please make me king

Chapter 1317 The Lobbyist
"Wang Qingzhi?" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing as he looked at the pale young man in front of him.

"I haven't seen you for many years, and you are still so imaginary."

"In the end, I can't compare with His Royal Highness King Shun. I haven't seen him for many years, but I still have the same demeanor." Wang Qingzhi was not surprised when he heard the words, but complimented him with a playful smile.

"Haha!" Zhang Shun smiled heartily, noncommittal, but instead asked, "I haven't seen you in a few years, how is Ling Shu Chi's body?"

As the saying goes, if you don't have anything to go to the Three Treasures Hall, this guy just happened to visit him at this juncture, so there must be a reason.

It turned out that Wang Qingzhi was not someone else.It was the nephew of Meng Jin's "idiot Taoist" Wang Duo.

It's just that this person was incompetent, indulged in drinking and sex all day long, and offended others, so he couldn't pursue an economic career, so he went to Datong to make friends with wine and meat, and started a dental business.

Previously, Zhang Shun had bought a batch of firearms and one hundred thousand stones of food and grass from him successively, which solved the urgent need, so they got acquainted.

Later, Wang Duo's daughter married Lu Zhaolin, Lu Weiqi's son, and the two parties had a close relationship.

"Hey, don't mention him!" Wang Qingzhi said with a look of hating iron but not steel when he heard the words, "Before, my uncle had a good official career, and the official was the right bastard."

"I never thought that I would offend the cabinet ministers Wen Tiren and Wu Zongda, so I had to ask for a transfer to take charge of the Nanjing Imperial Academy. Last winter, I led my family and more than ten servants to Nanjing to take up the post."

"Oh?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately understood why.

At this time, Zhang Shun had a deep understanding of the official positions and systems of the Ming Dynasty, so of course he knew that Wang Duo was not what he thought he was at the beginning, but just a noble and scattered official.

It turned out that since the Ming Dynasty, all the officials elected to the Imperial Academy, regardless of their low grades and few affairs, seemed like idle officials, but in fact all of them were "prime ministers".

This Wang Duo had previously been an official to the right concubine, and his status was only below that of a university scholar. If there were no accidents, he would be a minister in the cabinet in the future.

As for the "invited to be transferred to be in charge of the affairs of the Nanjing Imperial Academy", it sounds like he is avoiding the sharpness of Wen Tiren and Wu Zongda, but it may not be because he smelled something and took the opportunity to leave the place of dispute.

"Really, Uncle Ling, don't you want to see your old friend?" Zhang Shun shook his head and asked annoyedly.

In fact, according to Zhang Shun's strength when he started his army, even if Wang Duo came to vote, he would only open his mouth too much to eat, and it would not help anything.

Zhang Shun deliberately made such an expression, but he just wanted to take the opportunity to express his intention to attract Wang Duo.

The world is different and things are different. Wang Duo, who was basically useless without Wang Duo at the beginning, is of great use at the current stage of the development of the Rebel Army.

Unexpectedly, Wang Qingzhi laughed and said: "Although my uncle is a great talent, why can't he know the way of doing business, so what can he do?"

"Although a young man is a dandy, he is a businessman. He wants to talk to King Shun about business."

"Oh? I see that you are empty-handed. I don't know what kind of business you want to do?" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing as his heart moved.

"For the first time, I sold the artillery and gunpowder that were eliminated from the two towns of Xuanda and King Shun." Wang Qingzhi couldn't help laughing.

"The second time I sold to King Shun was the army rations of the two towns of Xuanda."

"The weapons, gunpowder, and food were sold the last two times. This time, there is nothing to sell. Why don't we just sell Xuanda and Dazhen directly to King Shun? I don't know how much it will cost?"

"Oh?" Zhang Shun's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, and he said without changing his face, "I don't know how much you want to ask for?"

"There is a Wowotou, which is full of fish and meat on weekdays. It doesn't even look at it, and it makes you choke if you feed it to the dog." Wang Qingzhi couldn't help laughing.

"But when there is a famine, the people will have nothing to eat, even mountains of gold and silver can't be exchanged, what does King Shun think?"

What is a negotiator? This is called a negotiator.

Although it is said that Xuanda and Dazheng have no bargaining chips to ask for a price now, Wang Qingzhi forcibly created a bargaining chip for him.

Don't look at the gaudy things he said, the meaning behind the words is the same: Although Xuanda and Dazhen have little strength, if you don't place a bet now, others will place a bet.

Zhang Shun was really taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately remembered the story of Wu Sangui in his previous life.

