Ning Yu immediately sent a servant, and invited the future to his study, only to see a middle-aged man wearing a green mountain slowly walking in, and the look on his face was not in a hurry, as if he simply came over to drink a cup of tea.

Let's not talk about anything else, just this bearing, Ning Yu has a little more good feeling in his heart, although there are so many people who climb the dragon and the phoenix in these years that there can't be more, but human nature is like this after all, and it's no wonder who is it, but if you can restrain a little bit and maintain a little bit of eating appearance, it is also extremely good, at least it can make people look high.

In Ning Yu's eyes, stupidity is a more intolerable existence than greed, and stupid greed is a heartfelt delay.

Cui Yu's expression was indifferent, but the number of etiquette was not missing at all, and after walking in, he knelt down directly and performed a big gift.

"Student Cui Yu has seen Hanyang Gong." The voice is refreshing and not greasy, and the demeanor is also very moderate.

Ning Yu smiled, he found that the person in front of him was indeed a very ingenious character, and it was obvious that this person was very particular, he put himself on the identity of a student, not a businessman, just to be able to maintain a little bit of style in front of Ning Yu.

In any case, this person sometimes has to maintain a good image, otherwise he will really become a businessman, and his identity will completely fall. The so-called Confucian merchants have become a joke.

"Well, please ask Mr. Cui to hurry up, our two families are now relatives, and they don't deserve Mr. Cui's big gift." Ning Yu also had a smile on his face, and reached out to help Cui Yu up.

After the two sat down, Ning Yu took the initiative to pour Cui Yu a cup of tea, the fragrance of the tea rose, but it made people feel a little relaxed, he smiled: "The teacher likes this kind of tea very much, I have prepared a lot of it myself, and I will ask Mr. to taste it today." ”

Cui Yu took a sip of the teacup, although the fragrance of the tea was indeed pleasant, but he thought of his cousin in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. For Cui Wancai, he really felt some complicated feelings in his heart.

Strictly speaking, the Cui family is not a famous family, let alone the so-called poetry and book heirloom, in the early years, it was also a family business that started from the camphor thread brain, fortunately, the old lady of the Cui family has far-reaching knowledge, he actively cultivates the seeds of reading in the clan, and hopes that in the future there will be a Cui family in the officialdom and carry forward the family.

Later, this person appeared, it was Ning Yu's mentor Cui Wancai, but Cui Wancai was too stubborn and couldn't stand the darkness of officialdom, and later abandoned the official and returned to his hometown to teach and educate people, but Cui Wancai was just happy, but it really made the head of the Cui family at that time seriously ill.

After all, for the Cui family, it is extremely rare to produce a character like Cui Wancai, which has exhausted the family's context in the past few decades, and it also depends on chance, but Cui Wancai's stubborn temperament has made the Cui family's efforts go down the drain.

Since then, there has been no more contact between the Cui family and Cui Wancai, until after the Fu Han army raised troops, the Cui family heard that Cui Wancai had rebelled, and they thought about expelling Cui Wancai from the family tree to protect themselves. But what I didn't expect was that before the Cui family expelled Cui Wancai from the portal, the Fu Han army fought too fiercely, and in less than a year, they took Huguang.

The latter thing is not difficult to understand, as the momentum of the Fu Han Army becomes more and more ferocious, Cui Wancai's weight is also rising day by day, but now the Cui family wants to look at Cui Wancai with an upward gaze. It's just that Cui Wancai at this time has no intention of contacting the clansmen anymore

Cui Yu's expression was a little complicated, but he wanted to know that some attitudes had to be made clear now, otherwise it would be impossible to continue talking.

"My father was really reckless back then, but he was a lot of accusations against his cousin, and he was too impatient...... Now that my father is old and no longer a director, the Cui family unanimously elected me to be in charge and start working. ”

Ning Yu naturally understood what Cui Yu meant, and now the Cui family knows that it is wrong, and then they have also changed people, hoping to turn this page completely, and as for the rest, they can continue to talk slowly. The sincerity is enough, but Ning Yu still wants to continue to see something.

"I remember that your Cui family is also a member of the Huguang Chamber of Commerce now, right?"

