Chapter 53 Marriage
Money and silk touch people's hearts.
Lan Yu is not without money. He followed Chang Yuchun when he was young. If the ground is slightly longer, Chang Yuchun will already be developed. Good clothes and good food are no problem.
But before entering Goryeo, he had never held more than one million taels of property. But after he plundered the entire Goryeo and divided the wealth between the upper and lower parts, he only had two million taels. In the blink of an eye, in about a year, two million taels will turn into four million taels.
This speed simply made Lan Yu surprised, trembled, and excited.
Lan Yu doesn't understand those twists and turns. He Xi couldn't understand many of He Xi's words. After all, they were separated by lines like mountains. However, he knew the risks involved. Wealth and wealth are found in danger. This kind of temptation of heavy money is enough to make Lan Yu forget some risks.
Lan Yu was silent for a long time, exhaled, and said, "What do you need me to do? Or, what do you want to do?"
He Xi said: "There is nothing else. All the military's external purchases are made with banknotes."
Lan Yu said, "No problem. You are responsible for the logistics of the entire army and have this authority."
Sapphire is a smart person. All he did was acquiesce, but put all the responsibility for this matter on He Xi. ..
He Xi smiled inwardly after hearing this.
Many things need to be spoken more truthfully. Most of the things He Xi has to do are sins. And it's a heinous crime. However, when it comes to big things, don't stick to trivial matters. In other words, he didn't have time to think about this at all. Any action a person takes in society may appear to be the action of one person, but in fact it is not. It is the result of a game played by many people.
Plans never keep up with changes.
It is simply impossible to be foolproof. What's even more impossible is to follow the rules. It is impossible to succeed without breaking the rules. And unsuccessful people. No matter what you do, there is only one end.
die.
He Xi no longer cares.
He Xi said: "Okay. Then I will take care of everything here."
Lan Yu said: "Military pay is the most important thing. What kind of banknotes should we not give out?"
He Xi said: "The cash I brought this time is 400,000 taels. It is enough to reward the three armies."
Lan Yu said: "Also, what do you do specifically? I don't care. I only care about whether the four million taels can be cashed in." Listen to Lan Yu say this. He Xi was about to say something. Lan Yu waved her hand and said, "You don't need to say anything. I don't believe anything you say. So be it. You have a son, and I also have a daughter. How about we get married?"
"You agreed. I will cooperate with the rest. If you don't agree, we will break up."
He Xi was stunned, and his smile suddenly stiffened.
He Xi actually looks down on Lan Yu. It's not that Lan Yu has no ability, but Lan Yu's character. In Lan Yu's view, He Xi is daring. Dare to do anything. It's simply lawless. But He Xi had the emperor's backing in doing all this. Not to mention, when He Xi does anything, he always adheres to the profound logic of governance, and I dare not say that he has no selfish motives. But Lan Yu is different. Lan Yu has the protection of the prince, and even ignores the court's laws in many things. There is some cruelty in his character.
Of course, this is all secondary.
The most important thing is that Lan Yu has no fundamental fear of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Yes, such as Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and others. They all were deeply afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang. But Lan Yu was different. When Lan Yu actually went to the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer led the troops to fight in person. Just sit and direct from behind. Their fear of Zhu Yuanzhang was not only the fear of the emperor by the ministers, but also the fear of the general by his subordinates.
But Sapphire did not. It seems that because of the prince's protection, Lan Yu was spared from facing Zhu Yuanzhang's power. Otherwise, Xu Da, Fu Youde, and Feng Sheng would not dare to do such a thing. Make money from hundreds of thousands taels to millions of taels.
If it were someone else who was the leader here, he would never dare to do this.
So Lan Yu's character really helped He Xi.
It's just that although we are traveling on the same road, some people are walking on the same road, just for a period of time. Only a few people are lifelong comrades.
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Yu is determined not to be among He Xi's lifelong allies. In He Xi's view, the connection between him and Lan Yu was just a coincidence and had to be done out of necessity. The determination has no intention of being tied together. In He Xi's view, Lan Yu's character shortcomings will lead to disaster in the future.
