a minister of the Ministry of Commerce of the Southern Dynasties, who was shrewd, and immediately felt that this matter was not only the matter of the Li family, but also affected the trade between the north and the south, so he reported it layer by layer, and finally alarmed the political office.

Listening to Li Jianchen tell the details of the matter, Ye Zhao frowned slightly, obviously the northern kingdom intended to use violent means to reverse the unfavorable situation in this economic war.

Li Jianchen continued: "Lord, Your Majesty thinks that you can invoke the regulations on freedom of trade in the Shanghai Treaty, please mediate the three countries to put pressure on the northern country, if the northern country insists on going its own way, our army can attack the northern part of Suzhou and Anhui, put on a decisive battle posture, and force it to submit." In fact, Li Jianchen also knows that now is not the best time for the decisive battle between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but diplomacy naturally has to make the other party unclear and have an illusion in order to get better bargaining chips.

Ye Zhao tasted the tea quietly, and after a while, asked, "What about the Li family Shaodong?" Can it be in Nanjing? Call him, and I will see him. ”

Li Jianchen was greatly surprised, the Li family was just a businessman in the northern country, no matter how big the business was, how could he be personally received by the prince, but he still bowed down and said, "Yes." ”

In the afternoon, the Li family Shaodong was attracted to Xiyin Academy, about thirty years old, with good looks and bright eyes, he was a shrewd person.

Li Gongzi knelt down and kowtowed when he entered the house, bang bang bang, the regent was sympathetic to the civil and military, and laid a soft cushion, which was to knock out a loud sound, which shows how much strength he used.

"Grass people Li Zhen listen to the prince and say goodbye!" Li Zhen heard that he was the younger brother of the current proprietor of his family, and the family saw that it was a catastrophe, and his brother went around making money activities, and he came to the south to ask for help.

Originally, he didn't have much hope, after all, this was just his Li family's own business, and the Li family was a citizen of the northern country, so where would the officials of the Southern Dynasty care?

Who knew that yesterday I heard that this matter had alarmed the political office, and now it is even more mysterious, an official came to the inn to look for him, saying that it was summoned by the regent, he thought who was joking with him at first, and almost broke his face and cursed, but later he learned that it was true, and now he is really frightened and surprised, perhaps, the Li family is really saved?

"Get up, sit." Gentle voice, next to it, it seems that someone has also moved the soft pier.

Li Zhen didn't dare to get up when he heard this, so he kowtowed again and said, "Thank you, the grass people don't dare, the grass people kneel and reply." ”

Ye Zhao didn't force him, and said: "What about your family's affairs, this king already knows a rough idea, you tell me, is there any unclear account in your family and the money is repaid?" "The accounts are not clear, and the money is the crime of the Northern Dynasty to Lei Honghui, the treasurer of Changsheng.

"No, the grass people dare to vouch for it with their heads." Li Zhen listened and kowtowed vigorously.

Ye Zhao said: "North-south trade, material circulation, in fact, your family has contributed a lot, the word profit, don't take it too seriously, the good deeds of the Southern Dynasties, I haven't heard of the name of your Li family." ”

Indeed, although the Li family is from the north, the ticket number business is thriving in the south, and it is biased towards all kinds of fundraising, and it is also notoriously stingy in the south.

Li Zhen listened to the cold sweat falling down, gritted his teeth and kowtowed: "Lord Wang, if my Li family can escape this catastrophe, the grass people are willing to persuade the eldest brother to donate half of his wealth to serve the southern fathers." ”

Ye Zhao didn't squeak.

Li Zhen knew that he was wrong when he heard it, and immediately his body was like falling into an ice cave, and after his heart was finished, why didn't he have a weight?

Ye Zhao took a sip of tea, smiled, and said, "Li Zhen, listen, you are too worried, this king doesn't mean this, but I can't complain about you." As for your family's affairs, someone will do it, not for your Li family, but for the sake of maintaining the passage of trade between the north and the south. Let's go down. ”

"Yes, yes." Li Zhen kowtowed again and again when he heard this, and retired.

Second, Ye Zhao did not go to the office, and the selected zodiac auspicious person said that it was today, and he married Zhu Sisi.

