Win the Ding 1617

Under the night, an autumn rain fell quietly and silently on Guangzhou in late August, making this beautiful city of flowers still immersed in the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival wet.The lights on both sides of the Pearl River, under the fine and hazy rain makeup, are more and more poetic and picturesque.The flower boats shuttling back and forth on the river, the sound of oars, the lights and shadows, and the sound of music and laughter set off the scene of the whole city in a peaceful and prosperous age.

In the city, rows of patrolling men and horses pass by from time to time on the streets. They are all dressed in brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets, with bamboo hats on their heads, red felt hats of the same color under the bamboo hats, and oilcloth ponchos on their bodies. Zhonghuhushengfeng.That kind of looking forward to the heroic posture, just like a heroic demeanor, is in stark contrast to the sluggishness of the Ming army elsewhere.

If you only look at it from the outside, it is easy to be deceived by this illusion.In fact, most of these troops patrolling and maintaining law and order in and around the city were the original Ming army in Guangdong, and some were members of militias from various places.After Li Shouhan took over the affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, he disarmed all these messy armed forces, and then reorganized according to the criteria of weeding out the old and the weak, and selecting the strong and strong. During the reorganization process, he consciously added fresh blood and different components to maximize Change the style of the original troops.

In the face of full military pay, good food, and thick and refined quilts, the harsh training these soldiers faced seemed not so terrible.After several months of training, these patrol battalions, which are responsible for arresting bandits and maintaining law and order, have become somewhat of an elite division. It is not a problem to deal with all kinds of bandits, Da Tianer, and hundreds of officers and soldiers will not be killed. More than a dozen gangsters chased away the shoes like ducks.

A carriage with simple decoration came hoofing along the bluestone road under the escort of a hundred riders in iron armor and helmets.In the eyes of experienced patrol battalion soldiers, these riders are warriors who have survived a hundred battles.They were divided into two parts, the front and the back, and they rode on horseback. The iron armor on their bodies gleamed coldly. The kind of majesty that looked forward to their own majesty made people fearful.

"Get out of the way! The team stays to the right!" The team leader hastily issued the command, telling his subordinates to get out of the way.He can see clearly.Although the carriage didn't have any decorations, it used the latest rubber tires and spring shock absorbing components. It walked quietly and briskly.With such guards, the people sitting in such a carriage are naturally extraordinary.

The person sitting in the car is none other than Ye Qi and Ye Shaoning, one of the top three new secret agents of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Because although he didn't officially take over, but the errands at hand had already started quickly, and Ye Qi immediately became a powerful upstart in Guangzhou.

Xinhepu in Dongshan.Ye Qi bought land here when he was in charge of Longsheng's commercial affairs, and built a very exquisite and gorgeous house.The same house or villa, he also has another one in Jijingkeng, a scenic place outside Guangzhou, where he used to house his many wives, concubines and children.

"Master, go back to the house!" Following the announcement from the concierge, Ye Qi's wives and concubines from all over the world, who he had collected over the years like antique calligraphy, paintings and stamps, appeared in colorful clusters on the campus. In the living room.Welcome him back home.

Look at these or come from the Qinhuai River, or from Datong, Shanxi.Whether she is a famous princess of the Japanese kingdom, or an orchid from Tianzhu, or even the wives and concubines from the more distant Flangji, Ye Qi couldn't help but let out a long breath.It seemed as if he wanted to spit out many silts in his chest with this breath, but it turned into a faint sentence.

"Everyone is here? What do you have for dinner?"

"Master, the weather is a bit cold today. Let's cook a side stove and eat some raw fish." A concubine in charge of Ye Qi's family's catering affairs answered Ye Qi's question with a voice like a yellow warbler.

As the only native of Nanzhili in the high-level power core of the Southern Guangdong Army, Ye Qi's attention to food is second only to the protagonist Li Shouhan and the second son of the Li family Li Peiting.In Huaiyang cuisine, the style of never being tired of food, not tired of fine food, has been well implemented in his family's diet.What's more, there are several women in his family who are from the banks of the Qinhuai River?

