Erhai Lake.

"In this way, it's really difficult for my brother!"

Wang Yue said.

As a guest of honor, the King of Daming who received a warm welcome from the King of Dali and the people of Dali was specially placed in this palace located on the shore of the Erhai Sea, and even in order to take care of his daily life, His Royal Highness the King of Dali also let his most beloved concubine bring a large number of palace maids to preside over daily affairs.

Of course, nothing else.

It's just the latter, as a sister-in-law, to take care of his brother's daily life.

The king of Daming is pulling the king of Dali to worship the son, the two are now sworn brothers, a family, and the sister-in-law takes care of the brother out of brotherly love, so the sworn brother also explained to his brother why he is unwilling to let the king enter the country......

"There is no way for the brothers, this Dali is narrow and the people are poor, and the territory is poor and evil, although those barbarians are subservient to their brothers, but they are just fetters, they are all on their own, even if they are still in chaos and often make chaos, the seven barbarian troops in the 30th year of Xuanhe Chinese New Year's Eve raised troops to attack and capture Shanxi, and even the Xiangguo Gao Mingqing was killed. Even if he did his best for his brother, the only thing that could be supported in the country was only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and if another 100,000 Wang Shi entered the country, whether it was collecting grain and grass locally, or recruiting people to transport materials for Wang Shi, it would have to exhaust our national strength.

After all, it's poor here for my brother! ”

Duan Heyu sighed.

Next to him, his favorite concubine, was waiting on the side with a spring breeze on her face.

It can be seen that the days of taking care of his brother are still very pleasant, not at all as melancholy as when he followed him, and his face is much smoother and more moisturized.

"But this decree cannot be disobeyed."

Wang Yue said.

"For my brother, I can only grit my teeth and last for a while, speaking of which is to break the family and the country for my brother, in order to complete the mission assigned by His Majesty the Emperor, even if I go to the soup and fire, I am afraid that there will be an accident and delay the major events of the court."

Duan Heyu said.

But what he said wasn't all false.

He really can't afford to supply an army of 100,000 to expedition to Bagan, if he had the ability, he would have done it himself, doesn't he like to expand his territory? Although the southern boundary of Dali has reached the Qilan Department, that is, the Moning area in northern Myanmar, it is powerless to say that it is further south, because they are not a country where the real monarch has the final say, but an alliance of powerful and local tribal chiefs.

The real control area of the Duan family is the Dali area, Chuxiong, and Shanxian are the Gao family, and the surrounding mountain basins are almost one by one.

And it is not enough to supply an expedition of this level to exhaust the strength of the whole country.

Not to mention that he couldn't get those chiefs to pay for him, why did people pay for Wang Yue in order to flatter him? It is his business for him to flatter Wang Yue, and it is also his business for Wang Yue to burn his palace, these people will not do too much for him, if he forces others to be anxious, it will be a big deal for them to cooperate in his rebellion.

In the first year of Xuanhe, the 37th rebellion in eastern Yunnan was even killed, and it was only ten years later.

But now that he has broken the jar, as long as he doesn't provoke Wang Yue, these people will still be able to bear it after all.

But I can't bear to provoke Wang Yue!

"Brother Wang doesn't need to worry, this matter is easy to solve."

Wang Yue said.

"Uh, what's my brother's plan?"

Duan Heyu said unexpectedly.

"First of all, this holy decree must not be disobeyed, and the official family has no reason to take back the holy decree, as long as the official family makes an order, we who are vassals have to find a way to complete it, Dali is indeed poor, but my brother my Ming is rich! Our brothers are all our own people, my sister-in-law is still here, my brother has no money, and he can't complete the task given to my brother by the official family, so I'll lend you my brother! Our family is blessed and enjoyed, isn't it money!

Loans!

My bank was open for my brother to take out a loan.

Is 5 million guan enough? ”

Wang Yue said.

"Uh, what do you mean by brother?"

Duan Heyu was stunned.

"It's very simple, I gave my brother a loan, five million copper coins, not enough to add more, the court did not want my brother to raise grain and grass in Dali, the imperial court expedition to Bagan must be responsible for the imperial court is responsible for military supplies, my brother is a grain transporter, and these military supplies must be transported to the border of Dali. In this way, my brother will take the loan I gave you to recruit people in the territory, and it will definitely not work to forcibly recruit the common people, but it is different to give money, transport the military supplies from the border to Tengchong Mansion and prepare first, and then continue to transport with the army after the imperial army goes south.

Let's give money!

Give the money higher, didn't you say that the chiefs were disobedient?

Do they earn money if they have money?

Let's give them the money, we don't care what they do, as long as they can send someone to transport military supplies for us, what does my brother think they will do? As far as I know, their subjects are slaves, right? Let's calculate the amount of money for transporting 100 catties of military supplies from Mahu to Tengchong, do you think they will drive out all their slaves to participate in the transportation for this money?

