Beiyang new warlord

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"Oh, feel free! The Prime Minister of the State came back to say this? The concubine knows it, and the Prime Minister of the State, please come back!"

I really can't imagine how such an evildoer as Luo Yu can be born, but seeing her little girl calmly turning around and going back again, Pabiluo is really helpless, the old guy almost didn't cry, it was extremely sad and It was a hard knock on the table.

"Bangkok, if you want it, I'll transfer it to you! But 500 million taels, even if Ayutthaya City is demolished, the country doesn't have 500 million taels of silver!"

"It's okay, don't you have taxes? You can install it in installments!"

With the old guy still stunned, Luo Yu stretched out his hand and pulled off the big abacus of gold beads hanging from his waist, and while pulling it with his green fingers, he calculated logically.

"The annual interest is 30%, and the spring and autumn are accounted for. You Siamese country, do you want to pay it off 50 years ago, or [-] years?"

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Just when the intestines of Siamese monarchs and ministers were almost green with regret, Annan along the coast was full of grand occasions. With the acquiescence of Ming Dynasty, the Vietnamese army marched straight in and conquered Hue and Shigang successively. If the war goes well like this, the ancient country in the South China Sea, which has been playing against Annan for more than 600 years, will be completely wiped out by the end of this year.

Moreover, at this time in Annan, it is the time when the Ruan family and the Zheng family are fighting for power. If the Ruan family destroys Champa and overwhelms the Zheng family with power, thinking, Ruan Yuelian, who personally supervised the [-] troops who went south, has even passed through the central government. The army seems to have seen the scene where Lord Nguyen replaced Le Dynasty and became the king of Dayue, or even the emperor of Dayue.

However, one cannot always expect too much. Just when the Minister of the Metropolitan Government was enjoying his imagination, the rapid sound of horseshoes broke his reverie. A few minutes later, looking at the urgent military situation sent by Shenglong, Ruan Yuelian Zhang's old face, which was wrinkled like a dried pig's liver, also turned into the color of a pig's liver.

The situation on the peninsula is like dominoes. Siam was hit by the Ming army and Burma. Without Siam to hold back, Nanzhang and Khmer could not hold back their greed. Facing the empty Annan behind, they started !

At this point, Luo Yu's plan to pick the Five Kingdoms by himself has been fully formed, and the entire Indochina Peninsula has been dragged into the quagmire of war!

Chapter 839. Unexpected variables

The British colonized India, but the country that India is most grateful to later generations is still the United Kingdom, because they feel that the British helped them get rid of backwardness and ignorance, and Japan and the Philippines are the same, but in this time and space, the civilization of "enthusiasm" to help people Great country, transformed into Ming Dynasty.

But still let the British get a little cheap!It can also be regarded as a bit of Mao Dadi's admiration for foreigners. When later generations watched war movies or played games, he liked the roar of the English fire (fire), and always felt that it was a little more ruthless than the simple fire command, so the Liaodong army opened fire. The order was Faye, and the fire order was also used by the UEC mercenaries, whose cadre of ex-soldiers made up, and which now spread to the southeast.

"Faye!"

The mercenary officer holding the long and narrow version of the goose-wing knife screamed loudly, but this time, it was the Siamese infantry wearing a thick needle-hole linen military uniform, a wooden rattan armor, and a small round helmet. , Holding the retired military rifles sold by the East India Company, they followed the order and slammed the trigger.

Amidst the crackling sound of popping beans, directly opposite, in the front row of the Burmese army marching along the Mekong plain, those rattan armored soldiers with similar equipment but holding scimitars fell down in a row.

Behind them, cannons were fired one after another. Seeing the war elephants, who were regarded as the absolute main force in the Burmese army on the opposite side, all wailed and fell down, for a while, the dry and skinny Prime Minister Pabilo was bursting with confidence.

With these Ming weapons, who else in the world can resist the Siamese soldiers?

It was also through the binoculars provided by Daming, seeing the menacing Burmese army vanguard start to cower because of being broken, the old orange peel was extremely excited and raised his staff high, shouting excitedly: "Big army, attack!"

But Pabilo was full of excitement, imagining that he was invincible, but he didn't know that another war was also fiercely breaking out on the Indochina Peninsula.

The same artillery fire, the same crackling gunshots, on the edge of the collapsed city wall of Julu City, where the smoke was billowing, were more advanced than the Siamese, and were more sinicized. Roaring and rushing towards the city, a large group of people collided fiercely with the Nanzhang soldiers who rushed out of the city at the gap in the city wall.

