Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 513

At the same time, Zhao Xin, who returned to the cabin, brushed his teeth while recalling the "story" told by Ye Zhanrong.

The style of that phoenix hairpin is fine, and the workmanship is not imitated by ordinary craftsmen.When he and Shen Xuan were married before accepting Zheng, he checked the accessories of the princess of the Ming Dynasty.Director Liu once asked someone to order it, but the result was far worse than the real thing.

So the question now is, what exactly does Ye Zhanrong want to do?
Deng Fei told him that Ye Zhanrong wanted to avenge his eldest son's family.and then?The longer he stayed in the eighteenth century, the less Zhao Xin dared to underestimate the ancients.Putting aside the difference in knowledge, no one is better than the other when it comes to fighting mind, eye and cleverness.

Zhao Xin still doesn't know how He Shen recognized him during the negotiation at Chaoyin Temple last year.Jiang Fan later said that he has a domineering aura in his body, and he stands out naturally in the crowd, which is different from ordinary people.

The tortoise exudes a bastard!In terms of domineering, Liu Sheng from Beihai Town said he was ranked second, and no one dared to say he was number one.

In fact, in the past six years, every time he led his troops to win a battle, Zhao Xin would also feel ecstatic, and his inner desire would inflate more and more each time.However, when he returned to another time and space, the modern environment kept reminding him that he was just an ordinary person with some luck, saying that he was lonely and had no friends.

Ye Zhanrong is a businessman, and like Shen Jingdan, maximizing profit is the motivation for them to abandon their family and business and take risks.Twenty fishing boats were collected from Hoi An. Such a big movement corresponds to the boats used by the Northern Navy to attack Hue.

After brushing his teeth, Zhao Xin lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. Now he assumes that he is really the last Queen Zhao, so what should he do after learning about the friendship between Ye Jiazu and Princess Zhao?
The gold hairpin is not a jade certificate, it is useless to prove the identity, the so-called jade certificate is actually a family tree.For someone with ambitions to become an emperor, Fengzan can be regarded as circumstantial evidence; but for Zhao Xin, Ye Zhanrong, an old and cunning fellow, has made a wrong calculation.

Almost for a moment, Zhao Xin even had the idea of ​​"killing people to silence them".But then he found it ridiculous again, this is no longer a cover-up, there is no impenetrable wall in the world.Since when did I start to regard human life as worthless?

Forget it, let him go.Before entering the customs, the system of Beihai Town needs to be clarified, and it can no longer be misunderstood under the banner of the former Ming Dynasty.

While thinking wildly, Zhao Xin fell into a drowsy sleep.

After waking up and having breakfast the next day, Zhao Xin called a meeting with Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang and Hong Tao to discuss the next strategy for Annan.

Zhao Xinyi came up and first proposed a solution to get back Tong Deng and Lang Son, and then said what he knew about Ruan Fuying, and the other three agreed.

Specifically, on the condition of assisting Guangnan Ruan Fuying to conquer Binh Thuan and Quy Nhon, Beihai Town was asked to recruit troops in Hoi An, and the source of troops was found from the group of Mingxiang Society.In fact, the Binh Thuan and Quy Nhon areas are not currently under the control of Nguyen Quang Binh, but are managed by his elder brother Nguyen Van Nhat.The "Xishan regime" in history actually refers to the three brothers of the Ruan family.The first emperor of the Xishan Dynasty was not Nguyen Quang Binh, but Nguyen Van Yuet.

Four years ago, Nguyen Van Nhat proclaimed the Central Emperor in Quy Nhon, and made his second brother Nguyen Van Thuong the king of Dongding, who governed Jiading;The three brothers each occupy a piece of land and rule by division.

However, not long after, internal strife broke out between Ruan Wenyue and Ruan Guangping.Ruan Wenyue was licentious and brutal, even the wives and concubines of his third brother Ruan Guangping.The two sides also divided up the treasures of Lord Zheng in the north and the land in Guangnan unevenly, and finally met each other in battle.

Ruan Wenyue couldn't beat his younger brother at all, but Ruan Guangping didn't continue to fight against the fortress of Qui Nhon Castle because he was his eldest brother.In the end, the two sides took Banjin as the boundary, the south of Guangyi belonged to Ruan Wenyue, and the north of Shenghua and Dianpan belonged to Nguyen Hui.

