Chapter 130: Cooperation and Support (2)
"Yourselves? Haha, then you are not afraid that Dong Fox and Dong Changang will join forces to deal with you again after they find out?"
Seeing Subotai who wanted to 'monopolize' the trade between the imperial court and Duoyan, Wang Bing couldn't help but chuckle and reminded him casually.
You must know that the reason why Dong Hu, Dong Changang, and even Tuman repeatedly invaded the border was not only their banditry habits that were engraved in their bones, but also a large part of the reason was the Ming Dynasty's "economic blockade" against them.
You know, these nomadic peoples on the grassland have nothing but cattle, sheep and horses. If the Ming Dynasty cut off economic ties with them, they would not even be able to make an iron pot for cooking meat. So even in order to survive, they
They could only choose to invade the Ming Dynasty and use their best banditry to rob.
Therefore, if Subutai and the others really 'monopolized' the mutual trade between Duoyanwei and the imperial court, how could Dong Fox and Dong Changang not be jealous?
"And why do you think the imperial court wants to trade with a tribe like yours? What can you do to win the imperial court's trust?"
Before Subotai could speak, Wang Bing sneered again.
Although Wang Bing had a bold idea in his mind after Subotai proposed a 'monopoly' on mutual trade with the imperial court, the necessary hammering was still needed.
"Uncle Guo, if the imperial court can agree to trade with our ministry, in addition to the horses and cattle and sheep that we trade with each other, our ministry can also pay an additional tribute of 1,000 war horses and 3,000 oxen and sheep to the imperial court every year!"
Without answering the question of Dong Changang and Dong Fox joining forces, Subotai opened his mouth and stated his own conditions.
"In addition, to show my sincerity, I can lead my tribe's troops to escort my uncle and his party to Liaodong 'safely'!"
After stating his conditions, seeing that Wang Bing was still silent, Subotai then spoke again about escorting the Habayashi Guards to Liaodong. However, when he mentioned the word 'safety', there was a trace of
A faint hint of threat was revealed inadvertently.
"Are you threatening me?"
Staring into Subotai's eyes, Wang Bing couldn't help but look cold.
"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, have you ever heard of times when the Ming Dynasty was coerced by others?"
Without waiting for an explanation, Wang Bing asked coldly again.
"Uncle Guo has misunderstood. We have requests from the imperial court, so how can we threaten Uncle Guo? I'm just worried that Dong Chang'ang's fellow will be harmful to Uncle Guo."
Seeing Wang Bing's tough attitude, Subotai quickly put away his temptation and immediately changed his face and started to defend himself.
"Hmph, if you want to trade with the imperial court, let Brother Dong do it!"
Glancing at Subotai, Wang Bing didn't listen to his excuse at all and directly waved off the guest.
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"Brother, are you really prepared to allow them to trade with the imperial court? If the officials and censors in the imperial court know that you are doing it without permission..."
After Subotai left sadly, the 'female instructor' couldn't help but said to Wang Bing with some worry.
You know, for such a major external matter, not to mention Wang Bing, a small-ranked general of the Linwei, even a border official like Qi Jiguang who guards one side would not dare to take charge of it without permission.
"Sister Nanwei, are you starting to care about me, hehe!"
Not paying attention to the concerns of the 'female instructor', Wang Bing smiled excitedly.
"I'm telling you something serious, don't interrupt!"
Seeing Wang Bing's excited look, the 'female instructor''s pretty face turned red again and gave Wang Bing a big white eye.
"It's just a mutual trade, what's the big deal? I also plan to sell them some weapons, swords, and weapons, hehe!"
Seeing the shy and angry look of the 'female instructor', Wang Bing once again said something shocking.
"You don't want your life? How can you sell those things to the Tatars?"
Upon hearing that Wang Bing actually planned to sell swords, guns and weapons to these Tatars, the 'female instructor' could not help but exclaim in a low voice.
"Sister Nanwei, don't worry. I still want to keep my wife in my life. How can I just say I don't want it? Hehe!"
When it came to 'getting a wife', Wang Bing looked at the 'female instructor' with such hot eyes that it almost melted her.
"You, it's none of my business whether you take a wife or not!"
Unable to stand Wang Bing's fiery eyes, the 'female instructor' turned away, leaving Wang Bing with a slender back that even her neck was blushing.
"Sister Nanwei, don't worry, I won't come forward in these matters. When the time comes, just let the little fat man discuss it with the old guy. It won't be a problem."
As the saying goes, "too much is not enough". Seeing that the "teasing" was almost over, Wang Bing immediately stopped laughing and told the "female instructor" his plan seriously.
In Wang Bing's opinion, even the smooth-bore flintlock bird muskets currently equipped by the Yulin Guards, coupled with grenades, a close-range killer weapon, are enough to completely suppress the Tatar cavalry.
Not to mention that with the efforts of Zhao Shizhen, the Ming Dynasty's firearms expert, even rifled guns have been produced. As long as the production efficiency of blunderbuss tubes is improved by then, the Ming army will completely change their equipment and switch from cold weapons to cold weapons.
It is not too difficult to upgrade the army to an all-firearms army like the Habayashi Guards.
Therefore, it would be more cost-effective to take this opportunity to sell some weapons and weapons that have become outdated for the Ming army, and then use the money to redress more Ming troops.
And more importantly, based on his understanding of the "greedy" face of the little fat man, as long as there is money to be made, this guy will probably even dare to sell firecrackers, not to mention weapons.
You know, in the original history, in order to make money, the "printing house" owned by the little fat man even dared to accept the "business" of the White Lotus Rebellion leaflets.
As for the other big boss, Zhang Juzheng, who is now the actual leader of the empire, based on Wang Bing's understanding of him, as long as he can see the benefits of this matter to the Ming Dynasty, he will definitely not be as pedantic as those rotten scholars.
Therefore, Wang Bing didn't pay much attention to the concerns of the 'female instructor'.
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"Oh, uncle Guo, there are so many of you, please don't behave like young people!"
Not long after Subotai left, the 'bald' man rushed over again. In order to gain the support of Ming Dynasty in the mutual trade, he used the excuse of being young and ignorant to excuse Subotai when he entered the house, but he didn't do it at all.
I never thought about the fact that Wang Bing is younger than Subotai.
However, we can also imagine from this that over the past few years, this 'bald' man has been deeply resentful towards his elder brother and nephew who forced him to hit the knife.
"Haha, what did Brother Dong say? I just think that there are some things that need to be decided by you personally, so I asked Brother Subotai to invite you over."
After welcoming the 'bald' man into the tent, the two of them started bargaining without further ado.
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"My uncle, you are so ruthless! You pay tribute to 3,000 war horses every year. This will cost my brother's life!"
It didn't take long, and when the two of them finalized the details of the Tongong mutual trade, the 'bald' man couldn't help but feel pain in his face.
"Brother, I don't want to hear what you are saying. You only see that you pay tribute to the court three thousand horses every year, but why don't you tell me how much you can earn this year? Not to mention those swords and guns.
Weapons, I risked losing my head to sell them to you. Looking at it, who in the entire Ming Dynasty dares to do this kind of business with you? Just be satisfied!"
"What's more, compared to the position of the 'head of the family' of Duoyanwei, this war horse is nothing. As long as the old brother and the court are of the same mind, when the younger brother sees the old brother again, maybe he will have to call the old brother by then.
'Prince', hehe!"
Chapter completed!