The new governor is named Ma Shiying, who was originally the governor of Fengyang, and in his early years, he climbed up by the 9,000-year-old feudal official, and this time he was transferred to Shanghai to be the governor, which is a bit of a diversion from the mountain, so Liu Ziguang does not take this successor seriously, Ma Shiying has been here for three days, and he still has not handed over the governor's seal letter to handle the handover of military and political money and grain.

In the middle of the reconstruction work of Shanghai Wei, Liu Ziguang fulfilled his promise and made Li Peng the commander of Shanghai Wei, disrupted the people of Suzhou Qianhu and the soldiers of Shanghai Wei, and handed him over for retraining, in fact, Li Peng still has some ability, although he can not lead the troops to charge into battle and win a thousand miles, but he is very qualified to garrison and suppress the people, resist bandits, and he has trained troops quite methodically, and the soldiers he trained can at least reach the middle and upper level of the guards in the south of the Yangtze River, and more importantly, this person is quite loyal to Liu Ziguang, and Liu Ziguang is still relieved that he is in charge of the military power in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Navy Division is now only left with an empty shelf, hundreds of remnants and a few Fuyuan cargo ships, and the converted warships are only, but as long as the establishment is there, there is no need to recruit soldiers, erect the recruitment flag, there are food people, the new sailor Qianhu, Wen Getao, walked along the coast by boat, recruited hundreds of soldiers and horses, and successfully recruited the bandit Yang Nanzhen, this big bandit is a bold man, the most respected hero, the good man has long heard of Liu Ziguang's name, plus the official position of the sailor Qianhu promised by the imperial court, he agreed to recruit an almost without hesitation.

Liu Ziguang hid behind the scenes, opened a few businesses, first using the ships left by the Fuyuan, the sailors founded the COSCO Freight Firm, this cargo operation with an official background, to undertake half of the ocean freight business on the market, the business is very hot, compared with COSCO, the Merlin canned food workshop seems a little small, a group of old ladies and daughters-in-law produced canned meat and fruits, no matter how expensive they are, they can't make a few money, but Liu Ziguang has his own plans, everything must be considered in the long run, and now the sales of Meilin canned food are very good, it can be said that the supply exceeds demand, these canned food will be more famous with the flow of merchant ships to all over the world, and one day it can become one of the top two large enterprises in Shanghai。

Liu Ziguang saw the huge profits of the tobacco industry, set up a shop called Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, specializing in selling paper cigarettes, paper cigarettes are smaller, shorter, easy to carry and more fashionable than cigars, the tobacco leaves used in the paper cigarettes produced by this shop are said to be the best varieties imported from Nanyang, the packaging is also very elegant, the wooden box is printed with pictures, lined with tin foil, thirty snow-white straight cigarettes, neatly stacked inside, a box will be sold for five cents of silver, you don't have to be too expensive, because money may not be able to buy the spot, most of the products of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Store were the first hand in Shanghai today, the acting governor of the Governor Liu, all sent to the capital as tribute。

According to people who have seen the tribute cigarettes, this extremely luxurious cigarette is packaged in a golden silk nanmu box, and the box is inlaid with pure gold and has two gold characters

"China". The cigarette box is filled with gold leaf, and every ten boxes of cigarettes are packed in a red velvet box, called a cigarette.

This kind of Chinese brand cigarettes are sent to the Imperial Palace, and they are redistributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is said that the prince-level is the prince who can receive a half-strip, and the prince can only receive a box, and other earls and marquis can only wait for the emperor's favor.

There is no trace of Chinese tobacco in Shanghai, and only the most well-informed people can rely on their connections to get some low standards

"Old Knife" Cigarettes, this kind of one-legged pirate with a scimitar in the packaging, very exotic, the market price of five cents of silver, a box, in fact, the black market has been fried to the sky-high price of three taels of silver, so it is still in short supply, every Shanghainese can get a box of old knife brand cigarettes as their own glory, with a cigarette in their mouth as a symbol of status, but the former popular Song Dynasty cigars have become a symbol of obsolescence and old-fashioned, in fact, cigarettes were only a substitute for dock workers with cigarette butts and newspapers, and Liu Ziguang is so tricked with a mysterious package, and it has become the favorite of the upper class, the more limited production, the more it arouses people's strong purchases**The cost of a box of cigarettes is almost small, but the profit is amazing, and the silver flows to Liu Ziguang's pocket faster than grabbing money.

In addition, Liu Ziguang also bought land and houses on a large scale, and the corrupt officials in Shanghai Province were investigated and punished, and a large number of the properties they left behind were purchased by Liu Ziguang at a low price, hoarded and waited for appreciation, and he also bought a small shipyard by the river, named Jiangnan Shipyard, and recruited a large number of workers and technicians as a base for his own sea power.

