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The wedding is imminent, Alexandra will be from Macau to his uncle's family, Speaker Alonzo and others to Shidao, out of the need for secrecy, they came in secret, the company and blessings of relatives make Alexandra in a good mood, every day smiling, which also makes Zhao Lie feel comfortable.

Early in the morning of June 18, in a simple Catholic church built on Shidao, Bishop Clemunto from Macao presided over a Western-style wedding between the two. Zhao Lie and Alexandra put on traditional Portuguese costumes and married with the blessings of their families.

After the Western-style wedding, the two hurriedly changed into a traditional Chinese red wedding dress to hold a Chinese-style wedding, which was made by the children in the orphanage for Alexandra's mother, Alexandra is very baby.

Although this wedding dress is a little simple, Alexandra doesn't care, and Zhao Lie doesn't care, but Alexandra comes.

Unlike Western-style weddings, which are only witnessed by family members, Chinese-style weddings are attended by Zhao Haiming, Li Mingyu, Wang Zhe and others, as well as many of Zhao Lie's subordinates.

Li Mingyu and Wang Zhe came to congratulate the whole family, Huang Han, Ma Tao, Li Lu, Han Jian, etc. also came from Jeju Island to celebrate, and Meng Guangshan and Luo Changshan were even more generously presented.

Zhao Lie did not inform the generals of the Thousand Households, there were a lot of Portuguese people at the wedding, and the reputation of fornicating with foreigners is not a small crime in today's Ming Dynasty, some people in the capital and Chang Runing are looking for Zhao Lie's mistakes, but Zhao Lie doesn't want to be careless.

Of course, there is a resentful gaze here.

The soldiers and civilians of Shidao also gave one or two pieces of silver each, as a reward for the adult's wedding, and the whole Shidao was also jubilant. Military households, craftsmen, and Liao people also elected representatives to present gifts to congratulate the adults.

At the wedding banquet, all the subordinates toasted one by one, so that Zhao Lie was unconscious early, and when he woke up, it was already the morning of the next day.

Seeing Alexandra sleeping next to him, he remembered yesterday's wedding, and Zhao Lie smiled bitterly. The only wedding in his two lives passed out like this, and the wedding night was spent in such a situation, and Alexandra was very aggrieved.

Zhao Lie kissed Alexandra's forehead, Alexandra's eyelashes moved frequently, and she woke up.

"Good morning, Arry." Zhao Lie smiled.

"Good morning, Lie." Alexandra replied with a smile.

"I was drunk last night, and I didn't accompany you, so I'm very guilty." Zhao Lie said with his arm around Alexandra's shoulder.

"Oh. I'm very lonely," Alexandra remembered that she was alone last night, a little aggrieved, and patted Zhao Lie's chest, "However, I decided to forgive you." ”

"Thanks, Yali, not in the future." Zhao Lie hugged her and kissed her affectionately. Alexandra responded enthusiastically, which can be regarded as making up for last night's good night.

When the two of them washed up and went out, they greeted Zhao Haiming and Zhao Qin. It was already the end of the hour, the sky was bright, and when Alexandra offered tea to Zhao Qin's family, the awkward posture of walking made Zhao Qin's lips purse and smile, looked at Alexandra, who was flushed with his cheeks, and took the teacup. asked the maid to help Alexandra sit down and talk, but Zhao Lie was kicked out by Zhao Qin's after kowtowing to say goodbye, saying that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wanted to talk.

Zhao Lie had just returned to his courtyard, and Yu Dabao reported that Du Li asked to see him.

Du Li brought news from Liaodong.

June 5th. Yuan Chenghuan convened Mao Wenlong to discuss the war on Lushun Shuangdao, and after counting his great disrespect, he killed Mao Wenlong on the spot, hoping to regain the military power of Phi Island.

It's a pity that things didn't move closer to Yuan Chenghuan's imaginary situation, but slipped to the opposite side of his expectations.

In the past, Mao Wenlong dominated everything in Phi Dao, although his subordinates in Lushun's Zhangpan, Guanglu Island's Shang Kexi, Chen Jisheng, Shen Shikui, godson Mao Chenglu and others on Phi Island all had their own subordinates, but Mao Wenlong's prestige was willing to surrender.

Now that Mao Wenlong has been killed, there is not a testament left, and the 100,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of military households are in chaos like headless flies.

The various army leaders, such as Chen Jisheng, deputy general of Phi Dao, Shen Shikui, Mao Chenglu, Liu Xingzhi, Shang Kexi, and others, formed their own factions, and fought incessantly, cut off food and wages, and the soldiers and civilians fled heavily.

