560. Chapter 560 The wishful thinking of the Chenla Kingdom
"I don't have money to give you the artillery on the city!"
"I know!"
"When you leave, the gunner must be left behind for me, and the cannon's pellets and gunpowder must also be left behind for me!"
"Can!"
"You want to set up an office here with thousands of households overseas, and leave two hundred, no, five hundred people for me to maintain order in the city!"
“Totally agree!”
Hearing that Brother Wang in the room was shouting at the lion, but his own master seemed to have turned into a good-tempered gentleman and agreed to everything. Wang Yu glanced towards the other side of the room and sighed slightly, what kind of person is Brother Wang?
It's not bad. Compared with being an official, I'm afraid it's really not as good as Mr. Qian. What do you want at this time? It's only right to try every means to prevent the fleet from leaving. Do you really think you can stay in this city?
With hundreds of thousands of people, we can defend this city for the Ming Dynasty.
When the time comes, Master Qian's credit for taking the city will be unquestionable, and no one can question it. If the enemy comes back, the fault for losing the city will be entirely attributed to Brother Wang, and he will have nothing to do with Master Qian.
Although he knew Qian Wubing would not trick Wang Shouren like this, Wang Yu was still a little worried about Wang Shouren. With the relationship between Mr. Qian and Brother Wang, well, he would definitely not leave Brother Wang alone like this.
"I asked, why are you so easy to talk to?" Wang Shouren made a series of requests, and Qian Wubing agreed with a smile. With such cooperation, even Wang Shouren himself began to feel strange.
"Ah! Have I always been a difficult person to talk to in your eyes?" Qian Wubing paused and said, "Master Wang, what you said is a bit unkind!"
"You must have some plan, for sure!" Wang Shouren ignored him and even called out Mr. Wang, so you tried your best to pretend to me that you are more like a businessman than an official.
It's a matter of taking money from your hand, but I agreed so simply. It would be strange if there was no ghost in this!
"Did you move the Champa King's treasury to the ship?" He glanced at Qian Wubing strangely, "Do you feel a little sorry for me, a very poor ambassador, so you want to make up for it?
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"I'd like to think that before I even started to attack the city, the Dai Viet people in the city looted everything and returned it to the treasury. Even now, all the food and supplies of King Panluo are mine!" Qian Wubing shook.
Shaking his head: "Absolutely not!"
"Then you are so good?" Wang Shouren still didn't believe it. Qian Wubing's expression was so evil that he had to think about it this way!
"Well, I have always been so good. Everyone knows what I am like. People who know me well call me the Bodhisattva who stands on the ground and the boy who spreads wealth!" Qian Wubing nodded: "Since I conquered the city, I naturally
If I want to see him safe, I don’t want the city to be broken down and robbed for a while when I turn around. You, Mr. Wang, will be caught by these barbarians and put on a tree to drink blood!"
"The first sentence is nonsense, but the last sentence seems to be like your style!" Wang Shouren smiled. It seemed a bit too much to ask a commander of the Imperial Guard to care about the country and the people, but the other party valued his achievements so much.
It was a reasonable thing. If Qian Wubing had reached his current position and had no sense of responsibility, he would look down on him.
"Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. Just tell me what you can give me, so that I, as the ambassador, can continue to work safely without losing the face of Ming Dynasty!"
Qian Wubing smiled mysteriously, leaned close to Wang Shouren's ear, and whispered.
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Liao Port is only about two hundred miles away from Champa. It only takes a day and a half to travel from Champa to Liao Port by sea. But if you travel by land, it only takes three to five days, and you don't even want to make the trip. It's so densely packed.
The tropical rainforest, wildly growing plants, often the roads that were opened a month ago are almost gone by the time we go there next month. The only road leading from Chenla to Champa is now
In the hands of the Dai Viet people, with the strength of the Dai Viet people, it is obviously not an easy task for merchants to take advantage of them, whether it is Champa or Chenla.
Businessmen are not worried about being exploited. Being exploited is a common thing when doing business here. But if those soldiers dress up as bandits and rush out of the jungle to kill people and rob goods, it will be no fun at all and they will not make any money.
You may also risk your life, but no one in their right mind would engage in such a business.
Therefore, almost the vast majority of people choose the sea route for trade. The largest and most prosperous port in this area is of course Champa City. It has a convenient terrain and a large water depth. This is the envy of everyone.
Not coming, but even so, there are still some merchant ships passing by from time to time in some of the surrounding ports, probably to occupy the city to eat meat and drink soup.
Liao Port is a relatively large port in Chenla Kingdom. Of course, without Champa, their life would be much easier than now.