He Xi had no intention of getting married to Lan Yu.
But Sapphire does.
Lan Yu didn't think that far ahead. However, his eldest grandson Zhu Xiongying was in Liaodong at the moment, beside He Xi. I don’t know if it will come this time. He tried to figure out He Xi's position. Although Lan Yu is from the prince's lineage. But there are parties within parties and factions within factions. Even within the East Palace, there are many factions.
For example, there is Song Lianfang Xiaoru's faction in the East Palace, and many noble princes grew up in the East Palace. There may not be any conflicts between them. Not to mention the competition for storage space. You must know that Zhu Xiongying's mother's surname is Chang, and she is the daughter of Chang Yuchun. That is, Sister Lan Yu’s daughter.
At this point, Lan Yu felt that He Xi was the same person as him.
If it weren't for this, Lan Yu wouldn't be so tolerant to He Xi. If not, Lan Yu would not marry her daughter to He Xi's son.
He Xi looked at Lan Yu, suddenly smiled and said, "Okay. It's a deal."
Whether he is willing or not, he must not refuse at this time. I just don’t know what the future will be like after today. He didn't care what the situation would be.
Lan Yu smiled softly and said: "In this case, if one family does not speak the same language, just do whatever you want. I will take care of it."
He Xi said: "By the way. You said before that you would take action against Japan. When?"
Lan Yu smiled calmly and said with a sense of confidence: "Right away."
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While Lan Yu was discussing with He Xi. On Ganghwa Island, a pair of brothers met.
It was none other than the Fang brothers.
Fang Chengfeng and Fang Chengyun.
Fang Chengfeng got He Xi's advice and went home to bury his father that day. After observing mourning for a few months, he found a way to Korea. Became the navy commander under Lan Yu.
However, the so-called Goryeo Navy. In fact, Lanyu had sent some of the ships to Liaodong, mainly the original ships of Goryeo, and the officers of the Goryeo Navy were members of the Fang family, cooperating with the recruitment of sailors from Goryeo. During this period of time, the Goryeo Navy did not have many battles with the Japanese Navy, and Lan Yu even made the Goryeo Navy lose a few games.
After all, Goryeo's original navy was not good enough.
Using Goryeo's ability to surrender the army is like that. In the last years of the Goryeo Dynasty, Japanese pirates invaded the country many times. The most recent attack was near the royal capital of Goryeo. There are even some Japanese pirates who have been entrenched in Korea for a long time on the Korean Peninsula.
One can only imagine how powerful the Goryeo navy was.
Even if training is strengthened later. He was restrained by Lan Yu and was not allowed to attack. Even the naval station was not moved to the front line, but was placed on Ganghwa Island. When Fang Chengyun arrived on Jianghua Island, he immediately came to see Fang Chengyun. The two were extremely happy when they saw him.
to be honest.
Because of Fang Guozhen, the Fang family was scattered in various places. Fang Chengfeng and Fang Chengyun had never met each other when they were young. If the Fang family is scattered all over the place like in history, no one knows that this family of relatives exists for countless years.
But He Xi's arrival changed everything.
Although the Fang family is on the rise again, compared to the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, the Fang family is still too weak. Therefore, the two families of the Fang family need to support each other and share resources. Only in this way can we gain a firm foothold in the Ming Dynasty's power field.
Therefore, the two sides were extremely warm at this meeting.
After chatting for a while, we sat down and got down to business.
Fang Chengyun told Fang Chengfeng everything he had encountered along the way from the south. Fang Chengyun said: "Brother, you don't know, every time I go to Liaodong, I have a different experience. To be honest, I don't know what Liaodong will be like in ten or eight years. To be honest, Mr. He Xihe, it's really A strange man."
"That's right," Fang Chengfeng said, "without Mr. He Xihe. Without our Fang family today, everyone in the world knows that our Fang family is
He Xihe Sir's subordinates. This is a principle that must not be shaken. The same will be true for maritime trade in the future, even if it doesn't make money, it will still work. "
