Chapter 275: Entering the Temple
After listening to Ruan Youjing's words, Ruan Fuwei nodded thoughtfully.
At this time, he has already passed the age of six, and he has long lived up to his ambitions, and even his physical condition is not as good as day by day.
"Alas!" Ruan Fuwei smiled bitterly and looked at His Royal Highness Ruan Youjing, and then looked at the folds presented by the Hoi An officials on the desk.
"The Ming court wanted to trade with me Guangnan several times, and even sent envoys to my Guangnan several times, I knew the Ming court's intentions, and wanted to earn silver taels and wealth from my Guangnan, and I didn't like it, but now the situation is grim, the Ming court has appeased Jiading, and threatened Zhenla, and now if the Ming court opens Hoi An Port and the Ming merchants, and allows Guangnan to trade with the Ming court, a large number of Ming people will go to Guangnan, I am afraid that Guangnan is in danger!" Ruan Phuc said a little tiredly.
Ruan Youjing didn't know what to say for a while after hearing this, and couldn't help but raise his head to look at Lord Ruan, and suddenly Ruan Youjing was stunned.
The Ruan Lord in front of him had become so old for some reason, his temples were gray, and his face was covered with traces of the vicissitudes of life.
Ruan Youjing couldn't help but lose his mind a little, the king in his memory will always be majestic and heroic, wise and martial, but he has not seen him for more than a month, and he is already so old.
Seeing Ruan Youjing so out of shape, Ruan Fu was calm and did not blame him.
"My days are numbered." Ruan Phuc said with a wry smile.
"King." Ruan Youjing hurriedly knelt down, and for some reason there were tears in the corners of his eyes.
"I ask you, who among the sons of the world will succeed me?" Nguyen Phuc asked.
Ruan Youjing was stunned for a moment, then his face turned pale, and he hurriedly kowtowed: "I don't know." ”
Seeing this, Ruan Fuwei didn't force it, and waved his hand, "That's it, you can go." ”
Ruan Youjing was like being pardoned, and walked out of the hall in a cold sweat.
Seeing Ruan Youjing hurriedly walking out of the main hall, Ruan Fuwei sighed, "Inform Ming Shang to enter the hall tomorrow." ”
After Su Langqing and his entourage came to the royal city of Hue, they have been living in the post house and have not moved around.
This made the Guangnan officials who had been monitoring the Ming merchants breathe a sigh of relief.
"When will the goods arrive at Hue City?" Su Langqing asked a businessman.
"It is estimated that it will take four or five days, but now it is early spring, and the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, so we have to rent elephants at a high price to escort the goods, and we will soon rush to Hue City."
Su Langqing looked at the Hue city wall in the distance, and his frowning brows relaxed, as long as the goods can be under the Hue city, no matter what the trip is, Ming Hai will not lose too much.
"Good news, Lord Ruan promised me to wait for tomorrow to go to the temple." Wang Li walked over with a happy face and said to the merchant ship master in the hall.
"Okay." Su Langqing's eyes lit up.
"Since you declare me to wait for the temple? Who should talk to Lord Quang Nam Nguyen? A shipowner looked at Wang Li, and then at Su Langqing.
This time, it was the Ming Sea merchants who went to Hue together with the Lu Hai merchants, but most of the Ming merchants did not know Su Lang Qing's mission, so they asked.
"I'll be the leader of this trip, so naturally I'll go." Su Langqing said indifferently.
Wang Li nodded nondeniably.
"Have all the dignitaries in Hue City moved?" Wang Li glanced at the businessman on the side and asked. …
"It's all done, don't worry, President Wang."
After seeing that everything was ready, Wang Li was relieved.
On the second day,
Su Langqing, Wang Li and other businessmen were invited into the palace.
Except for Su Langqing, who was allowed to enter the main hall, the rest of the merchants were stopped one after another.
Su Langqing was also calm and calm, and strode into the palace.
"The envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Su Langqing, pays a visit to Lord Ruan." Su Langqing saluted Lord Ruan.
"Bold, why don't you kneel when you see my lord?" Suddenly, a minister stood up and asked loudly.
He used Chinese, and he was quite fluent, so Su Langqing naturally understood it.
"Although I am a Ming merchant, I am an envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Guangnan, and I am a Ming minister, so there is no reason to kneel to the lord of the domain." Su Langqing flicked his sleeves and glanced at the Guangnan official.
"Wait, the Chinese language is good, I must also know the etiquette of the Central Plains, I wait for the Heavenly Empire to come to the vassal state, do the envoys still need to kneel to the lord of the state?" Su Langqing said coldly.
"Your lord is just the lord of an island, and you dare to use the banner of the former Ming, aren't you afraid of the Qing Dynasty?" Another Quang Nam official stood up and said coldly.
"Tartar Qing stole my Kyushu, entered the Central Plains to kill my people, provoked the anger of the heavens and people, and the people and gods punished together, my Ming King held high the banner of anti-Qing righteousness, and revitalized my Han people, why be afraid?" Su Langqing said righteously.
Ruan Fuwei looked at the Ming Shang in front of him and couldn't help but smile.
"Come, give a seat." Nguyen Phuc said.
"I have abundant products in Guangnan, and I have all the things in Nanyang, so I really don't need to trade with the Ming court." Ruan Phuc said softly.
Su Langqing smiled after hearing this, if the Great Qing Kingdom said that he was rich in land and resources, then it would be good to say, you are a small place in Guangnan District, and you even talk about your rich resources.
"Then why did I see a large number of Franco-robot and English merchants in Hoi An and even in Hue City before?" Su Langqing asked with a smile.
"I heard that the people of Quang Nam are good at cultivating sugar and rice, but the Franc Ji and the English people in the city have repeatedly bought a large amount of sugar and rice from Quang Nam at a low price or even in barter, which makes the people of Quang Nam complain, I wonder if the king knows?" Su Langqing asked.
After Ruan Fuwei heard it, he didn't get angry, these red-haired ghosts were used to being domineering
^0^ Remember for a second
After all, in order to cope with the war in the north a few years ago, Guangnan had to buy a large number of firearms from the red-haired ghosts, and the red-haired ghosts were sitting on the ground and starting the price, so that Guangnan could not make ends meet the financial needs of Guangnan just by exporting rice to the outside world in recent years, so the people had to be encouraged to plant sugar in order to exchange for a large amount of silver taels from the red-haired ghosts.
In the South Seas, sugar is a lucrative industry.
The Spaniards and the English are not fools either.
They often buy sugar from Quang Nam at a low price, and then sell it at a high price to make huge profits.
The people of Quang Nam have worked hard to grow sugarcane and worked hard for a year, but they often cannot exchange a few taels of silver, and they have to accept layers of exploitation by local officials in Quang Nam.
The most important thing is that the red-haired ghosts buy cane sugar at a low price, so the income of the local sugar industry in Hoi An is not much more than the original sale of rice, and Quang Nam also lost a large number of rice fields.
You know, the plantations that produced cane sugar were used to grow rice in the past.
"If Quang Nam is willing to trade with the Ming court, then the Ming court is willing to buy ten cane cane ships from Quang Nam every year at a price thirty percent higher than that of the Spanish merchants." Su Langqing said.
"Ming Ting's kindness, the old man understands it." Ruan Phuc smiled faintly.
Dear, this chapter is over, happy reading! ^0^