Yang Xin took out another letter, handed it to Jin Shengsi, and said, "This is a letter written by this king himself to Tokugawa Iemitsu, you bring it over and give it to him." ”

Jin Shengsian hurriedly took it respectfully.

Yang Xin waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" ”

After sending Jin Sheng sigh away, Li Xiangjun has been frowning, after this conversation, her attitude towards Yang Xin has changed greatly, originally thought that Yang Xin was just a profiteer who was keen on business, but I didn't expect that the war was also very decisive, Yang Xin wanted to eat the country, in Li Xiangjun's opinion, it was a bit of a lack of people's hearts and swallowed elephants.

Yang Xin will set off from Laiyang tomorrow, the army has already been led by Daniel Zhang, and on the way to Weihai, Yang Xin is just making final preparations.

Therefore, today's dinner is a parting, and Fan Yuxuan can't do it, so she has to arrange for everyone to eat together in Yang Xin's dormitory.

Among the three princesses, only Jin Lianmei is the most proud, because Yang Xin is going, Goryeo will become the rear of the coalition army, and Jin Lianmei naturally wants to go with her.

The princess and Fan Yuxuan sat on the left and right, next to the princess was Li Xiangjun, and next to Fan Yuxuan was Jin Lianmei, the two sides were distinct, Yang Xin was sandwiched in the middle, and couldn't help but be a little worried, whether these two would pinch each other after they left.

This has to be prevented in advance, Yang Xin looked at the two people who were dressed up at the same time, took the lead in attacking, and said: "After the king leaves tomorrow, the princess will continue to sit in the court, especially to discuss with Huang Fuxing, this time the army is pouring out, the rear troops are empty, and there must be no chaos." ”

The princess suddenly smiled, the backbone of the first battalion are the earliest old people, who are under the jurisdiction of the princess, and this task is naturally the most suitable for the princess.

"Husband, rest assured, the army will go on the expedition, the palace will take care of the rear, and with Huang Fuxing here, there will be no chaos."

Fan Yuxuan is naturally angry, now that she has given birth to a child, she is about to do a big job, and she is about to speak, Yang Xin hurriedly waved her hand to stop it, and said: "Yuxuan, your task is also heavy, Yuxin Commerce and Trade must make every effort to build a new type of musket and artillery for the army, as well as the Fan family industry that has just taken over, there are a large number of businesses across the country, especially Qianzhuang, which must return to normal as soon as possible."

As long as the Fan family money village recovers 50 million taels of private deposits, I will not worry about running out of silver, this war against the Japanese kingdom will last for a long time, at least three or five years, the amount of silver spent is probably astronomical, we can't be careless, we must pay attention to whether the follow-up financial resources can keep up. ”

Fan Yuxuan originally wanted to compete with the princess in the court, but Yang Xin was right, these two tasks are now a matter of life and death for Daxing.

The scale of the Fan family's industry is not small, no less than the sum of all the previous Daxing firms in the entire Daxing and overseas firms, it can also be said that if the Daxing firms do not add Daxing Qianzhuang, all of them add up, and the scale is even inferior to the Fan family, which has just spent 20 million silver to acquire.

The two things that Yang Xin explained were enough for Fan Yuxuan to be so busy that she would no longer have extra energy to fight for power with the princess.

Fan Yuxuan sighed in her heart, so she had to promise, and said: "The husband is right, there is also the Daxing Palace in Dengzhou, and the palace is also urging people to build it with all its might. ”

The two princesses of Daxing are not like the queens of the Ming Dynasty, they are just decorations, and the Ming harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and the heroine's talent is wasted.

When Yang Xin saw her say this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly called for the success of the treacherous plan.

At this time, Jin Lianmei on the side suddenly said: "Concubine Fan, you promised to cooperate with the Korean firm in Goryeo before, you have to take it to heart, Goryeo's sea trade profits are also a lot, don't be seized by Li Zong and Daxing firms." ”

Between Fan Yuxuan and the princess, Jin Lianmei chose to fall to Fan Yuxuan without hesitation, because she had the support of the Qing Dynasty behind her, and the Goryeo monarchs and ministers were afraid of the Qing Dynasty like a tiger.