In fact, the real culprit of the "Jiading Massacre" is not only Ruan Guangping, but also Ruan Wenyue.

Zhao Xin finally reminded the three people: "The team in Hoi An must be in our own hands, and we must never let Ruan Fuying get involved. But, Ruan Fuying's strength is also bad. According to the information, the French gave the ship and He helped train tens of thousands of people, but he ended up fighting with Er Ruan for several years."

Hong Tao interjected: "This shows that the French in this era are not very good!"

The other three laughed when they heard this.

Zhao Xin continued: "As for Luzon and Java, my opinion is to deal with the Dutch in Batavia first, and then the Spanish in Manila. The purpose is twofold: first, to declare the strength of Beihai Town and let those Westerners Be it the natives or the natives, I no longer dare to take advantage of the Chinese, except for a public apology and compensation!"

"Totally agree!" Hong Tao slapped the table and shouted, "If you don't agree, fire! Batavia and Manila will be bloodbathed!"

"Hehe," Zhao Xin continued, "The second thing is to clarify the ownership of Mindanao, especially the southern part."

Hong Tao blinked, looked at Zhao Xin and said, "Lord Zhao, you are eyeing the gold mine again, right? I said you are not finished yet? Together with you, you plan to take all the big gold mines in the world into your pocket? "

Zhao Xin smiled wryly and said, "Doctor Hong, do you know how much our steel factory in Khabarovsk costs? Eight tons of gold, the minimum! Besides, there are no copper mines in the area under the jurisdiction of Beihai Town. The copper mine on Mindanao Island But it ranks sixth in the world and number one in Asia!"

"Okay, you succeeded in persuading me again." Hong Tao spread his hands and shook his head helplessly.

Deng Fei said at this time: "Is there anything else besides these? I remember that you seemed to say that you were going to make trouble for the British?"

"Yes. Thanks for your reminder, I almost forgot to mention it." Zhao Xin said, "When you finish your business in Luzon, if you still have energy, you can stop by to visit the East India Company in Bangladesh. If there is another opium shipment to Guangzhou , as long as it is a British merchant ship, one will be seen sinking the other."

Wang Yuanfang and Deng Fei looked at each other, and said with a wry smile: "You really treat us like donkeys! I guess this trip won't be over in a few months."

"I'd really like to trade with you. How about you go to Siberia?"

"Don't! The south is fine. Among us, you speak the best Russian, but I can't."

"That's right." Zhao Xin said to Deng Fei again: "Old Deng, you are good at French, and you can deal with the French on Ruan Fuying's side. Be careful of that priest named Peter, the Catholic Church has stretched too far in Annan, Ruan Fuying The treaty signed with the French government was facilitated by him. Hoi An and Con Son Island were ceded in it. These two places are currently under our control, especially Con Son Island is the closest to Malacca. I consider using it as a north-south route in the future the upper ring."

"North-south route?" Hong Tao asked, "Are you planning to go directly to Beihai Town?"

"Yes, it was like this before entering the customs." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he drew a schematic diagram on the whiteboard on the wall. "Beihai Town, Jeju Island, Southern Kyushu, Sakishima Islands, Luzon, Hoi An, Con Son Island, Malacca, Batavia, Mindanao."

"Good guy," Hong Tao teased, "You're ambitious enough! You might as well occupy Australia and go straight to Antarctica."

"Come on, that's not what the eighteenth century was thinking about, anyway."

Just as Zhao Xin was about to go on, someone knocked on the door of the conference room, and then a confidential officer on the Thor came in and handed a telegram to Zhao Xin.Zhao Xin opened it and took a look, his brows were slightly frowned, and then his expression returned to normal.

Deng Fei asked: "Is there a situation?"

"No. Little things."

Zhao Xin didn't say the content of the telegram, but put the newspaper into his trouser pocket, then tapped the whiteboard with a pen in his hand and continued: "Now there are many people in Guangdong and there is little land, and the people have a hard time, forcing them to go to sea to make a living. Let’s keep it a secret, apart from the three of you, only a few people know about it, and now the silver ingots in stock in Beihai Town have exceeded 300 million taels.”

Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang and Hong Tao were surprised: "So much! Did your father-in-law earn it from the Manchu?"

Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and said: "The profit of the Ministry of Trade is not that high. Some of the silver is the by-products of gold mining, and it is also captured on the battlefield. Finally, it is purified from the Douban silver that was obtained from the island country with North Sea coins. I calculated that if all of them were cast into Beihai yuan, it would be a little over 3607 million."

