Zheng Zhilong was really in the small courtyard rented by Tang Ruowang, and when he saw Ji Qingwen and Li Yan coming, he hurriedly greeted him and greeted him for a while before sitting down.

Ji Qingwen saw that Zheng Zhilong's face was full of red light, and knew that he was in a good mood, so he asked knowingly: "Master Zheng, this trip to Japan has made a lot of money, right?" ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and flattered: "The five hundred royal colored brocades were sold out as soon as they arrived in Japan, which made me make a fortune. This is all thanks to the blessing of Lord Ji! No, I deliberately stayed in Japan for a few more days, and according to the intention of Lord Ji, I purchased 200 good knives, and spent a total of 3,000 taels of silver, even if I was filial to my lord. ”

Ji Qingwen said: "No, I have soldiers now, and I will recruit them again in the future." In the future, when you buy a knife or a gun, there will be times when you want to trouble you, but we will settle the account and pay the money according to the price. It's not easy for you to travel back and forth between Japan and the Central Plains, and it's okay to earn me some money. ”

Zheng Zhilong said "don't dare", and said: "How dare I make adult money?" Everything is given to adults at the cost of the purchase price......"

Ji Qingwen changed the topic and said: "It's almost November now, and I still have five hundred pieces of silk in my warehouse. Seeing that you did things properly last time, I will also sell them to you this time, I wonder if you have brought enough cash? ”

Another 500 horses of royal silk!

When Zheng Zhilong heard the news, his eyes suddenly glowed with silver, and his face suddenly showed a little embarrassment and said: "The villain came to Suzhou this time, and he brought a total of 300,000 taels of silver, which is just enough to eat five hundred pieces of silk. It's a pity that I don't have the money to honor the officials who dot the joints......"

Ji Qingwen was curious when he heard it, so he asked a few questions.

It turns out that this Zheng Zhilong is also a person who can do things, and the purpose of coming to the Central Plains this time is twofold: one is to send the purchased Japanese knife to Ji Qingwen; The second is to make a special trip to the coastal officials in order to ask for a few customs clearance surveys.

So Ji Qingwen said with a straight face: "Don't worry." You don't have to deal with those officials. Lao Tang (Tang Ruowang)'s old friend Xu Guangqi is now the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and he approved ten more surveys for me last month, and I will give you two this time. ”

The importance of customs clearance and exploration is self-evident to maritime merchants like Zheng Zhilong, a survey can make him pay thousands of taels, or even tens of thousands of taels, Ji Qingwen gave him two surveys, which is equivalent to giving Zheng Zhilong tens of thousands of taels of silver for nothing.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong is naturally grateful to Ji Qingwen.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan, who had been silent for a long time on the side, suddenly said coldly: "Ship Master Zheng, Brother Ji has a sentence that has always been on his lips, that is: 'He can live a comfortable life, everyone has a comfortable life'." Now Brother Ji gives you a survey, gives you silk, lets you make money, and you sell swords and weapons to Brother Ji, which is the best of both worlds. You can't have any half-heartedness and block this road that everyone can take......"

Li Yan has always had a bit of prejudice against Zheng Zhilong, so he said such a few extremely cold words here.

Ji Qingwen also felt that he should find an opportunity to knock Zheng Zhilong, so he also echoed: "Ship Master Zheng, although my brother Li's speech may not be good, every word is reasonable. I'll tell you in one sentence, I have a survey in my hand now, and I don't know how many ship owners want to tie up with me, and you Zheng is the owner alone. ”

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The villain understands, the villain understands." ”

Unexpectedly, Ji Qingwen had a later word: "Although there are thousands of clouds and ten thousand clouds in the sky, there is only one cloud on the head of your Zheng shipmaster, and that is me." You have to watch where my cloud is drifting, don't get lost, drive the boat into the eye of the typhoon! ”

In these few words, even Ji Qingwen felt that he was speaking at a very high level, and he didn't feel that he was conscious.

Zheng Zhilong listened, but he was sweating and shuddering.

