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The heads of these great families and big businessmen here are not ignorant, and most of them still have some understanding of overseas. But it is still not clear how big the world is, and of course it is not clear to those in Europe now, because the world is far from being explored. For hundreds of years, there have been countless mainland merchants going to sea to trade, and there are many records of this. The profits in this are terrifying, and they often go to sea once and exceed their business in the mainland for a year.

And at this moment, Geng Jingzhong's words moved them, if they really participated, the future development of their family would be unlimited! For overseas exploration and grabbing territory, the most worrying thing is, of course, your own safety. After all, there are indigenous people in the area, and maybe there are colonists who arrived first, and everyone else is fully armed. The indigenous population also had certain weapons. When it comes to turf, they are likely to lose. The Mawei Army is indeed powerful, and they have also seen the naval warships on the river, which is not a little stronger than the Qing court naval division, which can be seen from the fact that the Mawei navy can destroy hundreds of warships of the Jiangning naval division at a very small cost. However, no matter how powerful the Mawei Navy is, then they can't always rely on the power of the Mawei Army all the time!

But now, Geng Jingzhong's words have swept away their last worries, and there is no zài at all. They can actually get from Geng Jingzhong's hands. Buy weapons, armor, weapons and ammunition directly! There were weapons like cannons and rifles for the Matails. What other enemies are they worried about? Encounter enemies with little strength. You can solve it yourself. If you encounter a large number of enemies, there will naturally be a horsetail army to come forward. It can be said that all the conditions for external expansion have been met. Dazzling riches await them.

What a catchy word! The boundless land is even more exciting! The most attractive thing is independence, Geng Jingzhong's sentence ended. It was as if he himself could see that a group of merchants in the land of China, like locusts, were looking for precious resources all over the world. The swords and guns in their hands are the most powerful weapons. All those who oppose them will be killed. Whether it is the colonizers from the West or the local natives. There is only one end of rebellion - death!

The problem of guns and ammunition may be a little troublesome for the time being, but cold weapons and the like are not a problem at all. It can be mass-produced in every part of the country. There is no need for Geng Jingzhong to produce his own weapons at all, he only needs to order and allow each family to make their own weapons. And the Mawei Army took Jiangnan. With the support of these great families, it was easy to use the resources of Jiangnan to expand the musket workshop, and of course, this qiē had to be tightly controlled in the hands of the Mawei Army.

With the current production capacity of the Mawei Army, it will only take one year for the production of rifles to fill the gap needed by their own families, and then a considerable number of rifles can be sold to various groups. Geng Jingzhong is not worried that others will imitate the rifle at all, and without good technology, he will not be able to make the powerful rifle used in the hands of the Mawei Army, even if he tries his best to make a rifled gun, there is no way to mass produce it like the Mawei Army. The quality will not be as good as that made of alloy in the horsetail arms workshop, you know, the rifling wear in the rifled gun is very strict, and the steel is not good, and it won't take long at all.

In the future, as long as the merchants had money, the Mawei Army would be able to sell them a large amount of weapons, armor, weapons and ammunition. At the same time, the Mawei Army can also do large-scale arms trading, which is also a great source of revenue. While the merchants went out to explore, the Ponytail Army could also be everywhere, following along and collecting resources everywhere.

The gold Geng Jingzhong just mentioned is just one of the resources. Other important resources such as silver ore, copper ore, tin ore, iron ore, coal mine, and oil are basically reflected in that small book. As for whether they have the ability to do it, to be precise, whether the Mawei Army has the ability to get it depends on his Geng Jingzhong's skills.

"If one of you feels that it is difficult for you to succeed in external expansion with your own strength, you might as well unite several companies and set up a company or something, just like the Dutch East India Company, to expand abroad and make money together. As long as it's a profitable business, you can get involved. Even, you can form your own pirate fleet, rob the merchant ships of other countries, and make huge profits, I will allow it. Geng Jingzhong smiled slightly and threw a bombshell again.

