Li Guoying listened to Gao Mingzhan's words and felt that even if the Ming army did not have the determination to seize Chongqing, its morale would be greatly boosted by Gao Mingzhan's words. However, Li Guoying couldn't scold his old comrades-in-arms and the deputy he had been trying his best to cultivate in public, so he could only lower his voice and blame him. Li Guoying also knew very well in his heart that the group of people around him were all frightened by Deng Ming. Maybe Sun Sike and Shanxi Green Camp are better, after all, they just fled, and Wang Mingde, these henchmen, have been arrested by Deng Ming three times, and their psychological disadvantages are irreparable. Even Li Guoying, as a bystander, has taken Wang Mingde's defeat for granted, and no longer thinks that they will give Deng Ming the slightest sense of threat, or be able to show courage when facing Deng Ming.

"Xiaguan is a little nervous, nervous." Gao Mingzhan bowed his head and admitted his mistake, but there was still a trace of unconvincing in his heart: "The Governor clearly sees that the lower officials can definitely deal with Deng Ming, as long as he feels that it is unprofitable to attack Chongqing......"

"Shut up." Li Guoying interrupted Gao Mingzhan's defense, who has heard of such a method to retreat from the enemy since ancient times? Li Guoying didn't know that the last time Wang Mingde negotiated with Deng Ming, he threatened to kill his own people and set fire to his own barracks, because Li Guoying was so angry when he remembered that incident that he didn't ask carefully. When Gao Mingzhan and his colleagues exchanged their experience in negotiating with Deng Ming, they also summed up and explored some tricks.

After listening to Gao Mingzhan's shouting in front of Jintangmen City, Deng Ming looked around behind him and smiled at the guards on the left and right: "That's right, I remember that there are only more than a hundred of us." ”

After saying this joke, Deng Ming asked the soldiers to bring out a box, opened the lid of the box, and poured the contents on the ground to show the people on the city tower.

"I just came back from Myanmar and brought back a lot of Burmese treasures." The chest contained many gemstones of various styles - mainly jadeite, which is abundant in Myanmar. Most of the gem-quality jadeite cherished by future generations is produced in northern Myanmar, but it is not worth much in the current era, and Deng Ming uses it to make up for it. There are also some genuine rubies and sapphires in the box: "The so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, Governor Li, Governor Gao, the generals and Deng have also been neighbors for many years, I passed by Chongqing and sent some gifts to the gentlemen to appreciate." ”

In addition to the precious stones, Deng Ming also gave three ivory sticks. If it weren't for the distance and Li Guoying standing next to him, Gao Mingzhan and his group would probably have thanked them a long time ago. They held in their stomachs, "Admiral Deng is too polite, how embarrassing is this", and many people exchanged opinions with each other in confusion: Didn't they say that there is a barren mountain on the other side of Burma, and the people who live there wear tree bark and eat grass roots?

"I heard that some people in the Kui Dong Army were lost in Chongqing, and if the princes can return them to me, Deng is willing to pay the bill with gems and gold coins." Deng Ming also put some gold from Burma in the box, and he shouted loudly to the city: "The price of two cows for a Kuidong army is converted, and the food expenses for these days are calculated separately, if you are not satisfied, the price is negotiable." ”

After the words were explained clearly, Deng Ming left the box of treasures in place and led the guards towards the small boat by the river.

Seeing that Deng Ming had walked away, Gao Mingzhan volunteered: "Your Excellency Governor, the lower officials will go down to the city and get those things back for you." ”

Li Guoying was still groaning, but Sun Sike was not at ease, and shouted loudly: "Beware of fraud, don't let him earn the city gate." ”

Gao Mingzhan looked at the hundred or so Ming cavalry, they had already arrived at the shore, Gao Mingzhan shook his head and said: "Since Deng Ming said that he came to give gifts, he will definitely not go back on his word and will not rob our city gate." ”

Gao Mingzhan almost didn't reproach Sun Sikexiu for "spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain", and besides, there are three big gaps in the northwest of Chongqing, can people deceive the city gate? Seeing that Li Guoying did not object, he ran down the city and retrieved the treasure chest with a few followers.

Although jadeite is not very valuable, but these Burmese jadeite are red, green and yellow, it seems that each piece is delicate and lubricated, crystal bright, or very beautiful, causing many people to praise. But Li Guoying just glanced at them, and commented disdainfully: "Fake jade." ”

The Burmese gold in the box is of good quality, and the rubies and sapphires are also of high quality.

In addition to these gemstones, Myanmar also produces a small amount of diamonds, also known as diamonds. However, at this time, diamond was also considered a gemstone and did not have an astonishing price. Since diamond is not a luxury item, Deng Ming shipped them all back to Chengdu for storage, planning to use them to make knives in the future, after all, diamond is an important industrial material.

The three tusks were tied with a letter written by Deng Ming, indicating that one of them was given to Li Guoying. The market price of this ivory is almost equivalent to the sum of money that the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi will take in his lifetime; One was given to Governor Gao and the generals of the Ganshan Green Battalion, and the other was given to the leaders of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners.

At the end of the letter, Deng Ming said that he still had a lot of ivory and precious stones in his hand, and now Sichuan West provided direct sales services, and if Chongqing was interested in buying them, Deng Ming was willing to sell them to them. The price of the goods is negotiable, the quality is absolutely guaranteed, and it can be returned in full within three months without any reason.

