open sea

Chapter 834
Seriously, trading is cool, especially if you're the one printing the money.

And seeing the booming trade between Daming and Spain, some people are happier than Chen Mu.

He is Zhu Xiaoen, King of Alan, who has just won the right to train troops from the Dongyang Military Mansion in Changsheng County.

Lord Xiao En is now ready to return home, but according to the stalemate between the Ming Dynasty and Spain, he dare not go to Chile with Shao Tingda's department, so he simply asked Chen Mu for a loan to recruit troops on the west coast.

The total loan amount is 600 million Tongbao, and the Dongyang Military Government allocates funds in 36 months. In theory, the monthly payment is 400 million for the first six months, 24 million per month for the middle 200 months, and 400 million per month for the next six months. Ten thousand, a total of three years to pay off the loan.

This is a huge loan worth 6000 taels of silver.

The loan contract is called the "Daming Alan Kingdom Restoration Agreement". The responsibility of the Dongyang Military Government is to provide King Zhu Xiaoen with loans, arms sales, and Daming instructors, and to allow him to freely recruit a 200-member restoration team in Asia. military.

The responsibility of the Alan Kingdom is to check the local minerals after landing on the land of the Daming Ailan Kingdom, and hand them over to the merchants of the Ming Kingdom for management. 100% of the finished products will be supplied to the Kingdom, and [-]% will be processed by the Eastern Military Government. The time is [-] years; if the minerals are insufficient, The shortfall must be repaid with customs duties.

Since the agreement was reached in September of the sixth year of Wanli, the Military Bureau of Commerce allocated 400 million Tongbao from its account that month, but only 290 million Tongbao was distributed to Zhu Xiaoen and his followers, and the remaining [-] million was used to purchase ordnance and lease military camps. , construction of facilities, employment of instructors, rations for sergeants, and miscellaneous expenses for transporting goods.

That's not the end of the deduction yet, and the ordnance money will have to be deducted next month.

In fact, the remaining more than 200 million military government didn't even print a seal at all. It was just a double GDP, and the important warehouses in Changsheng County were shipped directly.

Zhu Xiaoen, who got Tongbao, was not in a hurry to leave the Commerce Bureau. On a hot day, Prince Xiaoen, who was sweating profusely in a crimson python robe, leaned against the ice wall of the Commerce Bureau to cool off for a while. I can't push him away, but I can watch him follow the strong red-haired Wuwei across the ocean from the territory to fan him for a long time with a cattail fan.

Not long after, another person who looked like a foreigner brought three carriages with them. Several military guards with long axes on their shoulders, dressed in silk flower robes and iron mail armor were closely guarded, and they drove the carriages directly with the prince's waist card. Entering the Commerce Bureau, Zhu Xiaoen knelt on one knee and bowed his hands to enjoy the cool air. He spoke in a very standard Tianjin dialect: "Your Majesty, here you are!"

Zhu Xiaoen got up immediately, raised his hand to greet the officials of the Bureau of Commerce, and said, "Come to someone who can calculate the price, let's see how much these things are worth."

Saying so, Prince Xiao En lifted his clothes and walked quickly to the carriage, stroked the lacquered wooden box on the carriage, looked at it again and again, and said to the left and right: "These are all treasures, if it wasn't for fear that Shuai Chen would look after those Nanyang dependent countries If you don’t give me good weapons, this king will not sell this treasure that I wanted to take home.”

Zhu Xiaoen had no Wangzhuang and no kingdom in Daming, but the court had enough Lumi, and he had accumulated a huge amount of property after receiving Lumi for two years. To be honest, if he hadn't had to go back to the court for the court, he would also want to live in Beiyang for the rest of his life.

Beiyang didn't let him spend money, he had food and clothing, and the farthest place he had been to in more than a year was Tianjin, but even if he went to Tianjin, Chen Mu wouldn't let him spend money, saying he wouldn't let him develop luxury The habit of wasting, the silk, silk, silk, cloth, brocade, silk, salt, tea, and rice given by the imperial court every year are all kept, and some of them cannot be taken away and sold until they go to sea.

