Beiyang new warlord

I really didn't expect that I also had fake cigarettes under my hands. After all, this place grows tobacco. I intercepted it privately, and the higher authorities couldn't find it. I made it into cigarettes. The people in my village smoked it lively, and it was considered to be exchanged for some food for the devil's family. For livelihood, Mao Jue was clear in his heart, and he didn't care about this.

"General Xiao Mao sang such a big show! In the Tieshan camp, the two imperial envoys lost the face of the court, and they were so merciful. They used their ill-gotten gains to comfort the soldiers and buy people's hearts! Your father was loyal to the court. Guarding Dongjiang for ten years, General Mao, you are so ambitious, what are you doing? You are not afraid of the court's law, will you implicate the nine clans in the future?"

After closing his eyes for a while, Yuan Chonghuan suddenly opened his eyes wide with anger, like a Dharma protector, yelling loudly angrily, with a sonorous voice, exactly the same as those positive characters on TV, loyal ministers scolding treacherous ministers.

If according to the script, Mao Jue should be sincere and frightened, or have a villainous face and a sly smile, but what almost made Yuan Chonghuan vomit blood is that Mao Jue didn't even like him. He dug aside.

"I didn't find you!"

Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that his old face was flushed, and beside the kang, the old lady who was a master of martial arts also stopped her cigarette-like hand.

Chapter 134. A rare commodity to live in

"Last August, Japanese pirates attacked my Woongjin shipyard, and this February, they attacked again!"

With his arms folded, Mao Jue narrowed his eyes dangerously, examining the three Japanese visitors.

The old woman didn't seem to be surprised at what she said, she just fell silent for a while, but Chiyohime, who forcibly sewed a kimono for herself out of homemade cloth, and combed her hair into a bun like a Japanese lady's, immediately yelled in surprise with a smile on her face road.

"It's Sister Maori, she's here to save us, kill this big villain!"

She said this in Japanese, but she had been guarding against it for a long time. There was an interpreter beside Mao Jue. God knows how many languages ​​Adelaine could speak. Wrapped under a black cloak, she looked like the bad girl Mi Like Lei Di, she leaned on Mao Jue's ear and whispered.

"The surname she just said was Maori!"

As soon as she got nervous, the old lady immediately stabbed Chiyoji hard. The little girl almost couldn't cry from the pain. What's interesting is that she hurriedly leaned against the purple-faced Yuan Chonghuan's arms. The distance between people is a bit ambiguous.

Maori!

I don't know much about Japanese history, but playing Total War, the village chiefs of the Warring States period in Japan still know a little bit about fighting. Their family has some basis for this.

But although the Maori family belonged to the Ishida Sannari side of the Eastern Army during the Sekigahara War, the Tokugawa family did not kill them all but only reduced the title. Later, the Maori family also developed into the famous Changzhou Fan. It plays a pivotal role. If it is someone from their family, there is no need to hide in Wang Jing like a mouse!

And are the Maoris so rich?

"Open the skylight and tell the truth! Japanese pirates have occupied Jeju Island. Li Chao asked General Ben to help him fight. I'm tired of the fights. Since you're from the Mori family, if I cross the sea to send you back to the Mori family, How much ransom can you pay?"

"Mao Jue, you are the lieutenant general of the imperial court! How is it different from robbers and kidnappers? You have completely lost the imperial court's face!"

Yuan Cenqing couldn't sit still anymore, the cupper threw the teacup on Mao Jue's feet, his old face was distorted like an earthworm.

"Why was the old man blind at the beginning, thinking that putting you in the Dongjiang River would strengthen the imperial court and protect the feudal clan? People like you are blinded by interests, and you are the scum of the world!"

"It's Lao Tzu, the scum of the world!"

The tea was caught off guard, and the anger flashed away, but Mao Jue suddenly laughed nervously, reached out and cut the teacup back, wiped it with his sleeve, and put it back on the table. Ji nodded in agreement, and Mao Jue crossed his arms again amidst Yuan Chonghuan's angry and stunned expression.

"I'm trying to get money, so what? I earned everything I have with my hands. I won't let my women starve! I won't let my people starve! Master Yuan, what are you capable of? You can’t quell the chaos in the court! It’s a waste of money and food, but you can’t feed your wife and children at home, and you still have to rely on your wife to support you! You still have the mind and this The Japanese chick is playing ambiguously, you are a wimp who eats soft food, what right do you have to throw this teacup!"

"If I were you, I would have died of shame!"

Pointing his finger at his chest, Mao Jue's face was full of bitterness, and he said contemptuously. The Chiyoji who heard it was full of confusion, while Yuan Chonghuan's old face turned red like a purple eggplant. He didn't hold it back, just shook his sleeves with his bare feet, and rushed out of the house angrily, and he didn't know where he went.

"Officer!"

Screaming, Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Zhao wanted to go out, but Mao Jue waved his hand.

"You two sisters-in-law, don't worry, this trash, what can he do without you? It won't be long before he gets cold and he has to come back!"

"How do you think about it?"

