After sending off the second brother, Chongzhen didn't have a few months left in seven years, and Zhu Shun took advantage of the next period of time to continue to roll out the strategic plan.

Establishment of an arms company.

The Ming people wanted to set up an arms company, but there was no hope, and Chongzhen would not give the authority of such a national weapon to others.

The Bugarao Cannon Foundry in Xiangshanao gave Zhu Shun the idea of starting from elsewhere, and the foreign monks were good at chanting scriptures, and the Franco machine man could even establish a cannon factory in Daming, and there should be great hope for the establishment of an arms company.

Europa's aristocratic hierarchy was extremely strict, and retainers could give everything to the nobility.

The reason why Zhu Shun had to be named an earl with the help of the construction of the Dalinghe Fort was to become a nobleman in the eyes of the Europa people and pardon a retainer.

The earl of Europa can pardon the knights of the family privately, and Zhu Shun is already a hereditary industrial uncle, of course, he can.

It's just that this knight's retainer is not recognized by the Ming Dynasty, and it doesn't matter whether the Ming admits it or not, the important thing is that according to Europa's secular concept, this knight is the count's retainer.

This Europa retainer came forward and found Chongzhen to set up an arms company to manufacture more advanced firearms for the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Shun could manipulate it behind the scenes.

After many years, Zhu Shun sat on the blue silk Hunan embroidered sedan chair and went to Xishiku again.

When I came to that bustling street, the shops in Xishiku had not changed, but the gilded characters on the plaque had dimmed a lot.

Walking into Xishiku, the young cousin also turned into a young man, and when he saw the bright red unicorn dress and ribbon, he hurriedly saluted: "Young, I've seen my uncle." ”

Zhu Shun waved his hand and walked to the back hall with the man of the iron tower, the shopkeeper and the other hallkeepers only dared to stand honestly, and no one dared to come out to stop them.

Pushing open the wooden door and entering the backyard, Ruvio, a Francophone merchant, was teasing a child with a rattle.

Zhu Shun took a closer look, and it was actually a mixed-race child: "Brother Ruweio, you have a family in Daming." ”

Lu Weiao has been in Daming for many years, and he is very familiar with all kinds of customs and habits of Daming, and recognized the person who walked to the backyard as Zhu Shun, but he didn't dare to go up and hug him warmly.

The bright red unicorn suit, as well as the ribbon around his waist, showed Ruvio whether the person in front of him was a noble lord or a great noble count.

Ruvio saluted respectfully: "Yes, noble lord, Ruvio has already married here. ”

Ruvio knew that Da Ming contemptuously called Europa people Westerners, and didn't like Da Ming women to marry barbarians, so he quickly explained: "Noble lord, a few years ago, when I was transporting Western goods, I saved a homeless person who was about to starve to death on the side of the road. ”

"When I saw that she was dying of hunger, I revived her, and later let her work in Xishiku, and then we fell in love."

Zhu Shun's vision has always been on promoting the industrial revolution, and he doesn't have the time to gossip about other people's family affairs: "You're not going back to Europa?" ”

Ruvio smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid the noble lord doesn't know, now the whole of Europa is in a chaos, I used to be just a bankrupt farmer, and then I really have no way to live, so I went to become a sailor." ”

"Because I have a few friends in Helandong India Company, selling some Western strange goods, I have a place to settle in the capital of Daming, where will I give up the good life here and return to Europa."

"Europa's relatives have all died of war and hunger, and I am the only one left in the family, and there is no point in going back."

Hearing Ruvio's reminder, Zhu Shun thought that Europe was now in the period of the Thirty Years' War, a big melee that affected the whole of Europe, and it was no wonder that Jiannu only took a few years to reach the Yenisei River in Tsarist Russia.

It would be difficult to cross the Yenisei River and attack Europe, where the Thirty Years' War produced a large number of Europa generals.

Knowing that Ruvio would never return to Europa in his life, he saved Zhu Shun a lot of means, and asked directly: "Ruvio, are you willing to become the family knight of the industrial uncle." ”

Although the knight was only the lowest-ranking nobleman in Europa, he was also a nobleman, and he didn't know how much more noble than the serf.

Ruvio's mouth grown, he looked at the big nobleman in front of him in disbelief, and said helplessly: "Noble lord, can I really do it." ”

When Zhu Shun saw Ru Weio's expression, he knew that this matter had been done: "Tomorrow, I will go to Jingxi, the territory of Uncle Gong, to find Uncle Ben." ”

The nobles of the Ming Dynasty did not have a fief, Chongzhen built the city of Dalinghe Prefecture in order to reward Zhu Shun, and at the same time he was awarded the industrial uncle, he also rewarded some physical objects.

Zhu Shun didn't ask for those gold and silver treasures, anyway, Chongzhen was a poor ghost, and he couldn't reward much, so he asked for the wasteland in western Beijing.

Jingxi is a wasteland for the bureaucratic squires of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a treasure land for Zhu Shun, which seems to be a wasteland on the surface, but there are many treasures buried under the wasteland.

These treasures are not gold and silver jewelry, but they are much more valuable than gold and silver jewelry.

With a total of 2.1 billion tons of raw coal reserves, it is an important coal town.

There are also 450 million cubic meters of marble, more than 10 billion cubic meters of limestone, 20 million tons of quartz stone and many other mineral deposits.

With the prospecting technology of the Ming Dynasty's small peasant economy, it has not been discovered much for the time being, and these underground treasures are cheaper than Zhu Shun.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Jingxi is Zhu Shun's territory, but it does not have the right to tax and rule.

After explaining to Ruvio, Zhu Shun went back.

The next day.

Zhu Shun was inspecting the renovated cement factory, and Ruvio, who was dressed in a Europa suit, walked over with a solemn expression under the leadership of a sedan chair driver.

In order to make the ceremony as solemn as possible, Zhu Shun brought Ru Weio to the Baifu Hall and gave him an armor ceremony in the Baifu Hall.

The canonization of knights involves the establishment of an arms company, and Zhu Shun did not call a noble to observe the ceremony, as long as he had the iron tower man by his side.

Wait until a platoon of riflemen blockaded the White House.

Zhu Shun walked to the middle with a gilded sword in his hand, and Ruvio knelt on one knee and lowered his head.

The gilded sword gently patted Ruvio's shoulders three times, the back of his neck and both shoulders, and said, "In the name of my wife and children, I will henceforth observe the ....... of loyalty and honor."

Canonized knights generally swear in the name of the patron saints, but Ruvio, a rare atheist, swears in the name of his wife and children.

After Zhu Shun read the oath, he took a set of plate armor, cloak, and spurs from the hands of the tower man, and awarded it to Ruvio.

The plate armor is engraved with the family medal of the industrial Bo family, and Zhu Shun does not have any family medal, so he asked the craftsman to carve a small seal Zhu character of the Qin Dynasty.

The seal characters of the Qin Dynasty that Zhu Shun let people carve casually were much more noble in Lu Weio's eyes than some family medals he had ever seen, and they were full of a sense of sacredness.

Ruvio took the plates, cloak, and spurs, and began to recite the knight's manifesto reverently.

"I swear to be kind to the weak."

"I swear to be brave against rape."

"I swear to fight all mistakes."

.......

Ruvio, who was only a bankrupt serf in the past, could not have imagined that he would one day gain such great glory and become a noble knight.

Halfway through the reverent recitation, he couldn't help but shed tears, and vowed to abide by the spirit of chivalry and defend the family glory of the industrial Bo family with his life.

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