Chapter 990

The cabinet ministers all agreed that His Majesty should go to Songjiang Prefecture to stay. This is the place where the Wanli Reform is destined to face its tribulation, but this "one percent" in Shuntian Prefecture made the cabinet ministers worried. Shuntian Prefecture is not loyal, so His Majesty staying at Songjiang Prefecture is not reassuring, and he will be full of worries.

But making Shuntian Prefecture loyal seems very difficult to achieve.

In fact, at this time, one should take out the old methods of bureaucrats, deceiving those above and hiding from those below, taking advantage of the adjustment of the Shuntian Prefecture office to adjust this number up and make it look a little better.

But the matter involves the Emperor himself and the safety of the imperial heirs, and no one has the guts to do this. Once it is investigated, how many heads are enough to be cut off?

The Minister of Rites Gao Qiyu officially took office. He had two things in his hands: rectifying the empty style of the Hanlin Academy and the operation of the Pan-Pacific Commercial Alliance.

The Pan-Pacific Commercial Alliance was smoother than the Great Ming court ministers imagined. It was not because Gao Qiyu was capable, but because of Prince Lu.

In the sixth month, Prince Lu, who could not stay idle, went to the Lima City of the Peru Viceroy's office. Ten fast sailing ships, more than thirty zhang long, lay across the port, bringing enough shock to the barbarians at the maritime route ports.

Up to this point, Great Ming's merchant ships were unimpeded, and those little thoughts and little conspiracies immediately vanished under the pitch-black cannon barrels.

According to the directors sent by the Red-Haired Barbarians to the Ryukyu General Council, there were originally different voices in the Viceroy's office, but the armed cruise of the fast sailing ships made all the voices become the same.

The Peru Viceroy's office and the Mexico Viceroy's office both made a joint decision to reduce the transport of silver to the Spanish mainland.

Viceroy Peto promised that the three silver mine groups in Mexico, with a total annual output of 6.5 million taels of silver, would send more than 2 million taels to Great Ming next year, compared to only 500,000 taels before.

Peto, who had obtained Great Ming's war loans, began to control these mine groups, which was why he dared to make such a promise. With a sharp blade in his heart, Peto relied on the advantage of Great Ming's five-masted ocean-crossing ships, and as soon as he returned to the Viceroy's office, he began to attack cities and seize land.

And the rich silver mines of the Peru Viceroy's office, which produced 7 million taels of silver annually, promised to send 4.5 million taels to Great Ming, restoring it to the level before Great Ming and Spain became enemies.

And the reasons for the two Viceroy's offices were very legitimate: Spain, which was experiencing a price revolution, did not need so much silver.

The price revolution is a historical event in which cheap gold and silver from the Americas flowed into the West, causing the devaluation of gold and silver in the West and rising prices.

Because of the distribution problem, most of these inflowing silver were controlled by the nobles, and the farmers in the West kept going bankrupt during the price revolution.

Reducing the flow of silver back to the mainland, reducing price fluctuations, and increasing the inflow of goods—no matter how you look at it, this reason seems bright and upright, high-sounding. The Western mainland cannot consume so much silver, and silver flowing back will only become a hazard.

Gao Qiyu had been to the West. He knew that things were not like this. The reasoning seemed to make sense, but for the ruling class of the West, this was completely unacceptable.

The flow of cheap gold and silver from the Americas back to the West is essentially the mainland's plunder of the colonies. Once the colonies obtain enough goods from Great Ming, the gold and silver of the West will flow to these colonies. This is not the mainland plundering the colonies, but the colonies plundering the mainland in turn.

Gao Qiyu knew deeply that the basic logic of Great Ming and the West was completely different.

Great Ming cannot have large-scale refugees no matter what. Once they appear, it represents the shaking of the country's foundation, the overturning of heaven and earth, and the exhaustion of the country's fortune, which is equivalent to the collapse of heaven.

The West can withstand large-scale refugees. No matter how many unruly people there are without weapons, they cannot overturn the throne.

After all, the enclosure movement in England had long ago exceeded the danger line in terms of annexation. More than 90% of the land was concentrated in the hands of gentry and members of parliament. London was full of vagrants and beggars, and two-year-old children had to start working in chimneys.

Once the silver of the West flows to the colonies in turn, the sky of all the ruling classes in the West will collapse, because they lose their wealth and lose the means of rule.

