Chapter 531: Go to America
"Brothers, it's time to make achievements, kill me!!!"
Zhou Laoqi rushed towards the woods ahead with a handful of 56.
All the soldiers followed closely and rushed into the woods.
The moon hangs quietly in the sky, emitting light.
If it weren't for the screams, gunshots and yelling from time to time, it would probably be a quiet night.
When night passed and the sun rose, Zhou Laoqi led his men out of the woods and came outside.
Zhou Laoqi rushed 56 behind his back and spitted on the ground the moment he walked out of the woods.
"Get water!" Zhou Laoqi's mouth felt sour and sticky. He looked at the guards following 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 opened the block and raised his head and poured it.
After he finished drinking the pot of water, he breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm going, I'm almost exhausted. These Jiannu are so capable of running away. I never thought that these Jiannu can run like this. After chasing them for a night, they almost exhausted me!"
Zhou Laoqi sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
"Come on, take me this dog thing, Duoduo!" Zhou Laoqi shouted.
Not long after, Duoduo was taken over.
Zhou Laoqi looked at Duoduo who was tied up in many ways and laughed: "Haha, Duoduo, why don't you run away? Run, then run, I'll see where you run, why don't you run? Grandpa almost got exhausted to death in order to chase you."
Duoduo's face was full of gloom. He looked at Zhou Laoqi's arrogant face and turned his head aside.
"Oh, you dare to be a little bitch? I really think I am a noble prince. You are just a prisoner at the bottom of the ranks. What do you have? What do you have to be arrogant?" Zhou Laoqi scolded a few times, took off his shoes and hung them aside.
A sour smell came up instantly, but Zhou Laoqi took off his socks and held his feet with his hands.
Once you buckle it, you will show an extremely enjoyable expression.
"It's comfortable, it's comfortable, it's comfortable if you don't wear shoes." Zhou Laoqi buckled for a while, took the shoes over, grabbed some dry soil from the ground, and stuffed them into the shoes.
Zhou Laoqi stuffed soil into his shoes to allow the soil to absorb the sweat inside the shoes.
Almost a quarter of an hour later, Zhou Laoqi poured out the dirt inside the shoes and put them on.
"Come on and take Dodo to the camp. At the same time, we ordered everyone to stop the clearing of the woods. We will continue to clear out when the clearing will be almost done and when will we leave!"
Zhou Laoqi said and walked towards the camp ahead.
In the next few days, Zhou Laoqi's men carried out a large-scale clearance of the forest seven or eight times. When Zhou Laoqi led his camp back, the Jiannu in the forest had almost been cleared out.
During this clearance, Zhou Laoqi captured half of Jiannu alive, as well as almost all Jiannu children and teenagers.
As for the remaining Jiannu, they were either killed during this clearance or ran deeper into the woods.
Jiannu Zhou Laoqi, who escaped, was not worried that living in such deep mountains and forests was not that easy.
There are jackals, tigers and leopards everywhere here, and it is not so easy to survive with those Jiannu who escaped.
In addition, it is August now, and the weather is getting colder and it is probably going to snow soon.
It is hard to say whether these escaped Jiannu 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 laughed out loud, “Haha, I agree, sir!”
Zheng Yiguan sat in the hall of the yamen in Relanzha City, laughing loudly.
"You all go out and let the merchants from the Overseas Commerce Association in the City come to see me!" Zheng Yiguan looked at several personal guards in the hall and shouted loudly.
Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were not beside Zheng Yiguan at this time, so Zheng Yiguan asked his personal guards to call the merchants from the Maritime Merchants Association.
Before, Zheng Yiguan asked Liu Changchun to notify the merchants of the maritime merchant association in the city and let them stay in the city for the past few days. So, not long after, all the merchants of the maritime merchant association came to the hall of the yamen.
Even if I had not been in Relanzha before, I hurried to Relanzha during this period.
"General Zheng, why did you come to us today?" Liu Changchun walked into the hall and looked at Zheng Yiguan who was drinking tea leisurely in the main seat, and greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Haha, good things, good things, they are a great thing." Zheng Yiguan laughed.
When Liu Changchun heard this, he immediately understood, "General Zheng, could it be the thing he said before?"
"Haha, you are right. The General agreed and agreed to my plan." Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun standing in front of him and pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down and say it!"
After Zheng Yiguan said that, he stood up and walked into the hall. He looked at the merchants of the Maritime Merchants Association who were walking in one after another, bowing to them with a smile, "Everyone, sit down first. After everyone arrives, I will tell you what's going on."
At this time, many people had already arrived in the hall.
These businessmen now look at Zheng Yiguan as if they are looking at their parents for food and clothing.
"General Zheng said this a little disgusting. It is natural for us to wait for a while. Is it necessary for the general to tell us specifically?" A middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a military uniform and a cane, stood in the hall with a smile on his face.
"Haha, you said this. OK, don't say this anymore. Come on, come on, everyone!" 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, and the number of merchants coming at this time has exceeded twenty, and it is still rising.
Not everyone can sit on these chairs. Only those merchants who join the Merchant Association early, contribute greatly to the Merchant Association and pay more taxes are qualified to sit on the chairs.
As for those who join late, contribute small, and pay less taxes, they can only stand behind these people.
