Poor Family - v2 Chapter 1041

  Chapter 1041 Grassland Comes

This afternoon, Li Yanqing came to the Qingfenglou Teahouse. The teahouse was full of people and guests. Li Yanqing went upstairs from the VIP passage at the back until he came to the Youlan Hall on the third floor. Several soldiers opened the door. Only then did Li Yanqing walk in.

Sitting in the teahouse was a big fat man. Although he hadn’t seen him for nearly ten years, Li Yanqing recognized him at a glance. It was his good friend Zheng Rongtai. Zheng Rongtai was wearing a fine silk shirt and had a round face like a pumpkin. Same, flushed.

  He saw Li Yanqing, and quickly stepped forward to salute, “See Your Highness!”

  Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and smiled, “You’re fatter than before!”

  Zheng Rongtai scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: “Eat a lot, sleep a lot, and it becomes like this.”

   “But this is also good, with a broad mind and a fat body.”

The two laughed and sat down. Yu Fenger, the top tea prostitute in Qingfenglou, came in to order tea for them. Li Yanqing tasted the tea, nodded, and said, “I remember you came to Hangzhou to buy land and build a house? Why? Going to engage in the fleet again?”

   “Building a fleet is my line of business. The property mainly withdrawn from the north has been put into shipping. If I can’t keep it for a while, it will grow bigger and bigger in the past few years.”

   “Then how many ships do you have now?”

   Zheng Rongtai thought for a while and said, “I now have three sea fleets, about 300 ships, going to Nanyang, Dashi and Japan respectively.”

   “Still going to Dashi?”

“I have been there personally, and there are also the Lion Kingdom and Tianzhu Kingdom. If you don’t go out, you really don’t know how big the world is. Once there was a storm, and the fleet lost more than 30 ships. I was forced to live in the Lion Kingdom for three years. For months, I married a local woman there as a concubine, and later she became pregnant, and I brought her back to the country and gave birth to a boy who was very similar to me, and this was my first son.”

  Li Yanqing laughed loudly, “This is your true color! How many children do you have now?”

   “Now I have three sons, one daughter, and raised more than 20 women. Sooner or later, I will die on women in my life.”

  The two of them chatted about cheating in the test again, and immediately burst into laughter. Li Yanqing asked again: “Now that the business is so big, what hope do you have for the imperial court?”

   Zheng Rongtai said: “The only hope is that the commercial tax can continue to be exempted. I think it has a lot to do with the commercial tax exemption now that business is booming, and it has a great impact on our interests.”

  Li Yanqing shook his head, “The commercial tax is only temporarily exempted. It is impossible to keep exempting it forever. It will probably be exempted until the end of the year. However, when the north is rebuilt, the commercial tax will be exempted for at least ten years. Why don’t you go to the north to develop?”

   Zheng Rongtai nodded, “Then I can build an inland river fleet to connect the north and the south.”

   “Sea boats are also available!”

  Li Yanqing said with a smile: “In the future, the imperial court will vigorously develop coastal trough transportation, and you can also be exempted from commercial tax if you take the northern sea transportation. In the future, the transportation industry will be the first to recover in the north. You have an advantage, so don’t miss the opportunity.”

  Beside Yu Fenger smiled and asked: “Can I invest some capital?”

  Li Yanqing pointed to Zheng Rongtai on the opposite side and said, “If you want to make money, you have to find this fat man!”

  Zheng Rongtai smiled and said: “How much money does the lady invest?”

   “I have saved two thousand taels of silver, how many copies can I invest in?”

Zheng Rongtai thought for a while and said: “I can give you ten boats for two thousand taels of silver, and you will be paid back within three years, and the rest will be money, at least for twenty years, so you can enjoy others ordering tea for you! “

  Yu Fenger was very happy, “I met my benefactor today, and I will give the money to Mr. Zheng later.”

  At this time, Li Yanqing asked: “This time you donated one hundred thousand taels of silver to military expenses, what kind of honorary officer will the court give you?”

   “The imperial court granted me the honorary officer of Erpinzhu, and I can also pass it on to my son.”

   Zheng Rongtai remembered something, and asked quickly: “When awarding the honor, what land did Mr. Gao mention, I didn’t understand?”

Li Yanqing said indifferently: “Donate five guan coins, and the imperial court will give you one mu of land, but this land is not in the Central Plains, but will be cashed in after the general destroys the Jin Kingdom. One hundred thousand taels of silver is equivalent to five hundred thousand guan coins, and you can get ten The reward of 10,000 mu of land, that is, 1,000 hectares of land, Xiaopang, the forest on the land and the mines below are all yours, you have to recruit people to plant and develop it!”

