Eighteen Zhi was established.

"Big brother, since everyone has drunk blood wine and formed an alliance, there will be no fight for the time being. I'm going to take my boat with me on some personal errands. A short-headed pirate shouted at Zheng Zhilong.

"No, Xiaolinzi, you can't go yet." Zheng Zhilong rejected him directly.

Hearing Zheng Zhilong's simple refusal, Xiaolin Zilin Tuyuan's face became very ugly.

Looking at Xiao Linzi's ugly face, Zheng Zhilong sighed first before explaining: "No fight?

How could it be that there was no fight.

Xiaolinzi, did you meet Xu Xinsu this time? ”

Seeing Xiao Linzi shaking his head, Zheng Zhilong sighed again before continuing: "Xu Xinsu has already decided to take refuge in the imperial court.

In the next step, if we want to get the goods from Daming'an safely, we must fight a real war.

If we don't defeat the Fujian Sailor and Xu Xinsu, I'm afraid our eighteen Zhi will be over. ”

Zheng Zhilong is not lying.

Xu Xinsu's deputies have already put forward specific conditions to them.

Supply them, yes.

But Xu Xinsu wants cash in stock, and Xu Xinsu's asking price is directly unbearable.

For example, the most sought-after raw silk now, Xu Xinsu actually offered a sky-high price of 120 taels and one stone.

You must know that the purchase price of the Dutch is only 130 taels and one stone.

Xu Xinsu's offer, how could they accept it.

After talking a few times, Xu Xinsu only made a few symbolic concessions.

Xu Xinsu only promised to give another 2,000 taels of silver to Eighteen Zhi a year.

What is this bit of silver?

Count as protection money?

2000 taels of silver, just kidding!

If you Xu Xinsu were an ordinary businessman, 2,000 taels of silver would be a lot.

But you, Xu Xinsu, are not ordinary businessmen.

You Xu Xinsu pinched our supply and sold us at a high price;

On the other hand, he pretended to be an ordinary businessman and paid a protection fee of 2,000 taels of silver a year;

You Xu Xinsu treat Eighteen Zhi and me Zheng Zhilong as fools, right?

It's so insincere!

Xu Xinsu's insincere negotiations must have broken down completely.

In view of the fact that Xu Xinsu has already surrendered to the imperial court, the newly established Eighteen Zhi wants to organize a supply of goods from the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Xinsu is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed anyway.

The newly established Eighteen Zhi, will there be no war?

It seems impossible.

It's just, a war with the Ming court?

Is this battle still small?

If you don't kill Xu Xinsu, I'm afraid that this battle won't be over.

To be honest, Zheng Zhilong really has no bottom in his heart about the battle that is about to start.

Fortunately, Xu Xinsu was dizzy.

Xu Xinsu, who was too arrogant, offended the entire Eighteen Zhi with the conditions he offered.

Otherwise, Zheng Zhilong really has no chance of winning.

However, even if Eighteen Zhi was on his side, Zheng Zhilong didn't know how long it would take to really defeat Xu Xinsu.

After all, the opponent is the Ming court!

After listening to Zheng Zhilong's explanation, Xiao Linzi's face was not only not afraid, but showed an excited expression.

"Do you want to fight the imperial court? That's great. Brother Zheng, since I can also seek revenge from the imperial court here, then I won't leave. ”

Looking at Xiao Linzi's distorted face with excitement, Zheng Zhilong suddenly wondered if it was the right decision for him to keep this person.

Capital

After entering the wax moon, as the New Year is approaching, the flavor of the New Year in the capital is getting stronger and stronger.

New Year's Pass, New Year's Pass, for many people, it is like passing the New Year.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen did not have the slightest feeling of passing the New Year.

The fifth year of the Apocalypse is a relatively comfortable year for Zhu Youzhen.

In this year, Zhu Youzhen's industry has been greatly expanded.

Immediately after the public money bank, Zhu Youzhen's brother store also completely started to expand.

