"Eighteen sons, main artifact! What does Li Shuai mean to make Li Zicheng the traitor the emperor? Is he worthy? ”

The meaning of these two sentences is too obvious, that is, the surname Li, when he is the emperor, Li Youcai is very self-aware, he knows that this Li is absolutely impossible to be his own Li, and the handsome let Zhao Erniu spread among Li Zicheng's army, that must be to pry Li Zicheng as the emperor.

Li Xingzhi smiled and said nothing, the surname Li is the main artifact, Li Zicheng is in the army, but Li Zicheng is not the only one surnamed Li.

"Eighteen sons, the main artifact; Eighteen sons, the main artifact. ”

Chen Wen, who understood the meaning of the eighteen sons and the main artifact, read it twice, and Huo Ran said: "Our handsome family is also surnamed Li, Li Zicheng did it, and our handsome family naturally did it, who else in this world can compare with our handsome?" ”

"Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow to become king! You remember that the rafters rot first, and there is meat in the bun that is not on the lips, what we have to do now is to expand the strength of our Jingbei Army as much as possible, instead of trying to make an emperor's false name, as long as our strength is strong enough, it is natural to be called the emperor and the king. ”

In front of his subordinates, Li Xingzhi made no secret of his ambitions, of course, he also had the qualifications to covet that supreme position, relying on Leiden's 10,000 Jingbei Army and more than 4,000 green flag soldiers.

Since the Military Intelligence Department has already selected a candidate to go to the battle, Li Xingzhi naturally wants to take action immediately.

He Jinyin, Guo Daorong, and Chen De traveled relatively simply, and they just followed the caravan to Nandu, Jingshi, and Fujian respectively.

Speaking of caravans, Li Xingzhi naturally invited Jinan's rich gentry Kong Wenming and Mei Jiuye and others.

"What does Li Shuai mean, let's go to buy tea, porcelain and silk now?"

In the flower hall, Kong Wenming impatiently consulted Li Xingzhi.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Shuai has always been true to his word, we are going to Nandu, Jingshi, Zhejiang, and Fujian to purchase all kinds of materials needed by Xiyi, because our sailors in Leiden Town can do it within two months, and the imperial court has also sent several Xiyi to our Leiden, with them to help us contact, are you still worried that you can't earn silver?"

Li Xingzhi tapped lightly on the case, with a confident smile on his face, hugging the grass and beating the rabbit, and quickly weaving his intelligence network in the name of purchasing materials.

Kong Wenming relied on his own investment of 300,000 taels of silver, and took the lead in asking: "Peng Laibo, are you going to prepare for the city division in Dengzhou?" I wonder what the city's charter is? ”

Li Xingzhi said loudly: "Mr. Kong, Ben Bo has always been true to his word, and after agreeing to your proposal, Ben Bo has been preparing to set up the City Ship Division, of course, this City Ship Division is our Leyden people's own, not the imperial court, do you understand?" ”

"It's extreme, it's extreme, this city is our people in Leiden, if the imperial court wants to collect taxes, it is to compete with the people for profit, the uncle has a big head, out of 2.5 million taels of dry shares, we only gave 1.8 million taels of money and grain when we were in Jinan, and there is still 700,000 taels short of the five million start-up capital that the uncle said, this money, I Kong Wenming has covered it alone."

"Why? Brother Kong, be kind, you have to be kind, you have paid for the 700,000 taels alone, wouldn't our brothers only have to drink soup after us? ”

Mei Jiuye is very dissatisfied with Kong Wenming's big package, you have silver for co-authoring, don't we have silver?

"You're ......!"

Kong Wenming's angry face was full of green muscles, as a side branch of the Kong family, when had he ever been scolded like this.

"Okay, don't make any noise, listen to Ben Shuai take out the articles of association of the city first, can you decide to make additional investments!"

Li Xingzhi was very satisfied with the gentry who included themselves in the ranks of the people, and the most powerful voice in the Ming Dynasty was not the "people" in front of them.

Kong Wenming and the others didn't dare to speak, the Penglaibo in front of him was a ruthless person, the general soldiers of a town said to kill him, the Dewangfu said that he was robbed, and the governor of Shandong said that he would be tied up, but there was nothing to do, the court not only sealed the official and made a wish, but also actively prepared a fleet of sailors for him, which could not be provoked at all.

"Mr. Qian, you will explain the structure and articles of association of the city to the gentry."

Li Xingzhi doesn't care what they think, he has to use his rules to do things in Leiden.

"Subordinates obey!"

Qian Anning glanced at the gentry, took out an inscription book from his sleeve pocket, opened it and read: "The sea ships that go to sea in Lyden Town must receive the corresponding official certificate from the Leyden City Shipping Department before they can go to sea, otherwise they will be punished for violating the order; The return ship must return to the city of Leiden, register on the spot, and pay taxes, which is also determined by your shares, and whoever has more shares will enjoy higher treatment. ”

"For example, if Mr. Kong subscribes for one million taels of dry shares, then Mr. Kong can account for 20% of the goods we go to sea every time."

"On the other hand, if a foreign ship enters Leiden, all the goods must be uniformly distributed and purchased by the Marshal's Office, and sold at a unified price, of course, the distribution of these goods is determined according to your dry shares, and if anyone hoards Juqi and raises prices, all shares will be confiscated and his qualifications will be deprived of his qualifications."

If you want to go to sea by yourself, you can rent the sea boat of our Leiden Town Naval Division, or you can order a sea ship in Leiden Town, you can rest assured, as long as it is a sea ship flying the flag of my Leiden Town, it will be protected by my Jingbei Military Naval Division, but the tax of going to sea by yourself is relatively higher, which is sixty percent of the net profit. ”

"Mr. Qian, then our goods are transported by the Jingbei Military Marshal's Mansion, how much tax does the Military Marshal's Mansion collect?"

After listening to Qian Anning's words, Kong Wenming and the others knew what Li Xingzhi meant, that is, whoever has more silver will get more benefits.

"Unified management by the Military Marshal's Office, the Military Marshal's Office only collects 20% of your taxes, and the use of this money is mainly for the salaries of the personnel of the Municipal Shipping Division and the maintenance of sailors and the construction of new warships, if we want to expand, we must have more, larger warships to safeguard our interests, do you know that Zheng Zhilong in Fujian has 3,000 warships, and the protection fees collected every year alone are tens of millions of taels, not to mention that he also does maritime trade."

"Mr. Qian, how much cargo can we carry on a transport ship to go to sea?"

Merchants are profit-seeking, and their primary concern is how much material they can load at a time.

"The transport ships of the Dengzhou Navy Division are generally small boats of two or three hundred materials, according to the official's estimates, the transport ships of the Tianjin and Yangtze River Navy Divisions are about the same size, we still have to load food and fresh water, and we can load hundreds of thousands of catties of goods at one time, but you must know that when these materials are transported to the Wa Kingdom, a boat can bring back hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, or goods of the same value."

"Our marshal has requisitioned a total of 100 sea ships to the imperial court, think about it, as long as we go to sea, how much silver can we earn?"

Qian Anning obviously did an investigation, and the profit in it was clear, of course, this was only gross profit, and the risk was not taken into account.

"Well, Mr. Qian said it well! The city of the division of the marshal will be handed over to you, all the city of the division of officials at all levels by your selection, it is best from the people to recruit those who know how to do arithmetic, as for the location of the city of the division is located in Jiaoao, which is located on the coast, near Huangdao has an excellent deep-water port wharf, the commander will draw the corresponding military horses to protect the safety of Jiaoao. ”