Well? Yang Chendong seemed to suddenly think of something, and as if he had been woken up, he looked at Cai Ge and said: "Yes, just now Cai's envoy had a sentence that really reminded the country's father, Nanming is rich in resources and has a large population, maybe you can think of a way from this." ”

  "Oh, what's the solution." Seeing that things seemed to have taken a turn for the better, Cai Ge asked with glowing eyes.

  Yang Chendong didn't say the result immediately, but was silent for a while, and then said to himself, "The so-called big land and rich things are good, but it's a pity that those things can't be taken or moved, and Nanming won't want mercenaries to meddle in things over there, so this item can be removed." As for the large population, the national prince remembered the words of the mercenary leader a while ago, he said that if he wants to build the general base of Jiaozhi and mercenaries, it will require a large number of people, obviously after this war, there are too many dead people in Jiaozhi, and the population has shown a negative growth trend, so if Nanming can provide some population, maybe it is possible to borrow money. ”

  "Feed the population?" Cai Ge looked confused by Yang Chendong, with a look of confusion and incomprehension.

  "Yes, it's about providing the population." Yang Chendong seemed to have made up his mind and said, "Now Nanming wants silver to train the new army, but no one's silver is blown by the wind, and if you want to pay nothing, it is obviously impossible to have empty white money." On the surface, the Yang Family Bank seems to be in charge of the government, but in fact, you should be able to guess that the person behind this is the mercenary leader. If nothing else, just the goods that sell all over the world are all produced by mercenaries, and I am just doing a small favor in them. ”

  "Yes, yes." Cai Ge kept nodding. Regarding the Yang Family Bank and some industries such as the Immortal Residence and the Outer Heaven in the Northern Ming Dynasty, there have long been conclusions outside. They also think that having such an achievement actually has nothing to do with Yang Chendong, after all, he is so young, and the Yang family background is so innocent, how could there suddenly be so many good things in the world? There can only be one explanation, and that is that there is someone else behind him, and this person is probably the mysterious mercenary.

  Now that Yang Chendong has explained himself, the result is still the same as that of others' guesses, so it is no wonder that Cai Ge kept nodding his head at this time and agreed.

  Seeing that Cai Ge agreed with his statement, Yang Chendong knew that the matter had become seven or eight tenths. At that moment, he struck while the iron was hot and said: "Most of the silver in the Yang family's bank belongs to mercenaries, so if you want to borrow silver from it, you must get their consent." That is to say, you need to give something that satisfies them. In this case, the only thing you can do is the large population. In this way, there is no need for any collateral, Nanming is out, and we will pay for the transaction directly. ”

  "Transaction population? But don't you know what the charter is in here? Cai Ge was a little confused by Yang Chendong's words, and his face was confused. It is true that there are human trafficking in the people, but it is mostly because some large families lack people, so they will occasionally buy some. It's normal to say more than a dozen or dozen, and less to say one or two. The amount of money traded is also very limited, ranging from a few taels of silver to more than a dozen hundred and dozens of taels. But this time, Nanming needs tens of millions of taels of silver, so how many people do you need to buy and sell?

  Seeing Cai Ge's doubts, Yang Chendong explained: "Human trafficking has existed since ancient times, so I don't need to say anything about this point." The only problem with this transaction is that the gap between the two silver taels that Nanming needs is too large, so the number of natural population transactions must also be large. In this way, the head of the mercenary army, my brother, is in charge, and he will buy a woman from my Ming Dynasty for twenty taels of silver. Fifteen taels for a child under ten years of age, five taels for an elderly man over fifty years of age, and fifty taels for a man between fourteen and forty years of age. As for how much population Nanming can provide, how much gold and silver will the mercenaries pay here, how? ”

  After going around for a long time, Yang Chendong finally mentioned the matter of needing a large number of people in a very obscure way.

  The reason why he didn't mention this matter as soon as he came up was afraid that Cai Ge would have other ideas. As it is now, it would be more acceptable to put forward such a quid pro quo when the other party has no way out.

  Cai Ge really didn't think too much about it, but instead began to calculate the accounts of this population transaction in his heart.

  Take a woman's twenty taels of silver as an example, in fact, such a price is not very rich. After all, when some big families want to buy Yahuan, the price is often higher than this. But there are a lot of people who can't stand the mercenaries. They are not picky, especially in terms of appearance, which is not comparable to those big families. And if a woman is twenty taels of silver, ten is two hundred taels, and a hundred is two thousand taels, what about ten thousand? What about 100,000? Isn't it two million taels?

