Sun Tianhao and his entourage returned to the Qiongzhou office, and it was close to noon. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As soon as info entered the door, Wei Yang, Lu Xing and others greeted them.

"Heh, you're all here, and there's a welcome ceremony?" Sun Tianhao smiled and said, "How do you know that we are coming back today?" ”

"Wait for you for 5 days, if you don't come back, we will go to Macau to arrest you."

A familiar voice sounded behind Lu Xing and the others. Sun Tianhao was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up, a man wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty's six-rank military general was walking over with a smile.

"You, you are? Jiang Beiming? Sun Tianhao and Zhang Hai pointed at Jiang Beiming at the same time and asked, "Why are you here?" Why did you still become an official of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"It's not just Jiang Beiming, look at who we are." With another familiar voice, several people poured out of the room at the same time.

"Xu Lang? Sun Dalei? Yiyi? Why are you all here? Sun Tianhao's heart suddenly sank, "Something happened to Yulin Bay?" ”

"Nothing happened, nothing happened, everything was fine, everything was fine. Not only them, but also me. Come on, give a hug first. With the words, another person came out from behind the crowd and hugged Sun Tianhao and Zhang Hai.

"Summer Sun?" Sun Tianhao felt that his brain was a little dizzy, "Is there anyone else?" Come out together, don't scare me again. ”

"It's gone. It's really gone, just a few of us. Cheng Yiyi smiled, "Let's come to visit Director Sun, Director Sun has worked hard." ”

"Who sent you there?" Sun Tianhao continued to ask, "What about the ship that sent you?" ”

"We waited for 5 days and didn't wait for you, so the boat went back first." Sun Dalei replied, "Come and pick us up in half a month, don't worry, Yulin Bay is really fine." ”

"Nothing happened? That's good, that's good. Sun Tianhao stretched out his hands and walked towards Cheng Yiyi, "Come, Yiyi, long time no see, hug one." ”

"you." Cheng Yiyi scolded with a smile, "Go aside, you want to take advantage of me." ”

The reception banquet was dispersed, and Lu Xing and the others went home. All the traversers from the Qiongzhou office came to the sugar factory Sun Tianhao's office to drink tea.

"There's no one else, let's talk about it, what's going on." Sun Tianhao poured tea for everyone, "Even the chairman is here, this matter must be trivial." ”

"Nothing else." Sun Dalei replied, "We just came to see the situation in Qiongzhou, it is almost the end of the year, Yulin Bay is short of money, and we want to see how much money can be provided here." ”

"I know if you don't use the lack of money, but how much is missing, and how much does Qiongzhou need to bear?" Sun Tianhao asked as he poured himself a cup of tea.

"It's about 150,000 taels."

"Much, how much?" Sun Tianhao's hand stopped suddenly, and the tea slowly overflowed the mouth of the cup.

"Tianhao, water, water is full." Xu Lang shouted from the side.

"Damn, burn me." As soon as Sun Tianhao's hand took the cup, the teacup fell to the ground, "150,000? I knew that the director of this office was not a human job. I said leaders, you are going to be Huang Shiren, we agreed that it would be 20,000 taels by the end of the year. Where do you want me to go and get you the 150,000? ”

"Don't worry, don't worry." Sun Dalei explained embarrassedly, "The 150,000 yuan is not all of your burden, but it is indeed very difficult for Yulin Bay at present, we have held several meetings and thought about all the ways we can think of, but there is really no way, so I came to Qiongzhou." ”

"I'm sorry, Chairman Sun, I'll interject." Zhang Hai said on the side, "Why do you want so much money, even if Yulin Bay is short of money, it can't be so much as 150,000." ”

"Expand the army." Jiang Beiming replied, "This is also the purpose of my visit this time. I am here as a representative of the Military Commission. ”

"Expansion?" Sun Tianhao asked, "It's not been half a year since the last army expansion, why do you want to expand the army again, and how much are you going to expand this time?" I said that your military committee knows that you are short of money and still want to expand the army, what do you want to do? ”

