Today, Li Xiao's characters are heavier, and guests from afar come one after another.

The guy from North Korea is Hong Yihan, the Korean scribe who hesitates to gain or lose, which is equivalent to the Donglin Party of North Korea. The people who came from the Wa Kingdom were Tokugawa Katsuyori and Mori Hidemoto, both of whom were heavyweights of the Wa Kingdom. A guy came from the south to surprise Li Xiao, Jiaozhi Ruan Wang. As the king of Jiaozhi, he dared to come to the capital of the Ming Dynasty in person, and he had to admire the courage of this guy.

According to the arrangement, it was Hong Yihan who had breakfast. Among a group of foreigners, he is the easiest to handle.

"See the big handsome!" Hong Yihan knelt down and kowtowed to Li Xiao, and what he did was actually three bows and nine bows. This is to respect Li Xiao as the emperor!

Li Xiao accepted it with peace of mind, and the Koreans could only be careful about this. Thinking about what he wanted to do for a while, Li Xiao immediately forgave this North Korean rotten Confucian.

"Is the king of Joseon alright?" Routine diplomatic rhetoric.

"Thanks to the handsome Hongfu, my king is in good health. I often miss the handsome, if it weren't for the etiquette, my king would have liked to come and see the handsome in person. ”

"I got it! Just get these things right. Li Xiao gave a look, and Junzi immediately took out a document.

Hong Yihan was stunned, he didn't even bother to say basic polite words, and served the food directly!

500,000 catties of iron ore, 200,000 catties of pyrite, ...... copper ore! The more Hong Yihan pulls, the longer this list becomes. There is a half-meter-long menu, and Hong Yi Hanzai carefully looks at the end, which is okay...... Didn't ask for a grain of grain.

However, in this way, it is estimated that the whole of North Korea will not have the labor to farm.

"Dashuai...... This......! ”

"I don't want you in vain, but the imperial court is not wealthy, so I can only give you 100,000 silver dollars. But we can give you potato flour and sweet potato flour, this number is ......! Li Xiao held up a finger.

"A million pounds?" Hong Yihan used his best efforts to guess.

"Ten million catties! As long as the ore is handed over, the daimyo can provide North Korea with 10 million catties of potato flour and sweet potato flour. It's about the same as flour, and it's very filling to eat, which is good business. Li Xiao looked at Hong Yihan with a smile.

"Ten million catties!" Hong Yihan was completely shocked. 10 million catties of grain is very important for North Korea. Last year, the Taedong River overflowed, and the DPRK's grain harvest was seriously failed. This time when he came to Daming, the king of North Korea Li Liang was most afraid that Daming would ask for food. Now not only did he not ask for food, but he gave back 10 million catties. Hong Yihan froze, afraid that he had heard it wrong.

"Don't want to?" There was some dissatisfaction in Li Xiao's tone.

"Yes! Willing! Thank you to the Celestial Empire for your compassion for our Korean people. What the country needs, I will try to meet as much as possible. Hong Yihan hurriedly kowtowed, afraid that this kind of good business would be cut off in his own hands.

"As much as possible?"

"Definitely! Certain! Hong Yihan hurriedly finalized it, and now he was too afraid that Li Xiao would regret it.

"That's good! Go down and have a good rest, the ships of the Navy will send you back to North Korea as soon as possible. Also, you have to build a port in that place in Incheon so that I can transport these supplies. Go and talk to Zheng Sen, he will give you some help. ”

"No!" After Hong Yihan finished speaking, a guard took him down.

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Xiao's mouth, things like potatoes and sweet potatoes, 10 million catties are just a year's output of a county. This is still a county with poor land moisture, a county with fertile land and large yields, and the yield will make Hong Yihan's jaw drop. Potato flour and sweet potato flour are made into feed for pigs in many places. However, Li Xiao knew that if the North Koreans took these things back, they would definitely not use them to feed the pigs.

On that list, it is almost one-third of Daming's ore demand. Using 10 million catties of pig food plus 100,000 silver dollars in exchange for one-third of Daming's ore demand is a good deal no matter which direction you look at.

For North Korea, the Ming Dynasty is simply taking what it wants. The Korean nobles care very much about the 100,000 silver dollars, and with the silver dollars, they can buy all kinds of luxury goods they like in Daming. The 10 million catties of pig food were for the Korean people. People need to work in the mines, and Li Xiao doesn't want them to starve to death.

Who's going to fuck the fuck to starve to death!

The initial industrialization of the Ming Dynasty, the consumption of ore is amazing. Some of these ores are not easy to find in the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, Li Xiao has no choice but to look abroad.

