returned home in a daze, and the congratulations of people along the way were also left behind, unaware.

Wanshu stepped forward to help Deng Haonan take off her coat, noticed his abnormality, and asked softly, "Xianggong has encountered something unpleasant?" ”

Deng Haonan smiled bitterly in his heart, maybe in this world, only the lovely people in front of him are true to themselves, and others are just using and benefiting. Gently holding Wanshu in his arms, Deng Haonan hugged her before he felt a trace of goodness and truth.

Wan Shu said softly: "Xianggong can say that he has something to do with the concubine, even if the concubine can't help, he can also help Xianggong share the suffering!" ”

Deng Haonan's heart warmed and said, "How can I be tired and worrying about you?" Seeing that Wanshu's eyes were a little lost, she smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing!" It's just that I'm a little too arrogant, thinking that I can find a way out. In the end, I realized that Li Ping and the others were just using me, and I felt very aggrieved! Then Deng Haonan told the whole story.

Seeing that Deng Haonan said that he was depressed in his heart, Wanshu persuaded: "Don't take it too seriously!" The Li family is powerful, don't offend them! ”

Obviously, Wanshu thinks that even if the Li family uses her husband, she must not offend the Li family. After all, Deng Haonan has no power and no power at this time, and there is no good fruit to eat when he fights with the Li family and a gang of pirates.

Of course, Deng Haonan knew what Wanshu was worried about, and immediately smiled bitterly: "Don't worry!" I know what to do! ”

Wanshu looked at Deng Haonan's eyes, but said: "The concubine knows that the princess has gods and people to help her, so she is unwilling to send someone under the fence!" However, at present, the public situation is lonely, everything needs to be considered in the long run, don't compete for the length of the moment! ”

Deng Haonan was secretly frightened in his heart, even Wanshu could see that she was unwilling to send someone under the fence, and there was no reason why Li Ping, who was scheming, couldn't see it. No wonder they don't tell themselves the core secret, naturally they are guarding themselves, afraid that they will rob them of their jobs.

It seems that we need to be cautious in the future, this ancient person is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't think of them as ignorant turtles. Deng Haonan made a decision in his heart, he must not let go in the future, before he has no power, it is better to hold his tail and be a man!

After figuring it out, Deng Haonan relaxed a lot.

At this time, Wanshu said again: "This errand is not a long-term solution, the pirate's temperament and concubine know that no matter how beautiful it is in life, it is just a straw mat after death, or exposed to the wilderness, or buried in the belly of a fish." They are cruel by nature, and when they can use each other at this time, they are willing to be courteous. If in the future they don't need to be fair, how can they be good? ”

Wanshu's words reached Deng Haonan's heart, he kept thinking about this matter at the moment, and sighed: "I regret that I shouldn't have built the artillery for them so early, now they only need to expand the scale of the existing method, and they can expand their strength within the year!" Then my position will be even more despised by them! ”

Wanshu was a little flustered and said, "Xianggong, there is already a lot of money in the family at this time. How about we leave Beitan Town and go to the mainland to buy land and land, not seeking to be rich and rich, but just to live an ordinary life? ”

Deng Haonan shook his head and said with a smile: "How do you know about things outside?" Now that the troubled times have come, and there are riots everywhere, where can I live a peaceful life? ”

Wan Shu said: "Let's move to the state capital, where there is the imperial army guarding, and there should be nothing to do." Coupled with Xianggong's talent, it's better to do things for the heavenly family than to be a pirate here? ”

Deng Haonan knew in his heart that this Wanshu didn't seem to want to take the road of pirates again, after all, it was not the right way, and she pinned her head to the waistband of her pants all day long, tired of worrying about his wife and children. Especially this Wanshu has experienced the miserable thing of losing Deng Haonan once, this time she was bitten by a snake, and she was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and it has always been Wanshu's heart disease to think about it.

Deng Haonan stroked her hair and sighed: "We are still free people now, once I arrive at the state capital, it is known that Xianggong once helped pirates cast cannons and make gunpowder, even if I don't ask for the crime, I will be arrested in the military battle, and from then on I will be reduced to a craftsman, and I will not be able to get rid of it for generations!" ”

"Ah~ What's that going on?" Wanshu covered her mouth and exclaimed, obviously not thinking about this problem.

The hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty is strict, and intermarriage between different ranks is strictly prohibited. And as a craftsman in the imperial court, the treatment is also very poor, and it is like being in prison all day long. Each artisan made a weapon with its name engraved on it, and if there was a quality problem, it would be retained, not much different from the craftsman system of the Qin Dynasty.

At this time, although Deng Haonan was deeply trapped in a pirate den, he was still a peasant on the roster of the imperial court. Although the peasants were also exploited, they were very free.

Deng Haonan suddenly asked: "Is there anyone in this Beiyu Town, or in the nearby villages, who is worthy of our trust?" ”

Wanshu thought for a while and said, "Most of the people in our Beitan Town still want to be with each other, and with their current status, they won't be embarrassed." As for the trustworthy people, my father-in-law and father used to have a lot of old departments, but now they are scattered. Among the people who followed the leader of the general alliance in Bei Zhen back then, except for Li Ping, Huang Yixiang was left. It's just that I heard that Huang Yixiang went to work under Zheng Yiguan, and his son Huang Dahai seems to be one of the eighteen Zhizhi under Zheng Yiguan. The concubine remembers that when she was a child, her husband grew up with the yellow sea, and she was very close, and she could be called an inseparable good friend. ”

Deng Haonan shook his head and sighed: "Friends who grew up with bare butts are naturally closer than brothers, but Huang Dahai is now working under Zheng Yiguan, and we are now people on two paths, if Zheng Yiguan knows, it will be unfavorable to him." Therefore, we can't count on this yellow sea! ”

Wanshu didn't know about the entanglement of interests between Li Ping and Zheng Yiguan, and she wouldn't ask too much about men's affairs. then said: "In addition to Huang Da overseas, Xianggong still has a few playmates, but they don't have much ability, and they can't help Xianggong if they want to!" ”

"Who are they?" Deng Haonan asked suddenly, his eyes were full of joy, and when he saw Wanshu's doubts, he immediately smiled and said: "Many things in Xianggong's mind have become very blurry!" ”

Wanshu nodded, didn't make any more suspicions, and said, "Your playmates have also been here a few times, but the husband is not at home, and the concubines have been sent away." The four dogs of the Wang family are good gamblers, and they estimated that they had lost all their money to borrow money from their husbands. The Liu family is good at fighting and fighting, and the Xianggong should not be spoiled by him. Only the big cow of the Nading family is quite honest, and he used to work with you at the docks, but his brain is not very bright, and he is stupid. ”

Deng Haonan smiled bitterly in his heart, hearing Wanshu say this, he knew that several friends around him were such characters. There is a saying that evaluates a person, as long as you look at the friends around you, you will know nine points. Deng Haonan thought that his previous identity was probably not a good bird! But in a blink of an eye, Deng Haonan was relieved again, in this place where people are also thieves, no matter how honest people are, they are somewhat infected with pirate habits.

However, Deng Haonan has no power and no power at the moment, and if he wants to gain a foothold, he must have his own team and have trustworthy talents. Therefore, although the four dogs, Huzi, and Da Niu all have their shortcomings, Deng Haonan is really not as credible as others at the moment.

Then Deng Haonan asked where a few of them were and wanted to find them. Wan Shu frowned, a look of hesitation flashed in her eyes, and asked, "Isn't Xianggong going to look for them?" ”

Seeing Wanshu's doubts, Deng Haonan said with a smile: "Don't think that I am complicit in them, it's just that the prime minister wants to cultivate his own power right now, and there are few trustworthy people around, how can it be done?" Although a few of them have some shortcomings, but at the moment, I can only use them to help, after all, they are more trustworthy than those in the Li family, right? ”

"I see!" After Wanshu understood Deng Haonan's intentions, her eyebrows suddenly stretched, she smiled embarrassedly, and a pair of cute little dimples floated on her cheeks.

Whenever he looked at Wanshu's pair of cute dimples, Deng Haonan would feel physically and mentally relaxed, took her into his arms again, and said with a smile: "In a peaceful and prosperous world, it is better to be an ordinary person!" However, at present, the country is in turmoil, and human life in the troubled world is like a mustard, and only by being strong can we survive. Xianggong doesn't want you to suffer in the future, so Xianggong has to keep climbing up until you get to a place where no one can threaten us, do you understand? ”

Wanshu buried her head in Deng Haonan's chest and said softly: "The concubine understands!" With the help of ghosts and gods, he is a person who wants to do great things! ”

After a while, Wanshu raised her head and suddenly said, "Since Xianggong wants to support his own power, how can he do it with only these few ruffians?" Although the concubine is a woman's family, she also understands that the power is the party, and the husband needs to form a party. ”

Forming a party? Deng Haonan looked at Wanshu in confusion.

