Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 531 Going to America

"Brothers, it's time to make contributions, kill!!!"

Zhou Laoqi rushed towards the woods ahead with a 56 Chong in his arms.

All the soldiers and horses followed closely behind and rushed into the woods.

The moon hangs quietly in the sky, emitting light.

If it weren't for the screams, gunshots and shouts of killing that sounded from time to time, it would probably be a quiet night.

When the night passed and the sun rose, Zhou Laoqi led the men out of the woods and came outside.

Zhou Laoqi threw 56 behind his back, and the moment he walked out of the woods, he spit on the ground.

"Bring water!" Zhou Laoqi's mouth was sour and sticky. He looked at the guards next to him and shouted.

As soon as the voice fell, a personal guard hurriedly took a water hyacinth and handed it to Zhou Laoqi.

Zhou Laoqi pushed open the cork, raised his head and poured water.

When he finished drinking the pot of water, he let out a long breath, "I'm going, I was almost exhausted, these Jian slaves are really good at running, I never thought that these Jian slaves could run like this. After chasing him all night, I almost died of exhaustion!"

Zhou Laoqi sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

"Come on, bring me this bastard, Duoduo!" Zhou Laoqi shouted.

Not long after, Duoduo was brought over.

Zhou Laoqi looked at Duoduo who was tied up by five flowers, and laughed loudly: "Haha, Duoduo, Duoduo, why don't you run away, you run, keep running, I will see where you are going, run, Why don't you run away. Grandpa almost died of exhaustion chasing you."

Duoduo's face was full of gloom, he looked at Zhou Laoqi's mad face, and turned his head to the side.

"Hehe, how dare you play petty temper? I really thought that I was a high-ranking prince. You are just a prisoner now. What do you have? What do you have to be arrogant?" Zhou Laoqi cursed a few times and turned He took off his shoes and put them aside to dry.

A sour smell came up in an instant, but Zhou Laoqi didn't notice it, took off his socks, and clasped his feet with his hands.

While buckling, he showed an expression of extreme enjoyment.

"It's comfortable, it's comfortable, it's comfortable without shoes." Zhou Lao Qi buttoned it up for a while, then brought the shoes over, grabbed some dry soil from the ground, and stuffed them into the shoes.

Zhou Laoqi stuffed soil into the shoes to let the soil absorb the sweat inside the shoes.

After about a quarter of an hour, Zhou Laoqi poured out the soil from the shoes and put them back on.

"Let's go, take Duoduo to the camp for me. At the same time, order all the horses, the clearing in the woods cannot be stopped, let me continue the clearing, when the clearing is almost done, when will we go!"

Zhou Laoqi said and walked towards the camp ahead.

In the next few days, Zhou Laoqi's men carried out large-scale suppression of the forest seven or eight times. When Zhou Laoqi pulled out his battalion and returned to the army, almost all the slaves in the forest had been wiped out.

During this campaign, Zhou Laoqi captured half of Jiannu alive, and almost all Jiannu children and teenagers.

As for the remaining Jiannu, they were either killed during this campaign, or they ran deeper into the woods.

The Jiannu Zhou Laoqi who escaped was not worried. Living in this deep mountain and old forest is not so easy.

There are wolves, tigers and leopards everywhere here, and it is not so easy for those Jiannu who escaped to survive.

In addition, it is already August, and the weather is getting colder and colder. It is estimated that it will snow soon.

At that time, it is hard to say whether these escaped Jian slaves can survive this winter.

At the same time, Zheng Yiguan also received a reply from Zhao Wen.

When he saw Zhao Wen's reply, he burst out laughing, "Haha, I agree, my lord agrees!"

Zheng Yiguan sat in the hall of the yamen in Zeelandia City, laughing loudly.

"You all go out and let the merchants from the Maritime Chamber of Commerce in the city come to see me!" Zheng Yiguan looked at the several guards in the hall and shouted loudly.

Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were not by Zheng Yiguan's side at this time, so Zheng Yiguan asked his personal guards to call the merchants of the Maritime Association.