Won't my brother solve the problem of military transportation? ”

Wang Yue said.

"Ten runs are too many, the porter who transports grain from Mahu is estimated to be two months, and can transport at least two times a year, giving them a trip to ten times is really too much, not to mention that the brother gave it is still copper money, brother may not know, brother, this Dali country can't even afford copper money now, and is still using shell coins, not to mention copper coins, even iron money is a good thing."

Duan Heyu said with a smile.

"Ugh!"

Wang Yue was stunned for a moment.

It is indeed shocking to say that Yunnan, the largest copper coin producer in the Qing Dynasty, with a maximum annual output of 14 million catties, can not even afford copper coins.

"Then it's even better, then I'll simply lend my brother 10 million yuan of iron!"

He went on to say.

This is indeed better, he is now worried about how to solve the problem of iron money, now with the rapid development of the steel industry, the inferior iron money cast by the imperial court in the past has been ignored, although because the copper is still insufficient, so the iron money is still in large circulation, but it has also been replaced by those high-quality iron coins minted later. In this way, the inferior iron money was thrown into Dali, and the banks around the country exchanged the high-quality iron money for the old inferior iron money of the people, and lent the old low-quality iron money to Dali.

Dali used the money to hire the chiefs and send people to transport the military supplies from the border to Tengchong for storage......

It's just storage.

Because of the grand feat of the expedition of 100,000 troops to Bagan, this is just Wang Yue's casual talk.

But this transportation must be carried out, it doesn't matter what the military supplies are, even bags of sand have to be transported to Tengchong by the Duan family.

This is good for the Duan family.

Because there is only one real purpose of this project.

Drain the blood of those chieftains.

Duan Heyu gives money!

The pricing is also very tempting!

So what will those chiefs choose? Most of their subjects are slaves, so they don't care about the rotten lives of these slaves, but these slaves can use their participation in transportation to earn them a steady stream of money, and they will give ten iron money for transporting a hundred catties of military supplies to the Tengchong frontier, and the rotten lives of those slaves are not worth these money. So the chiefs would drive their slaves with whips, and they would join in this transport, and they would make the slaves eat the least amount of food, pick up the most supplies, and constantly whip them, and let them complete the transport with their lives.

Then the chiefs could happily count the iron coins stained with their blood.

Even if it's actually sand.

The mortality rate of such transportation is extremely high, and the lack of flat roads from Sichuan to Yunnan is nothing more than those mountain roads that cross mountains and mountains, and there are countless poisonous snakes and beasts along the way......

At this time, even Guizhou can't go.

It is the closest from Annan, but Wang Yue will definitely not choose.

It is also closer from Guangxi, because the waterway can reach the upper reaches of the Nanpan River.

But these Wang Yue will not choose, he will let these chiefs drive the slaves and travel more than 2,000 miles by land to transport these so-called military supplies.

Exhaustion is estimated to be less.

With 10 million inferior iron money destined to rot in the warehouse, in exchange for a reduction of 100,000 yuan for Dali, at least Wang Yue seems to be absolutely cost-effective, not to mention that this will also bring about the war of slave rebellion, not to mention that this is a loan, and it is not sent out directly, the Duan family has to pay it back, and it will have to add interest to pay it back in the future, and in addition, it has to pay out all kinds of additional conditions.

But this is not bad for the Duan family.

They also need to make the chiefs down, what do these guys rely on to rebel when they are unhappy?

Isn't it that they have a population under their command, their own subjects, and their own army, so they naturally have the ability to rebel, but the population in their hands has been greatly reduced?

That's a lot more honest.

And even more so why did they rebel? Isn't it just the distribution of benefits? Give them money and they will still rebel?

"So, thank you brother?"

Duan Heyu said with a smile.

Then he looked at Wang Yue quietly......

He's not stupid, there has to be something behind the pie in the sky.

"This loan has to have interest, how much does my brother have to send someone to talk to the bank, although I am the owner of the bank, but the owner is not only me, but also Yan Wang and many other people, if it is my own, it is not a big deal to give it to my brother. But don't worry, brother, I will fight for the lowest for my brother, in addition, my brother is indeed poor here, I can't watch as a brother, my brother may not know, brother, my ability to fight is actually nothing, but this ability to make money is unmatched.

I made a five-year development plan for Dali here, and designed how to make a fortune for my brother in the next five years.

What industry and commerce, mining, these have.

What I've seen in Dali these days is that my brother still has a lot of potential for development here.

But these need to be done specifically for this, and there must be no such people under my brother, so the brother will recruit a group for my brother, and my brother also has no money to do it, and these investments still have to be made by my brother to help my brother, so that my brother has to give them some preferential treatment.

So there's still a few things here that my brother needs to see. ”

Wang Yue handed the five-year development plan of Dali in one hand, and the treaty of friendship and mutual assistance between Dali and Dali in the other, and handed it to Duan Heyu together.