In Jinan, as soon as the warden of the government government came out of the yamen, he was going to go to a money village opened by the Fan family to withdraw the silver, and at the same time send information, because he also had an identity as Li Jiantai's fine work in Jinan Mansion.

Originally, Jiannu entered the customs this time to loot Jinan Mansion, and he had already planted a fine work in advance, but it was a pity that Lu Yuan and Lu Xiangsheng forced Jiannu to leave the customs in advance, so Jinan Mansion was spared.

But these fine works of Jiannu left in Jinan Mansion are still in the city.

"This is called soap, this is called magnifying glass, it is from the mighty army, I don't know if this news is worth silver, please weigh it."

As he was speaking, he felt his neck tighten: "You, what are you doing here?" ”

"So that you know that we are the people of the mighty army, not the new guys, and all the people in this money village have gone to see Lord Yama, so you should go with you!"

One said coldly.

Soon, the mark was strangled to death.

Coincidentally.

At this time, in the city of Linqing, the Lu family weaving workshop, three workshop workers were executed because they were bought by Jiannu.

Because Li Jiantai and other Jiannu were captured alive, the entire northern region was almost swept away, and even in the capital, several dens were quietly eliminated by the mighty army.

"You mean that Gao Qiqian also secretly had contact with Jiannu?"

Lu Yuan asked Zhang Jiajun.

Zhang Jiajun nodded, the last time Jiannu was able to know the specific location of the Lu Gongsuo Department and made the Tianxiong Army of the Lu Gongsuo almost want to be wiped out, it was this Gao Qiqian who instructed someone to sell the news to Jiannu.

"This Jiannu's intelligence work is really good, and his hand has reached out to the inner court."

Lu Yuan was still quite surprised, after all, he only knew that Gao Qiqian had surrendered to the Manchus in history, but he didn't expect that Gao Qiqian had actually come into contact with Jiannu at this time.

"Childe, do you want to send someone to get rid of this high diving potential?"

Zhang Jiajun asked.

"Put people around him first, don't move him for the time being, after all, this Gao Qiqian is a eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, and he is highly valued by the emperor, if he is directly removed, the impact is not small, and killing him is not as simple as killing one in the matter."

Lu Yuan said a word, and then said: "However, you can let Hu Mei'er know about this matter and let her tell Yang Sichang." ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Jiajun replied and retreated.

After Hu Mei'er knew about this, she immediately informed Yang Sichang of this matter.

And Zhang Jiajun also knew the person contacted by Hu Meier, and also told Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan only asked Zhang Jiajun to stare tightly, and secretly controlled these people who delivered news to Hu Meier.

But.

Lu Yuan also put his mind at ease, most of Jiannu's intelligence dens were terminated, and the imperial court can also be said to have the intelligence network of the civilian official group represented by Yang Sichang also controlled by himself, which is undoubtedly more conducive to his next development in the mighty army.

At this time, the mighty army had also seen a blowout development in business.

Industrial products such as soap, glass, and mirrors immediately made a steady stream of profits for the mighty army as soon as they were introduced.

At this time.

Jiangnan, Qian Qianyi's mansion.

Qian Qianyi was stroking a set of exquisite tea sets, a set of mirrors, and a box of soap, and said: "Liu Jun should like these things very much, and someone will spend another five hundred taels of silver to buy them, and they will all be sent to Liu Jun when the time comes!" At the same time, take more than 3,000 taels to buy some tun, these rare things, I'm afraid that they will not be available for a while! There will be a lot of profit in the future! ”

At this moment, Hou Fangyu also instructed his Hao slave after seeing the soap and mirror produced by the mighty army: "You can take a thousand taels of silver to buy!" I'm going to give it to Li Jun! Then go and get 5,000 taels of silver to buy and send it back to Henan! ”

Time.

The gentry and eunuchs in Jiangnan did not spend a huge amount of money to buy these products of the mighty army, and even hoarded them to sell them at a good price.

Lu Yuan also learned about this phenomenon from Xiao Chun at this time, and couldn't help laughing.

At that time, Tang Ying also said to Lu Yuan: "Lu Lang, my mother intends to let us not sell the remaining soap, soap, glass, mirrors and other things, so as to wait for their high prices. ”

Lu Yuan glanced at Tang Ying: "What do you think?" ”

"I rejected my mother, not to mention, only we know that the actual value of these items is not high, and say that their output, our mighty army has now built several factories in this area, and there are tens of thousands of people living directly on this, not to mention that all the soldiers and civilians of our mighty army live on this, once they are not sold, the backlog here is completely useless, and even the consequences are serious, these are not edible food after all, I have asked my mother not to take silver and hoard, but the other gentry estimate not to listen, and there will be a lot of losses in the future."

Tang Ying said.

"How can we control them, it's not that we force them to hoard Juqi, they hoard Juqi, which can ensure that our products continue to maintain a good price, but when there are so many soaps and soap mirrors on the market in the future, don't blame us for losing their money."

Lu Yuan said with a smile.

Tang Ying couldn't help but think about it, she didn't expect that making a soap glass would have such consequences, of course, she didn't expect that these people who have always read and learned etiquette would have such a great greed, and they would actually think of hoarding these goods.

"Now what we should be most worried about is not the hoarding of goods by these gentry, but the preemptive use of these gentry to sell soap and other goods directly overseas! Therefore, I plan to go to the south to meet with the Zheng family and discuss our cooperation in the future, and this time I have to bypass these gentry. ”

Lu Yuan said.

"Lu Lang, most of the strange goods in the inland come from the hands of the gentry, we cooperate directly with the Zheng family, will we offend them?"

Tang Ying asked.

"Who can control them now, is it possible that we will always have to rely on them to earn Haili in the future, I have asked Xiao Chunlai to send someone to contact the Zheng family first, and when I have the opportunity in the future, I will talk to the Zheng family in person, if it weren't for the fact that my mighty army has no navy now, I would even want to kick the Zheng family directly!" Now those Xiyi are crazy to loot gold and silver in the Americas, it is the time to get rich, and if you don't seize the opportunity to earn the silver from their hands, when will you wait! ”

Lu Yuan said.

Tang Ying is no stranger to what America is, after all, Lu Yuan has personally mentioned it to her many times.

After the commercial profits of the mighty army increased greatly, it naturally promoted the development of the entire industry and the army.

The converter steelmaking technology of Qingquan Iron and Steel Plant has already begun to be put into use, and there is already a workshop dedicated to converter steelmaking.

And the thunderbolt has also begun to be mass-produced, including muskets, and the production volume in a single day has increased significantly, after all, now that the mighty army has money, there are more and more people serving the entire mighty military industrial system, and it is even several times the number of the army.

The army is still maintained at about 5,000 people, the Pingshan battalion has more than 3,000 field soldiers, and the Wendeng battalion is still gratifying with 2,000 field soldiers belonging to the mighty army.

There are also some field soldiers in the area of Qingshui Town Fort.

In addition, the militia has expanded dramatically to tens of thousands, after all, basically anyone who becomes a powerful soldier and a civilian must receive militia military training.