Come to Daming with military supplies

"What kind of collateral do you have?" Yang Chendong didn't fall into the other party's trap, but asked back with the initiative.

Originally, Cai Ge wanted to wait for Yang Chendong to speak up by himself, to see what the other party liked, so that he could have a good bargain, but unexpectedly, he kicked the question back, and instead made him fall into a state of contemplation. middle.

It sounds like borrowing money with property as collateral, but it often happened among the people in the Ming Dynasty.Such as fields, houses, some antiques from home, and women's jewelry are all common collateral, and even pawn shops are willing to accept these things in exchange for silver taels to others.

But this time, what Nanming needed was not tens of thousands of taels of silver, but tens of millions of taels. Faced with such a large amount, the weight of ordinary items was naturally not enough.This is difficult for Cai Ge, he really doesn't know what to do.

Naturally, Cai Ge was nothing more than a mouthpiece. He had no autonomy over how things would develop, and he had to report to Yingzong to make his decision in the end.What he wants now is to figure out what can satisfy Yang Chendong and make him lend money to Nanming.

Unable to figure out why, Cai Ge looked at Yang Chendong with a groveling look and said, "Don't tease our family, Mr. Zhongdan, you really don't understand these things, you just need to say something , our family will naturally report it to the emperor, and let his old man be arbitrarily determined."

Originally, he wanted to make a fool of himself, but looking at Cai Ge's appearance, he was really not good at it. Yang Chendong had no choice but to let the other party guess, and said: "To be honest, Nanming really has nothing for the mercenary leader to see now. In the middle. King Min and Beiming are watching from the sidelines, even if you are willing to give us land, the mercenary leader may not necessarily agree. Besides, you don’t want the mercenaries to intervene in Daming’s internal affairs, right?”

"Hehe, hehe." Cai Ge smiled awkwardly.What a joke, land is the foundation of a country, even if the mercenaries wanted it, Zhu Qizhen would not give it to them.Besides, the current Nanming is already chaotic enough. If the mercenaries also make a mess at this time, wouldn't it be more chaotic?

Looking at Cai Ge's obviously flattering smile, Yang Chendong knew that he was speaking to the other party's heart, and continued: "The Yingzong needs too much silver taels this time. If it is converted into antiques and other things, it must be astronomical." Numbers, you can’t get them out.”

"Extremely, extremely." Cai Ge nodded repeatedly, "The emperor is still very generous to us servants, and there are usually a lot of rewards. Now that there have been years of wars, the treasury has already been empty."

"Yeah." Yang Chendong nodded to show that he knew, hesitated and said: "Since the fields are useless and there are no antiques, then I really don't know if there are any valuable things, and I'm afraid things will be difficult to handle."

As soon as Yang Chendong showed embarrassment, and even flinched intentionally, seeing these in Cai Ge's eyes, he couldn't help but make his heart tighten.This time he was ordered to come here, and the matter related to the armistice of Jiaozhi had already been dealt with. If the matter of Yinliang could not be handled well, one can imagine what awaited him after returning to Nanjing.

At this moment, what he thought of was not making meritorious service, but how to deal with the errand, and making no merits and no faults was already the best result.So he absolutely couldn't let anything happen to Yinliang's affairs, so he said to Yang Chendong with a bitter face, "Farewell, Mr. Zhongdan, how can we say that our Ming Dynasty is also a country with a large land, rich resources, and a large population, but it's just a mere It’s only tens of millions of taels of silver, as long as the environment is calm and the world is peaceful, it won’t be long before these silver can be earned.”

Chapter 539 The Method of Pointing

"Huh?" Yang Chendong seemed to suddenly think of something, and seemed to be awakened, looked at Cai Ge and said, "That's right, the envoy Cai just reminded the Duke of the country that Nanming has a vast land, rich resources and a large population. You can figure it out from there.”

"Oh, what can I do?" Seeing that things seemed to have turned around, Cai Ge asked with glowing eyes.