Fan Yuxuan was very satisfied with Jin Lianmei's statement, nodded hurriedly, and said: "The layout has only started in the past two days, and it is not too late yet, rest assured, the Goryeo Haimao Palace will not fall, and yesterday I already explained that Peach Blossom was looking for someone to plan." ”

Now, her biggest problem is the sudden increase in power, and she is pregnant for several months and can't act, and there is a lack of talents around her who can be used, no more than the princess, both the strong support of the old people of Daxing, and the identity of the princess of Daming, a steady stream of Daming students are vying to take refuge, there is no shortage of talents at all, but they are trying to install their cronies in all corners of Daxing.

The princess personally sandwiched some dishes for Yang Xin, glanced at Jin Lianmei, and said to Yang Xin softly: "Husband's expedition this time, there is a lack of strategists around him, Xiangjun has great talents, and there are many famous scholars in his hands, why don't you take some people to follow her husband, help her husband give advice, and take care of her husband's daily life, what does your husband think?" ”

Now that Jin Lianmei has obviously fallen to Fan Yuxuan, Yang Xin doesn't know how long it will take to come back, and the princess is naturally not worried that Yang Xin has only one woman by her side.

Yang Xin also knew what he meant when he heard it, and secretly said that it was really not easy for these two people to have a bowl of water, so he had to nod and said: "Okay, it's so decided, Xiangjun will go to the country with me." ”

He didn't want the two of them to argue over this matter, so he just came to the final word.

Fan Yuxuan glanced at the princess, Yang Xin had already made a decision, and she couldn't refute Yang Xin's face in public, so she had to acquiesce.

In this way, Yang Xin finally used a parting meal to temporarily settle the backyard, as for whether the two will pinch each other after he leaves, the secret fight must be indispensable, and the open struggle should not be, after all, there is a war ahead, the fight is too fierce, and the internal friction is serious, which will seriously affect the unity of Daxing, and in the end, no one will be able to fall well to this family.

Yang Xin just thought about it wishfully, as for what would happen after he left, he didn't have the energy to care about it in front of him.

The next day, Yang Xin took the last elite of Daxing, the 5,000-person military camp, and Li Ligang, a kitchen knife, as a pro-soldier general, and rushed to Weihai.

The Weihai army is gathered, nearly 100,000 coalition troops have been assembled, the ships on the sea are even denser, covering the port, Daxing has 25,000 people still in Goryeo, and only 45,000 people set off at this time, plus 10,000 people.

After more than half a year of full construction, the shipyard of Weihai Wharf has expanded to nearly 20,000 people, the first batch of nine large Fu ships have been delivered to the sailors, during this time Zhao Yuan has successively purchased fifteen new or old Fu ships, the coalition forces and more than 30 sea ships obtained from Goryeo before, this time the Goryeo sailors are pouring out of the nest, and more than 50 sea ships have been added.

Daxing also spent money to lease a lot of ships of Jiangnan maritime merchants, and the entire huge fleet had more than 120 sea vessels.

Of course, there are more than 40 giant ships that can hold 2,000 people, and it is easy to fit more than 100,000 coalition troops, which is far from being comparable to Zheng Chenggong's kind of small boat, Zheng Chenggong gathered thousands of ships when he attacked Fanyu, but most of them are small boats, and the tonnage is not much more than Yang Xin's coalition fleet.

In terms of the Qing army, the leader of the army was Prince Haoge, the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, with 10,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, and Tang Tong, the Hou of Dingxi, who led 40,000 Han troops to the Zhenghuang Banner as a deputy general.

In the past few days, Weihai Wharf has been completely under martial law, stopping all civilian ships from entering and leaving the port, and people who make a living on the wharf have to take a holiday and rest, and there are many people who have nothing to do to watch the excitement.

And Yang Xin arranged a special banquet for the generals of the Qing Dynasty.

Hauge received the invitation and brought dozens of his generals and a hundred soldiers to the banquet, but the location of the banquet was quite strange, neither a big restaurant nor a yamen in Weihai.

Under the leadership of the Daxing heralds, Haoge came to a luxurious mansion in the new wharf city, with nearly 100 musketeers standing guard at the door, and several gilded characters "Daxing Futures Exchange" written on the door plate.

The Manchu general was greeted by an enthusiastic middle-aged shopkeeper, and a woman of nearly thirty, with more than a dozen maidservants behind them.

The Manchu generals were all arranged by Daxing, what kind of exchange, they have never heard of it for so many years of fighting in the south and the north, and also, it is neither a civil minister nor a military general who greeted him, the middle-aged man claimed to be the shopkeeper of the exchange, and the woman was the head of the Daxing Qianzhuang branch, and also a shopkeeper.

