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Tang Qi's expedition to Korea (according to the suggestion of book friends, we will call South Korea from now on) was very fruitful. Not only did he get nearly 4,000 soldiers from Pi Island, but the Japanese accomplices also robbed countless things. These Japanese not only robbed those villages, but also boldly robbed the granaries of several cities, obtaining hundreds of thousands of stones of grain. These things were transported to Pi Island nearby, and then slowly transported to Kokura City.
After Tang Qi occupied Pi Island, he handed over the concession built in Korea to Zhang Niujiao for management. Zhang Niujiao knew very well how much money could be made from it. Seeing that Tang Qi gave him such a lucrative job, he was naturally very grateful. He led the 4,000 surrendered troops from Pi Island, 10,000 Japanese auxiliary troops, and tens of thousands of Korean strong men captured along the way to Korea to open up wasteland.
In order to give an explanation to Sun Chengzong, Tang Qi launched a tentative attack on the Jiannu and sent 3,000 Japanese auxiliary troops as bait. However, these Japanese auxiliary troops were too weak in combat. When they attacked a Jiannu settlement, they were defeated by more than 1,000 elderly, weak and women who stayed behind in their homes.
Every one of these Jiannu people could ride a horse and shoot arrows. They chased the Japanese allies all the way. When they ran to the seashore, more than 2,000 of the 3,000 people had died. The Jiannu people who were chasing them saw the 2,000 soldiers under Tang Qi who were deployed on the seashore, and they did not realize how powerful the muskets in these people's hands were. They still rushed over fiercely. As a result, no one survived, and Tang Qi was left with hundreds of horses.
Tang Qi sent people to sweep the place where the Jiannu people lived, where no one was left, and got more than a thousand horses. Tang Qi sent these nearly two thousand horses and hundreds of Jiannu people's heads to Sun Chengzong, and gave Sun Chengzong a battle report in which Huang Long and others died gloriously in the battle with the Jiannu. He seemed to sincerely hope that Lord Sun could send people to take over this Pi Island.
In fact, after Tang Qi swallowed up this naval force in the north of Dashi, Sun Chengzong had no way to send people to take over Pi Island. In addition, because Tang Qi sent 2,000 horses, which was a huge gift in the era when Dashi was short of horses, although Sun Chengzong knew the mystery of the death of Huang Long and others, he could only turn a blind eye and acquiesce in Tang Qi's occupation of Pi Island, and asked the court to let Tang Qi be the new general of Dongjiang.
In the late Tang Dynasty, Sun Chengzong was considered the most powerful military strategist of that era. He was well aware of the importance of Pi Island and what kind of person Huang Long was. Unfortunately, the appointment of a general was not up to him, Sun Chengzong. He had never even heard of what kind of person Tang Qi was before, but Tang Qi was able to swallow Pi Island and give him, Sun Chengzong, 2,000 horses at once. From this, Sun Chengzong knew that this deputy general Tang from Jinling was not a simple character.
Sun Chengzong then sent people to Pi Island in a fishing boat to investigate. He was shocked to learn that the deputy general Tang had thousands of ships and countless cannons. As for how many people Tang had, no one knew because the people sent to investigate did not dare to get close. They only knew that there seemed to be tens of thousands of people. After receiving the news, Sun Chengzong decided to capture the deputy general Tang. Such a large force is much stronger than that in the Mao Wenlong period. With Sun Chengzong's vision, he naturally understood how great the impact of such a force would be on the Jiannu.
In order to keep Tang Qie around, Sun Chengzong, who was very loyal to Daqi, used all the other property given to him by Tang Qie to help Tang Qie get promoted to the general. When the court finally appointed Tang Qie as the general of Dongjiang, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and hurriedly sent someone to accompany the eunuch who came to announce the decree to Pidao. However, at this time, Tang Qie had already left Pidao and returned to Jinling.
Tang Chen left Zhang Yiheng, Zhao Yapeng and others to guard Pi Island, and asked them to be on the lookout for support for Kokura Castle in Japan at any time. He himself led Yagyu Saburo and one hundred other ninjas and one hundred personal guards, and Xu Yu was also with him.
After Tang Qi returned to Jinling, the first thing he did was to ask Yagyu Saburo to take those ninjas to help Xu Yuxu avenge his wife and help Xu Yuxu bring his wife back. With Tang Qi's current official position, he still couldn't provoke a person with a title head-on, so he could only use this assassination method. No matter what, Xu Yuxu was already his confidant, and if Xu Yuxu's revenge was delayed any further, Tang Qi, as the boss, would feel a little embarrassed.
