Xu Guansan was controlled by Ma Chengzu, but if Ma Chengzu's order was not conducive to the King of Chu, he could not implement it. You should know that Xu Guansan also had a King of Chu order, and he could make a decision in a critical moment. Now seeing that this plan only has good and no harm to the King of Chu, Xu Guansan of course had to follow the arrangements of Ma Chengzu.

Five thousand prisoners were captured, and about four thousand were good, and seven or eight hundred were injured. Xu Guansan ordered the serious injuries to be placed in the local area and sent to the coal mining factory. All the minor injuries and those who were not injured were sent to the coal mining factory. This kind of free labor is not a big use.

Ma Chengzu was not idle either. He found the unlucky prince Zheng Rong and asked him to send a letter to Zheng Ying. You should know that Annan is basically the same as the mainland of the Central Plains. He uses Chinese characters, Chinese dialect, and Hanfu. The Latin-style Vietnamese characters in later generations have not appeared yet, so Ma Chengzu's letter to Zhihuzhe was not dyslexical at Zheng Ying.

The content of the letter is very simple. First, it scolds the unbenevolence and righteousness of North Vietnam. He is an official of the Ming Dynasty. He is just a legal transaction here. Why should he send a large army to attack him? The second is to tell how powerful he is, how the soldiers use their lives, and how you North Vietnam were beaten to the point of falling. Third, he said that he is a country of heaven and does not dispute your country. He should quickly use silver to redeem your soldiers. It is okay to have no silver or rice. The bad-hearted Ma Chengzu added one at the end of the letter. He heard that you North Vietnam was defeated by South Vietnam and you happened to have some weapons in your hands. If you need it, you can sell it to you.

Zheng Ying, the King of Jingdu in North Vietnam, was also very surprised when he received the letter from his unlucky son. The number of people and horses was all his mobile. The Zheng family had less than 100,000 people. Nearly half of the casualties were killed or injured in the battle with the Ruan family a few years ago. In addition, he had to station in various places. Now his nest, Hue, can be said to be unprepared.

The conditions given by the Ming County Magistrate in the letter were very attractive. He could exchange some worthless rice for soldiers. This could be considered. What made Zheng Ying more interested was the last sentence, and he could sell his weapons. If it was such a powerful cannon, that would be great. With the cannon, would he still be afraid of the Ruan tribe?

Zheng Ying looked at his unlucky son Zheng Rong who was kneeling below and asked, "Mingren's firearm is really that powerful?"

In order to reduce responsibility, Zheng Rong naturally exaggerated the power of the Ming army's weapons, such as one shot that can be destroyed by hundreds of miles, and the Ming soldiers are all demons of hell, etc.

Zheng Ying is also an old man from the world, so he can believe such nonsense. But the power of the Ming munitions is certain.

Zheng Ying thought about it and said that no matter what, the five thousand soldiers must be redeemed. As for the weapons, if they are really that good, they can buy some.

He made up his mind that Zheng Ying would send Zheng Rong as an envoy again to negotiate terms with the Ming people.

When Ma Chengzu heard that North Vietnam wanted to sell cannons, he would definitely not sell them. However, he had a batch of very good steel knives, which could be sold to North Vietnam.

When Zheng Rong heard Ma Chengzu say this, he thought for a while and asked, "Bao Dao? I don't know what it looks like? Can you take a look?"

Ma Chengzu asked someone to take a ductile iron horizontal knife produced in Dongguan and send it to Zheng Rong.

Zheng Rong looked at the knife in his hand. It looked a bit like a Japanese knife, but the back of the knife was straight and should be very conducive to stabbing. Zheng Rong looked at the Persian sword that he drew out. This was the sword brought by the Florians.

Zheng Rong held his treasure knife and slashed hard at the horizontal knife. With a harsh sound, the two swords broke one after another.

Zheng Rong was shocked, but he didn't expect Mingren's weapon to look so inconspicuous, but it was so sharp.

Zheng Rong asked, "Dare you ask, how much does this steel knife cost? How much does it cost?"

Ma Chengzu twisted his goatee with his hand and said with a smile: "Your Highness, this kind of knife is used by ordinary soldiers in our Ming Dynasty. You can get as much as you want. A knife costs ten taels of silver, a spear head of the same material, and a half-body armor twenty taels. Is this price the prince satisfied?"

You should know that the production cost of this cast weapon in Dongguan is only two cents of silver, and Ma Chengzu sold it for fifty times, which is a real profiteer.

Zheng Rong didn't expect that the knife was so expensive, but it was still at a reasonable price. His Persian sword with hundreds of refined steel costs 100 taels of silver.

"Sir, we Annan is poor and do not have so much money. Can we exchange rice for it?"

Ma Chengzu was waiting for what he said. You should know that the stone of rice in Annan costs only seven cents of silver, and it will be two taels per stone when transported to Dongguan. If transported to the north, it will be seven or eight taels per stone.

Ma Chengzu, the tyrant, pretended to be very difficult to make a decision, and pondered: "Prince Zheng, you also know that your rice is not worth much, so our Ming Dynasty will suffer."

When Zheng Rong saw Ma Chengzu like this, she knew that this was a benefit. She quickly called in from outside and said, "I think the adults have no family here. These two women are my North Vietnamese criminals and are well-educated and well-mannered, and they are given to the adults to serve them."

