didn't get the treasure, or even had no clues, Deng Haonan didn't give up.

"Isn't the eunuch's treasure supposed to be buried with the eunuch?"

"This is how it should be under normal circumstances!" Feng Shaoyan picked up a small porcelain vase and checked the date on it.

The advantages and disadvantages of the porcelain vase represent the high status of the eunuchs, ordinary eunuchs can only use ordinary porcelain vases, and the eunuchs with high status use the porcelain vases made by the Royal Imperial Ware Factory, and the higher status directly engraves their names before the porcelain vase is out of the kiln.

"The date of these vases is supposed to be Yongle time, when the Yongle Emperor executed thousands of palace maids and eunuchs because of the death of his concubine, presumably they did not have time to bury their treasures with them, so they were abandoned here. Or the eunuchs who were buried with the Yongle Emperor, they also had to serve the emperor after death, so they were not allowed to bring treasures. ”

Na Haonan was not interested in studying eunuchs, he believed that the treasure must be there, otherwise there would be no reason to leave a riddle and make it so mysterious.

Either I misunderstood, or the timing was wrong.

Time!

Na Haonan remembered the date left under the pattern, September 26, it is now August, according to the sun's deflection rules, the sunrise direction should be shifted to the north.

However, Deng Haonan thought about it again, although the dates are different and the angles between the earth and the sun are different, for the small Temple of Heaven, the error is almost negligible.

Since the date is negligible, there is no need to leave the clue of the date.

Unless, "10,000" does not refer to the date, but to the time.

Na Haonan turned around the Temple of Heaven and saw that the fence around the Round Mound Altar happened to form a large circular dial.

"Count how many pillars there are on the innermost fence!"

The guards received the order and hurriedly began to count the number of pillars in the fence.

"What's up with you?"

"We'll find out later!"

Soon, the guards reported that the innermost fence had a total of sixty columns.

Na Haonan became excited, if he guessed correctly, the meaning of the pattern was nine twenty-six. That is to say, the round mound altar is the heart of the needle, and the fence is the dial, and the answer should be on the twenty-sixth pillar.

In the right direction, Na Haonan found the twenty-sixth pillar. There is nothing special on the top of the pillar, just like the other pillars.

Na Haonan circled around the pillar, then held the square end of the upper end of the pillar, and moved his hands up and down, but there was no response. Then he turned left and right again, and Deng Haonan suddenly felt loose.

Overjoyed, Deng Haonan turned the stigma to the right a few times, and then took the stigma off.

"This stone pillar is enough to be unscrewed?"

Feng Shaoyan and others were surprised, it stands to reason that these pillars should be carved out as a whole, but they didn't expect that they were combined with screws.

Ding Da Niu was curious, and twisted left and right on the pillar next to him, but there was no sign of loosening. The others are normal monolithic stones that are polished all at once.

In this way, Deng Haonan proved his idea that there was something wrong with this stone pillar.

I studied the stigma and found nothing. Na Haonan then checked the rest of the part.

This stone pillar turned out to be hollow!

Na Haonan was overjoyed, stretched out his hand and reached into it from the snail's thumb, Feng Shaoyan and the others all looked at Di Haonan expectantly, hoping to see Deng Haonan take out things.

That Haonan was stunned for a moment, Feng Shaoyan suddenly became nervous, and asked, "My lord, is there nothing in it?" ”

Di Haonan was silent at first. Then he smiled and said, "How can Lord Ben go out empty-handed?" See what this is? ”

As he spoke, Di Haonan violently pulled out a cylindrical object about thirty centimeters long from the nut hole.

"What is this?"

Feng Shaoyan and Ding Da Niu came over to watch. It's a cylindrical thing now, and I don't know what it's for.

"Loaded with a map!"

As soon as Hao Nan saw this thing, he blurted out.

"Mapped?"

Feng Shaoyan and Ding Daniu were shocked when they heard this, and the latter suddenly laughed: "Could it be a treasure map!" ”

Na Haonan smiled: "Very likely! ”

Na Haonan flipped over and checked it, and then twisted the lid from one side.

After glancing inside, Jiang Nan smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's a map!" ”

Reaching out and pulling out the map rolled inside, Na Haonan immediately unfolded it and looked at it.

Feng Shaoyan and Ding Daniu hurriedly gathered around to watch, and sure enough, it was a map, on which the mountains and rivers were drawn and the roads were rugged.

"My lord, how can you be sure that it must be a map!"