  With the addition of the elderly and children, 100,000 is 2 million taels. The existence of these people will not play much role in the Ming Dynasty, on the contrary, most of their existence is a waste of food. If these people can be abandoned, wouldn't Nan Ming be able to save a lot of resources?

  Not to mention, the young man alone is fifty taels. 100,000 people is 5 million taels!

  In other words, what Nanming has the most now, of course, is the population. Especially the rebellion of King Min, Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong and many displaced people are going straight to the direction of Nanjing, on the way to come, Cai Ge saw countless people fleeing the famine, roughly calculated, the population is also one or two million, so if these people are all traded to mercenaries, what is the value? Isn't it easy to make up the silver taels for the training of the new army?

  Not to mention that the task can be completed, it can also reduce Nanming's pressure, wouldn't this kill two birds with one stone? Presumably after the errand is completed, the emperor will definitely look at himself differently.

  The more he thought about it, the hotter Cai Ge's heart became, and when he looked at Yang Chendong, there was a little more heat in his eyes, "Loyal and courageous, I don't know if there is any limit to this transaction you are talking about?" ”

  "There are no limits. It depends on how much silver taels you need and how many people you can provide. Of course, there is one thing that must be explained, that is, we will not force the purchase, and you should not force the sale, if there is a forced thing, waiting for those people to try to escape back as soon as they arrive at us, or if they want to commit suicide on the way, then we will not carry this pot, and the bodies of those people will still be sent back, and the silver must also be returned, otherwise it will anger the mercenaries and it will not benefit everyone. ”

  Yang Chendong had to make things clear. He knows too well how Nanming does things. In order to achieve the goal, it can do anything. If you really send some weak and sick people to your side, and they leave all the good seedlings there, then I don't know how many families will be torn apart. Under such circumstances, will the Hermes-Epitek who has been traded in be able to stay and work on their side with peace of mind?

  If this is the case, I don't know how much energy it takes to do the ideological work of these people every day. In order to prevent such a thing from happening, some ugly arguments must be said first.

  "Of course, of course, we Nanming would not do such a villain thing." Cai Ge hurriedly waved his hand, although he did have such thoughts. In fact, similar incidents can happen in the process of trading people, but you really can't go too far, otherwise it really doesn't do any good to anger the mercenaries.

  "Well, even if Envoy Cai knows how to operate this matter, then the Duke of China won't say anything more. That's the thing, you can go back and reply to the emperor. If agreed, Yangjia Bank would first enter the city of Nanjing, Songjiang and Jianning, and then the transaction would take place there. In the end, all the people will be transported by you to the wharf of Songjiang Prefecture, where there will be mercenaries to take the population, and you will take the silver taels from the Yang Family Bank in the three places through the bills they have issued. ”

  After Yang Chendong gave a charter for the method and process of the transaction, he put forward another request, "I need my fourth brother to manage the three newly opened Yangjia banks, and the national public knows that he should be in Nanjing and Kyoto now, and it should be easy to find him." ”

  The fourth brother is Yang Yang, and Zhu Qizhen was thinking about using this person to threaten Yang Chendong before. But now that everyone is cooperating, the so-called threat is gone.

  As Cai Ge, he naturally knows about Yang Yang. Before he came, the emperor had instructed that if the loyal and courageous prince asked about this matter, he would explain it well, saying that he took a fancy to his Yang Yang's ability and wanted him to go to Kyoto to be an official. In short, we can't cause displeasure on both sides because of this incident. Now that Yang Chendong didn't delve into what was going on, of course he wouldn't have intentionally mentioned this matter, so he nodded again and again, indicating that there was no problem.

  Yang Chendong just mentioned the matter of a fourth brother, he believed that with Cai Ge's cleverness, he knew how to reply to Zhu Qizhen. As for the fact that he wanted to be crowned king, he did not mention it again, now is not the time for persecution. It's better to get a large number of people first, and as for the rest, he believes that it will come naturally.

  The talks between the two sides went very smoothly, and Cai Ge was also very satisfied, and after saying everything that should have been said, he then got up and said goodbye. Now that the war in Jiaozhi is over, it seems that the mercenaries do not seem to have the intention of giving up, and they still want to use the Lancang Kingdom as a soldier. He needs to report this matter to Yingzong and make a decision as soon as possible. There is also the matter of population and trade, after all, if you get the silver first, you can train the new army first, and the moment when Nanming is strong will be able to come a moment earlier.