West of the city, Gufu.

Although the eunuch must live in the palace, the eunuch who is in a high position must have a private house outside.

Gu Dayong touched the silver dollar in the box and asked very bluntly, "How many?" ”

"Three thousand taels." Zhu Hai replied.

Gu Dayong said with a smile: "You have made a lot of money this trip." ”

"It's all up to the governor," Zhu Hai said, "Actually, the golden sands of Fushan don't want the next two or two." Except for those dedicated to His Majesty, all of them were distributed to the accompanying crew. ”

Gu Dayong obviously didn't believe it, and said with a smile: "You are quite loyal." ”

Zhu Hai explained: "Duke, in the next sentence, I will tell the truth, because I can't ask for those gold. I returned to Beijing from Nanyang and used the golden sand distributed to the crew to purchase spices and sell them in Hangzhou. Then purchase porcelain, silk and other items in Hangzhou and transport them to Liaodong for sale. With just these two transactions, I made a net profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver (fake, more). I gave the principal to the crew, and then gave them some of the profits, and I kept most of the silver I earned. And the Governor said, Do I still need to reach for the sands? ”

"Not too much gold and silver." Gu Dayong said.

Zhu Hai said: "The water flows for a long time, Your Majesty is happy, and you will not be worried about making any money in the future?" ”

Gu Dayong said with a smile: "You are incorruptible, our family does not use the wrong person." ”

Zhu Hai said: "It has just opened this year, and I can only serve the governor for 3,000 taels, and I will have 5,000 taels of silver every year in the future." I also hope that the Duke will say a few good words in front of His Majesty. ”

"It's all your own people, if you don't give money, our family will also say good things to you." Gu Dayong was very happy. Because he recommended Zhu Hai, not only was he more reused by the emperor, but he also had a few thousand taels of silver to get every year, which was the most exciting move he had made in recent years.

Zhu Hai flattered: "It is appropriate to be filial to the governor." ”

Gu Dayong said: "Wang Shilang's side, you also have to be more filial, and you can honor him in the future." ”

Zhu Hai said with a strange expression: "Wang Shilang doesn't want a penny, just let me work diligently." ”

Gu Dayong was stunned and said with emotion: "It is said that whoever is a clean official, I think Wang Shilang is the real clean official." Although our family is also greedy, we can admire honest people in our hearts, and there are fewer and fewer such people. ”

Zhu Hai also said: "Wang Shilang is upright, standing in front of him, I am ashamed of myself." ”

After chatting a few more words with Wang Yuan, Gu Dayong suddenly asked, "Is there really so much gold in the Far East?" ”

Zhu Hai said: "It's a lot, but you have to exchange human lives, and more than forty percent of the accompanying crew members are really dead." ”

Not only did more than forty percent of them die, but the crew members who came back alive refused to go to the Americas again because they had already received the gold. Therefore, Zhu Haicai didn't take any of his own money, and gave a lot of money to those crew members, which will be his hardcore team in the future. Even if he doesn't go to the Americas with him, at least he will mess with him in Nanyang, Zhu Hai wants to have a piece of his own territory in Nanyang, and he doesn't have to rely on Zhu Ying, Man Zheng, and Ning Botao.

The six boats in Zhu Hai's hands were all with the emperor's warrant and begged Jinyi Weihai to allocate it to him, and there would be no such good thing in the future.

Zhu Hai must use his current capital to make a profit while doing business and going to the Americas to complete the task. He wanted to build more ships, build more guns, occupy a few islands in Southeast Asia, and send people back to his hometown to visit his relatives. Although the whole family was killed, the brothers of the same clan should be able to find and succeed a nephew to become a son, and they can also pass on the incense to start the family business.

Perhaps, his son Zhu Hai can be the king of Nanyang!

Zhu Hai chose to be a self-castration at the beginning, and he was also a ruthless person. climbed all the way up again, and entered the eyes of Gu Dayong, who can be called smart and capable. Even, he looked down on Zhang Yong, Gu Dayong, Jiang Bin, and Qian Ning, and he was completely reckless about making money, and he didn't know what to do for his death.

Bidding farewell to Gu Dayong, Zhu Hai went to the School of Physics again. Wang Yuan was honest and didn't accept money, but Zhu Hai couldn't really not give it, so he decided to donate money to the School of Physics.

"Wang Zhangyuan, some thoughts, please accept it." Zhu Hai's posture was very low, and he bent down and smiled in front of Wang Xu.

Wang Xi had already been admitted to the Jinshi, but he resigned after a few days as an official, and while studying academics, he spread physics. He is now the head of the School of Physics, the editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Physics", and his rank among Wang Yuan's disciples is not high (according to the time of entry, the senior brothers are ranked more than 30), but his prestige is well-deserved first.

