Zhang Chu led people from Changli all the way to the east, and after half a day of walking, they came to the blue sea at noon.

Yang Liu was already waiting there anxiously. There are dozens of small boats parked on the coast, and not far from the coast there are seven large ships, three of which are particularly large, and the four small fortune boats next to them are much smaller. Zhang Chu paid more attention to the four small fortune boats, because only those four ships were the security army's own, which was exactly what Zhang Chu ordered Zhou Jialin to buy and build in the shipyard in the Ningbo area.

Four lucky ships sailed all the way from Ningbo Siheng Island to arrive here intact and seemed to have withstood the test of the sea.

Yang Liu's excitement when he saw Zhang Chu was beyond words. Come and salute and say hello loudly.

Zhang Chu looked at Yang Liu carefully, in a blink of an eye, the two had not seen each other for almost a year, during this time Yang Liu went south and north, and he had become very mature, and this twenty-year-old young man finally became a hero in his own right.

Yang Liu ordered the small boats waiting on the shore to load supplies and personnel to transport them to the big ships.

Then he reported his work to Zhang Chu.

During this time, Yang Liu did not run away. He arrived in Ningbo on the orders of Zhang Chu, established a foothold in the local area, helped Zhou Jialin build a textile factory, cleaned up Liuheng Island, and recruited personnel to secretly train a team on the island.

After settling everything in Ningbo, I didn't dare to delay at all, and took a sea boat from Ningbo to Macao.

During the Chongzhen period, Macao became an important trade distribution center in the Far East, with a large number of maritime merchants. Yang Liu wanted to hire three large sea ships in Macao to go north to Beijing.

It is more convenient to hire a boat in Macau. Every year, sea vessels depart from Macao to load goods, and in July they can reach Nagasaki in about 20 days with the monsoon, and then return with the monsoon in February. As long as there is enough money, it is not difficult to hire them to go to Jingshi.

Yang Liu hired a ship, and started a crazy purchase on the day of waiting for the boat to start, if Zhang Chu was there, he would definitely say excitedly: "Buy, buy, buy."

When making a plan, Zhang Chu told Yang Liu not to be afraid of spending money, as long as it was needed, and the things that the security army made difficult to create must be bought with money.

The items purchased by Yang Liu are mainly some weapons and equipment. The Portuguese have been operating in Macau for many years. Macao's iron-making industry is very developed, and the cold weapons manufactured are very sophisticated, and muskets and artillery can also be manufactured. Yang Liu collected all the cold weapons in each workshop.

The next focus is on muskets, artillery and other firearms, and those who come to firearms are not refused, as long as they are firearms, they will be purchased regardless of whether they are old or new.

The generous move attracted a large number of experts, and even some ocean-going cargo ships saw that they were profitable, and made up their minds to dismantle the self-defense guns on their ships and sell them to Yang Liu.

Yang Liu was not satisfied, and he was deeply impressed by Zhang Chu's long-distance journey to bring the craftsman back to Yanchang. He targeted artisans in ironsmiths and firearms factories. After Xu Yi's high salary, dozens of craftsmen boarded the big ship of Yangliu with the dream of making a fortune.

Macau's commodity trade is very developed, and people buy and sell all kinds of goods here every day, as long as they do not get in the way of people's money, no one will interfere. But this time, Yang Liu's big purchase in Macao attracted the attention of a person, who wanted to sell something to Yang Liu, and the thing to be sold was very special, because the thing to be sold was himself.

Li Fugui, in his 40s this year, was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, tall and mighty, blonde hair and blue eyes, and a curly yellow beard hanging under his cheeks.

He came from distant Portugal, his real name was Silao of Gongsha, he was an officer in the Portuguese army, and after retiring from the army, he wandered overseas with the dream of making a fortune, as a soldier he was most familiar with fighting, as a mercenary to fight in various places, fought in the road army, and participated in the battle against the Dutch on the ship. He was constantly looking for opportunities to make a fortune, and the merchants who returned from the East brought back a large amount of Chinese wealth, preaching the wealth of the great countries in the East, and he also came to China to pan for gold.

When he arrived in Macao, he heard that the Chinese court was at war with the barbarians in the north. He saw an opportunity and was determined to fight in China for the rest of his life to achieve his dream of making a fortune. Deeply impressed by the vastness and wealth of China, he aspired to become a Chinese, and after consulting with the Chinese, he gave himself the best Chinese name: Li Fugui, and learned Chinese.

Li Fugui's name did not make him immediately developed, and he patiently waited for the opportunity, and gathered around him a number of Portuguese soldiers who had wandered abroad, who were always ready to serve the Chinese court and exchange their military exploits for that tempting wealth.

Yang Liu was shopping for weapons in Macau, and the news reached Li Fugui, who saw that this was not something that ordinary businessmen should buy.

His nerves as a soldier were excited.

Yang Liu was thinking about the next thing to buy in the inn, and the guy came in and said that someone wanted to see him, Yang Liu thought it was a merchant who sold things, and immediately came out to meet him.

It was also strange to see that there were foreigners waiting there. I've seen a lot of foreigners in Macau, but I really don't know this.

"Hello, my name is Li Fugui, I am a Portuguese soldier, and I want to know if we can cooperate." Li Fugui went straight to the point and explained the meaning in Chinese.

"In what ways can we work together?" Yang Liu looked at Li Fugui as he spoke.

"I am a soldier who can receive payment for fighting wars in your country, I see that you are not an ordinary businessman, you buy a lot of artillery, I think you need gunners, and there are dozens of people under me who can operate artillery." Li Fugui explained his intentions, and tried his best to sell the mercenaries from Macao to Yang Liu.

"My lord is to extend the garrison, if you want to serve him, he will welcome it." Being able to manipulate the artillery impressed Yang Liu, Zhang Chu had already said that the artillery technology of the security army needed to be improved, Yang Liu decided to bring them over first, and it was up to Zhang Chu to decide what to do.

"One garrison can have more than a thousand soldiers, and I'm afraid he won't be able to hire us." Li Fugui was a little hesitant, he had some understanding of the official system of the Ming Dynasty, and knew that the garrison was not a big official.

"Although my lord is only a garrison, he has his own territory, and I own two hundred acres of land as an ordinary subordinate of his. Looking at the money I used to purchase the goods this time, you should know that it is not a problem to hire you. Yang Liu didn't tell a lie, but he didn't explain how Zhang Chu's territory came from.

"You have two hundred acres of land." Li Fugui looked at Yang Liu's young appearance and was a little disbelieving.

"Of course, my lords can get land as long as they fight bravely." Yang Liu replied proudly.

"Let's talk about the price of employment." Li Fugui made up his mind to own a piece of land of his own in this rich country, and it was also good to spend the rest of his life.

The two continued to bargain, and finally Yang Liu promised to give Li Fugui a salary of one hundred and fifty taels per year, plus an additional cost of fifteen taels per month. His thirty men were given a hundred taels a year, and another ten taels a month for food.

This price is quite superior, the Ming Dynasty guard army six products and 100 households of the army is only ten stone per month, which is equivalent to about 20 taels of silver at that time; The average soldier only has about four taels of silver per month.

History always stubbornly executes its own will, these people were recruited by Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, together with the artillery to the Beijing Division, Zhang Chu sideways a pole, the Portuguese still joined the Chinese war, but the object of allegiance changed.