Chapter 144 You and I hit it off immediately and became brothers!What a harvest! (Please subscribe!!)
That is to hold Ouyang Lun's thigh tightly! !
As for Ouyang Lun, he has heard many "legends" about him in the past two years.
In just two years, Yong'an Mansion was developed into an important economic town on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for Beiping in the north, Yong'an Mansion would probably be the only "bright pearl". Now people here in Liaodong regard the people of Yong'an Mansion as The impression is just two words - rich! Some people from Yong'an Mansion also went to Liaodong, and they made extremely generous moves. They were representatives of the rich!
More importantly, almost everyone said that Ouyang Lun was a corrupt official, and a very corrupt official at that. He was arrested by Zhu Yuanzhang and sent to the prison twice, and he was criticized in the court for an unknown number of times, but he met him again and again. He turned misfortune into good fortune and rose up step by step. He was promoted from the seventh rank of Xiaozhi County to the third rank of political participation. In just a few years, he completed the path that others took in their entire lives.
You must know that what Zhu Yuanzhang hated most was corrupt officials! Therefore, in Liu Yi's view, Ouyang Lun is a man of great talent. Before the "Battle of Chrysanthemum Island", Liu Yi's impression of Ouyang Lun might still be that he was a talented person who could make money through good governance, but after experiencing "Chrysanthemum Island" "Battle of the Island", seeing Ouyang Lun's almost invincible fleet, he understood that Ouyang Lun was an all-around talent who could govern the country with literature and power with force.
Yong'an Prefecture and Liaodong Dusi are next to each other. To put it bluntly, Yong'an Prefecture is the rear area of Liaodong Dusi. There was no contact before, because everyone was unfamiliar with it, but now they meet in person. If they don't quickly build a relationship, it will be Liu Yi. stupid! Another point.
This Ouyang Lun is Zhu Yuanzhang's consort, and he is also the kind of consort who relies heavily on him and is reluctant to kill him. Being close to Ouyang Lun is equivalent to being close to Zhu Yuanzhang, and no one can say anything.
With the support of Yong'an Mansion, is he still afraid of Bei Yuan Hong Baobao and those people? Liu Yi's eyes rolled crazily in his eye sockets. Since he decided to embrace Ouyang Lun, he couldn't just do business, he had to invest emotionally.
"Ouyang Prince Consort, you and I felt like old friends at the first sight. Yong'an and Liaodong are close neighbors. How about we become brothers with different surnames and help each other in the future?"
Liu Yi said directly.
As soon as these words came out, everyone at the scene was stunned.
Becoming brothers with different surnames is no small matter. In this era, there are three serious ways and three unorthodox ways to bring the relationship closer. The unorthodox methods have been mentioned before, and the three serious ways are marriage and marriage. One is to recognize relatives, that is, adoptive fathers and adopted sons, and the other is to become brothers with different surnames. If they are ordinary people, forget it, but Ouyang Lun/Liu Yi, one is a senior official in Beizhili and the other is a person in Liaodong. The friendship between the two sent a strong political signal that Yong'an Mansion and Liaodong formed an alliance! This will cause quite a political disturbance.
Ma He/Fang Mingqian/Ma Yun/Ye Wang all frowned.
"Prince-in-law, this matter is of great importance, so it's better to be cautious."
"Sir Tongzhi, I'm afraid there's something wrong with this."
When Ouyang Lun heard Liu Yi's idea of "sworn friendship", he was stunned for a moment, and then he understood.
Today, in the land of Liaodong, although it is officially under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong Capital Division, there are still many residual forces of the Yuan Dynasty. These Yuan Dynasty forces have long been divided, but they all unite with each other under the name of Yuan Ting. And support each other.
Moreover, Hong Baobao, the nominal commander-in-chief, was still relatively united when facing Liu Yi.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang still had some armed forces to use, he still insisted on the strategy of appeasing Naha and did not intend to send troops to help Liu Yi.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang showed his kindness to Naha many times, but unfortunately the other party did not accept Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness. "If the general can send envoys to understand the past, and contribute good horses, and let him go, and let the water and grass flow, he can still succeed." Zhu Yuanzhang, such a powerful person, said such a thing, but Naha Chu still remained the same. Unwilling to surrender.
Even if the recruitment strategy was frustrated, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the Liaodong region did not change. Ouyang Lun understood that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take Liaodong into his own but did not want to use one soldier at a time. Looking at the overall situation, it could indeed be done, because the remaining After all, the Yuan Dynasty is a remnant of the Yuan Dynasty, and the unification of the world by the Ming Dynasty is the general trend. It just takes a longer time to unify Liaodong. The subsequent results also prove that this is feasible.
The use of Liu Yi became the stronghold of the Ming Dynasty to contain the residual Yuan forces, and bit by bit cannibalized the residual Yuan forces in Liaodong. This is also an important part. Zhu Yuanzhang will not provide a lot of help, but he will not watch Liu Yi collapse. .