Concubines enter the door, ceremonial weddings, in fact, it all depends on the main family, there are those who are hired by the Ming media, there are those who worship heaven and earth, there are relatives and friends who feast, and there are also those who buy home without knowing for nothing. However, in the past two years, the southern kingdom revised the law, recognized the partial status of concubines, recognized their personal freedom, and strictly prohibited the buying and selling of concubines and pawn wives. Although the phenomenon of pawning wives and concubines still exists in large numbers in private, it is naturally not as rampant as before. When marrying concubines, there are more and more serious weddings.

Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi got married, naturally it was low-key and gorgeous, the same is 10,000 pieces of silver and various color gifts, so that Guangzhou sent someone to the Zhu family, Zhu Sisi also wrote a letter to the family, saying that the road is far away, and it is too late to ask her parents, and now her brother is in charge, and she is married to Taihe Xing Shaodong Ye Zhao as the sixth aunt.

And Zhu Sisi's brother and sister-in-law, Ye Zhao opened a restaurant with the capital, and helped him buy a house, in the alley of Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi's new residence, two families away from Ye's house.

This is what Ye Zhao has to do, his sister has become a princess, if he doesn't ascend to heaven, he will be too sorry.

After worshipping heaven and earth that night and drinking a glass of wine, Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi are naturally upside down and loving.

The red brocade bed, the inexhaustible charm, the blue yarn palace lamp, the endless spring.

Ye Zhao is even more rare to enjoy Zhu Sisi's shy and angry kiss, and enjoy the wonderful taste of the powerful beautiful legs that kick the dead and do not pay for his life. And Ye Zhao, since he tried his best to conquer the new thinking female surname under him that made him pity, love and headache, open his heart and blend with each other, making him feel comfortable and almost ascended to heaven.

…… The carriage was galloping, Ye Zhao looked at the document in his hand, it was the countermeasure of the Southern Dynasty Parliamentary Office to the Li family, a few days of hard work, extremely efficient, one had already informed the envoys of the three countries to mediate, explaining that the Southern Dynasty's move had destroyed the Shanghai Peace Treaty; The second published an article in the Tianjin "Dagu Bao" in the name of the Southern Dynasties' Political Affairs Yuan, denouncing the Northern Kingdom's persecution of the people and sabotaging the peace treaty, and even saying that if the case was not properly resolved, the Southern Dynasties would regard the Shanghai Peace Treaty as null and void, and all the consequences arising therefrom would be borne by Prince Yixin of the Northern Kingdom.

Although after the North-South peace talks, the Southern Newsprint no longer called Yi Xin a puppet emperor or a puppet king, but it was also called a prince.

In the absence of formal communication channels between the north and the south, it is the fastest and most effective way to publish a newspaper to explain the position of the south country, otherwise when the mediator country communicates and the two sides send envoys, they don't know when they went, for fear that the Li family has been raided several times during this time.

At present, the telegrams of Yanjing, Zhigu (Tianjin), and Shanghai have been sent to Guangzhou in the morning, but in fact, if it were not for the dispute between the north and the south, the telegrams from Yanjing could have been sent directly to Guangzhou.

The announcement of the Government Council of the Southern Dynasty has been telegraphed to Tianjin, and I am afraid that it will be reported after tomorrow, and let's see what the reaction of the northern country is.

was pondering, suddenly heard a faint gunshot in the distance, Ye Zhao frowned slightly, he was on the way to Qixia Temple, Qixia Temple is dozens of miles away from Nanjing City, destroyed in the war a few years ago, and the Confucian Temple and other relics in Nanjing City, are now being renovated, Ye Zhao is ready to inspect the progress of the project.

When the shots rang out, the carriage gradually stopped.

"Master, the situation is unknown, will you go back to the city?" Outside, it was the voice of Urden, the deputy head of the guard.

Ye Zhao snorted, and soon, the carriage turned around, the guards followed on horseback, and thousands of Yulin guards scattered the team, and the teams were on guard.

Soon after returning to Xiyin Academy, Rui Si hurriedly came, it was Ye Zhao who summoned him, but he was confused, Ye Zhao encountered gunshots on the way out of the patrol, he didn't know anything.

It is no wonder that more than 20 miles away from the city of Nanjing, there is no gunfire in the city, and it is even more impossible for people from the Internal Affairs Office to appear in the wilderness.

