Everyone immediately bowed their heads and was silent, and Zheng Shark reprimanded there:

"If you buy a cannon, the great god of the eunuch is placed over there, are you afraid that you won't be able to buy it, let us handle it on your behalf, that's to give us face, if you want to think that this matter can be done properly, and now it's our Zheng family begging him, you know!"

As soon as the old pirate said, everyone suddenly realized, but then it was even more difficult, Li Meng's situation they also understood, if it was in Fujian, there were naturally many ways to please, in this Nanzhili and Shandong, I am afraid that it is a few gold, silver, and beautiful official positions.

But Li Meng is a general, and he is a general, controlling the illegal salt in Shandong, as well as selling illegal salt at sea, and he is also very rich. This is also Huti.

Therefore, someone proposed, "Let's buy the cannon and give it to Li Meng", which was immediately ridiculed by everyone, a cannon costs hundreds of taels of silver, who will be rare, as long as Li Meng's side increases or decreases the amount of sea salt by one or two, a trip to transport is a fluctuation of thousands of taels, and the cannon money is really a small amount of money.

However, the collective wisdom still came up with a way, and one person spoke:

"I heard the third brother say that this Li Mengping doesn't care too much about the official position of wealth and color, and he uses his mind on military training, and today he asked us to buy artillery, presumably he is a military general who likes this kind of blade and firearms, the elders are in front, and the younger generations think, it is better to give others fish and shrimp, it is better to give him a fishing net, and it is better to find some craftsmen who cast cannons to send it over."

It seems that this Zheng family disciple is a scholar, and they are afraid that Zheng Shark will not understand, so they explained the words "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish" in the vernacular.

For people like Zheng Xia, craftsmen are similar to Qinglou women, but they are just a living commodity, which can be solved with money, and the craftsmen told by the children of the Zheng family have opened their minds to these people, and there are many craftsmen who cast robes in Guangdong and Tianjin, and they are not in short supply, and they will definitely succeed in spending a lot of money to solicit.

But immediately someone put forward a theory that this cannon maker is indeed a good gift, but there is nothing too special about it, and it should be better.

The Zheng family in Nanzhili originally thought that they could get Li Meng's salt works in Shandong through various methods, and took this opportunity to have one or two ports in Shandong, and the garrison of a small state city was not a role in the eyes of the world-famous wealthy businessmen like the Zheng family, and the Zheng family almost felt that they could play him in the palm of their hands.

Who would have thought that the situation would change drastically, behind Li Meng stood one of the most powerful people in the south of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Meng's iron-blooded style made the leader of the Zheng family have to change his strategy.

The maritime trade on the entire Asian sea is becoming more and more expensive, but the Zheng family transports sea salt to Fujian for sale in Shandong, which is also profitable, and also has its political significance, Zheng Zhilong is only Fujian's coastal defense guerrilla at this time, but the Zheng family already thinks that Fujian is their own territory.

To control this territory, eating salt is a big problem, everyone has to eat salt, but Fujian is rainy and humid, it is not easy to dry salt and cook salt, and the price of salt is extremely high. It must be imported from other places, the two Huai salt merchants have their own interests, and Guangdong is the same, and the Zheng family's private salt transactions always have such and such conditions attached, or the price is very stuck.

Moreover, although the Zheng family's fleet has the strength to dominate the Asian seas, such a large fleet only has ports in Fujian that are completely under their control, and the rest of the places can only dock for commercial reasons, and cannot have other purposes.

Li Meng controls the salt works in Shandong, and the vicinity of these salt works is either a port or can be transformed into a port, for the time being, Li Meng needs a big buyer of sea salt, and the Zheng family needs a seller of sea salt and a strong protector of the northern port.

Both sides have needs for each other, and when measured, the Zheng family needs Li Meng's existence even more at present, and because of Liu Fulai and Liu Eunuch Liu behind Li Meng, the Zheng family feels that it is even more necessary to curry favor with Li Meng.

The Zheng family discussed very seriously, although the Zheng family had few official relations in Nanzhili, but the pirate career back then made them have a lot of connections in the rivers and lakes, and they were extremely well-informed.

The man said to Zheng Shark with some excitement:

"Uncle, there is something I want you to know, the three sons of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, are all in Songjiang Mansion at this time, Sun Yuanhua is an expert in making guns and cannons, and his sons must be not bad."

Sun Yuanhua was one of the masters of cultural exchanges between the East and the West in the late Ming Dynasty, and he co-translated the first six volumes of the ancient Greek mathematical work "Geometric Originals" with Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci, and assisted Xu Guangqi in completing the compilation of "Pythagorean Righteousness". Although these are of great significance in history, the military circles and relevant people in the Ming Dynasty still know more about the "Western Law Divine Machine" and "Jingwu Quanshu" written by Sun Yuanhua, of which the two volumes of "Western Law Divine Machine" are the first military scientific and technological works in China to introduce Western cannon casting, gunpowder making, and fort building.