Gao Qiyu specially wrote a letter and sent it to Yao Guangming and Yan Shixuan, urging them to remind the two Viceroy's offices to proceed slowly, not to be overly impatient, and not to force Felipe into a corner, changing the target of the expedition from England to Mexico and Peru.

Rectifying the Hanlin Academy, on the contrary, did not go so smoothly. These people who only talk were very stubborn.

For this reason, Gao Qiyu formulated a study tour plan. The Western Regions, Gansu, Suiyuan, Liaodong, and Songjiang Prefecture were all places for study tours. These Hanlin scholars in the Hanlin Academy could hear the sound of wind, rain, and reading, but they could not hear the suffering of the people.

Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. The Hanlin scholars had to walk these ten thousand miles even if they did not want to.

The Minister of War Ceng Shengwu was already old and frail. The suppression of the rebellion in Bozhou was a foregone conclusion. This was his last errand. After finishing it, he would retire with Wang Guoguang. Although His Majesty gave Yang Yinglong a chance, Ceng Shengwu understood the thoughts of these hereditary chieftains too well.

"I know, Minister Liang might not be able to understand, but these hereditary chieftains think this way." Ceng Shengwu told Liang Menglong about the logic of these hereditary chieftains, which Liang Menglong could not understand at all.

Liang Menglong frowned and said: "It is simply unreasonable."

Ceng Shengwu shook his head again and said: "Take Yang Yinglong as an example. His family has been king and hegemon in Bozhou for more than seven hundred years, experiencing Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming, and has passed down for twenty-nine generations. In his eyes, what is the Emperor?"

"Bozhou should be his family's. No one can touch it. The court sent flowing officials, which disrupted the rules and was an invasion."

"A country within a country, it is indeed so."

Yang Yinglong is a microcosm, no different from the Duzhang Barbarians back then. This mentality and idea, summarized, is a "country within a country," and such things will happen.

"It is simply ridiculous. Since he thinks he is so powerful, why not seek his own way of life? Why rely on the court? Or simply rebel?!" Liang Menglong's tone became very cold, even with a bit of murderous aura.

Ceng Shengwu sighed and said: "Yang Yinglong, hasn't he rebelled now?"

"Back then, I once called the hereditary chieftains of the Duzhang Barbarians to Chongqing Prefecture for investigation. The court also pardoned his crimes, but in the end, I still had to send troops to destroy him."

The court is actually too lazy to care about these hereditary chieftains. They are honest and do nothing, and Great Ming also tacitly allows them to be local emperors. But it is like this every time; they have to provoke the court and test the court's temper.

Great Ming people who have been in the hinterland of Great Ming for a long time cannot understand their way of thinking at all. In fact, there is no need to understand. Since they rebel, then suppress the rebellion.

"Minister Liang, the Han soldiers in Sichuan and Yunnan are trustworthy." Ceng Shengwu mentioned another matter.

The court actually has some concerns about the Han soldiers in Sichuan and Yunnan. A large part of this concern is due to the consideration of distance, fearing that the local area will become too big and the separatist regimes of the late Tang Dynasty will appear.

Therefore, the court has repeatedly used troops in the Southwest, and it has to mobilize teachers and move crowds, mobilizing Han soldiers from the capital and the hinterland to go there, such as the several Luchuan battles at the beginning of the dynasty.

In Ceng Shengwu's view, this is too wasteful. The military provisions are transferred halfway across the world, and the cost is really too high. Moreover, neither northern soldiers nor southern soldiers are actually good at jungle warfare.

During the Zhengtong period, the three Luchuan battles were all huge war cost expenditures, and at the same time, there were heavy casualties.

It was not like this during the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli periods. During this period, Great Ming's wars in the Southwest were all dominated by Southwestern Han soldiers, and the effect was very good.

It is not that the court no longer has paranoia; it is really that the court does not have the manpower, material resources, and financial resources to mobilize military provisions halfway across the world, so it can only rely on Southwestern Han soldiers.

After the Wanli Reform, His Majesty is just following the rules of his predecessors and doing things according to the rules of his predecessors.

"It was very difficult to explain before, but now it is easy to explain. On the one hand, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Qian are really too poor to support a separatist regime. Once they leave the court, it is difficult to maintain;"

"Secondly, the main contradictions in the Southwest are different from the main contradictions in the hinterland." Ceng Shengwu explained why Southwestern Han soldiers are trustworthy from the perspective of contradictions.