There was no more eyesore, and the negotiation could continue again. Mao Jue's eyes fell on the old lady who knew martial arts again.

Who was the most famous rich man in the late Ming Dynasty?Zheng Zhilong! Where did most of Zheng Zhilong's wealth come from?I came here to do business with Japan! In terms of geographical location, I am actually not much worse than Zheng Zhilong. If sending these three people back to the Maori family can be exchanged for personal favors, Mao Jue doesn't mind losing three idlers.

The old lady thought for a long time before she nodded solemnly.

"If the general sends us back to Jeju Island, the old man can make our navy retreat immediately, and give a big sentence of [-] yuan and a small sentence of [-] yuan!"

The big sentence of gold and the small sentence of gold are the Japanese gold coins that Mao Jue copied out last time. The big sentence of gold is ten taels, and the small sentence of gold is one tael. Now, it is 3 taels of gold coins. At this time, the exchange rate of gold and silver is almost one to one. Well, that's 24 taels of silver, a price that satisfies Mao Jue.

Yet he shook his head.

"I can send you back, not to Jeju, but to Changzhou!"

Just kidding, Mao Jue is also a person of status now, how can he talk to Xiao Luo? Negotiations are also face-to-face talks with the head of the Changzhou feudal family, and who knows if these pirates can convey his trade intentions? Going back and dumping goods to the shogunate is more important than the 24 taels of silver.

There was an obvious flicker in her eyes, and the old lady shook her head dully.

"Don't bother the general! Our country is far away, and the road is difficult and dangerous. The general will send us to Jeju!"

"Heh, Daoyuan water captain? It just so happens that a big ship will be launched to try sailing, so that's it!"

He waved his hand, Mao Jue didn't want to have sex with her, he turned around to leave domineeringly, he could already see the abnormality in the eyes of the three of them, sure enough, before Mao Jue walked out the door, the martial arts master old lady had already Roared behind his back.

"If you send us to Mori's house, you won't even get a tael of silver! And you will become the enemy of all Japan! Face our endless anger and pursuit!"

"Hehe, then it will be more interesting!"

Turning around, Mao Jue shrugged indifferently.

"The general likes to take risks. I want to see if I can get you a tael of gold or more if I send you back to Maori's house! The anger of the whole of Japan? I forgot to tell you, this attack on Ben The Japanese pirates in the shipyard, their bodies are covered with tung oil, and they are hanging on the beach to do it! I heard that the leader is still a woman!"

Regardless of the old lady who was a martial arts master accidentally knocking over a field of cigarettes, Mao Jue hummed and turned away, leading his subordinates directly out of the house.

People are really used to it. Mao Jue had just left the Yuan's two wives without wiping their hands. They took their coats and shoes and anxiously searched for footprints to find Yuan Chonghuan. They didn't leave immediately. Cigarettes were distributed under his command, and Mao Jue leaned on the shaft of the car with interest, looking at the three people sitting silently facing each other in the room.

"General, do you really want to send the three of them back to Mao Li's house?"

"Are you kidding, rare goods can live in!"

Probably some old-fashioned, boring, cheesy family power struggle, Lao Tzu loves young sons, wants to pass on the throne, elder brother is jealous and rebellious, etc. Anyway, it is a power struggle within the Maori family, this silly girl and that timid boy Mao Jue has the capital to blackmail the Zhaili family. If it is soft, it will be very comfortable to knock tens of thousands of taels of silver a year as pocket money. If it is hard, it will be based on Mao Jue's financial resources and strength. It is not impossible for that kid to overthrow his Maori family as the head of the puppet family.

It's more cost-effective than sending it back directly to exchange for those 10 taels of silver.

"The general is really, he is becoming more and more like a profiteer!"

I was really afraid that Mao Jue's head would get hot and he would do some loss-making business. Adelena, the "bad woman", couldn't help but relax, and immediately shook her head amusingly.

"Don't you just like profiteers? Pop one!"

While the girl was not paying attention, Mao Jue suddenly came to steal food, the foreign girl didn't react, and the guard next to him almost spit out the smoke, and hurriedly turned his head and eyes to one side, as if something I haven't seen that, how fake it is to be fake.

Even though it was just a small dip in the water, it made Adelena's pretty face flush, and after a long time, she smashed her charming big white eyes back fiercely.

Since it is a rare commodity to live in, the plans of Chiyohime, the silly girl, and the three of them have to be considered in the long run, so the immediate thing is to quickly earn back the quick money of Li Yuanyi from the Lee Dynasty. Jue lost more than 11 taels before and after, and spent more than 4000 taels on military expansion, so he needed to find a place to make up the hole quickly.

The Emperor Chongzhen really turned his elbows. On March [-]th, the urgent military order had arrived at Phi Island, ordering Dongjiang Town to send troops to help the vassal Lee's North Korea take back Jeju Island. There was no mention of military expenses, the only mention was The most important thing is not to lose the face of the court, that tone, even if Mao Jue is dead, it can't make the Korean soldiers lose a hair.