He didn't know what Li Zicheng promised Wu Sangui at the beginning, but Wu Sangui finally led the Qing army into the customs and was named King Pingxi.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "If the two towns of Xuanda can really submit to me, they can be granted the title of one Liao king, three princes, and five marquises. The generals and above are all earls, and the monthly salary of soldiers is one stone. .”

"By the way, if this matter depends on the efforts of two people, then King Liao can be analyzed as King Zhenshuo and King Zhendai. What does Qing Zhi think?"

"Ah?" Wang Qingzhi was obviously a little stunned by Zhang Shun, and couldn't react for a while.

"This... This is really great. If it is as said, everyone in Xuanda will die for His Highness, and they will die."

It's no wonder that Wang Qingzhi was so excited, the title of King Liao is the one-word king of the eight classics.

The so-called "one-character kings" are generally princes, with the titles of Jin, Qin, Qi, and Chu as the most noble, followed by Zhou, Lu, Zhao, Wei, Liang, Yan, Dai, Han, Song, Wu, and Yue. .

But in any case, the Liao Kingdom also once stood side by side with Xixia and Northern Song Dynasty. With this name, it can be regarded as the name second only to Jin, Qin, Qi, and Chu.

Now, apart from the Ming and Jin clans who were crowned kings, only Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming were conferred the titles of King Gongshun, King Zhishun, and King Huaishun by Hong Taifen who had just been proclaimed emperor.

However, these three king titles, although they are called princes, are actually no different from miscellaneous titles, and they are not even as pleasant as Zhang Shun's newly created Zhenshuo Wang and Zhendai Wang.

Not to mention that below the title of king, there are still a lot of titles such as princes and princes, who have been rewarded from top to bottom, and a fool would not choose him.

"Since King Shun is so generous, our family will not talk about each other." Wang Qingzhi rubbed his hands and said.

"There are still two important points. I hope King Shun will make a decision as soon as possible."

"Oh, I don't know which two places it is?" Zhang Shun rewarded so much in one go, and his heart ached, he couldn't help asking hastily.

"One is the Shang Gang." Wang Qingzhi couldn't help laughing when he heard the words.

"The land of Shanxi has the benefits of salt and iron, and it is connected to the outside of the Great Wall in the north and the belly in the south, so there are many merchants."

"Those who are famous today are roughly divided into two places. One is called the Pingyang Shang Gang, and the other is called the Pingyao Shang Gang."

"The Pingyang Merchant Gang has Pingyang Mansion as its core, and the families of Wei, Wang, Liu, and Yang are the most prosperous, with tens of millions of assets and countless banks."

"Secondly, there is the Pingyao Merchant Gang. Although it is not as good as the Pingyang Merchant Gang, it is also a rising star."

"The land is barren and there is not enough food, so since ancient times, many people have gone out to do business to make a living."

"When it comes out, divide it into east and west routes. The east route goes to Zhangjiakou, and the west route goes to Shahukou. It's only for Tartar business."

"Export pigments, silk, dried fruits, medicinal materials, and ironware in exchange for livestock such as cattle, sheep, horses and mules. They are also called 'traveling Mongolian merchants'."

"The most famous person among them is Jiexiu Fan Yongdou, the number one member of the Pingyao Merchant Gang, please be careful, Your Highness!"

"Oh? I see!" Zhang Shun couldn't help squinting his eyes when he heard this, and nodded.

Good guy, is this the famous "Eight Imperial Merchants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty"?

Although Wang Qingzhi didn't say it thoroughly, Zhang Shun heard it thoroughly.

Many people in later generations believed that these people colluded with the Qing Dynasty for money, but in fact there may not be another possibility.

These "imperial merchants" were also likely to be merchant gangs formed by the Manchu Qing, who in turn provided materials and information to the Manchu Qing under the guise of legality.

If this is the case, it is difficult to guarantee that these people will not report the truth and falsehood in their own territory to the Hou Jin army, and then guide the Hou Jin army to kill them into their stomachs.

"Then what about the other place?" Zhang Shun asked calmly despite the turmoil in Zhang Shun's heart.

"The second is the Ming Army." Wang Qingzhi looked at Zhang Shun carefully, and couldn't see the truth for a while, so he couldn't help pointing to Yuxian Road in the east.

"The current situation is like the three kingdoms standing together, the one who can control one of them in two will win."

"Now that the Empress Jin army is besieged and there is nothing they can do, why not persuade Zhu Xieyuan to be equal to others?"

"If Your Highness has the heart, please let me go for a while, and it will definitely make it difficult for the golden army to cross and walk on four hooves."

(End of this chapter)