Not long after, the patrol headquarters submitted an urgent official document to the council office, saying that it received an urgent report from the county bureau that there were gunshots near Qixia Temple, and it was very dense, and someone had been sent to investigate, although the patrol headquarters chief Suna did not know about Ye Zhao's patrol, but there was a shooting incident in Nanjing Prefecture, and there were still a lot of people, so it was naturally a top priority, and it was reported to the council and political office.

Li Jianchen and Yuan Jiasan hurriedly came, but they knew that Ye Zhao had gone out to inspect Qixia Temple this morning, and it was still strange, why did the prince turn back so quickly.

Ye Zhao didn't say much to them, just said that it was okay, and when they retreated, Ye Zhao's face gradually faded, holding the teacup, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Rui Si didn't dare to come out, standing aside, his forehead gradually sweating.

Zheng Zewu came in in a hurry, and he came in almost together with the urgent official letter from the patrol headquarters, which said that the people who went to investigate the county bureau had been stopped halfway, and that area had been controlled by the soldiers of the Pingyuan Army.

"Dog, what's going on?" Ye Zhao put down the official document of the patrol room.

Zheng Zewu's face was even more hideous, and he said viciously: "Damn, the lard is blinded, he can follow the prince of the sixth town fair party thief, and the prince did not pursue their sins, what a grace is that, they are good, and they have done something to beat a rake." Just now, it was more than 100 bandits who rebelled, as if they were going to ambush the prince, but the battalion officer on duty found that they had left the barracks without authorization, and reported to Zhao Qishan, Zhao Qishan sent people to chase down, as if the two sides exchanged fire. After speaking, he remembered that it was disrespectful to scold in front of the prince, so he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said, "The dog lost his words for a while." Stretching out his hand and wanting to slap himself, Ye Zhao waved his hand, and Rui Si hurriedly went up to grab him.

"Zhao Qishan is investigating this matter, and the little one is afraid that the prince will be in a hurry, so he will come back first to tell him. If you want me to say, just kill all those who have joined the Fairness Party before, don't worry. Zheng Zewu gritted his teeth, obviously extremely angry.

Fairness Party, Ye Zhao slowly lit a cigarette, and now most of the backbone officers in the fifth town are still the old Guangxi department of the matchmaker, and many of them are former fairness party members, but the sixth town has already been unrecognizable in the process of reorganization, military expansion, and disarmament.

And over the years, even if the Fifth Town has been fighting in the east and west, the brand of Guangxi bandits and fair party has long faded, just because of the competition between the legions, naturally there are officers of other legions who think that they are the descendants of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the fifth town is a bandit soldier as the truth, and the boss looks down on people, but this is just an internal contradiction between the various legions, not to mention the senior officers, no one dares to look down on the fifth town. As for the admiral of the four towns, it is not to mention, firstly, to admire the hero of the matchmaker, and secondly, because of the relationship between the matchmaker and the prince, several generals must respect him even more.

This is the first time I have heard someone in the army scold the Fairness Party for surrendering troops, especially since this person is Zheng Gouzi, one of the most senior officers in the Pingyuan Army.

"Wait for Zhao Qishan's letter." Ye Zhao waved his hand.

"Yes." Zheng Zewu and Rui stood aside in a proper manner.

Zhao Qishan is the commander of the Sixth Town Protector, the actual commander of the Sixth Town, when he came in a hurry, it was already more than an hour later, and when he came in, he knelt down with a face full of shame and pleaded guilty: "Lord Wang, you should die for your humble position!" ”

The army mutinied, and he, the commander-in-chief, naturally could not escape the blame.

"What's going on?" Ye Zhao can guess a rough idea now, it must be the activity of the fairness party again, using his old friendship to string together the old fairness party in the Pingyuan army to turn against the water.

"Yes, damn it, the second battalion of the Third Infantry Regiment took Zhao Hengbei, a dog thief, to contact more than 100 people from the old department, and prepare to ambush the prince! The lowly post has taken them all down, killed more than fifty people on the spot, and the remaining half have been captured, and now the lowly post has ordered the whole town to carry out an inventory, confiscated all the guns of the fair party, and examined them one by one! ”

"Nonsense!" Ye Zhao slapped the table, but it was really a little hot.

Ruisi and Zheng Zewu were so frightened that they also knelt down, and Zhao Qishan even knelt on the ground, sweating profusely.

