Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty

“en?” Yang Chendong seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and he seemed to be awakened. He looked towards Cai Ge and said: “Yes, just now Cai Emissary said something It is a reminder of This Duke, Southern Ming vast territory and abundant resources, with a large population, maybe you can think of a way from this.”

“Oh, what can I do.” Seeing that things seem to have turned around, Cai Ge asked with glowing eyes.

Yang Chendong not at all said the result immediately, but after a moment of silence, he muttered to himself, “The so-called vast territory and abundant resources are good, but unfortunately those things are not available. If you can’t move or move away, Southern Ming doesn’t want mercenaries to intervene in things over there, so this item can be eliminated. As for the large population, This Duke remembered the words of the mercenary leader a while ago, he said If you want to build a headquarters for Vietnam and mercenaries, you need a large population. Obviously, after this war, Vietnam had too many dead, and the population has shown a negative growth trend. Then if Southern Ming can provide some population, maybe It’s possible to borrow money.”

“Provide population?” Cai Ge looked confused and confused by Yang Chendong.

“Yes, it is to provide population.” Yang Chendong seemed to have made up some determination and said, “Now Southern Ming needs silver to train the new army, but no one’s silver is brought by the wind. If you don’t pay anything, it’s obviously impossible to pay for nothing. Yang Family Bank looks like This Duke is in charge, but in fact you should be able to guess that the latter is the mercenary leader. Well. Not to mention other things, just say that the goods that sell well are all produced by mercenaries. I just acted as a way to help some of them.”

“Yes, yes. Cai Ge kept nodding his head. There have been long-term conclusions regarding Yang Family Bank, Fairy Abode and Heaven Beyond the Heaven in Northern Ming Capital. They also think that having such achievements has nothing to do with Yang Chendong. After all, he is so young and Yang Family is so innocent, how could there be so many good things suddenly appearing in the world? ? There can only be one explanation, that is, there are other people behind him, and this person is probably the mysterious mercenary.

Now Yang Chendong has explained it by himself, and the result is the same as other people’s guesses. It is no wonder that Cai Ge will continue to be nodded at this time and agree.

Seeing that Cai Ge agreed with his statement, Yang Chendong knew that things had become seven or eight out of ten. At the moment, he struck the iron and said: “Most of the money in the Yang Family Bank is mercenary. If you want to borrow money from it, you must get their consent. In other words, you need to give them something that is satisfactory. . In this way, the only thing you can pay is the large population. So, there is no need for collateral. Southern Ming is a member, and we pay directly for the transaction.”

“Trading population? But don’t you know what the regulations are in this?” Cai Ge was a little confused by Yang Chendong’s remarks, with a look of awkwardness. To say that there are indeed people buying and selling in the private sector, but it is mostly because some Great Family people lack subordinates and will occasionally buy some. It is normal to say more than a dozen dozens, and say less than one or two. The amount of the transaction is also very limited, as small as a few silver taels, as large as a dozen or two hundred and tens of two. But this time Southern Ming needs tens of millions of silver taels, so how many people need to be bought and sold?

Seeing Cai Ge’s doubts, Yang Chendong explained: “Population trading has been around since ancient times, so I don’t have to say anything about this without This Duke. The only problem with transactions at this time is what Southern Ming needs. The silver taels gap is too large, so the natural population and the number of transactions must also be Great Talent. Let’s do this, This Duke is the leader of the mercenary, my brother is in charge, and I will buy one from my Great Ming based on two 10 silver taels Women. Children under ten years old have ten five taels of silver, elderly people over 50 years old five taels of silver, and men between 14 and 40 years old are five ten silver taels. As for how much population Southern Ming can provide, How much gold and silver will the mercenaries pay here, how?” After going around for a long time, Yang Chendong finally mentioned in a very obscure way that he needed a large number of people.

The reason why I didn’t mention this as soon as I came up is because Cai Ge might have other ideas. As it is now, making such an exchange condition when the other party has nowhere to go will make people more acceptable.

Cai Ge didn’t think too much, on the contrary, in the heart, he started to calculate this population and transaction account.

Take a woman’s second 10 silver taels as an example. In fact, such a price is not so generous. After all, when some Great Family wants to buy maid, the price is often higher than this. But there are so many people who can’t stand the mercenaries. They are not picky, especially in terms of appearance, which is not comparable to those of Great Family. And a woman has two 10 silver taels. Ten is two hundred and two, and one hundred is two thousand. What about ten thousand? hundred thousand? Isn’t it 2,000,000 taels?