Cui Yu smiled bitterly, "It is said that he is a member of the Huguang Chamber of Commerce, but he can't compare to a few old-timers in any way, fortunately, he has the prince to enjoy the meal, and now he has become a second-level businessman in the Chamber of Commerce, and he is still a bit famous." ”

Ning Yu nodded, he still knows about the Huguang Chamber of Commerce, many of the things in it are made by him himself, although a second-level big businessman is nothing, but in the current Chamber of Commerce, he can be regarded as a leading figure, basically ranked behind Ning, Cheng, Zheng and several others.

"Since this is the case, then it can be regarded as a supportive value." Ning Yu had a smile on his face, although his attitude was still very modest at this time, but the words he said were a little condescending.

Cui Yu didn't have any dissatisfaction, he knelt on the ground again, and said in a low voice: "Although the Cui family has low strength, as long as Hanyang Gong needs something, the Cui family is willing to abandon his family and business, follow Hanyang Gong's side, and be a cow for a horse for the trend!" ”

Of course, all this is by no means caused by Ning Yu's personal charm, in fact, the Cui family's understanding of Ning Yu is only limited to the level of being able to fight, but this does not affect the Cui family's dedication to the service.

The willingness is very simple, the businessman who has traveled south and north to sell goods to make a profit in these years is at most a small businessman, and no matter how big he is, he can't do it. And the real big businessmen, like Lü Buwei, began to invest in the rise and fall of a country early.

For the Cui family, Ning Yu is such an excellent potential stock, and the future they want to invest in is the identity of their relatives in the future, which is a real profitable business, and the Cui family already has an excellent capital, that is, Cui Xi, if it is replaced by another family, there is no capital to talk about today.

Seeing that the Cui family was so good, Ning Yu was also a little happy in his heart, so he smiled and said: "I don't like those things of your Cui family." However, I attach great importance to the talents of your Cui family. To do things, you have to look at the long term. ”

Cui Yu was surprised and happy in his heart, lying on the ground, kowtowing three times, his voice was crisp and powerful.

"The Cui family is willing to listen to the drive of the Duke of Hanyang!"

Three days later, Ning Yu took the group on the boat and prepared to set off for Anqing. At the same time, there were dozens of large ships carrying the last batch of ordnance, grain and grass, following Ningyu all the way east, and after arriving in Anqing, these grains, grasses and ordnance will also be distributed to the various armies to make the final preparations for the upcoming war.

Before leaving, Ning Yu and Cui Yu also had a good conversation, and told Cui Yu all his thoughts about glass and sugar, and for the related process, Ning Yu also proposed some methods that he had seen from later generations, so that the other party could experiment first, as long as the process was clear first.

As for how to develop in the future, Ning Yu also thought very clearly, whether it is the glass or sugar process, the difficulty itself is not too big, but the problem is that it is necessary to sell these things produced through reasonable sales channels, which takes time, so let Cui Yu toss slowly.

Just after returning to Anqing, Ning Yu found Li Fu non-stop and told the other party in detail about his experience in Wuchang, and the focus was naturally to formulate new industrial and commercial regulations in Jiangnan in the future, so as to achieve the purpose of supporting industry and commerce.

Li Fu's face was a little solemn, he naturally understood how much resistance there would be to the implementation of the ordinance at this time, but he felt a little too impatient about Ning Yu's idea.

"Governor, although industrial and commercial support is necessary, is it too anxious at this time? After all, the industrial and commercial industry has not had a stable support point so far, and if the governor insists on doing so, I am afraid it will be thankless. ”

To put it bluntly, behind the current industrial and commercial industry, it is supported by those landlords and squires. The so-called support for industrial and commercial status, they themselves are unwilling to agree, if Ning Yu forcibly lifts them to the table, it will inevitably be a bit high-minded.

Ning Yu shook his head with a wry smile and sighed softly: "Mr. Li, do you know what is in the dozens of ships behind me as I go east?" ”

"I guess it's all muskets and artillery......" Li Fu nodded lightly.

Ning Yu waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Muskets and artillery, less than one-third." The remaining two-thirds are all our military rations, which will be supported until we take Jiangnan in the future, and in addition, they are just some miscellaneous items needed by the army. ”

"In addition to firearms, other military rations and miscellaneous items in the army are all materials raised for us by those merchants in Huguang, and they hope that we can quickly take Jiangnan, so that the silver they take out will not be wasted."

