The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 398
When Fan Yongdou with seven Jiannu heads hanging around his neck was picked up by Liu Guozheng, Huang Sheng almost vomited all the food in his stomach.

At the end of February, Fan Yongdou was wearing big rosary beads on his chest like a sand monk. Even though the weather was not too hot, after seven or eight days, those heads were already smelly. Huang Sheng gave Liu Guozheng a look, and the boy immediately realized When he got too serious about his joke, he dragged Fan Yongdou out again.

Not long after that, Fan Yongdou, who had been cleaned up, was brought in again. This kid's teeth were chattering. Maybe Liu Guozheng and the others directly showered him with well water.

Fan Yongdou knelt on the ground and kowtowed, with snot and tears, he said, "Master Huang, please forgive me! The grassroots know they are wrong!"

Huang Dongshan unhurriedly took out a stack of confessions and threw them in front of Fan Yongdou, yelling loudly: "Spare me? How can I spare the life of you, a black-hearted profiteer. Just wait until the nine clans are imprisoned!"

Fan Yongdou didn't know that he was not guilty of death, and it was very possible to kill the Nine Clans. Now that Mr. Huang got all the stolen goods, there is no way to deny it. The only way to go is to kneel down and beg for mercy.

"Master Huang, there are old and young and there are villains, you put your hands on the villain, and the villain is willing to give away the family property." The miser was finally willing to spend money to buy his life in order to save his life.

Huang Sheng knew that if he didn't solve the problem fundamentally, Li Yongdou and Wang Yongdou would appear on the stage after killing Fan Yongdou. Doing such a thing for a while would not help the matter, and he reported the collected evidence to the court. The house is full.

However, driven by huge profits, there will still be people who betray the country and make profits. Huang Sheng is not going to take the life of this greedy Shanxi merchant, but is going to squeeze the black-hearted money he earned.

In the end, Fan Yongdou's confidant, Ding Fan Jinyin, returned to Zhangjiakou with Liu Guozheng's personal troops. Soon the Fan family began to sell the shops and fields under his name. Fan Yongdou returned home a month later. There was no major change, but his name was missing. 200 million taels of silver property.

The 200 million taels of silver will be dozens of new main battleships in time. Fan Yongdou is just a dog. What's the point of killing him just to have a moment of pleasure?The Huang family wants to be affordable.

What's more, his confession and witness testimony are in the hands of the Huang family. If he talks nonsense and continues to trade with Jian slaves, don't blame the Huang family for killing him.

Fan Yongdou knew that Master Huang possessed evidence that could make him steal all his family members, and that it was very possible to punish the Nine Clans. The family property, land, and shop would naturally be confiscated by the court.

Unexpectedly, Master Huang agreed with him to pay for his life with silver, and offered him 200 million taels of silver to let him go, and let the Fan family continue to do business in Zhangjiakou.

Huang Sheng's asking price was reasonable. He knew that the Fan family had the ability to pay, but he didn't know that 200 million taels was already more than [-]% of the Fan family's wealth.

Fan Yongdou's spirit has been broken, and he will do everything he can if he seizes a chance. He chooses to trust Mr. Huang, because he knows that the benefits of the court have nothing to do with Mr. Huang. It is not owned by the Fan family, it should be the income confiscated by the court.

The traitorous side of the businessman Fan Yong’s fight was manifested. He began to overthrow the abacus to comfort himself. After he paid the imperial court’s 200 million taels for his life, the Fan family would still leave several 10 taels of capital. He had a mature business route in hand. There will be too much wealth accumulated, and there will be a lot of profits if you can't run to Liaodong and Mobei.

This time, not only Fan Yongdou was punished, but also those who did not hesitate to risk their lives in Liaodong for money were not spared.

The four or five thousand chariots and about one thousand Fan Jiajia Ding and fellows who were arrested by the Ming army at the same time were carefully screened by Huang Dongshan and his musketeers, and 500 people were selected to be taken to Huangjiawan Island for training in pushing wheelbarrows. The rest were all sentenced to death. After five to ten years of re-education through labor, all of them were sent to "Huaxia Island" to do coolies.