Di Haonan said with a smile: "In the past, the map was marked with Jinpa, so it can be folded into any shape and stored. However, with the development of papermaking, it became easier and more accurate to draw maps on fine paper. However, the paper should not be folded, otherwise it is easy to destroy the graphics and text on the map, so the map should be rolled up and stored in a sealed cylinder. ”

"I see!"

The crowd hurriedly looked at the map, and to their disappointment, the markings on the map were quite puzzling.

In addition to the mountains and rivers and roads, there are also many circles marked on the map. Deng Haonan knew that those circles were place names, but strangely, the place names were not written directly, but a row of Arabic numerals.

You don't need to be so desperate!

That Hao Nan was angry, isn't it just a treasure, it's so mysterious, and at the last moment, he even hid the name of the place in the numbers.

Maybe he really cares about this treasure!

At this time, Deng Haonan could only comfort himself like this, the more secret the map, the greater the value of the treasure, and the big estimate is unimaginable. For fear of being taken away by the bad guys, he would rather be buried forever than let it see the light of day.

"My lord, what do these numbers mean?"

Na Haonan looked at Feng Shaoyan, and said secretly in his heart: Who will I ask if you ask me?

Obviously, these numbers represent a certain Chinese character. And the Chinese characters are connected to the place name, only if we know the place name, can we follow the map to find the treasure, otherwise a qiē is all in vain! ”

Feng Shaoyan asked, "Then have you guessed the anagram behind this number?" ”

Di Haonan shook his head and said in his heart: God knows what kind of coding method that damn guy used, Lao Tzu is not a math expert, and it is really more difficult to solve the mystery than to die on tofu.

Ding Da Niu said: "Isn't that treasure never known? ”

Feng Shaoyan sighed, he really wanted to fulfill the wishes of his ancestors, but obviously his intelligence level was not enough, and now Deng Haonan was gone, he seemed very lost.

"That's fine!" Deng Haonan said: "We don't need to put our energy on this, anyway, the map is in our hands, so let's have a chance to participate in the research again!" ”

Feng Shaoyan nodded and said, "What the adults said is true!" It's not worth the effort to spend energy on an unknown treasure, but now that the map has been taken out by us, how to keep it is not tolerated

Na Haonan thought about it. said, "Make a copy of the map." The copy was left outside for reference, and was originally sealed secretly and closely guarded. At the same time, the copy can only draw a map, and the markers are removed. The markings of each place name are copied separately and saved until they are cracked. ”

Feng Shaoyan said: "Your Excellency has thought too much, so that even if the copy is lost, you don't have to worry about the treasure leaking!" ”

Di Haonan suddenly asked, "Last time our conversation may have been overheard by the White Lotus Sect, this time there won't be anyone around with them!" ”

Feng Shaoyan said: "Your Excellency, rest assured, your subordinates have thoroughly investigated everything within a radius of several miles, and it has been tightly sealed before your adult comes, and our conversation will not leak out." ”

"That's good". Na Haonan nodded, secretly praising Feng Shaoyan for being alert enough.

I remembered being taught by the White Lotus to amputate the muscles. Although the other party didn't get any treasure, Na Haonan felt very uncomfortable.

"Inform the Shuntianfu and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and ask them to thoroughly investigate the suspicious people in Beijing, I want to know the movements of this group of people

Ding Da Niu received the order and arranged people to do things.

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Di Haonan returned to the Jinghai Hou Mansion, and the guards reported that there were suspicious people wandering nearby.

It should be someone from the White Lotus Sect, so Chen Wanqing must have something to do with the White Lotus Sect, and they should be ready to rescue Chen Wanqing.

Thinking of this, that Hao Nan was cold. One more sound, and called Ding Da Niu to come over and give a few orders. Ding Da Niu understood, turned around and went down to arrange.

Di Haonan returned to the room, Chen Wanqing was still tied to the stool, and when she saw Deng Haonan coming in, she immediately looked at each other angrily.

"See Master Hou!"

Several palace maids were lightly blessed, and Deng Haonan waved his hand to signal that he would be exempted.

"How? Did she please you in every possible way and beg you to let her go! ”

Several palace maids looked at each other and smiled, and one of them said, "The slaves and maids don't dare to talk to her!" ”

Na Haonan glanced at Tan Wanqing and said with a smile: "She didn't say anything bad about Benhou!" ”

Several palace maids forced a smile, and Na Haonan already understood, and waved his hand to signal them to go down.