After Tang Qi visited Ning Tai, the eunuch guarding Jinling, in addition to giving Ning Tai a sum of money and property, he also handed over the 300,000 silver coins that Chongzhen had fined him. Ning Tai, who had received the benefit, naturally praised Tang Qi highly and wrote a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen to praise Tang Qi's contribution in clearing out pirates at sea.
Afterwards, Tang Qi rented a restaurant as a venue for the meeting and sent people to send invitations to wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, inviting them to participate in an auction. The items to be auctioned at this auction were the mining rights of Japan and North Korea.
The richest people in this era were the wealthy merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The wealthy merchants in other places were weaker in financial strength. Although the Shanxi merchants were also very powerful in this era, they accumulated a lot of wealth by doing business with the Jiannu and the Mongols. However, Tang Qi was very disgusted with these Shanxi merchants who assisted the enemy, so he never thought of giving benefits to these people. It is true that merchants pursue profits, but Tang Qi hated merchants who pursued profits to the point of becoming traitors.
There are many people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who are worth over one million taels of silver. Tang Qi's current wealth has already exceeded one million taels. If it weren't for his excessive spending, Tang Qi's wealth would be more than that. However, most of Tang Qi's silver was robbed. Considering Tang Qi's current factory industry, his wealth has not yet reached one million.
Despite this, Tang Qi's rapid development in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has made the wealthy businessmen in these places look at Tang Qi with admiration. In addition, Tang Qi is at least a deputy general, so these businessmen still have to give face to Tang Qi's invitation, especially those who do maritime business. Once they receive Tang Qi's invitation, they dare not neglect it. Others may not know how powerful and strong Tang Qi is, but these maritime merchants are very clear about it.
Although the tariffs imposed by Tang Lu were very high, Tang Lu would also provide strong security guarantees and support to those merchants who paid taxes according to the regulations. This was much better than the Zheng family's maritime monopoly.
This time, Tian Wan also went to Jiangnan to select beauties. After learning that Tang Qi was going to hold an auction in Jinling, he also ran there. During this period of time, Tian Wan also got a lot of benefits from Tang Qi, especially the several Japanese girls Tang Qi gave him, which made Tian Wan very satisfied. He only regretted that he did not go to Japan with Tang Qi at that time and missed the opportunity to plunder Japanese beauties.
The two hadn't seen each other for a long time. When Tian Wan, who had gained some weight, saw Tang Qi, his chubby face was full of smiles. He took Tang Qi's hand and was intimate with her. The enthusiasm made Tang Qi feel a little cold in his heart.
After the two of them exchanged some small talk, Tian Wan finally got to the point: "Brother Tang, you're too disloyal. You went out to make a fortune without even asking me, your brother, to come with you. This time, you're holding that auction, and there are some good things."
Tang Qi looked at Tian Wan blinking his bulgy eyes with a wretched look on his face, then calmly withdrew his hand and said, "Brother Tian, it's not that I'm not loyal to you. You know, the risks on the sea are very high. You are a man of noble status and can't afford to make any mistakes. Besides, those foreign lands are full of barbarians and there's not much money to be made. There are only a few beautiful women. I didn't come to Nanjing this time with anything good to auction. I just signed an agreement with Japan and Korea. The kings of these two places plan to develop their mineral resources together. If you are interested, I will give you the rights to mine coal in those two countries."
Japan has gold mines, silver mines, sulfur mines, etc. Tang Chen had heard of these. However, Tang Chen had not heard of how many coal mines there were in Japan. Tang Chen thought that there were probably not many. On the contrary, North Korea should have some, but it was not easy to mine in a place like North Korea. So Tang Chen simply gave them to Tian Wan as a favor (what Tang Chen did not know was that North Korea had huge coal reserves, but there was no coal for chain steel).
Tang Li did not know what specific minerals Japan and Korea had, nor did he know where these minerals were. Those who had obtained the mining rights had to explore everything themselves. At present, Tang Li only wanted to control Japan's gold, silver and sulfur mines, because there were already some mining areas for these three minerals in Japan, and the reserves were abundant. Naturally, Tang Li wanted to keep such fat meat in his hands. As for other mines with small reserves, Tang Li planned to auction them off in exchange for some silver.
Tian Wan was naturally delighted to see Tang Lu casually offer him the coal mines of the two countries. He had no idea that there wasn't much coal in a place like Japan, but he knew that such a large place would definitely need coal. He immediately agreed, "Well, I'll consider it a good friendship. I'll take over the coal mining business."
Tang Chen smiled slightly and looked at another person.
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