Shen Ying'er was sitting in the living room of the Changsha rudder of the "Evil Dog Gate" at this time.

She is better than snow in white, peerless, and has a leisurely expression, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world. The tiring journey of hundreds of miles from Wuyang to Changsha is completely indistinguishable from her.

Hua Bushi sat with him on the main seat, holding a thick stack of silver tickets in his hand.

"Shen Xianmei is so flattered that Hua Bushi is really flattered, but I don't know what to say in this?" he asked.

Shen Ying'er smiled lightly and said, "Brother Hua's Changsha branch opened, and my little sister came to congratulate her, and it is natural to give some gifts, I just hope that Brother Hua will not be too little." ”

Hua Bushi said: "Fifty thousand taels of gift money, how can I be too little? ”

Shen Ying'er said: "Little sister's sect doesn't have the ability of Brother Hua, where will he open any business elsewhere, these silver taels have been sent, and they will definitely not be recovered." ”

Hua Bushi said: "If this is the case, Hua Bushi accepted such a big gift from your family for no reason, and it will make me unable to sleep peacefully." ”

Shen Ying'er smiled and said: "This 50,000 taels is not the money of the 'Monkey Gang', but it is the private money I saved, and now all of it is given to Brother Hua. ”

Hua Bushi said with a smile: "Shen Xiaomei is serious, with the conditions of the virtuous sister, the person who goes to the Shen family to propose marriage is only afraid that he can go for several miles, how can there be a thing that cannot be married?"

Shen Ying'er said: "Although there are many people who come to the Shen family to propose marriage, there is no ideal Langjun in my little sister's heart, but it is a pity that the person I really want to marry refuses to ask me, which makes my little sister heartbroken." ”

Hua Bushi's face turned red and said, "Shen Xiaomei don't make fun of her brother anymore, Hua Bushi raised his hand and surrendered." ”

Of course, he knew that Shen Ying'er sent a lot of money, and there must be another purpose, but this Shen Xiaomei was very weird and elf, and his temptation was not only ineffective, but she was forced by her to hold the sore foot, and Zuihou had to admit defeat and relent.

He paused for a moment before he said, "I don't know if Shen Xiaomei came this time, except to congratulate Xiao Ke on the opening of this rudder, but there are other things?"

Shen Ying'er grinned and said, "Little sister is here, there is still something I want to ask Brother Hua for help." ”

She has the upper hand in her words, and she is proud in her heart, so she will no longer sell Guanzi.

Hua Bushi said: "I don't know what's going on?"

Shen Ying'er said: "In recent months, the Shen family's blacksmith workshop has cast more than 500 weapons, all of which are stacked in the treasury of Wuyang City and have no market. I heard that Brother Hua was going to come to Changsha Mansion to open a business, so my little sister wanted to come to buy shares and do some weapons sales together, but I don't know if Brother Hua is willing to help me?"

As soon as Hua Bushi heard this, his heart was already clear.

With the same "Three Evils", the Shen family received the same number of refined iron ingots as the "Iron Sword Sect" and "Evil Dog Gate", although most of their blacksmith workshops created iron products used in daily life, they must have cast a lot of weapons, after all, selling weapons is much more profitable than selling those daily iron tools. And although the "Monkey Shen Family" is not small in Wuyang, there are many disciples, but there are not many masters in the sect, and it is impossible to go to other cities alone to challenge other sects across borders and gain a firm foothold.

As soon as she heard that Hua Bushi went to Changsha with the "five smalls", she guessed that he must want to develop Shili in this city, so she immediately followed her from Wuyang City with a huge amount of money to cooperate with Hua Bushi to sell weapons. With the masters of the "Evil Dog Gate" charging into battle, the Shen family only needs to spend some silver taels to find a sales outlet for weapons, of course, it is a good deal.

Although he knew Shen Ying'er's thoughts, Hua Bushi was short of silver taels at this time, and there was no reason to send 50,000 taels of silver to the door. Moreover, the "Evil Dog Gate" is developing Shili in Changsha City, and it is when all kinds of help are urgently needed, and there will always be some benefits to having the support of the Shen family.

He immediately said: "Shen Xiaomei opened her mouth to beg me, how could Hua Bushi refuse." The 50,000 taels of silver were counted as the shares of the 'Divine Monkey Shen Family' and the 'Evil Dog Gate' for the sale of weapons, but Xiao Ke was disrespectful and had to accept it. ”

Seeing Hua Bushi put the silver ticket in his pocket, Shen Ying'er smiled like a flower and looked very happy.

After a while, Shen Ying'er said, "But I don't know what Brother Hua's plans are for the sale of weapons after the rudder is completed?"

Hua Bushi smiled slightly, but did not answer, and asked rhetorically, "I don't know what Shen Xianmei has in mind?"

Shen Ying'er said: "If you want to do the weapons business, you must first know those buyers. Why don't we take advantage of the opening of this branch to set up a banquet here, and invite some of the leading figures of the various gangs in Changsha City to come and get acquainted with them. ”

Hua Bushi shook his head and said, "This move is inappropriate. I built the rudder on the outskirts of the city because I didn't want to attract the attention of the sects in the city. Wouldn't it be bad if we made such a big deal of entertaining, and if some gang shili were afraid that we would encroach on their territory and join forces against us, then the business would not be done, but would lead to war for no reason?"

Shen Ying'er thought for a while and said, "Since we can't invite them together, then we have to go to the door, visit those sects that may buy weapons, and test their intentions, what does Brother Hua think?"