Ye Zhao reprimanded: "In our Pingyuan Army, how can there be a fair party? Dog, you too, if you dare to talk nonsense, I will pull out your tongue! ”

The three of them kowtowed repeatedly.

Ye Zhao looked at them, and after a while, said, "Get up, Zhao Qishan, you go on." ”

"Yes, check the Sixth Town Fairness Party, ah, isn't it ,......" Zhao Qishan didn't know what to call these Pingyuan Army soldiers who had joined the Fairness Party for a while, so he could only vaguely say: "There are a total of 1,396 people, in addition to the rebellion captured on the spot, there are still two pipe belts, twenty-two sentinels, forty-three people in charge of the team, and the rest are all non-commissioned officers, among these people, thirty-five are artillery teams, and the rest belong to the rifle battalion...... ”

Ye Zhao listened quietly and nodded slightly: "You understand what you do, but your mind is confused." ”

Zhao Qishan fell to the ground and didn't dare to speak.

"Quickly send an order, let everyone go, and stop the censorship!"

Zhao Qishan didn't get up, and said prostrately: "Lord Wang, since the humble post has begun, it is useless to release people now, and the humble post will die, I implore the prince to allow the humble post to be investigated one by one, after this errand, there is no regret in the humble death, let the prince be dismissed and cut off his head!" ”

Ye Zhao looked at him, Zhao Qishan didn't dare to raise his head, but he just didn't let go.

The air in the room seemed to freeze.

Rui Si whispered: "Jingting, take the orders of the prince to do it." ”

Zhao Qishan didn't move.

Ye Zhao stared at him for a long time, then nodded slightly, "What you said is not unreasonable, then check it." ”

"Wow!" Zhao Qishan agreed loudly.

Ye Zhao said lightly: "Come to think of it, the rebellion of the mutiny is very rare. ”

"Yes! Wang Ye Mingjian! ”

Ye Zhao picked up the teacup, thinking that if he was willing to do this kind of headless thing, even if he had a close relationship with the people who came to lobby from the Fairness Party, if he became a family in the south and had a bond, how could he be bewitched by them when he saw Xiao Yuezi becoming more and more popular?

"Master, the slave should be damned!" Rui Si knelt down sharply and kowtowed repeatedly.

Although the army mutiny did not do his business, and there would never be secret agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the army, he did not know about the activities of the Fairness Party, so he was naturally derelict in his duties.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "I don't blame you, but it reminds us that it's a good thing, you should pay more attention in the future, and there is no news about Xue Mingjiu?" ”

Xue Mingjiu is the most important spy of the Internal Affairs Office in the Fairness Party, the righteous son of Lu Yueting, if it is really used by the Interior Affairs Office, then the Fairness Party's activities in the south will have nothing to hide.

"Yes, there's no news yet, and I don't know if I've braided my hair halfway. If this kid dares to go away and never look back, the slave will turn out all his confessions in the prison and publish them in the newspaper, so that he will not die a good death. A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Ruisi's eyes, Xue Mingjiu said that he was going to the Western Regions, and it had been a few months, and there was no news coming back.

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "The mountains are high and the road is far away, it is not easy to deliver the news, wait a minute." He added: "You check again, how did I leak out of my patrol." ”

"Yes." Rui Si bowed in agreement.

Ye Zhao pondered for a while, and said to Zhao Qishan: "Wait for you to check this matter, please resign from the above table." ”

"Yes, thank you for your grace!" Zhao Qishan didn't say anything, just kowtowed.

Ye Zhao said to Zheng Zewu again: "You and the people in the staff room will draw up a charter to appease the soldiers who have been quarantined in the sixth town, and you will be the commander of the sixth town's guards." ”

Zheng Zewu bowed down to receive the order.

Ye Zhao glanced at Zhao Qishan, and sighed softly in his heart, it's a pity, this person has talents, and the battle is even more heroic, but it's a pity that there is such a major event as a mutiny in the army, and he was almost ambushed by the mutinous soldiers who left the barracks, and he is really to blame. In addition, the old department of the Censorship and Fairness Party made the army's morale unstable, and taking off his black veil could also calm the grievances of the censored soldiers.

I can only use it again when I have the opportunity to use it later, but I don't have to tell him this.

"Go down." Ye Zhao waved his hand, looking at the map on the table in the direction of the Western Regions, not knowing what he was thinking.

(To be continued)