Chapter 339: Master Chen's deep friendship

Master Chen's station, Li Liang made careful arrangements. A manor that originally belonged to the royal family, what attracted Chen Xie the most here was not the dilapidated buildings, but the hot springs where you could take a bath.

This place, which originally belonged to Li Liang to take a bath, has now become a gift from Li Liang to Chen Xie. Although when giving the gift, Li Liang shyly replied that the gift was too thin, Chen Xie pretended to excuse himself and accepted it after a few strokes. And stationed at the first time.

The sky is dark, and the hot spring room is foggy, and the windows are opened on the walls on all sides, and the inlaid glass is undoubtedly made in Dengzhou. No matter how small a country is, it is also the king of a country. Just like Little Sun, for the sake of personal prestige, he announced in front of the whole world that he could really travel to the sun and brought back sunspots. On the one hand, because the food was too good for gout, he couldn't eat at all.

Immersed in the hot spring at the right temperature, Chen Zongbing was served by four girls who were only wearing red belly pockets, and they could wash very refreshingly without moving their hands. Just when Mr. Chen was a little out of the sky, the door opened gently, and a girl dressed in costume came in, slowly came to the edge of the pool, and knelt on the ground: "Li Yingji, the daughter of the foreign domain, meet Lord Shangguo." ”

Chen Xie turned his head and saw a woman lying on the ground, oh, there were four more behind her. The material of the national long skirt was silk, and feeling the four jealous eyes around him, Chen Xie secretly stood up in his heart, walked up to the woman in front of him, and said, "Raise your head." "This line is a little familiar, huh? How did I think of this sentence, I have watched too many TV series.

It is a delicate face of a young girl. The moment he raised his head, Chen Xie said sternly: "Don't close your eyes." Looking at the snow-white face covered with ruddy, and his eyes full of shyness and fear, a strange pleasure rose in Master Chen's heart.

Li Wei didn't fool himself, Chen Xie nodded with satisfaction, squatted down and raised his hand to support his chin, and said with a smile: "Aren't you used to it?" You'll get used to it later. ”

In the morning, when the first rays of sunlight poured into the screen window, the groans of the quiet manor pierced far away. The lower girls walking around the yard subconsciously clamped their legs when they walked to resist this pervasive torture. The moaning reaches its high-pitched peak before coming to an abrupt end.

Li Liang's courtiers waiting outside the gate. Heads are bowed and discussed. How to get enough benefits from this Dengzhou chief soldier. Since you can't resist, it's better to obey. When the slightest obedience is not necessarily unacceptable, everything becomes natural.

Master Chen, who had finished his morning exercise, appeared in high spirits on the main hall. With a conqueror's mentality. Looking down on these people who were bowing their eyebrows in front of him.

"We deliberated all night. The result? Chen Xie asked very directly, no matter how shameless Li Qi is, he will not appear on this occasion. This is understandable to Chen Xie.

"The foreign vassal has decided to accept the protection of the upper kingdom, but there are some small requirements." What is the name of the old man who spoke, Chen Xie didn't know much about this position, and he didn't want to know about it. In this part of North Korea, at this stage, except for timber, there is no bulk cargo that can attract Chen Xie's attention too much. As for the future, as long as China is strong enough, we are not afraid of their moths.

"Say, I'll listen." Chen Xie changed his posture, this kind of floor is really uncomfortable to sit on, but fortunately, there is meat to rely on. The two lower girls turned their backs to her, using their backs to support Master Chen from falling. It's just this job, and many people are rushing to do it. In case he is taken by Master Chen and does things on the floor, his status will be different in the future. Just look at the four little goblins, their families are now sought after by domestic wealthy families because of their relationship.

"We hope that Lord Shangguo will sell some ordnance and help us train some officers. In the future, we can cooperate with the army of the Kingdom to fight against Jiannu. This request was actually within Chen Xie's expectations. After the end of World War II, the US imperialists were so hegemonic that they didn't take the initiative to withdraw most of their troops from South Korea? If it weren't for Kim Sun-yang's first move, the Korean War might not have started. The golden sun of the dog day has also dragged China down.

"I can promise you this request, chain mail, steel knives, and spear heads, as many as you want, provided that you exchange it for silver, and if you don't have silver, you can trade it with wood." Chen Xie really doesn't mean big words, he is in a small modern steel mill with an annual output of 400,000 tons. Even if there was consumption in the Ming Dynasty, so much production per year, a Dengzhou camp could use up to one quarter's output a year, and this did not include the output of the local Dengzhou and Nanjing Iron Works. A large amount of cheap steel washed away the weak steel workshops of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of craftsmen had to work in the industry under Chen Xie's name.

Even though more than half of Daming's steel demand comes from Dengzhouying, there is still a lot of surplus in steel production every year. Dumping steel on North Korea was also something that Chen Xie had premeditated. North Korea must have its own steel industry, and the quality of the products is incomparable. In terms of price, it can't resist dumping, and it used to rely on Li Dynasty's policy of closing the country to the outside world, and life was quite nourishing. Now Chen Xie, who is trading a kitchen knife for a hen, is dumping his steel products into North Korea. The North Korean people have the protection of the Dengju camp and provide high-quality weapons, so they don't want to get into the steel industry themselves. Obediently develop animal husbandry and agriculture, and provide meat and rice for the Ming Dynasty.