Ye Qi felt much better after drinking two bowls of hot porridge with the fish fillets that a few chefs combined Anqing-flavored Yipinguo with Guangdong Dabianlu.I don't talk too much with my wives, concubines and children.Just get up and leave, and come to his study, where he wants to sort out the public and private affairs of the day.

Sitting down in her study room, brewing a cup of tea, quietly listening to the sound of the rain outside the window beating against the rustling of banana leaves in the courtyard, Ye Qi began to sort out the events of the day.This is a habit he has developed over the years. He sits in the study every day, reminiscing about the gains and losses of the day, and often gains something.

He thought quietly, at this time, how can he look like the wild and unrestrained Ye Xianggong who spent a lot of money on the bank of the Qiantang River back then?

The bookshelves are full of books, divided into different categories, and there are many rare books and ancient books.It is different from those guys in the Southern Guangdong Army who don’t read much, but just got rid of illiteracy because of the system after enlisting in the army, and because of the request of the lord, the officers who can’t meet the standards are not allowed to be promoted, so they have to build a study room out of necessity or arty, Ye Qi He is still a scholar at heart.It's just that reading is indeed a practical study.

After thinking for a while, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he took from the desk case a stack of gift lists placed on the desk by the two concubines who were in charge of the family's guests and financial expenses.

Since he started to take charge of part of the intelligence work in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions a few days ago, the civil and military officials and wealthy businessmen in the city of Guangzhou have jumped up one after another like flies seeing blood.All kinds of gifts, gold, silver and jewellery, real estate deeds, antique calligraphy and paintings, beautiful maidservants, and even dry stocks of various trading shops.All kinds of means came one after another.The purpose is to curry favor with him, the spy chief, and I don't ask you to speak well in front of the Duke, as long as you don't target us!

Somewhat different from the previous few days, these gifts today were sent by foreign businessmen in Guangzhou.

Different from the style of the dignitaries from all walks of life in Guangzhou, how do these Europa barbarians know the various methods and tricks of giving gifts and bribes in China?The thank you for asking someone to write an article is called Wenyi, the one asking for an inscription to write is called Runbi, the gift for wives and aunts is called Zhuangjing, etc.This group of guys from England blatantly wrote five thousand gold coins on the gift list.

(Speaking of which, my brain has never been enough. The author, who was called a fool since he was a child, suddenly understood why so many leaders like to practice calligraphy and write inscriptions everywhere. It turns out that the secret of mines is like this! However, It’s not right, it seems. It’s the one who likes to write inscriptions everywhere, and leaves his bad words between the white mountains and black waters on both sides of the Yellow River! How should I get him a fountain pen?! No way, my brain is not enough!)

These English people probably also knew that there was another person in Guangzhou who might not have a high status, but had absolute power, so they came here in a hurry to give gifts, pay homage to their disciples, and make connections.

Ye Qi smiled bitterly, took a piece of letter paper from her hand, and put the name of the person who gave the gift.What was given, one by one according to the gift list copied on it.Afterwards, the signature and seal shall be handed over to the official office for record keeping according to the previous handling method.After receiving the receipt of the official document from the official office, he will hand over these gifts to the Duzhi Office of the Duke's Mansion, and get back a receipt, so that in the future, someone will say that he has accepted bribes or the like.He only needs to show these two receipts to make everyone speechless.

"I have already reported to my lord. And all these gifts have been handed over. Why do you say that I accept bribes?"

However, these businessmen from England aroused Ye Qi's interest.

As a business manager on Lingjiawei Island for a long time before, Ye Qi's vision and understanding of the world are much higher than other high-level officials of the Southern Guangdong Army.At least, he will not regard books like Shan Hai Jing and Jing Hua Yuan (er, it seems that there is no such novel at this time.) as real descriptions of the world.He is more convinced.It is also a relevant record of Zheng He's voyages to the West.

Another source is the descriptions of merchants here and there.According to these merchants, Ye Qi's understanding of the so-called Frangji or Westerners is far higher than that of other people in the Southern Guangdong Army.

Moreover, the military supplies purchased by the Portuguese were cannon fodder for the mercenaries recruited in the Japanese country.Every ship has to go in and out of Lingjiawei Island for supplies, guarding such a near-water building, Ye Qi naturally has a lot of knowledge about the situation in Europe.