Regarding this point, Zhu Yuanzhang also mentioned: "I will take Liaoyang...Although Liao is far away, there is no need to use troops. The world is peaceful and they should return home." This means that as long as the world is peaceful and stable, the entire Liaodong region will naturally Will surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, the troubles in Liaodong were not the fundamental troubles of the Ming Dynasty. The biggest external crises during the Hongwu period came from two places. The first was the Beiyuan Dynasty established in the north, and the other was the Japanese pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. Suffer.
Generally speaking, before the death of Wang Baobao or before the great victory of Lanyu Fishing Sea, the main military operation direction of the Ming Dynasty was the Northern Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang sent almost no soldiers to Liaodong, so that the power of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong Has been suppressed.
After talking about Beiyuan, let’s take a look at the coastal areas during the same period. Although Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and other forces were eliminated, their remaining troops continued to wreak havoc on the sea, causing great hidden dangers to the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. During the same period, the danger of Japanese pirates also increased. Erupted.
In the first month of the spring of the second year of Hongwu, "Japanese invaders invaded the coastal counties of Shandong, plundered the men and women and fled..." In order to deal with the crisis from the sea, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, was very close to the coast, some troops had to be left behind to deal with the Japanese pirates.
From this point of view, although Zhu Yuanzhang has some idle Ming troops in his hands, this part of the force must be used to deal with Bei Yuan and the Japanese pirates. The two are serious troubles while Liaodong is only a disease of the elbows and armpits.
Facts also proved that Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy was correct. Nahachu once led the remnant forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to continuously attack the Liaoyang area. Even the Ming army's logistical supplies had major problems. Land transportation was affected and maritime transportation was destroyed by Japanese pirates. threaten.
The Liaodong farming system established by Zhu Yuanzhang did not have any effect due to frequent wars, but the overall situation still developed in the direction planned by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Naha finally chose to surrender.
Lan Yu's great victory in Yuerhai released the troops invested by the Ming Dynasty in this area. The "sea ban" policy implemented by Zhu Yuanzhang also alleviated the problem of Japanese pirates to a certain extent. As the saying goes, conquering the enemy without fighting, in this way The warlords in Liaodong continued to surrender under the great power of the Qin Dynasty.
As a time traveler, Ouyang Lun naturally understood Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions and saw through Liu Yi's little thoughts. Ouyang Lun also made his own decision.
He doesn't care about the situation in Liaodong, whether it will be unified or divided, but with Liu Yi blocking the front in Liaodong, Yong'an Mansion will be much safer and can develop with peace of mind, so Liu Yi cannot collapse. This is in his and Zhu Yuanzhang's interests same.
In addition, once we form an alliance with Liaodong, we will have a large amount of cheap labor, which is also what Yong'an Mansion needs.
In that case "Master Liu and I also hit it off immediately. It's better to choose a different day than to hit the sun. Let's sworn brothers today!"
Ouyang Lun readily agreed.
Initially, he was a little worried that Ouyang Lun would refuse, but after receiving a positive reply, Liu Yi burst into laughter. "OK!"
The next process is very simple.
The ocean-going fleet and the Xingcheng garrison joined forces. In fact, the ships were next to each other on the sea. The Xingcheng garrison also boarded the ship. The total number of people totaled nearly 3! It is both a celebration banquet and a wedding banquet for the sworn sworn brothers of both parties! Crowded.
An altar was set up on the deck of the flagship Yong'an.
Ouyang Lun/Liu Yi kneeled facing the sea.
"Huang Tian is above, Hou Tu is behind, and Mazu is in front!"
"Today I, Ouyang Lun (Liu Yi) and Liu Yi (Ouyang Lun) voluntarily become brothers with different surnames. We do not wish to be born in the same year and month, but we wish to be born in the same year and month."
"Stop!" Ouyang Lun quickly raised his hand.
"Brother Ouyang, is there any problem?" Liu Yi asked in confusion.
"Dare I ask, brother, what is your age this year?" Ouyang Lun asked.
"I was born in the first year of Zhizheng, and now I am about forty-two." Liu Yi suddenly said, "Brother Ouyang is young. If he died with me, he would indeed be at a disadvantage. Do you have any good suggestions?" "Thank you, brother. I understand, how about we have a relationship where we are rich and honorable and treat each other with sincerity?" Ouyang Lun said with a smile.
"Okay! Brother Ouyang is rigorous!" Liu Yi said with satisfaction, holding out his thumb.
"Then let's continue!"
"it is good!"
"Today, I, Ouyang Lun (Liu Yi) and Liu Yi (Ouyang Lun) voluntarily become brothers with different surnames. We do not seek to be born in the same year and the same month, but we seek to be rich and powerful, never forget each other, and treat each other with sincerity!"
"Big brother!"
