please make me king

Chapter 1623 Dispute
It is said that Huang Sunmao bid farewell to Zhang Shun, left the capital, selected warships and manpower, and then rushed to Lushun in a mighty way.

After arriving in Lushun and visiting Tianjin General Zhao Liangdong, the other party reluctantly lent him the "Sailing Battleship Fengzhou" for "use for a few days".

Speaking of which, Huang Sunmao was well-informed, but he was shocked when he saw the sailing battleship Feng Zhou for the first time.

Not only because the ship is big, but also because it is densely covered with artillery.

There are nearly a hundred Hongyi cannons, which are divided into three layers, and the muzzles of the black holes point to both sides.

He could imagine how spectacular it would be when these artillery salvos fired.

Suddenly, Denglai Admiral Huang Sunmao understood that this ship was not only used by His Royal Highness King Shun to deter Dongjiang Town and North Korea, but also to deter himself and others.

Regardless of the large number of warships under his command, once he encounters more than a dozen such "giant ships", he will be reduced to a living target and sent to the bottom of the sea with a salvo.

Thinking of this, he boarded the sailing battleship in trepidation, and then led the fleet to Dongjiang.

From Lushunkou to the northeast, it has successively passed through Sanshan Island, Guanglu Island, Changshan Island, Shicheng Island, Lu Island, and Zhangzi Island. The journey is no less than two thousand miles.

It is not that there have been storms and waves along the way, but this sailing battleship is not affected by these winds and waves at all, as if walking on flat ground.

After finally arriving at Pidao, Huang Sunmao had just disembarked from the boat when Shen Shikui, the commander in chief of the Dongjiang River who had already received the news, came up with his nephew Shen Zhixiang.

"Master Huang, it's been a long time!" Shen Shikui saw him respectfully.

"Just call me Admiral, and now I am the Admiral of Denglai Navy!" Huang Sunmao said with a businesslike look.

"By the way, you did a good job this time. His Royal Highness King Shun ordered me to send five thousand stones of grain, three thousand catties of gunpowder, two thousand bolts of cloth, eight thousand guns, and one hundred barrels of lead. Please check them later. .”

"My minister, thank you for your kindness!" Shen Shikui hurriedly bowed in the direction of the capital after hearing the words, and then asked, "Then shall we open the market?"

"Open the market? What kind of market will you open? This time, in the name of His Highness, I am going to North Korea as an envoy. Where can I trade with you?" Huang Sunmao sneered.

It turns out that since the mid-Ming Dynasty, when envoys went on missions, they generally carried out "private trade", or "entrainment trade".

Like this time when Huang Sunmao came to Dongjiang, the ship must have carried a large amount of trade materials such as silk, blue cloth, and grain.

In addition to "public trade", many of these materials belong to Huang Sunmao's own "private trade".

The two sides have long been aware of this, so Dongjiang Town, which has just experienced the war, urgently needs to carry out a "private trade" to clear out the materials in its hands.

As a result, I never thought that this matter would be flatly rejected by Huang Sunmao.

"You..." Shen Zhixiang was furious when he heard the words, and was about to step forward to argue, but unexpectedly, his uncle Shen Shikui stretched out his hand to stop him.

"Since that's the case, Shen doesn't force it!" Shen Shikui said with a smile, "Then let Admiral Huang go to the island to rest first!"

"Alright!" Huang Sunmao nodded as a matter of course when he heard the words, and then Shi Shiran went.

"Uncle!" Seeing this, Shen Zhixiang's canthus cracked, and his eyes seemed to burst into flames, "I voted for King Shun before, and King Shun treated me very well."

"How could you turn your face on the other side as soon as you finished your efforts? This guy must be making trouble, so he must be spared!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, you can't live if you don't want to!" Shen Shikui interrupted hastily when he heard the words.

At the beginning, the reason why Shen Shikui took refuge in Zhang Shun was that the "imperial court" dispatched troops to block the Eastern captives for him.

As a result, I never thought that when there was a fight here, not only did not a single soldier die, but the city and territory in Jinzhou and Jinzhou were attacked.

This is really "the mutton is not eaten, but it makes a show."

To say dissatisfaction, Shen Shikui must have something in his heart.

However, regardless of whether the rebels are willing to join the battle or not, the Eastern Prisoners will attack and destroy Dongjiang.

So whether Shen Shikui is willing or not, he has no choice but to resist to the end.

However, what Shen Shikui never expected was that Huang Sunmao, the former deputy envoy of Denglai, transformed into the admiral of the Denglai Navy of the rebel army.

