After Li Luoke left Datong Mansion, his mind cleared up.

He only found out at this time that when he was bargaining with Wang Zezhi, he had been led by the nose.

If the cannon he brought was sold to the Ming Dynasty officials, he would get at least 6,000 taels, and if he met some officials who didn't understand anything, it would not be a problem to sell it for 10,000 taels.

This is good, Wang Zezhi deceived his cannon in the name of buying craftsmen.

As soon as Li Luoke remembered that he had given the cannon to Wang Zezhi for nothing, he wanted to slap himself.

Although it is true that the cost of making a cannon will not exceed one thousand taels, it is still a huge loss for him to give it away for nothing.

How did he lose?

Just when Wang Zezhi said that a craftsman was 10,000 taels, his greed made him lost.

The craftsmen in his hands were all slaves bought from the Dutch, and these slaves were hard-working and cheap, less than ten taels of silver, and worthless at all.

Although they are trained to cast and operate cannons.

When it comes to a full count, a craftsman is worth a hundred taels at most.

A hundredfold profit.

This profit made his brain hot, and before he had time to think too much, he sent the cannon out.

Li Luoke's eyes were blank, and he blamed himself in frustration and went south.

Wang Zezhi handed over the cannon to the artillery battalion and let them get acquainted with it.

As for the two craftsmen, Wang Zezhi planned to call Ma Huai and Zhao Can from the foundry camp to learn the art of casting cannons from him.

Wang Zezhi was worried that the craftsmen of the Foundry Bureau would crowd out the two and would not study hard.

In other words, Wang Zezhi was worried that the craftsmen of the Foundry Bureau would give the two of them a bad horse, and they would not cooperate well with them to cast cannons.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi should tell them well, lest they spoil the big matter of casting cannons.

When the flying eagle sent the news to the guerrilla camp, it would take two or three days for them to rush to Datong Mansion again.

For a while, Wang Zezhi couldn't leave, so he canceled his plan to go to Naturalization City.

"Brother Niu, you have done me a great favor, let's go, I invite you to Kuixing Tower for a drink of two drinks."

Wang Zezhi wants to thank the Cowherd, if it weren't for the Cowherd, he wouldn't have been able to get such advanced artillery.

"Yo, this relationship is good, hey... I have long heard that the dishes of this Kui Xinglou are a must, especially the oily meat in Shanxi, hiss~" After the cowherd returned to Shanxi, he remembered this dish after hearing about it once.

He's been hungry for a long time.

"Report, Wang Shan is back with three leaders, along with 10,000 soldiers and horses and dozens of merchants, and the merchants are all here with caravans."

Wang Zezhi and the Cowherd had just left the General Military Department on their front feet, and they met the soldiers who reported the news at the door.

"I'll just say, early in the morning, there were several magpies in my house, and this good thing came one after another, and you see that the magpie is still there." Wang Zezhi pointed to an old locust tree not far from the door.

Several magpies stood on the locust tree and chirped and jumped around.

"That's a good sign." The Cowherd chimed in.

"Let's go, let's go to the south of the city."

In the south of the city, due to the large number of people brought back by Wang Shan, and the fact that they were not residents of Datong Mansion and did not have identity plates, this group of people was blocked.

Wang Shan was surrounded by some Jiangnan businessmen who were chatting with him cordially.

Along the way, they saw a vibrant Datong Mansion.

If they were still a little suspicious when they heard Wang Shan say that Datong Mansion was full of business opportunities, at this moment, looking at the popular and extraordinary Datong Mansion, their last trace of doubt has disappeared.

Originally, the resentment that they were charged tolls when they crossed the Datongfu checkpoint was also gone at this moment.

They stammered Wang Shan one by one, and they just wanted to hurry up and start business in Datong Mansion, or outside the Saiwai where Wang Shan's mouth was full of opportunities.

"What the shopkeeper said is true, I thought that this trip was going to be wasted, and now it seems that this trip is going to make a lot of money."

"That's, that's, if nothing else, I think we can also do these roads and stone transportation businesses."

"This is a mistake, I think we can do the car and horse business, you see, this road building, stone transport business has been done, judging from the current situation, their cars and horses are far from enough, you see, there are still people pulling the car, tsk~"

"That's what Shopkeeper Li said."

"I think, eating is a big problem, you see, along the way, there are so many people doing work, how many mouths do you have to eat.

Fortunately, I am in the grain business, and I have brought enough rice and glutinous rice this time, whether it is to sell grain or make them into food for our southland, I will definitely be able to earn a lot of silver back. ”

"It's still the foresight of the shopkeeper Sun, it seems that your Sun family can get rich just by selling grain."

"Hahaha..."

The merchants laughed, they were jealous that Shopkeeper Sun had brought so much rice and glutinous rice.

Shopkeeper Sun heard the man's jealousy, but he just smiled and didn't refute it.

"Hahaha... You're back. Wang Zeyi went out of the south gate and saw Wang Shan, who was surrounded by everyone, and laughed out loud.

Seeing this, Wang Shan walked out of the crowd and trotted in front of Wang Zezhi and bowed.

After crossing the Yellow River, 47 large and small branches were opened from Henan to Nanzhili.

The business scope includes grain, cotton, salt, cloth, coal, bamboo, tea, tung oil, lacquer, medicinal herbs, koji wine and other goods.

There is also an unexpected gain for my subordinates this time, and I will introduce you to one or two. ”

"Who is this?" The merchant who had been laughing at Sun's shopkeeper took a step forward and asked arrogantly.

"Presumptuous, this is Doctor Ronglu, a first-class official in the imperial court, how can you wait for the wilderness!" Luo Cong, the guard, pointed his spear at the merchant and shouted loudly.

When the merchant heard that Wang Zezhi was a member of the imperial court, he trembled with fright, and immediately bowed ninety degrees and trembled.

"The villain... The little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, you adults don't remember the villain, so you treat the villain as a fart, ah, hehe... Hehe..."The merchant was so frightened that he didn't dare to straighten up for a long time.

The reason why he is arrogant is because he despises Wang Zezhi's age.

Carefully calculated, the current Wang Zezhi is only seventeen years old.

Seventeen-year-old Dr. Rong Lu, a member of the imperial court, no one dared to believe it, that is, this situation would only occur when Chongzhen took the throne.

It wasn't to blame the merchant for looking away.

In fact, when Chongzhen ascended the throne, there was also a person whose promotion speed was faster than Wang Zezhi's, which was outrageous, but his promotion was not as high as Wang Zezhi's, after all, not everyone was as capable of making repeated military exploits like Wang Zezhi.

This person has risen to nine levels in a row in just one year.

This person's name is Liu Zhilun, the word Yuancheng, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, the first year of Chongzhen, Jinshi, changed to Jishi.

He was recommended by his friend Jin Sheng and had a chance to meet Emperor Chongzhen face to face, Liu Zhilun was very good at talking and expressing his opinions, so he attracted the attention of Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen, who has just ascended the throne, is still very willing to vigorously promote talents, and the same is true for Liu Zhilun, he took a fancy to Liu Zhilun, and did not hesitate to promote Liu Zhilun.