Hong Tao suddenly pointed at Zhao Xin and said, "Oh~~! I remembered, when you first made new money, you said you would use our money to set up silver from the island country. How long have you been doing it?"

Zhao Xin nodded and smiled, "It's been more than two years."

"Haha, why am I so happy?!" Hong Tao thumped the table happily, and then asked, "How much did you earn?"

"As of the end of last month, 88 taels. Both gold and silver."

In fact, in the past few years when Pingtai was in the island country, in addition to asking him to cut off the "eternal line" step by step and collect information on the shogunate and various vassals, his main job was to open up the business circles of Osaka, Nagasaki and Kyoto with Beihai coins. Large-amount exchange channels in China.

Since Beihai Town and the shogunate signed an armistice agreement the year before last, a large number of Beihai yuan and coins have flowed into the island country from Sendai Fan and Southern Kyushu in a grand manner.In order to extract silver and gold coins from the market in the island country, Beihai Town even created "cent coins"; a 5-cent coin is equivalent to 2 cents of silver in the island country, and a 5-cent coin is equivalent to two cents of silver.

Since Haizhen's coinage materials are made of copper-aluminum alloy, the cent coins are made of aluminum-magnesium alloy, so they look shiny.In addition, copper and aluminum alloys will turn black due to oxidation, which makes many islanders think that the silver coins in Beihai Town contain silver.

Zhao Xin finally told the three of them: "After you arrive in Hoi An, let Ye Chengxiang take Zheng Lianchang's people to Siam to buy another 51 ships with thousands of materials, and let's set up a 'Nanhai Trading Company'. [-]%, and the rest let Zheng Lianchang and the Ye family participate in the shares. In the future, we will send people from Guangdong to Nanyang for free. In addition to farming, we will also start a rubber farm as soon as possible, and then transport Nanyang’s products to Hoi An or Ryukyu.”

Deng Fei nodded in praise and said: "I agree! No one can be faster than our motor sailing fleet and transport more cargo. When the clipper ship is built next year, the sea trade Beihai Town in Southeast Asia will have the final say!"

This closed-door meeting, which will determine the situation in South Asia for more than 100 years, was held from morning to noon. The fate of countless people was rewritten in this meeting room on the Thor, including He Xiwen and Ye Zhanrong's family.

"What? King Zhao is gone!"

In the evening, Ye Zhanrong and his son boarded the Thunder God again to ask to see Zhao Xin, but Deng Fei told them that "King Zhao" had left by boat in the afternoon.

Looking at the Ye family's father and son who looked disappointed, Deng Fei felt a little funny, but he still said seriously: "It's just right, I also need you two for help. The thing is like this."

When Ye Zhanrong, who had a plan, listened to the three things about recruiting soldiers, buying ships, and the "Nanhai Trading Company", his heart finally fell into his stomach. Now he finally hugged Beihai Town's thigh, and the prosperity of his family business is just around the corner.

Another day later, when He Xiwen completed the operation of "scraping the ground" of the Hue Palace, the joint fleet of the Northern Navy and He Xiwen left Hue and headed south. Their next stop was Hoi An.

However, Wu Wenyong, Ruan Wenhe and others who retreated to Xiangshui County got the news from the sentry and confirmed that the Beihai Navy had left, and then they couldn't wait to send troops northward.However, what awaited them was the palace that was plundered by pirates without even a hair left.

At dusk, in the hospital located on the west side of the central square of Beihai Town, a graceful young girl came to the door of a room carefully carrying a three-layer "Bamboo Inlay" food box.She knocked lightly on the door twice, and heard someone in the room say: "Come in."

The girl opened the door and walked into the room, and saw the person on the bed sitting on the head of the bed, holding a thick book in his hand and spreading it on the quilt.The girl frowned slightly, and then said softly, "Miss Wang, I brought you dinner."

Wang Zhenyi on the hospital bed smiled and said, "Miss A Miao, thank you Madam for me, for letting her worry."

A Miao went straight to the bed, put the food box on the small table, picked up a folded wooden table from the side, opened it and placed it in front of Wang Zhenyi, and then brought out the contents of the food box one by one.

"This is the river fish sent from Khabarovsk. The meat is the most tender in winter. The teacher said, Miss Wang, you can't eat greasy ones, but you can eat more fish. This is yuba mixed with celery, and this is steamed with crab legs. Egg custard, this is multigrain porridge."

