Chapter Twenty-Seven: Planning the Southeast
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"This Li Shutian is not simple! You send someone to the lobby to keep an eye on the point, if Li Shutian visits, notify me immediately, so that you can be entertained."
After listening to Seng Lingqin's report, Li Rusong smiled slightly and appreciated Seng Greenqin's decisiveness and knowledge of advancing and retreating. The only thing I didn't expect was that Li Shutian was so generous, not only did he give the amount of money he extorted, but also gave an extra 100,000 taels.
"This Li Shutian's goal is not as simple as settling grudges with me, this guy will have other things to ask me for help. It is worthy of being the protector of Hamgyong Province, North Korea, this courage is very within the reach of people" Lying comfortably on the bed, Li Rusong muttered to himself, the injury on his back was not fatal, but he couldn't rest normally, but he had a little headache.
In the fierce battle that night, Li Rusong could be said to be nine deaths, and the knife wound on his body was not fatal, but he almost died of excessive blood loss. If Monk Lingqin had brought someone to come half a time late, without the assassin's hands, Li Rusong would have fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss and would be slaughtered.
However, this battle can be regarded as the fulfillment of himself and Zhang Zhixin, and his brother-in-law Mao Haifeng's attitude towards himself has changed a lot.
"Boy! Is it better? Can you get up, I have something to talk to you about" Just as Li Rusong was thinking about how to deal with Li Shutian, Mao Haifeng walked into his room and said.
"Huh? Brother-in-law, you have something to find me, okay, let's talk here, I'll make you tea" For Mao Haifeng, Li Rusong still respects him, respects him as a man, and respects his care for Zhang Zhixin.
"Alas...... Forget it, I'll lie on my stomach, I'll just sit next to me" A flash of relief flashed in his eyes, Mao Haifeng sighed, and took a chair casually.
"Boy, I'm convinced of you. Your affection for that girl is indeed true, and I will no longer object to your affairs. But about the enmity of my father-in-law, don't mix this matter, in a few days I will send someone to send the dowry and some of the money to the dangerous mountain, you can send someone here to receive the escort" Mao Haifeng suddenly chattered like an old lady, Li Rusong felt a pang in his heart: Something is wrong.
"Knowing that this girl has a hard life, her parents were killed because of the official army's food requisition, and then happened to be met by her father-in-law, so she picked up a life. Since she was a child, she has been running around with us, working hard to learn medical skills, and wants each of us to live. How did she know that what we did was a job of losing our heads, and no matter how good our medical skills were, we couldn't cure the beheading! Speaking of this, Mao Haifeng's eyes were obviously red, countless brothers have died tragically in recent years, and his father-in-law died at the hands of the imperial court, which is also a big blow to him.
"So I figured it out, let that girl live an ordinary life from now on, she is not like a criminal like me who has been wanted by the imperial court. Follow you kid, at least you can live a peaceful life. As for the killing of Wang Bengu, I will take a group of old brothers to do it. I only ask you for two things: treat my sister well, and by the way, help me support the old and young of the Wufeng fleet" After Mao Haifeng finished speaking, he pursed his lips and stared at Li Rusong, waiting for his answer.
"Huh, I won't agree to your conditions!" Unexpectedly, Li Rusong directly said the words of complete refusal.
"You listen to me" raised his hand to stop Mao Haifeng, who was walking violently, Li Rusong said unhurriedly.
"Anyway, you are all my people of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for a way to live, who would want to be pirates, smugglers, and drift overseas away from your homeland? And I don't know what's wrong with doing sea trade, the court said that it was forbidden to do sea trade, and it wasn't that there were so many dignitaries and nobles secretly doing smuggling business. All you need to do is gather all your subordinates, all of you will temporarily move to Dangerous Mountain City, and I will provide you with protection" With Li Rusong's words, a trace of brilliance and excitement gradually began to appear on Mao Haifeng's face, and these words spoke to his heart.
"Uncle, there are some things I can't explain to you now. But if you believe in one thing, I will never harm you, nor will I harm my people. You don't need to spend a penny on dangerous mountains, you only need men in the prime of life to join the army, receive training, and I will also distribute weapons and equipment to you according to the regular army. When the dangerous mountain stabilizes, we will attack the southeast and avenge the owner of the Wufeng ship! Li Rusong said this, but Mao Haifeng seemed to understand something, and his eyes changed when he saw Li Rusong.
"Boy, what the hell are you planning?" I can't help Mao Haifeng to be careless, how can this kid's words seem to want to seek a dynasty and usurp the throne!
"Hehe, I want to plan the southeast, where my Ming Dynasty's most important tax place, and also the so-called Qingliu gentry who harm the country. It's easy to kill Wang Bengu, but it's hard to kill the person who really killed Wang Zhi. How could a mere Wang Bengu have the courage to kill Wang Zhi? He knew very well the harm caused by killing Wang Zhi, but he still insisted on going his own way, not only to seek fame, but there were also people behind him" didn't care about Mao Haifeng's problem at all, Li Rusong said to himself.
