Lei Yuan was greatly moved when he heard this: "Thank you Lord Hou for your concern, Lei Yuan is fine." Being tired can make things go according to plan, Lei Yuan thinks it's worth it. ”

Zhang Ru patted Lei Yuan's shoulder and said, "You are not young anymore, if you have time, find a suitable successor!" ”

Lei Yuan said: "The subordinates are still young, don't worry!" ”

Zhang Ru was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he explained: "I don't mean to let you retreat, I just don't want you to be so tired." This Fuzhou will definitely become one of the economic centers of Daming in the future, and in the future, in addition to the capital, Fuzhou will become one of the most prosperous cities.

The imperial court will have arrangements at that time, and instead of letting the imperial court arrange a person who doesn't understand anything to destroy the fruits of our labor, it is better to cultivate a trustworthy successor as soon as possible.

You don't want to be in a late season, and I don't want to be in a dilemma. Do you understand my words? ”

Lei Yuan was silent.

These words are not very perverse, but they are really reactionary language. As a traditional scholar, he adheres to the idea of loyalty and patriotism, but as a person, he also has to think more about his family.

Zhang Ru's words are very tempting, and this temptation makes people want to nod and agree immediately. But Lei Yuan's Confucian old-fashioned thinking in his heart was still at work, so he hesitated.

Zhang Ru chuckled, found a place to sit down, crossed Erlang's legs and said: "Lei Yuan, there's no need to be so serious, we don't want to rebel, nor do we want to set up another world, we are just a little selfish to do what we can for our families." It doesn't matter what the court thinks, what His Majesty thinks is the most important thing.

After the thorns of Fuzhou develop, they will inevitably be regarded by many people as a piece of fat that can be eaten. People who eat a little bit may leave a place for Fuzhou, and those who don't eat may make our efforts go to waste.

But Lei Yuan, do you know that the celebrity in front of the next emperor has a taste or not? ”

Fuzhou is not so much Zhang Ru's hard work as Lei Yuan's hard work. He has been serving in Fuzhou since he became an official and has a deep affection for this place.

Especially after his efforts have made Fuzhou now prosperous, he is even more reluctant to let anyone waste the fruits of his labor.

To put it too far, everything in Fuzhou is the same as his children, and he is reluctant to be blamed by anyone.

Zhang Ru's words hit him in the heart, and he knew that it was time to make his own choice.

After weighing it in his heart, he made a decision and nodded vigorously: "Master Hou, what you ordered, your subordinates will do it." ”

Zhang Ru breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most afraid of was that Lei Yuan would not be able to pass the hurdle in his heart, and now it seems that Lei Yuan is not as pedantic as he imagined.

"Okay, let's talk about the recent situation in Fuzhou!" A stone fell to the ground, and Zhang Ru asked about the situation in Fuzhou.

Lei Yuan walked to the table, took out a thick file from the table, turned the first page, and quickly glanced at the neat small block on the file.

Subsequently, he quickly flipped through it, and only when he was halfway through the page did he say: "Back to the Hou Ye, now the Xiamen Sailor has begun to bear fruit, in April of the third year of Hongzhi, the first batch of 2,000 sailors officially followed the first batch of lucky ships to the sea, and the pirates of Dune Island, Pisces Island, and Camel Island were leveled in the first battle. More than 2,000 pirates were captured, more than 1,000 pirates were killed, and the seized materials were equivalent to 100,000 taels of silver.

The construction of Xiamen Port is nearing completion, and 100,000 people have basically been resettled, and they will become new immigrants to Xiamen Port.

Among these people, craftsmen account for fifty percent, merchants account for one, and the rest are ordinary people.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has been established, but now the people are still in a wait-and-see state for the time being, and good weavers are not willing to enter the manufacturing bureau, preferring to weave cloth by themselves. However, the raw materials can be greatly satisfied, and the industries in Suzhou and Hangzhou have been driven, and farmers have begun to raise silkworms on a large scale while farming.

The Wenxuan branch has been opened all over the southeast coast, and now many people are willing to save their spare money into the Wenxuan, but for the time being, not too many people fully believe in the Wenxuan's throughput ability. For the time being, the merchants were on the sidelines, as if they were waiting for the imperial court's policy.

There are now 14 seagoing ships that have been successfully manufactured, the largest of which is a 5,000-material ship capable of carrying 30,000 pieces of cloth. Because there was no clear instruction from the imperial court for the time being, these sea ships did not sail for the time being. ”

"Have you ever been in the water?" Zhang Ru touched his chin and asked.

He was shocked in his heart, in less than a year, more than a dozen sea ships had been built, and there were 5,000 large ships, which he had never dared to think of before.

When he left Fuzhou, everything was still in the preparation stage, so he didn't know how much manpower and material resources he had invested in these things.

Lei Yuan said respectfully: "Back to the Hou Ye, all the sea ships have already gone to sea, there is only one 5,000 material ship for the time being, and the other sea ships are all transformed from the sea ships of the previous maritime merchants.

