But it's useless to be anxious, the biggest official Lao Zheng knows in the imperial court is Xiong Wencan, the former governor of Fujian, and Lao Zheng is also affected by the feeling of this guy.

But this life is too short, it has been hanging for several years, and the grass on the grave is two feet high.

finally spent 100,000 taels of silver tickets to catch the line of Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the dynasty, but it didn't take long for this guy to be raided inexplicably.

Later, he spent 150,000 taels of silver to catch Zhu Chunchen, the prince of Chengguo in the current dynasty, this thigh is thick enough, but unfortunately it didn't take long for the grandfather of the country to be removed.

I'm ri, that's a hereditary duke, this is too unlucky, right, who to reason with?

Lao Zheng later tossed and turned, and spent a lot of effort to finally find the culprit of all the problems.

It turns out that it's all the nasty guy who made the hereditary marquis a bad thing!

But I heard that this guy was very new and valued by the Ming Emperor, and Lao Zheng thought about it, but he was still ready to use the old method.

Lao Zheng was very poor, and the poor only had silver left, so he sent Lao Zhang to wander from Hu Jian thousands of miles away.

"What? Your lord wants the whole title? Liu Hong's face looked very surprised, but there was a burst of MMP in his heart, this old Zheng is hard to fill!

"Uh-huh!" Zhang Jin's chick pecks rice.

"This ...... It's not easy to do! Liu Hong gradually looked embarrassed.

"My lord said, money is not a problem!" Zhang Jin was proud of this.

"It's not a question of money or not!"

"What's the problem then?"

……

The two of them had their own thoughts, asked for the price all over the sky, and paid the money on the spot.

The final price was finalized, and Lao Zheng provided an additional 600,000 stone of rice and grain on the original basis every three months, in addition to a one-time delivery of silver and 10,000 taels, plus five main warships of the Lao Zheng family.

And Lao Zhu named Lao Zheng as the Earl of Daming, giving Lao Zheng the glory he dreamed of, and since then he has glorified his ancestors and embarked on the pinnacle of life.

The two talked happily with each other, completely ignoring the sneezes of Lao Zheng and Lao Zhu, one south and one north.

In Liu Hongji's opinion, this business can't be too cost-effective, what is Daming lacking most now?

Not silver! It's food! Warship!

And what is the Earl? That's just the name! There is no fiefdom, as for Yulu, if you have it, you can give it, if you don't, what else can you do?

However, with his understanding of Lao Zhu, this guy will definitely be haunted for a while, after all, the soldiers at the border have shed blood for him, and Lao Zheng? It's like a fish in the throat!

But he believes that Lao Zhu will agree after weighing the pros and cons, after all, military rations and warships are too important for the current Ming Dynasty.

And Lao Zheng has 3,000 large and small warships, and the main force also has nearly 500 ships, and the merchant ships from Southeast Asia and Europe to and from the Ming Dynasty must each pay 3,000 taels of protection money to buy his Zheng family's order flag, otherwise they will be robbed.

Haruki Murakami, the leader of the South China Sea, has an annual income of tens of millions of taels in protection fees!

What is silver? It's just a bunch of old metal!

Zhang Jin left satisfied, he thought that he was going to scrap some troubles, but he actually completed it in one meeting, which made him deeply impressed by his eloquence.

Liu Hong's consideration is different, Tianjinwei's treasure shipyard will be built sooner or later, but the shipwright is a big problem, even if the shipwright has it, it is a big problem to start from scratch, and with the main warship from the Pirate King, it is different.

Although Liu Hong gradually knew that even Lao Zheng's main warship was not advanced in today's era, it was still much more advanced than Lao Zhu's fishing boats.

Besides, what are the Chinese best at?

Just look at the so-called Franc cannon, from the first Franc cannon to the Ming craftsmen, within ten years, various imitation versions have sprung up one after another......

There are more than 10 large and small variants for city defense, coastal defense, naval warfare, and field battles, and the quality is better than the original Furlong cannon!

What's mine is mine, yours is yours, but it won't be long before yours is mine, and better than yours!

Liu Hongjian was also very happy, and went to the back kitchen to drink with a bull mallet......

The next day, Liu Hong gradually went to participate in the early dynasty, and in the next cabinet meeting, he made this matter clear to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen agreed after a little thought.

If there are more lice, it is not itchy, and if you owe more silver, you don't have to worry, isn't it just a knighthood? It's not hereditary, it's for him!

So with a stroke of the pen, Lao Zheng became the Nan Amber of the Ming Dynasty, and Uncle Chongzhen got the military rations, Liu Hong gradually got the silver, and the joint venture subsidiary of the two got five main warships.

In the days that followed, Liu Hong gradually did not go anywhere except for the ordnance station and the barracks.

In the morning, he participated in training with his brothers from the Ordnance Institute, and in the afternoon, he and Uncle Song supervised the production of flintlock pistols and paper shells.

At the same time, it took a long time for the first spinning workshop in the Ming Empire to use a new spinning machine.

The Daming Royal Spinning Mill consisted of 300 new spinning machines and 500 women who had been trained to use the new spinning machines.

Most of these women were the families of the craftsmen of the ordnance institute and the soldiers of the Qianhu Institute, and they were grateful to the Hou Ye for giving them jobs, giving them silver, and giving them hope.

With the Ordnance Institute and the Banzai Mountain Thousand Households Office as the core, it is surrounded by spinning workshops, glass (glass) workshops, and many greenhouses, and rows of houses have also risen from the ground.

A settlement of nearly 10,000 people has been formed here, where soldiers, craftsmen, people, their families, and children have made their homes here, and they live and work here in peace and contentment, without bullying.

Everyone's faces were full of joy and contentment, and Liu Hong gradually looked at it as if he had found some comfort in his eyes.

If there is time, it will not be long before he will build a school here, and the children running around the ground will be the future of this organization, and he wants to use this fulcrum to pry the entire Ming Dynasty.

Five days later, the second batch of 5,000 new flintlock pistols produced by the Ordnance Institute, plus 400,000 rounds of fixed-loading paper shells, was delivered to the Beijing battalion, and the first to be distributed were the 5,000 Beijing battalion veterans who participated in the counterinsurgency in the four towns of Jiangbei.

It's a bit far-fetched to say that veterans, they were just newly recruited last year, but they just have some battlefield experience compared to the new recruits a few days ago.

A new flintlock pistol costs ten taels of silver, while a fixed cartridge is one tael of silver for one hundred rounds.

This batch of firearms made the household department directly pay more than 50,000 taels of silver, which was not much silver, but it made Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, particularly uncomfortable.

In the eyes of the household department, since this ordnance station is paid by the emperor, of course, An Guohou also has a part, but shouldn't the weapons and equipment produced be provided to the army of the Ming Dynasty for free?

Liu Honggradually scoffed at this and didn't bother to explain.

The consumption of paper shell ammunition has become the biggest burden of the Ordnance Institute, and after repeated expansion, the Ordnance Institute can finally reach a daily output of 50,000 paper shell bullets, but there are 7,000 flintlock pistols that are trained and consumed every day, and Rao is still overstretched.

The days passed in anxiety, the last day of February.

While everything is going on in an orderly manner, a letter disrupts it all......

PS: Alas, it's time to write something heavy, and I can't help but want to sigh.