Not only did this guy become the admiral of the rebel army, but he also had to put aside his direct trade with North Korea, which was really unbearable for Shen Shikui.

It turns out that this Dongjiang town hangs alone overseas, and it is located at the hub of the Eastern Captives and North Korea, and the strength of the Ming army is hard to match.

Therefore, the Ming court allowed it to open a market with North Korea to trade in order to raise the necessary supplies.

However, it is hard to die. After the Hou Jin passed the two Khan kings of Lao Nu and Hong Tai, the economy was in a mess and basically on the verge of collapse.

Therefore, this time, it was a trading port between Dongjiang and North Korea in name, but it actually became a trading base for the three parties of the East Captives, North Korea and the Ming Dynasty.

Or to be more precise, it has become a stronghold for Donglu to "sell stolen goods".

Under the leadership of Hong Tai, Donglu robbed the precious metals of the Ming Dynasty, and then brought them here, and exchanged high prices for food, cloth and other daily necessities.

The general process starts with Houjin merchants taking ginseng, leather goods, gold and silver from North Korean merchants in exchange for silk, green cloth, grain and other materials.

Then, North Korean merchants took ginseng, leather goods, gold and silver, etc., and exchanged them from Dongjiang merchants for silk, green cloth and grain.

Then Dongjiang merchants resold ginseng, leather goods, gold and silver to the mainland.

At that time, there were natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the inflation in Hou Jin and North Korea was serious.Among them, there was even a situation of "one bucket of grain priced at eight taels of silver" in the later Jin Kingdom, and it was known how profitable this trade was, which naturally aroused the covetousness of other people.

This is the root of the tragedy of Mao Wenlong and Dongjiang Town since Dongjiang Town was opened.

But today's Dongjiang Town has just gone through the flames of war, and has a large amount of ginseng, leather goods and silver in its hands with nowhere to trade, but never thought that Huang Sunmao would play such a trick, so how can Shen Shikui not be annoyed?

"Uncle, what do you think we should do?" Shen Zhixiang said angrily.

"What should I do? Cold salad!" Shen Shikui sneered, and couldn't help but make up his mind, "Since they want to force me to death, how can I sit and wait for death?"

"Big deal, the fish will die and the net will be broken!"

"Okay, well said!" Shen Zhixiang was quite excited when he heard the words, he pulled out his waist knife, and said ruthlessly, "I'm going to pick a man right now, and chop this guy up."

"Why did you chop him up?" Shen Shikui was frightened half to death, and quickly stopped him, "If you want to die, you can't take the whole Dongjiang Town to be buried with you!"

"Ah? Don't kill him? If you don't kill him, how can you be so angry!" Shen Zhixiang said angrily.

"No, this time there is only one letter from the town, and he can't afford to keep it!" Shen Shikui finally realized that his nephew had misunderstood what he meant, and couldn't help explaining with a smile.

"What, uncle wants to make this route public?" Shen Zhixiang was taken aback when he heard the words, and then understood what Shen Shikui meant.

"If that's the case, isn't it the end of our Dongjiang?"

The material basis for the existence of Dongjiang Town is to earn excess profits from maritime trade.

If this route is made public, then the imperial court will definitely attack this trade route.

"Dongjiang can't finish, it's not about you and me, but about him!" Shen Shikui smiled and pointed to the east.

"Uncle was also a businessman in the early years, so he naturally knows the pros and cons of it."

"Everything has a rise and fall. The Dongjiang River prospered because of the Eastern captives, and it will naturally decline because of the Eastern captives."

"Now King Shun Tianzong has the capital to destroy the Ming Dynasty first and conquer the Eastern captives. Now he is pressing harder and harder, with the intention of taking all of Liaodong."

"Once Liaodong is ruled by King Shun, where can we not open a market, and where can we not trade?"

Then Shen Zhixiang was taken aback when he heard the words, and suddenly turned pale with shock: "You mean, the court no longer needs Dongjiang anymore?"

"Yes!" Shen Shikui nodded, and said firmly, "If the imperial court is strong and Liaodong is unified, of course there is no need for Dongjiang."

"If Donglu is strong and the world is full of bad smells, then naturally there is no need for Dongjiang."

"Only when two tigers fight each other, regardless of victory or defeat, can Dongjiang have the value of existence."

"However, Dongjiang cannot determine the general trend of the world at all, so naturally it can only obey the general trend of the world!"

(End of this chapter)