After Guo Fanzi and Zhendaohu exchanged glances, it was Zhendaohu who took the lead and said: "This is indeed the case, it is just a general election within the gang, only the elders have the right to elect the leader, and we and other officials can only obey orders." ”

Kou Li smiled faintly, this is talking nonsense with his eyes open, these two, one controls the nine overseas islands of the Water Dragon Gang, and there are countless gangs, and the other is responsible for controlling and contacting the pirate forces directly belonging to the Water Dragon Gang, if they don't have power, who dares to say that they have this power.

"But I heard that Lu Longtou of your gang has some thoughts of inheriting his father's business. ”

Guo Fanzi pursed his lips, "That little wolf Lu-"

"Naturally, the wolf boy was also selected. Zhendao Tiger said cautiously.

Kou Li naturally didn't really care about the bullshit in the Water Dragon Gang, he just started talking and said: "Who the future leader is, no one can say, but I think the two of you will always have to leave a way back for themselves, whether the two of them are elected or not, and cooperate with the princess, it will definitely be a profit and not a loss." ”

"There's no need to recruit An," Guo Fanzi said flatly.

"Of course, it is not Zhao'an, after the thoroughfare of the six provinces, foreign trade will be carried out by designated large merchants and commercial banks, and the same is true of commercial tax, which is mainly because the southeast tax has been levied for more than ten years because of the suppression of sea disasters, and the people are poor, in short, this is a means of raising taxes. ”

Kou Li paused and said: "In addition, a considerable number of officials in the imperial court have proposed disarmament in the southeast, and raising hundreds of thousands of officials and soldiers in just a few provinces is like sticking a nail in the heart of the emperor's old son, and no one is happy. ”

"In this context, it is too difficult for the Water Dragon Gang, a provincial gang, to survive, the Chamber of Commerce, local officials, local officers and soldiers, all want to cut your wool, whether it is Lu Longtou or the two, you should have a deep understanding. ”

Zhendao Hu nodded thoughtfully, and said: "In the past, doing business, relying on the reputation of black and white, basically people arrived at the goods, but now it is not good, the pirates who dare to enter the inland have been killed by the surname Hong, once the goods are transported from other places, the official face is slaughtered, and the local government has to send people up and down to fight the point, which is already cut half of the profits, plus the big chambers of commerce and big compradors with public backgrounds to grab food, you can't really sink their ships, and several sea lines are squeezed very much." ”

"So I said it a long time ago, Old Ghost Lu is wishful thinking, so much white silver, you are really whitewashed, just wait to be slaughtered, an old criminal minister, still thinking about going back, his brain is broken!" Guo Fanzi also couldn't help but complain.

Kou Li nodded, the real rivers and lakes, there are no famous factions who don't eat fireworks, only boxers who rely on silver to eat, the essence of the Water Dragon Gang, in fact, is a large maritime trade interest group that started with a chaotic market environment, and now that the imperial court has begun to control it, all kinds of commercial original sins have come out.

Therefore, going south and going north, pointing to the core, is actually the transformation of enterprises.

Kou Li is standing on the shoulders of giants to see the problem, and Huang Gongzi is understanding the first-hand policies of the imperial court, and when the two are combined, many different things can be obtained.

The imperial court wanted to lose the big financial burden of the southeast, the local officers and soldiers led by the Hong Jiajun did not want their rights to be reduced, the Japanese slave countries wanted to resume maritime trade, Zhu Baozai wanted to protect his family and his life, the Water Dragon Gang wanted to transform, and the real power factions in the gang such as Zhendao Tiger and Rouge Tiger did not want their authority to be taken away.

In fact, everything, in the final analysis, is also a good word.

That being the case, there is room to maneuver.

"The two probably don't know, Princess Feng, as a three-rank envoy, has already asked the imperial court that once the local officers and soldiers are cut, the coastal defense will inevitably be insufficient, please set up another armed merchant under the Tongqu Commercial Bank, and the contractor ship is safe and Jinghai Qingping, but if you encounter pirates, you can be ordered to cut them down, or ask the official weapons for use, or ask the official ships to escort the coastal supplies, and fight the thieves, the government will reward them without punishment, and please protect the righteous people for the officials. ”

"There's a ghost here, which ship can be a pirate's opponent—" The fish-headed wolf muttered, but Zhendao Tiger heard something, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and even his hands trembled.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, if we join that armed merchant company, except for the merchants designated by the country, we can fight whoever we want, and whoever we beat is a pirate, and the government will help us. ”

"Moreover, the materials of the pirate ship are stolen money, and the percentage will be used to reward the righteous people," Kou Li paused: "Although the Central Plains is large, the vast sea is hundreds of times larger than the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, and the island countries are endless, like the territory of the Central Plains, it may not be nothing, such a heaven and earth, is it not enough for the two of them?"

