Daming Yinghua

Chapter 133 Talking about cooperation with Lu Fan
The bloodstains in front of the Hall of Mind are brighter and denser than the fireworks that ascended to heaven half an hour ago.

The strong smell of blood also firmly concealed the original strong smell of sulfur.

Halfway through the killing, the first person among the gangsters to throw away their weapons and kneel down appeared.

Zhu Shouhong, King of Lu, ordered the eunuchs to shout loudly: "Whoever abandons his sword and returns to righteousness will save his life, and his crime is not as good as his parents and wives."

Calling on the other party to surrender on the spot is definitely not just to reduce the difficulty of subduing them, but to keep them alive for interrogation.

Soon, the second and third surrenderers followed suit.

On the steps, Wu Bangde and a guard of the royal residence were binding the tip of the hanging eyes that had been scalded by Zheng Haizhu tightly.

When Wu Bangde, who was wearing a helmet, stood up and looked around, Zheng Haizhu was no longer in sight.

A moment ago, he heard with his own ears that Zhu Yipai asked Zheng Haizhu to avoid him.

Right now, Zhu Yipai told him in a deep voice: "The situation is settled, go and protect the princess and madam."

Wu Bangde understood that this was Zhu Yipai's fulfillment of his previous promise.

Yesterday, Zheng Haizhu pointed out bluntly that if the perpetrators were indeed led by the charcoal worker surnamed Zhao, she and Wu Bangde would not come out to identify them face to face after the settlement.

One is unnecessary, and the other is fear of retaliation.

At that time, Zhu Yipai didn't think he was disobedient, he just said that this is common sense, you are people who often go to Shandong to do business, if Wen Xiangjiao knows that you are the ones who complained, you will definitely seek revenge, you are loyal to our Lu family, I, Lu Manor, must not be unjust to you.

At this time, Wu Bangde quickly found Zheng Haizhu who joined Guo Shi behind the Hall of Mind.

After about half a stick of incense, the military guards and internal servants also arrived surrounded by Zhu Shouhong and Zhu Yipai.

Zhang Yaofang followed behind her. Although her hairstyle was a bit messy, her face was full of victories.

Zhu Yipai explained the whole story: "The leader of the charcoal household is stubborn and doesn't want to recruit. It doesn't matter. I interrogated several servants separately, and the confessions were correct. They all said that a leader of the Wenxiang Sect, Hu Congkui, was arrested by the prefect of Dengzhou , they wanted to kidnap His Royal Highness King Lu and coerce the court to release him. This time the lanterns were invited from Weifang, and the lantern dancers were also believers. Tanhu’s uncle was found tied up in the charcoal courtyard. He should have been unaware of it, but was negligent. Check the charcoal bag. The two young students from the Charcoal Academy are their accomplices."

Zhang Yaofang immediately picked up Zhu Yipai's words, and said to Lu King Zhu Shouhong: "Your Highness, this Hu Congkui, I have seen it from the mansion newspaper before, saying that he was originally Xu Hongru's fellow villager, and he fled from Lubei to Taiwan in the past few years. In the Denglai area, people were bewitched by demonic rumors, and they gathered in the mountains and forests. In Xiaqiu, because of killing a county magistrate under the rule of Dengzhou in Xiaqiu, he was led by the prefect of Dengzhou to pacify him."

Zhu Shouhong asked: "What is the origin of the current prefect of Dengzhou?"

Qingzhou and Laizhou are separated from the fiefdom of Lu Fan in Yanzhou and Dengzhou, which faces the Yellow Sea. Zhu Shouhong is also hindered by his status as a vassal king. Except for the governor of Shandong and the magistrate of Yanzhou, he is usually taboo to make friends with other local officials in Lu, so this It is not surprising that he is a Xiaoyao virtuous king who does not know the background of the current prefect of Dengzhou.

As a civil servant in the system, Zhang Yaofang, like many department-level cadres in later generations, is most concerned about various personnel information from the central government to the local government.