It is all Great Ming, but the situation in the Southwest is different from the hinterland. The main contradiction in the Southwest is still the struggle for survival between Han people and raw Miao people, not a completely civilized county land. However, having been in the hinterland for a long time, it is easy to think about problems from the perspective of a completely mature county, that is, the contradiction between the central and local governments.

Once this main contradiction is clarified, the reason why Southwestern Han soldiers are trustworthy can be thoroughly explained.

This time, the military campaign against Bozhou is still dominated by Southwestern Han soldiers, which is the reason. The court does not have to worry at all that the new-style artillery equipped to Southwestern Han soldiers will lead to a situation where the tail cannot be wagged. The Southwestern hereditary chieftains are the biggest enemies of the Han soldiers.

Liang Menglong finally understood completely why Ceng Shengwu did not ask His Majesty to mobilize the Beijing Camp to go there. It was completely unnecessary.

Southwestern Han soldiers also want face. Some hereditary chieftains are making trouble, and there is no need to mobilize heavenly soldiers and generals to travel long distances to suppress them.

Ceng Shengwu continued: "And this Bozhou matter is simpler than the Duzhang Barbarians. When the Duzhang Barbarians rebelled, there was the shadow of Mang Yinglong behind them. It was a turmoil of internal and external collusion. Foreign troubles, raw Miao, and chieftains colluded, and the situation was quite complex."

"But now the East Burma is lingering on its last breath, and Great Ming has set up the Pacification Office at the doorstep of Mang Yingli's house. East Burma has no way to cooperate with Yang Yinglong."

Ceng Shengwu had dealt with Mang Yinglong. This person was meticulous, always planned before acting, and was extremely decisive in doing things. Seeing that things were not going well, he immediately abandoned the Duzhang Barbarians and made friends with Great Ming to prevent Great Ming from launching a war against East Burma because of the Duzhang Barbarians.

Back then, the reason why Great Ming had to mobilize 140,000 Han troops for the Duzhang Barbarians was to guard against East Burma, and even prepared to fight a national war.

Mang Yinglong was a hero, so his son Mang Yingli was a fool. Mang Yingli actually felt that Great Ming's dilapidated house would collapse if kicked. Even if Great Ming is a dilapidated house, is it something Mang Yingli can kick?

Without internal and external collusion, Bozhou's Yang Yinglong is alone and helpless.

After Ceng Shengwu and Liang Menglong analyzed the main contradictions in the Southwest, they made specific arrangements and deployments: mobilize 10,000 Han soldiers, 30,000 military soldiers, 50,000 civilian laborers, and 3,000 raw Miao as guides from various places in Sichuan, and mobilize 30,000 military soldiers from Yunnan, Guiyang, and Huguang to intervene in the war at any time.

Liang Menglong took out another arrangement. He felt that Sichuan Han soldiers alone were a bit difficult. His overall plan was eight armies, 30,000 each, advancing together, and beating Yang Yinglong to death with one punch.

240,000 troops, such momentum, the purpose is also simple: to thoroughly deter the rebellious hearts of the many chieftains in the Southwest.

Ceng Shengwu then discovered that Liang Menglong, the minister in Zhang Juzheng's shadow, was actually a radical! He, Ceng Shengwu, a faction of suppression and war, was actually the conservative side.

It is true that Ceng Shengwu knows more about the situation in the Southwest, but Liang Menglong has a deeper understanding of politics.

Sichuan Han soldiers as the main force, 10,000 Han soldiers and 30,000 military soldiers to suppress the formation, is not stable enough. Once Yang Yinglong is not taken down, things will become extremely troublesome. It is not that Yang Yinglong is tricky, but that the court will have differences because it could not be taken down in one battle.

Once there are differences, they will unfold struggles around a certain matter. As long as there is a struggle, the suppression of the rebellion itself becomes unimportant, because the victory or defeat of the struggle becomes the most important issue.

By then, suppressing the rebellion will become difficult.

240,000 troops advancing together to suppress, ensuring that one mobilization can beat Yang Yinglong to death and thoroughly crush the resistance of Southwestern chieftains to flowing officials.

If the Bozhou battle becomes a mess, I am afraid that the time, energy, manpower, material resources, and financial resources spent will be greater than the eight armies advancing together, and it will only achieve military victory, not political victory. Southwestern chieftains will still resist Great Ming's "changing chieftains to flowing officials."

The cost of war is really too great.

