Shan Sinan was salivating and was talking, when Zheng Guofan called him a little Shan butler, his face immediately turned red, and he reached out to scratch his head, "Young master, how can you make fun of me." Father Zheng, who was sitting on the bed and listening with relish, was interrupted by his son, and couldn't help but wave his hand to him, "Don't bully the big head all day long, it's okay to go to Wen Shu, just tell me about your things." ”

The good official was scolded by his father, and he said in his heart who is your son! had to turn his head away, and Father Zheng smiled and said to Shan Sinan: "Big head, keep talking, how did those two old men raise the price." As he spoke, there was a little itching in his heart and lungs, and he coughed, Shan Sinan hurriedly climbed onto the couch, reached out to stroke his back, and then took out a piece of raw mulberry paper from the dark drawer under the low table on the couch and handed it to Daddy Zheng's mouth.

coughed twice, Daddy Zheng spit on the paper, the big head had already taken the basket to the couch, took the paper ball from Daddy Zheng's hand, threw it into the basket, and then picked up the tea cup on the low table, the ginseng soup in it was still warm and warm, and the medicinal taste was strong, Daddy Zheng took it and took a sip, breathed a sigh of relief, put the tea cup on the low table next to him, and said with a smile: "Big head, you are still fine, the good official is not as good as you in this." ”

Shan Sinan scratched his head, "How can these rough things be done by the young master, the young master has such a great ability, he will definitely be the marquis in the future." ”

Father Zheng laughed and said, "If he worships the prime minister, if he doesn't give you a brocade guard hereditary thousand households, Daddy, I will beat him in the ass." ”

If these words are heard by the obedient officials, I am afraid that I will have to laugh at my father's heart, Jinyiwei hereditary thousands of households, dad, you really dare to speak, the entire Ming Dynasty three hundred years of the world, there are only a few hereditary thousand households, as a result, dad, you have a mouth, and you will make a wish to others to seal the official.

Of course, according to the friendship between Daddy Zheng's obedient official and Shan Chixia's father-son for two generations, if the obedient official can really climb to Zhang Juzheng's position and move a hereditary thousand households, I'm afraid it is still low, but the atmosphere of Daddy Zheng's official wish is inevitably unthinkable that this old man was still living in a small wooden building of thirty taels more than a month ago. Most scholars became officials, and quickly degenerated into qualified bureaucrats to make a lot of money, because they were suddenly lost in money and power.

Zheng Chengguan left his father's yard to look for Shan Chixia, Shan Dad was counting the silver to keep the account book, to be honest, licking the tip of the pen to calculate how much silver the family spent and how much silver was in the account, for him as a great master of Zhejiang military swordsmanship, it was too reluctant, but these are done by another person, not to mention that Father Zheng is not at ease, and Shan Chixia herself is not at ease, so he has to catch the ducks on the shelves.

Seeing her young master come in, Shan Chixia looked happy, the eight hundred taels of silver in hand, with Shan Chixia's own estimates, it must be more than enough to live a living year, at least, plus the remaining silver in the family, one thousand taels of silver in hand, the family can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, although it is necessary to maintain such a big house, the family eats and lodging, the lord's soup and medicine money, etc., etc., but it is also a thousand taels of silver, really don't consider what face and other issues to save a penny, Shan Chixia felt that she could support her young master until he was twenty years old to be admitted to the Jinshi.

However, the good official didn't come to talk to Shan Chixia about how long the family's savings could be spent, he told Shan Chixia what he heard in Baoguo Temple, and then went to Yan's house to learn that Yan Dazhang was not there, and the old housekeeper of the Yan family said ambiguously, and Shan Chixia frowned.

Shan Chixia was born in Zhejiang, grew up in Zhejiang, was a famous ranger when she was young, and later suppressed the Japanese invaders, although she has not returned to her hometown for 20 years, she can still estimate the things on the ground in Zhejiang.

"Li Yufu." Shan Chixia frowned and muttered the name a few times, "I vaguely remember that Hu Xiantai lured down the owner of the Wufeng ship Wang Zhi at the suggestion of Mr. Qingteng, and later Wang Zhi was killed, and his adopted son Wang Ao pulled up the Wufeng flag to rebel at sea, this Li Yufu seems to be a small boat owner under Wang Ao back then......

"When I said this name, Old Butler Yan's face changed at that time, and he said three words, King of Haiyan." The obedient official said the words of the old housekeeper Yan at that time, Shan Chixia couldn't help but sneer, this person has the blood of countless widows on his hands, it is estimated that there are not five hundred but four hundred, it is not good to say, even if Wang Zhi is resurrected, Shan Chixia may also regard it as a dog, at most it is a relatively large and fierce dog!

You know, after these Zhejiang soldiers were transferred north to the nine sides, at the beginning, they also suffered a little loss in the hands of the Mongolian Tatars, the Tatar Koubian, are all one person and two horses, as little as thousands, more than tens of thousands, compared with the southern Japanese Kou, the momentum is much larger, there are more than a dozen horses in the southern Wokou, basically able to crisscross the county government, Zhejiang soldiers killed the Japanese and said that there are many great victories, and it is not for nothing that the head is thousands of people, but the combat effectiveness of thousands of Japanese Kou is obviously not comparable with thousands of Tartars on horseback, so after cutting down the Japanese and cutting the Tatars, the Zhejiang soldiers look back at the Japanese and then look at the Japanese Kou, Inevitably, I can't look down on it.

