Although he was very worried, Li Xiao still found the ingredient of opium in Li Hu's medicine. It seems that Western doctors and Ming Dynasty doctors are similar, and they all realize the medicinal value of this stuff.

"Stop this medicine immediately. If you take it for a long time, you will become addicted." Li Xiao said to Tang Ruowang with a gloomy face.

"According to his current injury condition, he has to take it for two more days. Otherwise, it will be very painful after the medicine wears off." Tang Ruowang reminded Li Xiao kindly.

"It hurts a little, but it's better than quitting this thing in the future." Li Xiao flatly rejected Tang Ruowang's kindness.

Tang Ruowang shrugged helplessly. Based on his understanding of Li Xiao in the past few days, as long as Li Xiao recognized something, there were not many ways to convince him. Tang Ruowang was not prepared to make unnecessary attempts!

"Brother!" Li Hu's injuries have improved a lot. This kid is really lucky. A bullet with insufficient charge hit his ribs.

If he was hit in the stomach with a twist, Li Xiao couldn't imagine what would happen to Li Hu after the bullet inflamed his stomach. There was no place for anesthesia, how dare you do an open surgery?

"Are you okay, kid?" Li Xiao rubbed Li Hu's hair.

This younger brother has a lot of problems, he is lustful, stubborn, and stubborn...but he definitely has nothing to say about himself. Not many people in this world are willing to use their bodies to block bullets for others. The scene where Li Hu stepped forward is definitely

They are brothers.

"It's okay!"

"This is for you, take good care of yourself." Li Xiu, who was standing behind Li Xiao, reached out and handed over a box.

"What the hell!" Li Hu opened it curiously and found a whole box of American ginseng inside.

"I got it from the red-haired man and stewed it with the old hen. It will be good for your injury." Li Xiu had no smile on his face, but his eyes were full of worry.

"Third brother, your second brother still cares about you. Stop being so petty." Li Xiao saw that Li Hu was still pouting and pinched Li Hu's shoulder.

"Thank you, second brother!"

"Sir! Master Zheng has come to see Master Hu!" Shunzi walked in and bowed to report to Li Xiao.

"please!"

"Haha! You have a strong body, don't be careful at all." Zheng Zhilong walked in and saw Li Hu's rosy face. He asked Zheng Zhiyuan to put down the gift!

"Master Zheng, you are so polite."

"Bird's nests and shark's fins are all specialties from the South China Sea. They are very good for the body. Zhiyuan asked someone to fish out a grouper. They steamed them for you in the evening! Uh...!"

"Is something wrong?"

"Something really happened!"

When Li Xiao saw Zheng Zhilong's expression change, he knew it was not a good thing.

"This time the commotion was so big that Cai Shanji, the governor of Guangzhou, sent someone to ask us what was going on. He also said that we were using weapons without permission to destroy the relationship between Ming Dynasty and overseas countries. If we don't give him an explanation, he will write a letter to impeach us.

.”

"Impeach?" After all, Li Xiao is the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, and can be regarded as a senior military attaché of the Ming Dynasty. You, Zheng Zhilong, are a big pirate leader. I want you to be impeached.

"In the past two years, for the sake of convenience, I followed the path of Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan and became a guerrilla official in Xiamen. In fact, there is no military pay, not even his mother's salary. It is just an empty shell and a bluff."

Zheng Zhilong rubbed his hands, feeling a little embarrassed.

Li Xiao was a general soldier before he was twenty years old, and he became a guerrilla at a young age.

Shame on you! What a fucking disgrace.

"This damn son-of-a-bitch governor, is he so idle?" Li Hu roared, his face twitching in pain as the wound was pulled.

"What a waste of time. John said that every year the East India Company would send money to the officials in Guangzhou. Now that the people who sent the money have been beaten away by us, who will the money go to in the future? The red-haired ghost will definitely not do it.

If you give it, you are counting on our heads." Zheng Zhiyuan said bitterly.

"I have served as an official for thousands of miles just for money. Now that we have touched someone's financial backer, they will of course want to settle accounts with us. Brother Li, you have connections in the court. This impeachment...!" After all, Zheng Zhilong still cares about the Xiamen guerrilla.

official position.

With this official position, when running on the water, he is the Ming Navy. No one dares to do smuggling blatantly.

"Cai Jishan!" Li Xiao chewed on the name and had never heard of it. Since he has never heard of it, it's easy to deal with. This guy must not be a historical celebrity. Even if he has some Taoism, he must have limited practice.

"Master Cai is now asking us both to go to the Guangzhou government office by name and explain the matter clearly. What should we do?" When Zheng Zhilong spoke, he looked directly at Li Xiao's face.

Looking at Zheng Zhihu's expression, you know what he is thinking. Cai Jishan is definitely not easy to deal with. At least he is a small Xiamen guerrilla, and Cai Jishan will not take him seriously.

It's different for me. I have connections in the capital. And they are very good connections. If I wasn't good, I would never have reached the position of Shanhaiguan General Soldier at the age of eighteen. There are so many generals in the imperial court, and most of them will spend their whole life.

You can't even get the official position of Chief Military Officer.

Cai Jishan dared to kill Zheng Zhilong, but he absolutely did not have the courage to kill Li Xiao. Although everyone became officials for money, but ruining their political future for a little money... As long as Cai Jishan was not a madman, he would not do it.

