After several years of continuous tossing, Zhang Chu finally entered the field of vision of the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, and even Wen Tiren, the head of the dynasty, felt that he might be able to take advantage of it if he was sometimes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The housekeeper listened to Wen Tiren's words and knew that his master wanted to bring this lucky general soldier, so he sent someone to the security trading company to express his appreciation for Zhang Chu in the name of Wen Tiren. The housekeeper knew that a business like this must have a connection with Zhang Chu.

Sure enough, as the housekeeper expected, Jingshi's security trading company passed the information to Zhang Chu with great efficiency, and of course Zhang Chu had to accept the olive branch extended by Shoufu.

Zhang Chu was very disgusted and asked Xie Lian to write him a letter to Shoufu to show him goodwill. Xie Lian's nose was about to be crooked, and he didn't have a disgusting slap with his superiors when he asked for official advancement, but Zhang Chu asked him to write this kind of bragging letter, and Xie Lian refused at that time. Zhang Chu took out the righteousness of counterattacking Liaodong to suppress Xie Lian, telling him that this was a good time to establish good relations with the ministers of the DPRK and China, which was very important for gaining the support of the imperial court in the future. Xie Lian had no choice but to pinch his nose to write.

Zhang Chu took the letter written by Xie Lian and praised it: "My lord is really worthy of being a master who reads poetry and books, and Jinshi and his younger brother are masters, and this letter is written by an extraordinary husband and a vulgar man." ”

"Poetry and books are all used to do this, it's really insulting." Xie Lian felt that what he did was very shameless.

The letter Xie Lian wrote for Zhang Chu and the shares worth 20,000 taels of silver from the Security Trading Company were quickly delivered to Wen Tiren's mansion.

Wen Tiren is very satisfied, this Zhang Chu really knows each other, and has a clear indication that his letter is also well written, and it is really a bit of a literary color, I haven't heard that Zhang Chu has read a book, this must be written by the master invited by Zhang Chu, and it is no problem for this master to be an official in the court at this level. There is a way that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and I hope that Zhang Chu can be more contaminated with the spirit of literati.

Taking this opportunity, the shopkeeper of the security trading company went to the Wen Mansion from time to time to send some small gifts to the master, and the relationship between the two sides was closer.

Slowly spread in Jingshi, this security trading company Wen Shoufu holds a large number of shares, and the relationship between the shopkeeper and Wen Tiren is extraordinary. These rumors invisibly enhanced the credibility of the security trading company in Jingshi, and the company did not dare to pit Shousuke-sama in anything, and the number of people who bought the company's shares gradually increased.

When Zhang Chu's business was making a fortune, there was another good news that the construction of two new sail warships in the shipyard in Weihai was completed. Zhang Chu personally attended the launching ceremony of the two warships, inspected the fleet of the security forces in Weihai port, and held a secret meeting in Weihai attended by the principal senior generals of the security forces in Shandong, at which Zhang Chu issued a mobilization order to mobilize all officers and men to prepare for the counterattack on Lushun.

The day of crossing the sea to attack Lushun was getting closer and closer, and Zhang Chu's mood was not calm, he stood in front of the sand table and repeatedly scrutinized every detail of the attack plan. After Yue Tuo captured Lushun, he did not burn and loot the city and leave as before, but stationed himself in the city, and also repaired the city wall destroyed by artillery to prepare for holding on.

Zhang Chu has been in this world for several years, and he has experienced a lot of various wars, but he still has lingering fears about the brutal siege warfare, and it is even more difficult to accept the siege method of driving auxiliaries or civilians to be cannon fodder, and he has always been thinking about how to capture Lushun with minimal casualties.

Busy days always pass quickly, and when the day of going to sea has arrived, he also boarded the warship bound for Lushun at Xie Lian's strong request, and in his own words: "We can't miss this big event that changed the situation in Liaodong." ”

As the supervisor of the army, Wang Chengen was of course also on the expedition, but he did not take the same boat with Zhang Chu and Xie Lian, he said that he was going to be with his team, and the other soldiers took a smaller sea boat, after participating in the sneak attack in Liaodong with Zhang Chu and shooting and killing, Wang Chengen gradually liked the life of the army, insisted on participating in the training of the soldiers every day, and also took the initiative to learn combat knowledge, because he had some culture, he had received strict training in the palace, and his progress was much faster than that of other soldiers.

