After Howard discussed with the commander of this fleet, he quickly agreed to Yang Feng's request, but he had to wait until he saw the demonstration, after all, their third-class battleship was also worth tens of thousands of pounds.

At this time, Carlos II had died of illness, and the heir, the clouds of war in Europe were shrouded, this guy was born in the Habsburg family, but his sister married Louis XIV, although Carlos II's will passed on the throne to his brother-in-law's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou, but his sister did promise that her descendants would give up the Spanish throne forever when she married, so that Archduke Charles of Austria should inherit the throne, and England, the Netherlands, and Austria could not tolerate Spain falling into the hands of the Bourbons.

In short, according to past historical experience, there is no other way to solve this kind of matter than to fight.

And the most active in this war, the most jumping up and down eager to smoke Louis XIV, that is, England, in the same way, new weapons have become the most urgent thing in Britain. Once the East India Company had obtained Yang Feng's new technologies, it would be able to make a fortune in the war with them, and after seeing Yang Feng's previous demonstrations, Howard had no doubts about this. It was for this reason that the East India Company was able to reach this deal at any cost, knowing that these warships were not only their own, but also many of which they had purchased from the fleets of other countries in Asia at high prices.

After the negotiation was reached, the two sides immediately began the transaction.

This time, Yang Feng was originally given a third-class battleship with 74 guns, four third-class battleships with more than 40 guns, and five cruisers, three of which were actually temporarily modified armed merchant ships, and these battleships sailed into Luomen Port one after another, and then were taken over by the Ming army, and the crew on board went to Changguo on foot. During this period, the Ming fleet and the British East India Company fleet always maintained mutual vigilance, until the last battleship was taken over by the Ming army, which finally ended this state, and then under the escort of the Ming fleet, the remaining British battleships sailed into Changguo Port as guests.

As for the next, that is, the guests and hosts are happy, it is time to drink and drink, and it is time to find a girl to find a girl.

As for the things that the British wanted, they were all not worth mentioning, three thousand flowering shells, this could be moved directly from the ammunition depot, and as for the new artillery, this one could be lifted from the Ming warships, and there were also new flintlocks on it, and after testing the effect of this thing, the British immediately agreed to the exchange. That is, it will take some time for Howard to need those special goods, after all, many of them need to be customized, but fortunately, this is not something that Yang Feng needs to consider, just throw the pattern to Lin Qian and let her solve it, and it is not a valuable thing.

And Howard is not ready to go in a hurry, they have to go all the way, and have to buy some silk, tea, porcelain and the like, and now this has become the largest trading center for smugglers, not only China, but also the smugglers of the Japanese and North Korea, all of them first send the goods here, and then trade with merchants from Southeast Asia, completely free trade, much better than those foreign ports in various countries.

Of course, it also brought a lot of taxes to Yang Feng, and now the people of Changguo can already be said to have made a lot of money just by relying on these merchants from all over the world who come and go from the south to the north, and even begin to really have the appearance of a modern commercial city.

Just when Yang Feng and a group of ghosts were eating lobsters and drinking wine and talking about business, in a garden covered with snow and cold plums in Suzhou, four hundred miles away from him, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe was looking at the stump of the lotus in the pond, and said sadly like a poet who was in dilapidus: "Ren is the day of blooming, this red lotus is as bright as fire, and there will eventually be the Xiao Suo of the withered branches and leaves of this cold pool. ”

"Why is Lord Li so emotional?"

An old man sitting next to him smiled.

"Nothing, just talk about it! Come, Cheng Lao, show you something good. ”

That Lord Li clapped his hands as he spoke, and a house slave hurriedly stepped forward with a brocade box, respectfully put it in his hand, and then opened the lid, inside was a very beautiful antique vase, which looked extremely exquisite, and then Lord Li reached out and took it, and then handed it to the old Cheng, who hurriedly reached out and took it, and looked at it there like a very knowledgeable person.

"This is from the Xuanhe period, right?"

Cheng Lao looked at him with surprise and said.

Of course, he is just pretending, and it is not wordless at the bottom, and what he takes out here must not be fake.

"Cheng Lao has good eyesight, do you like it?"

Master Li said with a thumbs up.

"It's a good thing!"

Cheng Lao nodded and said.

"If you like it, I'll sell it to you, and you don't need too much, just a million taels of silver."

Master Li said casually.

"Uh, Master Li laughed, how can old decay win people's love?"

Cheng Lao immediately realized that something was wrong, and said with a smile on his face.

"Cheng Lao, you have to buy this bottle, and you have to buy it if you don't buy it."

Master Li said with a smile.

