Chapter 108 The Night Police of Tianjin Guard [Part 3]
When loading the ship, the white-known crane had already sent people to pick up goods. Calculated by the cost of the goods brought, the goods were left with twice the value cost. These were things that were meaningless to pull to the capital, such as syrup, ordinary types of precious wood, some gold, ordinary jewelry, and most of the spices.
The rice Baiminghe originally planned to keep most of the rice, but everyone was stopping Baiminghe from doing this.
There is only one reason. Bai Minghe dared to leave two million stones of rice, and the rice market in Guangdong collapsed, so it would be better to take it to Nanjing to sell some and replace it with some silk. Or just go directly to Beijing to exchange for goods from Beijing.
Before leaving, Bai Minghe arranged for someone to contact the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce. Bai Minghe spoke with 20,000 dan of silk.
Regardless of whether the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce could take this order, Bai Minghe only stayed at the Qinzhou Wharf for less than two hours, said goodbye to Sun Yuanjun, said some comforting words, and sailed again after distributing the goods.
The speed of a large fleet sails is lower than that of a single ship. From Qinzhou Wei Wharf to Tianjin Wei, it is almost 3,600 kilometers of sea routes. It sails at an average speed of nine knots, and at most eight days and eight nights. The road is calm and there is no surprise.
Is the pirates in Xiao Liuqiu a wolf or a timid wolf?
After seeing this huge fleet, they all retracted and even dared to go out to sea with a piece of wooden board.
Late at night, countless fleets approached. Even the Tianjin Guard sentry, who had already received the news in advance, were a little panicked. In an emergency, the bell used to call the police was ringing. In an instant, the Tianjin Guard Wharf immediately turned brightly on. The Tianjin Guard Commander had been waiting here for a long time and boarded the ship to greet him.
The white-famous crane has arrived!
Hundreds of messengers left. Whether it was the capital or the surrounding areas of Zhili, from Xuanfu to the north, from Jinan to Taiyuan to the west, from Shuipu to the east, from Shuipu to the east. Some people sent here. After receiving the news that Bai Minghe had arrived at Tianjin Wei, they naturally quickly brought the news back.
The Tianjin Guard Commander was a middle-aged general in his forties. After getting on the ship, he clasped his fists at Bai Minghe: "Master Bai."
"Mr. Ge is welcomed by her. The white-known He is polite." Bai Minghe replied with a greeting, and then said: "All the soldiers of Tianjin Wei will each have two stones of rice and one pound of white sugar. Then prepare ten thousand stones of rice. Thirty stones of white sugar will be given to all the generals of Tianjin Wei."
Bai Minghe waved his hand and Bai Hong took a box over.
"Mr. Ge, be careful!" Bai Minghe insisted that the box was stuffed into Commander Ge's hand.
As soon as Commander Ge received the box, the seemingly small box weighed unusually. A box that was one foot long, four inches wide and three inches thick would probably weigh less than ten kilograms.
"Mr. Bai, when I was young, I was originally a personal soldier of Duke Yang, and I have the seat today to take care of Duke Yang. I heard that Master Bai went north to worship Duke Yang. This is a small matter that must not be accepted!" Commander Ge wanted to push the box back.
"Please accept it with peace of mind. If Lord Ge doesn't accept it, it means that the soldiers in his hands have worked so hard these days. I still have to ask Lord Ge to find some civilians, otherwise the goods on the ship will not be enough to move them down. I also have to ask Lord Ge to find some carriages, preferably very strong carriages in the wealthy family."
Commander Ge thought about it and stopped the gift from his subordinates and accepted the box given by Bai Minghe.
I arranged a few words for the deputy general around me. The deputy general immediately took someone to do business.
"Mr. Bai is leaving to rest, and I have ordered someone to prepare meals."
"I won't rest and entered Beijing overnight. Lord Deng and several generals were tired after sailing day and night these days. Lord Ge arranged for people to take care of him. The Shanxi Chamber of Commerce sent people to pull grain. Please tell Lord Deng. After I heard from the capital, I will start transporting grain to avoid unnecessary trouble!"
Commander Ge nodded.
When a white-famous crane enters the capital, it naturally does not transport a large amount of grain to the capital, and there is no need.
What the white-famous crane wants to be lucky is just a gift to Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to bring the rest with you for the time being.
The rattan box was carried off the boat, and the boxes were not allowed to be taken by the civilians at all. All of them were carried by elite soldiers from Bai Minghe. Then the rest of the crates were taken by the civilians, carefully lifted them on the dock and loaded them on the carriage prepared in advance.
Those rattan boxes, each box is much smaller for ordinary people's household clothes.
The size of each box is about the size of the bullet box in later TV series.
Just such a small box, there were only six boxes on a carriage, and then there were four sword guards wearing a carriage. The guards of a thousand carefully selected and fully armed elite soldiers had already begun to line up, and countless torches would illuminate them like daytime.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from a carriage, which attracted countless civilians to look over curiously.
But under the fire, thousands of gold bars were scattered beside the carriage.
