Little Chongqing Island, County Prince’s Mansion.

It is said to be a county prince's mansion, but it is actually a rough wooden house built with white wood. Because the wood used to build the house was not dried, light and air leaked everywhere in the wooden house when it was exposed to the sun. It had to be constantly filled with plaster, leaving spots on the walls.

Tuoxi is full of mud, which looks particularly unsightly.

To be honest, the place where Zhu Cihuan lives now is not as good as the prison cell in Zongren Mansion. He is a county prince and the emperor's younger brother after all. Even if he is admitted for "cheating his father", he is still a special criminal, and the cell needs to be renovated.

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In addition to the fact that the house he lives in is not as good as the cell in the Zongren Mansion, Zhu Cixiang’s daily necessities are not as good as those in the cell in Yingtian Zongren Mansion. They are all shoddy stuff. It’s not that Yao Daqiao is stingy, but the foundation of the handicraft industry here in the American Mansion.

It's too bad and nothing good can be produced at all. And the immigrants or refugees (stock refugees) living here don't have any requirements. They just need to be usable. So the things shipped from the other side of the Pacific are poor and durable models that can't be combined with anything at all.

Compared with the high-end goods in the prison of Zongren Mansion.

Moreover, there is no charge for the Zongren Mansion Prison. Zhu Cihuan does not have to pay a penny as long as he lives there. He does not have to worry about money when he lives there. But here in Little Chongqing Island, he has to spend ten thousand taels a month, so he has to

Find a way to make money!

In the large wooden house of the palace, Zhu Cihuan, who was heavily in debt, was talking about business with people with a smile on his face. But this time the business was not stocks, but a war!

If the stocks go bad, you will lose your entire family at most, and if you lose the war, you will lose your life. Fortunately, this prince can still laugh. His chief minister, Yao Daqiao, already knew that something was wrong, and his face turned pale!

Whatever the two traitorous ministers Wei Zhongcheng and Qi Yuanbi said was a trap no matter how you look at it!

Shimazu Mitsuhisa is pretending to surrender! Do you know that he is pretending to surrender? This is a trap to trick the Ming army into that Satsuma Valley and destroy it.

Wei Zhongcheng and Qi Yuanbi looked very shrewd, but they were fooled and even asked the prince to go south in person to accept Shimazu Mitsuhisa's surrender!

If the prince has three advantages and two disadvantages, they will be guilty of "trapping the feudal clan"!

No, this is not about trapping the feudal vassal and trapping the "tycoon king" Zhu Hehao to death. Zhu Cihuan is not the king of the United States. He should not have come to the American Mansion at all, let alone recruit 2,000 people to protect him.

A prince who acts recklessly like Zhu Cihuan will definitely make Wei Zhongcheng, Qi Yuanbi, Yu Daren and other traitorous ministers very embarrassed!

It's not possible to arrest him, let alone to surrender him. After much deliberation, it would be most appropriate to arrange an opportunity for him to die for the country!

If he died for the country, the emperor would just cry twice, and the emperor would be fine. He has more than 100 sons, and there is nothing wrong with missing one?

Prince, be careful! The traitor wants to harm you!

Yao Daqiao didn't dare to say what he was thinking in his heart. He had worked with the Fourth Prince Zhu Cizhao, and he knew very well when to be knowledgeable and when to be confused.

Now is the time to pretend to be confused

Yao Daqiao pretended to be confused, but Zhu Cihuan was really confused. He never thought about false surrender. The Ming Dynasty was elite and the heavenly soldiers were invincible. How could Shimazu dare to fight against the heavenly soldiers? Now that he had the opportunity to join the Chinese Empire, of course he had to seize it. Seize it well.

Given the opportunity, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to get three to five million stones from Brother Mo’s place?

In addition, Zhu Cihuan has completely fallen into the eyes of money.

His monthly expenses are 10,000 taels! This does not include the interest on debts!

Now it's all supported by Yao Daqiao, who was taken advantage of and burned money. If he doesn't find a way to find money anymore and really burns Yao Daqiao to death, then he, the prince, will really have no choice but to go back and apologize to the Supreme Emperor.

"If I garrison the Satsuma Valley, how much money can the American Government give me per month?"

When the prince opens his mouth, it’s money!