Not long after, he found Zhang Chu and said that he would not train with the soldiers. Zhang Chu thought that he had finally had enough, or felt tired from training, but he didn't expect Wang Chengen to say: "I'm going to promote me to be a company commander, come and tell you." ”

"The company commander is related to the life and death of the 100th person, is it better for you to be the commander of the whole army as the supervising army?" Zhang Chu still knows a lot about Wang Chengen's recent situation, and it is understandable to be promoted as an ordinary soldier, but this Wang Chengen is a supervisor sent by the emperor, Zhang Chu doesn't let him take care of things, and then sends him to the bottom to serve as a company commander.

"I will do a better job than any company commander in the team, if you want to supervise the army, I can write a letter to the emperor and send you another one." Wang Chengen looked like he had made up his mind.

"You think I like the Overseer." Zhang Chu had something in his heart but didn't dare to say it, "It's good if you're happy, but you must pay attention to safety and strictly follow the combat regulations, every order of the company commander is really related to the life and death of the soldiers of the whole company." ”

"Don't worry, I won't let my soldiers die easily." Wang Chengen is full of confidence in commanding a company. In this way, Zhang Chu was appointed to become a captain and company commander of the security army, and Wang Chengen seemed to forget his identity as a supervisor and became his company commander wholeheartedly. When the army set off, Wang Chengen insisted on being with his own, and the boat Wang Chengen patrolled back and forth on the sea boat that was constantly shaking by the waves, but fortunately, the soldiers had done adaptation training on the ship, and no one had seasickness yet. Wang Chengen stood on the bow of the boat and felt the wind blowing from the sea, and he couldn't imagine that he vomited and ate because of seasickness, and vomited while eating, but now he is a little in love with the feeling of sailing.

Xie Lian, as the highest commander of the team, was naturally placed on the flagship of the fleet, the "Caiyun". Xie Lian was stunned when he saw this big ship, although he thought he was full of poetry and knowledge, but the written knowledge was too abstract, and when it came to the big ship, he would use a sentence to describe it, but this ship brought him a real shock, and when he arrived on the boat, he pulled Zhang Chu to look around, and asked Zhang Chu questions from time to time.

"This was a Dutch warship, and it could only be counted as a second-class battleship with them, and there were first-class battleships that were much larger than this." Zhang Chu decided to give Xie Lian another blow on the head, so that he would have a clearer understanding of the current world situation.

"Did the Dutch have a bigger ship than this?" Zhang Chu hid most of the warships in Weihai, and Xie Lian had only seen those transport ships built in Dengzhou, so he was surprised by the size of Zhang Chu's warships, and it was difficult for him to imagine that there were even bigger warships than this.

"The Dutch have hundreds of large warships, and countless large armed merchant ships of all kinds, and they have sailed thousands of miles to trade and loot all over the world, and have reached the coast of China, occupying Penghu, Taiwan and other places, but we are unable to take them back." Zhang Chu also deeply felt the weakness of his naval strength, otherwise he would have attacked the Dutch a long time ago.

"There are barbarians who have occupied my Daming Sea Frontier, we must take it back." Xie Lian's mentality that the Heavenly Empire cannot be offended is still very strong.

"Don't think about it yet, wait until the emperor has enough money to build ships."

"Alas, they all say that I am rich in the Ming Dynasty, but how can it be so difficult for the emperor to come up with some silver." Xie Lian couldn't help sighing, he had been infected by Zhang Chu these days, and he talked about the emperor casually.

The fleet gathered on the surface of the sea in a neat line and sailed forward according to the plan.

Xie Lian stood at the bow of the ship, thinking about what kind of fierce battle would be a battle after arriving at Lushun.

Zhang Chu suddenly spoke: "Lord Xie, if I let the fleet turn here, and the two of us join forces to lead the team to kill the Jingshi, what do you say?" (To be continued.) )