Hua Bushi said: "This plan is good. It's just that there are dozens of various sects in this city, and the relationship between them is complicated, and we know very little. ”

He paused for a moment, and then said, "There is one person we can visit first, and I think we can make a big deal." ”

Shen Ying'er's expression moved, and she asked, "Who is that person?"

Hua Bushi said with a smile: "This person Shen Xiaomei also knows, it is Wu Yinghao, the commander of the 'Baoyi Battalion' in Wuyang City in the past, and now he has been transferred to the deputy chief soldier of Changsha Mansion and lives in this city." If he saw Shen Xiaomei, let alone just selling weapons, he was afraid that he would agree to anything. ”

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An hour later, Hua Bushi and Shen Ying'er were already sitting side by side in Wu Yinghao's "Deputy Chief Soldier's Mansion".

Coming with them was Ximen Hitomi, who was standing behind Hua Bushi at this time. For Wu Yinghao, these three people are all old people in the past.

This "Deputy General Soldier's Mansion" is located on the most prosperous "Jinxia Street" in Changsha City, with seven or eight courtyards.

The hall is luxuriously decorated, and there are three Tang Sancai vases that are more than one person high. There are more than a dozen paintings of all kinds hanging on the wall, in addition to watercolor paintings of flowers, birds, insects and fish, there are also two Western oil paintings, and several fat female bodies painted on the canvas are also lifelike. On the antique shelves placed against the wall, there are some intricately looking ceramic vessels, and ordinary people can't tell whether they are genuine or fake.

Although it still has a bit of the taste of nouveau riche, it also has a bit of the grandeur of a wealthy family in the hall.

General Wu himself is even more different from what it used to be.

His Yin Tang is shiny, his face is full of red light, and even the fat on his stomach has become an inch or two thicker, where is he still the poor boss who was "incorruptible and clean with two sleeves" in Wuyang City, and could only go to the third-rate kiln to vent his desires?

After only a few short months from Wuyang to Changsha, this Wu Yinghao has changed so much, and he is almost like two people before, even Hua Bushi and Shen Ying'er, who know a lot of people, can't help but be surprised.

What's even more unexpected is that he is actually married.

In the third month of his tenure in Changsha, General Wu tied the knot with the daughter of a local family surnamed Zhu. The Zhu family has a lot of wealth, and they can be regarded as wealthy local families, but General Wu fell in love with Miss Zhu, but it was not because the Zhu family was rich.

Since the old man came to visit, Wu Yinghao was of course very happy. With a spring breeze on his face, he personally greeted Hua Bushi and Shen Ying'er in the hall and sat down, and then called out his newlywed wife to offer tea to the guests.

"This is the insider Xiaoqian. Wu Yinghao said, "Xiaoqian, go and pour tea for Hua Gongzi and Miss Shen!"

Mrs. Wu Xiaoqian was wearing a water-red dress, with a slender figure and a face like a peach blossom. Hua Bushi only glanced at it, and he already knew why General Wu fell in love with this Miss Zhu family.

Her appearance is five or six points similar to Shen Ying'er!

Although the temperament is not the same, but looking closely at the cheeks and eyebrows of this Mrs. Wu, she is another third lady of the Shen family. It seems that General Wu Yinghao has a deep feeling for the encounter in the "Qifeng Tower" that night, and he can't forget it, even if he marries a wife and chooses a mate, it is also based on the appearance of the beautiful woman he met in the building that day.

After Zhu Xiaoqian finished offering tea, she returned to the back house.

Hua Bushi and Wu Yinghao exchanged a few polite words, and then went straight to the point and talked about the sale of weapons. As expected, General Wu slapped his chest and agreed, and immediately ordered 500 waist knives and 300 iron guns, and promised to help the two go to the other two deputy commanders in Changsha City to persuade them to also buy the weapons cast by the two factions.

Changsha City is an important town in Huguang, a military important place, the Ming court attaches great importance to it, there are large camps built around this city, and there are heavy troops stationed. There were eight large battalions and nearly 10,000 soldiers in Changsha City. Wu Yinghao and the other two deputy commanders each commanded two large battalions, and the remaining two battalions were under the personal jurisdiction of the chief soldier.

According to the imperial court's practice of rationing soldiers and horses and weapons everywhere, some of the more advanced weapons, such as artillery, guns, fine crossbow machines, etc., were uniformly supervised by the military department of the capital, and then issued to the garrisons everywhere, while ordinary swords, guns and shields were cast by the soldiers and horses camps themselves, and the imperial court only provided some silver taels as compensation.

Therefore, in the general barracks, there are blacksmiths with the army, specializing in crafting weapons, if it is not enough, you can go to the people to customize and buy. Whether it is made or purchased, it costs silver taels. Some of the more greedy generals would often deduct the cost of manufacturing weapons issued by the imperial court, and even sell the existing weapons to fill their own pockets, so that their soldiers were under-equipped and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Not long after General Wu arrived in Changsha Mansion, the armaments of more than 2,000 soldiers of the two large battalions under his command were sold by the previous general, who had been transferred out of office, and there was a considerable shortage. Wu Yinghao has served under Zhao Chengyi, the "Left Waiter of the Ministry of War", for many years, and he has long known about this set of practices, so he submitted documents to the Ministry of War early in the morning to apply for silver and silver for weapon casting. He had spent a lot of money on the joints before, and the person in charge of the military department would not be embarrassed by him, so he happened to have a lot of silver in his hand to buy weapons.

The transaction of tens of thousands of taels of silver has been negotiated in a few words.