"Hey, so to speak, Myanmar is not very poor, who said that Myanmar is poor and remote?" After listening to Gao Mingzhan read Deng Ming's letter, the Qing army generals on the city tower turned their heads and ears.

The most troublesome thing for everyone is, how to deal with the prisoners of the Kuidong Army? Some people advocated selling the captives to Deng Ming, and the captives could only be used as coolies in their hands anyway - coolies could not be found everywhere? But not every coolie can be exchanged for gems. However, the price of two cows obviously cannot be agreed, didn't Deng Ming claim to have brought a lot of gems and ivory back from Burma, then he must ask for more.

It was Sun Sike, the Eight Banner generals, who also moved his mind to make a deal with Deng Ming. Since they arrived in Chongqing, whether they were stationed in the Manchurian Eight Banners or the Han Eight Banners, they were all worried about bringing some Sichuan native products back to Beijing to honor the high-ranking officials above. However, Li Guoying was beaten and cowered in the city of Chongqing, except for the deer skin in the surrounding woods, they had never seen anything good.

Burmese gold is fine, but gems and ivory are rare treasures, in the past, the envoys of the vassal kingdom would pay tribute to the royal family, where would it be the turn of ordinary generals and officers? In recent decades, due to the change of regime, tribute has come and gone, and after the Chongzhen year, it has basically stopped, and ivory has become extinct, and it is more precious than gold to bring back to Beijing.

Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, is undoubtedly an obstacle to the road, as long as he does not nod, everyone will have no chance to sell the Ming prisoners. However, Li Guoying was not as everyone feared, after observing everyone's expressions for a while, he shook his head and sighed deeply, saying that the matter was completely handed over to Gao Mingzhan, the governor of Sichuan, and he still went back to his room to rest.

With everyone's ardent hopes, Gao Mingzhan traveled lightly, went straight to the riverside out of the city, and beckoned the Ming army to take him on the boat to meet Deng Ming. When leaving Chongqing, the inexperienced Shanxi people still felt that Governor Gao's move was too risky, and Gao Mingzhan's face was awe-inspiring: "There is no time to seek a life for the country, even if it is the tiger's den in Longtan, you have to break through!" These bold words suddenly moved the people of Shanxi, and their mood was similar to when they saw Wang Mingde and they took the initiative to break off. But after Gao Mingzhan left Chongqing, the people of Shaanxi leaked the bottom of the governor. Gao Mingzhan was caught by Deng Ming twice, and there was not a single hair missing, he was breaking into the tiger's den in Longtan, obviously going to an old friend to catch up and drink tea.

Deng Ming and Gao Mingzhan bargained, and finally agreed to buy the prisoners of Kuidong's army at the price of five cows per person, and the Chongqing generals accepted Deng Ming's payment with precious stones and ivory -- before Gao Mingzhan set out, some people thought that a Ming army should be exchanged for ten or twenty cows, and when it was pointed out that they had always sold at the price of one cow, the person who raised it disdainfully retorted: In recent years, the Qing army has always been captured in large numbers, and the price is naturally low. And finally caught a group of Ming army prisoners, of course, they had to ask for money ruthlessly.

However, this group of captives is not from western Sichuan in the final analysis, and the asking price is too ruthless to estimate that Deng Ming will not do it, and Hu Wenke also pointed out: "Be a man and leave a line, and we will see each other in the future" is an unbreakable wise saying, if Deng Ming is too ruthless this time, it will be difficult to speak after the Qing army is captured next time. Does anyone think that they will not fall into the hands of Deng Ming? At that time, what should I do if Deng Ming's redemption fee rises ten times or a hundred times?

The price given by Deng Ming is not low, and the conversion price of gems is even cheaper, Gao Mingzhan is very satisfied with the result of the negotiation, if it is not for the real embarrassment at hand, Gao Mingzhan would like to buy some gems and go to the north to resell.

"It's easy," Deng Ming pointed out the direction to Gao Mingzhan and other Chongqing guards in one sentence: "I want pig iron and brass, especially craftsmen, from masonry, blacksmiths to glazers, as long as you can help me find people from the mainland, the price is negotiable." ”

The Burmese side would certainly not be able to pay off the large war reparations with gold, and Deng Ming knew that he would inevitably accept a large number of ivory, precious stones and other items as substitutes in the future, and selling these things to Shanxi and Shaanxi Luying could be regarded as finding an additional market outlet for the governors in the southeast to find a competitor.

Gao Mingzhan returned to Chongqing with the preliminary agreement, and Sun Sike and Yuan Jiawenbi felt that this condition seemed to be too good, and therefore had some doubts about Deng Ming's credibility - Originally, the Han Eight Banners did not need to be taken prisoners, but this time Chongqing was ruined and manpower was needed everywhere, so Sun Sike and they also left more than 100 Ming prisoners to renovate their camps.

Just as Sun Sike and the others were hesitating whether to trade with Deng Ming, a Niu Lu from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty came to report that the Manchurian princes stationed in the Eight Banners had killed two pigs today, saying that they wanted to add food to their Ming prisoners of war.

"Meat for the Kui Dong thief?" Sun Sike was taken aback: "It's enough to eat, isn't this better than the treatment of the green camp?" ”

"Mr. Wang, they did the same, and the garrison of the Eight Banners was Mr. Wang, who learned -- they took all the pigs distributed to the green camp to Kui Dong's thieves to eat, saying that Deng Ming had promised to pay for food, and when the time came, they would give him three times as much, and they could ask for a few more gems."