"Second brother!"
The ocean fleet sails on the sea.
On the deck of the flagship Yong'an, Ouyang Lun was still lying on the rocking chair, drinking wine, humming a tune, and enjoying the sunbath.
"Fall up."
"Hi!" Huan Zinei filled Ouyang Lun's empty glass with wine very carefully.
"Have some beef."
"Hi!" Huan Zinei quickly picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks and put it into Ouyang Lun's mouth.
"Press your legs."
"Hi!"
This scene made Tang He, who was also lying next to him, dumbfounded.
"My nephew still knows how to play!"
Tang He couldn't help but sigh.
He rode a fast horse all the way back to the capital from Yong'an Mansion, and showed Ouyang Lun's contract to Zhu Yuanzhang. When he knew that as long as he signed the contract, he would get 1000 million, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately called Guo Zi from the Ministry of Household Affairs and several Officials who are good at arithmetic calculated the benefits and losses while reviewing the contract.
As a result, after half a day of review and calculation by everyone in the Ministry of Revenue, they came to the conclusion that this was extremely cost-effective than buying and selling. The only possibility was that customs tariffs would skyrocket in the next ten years, but this was almost impossible.
So Zhu Yuanzhang happily signed his name on the contract and stamped it with the imperial seal.
Then Tang He ran back non-stop. When he arrived at Jieshi County, he happened to meet Ouyang Lun returning from Juhua Island with his fleet, so he naturally got on the boat together.
After resting at the Jieshi Shipyard, the ocean-going fleet headed south again to Changshan Eight Islands.
Ouyang Lun did not choose to kill Wang Zhi, but took Wang Zhi to the eight islands of Changshan and captured the eight islands of Changshan without using a single soldier. After all, Wang Zhi's combat troops had been eliminated on Juhua Island. sea area.
After occupying the eight islands in Changshan, Ouyang Lun just emptied the islands of their wealth. As for Wang Zhi and Wang Zhi's men, of course they continued to do business!
However, you can no longer smuggle it, but you have to go through formal customs and pay taxes.
Ouyang Lun was not worried that Wang Zhi would not follow his request. Anyway, Wang Zhi's wife, children and family all moved to Yong'an Mansion. Then Fang Mingqian took four 055 cruisers and more than a dozen ordinary ships to become the escort force of the smuggling group. Several army quartermasters were also transferred to "assist" Wang Zhi.
For Wang Zhi, the lives of his entire family are in Ouyang Lun's hands, his wealth and channels have been taken away in one go, and the weapons and finances of the smuggling group are also controlled by people from Ouyang Lun's faction. The only thing he can do is to take over. Come down and put in the effort to make yourself look more useful so you don't get disposed of.
Seeing Wang Zhi's cooperation, Ouyang Lun also temporarily put away his murderous intention. Wang Zhi's treason and traitor behavior really deserved to be killed, but he was tortured by Ma He and his tens of millions of assets were robbed, so he still got it. Hard education, coupled with the fact that Wang Zhi does have some abilities, so he can use them when he has absolute control.
Ouyang Lun knew very well that in order to make maritime trade prosperous, in addition to cracking down on Japanese pirates/smuggling/pirates, there must also be more trade. Wang Zhi was engaged in smuggling, which was also trading, and it was also part of maritime trade. Now let him If you pay the taxes, it's all serious business, there's no reason to give up.
After making these arrangements, Ouyang Lun took the rest of the fleet and rushed back to Jieshi Pier from the Eight Islands of Changshan, killing several groups of pirates on the way.
Tang He looked at the cargo ship in the middle of the fleet, which was filled with property and goods.
You can earn so much just by going out to sea. It's really fun to follow Ouyang Lun!
"Second uncle is laughing at me. Sailing on the sea is boring. You have to have fun by yourself."
Ouyang Lun said with a smile.
"My dear nephew, don't be so modest. You can gain so much by just lying down at sea. If it had been anyone else, you would have been feeding the fish in the sea."
Tang He was very excited.
Ouyang Lun smiled slightly and said, "Second uncle, there will be a lot of these things in the future! If you are willing, you can often go to sea with the ocean fleet."
"If you are short of money in the future, just tell us and we will go directly to Dongying Island to grab what you can get in your spare time!"
"I made a lot of money this time. I personally invested an additional 100 million taels in the construction of our coastal defense line! I don't hold any shares, and I don't charge interest. I just want to make some contribution to the Ming Dynasty's coastal border defense, and only God knows about this. I know, you know and I know!”
Um! ?
Hear this.
Tang He naturally understood that this was not an investment, it was clearly a direct distribution of his money.
And one point is 100 million! ! Howe! It's so arrogant that there is no humanity at all!
But I like it!The more Tang He looked at Ouyang Lun, the more he liked him.
But this money cannot be accepted easily, if Zhu Yuanzhang finds out. (End of this chapter)