For North Korea, where most soldiers still carry bamboo guns and sharp wooden sticks, the iron and steel products produced in Dengju have an irresistible allure. The kitchen knives produced by Dayangjiang can be exchanged for a silver dollar in Daming. In North Korea, how to determine the price of stainless steel kitchen knives is not something that Chen Xie should be concerned about. What Chen Xie wants to do is to sell iron products such as kitchen knives, hoes, and plowshares produced in Dengzhou to North Korea, and the price is really the price of a hen. I really don't plan to give North Korea's steel industry a way to live.

Not only that, Mr. Chen also plans to dump cotton cloth in North Korea, but he has not started to act yet, not because he has a good conscience, but because Suzhou's output cannot reach the level of dumping. All in all, what Mr. Chen likes to see the most is that the North Korean people go to the mountains to cut wood and mine gold and silver minerals at the cost of their lives, which are used in exchange for Mr. Chen's industrial products.

Because it only took a verbal negotiation, it was easy to reach an agreement. Within a year, Mr. Chen provided North Korea with 5,000 pairs of chain mail, 5,000 spearheads, 5,000 steel knives, and 5,000 shields, which North Korea paid for with wood and gold and silver. In order to reduce the burden on the Korean royal family, Master Chen also kindly said that if a place could be leased to the Dengzhou Navy to build a wharf by the seaside as a place for supplies, Master Chen could give a thousand pairs of plate armor that the Ming Dynasty was rarely equipped with. And a batch of American goods is paid annually as rent, provided that the lease is long.

After a week of repeated bargaining, the two sides finally reached a written agreement. Chen Xie, the chief soldier of the military town of Damyeongdenju, reached a friendly agreement with the Joseon royal family. The main contents are: 5,000 garrisons in the Dengju battalion to help the Korean royal family resist the invasion of Houjin; The Dengju battalion sold some of its ordnance and helped North Korea train its troops; If Korea is invaded by foreign countries, the Dengju battalion has the obligation to send troops to help Korea resist the invasion; North Korea implements an open-door policy for Ming merchants who hold documents issued by the town of Daming Dengzhou (without documents is illegal smuggling); All trade between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea will be settled in Dengzhou silver yuan in the future.

On the surface, it seems that North Korea has made a lot of money, but in fact, in Chen Xie's view, this agreement is illegal in the first place. Chen Zongbing can't represent the Ming Dynasty, the problem is that the North Korean side doesn't think so. In the eyes of the Joseon royal family, the Ming government is not as reliable as the Dengju camp. It's a nice realization. The last clause of the agreement was strongly requested by Chen Xie. Why did he write like this, only Chen Xie knew best in his heart. Well, in a lofty phrase, this is his kindness to the North Korean people.

Although it was a good taste to be the emperor in North Korea, Chen Xie still had to go. Leaving behind a battalion and a group of teary-eyed North Korean bureaucrats (who were finally gone), Mr. Chen returned to Jeolla Zuodao. Brute-force cracking is such a thing, and if you do it once, you will be addicted. Chen Xie put his arm around the princess of the Li Dynasty with one hand and dismounted with the other, looking for who was the next target. Before leaving, Chen Xie realized that he had accidentally received a lot of gifts. The mess adds up, there are two holiday manors, five girls, and those women who marry are not counted, and many of them don't see what they look like. Five hundred taels of gold, fifty catties of wild ginseng, five hundred pieces of mink, and twenty ships of timber that could be used for shipbuilding at once. There are countless other specialties, so I won't list them all.

Back in Dengzhou, nearly 100 Korean girls were settled in a Zhuangzi in Qishansuo, which was bought and half-given by a wealthy local merchant. Chen Xie immediately returned to the city, but stayed here on the side of Qishan. The original plan was to go to Jiaozhou Bay in a few days, and after solving the source of the timber, the plan of Chen Xie's fleet was about to be launched. There are a lot of things, even if he doesn't have to watch it personally, he has to be busy with decision-making for a while. Someone from Dengzhou sent some news, and Daming didn't seem to be so smooth in recent times.

Zhu Dadian took over as the governor of Dengzhou, and Chen Xie, the general soldier, did not go to meet him after he returned, but went to North Korea to show off his might. Surprisingly, Zhu Dadian was not angry at all, and there was no movement. The outgoing governor Sun Yuanhua did not leave Dengzhou and devoted great enthusiasm to scientific research. Now in Dengzhou's gun manufacturing, Sun Yuanhua is involved. If it weren't for the steel problem, Sun Yuanhua would have been able to make guns of comparable quality after leaving Dengzhou.

During this period, there were seven or eight letters from Jiangnan. Zhang Pu, the representative of the Restoration Society, sent two letters to Chen Xie, with an interval of half a month, which shows his earnestness. Chen Xie was very face-saving and carefully read the two letters. found that the core meaning of this product is nothing more than "traitorous power", everyone is the same and is suppressed by the traitor, why not join forces?

Chen Xie replied decisively, the meaning is very clear, a person who has returned from overseas does not care about the affairs of the temple, and just wants to be a rich man quietly. (To be continued......)