Amidst the clanging sound, Zhongnan's unique weapon, the scimitar, slashed the iron armor, causing sparks to fly, but the cold-forged bayonet puffed and stabbed it, and it turned into a bloody hole. There were crazy roars on both sides, but it was a little bit of the Vietnamese army. All the Nanzhang troops were suppressed into the city.

At this time, Ruan Yuelian also looked down on the world. He hated those who prevented him from unifying the narrow plain to the east of the Changshan Mountain. It was a murderous roar: "Kill them all, leave no one alive!!!"

Following his roar, another burst of overwhelming heavy artillery sounded suddenly, and with a bang, the towering Indian-style Buddhist pagoda with a towering spire was violently bombarded and shattered.

However, this general of Annan Nguyen didn't notice some small details. The Vietnamese army who was fighting suddenly raised their guns and fired. There was no firing, and it was thrown down violently, a stream of sticky blood was thrown out of the barrel, looking at the muddy bolt, and yelling angrily, the Vietnamese army drew out the bayonet and put it on the front of the gun, and again Shouting and rushing up.

Like swords and spears, guns are consumables. The more intense the battle, the faster they will be consumed. Moreover, according to Annan's current level of smelting, it is difficult to repair, let alone imitation. The source of all weapons and equipment is only can have a place.

Ming dynasty!

At this time, Luo Yu was counting money in a hurry.

The city of Bangkok is now considered to be Mao. Once again, the merchant ships that come and go are densely moored in this excellent harbor. However, the amount of silk tea garments and daily necessities imported this year is obviously much less, and most of them are imported. The building materials, such as steel bars, cement, nails and so on, are all the business areas of the Liao Commercial Guild, which made the directors slightly critical, but seeing the three big orders sent back by Luo Yu, soon the board of directors The voice of doubt disappeared.

All legions of the Ming Dynasty change their equipment every three years, and the obsolete old guns and cannons are directly sealed up and used as strategic reserves. Some of them are new and sold to overseas colonies, and the other part is more worn out. If there is no large-scale war, the whole people need to be mobilized Under such circumstances, it is almost treated as scrap iron. An old flintlock gun with a flint action is only sold for one hundred yuan by the Ministry of Defense of the Ming Dynasty. Luo Yu can sell it for ten taels. , the retired guns eliminated by the navy and the army are brought back with 20 taels of scrap iron. Luo Yu, a small profiteer, can sell one for 2000 taels, not to mention that importing these building materials is still for the company to repair buildings, who can say more What.

And unknowingly, the tentacles of the United East India Company also penetrated deeper into the Indochina Peninsula. Siam mortgaged the treasury tax revenue to the company. Starting this year, the company will control the operation of the Siam treasury. Pay taxes, who pays less taxes, what do you produce to pay taxes to me, these East India companies have the right to speak, for a long time, it is not impossible to completely control the lifeline of Siam's economy, poor old orange peel Papi Luo Shang still didn't know.

Siam is pretty good. On the other hand, Champa, which almost encountered a crisis of annihilation because of driving out the East India Company, is even more traitorous. In order to win back Ming's favor, King Xinshang of Champa simply dismissed him with the support of the nobles. He hired Gasol, the Prime Minister, and actually directly hired Luo Yu as the Prime Minister of the Champa Kingdom. As for the one who harassed the port of the East India Company a while ago, just catch it!Even some aristocrats, big and small, still catch them. The severed heads are hung in the market like ripe watermelons. In the fear of the people of Champa, the company has already half-controlled Champa.

It is said that women hold grudges, and it is true. Even if the nobles of Champa were crying for their fathers and mothers, begging their grandpas to tell their grandmas, and begging Miss Luo to take care of them, Luo Yu didn't go. She devoted all her heart and soul to the city of Bangkok. Among the buildings, at this end, with the advancement of construction technology, the company’s small building has been rebuilt with five floors unprecedentedly. At the other end, all the Siamese folk houses along several streets have been demolished, and all of them have been designated as leased land by the Ming Dynasty. The three-storey shops and residences spread outward like spider webs.

On the outermost layer, a five-meter-high leased wall rose from the ground, and the little girl was gnashing her teeth while drawing blueprints, while shouting angrily.

"Build it thicker! If it is broken and rebuilt, it will be all money!!!"