Qi Jiguang said that war is to make the enemy submit to one's own will. If the enemy still refuses to submit after the war, military victory but no political victory is failure.

Liang Menglong quite agreed with this point. He was not a radical; he was a calculator. The price of a big mobilization is much smaller than the price of a mess.

"After fighting for more than ten years, I have become a martial artist instead." Ceng Shengwu laughed at himself and said: "Just follow Minister Liang's words."

Ceng Shengwu considers problems from the war level, but failed to consider them from the political perspective. Liang Menglong is right. The Bozhou battle, if it becomes a mess, Great Ming's treasury, which has just become rich, will have to shrink again. Be stable, directly 240,000 Han soldiers, eight armies advancing together.

Liang Menglong wrote the memorial, Ceng Shengwu and Liang Menglong jointly submitted it to the court, and soon received the Emperor's vermilion comment.

The Emperor could fully understand the logic that "being stable equals 240,000 troops." Liang Menglong's problem of "estimating the enemy broadly" was learned from the Emperor.

The Minister of Works Zeng Tongheng went to the Wenyuan Pavilion to request an audience with the Secondary Minister Governor Ling Yunyi, mainly to carefully confirm the many matters of the "Great Construction and Tripod Building."

Great Ming is currently building two post roads, the Beijing-Guangzhou post road and the Jiyang (Jinan-Yangzhou) post road. These two post roads, the Beijing-Guangzhou post road is built slowly, and the Jiyang post road is built quickly, and it is fast by more than a star and a half.

It is built quickly because the route is very rich, manpower and material resources are sufficient, and especially with the canal on the side, the transport of various materials is convenient.

"That is to say, it will be completed by the end of next year at the latest, and can be operated in the spring of the year after next?" Governor Ling Yunyi inquired about the detailed construction period.

"Secondary Minister, the redundancy for natural and man-made disasters has already been reserved. If there are none, it can be officially put into use in the autumn and winter of next year." Zeng Tongheng revealed the bottom line. Reserving sufficient redundancy makes it easy for everyone to explain, and finishing ahead of schedule or on schedule is both loyal to the monarch and the country.

"So it is." Governor Ling Yunyi's thoughts were not on the post road, but on His Majesty staying at Songjiang Prefecture.

With Shuntian Prefecture like this, how can His Majesty go to Songjiang Prefecture to stay for half a year every year to handle maritime trade affairs?

On the fourth day of the eighth month of the nineteenth year of Wanli, the last fleet of Pan-Pacific trade this year set sail. The extreme climate in the North Pacific in winter is very severe, which is different from the Great Ming storms that are rampant in the sixth, seventh, and eighth months. The Gold Mountain Country is where storms are rampant in winter.

After a full two months of sailing, the Pan-Pacific trade fleet arrived at Gold Shangang in Gold Mountain Country.

Zhao Mu was one of the military soldiers on this long voyage. He was a battalion commander of the Qingyuan Guard Battalion in Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangzhou, twenty-four years old, six feet tall, and strong.

His ancestral home was Jimo, Shandong. His father was a guest soldier who made some contributions in suppressing the Japanese pirates from Shandong to Zhejiang, then to Fujian and Guangdong.

In the second year of Wanli, Zhao Mu's father died in the Battle of Dianbai Port in Guangzhou.

Zhao Mu was only six years old at that time and became an orphan. His mother died in the Japanese pirate troubles, and his father died on the battlefield. Zhao Mu did not receive his father's pension, and even the few mu of thin fields that were originally his family property were taken away. The young Zhao Mu thus became a refugee.

At that time, the reputation of guest soldiers was not good. Once the war was over, guest soldiers became an unstable factor. Mountain bandits and sea pirates were composed of many guest soldiers who had no skills to rely on, gathering in the mountains and islands, causing harm to one side.

In the fifth year of Wanli, the nine-year-old Zhao Mu drifted to Guangzhou Prefecture. He was really dizzy with hunger, so he took the precious merit medal to a pawnshop to pawn it.

Zhao Mu felt that his father was a great man who stood upright. In order to suppress the Japanese pirates, he even lost his life. Even at the most difficult times, Zhao Mu did not pawn the merit medal that symbolized his father's lifelong honor.

But the nine-year-old Zhao Mu, who had no way to survive, was really at the end of his rope and could only sell it.

The pawnshop gave four qian of silver for a dead pawn. The nine-year-old Zhao Mu looked at the high counter; he could not even see the face of the pawnshop clerk.