Don’t be dissatisfied. If anyone dares to dissatisfied, they will be kicked out in minutes. Even if they are driven out, they will not dare to say anything more.
Almost half an hour later, all the merchants who joined the Navy Association have arrived.
Zheng Yiguan sat in the main seat and looked around. When he saw that no one came again, he coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and said, "I came to you today for a very important thing. This matter is a very important thing for me and for you."
When everyone in the hall heard Zheng Yiguan say something very important, they immediately looked at Zheng Yiguan.
There were not many people in the hall who knew about the matter, except for Liu Changchun, only two or three people knew about it.
"There is a place east of Japan, called America. I believe that people who have been drifting on the sea all year round and who have dealt with the Red-Earth Folang Ji people know this.
There is something called the rubber tree and the cinchona tree in this place. These two things are very important to the General, and their importance is even more important than the weapons in the General.
In addition to these two things, there are also a large number of gold, silver and copper ores in this place. Everyone, what are gold, silver and copper ores? These are all money, and they are white silver.
Before, the General told me that I would go to this America to look for rubber trees and cinchona trees, and then I would bring them back after I found them.
I thought about it, although I can do this kind of thing alone, my fleet is limited, and I cannot pull out all the fleets to do these things, so I thought of you.
Maybe you will feel that this kind of thing has no profit and no place to make money. But everyone, if you transport these things back to the General, do you think the General can treat you badly?" Zheng Yiguan's voice kept echoing in the hall, and everyone in the hall listened to Zheng Yiguan's voice and fell into deep thought.
A moment later, a middle-aged businessman stood up and said, "General Zheng, we all understand what you said. But we don't know what this rubber is, and I heard that this rubber is needed by the General.
In this way, the people 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, sailors need wages and taxes. If the profit is not good, we can do it once or twice, but over time, we may not be able to hold on."
What this middle-aged businessman said is not without reason. This kind of thing is only needed by Zhao Wen at present, and there is no need among the people.
The less you want, the less demand, the less you need, the less profit, especially the person in need is Zhao Wen, and they dare not speak out.
Therefore, they are afraid that they will do business at a loss.
"Yes, yes, we have never been to this America before. If we go rashly, what if we encounter storms?"
Suddenly, the merchants in the hall started to talk.
Zheng Yiguan looked at the merchants in the hall and said, "I know what you are thinking. Are you just afraid of not being able to make money?
I have already said that the General will not treat you badly. Although only the General's family needs it at present, according to what the General told me, the General's demand for rubber is very large, the more the better.
This kind of thing is very important to the General. I think the General will definitely not treat you badly. If you think you have made little money, then I ask you, how do you make money when you go to Java?"
"Go to Java to do business!" a businessman interrupted.
Zheng Yiguan looked at the businessman who was talking and said, "Of course I know you are doing business, so I ask you, how do you make money? Why can you make money when doing business in Java?"
"General Zheng, as Java was taken down by the general, more and more people went to Java. With more people, the demand will be greater, especially now Java is in a mess and urgently needs a large amount of supplies.
We are transporting things that Java doesn't have and cannot produce for the time being, and are urgently needed by Java to Java, such as cotton, cement, iron pots, etc.
Java produces spices, pearl corals and other things, which are not available in the Ming Dynasty, or have very little production. Therefore, when we come back, we can bring these things back and sell them." Liu Changchun didn't know why Zheng Yiguan asked this, but he also answered the reason respectfully.
Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun, slapped his hands and said with a smile: "That's right, it's because of this reason. You basically do this in Java to do business, but have you ever thought about why this America cannot do this?
There are many things in the Americas, and these things may not necessarily be available in the Ming Dynasty. If you can transport back what the Ming Dynasty does not have, then do you think you can make less money?
Also, if you go to the Americas and go through Japan, can’t you do business in Japan?
I think you will definitely ask, isn’t Japan already closed down and not doing business with the outside world?
But I want to tell you that the General had already started to attack Japan a few years ago. Now most of the Japanese have fallen into the hands of a Sakata Akii, who was the General who was captured by the General in Ryukyu.
In addition to the Aijing of Sakata, the General also sent many surrendered officials to Japan. In the past, I sent the fleets to Japan at the orders of the Adults.
These fleets are basically fleets that transport supplies. I didn’t want to tell you these things, but this time I told you about it in order to dispel your thoughts."
Nowadays, a small half of Japan has fallen into the hands of Arii Sakata.
And this Sakata Aii was a subordinate Zhao Wen 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 there were not enough officials in the local area, Sakata Yui and others were very slow in conquering Japan.
However, when Hong Chengchou and his team arrived in Japan, the conquest speed became much faster.
Now, half of Japan's land has been taken down by Sakata Arii and others.
The reason why they had such a fast speed was that Zhao Wen sent some soldiers to Japan before. With these soldiers, it was difficult to be slow.
Of course, in Japan now, things are not decided by Sakata Yui, and Zhao Wen did not dare to let Sakata Yui, alone.
When Hong Chengchou went to Japan, he took over the command. After all, Hong Chengchou is still capable.
Today, in Japan, Hong Chengchou is the chief, Sakata Aijing and the chief soldiers of the personal guard camp are the deputy.
Chapter completed!