Luo Jian returned to the mansion, ran directly to the car and rummaged for a long time, finally turned out half a pack of cigarettes, lit one and ran to the edge of the pond to find a stone and sit down.

The staff department and the logistics department are gradually being formed, and there are quite a few people coming and going in the house, and no one dares to come forward to disturb Luo Jian when he sees Luo Jian sitting alone.

Steward Luo saw Luo Jian coming back from afar, so he sat on the edge of the pond and smoked silently, knowing that he was worried about state affairs, he took Luo Jian's cup and made a cup of tea, and asked someone to carry a chair and carefully send it forward.

Luo Jian lowered his head and calculated silently in his heart, the salary allocated by the court is only enough to pay the army, although there is no shortage of grain and grass, but the quality is annoying, not to mention coarse grain, among which there is a lot of sand and gravel, He Gang came to complain to himself not once or twice.

Nowadays, there are many scholars in this army, and the treatment of these scholars cannot be less, and they have to support their families. Otherwise, just relying on preaching, I am afraid that these scholars will not be able to serve in the army, which also adds a lot of expenses.

There is also a gunpowder factory to be built, and I don't know where Shi Kefa got the money for this factory.

In order to ensure the supply of food in the army, the silver raised by the investment in the glass factory has now moved a lot, and these silver are not owned by the government, and can only be repaid slowly by Luo Jian's own share income.

Although the cement factory and the brick factory also have some income, but Luo Jian is unwilling to treat the workers harshly, in these labor-intensive industries, if the workers' treatment is high, the income will naturally be greatly reduced, and now the income of the two factories is only more than 2,000 taels of silver, which is a drop in the bucket for the current needs.

Luo Jian, who was so worried that he even thought of fundraising, and then thought that Emperor Chongzhen had also done this, but he didn't raise much silver at all, these nobles, wealthy businessmen and even the emperor's relatives would rather the capital be broken by Li Zicheng and his family wealth was looted than to help the imperial court.

Thinking of this, Luo Jian had no choice but to give up this idea.

"Brother Luo, are you in trouble again?" Liu Lan's soft voice woke Luo Jian up from his contemplation.

Luo Jian looked up and saw that Liu Lan had already arrived at his side when he didn't know something, and at a dozen paces, Mrs. Xing was standing with two maids and Liu Lan's new maid Tao'er.

Seeing Luo Jian raise his head, Mrs. Xing hurriedly stepped forward and blessed Luo Jian, saying "I've seen the Grand Dudu."

"Liulan, what are you doing here?" Luo Jian saw that they had just come back from outside the mansion, so he asked.

"Brother Luo, my printing house has been settled." Liu Lan said with a light smile, seeing that Luo Jian was worried, she didn't show a particularly excited look.

"Oh, that's a good thing! How did you get it? When Luo Jian heard this, he said in his heart that this little girl had been anxious about this matter for a long time, and now that it has been done, it is really good.

"We found a printing workshop, and saw that it was about to close down due to poor management, so we bought it, I didn't have so much money, but fortunately, Mrs. Xing funded it, and also found a lot of retired soldiers in the former Xuzhou army, which is not ready to innovate technology, ready to start again." Liu Lan hurriedly explained to Luo Jian.

"Then thank you Mrs. Xing for helping us so much." Luo Jian hurriedly thanked Mrs. Xing. I thought that although this Gao Jie was no longer there, it was estimated that part of the money he had looted before had fallen into the hands of this Mrs. Xing, and now she was willing to contribute, which was a good thing.

Seeing that Liulan's sister talked about it, the little woman also had the heart to do something practical, so she wanted to run this printing house with Liulan's sister. The governor talked to the girl of Liulan, and the little woman took her leave first. Mrs. Xing said politely, and left with the two maids after speaking.

"Brother Luo, what is it that makes you feel like this? You see it's all cigarette butts, you can't spoil yourself like this in the future. Liu Lan looked at Luo Jian's worried appearance, and her heart was really distressed.

"Well, it's not about the money." Luo Jian sighed and told Liu Lan about the headache he encountered.

Hearing Luo Jian's words, Liu Lan also fell silent, and only after a while did she speak: "My income in the ready-to-wear store is now more than 2,000 taels, why don't you take it to the emergency first?" ”

"It's too far away, and besides, the formation of the General Staff Department and the Logistics Department also needs money, so let's pay attention to this side first." Luo Jian shook his head helplessly.

