After listening to Ruan Youjing's words, Ruan Phuc nodded thoughtfully.

At this time, he was already over 60 years old and had already lived up to his ambitions and his physical condition was getting worse day by day. He was seriously ill and he was still recuperating until he was in recent days.

"Oh!" Ruan Phuc Bing looked at His Highness Ruan Youjing with a wry smile, and then looked at the memorial presented by Hoi An officials on the desk.

"The Ming court wanted to trade with me Guangnan several times, and even sent envoys to our Guangnan several times. I knew the Ming court's intentions and wanted to earn silver from our Guangnan. I was very displeased. But now the situation is serious. The Ming court has recruited Jiading and is very powerful. Now if I open the Hoi'an Port and the Ming merchants and allow Guangnan to trade with the Ming court, a large number of Ming people will go to Guangnan, and it is afraid that Guangnan will be in danger!" Ruan Phuc said tiredly.

After hearing this, Ruan Youjing didn't know what to say for a moment, and she couldn't help but raise her head and look at Master Ruan. Suddenly, Ruan Youjing was stunned.

For some reason, Lord Ruan in front of him became so old, with gray hair and his face covered with traces of vicissitudes of life.

Ruan Youjing couldn't help but lose her mind. The king in his memory was always heroic and wise, but he hadn't seen him for more than a month and was so old.

Seeing Ruan Youjing lose her composure, Ruan Phuc was calm and did not blame him.

"I haven't had enough time." Nguyen Phuc said with a wry smile.

"Wang." Ruan Youjing knelt down quickly, and tears filled his eyes for some reason.

"Let me ask you, who among the princes can succeed me to the throne?" Nguyen Phuc asked on the verge of asking.

Ruan Youjing was stunned, then his face narrowed and he kowtowed and said, "I don't know."

Seeing this, Nguyen Phuket didn't force it and waved his hand, "Forget it, you go."

Ruan Youjing then walked out of the hall in cold sweat as if she was admitted to a general amnesty.

Seeing Ruan Youjing hurriedly walked out of the hall, Ruan Phuc sighed, "Notify Ming Shang to enter the hall tomorrow."

After Su Langqing and his party arrived at the Royal City of Hue, they lived in the inn and did not walk around.

This made the Guangnan officials who had been monitoring Ming Shang sigh.

"When will the goods arrive at the city of Hue?" Su Langqing asked a merchant.

"It's probably going to be four or five days. Now it's early spring, and the road is muddy and difficult to walk. We have to rent a team of elephants to deliver goods at a high price. I guess we will soon arrive at the city of Hue."

Su Langqing looked at the Hue city wall in the distance and stretched out his frown. As long as the goods could be found under the Hue city, Minghai would not lose too much no matter what the trip was.

"Good news, Lord Ruan promised me to go to the hall tomorrow." Wang Li walked over with a happy face and said to the merchant ship owner in the hall.

"Okay." Su Langqing's eyes lit up.

"Since we are waiting to go to the palace, who should talk to Lord Ruan of Guangnan?" A ship owner looked at Wang Li and then looked at Su Langqing.

This time, the Minghai merchants and Luhai merchants went to Hue together, but most Mingshangs did not know Su Langqing's mission, so they asked.

"I will be the leader of this trip, so I will naturally go." Su Langqing said calmly.

Wang Li nodded undeniably.

"Have all the high-ranking officials and nobles in Hue City walked around?" Wang Li glanced at the businessman beside him and asked.

"I've done it all, don't worry, President Wang."

Seeing that everything was ready, Wang Li was relieved.

The second day,

Su Langqing, Wang Li and other merchants were invited to the King's Hall.

Except for Su Langqing who was allowed to enter the hall, the other merchants were stopped one after another.

Su Langqing was calm and strode into the palace of the king.

"The Ming envoy Su Langqing paid homage to Lord Ruan." Su Langqing bowed to Lord Ruan.

"Bold, why don't you kneel down when you see my Lord?" Suddenly, a minister stood up and asked loudly.

He used Chinese and was quite fluent, so Su Langqing could naturally understand it.

"Although I am a Ming Shang, I am an envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Guangnan. I am a Ming minister. How could I kneel down to the vassal lord?" Su Langqing shook his sleeves and glanced at the Guangnan official.

"Well, you are speaking Chinese well, and I believe you know the etiquette of the Central Plains. When the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Kingdom comes to the vassal state, do the envoys still need to kneel down to the lord of the vassal state?" Su Langqing shouted coldly.

"Your lord is just the lord of an island. How dare you use the banner of the former Ming Dynasty? Are you not afraid of the Qing Dynasty's punishment?" Another Guangnan official stood up and said coldly.

"The Qing Dynasty stole my Jiuzhou and entered the Central Plains to kill all the people, which caused anger and resentment from heaven and man, and killed them together. My Ming King held high the banner of anti-Qing and revitalizing our Han people. Why are you afraid of?" Su Langqing said righteously.

Nguyen Phuc was about to look at the Ming Shang in front of her and couldn't help but smile.

"A man comes, give him a seat." Nguyen Phuc said on the verge.

"I have rich products in Guangnan, and I have all the things in Nanyang, so I really don't need to trade with the Ming court." Nguyen Phuc said softly.

After hearing this, Su Langqing smiled. If the Qing Dynasty said that it was a big land and rich in resources, it would be fine. You are a small place in Guangnan and you are even talking about your wealth.

"Why did I see a large number of Flang Ji people and English merchants in Hoi An and even in Hue City?" Su Langqing asked with a smile.

"I heard that Guangnan people are good at growing sugar and rice. But the Folang Ji people and the English people in the city have repeatedly purchased large amounts of sugar and rice from Guangnan at low prices or even goods exchange, which has made the people of Guangnan very resentful. I wonder if the king knows?" Su Langqing asked.

After hearing this, Nguyen Phuc was not angry. These red-haired ghosts were used to being domineering. The reason why Guangnan planted large amounts of sugar was to earn some silver from the Spanish and English. After all, in order to deal with the war in the north a few years ago, Guangnan had to buy a large amount of firearms from the Red-haired ghost, and the Red-haired ghosts set a price on the ground, so Guangnan was unable to make ends meet the financial needs of Guangnan in recent years due to military expenditures. Just exporting rice to the outside world alone had long been unable to meet Guangnan's financial needs. Therefore, people had to encourage people to plant sugar in order to exchange for a large amount of silver from the Red-haired ghost.

In Nanyang, sugar is a profitable industry.

The Spanish and English are not fools either.

They often buy sugar from Guangnan at a low price, and then sell it at a high price in various parts of Nanyang to make huge profits.

The people of Guangnan worked hard to grow sugarcane and worked hard for a year, but often they could not exchange for a few taels of silver. They had to accept the layers of exploitation of local officials in Guangnan, which was already aroused by the public.

The most important thing is that the red-haired ghosts buy sugar at low prices, which leads to the income of the local sugar industry in Hoi'an that is no more than the rice sold at the beginning, and Guangnan also lost a large amount of rice fields.

You should know that plantations that produce sucrose were used to grow rice before.

"If Guangnan is willing to trade with the Ming court, then the Ming court is willing to buy ten sugar ships from Guangnan every year at a price of 30% higher than that of the Spanish merchants." Su Langqing said.
Chapter completed!