Erran. The biggest dissatisfaction of the Lu gang is that Na Haonan controlled the eastern half of the Wu. Crying Juju is a specialty from Liaodong. And ginseng, deer, and zhaopi are among the most valuable things in maritime trade, and at the same time, Di Haonan can control Liaodong and control trade with North Korea, which is to rob the Lu gang of jobs, so Li Dehai naturally couldn't sit still and visited Deng Haonan first.

However, there is a deeper shady scene. That is, many of the materials needed by the godson are provided by the Lu Gang. Now Deng Haonan's Pacific Fleet has blocked the Liaodong Peninsula's access to the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea, interrupting the Lu Gang's trade with Houjin.

Therefore, Li Dehai had to talk to Di Haonan. Because Li Dehai's backstage cabinet ministers Gu Bingqian, the military department secretary urged Chengxiu and others to keep Liaodong and maintain Liaodong as a black hole for political and economic purposes, Li Dehai was under a lot of pressure.

However, when the big people meet, they naturally can't just make a mistake. You have to send someone to pave the way for contact first, otherwise once you are rejected, won't it make people laugh off their big teeth?

Li Dehai was ready to visit Deng Haonan to solve the problem of sailors in the north and south oceans, as well as the trade problem with Korea and the Ryukyus, so he first sent someone to visit with gifts.

Li Dehai's "commissioner" Lin Feng knew each other, and they were acquaintances.

"I didn't expect you to be a member of the Lu Gang!"

The person who came was Li Ping from Beiling Town, who disappeared for a year. When Yongji saw him, Li Ping was already the right deacon of the Lu Gang.

It turned out that Li Ping was Li Dehai's distant uncle, and as the Lu Gang, the most official of the three major business gangs, it was easy to create a fake identity to help Li Ping break into the brotherly alliance in order to spy on intelligence.

The shopping mall is the battlefield, not to mention the maritime merchant who is also a merchant and a thief.

The three major merchant gangs infiltrated each other, and it was inevitable to send spies to each other, and Li Ping in front of him was the best example.

Li Ping smiled faintly, he was very disappointed that he didn't see Sha Haonan this time. The reason why Li Dehai asked him to meet Deng Haonan first was mainly because he thought that with the relationship between Li Ping and Deng Haonan, it would be very suitable to play the card of Li Ping.

If Deng Haonan is not in Jinzhou, then Li Ping's influence is much worse.

"I didn't expect the speed of your development to be far beyond Li's imagination!"

Lin Feng and Li Ping didn't have any common language, so they said straight to the point: "Since you came to contact on behalf of the Lu Gang, then let's send the next word first."

Li Ping was very depressed, he had been undercover for many years, but the result was not as wide as the shoulders of his former subordinates, and I have to say that people are better than people.

Lin Feng's tone was very heavy, obviously Lin Feng was an official at this time, and he Li Ping was just working for the official's family, so the gap was there, and Li Ping had to accept the facts.

From the beginning of the division of the boundaries between the northern and southern oceans, they were destined to compete and be hostile to each other.

"Young people always like to go straight!" Li Ping smiled and nodded, disapproving at Lin Feng's tone, and said, "Okay!" Let's get straight to the point! ”

Li Ping's intention is very simple, in addition to helping Li Dehai arrange a meeting time with Deng Haonan, by the way, he will first explain the topics they will discuss.

"The ban on the sea of Liaodong Lezi is a tactic formulated by the adults of our family, if you break the rules and export any materials to your godson, you are helping thieves, can I understand this?"

Li Ping said with a smile: "Lord Lin is joking, we never trade with wheels, let alone subsidize shoes, we just sympathize with the hardships of the Han people in Liaodong and provide them with something within our ability!" ”

Lin Feng smiled and secretly sighed that Li Ping was quite good at making excuses, but then said with a straight face: "No matter what you did before, now that our family has been ordered to open the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, you will naturally not have to worry about the affairs of Liaodong!" We ourselves will help the Liaomin! ”

Li Ping knew in his heart that it would be difficult to open the Liaodong port to trade with shoes, after all, Deng Haonan was already a loyal and brave uncle and a general of the expedition to the north at this time. It is also the opening of Liaodong, a justifiable and veritable warlord of secession.