Too much labor is needed to level the mountains, move boulders and build seawalls and roads. Five or six thousand strong men joining the labor will speed up the progress of the project too much.

If they were laborers recruited by the Huang family, their wages for the past few years would not be less than 80 taels of silver.

While making these people pay the price for their greed, the Huang family also got thousands of free labor, why not do it?

Cutting down thirteen Jiannu Zhenghuang Banner Bayalas should not be wasted. In addition, when creating a control area on the prairie, several small Mongolian tribes that tried to fight against the Ming army were killed several times and achieved level 65. The results of the battle are already good.

Guo Xiaolian and Wang Ruhai, the envoys of Lord Xinhai of North Korea, went to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to kowtow to the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. Not only did they pay tribute to many Korean specialties, but they also presented the heads of North Korean captives65 and the heads of Bayala of Zhenghuang Banner of Dongnu [-].

Emperor Chongzhen was really happy, and immediately summoned the two envoys, asking how to get these gains?

Of course, the emperor cannot tell the truth. The North Korean envoy reported to Da Tianzi: These leaders were led by Mr. Xinhai and his subordinates who landed in Yongchuan to attack the Mongolian and Hou Jin allied forces who invaded North Korea. After a hard battle, Mr. Xinhai lost thousands of troops. These gains.

No one in the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty did not believe that Mr. Xinhai had suffered heavy casualties, and it was inevitable to kill the thirteenth-rank Jinzhenghuangqi Bayala in a fierce battle.

Chongzhen sighed and praised Mr. Xinhai for his loyalty to Daming, and he was a model for all vassal kings. When he was about to reward Mr. Xinhai generously, the two North Korean envoys made a small merciless request.

Guo Xiaolian and Wang Ruhai asked the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to grant permission to Mr. Xinhai to lease a deserted island in the east of the Pearl River Estuary in Xin’an County, Guangzhou Prefecture, for 20 years, because Mr. Xinhai’s merchant ships often sailed to Luzon, and the country of Dayue needed its own in the south. supply ground.

After asking several ministers, Emperor Chongzhen learned that the deserted island that Mr. Xinhai was going to rent had a circumference of only sixty or seventy miles, and it was about 100 miles away from Macau by water, which was only a tiny place.

He asked the cabinet for advice, and he had already learned that Huang Sheng was going to take over Gaodi, which was run by this small island, and Wang Zhichen went out to play against him. They played His Majesty. This has already set a precedent, and it can be handled by referring to the procedures of Frangji for renting Macau. .

Macau is not a colony of the Portuguese in Ming Dynasty at all. They have been paying land rent to accept the management of Ming Dynasty and pay taxes. Although it is only a few hundred taels of silver a year, it is enough to prove the sovereignty of Ming Dynasty.

In the Jiajing year, the Portuguese wanted to gain a foothold close to Ming Dynasty through force. They first set their sights on Zhoushan Island, but it is a pity that Ming Dynasty is not comparable to South American and North American countries.

The Portuguese were completely defeated by the Daming Navy. In the end, they played rogues and went to Macau Island to linger, saying that they would borrow a place to dry their sails.

This is the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty, no kinship, no tribute, no vassal, no signing any alliances under the city, and the emperor refused to compromise when he was arrested.But the worst thing is to see people pretending to be pitiful and sympathetic.

The Portuguese succeeded, and Emperor Jiajing, who had gone into a maddened way of cultivating alchemy and alchemy, made an exception and allowed them to rent Macau temporarily.Also because Macau is an extremely remote place, it is a dispensable existence in Daming.

With Gao Di and Wang Zhichen taking the lead, the other cabinet elders will follow suit. After all, there are too many islands in the South China Sea of ​​Ming Dynasty, and these islands are not of much use to Ming Dynasty. A lot of money and food.

Seeing the unanimous agreement of the cabinet, Emperor Chongzhen immediately granted the request of Lord Xinhai of North Korea.

The two envoys, Guo Xiaolian and Wang Ruhai, asked the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to give the island a name, and told Chongzhen that a great battle broke out in Yashan, a place more than [-] miles away from the waterway to the west of the island. naval battle.

(End of this chapter)