Hearing this, Liu Yuqi, who was standing on the side, smiled and said: "Our Nanyang Wangfu is taken care of by the blessed king, and there are a lot of silver savings, but Vice General Zheng still gives a purpose and a number, and it is good for my prince to think about it." ”

Zheng Longfang thought about it, as if he had gritted his teeth and made some decision, he drank the tartary buckwheat tea that the maid had just brought up, then broke off three fingers and said:

"Thirty thousand taels of silver!"

Zhu Youhua was taken aback, but his face still did not move.

This Liu Zeqing is a regular general soldier in Shandong, and after doing it for so many years, even if he is not as brave as He Renlong, he still has some family business.

These 30,000 taels of silver could not be used for the purpose of paying soldiers and purchasing ordnance, but when the goods came to themselves, they must have been used urgently, but what did they do?

"This is not a small amount, if you don't tell me why, on the side of the Changshi Division, this king is not easy to decide."

Zhu Youhua's words, this is actually in Zheng Longfang's expectations.

Originally, Liu Zeqing just wanted him to try it, so he didn't plan to borrow it directly, 30,000 taels of silver, and he could do a lot of things if he took out the silver.

As for Zhu Youhua's words, it is just a rhetoric, who doesn't know that Fei Dengzheng's Nanyang Palace's Nanyang Governor's Shi Si has long lost the effectiveness of supervision.

However, at the moment, the other party did not obviously refuse, which made Zheng Longfang feel that everything was still possible, and after hesitating for a while, he said:

"My family, Liu Dashuai, also heard about the establishment of a private army by the prince." Speaking of this, Zheng Longfang found that Liu Yuqi's eyes were wrong, and quickly explained:

"Don't misunderstand, my family's handsome Xiang has nothing to do with the court, and he doesn't want to take care of such idle things, and please don't care what we do with the silver."

Speaking of which, the meaning of the words is already very clear.

This Liu Zeqing didn't want to let himself know what he was doing with all this silver, isn't this a white wolf with empty gloves?

Zhu Youhua sneered, turned around and said: "Since it is the idea of a white wolf with empty gloves, then Wang Feng advises Vice General Zheng to return to Shandong as soon as possible, so as not to cause any suspicion between the two families, and it will not end well!" ”

Looking at the palace guards on both sides, Zheng Longfang was shocked.

Although he has not sorted out any armaments in Shandong on weekdays, he is still the deputy chief soldier and has been on the battlefield a lot.

He didn't expect that it was the two ordinary guards beside him, although they were not burly, but looking at the ruthless expression, there were definitely a lot of lives on hand.

It is conceivable that the Nanyang battalion defeated the 40,000 army of thieves, which is not groundless.

Can Liu Zeqing's Shandong soldiers and horses repel these 40,000 thieves, Zheng Longfang knows the root of Liu Bu and knows that it is difficult to repel them, not to mention that the Nanyang battalion was almost completely defeated.

"The prince stays!" Seeing that Zhu Youhua was about to turn around and leave, Zheng Longfang's eyes rolled and he hurriedly said: "These six mansions in Shandong are full of treasures." ”

"Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion are all world-famous iron-producing places, and Jinan Mansion is also famous all over the world, not inferior to the rich places in the south of the Yangtze River."

"As for the second mansion of Nadenglai, it is the largest salt-producing place in the world! You must know that now nearly half of the inspection department is under the control of our Liu Dashuai. ”

This is a bit interesting, Zhu Youhua stopped, curled the corners of his mouth, and deliberately asked: "What do you say this, what does it have to do with this king?" ”

The other party came back to ask, it was originally interesting, Zheng Longfang put his mind at ease, and said with a smile: "The prince should know that the huge profits in this world are not just cloth, pigs and sheep, tea, horses, salt and iron." ”

"Of these four things, I Shandong accounts for two! The establishment of the camp, whether it is the expansion of the army or the drill training, requires a large amount of ordnance and food, which are bottomless pits. ”

"Having said that, didn't the prince open Yude Spring to make money for future expenses?"

The previous words made Zhu Youhua very useful, but Zheng Longfang added the last sentence smartly, but the utility of these words was greatly reduced.

Zhu Youhua's opening of the foot-washing city is completely a bad taste, and he simply wants to disgust the children of those rich families, and it will take time to make money in this regard.

In fact, Yudequan Foot Washing City has been losing money in various places for more than a year, because there are too many discounts for the people, which is basically equivalent to free.

The bath body is so cheap, the common people pass on ten, ten to hundred, the advantage is that Yudequan foot washing city has quickly become famous in the whole Henan.

The disadvantage is that there are too many poor people, and although the consumption of the rich is huge, it is not at all comparable to the free bathing of the poor class......

However, the foot-washing city did not lose much, this little money and food, the battle in the inner countryside will be all returned, and there is even a lot left.

Isn't it fragrant to let the rich people gnash their teeth at themselves but have nothing to do?

In fact, if you want to make money in the footwashing city, you only need to go to one place, that is, Jiangnan, the more prosperous the place, the more you can earn.

I heard that there is such a vassal and elegant place, don't those rich families and scholars have to squeeze their heads to come in?

Not to mention anything else, these scholars and local tyrants in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youhua dealt with them, and it was a hand-holding.

Seeing that Zhu Youhua didn't speak, Zheng Longfang was a little surprised, so he had to continue to throw out an olive branch and said: "In the Wanli year, the imperial court set up a mine supervision and weapons bureau in Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, which is considered an important place. ”

"However, when it came to the Chongzhen court, the officials were chaotic, and the emperor didn't pay much attention to them, and the eunuchs and officials in charge were abolished."

"There are no people in charge, and the landlords and gentry below have already extended their guards to the government-run iron mines to make money, and the private sale of weapons is just commonplace."

"My marshal knows that the prince needs money to become an army in the future, and we also think that it is best to win all the iron ore mining rights in Dongchang and Yanzhou, but this silver is not enough."

Having said that, Zheng Longfang has handed over all his hole cards, but he still hasn't said a word.

The world says that King Fu is rich in the world, and King Fu's Mansion is more magnificent than the palace, and this Zhu Youhua is also obvious to all, but why did Liu Zeqing come to find himself?

The reason is that they feel that King Fu will listen to Zhu Youhua's words, relatively speaking, Zhu Youhua, who established a private army, is obviously better than the rumored Zhu Changxun.

In general, Liu Zeqing wants to get a piece of the iron ore pie, although he has the name of the Shandong Zhengxuan General Army to manage, but he has no silver.

Although Zhu Youhua is not short of money and is very wealthy now, the private army in the city is spending more and more time every day, and people with a little brain will think about making money early.

In fact, he also understands what Liu Zeqing thinks, it is nothing more than watching the landlords and gentry divide the profits of mining iron on his territory, but he can't get a little bit, and his eyes are red.

In fact, this salt, iron, tea and horse trading was a means for many people to make a fortune in the late Ming Dynasty, and this Zhu Youhua knew it in later generations.

However, the tea and horse trade is mostly in Datong, Xuanzhen and other border areas, but salt and iron are concentrated in Shandong and other coastal areas, and Zhu Youhua is in Nanyang.

At this time, Liu Zeqing took the initiative to come to the door, and in Zhu Youhua's view, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to infiltrate Shandong.

Liu Zeqing doesn't think about how to operate in Shandong, he just wants to share the huge profits of the ore.

Then let him taste some sweetness first.