At least he knew that England at this time was the eve of the civil war when the big fights started!

Ever since England was beaten up by Li Shouhan at the mouth of the Pearl River last time, its originally aggressive momentum has suddenly become like a deflated ball, especially when the captives appeared on the streets of London with disfigured faces and bruises, the public opinion in the country was in an uproar .

Whether those nobles or members of the royal family, they don't even think about why the trading ships of their own country are attacked by the opponent's army on the inland river of other countries with fierce gunfire.Instead, he only saw the wounds on his own body that were still bleeding and festering. (More than half a year has passed, and the captives, covered with new scars, are accusing the cruelty of the evil and ignorant monarch of the East on the streets of London? Crack! A reader sent a brick, your sister, it will take half a year to go to England at the fastest, even if it is discounted The leg should heal too! The unkind author can only say that you have too little experience. A reporter in the West was gang-raped five times by the dictatorship and could cry perfectly. The wound still remains there for half a year. It’s just pediatrics.)

"This is impossible! Those Dutch and Spaniards can endure the insults and barbaric acts of those brutal monarchs in the East, but we must never! I suggest to His Majesty to send a fleet to the East to teach this cruel and ignorant man a lesson." guy!"

There was applause, whistles and shouts in the English House of Commons.

"Since we are going to teach that barbaric and brutal Eastern monarch a lesson, where will the military expenses come from for this great modern Eastern Crusade?"

After receiving the unanimous request from the members of the House of Lords and the nobles, the current king of England, Charles I, who was worrying about the empty treasury and lack of money in his hands, could not help but ask with a smile.

"Do you want the Senate to grant me the right to collect taxes again for a few years? To raise military expenses for the Eastern Expedition? You can also build ships, recruit sailors, and forge cannons."

"Cough cough!"

"The weather is good today, a rare good weather in London!"

Hearing such a request from His Majesty the King, everyone was filled with righteous indignation just now, eager to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and across the Indian Ocean to drag that cruel and heartless Li Shouhan out of bed, and dragged them to the upper reaches of the Thames River. , and immediately discussed the topic of going there for a walk.

Charlie could only smile wryly, and continued to think about where he should find money to fill the deficit and deficit of the national treasury.

His life is compared with that of Chongzhen thousands of miles away.Life was far worse.Classmate Chongzhen is just because there are too many tax-exempt people in the country, and the tax amount is too low, but Classmate Chongzhen can make a decree to collect taxes if he wants to collect taxes.Unlike Charlie, if you want to collect taxes, you must first get the consent of the House of Representatives.

No way, who let Charlie take over from his predecessors and ancestors is a regime that has been boasted by countless Western media?Who made England's monarchs of so many generations not get the country and land from horseback, but got the king's position from bed and marriage?It is not the country that was brought down by oneself.Naturally, the weight of speaking is insufficient, and a tacit agreement must be reached with the local tyrants (the so-called English nobles). Therefore, the Magna Carta, which was regarded as the standard by countless people and advocated as the ancestor of the spirit of the rule of law, came out.The biggest difference between this document and our China is that our China adheres to the principle of "there is no king in the world". As long as it is within my regime, my power cannot be rejected, of course.Whether it can actually be implemented is another matter.But this Magna Carta is another set, "The vassal of my vassal, not my vassal." What does it mean?The king has no right to touch the territories ruled by those dukes and marquises!

If such treatment was known to the Donglin scholars of the Ming Dynasty, would they cry bitterly? "This is the treatment that my scholars should enjoy!"

Not only can we not pay taxes, but the court needs to obtain our consent to collect taxes. There is no one in the world who respects scholars more than this and has the spirit of the rule of law.Does it have all the advantages of a coordinated government?