"If you don't control the southeast, how can you plot to usurp the throne!" Li Rusong added a sentence in his heart, but there was no expression in his words.
Mao Haifeng also fell into contemplation at this time, he had always thought that Hu Zongxian and Wang Bengu killed his father-in-law Wang Zhi, Hu Zongxian died, and now as long as he kills Wang Bengu, he will avenge his father-in-law. But when Li Rusong said this, he remembered another thing:
Ten years ago, when his father-in-law's career was on the rise, a group of people found his father-in-law. This group of people was very ruthless, and when they met, they directly asked their father-in-law to submit to him, become the "pawns" of the big men above to do maritime trade, and hand over all their property and manpower, which were uniformly dispatched by them.
At that time, the father-in-law was also provoked, and directly arrested this group of idiots and beat them, and these guys were cowardly as soon as they were beaten. confessed to being the gentry and nobles in Jiangnan, who fell in love with the huge fat of Haimao, and at the same time was unwilling to pay, so they planned to recruit their father-in-law.
The father-in-law really wants to unite with these people, but these guys are too ruthless, and they only want to use the father-in-law as a puppet and monopolize all the benefits. In desperation, the father-in-law chose to go it alone, and at that time, he realized how dark and greedy the scholars and gentry in Jiangnan were.
Now think about it carefully, isn't this Wang Bengu the representative of the Jiangnan gentry! When the father-in-law was powerful, the entire southeast sea trade was all a matter of the father-in-law's words, how could those gentry and nobles be willing to swallow their anger?
"Alas, boy, you're right. What really killed his father-in-law and mother-in-law was not Wang Bengu's old coffin at all. It's those gentry and nobles in Jiangnan, let alone kill us people, and we can't even enter their gates. I really don't fit to use my brain, in the future, all the horses in the Wufeng fleet will listen to you, I just ask you to help us take revenge" Wei Ran sighed, Mao Haifeng stood up and said bitterly.
Mao Haifeng didn't expect that his words today would bring Li Rusong unimaginable money in the future, and also establish a terrifying sea wolf pack for the nascent dynasty!
Li Rusong didn't say anything, he knew that at this moment, he had successfully subdued Mao Haifeng, and he finally had a "naval reserve" and could start planning the southeast.
As the most important tax base of the Ming Dynasty, and with a large number of excellent ports and islands, the southeast has always been a place valued by Li Rusong. It is also the concentration of the Ming and Qing streams that he hates the most, and only by grasping and completely controlling a financial source that belongs to him, and at the same time cutting off the financial resources of the Qingliu gentry, can his dream of seeking a dynasty and usurping the throne be realized.
And the remnants of the Wang Zhi pirate group led by Mao Haifeng are Li Rusong's best choice, although these people are now down. But all of them are experts in maritime trade, and because the actions of the imperial court are extremely dissatisfied with Qingliu and the imperial court, loyalty is not a problem. As long as they make good use of it, they will be the "pioneers" who cut off the trade in the southeast sea.
"Hey, clear gentry. You have harmed the country for so many years, and it is time to pay off the debts slowly" With a cold smile, Li Rusong began to think about his own plan for the southeast.
In this way, within three years, Li Rusong did three things: report to his parents in the dangerous mountain, tell them about himself and his confidant, and prepare for marriage; At the same time, Li Xiangyu and Miao Congee were transferred over to prepare to open a commercial port in Hamxing Mansion; Arrange manpower to pick up and drop off the people of the Wufeng fleet to the dangerous mountains.
After a few days, Li Rusong's injury was slightly better, and Li Shutian really came to visit, and after some greetings, the two sides reached several cooperation: Li Shutian allowed Li Rusong's dangerous mountain people to open a maritime trade port in Xianxing Mansion, and Li Rusong would give Li Shutian 100,000 taels of silver every year. At the same time, Li Rusong will send troops to help Li Shutian exterminate the Tartars that are raging in Xianxing Mansion, and Li Shutian will buy the Tartar heads with grain, wood, boulders and other materials at the price of five taels of silver per Tartar per person.
However, Li Rusong later expressed his hope that at a price of 50,000 taels of silver per year, North Korea's Mayang Island would be leased and some boatmen would be placed for fishing, which made Li Shutian hesitate a little, but after Li Rusong said that no troops, warships, and artillery would be stationed on the island, Li Shutian still decided to agree.
Five days later, Li Rusong, who was full of smiles, took 300 Liaodong iron horsemen, took his fiancée Zhang Zhixin, escorted 600,000 taels of silver, and left Xianxing Mansion, and also completed the first step of his plan to completely control Liaodong - North Korea will move towards the Liaodong colony step by step!
There seems to be a mistake in the novel sent yesterday.,Write Hamgyong Road out of Hamgyong Road.,It's been revised.,I'm really sorry everyone.。