So on the south bank of the Arno River in Florence, a trading house was opened, which, like Ding's firm, did not do any retail business. How will the value of the goods it provide, the fate of the outgoing and unyet incoming cargo ships, such as the fleets that sail to the East, bring back silk, tea, and porcelain?

Ding Yi did not instruct Ximing's finance officials to build a stock market for Florence, he came to retaliate, so futures were the fastest thing to achieve. With the cooperation of the Ding family firm and the support of some businessmen who were ordered by Ding Yi in Venice, this strange futures market was opened.

"Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, there is something unclear, please ask Your Majesty to make it clear." Yang Ding is really not known for his intelligence, and with Ding Yi's permission, he spoke, "Your Majesty, we are all long in futures, that is, we are optimistic that silk, tea and other Chinese specialties will appreciate, but if those fleets go back and pull down the price at once, won't we lose money in vain?" ”

Ding Yi shook his head and said, "If it weren't for our nod, they would have been able to come back, and the First Praetorian Guard Division and the Mediterranean Fleet would have been able to kill themselves with all their might." "The name of Poseidon is not Ding Yi's self-promise, but the consensus of the entire Western high society, and Ding Yi has enough confidence to maintain his hegemony on the sea.

This is also why the Venetians should be allowed to open this trading house, instead of being directly sent by Ximing.

If the faces of the Chinese people are in Zhang Luo, anyone can see that this is a game.

"This method is adopted because it will save us less effort and money by sending troops to teach the Florentines a lesson."

However, after Ding Yi explained to the Florence futures exchange, he was immediately unavailable.

Because Mary, who has always refused to marry, seems to have some eyebrows. And what makes people laugh and cry is that the object that she said she could consider is in the Taixi Ming Empire. The most famous person, or more precisely. The most famous gentleman, Qian Chujiu.

And Qian Chujiu, who came back to Smyrna to report on the underground work of the French Republican Organization, came to Smyrna to find Ding Yi, he is a transparent person, he knows what to say and what not to say, and when he saw Ding Yi, he immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube: "Boss, Mary." Mary of Burgundy made an agreement with the child. ”

Ding was curious when he heard it, isn't this going to get engaged? How did the agreement come into being?

immediately said to Qian Chujiu: "What agreement?" Don't mess around, you kid! Didn't you say you were going to propose marriage to Zhao Di before? "Previously, Qian Chujiu was infatuated with Zhao Di, a surgeon in the army, and the latter was transferred to Guinea because of his outstanding performance in various affairs, and he was appointed to supervise the military affairs there.

"The child still has the heart to marry Zhao Di!" Qian Chujiu said with a smile on his face.

Then he said the agreement with Mary, and it turned out that Mary's engagement partner was not Qian Chujiu.

It's Zhu Jianji, that's right. is the son of Emperor Jing.

Ding Yi was a little surprised when he heard this: "Divine Daming? Mary is willing to run to the Holy Ming? ”

That's right, Emperor Jing, who stayed on the map of modern Canada, was inspired by the Holy Roman Empire and set himself up as king. The name of the country is the Holy Ming Empire. However, the attendees who went to the enthronement ceremony could not be compared with Taixi Daming, except for the heads of those tribes. Only Ding Yi sent someone here, and Zhu Jianshen sent two principal-level officials over. Aragon and Portugal sent envoys, also for the sake of Ding Yi's face. Of course, the Holy Ming on Emperor Jing's side can only be called a king. Otherwise, Zhu Jianshen would not have sent two principals to watch the ceremony. Even if Emperor Jing was driven off the dragon chair, he still had a prince, and he went to sea to build a country and became the king, and he reported to the Chinese Ming Dynasty, so not being called the emperor is not considered overstepping.

Emperor Jing has been tossing in Canada for two years, which is about the territory of more than 20 counties.

The land over there is already vast and sparsely populated, and Emperor Jing is a traditional Chinese mentality, according to his complaint letter to Ding Yi, it is probably more pitiful: "Only accept three out of twenty counties, one in the middle county, and none of them can be the capital!" "What is the concept of the lower county? less than 1,000 households; Zhongxian has more than 2,000 households; Shangxian is more than 6,000 households.

But in any case, there are three Ming coexists: Huaxia Daming, Taixi Daming, and Divine Daming.

"Mary, of course, won't go to North America." Qian Chujiu's fat face was a fox smile, "The child privately sent a letter to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Divine Ming, and it was agreed that Mary would not go to the Divine Ming, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Divine Ming would not come to Burgundy, just get engaged." ”

"Then Mary will receive 10,000 taels of silver from the Holy Ming every year, and all she has to do is to help His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Holy Ming to deliver a letter to you. Because the letters from the Divine Ming side were all lined up on Uncle Liu and Uncle Binzhi. ”

Ding Yi's letters are generally sorted out by Liu Ji and Li Dongyang, if they are not important matters, like Zhu Jianji's letters, they are probably on the abridgement submitted to Ding Yi, mentioning: On March 12 of the second year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor's nephew saw Ji and asked for Sheng'an. It's just gone, and you want Ding Yi to reply in person? How can it be? Even if Emperor Jing dies in the future, Zhu Jianji inherits the throne, it is just a sentence: The emperor's nephew Jianji, the holy king of the Ming Dynasty, please ask for Sheng'an.