"Let me explain." Jiang Beiming said, "Last month's crossing conference set a tone and two things. First, when Chongzhen was 7 years old, he wanted to make contact with Manchuria, and it is difficult to say how to contact him. The second is to prepare to establish a base in Vietnam next year, we are still in short supply of steel, there is a serious shortage of coal and coke in steelmaking, and these reserves in Vietnam are very rich. So the two committees came up with a plan to prepare for the formation of another mixed battalion of the army, navy and marines, about five or six hundred people, by the end of this year, to go to Vietnam next year. It is now the third year of Chongzhen, and there are less than four years to go until the seventh year of Chongzhen, and within four years, the total number of troops will be expanded to the scale of five or six thousand, so that they can have the ability to make contact with Manchuria. Therefore, the expansion of the army in the next few years will be a top priority. ”

"Five or six thousand?" Sun Tianhao interrupted Jiang Beiming's words, "Even if there is no shortage of money, are there so many people in Yulin Bay?" Even if there were so many people, could the Ming Dynasty government agree that we should keep so many people armed? I said, do you have any brains in your committee, have you thought about these questions? The last time we expanded the army, Chen Mincheng couldn't sit still. ”

"That's why I want to go to Vietnam." Sun Dalei took over the conversation, "If we can gain a firm foothold in Vietnam, we can use the Vietnamese to form a Vietnamese indigenous army, and we can station the main force of the army in Vietnam, so that on the one hand, we can control Vietnam, and on the other hand, we can also reassure the Ming Dynasty government." But all of this requires money. ”

"Alas, a penny is hard to beat a hero." Sun Tianhao sighed, "Since this decision was made by the committee and the Crossing Conference, then I won't say anything, I will do my best to support it." But now, although the sugar factory has begun to produce sugar, and the line in Macau has also been taken, everything has just begun, and at the end of the year, I can complete the task of 20,000 taels and burn high incense, 150,000, don't even think about it. ”

"Tianhao, can you think of something else." Xu Lang said, "You have a good brain, don't always think of ways in the sugar factory." ”

"Something else?" Sun Tianhao glared at Xu Lang, "What can be done?" Do you want me to rob it? ”

"Rob?" Sun Tianhao suddenly paused when he said the word "rob", "By the way, aren't there still 2 gunboats to be launched, have they been launched?" What about artillery equipment? ”

"It's already in the water." Jiang Beiming replied, "Training." Now the formation of 3 gunboats has been completed, but there are fewer cannons, each gunboat is only equipped with 6, and if you want to reach the standard configuration of 10 cannons, I am afraid you will have to wait for another half a month. When we came to Qiongzhou this time, we didn't take the God, but the newly launched Yazhou, another one called Wanzhou, which was named after these place names. Why do you ask this? ”

"Zhang Hai." Sun Tianhao did not answer Jiang Beiming's question, but asked Zhang Hai, "Do you remember what the Governor of Macao said?" ”

"The Governor of Macau?" Zhang Hai replied suspiciously, "He said a lot, what are you asking?" ”

"It's the Portuguese gold ship, what is it called, the Queen?"

"The gold ship?" Hearing Sun Tianhao say this, the eyes of Jiang Beiming, Sun Dalei and others all widened at once.

Zhang Hai wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh: "The interpreter said that Silvera had said about the gold ship, but he also mentioned it." He said that this year there will be a gold ship that will depart from South America, go all the way to Manila, and then end the year to Macau. But it is not clear exactly when and how much gold and silver were on board. ”

"It doesn't matter, inform Ho Wenhuan immediately, let him rush back to Macao with Ho Wendong immediately, be sure to inquire clearly, especially the time, route, amount of gold and silver, and the armament of the Queen. This is also his first mission. After Sun Tianhao finished speaking, he said to Sun Dalei and the others a little excitedly, "Everyone, my ability is so much, if this news is accurate, I estimate that the money on the Empress will not be less than 200,000 taels of silver, and the rest depends on your navy." ”

"Okay, Tianhao." Xu Lang gave Sun Tianhao a thumbs up, "I'm not in Qiongzhou these days, and you guys have really done intelligence work." Admire, admire. ”

"Okay, Tianhao. Well done. Sun Dalei also gave a thumbs up, "If this thing can be done, I will go back and ask you for credit." ”

"But, leaders." Zhang Hai said on the side, "We have just set up an online with Macau, and we will do business in the future." Go and grab their boat now, what if you turn your face, and what will happen in the future? ”