"Lord Lin, don't talk to death first, it's not too late to decide when the adults of our two families meet!" "If you don't provide Lezi with oil and salt, the combat power of the wheeled soldiers will be greatly reduced, if you don't provide them with fine iron, their weapons will continue to be damaged, and the gunpowder will be less and less, our family believes that as long as Lezi is blocked from trading with the outside world, within two years, the entire Liaodong can be determined!"

Li Ping smiled faintly, he couldn't bump into Lin Feng, otherwise he could only get the opposite result, so he changed the topic.

"North Korean trade has always been our Lu Gang, we have no objection to your share of the pie, but you can't do it too much, I'm afraid it can't be justified to eat alone!"

Lin Feng paused for a moment and said, "I don't know how to start with this year?" ”

Seeing Lin Feng pretending to be stupid, Li Ping was angry.

"You Nanyang sailors!" Li Ping said: "It should be called the Pacific Fleet, not to mention the blockade of the entire Bohai Sea, even the Yellow Sea to North Korea, our merchant ships to Liaodong can't pass, but why are we not allowed to sail to North Korea's merchant ships?" It's too domineering! ”

Lin Feng coughed lightly, rolled his eyes, and then said, "I'm afraid it's a misunderstanding!" This is also a mission for our navy, and the shoes are very cunning, and it will no longer trade in the Bohai Bay, and may trade with the Ryukyus from the mouth of the Yalu River and even to the Yellow Sea. During the war between the two countries, your Beiyang sailors only cared about business, and our Nanyang sailors had to do it for you! ”

Li Ping was a little trembling with anger, but he couldn't bear to get angry. Seeing this, Lin Feng knew that the Lu Gang was on the opposite side, and there were backers in the court, so it was not easy to offend too much.

So he said, "Of course, we are doing it for your good. If one day the court learns that the Lu Gang wants to provide military supplies with shoes, then I'm afraid your gang will not be able to explain!

"You"

In Li Ping's view, this is a naked threat.

"Deacon Li can rest assured, now that we are nominally a family, we will not make it difficult for you!"

Seeing that Lin Feng was relieved, Li Ping had no choice but to calm his anger.

I only heard Lin Feng continue: "That's good! In the future, as long as you Lu Gang do not transport military supplies such as oil, salt, gunpowder, and iron tools, how about we let them go? ”

Seeing Li Ping's hesitation, Lin Feng said with a straight face: "You know, there are some things that can't be done too much, otherwise it's not fun to be called a traitor and a traitor!" ”

Li Pingxin said: Anyway, this time is just to test the bottom line of Deng Haonan's henchmen, and the real decision can only be determined after the talks between Na Haonan and Li Dehai, so there is no need to be too entangled.

"It's good!"

Li Ping nodded, and then said, "I heard that Mao Wenlong traded firearms with you?" ”

Lin Feng nodded.

Li Ping asked: "Can we also trade firearms with each other?" ”

Lin Feng smiled: "Of course you can!" No one can't live with money! But why do you need to be armed with firearms? It's hard to do it."

"Lord Lin, don't misunderstand!"

Li Ping was afraid that Lin Feng would think crookedly, so he hurriedly said: "In the past, we monopolized the northern trade, but now Dajin's trade has been interrupted, Mao Wenlong has turned to trade with your department, and North Korea and the Ryukyus side are also saturated, and we have to pay 10 million taels of silver to the upper side every year, which was barely completed last year, but this year it can't be completed!" ”

Lin Feng understood that the Nanyang Naval Division had blockaded the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea, making it impossible for the Lu Gang to make money. Mao Wenlong had apparently turned to trade with Deng Haonan, and most of the markets in Korea and the Ryukyus were occupied by Deng Haonan's trading caravans, and there was not much share.

It doesn't seem very difficult to run away from the sea to sell goods, 10 million taels, how can a year be enough, but if there is no market, it is not as good as land trade!

"What about you"

"We plan to rush out of the South Seas route!"

Li Ping said: "Zheng Zhilong in the south has now officially rebelled against the flag, become a pirate, and dominate the trade in the South Seas, so we are ready to reorganize the sailors and go south to suppress bandits." ”

Lin Feng chuckled, and said secretly in his heart: What a huge oolong, the Nanyang Navy Division no longer suppresses bandits in the south, but runs to the north to suppress shoes. The Beiyang Naval Division is now going south to suppress bandits, which can be regarded as a response to the Nanyang Naval Division.