After he saw Zhu Shouhong's question, Zhu Yipai also showed a trace of bewilderment, and hurriedly said: "Returning to Your Highness, the current prefect of Dengzhou is surnamed Tao, and his name is Langxian. Like the lower official, he is also from Zhejiang. He should be ten years old. The Jinshi in the former middle school has served in both the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, and he came to Dengzhou four years ago. He is good at water control, farming, and disaster relief.

Ok?Open the sea ban?

When Zheng Haizhu heard the last sentence, he became very excited.

Zhu Yipai was obviously equally curious.

It should be noted that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the earliest Japanese real Japanese invaded frequently, except Lushun in Liaodong, and Dengzhou in Shandong.

Of the eighteen guards in Shandong, eleven were subordinate to the command envoy of Beiwo Capital in Shandong. Although the total force was around [-], they were all elite soldiers, and the Dengzhou camp had the largest number of people and horses.

Although there has been a big change between Japan's situation and the initial period of the Kingdom of China, the civil servants who were invited to open the sea in the court, mentioned Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Taicang. No one has mentioned Dengzhou's opening of the sea.

"This Tao Zhifu, why did you ask to open the Dengzhou sea ban?" Zhu Yipai asked.

Zhang Yaofang recalled it for a while, and said cautiously: "I remember, it seems that not long after he took office, there was a locust plague in Denglai Qingzhou, and there was no harvest. He wanted to transport rice from Liaodong to rescue the victims in Dengzhou."

Zhu Yipai was even more surprised. This time, he looked at Zheng Haizhu and said, "Miss Zheng, didn't you say that you also have business dealings with relatives in Liaodong? Could it be that Liaodong is also rich in grain, and can actually help our Shandong Island in turn?" gone?"

Zheng Haizhu wished that the big and small princes in front of him would give him a chance to preach.

She then respectfully said: "Most of northern Liaoning is Huze mountain forest, Jurchen Tartars and Yupi Tartars (referring to Hezhe people) make a living by fishing and hunting, but in southern Liaoning Jinzhouwei, Fuzhouwei and other places, the climate is compared with Shenyang and Hezhe. The Liaoyang area is suitable. During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there was a Liaodong Road Transshipment Department, which transported rice and grain to help Shandong and Hebei during the famine years. The military and civilian households in our Ming Dynasty were also very diligent, and the harvest may not be inferior to that in the Gyeonggi area. However, in this situation, It really only existed three or four years ago. In the past two years, Jiannu rebelled, plundered our Liao people, trampled on my fields, and the good scene of rice ripening and wheat fragrance in southern Liao is probably hard to come by."

Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhu Yipai frowned and said: "The trouble of building slaves is far worse than that of the mobs of the Wenxiang Sect. Thinking about Liaodong, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Shandong, if it was taken over by Jiannu, wouldn't it be like There are tigers and wolves around on the side of the couch."

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "Nurhachi, the chief of Jianzhou, became a khan last year, and he always wanted to expand his army. However, the Baishan Heishui is bitter, cold and poor. They can't support so many people by hunting and fishing alone. Liaoxi and Liaonan. The grassroots presumptuously speculate, Tao Zhifu, please open the sea, whether there is also a plan to strengthen the defense of Liaonan. Or even if it has nothing to do with military defense, it can also benefit maritime trade. After all, the connection between the Liaonan Islands and Dengzhou Port , Sailing can be reached in three days with a smooth wind, it is feasible to transport grain, and it is no problem to transport other goods. Ginseng and mink can be sold to Shandong, and Shandong special products can also be sold to Liaodong and even North Korea.”

When she talks, she tries to keep her tone calm and not exaggerated, but she doesn't pretend to be timid.

Zheng Haizhu believes that thanks to these turbulent Wenxiang believers, there is no doubt that he has made the first contribution in protecting the safety of King Lu.

Such opportunities should be actively seized.

Of the two men from the Zhu family of Lu Fan, one has power and the other has ability.

As a grassroots person, she should boldly state her knowledge and express her views when they are more grateful to her, so that they can add appreciation and trust in addition to their gratitude, so that they can lead to business cooperation matters later.