For Yuan Chenghuan, who killed Mao Wenlong in battle, the reaction of these people was unanimous, Gu all scolded, participated in the impeachment, and the excerpts of impeachment flew to Beijing like snowflakes, and no one cared about Yuan Chenghuan's order. The messenger he sent was blasted out of the door by Chen Jisheng and returned with a feather.

Yuan Chenghuan was also caught off guard, this script shouldn't be like this, it should be... At this time, he was not able to raise troops to fight, and the existing troops were reluctant to defend Ning Jin, so Yuan Chenghuan was tragic, this result was unexpected, and he faintly felt as if this time it was a mistake.

As for Jeju, in the past three months, Jeju has imported 100,000 stone grain and grass to Phi Island in exchange for 35,000 Liao people, which Mao Wenlong approved, and these people have been transported to the refugee camp on Jeju Island.

Although each of them is weak, but it will take some time to recover, Zhao Lie is infinitely eager for Ding Kou, but this action was stopped because of this civil strife.

Dongjiang has no one to make a decision, several giants are not convinced, no one counts, Zhang Pan, Shang Kexi and others are better, they are not on Phi Island, Shen Shikui, Chen Jisheng, Mao Chenglu and others' subordinates have already broken out several conflicts, at this time, who can still take care of these things about food and grain.

Zhao Lie sighed, the wheel of history is irresistible, obviously he has already mentioned Mao Wenlong, but Mao Wenlong is too proud, he must not believe that Yuan Chenghuan dares to cut first and then play, after all, he is a second-class member of the imperial court, and only the order of the Son of Heaven can dispose of him. But Yuan Manzi did it like this, and Mao Wenlong must not be blind.

Zhao Lie immediately summoned Zhao Meng, Huang Han, Ma Tao, Li Lu and others to report the news.

"Du Li got news from Liaodong that Huang Taiji will transfer elite soldiers from the Eight Banners and will enter Kouji Town through the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the autumn," Zhao Lie is of course speculating, this matter may have just been planned, and only the upper echelons of the Jurchens know about it.

Du Li was stunned when he heard this, but since the adult said so, he only nodded. Well, that's what I heard, "Tens of thousands of Jurchen armor will attack a few ruined passes, and they will definitely break through the passes, so the rich Jinggi of the Ming Dynasty is close at hand, how can Jiannu let it go." ”

Zhao Lie looked around Zhao Meng, Huang Han, Tang Xianwen, Li Lu, Han Jian and others. Their expressions were surprised, "We have been waiting for the whole army for several years, and now we are beginning to have strength, this time Jiannu has joined the army, it is the time for us to make meritorious contributions, if our army annihilates the enemy and makes miraculous achievements, then we can further promote to important positions and control more soldiers and soldiers." In this way, we will lay a foundation in the Ming Dynasty. Ladies and gentlemen, you can defeat Jiannu. ”

"My lord, rest assured, in the battle of Tieshan the year before last, our army was defeated by Jiannu, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. Raise the prestige of our army. When Huang Han heard that the war was coming, he immediately became excited.

"Your Excellency. It is not difficult for our army to defeat the enemy, but it is necessary to avoid the decisive battle of its main force, and the large armored cavalry of Jiannu is also a strong enemy of our army. The cautious Li Lu vaguely raised his worries.

"It's good to have the heart to fight," Zhao Lie said, "However, our army is alone." Of course, you can't fight a decisive battle with the enemy, or that sentence, the day of the cavalry is the day when we wait for a decisive battle with the enemy, this time it is still a multi-way exploration to annihilate a small part of the enemy. ”

Huang Han and Li Lu immediately returned to Jeju. Intensify the training of the troops, especially the newly built cavalry, and complete the training by the end of September, waiting for the order to go out. Zhao Lie said.

"Yes." The two bowed in response.

"Zhao Meng, Xu Hong, Tang Xianwen, you and others have enough ordnance, grain and grass, gunpowder, and armor for the needs of the war."

Zhao Meng, Xu Hong, and Tang Xianwen agreed with a bang.

The golden-yellow gold coins, the silver coins glowing with white light, and the red-yellow copper coins were placed in front of several people, and these coins were made by Chinese and foreign craftsmen in the Jeju Artisan Camp, with a rough appearance of Jeju Island on the front and several sea boats sailing on the back of the sea.