"It's not good to speak ill of people behind your back."

"What about that?" Chen Wan glanced at Deng Haonan innocently and replied: "You are not a good person in the first place."

The White Lotus Sect failed to get the treasure, which made Na Haonan's mood much better.

"I heard that your White Lotus Sect is very powerful!"

Originally, Chen Wanqing was about to count down Na Haonan, but when she heard Di Haonan mention the White Lotus Sect, she immediately kept silent and turned her head to the side.

Di Haonan said with a smile: "I arrested a few White Lotus Sect rebels today"

Chen Wanqing suddenly turned her head and happened to meet Na Haonan's funny gaze.

"What? I'm nervous! ”

Chen Wanqing was secretly annoyed that Deng Haonan was cunning, and her expression obviously betrayed her.

"I'm afraid they'll kill you! small

Na Haonan was stunned, the beauty in front of her actually cared about herself, which was really unexpected.

"It turns out that Wanqing cares about me very much!"

"You're less stinky and beautiful!" Chen Wanqing was angry and said angrily: "I said that I would kill you with my own hands!" ”

Di Haonan was speechless when he heard this, and he didn't seem to be a fake when he saw Zhu Wanqing.

"You don't need to be so cruel to me! , little Deng Haonan said innocently: "I don't have anything to do with you!" ”

"If you lift my veil, you will die!"

"Really!"

"I'm afraid!"

When Na Haonan heard this, he approached in front of Zhen Wanqing, patted his chest and pretended to be terrifying, and said, "I'm so scared!" ”

Seeing Deng Haonan suddenly staring at her, her hot eyes swept over her body, and she suddenly said in fear: "What are you looking at?" ”

Na Haonan smiled evilly and said, "You are very arrogant, aren't you!" Then I want you to see your current situation."

Then Deng Haonan ran his fingers over Chen Wanqing's neck, slowly paddling down her cleavage, Bu Wanqing struggled, but to no avail.

"What are you doing? Don't mess around! ”

Na Haonan asked: "You'd better not provoke me obediently, otherwise, I'll strip you naked first, and then"

"Don't!" Chen Wanqing was finally scared, and finally saw her current situation clearly, and immediately begged for mercy.

"Is that right?" Deng Haonan withdrew his claws, returned to his seat, and asked, "Sue me, what is your relationship with the White Lotus Sect?"

"I" Chen Wanqing saw Deng Haonan's eyes, and immediately replied weakly: "I'm not familiar with them!" ”

Na Haonan then asked, "What is Liu Erhei's position in the White Lotus Sect?" ”

Chen Wanqing was stunned for a moment. didn't expect Deng Haonan to be eyeing Liu Erhei.

"It should be an altar master!" Chen Wanqing looked at Na Haonan's expression, and said slowly: "I'm just a maid, women have no status in the sect, I have to do whatever he asks me to do, and I don't know their intentions!" ”

Na Haonan nodded, for Chen Wanqing's words, he knew that there must be a lot of water.

At this time, the guards came to report and inform that Hao Fuyi's arrangements had been made.

So Di Haonan got up to leave, and Chen Wanqing hurriedly asked, "When will you let me go?"

"When I'm in a good mood! small

"So when are you in a good mood?".

"Wait for your comrades to come to the door!" Chen Wanqing didn't understand the meaning for a while, but after thinking about it, she realized that Deng Haonan had already begun to arrange a net and waited for someone to save her.

"This sucks!" Chen Wanqing was so anxious, according to her estimate, Liu Erhei and Yan Bing would definitely come to save her. Wouldn't that be falling into the whole set of that Haonan!

"Damn Deng Haonan!" Chen Wanqing was about to be mad.

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In the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji stabilized Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong, and then raised an army of 100,000 to attack Korea.

The king of Joseon, Li Zong, sent a special envoy Han Nuan to the Liaodong Governor's Mansion to ask for help, but Lin Feng was ordered by Deng Haonan to delay as long as he could, but Han Nuan was not seen. The situation in Korea was tense, and the Houjin army was like a bamboo, and the king of North Korea urged several times. Han Nuan had no choice but to rush to Beijing in person to ask for help from the Ming court.

The Imperial Court of the Li Fan received Han Nuan, and sent the letter of request to Emperor Zhu Youxiao through Li Guo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Helplessly, after being purified by Deng Haonan, spiritual preparations such as smoke and mandala have eroded and paralyzed Zhu Youxiao's brain. Today's emperors, as long as they are sober, only care about smoking big cigarettes. I can't care about anything else. Because he hallucinates when he smokes a lot, he can't manage politics at all, so Zhu Youxiao completely let go of the big and small affairs of the DPRK and China to the cabinet.

