Of course, Aiqing will have to send someone to discuss these specific matters with Lu Jing and Chen Wenqi.
Naturally, you have to bring your own war horses. After all, your war horses in Yanyun are more than those of several of our major horse farms...
I have also given my permission to open the Tongfeng Port. Everything will be handled by you. You will also decide the trade with Japan. You are the Governor of Yanyun. This is your right.
Of course I also want to help you, but unfortunately the current expenditure of the imperial court is too great. Just to recover Shunfeng, it cost tens of millions of money, so I have more than enough ambition but not enough power.
I also hope that you, my dear, will make overseas trade as big as mutual trade. In this case, I will need your help to subsidize our treasury... That's it. I appreciate this.
Li Wanjiang was so generous, which was beyond what Xiao Chen thought was reasonable, but it was within Chen Jisheng's expectation.
If Xiao Chen, you were a hidden dragon in the abyss before, now you have seen a dragon in the field, showing its head and tail, showing part of its prototype.
Li Wanjiang doesn't dare or is unwilling to be tough with you, so he can only adopt this gentle approach.
Of course, this has a lot to do with you being 'terminally ill' and 'death is imminent'.
He thought that you, Xiao Chen, would die within three years, so he was thinking of draining your essence and blood before you died.
Once you, Xiao Chen, die, no matter how the situation in Yanyun County develops, won't you still have to return to the palm of his hand?
Li Wanjiang has already seen Xiao Chen's business skills. If nothing else, the tens of thousands of horses, cattle and sheep shipped from Northern Xinjiang alone have solved so many problems in Dazhou!
Without Xiao Chen's strong support, the battle between Minzhou and Tianxuanhui might not have gone so smoothly.
If that's the case, why don't you appease him and order him around?
Xiao Chen is another docile donkey. As long as you feel comfortable with him, he can run very fast when you pull up the millstone.
When the time comes, won’t all the massive amounts of gold and silver he has earned flow into my pocket?
Chen Jisheng had already figured out Li Wanjiang's wishful thinking!
But of course, although the emperor is not stingy, Xiao Chen cannot be stupid and generous to others.
First of all, the establishment of 70,000 people must be dismissed. It was agreed that there would be no defense. And didn’t you say that you have understood both Japan and Northern Xinjiang?
If that's the case, what do you want 70,000 people to do?
You're not guarding me, are you?
Therefore, Li Wanjiang's decree must not be accepted in full...but it cannot be ignored. What if Li Wanjiang sends troops here again with "good intentions"?
That would be self-defeating.
To tell you back to the emperor, 70,000 troops and horses are a bit too much. I don't have Han Xin's ability to point out that the more troops the better. I can barely handle it with 30,000 or 20,000 men, but I can't understand it. If I have 70,000 troops, it will be difficult for me to die.
Already.
Besides, the financial situation of Yanyun County is not very good at the moment, and everything is stretched thin. I cannot afford such a huge military expenditure.
Just ask the emperor to approve 30,000 city defense troops. I will do my best to provide military pay and other things, and let each state and county share a little more. That's enough, but I don't dare to ask the court for money anymore.
But although Yanyun's current financial situation is not good, I can guarantee that in the near future, I will definitely work hard to earn a lot of money!
When the time comes, I will definitely make a lot of contributions to the court, so that the national treasury will be abundant and the emperor will be relieved of his worries.
As for the war horses, I don’t have much use for them. The ones obtained through trade can be used by our Great Zhou. After all, our Great Zhou has not completely completed the great cause of unification and needs these war horses more than we do.
When the cattle and sheep are fat in autumn, I will offer a batch to the emperor...
As for my minor illness, I really don’t dare bother the Emperor to worry about it. Besides, thanks to His Majesty’s great blessing, I have improved a lot now. I can already get out of bed, walk and go to the latrine by myself.
Please rest assured, Your Majesty.
When I feel better, I will definitely go to Beijing to see the Emperor... Mainly because I miss the Emperor.
Dogs and horses love their masters, how much more so, ministers?
In addition, I know that the emperor likes to eat barbecue, so I specially ordered a hundred three-year-old fat sheep to be selected for you, and the sauce prepared by me myself was also served.
Just ask Your Majesty, do you feel happy that your minister and I are so sensible?
I don't know whether Li Wanjiang is happy or not, but all the concubines in the harem are very happy.
Because Xiao Chen also gave them a generous gift, as the owner of the West Factory.
It’s not that the things are expensive, they are just some newly produced canned fruits, various candies, bread and biscuits, and many Western-style Ross specialties. Women like these novel things, especially Ross’s perfume.
I like it...it smells too good, right?
Of course, there were also gifts for the princes and ministers in the court, which made everyone very happy.
What a good person Mr. Xiao is. Every time he fights with someone and gets some loot, he never forgets to give everyone a share of the spoils.
This means that if you have money, everyone will make it, if you have wealth, everyone will make it, and if you are sensible, you will open the door for the sensible... You are so sensible!
At least on the surface, Xiao Chen did everything he could.
Yanyun County now has a high degree of autonomy, and Kinoshita Yoshiro finally understood what Ye Baiqing said back then, "There is only one boss in Yanyun County."
They were also preparing to go back to report on their work, and asked Xiao Chen to appoint an envoy to go back with him. The implicit meaning behind their words was that they wanted Xiao Chen to go there in person.
It's impossible for Xiao Chen to go, at least not now.
His relationship with Japan was already close enough. It would be inappropriate to visit Emperor Shenzhao in person.
It seems that I can only trouble Bai Qing to go there, and Bai Qing can fully represent herself.
The delegation led by Ye Baiqing had more than a hundred members, which shows that Xiao Chen attaches great importance to this visit.
But Xiao Chen could only do so in his own name, because he, Xiao Chen, could not represent Dazhou and did not have the emperor's will.
However, Kinoshita Yoshiro didn't care and readily agreed, saying that if Xiao Chenjun had any concerns about this, the mission could also come in the name of a business group or a non-governmental friendship group. In any case, we would receive it with high standards.
But he hoped that Xiao Chen could send a general there, because there were still some issues that needed to be discussed regarding military cooperation between the two parties.
"Kinoshita-kun, this is not possible. Without the approval of Emperor Zhou, I cannot discuss any form of military cooperation with you." This was actually an excuse by Xiao Chen.
Through this joint operation and business cooperation, he has tied the interests of Yanyun and Japan together. To put it bluntly, everyone is now like ants on a rope.
No matter whether the Russians or the Zhou soldiers attack Yanyun, Japan will never stand idly by and will definitely try its best to help.
If that's the case, why bother talking to them in such detail?
If he formally formed an alliance and signed a contract with them, he would have to leave something in writing, which would not be of any benefit to Xiao Chen, and might even become a lever for him to fall into the hands of the Japanese.
Then it will be impossible to establish a "friendly" relationship with Ross in the future, and it will also arouse Li Wanjiang's dissatisfaction and alarm.
With Xiao Chen's shrewdness, it was impossible for him to do such a useless thing.