Zhu Di's face was full of doubts, "The Goryeo envoy couldn't even afford one thousand taels of silver, and Guo Qing also knew it."
Guo An chuckled and said: "Your Highness, what I want is that the envoy from Korea cannot get enough money.
"Um?"
Zhu Di narrowed his eyes slightly, "The envoy from Korea is an envoy of a country. No matter how annoying he is, you can't harm him!"
Guo An looked depressed, "Your Highness, Wei Chen is such a good person!"
"Um!"
Zhu Di nodded nonchalantly and asked directly: "How exactly does Guo Qing want to sell it to the Goryeo envoy?"
Guo An said helplessly: "Loan!"
"Loan?"
Zhu Di was stunned.
Zhu Fu's eyes on the side were also filled with strange expressions.
"Exactly!"
Guo An said with a smile on his face: "Since the Goryeo envoy wants to get the secret technique of growing vegetables in winter in Prince Yan's palace so much, and His Highness is a wise king with a heart like a Bodhisattva, then sell it to him!"
Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction. He was very satisfied with the Bodhisattva heart in Guo An's words.
As for Zhu Fu, his eyelids twitched the most. Guo Thief actually bewitched His Highness King Yan like this. How could His Highness King Yan be a Bodhisattva...
Um? Guo Thief's heart is getting darker and darker, His Highness King Yan has the heart of a Bodhisattva!
Guo An continued: "However, ten thousand taels of silver is not small money after all, and His Highness is just a prince of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the Korean envoy from taking the secret of growing vegetables in the cold winter, he did not trust me.
Therefore, the loan contract needs to be stamped with the seal of his Korean envoy.
Of course, it would be great if the seal of the King of Goryeo could be stamped on the loan contract! "
"The seal of the King of Goryeo?"
At this moment, Zhu Di couldn't help but yearn for it, "Is this really the case?"
"Of course you can!"
Guo An nodded with certainty and said: "If the King of Goryeo doesn't stamp it, then he won't lend them any silver or sell them the secrets of growing vegetables in the cold winter."
"Very good!"
Zhu Di looked happy.
Zhu Fu asked, "What if the Goryeo envoy wants to borrow more money to buy the secret technique of transparent glass and the secret recipe of cement?"
"The secret of transparent glass is for sale."
Guo An replied: "But the secret technique of cement, they are just wishful thinking!"
"That's two hundred thousand taels of silver. How can the King of Goryeo pay it back?"
Suddenly remembering something, Zhu Di couldn't help but look at Guo An with confusion.
Guo An grinned and said, "Your Highness, it's only two hundred thousand taels of silver. Wouldn't it be better if the country of Goryeo couldn't afford it?"
Zhu Di was furious, "That's 210,000 taels of silver!"
Guo Andao: "Your Highness, you didn't really lend them two hundred thousand taels of silver. You just gave them a loan contract and two secret techniques."
Zhu Di calmed down and looked at Guo An with strange eyes.
"It's true, Guo Qing's heart is getting darker and darker!"
Guo An: "..."
Zhu Di asked again: "But what do I think? This is all because of my great kindness and doing good things for the Goryeo barbarians. What does it have to do with opening up territory and expanding territory for the Ming Dynasty?"
Guo An asked: "Your Highness, what if the Koryo Kingdom cannot afford to repay the 210,000 taels of silver? Or, the King of Koryo violated the contract and revealed the secret of transparent glass and the secret of growing vegetables in winter to others. ?”
Zhu Di was furious: "Then Goryeo Guoan dared to bully me, so I led my troops to destroy them!"
Guo An smiled and said: "Your Highness is mighty!"
Zhu Di was startled, then suddenly reacted and laughed, looking at Guo An with admiration on his face.
"Guo Qing is indeed a great talent in planning the country!"
"Your Highness is so complimentary!"
Guo An said modestly.
Zhu Fu's face was full of worry, "Your Highness, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty declared that all countries should live in peace and harmony and share the blessings of peace."
"We know."
Zhu Di smiled faintly, "Father, I think these vassal states are very poor. If we attack these vassal states, we will resort to excessive military force, exhaust troops and people, and even issue a maritime ban.
But now that Korea dares to bully me, how can we endure it?
and……"
Having said that, Zhu Di's eyes were full of coldness.
"Nowadays, the sea is full of delicious fish. Sooner or later, our Ming Dynasty will have a conflict with these vassal states!"
Zhu Fu's expression was a little solemn, and his thoughts were relatively stable, and he did not want to conquer those foreign countries.
However, what Zhu Di said is not unreasonable.
Even the capricious Goryeo Kingdom might really violate the contract.
As for whether the Goryeo envoy and the King of Goryeo will sign a contract?
Neither Zhu Di nor Zhu Fu had any doubts. According to the tendency of everyone in Korea to take advantage, how could they miss such a good thing?
really.
When Li Shihou, the envoy of Goryeo, heard the request of King Yan Zhu Di, he agreed directly without thinking.
"His Royal Highness, King Yan, is merciful!"
After bowing respectfully, Li Shihou looked at Zhu Di again and said expectantly: "The foreign minister would like to ask His Highness King Yan to lend the secret technique of cement to the foreign minister."
Zhu Di smiled coldly and asked, "Master Li, do you know how much the secret technique of cement costs?"
Li Shihou quickly replied: "I would like to inform His Highness King Yan that the price of the secret cement technique is one million taels of silver."
Zhu Di looked at Li Shihou quietly and asked, "Can your country of Korea afford one million taels of silver?"
"Reporting to His Highness King Yan, the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Korea..."
Li Shihou hesitated for a moment, but still did not dare to deceive Zhu Di.
