Chen Liuzi shook his head slightly: "It's not enough to just have an attitude, the key is the policy, otherwise the people below won't be able to implement it." Let me give you a simple example, what if a naval warship catches a ship on the coast of Liaodong that is bound for the Manchu Qing Dynasty from Nanjing, and the ship buys our Water Token? ”

Liu Mingde was speechless for a while, unable to answer this question.

Chen Liuzi said: "If our attitude is against it, then it doesn't matter if he buys it or not, he can take it directly." ”

Li Zhaoji shook his head slightly: "We can't directly oppose the Ming Dynasty's strategy of uniting with the Ming Dynasty, as far as I know, this is a strategy that the entire Ming Dynasty agrees with." We can't go against all the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Liu is right, our attitude is not to directly oppose it.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has strong economic strength, Dashun has strong national strength and Manchu military strength, but this year is not necessarily, the Ming Dynasty is stagnant, it is difficult to reform, and there will be no obvious progress in strength, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is limited by the overall national strength, and can not maintain the advantage of military strength.

The strategy of uniting with the Kou is one of the ways we manipulate the balance of power on the mainland. ”

Chen Liuzi smiled and said, "What about the policy? ”

Li Zhaoji said: "First of all, everyone should know that the water token is not an unrestricted pass, it only has a one-year period, and the departure and destination of the ship will be written on it, and we will not issue a water token from Daming to Liaodong."

So from this point of view, as long as we want to punish, there must be a reason.

Secondly, there is our policy, and I think that the exchange of personnel and letters between the Manchus and the Ming is acceptable, but not material and military. All the deficiencies of the Manchu Qing can be made up by the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides can unite, but whether they want to complement each other or not is under our control.

Another thing we know is that we can't cut off the exchanges between the two sides, especially since the Manchu Qing has already sent troops to the DPRK, and Xian now, when they control the DPRK and Xian coastline, there are too many and too wide channels of communication.

Therefore, we need to establish a diplomatic ship system, giving both the Ming and Dashun sides a special diplomatic token, and the ships with the diplomatic token have special privileges.

Their personnel will not be seized and their personal belongings will not be inspected, but in the case of smuggled goods, it is a different matter. ”

Liu Mingde immediately quickly recorded these and said, "I will explain these to Mr. Zhao, but it is better not to put them into words." ”

"Of course, it's better not to make it public." Li Zhaoji said with a smile.

Seeing that Liu Mingde had nothing else to do, Li Zhaoji said: "One more thing is to send troops to Qiongzhou Mansion, and the matter of Guangdong has generally been decided."

Chen Zizhuang would go to Nanking to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the governor of Liangguang would be succeeded by Qian Qianyi's student Qu Shiyun, a difficult person to deal with, but we didn't need to worry too much, and our Cantonese friends were going toe-to-toe with him.

The prefect of Qiongzhou was succeeded by Ma Weizhi, who was the son-in-law of Huang Guanlou and served as the prefect of Fengxiang in Shaanxi.

Dashun hit Fengxiang, Ma Xunzhi surrendered, and with our help, returned to Daming. Of course, Ma Yunzhi's surrender to Dashun was hidden, and in the public news, he left with a seal. The appointment of such a person as the prefect of Qiongzhou is beneficial to us.

It's just that there is bad news that Cao Junfu was appointed as a general of Qiongya, and he is Shen Youlong's henchman. Fortunately, he has not yet arrived and is still on the way, and Ma Weizhi has already arrived in Guangdong. Therefore we need to send troops at once. ”

Cao Junfu was originally only a hundred households in the Qiongzhou Guard, when the Guangdong Army was established, he was transferred into the new army, served as the commander of Qian, in charge of a battalion, and has been serving under Shen Youlong, although he is not outstanding in battle, but he is also loyal and commendable, and he is a qualified officer.