Varman is the leader of the Chenla Kingdom of this generation, and he is considered a king who works hard to govern. Since he is working hard to govern and wants to strengthen his country, it is nonsense to say that he has no money. The threat of the Dai Viet people is always in front of him.
To keep the Chenla Kingdom from being enslaved and occupied by the Dai Viet people, he needed a powerful army, a stronger army than when his father was in power.
This time Champa was invaded by the Dai Viet people, and he sent a messenger to the Chenla Kingdom to ask for help. However, Varman sat back and watched the Dai Viet invade Champa. Thirty years ago, Champa was still relatively powerful.
At that time, they also sat back and watched when Zhenla asked for help. This can be regarded as thirty years in the east of Hedong and thirty years in the west of Hexi! So Varman did not feel the slightest guilt. Of course, this time of sitting back and watching, in addition to not wanting to be premature
In addition to falling out with the Dai Viet people, the existence of Champa is an obstacle to the development of the Chenla Kingdom, which is also a powerful reason.
As expected, things developed in the direction Varman predicted. After standing still, people from Champa gradually fled to Chenla. The news he received was that Champa had completely fallen into the hands of the Dai Viet people. And with
At the same time, the merchant ships that were supposed to be trading in Champa, guided by the news he sent out, gradually came towards Liao Port. In the past month, the small port of Liao Port has been expanding.
, and in this short month, from the taxes collected from these transactions, he truly understood why Champa had been supported for so long even though it was defeated by the Dai Viet people. With such a prosperous port, money came from
Came too fast.
He was very confident that he would turn Liogang into the second Champa.
So he mobilized nearly 5,000 of the country's elite people and sent them to Liao Port, a safe trading port that was obviously more attractive to merchants. Even the royal city didn't have many more guards than here, and his most trusted son
, was also sent to Liao Port to take charge. He was determined to run Liao Port into a money pot for the Zhenla Kingdom. He wanted to use the money flowing out from here to build his army into an invincible elite force.
division.
At this moment, his eldest prince, Walli, is leading a group of soldiers to patrol his territory. Opposite the gradually expanding port, the dock is extending into the distance every day, and every day there are people with different skin colors and different languages.
Businessmen rented their shops here. Seeing this place becoming more prosperous day by day, Wali felt comfortable and did not dare to slack off at all.
"There are more than 20 ships entering the port today!" Walli is very tall. Well, this tallness is relatively speaking. At least, compared with those short-statured Dayue people, Walli is very satisfied with his body shape.
"It's still early, Prince. By nightfall, there should be no less than thirty ships. However, there are not many big ships today!" the officer next to him replied, and then he did the math in his mind and said with a flattering smile: "Yesterday we collected four ships.
One thousand eight hundred taels of silver, today can only be more than yesterday, not less!"
"The shops over there should be moved faster. They should be built a day earlier and can be rented out a day earlier. Yesterday, a businessman asked me about this!" Walli nodded: "Those slaves, we can't let them be lazy!"
"I know, prince!" the officer replied loudly, and said a few words to the soldiers beside him. The soldier ran over and shouted at the soldiers who were building the house. Several slaves with slower hands and feet were picked on by the soldiers.
He came out and hung himself from a tree with a rope amidst the cries. Then the pace of work in the entire construction site obviously sped up a lot.
"Another ship is coming!" The officer nodded to his soldiers with satisfaction. When he turned around and saw the shadow of the sail in the distance, he shouted loudly: "This time, it's a big one!"
Wali squinted his eyes and looked into the distance as his men screamed. Not far away, a huge sea ship seemed to have fallen from the clouds in the sky. It suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.
, and walked towards this direction calmly.
I have never seen a ship of this style before, and it is even different from the ships of Westerners from the west. This ship looks like... Walli chewed for a long time, and felt that it was difficult to find a suitable word to describe it, huh
, Not bad, it’s just atmospheric!
He breathed a sigh of relief and felt great! There is no better word to describe it!
"Remember what I said!" He said to his men: "Be polite to them, but don't let them think that we are easy to bully or think that we don't need to pay taxes. You have to grasp the balance between this.
, if our people secretly engage in corruption, extortion, and scare away these businessmen, you should know what will happen to them after I know it! "
"Everyone remembers the prince's instructions!" the officer replied loudly.
"Go then, you go and receive them!" He waved his hand, but his eyes did not move, and murmured to himself: "It seems that this ship came from the east. I don't know if they docked in Champa."
, didn’t you say that the fighting over Champa City is quite fierce right now? I haven’t heard any news from there for a few days. Perhaps, they can bring some news from there!”