"What do you mean, Lord Li? If Master Li has anything that needs the service of the old man, then it is straightforward, the old man can still take out thirty or fifty thousand taels, even if he can't take it out, the dog also has some friends in Beijing, and it is just a sentence to borrow some silver taels. ”

Cheng Lao said with a smile.

"Cheng Lao, do you know who I am? My name is Li Xu, I am a servant of the Holy Lord, and I am on an errand for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, do you understand what I say? ”

Kang Mazi's little friend, his wet nurse's son, the coat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Cao Xueqin's grandfather's brother-in-law, made in Suzhou Li Xu smiled fiercely, and said to Cheng Zhiyi, the head of Yangzhou salt merchants, one of the eight major salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty, and the current general manager of Yangzhou salt merchants.

The latter's head buzzed, and he immediately understood what was going on, saying that although Zhang Zhidong acted quickly and decisively, the prince was arrested by the Yang demon, and offered 10 million taels of silver to ransom people, this kind of explosive news still can't hide from these super-rich people with their hands and eyes. None of the salt merchants' subordinates could do without their own intelligence system, and the imperial court was the target they were targeting, and it would be ridiculous if they couldn't hear about this kind of major event. He is also mentally prepared, the court has no money, it will definitely have to attack them, who are not short of money, but he never expected this hand to be so ruthless, and his mouth is one million taels, this is to suck the blood of the Cheng family dry.

"Master Li, the old man really can't come up with so much money, ask for the grace of the adults and give the Cheng family a way to live!"

Cheng Zhiyun fell to the ground all of a sudden, pleading while kowtowing desperately.

"Cheng Lao, how much money do you have, I don't know? The world is all holy, let you Yangzhou salt merchants make money that is our holy grace, I don't want you to make money tomorrow can let you go to the street to ask for food, to be a man to talk about conscience, the saint gave you this wealth and wealth, to the saint when you need it, you also know that Entu can be repaid, now is the time for you to repay the saint. As for the rest, I don't need to say more, one million taels of silver, you buy my vase, you have to buy it or not, if you don't buy it, don't blame me for being polite, I heard here that your Cheng family has a lot of things, it seems that there are still a few life lawsuits, waiting for the fold to go up and thunder and rage, but don't blame me for not giving you a chance. ”

Li Xu said with a sneer.

"My lord, if you spend another 50,000 taels to buy this teapot from you, can you give this bottle a discount to you?"

Cheng Zhiyun gritted his teeth and picked up the teapot on the table and said.

"Oh, I'm also a teapot from the Song Dynasty, 50,000 taels of silver is a little less, but since Cheng Lao likes it, he has to cut his love."

Li Xu said with a smile.

A few minutes later, Cheng Zhiyi walked away somewhat dejectedly, holding a broken vase and a teapot.

Behind him, Li Xu looked at the two IOUs in his hand with a smile, and then said to the house slave: "Go, bring another bottle and call the next guest." ”。

"Eniang, who is this person?"

Not far from this pavilion, a little Lori who was teasing a goldfish looked at Cheng Zhiyi curiously, and asked the young woman next to her in a milky voice.

"He, that's the pig that our family raised for the emperor."

The young woman said with a smile.

"But he's obviously a person!"

Little Lori said dissatisfied.

"Good, don't ask so many children, you'll understand when you grow up."

The young woman said.

And at this time, hundreds of top tycoons in Fujian, Zhejiang, Liangjiang and even Huguang were also invited by those governors, governors, and cronies such as Jiangning and Hangzhou to their mansions, and knocked out different amounts of silver taels from their hands in various ways. One of them was short-tempered, but he refused in a fit of anger, and the next day he was sued by someone to the local yamen for colluding with the party and attempting to rebel, and then immediately after being imprisoned, he was not released home until the family scraped together the money.

Of course, Kang Mazi doesn't know anything about these things.

This is all the violation of law and discipline by the local governors below, how could he know about this kind of thing, if he knew, he would definitely punish them heavily, as the Holy Lord Mingjun, he will never tolerate any such behavior, those victims You can take up legal weapons, and you must believe that the emperor will definitely administer justice to you.

But no one is a fool, who dares to sue for such a thing? Even if you sue you, who in charge will dare to take it?

Don't want to die?

In this way, in a very short period of time, Zhang Zhidong put together the ransom of Yinren, not only that, but the officials who were in charge of this work also more or less followed the fish, it can be said that they were all happy, of course, those businessmen who were sucked dry blood, how to find a way to get back their losses from the common people, this has nothing to do with the imperial court, anyway, the price of salt issued by Yangzhou immediately rose by three percent.

10,000,000 taels of silver.

It's really not worth mentioning.