According to Hou Ye's orders, the 400 ships were equipped with two Fran cannons, and the fire dragon was out of the water with a total of 3,000 rounds. The 1,000-material ship is equipped with a fire dragon with 1,000 rounds and a Fran cannon for deterrence. The 5,000-material ship was equipped with 20 Fran cannons, all of which were in place at all angles, and a total of 30,000 rounds of firearms such as the Divine Fire Flying Crow and the Fire Dragon Out of the Water were the main attack on the battle.

The 5,000-material ship is all made of iron armor, and ordinary solid bullets cannot penetrate the deck and will not cause losses. This has already been practiced in actual combat, and three hundred fire dragons came out of the water and smashed down, leaving only seventeen shallow pits. ”

Speaking of these weapons, Lei Yuan was proud in his heart, these things were made by those craftsmen who worked tirelessly day and night, with strong attack power and great lethality. The only fly in the ointment is that the cost of making these weapons is also extremely huge, and basically the Fuzhou Wenxuan semicolon was hollowed out by these weapons.

You must know that after several years of development, Wenxuan has already developed into a behemoth among the firms, and the annual income of the Fuzhou branch alone is nearly two million taels.

Zhang Ru nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, yes, it's really hard for you to be able to do this in less than a year." ”

Lei Yuan said suddenly: "It costs tens of millions of dollars, and millions of craftsmen participate, if you don't make some achievements, wouldn't you be sorry for the love of the Hou Ye and the imperial court." ”

"Millionaires? Is that exaggerated? Zhang Ru was surprised.

Facing Zhang Ru's question, Lei Yuan said a little embarrassedly: "Master Hou, this is really nothing, the production of the 5,000-material ship is quite complicated, and there are not many craftsmen who know the shipbuilding process." And Hou Ye is not allowed to overwork, so he basically goes into battle in shifts. At its peak, more than 600,000 people were immersed in the sea in a day. ”

Hearing this number, Zhang Ru gasped.

More than 600,000? What's that concept? That's something that can directly raise the sea level by one foot.

Looking at Zhang Ru's dumbfounded appearance, Lei Yuan was very proud: "Master Hou, don't get me wrong, these people are scattered in different shallow seas, all kinds of parts are installed in the later stage, and the main keel is all spliced with iron, and then welded to death with molten iron." ”

Zhang Ru cocked his thumb and said convincingly: "Lei Yuan, you are really good!" ”

Lei Yuan smiled: "No, no, Master Hou is the real cow." ”

Zhang Ru said: "Okay, I won't tell you so much, find time to take me to see what kind of behemoth the 5,000-material fortune ship is." Equipped with twenty Furlong cannons and tens of thousands of fire dragons out of the water, this battle is exciting when you think about it. ”

Lei Yuanle said: "There is something more exciting!" Two months ago, we caught two Francis, and we didn't understand what they were saying, but one of them drew a strange drawing of a cannonball, and our craftsman took it and looked at it, and it turned out to be a drawing of a flowering shell.

The flowering bombs are much more enjoyable than the flowering bombs that we Daming put out and don't know if they can bloom, one shot can go out for two miles, and every shot blooms. ”

Zhang Ru also felt very happy, and was about to laugh, when he suddenly thought of a very important issue, that is, the cost of these flowering bombs.

He looked at Lei Yuan seriously: "How much silver is a shot?" ”

Lei Yuan waved his hand and said, "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, it's only five hundred taels of silver that can make a shot, it's not expensive." Xia Guan released ten rounds when he was testing the gun some time ago, and that feeling was really good. ”

Zhang Ru was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick: "You really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, ten rounds, try a cannon and you use ten rounds, you don't know that this is all piled up with silver!" ”

Lei Yuan was stunned, and said shamelessly: "Anyway, the Hou Ye has money, so it's good to let the lower officials have a good time!" ”

Zhang Ru let go of his hand speechlessly, and raised his foot to aim at Lei Yuan's buttocks: "What a loser, the test robe is not allowed to exceed three shots in the future, if you dare to be such a loser again, I will deduct you." ”

Lei Yuan looked indifferent: "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, the meager money that Xia Guan has now can't support the family, and Wenxuan has to subsidize a lot of silver every month!" ”

For this subordinate, Zhang Ru is completely out of line, he has done a good job, but it costs too much.

Everything is in its infancy now, and even if it costs money, there is no way to do it. Thinking that the Qing government in the future would pay hundreds of millions of silver, his heart was suddenly not so blocked.

When Lei Yuan took him to see the lucky ship as huge as the aircraft carrier, all the displeasure in his heart was swept away. In this era, those European powers have not yet developed, and these weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty can sweep any country if you go around Europe.

However, he has no such plans for the time being, and he does these things only on the basis of self-preservation.

Grandma's, waiting for Lao Tzu's sailors to train out, what Vietnamese monkeys, Indian Ah San, Japanese devils, Goryeo sticks, Lao Tzu with the fleet, swept one by one. Zhang Ru stood on the fortune boat and said to himself in his heart.