Seriously, trading is a cool thing, especially if you're the one who prints money.

And seeing that the trade between Daming and Spain is booming, some people are happier than Chen Mu.

He is Zhu Xiaoen, the king of Daming Ailan, who has just won the right to train troops from the Dongyang Military Government in Changsheng County.

Prince Xiaoen is now like an arrow, but according to the stalemate between the Ming Dynasty and Spain, he didn't dare to follow Shao Tingdabu to Chile, so he simply asked Chen Mu for a loan to recruit troops on the west coast.

The total amount of loans was 96 million Tongbao, and the Toyo Military Government allocated the loan in 36 months, with 4 million per month for the first six months, 2 million per month for the middle 24 months, and 4 million per month for the last six months, for a total of three years.

It was a huge loan worth 96,000 taels of silver.

The loan contract was called the "Agreement on the Restoration of the Kingdom of Ming Ailan", and the responsibility of the Oriental Military Government was to provide King Zhu Xiaoen with loans, arms sales, and Ming instructors, and to allow him to freely recruit a 1,200-strong Fuguo army in Asia.

The responsibility of the Ailan Kingdom is to inventory the local minerals after landing on the land of the Ming Ailan Kingdom, and hand them over to the Ming merchants to operate, and 30% of the finished products will be supplied to the kingdom, and 70% will be handled by the Oriental Military Government for a period of 100 years; If there is a shortage of minerals, the shortfall will be reimbursed by customs taxes.

Since the agreement was reached in September of the sixth year of Wanli, the Bureau of Commerce of the Military Government allocated 4 million Tongbao from its account in that month, but only 1.08 million yuan was distributed to Zhu Xiaoen and his subordinates, and the remaining 2.92 million yuan was deducted for the purchase of ordnance, the lease of military camps, the construction of facilities, the employment of instructors, the rations of sergeants, and the transportation of goods and horses.

That's not all, the money for the ordnance will have to be deducted next month.

In fact, the remaining more than 2 million military governments did not even print at all, but simply swiped a double GDP, and the important warehouses of Changsheng County were directly shipped.

Zhu Xiaoen, who got Tongbao, was not in a hurry to leave the Bureau of Commerce, and the prince Xiaoen, who was sweating profusely in a scarlet python robe on a hot day, leaned against the ice wall of the Bureau of Commerce to cool off for a while.

It didn't take long for another foreigner to bring people to drive three carriages, and a few guards with long axes on their shoulders, wearing silk robes and iron chain mail, were well defended, and directly drove the carriage into the Commerce Bureau with the prince's waist card, and bowed to Zhu Xiaoen, who was enjoying the coolness, and bowed on one knee, and his voice was the sound of the urn, and the Tianjin dialect was very standard: "King, bring it!" ”

Zhu Xiaoen immediately got up, raised his hand and beckoned to the officials of the Bureau of Commerce: "Come to someone who can calculate the price, and see how much these things are worth to Tongbao." ”

As he spoke, Prince Xiaoen walked quickly to the carriage with his clothes on his hand, looked at the lacquered wooden box on the carriage with his hand, and said to the left and right: "These are all treasures, if it weren't for the fear that Chen Shuai would not give good weapons like taking care of those Nanyang vassal countries, this king would not have taken out this treasure that he wanted to bring home and sell it." ”

Zhu Xiaoen did not have a royal village or a feudal country in Daming, but the imperial court Lu Mi was sufficient, and he received two years of Lu Mi to accumulate a huge amount of family property, to be honest, if he didn't have to recapture the subject country for the imperial court, he also wanted to stay in Beiyang for the rest of his life.

Beiyang didn't let him spend money, he had food and clothing, and the farthest place he had been to in more than a year was Tianjin, but even if he went to Tianjin, Chen Mu didn't let him spend money, saying that he didn't let him develop the habit of extravagance and waste, and the silk, Luo, silk, cloth, brocade, silk, salt, tea, and rice that the imperial court gave every year were all kept, and some of them were not sold until they went to sea.

His family property alone has 5,000 taels of silver, all of which are exchanged for grain, packed in several boxes, and the rest of all kinds of cloth and satin, and the court's reward utensils, this time he took them all out, and will exchange them for Tongbao in the Bureau of Commerce.

Zhu Xiaoen left himself a set of backflow pots and fair cups, and even sold the silk that he originally planned to bring back to make clothes for his wife and children.

Changed three boxes of Tongbao with a denomination of 1,000, close to 10 million.

As soon as he received the Tongbao here, the officials from the military government came over and reported to him: "King, the location of the Alan Restoration Army has been selected, the ordnance and military rations are being escorted there, and the supervision and training instructor has also led the team over. ”

Zhu Xiaoen's eyes lit up at that time, and he hurriedly said, "Let's go, go and have a look!" ”

To be honest, after being with Chen Mu for so long, he knows too well what kind of temperament the Oriental handsome is, but everything he handles must be good things, but just one word, expensive!

Others do business to see the goods and see the money, he does business not only to see the goods and money, but also to look at the people.

Zhu Xiaoen even summed up a rule, and talked to Zhao Shizhen when he was chatting, saying that this different person buys the same goods from Chen Mu, and the price is also different.

For example, if you buy a bird gun, the generals in Daming will ask him to buy it, and if you can buy one or two outside, Chen Mu will ask for two taels here.

If the subject country outside wants to buy it, Chen Mu doesn't want silver, but wants pearls and gemstones, which are worth two taels over there and ten taels in China.

If Spain wants to buy this gun, hehe, then no one knows how much it will cost!

Zhao Shizhen didn't say anything when he heard this, he just pursed his lips and couldn't stop laughing, and finally said with the intention of replying: "The king is still too young, why did the handsome gun sell out?" Because his guns are good, he may not be able to buy the same guns if he spends two taels outside. ”

Zhu Xiaoen thought so, but he didn't know that Zhao Shizhen's words had to be divided into two sentences, one was Chen Mu's goodness, and the other was that he was too young.

What did Chen Mu collect money from selling guns? He sold iron ingots worth two taels of silver.

The Restoration Army is stationed next to the small bay in the south of Changsheng Port, quite spacious, surrounded by fishermen, and this land is not used, and it is divided by the Oriental Military Government and then sold.

There is also a coast on the station, there is an abandoned trestle bridge on the beach, which can be used when repaired, and there are four small shark boats and twelve lucky boats parked on the shore.

The supervising instructor with a hundred iron plates on the cuirass had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Zhu Xiaoen and his entourage riding a horse, he waved his hand and ordered someone to carry the box after saluting, and presented the goods list: "King, the armaments of the Restoration Army will arrive in full in the next few days, this is the goods list." ”

Zhu Xiaoen took the official document, and several long wooden boxes were opened, revealing well-maintained ordnance lying in the straw.

"The Restoration Army plans to train 10 infantry units, 100 households, 100 households, 100 artillery households, and distribute 1,000 arquebus guns, 1,000 waist knives, 2,000 sets of military uniforms in winter and summer, 1,000 pairs of cuirasses, 6 2-kilogram guns, and 8 tiger squat guns."

Supervising Baihu said and said: "In this way, when the army is trained, it will be recruited to start riding in the Ailan country, and the king can use it as an elite force to take it as an elite force, and be the first to charge the enemy!" ”

Zhu Xiaoen bent down and picked up a bird's gun, made an aiming posture, and smiled happily to the left and right: "This time, Dashuai, he is unexpectedly generous!" ”