"You are Zhou Xiaofu, you are Zhou Taifu?" Yu Feng asked with a smile at the two men kneeling in front of him. At that time, these men in the rivers and lakes did not dare to accept Yu Feng's courtesy, and now they have reached Yu Feng's status, don't accept it, just be kind and pleasant, these men are all honored. Therefore, this week, Dafu and Zhou Xiaofu came in and knelt directly on the ground, while Yu Feng was sitting upright, but the two of them were not at all uncomfortable.

"Do you remember our two brothers?!" The brothers of the family were really surprised this week, but they didn't expect Yu Feng to clearly know who the two brothers were.

"Get up and talk!"

"Thank you, sir!"

"These days in Ye County, I have sent nearly 300 quintals of salt to Sihai every month, it seems that you two brothers are doing well!" Yu Feng said unhurriedly, the Zhou brothers were secretly happy in their hearts, this time the underground branch manager got the boss's exaggeration is a truth, it is an affirmation of their own ability, these two brothers are more and more down-to-earth, this time, I am afraid that there is really something good to fall on their brothers' heads.

"A year ago, it was sold for 500 quintals, but the situation after the year was a little worse!" Chow Tai Fook said respectfully.

"Well, to be able to make such an achievement, I see that you are usually attentive, by the way, Zhou Dafu, your eldest son is fifteen this year, and Zhou Xiaofu's family is also thirteen or fourteen years old, if you are not afraid of the child's hardship, you will be sent to the official, and be a personal guard, it can be regarded as a mixed background, I don't know how?"

The two brothers looked at each other for a moment, slammed on the ground, and their voices were indeed a little hoarse with joy: "Lord Xie's grace, Lord Xie's grace, if your lord is sent, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, our brothers will never give up!" ”

Yu Feng asked the Zhou brothers to send their son, but it is not the meaning of any hostage, but it is indeed lifting their brothers, if the two brothers themselves are raised, these two places may not be so grateful, but Yu Feng's meaning is to directly give their descendants a background, which has been done by Yu Feng's side for a few years, and released it, not to mention a hundred households, there is definitely a seat in the general flag, who wants to see their son rolling in the green forest like himself, and now they are given this opportunity, It is equivalent to giving them a chance to glorify their ancestors, what the two of them said in their mouths is not false, at this moment they really have the intention of serving Yu Feng to death.

"I heard that your two brothers have a lot of useful manpower, and your two brothers can be regarded as the head snakes of Ye County, and the things on the ground in Ye County must be clear!"

"What do adults want to know, there is nothing in Ye County that we don't know! The little ones know it all! ”

"Oh, then tell me about the Wang family in Ye County, Wang Long......"

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Wang Yun did not stay in the inn, stupidly waiting for the shopkeeper Wu of the Four Seas Commercial Bank to bring him information, but kept running between the yamen in this Lingshan, he knew very well in his heart who could and who could not be messed with in his Wang family.

offended some local small civil officials with no background, a slap and a sweet date could clean them up, but if they offended the military attache who held the military power, in front of the military horses of the imperial court, the strength of their royal family was simply vulnerable.

If you don't do this, those Qiu Ba will not find a reason to let go of the plunder. When the time comes, kill someone, slaughter the entire Wang family, and instead give the Wang family a charge of rebellion, that is a very possible thing, the official word is two, and the right to speak is in their hands, naturally whatever they say, he can even think that those Qiu Ba have ransacked their own Wang family and divided the wealth of the Wang family to those soft civil officials, and the documents submitted to it will definitely be written like this.

Okay, even if his own Erlang has no problem dealing with those recruits who have just been practicing for a few days and kills them apart, so what can he do, this time he may come with soldiers and horses to garrison a thousand households, and next time it may be a guerrilla, and there are generals and generals in the back, and the Wang family is at best just a local tycoon, can it confront the endless soldiers and horses of the imperial court? That is undoubtedly an egg hitting a stone.

Therefore, the top priority is to get through the relationship with the yamen in various places in this Lingshan, and they are always colleagues with the guards who know things, and when the time is right, they can still do it to say good things to the Wang family, even if they don't say good things, they won't fall into the ground. As for asking the governor of the state or the general judgment of the adult, to suppress this garrison, he didn't want to think about it, now the dominance of the Ming military generals is not an uncommon thing, if it is a military matter, these martial artists may still be able to obey these civil officials, this matter of their own family, it is better not to humiliate themselves.

This is running around, sending silver, and accompanying smiling faces, but Wang Yun is a little exhausted, the more so, the more he hates the woman of the Wu family who caused this disaster, and it is also a loss to Yu Feng to make arrangements in advance, otherwise, in this city, I am afraid that Wang Yun has the intention of arresting Wu Shengnan and killing him.

What is Wu Shengnan doing now?

Of course, Yu Feng will not hide him in the yamen of the inspection department all the time, the official yamen, the collection of women, or the kind that has nothing to do with it, and it is always difficult to listen to it. The next day, Yu Feng sent someone to send this Wu Shengnan back to Zhaojiazhuang, of course, externally, it was to buy it to be the messenger of his wife's side.