The businessmen of China just like infighting too much. For foreign fighting, I am still not very good. To put it simply, it is a strong fight in the nest, and in the face of foreign enemies, it is a bit cowardly. On the issue of dealing with the Tartars back then, it was very obvious. The eight imperial merchants in Shanxi not only did not help their home country, but instead supported the enemy country for the sake of interests...... What Geng Jingzhong has to do now is to stimulate their bloodiness and stimulate their struggle against outsiders.

However, unfortunately, his bombshell has no effect for the time being. The merchant representatives have not thought of it for the time being! The information Geng Jingzhong gave them, they haven't fully digested it! And, it seems, according to traditional Chinese Confucianism, it seems that ordinary merchants have no interest in being pirates. Probably because of the stimulation of the gold origin, the resentment of several salt merchants who had looked at Geng Jingzhong with resentment on their faces at this moment has completely dissipated. Subsequently, they generously let Geng Jingzhong leave, and then they had a heated discussion. It was estimated that it would take them several days to fully digest the information Geng Jingzhong had given them. Developing overseas is not a trivial matter! They definitely have to think it through.

When it comes to money, the last thing they lack in these families and big businessmen is money, and the other is manpower. Manpower doesn't seem to be a problem, the land of China has a large population, even if they are densely populated in the Jiangnan area, they don't have to worry about recruiting people. They were right, the mainland had a population of more than 80 million at this time. This Jiangnan province alone has reached more than 5 million. That's more than the combined number of small European countries.

The whole world has a population of less than 500 million at the moment. The land of China accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, and Geng Jingzhong believes that they still have the strength to explore overseas continents to compete for resources. On the other hand, Geng Jingzhong threw out this bait, the main purpose was to bring all these Jiangnan families to his side, so that when the Qing court counterattacked Jiangnan, there would be Jiangnan people, Jiangnan families, and wealthy businessmen to help. It will be easy to resist the Qing army!

The conference was held for three days in a row, every day was an hour and a half, Geng Jingzhong discussed the details with these family owners, carefully solved their doubts, and also showed them the military appearance of the Mawei Army, as well as a series of weapons, including all kinds of cannons, rifles, and well-made cold weapons made by the Mawei Arsenal, all kinds of swords, guns, swords and halberds dazzled everyone's eyes. Not to mention artillery muskets, they are definitely super powerful weapons. And there is also a cold weapon that surprises everyone, that is, the armor created by the Mawei Army.

Ancient Chinese generals, especially today's generals, generally wore traditional armor. The scope of application of the rules for wearing this armor can be separately listed as scale armor, two gears, waist-length armor and many other types, but its essence is still the deformation of the armor of the Han Dynasty in China, which is still made of superimposed or sewn armor, and the general's helmet follows the ancient helmet, with phoenix wings on the face, which has the majestic momentum of the beast face swallowing helmet, and still has a greater defense against the wearer's non-face, and does not affect the visual range.

However, this kind of armor is too laborious, and it takes three or five craftsmen who are proficient in armor making to work continuously for nearly a month to make a collar, so the value of this armor is extremely high, and it cannot be made without fifty taels of silver. This is also the reason why only generals can wear this kind of armor in the army. There are also more troublesome chain mail, etc., these armors have been abandoned by Geng Jingzhong, even if they are cooler and better-looking, but they are too time-consuming.

Therefore, Geng Jingzhong adopted the Western method of making zuò plate armor, but the style is a synthesis of the preferences of the Chinese people, otherwise, even the soldiers of the cavalry division of the Mawei Army do not like it. The Mawei Army did not lack steel at all, and a large amount of iron ore was smelted into refined iron, and even alloys were made, which made the Mawei Army have mature conditions for making a large number of plate armor. Tens of thousands of cavalry divisions of the Mawei Army are now wearing such plate armor, and with such a cavalry, there is no need to rely on rifles, and the Mawei Army feels that it can compete with the 100,000 troops of the Qing court.