Adding the elderly and children, hundreds thousand are 2,000,000 taels. The existence of these people does not play a big role in Great Ming. On the contrary, most of their existence is a waste of food. If these people can be discarded, wouldn’t Southern Ming save a lot of resources?

Not to mention, a young man is worth 50 taels. Hundred thousand people is 5,000,000 two!

Speaking of Southern Ming, what is the most now, of course, is the population. Especially in the rebellion of Prince of Min, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong and many refugees who got it all went straight to Nanjing. On the way, Cai Ge saw countless people fleeing from famine. If you do a rough calculation, the population is also large. One 2,000,000. If all these people are traded to mercenaries, what value is that? Isn’t it easy to get the silver two trained by the new army?

Not to mention that the task is completed, but it can also relieve Southern Ming’s pressure. Isn’t this one move, two gains? The errand must be done, His Imperial Majesty will definitely look at himself differently.

The more I think about it, the hotter Cai Ge’s heart becomes. When looking towards Yang Chendong, there is a sense of heat in his eyes, “Duke of Zhongdan, I don’t know what you said. Is there any limit for the transaction?”

“There is no limit. It depends on how many silver taels you need and how many people you can provide. Of course, one thing must be explained, that is, we will not force buying. Don’t force it. If something happens, wait for those people to flee back as soon as they arrive at our side, or if they want to commit suicide halfway down the road, then we don’t want to take the pot back, the bodies of those people. They still have to be sent back, and the silver and the two must also be returned, otherwise it will anger the mercenaries and it will not benefit everyone.”

Yang Chendong must make things clear. He knows the way Southern Ming does things too well. In order to achieve the goal, anything can be done. I really send some weak and sick people to my side, and if they leave all the good seedlings there, then I don’t know how many families will be broken up. Under such circumstances, can the Han people who have been traded be able to stay and work on their side with peace of mind?

If this is the case, I don’t know how much energy it takes to do the ideological work of these people every day. In order to avoid such things from happening, some ugly things must be said before.

“Of course, of course, we Southern Ming wouldn’t do this kind of petty thing.” Cai Ge waved his hand quickly, although he did have such thoughts. In fact, similar incidents also occur in the process of trading population, but it really can’t be done too much, otherwise it really doesn’t do any good to anger the mercenaries.

“Well, now that Emissary Tsai knows how to do this, then This Duke won’t say much. It’s such a thing, you can go back and reply to His Imperial Majesty. If you agree If so, Yang Family Bank will first enter Nanjing City, Songjiang Mansion and Jianing Residence, and then the transaction will be carried out there. Finally, all the people will be transported by you to the dock of Songjiang Mansion, where mercenaries will open The ship accepts the population. You can get the silver bucks from the Yang Family banks in the three places through the bills they issued.”

Yang Chendong gave a charter on the method and process of the transaction, and then proposed One request, “I need my fourth brother to manage the three newly opened Yang Family banks. This Duke knows that he should already be in Nanjing Capital by now. It should be easy to find him.”

The fourth brother is Yang Yang. Before Zhu Qizhen wanted to use this person to threaten Yang Chendong. But now that everyone is cooperating, the so-called threat no longer exists.

As Cai Ge, it is natural to know about Yang Yang. Before coming, His Imperial Majesty had told him that if Duke of Zhongdan asked about this matter, he would have to explain it, he said that he was fascinated by Yang Yang’s ability, and he should be sent to the capital as an official. In short, just because of this incident, both sides should not be unhappy. Now Yang Chendong didn’t go into the details of what was going on. Of course, he wouldn’t deliberately mention this matter. Now he repeatedly nodded, saying that there is no problem.

Yang Chendong just mentioned something about the fourth brother. He believes that Cai Ge’s cleverness knows how to respond to Zhu Qizhen. As for his desire to be crowned king, not at all, now is not the time for persecution. Let’s get a lot of people first before talking about it. As for other things, he believes in the sentence where water flows, a canal is formed.

The talks between the two sides went smoothly. Cai Ge was also very satisfied. After all that should be said, he then got up and left. Now the war in Vietnam is over, but it seems that the mercenaries do not at all want to let go, but also want to use the Kingdom of Lao. He needs to report this matter to Emperor Yingzong to know and make a decision as soon as possible. There is also the matter of population and trading. After all, if you get the silver first, you can train the new army first. The moment Southern Ming is strong will come sooner.