The "teacher" in A Miao's mouth is Hong Tao's wife, Director Liu. A few years ago, A Miao had been an apprentice with Liu Siting for two years. As a result, the little girl became a little depressed because she often couldn't see Zhao Xin.Zhao Xin felt a little distressed when he saw it at the time, so he asked A Miao to stop being a nurse, and then stayed with her.

Wang Zhenyi had a big head, looked at the small table full, and said with a wry smile: "How can I eat so much, why don't you eat with me."

A Miao smiled and said, "I ate everything before I came out. You should eat something of everything. The teacher said that you need to supplement your nutrition and get enough rest, so that you can recover quickly."

After she finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment, then summoned up her courage and said, "Miss Wang, don't be angry about something. I, I sent him a telegram the day before yesterday."

When Wang Zhenyi heard this, the hand holding the porridge bowl paused for a moment. She turned her head and looked out of the window. From the gap between the curtain and the edge of the window, all she could see was the howling heavy snow.She showed a wry smile and murmured: "It's too far away, even if I know him, I can't come back."

A Miao blinked after hearing this, and said to herself that you really don't understand him!

After Wang Zhenyi drank half a bowl of porridge and ate a few mouthfuls of vegetables, she couldn't eat any more.Seeing that she lost her temper, Ah Miao had no choice but to put away the things, and then had a conversation with her, the main content of which was about Zhao Xin's son.

".A few days ago Miss Tang came to teach me how to be a girl, and Momo happened to see me when I entered the door. Okay, he walked over unsteadily, hugged Miss Tang's leg, just, hahahaha~~~"

Wang Zhenyi asked curiously: "What's the matter? You said it."

A Miao covered her mouth and said: "As soon as he hugged Miss Tang's leg, he called her mother, which made Miss Tang very ashamed, and Madam also angrily called him a white-eyed wolf, but Momo actually grinned stupidly. I am so happy gone."

Wang Zhenyi also pursed her lips and smiled just after listening, and then felt a pang of sadness in her heart.When she was exhausted and hospitalized before, Wu Xianning had carefully examined her and told her to take good care of her this time, otherwise even if she got married in the future, it would be very difficult for her to have a child.

Wang Zhenyi had practiced medicine with her father Wang Xichen for many years, and she knew some medical skills herself. After she knew what disease she had, she realized that Wu Xianning's words were just comforting.

Ever since she had skin-to-skin relationship with that man at the seaside in that snowy day, Wang Zhenyi even thought that after she studied with Lao You for two more years, she would marry as a wife, take care of her husband and raise her children, even if she was a concubine.But now this disease makes all wishes come to naught
At 8 o'clock in the evening, A Miao went back. Just as Wang Zhenyi continued to read the book, the nurse outside turned off the light.In desperation, Wang Zhenyi had no choice but to lie on the bed and think wildly, not only about mathematics, but also about the scene of throwing a horse outside the fortress and shooting a horizontal halberd with a horn, and the figure of that person flashed in the meantime.

At this time, in the study room of Wu Xianning's home, Zhao Xin, who had just come back to Beihai Town, asked eagerly, "What's wrong with her?"

"Congenital heart disease." Wu Xianning still heard this word from Liu Siting. "In the future, I'm afraid the heirs will come."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Zhao Xin. As a relative of Shen Xuan's adoptive mother, Wu Xianning thought that there seemed to be something wrong with the rumors about King Zhao and Wang Zhenyi in the past two years.

The problem is that Beihai Town cannot take concubines, but you, King Zhao, personally made the rules, so I'll see what you do.If you really want to find an outside room, your colleague, Wang Xichen, who is in charge of the imaging department, will definitely chase you all over the world.

Zhao Xin left Wu's house with a blank face, and went back to his own house under the heavy snow.His sudden appearance surprised everyone in the family except A Miao.After talking with his parents for a while, and teasing for a long time, Zhao Xin didn't recognize his son, so Zhao Xin felt a little hungry.

While eating, Shen Xuan who was sitting on the side suddenly said softly: "Miss Wang is ill, you'd better take time to see her tomorrow."

Zhao Xin's heart skipped a beat, and he squinted at Shen Xuan. Seeing Shen Xuan's calm face, he replied "Oh".

(End of this chapter)