"The foreign ministers dare not deceive His Highness King Yan, and the foreign ministers don't know either!"
"Okay, you can quickly take the deed paper back to your Kingdom of Korea and let the King of Korea put his seal on it. Then, I will give you the transparent glass and the secret technique of growing vegetables in cold winter."
Zhu Di waved his hand slowly and did not want to talk to the Korean envoy.
"The foreign minister obeys the order!"
Li Shihou quickly bowed respectfully to Zhu Di and then retreated.
same day.
The Koryo envoy bid farewell to Bi Wenxi, the young minister of Honglu Temple, and took the Koryo fleet from Dagukou to return to Koryo.
Bi Wenxi, the young minister of Honglu Temple, said goodbye to Zhu Di in person and returned to the capital to resume his orders!
at the same time.
A few days later.
Capital, Imperial Palace, Fengtian Hall.
After hearing what Zhu Di did in Beiping Mansion during this period, Lao Zhu felt a flash of emotion in his eyes.
"In just one month, the fourth child made 1.2 million taels of silver with nothing. I'm afraid the second child, third child, and the others will all be jealous!"
Zhu Biao chuckled and replied: "My father is wise. According to the temperament of the second, third, and fifth sons, I am afraid that they would like to lead a group of personal guards to the Beiping Mansion to find the fourth son and grab half of the silver."
"However, let alone the second, third and third sons, they are jealous. After hearing so much money, I was also a little jealous."
"The prodigal son of the fourth son also gave 100,000 taels of silver to the chief official Guo An. He even gave 100,000 taels of silver to the officials, craftsmen, and guards.
However, we are a little relieved that the fourth child has not taken advantage of Qian! "
"Father is wise!"
Zhu Biao flattered him again and then talked about the most important thing this time, "The fourth child actually wants to take advantage of the Goryeo Kingdom. Does the father want his son to write a letter to let the fourth child calm down for a while?
The son is worried that the Goryeo Congress will anger the fourth child. According to the character of the fourth child, he really dares to lead the three guards of Yanshan to invade the Goryeo Kingdom... In this way, many people will definitely die. "
"No need to worry!"
Lao Zhu slowly shook his head, "We didn't know how to deal with vassal states like Goryeo and Japan at the beginning, so we are willing to live in peace with them and share the blessing of peace.
However, we are really fed up with Goryeo's capricious and cheap villain. If the fourth child can give that Goryeo kid a good lesson, it will be considered as giving us a bad breath.
As for people dying, there is no such thing as a war that doesn’t kill people.
However, the fourth child is not that reckless person..."
"I see……"
Zhu Biao couldn't help but think deeply.
…
Peking Mansion.
It has been more than two months since I started selling transparent glass and secret recipes for growing vegetables in cold winter.
Next to the Iron Smelting Works in Shangzhuang Village, Beiping Prefecture, there are two huge workshops surrounded by one-foot-high cement walls.
Tongzhou Zhangjiawan Pier has also been expanded more than ten times. Even if thousands of large ships are put down at the same time, it is not crowded.
Around the pier, rows of neat concrete houses have been built.
It was densely packed, like a military camp.
Moreover, these concrete houses are indestructible. No matter how hard the young men and businessmen who come to stay and hang out are hammered with their hands or kicked with their feet, they will not move at all.
Even some daggers and steel knives could only leave a white mark on it.
However, you must know that people in many villages now live in shabby houses built with small mud walls. They are so shabby that sometimes strong winds can blow them down.
And now, such a solid house appears in Beiping Mansion?
Suddenly, the reputation was so great that all the passing shippers and merchants were full of curiosity.
There are also some businessmen who come specifically to inspect the cement houses.
As a result, there were more and more ships at Zhangjiawan Pier and more and more people.
Naturally, the business of the restaurants, restaurants, bathhouses, and inns at Zhangjiawan Pier is getting better and better.
"Wonderful!"
Standing at the top of a five-story food shop, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Zhangjiawan Pier.
Zhu Di said with joy on his face: "Nowadays, the prosperity of Zhangjiawan Wharf has been lost to that of Haizi Wharf."
On the side, Guo An replied, "The Zhangjiawan Pier is able to have such a grand event because of His Highness's strong support."
Zhu Di asked: "I heard that in the past ten days, the shops at Zhangjiawan Pier have made tens of thousands of taels of silver?"
"Exactly!"
Guo An nodded and replied, "As soon as these businessmen come to Zhangjiawan Pier, they can't help but want to stay in an inn built with cement houses, or take a hot bath, and then be rubbed by those Master give me a good beating."
“So, over time, they had to eat in restaurants and wine shops on the pier.
On the row of streets below, there are many exquisite gadgets. Many merchants have children, wives and concubines at home. They may be reluctant to buy them after just one look.
However, there were still some children on the pier and the women were showing off.
As long as these merchants pass by a few times, they can no longer hold back...
Some merchants are even smarter and buy a lot directly, return to their hometowns, and give them to some relatives and friends, or some officials...
In this case, Your Highness, don't underestimate the vendors pushing small wooden carts selling gadgets on the street.
They make a lot of money in one day..."
Following Guo An's introduction, both Zhu Di and Zhu Fu could not help but widen their eyes with shock.
"I don't know how Guo Qing came up with such a sinister method!"
"Your Highness, I did not force those merchants to buy. Maybe they made a lot of money in my Beiping Mansion. They felt guilty and wanted the merchants and hawkers in my Beiping Mansion to make some money too! "
Guo An chuckled.
"That makes sense!"
Zhu Di smiled softly and suddenly discovered something. His expression condensed and he pointed at a place and asked.
"Guo Qing, Zhu Qing, is that monk below Master Dao Yan?"
…
(End of chapter)