Wu Shengnan is very cooperative, she is not stupid, she can naturally see that Yu Feng's actions are to protect her. Originally, it was a better choice to settle in Xuejia Island, but Yu Feng thought that the people in Xuejia Island were too talkative, in case they were mixed up by the people of the Wang family, and if she was embarrassed by such a weak woman, this Wu Shengnan would not have any power to fight back, and if he thought about it, he would only be the safest in his own Zhuangzi. Not to mention the familiar faces who come and go, the strength of this guard is also no problem, although it may be a little criticized, but for the sake of safety, he still directly pulls people into his Zhuangzi, anyway, he doesn't care about such a mouth.

At present, Yu Feng is in the barracks outside the city all day except for a walk around the yamen of the inspection department, during which Wu Ting also conveyed the request of the portrait of the Wang family to meet with him, but he was mercilessly refused. He told Wu Ting, what kind of business is this Wang family going to do, how much money to give you, you can just accept it, but, in addition, please do something else, don't think about it, we are one yard, anyway, he forgives this Wang family and does not dare to say it clearly.

Liu Shengmin's firearms production in the manor, after Vicras's suggestion, Yu Feng has stopped, and began to build and repair ordinary weapons, Yu Feng suddenly recruited so many soldiers at the moment, and it is impossible to rely on their workshops of fifty or sixty people to make weapons, but Yu Feng has his own plans, and he has to do it in his own workshop, and he can't raise so many people to eat, but the bulk source of this weapon, I'm afraid I still have to rely on buying, counting on the command division to allocate grain, grass and ordnance, I don't know what year and month it will be, I can't afford to delay.

This is to buy and sell ordnance, of course, to find an arsenal. Jining has an arsenal, Jinan also has an arsenal, Yu Feng is not very clear about how to buy a large number of ordnance in the arsenal, but he also understands that as long as he takes out his white money, and is the identity of the imperial court military attaché, it is still easy to buy some equipment back, however, he did not plan to buy it in Shandong, he set his sights on Tianjin Sanwei.

Tianjin has passed more than a hundred years since Zhu Di set up the guard station in the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin also has its own naval division and commercial port, soldiers and military dependents of military households, plus the people who moved here because of their livelihood, it has become one of the few prosperous cities in the north. Moreover, there are not only more than 10,000 people in Sanwei, but also firearms manufacturing yards and various government-run yamen of weapons craftsmen. This is what Yu Feng values the most.

Tianjin not only has an arsenal, but also a large number of official buildings and firearms yards that are always contributing to the arsenal of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, countless weapons, armor, firecrackers and even artillery that flowed to the nine sides were produced from here. Yu Feng is like improving his own firecracker and improving his military level, so he needs a large number of skilled craftsmen with sufficient production experience, and these people are not lacking in Tianjin.

Moreover, Tianjin is not far from Shandong, compared with Quanzhou, Macao and other large ports, here is really too much geographical advantage. Therefore, as soon as Yu Feng knew that this Tianjin, there might be everything he needed, he immediately gave up the plan to send people to the south to find Western craftsmen, he clearly remembered that the level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, even compared with the current West, is not too far behind, it is nothing more than a question of whether to do it with heart or not.

In fact, Yu Feng's idea is really not wrong, he doesn't know the history, there are some records like this: in the early years of Jiajing, in a sea encounter, the deputy envoy of the sea channel Wang Hong defeated his enemy, the Portuguese fleet, after the war, he came to the other party's destroyed warship, found a batch of firearms that had never been seen before, after demonstration, he found that this thing is very powerful, worthy of promotion, so he decided to hand over this thing to the central government, and suggested copying. The Franc machines (i.e., ship guns) captured by Wang Feng were the most advanced artillery in the world at that time, and the imperial court attached great importance to it and immediately sent people to study it.

You know, the Chinese have always been good at research, but whenever a new thing comes out in the world, regardless of whether it is developed by itself, take it for research and research, and it can be made in a few days. By the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), the Ming Dynasty Franc machine was successfully copied, such as the Ming army equipped with a large sample of the Franc machine, the total length is only two meters, there is a crosshair for aiming, and the gun body can rotate left and right. It has extremely powerful lethality. There is also a small Franc machine, the total length is only 90 centimeters, the gun body is attached to a steel ring, which can be carried around, and a person can carry it when fighting, and when he goes to the place, he can put the gun barrel on the ground, and he can hit it when he aims, which is simply a standard grenadier canister.

In addition to these infantry guns, the Ming Dynasty also invented the cavalry cannon - the horse franc machine, which is smaller in size than the small franc machine, only 70 centimeters long, and can be fired with the cavalry in rapid movement, with a strong deterrent.

This is still a matter of the Jiajing period, these firearms made by the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are already so colorful, to this day, the things made by the craftsmen, as long as they are done with their hearts, will not be lower than that level, doesn't it mean that the world is afraid of the word serious?