Chapter 74: Reckless Man, Bad Wisdom
Chen Zhongwu was most unhelpful to others saying bad things about his brother-in-law. Chen Yonghua didn't know the importance of it. He violated Chen Zhongwu's strange scale with just one sentence. He was furious and ordered his subordinates to push Chen Yonghua out and behead him.
Without saying a word, the personal soldiers twisted Chen Yonghua up and pushed him out.
Zhao Duo, the general of his subordinate, hurriedly stopped him: "General, let's wait. The two armies will come to fight and not kill them. This kid is not serious. Just scold him. Don't really kill him."
Chen Zhongwu thought that, it was the same. He could not ruin the reputation of our Ming army. It would be bad if he didn't understand the rules.
"Take it back."
The personal soldiers took Chen Yonghua back and let go, but Chen Yonghua was still angrily dissatisfied.
"Boy, don't be dissatisfied. The emperor's standard for employing people is to be loyal to the emperor and love the people. You can scold me Chen Zhongwu, but you must not say that the emperor is not bad at all. I guess you scold me for being greedy for money in your heart. Tell you, Chen is not greedy for money. Chen is not greedy for money you give to the road wealth, and Chen is not greedy for a penny of money, and the governor of Shi will not greedy for everything. We will hand it over to the court and the court will dominate the silver. Guizhou is barren, Hunan and Hubei have just experienced war disasters. The emperor cannot bear to increase the burden on the local people. The court has always paid the silver to support the army of more than 100,000 in battles. The national treasury was no longer silver, so the emperor opened the inner treasury and took out the inner treasury as military pay. However, he himself only had four or five dishes for three meals a day.
The emperor is such an emperor who loves the people, and his subjects are not greedy for money and are not afraid of death. And your master, in order to preserve the wealth accumulated over decades and maintain the family status that dominates the country, ignores the national justice and refuses to surrender to this day, and still wants to go to Taiwan to find a place to gain a foothold.
Boy, you are a scholar. Isn’t it clear who is higher and lower? What can I tell you? What qualifications are you a yellow-haired child with a baby who has not yet recovered from her hair?”
Chen Zhongwu taught Chen Yonghua a lesson.
"Oh, this vulgar martial artist is so good at speaking. The reason is very profound and it is hard to refute. Well, I can't beat you, but I can't talk nonsense. Just talk about money. This is a little more real." Chen Yonghua shrugged and thought to himself.
"General Chen, who should not show off his verbal skills? Let's go straight to the point. Tell me, how much money do you want?" Chen Yonghua said.
"So, are you convinced?" Chen Zhongwu didn't expect that his words would make Chen Yonghua stop talking about the reason and negotiate the price directly. He was very happy and asked in a victorious manner.
In fact, he was just writing a lot of things. How could he know if the Ministry of Revenue has any money? When did the emperor open the inner treasury? Even if he only had four or five dishes for meals, it was a mess.
So, it is just to highlight the emperor's tall image.
"Yes, yes, I'm convinced. You can offer the offer quickly and don't waste your quarrels."
"I heard that your master has three trillion yuan in silver, so the general can't bring it all. So, give it two trillion yuan, and leave you 20%."
"General Chen, where did you hear it? Three Gigabits? How can you believe it? Not to say anything else, if you transport three Gigabits of silver, how many ships will you get? Without a thousand ships, it is impossible to transport it over. Let me ask, how can we hold so much silver in total with less than six hundred ships?" Chen Yonghua said anxiously.
"That's right. It seems that I was cheated by someone. Then, how much money do your master have?"
"It's only five million taels. Uncle Zheng said that he was willing to give out three million taels to General Chen."
"Who are you lying to? I think I am stupid. Well, stop talking, there is nothing to talk about. Go back quickly. When I capture Kinmen Island, I will check it myself."
"No, then let's increase a little more, four million taels."
"No, one trillion."
"Not that much, five million taels."
"Ninety million."
“Six million.”
...
The two of them were like those who sold vegetables and bought vegetables. One slowly rose and the other slightly fell. Chen Yonghua kept spending ten million taels and refused to rise again.
"Let's do this, boy, I am impatient and don't have time to sharpen your mouth. 30 million taels. This is the final bottom line. You go back and report. After an hour, if you don't send the money, I will launch an attack and you won't have to talk about it anymore. Save the guests!"
Chen Zhongwu was really annoyed. After saying this, he waved his hand to order his personal soldiers to see him off.
"Don't, General Chen, let's talk about it..."
Chen Zhongwu ignored him again, and his personal soldiers pushed Chen Yonghua out of the cabin.
Chen Yonghua had no choice but to return to the handsome tent, and reported to Zheng Chenggong with a heavy mood and a frustrated expression.
"Governor, I really didn't expect that Chen Zhongwu would be so difficult to deal with when he looked vulgar. He was humble and insulted in his mission. I also asked the Governor to punish him heavily."
"Fu Fu, it's not your fault. Chen Zhongwu is a martial artist. He pays attention to whoever has the biggest fist is the boss. In addition, this guy is a shameless person and can't deal with him with the principles of your scholars. The most important thing is that people are the slaughter and I am the fish. We are on the weak side, so we are qualified to negotiate equally." Zheng Chenggong understood very well and did not blame Chen Yonghua for this. Instead, he comforted his wounded heart with kind words.
"Then, Governor, do you mean to give it to him? That's not OK. If you give it to me, most of our family will be gone. Let's think of a solution." Chen Yonghua heard Zheng Chenggong's voice, as if he wanted to accept his fate, and quickly persuaded him.
"Come here, please come and ask Liu Guoxuan, Zhou Quanbin, and Feng Xifan. Everyone comes up with ideas to see if there are any other solutions." Zheng Chenggong naturally did not want to give such a large sum of money to others. He had no idea, so he had to ask a few confidants to discuss countermeasures together.
Liu Guoxuan, Zhou Quanbin, and Feng Xifan are here, and these three have no clever ideas. Liu and Zhou's opinion is not enough, so they will fight. Feng Xifan's opinion is to go to Chen Zhongwu to discuss the argument in person.
Liu and Zhou's opinion was rejected by Zheng Chenggong. Will it take the negotiation if it can fight?
Feng Xifan's opinion naturally offended Chen Yonghua because behind his opinion was an obvious derogation of Chen Yonghua's talents.
Zheng Chenggong understood the trick, so naturally he refused to let Feng Xifan bring shame to himself again.
"Forget it, give it to him. We have 20 million taels left. This money is enough to gain a foothold in Taiwan. Fufu, you can take people to deliver it." Seeing that the deadline set by Chen Zhongwu was about to come, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to make a decision.
After Chen Yonghua was ordered to hand over the silver and Chen Zhongwu, Chen Zhongwu smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, thank you. After giving so much money, we can't lose a gift. Let's do this, give you a ship of grenades as a gift, so we can save more effort when fighting the Dutch devils."
"Ah? There are such good things? Be particular! Chen Zhongwu is really a person of particularity!" Chen Yonghua was overjoyed when he heard this.
Chapter completed!