Of course, the price of silk here in Da Nang is indeed sky-high, but the sky-high price has nothing to do with Annam, and they can't make the silk of the Ming Dynasty. If they want to do it, even if the silk here has been reduced to the ratio of 2,800 stone meters per quintal, they will definitely lose their lives if they make it.

Because of the gorgeous silk of the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't weave it at all.

In desperation, Governor Nguyen found Bai Minghe again.

"Honorable nobles, our goods have lost their trading value here, but I still need many precious materials, such as we need agricultural tools from the Ming Dynasty, and we need iron?"

"No problem!" Bai Minghe happily agreed, and then said: "According to the price of Nanzhang, add two percent and I will send you to the north of Haiyun Peak, as much as you want." If you want pig iron, you have pig iron, and if you want stainless steel, you need stainless steel. How much do you want, a million stones, or five million stones? ”

The white-named crane's generous Cheng dù confused Governor Nguyen.

But when he reacted to the numbers that Bai Minghe said, he was speechless, millions of stones and steel.

"If you buy less, don't talk to the official, just arrange a merchant for you, the trade of less than one million stone steel is worth a few dollars, the official is very busy." Bai Minghe was about to get up after speaking, but Governor Ruan hurriedly stopped: "My lord, dare to ask what is the price of one million stone steel?" ”

"Not much. But you don't have any goods that the official is interested in, so trade them in gold and silver, and 36 million taels is the friendly price that the official gave you, and it is guaranteed to be stainless steel. To see the sample, you can always look at it. ”

Thirty-six million taels, take the silver of all the nobles in the entire Annan, I am afraid it will be possible.

"My lord, is there no other way to trade?" Governor Nguyen was a little anxious.

"You can find a merchant to buy less, but without my friendly price, it is estimated that you will have to buy 100,000 stone depending on where you buy it. If they want to earn silver from the Nanzhang merchants, it is still possible for you to ask for more than four million taels of silver, and if you find my Ming merchants, you will definitely be able to win it within four million taels if you find the right way. ”

The white crane is still bland, and even somewhat indifferent.

In Annan's time, there was simply not enough steel training. They only have very small quantities of pig iron.

But Bai Minghe knows that the northern part of Annan is a super-large mining area, and only the central and northern parts of iron ore combined, there must be reserves of more than one billion tons, and the quality is not bad.

"Gone!" After the departure of the governor of Annam, Bai Minghe said that he would also leave.

Sang Song personally came to see him off: "If you don't stay for a few days, the fruits of the new season will be ripe." The durian fruit you named is about to ripen this year, and the varieties transplanted from the South Seas are indeed of the highest quality, with delicious flesh. ”

"If we come back in a few days, I am afraid that the people of Annam will have an incident in the past two years. Prepare for yourselves. I'm going back to Guangdong once, and I'm going to make some preparations. You are getting richer, and they are getting poorer. If you are extremely poor, you will change, and I can't guess what this change will be, so always be careful! ”

Sanson also agrees with this statement, a country is extremely rich and a country is extremely poor, which is a thing that is easy to cause war.

The very rich have enough soldiers, but the poorest country is not afraid of death when even their livelihoods are threatened. On the contrary, the soldiers of the extremely rich countries will cherish their lives, and it is difficult to say whether they will win or lose this fight. Equipment does not represent morale and combat effectiveness, it is only an improvement, in the era of cold weapons, it is morale and soldiers who determine the outcome of the victory.

"Let's send some more people to General Mao, there are some poor soldiers in Zhancheng who are willing to fight, as long as they are given enough food."

Bai Minghe nodded: "That's it." I'll arrange for you to prepare 500 artillery pieces, and let the people below settle the relevant expenses. Sang Song thanked him, he knew that artillery was absolutely forbidden in Daming, and ordinary people couldn't even touch it, so he could sell it to them no matter what the price was. As long as there is absolutely to buy.

Bai Minghe walked out of the house, Wang Cheng walked a few steps slower, and glanced at Sang Song.

Sang Song also deliberately slowed down, side by side with Wang Cheng.

"Sandu, please arrange it secretly, please prepare a large number of dried fruits, and the number is unlimited. You can rest assured in terms of price, and the quality must be superior. My family is going to go out once, and there are some things that can't be said right now, and you promise to be the first to know when they can be announced in a few days. ”

After Wang Cheng finished speaking, Sang Song agreed without saying a word, and also said that he would tell the news to the Khmer and Siam.

Dried fruits are really as much as they want for a few small countries here, especially the dried bananas can be piled up like rice, as long as Daming needs to step up the cooling in the past few days.

Bai Minghe got on the boat, and just whispered: "Qinzhou Wei!" ”

This road is full of Daming waters, and there is no question of zài safety. Pedru had been staying on this ship as a prisoner, and he had also entered Da Nang, and was shocked by the prosperity of this place, and when he heard that this was just an ordinary port in a small country under the Ming Dynasty, he was shocked by the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Qinzhou Wei Wharf.