All pawnshops would build the counter extremely high, and many clerks had to walk on inner steps to sit on stools, just to avoid seeing the suffering of the world.

Four qian of silver for a dead pawn; his father's life was worth only four qian of silver.

Zhao Mu did not want to pawn it. He took back his father's merit medal, curled up in the corner of the street, not knowing what to do. A surge of anger rose in his heart. He hated—hated the court, hated the government office, hated those hateful neighbors. He ran to the government office of Guangzhou Prefecture and beat the grievance drum.

The government office opens to money; if you have no money, don't come in. Although Zhao Mu was small, he also knew about this place. If this grievance drum was beaten, it was more likely that he would be beaten.

That year, Governor Ling Yunyi was the Viceroy in Guangzhou. Governor Ling Yunyi's notoriety for killing people had long spread throughout the two Guangs. Although it was a small matter, that merit medal finally reached Governor Ling Yunyi's hands.

In the fifth year of Wanli, Governor Ling Yunyi began to investigate the corruption case of guest soldiers.

In the sixth year of Wanli, Governor Ling Yunyi escorted forty-three corrupt officials to the capital. They were all corrupt officials who deducted the pensions of guest soldiers and guard soldiers. After the Emperor's vermilion comment, they were all beheaded and exposed to the public for ten days, and their families were sent to Luzon for military service, to serve as a warning to others.

In the seventh year of Wanli, this kind of storm had nothing to do with the young Zhao Mu. He became a battalion commander of the Qingyuan Guard, and nearly a hundred children or descendants of guest soldiers who had similar experiences to Zhao Mu were found back by Governor Ling Yunyi.

Zhao Mu stood by the pier of Gold Shangang, blowing the sea breeze, and suddenly remembered the scene of sending his father off at the pier every time when he was six years old. At that time, he raised his hand, but it was not as high as his father's waist sword.

He clearly remembered his father's waist sword; that sword was passed down from his ancestors.

The spine of the sword had long been rusted, but the mottled rust could still kill the enemy, proving that the waist sword was well-made. And decades of sharpening had made the blade of the sword form an arc like a dog's bite, but that sword had drunk the blood of Japanese pirates, so it was his father's most beloved object.

His father also had a set of iron-covered armor, which was a cloth-faced armor, and the iron armor plates had long been corroded with pits.

Zhao Mu had a set of iron-mixed armor, forged from refined steel, two hook-sickle spears, two flintlock muskets, one long and one short, one wild goose feather saber, and one short hand saber. He also had a boat that belonged to him alone, a three-body three-masted hydrofoil fast sailing ship.

They were all new things. Before he came to Gold Shancheng, they had just been issued to him. This hydrofoil fast sailing ship belonged to Zhao Mu himself; it was an extra imperial favor from the Emperor, hoping that he could devote himself to working for Prince Lu, Zhu Yijun, who was far away in Gold Mountain.

This boat was really fast. When he first got the boat, he once ran a full two hundred li of water in one hour. From Gold Shangang to the new port of Songjiang Prefecture, the water distance was a full twenty thousand li. Zhao Mu had the confidence to return to Great Ming in forty days with this boat.

Zhao Mu stood in the hunting wind and suddenly felt that his father's appearance was a bit blurred. When he was nine years old, Zhao Mu learned an idiom called "carving a boat to seek a sword."

He was just carving a boat to seek a sword when he recalled the past now.

"Dad, your child is also a 'Duntai Yuan Marquis' now." Zhao Mu kicked a stone into the sea and strode towards Gold Shancheng. He came this time and would not leave. He was here to take up the post of the "Lushan," the head of the maritime defense inspection of Gold Mountain Country, for Prince Lu.

Gold Shancheng was much more prosperous than Zhao Mu had imagined. After the establishment of the Pan-Pacific Commercial Alliance, more merchant ships arrived at Gold Shancheng to distribute goods, and it would only become more prosperous here.

Prince Lu, Zhu Yijun, stood in the Chengyun Hall of the Prince Lu's Mansion and said loudly to the Gold Mountain Earl, Quan Tianpei: "This was a mistake from the beginning. We must try every possible way to correct it! Instead of letting it rot!"

"I know that a lot of price must be paid in this process, but if it is not corrected, Gold Mountain Country will surely perish within ten years! I can take a boat back to Great Ming. At most, the Emperor will reprimand me a few times? What about you? What will you do!"