Although Sun Yuanhua has great talents, but his luck is not too good, he has a very high reputation in the army around Denglai, even if it is the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen, Kong Youde rebelled, deceived the capital of Kailai Prefecture, the first thing the soldiers caught Sun Yuanhua was to check whether he had a tool to commit suicide.

In the nearly two years of the rebellion, most of the officials in Dengzhou Prefecture were killed by the rebels, but Sun Yuanhua was always safe and sound, and Kong Youde and his generals still expected Sun Yuanhua to be their leader, and Sun Yuanhua swore to die.

After Kong Youde led the rebels to the sea to defect to the Dongyu Jurchen Tartars, he didn't know for what purpose he released Sun Yuanhua. Maybe he knows that if he doesn't kill himself, someone will do it.

Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen sentenced Sun Yuanhua to death for collaborating with the enemy, and he was never soft in killing the governor......

After Sun Yuanhua was killed by Emperor Chongzhen, everyone in the world said that he was wronged, so even Zheng Shark and other strong men on the sea also knew a thing or two, the Zheng family had many eyes and ears in these ports along the coast, and they could know a lot of big and small things, and this person was talking about Sun Yuanhua's three sons Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, and Sun Hejing.

Because of the father's murder of the court sad and disappointed, although Sun Yuanhua's subordinates and friends, several times recommended the three of them to go out to be officials, but they were all rejected, the three are currently at home to organize their father's various works into a book, this collection is in the history of science quite famous "Water Party People Collection".

What kind of book to compile, these Zheng family members don't know, but they know that since Sun Yuanhua is so proficient in firearms, presumably the level of the three sons will not be too bad, Zheng Shark laughed, this is really a problem, and he didn't hesitate much, and directly commanded:

"In that case, let's go to Songjiang and invite people to Jiaozhou, which is also a good thing for two pence."

For the Zheng family, it is not difficult to buy artillery, and it is not a day or two to deal with those foreigners in Macau, as long as it is smashed with silver, there must be goods, but it also takes some time for these guns to be transported by sea, that is from Guangdong to Shandong.

As for these three sons of the Sun family, it is just from Songshan to Shandong, and the speed is much faster.

In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, there was a big case in Songjiang Mansion, and the closed Sun Mansion suddenly disappeared overnight with all three sons and their families, and they didn't know where to go.

Of course, the soldiers in charge of the water gate of Songjiang Mansion had a lot of silver in their pockets, and no one knew about this matter, and the family members of the criminal officer did not need to be concerned too much, and after they disappeared, they would have to deal with it by sending a document. Originally, Sun Yuanhua's relatives and friends were still very anxious.

However, after receiving a few private letters, they all quieted down, of course, this is already Chongzhen's tenth year and June.

In the Jiaozhou camp system, after Guo Dong's wife got Li Meng's attitude, when Mu Yunyao went to the mansion again, let the mother-in-law in charge not stop it, and Miss Enlargement went in.

Since there are instructions from above, the people below naturally don't want to offend people with many things, Mu Yunyao swaggered in, the girl was wearing a scribe's green robe, this is not like Kaifeng, she wants to put on makeup and go out, but in the Yanzheng Inspection Yamen Mansion in Jiaozhou Camp, Mu Yunyao's job is to read the documents, add annotations, and explain to Li Meng that this job is also compatible with the long gown worn by this scribe.

This mansion is where the former King of Muyan lived, and this is the only place in the entire inspection house that has not been converted into a study and office hall, and the soldiers, scribes and subordinates on duty in this salt administration inspection yamen are all living in the newly opened houses around - high-priced acquisitions, there are always people who are tempted.

Li Meng lived in this mansion for a while, and later moved to a small mansion a few steps away from most of the guards' barracks.

This mansion of King Mu Yan was not much different from the residence of the rich family at that time, Gu Hengbo and the woman, as well as their own maids, lived very well.

Mu Yunyao, who was wearing men's clothes, walked in menacingly, and the two little maids who were chatting by the door hurriedly stood up to greet them, but seeing Mu Yunyao's dress, the two little maids were stunned at first, and then hurriedly bowed down and asked:

"May I ask what is the matter with this young lady?"

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First of all, I wish you a happy New Year, all the best, Lao Bai is home, the weather in the north is cloudless, the sun is warm, the weather is too cold, and it is very pleasant along the way, the long queue of airport security checks, almost delayed the plane, thanks to those kind-hearted people who let Lao Bai cut in line, went home and made a taxi luxuriously, the driver is a very good uncle, happy all the way.

Let's hope the new year will be the same, thank you.

Ask for a monthly pass, ask everyone to be happy, and ask everyone to spend more time with their parents