And the cabinet was originally six people, but Na Haonan rarely participated, even if there were major events. Huang Liji asked him to go over to discuss countermeasures, but Deng Haonan just went with the flow and never voted against Huang Liji.

For this reason, Huang Liji's hostility towards Na Haonan gradually weakened greatly. Yong Si recognized that it was not that the spear method was sober, but if he wanted to be sober, it would be fine unless Di Haonan nodded and adjusted the amount of medicine. However, at the moment, Deng Haonan did not want Zhu Youxiao to sober up, so North Korea's request was finally decided in the cabinet.

Huang Liji has a lot of troubles at the moment, first of all, the deteriorating finances, and the intensifying peasant uprising in northern Shaanxi, the governor of the three sides, Yang He, is already a little unbearable.

The imperial court originally had little treasury silver. At present, it is necessary to allocate funds to the governors of the three sides to suppress bandits, and also to allocate funds to Yuan Chonghuan in western Liaoning Province to build a city, these two expenditures have already accounted for ninety percent of the finances, and in addition to the continuous disasters of the Great Tomorrow, the last percent of the disaster relief funds have been occupied, and the salaries of officials at the end of this year are still a problem.

Six cabinet ministers, sitting in the cabinet chamber in a primary and secondary column, five old men who debated endlessly, and a young man who slept soundly, were really funny.

Hubu Shang: "Hubu Zuo Shilang Guo Yunhou played Chen: The country is blue and easy to nong Zhou, please ask for money and grain to be sealed." ”

Daming money and grain have always used blue watermarks, but now they have changed to use red seals, which is not a big deal.

Huang Liji waved his hand and said: "Trivialities, Lord Ye can decide on his own, so there is no need to take them out for everyone to discuss." ”

Ye Xianggao arched his hand and said, "Then thank you Lord Huang!" ”

Huang Liji nodded and asked, "Now there is a big gap in the treasury of the household, I don't know what your lords have to do." ”

Ministry of Industry: "The gap is getting bigger and bigger, how to fill it!" ”

Ministry of Rites: "It's better to collect next year's summer tax in advance to solve the urgent need." ”

Ye Xianggao smiled bitterly: "It's not always an urgent need, do you know, we have now advanced all the taxes in two years." ”

Bingbu Shang: "Then don't you want to make an advance?" How can the people live if they advance the money! It's better to line more treasure money! ”

Wang Qia saw that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, and immediately asked, "What?" Isn't my method good? ”

Huang Liji smiled: "Okay! Then this year's Yulu will give you some treasure money! ”

"How's that going to work?" Wang Qia was suddenly unwilling.

Ye Xianggao thought for a while and said: "It's not okay to advance the people's taxes, and the treasure money is not recognized at all when it arrives in the place, it is the same as waste paper." It's better to levy some harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, I think there is still room for a tax increase in the salt tax! ”

"No way!" Huang Liji shook his head and said, "Isn't this tantamount to forcing the people to rebel?" At present, the earthquake in the three northwestern provinces, the severe drought in the north, and the wind and flood in the south are not easy to survive without collecting taxes. ”

This doesn't work, that doesn't work, and the five of them suddenly fell into deep thought.

Suddenly, Wang Qia suddenly said: "There should be a lot of disadvantages of the emperor, it is better to be one"

As

Everyone looked at Wang Qia one after another, which meant to let Wang Qia continue.

But. Wang Cha is not a fool, once he exits, everyone will definitely support him, then he will be the first minister to use the emperor's private money. If the emperor holds a grudge in the future, he will definitely clean up his Wang Cha first.

Don't say it!

Wang Qia said half of it, and swallowed the rest of the words.

Everyone was immediately disappointed, and finally Huang Liji had no choice but to say: "When the national disaster is at hand, the emperor should take the lead, just when we borrow it from the emperor, we will return it after a while." ”

"I'll second!"

Several old men immediately agreed to Huang Liji's proposal, and they strongly supported it.

Fu nodded, which meant that he had resisted the matter, so the other four people offered their plans.