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The birth of the young genius Luo Yu put an end to the Southeast Asian crisis from March to July. The economic crisis is still going on, but it has nothing to do with the East India Company. This year's income may be affected a bit. It is estimated that it will be able to generate income next year. In addition, the talents in the company are not mediocre. Ruan Dabeard, who still hates Donglin Fushe, has become the executive chairman, and the company's crisis has basically come to an end.

In the Imperial Plaza, the Royal Suite, Mao Jue began to hum a little tune and packed up the salutes and documents, preparing to go home. This time he was visiting Jiangnan secretly, so it would not be good to delay for too long.

However, just as Emperor Mao was leisurely thinking about what to eat tonight, there was a sudden knock on the door, and the captive little girl Selita, who was used to being the secretary of the empire, was carrying another stack of dishes. The documents came in hastily, and were placed on the table briskly.

"Boss, hurry up! There is a big event today!"

It's also so easy to talk, so that this girl is not afraid of herself. She gave her a helpless look. Mao Jue put down his things and sat at the desk again. No wonder Selita is so excited today. The one on the top is actually a A bright red invitation card for a wedding.

But this is a happy event for ordinary people. It is not so simple to be able to send invitations to the emperor for entertainment. Especially, this invitation was sent for him by Lu Zhong, the leader of Jiangnan Jinyiwei!

Frowning tightly, Mao Jue hastily opened the invitation. The post was naturally not for him. Looking at the two married couples, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face. After two or three minutes, Mao Jue finally put down the invitation again dully, and rubbed his temple with his thumb with a headache.

"Boss, who is going to get married? When are we going to the wedding?"

She didn't have permission to read the documents, and Selita still didn't know it. She asked stupidly now, but Mao Jue simply rolled her eyes: "Participating in a wedding? Attending a funeral is almost the same! Tell the people below that there is no need to clean up, and the widow will not leave Already!"

Standing up from the big chair, he gazed solemnly at the bustling and bustling city of Hangzhou outside the window. Under Selita's bewildered and surprised eyes, Mao Jue shook his head solemnly again.

"Jiangnan, the war is about to start!"

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The time difference in this era is still too much. Although the train rushed to bring the invitation card over [-] miles away, when Mao Jue saw the invitation card, the wedding was already in full swing. Early in the morning, the firecrackers were crackling. However, it is different from Jiaran who carries the sedan chair and sings in the general folk wedding procession. The whole wedding procession is composed of luxurious and weird carriages. Even the trumpet-playing drum band has tattoos on the carriages. Wow pattern wow.

The second carriage is even more unusual. There is no horse in this carriage, but a strange big box at the front of the carriage spraying heat outwards. It is sitting in the open-air carriage seat, holding a round steering wheel. I don’t know. Smothered by the steam, or excited by himself, the face of the groom wearing a big red flower flushed with excitement.

With the carriage and drum band moving forward lively, it can be regarded as arriving at the bride's house, but it is not a private house, but a city, Xiangyang City!

It was almost the same as the custom of the later generations. The opening silver ingots of timing were stuffed in from under the crack of the door. After a while, amidst the sound of creaking, the tightly closed gate of Xiangyang City burst open.

No one noticed that Lu Zhong, the highest leader of Jiangnan Jinyiwei and the cruelest commander of Jinyiwei, was hanging in the thick branches of a huge tree like a big bat, watching the wedding car knocking into the city gate, he The triangular eyes unexpectedly showed a look of dumbfounding.

"Good boy!!!"

8 Chapter Forty. The Princess Marries the Common People

This is really a great joy. In this era, those who can afford horse-drawn carriages are all the children of big merchants and big farmers. They are also the second generations and rich grandchildren that Mao Jue is most jealous of in later generations... ., ahem, gentlemen!Anyway, they don't care about the cost the least, they come as they are, and as they walk, those chariots keep throwing sugar and copper coins down, causing the people in the city to compete excitedly.

Here, human nature has been severely mocked by these ignorant young people. The children are excitedly rushing to the thrown toffee, but the adults are scrambling to get the copper coins. In their eyes, shiny copper coins are still more attractive, but they don't know that the ex-factory price of a piece of grassland condensed milk sugar produced in the capital is more than 50 copper coins, and the price has risen a lot in this distant Huguang.

Fortunately, they don't know, so that these toffees will not be resold as goods, but show their due mission. On the big day, they are stripped of the paper clothes and stuffed into the children's little mouths , bring joy!