At that moment, more than a dozen soldiers were unsheathed and stood guard aside. Four soldiers in the cavalry began to count the gold bars that fell on the ground. A brand new rattan box was sent over and the gold bars were repacked.
"Report! A box of first-class cargo is scattered. Each box contains 1,600 pieces of repackage. There is no error in the number of repackaging. Check 1,600 pieces." The soldier in charge ran to an officer and reported loudly. The officer had paper on the board, which had recorded the accident. Then the soldier in charge pressed his handprint.
"Mr. Bai, are all these?" Commander Ge's tone trembled a little.
Because he could see clearly that there were twenty-one carriages here, just these rattan boxes, so...
Commander Ge didn't dare to think about it anymore. This amount was not something he could imagine. It can be said that these were more than two years of taxes in Guangdong. In addition, he already knew that Bai Minghe brought a lot of rice, so Bai Minghe brought taxes in the capital this time, which was equivalent to the full letter to Guangdong Province for three or even four years.
Bai Minghe touched his head and approached Commander Ge and whispered: "Please keep it secret for three days. This total is 125 boxes, of course it is not all gold. The box you see is gold."
"Mr. Bai, is it Ge a fool?" Commander Ge had a dark face.
"Okay, it's all gold." Bai Minghe shrugged helplessly.
Commander Ge's face became darker: "I mean, this matter will naturally not be spread. No matter whether it is gold or not, what can even be the full package of silver? I don't ask why Lord Bai came here this time. Ge just needs to do his part."
"Then please ask Lord Ge to prepare a thousand large tents in Tianjin Guards. Lord Deng will leave the labor costs."
The white-famous crane smiled and made another request.
"This is a small matter, Ge advised Lord Bai. Once your wealth is revealed, some people in the court will inevitably be jealous." Commander Ge's words were good words, and Bai Minghe could hear them. Bai Minghe asked immediately: "What if this is for long live?"
"Same!" Commander Ge responded to Bai Minghe very seriously.
Bai Minghe frowned and thought for a moment, then took two steps back and gave a gift: "Bai Minghe thanked Lord Ge!"
Commander Ge stretched out his hand and helped: "Thank me, don't let Yang Duquan Xiahan be. If it were in advance, Ge would like to thank him!"
Bai Minghe nodded solemnly.
The convoy was loaded and escorted by a thousand elite soldiers. The team was led by a fourth-rank military officer from the Guangdong Dusi Yamen. This batch of things is worth three years of taxes in Guangdong, but they dare not be careless at all.
Tianjin Wei is more than 100 kilometers away from Beijing, which is more than 200 miles from the Ming Dynasty.
Bai Minghe directly brought the convoy to Beijing with the slogan of sending prisoners and tributes to the capital, and ordered the convoy to drive away any cars that did not give way to him. No matter what official he was, he would give way to the tributes. This was a convoy representing the royal family.
It’s more than 200 miles, and you will definitely not be able to get there in one day.
When camping that night, Xing'an brought the 500 Dongchang cavalry and a thousand imperial guards to the Baiminghe camping place.
The white-famous crane went outside the camp to greet him.
"I haven't seen each other for only three months, Lord Bai is even more elegant than before." Xing'an smiled and helped Bai Minghe.
"I came from Guangdong and prepared some..." Before Bai Minghe finished speaking, Xing'an interrupted him: "If you have this kind of heart, the family will appreciate it. When you reach the age of the family, everything is in your own home. But you can't save your filial piety to Long Live. The family knows what you do, and the family must also report it to the Master of Long Live."
"I understand!" Bai Minghe knew that Xing'an was the governor of the East Factory and could not hide his own affairs from Xing'an.
Xing'an walked into the tent with a white crane:
"You donated fifty stones of fine rice to Xuanfu and Datongfu in the name of Yang Yi. I don't know about this matter in the court. What are you going to do about this matter? Long live knowing this matter, how can you give Long live less filial piety than this? The family believe that Bai Minghe will not make such a mistake, but I still want to remind you."
"Thank you." Bai Minghe asked Xing'an to sit down and pour tea for Xing'an.
"Actually, I prepared 500,000 stones each, and 300,000 taels of skin, iron, medicinal materials and other supplies."
Bai Minghe's words made Xing'an's hands tremble.
"Eighty hundred thousand taels!" Xingcheng estimated in his heart.
Bai Minghe took a deep breath: "I brought one million stones of pure rice to Lord Yu's Ministry of War!"
"It's another 500,000 taels!" Xing'an's hand did not shake again this time. He had seen a big scene. It was just that the news suddenly surprised him.
Xing'an looked up at Bai Minghe and said, "Where are you giving me filial piety?"
"This is what I want to ask you. I want to live my secret meeting alone. At the same time, I offer my filial piety. Some things are too dazzling. If the adults in the capital see it, I am afraid that the memorial to impeach me, Bai Minghe would be able to load a car."
Xing'anxin said: Bai Minghe wanted to see him secretly, but I'm afraid it wasn't as simple as offering a gift.
Xing'an thought for a moment: "The family promised you, and I'll send someone back to the Beijing News and Long Live the Emperor!"
Chapter completed!