"I still need your support for the Macau affairs. I will go to Guangzhou to meet Cai Jishan. After the Guangzhou affairs are over, I will go back to Liaodong. There are still a lot of things at Shanhaiguan. I have been gone for too long."

"If I don't go with you, I might as well have someone to help me." Zheng Zhilong said this without any confidence at all. Even Li Hu could tell that Boss Zheng was bluffing.

"Don't worry, as long as Cai Jishan is not crazy, he won't dare to touch me." Li Xiao was very confident about this. I am now the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, and he is also a senior military attaché of the imperial court. He is a governor, and if there is no decree, I can lend him

Eight courageous people don't dare to stretch their claws towards themselves.

"If that's the case, then I'll ask Zhiyuan to take over at the Pearl River Estuary. If Cai Jishan has a wrong idea, we won't be easy to bully." Zheng Zhilong tried his best to show a disgusting and righteous look.

Li Xiao knew that even if something happened to him, he probably would not rebel and attack Guangzhou City for his own sake. After all, the Zheng family still had many businesses in Fujian. The Zheng family, which was drifting at sea, was actually still

In Fujian.

Thinking of Fujian, Li Xiao immediately thought of Yizhou across the street.

"Are you familiar with Yizhou?"

"Of course I'm familiar with it! In the early years, I went to cultivate the land with my adoptive father and the Yan family, but that place was a barbaric wilderness. No one wanted to go there except some natives who could bear it.

When there was a famine in Fujian, people could be recruited to reclaim wasteland. But many people stayed there for a year or two and then went back. There was not even a city there, everything was lacking, and no one wanted to go.

By the way! The red-haired ghost built a castle there, called Chikan City. It was mainly used to provide a docking port for smuggling ships smuggling to the coast of Fujian. The big ships were anchored there. Then small boats would deliver things from the Fujian wharf.

Ship there.

After loading, it will be shipped overseas to India."

"Like this...!" A word immediately popped up in Li Xiao's mind, transfer center.

These days, Westerners don't actually have many things that they can export to the Ming Dynasty. They usually include spices, primary industrial products, gems and the like.

The Ming Dynasty exported a lot of things overseas, including porcelain, tea, silk, and various handicrafts. These things were sold to Europe and were in high demand.

I don’t know if the Ming Emperor was kicked in the head by a donkey and clung to the ancestral sea ban. No matter how huge the trade surplus was and how profitable he was, he just refused to let go of the sea ban and let the merchant ships at sea

It can trade freely. It has to be smuggled secretly, and a cargo transit center was built in Yizhou.

"No one proposed to open the sea ban?" Li Xiao felt that not all idiots in the court were stupid. Since the Ming court was so short of money, why didn't it open the sea ban? You know, customs taxation has always been a state agency.

important financial resources.

"Open a sea ban? Oh my God, who dares to mention it! Look at the officials who dared to lift the sea ban since the Ming Dynasty. Did any of the officials have a good ending?" Zheng Zhilong looked at Li Xiao,

It's like looking at an idiot.

"Why?"

"Why? For money! Whose family do you think those boats running on the sea belong to? They all belong to the family of Mr. Ge Lao. Do you know how many of the chaebols in Fujian and Zhejiang made their fortunes through smuggling? They are digging in the soil.

Only then can you find out how much money you have.

Besides, no one is allowed to farm the land. Without the convenience of smuggling, a tenant can cultivate several acres of land in a year. A dozen people can travel on the sea in a boat, and the output is more than a hundred times that of a tenant.

With such great benefits, you stopped the maritime ban and stopped people from smuggling? It would be strange if those old plutocrats didn't eat you alive. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents."

Zheng Zhilong's words made Li Xiao take a breath. It turned out that this was such a deep pool of water. No wonder the court knew that maritime trade made money, but the elders and the ministers who were ranked as Jinshi did not say anything.

It turns out that they are all making money here. The Ming Dynasty has money and no money to do my shit. The Ming Dynasty belongs to the emperor named Zhu, and we are just wage earners. If we put money in our pockets, then the fuck is the

My own job.

The idea of ​​writing a letter to lift the sea ban was suppressed in an instant. This force was so powerful that the emperor had to give in. How could he, a mere commander-in-chief, go up against those plutocrats and high-ranking officials?

It's impossible to do it against him, but it's extremely possible to be eaten alive and skinned alive.

"Since the people of Fujian are not willing to go to farming, can we hire two to three hundred people? They all need strong labor force!" Li Xiao rolled his eyes and immediately started to make a calculation.

"That's no problem. Giving a hired worker ten taels of silver a year is pretty good. There are many mountains in Fujian and the land is thin. The number of households that can dig out five taels of silver a year from the land can be counted on the palm of a hand.

If you give me 12 or 8 taels, I believe there are many people who are willing to pay this hard work." Zheng Zhilong had organized people to go to Fujian several times to persuade people to come to Yizhou for farming. He knew a lot about this business.

"Okay, then help me gather some people. I'll hire three hundred people, just as you said, ten taels of silver per person."

"What are you going to do in Yizhou?" Zheng Zhilong was very confused and didn't understand what Li Xiao was going to do in Yizhou. It was his own territory, so he couldn't deal with it carelessly.

"Plant a tree!" Li Xiao smiled mysteriously.

"Planting trees?" Looking at Li Xiao's smiling face, Zheng Zhilong wondered if the brain inside was broken.
Chapter completed!