Chapter 274: Fear

After getting the tacit approval of Lord Nguyen, the Chinese businessmen and their entourage finally entered the royal city of Hue.

In order to reach Hue as soon as possible, Su Lang Thanh and Wang Li led some merchants to set off first, while the caravan led the supplies to the rear, and it is still halfway through.

The arrival of the Chinese businessmen spread throughout Hue City in a short period of time.

Ruan Youjing was also recruited into the palace by Ruan Fuwei to discuss.

Seeing Ruan Youjing hurrying to the main hall, Ruan Fujian's expression was a little better.

"I heard that the Chinese businessmen and their entourage have arrived in the city, why didn't I receive a written notice from the Hoi An officials before?" When Ruan Youjing learned that the Chinese businessmen had arrived at Hue City, Lord Ruan invited him into the palace to discuss, and at this moment he was also at a loss and unprepared.

"Let's see." Nguyen Phuc threw the paperwork presented by the security officer to the ground.

"It's time for Hoi An's officialdom to be rectified, and corruption is so serious." Nguyen Phuc was furious.

In fact, he also blamed the Hoi An officials, in fact, he hurried to Hue City on the same day.

Although the Chinese businessmen and their entourage set off on the same day, but there were various town checkpoints along the way, Hoi An officials calculated that the Chinese businessmen and their entourage would stay on the way for at least more than a month, and by that time, the Hue officials had already received the news and discussed countermeasures.

It's just that what Hoi An's officials never dreamed of was that they were greedy, and their subordinates were more greedy than them.

The various post stations between Hoi An and Hue City have long been infiltrated by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the people who have avoided the epidemic.

Due to Quang Nam's emphasis on commerce, there are a large number of post stations in the area from Hoi An to Hue City.

The local post station will also receive a large number of passing merchants, and the merchants of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce have also secretly bought many post station personnel.

Therefore, the one that was supposed to arrive in Hue half a month earlier from Hoi An stayed for a while on the way.

At the same time, the merchants of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce also told the world in Quang Nam what it means to be rich.

Along the way, money was constantly sprinkled, and the officials along the way laughed from ear to ear, and they also let them cross the aisle.

In this way, Hoi An officials originally expected the Chinese merchants to stay on the way for at least about a month, but it only took half the time for the Chinese merchants to reach the city of Hue, and the Hoi An officials arrived in Hue.

As a result, a Quang Nam official was caught off guard.

"Did the Ming Court Dispatch Chamber of Commerce come here to ask about the crime?" Ruan Fu saw Ruan Youjing hurrying to the hall and asked eagerly.

In fact, at this time, Ruan Fuwei was still a little jealous of the power of the Ming court.

Quang Nam is not a closed country, in Hoi An and other places, there are not only treaty ports, but also a large number of Spaniards, English people trade and settle in Quang Nam.

The rise of the Ming court in Nanyang is only a matter of the past two years.

When the Ming court sent the Yuanhai Chamber of Commerce to Guangnan to ask for trade, the ministers of Guangnan knew that there was such a thing as the Ming court in Luzon.

At that time, the Quang Nam ministers were very unfamiliar with the Han regime in Nanyang, so Nguyen Phuc Wei chose to find out the news from the Westerners in Hue.

It was Nguyen Phuc who found the Spaniards who had just been taken away from northern Luzon by the Ming court, and naturally resented the Ming court.

He deliberately concealed some truths, falsely claiming that it was the Ming court that colluded with Chinese businessmen, and that Chinese businessmen instigated the Han people on Luzon to rebel, which overthrew the Spanish rule in northern Luzon and allowed the Ming army to dominate Luzon.

At that time, the Spaniards who stayed in Hue vigorously fooled the Quang Nam ministers, claiming that the Ming army that went to Luzon was only a few hundred and more than a dozen warships, and it was just a lonely army like a lost dog.

This made the Quang Nam ministers misjudge, and there was also the scene when Nguyen Phuc was angry at the merchants of the far sea more than a year ago.

The truth will always be revealed, and soon, the Quang Nam ministers found out the true situation of the Ming court in Luzon from the English and Dutch merchants.

Needless to say, the English people wear the same pants as the Luzon Ming Court at this time, and they can't wait to be called brothers.

And the Dutch merchants were the same, watching the Ming people press the Spaniards to the ground, and beat the governor of Juan until he didn't dare to leave the city of Manila, they all called the Ming court the whip of the god of Nanyang.

Therefore, whether it is an English merchant or a Dutch merchant, they are all a strong blow in front of the Quang Nam ministers.

What king entered the island to drive Hu Kou and set himself up as king.

There are tens of thousands of armor soldiers and thousands of warships, and some of them are blowing hard.

was so frightened that the faces of the ministers of Guangnan turned blue.

In addition, the last time the famous general Ruan Youjing personally led 300 elite people in Guangnan and more than 2,000 soldiers in Zhenla to attack Dongpu, but was defeated by the Ming people of Dongpu.

Although at that time, Ruan Youjing blamed all the faults on the Zhenla people, but Ruan Fuwei was not a fool, and soon learned the news of the Ming army's partial division defeating the Quang Nam and Zhenla coalition forces from the Quang Nam soldiers who were also defeated.

You must know that at that time, the Ming army that intervened in the Dongpu war was only more than 100 people.

However, thousands of people in Zhenla, Guangnan were defeated, and even Li Youcheng was killed by the Ming artillery.

Ruan Youjing, who knew that he was at a loss, had to blow out how fierce the weapons were in the court, and even the Spaniards were beaten to Manila City and did not dare to come out, and it was understandable that he was defeated.

In this way, the Guangnan ministers evolved from their original contempt for the Ming court of Luzon to their fear of the Ming court.

This is also the reason why, when it was learned that the Ming court in Luzon had appeased the Ming people in the Jiading area, Ruan Phuc Wei would secretly encourage Huang Jin to rebel.

And now Ruan Phuc is worried that because of Quang Nam's support for Huang Jin's rebellion, the Ming court will mobilize the people to ask for the guilt.

"If the Ming Court of Luzon noticed Huang Jin's rebellion and sent an envoy to my Guangnan to ask for the guilt, it would also be to send Ming Court officials instead of businessmen, and Huang Jin rebelled, and the news was transmitted back to Guangnan, it was only half a month ago, how could the Ming Court of Luzon be so fast." Ruan Youjing was indeed a little panicked at first, but after thinking about it carefully on the way, he felt that Ming Ting should not react so quickly.

"This does show that the court hopes to negotiate with Guangnan, and does not mention the rebellion of Jiading Huangjin." Ruan Fuwei nodded, feeling that what Ruan Youjing said made sense.

"Now that Ming Shang has settled in Hue City, what should I do?" Nguyen Phuc asked.

"Huang Jin's matter will be revealed sooner or later, and according to the courage of the Ming army, it is only a matter of time before the rebellion is quelled. Ruan Youjing has long lost his past contempt for the Ming Court at this time, and is more of a kind of jealousy.