I only heard Wanshu say: "Now that the party is rampant in the government and the opposition, our Fujian Fujian Party even the big eunuch Wei Zhongxian has to give three points." Since the Li family has excluded the prime minister, it is better for the prime minister to give some money to the general army of the Dinghai Institute, and join the Fujian party to climb up slowly! ”

Forming a party! Forming a party! Only by forming a party can we run a private business, and only by forming a party can we guarantee our own interests. Deng Haonan kept thinking in his mind, with his knowledge of later generations, he was far more thorough than Wanshu's understanding.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in the stage of the rise of parties, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by partisan disputes, but it happened to encounter natural disasters, as well as the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchen, and finally led to the collapse of the Ming Empire. According to Deng Haonan's understanding, at this time, the Ming Dynasty, like the Netherlands and Britain in the West, was in the revolutionary stage of the bourgeoisie rebelling against the feudal class, but the people completed the internal bourgeois revolution smoothly, while the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the barbarians.

Maybe forming a party is the way out, after all, this is the trend of the future. However, it is obviously difficult to form a party, at least Deng Haonan does not have any ideas at this time.

So he sighed: "It's a good way to form a party, but we have no power at the moment, even if we bribe the Dinghai General Army, it's hard to guarantee that people won't just use it like Li Ping!" Or maybe it's darker than Li Ping, taking our money, but not caring about it. In that case, we'll be empty of both money and money! ”

Wan Shu sighed: "The concubine body is really useless, I can't think of a good way to help the princess!" ”

Deng Haonan rolled his eyes and said secretly: Which is that you are useless, is it clear that he is useless? At the moment, he said: "Wanshu rest assured, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the Xiang Guild will come up with a way." At present, the important thing is to cultivate more of our own people, is there great power in more people? There's always a way! ”

Wanshu couldn't think of a good way for a while, so she had to wait and see what happened.

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In other words, Deng Haonan took some loose silver taels, cut a few catties of beef in the market, and took half a bag of rice from his own house, and according to Wanshu's description, he went to the nearest big cow's house first.

A thatched house, a fenced courtyard, this is the big cow's house.

Deng Haonan came to the door carrying half a bag of rice, already tired and panting.

Didn't you say that it was only thirty pounds? How does it feel like fifty pounds? Deng Haonan was depressed for a while, and he thought about it for a while before he understood. It turned out that one pound of Daming was sixteen taels, and more than thirty pounds of rice was naturally much heavier than that of later generations. At the same time, my body is weak, and I naturally feel heavier.

At this time, after figuring out the key to the problem, Deng Haonan couldn't help but smile bitterly. Xindao: The proportion of ingredients in the gunpowder workshop, Deng Haonan has always been calculated according to one catty and ten taels, and the power is still greatly reduced compared to normal. However, this is a crooked help to Deng Haonan, so that Deng Haonan still has enough hole cards in his hand to influence Li Ping's attitude, at least he will not be fired soon.

Thinking of this, Deng Haonan's mood suddenly improved a lot.

"Big bull! Is the big cow at home? Deng Haonan shouted at the top of his voice, this thin body carried thirty catties of rice and walked less than 300 meters before he was tired and couldn't walk, and he should strengthen his physical exercise in the future.

Da Niu is the only one in the family, and this child has no father and mother at the age of twelve, and he relies on his strength to eat. However, this big cow is a little silly, he is very helpful in the anti-sack at the wharf, and he should have earned a lot of wages, but the wharf boss always finds various reasons to deduct his three cents on the left and five cents on the right.

At this time, it was past the end of work, and Da Niu heard Deng Haonan's voice in the house, and ran out at the moment, and heard him shout from afar: "Brother Haonan!" ”

As soon as he saw the big bull, Deng Haonan was stunned. Good guy, only three months younger than Deng Haonan, but he looks like a beam, tall and dark. The point is, where does this big cow look like a fifteen-year-old boy, is it clearly the old man of Bensan?

Oh, my God! He didn't grow up eating male hormones every day, right?