Pedr's eyes widened and his mouth widened. He saw that there were thousands of boats here, all of which had to be queued to enter the docks, and although they were not as large as the one he was on, each one was larger than the one he had come from Portugal.

Such ships turned into a fleet, and he did not know if Portugal would be able to cope with it.

"Keep him under house arrest!" The white crane pointed at Pedro, and did not bother to explain, this person is useful, because Portugal is still useful. So the white crane won't take Pedro's life for the time being.

Cheng Kai from Qinzhou Wharf came over to greet him: "Brother Bai, why are you suddenly interested in coming back and seeing." ”

"I'm going to Guangxi and arrange it for me."

Cheng Kai has already received the order for the White Crane to go on an expedition, and preparations are also being made here for the White Crane Expedition. But again, without the order of the Ming Emperor, no one is allowed to tell the white crane this secret.

Cheng Kai thought about it, and had no choice but to say, "Lord Wang Ao is here!" ”

"Send me a prayer post! I want to meet. Bai Minghe knew that Wang Ao went to Guangxi for the sake of stability in Guangxi, so it was good to make an arrangement when he saw Wang Ao.

What is Wang Ao doing here? As one of the most mysterious arsenals in the Ming Dynasty, Qinzhou Wei, Wang Ao received a holy order to prepare materials to help Bai Minghe on an expedition, as for the expedition, he didn't know, but the holy order was a holy order, and it must be obeyed. What's more, there is also Yu Qian's telegram, asking him to come up with the best at any cost.

Therefore, Wang Ao, the governor of the three provinces, naturally has to guard here in person, and some new muskets must be matched.

As for Guangxi, it is no longer in Wang Ao's eyes.

It was not the white crane who went to see Wang Ao, but Wang Ao had already taken the initiative to find him. First, there is the etiquette of meeting officials, and then the clan ceremony. After all, the daughter of the Wang family who was married by Bai Minghe, this junior gave the elder Wang Ao the rites.

"The white name of the crane, the holy order, transferred 50 million taels of silver, for railways, shipbuilding, ordnance and other affairs. Here is the telegram of Long live, the telegram of Master Yu. In addition to your signature and approval, there is also a copy that is also required to increase the amount of expenditure in the next year, and your authorization is sealed. ”

When Wang Ao saw Bai Minghe, the first thing he mentioned was business.

The Ming Dynasty is a very rule-oriented era, and even the emperor cannot break the rules casually. Since it is said that Bai Minghe is in charge of Hai Si, then Bai Minghe is not at fault, and when he is still the leader of Hai Si, Hai Si needs Bai Minghe's signature and approval to call the silver two, and it is filed with a seal.

"Lord Yu, this is going to squeeze my Hai Si dry!" Bai Minghe complained while signing the official paperwork, and then Wang Cheng took out Bai Minghe's seal and used it.

Wang Ao carefully put this thing away, but he was also helpless, originally waiting for Bai Minghe to receive the holy decree before letting him sign.

But at present, there are too many calls for the expedition of the white crane, so much that it is impossible to match it without using the silver of the sea division, so this is why the white crane signed first, and first asked the Nanjing side to open the silver number, and paid the merchant enough silver for various goods, which is not a transaction of goods, but must be prepared by the military.

It's what you need on a battleship.

The white-named crane expedition, the top ten merchants of the top ten merchants have gambled their net worth, and they are not afraid.

Shirana Crane went to Wajima once, and the benefits he brought back turned countless small merchants into rich businessmen, and big businessmen into giant businessmen. The number of wealthy businessmen in the Ming Dynasty has also increased from more than 30 families to nearly 100 families now.

Therefore, the expedition, not to mention gambling on a large amount of gold and silver goods, is to gamble on all the lives of the merchants.

After putting away the paperwork signed by Bai Minghe, Wang Ao said to Bai Minghe: "Come with me, take you to meet a few people, I am afraid that you will feel very comfortable when you see these people, and you will definitely not feel any discomfort for these silver." ”

"Long live the silver, what do I have to feel uncomfortable with?" Shira-nae Crane smiled heartily.

Wang Ao slapped Bai Minghe twice on the body: "You, you know what Banzai said about you when I left Beijing." Long live said that there is only a sea division with you, and there would be no sea division without you. Why else do you have to sign it? And Lord Yu also said that this time the railway is about to be tested, although you don't have time to go back, he will be the first passenger! ”

"Railroad, this thing is worth as much money as it costs."

Bai Minghe really wants to build a lot of railways for the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ao kept talking about railways and shipbuilding, but he didn't want to mention things like wars, for fear that he would say something wrong. And he didn't let Bai Minghe go anywhere, once he saw that Qinzhou Wei was preparing a large amount of military supplies, it would be difficult to explain.

After entering the Weizheng Hall in Qinzhou, before Bai Minghe entered the house, dozens of people came out of the house and knelt in front of Bai Minghe in rows.

The dress of these people......

"Everyone, please get up, how dare I accept this great gift, please get up!" The white crane hurriedly went to help, the clothes of these people and the white crane couldn't tell the difference, but they knew that this should be the toast of each ethnic group. (To be continued......)