"Why don't we set up our own factory? Match factories, soap factories, everything can make money. Liu Lan thought for a while and said.

"Liulan, this match factory needs a lot of manpower, and you don't want the workers to be treated too lowly, so the income will be extremely limited; As for the soap factory, now only grease can be used, right? The edible oil in this army is still difficult to guarantee, how can there be excess oil to make soap? "Liu Lan said that Luo Jian has also considered it, but it is not very applicable when he thinks about it.

"Brother Luo, why don't we take out the Jenny machine?" Liu Lan gritted her teeth and said.

Jenny machine is a kind of textile machine, which was invented by a European weaver more than 100 years later, named after his daughter, and was originally called Jenny machine.

"No! Absolutely not! Hearing Liu Lan's words, Luo Jian stood up suddenly, and frightened Liu Lan to take a step back.

"Brother Luo, what are you doing, scare me." Liu Lan almost didn't stand firm, grabbed Luo Jian and then stopped, and complained.

In fact, Liu Lan knows Luo Jian's thoughts, the emergence of this Jenny machine has greatly improved the spinning efficiency, if this Jenny machine is released now, this Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which rely on the textile industry and enrich the world, I don't know how many weavers will lose their jobs because of this, and I don't know how many farmland has been changed into cotton fields and mulberry fields.

Now that Liu Lan saw that Luo Jian was so worried, she only mentioned it, and when she saw that Luo Jian's reaction was so strong, she immediately lowered her head.

Suddenly, Liu Lan's eyes lit up, raised her head and said to Luo Jian: "Brother Luo, how about we go and earn the rich man's silver?" ”

"Liu Lan, what did you say?" Luo Jian was still thinking that this Jenny Machine was definitely not the time to launch it, but he heard that Liu Lan had a new idea.

"Brother Luo, I want to make perfume, and you won't object to selling it to rich people, right?" Liu Lan smiled mischievously.

"How much money can you make from this perfume? Besides, the flowering season is almost over. Luo Jian felt that Liu Lan's idea was a little unreliable.

"Hmph, Brother Luo, you underestimate a woman's love for beauty too much, some of these perfumes don't necessarily use petals, I know more about this than you." Liu Lan was not convinced, and pouted and said.

"Okay, you can just get it, I support you." Luo Jian really didn't know much about this industry, and seeing that Liu Lan was very confident, she would do it.

Luo Jian also knew that this ocean trade was extremely profitable, but at present, this far-sea trade was all monopolized by Zheng Zhilong, if he wanted to engage in sea trade, he had to pass Zheng Zhilong's pass first.

Before Luo Jian was ready to go to Nanjing, he heard that Ma Yingkui from Tianchang County sent someone to report that the Manchu Qing had sent an envoy.

After Liu Liangzuo's troops in Yangzhou were dispersed to the divisions, the Tianchang had to send people to garrison it, Luo Jian was not at ease with the other troops, and in the end Liu Zhaoji made up his mind to let the first regiment stay in Tianchang to garrison.

Ma Yingkui was stationed in Tianchang and placed a lot of scouts to the north to monitor the movements of the Qing army. However, Han Daibu, who was stationed in Xuyi, had not harassed Tianchang County for a long time, and he didn't know what his situation was.

On this day, the scouts hurriedly came to report that a Manchu official with a group of people said that he was going to Yangzhou, and Ma Yingkui arrived to see that he did not know this person.

According to Ma Yingkui's intentions, he directly slaughtered it, but he heard the deputy head of the regiment say that the Manchu envoy was going to find the Dadu Governor, and how to deal with it had to be decided by the Dadu Governor.

These words reminded Ma Yingkui that he felt that he still did not consider the problem comprehensively, and if he missed the overall plan of the governor, he would have a lot of responsibility, so he hurriedly sent someone to Yangzhou to report to Luo Jian.

After Sun Zhiqi set off from Beijing with a tragic mood, he was anxious all day long, and dragged on as much as possible along the way.

When he arrived in Xuzhou, Sun Zhiqi also went to meet with Duoduo, the prince of Yu, he felt that if he wanted to appease Luo Jian, he must get Duoduo's support, if he went to Yangzhou, Duoduo would invade Yangzhou, he thought that it was asking for his old life.

It took a lot of words to get Duoduo to agree to Han Dai's retreat from Xuyi to Xuzhou, which made Sun Zhiqi feel that he had a certain degree of certainty, plus the weight of the things that the regent brought him was heavy enough, anyway, he thought that at least this angel would not kill him, and that was enough, as for whether the recruitment was unsuccessful, it was second.