Ye Xianggao had already thought about it in his heart, so he said: "The biggest oil and water in the Internal Affairs Office is in Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving and Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory. Again, the Royal Ware Factory mainly costs a huge amount of silver taels for weaving in Suzhou and Hangzhou. If you stop Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will save two million taels of silver. ”

"Makes sense!" Li Guo said: "Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving embezzle two ends every year, the top embezzles the official silver of the internal affairs government, and the bottom embezzles the people's money. The profit can be more than two million taels, at least three million taels. ”

Huang Liji nodded and said: "Weaving has always been at a low price or even forced to apportion orders to the people, and then sold to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at a high price, and the difference is indeed quite a lot. ”

Ye Xianggao took out a spare fold at this time and handed it to Huang Liji, and said, "I have already prepared it, and a few adults will look at it." Everyone scolded in their hearts, this girl had already set her eyes on the oil and water yamen of Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving, and even the folds were ready.

Regarding the edict of the Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving household department to sign and use the seal to play the royal review: the year after year, the flood and drought are frequent, the business is difficult to obstale, the people are hard, and the edict is resting and recuperating. Today, Suzhou and Hangzhou are now weaving and dissolving, and the rest are suspended to show respect for the heavens and the people.

After reading it, Huang Liji and others secretly praised it in their hearts. It not only explained the reason for stopping the weaving of Suzhou and Hangzhou, but also said that it was high-sounding, and presumably the emperor would not say anything in the future.

"Let's see, do you have any comments to add?"

Huang Liji asked around, and when he asked about Hao Nan, it was now Di Hao Nan who was sleeping again.

"Lord Deng!"

"Master Hou!"

Di Haonan woke up suddenly, wiped the corner of his mouth with sleepy eyes, and said, "It's over?" Then I'll go back first! ”

Na Haonan said, picked up the official hat and belt, and prepared to slip away.

"Lord Deng!" Although Huang Liji was angry, Deng Haonan did not interfere with his decision-making, which made him very satisfied, so he tolerated Deng Haonan's presumptuousness.

Di Haonan woke up and saw that it was still early, so he smiled and said, "It's not over yet, then you continue, don't worry about me." ”

Huang Liji smiled bitterly and said, "What do you think?" ”

"I'm okay with that!" Na Haonan smiled: "The opinions of Lord Huang and the adults are my opinions!" ”

Several people were accustomed to Deng Haonan, so they finalized the rules and misappropriated the silver used by the Internal Affairs Office to allocate to Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving. At the same time, the amount of funds and tribute of the Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory was also reduced by more than half, all of which were used to fill the financial deficit.

The problem of money was temporarily solved, and several old men began to have a headache with food again.

Daming has suffered natural disasters for more than ten years, and there is a shortage of food in various places, and the transportation of grain from the south to the north has not been smooth. Now that the war in the north is raging, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, are in urgent need of grain and grass, and the two have reported one after another, claiming that if there is a shortage of food, they may lead to a mutiny in the army.

The army mutiny is not groundless, and several old men know the affairs of the army in their hearts, but no one wants to take care of it.

Ye Xianggao said: "Su Mao, the right attendant of the Governor's Cangchang Household Department, checked the food and salary of the Beijing army: the Beijing army puts more than 300,000 stones every year, and now the second warehouse rice in Jingtong is only 269,573 stones. There were only more than 17,760 Jinyi guards in Wanli, and they were added to the counterblock, and now there are more than 36,360. 270,000 multi-count rice. The palace courtyard craftsman, the official register of 753 people, now added to 3,288 people, more than 30,000 stones. beg

Although Wei Zhongxian's era lasted only a few years, the economic and military catastrophe caused by it was incalculable. Now the eunuch has been pulled out, but the tree has been bitten empty by moths, and the removal of moths has only exacerbated the collapse of the tree.

This is called terminal blindness. The more you are cured, the faster you die.

Misappropriation of the emperor's internal evils can only fill the current hole. However, the armies in various places have been in arrears of food and pay for a long time, and the longest has been two years. The soldiers had to live by selling weapons and horses, and if they continued like this, when there were no weapons or horses to sell, it would be time to rob the common people.

Today's cabinet is tearing down the east wall and making up for the west wall.

Everyone had a headache again, and at this time, Ye Xianggao suddenly looked at Na Haonan and said with a smile: "Lord Deng is loyal to the country, and he is really a model for us, but the subordinates of that lord have never received a cent of silver and food from the imperial court, and the official is really sorry." ”

Di Haonan was stunned, why did this girl suddenly change sex today. "Lord Ye has been raised!" Na Haonan said: "Now that the treasury is empty, it is a fact, and the official knows the difficulties of the imperial court, so the official can only help the imperial court advance first, and wait until the future when the imperial court is solid." It's never too late to make it up! ”

As soon as Ye Xianggao raised his buttocks, Huang Liji and the others knew what kind of fart he was going to put out.

