Chapter 49: Crusade (Part 1) "What is this, how is this possible?"
Even though his heart had been greatly tempered in the past few days, Chen Liang was so shocked that his body tilted.
Thanks to supporting the desk with his hands, he barely managed to avoid falling down on the spot.
What surprised him was not that the Huai'an army came to the Pu family.
After all, after Zhu Chongjiu's assassination, people in Huaiyang were in turmoil and they urgently needed a winning battle to improve cohesion.
What surprised him was that Zhu Chongjiu was shameless and asked Xuexue to help mediate, so that the Meng Yuan court watched helplessly as he went to swallow up Quanzhou Port.
This is simply whimsical.
Although Quanzhou Port is not big, it was an important tax base in the Yuan Dynasty.
When the country was founded, the seven major shipping departments were abolished several times, and only three of them were left in the end.
Quanzhou was one of the three.
And now, Qingyuan City Shipping Department has long fallen into the hands of the pirate Fang Guozhen In other words, there are only two shipping companies left in the Yuan Dynasty, Guangzhou and Quanzhou.
If Quanzhou is occupied by Zhu Butcher again, only Guangzhou will be left.
And Guangzhou is far away from Dadu, so the lijin extracted from sea trade every year has no chance of being transported to Dadu.
Hama is the prime minister of Dayuan, not from the Zhu family.
Even if his brother secretly colludes with Zhu Butcher, even if there is one civil and military man in the court who has not had his head trampled by a horse, the court will not let Zhu Butcher smash his own rice pot.
However, what was absolutely impossible for Chen Liang to join the army was very logical in Burgeud's eyes.
"How is it impossible?"
He curled his lips slightly and said with a sneer, "The Pu family in Quanzhou was born rebellious.
As early as Three years ago, he had already used the excuse of poor land routes to drown at sea when he was supposed to be sent to the imperial court.
This year has been even more cruel.
From the beginning of the year to now, we have only sent a batch of ships to Zhigu, handing in twenty kilograms of southern pearls and three hundred taels of gold.
The rest are all worthless rice.
It's not even 10% of what it was in previous years.
Since he had the nerve to say that he encountered a storm at sea, don't blame the court for being cruel to him."
Note 1 "But, but he, after all, they still paid a little bit."
Although Chen Liang, who joined the army, didn't know much about world affairs, he also knew that three hundred taels of gold was really short.
After hesitating for a moment, Qi Qi Ai Ai defended the Pu family.
"Do you think beads are still as valuable as they used to be?
Huaiyang merchants have already mastered the art of dotting beads.
The same size of beads are now sold in Yangzhou even for dustpans.
Three hundred taels of gold is not enough to buy a county magistrate's pawn.
Besides, the imperial court only needs to issue an order.
The market can be reopened in Zhigu.
At that time, the business will be under the eyes of the emperor, which is no better than letting the Pu family guard the country."
I don't know whether it was privately instructed by an expert, or whether he was born shrewd and served as deputy to Wanhu Burigu.
De curled his lips and refuted Chen Liang completely.
"But, but" Chen Liang, who joined the army, could no longer find a reason to keep Quanzhou, but he was unwilling to give in.
He continued to stutter with sweat on his face, "But the Great Yuan Dynasty, the face of the Great Yuan Dynasty.
Then Quanzhou After all, this is the place of the Yuan Dynasty.
If this is the case, if the imperial court does not move, it will chill the hearts of all the loyal and righteous people in the world."
"You are wrong again."
Buzhigude continued to sneer and shake his head.
"If the Pu family were loyal, there would be no treacherous villains in the world.
Do you know that the Pu family colluded with the big food and sea merchants, and they have long been disobedient. .
His subordinates are all Yisiba Xibing.
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Not only do the Tianfang believers refuse to obey the government's orders, but other local wealthy families are also suffering from their abuse.
If Zhu Tutu is willing to fight with them, it will just solve a serious problem for the court."
Note 2 "This" Chen Liang was completely speechless.
Since the Pu family in Quanzhou had already thought of supporting their own troops, it was understandable that the imperial court would use the help of Butcher Zhu to eliminate him.