"Your Majesty," Wei Zhongcheng said with a smile, "I know that you have 2,000 elite soldiers. The American Mansion does not care about their official positions and pays them as captains. The monthly salary is 5 taels, which is 10,000 taels per month. Each person is paid per month.

If you pay 5 dou of grain, you can also discount it, give 5 taels of silver, and add 5 taels of vegetable money, the total is 1 tael. So you can give 12,000 taels a month. This money is paid monthly, but when the prince sends troops, you can

One-time payment for 3 months.

In addition, before the soldiers set off, there was also a package of silver for luggage, each of whom was given 15 taels, which is 30,000 taels."

That means you can get sixty-six thousand taels at a time!

When Zhu Cihuan heard this, he was already happy. If he had left it in the past, he would have nodded and agreed. But now he has matured a lot and knows how to do business.

"No, no, it's too little, it's not enough!" The prince shook his head repeatedly, "We have to add at least 20,000 yuan a month and at least 50,000 yuan for luggage."

Wei Zhongcheng frowned, "20,000 a month, 3 months at a time is 60,000, plus 50,000 silver, that's 110,000 taels, which is a bit too much."

Zhu Cihuan shook his head: "Not much, not much, less than this number, I will never leave Little Chongqing Island for half a step."

Wei Zhongcheng glanced at Yu Daren, who said: "Your Majesty, please reduce it a little more. The luggage fee is still 30,000, and the monthly payment will be calculated as 20,000. In this way, the first payment will be 90,000!"

"Together, I'll give you 100,000 taels!" Zhu Cihuan stretched out his hands and said, "Nothing less is enough!"

Wei Zhongcheng had a look of pain on his face. After a while, he finally nodded: "Okay, 100,000 means 100,000 princes. When will we sign the contract?"

Today's Ming Dynasty emphasizes the spirit of contract, mainly because Zhu Cixiang took the lead!

"What are you signing?" The prince shook his head, "We haven't negotiated yet!"

"What else are we talking about?" Wei Zhongcheng asked.

"Land!" the prince said, "If Shimazu surrenders to me, will all this land in California be owned by the United States?"

"Yes, yes." Qi Yuanbi smiled, "The ruling government of the United States has long wanted to establish a California capital. It is just because these seven or eight hundred miles of mountains and hills are not easy to pass, so it has been delaying it. If Shimazu surrenders, the army will

It will be easy to pass through these seven to eight hundred miles of mountains and forests and enter the Satsuma Valley. From there, it will be easy to go to San Francisco, Castel Angel and San Diego."

Seven or eight hundred miles seems not far away, but the problem is that there is no way to go, you have to go through the mountains and forests, so don't think about horse-drawn carriages. If a pack horse can get through it, it will be good. How much food and grass can be brought by a pack horse?

If they don’t bring enough food and grass, how long can the Ming army last after marching south to the Satsuma Valley?

And if you want to take the sea route, the Golden Gate Strait cannot go through the Presidio Fort, which is not so easy to fight! As for finding a suitable port elsewhere, it is not that easy. How can the Ming Navy's exploration ship dare to wander around the California coast?

Therefore, Shimazu's surrender gave the Ming army a good opportunity to seize California.

As long as the Ming army can gain a firm foothold in the Satsuma Valley, it can break through the Presidio Fortress by land and control the Golden Gate Strait. In this way, the Ming army will have a natural port in California, and food and troops from the Americas will continue to be transported.

It's California.

Wei Zhongcheng thought for a while and said: "Saint Francesco wants to be the governor of California, or else the prince will enclose a piece of land in the Satsuma Valley."

"I don't want the Satsuma Valley," Zhu Cihuan shook his head and said, "I know that there are floods in the north and drought in the south, and transportation is inconvenient, so I don't want it!"

"Where do you want it?"

"I want Angel City!" Zhu Cihuan said, "I will be the King of Angel County from now on!"

He even became the King of Angels

Wei Zhongcheng and Qi Yuanbi looked at each other and said to themselves: Did this prince ask about a better place in California? How about choosing Angel City?

Wei Zhongcheng thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, you are going to be stationed in Angel City. I can agree to it, but your Angel County Prince must go to your Majesty to ask for a title!"

Zhu Cihuan laughed: "Don't you know this rule? I will naturally report to Your Majesty and ask for an angel king to take over!"
Chapter completed!