Wang Xi whispered those silver dollars and said with a smile: "This costs a few thousand taels, right?" ”

Zhu Hai said: "It's just three thousand taels, it's a small meaning, it's not a respect." Wang Zhangyuan led his disciples to study the art of water storage, and he was the benefactor of all the crew, and he really couldn't repay him. ”

Wealth can be channeled, Wang Xi looked at Zhu Hai at this time quite pleasing to the eye: "Lord Zhu is polite, Your Majesty and the teacher have a life, and I and other disciples should do our best." Since the lord donated 3,000 taels, I will take out 1,000 taels to set up a 'water storage experiment group', ordinary team members can get a monthly salary, and those who achieve results can also get bonuses, so it will definitely stimulate enthusiasm. As for the remaining two thousand taels, they went into the accounts of the Faculty of Physics. With such an arrangement, can the lord rest assured? ”

"Since it has been donated, it is all up to the Wang Zhangyuan to dispose of," Zhu Hai said with emotion, "The people of the physics school are really honest and selfless!" ”

Wang Xi smiled: "That's not it, there are a lot of private people, and I don't like a lot of money." It's just that if I really want to make money, why don't I become an official? Since you choose to resign, you have a higher pursuit, which is to spread the road of physics! Except for the physical avenue, the rest are all mundane affairs, which are gratifying, but they cannot be indulged in. ”

Zhu Hai flattered: "Mr. is really a great Confucian! ”

Wang Xi laughed: "I'm not a great Confucian, but among the brothers and sisters, there are many people who are better than me in terms of knowledge, and there are countless people who are higher in morality than me." ”

"Sir is too modest." Zhu Hai said with a smile.

To be honest, there is really nothing to study in water storage technology, at least with the current theory and technology, it is difficult to make major improvements.

Fresh water stored on ocean-going vessels normally grows green moss in three to four weeks. If it's been stored for more than two months, lean over and smell it, and congratulations, you'll smell the sewer.

On the last voyage, Zhu Hai himself had no experience at sea, and the crew had no experience in deep-sea ocean sailing, so they could only rely on Magellan's logbook to explore. But those logbooks are more about all kinds of strange experiences, as well as various situations of lack of water and food. Nautical details, on the contrary, are rarely revealed.

Boiling rotten water kills most microorganisms, but the smell is still the same as that of the sewer. In addition, drinking boiled rotten water for a long time will also have a certain chance of getting sick.

What's worse, ordinary crews, who do not have the habit of drinking boiling water!

Chinese have long known that drinking boiled water is healthy, and it is recorded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Health Essentials": "Whoever boils water and drinks it, all diseases have no chance to live." ”

However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the rapid increase in population and serious destruction of vegetation, the small people in the city basically drank raw water. It is purely to save firewood salary, because the cost of burning firewood every month is too large, and over time, I will lose the habit of drinking boiled water.

In addition, since the sea boats are made of wood, it seems that it is troublesome to make fires at regular intervals and fire at fixed points to prevent fires.

Zhu Hai had an illness when he went, mostly because he was not adapted. When he came back, he was not sick, because he drank boiling water all the time, and he often drank tea, using the smell of tea to cover up the smell of sewers, so that he would not even get scurvy.

Zhu Hai went to the School of Physics for a walk, but there is no water storage technology for the time being, but there are many water purification technologies.

The students advised him to prepare charcoal to filter out impurities. Then prepare realgar and alum, these things can kill bacteria, although the students do not know what bacteria are, but the ancestors said that these two things can purify water.

Then, it was suggested that Zhu Haiduo prepare firewood and that all crew members must drink boiled water.

Immediately, Zhu Hai went to visit Wang Yuan again, and Wang Yuan said: "Prepare more tea, make tea for the crew to drink, don't think about saving money." ”

Zhu Hai said: "Then you have to change to a big ship!" ”

Why is there a shortage of water and food in Europe's ocean voyages? It is because the captain is too picky, because they generally have a small hull, and they have to carry as much cargo as possible, so the food and drink are prepared very tightly, and in case of accidents, there will be a shortage of food. I was reluctant to load more firewood, boil water for the crew, and even drink tea for the crew.

As long as Zhu Hai changed all the big ships, prepared enough firewood and fresh water, filtered the magazines with charcoal, sterilized them with alum and realgar, boiled them before drinking, and even made tea every day, then the disease and mortality could be minimized.

Zhu Hai immediately entered the palace to see the emperor and explained everything clearly.

Zhu Houzhao was also very refreshing, and directly allocated 100,000 taels of silver to Zhu Hai to buy or build a big ship. This cargo immediately went south to prepare, and for the time being, he planned to leave for the Americas next spring.

As for the Inca envoy Vaku, he stayed in Beijing to learn Chinese, and he was already able to communicate with each other on a daily basis. And he was very interested in the mathematics and astronomy of the Ming Dynasty, and even went to the physics institute to ask for these related knowledge every day - the Inca Empire had a very high level of astronomy and its own mathematical symbols.

And our Mr. Zhu Houzhao, after the leopard house and Tiger City, built an alpaca house for grass mud horses.

Well, Princess Zhu Xuanzhen likes alpacas very much, and comes to feed alpacas in person every day.