Haoge laughed and said: "It is said that King Xing loves to do business, it seems that the real situation is more exaggerated than the rumors, and sending two shopkeepers to receive the generals of my Qing Empire is probably unprecedented and unprecedented." ”

Shopkeeper Cheng hurriedly laughed and said: "Lord Wang, King Xing not only loves to do business, but is also very good at it, this exchange is specially prepared for nobles like Wang Ye, here, you don't need to go to sea, you don't need any action, you only need to pay money, you can invest in sea trade." ”

Shopkeeper Cheng couldn't wait to sell his exchange to Haoge.

The Manchu generals were curious to hear it, the so-called name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Yang Xin has been very famous recently, and everyone heard that there were good things, and they all talked about it, and asked the two shopkeepers.

The original layout here is a large open space, which is full of high-end tables, chairs and benches, and in front of it is a large panel representing silk, tea, and porcelain.

The aristocracy of this era, like Hauge, who could only fight wars, had money in addition to buying houses, that is, buying land, and the channels for investment were quite single.

Cheng's shopkeeper's introduction is also very simple, and he said: "This exchange can buy and sell the contract of maritime trade commodities, which is the contract signed by the maritime merchant and the supplier, if you want to make money and don't want to trouble, you just need to bring silver to trade, and the specific transaction is carried out by the maritime merchant and the supplier themselves." ”

He could not go into details, because the whole process was complicated, and he could only simplify it as much as possible to arouse the interest of the Manchu generals.

Sure enough, the Manchu general was confused.

"How do you trade?"

Tang Tong asked with great interest.

Haoge said disdainfully: "This kind of thing can be handed over to the housekeeper, and the shopkeeper Cheng has made it very clear, as long as he invests in the silver, he doesn't have to run the business by himself, you don't care how he trades, as long as he can make money." ”

Shopkeeper Cheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, he had been worried just now that he didn't know how to persuade these Manchu generals, but he didn't expect Haoge to explain to him directly.

Haoge didn't understand it at all just now, but he wasn't stupid, he knew that Yang Xin would make money, he could make money, and there was nothing wrong with following him to invest, as for how to do it, he naturally asked the housekeeper to do it, so he didn't bother to care.

So he hurriedly echoed and said, "Prince Su is right, this specific process is a bit complicated, just leave it to the people below." ”

Tang Tong is quite unimpressed, the Han people have a lot of eyes, and they will never easily participate in things that they don't understand, but this new investment channel can be said to be unprecedented, and it is impossible for any upper-class person not to be interested, and if you don't do it, you have to understand it, so as not to be laughed at.

Well, a good coalition gathering turned into a conference marketing for Yang Xin to promote his own exchange to the Manchu generals.

Throughout the banquet, Shopkeeper Cheng kept explaining to Tang Tong, and Tang Tong finally understood, and said, "Okay, Shopkeeper Cheng, I will send someone to stay in Weihai tonight and bring 100,000 taels of silver into your exchange for trading." ”

Before his generals understood, one of them asked, "Master Hou, what the hell is it, will it be risky for you to spend so much money?" ”

Tang Tong smiled and said: "Ben Hou has already understood, that is, betting on the rise and fall of the price of sea trade commodities, the same reason as the size of the casino bet, don't forget, we are going to attack the Japanese country this time, the price of sea trade commodities will definitely rise and fall smoothly with this battle in the near future, we are fighting smoothly, it is expected to open the Japanese market, the price of commodities will inevitably rise, otherwise the price will fall, we have first-hand information, if you don't make money, there will be no reason!" ”

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this, and even Yang Xin was amazed at Tang Tong's high understanding, and the generals under him hurriedly expressed their willingness to take out the silver and hand it over to Tang Tong to take care of together, and in a moment, they got together to 300,000 taels.

Haoge glanced at Tang Tong and the others, and said with a smile: "As soon as I came in, this king said, if you can make money, just invest money, you only understand it now, Cheng is the shopkeeper, this king invested 200,000 taels, and all of them were bought, and he will leave someone to contact you tonight." ”

Haoge actually doesn't understand fart, but Tang Tong said it so clearly, and the fool also understands, betting on the ups and downs, it all depends on the battle situation, Haoge is full of confidence in the elite of the Eight Banners, and he is not able to catch a mere Japanese country?