"It doesn't matter." Jiang Beiming said, "The sea is vast, as long as it is clean, no one knows who did it." At this time, there must not be a few ships in a storm in any year. How do you do business and how do you do business, I think the Navy will take care of these things. ”

"That's right." Sun Tianhao changed the topic, "Beiming, I haven't asked yet, how did you become an official of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Nothing, paid for it." Jiang Beiming replied, "We have come out more and more times now, and with such a public identity, it is easier to deal with things." Just such a broken official of 100 households, it cost nearly 1,000 taels of silver, and Zhou Chongde knocked on it. ”

After dinner, Sun Dalei and Cheng Yiyi and others stayed in the sugar factory accompanied by Wei Yang and others. There were too many people who came, and the office couldn't be opened, so these people lived in the sugar factory with Zhao Zhiruo and a few Yahuan, and only Sun Tianhao, Zhang Hai, Xu Lang and Jiang Beiming were left in the office.

"I said Brother Xu, Beiming." Late at night, several people were sitting in a room, and Sun Tianhao asked, "What happened in Yulin Bay?" Tell me the truth. If it is simply because of the lack of money for the expansion of the army, Sun Dalei and Jiang Beiming can come alone, why did you Brother Xu and Cheng Yiyi come with you, and you are no longer teaching in school? ”

"Nothing really happened. However," Jiang Beiming said, "forget it, let Xu Lang talk to you." ”

"Brother Xu, what's wrong?" Zhang Hai also asked anxiously.

"But it's about to happen." Xu Lang lit another cigarette, "When the second term was changed, I said when the Military Commission added people that this was causing trouble. Now that the contradictions between Han Wantao and Lin Zhaolong, Zeng Guangxian and Wang Zhaoxing are getting bigger and bigger, it is difficult for the Central Military Commission to unify its opinions. As a matter of fact, the decision to expand the military and go to Vietnam this time was, from a certain point of view, a last resort. Moreover, after Wu Zhenhan took over the patrol room, he couldn't suppress the detectives and patrols of Ye Yan and Li Xiao at all, and Wu Zhenhan had a lot of opinions on Liu Guannan. I discussed it with Beiming and Shi Xianyang, and I went to talk to Lu Lao, and we thought that the best way now is to separate these people first, and ease the contradiction first. So next year, it may be Beiming who will lead the team to Vietnam, Lin Zhaolong and Liu Guannan may also go, and the navy will be Wang Zhaoxing with the God into the mixed battalion. And the two of you must also be ready to go back, once Lin Zhaolong goes to Vietnam, Zhang Hai you may have to go back to Yulin Bay to take over the Marine Platoon. ”

"How did this happen?" Zhang Hai frowned and asked, "Sun Dalei doesn't care as the chairman of the committee?" ”

"He's trying to reconcile, too." Xu Lang smiled bitterly, "This is really a professional counterpart, office director, and mud." ”

"Zhang Hai went back to take over the Marine Platoon, so what should I do when I go back? What should I do here in Qiongzhou? Also, how do you and Cheng Yiyi arrange, or stay in school? Sun Tianhao threw out several questions at once.

"Xu Lang and Yiyi will not stay in school after a year." Jiang Beiming explained, "This is also the decision of the crossing conference. Although we went to Vietnam this time with the intention of easing the conflict, we set up a point in Vietnam to plan for the future. After discussing at the conference, I felt that it was more appropriate for Xu Lang and Yiyi to go, after all, the abilities of the two of them were there, and Yiyi could be a representative of the committee, and he also had a certain decision-making power in Vietnam. Tianhao, if you go back, you are not going back to Yulin Bay, but also going to Vietnam, after all, you still have to do business to get what we want when you go to Vietnam. As for Qiongzhou, I haven't thought of a suitable candidate to take over, so let's talk about it slowly. ”

"And." Xu Lang continued, "When we go back to Yulin Bay in a few days, we will bring Zhao Zhiruo and Lin Chao back. After Yiyi and I left the school, they would go to the school to take over our work, and the school was short of people. ”

"They also go to Yulin Bay?" Sun Tianhao was a little anxious, "Are they willing to do it themselves?" ”

"I asked, and they will."

Sun Tianhao opened his mouth, and before he could say anything, he heard a sudden "poof" at the gate of the outer courtyard, and then Haifu's voice sounded: "Who?" There are thieves! ”