Ma Chengzu saw that the two women were petite and cute, which was very in line with his aesthetic views. He pretended to have made a great determination and said, "Well, since His Highness the Prince is so sincere, I will make a decision. I will use ten stones of rice with a knife, three stones of spear head, and twenty stones of armor. What do you think about the prince?"

Rice is seven cents per stone, and Ma Chengzu said one or two liang, and Zheng took a big advantage. Zheng Rong said happily: "Thank you, sir. We first need five thousand steel knives, ten thousand gun tips, and three thousand armor. As for the soldiers, how about each of them, five stones of rice?"

This transaction made 160,000 stones of rice. Ma Chengzu was overjoyed and said, "Your Highness the Prince is happy, but we only have 500 horizontal knives in our hands now, and the other ones can be transported in half a month. Please rest assured, Prince."

Ma Chengzu quickly wrote a letter to Fu Wenlong afterwards and explained the details. Fu Wenlong also agreed with Ma Chengzu's method and transferred the official document to the Chu Prince's Mansion in Dongguan.

When Zhu Hongsan saw Ma Chengzu's official documents, he didn't expect that County Ma was very capable. He exchanged some cold weapons for 160,000 stones of grain, which was more than 7,000 tons.

Zhu Hongsan picked up his pen and wrote a reply letter to Fu Wenlong. In the letter, he affirmed Ma Chengzu's approach and suggested that he should not just make a fuss about Zheng's family in North Vietnam, and that the Ruan family in South Vietnam could also contact. The arms business is to make money, but how can you make money after eating? Also, don't be obsessed with weapons, some daily necessities, salt, sugar, paper, agricultural tools, etc. can be sold to them. If there is not enough rice, let them dig iron ore or coal mines.

Zhu Hongsan remembers that there are several large iron ore in the controlled area of ​​North Vietnam, which is one of the largest iron ore belts in the world. His Shilu iron ore is only the tail end of this iron ore belt, so there are hundreds of millions of tons of reserves. Can Vietnam, which is located in the middle of the iron ore belt, be less?

After receiving the order from King Zhu Hongsan of Chu, Ma Chengzu even ate the plaintiff and the defendant, fanning the flames everywhere on Vietnam. Originally, Zheng, North Vietnam, had been severely damaged by the Nguyen tribe in the South Vietnamese, but unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty sent him blood transfusions, and he won several victories on the local battlefield. After learning that the Ming Dynasty supported the Nguyen tribe, he also found Ma Chengzu and wanted to sell weapons. Ma Chengzu was overjoyed and was very happy to be a second-hand arms dealer in Vietnam.

Just when Zhu Hongsan made a fortune in Vietnam, ordinary people in northern China lived in dire straits. The climate of the small glacier in the north was still continuing, and the food in northern Zhili and Shanxi last year was only 50% of that in previous years. Henan has now become a scattered area, and the Qing Dynasty and Li Chuang are competing for Shaanxi.

Now Zhu Hongsan set the economic war strategy before the New Year began to work. The small amount of food in the north was drained, and the lack of materials represents the rise in prices. Now, a stone of white rice in Beijing is sold for eight taels of silver, which may not be possible. In some remote villages, "human markets" have begun to appear, which is a market that mainly sells human flesh, and the land in the north is full of hunger.

Beijing still had a population of one million in the tenth year of Chongzhen. After years of war and plague, there are only more than 200,000 people in Beijing now, which includes a large number of Manchu nobles.

These Manchu nobles did not care about the lives of the Han people. After entering Beijing, they began to enclose land in northern Zhili and Shanxi. In order to prevent serfs from escaping, the Qing court issued a harsh fugitive law, which stipulated that the whole family of fugitive slaves should be executed.

Wherever there was oppression, there was resistance. Under the cruel rule of the Qing Dynasty, the people of the northern people could no longer bear it and raised up flags to resist the Qing Dynasty's rule. In one month of the first month of the Hongguang year, more than 20 uprisings were in northern Zhili, and the Qing Dynasty suppressed and put out fires everywhere.

The iron cavalry that had just begun to suppress the enemy came, and the rioters fled in all directions. However, in February, the rioters from all over the country began to resist head-on with the Qing government troops. Zhu Hongsan was awarded this. He sent a team of 200 people to sneak into the north before the New Year. With the help of Qian Lide's intelligence network, he provided weapons, training, and intelligence to the farmers in the uprising in various places, which increased the difficulty for the Qing Dynasty to occupy China in the northern part.

At this time, the strategic center of the Qing Dynasty was to follow the Ming Dynasty first, and first dispatched a large army to eliminate Li Chuang from Shaanxi. Therefore, he really had no energy or strength to suppress the uprisings in northern Zhili.

However, the situation changed in February of the first year of Hongguang. Li Chuang, who had fought with the Qing Dynasty for more than half a year, was finally defeated in Tongguan. After two months of besieging Tongguan, the Qing Dynasty used red barbarian cannons transported from outside the pass to collapse the city walls of Tongguan, rushed into Guanzhong and occupied Xi'an. Li Zicheng saw that the general situation was going to lead the remaining troops south to Huguang.

After defeating Li Chuang, the talented and stubborn Dorgon realized that the contradiction with the Southern Ming had now risen to the main contradiction, so after the end of the Battle of Mieshun, the British Prince Ajige was left to continue to go south to pursue Li Zicheng. The Duoduo, who could fight, was ready to conquer the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!