Earlier, Zheng Yiguan asked Liu Changchun to notify the merchants of the Maritime Association in the city to let them stay in the city during the recent period.Therefore, it didn't take long for these merchants from the Maritime Chamber of Commerce to come to the hall of the yamen.

Even those who hadn't been in Zeelandia before, they rushed to Zeelandia in these days.

"General Zheng, why are you here today?" Liu Changchun walked into the hall, looked at Zheng Yiguan who was sitting in the main seat and drinking tea leisurely, and greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Haha, good thing, good thing, it's a great thing." Zheng Yiguan laughed loudly.

When Liu Changchun heard this, he immediately understood, "General Zheng, could it be the thing you said before?"

"Haha, you are right. The commander-in-chief agreed and agreed to my plan." Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun standing in front of him, pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down, sit down and talk!"

After Zheng Yiguan finished speaking, he stood up, walked into the hall, looked at the merchants from the Maritime Association who came in one after another, and bowed to them with a smile on his face, "Everyone, sit down first, and wait for everyone to arrive." After that, I will tell you what happened."

At this time, many people have come to the hall.

These businessmen now look at Zheng Yiguan like they look at their parents.

"General Zheng is a bit out of touch when he said this. It is only natural for us to wait a while. Why does the general need to tell us specifically?" A middle-aged man in his 40s, wearing a military uniform, and holding a cane stood In the hall, he said with a smile on his face.

"Haha, you said that. That's enough, don't say that anymore, come on, everyone, sit down!" Zheng Yiguan pointed to the chairs that had been prepared on both sides of the hall, and said with a smile.

The number of chairs next to the hall is limited, only a dozen, while the number of businessmen who have come at this time has exceeded [-], and it is still rising.

Not everyone can sit on these chairs. Only those businessmen who joined the Maritime Association early, made great contributions to the Maritime Association, and paid more taxes are eligible to sit on the chairs.

As for those who joined late, contributed little, and paid less taxes, they could only stand behind these people.

Don't be dissatisfied, if anyone dares to dissatisfy, he will be kicked out in minutes.Even if he was kicked out, he didn't dare to say anything.

Almost half an hour later, the merchants who joined the Maritime Association had arrived.

Zheng Yiguan sat on the main seat, looked around, and when no one came, he coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and said: "I came to you today for a very important matter. To me, to you, it is a very important matter."

When everyone in the hall heard that Zheng Yiguan said that there was a very important matter, all their eyes were on Zheng Yiguan.

There are not many people in the hall who know the matter, except for Liu Changchun, there are only two or three people who know.

"There is a place to the east of Wa Kingdom, this place is called America, I believe that anyone who has been floating in the sea all year round and has dealt with Hongyi Folangji knows this.

In this place, there are things called rubber trees and cinchona trees. These two things are very important to the general soldier, and their importance is even more important than the weapons in the hands of the general soldier.

In addition to these two things, there are also a large number of gold, silver and copper mines in this area.Everyone, what is gold, silver and copper mine?It's all money, wasted money.

In the past, Lord Zongbing told me that I should go to this America to look for rubber trees and cinchona trees, and bring them back when I find them.

I thought about it, although I can do this kind of thing alone, but the fleet in my hand is limited, I can't pull all the fleet out to do these things, so I thought of you.

You may think that this kind of thing is not profitable, and there is no place to make money.But everyone, if you send these things back to Mr. Zongbing, do you think Mr. Zongbing can treat you badly? "Zheng Yiguan's voice echoed continuously in the hall, and everyone in the hall listened to Zheng Yiguan's voice and fell into deep thought.

After a while, a middle-aged businessman stood up, "General Zheng, we all understand what you said. But we don't know what this rubber is, and I heard from you that this rubber is what the commander-in-chief needs.

In this way, the folks may not need rubber, so we will earn very little money.Although we have a lot of ships in our hands now, the ships need maintenance, the sailors need wages, and they have to pay taxes. If the profit is not enough, we can do it once or twice, but if it takes a long time, we may not be able to support it. "

What the middle-aged businessman said was not unreasonable. This kind of thing is currently only needed by Zhao Wen, and the people have no demand.