The main industrial areas of Daming are located in Liaodong, Beijing, Shandong and Tianjin. North Korea is very close to these places, and as long as a port is built in Incheon, it is very convenient to transport it by boat.

Yesterday at Geritu, he was not only persuaded to send troops, but also promised him the right to develop many coal mines in Mongolia. Of course, as the Great Khan he has two dry shares. Geritu has no complaints about this, because the Ming household department is only a three-percent share. The remaining shares will be sold to the bidder with the highest bidding bid.

In this way, the household department can get two shares, the sale of the development rights of the coal mine is a lump sum, and the equity gain is another lump. I have to say that Ai Husheng is a good material for doing business, and this idea of eating at both ends can be imagined.

The key is that he considers everyone's interests in this, from Ge Ritu to the Ming Household Department, to those businessmen can make a lot of money. Who made the use of the steam engine make the Ming Dynasty's demand for coal reach a very terrifying number.

Mongolian coal is very similar to North Korean ore, that is, Mongolian coal is also relatively close to the main industrial areas of Daming. Even for Liaodong, Mongolian coal is closer than Shanxi coal.

As for the merchants, in fact, their profits are the lowest. Not only did they have to pay money for the shares of the household, but they also had to pay taxes to the imperial court. For this kind of energy project, the imperial court has drawn taxes more ruthlessly, hitting the terrifying three out of ten. In other words, those merchants who eventually competed had to pay 30% of the tax to the imperial court. The rest for them is actually relatively small.

However, the remaining profits can already make the businessmen blush. I believe that the auction scene will be very sensational.

Li Xiao was thinking nonsense when Tokugawa Katsuyori and Mori Hidemoto walked in.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Xiao made a request directly. Today, he is here to take advantage of it.

"Next year I'm going to attack the Mongols, who are in the Northwest Desert. It's going to be very hard offensively and I need a lot of warriors. I don't know how many troops you two can send? ”

Tokugawa Katsuyori and Mori Hidemoto glanced at each other, the two had not fought in years. This is due to the income of the two Nanyang, so that the two families have a good life. In the past, it was to compete for various etiquette, but now that life is comfortable, they are too lazy to fight all day long.

"My Tokugawa family is here today thanks to the help of the Great Marshal. Moreover, our two families are still relatives, and my Tokugawa family is willing to send 20,000 troops. Tokugawa Katsuyori saw that Li Xiao was looking at him, so he had to take the lead in speaking.

"Although the Mori family is not as strong as the Tokugawa family, our Mori family is willing to send 23,000 troops. No matter what you do, we will support you. Mori Hidemoto pursed his lips and looked at Tokugawa Katsuyori, who had eaten like a fly.

Li Xiao really wanted to go back and flip through the yellow calendar, how could things go so smoothly today. Just an ordinary inquiry, there are 43,000 more elite soldiers. These more than 40,000 people are armed and can take up a division. If you add the 30,000 cavalry promised by Geritu yesterday, you will have an additional 70,000 troops before you set out to fight. That's not even counting the small tribes in the Western Regions who want to defect to themselves.

"Good! Go back and help me thank the two family masters for their trust, and please let your family masters gather the army as soon as possible. The Ming Navy will send a ship to take you to Liaodong. You'll be trained there, and you won't have to carry weapons. Because the weapons are issued by my Daming, these weapons are even the reward for this dispatch. ”

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Tokugawa Katsuyori couldn't wait to swallow back what he had just said.

Everyone knows that Daming weapons have always been the world's top existence. Now that it is armed by the Ming Dynasty, even the Maori family will take advantage of 3,000 guns.

But when the words are said, it is proposed to increase the troops now, which will make Li Xiao and Maori Xiuyuan look down on them at the same time. Tokugawa Katsuyori decided to go back and find an opportunity to ask Tokugawa Chihime to help, and the Tokugawa family could have another 5,000 people.

Seeing their expressions, Li Xiao smiled and nodded.

The weapons assigned to them were all redressed by the Liao army. The most numerous of these are revolver rifles, which are over-the-top products with insufficient machining. It's a bit that you can fire six bullets in a row without worrying about jamming.

Relative to the advantages, the disadvantages are more obvious. That's because of the hammer, the eyes can't get close to aim, resulting in poor shooting accuracy. On the battlefield, this is deadly.

At first, it was because of the big gap between the weapons of the two sides, and it was not yet visible. Now that the weapons of both sides of the war have made a qualitative leap, things like revolvers are somewhat out of the table.