Then I got a reply letter drafted by Liu Ji or Li Dongyang's official scribes, and after these two read it, they copied it in the pavilion style, and asked Ding Yi to look at it a little, and used a private seal to go back. If Ding Yi is lazy, he can probably even save the link of passing the eyes; If the printing press were to be introduced, the process of copying Yuqing would probably be replaced with typed in lead.

So Zhu Jianji spends 10,000 taels a year and asks Mary to submit a letter, definitely not because he has money and no place to spend it.

"Nonsense." Ding Yixiao scolded Qian Chujiu, but he was also relieved, and then asked, "When will the marriage be completed?" After getting married, Mary, the crown princess, can't she go back to the Holy Ming, right? ”

Qian Chujiu shook his head: "Boss, if this is going to pass, where is Mary?" Even if you get married, it's just a saying. What Mary means is that she will always be by your side. ”

"Xiao Jiu'er, why do I listen to you so eagerly about this?" Ding Yi sneered and looked Qian Chujiu up and down.

Qian Chujiu fell to his knees all of a sudden, but he was not half panicked, and said with a hippie smile: "Don't dare to deceive the boss, Mary promised to give me all 10,000 taels of silver every year; If she inherits the dukedom of Burgundy, then in addition to the ten thousand taels of silver given to her by the Holy Ming, I will be given another thousand gold coins of the Daming; On the side of the Divine Ming, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promised to select 20 beauties every year to give to the children, such as the Divine God, who could expand 30 counties and give them a food for the children. ”

"Xiao Jiu'er, I suddenly admire you a little." Ding Yi looked at Qian Chujiu, shook his head and sighed, "Then Mary will be a knight for me for the rest of my life and guard the palace gate for me?" ”

Qian Chujiu got up, leaned around Ding Yi, looked left and right, waved his hand to signal Cao Jixiang to step back, and lowered his voice and said: "The old man is in the prime of spring and autumn, and there are ten thousand men who are not right, how can you teach this Zhilan Prison Empty Valley?" The child looked, if in this Ephesus, a knight should be set aside for Mary, if the old man was interested...... Boss, the child is wrong! Wrong! ”

Before he could finish speaking, Ding Yi picked up the feather duster on the side and pumped it hard.

Qian Chujiu's meaning is to let Ding Yiyi Mary be used as an outer room and secretly raised it.

A feather duster was broken, and Ding Yi asked with a cold face, "Why did you beat you?" ”

"The old man looks at the child pleasing to the eye, and he is used to it, every time he sees it, he doesn't hit it, how can he look like this licking calf is deep!" Qian Chujiu wiped his tears and cried and said, "It's just the old man, the child is going to run next time, the small cane is accepted, the big piece goes, and the child goes down again, I'm afraid that it will be whining and mourning!" Is not that child unjust? Therefore, the next time, the child should stay away and run away. ”

Ding Yi sneered and threw down the feather duster, but he stood up, looking at it to teach Qian Chu Jiuyi a lesson with his fists and feet, Cao Jixiang hurriedly came over and hugged Ding Yi's feet: "Your Majesty, please stop the wrath of thunder!" You can't, if you continue to fight like this, it will really hurt the Ninth Young Master! ”

Qian Chujiu's eyes rolled, he didn't run anymore, and rolled on the ground: "Boss, the child is wrong!" Wrong! Then Ding Yi and Cao Jixiang were stunned, because the guy was shouting and dubbing, "Ahh It hurts! The hand is broken, and the boss spares his life! But Ding Yi was obviously hugged by Cao Jixiang, and he was still five or six meters away from him.

"Boss, is this possible?" Qian Chujiu turned over and asked, seeing that Ding Yi didn't speak, he nodded and said, "Children will work hard, and they must always teach outsiders to listen, even if they are close relatives, they are like children, and they will be severely punished if they make mistakes!" Then he looked like a ghost was on top of his body in an instant, "Ah, oh my God! My legs, my legs...... Boss, that's a child's intestines, you can't use it to tie a child's hands! ”

"Shut up!" Ding Yi felt like he was going crazy.

Qian Chujiu was able to put it away freely, and immediately got up and patted the dust on his body, as if the guy who was rolling on the ground and screaming a second ago didn't know him at all.

"I hit you because you're stupid." Ding Yi said to him angrily.

"If I'm going to take Mary, do I need to use that kind of pretense?"

"What's more, if she and Jianji get married, even if there is no husband and wife, I will do this kind of thing again as an elder, tell me, what kind of person have I become?"

Qian Chujiu said with a grin: "Tian Khan." ”

Tian Khan is Li Shimin, and Wu Zetian is Li Zhi's queen and Li Shimin's concubine in the harem.

Ding was speechless, and was speechless for a while, so he simply walked over and kicked him in a heel fight: "If you don't learn, you can't do anything!" Get lost! ”

Because Wu Zetian was Li Shimin's harem first, and then became Li Zhi's queen, Ding Yi would say that Qian Chujiu didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, and this analogy was not very good.

"Mary's marriage is up to you. If you want to do this again, you're waiting to go to Venezuela! ”

"What I said, Mary still listens to it, if you can't do it properly, Zhaodi? Don't be delusional, marry Mary! (To be continued......)