"To the New World?"

As soon as he heard that Ezo Island was a springboard to the New World, Yang Qilong, who had little interest, suddenly gained momentum.

In addition to being a warlord and a relative of the imperial family, he also has a part-time job, that is, to be a big banker!

Since the fall of Fuquan, he has "inherited" Fuquan's share in Credit Suisse Hall - the eldest brother inherited his brother-in-law's estate, is there anything wrong with this? And because he is also the eldest brother of the Ming Emperor and the eldest brother of the Ming General, the Ruixin Hall under his name can naturally return to the Ming market.

In addition, although there is no sister-in-law on the side of the Great Zhou, the imperial court of the Great Zhou also has a great need for financing, so Credit Suisse Hall is also very welcome to enter the Great Zhou to open business.

After receiving the support of the three imperial courts, the trade of Credit Suisse Hall was once again supported. Now it is listed as one of the four major silver numbers in the world along with UBS Hall, Zhongshan Hall and Nanyang Hall.

And Yang Qilong, one of the big bankers of the "Big Four", of course, knows that most of the gold and silver collected in the New World originate in the New World, and although this bank is quite money-making, it seems to be slow compared with going directly to the New World to rob, no, to dig up money.

Thinking of this, Yang Qilong asked Li Zhongshan with a smile: "Shikai, can you let the lower officials know about this waterway to the New World?" ”

It's a secret!

Li Zhongshan also wanted to sell Guanzi to see if he could exchange some other benefits from Yang Qilong. Zhu Cijiong, the "debt sect" of the Ming Dynasty, interjected: "Shikai, tell Uncle Guo, Uncle Guo is his own person!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes," Yang Qilong said with a smile, "Shikai, we have been good brothers for many years!" ”

It's my own person again, and I'm a good brother. Sounds so reliable!

Li Zhongshan glanced at Emperor Zhu, and then said to Yang Qilong: "Third Brother Yang, we are indeed our own people, and the New World is big enough, enough for us to enclose a large piece of territory there!" ”

"That's it!" Yang Qilong smiled, "Shikai, you circle first, I'll take some of the rest of your circle!" ”

It's a very nice thing to say, but the matter of enclosure in the New World is not as simple as drawing a few lines on the map, you have to be able to occupy it! Otherwise, the New World would now be under the control of Spain and Portugal, and there would be no territory of France, England, and the Netherlands. After all, a Roman pope had divided the territory of the New World between them and the two on behalf of God.

"Alright then!" Li Zhongshan thought for a moment and said with a smile, "But I don't have any charts at hand. The chart was in the hands of King Zheng Yi. But don't worry, when your people take down Ezo Island, I will definitely give you the charts to come over. But Zheng Yiwang is not a loss-making business, and when the time comes, you will have to give Zheng Yiwang a whole harbor on Ezo Island, and you will have to leave a piece of land for him to build a castle and reclaim the wasteland! ”

Of course, Li Zhongshan has a chart in his hand, but he can't hand it over to Yang Qilong now. Although Yang Qilong does not have a "sea overlord" like Zheng Jing on hand, he still has a Shi Lang in his hand. Maybe I won't hit Ezo Island, but "wave" across the Pacific Ocean to the New World.

In addition, Yang Qilong may also monopolize Ezo Island as a special springboard for himself to cross the Pacific Ocean!

Moreover, Yang Qilong can also get the Saurons, Balhu and Mongols who are very suitable for operating in the mountains and grasslands of North America, these people are not good at construction, but their ability to enclose land is far greater than that of the Han people. If there are 10,000 or 20,000 households following Shi Lang's "waves", won't the west coast of "America" and "Canada" all have to become "Sui Lijian"?

Yang Qilong knew that Li Zhongshan would not hand over the chart until the "North Koreans" conquered Ezo Island.

Therefore, he did not continue to entangle with Li Yat-sen on the issue of nautical charts, but changed the topic and said: "Shikai, I have just received the news that the combined forces of the Great Qing, Great Zhou, and Dzungar have won a complete victory at Khujand in the Mughal region, and have destroyed the 50,000 combined forces of Persia-Bukhara-Khiva. And it was destroyed in front of Akbataiji, the son of Aurangzeb Khan of the Timurid Khanate of India! ”

Li Zhongshan laughed: "What? Aurangzeb turned into sweat? His son has also become Taiji? ”

"Hehe," Yang Qilong nodded, "I don't know what they were before, I only know that after the Battle of Khujand, that Aurangzeb was Khan, and his sons were all Taiji." It seems that the Mongolian trading company has entered India for the most part! However, "

This time, it was Yang Qilong's turn to sell off.

