Yang Xin nodded and said: "Yes, so, don't look at the surface scenery of my Xingwang, in fact, I am poor and white, and I may not be able to support it at any time, the homeless thieves in Dengzhou alone are as high as hundreds of thousands, and if I don't raise more soldiers, I won't be robbed by them to cook and eat meat!" ”

Fan Yuxuan finally couldn't help it, this person is simply a mouthful, how many people can there be in the entire Dengzhou, there will be hundreds of thousands of rogues who believe him as a ghost.

I had to change the subject and say, "What about your beautiful lady?" ”

Speaking of the princess, Yang Xin felt a pain in his heart and laughed at himself: "I thought I was too poor and ran away with a rich man." ”

Fan Yuxuan didn't know if what he said was true, but he must have left, and no one would make such a joke about his wife.

So he comforted: "It's okay, King Xing is so capable, the future is limitless, if you want beautiful women, I want as many as I want." ”

Yang Xin was no longer in the mood to chat, thinking of the princess, he felt full of energy, quickly finished eating, and decided to go to the barracks to inspect it, looking at the army that was gradually getting stronger, his heart would be a little more stable.

But what I didn't expect, this Fan Yuxuan has been cheeky since she was rejected by Yang Xin, and she can't get rid of it, Yang Xin doesn't want to say too heavy words, so she has to let her, maybe it's just that after the princess left, she was too lonely and didn't make a ruthless effort, who knows.

When she arrived at the barracks, Fan Yuxuan was shocked by the military appearance of the Daxing Army, the school field of thousands of people, horizontal and vertical, the queue was neat, and the general's command was like an arm, and the military order went down, and the recruits reacted a little slower than a whip, and shouted earth-shattering slogans when running.

Yang Xin was very satisfied with her expression and asked, "How does the girl look at my Daxing Army?" ”

Fan Yuxuan thought for a while and said, "It's indeed a strong army, I see that you musketeers account for more than half, where did you get so many muskets?" ”

Yang Xin said with a smile: "They were all smuggled from the south at a high price." ”

Fan Yuxuan was speechless and said, "It's all about buying?" How much does it cost? How much does it cost to smuggle a musket from the South? ”

Yang Xin had to smile bitterly, he searched the entire Dengzhou arsenal, and only found more than 1,000 arquebuses, and the rest relied on these local tyrants to smuggle through various channels, the price was much higher than the original, the price of a gun was basically 150 taels of silver, just these more than 5,000 guns, and some cannons, it cost nearly a million taels.

"About one hundred and fifty taels!"

Yang Xin replied honestly.

Fan Yuxuan was stunned and scolded: "You are a loser, you spend millions on guns, and you still eat three dishes and one soup with this girl, are you so stingy?" ”

Yang Xin laughed proudly and said, "Buying a gun is to save your life, eating is also good, just starve to death!" ”

Fan Yuxuan said suddenly: "Actually, I can also get you a musket, even if you are cheaper, only one hundred and thirty taels, what do you think?" ”

Yang Xin was stunned, didn't the Qing Dynasty always like to use big swords, spears and bows and arrows? How do you also study guns?

"Is this true?"

Fan Yuxuan nodded and said, "Don't you know?" When Gongshun Wang Kong Youde caused trouble in Shandong, he took away a large number of firearms craftsmen to defect to the Qing Dynasty, and now the regent is making every effort to develop firearms. ”

What she didn't tell Yang Xin is that their Fan family recently set up a large-scale musket manufacturing workshop, specializing in making muskets for Dolgon, Dolgon's appetite is very big, requiring tens of thousands of muskets, and improving the process of musket manufacturing, reducing the cost, the current cost price is only sixty taels, of course, the reason why it is so low is that her Fan family gives craftsmen extremely low treatment is related, basically can only keep not starving to death.

Yang Xin was overjoyed and said: "Okay, as long as it is a qualified musket, I want it for as much as this price!" ”

Fan Yuxuan nodded, and then whispered: "You must not make a noise about this, and you must not let the regent know." ”

Yang Xin understood that she was doing business with her master because of her official and private interests, and immediately said: "This is natural, and this king is not stupid!" Can you get a cannon? The price is good to say! ”

The two hit it off and signed a contract on the spot to buy 5,000 muskets, with a total price of 650,000 taels, even if it is a giant businessman like the Fan family, the profit of more than 300,000 taels is not a small amount, enough for Fan Yuxuan to carry out small actions behind his master's back for these money.

Yang Xin suddenly felt that Fan Yuxuan was much more pleasing to the eye, and that night, he added eight dishes to her, and Yang Xin planned in his heart, with this batch of muskets, he could storm another 10,000 soldiers and expand the main force to 20,000.

But Fan Yuxuan still didn't leave, and continued to stick to herself, just sent two guards back with the contract to inform the manufacture of muskets.

Yang Xin has nothing to do with her, the key is that his strength is too weak now, and he doesn't dare to stand up against the Qing Dynasty in the open, and he must maintain a friendly attitude towards the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that Fan Yuxuan signed an arms contract with him, and he had to coax her to bring the musket.

"What? You're going to come with me to the court? ”

The next day, when Yang Xin was preparing for the court meeting, Fan Yuxuan came over early in the morning and actually said that he wanted to go together.

"Hehe, do you have anything else to hide from this girl?"

Fan Yuxuan didn't let it go at all.

Yang Xin smiled bitterly in his heart, "Okay, just go, you can pretend to be the maidservant next to the king, and stand and listen." ”

Yang Xin had a headache, but he was helpless, what else could you say to a cheeky person?

Yang Xin came to the government with a nervous mood, as usual, Bai Youcai reported the progress of various major events in the past few days, and said some matters that need the cooperation of various departments, Yang Xin just wants to end it as soon as possible, so as to save Fan Yuxuan, the detailed work of the Qing court, to listen to too much of his own details.

So he asked, "Is there anything else going on today?" ”

Bai Youcai said: "Huixing Wang, the autumn harvest is basically completed, the money and grain taxes in various places have been quickly paid, and no one is in arrears. ”

As soon as I heard the dividends, everyone widened their eyes and listened, this is a matter of everyone's income, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were paid, all of them relied on the support of the squires, Daxing not only greatly reduced the taxes, only three layers, and most of the squires became shareholders, and they had to share half of the taxes when they received them.

Xu Sheng stood up and said: "King Xing, now Daxing is going to use troops on a large scale and open up sea trade, which costs a lot of money, is it not going to be sent together next year?" ”

Xu Sheng is now in charge of Daxing Qianzhuang, this dividend is not a small amount, as soon as it is divided, the silver of Qianzhuang will flow out in an uproar, and it is natural to be heartbroken.

Daniel Zhang also stood up and said, "What Shopkeeper Xu said is right, the army will also expand on a large scale, and the expansion of the army mentioned by King Xing before is 10,000, after the autumn harvest comes up, there is enough money and food, and it is just right to expand the army." ”

What Daniel Zhang wants most now is to expand the army, he is also ambitious, the more soldiers under his command, the greater the power naturally.

Everyone sighed in their hearts, and the leaders of both the civil and military sides were opposed, and it seemed that there was no hope of dividends.

"No, calculate it as soon as possible, the dividends of each national will be paid in full, and the shareholders who stay in the capital will not pay them for the time being, and they will be paid together next year."

Yang Xin resolutely objected, and everyone was overjoyed, especially the new gentry, who were a little worried about Daxing's dividends, after all, it was said that the money was also on the books, and the silver was lying in the money bank, not sent to their own pockets, and they were always not at ease.