His family property alone was 5000 taels of silver, all of which were sold in exchange for grain, and he packed several boxes. This time he took out all the remaining cloth, silk, satin, and utensils rewarded by the court, and wanted to exchange them for Tongbao at the Bureau of Commerce.

Zhu Xiaoen kept a set of backflow pots and fairness cups for himself, and even sold the silks and satins that he planned to take home to make clothes for his wife and children.

Three boxes of Tongbao with a denomination of one thousand were exchanged, which was close to ten million.

As soon as he received Tongbao, the officials at the military mansion came over and reported to him: "My lord, the Alan Restoration Army's station has been selected, and the armaments and rations are being transported there. The team has gone over."

Zhu Xiaoen's eyes lit up right then, and he hurriedly said, "Go, go and have a look!"

To be honest, having been with Chen Mu for so long, he knows very well what kind of temperament Marshal Dongyang is like, but everything he handles must be good stuff, but just one word, expensive!

Others look at goods and money in business, but he not only looks at goods and money in business, but also people.

Zhu Xiaoen even came up with a rule, which he told Zhao Shizhen during the chat, saying that when different people buy the same goods from Chen Mu, the prices are also different.

For example, when buying a bird gun, the generals in the Ming Dynasty asked him to buy it. If he could buy it for a tael outside, Chen Mu would ask for a tael of it.

If the foreign countries want to buy it, Chen Mu doesn't want silver, but pearls and gems, which are worth two taels there, but they are worth twelve taels in China.

If you want to buy this gun in Spain, hey, no one knows how much it will cost!

Zhao Shizhen didn't say anything after hearing this, but just grinned uncontrollably, and finally rushed to defend himself: "Your Majesty is still too young, why can the Marshal's blunderbuss be sold? Because his blunderbuss are so good, he spends two taels of money on the outside." , and may not be able to buy the same gun.”

Zhu Xiaoen thought it was right, but he didn't know that Zhao Shizhen's words had to be divided into two sentences, one was Chen Mu's gun is good, and the other was that he was too young.

Why did Chen Mu collect money for selling guns?He sold iron ingots worth two taels of silver.

The Fuguo army garrison is located next to the small bay in the south of Changsheng Port. It is quite spacious, surrounded by fishermen. The land is not needed, so it was sold by the Dongyang Army Mansion. Now the garrison has come one after another. Shao Lifu helped logging and setting up the camp, and the barracks could be set up in a few days.

There is also a coast in the resident. There is an abandoned trestle bridge on the beach, which can be used after repairing. Four small shark boats and twelve lucky boats are parked on the shore.

The supervisor and instructor with the iron plate of hundreds of households hanging on the breastplate had been waiting for a long time with his troops. Seeing Zhu Xiaoen and his party coming on horseback, he clasped his fists and saluted, and waved his hands to carry the box. The armaments will arrive in full in the next few days, here is the manifest."

Zhu Xiaoen just took over the official document, and several long wooden boxes were opened, revealing the well-maintained ordnance lying in the straw.

"The Fuguo Army intends to train ten infantry units, nine blunderbusses, and one artillery corps. They will be issued with a thousand rods of matchlock blunderbusses, a thousand handles of waist knives, two thousand sets of winter and summer military uniforms, a thousand pairs of breastplates, and two catties. There are six guns and eight tiger squatting guns."

The trainer Baihu clasped his hands and said: "So, after the soldiers are trained, go to Ailan country to recruit starting cavalry, and the king will command the Wanjun army. They can use them as elite troops to be the first to charge against the enemy!"

Zhu Xiaoen bent down to pick up a blunderbuss, made a gesture of aiming, and smiled happily to the left and right: "This time, the commander is unexpectedly generous!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)