When he suddenly mentioned this matter to Na Haonan, he must have bad intentions.

Huang Liji thought for a while, and suddenly understood Ye Xianggao's intentions.

Sure enough, Ye Xianggao said: "Master Deng has thousands of warships and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and there must be a good way to go overseas alone without relying on the imperial court!" ”

The more Hao Nan listened, the more wrong it became, how did this girl get involved with herself?

Isn't it?

That Haonan suddenly realized. At present, Ye Xianggao's poor household is not even patronized by mice, and he obviously began to fight his idea.

Lai Zongdao took Na Haonan's arm and said, "Lord Ye doesn't say it, the official has forgotten." We have a rich man in front of us, so why not take advantage of it? ”

Na Haonan reluctantly smiled and said, "What a rich man! Know, Lord Lai must be rich! ”

Huang Liji saw Deng Haonan pretending, stepped forward and said, "Then don't be modest!" Your old man is very tight, there are not tens of thousands, but tens of millions. ”

Na Haonan sighed and said: "You adults don't know, I am a poor handful of snot and tears!" ”

Li Guo interrupted: "Wrong! Lord Deng is poor, so there is money left! ”

Ye Xianggao pulled Na Haonan over and said, "Lord Deng wants to help!" If you don't help, these border soldiers will probably rebel! ”

Huang Liji said: "Lord Deng is loyal to the country, so naturally he will not sit idly by!" ”

What a big hat by all means!

Na Haonan was speechless. These old guys are up to eat themselves.

"This."

Ye Xianggao suddenly interrupted Deng Haonan's words and said, "Then don't worry, my lord, we just borrowed a few million taels of silver from you, and we will pay you back when the time comes!" ”

Borrow? A few million taels of silver?

Di Haonan felt a pain in his heart, and it was quite dangerous to lend money to these old politicians.

"With this amount of money, Lord Deng won't be so stingy!"

"Yes! It's only a few million taels, and for that adult, it's just a drop in the bucket! ”

A few old guys, you have a mouthful of me. Deng Haonan looked at the situation, it seems that it is not possible to not bleed this time.

However, Deng Haonan never makes a loss-making business, and he has to find a way to get it back.

Na Haonan thought about it in his heart, so he said, "I don't know how much you want to borrow?" ”

Ye Xianggao said: "Let's borrow five million taels of silver first!" ”

Di Haonan rolled his eyes, and secretly said that you are not distressed, as soon as you open your mouth, it will be five million taels of silver.

Obviously, Ye Xianggao was asking for a price all over the sky, and Deng Haonan understood that he couldn't listen to him.

So he shook his head and sighed: "Don't hide it, my subordinates also have to eat and dress, and I can't take out five million taels!" ”

Ye Xianggao was just testing Deng Haonan's family background, so he said: "Then 4.5 million taels is good!" ”

Na Haonan shook his head and said, "At most, I can lend the imperial court a million taels of silver." ”

"No way!" Ye Xianggao shook his head and said, "One million taels makes us owe you a favor, why don't you borrow it?" ”

Wang Cha nodded and said, "That's it!" It's not easy to repay that lady's favor! ”

"Four million taels!"

"One and a half million taels! Couldn't have been more! ”

"Three and a half million taels! That's really not much! ”

"Two million taels at most! I'm going to have to eat with my belt strapped! ”

Na Haonan bargained with the five old guys, and finally settled on 2.3 million taels. But. Deng Haonan immediately put forward his additional conditions.

"You have to have a mortgage!" Na Haonan thought for a while and said, "That's good! Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving and Jingdezhen imperial ware factory handed over to me to take care of! ”

This time, it was Huang Liji's turn and the other five old guys to be surprised, and secretly said that Nian Haonan was really not the master who was willing to suffer.

Ye Xianggao said: "This is not good! We've just stopped making offerings in two places, and we're going to be busy in vain if you go down again!" ”

Na Haonan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Lord Ye is too worried!" I'm not going to scrape the people! You can rest assured! I want these two places just for business! ”

"Is that being sold overseas?" Huang Liji asked.