   Zheng Rongtai was so happy that he could not close his mouth from ear to ear, “Is there so much land over there?”

   “The land over there is so big that you can’t even imagine it. The forest stretching for thousands of miles will become our land in the future.”

  The two were chatting when a soldier came quickly and whispered something in Li Yanqing’s ear. Li Yanqing nodded, “Tell them, I’ll be right there.”

  Zheng Rongtai winked extremely, and said quickly: “Your Highness, if you have something to do, just go and get busy!”

  Li Yanqing nodded, “I do have something to do. I’ll invite your family to dinner another day. I’ll take a step ahead.”

  Li Yanqing put on his coat and left quickly. Yu Fenger smiled at Zheng Rongtai: “Mr. Zheng will continue to teach me how to invest.”

   Zheng Rongtai narrowed his eyes with a smile, “Then order another pot of tea!”

  Li Yanqing hurried to the imperial city in a carriage. He didn’t expect the special envoys from the grassland to come to An’an. Although he didn’t know their reason for coming, Li Yanqing still saw another opportunity.

   Li Yanqing rushed to the imperial city, Zheng Wangzhi greeted him, Li Yanqing got off the carriage and asked, “Where are they?”

   “His Royal Highness, the grassland envoy is waiting at Honglu Temple.”

Honglu Temple is not far from the gate of the imperial city, Li Yanqing walked over with Zheng Wangzhi, Gao Shen and Honglu Temple Minister Yang Du greeted him at the gate, everyone entered the gate, and came to the first guest hall, there were only two people sitting in the hall , it was Muluda and Hanbier who had met in Xixia, when they saw Li Yanqing coming in, they got up quickly, greeted Li Yanqing with a big smile, and gave Li Yanqing a grassland salute.

   “The two special envoys have worked hard all the way south.”

  Both of them can speak Chinese, and they hurriedly expressed modestly that it was their honor to come to Songdu.

  Li Yanqing invited the two to sit down, and some of them were served by milk. Li Yanqing smiled and said, “The grassland war should be over!”

   “Just before we set off, the Jin soldiers withdrew completely, and 200,000 Jin soldiers rushed back to Liaodong. It is estimated that they will attack the Song Dynasty again.”

  Li Yanqing shook his head, “There is no chance of attacking Da Song. What they have to do now is to prepare for defense. Da Song is about to counterattack in an all-round way!”

Muluda and Hanbel looked at each other, and they were overjoyed. Muluda hurriedly said: “All the ministries in the grassland believe that the Jurchens must be completely wiped out and the dangers of the grassland must be eradicated. If the Song army is willing to cooperate with us, we will succeed.” The confidence is greater.”

   “Heroes see the same thing. We also believe that the Jin Kingdom is a serious problem for the Song Dynasty. It is the best opportunity to eradicate them by attacking when their vitality is seriously injured.”

  Muluda took out a wolf head made of silver and put it on the table, “This is our official invitation token.”

   “Invitation to what?”

   “At the beginning of September, on the banks of the Tuwula River, all the ministries of the grassland will hold a grand crusade meeting, and the leaders of all tribes will come to participate. We hope that the special envoys of the Song Dynasty will also come to participate, and discuss the golden plan together!”

  Li Yanqing took the silver wolf head and said with a smile: “I believe my special envoy will definitely rush to attend the meeting. In addition, I also hope to use this meeting to discuss the trade between the Song Dynasty and the grassland.”

   “That’s what we wish for!”

  At this time, Muluda said again: “Another thing, we want to buy 100,000 sets of armor from Song Dynasty. The price is still the same as before. We will exchange it with 5 million sheep. I wonder if His Highness agrees!”

   “This can be agreed, and I will ask the Privy Council to negotiate with you for the specific plan.”

  The two were overjoyed, and quickly got up to thank them. Li Yanqing asked Zheng Wangzhi and Yang Du to take them to various places in Lin’an Prefecture.

  Back to the Prison Room, Gao Shen asked: “What does Your Highness think is the real purpose of their attacking and destroying the Jin soldiers? Could it be that they also want to occupy the land of Liaodong?”

  ”The Shiwei Department has this possibility, but it needs to be negotiated with them. I think the September meeting will discuss the issue of dividing interests. Our principle is very clear. People can be avoided, but we want land.”

   “If you go to the grassland to attend the meeting in September, and your Highness thinks that we will counterattack the Kingdom of Jin, when will it start?”

Li Yanqing walked a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, and finally said: “If the meeting and negotiation are only held in September, then this year will definitely be too late. The early spring of next year is when the lambs are born, and they generally won’t go out to fight. I guess it will be in April next year.” In May, we will take advantage of this time of year, and we have to make good preparations.”

  (end of this chapter)