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Third Brother Yang, what is the difference between North Korea and the Japanese this time?" Do you want to buy some old lock boats, muskets, and artillery from Daming? We are our own people, and the price is easy to say. ”

Yang Qilong said with a smile: "Shi Junmen really wants to buy ten and eight old lock boats, it is best to be equipped with artillery, as for muskets, ordinary arquebuses can also be built in North Korea, but flintlock pistols cannot be built, if you can buy five thousand, you can be sure of fighting the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan." ”

"Okay!" Li Zhongshan nodded, "I'll buy a permit for you when I go back!" ”

Now the Ming General's Mansion and Shangshu Province are becoming more and more powerful in their control over the locality! The old lock boats and the flintlock pistols with a quantity of up to 5,000 were not possible to buy from the Ming Dynasty without the permission of the General's Mansion!

After getting Li Zhongshan's promise, Yang Qilong stopped selling Guanzi, and said to Li Zhongshan in a low voice: "General, the news I got from my sister that Kangxi became famous in Mughul, India, and Persia after his great victory in Khujand, and even Europe knows how powerful he is." The envoys of Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal all arrived at Mughal via the Ottoman Empire, and it is said that they all wanted to form an alliance with Kangxi against the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Oh" Li Zhongshan nodded, thinking: It's interesting, is this going to fight a world war? Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Qing Dynasty, and the Great Zhou guys, who is the Ming allied with? The enemies of Spain and the Netherlands wouldn't be the Sun King Louis XIV and a Rakshasa Great Peter, right? Isn't that a bit of a bully? But now the United States has no country!

Alas, invincible is really lonely!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan asked Yang Qilong with a smile: "Third Brother Yang, if we fight with the Great Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou, who will you help?" ”

Help whom? Yang Qilong said in his heart: Of course I helped Xiaomi.

"I'm not going to help anyone!" Yang Qilong said, "Shikai, it's not that I don't help Daming, but the Guozuo of the Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty is really not so easy to get to the end now." Even if they can't hold the territory of the Central Plains and shrink to the grasslands and the Western Regions, they can still sustain it. Therefore, it is better for North Korea not to participate in it, and maybe there is a chance that it can be a peacemaker. And my Credit Suisse Hall is bought and sold in Daming, Dazhou, and Daqing! ”

Li Zhongshan nodded with a smile and said, "It's not impossible for the third brother to want to be neutral, but. The third brother has to do me a favor. ”

"What help?" Yang Qilong smiled, "It's useful to have Yang's words!" ”

"Happy!" Li Zhongshan smiled, "Then I can say it!" ”

"Say it! As long as Yang can do it. ”

"I want to exchange letters with Xiao Mi!"

"What?" Yang Qilong was stunned, "Xiao Mi is now the queen of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"What's wrong with the Queen?" Li Zhongshan said lightly, "Sooner or later, I will turn her into the queen mother of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"You want to."

Li Zhongshan said: "Kangxi must die!" ”

Kangxi is Li Zhongshan's enemy!

In another timeline, Li Fuchen, Li Jizhen, Wu Xiaosuo, as well as Li Zhongshan himself, and possibly Yang Xiaohuan, will all die because of Kangxi!

This is the revenge of destroying the family and destroying the family!

How can such a big revenge not be avenged?

And Kangxi is still the mortal enemy of Yang Qilong and Zhu Cijiong!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan looked at Zhu Cijiong and Yang Qilong again.

Zhu Cijiong nodded, "Yes!" What the general said is extremely true, Kangxi is the most evil, and not dying is not enough to anger the people! ”

There were at least a dozen "Zhu Cijiong" who died tragically during the Kangxi period! This revenge Zhu Cijiong has to be avenged, and if he doesn't report it, he will treat more than a dozen "himself" who don't die!

Yang Qilong also nodded: "That's right. Kangxi, this thief, can't stay! ”

He didn't want to avenge his other self, but he wanted to avenge Fuquan! And Kangxi is not dead, how can Yang Xiaomi be the queen mother? Yang Xiaomi is not the queen mother, how can he, the Duke of Sui, progress?