Ao Bai hurriedly followed and said: "The prince is right, I also invested 50,000 taels, buy up, my Qing Dynasty army of 50,000 to attack the Japanese country, it will definitely win, it will definitely rise!" ”

All the Manchu generals echoed and unanimously bought up, and they all made it so clear that buying up means believing in a big victory, who would dare to buy down?

This time, the shopkeeper Cheng received more investment, a little total, more than 500,000 taels, plus more than 300,000 taels from Tang Tong and others just now, this banquet is not a loss, and the investment of nearly 900,000 taels was pulled in one go.

Yang Xin was dumbfounded, he originally just wanted to pull the Manchu elites to invest, but he didn't expect Haoge to buy it directly, this effect was better than expected, these Manchu generals all made heavy bets to buy up, and turned back to the battlefield of the Japanese State, in order to win money, they had to work harder, but they didn't have to worry about their failure to cooperate at that time.

The generals on the Manchu side were full of confidence, and the generals on the Daxing side reacted at this time, and expressed their willingness to invest and buy up, Daniel Zhang even took out all the silver in one breath, a total of more than 100,000 taels, he is a three-share national, originally did not have so much silver, the last time the capital speculated on the house, he made a handful with Huang Fuxing, and only then did he get so much wealth.

Yang Xin expressed concern that futures trading is extremely risky, and he did not want his generals to participate in the transaction, but this time the situation is more special, as Tang Tong said, the result of this war against the Japanese is the key to the recent commodity price trend, if his generals are buying up, it will undoubtedly be of great help to the army.

And this battle can only be won and not defeated, Yang Xin has invested all the resources of the entire Daxing, which is equivalent to having made a desperate bet, so at this time, there is no need to persuade Daniel Zhang and others, moreover, it is not enough to ask the Manchu generals to buy, and then, their own people are not allowed to buy, so what will the Manchu generals think when they hear it, is this not a clear desire to pit others?

The generals of Daxing are far less rich than the generals of the Daqing Dynasty, except for Daniel Zhang and a few other leaders who can get tens of thousands of taels in their hands, most of them can basically only take 10,000 or 20,000, and these money are the money of two national dividends, the first time it was divided into more than 3,000 taels and the second time it was divided into more than 4,000 taels, and those present were all at the level of more than 1,000 households, and there were no less than two shares, so it was not a big problem to get 120,000 pieces of silver.

Although the generals of Daxing did not have much money, they were expensive because of the large number of people, and on average, dozens of people got together and made more than 800,000 taels of silver.

Yang Xin was secretly worried, and made up his mind that as soon as the war was won, he secretly informed Daniel Zhang that they were all sold, and the money earned should be used as their benefits, and then they were not allowed to directly participate in futures trading, but they could consider setting up a fund to take care of their property and participate in transactions to a limited extent.

Lin Mei, the low-level maidservant girl in charge of cleaning, looked at the amazing transaction in the hall in surprise, the customers were all generals, and the amount of the transaction was so large that a person from a poor background like her felt incredible, it was simply astronomical.

But everyone has vanity, and this time some of them bragged, and told the gang of homeless people what they saw today, and ensured that everyone envied her current work, although she was only a lowly maid in charge of cleaning, but she had come into contact with the highest echelons of the coalition army.

"Sister Lin, what are you looking at? The empty plates and leftover bones at table eight are about to be cleaned up! What are you doing standing stupidly? ”

A servant girl in charge touched Lin Mei's sleeve and whispered, she reacted and hurriedly agreed to leave.

Daniel Zhang and other generals originally thought that Yang Xin would discuss tactics at the banquet, but what they didn't expect was that Yang Xin only cooperated with Cheng Zhang's two treasurers from beginning to end to pull investment, and did not say a word about tactics, and in the end he was really a little unable to hold back, and asked: "King Xing, this time the coalition forces attack the Kingdom of Wei, how are you going to fight, and is there a specific strategy for sending troops?" ”

Yang Xin was chatting with Haoge, and when he heard this, he turned his head and said: "Strategy, it's very simple, we use a dignified division, the whole army gathers together, no division of troops, no surprise attack, steady and steady, echelon advancement." ”

The generals of Daxing were shocked, few commanders fought like this, the generals of this era were deeply influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and they always liked to engage in some bells and whistles to appear to be very wise, but what they didn't expect was that Yang Xin actually came straight to the point.