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Chapter 86 The old lady of the ruined Hou Mansion (21)

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    In the spring of the following year, in early March, a great victory finally came to northern Xinjiang. The British Duke finally drove out the barbarians at the cost of losing an arm. In order to commend him, Emperor Ming Ling specially granted their family the title of Duke of the Kingdom to continue for three more generations.  No downgrade.

    It is a pity that the British Duke did not survive the wound infection on his way back, and was finally buried in the imperial mausoleum with his body. At this time, the war in the south still did not stop, but fortunately the newly sent generals were slightly better.  , at least a stalemate was formed, and the New South Kingdom was not allowed to continue to capture the city. However, this kind of forced war still caused serious damage to the national strength. In just over half a year, the military expenditure of the South had exceeded 10 million taels.  .

    If the Ministry of Household Affairs had not levied an additional tax midway, the national treasury would not be able to sustain it at all. But now that the national treasury has been emptied again, neither fundraising nor tax increases are feasible at this time. If donations are raised, the ministers and nobles will donate all this year.  We have already asked for it three or four times, but no one is willing to donate. Our money does not come from strong winds. It is even more unfeasible to raise taxes again. Last year was not a good year, and many places still needed disaster relief. Later, we even raised taxes once.  If we continue to increase taxes, I am afraid that public dissatisfaction will boil, and there may be a few uprisings. Therefore, Emperor Ming Ling had no choice but to send people to Xinnan Kingdom to make peace. He wanted to wait for this period of time before talking about it.  I'll fight again later when I have money.

    The peace talks went too smoothly. Instead of making any harsh demands, Xinnan Kingdom returned half of the city, and the request was only for Emperor Ming Ling to deliver one hundred thousand taels of silver.

    Generally speaking, if you don't consider that the other party is an invader, this condition is definitely quite mild, but this is normal. In fact, not only Emperor Ming Ling found it difficult, but also the New South Kingdom. If New South Kingdom hadn't previously captured the Eighteen  They built a city and plundered a lot of money and food. In terms of their country's local national strength, they simply couldn't support it now. Before Emperor Ming Ling sent people to sue for peace, the New South Army itself had already had the idea of ????retreating.  The peace envoys sent by Emperor Ming Ling did not play into their minds. Although some people felt that they could take this opportunity to kill them, most people still felt that the demands should not be too excessive, otherwise they would anger the other party.  If the stalemate continues with them, even these few benefits may be lost and a lot of losses may occur. It is precisely because many people in New Southland have this idea that the final peace talks requirements are not very high.

    Of course, Emperor Ming Ling was not unwilling to accept such conditions, and he even regretted it. He regretted that if he had known that it would be so easy to negotiate, he should not have started a war in the first place and just negotiated for peace. More than ten million taels were spent here but nothing was done.  The matter can now be solved with 100,000 taels. Although it cannot be completely solved, it can be considered to be mostly solved. It would be strange not to regret it and feel at a disadvantage. However, in any case, both parties quickly reached a consensus on the peace talks, and  A peace treaty was signed.

    After the treaty was signed, Xinnan Kingdom withdrew from the promised city within ten days, and began to deploy troops and generals to protect the remaining city, hoping to completely occupy that area. The counter-rebellion army sent by Emperor Ming Ling also  They quickly retreated, some of them dropped their armor and returned to the fields, while others returned to their original army and continued to cultivate and farm fields for a living.

    At this point, the country can barely be considered peaceful and the people are safe.

    In the next few years, the overall situation in the court has been pretty good. Although there were occasional turbulences on the north and south sides, it quickly calmed down and did not have any impact on the capital. Qiao Mu's grandchildren also settled in the agreement smoothly.  He married a wife and got married at the right time. Even the sea chart that Qiao Mu originally thought would take at least five years to draw was drawn early, and he had already started a short-distance sea trade business, making a fortune every day.  It's a bit exaggerated, but you can still earn tens of thousands of taels for a round trip.

    And this is a short-distance trip, that is, mainly traveling to and from small places like Nanyang. If you run a long-distance trip, such as to places in Europe, the income from each trip will definitely easily exceed 100,000. However, Qiao Mu also knows that  They have to eat one bite at a time and do things bit by bit. If you don't let them adapt to the sea environment in advance and run a few more short distances, but directly let them run long distances, the risk is too high. Successful back and forth can bring  Income, if you only go there and never come back, it will be useless no matter how far you go.

    But even so, even if Qiao Mu only ran short distances for the time being, she still managed to save 8 million taels of silver and 300,000 yuan in gold through her maritime trade business during the three years of running short distances.  There are many pearls, emeralds, coral gems and other good things. Of course, only a few are actually earned through trade.

    The thing is like this. Although I made a lot of money when I first started doing sea trade business, I was soon blocked and suppressed by some big sea trade families. Qiao Mu was definitely not afraid. Anyone who dared to rob would be given away.  Bombed down, just kidding, Qiao Mu?Although there are no nautical charts, there are better methods of making ships and better methods of making firearms. Made with these technologies that are more than a hundred years ahead of the times, ships equipped with artillery are invincible wherever they go.

    However, it was that accident that made Qiao Mu realize the huge benefits of cheating and cheating. He went back and forth with all his heart to figure out the prices between each other. After three months of tossing, he could only earn tens of thousands of taels of silver. But in  On the ocean, by hacking a few pirate ships, or a few ships of a large maritime trading family, you can easily get hundreds of thousands of silver profits, and it is a business without capital. It is obvious that there is more money there.  Qiao Mu was able to accumulate such a net worth in just three years by relying on his blackness.

    However, the Haidao family has recently issued a peace petition, and Qiao Mu has no intention of killing the goose to lay the eggs, so I am afraid that this kind of gangsterism that makes money quickly cannot continue.

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    Inside Yangyi Hospital

    Qiao Mu looked at the peace petitions sent by Hu Yinglong (the person in charge of the maritime trade that was finalized three years ago) and said with a smile:

    "It's true that they are all scoundrels who won't obey unless they are taught a lesson. That's all. Now that they have posted, as long as they don't provoke us, you don't have to deliberately block their ships anymore. You can only deal with one person.  Just the pirate ships you encounter on the road. By the way, you can also expand the escort business. Anyway, we have to take the sea route. Our sea ships have sufficient force. By the way, we can escort a few teams of sea ships to a fixed trading location safely and charge them 10% or 20%.  The protection fee shouldn¡¯t be too much, and it doesn¡¯t have to be too much. It¡¯s just a matter of course, so I can charge you as much as you can.¡± (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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