"There was no hero at the time, so the shaft became famous." Shan Chixia grinned, her face full of disdain, "Now if Qi Shaobao pulls another three thousand Zhejiang veterans back, it is enough to deal with tens of thousands of Japanese criminals back then, not to mention this Li Yufu, it is just a remnant of the past." ”

The good official had to smile bitterly, this is not funny at all, three thousand veterans who have survived a hundred battles, after 20 years of going back to the battlefield of the year to suppress the Japanese are of course invincible, 20 years of advantage is not a joke.

"Uncle Shan, you weren't so powerful twenty years ago! Even if he was a sea loach at the beginning, he should have been mixed with the king of the sea for twenty years. The obedient official said with a smile, saying that it is right to despise the opponent strategically, but you have to pay attention to the opponent tactically, right, "In the past twenty years, the family has been dominant, and the old housekeeper in the sea merchant like the Yan family has to change color when he hears the name, and he must still have some ability, of course, this ability must not be looked at in the eyes of Uncle Shan." ”

The obedient official patted Shan Chixia's ass by the way, the more capable people like to be patted on the back, this is the experience of Zheng Guan's five hundred years of foresight.

Therefore, Shan Chixia didn't think about the words of the obedient official, but smiled, "What the young master said makes sense, but that is the matter of the Yan family, and it has nothing to do with our Zheng family." Young master, listen to my advice, you specially went to the door to tell the Yan family the news, it is already benevolent and righteous, not to mention, if you can move the biggest pirate on the sea in Zhejiang to rob the Yan family's goods, I can guess what the Yan family's goods are. ”

When Shan Chixia said this, her eyes couldn't help but reveal a hint of disgust.

The obedient official was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Shan, what kind of goods?" He asked curiously at Yan's house, and at this time, seeing that his old housekeeper could guess it, his curiosity was raging, where was there no reason not to ask.

Snorting, Shan Chixia said disdainfully: "The biggest profit, the most popular for pirates, is, of course, ordnance." ”

Master Chixia has enough reasons to look down on the Yan family, most of the merchants of this dynasty have milk is their mother, what kind of enemy and the like, don't mention it to the businessmen, when the Japanese in Zhejiang were most rampant in the Jiajing year, the Japanese were shouted and beaten all over the world, and there were still businessmen who secretly collected the goods stolen by the Japanese and then sold the ordnance to the Japanese and made a fortune in it.

And what is the sharpest weapon of the Ming Dynasty at this time?

It is not the waist knife made by Qi Jiguang, not the arquebus, but the Francophone cannon.

There are a variety of views in later generations, the mainstream is that the artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty is close to the West, and the number is the first in the world, of course, there are a small number of people who think that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty is better than the West, but one thing is certain, called [Francophone cannon] is by no means [artillery imported from the Franco] meaning, the Ming Dynasty court cast cannons basically at a time to cast thousands, the Ming Dynasty military guards themselves recorded in the military records of firearms cannons, at every turn is basically firearms thousands of meters, artillery thousands of meters, of course, the Ming army has a long habit of eating empty salaries, Therefore, it is estimated that there is a lot of misrepresentation here.

But one thing is certain, the Ming Dynasty likes to make cannons, and then send them to the military guards, then the problem comes, the history books record that the common people can spontaneously donate more than 100 franc machines to help the government fight the Japanese invaders, these are obviously the cannons cast by the maritime merchants who are threatened by the Japanese invaders, but where is the cannon cast by the imperial court to the military guards? You must know that a lot of information shows that the Ming Dynasty casts various sizes of Franc machine guns every year, 50,000 pieces, because the hand cannon of the Ming Dynasty is also called Franc machine, so the annual output of real cannons is definitely not so much, but there are always thousands.

It can be seen from this that the erosion of the military guards in Jiangnan and the reselling of ordnance are already commonplace, and Qi Jiguang has no way to recruit Yiwu soldiers by himself, and the Jiangnan military guards are almost rotten.

People like Shan Chixia, who were born in Zhejiang under Qi Jiguang, are naturally clear about the cats here, and it is strange that they have a good impression of those who resell ordnance.

"What ordnance?" The obedient official naturally didn't know about the closed door for the holiday, "Could it be the waist knife made by Qi Dashuai?" ”

Shan Chixia sneered, "How many knives can Qi Dashuai make, the most favorite thing for the imperial court to build is the Franco cannon." ”

As soon as he said this, the fool also understood, and the obedient official opened his mouth and stammered, "Buddha...... Franc cannon? Uncle Shan is saying that the Yan family colluded with Ningbo Weizhen Haiwei to resell the Franc machine artillery? ”

Shan Chixia sneered, "Apart from the Franc cannon, what else can make such a big profit?" I remember that Qi Dashuai sighed before that the imperial court supervises the manufacture of countless firearms every year, but most of them do not know where to go. ”

, Yan Dazhang's kind-eyed old fox is an arms dealer?

The good official was not able to accept this point of view for a while.

Looking at her young master's expression, Shan Chixia estimated that her words had given the young master great confusion, so she stood up and patted the obedient officer on the shoulder, and whispered: "Young master, Ci is not in charge of the army, and he is obliged to manage money, and I didn't say that the Yan family's crimes are unforgivable." However, now that he knows that the Yan family resells the Franc cannon, in the future, the young master will try to have as little contact with the Yan family as possible, these people are all lying on the court and drinking the blood of the Ming Dynasty! ”

The obedient official still had a dull expression, and said to himself: "There are so many cannons, where can I sell them?" ”

"Naha, Fuso, Manthornga, Zhenla, Java, where is it not easy to sell." Shan Chixia sneered, "Especially Fusang, I have heard those Japanese robbers say that Fusang has sixty-six countries, and the king is called a daimyo, sixty-six kings, there must always be smart people who come to do business with my Ming merchants." ”