Seeing that Zhu Yipai didn't show any absent-minded or impatient expression when he was listening to the lecture, it just showed that there was something to be said for it.

However, Zhu Yipai quickly restrained the talk and pulled back to the main point of tonight.

He said to King Lu and his concubine: "The bandit sect's evil plan has been broken, and its arrogance has been extinguished. Although everything is under the control of the two highnesses tonight, there will be some twists and turns after all. The two highnesses should go back to the palace to rest first. Nephew Zhang Changshi and Zhang Changshi will go to deal with the affairs in front of the palace, send the disabled bandits to the Yanzhou government office, appease the clansmen, and report to the two highnesses tomorrow."

After this catastrophe, King Lu became more satisfied with this loyal, wise and courageous nephew, and nodded happily.

He also did not forget to reward Zheng Haizhu and Wu Bangde, and while praising Zhang Yaofang for being good at making good friends, he personally checked the palm burn of the only civil servant who participated in the on-site battle, and told the eunuch to send the doctor on duty to apply the medicine.

The next day, the servants of the palace delivered a reward of one hundred taels of gold to the official post, and the invitation from General Zhen Guo's mansion came later.

At the family banquet in the mansion set up by Zhu Yipai and Guo Shi, Zheng Haizhu confided in two things.

The first one is to disclose the source of Wu Bangde. It is true that he is not the shopkeeper he hired, but the adopted son of Qi Jin, the general soldier of Zhenjiang in Nanzhili.

The second one is to show his intention to cooperate with Lu Fan in mining coal.What I can contribute on my side is firstly to recruit a large number of miners from Liaodong through Mao Wenlong, and secondly to sell part of the coal through the canal to the firearms workshop in the south of the Yangtze River for its own use, and at the same time rely on Haoming Trading Company to help sell the remaining coal.Of course, Haoming Trading Company can also help market Lu Fan’s other products, such as velvet and cotton in the fiefdom. Lu Fan can completely parachute into his account room and come to Haoming Trading Company to watch the money in and out.

No matter how smart and ambitious Zhu Yipai is, he is just the son of a county prince in his early twenties, and he has never left Ludi since his birth to his youth.Four or five years ago, in the name of celebrating the birthday of Emperor Wanli, he followed his uncle to the capital.

That was the time when he saw in the capital that millions of people were burning something completely different from charcoal and firewood.

This time, from Zheng Haizhu's mouth, he learned that under his family's charcoal mountain, there is actually such a fuel that the nobles may not look down upon, but has unlimited business opportunities in civilian daily use and military smelting. Naturally, he was surprised to be happy.

"Miss Zheng, you said that Liaodong also has coal mines, just like the capital's Xishan?"

"Yes, Your Highness," Zheng Haizhu replied with certainty, "My Uncle Mao said that to the east of Liaoyang he was guarding, there are small coal mines around Dongningwei. The frost is very long there every year. The output per mu is only one-twelfth of that in southern Liaoning, and the local people rely on coal digging and transportation to exchange for food."

The Dongningwei mentioned by Zheng Haizhu is Benxi, Liaoning in later generations.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, although the agriculture in Liaodong could not keep up, coal from Benxi and iron from Tieling had begun to be excavated in an orderly manner.Mao Wenlong's general at the time of the apocalypse, Geng Zhongming, who was forced to surrender after Mao Wenlong was killed, was a miner.

Zhu Yipai was very quick-witted, and he also understood that if large-scale mining and coal mining in Lufan were really carried out, local farmers and refugees in transit would not be able to turn into miners.

It is indeed the safest way to transport miners from Liaodong.

Zheng Haizhu continued to add fuel to the fire in Zhu Yipai's heart: "Your Highness, many of those Liao people are no longer military households. With the increase in population, they will either starve to death or be captured by Jiannu in the east. Be slaves. They will definitely be willing to come to Shandong to work as miners to earn money. Although they are foreigners, if they reach a certain number, they will eat the food rewarded by His Highness and His Highness, and be loyal to the Lu government. Together with Lu Fan's defenders, we will protect Yanzhou's safety."

