ps: I'm sorry, tonight's five watches, this time the snail missed, next time I must have a long memory, beg for mercy!

In the main hall, Xiao Ming and Wang Xuan stood opposite each other. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After receiving Xiao Ming's order, Wang Xuan said: "Your Highness, the secret guards have already gone to Chudi, if such a big incident really happens, it is estimated that they will get the news soon." ”

Wang Xuan's tone was very confident, in the past two years, the government has invested a lot of money in the secret guards, which has allowed the secret guards to expand rapidly, and now there are thousands of secret guards under his command alone.

These guards are located in the areas they focus on monitoring, and there is a strict organization, and it is they who pass on a steady stream of messages back.

Nodding, he said to Wang Xuan: "Yes, but the work of the secret guard needs to be strengthened, this time your arrest of Jin Shang has long been known by the emperor, it seems that the father emperor also has a spy organization." ”

Wang Xuan nodded, "We were indeed negligent, and later we learned that they were from Lijingmen. ”

"That's not bad, you finally have an opponent, you can compete with each other, and also, the monitoring of Chang'an and the barbarians can't be relaxed, and the dynamics of these two places are also very important."

"Yes." Wang Xuan nodded and turned to leave.

Seeing Wang Xuan leave, Xiao Ming fell into deep thought, the news brought by Cao Zhengtong this time did surprise him a little, he didn't expect the King of Chu to go to war with the Dutch.

I have to say that this shows that the Dutch are really pushing the King of Chu to be anxious, but the appearance of such a domineering Dutch count in this area is also not good news for Xiao Ming.

Now that the sea trade route is completely blocked, this is also a great problem for Xiao Ming, as Cao Zhengtong said, the sea route is wealth.

He couldn't let such a huge fortune fall into the hands of the Dutch.

The land Silk Road has been broken, and now the sea route has also been broken, Xiao Ming is really one and two big, and this big Chongqing country is really a mess.

Two days later, Wang Xuan really brought news of the battle of Qiantang in Chu, the fleet of the king of Chu was destroyed by the Dutch more than 30 ships, and the prince Li Chuyuan was almost captured by the Dutch.

The Lin'an Wharf was in ruins by the Dutch, and finally under the coercion of the Dutch, the king of Chu had to sign a new negotiation agreement on the Dutch warship.

This agreement recognized the Dutch's ownership of maritime trade, and all ships passing through the trade routes had to pay heavy taxes to the Dutch, and at the same time, all goods sold by the Dutch to Chu were exempt from taxes, etc.

"Is this news reliable?" Holding the news given by Wang Xuan, Xiao Ming asked.

"It is very reliable, it is said that the Dutch, in order to humiliate the king of Chu, made this agreement public to the local maritime merchants, and it is from these maritime merchants that these news came." Wang Xuan said.

Xiao Ming sneered twice and said: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that the King of Chu really opened the precedent of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and was the first to sign the first unfair traitorous treaty in history under the threat of force from the colonizers." ”

"The King of Chu has always had a heart higher than the sky, and this time I am afraid that he will cry and beg His Highness to purchase arms." Wang Xuan suddenly laughed.

"Hey, this is really inaccurate, this time I was taught a hard lesson by the Dutch, with the urine nature of the King of Chu, he will inevitably purchase a large number of arms, and the Dutch will definitely not sell arms to the King of Chu again because of this matter." Xiao Ming suddenly had some expectations.

The two were talking, when suddenly the voice of the palace servant came from outside the door, "Your Highness, the envoy of the King of Chu outside the door asks to see you." ”

"Your Highness, this is called Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will arrive." Wang Xuan laughed.

Xiao Ming nodded, "It seems that this time the King of Chu is very angry, as the so-called snipe and clam fight, the fisherman profits, in the past, the King of Chu was waiting for the king and the barbarians to fight and lose, now we can finally see his jokes." ”

After that, Xiao Ming asked Wang Xuan to avoid it for the time being, but let the envoy of the King of Chu come in.

"See His Highness under Li Wei." The person who came was an old man, about fifty years old.

Frowning, Xiao Ming said: "Excuse me, the envoy came this time, I don't know what the so-called thing is?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness the King of Chu sent here this time to purchase artillery and muskets, His Royal Highness the King of Chu asked His Royal Highness to bring a message to the King of Shu, please thank His Highness for being the descendants of Yan and Huang, and be sure to provide a thousand naval guns for Chu."

"A thousand naval guns?" Xiao Ming almost jumped up, he said: "The king of Chu is crazy, where did this king get so many naval guns, hey, how did the king of Chu know about naval guns?" ”

At the end, Xiao Ming suddenly exclaimed.

Li Wei was not in a hurry, he said: "It was the Dutch who told His Royal Highness the King of Chu about this naval cannon, in fact, it was to show off, His Royal Highness said that as long as he could get a thousand naval cannons, he could consider the request made by His Royal Highness the King of Qi." ”

Xiao Ming's eyes rolled, a thousand naval guns is really a big business, this is enough for the King of Chu to form a fleet with powerful artillery.

Moreover, this naval gun is generally a heavy artillery, and the price is much more expensive than the ordinary city defense artillery, and a thousand guns are a lot of silver.

Overall, this business is really tempting, but Xiao Ming's current number of naval guns is not enough, let alone for the King of Chu.

So he said: "I'm afraid I can't help, the number of artillery guns produced in Qingzhou is limited, and a thousand is too much." ”

Li Wei still didn't look like he was in a hurry, he continued: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi is slow, His Royal Highness the King of Chu said, what Qingzhou lacks is a ship and not a cannon, and what Chu lacks is a cannon and not a ship, and the two complement each other and are beneficial to everyone. ”

"Merchant ships and craftsmen." Xiao Ming's heart beat uncontrollably.

This time, the king of Chu is really right, what he lacks now is indeed ships, whether it is merchant ships and shipbuilders, and there is an urgent shortage.

After pondering for a while, he said: "This king can squeeze out some naval guns, but the number will not be large, only more than thirty, and the remaining naval guns will be delivered in the next few years, and there is nothing else this king can do." ”

This time, the king of Chu was impressed by the Dutch, after all, the agreement has been signed, and every year that passes, the king of Chu will lose more.

"Your Highness said, you can wait." Li Wei said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "That's okay, but the old rule, this deposit must be in place, otherwise this business will not be able to be done by this king, and this king must meet the merchant ships and craftsmen first." ”

With such a large order, Xiao Ming could only let the military workshop continue to expand, this thousand cannons seemed to be a lot, but in fact, it was the scale of ten Galen ships.

And the delivery in a few years is not enough to pose a threat to him, because after three or four years, the devil knows how far the Qingzhou Navy will develop, and at that time these naval guns are estimated to be obsolete.

"As His Highness wishes." Li Wei nodded emphatically. (To be continued.) )