For the expansion of the brothers' warehouse, Zhu Youzhen adopted a steady and steady strategy. He didn't dare to spread the warehouse quickly in the whole Daming like Qian Zhuang.

After all, the two face completely different groups.

The warehouse is not like a money bank, there are no formed competitors at all.

Daming's freight industry is quite mature.

In any city of Daming, the expansion of the brother warehouse needs to face real and all-encompassing competition.

Under Zhu Youzhen's steady expansion strategy, the brothers warehouse has only completed the expansion from the capital to the Xifengkou line so far.

And the other route to Liaodong, even with the help of the power of Jin merchants, the brother warehouse has just started.

Although he only completed the route of Xifengkou, Zhu Youzhen firmly grasped the route of Xifengkou in his hands through the brother warehouse.

The route of Xifengkou will never allow the slightest problem for Zhu Youzhen.

Because this parallel trade route of passengers and goods is too important to Zhu Youzhen.

Xifengkou Trade Road, which can effectively link the grassland with the capital.

With it, the wool raw materials of the grassland can be continuously transported to the capital Daxing, which strongly supports the development of the emerging wool industry.

By the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, after more than a year of development, Zhu Youjian's woolen mill in Daxing has become the largest textile workshop in Daming with nearly 1,000 employees, hundreds of spinning wheels and looms.

Although the scale of woolen mills is expanding so fast, the market is in short supply, but it is still forcing woolen mills to speed up the pace of expansion at a faster speed.

The problem of raw materials for woolen mills has been preliminarily solved, and Zhu Youjian has already made a plan for the woolen mill to expand its production scale.

The source of workers in woolen mills has been resolved.

On the water conservancy site in Huangzhuang, the refugees from Liaodong, whose concept has been initially improved, are already fully qualified for all positions in the woolen mill.

The development of new spinning wheels and looms has been continuously researched since the day the woolen mill was established.

Now, the research has preliminary results, and it is in need of production practice to test.

In the memory of his previous life, although he had no impression of textiles, Zhu Youzhen vaguely remembered that the spindles of the new textile machine seemed to be erected.

With Zhu Youjian's prompt, the woolen mill has developed a spinning machine that drives 5 spindles to run at a time.

This is a spinning machine with spindles placed vertically, and theoretically the number of spindles can be increased infinitely as long as there is enough power.

This also means that as long as it has been verified by the woolen mill;

As long as there is enough power source, the new spinning machine can be improved into a large machine with 10, or even 30 or 50 spindles at any time.

The problem of spinning has been completely solved.

The problem of yarn is solved, and the problem of weaving becomes the main problem.

It's a pity that Zhu Youzhen has no impression about the loom.

He searched his mind, and only found a vague memory of the noun "flying shuttle".

As for how to make the shuttle fly, he didn't know at all.

Because of this, although Zhu Youzhen's reward has reached 1,000 taels of silver, the woolen mill has not made a breakthrough in looms so far.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen is very open.

Technology, how can it be achieved overnight.

Zhu Youzhen believes that as long as his reward is effective, the breakthrough of the loom will definitely be a matter of time.

As for the use of new textile machines, will there be a surplus of yarn?

Zhu Youzhen is even less worried.

The main body of the woolen mill is actually a variety of woven products, such as sweaters, woolen pants, scarves, gloves, etc., which will consume a large amount of wool.

In fact, the supply of woolen yarn in woolen mills has always been in short supply.

Even if a new spinning machine is used, it is difficult to have a surplus of yarn.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, in fact, what made Zhu Youzhen happiest was not the junior team that initially owned the base and completed the quenching;

It is not that Dazhong Qian Zhuang has initially fulfilled Zhu Youzhen's dream and opened branches in all big cities in Daming;

It's not that he got married and married three daughters-in-law;

Instead, the nearly 500 Daming Huangzhuang controlled by Zhu Youzhen have truly completed the promotion and planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

This is what Zhu Youzhen is most excited about.