This time as a general of Qiongya, Shen Youlong only asked him to bring about 20 personal soldiers back to Qiongzhou, and he did not give enough military salaries, and played more of a supervisory role.

"The army is being reformed, several standing battalions have just completed the expansion, and the new queue formation has not yet been trained, can it be a month late?" Yang Yandi asked.

Li Zhaoji shook his head: "What about the navy? ”

"The situation of the Marine Corps and the Army is about the same, and it has not yet reached operational status." Chen Liuzi said.

Li Zhaoji immediately said: "It is enough for the army and the marine corps to send one infantry battalion each, plus the guards troops, to send troops to Qiongzhou." Liu Shun is in charge of the command of this campaign, Ah Shun, after the meeting is dismissed, you immediately prepare to send troops, and you will board the ship within three days. ”

"Isn't it too rushed?" Liu Mingde immediately asked.

After Liu Li's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the trading company was already a little prejudiced against Liu Shun, and this time the army came from a complicated source, and it had just undergone reform, Liu Mingde was worried that his nephew would encounter setbacks and ruin his future.

Li Zhaoji said: "I can't wait to transfer the troops to Qiongzhou now. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why there is such urgency is that if our army does not appear in Qiongzhou at once, the battle there will be over. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

Qiongzhou's Li riots, chaos throughout the Ming Dynasty, but also let the Ming summed up a very skilled strategy for leveling Li, this time the Li people riots, chaos and history is not much different, that is, Shu Li and Sheng Li united, besieged the inland Ding'an County.

The local Ming officials immediately began to quell the rebellion and appease, and united with the local officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty to carry out the operation.

If it weren't for the establishment of the Guangdong Army and the transfer of the elite of military institutions such as the Qiongzhou Guard, Pingli might have been completed by now. It was Ma Weizhi's quick arrival that restrained the Ming army, which slowed down the process of counterinsurgency and gave the troops of the Oriental Trading Company a chance to enter.

Although Li Zhaoji did not mean to let his army confront the Ming army, the army was in Qiongzhou, and it would be more convenient to explore and develop iron ore in Hainan after that.

Anyway, the army is all about training, and where to train is not training?

"Lao Liu, you find a suitable time, go to Hong Kong, and talk to our friends in Guangdong, it is not a bad thing to find a few more partners in trade. There is also the development of iron ore in Qiongzhou, and it is necessary to pull a group of people. The last thing is to make it clear to them what the Oriental Bank is going to establish.

Our banks do not accept shares for the time being, but they can accept deposits, and they all have priority. Li Zhaoji said to Liu Mingde.

Liu Mingde nodded: "Okay, I'll arrange a time and go as soon as possible." ”

"Is there anything else you guys are up to?" Li Zhaoji asked again.

Everyone looked at it, they all shook their heads, and handed in the materials just distributed, preparing to leave, although Yang Yandi also handed in, but interrupted everyone's departure, and said: "Zheng Cai's subordinates spread a lot of rumors in Tamsui, causing quite turmoil in the army in the city.

Now that the army is being reduced again, I don't know if the big treasurer can give a clear word, and I can explain it to the people below. ”

Li Zhaoji said unceremoniously: "You don't need to explain to your subordinates, that's not something they can know."

You tell them to do their part, and if anyone has to give an explanation, let him come directly to me, that's fine. ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhaoji looked at Zhao Changshui and asked, "Did Zheng Cai's subordinates catch it?" ”

"Caught, those people ran to Dayuangang, but they defected to Guo Huaiyi." Zhao Changshui couldn't help laughing and said.

Guo Huaiyi is a Chinese representative in the Dayuan area, one of the eighteen Zhizhi that year, Zheng Cai's subordinates spread rumors in Tamsui to defect to Guo Huaiyi, which is right, but Zheng Cai didn't know that Guo Huaiyi had been with the business society for many years, and his illegitimate son Guo Xu was an important member of the business company, and Guo Huaiyi would not shelter them at all.

