Mingshi

Chapter 1018 Return to Beijing
"grown ups……"

When Luo Xin just returned to the main ship of the Daming Navy, Yu Dayou hurriedly asked: "Who is the other party?"

"It's a long story, I'll go and talk to those vassal merchants first."

Luo Xin summoned the merchants from the vassal state to the main ship of the Daming Navy, and told them that the transaction this time was at the previously set price.Upon hearing this, the merchants from the vassal state knew that the Daming Navy was no match for those pirates, and their faces were a little disturbed.This time it was because of the Xu Mansion that they were able to purchase the goods at a very low price.

But what about next time?

It is impossible for Daming to trade at that extremely low price all the time.Everyone is a businessman and understands this truth.Wouldn't that mean the deal would be cut off in the future, and the source of income would be cut off?
Seeing the expressions of the merchants from the vassal states, Luo Xin said with a smile: "You can go back with peace of mind. When you come next time, all problems will be solved, and no one will stop you."

"Really?"

"I swear on my honor."

After hearing this, the merchants of the vassal states were relieved.They still believed in Luo Xin's reputation.They have dealt with Luo Xin for a long time, knowing what Luo Xin said, they have never broken their promises.At that moment, they all bid farewell to Luo Xin, returned to their own boat, and then sailed towards the opposite side.

And the pirates on the opposite side were also very particular, they did exactly what they talked about, and they didn't take any more goods from them.But there were too many merchants in the vassal state, and it took a full two hours to end everything.A sea-going ship was dispatched from the Huaxia fleet on the opposite side. It was not the main ship, and the person on board was not Jiang Wu, but a civil servant named Wen Liangyu, who was bought by Luo Xin at the time. criminals.At this time, Wen Liangyu, as the envoy of the Huaxia Kingdom, followed Luo Xin back to Daming, and some generals and sailors came with the boat.

Noon the next day.

Luo Xin and the others returned to Daming, while Wen Liangyu and the others stayed on board, not intending to follow Luo Xin to the capital.He was really afraid that someone would recognize Wen Liangyu when he arrived in the capital.Luo Xin pretended to invite a few times, and then unloaded a cannon from the opponent's ship, and returned to the capital with a box of shells.

After half a month.

Luo Xin returned to the capital and went to Yuxi Palace to meet Emperor Jiajing that day.Emperor Jiajing obviously aged a lot.His face was flushed abnormally, which was the appearance of erysipelas.

Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin and Liu Shouyou with some fatigue and said, "I read the memorials of you two. Luo Xin, can we really defeat those pirates?"

"Your Majesty, they are not pirates."

"I know, Huaxia Kingdom! Luo Xin, you can't defeat them with your ability?"

"I can't beat it!" Luo Xin said with a wry smile: "The Daming Navy has always been weak, even Xu Hai and others back then, if they hadn't swelled up to land and stayed at sea, we would have no way to destroy them at all. What's more, The navy of this Huaxia Kingdom is more than ten times stronger than the original four seas. Our Great Ming navy has no power to fight back. I am afraid that we will be wiped out in one face-to-face."

"Crack!" Emperor Jiajing slapped the imperial book case, and shouted in a concentrated voice: "Hu Zongxian, is he living for nothing? I allocate a lot of money to him every year, and he trains me a group of vulnerable sailors?"

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood Hu Butang."

"Huh?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin unkindly.

"The ships of the Huaxia Kingdom are filled with a kind of artillery. This kind of artillery is light in weight, has a long range and great power. Our ship is not within the range of the bow and arrow, and the opponent's artillery will sink our ship. .”

"There is such a sharp weapon?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I brought one back."

"Go, call Gao Gong and Xu Jie."

Soon, Gao Gong and Xu Jie came to Yuxi Palace, and then Emperor Jiajing drove to the West School Field.After seeing the power of the cannons in the West Campus, and hearing Luo Xin say that every ship in the Huaxia Kingdom had dozens of such cannons, Emperor Jiajing's face turned green.Even if he has never seen a naval battle, but if you think about it, the ship on his side has not been within range, and a row of shells has already been fired from the opposite side, sinking his ship.

How is this fight going?
but……

The conditions put forward by that Huaxia country are too harsh, they will not pay tariffs, and they have not restricted their purchases.

It's not just about money, it's too embarrassing.

However, now the problem is in front of us.If he does not agree to the conditions, Daming can continue the transaction and collect tariffs.It's just that China's tariffs are not collected, and it has no fundamental impact on Daming's finances, it just loses face.

The other one disagrees, but if you can't beat them, you don't even think about trading with merchants from the vassal state in the future. If there is no trade, of course there will be no tariffs.

"Xu Qing, what do you say?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie really dare not come up with any ideas now, he knows that the most important thing for him now is to keep a low profile.And he really doesn't know how to solve this problem, which is a tricky problem.Since Luo Xin went to the southeast, I will leave it to him. If he makes a mistake, he can still attack him, so Xu Jie said very simply:

"I think it's better for Mr. Luo to talk to the envoy of Huaxia Kingdom."

"Where's Gao Qing?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Gao Gong again.

Gao Gong thought for a while and said: "We really don't have the capital to negotiate now, but we still need to talk, even if we can win a little bit. I think it's better to form a larger mission with the imperial court to send envoys to the southeast and China. talk."

Emperor Jiajing sat there contemplating, Gao Gong thought for a while, and then said: "However, we can't afford to delay. Presumably it won't be long before the next wave of merchants from the feudal kingdom will arrive. If we haven't talked about it by then... "

Emperor Jiajing frowned. He was afraid of trouble all his life, especially in his later years.If the tax was delayed because of this, how could he calm down and practice?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glared at Xu Jie fiercely, thinking in his heart, if it wasn't for the Xu family, why would there be so many troubles?

However, the problem still needs to be solved, and the ministers of the DPRK and China passed through their minds one by one, and they really couldn't think of one who could be more suitable for negotiation than Luo Xin.However, to Xu Jie and Gao Gongdao:
"Gao Qing, Xu Qing, who do you two think is suitable for this important task?"

Gao Gong was also thinking about it non-stop, but he didn't figure it out. Seeing Emperor Jiajing asking, he said:
"Would you like to let Hu Zongxian?"

"No!" Emperor Jiajing shook his head directly and said, "If he could solve it, he would have solved it long ago."

"Then..." Gao Gong didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Xu Qing."

"I... feel that I don't bother the two masters. Mr. Luo is the person who knows the southeast best."

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(End of this chapter)