"Chen, do you say that the salary of 1,000 taels of silver promised by the Marquis of Daming will be honored? Could it be that you're lying to me? Anthony asked Chen Yujie again.

"It should be, after all, it's such a big figure as Ping Nanhou, and it won't be counted if you speak." Chen Yujie replied. Even he wasn't sure if Chen Yue would really give such a high salary, after all, the salary of 1,000 taels a year was higher than the salary of most officials in the Ming Dynasty.

As far as Chen Yujie is concerned, his military secretary is just a civil official from the ninth grade, and his monthly salary is five stone of rice, which is equivalent to about ten taels of silver. And the monthly salary of a seven-grade county order is 7.5 stone of rice, which is equivalent to two taels of silver for two years, and it is less than two hundred taels of silver a year. Anthony's annual salary is ten times that of Chen Yujie, five times that of Qipin Zhixian, and almost the same as the salary of the second-grade and third-grade officials, which is an absolute high salary. Of course, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have other gray income, as long as there is a meritorious name, there will be people who donate land, everyone is a landlord, and they do not live on that little money, which is another story.

But no matter what, a thousand taels of silver a year is definitely a high salary, and Anthony is just a Xiyi person, and he is just a craftsman in terms of identity, Chen Yujie is also deeply puzzled why Chen Yue opened such a high new book.

Maybe he deceived this person with a high salary first? Chen Yujie thought secretly, so his words were very vague and uncertain.

At this moment, someone came to report that Chen Yue, Marquis of Pingnan, had come to the Ordnance Department to summon Anthony, the Franco. So Chen Yujie accompanied Anthony to the hall of the Ordnance Division.

"Xia Guan has seen Master Hou." Chen Yujie saluted Chen Yue respectfully, and he deeply admired this young man with the same surname as himself.

In these days in Yangzhou, he saw the orderliness of the Ordnance Division, although the Ordnance Division and the workshop were all newly built, but the spirit of the craftsmen was much stronger than that under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Military Department.

When he heard that even the most ordinary craftsmen in the Ordnance Department had the rank of military attache of eight or seven grades, Chen Yujie was even more shocked, giving all the craftsmen official positions, this Pingnanhou is so generous! Perhaps because of this, these craftsmen were desperate for Pingnanhou, and traveled thousands of miles from Beijing all the way south to follow him.

Chen Yue smiled and nodded at Chen Yujie, and then looked at Anthony.

"Xia Guan has seen Master Hou." Anthony learned Chen Yujie's movements and words to salute Chen Yue, which immediately caused everyone present to laugh.

"Anthony, you are not an official of my Daming, and you should not be said to be a lower official." Chen Yujie held back a smile and said to Anthony in the Francophone language.

"Oh, so what shall I say?" Anthony opened a pair of innocent blue eyes and looked at Chen Yudao.

"You call yourself Anthony." Chen Yujie smiled.

"Okay." Anthony was as good as a stream, and turned his head to salute Chen Yue again, "Anthony has seen the respected Hou Ye!" ”

Chen Yue glanced at Chen Yujie in surprise, but he didn't expect his subordinates to come to a talent who was proficient in the language of the Franco.

"Dear Hou Ye, I want to ask if the annual salary of 1,000 taels of silver a year offered to me by Lin is true?"

Anthony couldn't wait to ask, Ling Chen Yujie couldn't help but cover his face, Yiren is Yiren, I don't know what etiquette is!

Chen Yue was not disgusted by Anthony's directness, but had a good impression of such a straightforward person.

"It's true, it's not true." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"What do you mean? Do you want to go back? ”

Chen Yujie translated Chen Yue's words, and Anthony was immediately anxious when he heard it, he didn't want to come to Yangzhou thousands of miles away, and what he rushed was the annual salary of 1,000 taels of silver. But if the other party repents, he can't think about him as a foreigner.

"It's not a repentance, but if you want to get an annual salary of 1,000 taels of silver, it depends on whether you have the ability to take 1,000 taels." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Anthony looked at Chen Yujie.

"Hou Ye means that as long as you can do the job, he will give you an annual salary of 1,000 taels of silver. Didn't you say that you can operate machine tools and make firearms, as long as you don't lie and can use machine tools to make gun barrels, Hou Ye will naturally give you the reward you deserve. ”

Chen Yujie explained in the language of the Franc machine.

"It turned out to be an assessment, no problem, I'll show you what I'm capable of." After listening to Chen Yujie's explanation, Anthony said confidently that he believed that he would definitely satisfy this Hou Ye with his ability.

"Well, I have a craftsman here who can make firecrackers, and he will take people to compare them with you, for a month's time, to see who can make the most firecrackers and the better."

Chen Yue said to Anthony, saying that he would call Liu San.

"Red-haired ghost, do you dare to compete with your Grandpa Liu?" Liu San looked at the red-haired ghost in front of him, who was a head taller than himself, and asked disdainfully with his chin up.

"Don't call me a red-haired ghost, I understand!" Anthony grumbled loudly.

"Dear Hou Ye, I agree to compete with him, but the installation of my machine tool takes time, and it needs more power, you have to give me some time to install and debug the machine tool."

Anthony pleaded with Chen Yue.

"Of course, then give you half a month, and the game will officially start in half a month." Chen Yue smiled, "If you can win Master Liu, there is no problem with a thousand taels of silver, if you lose, where will it come from." ”

"Yes, honorable Lord Hou, I will show you what I am capable of." After Anthony saluted Chen Yue, he left proudly.

"Master Hou, if I win him, will I also have a salary of 1,000 taels a year?" After Anthony left, Liu San asked Chen Yue with a hippie smile.

"What do you say?" Chen Yue glared at Liu San coldly. What kind of good thing do you think, I have paid such a high salary for the guns and artillery skills of the Portuguese, if I give you all so much, no matter how much money I have, I will be eaten up by you!

"Hehe, what is the identity of the subordinates, where is the deserving of so much salary." Liu San smiled, but refused to leave, looking at Chen Yue with blank eyes.

"If you win, I will promote you to the rank of Wupin." Chen Yue was helpless, so he had no choice but to say.

"Master Xie!" Liu San was immediately overjoyed. If it is promoted to the fifth grade, it is only one step away from the fourth grade of the Ordnance Division. Li Xiong, the current director of the Ordnance Department, is very old, and the next director may be his own.

"Hmph, don't just think about promotion, win the game first, if you lose to a Xiyi person, I'll see where your face goes!" Chen Yue reprimanded.

"Master Hou, don't worry, your subordinates will never lose to a red-haired ghost." Liu San patted his chest and reassured.

Where do you get your confidence? Hearing Liu San's words, Chen Yue was suddenly speechless. The Ming Dynasty has always regarded itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, looking down on the barbarians in the Quartet, and even the craftsmen have become arrogant, but they don't know that the technology of the Ming Dynasty has lagged behind the West for decades.

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