No matter how Sun Zhiqi delayed, there was always an end to this road, and after walking for more than ten days, he still arrived at Tianchang County at the boundary of Yangzhou.

Listening to the intention of the general, he actually wanted to kill himself directly, which scared Sun Zhiqi into a stinky sweat. Fortunately, the deputy general next to him persuaded him and sent someone to Yangzhou to report, and Sun Zhiqi had to follow Ma Yingkui to Tianchang to wait for Yangzhou's reply.

Luo Jian heard that the Manchu court had sent an envoy, and it was reasonable for him to think about it after being surprised.

I just heard that the name of this envoy is Sun Zhiqi, this name is familiar, and I went to the computer to check it for a long time, only to know that this person was very famous at the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In addition to the fact that this policy of "shaving hair and keeping braids" was first advocated by him throughout the country, his personal outcome was also surprising.

Because of his meritorious work, Sun Zhiqi was promoted to the secretary of the military department by the Manchu Qing court, and he was the governor of Jiangxi, but he was soon dismissed for collecting money and selling officials.

After this person was dismissed, he returned to his hometown of Zibo, Shandong, but just in time for the uprising of Xie Qian and others in Shandong, he happened to be arrested.

As a result, hundreds of men, women, and children from all over the family were killed by the angry people, "all of whom were extremely obscene and miserable." Sun Zhiqi himself was tied up with five flowers for more than ten days, prepared by five poisons, his scalp was full of fine holes, people rushed to use pig hair to re-"transplant" him, and finally one of his stinky mouths was tightly sewn up with a big needle, dismembered and cut to death.

It can be seen how much the people hated the Qing court's policy of "shaving hair and keeping braids" at that time. Although Luo Jian was a little dismissive of Zhu Lian's family, he was also very happy that this traitor had died like this.

Now I can't help but feel a little funny when I see this famous traitor in history delivering the goods to the door by himself.

Hurriedly went to discuss with Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa was also surprised when he heard that the Manchu Qing had sent a messenger, and after the two discussed, they felt that they should bring everyone to discuss how to deal with it.

asked Ren Minyu, Huang Degong, Liu Zhaoji, Li Chengdong and others to be found, and sat down in the living room of Luo Jian's mansion, and Luo Jian informed everyone of the envoy sent by the Manchu Dynasty.

"Metropolitan Governor, in my opinion, kill him to show my determination that Yangzhou and the Manchu Qing are incompatible." Liu Zhaoji stood up first and said.

"Metropolitan Governor, I think Master Liu is reasonable, this person was originally a remnant of the traitorous party, and then took the initiative to surrender to the Tartars, which is very hateful, and it is not improper to kill him." Huang Degong continued.

"Metropolitan Governor, Governor, I don't think we should kill this Manchu envoy now, now that our army's training has not yet been completed, the firearms in the army are not yet complete, and we need time to prepare, it is better to keep him for the time being to delay time." Li Chengdong thought about it for a long time, wanted to speak again and again, and finally made up his mind to stand up and say.

Ren Minyu thought for a while, and also said: "I think Master Li is right, now Yangzhou is in ruins, if we kill the Manchu envoy now, we will let the Qing soldiers come to attack our Yangzhou, so that our energy has to be turned to war, which is extremely unfavorable to the recovery of Yangzhou's vitality." ”

"I discussed with Xinghua for a long time, and both of us thought that it would be okay to let this Sun Zhiqi come to Yangzhou, and it was one thing to delay time, and we could also use his mouth to understand the current policies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In short, although killing the Manchu envoy now is a bad breath, in general, the gains outweigh the losses. Shi Kefa also spoke.

Seeing that Liu Zhaoji and Huang Degong both nodded yes, Luo Jian stood up and said, "Then synthesize everyone's opinions and let this Sun Zhiqi come to Yangzhou." However, this matter must be concealed from the imperial court, if the imperial court knows, firstly, it will definitely cause panic in the imperial court, and secondly, it is also afraid that the villain will take the opportunity to attack Yangzhou. ”

"I'll arrange this matter, and I won't let the news leak out, this Ma Yingkui Xinghua, you send someone to greet you, and you must not let them leak the news." Shi Kefa said.

The plan has been decided, and Luo Jian sent someone to Tianchang.

Luo Jian really didn't expect that this Sun Zhiqi would bring him a big gift.

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