If you occupy my territory, I will occupy your territory, and that's all.

"I wonder what deal you're going to make with us? Know that our firearms are expensive! ”

Li Ping said: "We only buy the Franc machine artillery equipped on your warship, as well as the kind of flowering shells!" ”

"Good eye!"

Lin Feng said with a smile: "It's just that we haven't produced Franc machine artillery for a long time, if you want, we need to reopen the production line, unless you order it on a large scale, the price will be very high!" Flowering shells are not common to all guns, and they need to be of the right caliber to do so, so the production line needs to be reopened! ”

Li Ping knew what Deng Haonan's production line meant, and he had already seen it when he was in Beiling Town. Originally, their Lu Gang was going to import them from Macao, but with the help of Zheng Zhilong's uncle, Macao's artillery and ammunition had all been supplied to the Quanzhou Gang.

Therefore, the Lu Gang had no choice but to turn to Na Haonan's for help.

"Naturally, we want to order on a large scale!" Li Ping said: "It's just that your warship is not equipped with Franc machine artillery?" Why reopen the production line? Could it be that it seems that the price increase is deliberately unsuccessful? ”

This wronged Lin Feng, Deng Haonan since the development of the Apocalypse five-year God of War artillery, because of its advanced performance, so he stopped the production line of imitation of the Franc machine artillery.

"The Franc guns installed in our navy have been replaced with the Apocalypse Five-Year God of War artillery, and the replaced Franc machines have been sold to the Chao Gang!"

Apocalypse Five-Year God of War Artillery?

Li Ping was confused, but understood that this kind of artillery should be better than the Franc machine.

"Then we just want the Apocalypse Five-Year God of War artillery that your navy is equipped with!"

"It's a pity!" Lin Feng shook his head apologetically and said, "This is the standard equipment of our navy, and we will not sell it to outsiders without a more advanced artillery replacement!" ”

Leave a hand?

Li Ping could only sigh helplessly.

"Then I wonder how much the Franc cannon costs?"

"How many ships do you have?"

All right! Seeing Lin Feng ask, Li Ping was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Our merchant ships are warships, and there are a hundred warships that need to be equipped with artillery!" ”

A hundred ships, one with twenty guns, that is two thousand.

Lin Feng picked up his fingers, nodded, and said, "I won't cheat you, you order two thousand Franc machine guns, and we will reopen the production line for you for free!" ”

Li Ping thought that Lin Feng was testing the details of the Lu Gang, so he deliberately exaggerated a little, in fact, the Lu Gang used the warships of the Ming Army Naval Division more than ten years ago, and the old-fashioned warships were not a hundred, and the second was that each warship had very few gun positions. Unlike Deng Haonan's warship, Deng Haonan's warship has removed its head and buttocks, so the warship can deploy more artillery at the same level. At this time, the warships of the Lu Gang were all old-fashioned warships with front and rear warships, and there were only about a dozen gun positions at most. The number of artillery pieces did not catch up with the number of gun positions on Deng Haonan's frigate.

"We only need 300 doors for this!"

Three re-gates?

Lin Feng counted in his heart. The boiling cannon is a small caliber rapid-fire gun, the price is not high, and there is no profit from eight, so it can only be sold more to make money.

"300 Franc machines are simply not enough for us to reopen the production line!"

"That"

"That's good!" Lin Feng thought of a way for Li Ping.

The reason for convincing Li Ping was that the Franc machine was not as powerful as the three-thousand-jin Longwei cannon.

Li Ping looked at the artillery, naturally attaching importance to the power of the artillery, and did not understand that the pirates paid more attention to the rate of fire of the artillery, so he nodded in agreement.

Selling 3,000 catties of Longwei cannons is obviously more profitable than selling Franc machine artillery, and there is no need to reopen the production line

Each 3,000-pound Longwei cannon was sold to the Lu Gang for 5,000 taels, with a base number of solid cannonballs and gunpowder, but the flowering shells needed to be purchased for an additional 150 taels of silver each.

"One hundred and fifty twenty-one rounds?"

Li Ping shook his head suddenly and said, "It's too expensive!" ”

Lin Feng explained: "You also know that a solid cannonball is just a dirt pit after a cannonball, and its lethality is limited. The flowering bomb is different, one shot past, and it is within the effective lethality range within a radius of 100 steps. If you think about it, within a radius of 100 steps, you can stand a few hundred people, and you can stand 60 or 70 people scattered

"This.