"Okay, take these people to the gate of Tamsui City, and show them to the public....... One month! Li Zhaoji said.

Zheng Cai had already arrived in Japan, and as Li Zhaoji had guessed in the South Seas, the Japanese Edo shogunate, which was eager to build a maritime power, received him and gave Zheng Cai a position to be held in the Seto Inland Sea. He stationed his fleet in the area around Shimonoseki while taking care of the Seto Inland Sea and the Tsushima Strait.

Of course, he was mainly responsible for the defense of the Seto Inland Sea, because Zheng Tingqiu had his back to the Ryukyus, and gradually became bigger by plundering the Japanese coast, and Zheng Cai's arrival was just right to protect the Japanese coast.

It's just that Zheng Cai is still a restless master. After settling in Japan, he immediately sent a few people, saying that they wanted to use the Zheng family's sea trade account book to trade 600,000 taels of silver from Li Zhaoji. Li Zhaoji knew the importance of that account book, and also thought that the price of 600,000 taels was reasonable, but he didn't need to buy it from Zheng Cai for the time being.

When Zheng Cai learned about it, he immediately ordered his subordinates to spread rumors in Tamsui, saying that Li Zhaoji was on Kinmen Island and had obtained the wealth accumulated by the Zheng family for 20 years, more than 10 million taels. If it was just such an empty sentence, maybe others would not believe it, but when the two sides discussed the account books, Li Zhaoji once bargained, but even the lowest price was not lower than 400,000 taels.

An account book is worth hundreds of thousands of taels, and it seems logical that the Zheng family has accumulated tens of millions of dollars.

Originally, because of the reform, some people in the trading company were dissatisfied, especially in the army, and when they heard this rumor, they became noisy, and they thought that even if there were not so many, there would be no less, and there was no need to reduce the army.

Li Zhaoji simply ignored the voices of these people, and the noise of some middle-level officers would not affect his strategy, but Yang Yandi put pressure in public at such an important meeting, which made Li Zhaoji feel unhappy, and killing the people who created rumors first was a reminder to him, if he couldn't control those officers, Li Zhaoji didn't mind using some tough means.

"By the way, tell the people below that the account book in Zheng Cai's hand is worth one million." Lee added.

Hangzhou, canal.

In March, Hangzhou is already full of spring, and the warm sea breeze blows through this rich land, so that the air is mixed with the aroma of many fat powders.

There is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, no matter how tragic the war in the east is, at least in this southeast corner, it is still a rich and beautiful scene.

On both sides of the canal are wine shops and teahouses, where the rich and eunuchs gather, and the pleasure boats on the canal, private and comfortable, only the most knowledgeable and wealthy people have this kind of enjoyment.

The Shenbi is a well-known pleasure boat in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, this cruise boat has gorgeous decoration and fast speed, and its owner is famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is the rich businessman Cheng Bi.

Cheng Bi is a well-known wealthy businessman, not only rich, but also quite famous, and is the guest of honor of today's first assistant Shen Youlong.

When Shen Youlong led the Yue army north to King Qin, Cheng Bi directly donated 100,000 taels of silver, and when Shen Youlong supported King Lifu to land in Songjiang, Cheng Bi donated another 100,000 taels.

After the rise of the Oriental Trading Company, he was the first to cooperate with it, purchasing modified sand ships at the Tamsui Shipyard, circumnavigating Jeju, Japan, and Ryukyu, avoiding the Zheng family in Fujian, and trading with Tamsui.

The ship is a rich atmosphere, Wu Nong's soft words, fat powder and wine, the ship is full of rich and noble people, between the staggered plans, suddenly the hull of the Shenbi shook slightly, and there was a crash outside, and someone fell to the ground.

Cheng Bi smiled faintly and asked, "But Mr. Wen Bailing has arrived?" ”

"It's the old man." There was a hearty male voice outside, but it was unceremoniously: "You boat, the old man won't get on it, come out and talk." ”

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