Yang Chendong didn't say the result right away, but after being silent for a while, he said to himself, "It's good to say that the land is vast and abundant, but it's a pity that those things can't be moved, and Nanming won't want to hire The military intervenes in the affairs there, so this item can be removed. As for the large population, Mr. Ben recalled what the mercenary leader said a while ago. A large population, obviously after this battle, too many people died in Cochin, and the population has shown a trend of negative growth, so if Nanming can provide some population, perhaps the matter of borrowing money can be achieved."

"Provide the population?" Cai Ge looked confused and puzzled by Yang Chendong.

"Yes, it is to provide population." Yang Chendong seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Nowadays Nanming needs money for training new troops, but whoever's money is not blown by strong winds, and they don't pay for anything they want, just empty teeth It is obviously impossible to get free money. On the surface, the Yang Family Bank seems to be the master of the country, but in fact, you should be able to guess that the behind-the-scenes is the mercenary leader. Not to mention other things, just Let’s just say that the goods that are sold everywhere are all produced by mercenaries, and I just pretend to be a little help in it.”

"Yes, yes." Cai Ge kept nodding his head.There have long been conclusions about the Yang Family Bank and Shenxianju and Tianwaitian in the capital of the Northern Ming Dynasty.They also think that such achievements have nothing to do with Yang Chendong. After all, he is so young and the 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 is someone else behind him, and this person is probably the mysterious mercenary.

Now that Yang Chendong has explained himself, the result is still the same as other people's guesses, so it's no wonder that Cai Ge keeps nodding his head in agreement at this time.

Seeing that Cai Ge agreed with his statement, Yang Chendong knew that the matter had become [-]% or [-]%.Immediately, he struck while the iron was hot and said: "Most of the money in the Yang family bank belongs to mercenaries, so if you want to borrow money from it, you must get their consent. That is to say, you need to pay them something to satisfy them." From this point of view, the only thing you can pay is the large population. Well, there is no need for any collateral, Nanming will send people, and we will pay for it and just trade directly.”

"Trading population? But do you know what the regulations are?" Cai Ge was a little confused by Yang Chendong's words, and his face was in a state of bewilderment.It is true that people are bought and sold among the people, but it is mostly because some big families lack servants, so they buy some occasionally.It is normal to say more than a dozen or dozens, and to say less than one or two.The amount of transactions is also very limited, as small as a few taels of silver, as large as tens of hundreds of taels.But this time Nanming needed tens of millions of taels of silver, so how many people would he need to trade?

Seeing Cai Ge's doubts, Yang Chendong explained: "Population trading has existed since ancient times. If you think about it, you don't need to say anything about it. The only problem with this transaction is that the silver taels needed by Nanming are too big. The natural population ·The quantity of the transaction must also be large. How about this, my brother is the leader of the mercenary army, and I will buy a girl from my Ming Dynasty for 20 taels of silver. Children under the age of ten are 15 taels of silver , Five taels of silver for the elderly over 50 years old, and 40 taels of silver for men between the ages of 50 and [-]. As for how many people Nanming can provide, how much gold and silver will the mercenaries pay here?"

After going around for a long time, Yang Chendong finally brought up his need for a large number of people in a very dark way.

The reason why he didn't bring up this matter right away was because he was afraid that Cai Ge would come up with other ideas.As it is now, when the other party has nowhere to go, proposing such an exchange condition will make people more acceptable.

Sure enough, Cai Ge didn't think too much about it, instead he began to calculate the accounts of this population and transaction in his mind.

Take 20 taels of silver for a woman as an example. In fact, such a price is not so generous.After all, when some big families want to buy a maid, the price is often higher than this.But there are too many people that the mercenaries want.They are not picky, especially in terms of appearance, which is beyond the comparison of those big families.And a woman is 20 taels of silver, ten is 200 taels, and a hundred is 2000 taels. What about 1 taels?What about one hundred thousand?Isn't it just 200 million taels?