The merchants and the heads of the families went back satisfied, they had obtained enough things from the Mawei army, and they must have prepared for this when they returned. There are those who are ready to act independently, and there are those who unite several companies, and each of them is prepared differently, and the places they are going to are also different. No matter what, most of these people have accepted the Mawei Army and Geng Jingzhong! Geng Jingzhong didn't know how sincere these people were, but no matter what, under the control of his Mawei Army, there would be no trouble!

At the end of the meeting for a few days, Geng Jingzhong also had a rare trip out of the Forbidden City of Jinling, and came to all parts of Jinling City to admire this ancient city. In today's Nanjing, except for the area of Jinchuan Gate in the north, there are no traces of war in other areas. There were fierce battles between the Mawei army and the Qing defenders at various gates of Jinling City. Now, the traces of these fierce battles have basically been cleaned up. The bombed-out gates were also reinstalled, and when you looked up, you could see that they were new, and the big brass nails on them were yellow and shiny.

At the beginning, the residents who fled Jinling City have basically returned. This Jinling City is really not comparable to Fuzhou City, there are at least 600,000 people in this city, almost twice the size of Fuzhou City. As the largest city in the Jiangnan region, the prosperity of Jinling City has basically not been affected by the war, although it is indeed a little affected, but it is rapidly recovering.

"The Grand Duke!"

Mu Tianyan, the former political envoy of the Qing court to Jiangnan and the current temporary governor of Jiangnan of the Mawei Army, greeted Geng Jingzhong's arrival outside the Chaoyang Gate. The ancestor of Mu Tianyan is a member of the Xianbei tribe in western Liaoning, with the surname Murong, and during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the ancestor of the Murong family, Murong Hao, established the former Yan regime. Later, the Murong ethnic group was dispersed. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Murong clan went to Pingliang as an official, and then the family was quiet. After Mu Tianyan's father Mu Zhong, he changed his surname to "Murong" and changed his surname to "Mu".

Four years ago, Liu Zhaoqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, played Kangxi, saying that Mu Tianyan was well versed in the political affairs of the border seas, and asked him to transfer to Xingquan Road, Fujian. However, he has not yet taken office, and it happened that there was a vacancy in Jiangsu's political envoy. The officials are invited to ask for money. Kangxi endowed the land with Jiangsu's wealth. Non-meritocracy is not enough for this task. Mu Tianyan was then awarded the title of political envoy of Jiangsu. When he took office, his predecessor only handed over 18,000 taels of silver to the provincial treasury, but now, under his rule, the silver in stock at this moment has reached more than 1,497,000 taels, and the items are clear and the funds are clear. This is still a lot of money used by the Qing court in the case of a large number of soldiers, otherwise this treasury silver will be more. It is recorded in the history books. Kangxi therefore rewarded Mu Tianyan, the content is: "Su, the pine wealth is huge, and it has always been confused, after Mu Tianyan was appointed as the political envoy, he worked hard and tried his best to clarify it. The money will be cleaned, and the political envoys will explain it in the future. It should be in this way, detailing the booklet, with the title, and formulating the rules and regulations. ”

Although he received the usual filial piety, but Mu Tianyan himself is not a corrupt official, the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the waterways crisscross the country, Mu Tianyan as the political envoy of Jiangsu, asked the governor, and started to dredge the Wusong River and Liuhe silt, although it has not yet been completed, but we can meet each other, and after the completion of the project, it will inevitably be able to ensure the drought and flood of the six counties of Su, Song, Chang, Jia, Hu and Hangzhou, which is also a point that Geng Jingzhong attaches great importance to. After capturing Mu Tianyan, Geng Jingzhong was also bitter, and finally subdued this internal affairs talent with great effort. When it comes to handling internal affairs, it is estimated that Yao Qisheng can compare with it.