The fish-headed wolf seemed to understand, and his mind was full of question marks, "Why does this sound so fucking weird, we went from being suppressed by the official army, and then-we became the official army?"

The corners of Kou Li's mouth raised slightly, this method has never appeared in the Central Plains, but in the West of the last world, it has been influenced for almost a century, and this method has a resounding name - privateer licenses, and these merchants and righteous people have another name, 'legal pirates' and 'royal pirates'.

The Central Plains Dynasty, no, it should be all continental regimes, and its overseas policies are simple and crude, nothing more than the words 'suppression' and 'fu', but whether it is suppressed or appeased, it will increase the heavy burden of human and financial resources on the imperial court.

In fact, this is a common problem of the great dynasties, which never want to rely on external forces, and only in the fiercely competitive island environment, those in power will choose this kind of 'compromise' means.

Driven by profit, pirates become navigators, then colonists, and then, the prologue of an era.

Of course, this is too far for the wolf and tiger in front of him, and there are too many uncertainties, but even now, a large enough fragrant dumpling has been drawn, enough for these two guys to salivate.

Without it, this is too consistent with their plan based on overseas, just like the first time to go to the green house, before you can figure out the way, you are suddenly told that you are eyed by the Oiran and ask you to go to bed to enjoy the flowers.

This prospect is exciting enough for them to shout 'wow', and their bodies are full of blood.

After a long time, Zhendao Tiger stopped his fantasy, took a few deep breaths, and said in a condensed voice: "This kind of big thing won't be as simple as you said." ”

"Of course not, there are indeed a lot of troubles, first, you have become good citizens from bandits, local officials are naturally unwilling to let go of the ducks in their mouths, and the two, the big chambers of commerce and the big businessmen are also unwilling, because if you do this, it is possible to cut off their financial routes, and it is inevitable to make bad secretly, third, all dynasties and dynasties, there is no such old precedent and ancient law to follow, and there is no old law, for some people, it is a big forgiveness, the Qing officials in the court and the imperial history must be refuted in a book, and the court has always been based on education, which is not a moral policy, but an evil thing. ”

"Fourth, and most importantly, the Central Plains has always boasted of being the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, taking the four seas as its home, and all the countries coming to the court as its great rule. ”

"This group of hateful old thieves has ruined our great good deeds for nothing," the fish-headed wolf gritted his teeth and hammered his legs, as if he had completely brought it in.

"Boss, you said so much, you don't just want to tell us an impossible result," Zhendao Tiger said immediately, and he couldn't help but have a hint of anxiety in his tone.

"Heaven and earth are all working together, and heroes are not free. Kou Li took a deep breath and said, "Normally, the imperial court would never do this, but just in time for you, now is the best time. ”

"First, the imperial court urgently needs to deal with the taxes in the southeast, and the national policy must have the right to change urgently, which was impossible before, and may not be impossible now. ”

"Second, if it is disarmed, there will be a loss of local military strength, but if this policy is implemented, some of the officers and soldiers will be supported by the commercial department, and the local officers and soldiers may be happy to see this. ”

"The third point, if you want to promote this policy, there must be a large enough person in the court to promote, don't forget, what is behind Princess Feng, it is the royal family, it is a relative, it is the one on the dragon chair, as long as you can plunder enough property, and then dredge it by the princess, they will become your biggest court force, the real master of the world, in the end, is not the surface of the civil and military officials. ”

"The emperor is also short of money?" Guo Fanzi said incredibly, perhaps in the minds of all the ancients, the emperor was high and rich.

"That one sits on the world and has everything, but how do you know how many sons he has in the treasury and how many sons he has in his private treasury," Kou Li said sarcastically, and after reading more books, he understood that many emperors in history died of poverty.

And since ancient times, there have been many emperors who have forbidden the sea, and there seem to be few emperors who have opened the sea, and his greatest confidence in this policy is the Ninety-Five Supreme in the court, and that one's mind may be able to tolerate this kind of flexibility.

At least, he felt that what the other party did was to have more inside than face.

"You also said that once our behavior becomes big and robs the small country, the imperial court may re-ban the sea?"

"You have been in Guangdong for so many years, don't you know that the main force of this southeast sea disaster is the swordsmen of the Japanese slave country, or the pirates of the country, or the big merchants on the southeast coast behind the pirates," Kou Li said meaningfully: "Of course, the people of the Central Plains cannot invade the small country of Fanbang for no reason, but the actions of the Japanese slave country are none of our business." ”

"We not only have Princess Feng, but we also have Princess Sakura. ”

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Half an hour later, Kou Li returned to his ship, and the two ships drifted apart.

"Done?" Huang Gongzi had already dozed off.

Kou Li pursed his lips and said, "It's not easy to fool two big characters and not know one of them." ”

Sometimes, Zui Dun can indeed beat thousands of troops, and that great foundation did not start by fooling.