Adding the elderly and children, 200 is [-] million taels.The existence of these people will not play much role in Daming, on the contrary, most of their existence is a waste of food.If these people could be thrown away, wouldn't Nanming save a lot of resources?

Not to mention, the young man is 50 taels per person. 10 people is a full 500 million taels!

It is said that what Nanming has the most at present is of course the population.Especially the Min King's rebellion caused Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and many refugees to go straight to Nanjing. On the way, Cai Ge saw countless people fleeing from famine. 200 million, if these people are all traded to mercenaries, what is the value?Isn't it easy to collect the money for the training of the new army?

Not to mention that the mission can be completed, it can also relieve Nanming's pressure. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?Presumably the errand is done, the emperor will definitely look at him differently.

The more he thought about it, the hotter Cai Ge's heart became. When he looked at Yang Chendong, his eyes felt a little hotter, "Lord Zhongdan, is there any limit for the transaction you mentioned?"

"There is no limit. It depends on how much silver you need and how many people you can provide. Of course, one thing must be explained, that is, we will not buy by force, and you should not sell by force. If something happens, wait If those people want to flee back as soon as they arrive at our side, or if they want to commit suicide on the way, then we will not take the blame for it. The bodies of those people must be sent back, and the money must be returned, otherwise they will cause trouble. Getting angry with the mercenaries is not beneficial to everyone."

Yang Chendong had to make things clear.He knows Nanming's way of doing things too well.To achieve the goal, anything can be done.If you really send some weak and sick people to your side, if they leave all the good seedlings there, you don't know how many families will be broken up.Under such circumstances, can the Han people who have been traded stay and work at their side with peace of mind?

If so, I don't know how much energy I have to spend just to do the ideological work of these people every day.In order to avoid such things from happening, some ugly sayings must be said first.

"Of course, of course, we Nanming would not do such a villainous thing." Cai Ge waved his hand quickly, although he did have such thoughts.In fact, incidents like this will also happen during the process of trading population, but you really can't go too far, otherwise it really won't do any good to anger the mercenaries.

"Well, since envoy Cai knows how to operate this matter, then the Duke of the country will not say anything more. This is the matter, you can go back and reply to the emperor. If you agree, the Yang Family Bank will first enter Nanjing City, Songjiang Mansion and Jianning Mansion, 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 there will be mercenaries sailing to receive the population, and you will pass them The bills that are issued are taken from Yang’s Bank in the three places.”

After Yang Chendong gave a charter for the method and process of the transaction, he made another request, "I need my fourth brother to manage the three newly opened Yang Family Banks. The public knows that he should be in Nanjing and Jingdu by now. , It should be easy to find him."

The fourth brother is Yang Yang, before Zhu Qizhen thought of using this person to threaten Yang Chendong.But now that everyone is cooperating, the so-called threat no longer exists.

As Cai Ge, he naturally knew about Yang Yang.Before coming here, the emperor had given instructions that once Mr. Zhongdan asked about this matter, he must explain it well, saying that he liked Yang Yang's ability and asked him to go to the capital to be an official.In short, it is impossible to cause displeasure on both sides because of this matter.Now Yang Chendong didn't delve into what was going on, of course he didn't intend to bring up this matter, so he immediately nodded his head, expressing that there is no problem.

Yang Chendong just mentioned about the fourth brother, he believed that with Cai Ge's intelligence, he knew how to reply to Zhu Qizhen.As for his desire to become king, he didn't mention it again. Now is not the time for persecution.It's better to get a large number of people first, and then talk about it. As for the rest, he believes that it will happen when it is done.

The talks between the two sides went smoothly, and Cai Ge was also very satisfied. After he said everything that should be said, he then got up to leave.Now the battle of Jiaozhi is over, but it seems that the mercenaries have no intention of letting go, and still want to use the Lancang Kingdom to use their troops.He needs to report this matter to Yingzong and make a decision as soon as possible.There is also the matter of population and transactions. After all, if you get the money first, you can train the new army first, and the moment when Nanming is strong will come a moment earlier.