Di Haonan nodded and said, "Of course! What else do I want them to do? ”

"No way!" Huang Liji shook his head suddenly, he knew the oil and water in these two places, but he had to know the huge profits of the products in these two places abroad, especially the tribute used for tribute. Ordinary Ming goods transported to Nanyang have increased tenfold, so if the tribute is transported to Nanyang, it will be forty or fifty times more drastic.

"These two places are for the palace to pay tribute, if you go overseas, what kind of system will it become!"

Na Haonan knew the huge profits, so he said: "If several adults agree, how about the official willing to borrow three million taels and give each adult a dividend of 500,000 taels every year?" ”

Everyone gasped, they all knew that Deng Haonan was selling goods to profiteering, but they didn't know that it was so generous.

Each person was given 500,000 taels of silver a year, which was almost worth their five-year harvest. Moreover, the most important thing is that when you take money from Deng Haonan, you don't have to worry about accidents, and you are not afraid of others checking them. 500,000 taels of insurance!

There's nothing that doesn't tick the table!

Ye Xianggao looked at Huang Liji, and the expression had already told Huang Liji, and they agreed without thinking about it.

Huang Liji coughed lightly, this kind of blatant bribery, only Deng Haonan dared to do this. But there are just six of them here, they are all top-level fritters mixed in officialdom, and there is no need to hide it.

"So" Huang Liji looked at everyone, then nodded and said, "It's so decided."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, this kind of happy thing, for the cabinets of the Ming Dynasty, this time the six ministers shared the spoils together, it was really the first time.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary is naturally Di Haonan.

Give five ministers two and a half million taels of silver a year, which seems like a lot. However, Deng Haonan knew in his heart that getting the two major Ming ace enterprises of Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory and Suzhou and Hangzhou Weaving would be equivalent to controlling the most high-end supply of Daming.

Na Haonan knows that the huge profits of the Maritime Silk Road are unimaginable to ordinary people. He remembered the rising year, the month. Day, "Gothenburg." Departed from Guangzhou to return to China. The ship was loaded with about a tonne of Chinese goods, including tea, porcelain, silk, and rattan ware. At that time, if the goods were to be auctioned at the Gothenburg market, it was estimated that the value would be as high as 100 million Swedish silver coins.

If this is replaced by Deng Haonan's year, and then all the high-end goods, then the profit will be astronomical, although it can be a round trip every two years, but thinking of the mountains of wealth, Deng Haonan is very happy in his heart.

Next, the crowd continued their deliberations. After the cooperation just now, although the five elders still have discord with each other, they all look at Deng Haonan differently because of Deng Haonan's bribe.

In this way, Deng Haonan has also become harmonious in the cabinet, becoming a buffer zone between the five cabinet elders and receiving special preferential treatment.

At this time, Li Guo took out Han Nuan's excerpt from the Korean Hour and discussed it with several people.

Wang Qia said directly: "Of course I have to save it!" North Korea is one of the main forces in containing Jiannu, and if it is cut off by Huang Taiji, then the pressure on us will increase

Li Guo sighed: "It's just that Yuan Chonghuan has already negotiated peace with Huang Taiji, Mao Wenlong was tricked by Yuan Chonghuan last time, and he lost his troops and generals. Now there is only Lord Deng's Liaodong Governor's Mansion left! ”

Na Haonan secretly said in his heart: It's not for Lao Tzu to send troops to rescue! That's not going to work!

"I'll declare it first!" Di Haonan said: "To do business is to have capital! If I don't lend you money, I can send troops to the rescue. Now my money has lent you money. I have to clean up the mess of the Imperial Ware Factory and Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving, but there is no silver to use as military expenses for sending troops."

"But," Wang Qia hesitated with a face full of hesitation.

"Don't," Deng Haonan hurriedly interrupted him: "If I send troops, then I won't have any money to lend you, let alone dividends to you!" ”

Don't have money to pay dividends?

Hearing the latter words, Wang Qia and the others suddenly stopped talking.

Lai Zongdao smiled and said, "Now that we have Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Wenlong, and Lord Deng to contain Huang Taiji, North Korea has little effect. It's better to let Huang Taiji fight with North Korea and consume Huang Taiji's strength."

"What Lord Lai said is very true!"

When everyone saw that there were steps down, they hurriedly stopped studying the affairs of North Korea, for fear that they would lose the dividends that Deng Haonan gave them.

As a result, the fate of North Korea was decided, and it went in the direction planned by Deng Haonan.

