Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 486 Negotiations
The envoy Zhu Cihuan sent from Guangdong had to wait for a month on the road before arriving in Nanjing.

They came to negotiate with Yang Chao about opening shipping companies in Fujian and Guangdong.

The reason was that Zhu Cihuan sent Li Ruyue to attack Yang Chao.

It's not to blame these people for dawdling, but when they were on the road, they were stopped once.

Because Zhu Cihong suddenly appeared in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Cihuan couldn't help but panic, and sent people to stop them in Zhejiang, and replaced a large number of them.

Apparently Zhu Cihuan was worried that these people would join Zhu Cihong's side, and then they would all become his confidantes.

The leader was a vassal, Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, an old friend of the people of Nanjing.

When Zhu Cihuan went to Fujian to become the throne, a large number of exiled vassals from Nanjing went to Fujian again. These people felt that it was obviously safer to follow an emperor surnamed Zhu than to follow Yang Chao.

Especially Fu Wang, he fought with Zhu Cihong for the throne, and Yang Chao is a member of Zhu Cihong's faction. Without Yang Chao, Zhu Cihong would not be the emperor, so Fu Wang has no reason to stay in Nanjing. He has a lot of wives and concubines A large number of beauties brought back from Japan, including Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter, also went to Fujian.

Later, Zhu Cihuan went to Guangdong, but King Fu didn't run away at first, because Hong Chengchou assured him that as long as he surrendered to the Qing court, his prosperity and wealth would be preserved. This guy stayed in Fujian all the time. He was obviously very lucky. Hong Chengchou invaded Fujian and did not touch him, Jin Shenghuan invaded Fujian and did not touch him, and the local emperor Zheng's family also did not touch him. He has always been safe, prosperous and wealthy.

The person Zhu Cihuan sent to negotiate this time did not originally have King Fu, because King Fu still stayed in Fujian as the Prince of Taiping. Fu Wang led a team to Nanjing to negotiate.

Zhu Cihuan was obviously very clear that there were not many people who were worthy enough and would never take refuge in Zhu Cihong, but King Fu was definitely one of them, so he specially invited this old clan to come out of the mountain to negotiate on behalf of him in Nanjing.

As soon as King Fu arrived in Nanjing, he didn't look for Yang Chao, but went to see Zhu Cihong at Prince Ding's Mansion first. Although he negotiated secretly, Zhu Cihong was already much smarter, so he sent Zhu Cijiong to Yang's house to report the content to Yang Chao that night, nothing more than Zhu Cihuan hoped that Zhu Cihong would put the overall situation first, and not rise up to fight for the throne at this time, and make false promises. He hoped that Zhu Cihong would go to Guangdong. He was willing to return the throne to Zhu Cihong, but he did not want Zhu Cihong to restore the throne in Nanjing. Those who hurt the enemy are quick, giving the Manchus and ambitious people an opportunity to sway their Zhu family's country.

Needless to say, Man Qing, the ambitious figure naturally refers to Yang Chao.

The next day, King Fu came to negotiate with Yang Chao, but he did not come to negotiate, but to explain to Yang Chao that the last attack on Yang Chao was done by Li Ruyue, a traitor, and the emperor didn't even know about it.

Yang Chao originally wanted to spare Li Ruyue's life in exchange for opening the company, but he didn't expect Zhu Cihuan to put all the responsibility on Li Ruyue.

But the City Shipping Department must open.

"Bo Zhongyi's opening of the Shipping Department is also a plan for the country, and His Majesty will play it all!"

It was so easy.

Yang Chao couldn't help thinking that it was probably not a compromise made to attack Yang Chao, but because of Zhu Cihong's sudden return.

Apparently, Zhu Cihong's sudden return made the small court in Guangdong lose its sense of proportion. Zhu Cihuan is probably willing to agree to any conditions at this time, as long as Yang Chao does not use Zhu Cihong to attack the legitimacy of his throne.

Sure enough, King Fu soon said: "Your Majesty hopes that the Governor will put the overall situation first. I hope that the Governor will allow me to pick up the late emperor. Your Majesty will treat the late emperor like an elder brother."

Yang Chao nodded: "That's it. Okay. But you have to talk to the first emperor. If he is willing to go, the governor has no objection. But the matter of the Shibo Department is settled. Fujian Kai Quanzhou, Fuzhou City Shipping Department, Guangdong Kai Chaozhou, Guangzhou City Shipping Department. Also, Li Ruyue, you can take it away, this scholar stays with me, except for free food, there is no use."

Yang Chao didn't care if they could pick up Zhu Cihong or not, he was in a hurry to open a shipping company, and the Zheng family pointed to this for dinner.

The Zheng Group originally had more than 20 subordinates, and now it has even raised [-] people, all of whom are desperate heroes.

Yang Chao's 50-strong army has 1000 million taels of salary each year, plus armor and weapons for them, and another 1000 million taels. On average, each person earns more than 40 taels of silver a year.

Even if the Zheng family is less than Yang Chao, it is estimated that there is not much less.

On the one hand, it is to support people. When Zheng Zhilong was here, I am afraid that these people would still be willing to follow suit. Now Zheng Chenggong, who has no prestige, would not let these people eat and drink well. It's not good to be taller than Yang Chao's soldiers.