5 Forty Chapters Governor Song Zhe

Knowing that it was not too late, Cai Ge packed up and saluted after leaving Yang Chendong's residence, and left Xiyu City less than half an hour later, heading straight for Nanjing City and returning.

Humang reported the news of Cai Ge's departure to Yang Chendong, and then said worriedly, "Master, do you think Nanming will agree to the matter of population and transactions?"

"They will. They have no choice now. Besides, wars are raging everywhere, and there are many refugees now. They are still worried about how to solve this matter? We have given such a gap, and they will definitely seize it." Stay." Yang Chendong said confidently.

No wonder he has such confidence.At that time, the idea of ​​putting people first did not go deep into people's hearts, let alone any emperor really paid much attention to it.It is nothing more than when the conscription is not available, there will be the distress of lack of population. As for the usual time, I am afraid that not so many people will think about it.

Furthermore, today's Ming Dynasty has just experienced its heyday, with a population of more than 6000 million. This time it is only a transaction of 10 people, which is really not a big deal.

"Continue to inform that Yang Family Bank is going to enter Nanjing, Songjiang and Jianning Mansion. In addition, inform Chixian City to prepare enough silver. Don't make a joke if there is not enough silver when the transaction starts." Yang Chendong said Humang on the side gave an order.

When the bank was first established, silver reserves were naturally needed.But relying on Beiming's Yang Family Bank alone is obviously not enough to support the overall situation.The good thing is that a lot of gold and silver has been piled up in Chixian City long ago, not to mention how much the navy can gain from controlling this piece of sea area, just say that the advanced items produced by various factories are in short supply as soon as they are shipped out. And they can be sold at a high price, so how can there be a shortage of silver taels?

Humang was ordered to leave, leaving Yang Chendong standing in the yard with a calm expression on his face.This population transaction was originally in his plan, but he hadn't figured out how to do it. Cai Ge's appearance gave him a fair and honest opportunity.It is conceivable that once there is a large enough Han population, the road of expansion can continue. Otherwise, it will only be able to fight the country, but not defend the country, and such expansion will lose its meaning.

certainly.It will take some time for the population and transaction matters, and what needs to be done now is to deal with the cochin affairs first.How to stabilize people's hearts, how to make this place a bridgehead for mercenaries to attack and defend, is the focus of work in the near future.

"Come on, tell Kong Jie and Song Zhe to come over." Yang Chendong thought of the importance of talents, and thought of these two political commissars.

"Yes." Yang Er agreed, turned and left.Only Yang Chendong was left in the courtyard standing between the sky and the earth.

West in the city, with the entry of mercenaries and [-] educated youths from Chixian City, the situation here is undergoing earth-shaking changes.

The streets are much cleaner and more hygienic than usual; there are more shops in the city that can be bought and sold freely; the granaries in the city are also completely open, allowing the people to trade freely; there are many more patrolling soldiers on the streets to ensure the stability of law and order, but also powerful It has cracked down on some villains who wanted to fish in troubled waters, so that the personal safety of the people can be preserved more and so on.Being able to restore the ruins of the city in such a short period of time, especially the destructiveness caused by the mortar shells, naturally benefits from the joint efforts of everyone.Among them, the two political commissars of the regiment who are doing political work have contributed a lot.

Under Yang Chendong's request, political workers not only need to be able to stabilize the morale of the army during wartime, but also display their unique abilities in urban construction.In this regard, Kong Jie and Song Zhe have done a good job. Under their command and leadership, political cadres at all levels in the army have exerted their abilities. Variety.

Just when the two were too busy to break the glue, members of the Second Guard found the two political commissars of the regiment and said that the Sixth Young Master had invited them.

The members of the guard had long been recognized by officers at all levels, so they naturally recognized them.Seeing the person coming, the two political commissars did not say a word, and after explaining what they were doing, they followed the person to the temporary palace in the city.