(That's right! Countless developers of the Celestial Dynasty dragged a cannon out of the camp with great care, and fired at the unkind authors. This cannon can be said to be the most powerful in the developer camp and the public elite camp. It is a sharp weapon with huge lethality. And there are many tactical effects. The government wants to regulate housing prices, he fires shells, what mother-in-law needs, just needs, etc., housing prices in various places have dropped. Once the government wants to take measures to collect real estate taxes To curb real estate speculation and prevent excessive housing price growth, he jumped out to ask the government to protect the interests of developers. What's more, he blatantly disregarded the partyization promoted by the principal in the National Revolutionary Army, and criticized the principal's rule of the country by the party and the army by the party. Thoughts turned a blind eye. Claiming that the National Revolutionary Army is not the party army, but the national army. If the principal knows, he will probably jump out of Cihu's coffin and curse a few times in Ningbo accent, "Mother Xipi!" You know, the principal In the Huangpu period, the designations of the direct line troops belonged to a certain department of the party army! If this person was born in the Chongzhen year of the Ming Dynasty or during the British Civil War, he would have been regarded as a saint.)

The British Revolution, touted by countless historical works and textbooks as the first of the bourgeois revolution in the West, if a basin of water was used to wash off the rouge and gouache on the face, what was revealed to everyone was the same as the tombstone of the Suzhou Five.

In order to meet the demands of the domestic nobles for land and markets, the king launched a large-scale aggressive war abroad, but these nobles and vested interests only wanted to eat meat and drink, and did not intend to help light the fire and clean the dishes.In a war, those ordinary people can die, and the land and other benefits that have been fought will naturally be ours first.

However, the military expenditure for the war, sorry, Your Majesty, you can figure it out yourself.What? !How can it be possible to tax us? !Down with the tyrant!

So, after being sold and bought, Charles I walked out on the street in two shirts.

Although the domestic conflicts are complicated due to their respective interests, this does not prevent the nobles and members of the royal family from forming a company together to trade in the land that they have accused in public of being barbaric and cruel, so as to earn money in their sleep. Silk, tea, porcelain, etc. are all sought after.

Of course, the English trading fleet that came this time has a lot of rules. After leaving the ports of several Indian princes, after learning that they have entered the territorial waters of the Southern Guangdong Army, they immediately sealed up the cannons, firecrackers, etc. Checks are carried out when sailors board the ship.

After arriving at Guangzhou Port, the English businessmen who had been numb by the prosperity and wealth along the way, besides looking for the Dutch, Spaniards, Frenchmen who also came from the European continent, and those who are now in front of Duke Li. In addition to learning about business intelligence from the popular Portuguese, they also want to have a good relationship with the officials here.

Therefore, this generous gift, which made the nobles who came together a little bit painful, was placed in front of Ye Qi.

In order to be able to purchase goods that can make a lot of money along the way, from weapons and armor to food and medicine, not to mention the tea, sugar, spices, porcelain, and silk that is as smooth and shining as the skin of a beautiful woman .This money, no matter how much it is, has to be spent!Compared with those goods that can earn several times or even tens of times of profit as long as they get the contract, this little money is nothing!

In addition to the five thousand gold coins given to Ye Qi, dozens of high-quality stallions and mares collected along the way were carefully raised on board. They had already learned from relatives who fought in Europe that this Duke Li I like all kinds of famous horses.I hope that these high-quality horses can be used as a stepping stone to open the door to making money for everyone.

How would Ye Qi like these gold coins originally issued by Nanzhong?Don't say five thousand, if you really want to get it, it's 50. As long as he opens his mouth, those famous Japanese people who are close at hand will flock to him.

After copying the gift list, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of Ye Qi's mouth. He took another piece of paper and made his own reply on it.

"Order Guangzhou to send someone to contact the Englishmen. Find out their intentions. If it is a legitimate trade activity, order them to abide by the law. By the way, find out their domestic developments. Can it be used by our Southern Guangdong Army? This order!" After writing it, Ye Qi carefully signed and stamped it.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower at this time, Ye Qi really wanted to send someone to visit the country of these red-haired barbarians.Why can't I go if he can come?See what people and things the Southern Cantonese Army needs there, you can trade them back, kidnap them back, and save those Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards from always profiting from them.

well!It's a pity that in addition to arranging manpower to cooperate with the suppression of chaos in various places, it is even more necessary to send people to Siam, which is going to be attached to the country, to install hidden stakes one by one.How can there still be manpower to go to the English country of Europa? (To be continued..)