On the other hand, Zheng Chenggong's eyes were probably stimulated by Yang Chao's military exploits, and he actually purchased arms and supplies from Yang Chao wantonly, ranging from bird guns to cannons, and everyone had a pair of armor. Yang Chao is not a philanthropist, even if he is an ally. Although the birds and iron armor provided to Zheng are not expensive, they are all 20 taels of silver, which is the market price in Nanjing, but the Xinjiangkou workshop, which has already produced large-scale production, only needs 30 taels of silver to produce these things. It was only two taels of silver, and there were cannons cast in iron molds that cost less than 200 taels, but they were sold to the Zheng family for [-] taels, which was even more huge profits.

The high salary to support people, coupled with the huge profits made by Yang Chao, made the Zheng family very short-lived. Just last year, they gave Yang Chao 1000 million taels of silver. The Zheng family couldn't stand it either.

Therefore, the Zheng family wrote repeatedly, asking Yang Chao to help open the shipping department in Fujian and Guangdong.

In fact, Zheng's maritime trade is still in business, and Jiangnan's unlimited supply allows Zheng's annual trade volume to be close to 300 million taels, but Yang Chao took away 500 million taels of tariffs, excluding expenses. , The remaining profit of the Zheng family is [-] million, which is not enough to raise soldiers.

If the trade between Fujian and Guangdong is opened, the Zheng family can at least earn 100 million taels of silver by supplying tea, porcelain and ironware to the Dutch.

In addition, if goods can be obtained from Fujian and Guangdong, the two provinces with the best iron quality in Daming, the Zheng family can not only write off part of the military purchases by supplying iron to Yang Chao, but also make their own weapons.

The most important thing is that it is convenient for them to build their own ships. As long as the two places are open to the Zheng family, the Zheng family's fleet will once again dominate the Eastern Ocean. At that time, the Dutch and Guangdong pirates will submit to Zheng again. Millions of proceeds.

Therefore, if the ships from the two cities were opened, even without Yang Chao's promise to give the Zheng family all the Fujian tariffs, the Zheng family would be able to recover.

Although Fu Wang doesn't care about the opening of the market, he is not without concerns.

"Look at the Great Governor's Mingjian. Guangdong and Fujian are currently the vassal lands of Chang Guogong and Guangchang Marquis. If you want to open sea trade, you need the consent of the two vassals."

Apparently Zhu Cihuan gave a verbal check. Whether he can return the ship in Fujian and Guangdong actually depends on the faces of the warlords Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in the two places.

But Yang Chao doesn't like to look at people's faces. As long as the emperor agrees, he can fight over with confidence. These two little warlords dare to say no, and Yang Chao doesn't mind killing them. As for sending troops, it is estimated that they are willing to reimburse the military expenses.

"You don't need to worry about this. The two vassals have a strong relationship with the governor. I believe they will not hinder the governor from contributing to the country. Let your majesty wait for the good news from the humble minister."

Relationship irreversible?Contribute to the country?

King Fu couldn't help cursing in his heart, neither of these two seems to have anything to do with you, Yang Chao. Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, which of the two guys have not been violently beaten by you, Yang Chao, this is what kind of relationship.As for contributing to the country, come on, who doesn't know that you open a shipping company to make money, so don't treat everyone as fools.

Although Fu Wang didn't believe it at all, the negotiation ended in a friendly atmosphere. At least Yang Chao felt that the atmosphere was friendly because he got what he wanted. Zhu Cihuan had already sent him a blank imperial edict with a jade seal, and it seemed that he was ready to agree to it.

Afterwards, it was about how King Fu fooled Zhu Cihuang. Yang Chao stood by and watched, absolutely not getting involved. This was an internal matter of their royal family. As a foreign minister, he was not fit to interfere, so he refused to help King Fu persuade him in the name of this.

Zhu Cihong has learned to be smart. He doesn't know what will happen to him after he leaves Nanjing and goes to Guangdong. Maybe Yang Chao will protect him and he will not die in Beijing, but he doesn't even want to be the Taiping Prince. Imprisonment until death is the best ending. There is no freedom in Nanjing, and Xu Da, Liu Bowen and others who are the descendants of the founding heroes are so comfortable.

Yang Chao didn't care about them, he had something urgent to do, so he had to hurry up and open the Shipping Department, otherwise it would be bad for everyone to starve to death, the situation in the South China Sea was out of control, the Dutch were not in the Zheng family, not even the pirates Talk to the Zheng family, let the situation get out of control, and lose the maritime authority of the Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, just as they were about to send someone to send an edict to Fujian for the Zheng family to prepare well, it turned out that the Zheng family came first.

It happened just in time, Yang Chao planned to give them the imperial edict directly.

Riding a horse to Xinjiangkou Wharf to wait for the Zheng family's fleet.

As a result, their big ship had just stopped, and a big dark-skinned girl jumped off the ship first.

Jumping in front of Yang Chao's horse, the horse raised its front hooves in shock. If Yang Chao's horsemanship hadn't improved, it might have fallen.

"You are Yang Chao? You don't look good!"

The black girl looked at Yang Chao carefully, and then commented.

"Sister Jiao, stop talking nonsense."

Zheng Hongkui walked down the ladder very steadily, generally scolding the black girl, while giving Yang Chao a fist.

"Uncle, forgive me, country girl, you don't know the rules!"

(End of this chapter)