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North Korea borders the Ming Dynasty, and it is neighbors with the Later Jin, and the Ming and Jin confronted each other, and the Later Jin wanted to go west to attack the Ming. It is necessary to consider the actions of North Korea in the east. Therefore, North Korea's backing is indeed very important.

In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, Nurhachi adopted a policy of wooing Korea, and sent envoys to Korea many times to submit letters, hoping that Korea would break off relations with the Ming Dynasty and form an alliance with the Later Jin. However, North Korea refused to listen to persuasion and still supported the Ming Dynasty and opposed the Later Jin.

In order to break the three-sided arc-shaped encirclement of the Ming, Mongolian, and Korean dynasties, Huang Taiji openly sent envoys to negotiate peace with Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of Liaodong.

In the autumn of the 7th year of the first year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji ordered Amin, Jierharang, Yue Tuo and others to lead the army to the east. Amin led more than 30,000 horsemen to cross the Yalu River and captured Uiju. At this time, Amin sent Jierharang and others to lead a large army to attack the Iron Mountain controlled by Mao Wenlong, and Mao Jialong's troops were defeated and retreated to Phi Island, but they were not completely annihilated. The Iron Mountain guards Mao Youjun and Liu Wenju were killed, and many Ming soldiers and Liao people were killed.

According to the change of the shape, Amin and others believed that Phi Dao was facing each other across the sea and could not attack without a naval division; Later, the Jin soldiers lightly captured Uiju, indicating that the Korean defense was weak enough to win. As a result, Kim shifted the target of his attack from Mao Wenlong to North Korea. Amin led a large army south, "waiting for the peace talks".

When King Li of Joseon learned that the Houjin army had crossed the river and headed south and Dingzhou had been lost, he was extremely frightened and decided to send his concubine to Ganghwa Island to avoid chaos.

Amin led his army to advance on the victory, captured Anju, and then captured Pyongyang, and camped in Chungho, and sent an envoy to Seoul to send a letter to make a forced landing. At this time, the Joseon king Li Brown fled from Seoul in terror and fled to Ganghwa Island, and ordered Jiang Ji and Pak Ao to go to the Houjin camp to submit a letter to negotiate peace and beg for surrender. In a reply letter to the king of Joseon, Amin said, "If you want to make peace, send an envoy, I am willing to listen to it." A few days later, Amin led the army to occupy Huangzhou, and he "sent an envoy to threaten peace, and he wanted to do three things: one day to cut the land, two days to capture Deng Haonan and Mao Wenlong, and three days to borrow 10,000 troops to help destroy the Southern Dynasty." Li Ju sent Jiang Ji and Pu Ao to inform Amin that they were willing to accept the negotiation and negotiation.

Amin sent his lieutenant general Liu Xinghua to Ganghwa Island and put forward peace conditions to North Korea: he wanted North Korea to end the Ming Dynasty forever, pay tribute, go to the next year, and take an oath to form an alliance. After more than a month of negotiations between the two sides, the DPRK basically accepted it under the military pressure of Houjin. The scheming North Korea had no choice but to disagree with the Ming Dynasty, and finally Amin relented and said to North Korea that "there is no need to force it".

On the third day of the first month of October, Li Brown led his ministers and Houjin to burn books and oath on Ganghwa Island on behalf of Nam Mu Tai and other eight ministers. Although Amin signed the oath, he was not satisfied with the North Korean oath, so he did not recognize the oath. Amin returned to Pyongyang and received instructions from Huang Taiji not to retreat, saying that "the west of the Taedong River cannot be returned." He also said, "Wait for Mao Wenlong to return." So Li Ju was forced to send his younger brother Li Jue to Pyongyang to hold the Pyongyang oath again, and Houjin demanded more rights and interests from it, and also opened markets with North Korea in Zhongjiang and Hoeryeong, and returned the fugitives. Forced to increase tribute, etc. Huang Taiji was very happy to hear this, and because Amin's actions in the court were completely in line with his wishes, when Amin and the others returned to Shenyang on October 17, they were greeted with great pomp.

Huang Taiji's war against Korea played an important role in the development of the Later Jin, mainly showing that he got rid of the dilemma of isolation. Wooed North Korea. Economically, it broke through the embargo blockade of the Liaodong Governor's Office, and militarily smashed the encirclement of the Ming army. Thus relieving the worries of westward expansion.

Huang Taiji thought that he could safely conquer the vast areas of Liaoxi and Monan Mongolia from now on, and the day of strength was just around the corner, but he didn't know that this was just that Na Haonan had already calculated a strategy.

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