If you want less, you will have less demand, and if you have less demand, your profits will be low, especially since Zhao Wen is the one who needs it, and they dare not open their mouths.

Therefore, they are afraid that people like themselves will make a loss-making business.

"Yes, yes, we have never been to this America. If we go rashly, what should we do if there is a storm?"

All of a sudden, the merchants in the hall began to discuss.

Zheng Yiguan looked at the merchants in the hall and said: "I know what you are thinking, are you just afraid that you will not make money?
As I have already said, Lord Chief Soldier will not treat you badly.Although only Mr. Zongbing’s family currently needs it, according to what Mr. Zongbing told me, Mr. Zongbing’s demand for rubber is very large, and the more the better.

This kind of thing is very important to Mr. Zongbing, I think Mr. Zongbing will definitely not treat you badly.If you think you earn less, let me ask you, how did you make money in Java? "

"Go to Java for business!" a businessman interjected.

Zheng Yiguan looked at the businessman who was talking, and said, "Of course I know that you are doing business, so I asked you, how do you make money? Why do you make money by doing business in Java?"

"General Zheng, as Java was captured by the Chief Soldier, more and more people went to Java. When there are more people, the demand will be greater, especially now that Java is in dire straits and needs a lot of supplies urgently.

Those of us will transport things that Java does not have, that cannot be produced temporarily, and that Java urgently needs to Java.For example, cotton cloth, cement, iron pan and the like.

And Java is rich in things like spices, pearls and corals, which are not available in Ming Dynasty, or the output is very small.Therefore, when we come back, we can pull these things back and bring them back for sale. "Liu Changchun didn't know why Zheng Yiguan asked such a question, but he answered the reason respectfully.

Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun, clapped his hands together, and said with a smile: "That's right, it's because of this reason. You basically do business in this way when you go to Java, but have you ever thought about why this America can't do this?" ?
There are many things in the Americas, and these things may not be available in Ming Dynasty. If you can ship back the things that Ming Dynasty does not have, do you think you can make less money?
What's more, if you go to the Americas and pass through the country of Wa, can't you stop by and do business in the country of Wa?

I think you will definitely ask, isn’t the Wa country closed to the outside world and does not do business with the outside world?

But I want to tell you that Mr. Zongbing has already started to attack the Wa country a few years ago, and now most of the Wa country has fallen into the hands of a man named Sakata Arui. This Sakata Arui was acquired by Mr. Zongbing in Ryukyu one of his men.

In addition to Sakata Arii, Mr. Zongbing also sent many officials who surrendered to the country of Wa.In the past, I sent the fleet to the Wa Kingdom under the orders of my lord.

These fleets are basically supply fleets. Originally, I didn't want to tell you about these things, but this time I told you about them in order to dissuade you from thinking about them. "

A small half of the current Wa country has fallen into the hands of Sakata Arui.

And this Sakata Arii was one of Zhao Wen's men who had been accepted a long time ago.

When he attacked Shanxi before, Zhao Wen sent most of the captured Shanxi officials to Japan, including Hong Chengchou.

Originally, because the number of officials governing the place was not enough, Sakata Arii and the others conquered the Wa Kingdom very slowly.

But when Hong Chengchou and the others arrived in the country of Wa, the speed of conquest was much faster.

Today, half of the land in Wa Kingdom has been taken by Sakata Arui and the others.

The reason why they have such a fast speed is that Zhao Wen sent some guard battalion soldiers to Wa country before. With these soldiers, it is difficult to think slowly.

Of course, in the current Japanese country, things are not decided by Sakata Arui alone, and Zhao Wen dare not let Sakata Arui decide alone.

When Hong Chengchou went to the Wa Kingdom, he took over the command. After all, Hong Chengchou is still capable.

Today's Wa Kingdom is headed by Hong Chengchou, with Sakata Arii and the leader of the guard battalion as his deputy.

(End of this chapter)