However, can the Yuan Dynasty really reap the benefits?
I am afraid that by then, only a handful of people will benefit.
Quanzhou City was swallowed by Butcher Zhu, but no one could easily let him spit it out again.
"Chen Xiucai, you are still young."
Seeing Chen Liang's eyes filled with confusion, Burgeud's sympathy grew.
Walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him sincerely.
"In this world, if one is either loyal or treacherous, then everything will be simple.
Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you now.
Just wait and see, from now on, there will be a lot of fun to watch."
"Well, thank you, Brother Bu Ri."
Chen Liang was patted and shook, and then nodded vigorously.
Following the other party's instructions, his eyes widened every day in the following days.
Sure enough, I found more "interesting" things.
Xuexue imitated Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang and crossed the river alone to attend the meeting.
Then it is said that he scolded the thief in person and scolded Feng Guoyong, Zhu Butcher's subordinate, until he was speechless.
Finally, the two sides agreed to stop fighting again with the Yellow River and Weishui River as the boundary.
Because he admired Xuexue's loyalty and bravery, Zhu Butcher's arm Feng Guoyong agreed to purchase at least five million catties of wool from northern merchants every year at a high price of seventy cents per catty.
If the amount exceeds five million catties, then go to the market accordingly.
Unless the war breaks out again and interrupts the transaction.
Otherwise, the two parties will deliver goods at Haimen Port on a monthly basis, pay upon delivery, and will not default on each other.
In order to take care of the livelihood of the people who fell under the rule of thieves and show the royal grace, Xuexue agreed and advised the court to open a shipping company in Zhigu Port and Shizikou further north to facilitate private business travel.
However, if the court does not approve it, it will not have any impact on the wool trade between the two parties.
When the news came back, the entire Royal Forest Army burst into cheers.
Everyone praises General Xuexue for his ability to show his righteousness, bravery and martial arts to help the king, and his virtue has been praised by the people.
Note 3 Even the governor of Dayuan Privy Council, Pingzhang Zhengshi Taibuhua, who rarely appeared in public, personally went to Qixue's army to express his condolences to Xuexue.
He was praised in public for his "service" ability.
And it was announced in public that one million kilograms of the five million kilograms of wool would be disposed of by Xuexue herself, and the dividends would be used to purchase weapons and equipment to strengthen the army.
Of course, there is no need for Xuexue to worry about the remaining four million kilograms.
There will naturally be "merchants" negotiating to divide it up.
Any firm that gets a share will inevitably have to visit Xuexue's camp again, or give some small gifts, or leave hundreds of grains of rice, in order to coerce Xue Jun's rearmament, and use up all the money. cotton.
Everyone was happy for the bargain they got.
Only Chen Liang, who joined the army, was squatting beside the account book with a sad face.
Butcher Zhu had five million kilograms of wool at his disposal, which was indeed a frightening amount of money.
The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had reaped such a huge benefit, and they were short-tempered.
When the Huai'an army sent troops to Quanzhou, who would have the nerve to mention the plan to support the Pu family?
What kind of demon king did this butcher surnamed Zhu come to earth to kill?
Spending a lot of money with extraordinary skills, practicing so superbly Note 1: Because Pu Shougeng had merit in betraying the Zhao family, the Quanzhou Shipping Company was controlled by the Pu family throughout the Yuan Dynasty.
Tariffs were significantly withheld.
With only two customs offices in the country, only more than 3,000 taels of gold would be turned over in a normal year.
At that time, Quanzhou Port had direct import and export transactions with more than 100 regions.
Note 2: The Yisiba Xibing rebellion in Quanzhou at the end of the Yuan Dynasty brought a devastating blow to Quanzhou Port.
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This chaos lasted for ten years.
All non-Tianfang believers, including Christians who had existed in Quanzhou for a long time, were massacred by Yisiba Xibing.
Until the founding of the Ming Dynasty, foreign non-Japanese ships did not dare to enter Quanzhou.
Note 3: King Wu An Yingji showed his righteousness and bravery, and posthumously granted the title to Guan Yu in the first year of Tianli of Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan Dynasty
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