"Nurhachi was killed by a flowering bomb!"

"What's going on......

"What are you hesitating about? Our flowering bomb is much safer than the flowering bomb in the imperial court! The price is cheap, and the children are not bullied."

Li Ping was fooled by Lin Feng, and when he left Jinzhouwei, Li Ping had already promised to buy 300 3,000-pound Longwei cannons, with a price tag of 1.5 million taels of silver, and a base number of flowering shells for each cannon, and bought a total of 3,000 rounds for 450,000 taels of silver, plus the cost of the gun carriage. After Lin Feng discounted him, he erased the odds, totaling two million taels.

"Two million taels of arms deals!"

After Li Ping boarded the returning ship, he immediately smiled bitterly, and he really didn't know how to explain to Li Dehai when he went back.

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The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.

On the east bank of the Huang River, there was silence in Deng Haonan's camp.

When the last rays of sunlight disappeared below the horizon, the savannah was plunged into darkness.

Beside a small forest three miles away from Na Haonan's camp, there was a sudden whisper of war horses.

There were about 5,000 cavalry hidden in the darkness, black and oppressive, and only a few clusters of torches were lit in the middle, which were inconspicuous in the night of the vast steppe.

"Is the investigation clear?"

"Qi Yu Daru Huachi, the other party is not the person we are looking for, it looks like a Han person! The leader is wearing the official uniform of the Han people, and he looks like an official is not small! ”

Daru Huachi, the official name, is equivalent to the commander of ten thousand people, originally subordinate to tens of thousands of households, and managed more than 7,000 troops. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols returned to the era of grazing, which is rare and rare among the Mongol tribes. The only way to continue this kind of official position and title is the Great Khan of Mongolia, the last member of the Golden Family, and the subordinates of Lin Dan Khan.

"Han Chinese? Han Guan?.

Led by Lin Dan Khan's favorite concubine Batma's younger brother Chagan, this time on the secret order of his sister, came to carry out a secret mission.

"How can the Han have heavy cavalry?" Chagan asked his subordinates next to him.

Commander Zhuo Suotu replied: "It is said that during the Battle of Ningyuan, the Ming army had an extra cavalry, which should be Ningyuan Iron Cavalry."

Cha said unhappily: "What are you doing here?"

Zhuo Suotu thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Isn't it the Liaodong Jinglu that bought war horses with us?" ”

Cha Gan grinned and said, "He wouldn't be really stupid to think that I was going to trade with him!" ”

Now the Mongolian Khalkha is preparing to deal with the challenge of the Later Jin, and Lin Dan Khan is preparing to concentrate all his forces on the Mongol-Jin War and establish the overlord of the desert. Naturally, it is not easy to sell war horses. And Deng Haonan wants to buy a huge number of war horses, so it is even more impossible.

The reason why Cha Gan agreed to Gao Feng was just because Gao Feng gave him 10,000 taels of silver. didn't want to offend the Ming Dynasty officials, so he agreed verbally first.

Zhuo Suotu smiled and said: "Since he is here, he must have brought a deposit of 200,000 taels!" ”

Chagan's eyes lit up, like glowing wolf eyes in the dark night. At this time, Qianhu Wudan suddenly said: "Don't forget the task assigned by the imperial concubine, if there is a disturbance, it will delay the important event of the imperial concubine!" small

Udan is Batma's confidant, and this time he was sent to supervise and supervise Chagan's mission, so Chagan also wants to give him three points.

However, thinking about "the silver brought by the little seventh father-in-law." Chagan's heart was a little itchy.

Zhuo Suotu said: "It's just to deal with more than 500 Han people, and the kung fu of one cup of tea will be solved, and I promise that there will be no chaos!" ”

Cha Gan nodded, and Zhuo Suotu immediately set off with a thousand cavalry from his headquarters and went straight to Na Haonan's camp. Wu Dan was afraid that it would affect the plan explained by the imperial concubine, and was about to stop him, but was stopped by Chagan.

"Just this once!"

Chagan is Batma's younger brother, and Udan can only sigh, hoping that there will be no big trouble!

So he said: "Don't take it as an example!"

Cha Gan smiled and said, "Don't take it as an example."

Then the two rode forward for a distance, quietly observing Zhuo Suotu's thousand-man team, each with their own thoughts.

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