Quanzhou Mansion, Wen family.

Wen Yingju, the head of the house, was sitting in the hall with his eyes closed, a pot of good Suzhou Biluochun was placed at hand, and the heat of the tea rose like a fairy mist.

Wen Yingju also held a tobacco that has been very fashionable in Quanzhou recently, and the special smoke seems to have a unique attraction when inhaled into his heart. He liked it too, especially when he was contemplating, and the faint mint smell seemed to calm him down.

With a squeak, the door was pushed open, and Wen Yingju's only son, Wen Chengjun, walked in from the outside. Wen Yingju ran a sea boat when he was young, and he only had Wen Chengjun as a lone seedling when he was nearly forty years old, so he was very doting on his son.

Wen Chengjun was wearing a purple round-necked shirt, dressed as a scholar, with a white complexion, and a well-informed appearance, and shouted to Wen Yingju after entering the door, and Shi Shiran sat on the chair on the side.

"Dad, the son of the proprietor behind the Lingyan Pavilion has already been investigated."

"Who is it?" Wen Yingju's slightly closed eyes slowly opened and looked at Wen Chengjun.

"It's the kid of the Yang family who was divorced by the Shen family some time ago, I don't know who opened the joint for him, got the field of creation, and even inherited the command of Yongningwei Tongzhi, and also opened this Lingyan Pavilion in the name of his own housekeeper, it is said that in the next few days there will be a branch in Quanzhou!"

Wen Chengjun said disappreciatively the news he had inquired about, and his tone and eyes were full of disdain.

The corners of Wen Yingju's eyes jumped slightly.

"A hairy boy who is less than twenty years old can inherit a real guard commander Tongzhi, this creation is really not small!" Wen Yingju said meaningfully, handed the tobacco to his mouth again, took a puff, and spit out a long puff of smoke.

Wen Chengjun on the side pouted disdainfully: "No matter how big the creation is, the woman who is married to the fingertips is not mine!" ”

Not long ago, the Shen family and the Wen family had already handed each other marriage letters and set their names, Shen Junyi was already Wen Chengjun's nominal wife at this time, thinking of Shen Junyi's beautiful and clean face, Wen Chengjun's heart was agitated.

"Cheng Jun, my father has said you many times, don't get carried away with your smugness, don't spread this matter everywhere, it's not good for Junyi's reputation to spread it!"

Seeing that Lao Tzu was a little angry, Wen Chengjun couldn't help but shut up in a daze.

Seeing that Wen Chengjun was deflated, Wen Yingju's attitude was also a little relaxed.

"Tomorrow, you take my greeting post, backup the generous gift and go to Yongningwei!" Wen Yingju said lightly.

"What are you doing in Yongningwei? How can a little conductor help us! Wen Chengjun was quite puzzled by Wen Yingju's words.

Wen Yingju glanced at his son with hatred, and put out the tobacco in his hand on the table.

"This thing will definitely be sought after by tens of thousands of people in the future, although we can't compete with Yang Yingqian for the business of various prefectures and counties, but our Wen family is a maritime businessman, if this thing is shipped to Ryukyu, Korea and Japan, the profits will definitely be considerable, he doesn't have a sea ship in his hand, if you want to sell tobacco overseas, is there anything more suitable than our Wen family?"

Wen Yingju still has some confidence in saying this, in addition to the Wen family, there are five other powerful maritime merchants in Fujian, and the six maritime merchants are originally equally divided in the world.

But later he hugged the thigh of Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and by virtue of his power, he used some shady means, four sea merchants were annexed by the Wen family, and only the Zhou family, which was also a famous family in Quanzhou, was still struggling to support, but it was hit by the Wen family one after another, and now it is also declining.

"I just don't know if this kid will agree!" Wen Chengjun looked at his Lao Tzu and smiled evilly.

Wen Yingju understood the meaning of his son's words, and his fingers lightly buckled on the table.

"It's just a woman, can it still be worth thousands of taels of silver, Yang Yingqian is just a child with no hair in the end, what can he do, isn't he selling this thing for silver?"

After Wen Yingju finished speaking, he pondered for a moment.

"In case he doesn't agree, you can mention your uncle, his career has just begun, if you want to go further in the future, we will also be of great help to him!"

Wen Yingju's expression became deeper and deeper, but he didn't notice a trace of fierceness flashing in Wen Chengjun's eyes on the side.

…….....

Since that day in the tea shed after a narrative, Yuan Chonghuan rushed to Fuzhou, although the two only a few words, and the age gap is large, but faintly a little forgetful of the meaning of the year, before leaving Yuan Chonghuan also wore a piece of tiger jade pendant to Yang Yingqian as a souvenir.

After a few days, the matter of recruiting talents and conscription came to an end for the time being, Zhan Haozhi made a detailed report to Yang Yingqian on the situation in the past few days, and Yongningwei recruited more than 2,800 military households in these days, more than 80 people from artisan households, and a Luodi Xiucai named Wu Qian came to defect.

Yongning Weiyuan had 800 officers and men who had undergone retraining, and with the addition of more than 2,800 new troops, the number of soldiers in the guard station reached 3,600.

Yang Yingqian summoned Hong Anlan and others together, and finally discussed and decided to reorganize the existing soldiers into 3,000 households, and the original 800 veterans who had undergone retraining were scattered into these three thousand households, and the 1,000 households were served by three more effective personal soldiers in Sun Dayong's personal army, while Xie Shangzheng and the three went down to each thousand households as commanders to personally supervise the training of the recruits.

Yang Yingqian knew very well whether an army has combat effectiveness, in addition to paying attention to drills, strict military discipline is also a very important factor, and many wars in history were caused by loose military discipline and finally led to the great defeat of the whole army.

Therefore, he appointed Sun Dayong as the commander of Yongning Wei, and allowed him to select 200 loyal, brave and upright soldiers in the army to set up a military justice team, which was responsible for supervising the conduct and discipline of the army and strictly enforcing military law.

Yang Yingqian is still very curious that some scholars can come to the Weishu to join the army, after all, the scholars of this era are all on the right path to enter the imperial examination.

However, except for Xie Shangzheng and the three of them, who are considered to be rough in martial arts, the rest are all big and rough in Yishui, and it is always a good thing to have a show talent to defect.

Yang Yingqian gave Wu Qian a position as the master of the health office, responsible for the expenses of the health office and other things that need to be written and calculated, and also helped Yang Fuling's business in the Yan Pavilion.

On the one hand, it is to help Yang Fu reduce the burden, and on the other hand, it is also to let Yang Fu monitor him, after all, he has just entered the health center, and he doesn't know much about his character, if it weren't for the lack of manpower, Yang Yingqian would not let a newcomer take charge of such an important matter as Yongning Wei's money and food.

After arranging these things, Yang Yingqian couldn't help but scratch his head sadly, Yongningwei suddenly had a few thousand more mouths, and the monthly expenditure on military salaries and rice grain alone was more than 10,000 taels of silver.

The silver he has earned in the past few months is just enough for a year's expenses, and if you add the production of ordnance and uniforms, especially Yang Yingqian also wants to install some firearms for Wei Suo, then the cost will be even more huge, and his own money will only be enough for half a year's expenses.

It is said that fighting is money, and I didn't have a very intuitive understanding before, but through this period of time on the management of Yongningwei, Yang Yingqian now has a deep understanding of this sentence.

Just when Yang Yingqian was secretly speechless, Yang Fu walked in from outside the door.

"Young master, there is a young man from outside the house, who claims to be a maritime merchant from Quanzhou, and wants to meet you."

Yang Yingqian's heart couldn't help jumping slightly........