The more Zhu Yipai listened, the better he felt.

As for the relocation of Liao people to Yanzhou to dig coal, he estimated that there would be little resistance in the court.

Zheng Haizhu's analysis of the current situation, especially his worries about Liaodong's young men being taken captive by the newly released Jurchen rebels, inspired him.

Zhu Yipai even thought out the wording for the performance.

To make it clear to the imperial court, what he wanted to get from Liaodong to Lufan were private households who had no land to farm and could not safely dig mines. Let them release their labor in Yanzhou, and then use the coal underground in Yanzhou to replace them with Part of the silver will be donated to the court as military pay, mobilize and move soldiers from all over the town, and deal with military operations to establish slaves.

After hearing his thoughts on writing, Zheng Haizhu reminded bluntly: "Your Highness's words are like a direct promise to the imperial court that he is willing to pay the tax of bamboo and wood. All the feudal states have their own products. When they saw Lu Fan's Will you join forces and attack them?"

Zhu Yipai understood what Zheng Haizhu meant. He looked sideways at his wife Guo Shi, pursed his lips lightly, and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Miss Zheng, my wife and I both think you are a good businessman. Let me ask, what do you do in the future?" When buying and selling, will you lose your conscience because you are afraid that profiteers will attack you?"

Zheng Haizhu heard the words, praised "Yes" in her heart, and said firmly: "Yes, if you are cowardly and profiteering together, when the sky falls, everyone will be crushed together, and you will be crushed into dust. Liaodong No. [-] If there is chaos, Shandong will suffer, and it is not only righteous but also wise for Lu Fan to stand up so early and contribute taxes to the court."

Zhu Yipai nodded, and continued to explain the practical details: "According to Miss Zheng, Dingkou, a suitable miner, is in the east of Liaoyang, not in the north of Lushunkou, and our Yanzhou Prefecture is still thousands of miles away from Dengzhou. Why did those miners come in from Dengzhou instead of overland and then change to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal?"

Zheng Haizhu has decided to set up the future Liaohai situation intelligence center in Yanzhou after feeling about the situation of Lu Fan in the past few days, so naturally he should focus on recommending Wu Bangde.

She then smiled and said, "Young Master Wu has a lesson from Ji Liao wandering."

Wu Bangde understood, and said in a cautious tone: "If you go back to your highness, if you go by land, not to mention the cumbersome customs clearance procedures at Shanhaiguan, but after entering the customs, boarding the canal boats at Shuntianfu will be quite a lot of twists and turns along the way. Wouldn't it be better to be under the rule of Shandong throughout the whole process?"

The implication is very simple, don't use other people's land to transport people and do things, try to operate in a closed loop in Shandong, which is your own territory.

Zheng Haizhu took advantage of the situation and added a more direct sentence: "In the future, if the cotton cloth from Lu Fan is transported to Liaodong and North Korea for sale, and the ginseng and mink fur there are sent to Yanzhou, it will be more convenient to go to Liaohai Road. "

Zhu Yipai smiled, looked at his wife Guo Shi and said, "Miss Zheng really cannot do without the word Yinzi in her three sentences, she is quite similar to you and me."

Mrs. Guo didn't laugh: "Miss Zheng needs silver more than we do. She wants to buy our coal and make her firearms, no, to make firearms for the imperial court."

Zhu Yipai was startled, and then waved his hand: "I've gone to report to King Lu that some of the coal we dug out in Yanzhou should be given to Miss Zheng."

Zheng Haizhu said: "That's not necessary, Songjiang Firearms Workshop may be able to get money from the imperial court in the future, and now it is agreed that I will donate money for trial production, and it is a great fortune for the imperial court to approve it. Your Highness and Madam, if you think I am worthy Why don't you use it, why don't you tell the King of Lu to share some shares of our Haoming Trading Company from the coal mine."

(End of this chapter)