The Liao army reloaded with more than 100,000 rifles. It was made at full capacity, but now it is a problem. Moreover, the structure is special, and the barrel cannot be removed and used on other firearms. It was a pity to re-smelt, so Li Xiao thought of exchanging weapons for the Japanese and Mongolian troops.

No matter how backward the revolver was, it was much better than the breech-loading flintlock pistol they now had.

Besides, the combat artillery of the Ming army is the main force. The Japanese soldiers with revolvers actually only acted as security guards most of the time. What they really want to do is to use these weapons to wipe out every Dzungar they can see.

Lanzhou's blood feud is doomed, and the name Jungar will only be a name in the future. The Dzungar Mongols will disappear from this earth. The specific operation is these Japanese people armed with revolver rifles, or the same brothers of the Jungar Mongols, the Khalkha Mongols.

"Hello! We will definitely send troops to Liaodong as soon as possible, please rest assured. "Mori Hidemoto is very proud. You can mix up to 3,000 more equipment!

"Hello! We, the Tokugawa family, will also send troops to Liaodong as soon as possible. Dashuai, the old man hasn't seen Qianji for many years, I don't know if it's the back house to visit Qianji. Tokugawa Katsuyori got Tokugawa Chihime's idea.

"Chihime also misses her family, since Mr. Tokugawa is going to the back house. After a while, the luncheon will be entertained by Qianji, so that you relatives can talk about family life. Mr. Xiuyuan, I will introduce you to the Great Khan of Geritu at luncheon in a moment. He is a direct descendant of the Golden Family and a descendant of Genghis Khan. ”

"Hello!" Mori Hidemoto happily agreed. Tokugawa Katsuyori on one side seems to have eaten flies, and the luncheon in the back house, where will there be a luncheon hosted by Li Xiao.

But the words have already been spoken, and there is no way to swallow them anymore, even if it is a fly, it can only eat it in its mouth.

"It's still early for luncheon, so I invite Mr. Maori to rest. Junko, send Mr. Tokugawa to the back house. ”

"No!" Junko agreed, and Mori Hidemoto was led away by the guards to rest. Tokugawa Katsuyori was taken to the back house by Junko and entertained by his niece, Tokugawa Chihime.

The following is the King of Jiaozhi Ruan!

The more monkeys are hard to do! Li Xiao understood this point, and the Yongle Emperor sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the expedition to Jiaozhi, and finally made a loss of troops. In the end, they had to withdraw because of huge financial pressure. Looking at the last war against Jiaozhi, Da Ming did not take the slightest advantage. It's just that nominally, Jiaozhi is willing to become a subject state of the Ming Dynasty.

But they pay tribute every year, and it can only be hehe!

Things have changed by the time of King Nguyen now! At the beginning, Li Xiao ordered King Ruan to send troops to Java, but he didn't expect King Ruan to agree very happily. And really sat down to do what he said, not only sent troops to Java but also sat to the end, not at all to deal with errands and cheat money to spend.

At that time, Daming's ability to cross the sea was limited, and many ships were still warships. Although the weapons in their hands are relatively rudimentary, Hong Chengchou can listen to the recital that the Jiaozhi people are extremely brave, far above the Javanese people. If it is in China, it can be regarded as a strong force equal to the Nanjing Forbidden Army.

Li Xiao's heart is full of vigilance against the Yue Monkey. Therefore, after the Java incident, Li Xiao gave Jiaozhi a lot of benefits, but still rejected the intention of the Jiaozhi people to buy Daming weapons.

This time, King Ruan of Jiaozhi actually dared to come to the capital in person to express his sincerity, according to Sun Ru of Honglu Temple. King Ruan was full of respect for himself in and out of his words, and he didn't ask for anything. On the contrary, this time, many gorgeous tributes were brought.

Li Xiao saw a jade Buddha statue, which was a foot high. It is said that the monks in the temple in Myanmar have opened the light, and the green head looks very full under the light. Cochin is located in the south, and it is not easy to get such a thing.

What did he do when he came to Daming?

Li Xiao walked to the door of the Wuying Hall and personally received the King of Jiaozhi Ruan. The most famous furnishings in the Wuying Hall are those wax figures. Among them, the wax figure of the Russian colonel Voroshilov is placed on the left, and the wax figure on the right is the Mongolian chief Promise Gelong.

Receiving King Jiaozhi Ruan in this place, Li Xiao was eager to see King Jiaozhi's reaction after seeing these wax figures.

"Meet the Commander!" There were still more than thirty steps away from Li Xiao, and King Ruan, who was following Shunzi, knelt on the ground.

I rub! You don't have to be so pious......!