Zhao Mu did not understand the reason for this quarrel at all. He waited outside the hall for Prince Lu's summons. He heard some intermittent sounds, and coupled with the explanation of the Chief Clerk Meng Jinquan who came to pick him up, Zhao Mu understood the reason for the quarrel.

Quan Tianpei is a good person, and Prince Lu is a good person who does not reason.

The matter is actually very simple. Gold Shancheng does not set up a field system, which means the ownership of land depends entirely on "running horses to circle land," by convention. Whoever circles it is theirs. If everyone recognizes it as yours, it is yours.

This led to a relatively fatal problem, which was that the expansion of Gold Shangang required the requisition of land, leading to a surge in land prices.

There were not enough berths at the pier, and the pier needed to be expanded. But no matter where it was expanded, it was land with an owner. Everyone sat on the ground and raised the price, and the price was so high that even the Prince Lu's Mansion could not afford it.

Prince Lu, Zhu Yijun, was a "troublemaker." He wanted to confiscate it directly for nothing. Whoever did not agree would be sunk into the sea.

Quan Tianpei tried to persuade him earnestly. These were all old friends who had followed him from nothing to build Gold Shancheng. If they were forcibly confiscated like this, who would dare to stay in Gold Shancheng sincerely in the future?

Zhu Yijun flicked his sleeves forcefully and said sharply: "A woman's benevolence! The seaside is all sandy land, which is not suitable for farming at all. It was originally unowned land. As soon as they heard that the port was going to be expanded, these unowned lands immediately had owners."

"They are not taking advantage of the Prince's Mansion, but taking advantage of the entire Gold Mountain Country!"

"If I allow them to do this today, then in the future, whenever Gold Mountain Country does anything, it will be taken advantage of like this. Nothing will be accomplished! Gold Mountain Earl, can you understand my concerns? This is not just the expansion of Gold Shangang."

"This opening absolutely cannot be opened. How much gold and silver must I have, and how much gold and silver must Gold Mountain Country have, to fill people's greed?"

"Gold Mountain Earl, greed is insatiable! In a few years, they will dare to occupy the gold mines!"

Zhu Yijun was absolutely not alarmist. As soon as they heard that the port was going to be expanded, the unowned land immediately became a sweet pastry. For those few pieces of land, dozens of people were injured and nine were killed. Now, they were all waiting for him, the Prince Lu, to click, and the price of each piece of land was not cheap.

If he, the Prince Lu, just endured it like this, then whatever he did in the future would be a failure. This opening absolutely cannot be opened.

Quan Tianpei naturally understood the concerns of Prince Lu. The gold and silver he brought to the fiefdom were still very sufficient, but this was not a problem of money, but a problem of rules.

"Prince, let me go and persuade them again, persuade them." Quan Tianpei was also very tired.

Prince Lu's confiscation of land was absolutely not so gentle. Once these landlords resisted, the Gold Mountain government's tooth soldiers would arrive immediately. How many of these pioneers who followed Quan Tianpei to build Gold Shancheng from nothing could survive?

Quan Tianpei wanted everyone to be decent. He persuaded them many times, but these landlords did not give in at all, and even united to raise the price, which made Quan Tianpei very embarrassed.

This price increase completely ignited the anger of Prince Lu. Luo Shangzhi, the "Lou Hu," had already put on armor and held weapons, just waiting for Prince Lu's order.

"Gold Mountain Earl, I will give you one last chance. Before sunset, if they do not withdraw the slaves who blocked the expansion of the port, the army will move in." Zhu Yijun issued an ultimatum. He gave the Gold Mountain Earl Quan Tianpei face.

These landlords drove slaves to the seaside to make trouble and interfere with the development and construction of the port.

Zhu Yijun met the newly arrived Lushan Zhao Mu, and then waited in the Prince Lu's Mansion. Until sunset, Quan Tianpei returned to the Prince Lu's Mansion with a disappointed face, saying nothing.

Zhu Yijun looked at Quan Tianpei's appearance and knew that the persuasion had failed. He pondered for a while and said: "Gold Mountain Earl, if they hadn't united to raise the price this time, I would have endured it, but they insisted on raising it."

Prince Lu looked at Luo Shangzhi and said: "Trouble the General."

"The last general obeys the order." Luo Shangzhi, who looked like an iron tower, bowed his head to receive the order.