"Then the correspondence between me and Xiaomi"

Yang Qilong nodded, "Okay, wrap it up on me!" ”

Yang Qilong left Nanjing with Li Zhongshan's first handwritten letter to Yang Xiaomi, and the day after he went north to Kaiping Mansion, Li Zhongshan invited Chen Yonghua, the left minister of Shangshu, Lu Sanhao, and Zhu Shunshui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to his general's mansion. Then an astonishing news was announced to them - the Kingdom of Korea was preparing for an invasion of Japan!

"North Korea invaded Japan? How is this possible? Zhu Shunshui and Old Man Zhu were the first to express their disbelief, "How can Korea have the national strength to attack Japan?" Even if they reluctantly send troops, nothing good will come of it. General, don't look at the Japanese country for many years, but they are samurai, and the officials are all samurai, and the strength of the force is by no means comparable to that of Korea! So let's advise General Zhendong. ”

Li Zhongshan waved his hand and said: "Shibei for three days, when you look at each other, let alone the country?" Before Yang Qilong took charge of the country, Korea was indeed weak and tired, and it was impossible to invade Japan. However, after the Yang family took power, he swept away the past maladministration, reorganized the army, trained sailors, built warships, built guns and cannons, and the national strength and military strength were thousands of miles away, which was by no means comparable to the weak Han in the past! Mr. Shunshui, don't forget, Yang Qilong is one servant and two masters, he is not only the general of Zhendong of my Ming Dynasty, but also the Korean supervisor of the Qing Dynasty, and the elder brother of Empress Yang of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the local Korean army, he also has Shi Lang's sailors, Zhili's regimental training, as well as the Saurons and Balhu people from Heilongjiang, the Portuguese captured in Macao, and possibly the Mongolian cavalry recruited from the eastern steppe, the strength is not weak at all! ”

Chen Yonghua also followed the help, nodded again and again: "Yang Qilong is rich, if you have money, you can hire soldiers!"

The silver that Fu Quan worked so hard to get fell into Yang Qilong's pocket, and his Credit Suixin Hall was the only silver number that could be traded in the Ming Dynasty, the Great Zhou, and the Qing Dynasty, and only the Credit Suixin Hall could do the exchange of silver money between the three kingdoms. In addition, Korean ginseng, Dongzhu and furs from Changbai Mountain and Xing'an Mountains are also cash cows in his hands. ”

Lu Sanhao added: "Why is he rich? He can also hire cheap and capable soldiers. How expensive can a savage girl be between the white mountains and black waters? How much can a herder in host Mongolia cost? Even the labor in North Korea is very cheap!

In North Korea, even if you are a first-class person, you will get 14 stones of rice, 48 stones of brown rice, 2 stones of field rice, 23 stones of soybeans, and 4 horses of silk and 15 pieces of cotton cloth in a year. This is a big deal! are all officials as big as me, Fufu and the general, so these two money. It is conceivable what the suffering of the soldiers below becomes.

Therefore, in the past, the North Korean soldiers could not fight, but they were not well fed and clothed, and they were not worth dying for that money. If Yang Qilong gave his Korean soldiers a year's salary of 120 stone rice, it is difficult to say whether these Korean soldiers would work hard.

In addition, the population of North Korea is not quite large, at least eight or nine million! So many people, organize an army of 100,000 to invade Japan, and be hated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi almost during the Wanli period, it's okay! ”

The poverty of this Korean country is also the best in East Asia!

Not only are the people of North Korea poor, but even the king and officials of North Korea are poor.

The palace of the king of Korea was burned down when the Japanese invaded, and the main palace Gyeongbokgung Palace had no money to rebuild it, and the history was delayed until the father-in-law of Princess Mingcheng, Xingxuan Dayuanjun, was in power, and it was considered to have saved enough money to repair it, and the Japanese devils came again a few years later, and then North Korea was gone!

Because there is no money to repair the palace, so the king of Joseon for two hundred decades (a difference of a few years is three hundred years) first "borrowed a house to live", lived in the private residence of the Maharaja of Wolsan, and then finally saved some money The original palace Changdeok Palace was repaired so-so, repaired and burned again, and then continued to save money for almost 30 years before there was money to rebuild, but the money was still not enough, in order to save a little money, and demolished many buildings in another small palace called Inqing Palace, and used the materials to repair Changdeok Palace.