"The content of gold and silver coins is ninety percent, one gold coin can be exchanged for ten silver coins, and one silver coin can be exchanged for a hundred copper coins. According to the decree of the adults, the front side is the shape of Jeju Island, and the back is the pattern of the voyage, and if the adult is satisfied, the subordinates can start to rush to the system after returning. Ma Tao looked at Zhao Lie's expression and said, this is made five times repeatedly, and it was cast after several modifications, and I don't know if the adults are satisfied.

"Well, that's good," Zhao Lie tried the hardness and size of the coins, the three coins glowed with the brightness of their respective metals, and they seemed to be very well-made, the diameter of the gold and silver coins was more than an inch, and the weight was more than one or two, "After I go back, I can rush to make a large number of them, but I think that a money bank can be set up to issue them specially." ”

"My lord, it is a very good business for our army to establish a money bank, and now the money houses in Jeju City are all opened by some North Koreans, and it is not easy for my Han people to borrow money, and the money interest is extremely high, and there have been several conflicts between Han people and shopkeepers in the past six months. If our army were to establish a bank, they would be careful not to make money as they had done in the past. Ma Tao said.

"How does the bank work today?" Zhao Lie asked.

"Today's money village is the people of the merchants to the money village to exchange silver two for copper money, merchants and individual people will send the silver money into the bank, pay some custody money, the money will be lent out, collect the profit, so the money is very profitable." Ma Tao said.

"This is a two-end collection of money, no wonder it is quite profitable," Zhao Lie smashed his mouth, the current money village seems to be some departments in the later generations after eating the upper house and eating the next house, the knife does not fall short, "This kind of money, do people save more money in the money bank." ”

"How can there be many, very little, adults, the people who deposit money in the money bank are merchants, after all, some silver money is convenient in and out of the bank, in fact, the money bank does not collect much money, but all the people who open the money are quite wealthy at home, and they don't expect how much money to be collected from outside, and most of the money lent out is their own silver taels." Ma Tao said.

"In this way, our army really needs to open a bank, well, it is the need for a bank." Zhao Lie said.

"My lord, what is a bank?" Huang Han asked.

"Well, this one is slightly the same as Qian Zhuang." Zhao Lie scratched his head and said.

"Well, this, my lord, it is better to call it a money village, and the people also understand." Huang Han was stunned.

"This is a big difference, my so-called bank is where the money comes and goes, on the one hand, the people and merchants come here to deposit money, and the bank does not collect profits, but also pays the people profits," Zhao Lie just said this, Li Lu opened his mouth and looked at Zhao Lie, did this adult say that it was reversed, but others could bear it, and it was estimated that the adult would have something to say.

"In the two, the interest received from the loan is only three to four times the interest paid to the people, and the interest rate difference between the two is earned." Zhao Lie continued as if he didn't see the expressions of his subordinates.

"Of the three, only this bank can mint and issue coins, and other banks cannot mint or issue coins, but can only lend."

"If your lord acts like this, the bank will be extremely profitable, and this minting of coins can make more than 50% of the profit, which is really a huge profit." Tang Xianwen smacked his lips and said, he often messes with Luo Changshan, and the doorway here is now also a door.

"Not only that, my lord, if it is this bit of money, most of the people in Jeju and Beihua go to the bank to borrow, and such a large number of people is not a small profit. Ma Tao said.

"Yes, you also have a heart," Zhao Lie gave them a thumbs up as a reward, "There is another great benefit here, you don't care,"

"My lord, there are big benefits, really? There is no other income in this bank. Li Lu touched his two little nonsense and said.

"If you go to the bank and deposit money to pay you interest, you can't save it." Zhao Lie asked,

"Of course you save it, it's a fool not to save it, it's a good thing to take money for nothing." Li Lu said with his eyes open.

"In this way, two years later, the people of Beihua and Jeju have a better life, they have some silver in their hands, and half of the people have deposited five taels of silver in the bank, and the bank has how many silver taels." Zhao Lie asked.

"If there are 30,000 households saving money, that is 150,000 taels." Li Lu pulled his fingers and calculated.

"In this way, there will be 150,000 taels of silver for me to use." Zhao Lie said.

"What will happen to the people if they take it back?" Li Lu asked blankly.

"If you save money all year round, and you take it out every year, you are not a fool." Huang Han touched Li Lu with his hand, and everyone else laughed, Li Lu scratched his head and laughed dryly.

"For the New Year's holidays, weddings and funerals use some silver, and at other times they will put it in the bank, unless, the broken army is defeated, and the people panic before they get all the silver back." Zhao Lie said.

Everyone nodded, this is indeed the truth, it seems that this bank is promising. (To be continued.) )