Ning Yu casually picked up a newly made Hanyang flintlock pistol, the light reflected on the black barrel looked a little beautiful, but everyone knew that what was fired from this barrel would kill people.

"If you want to make this Hanyang flintlock pistol, you need to go through dozens of processes, if a skilled shotgun craftsman makes it himself, it may take about two months to make one, but now in the Hanyang Gun Factory, a thousand skilled shotgun craftsmen, plus two thousand ordinary craftsmen, can make about 5,000 shotguns a month."

Li Fu was thoughtful, he somewhat understood what Ning Yu wanted to say.

Ning Yu sighed: "This is why I have always emphasized the power of industry and commerce, many things can be done by the current Fu Han Army, such as spending a year to establish the Hanyang Gun Factory and the Hanyang Iron Factory, but in many other aspects, it is not enough to rely on the current Fu Han Army." ”

Li Fu said softly: "I probably understand the idea of the Grand Governor....... It's just that at the moment, this first step is easy to say, but in the future, I'm afraid this mess will not be small. ”

Ning Yu said helplessly: "Let's talk about the future in the future, but if we don't do it now, some people just want to do it." Besides, after all, we rebelled all the way, this bit of turmoil is nothing, the lord in the north, is the real anxiety right now. ”

Thinking of Yongzheng's situation at this time, Ning Yu felt a little happy in his heart, this person is like this, if he says that he is miserable, it is fine, but if there is someone who is more miserable than himself, then his heart is much better, after all, this happiness is all contrasted.

However, unlike what Ning Yu thought, today's Yongzheng is not only anxious, but can almost be said to be suffering from the enemy. Let's not talk about the Fu Han Army and Ce Delirium and others outside, even the ministers in the Beijing Division are not very good for Yongzheng's senses, everyone originally hoped to have an emperor who cherishes his reputation like Lao Ba, so that everyone can continue to make money and continue to make money, and continue to play women who should play women.

But now it's different, Yongzheng is no better than other emperors, he also cherishes his reputation, but he cherishes the ancestral inheritance of the Qing Dynasty even more, in order to keep this inheritance, he is already thinking about tossing his officials in his heart.

In fact, Emperor Yongzheng, who had just ascended the throne, in order to show his image of being diligent and thrifty and loving the people, had specially issued a decree to stop the contribution of the province, and planned to continue to hold high the banner of Kangxi, and set the temple rituals of the emperors of the past dynasties, and issued an edict saying that the integration of ancient and modern books has not yet been completed, and it is advisable to quickly edit the book into a book.

But after these things were done, Yongzheng began to sharpen his knife, and he soon ordered that all the provincial warehouses should be short, and they should be made up within three years, otherwise they would be punished if they were overdue.

This move is completely different from Kangxi in his later years, Kangxi has a good reputation, and he will lose a point for a reputation, but Yongzheng does not have this capital loss, because his treasury is already less than five million taels of silver, and if he loses a little more, the Qing Kingdom will even lose his pants.

In this process, especially Yongzheng's clear understanding of the household department's deeds, he knew in his heart that the taxes and silver handed over to the household department would be stripped of a layer of skin in the process, and in the end, Yongzheng was infamy, but the treasury was still empty.

For this reason, Yongzheng personally sent Prince Yi Yunxiang and the official Shangshu Long Keduo, the two of whom were specifically responsible for checking the accounts.

It turns out that just a household department, the deficit of silver taels is as high as 2.5 million taels, and like those fat poor yamen, such as the internal affairs office, the river yamen, and the weaving yamen, the hidden deficit here is even more terrifying, a little poke is a big hole, waiting for Yongzheng to fill it.

Yongzheng's face was as black as ink, and he threw the song in front of the ministers, looking at these respectful ministers and roaring angrily.

"A bunch of wolf-hearted and dog-lung things, my Daqing, was emptied by these gang of dog things!"

"The deficit of the household department will be compensated by the successive officials of the household department, and if the family property is lost, let their children and grandchildren continue to pay for it, and make up for it year by year, not a penny less!"

"There are other yamen, you should take care of your own hearts and stomachs, and see what kind of thing you are!"

The ministers knelt on the ground and looked at their noses and noses, but no one stood up to speak, but one thing was clear to everyone, that is, this time in the Qing Dynasty, the real internal and external troubles were all together.