This ordinary person has a lot of money to save for 30 years to buy a house, and when the king saves 30 years of money to repair a house, North Korea is probably the only one. Moreover, this Joseon king was only the county king of the Ming Dynasty, and his house was only equivalent to the county king's mansion of the Ming Dynasty. As long as you build one according to the Forbidden City, I don't know how many years you have to save?

The kings were poor, and the salaries of the hundred officials were of course even lower, and the first rank was only eighty-seven stones, all kinds of grain, and nineteen pieces of cloth. In the Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou, the youngest from the Nine Rank Officials also had more than 30 taels of silver and more than 30 stone meters. And the official salary of the Ming Dynasty is more than twice as high as that of the Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou, and the annual salary from the ninth grade is eighty taels of silver and forty stone rice!

Moreover, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Dynasty have more or less extra oil and water. And because the industry and commerce in the DPRK are very underdeveloped, the officials of the DPRK have few opportunities to make money, not to mention the breeze on their sleeves, there is no money to go.

Those who are officials have no money, and those who are soldiers are even poorer, I am afraid that they will not have enough to eat, and there may not be many opportunities for part-time jobs.

What kind of combat effectiveness can this kind of poor officer and hungry soldier have? It's normal to not be able to beat the Japanese samurai.

But Yang Qilong is rich!

If he really wants to start a war of aggression against Japan in Korea, take out some of it and give the Korean soldiers a monthly salary of one or two silver, you see if they are willing to sell their lives!

Listening to Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao's flickering, Zhu Shunshui was also a little convinced, touched his white beard and said: "It seems that North Korea is really likely to fight the Japanese general, so what should we do?" Is it to persuade Yang Zhendong to give up the invasion? ”

"Persuade what?" Li Zhongshan said, "Korea and Japan are feuds, and there will be a war between the two countries. Unless Japan can face up to history, apologize to the Korean monarchs and people, and compensate for the damages, it will be possible to gain the understanding of the Koreans. Otherwise, with the common hatred of the Korean country today, a major war is inevitable! ”

"Facing history? Apology? And compensation." Zhu Shunshui shook his head, "Impossible, the Japanese don't want to." ”

"Won't?" Li Zhongshan smiled coldly, "Then you can only wait to be beaten by the North Koreans!" ”

Chen Yonghua also nodded and said: "If the Japanese refuse to apologize and compensate for their losses, then they deserve to be beaten, even if we have the heart to make peace, there is no reason to say it!" ”

Lu Sanhao also meant this, and said with a face of righteous indignation: "Japan killed so many people in Korea back then, and robbed and destroyed so many property, even if it is to compensate tens of millions of taels of silver!" If they refuse to compensate, then we really don't have anything to say. ”

Li Yat-sen said to Zhu Shunshui: "Mr. Shunshui, you are quite familiar with the big names of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan, right?" ”

"I know a few." Zhu Shunshui didn't dare to say how familiar he was with the big devils of Japan, so he could only deal with it vaguely - this is because the Ming Dynasty and Japan have not been able to establish formal diplomatic relations until now.

This Japanese country is quite disgusted with an oriental world system with the Ming Dynasty as the core!

Although the Japanese civilization is a secondary civilization of the Chinese civilization, it is completely rebellious! As early as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, because Japan did not want to become a member of the East Asian world, it adopted a policy of closing the country to the outside world - the history of the Japanese people who closed off the country is much longer than China!

And their seclusion is mainly aimed at China, even if it is the good-tempered Great Song Dynasty, the Japanese don't like to deal with it, let alone the short-tempered Ming? And now the new Ming is a strong ship, and it looks very difficult to mess with!

Therefore, after the group of veterans of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan deliberated, they still decided to maintain the lockdown order and resolutely not to develop formal diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

As a "friendly Japanese element", Zhu Shunshui really wanted to promote friendship between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, but Japan's thousand-year-old national policy was to "Absolute China", and even if Tokugawa Ietsuna intended to develop friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty, he could do nothing.

Li Zhongshan understood Zhu Shunshui's situation, so he said to him with a smile: "Then you can go to Japan in the name of visiting friends to talk to the Japanese, if they are willing to apologize, compensate, and reflect, then General Ben can come forward to mediate." Otherwise, the Ming would have remained neutral in the war between Japan and Korea. ”

(End of chapter)