Mu Tianyan has rich experience in politics, but he has already governed Jinling in an orderly manner after only half a month. Geng Jingzhong was quite satisfied with what he saw. This once again shows that as long as it is used with the right people, no matter how difficult the problem is, it can be easily solved. A few days ago, before the conference, in the side hall of the Forbidden City, Mu Tianyan gave him a detailed report on the progress of Jinling's work.

Mu Tianyan knew that Geng Jingzhong cared about the people, so he specifically mentioned that due to the drought last year, there was not much grain in the south of the Yangtze River, so at this time, the people were having a hard time. So Geng Jingzhong waved his pen and ordered the organization of ships on the Yangtze River to transport grain to Fujian, but Fujian was not short of grain, and Luzon Island was constantly sending grain, which was enough to support the Jiangnan side. As long as there is a sufficient supply of food, the law and order in Jinling City can be quickly stabilized. As the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart. This sentence works at all times. The boats on the river sailed together, and the people in the cities and towns on both sides of the strait knew about it, and they all praised Geng Jing's loyalty and love for the people!

"Let's go, accompany me to the Qinhuai River to have a look, the governor of Pontus has not seen the most prosperous place in Jinling City! By the way, what is the situation in Qinhuai River? Introduce me?! Geng Jingzhong suddenly asked.

Mu Tianyan's expression was a little strange, and he stopped talking. Geng Jingzhong didn't react, looked at Mu Tianyan's face, and felt that something was wrong. I looked at the people around me and felt that their faces were also a little wrong. He still didn't react, and said a little confused: "You guys...... What's going on? ”

Gu Ping, the chief of the personal guard, reminded in a low voice: "Young Master, the Qinhuai River is the land of fireworks......

"Ahem! I know"

"What's this!" Geng Jingzhong shook his head and smiled dumbly.

It turned out that I had asked a somewhat awkward question. I went out of the Forbidden City to the streets of Jinling City, didn't ask anything, and asked Qinhuai River as soon as I opened my mouth. It turned out to be the joke, and when I first arrived, I asked if there were any prostitutes in the area. However, in Geng Jingzhong's heart, he didn't mean anything to Qin Huaihe, he just wanted to see it. Geng Jingzhong said calmly: "Don't misunderstand, everyone. I'm asking, after our Mawei Army took control of Jinling City, has there been any change in the business of Qinhuai River? Some people say that the business of Qinhuai River is a barometer of whether Jinling City is prosperous. If Qinhuaihe's business is too sluggish, it means that our business has not yet developed! "It turned out that I asked a somewhat awkward question. I went out of the Forbidden City to the streets of Jinling City, didn't ask anything, and asked Qinhuai River as soon as I opened my mouth. It turned out to be the joke, and when I first arrived, I asked if there were any prostitutes in the area. However, in Geng Jingzhong's heart, he didn't mean anything to Qin Huaihe, he just wanted to see it. Geng Jingzhong said calmly: "Don't misunderstand, everyone. I'm asking, after our Mawei Army took control of Jinling City, has there been any change in the business of Qinhuai River? Some people say that the business of Qinhuai River is a barometer of whether Jinling City is prosperous. If Qinhuaihe's business is too sluggish, it means that our business has not yet developed! ”

Mu Tianyan replied cautiously: "It is said that during this time, there are fewer guests. However, it should have nothing to do with the commercial trade of Jinling City. The main reason is that those businessmen, who are afraid of the new laws and regulations of the Mawei Army, do not dare to continue to go to the Qinhuai River, so the Qinhuai River naturally has a lot less customers. ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded, indicating that he understood.

Mu Tianyan replied cautiously: "It is said that during this time, there are fewer guests. However, it should have nothing to do with the commercial trade of Jinling City. The main reason is that those businessmen, who are afraid of the new laws and regulations of the Mawei Army, do not dare to continue to go to the Qinhuai River, so the Qinhuai River naturally has a lot less customers. ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded, indicating that he understood. (To be continued......)