Li Yan saw Zheng Zhilong's nervous appearance, and felt that he had rubbed the young shipowner almost enough, so he smiled and said: "Brother Ji is just a reminder, Zheng Shipowner shouldn't take it too seriously, but he can't be regarded as a deaf ear." By the way, didn't Brother Ji want to give Captain Zheng 500 pieces of silk? What kind of handover method is here, so we can discuss it. ”

As soon as Ji Qingwen heard this, he suddenly came to his senses and said, "How to hand it over?" That's it. I now have soldiers under my command, and although I am escorted to Songjiang, I swagger to Songjiang. It's just that they have just arrived in Suzhou, and their foothold is not stable, so I am afraid that it will be too late tomorrow. Wait for two days, and on the third day, the silk will be delivered to the fishing village in Songjiang Prefecture. Zheng Zhilong, you park the boat there for me in advance, don't let me wait for you like last time! ”

When Zheng Zhilong heard this, he immediately agreed resignedly, and set off early the next morning to run errands.

In the past two days, Ji Qingwen has not been idle.

He first sent Duo Jiugong to purchase various building materials around Suzhou City and handed them to Chen Wenzhao, and asked him to command his sergeants to build a camp on the spot.

Ji Qingwen found Ge Sheng again and asked him to gather the weavers, dyers, and embroiderers in the weaving yamen to work overtime and make 200 sets of military uniforms overnight; Then choose the best materials and rush to make the two banners of "Ji" and "Qi". These two things had to be done within two days.

He also saw that Chen Wenzhao had organized the newly recruited sergeants to start training the next day, so he entrusted the affairs of the weaving workshop to Li Yan to watch, and he accompanied them to train every day.

Chen Wenzhao is worthy of being an expert in leading soldiers, but in two days, he trained the team of 200 people to be banned and uniform, and then changed into a brand-new heart uniform, which looks even more majestic and heroic - it's a pity that the team of 200 people has not yet taken advantage of the weapons in hand, and they are all bare-handed, which seems to be a bit of a fly in the ointment.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the goods and silver are smoothly handed over with Zheng Zhilong, the team of these two hundred people will naturally have the number one Japanese sword imported from Japan to use.

So Ji Qingwen recruited the township warrior group training in Yiwu City, and in the early morning of the fourth day of arriving in Suzhou City, he was led into the city by Ji Qingwen and Chen Wenzhao, and went straight to the weaving workshop located in Guanqian Street, and escorted the royal silk that had already been counted and prepared out of the city.

Suzhou City since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, is a peaceful place, except for the Jiajing period of the occasional raid of the Japanese invaders, has long been the knife and gun into the warehouse, the horse put in the South Mountain, the common people in the city suddenly came such a large group of people, but also thought that the thieves came from where, robbed the treasury of which weaving workshop.

But as soon as they saw the two big flags of "Ji" and "Qi" raised high in front of the team, they immediately figured out the situation, and gathered to watch this elite division, and bursts of cheers broke out from time to time.

There was such a big commotion in the city of Suzhou, which finally alarmed Kou Shen, the governor of Suzhou, who hurriedly ordered all the officials of the Suzhou government office, and mobilized the soldiers of several guards stationed in the city, and a total of more than 1,000 people were mobilized to check the situation.

However, these horses, although they are the regular army of the imperial court, can be compared with Ji Qingwen's newly recruited Xiangyong regimental training, just like the Chinese men's football team in front of the world's strongest team - although they are almost tall, short, fat and thin, their spirit is a lot worse, and they know which is stronger and which is weak without fighting.

So after Ji Qingwen and Kou Shen made a brief report, he took a large group of men and horses, under the gaze of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, escorted a load of 500 fine tribute colored brocades, and went out of the east Xiangmen of the city, all the way east to Songjiang Mansion.

Half a month ago, when Ji Qingwen escorted the silk, he was afraid that someone would come to stop him, so he hurried at the same time, only feeling that he was walking too slowly.

But now that he has soldiers and generals under him, he is looking forward to someone coming to find trouble for him, and it is best to call Shen Shenbi, the eldest lady of the Shen Shi family, to gather all the weaving workshops under the control of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, so that he can convince them at one time.

However, Ji Qingwen and his entourage walked all the way to the fishing village near the sea in Songjiang Mansion, and they didn't meet half of them on the way who dared to stir up trouble, so he ordered the troops to protect the silk and camp on the spot with a little regret.

After Zheng Zhilong was taught a lesson by Ji Qingwen that day, he was really obedient and had already moored the sea boat next to the fishing port.

After he saw Ji Qingwen's arrival from afar on the deck, he immediately led a few capable sailors off the ship to handle the settlement with Ji Qingwen.