Finally, when it was time to leave Shanghai, Liu Ziguang handed over the Shanghai Daoyin letter, which symbolized power, to Ma Shiying, and then Ma Shiying invited Liu Ziguang to his home for a banquet and drink, and after delivering the seal letter, Ma Shiying was the justifiable governor of Shanghai, but he didn't dare to hold it up in front of Liu Ziguang, but instead spoke respectfully one by one, and Ma Shiying was very talkative, and he was very talkative, and finally somehow it was related to Liu Ziguang's marriage.

"The Huns have not been destroyed, why is the family an adult, the high wind and bright festival is really admirable, but now that the Tartars are destroyed, it is only in an instant, should adults also consider this issue." At this time, the two sides were already drunk, and the two sides no longer had the strangeness when they first started the banquet, Ma Shiying was twenty years older than Liu Ziguang, and put on the posture of an old brother to help Liu Ziguang solve personal problems.

Liu Ziguang hurriedly said that he was still young, and he should focus on the military affairs of the imperial court and the military affairs, and not panic to consider marriage, Ma Shiying did not relent, but he did not give up, and he had to make a cameo appearance, and the matchmaker helped Liu Ziguang arrange a room for his daughter-in-law. Ma Lian'er shyly walked over to Liu Ziguang and said, "The slave family has seen Uncle Liu." Liu Ziguang hurriedly said, "Hurry up, please get up." But I felt that something was wrong, how could there be a young lady from an official eunuch's family, and as expected, Ma Shiying beat her daughter out and began to protect the media: "My daughter is twenty-eight years old, and it is the time when she should be allowed to be a family, but she has revered heroes since she was a child, and said that she would never marry a scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, and if she wants to marry, she will marry a big hero with a horizontal sword, hehe, Lord Liu, the little girl who broke the Tartar serial horse back then, but after listening to it countless times, she can almost recite it backwards." Speaking of which, it is already very clear that if Liu Ziguang is interested in that girl, he should turn his head and say goodbye to his father-in-law, or be reserved and say nothing in person, and wait for someone to be a matchmaker, but to Ma Shiying's surprise, Liu Ziguang was unmoved, just nodded lightly and said: "I must be concerned about my niece's marriage, we have many young and promising generals in the Ming Dynasty." I'll help you make a list and think about it slowly. Ma Shiying was slightly embarrassed, but he quickly pretended to be fine, and greeted Liu Ziguang warmly, and continued to drink, for Ma Shiying's approach, Liu Ziguang understood very well, as a governor who had no backing, but he was in danger all the time, and the people in the court knew that Shanghai Dao was now Liu Ziguang's sphere of influence, and pushed him to the forefront, probably trying to use Liu Ziguang's hand to bring down this person.

Ma Shiying's file, Liu Ziguang has seen it, although this person was attached to the eunuch party in his early years, but this is not an unforgivable crime, even Qian Qianyi had a very close relationship with the eunuch party and the queen party, let alone a local governor.

As a parent official, Ma Shiying still has some ability, and now people are trying their best to show favor to themselves, and even do not hesitate to send their daughter Liu Ziguang feels that this person is moving closer to him, anyway, there is a lack of middle and high-level civil officials in his hands, so it is better to accept this person.

"In the future, everything in Shanghai will be entrusted to Brother Yaocao, Shanghai is the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River, merchants from all over the world gather here, and there are more than 10 million passengers in and out of the goods every day, and one out of ten of our Ming taxes come from here, so the responsibility of being the governor here is heavier than Mount Tai." Liu Ziguang said earnestly.

"What Brother Ziguang said is very true, the younger brother must remember it in his heart, and he must do his best to run Shanghai for the imperial court, but Xia Guan has recently been transferred from Fengyang. For a while, I was very unfamiliar, so I asked Brother Ziguang for more advice, and I had to ask for advice often in the future, hoping that Liu Ziguang would not hesitate to give advice at that time. This is Ma Shiying's attitude: Shanghai Dao is still your Liu Ziguang's Shanghai Dao, I am just here to help you take care of the house, at most I am just a housekeeper, and you still have the idea when you encounter major events.

Liu Ziguang was very satisfied, and said a few words of reassurance, even if the two sides reached a preliminary cooperation intention, there was no blood alliance, and there was no written oath, just like the original alliance with Hu Yimin, relying on mutual trust.

For him, I may be the best backer, and I have made a lot of achievements in the war, and the future of the old minister from Long is limitless, and I cover him, so why worry about someone in the court framing and attacking.

Liu Ziguang thought so. For him, I may be the best partner, don't look at him, he has become such a high-ranking official at a young age, but he has risen too fast, it is precisely his shortcoming, there is no reliable civil official group under his hands, for him, this high position is as dangerous as a tower on the sand, and it would be better to have a veteran officialdom like me join his camp at that time, Ma Shiying thought so.