Whether it is the courtiers or Chongzhen himself, they all feel that this trip is really worthwhile.

With so many soldiers waiting for him, Chongzhen instantly felt a sense of security.

On the contrary, the Inspectorate and the Sixth Section Speech Officer looked at each other, instantly felt insecure, and vowed never to give Chongzhen eye medicine in the future.

It was not early, and when he came back from the camp in Xishan, Liu Hong gradually said goodbye to Chongzhen and rushed directly to the Hou Mansion.

didn't run in vain, finally let Uncle Chongzhen regain some confidence, Daming's reliance is not the spitting star of the official and the minister, but the big knife and spear in the hands of the border guards.

Back to the house, in the middle hall of the front yard, Daddy Liu Delong and Niu Danian were playing chess around a briquette stove.

"Dad, it's a cold day, you should rest early!" Liu Hong gradually walked to the stove and stretched out his hand to bake the fire.

"Yes, Dad, I need to rest early." Niu Zhuang stood behind Liu Hongjian and said to his father Niu Danian.

"My son is back? If you're tired, go to the backyard and have some food, I'll tell the kitchen to keep it for you! Liu Delong said with a slight squint, and then stared at the chessboard in front of him tightly.

Recently, Liu Delong has become obsessed with chess again, and he is also a novice, on par with the level of the housekeeper Niu Danian, and the two are also inseparable.

"The lord is back! Big stick mallet, have you served the master well? Niu Danian was also fighting with Liu Delong, got up and saluted, and immediately put his eyes on the chessboard mountain.

This time, if it was in other houses, it would have been swept away.

But Liu Hong gradually disagreed, his father is old, and there are no other entertainment projects these days, so it's good to find a fun.

"Dad, do you need to talk about it? Who dares to bully the old man and slap him to death! "The bull big stick mallet hehehe.

In this Anguo Houfu, Niu Danian and Niu Dabang are not so much a master and servant as a pair of neighbors who talk about everything compared to Liu Delong and Liu Hongji.

And although Niu Danian and Niu Dabang mallet are a bit arrogant in the same vein, the same kindness and contentment are also rare qualities, which no one doubts.

"Master, someone from outside came to visit, saying that they were from the south!" A servant came into the house to report.

"Gotcha, old cow, let's go, let's go under my house!" Liu Delong saw that a guest was coming, and hurriedly beckoned the cow steward to transfer his position.

Who would come to him at night, his relationship with the courtiers has always been bad, and many people even hate him to the core, Liu Hong gradually frowned.

South? Could it be that an idle official on an errand in Nanjing came to him to get along?

Although he didn't wear small shoes for his courtiers, since he came back from his great achievements in the mountains, there were still many people who came to make friends.

Naturally, these are the unambitious officials who have been squeezed out of Nanjing.

But Liu Hongjian generally didn't even see him, for no other reason, he was not short of silver, and he was in charge of the Ming Jing Army, and the most taboo thing was to make friends with officials.

Moreover, Liu Hong gradually looked down on these birdmen who could only intrigue in his heart.

"Nope!" Liu Hong gradually thought for a while.

"Master, that person said that he was from the Fu Jian Zheng family." The servant repeated.

"Damn, you kid, how can you talk half a sentence, and if you do it again in the future, the monthly silver will be halved!" Liu Hong was gradually angry, and he was panting so much.

"Let him in!"

"Yes, sir!" The person was also frightened and trotted out of the atrium.

Zheng family, Fu Jian, who else can there be?

It's just that Liu Hong gradually didn't understand, why did this Lao Zheng come to visit suddenly?

In Jinyiwei's recital, this Lao Zheng seems to be a bastard, for him, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are the same thing, it is nothing more than a change of master.

A moment came in from outside, a middle-aged man wearing a square-topped hard-shell head, a purple-brown satin robe, and a sword brow.

"Wait!" The middle-aged man had just arched his hand and smiled and was about to salute when he was rudely interrupted by the bull's mallet.

"Search! Hands up! The bull couldn't help but say, and touched the middle-aged man.

Without Liu Hongji's order, of course, Niu Dabang would not dare to be so indulgent.

The Zheng family has been entrenched in Fujian and has been operating in the South China Sea for decades, and Liu Hong has gradually made a bad impression of these pirates, but he has a good eye.

"What's this?" Not to mention, the bull stick mallet is churning up and down on people's bodies, and it really finds a strange thing.

"My lord! Coming from the south of the Yangtze River, the mountains are high and the road is far away, this is a guy who is defending himself, and I hope that the adults will bear with me! ”

The middle-aged man was not flustered at all, but said calmly while tidying up his clothes that had been messed up by the bull's big stick mallet.

The bull mallet handed the strange thing to Liu Hongji, and Liu Hongjian only glanced at it and knew what it was.

Isn't this a short-handled firearm, or a pistol!

Look at this flint device, it is still flint!

Damn, are the old Zheng family's muskets so advanced? Liu Hong was gradually full of surprise.

"This is a murder weapon, what do you want when you come to my Hou Mansion and bring this thing?

This short gun was confiscated, but in the face of your master who is also a Ming courtier, this matter will not be investigated!

Oh, by the way, what's your name? Liu Hongjian suddenly found that they had been looking at each other for a long time, and they didn't even know the name of the middle-aged man.

"Under Zhang Jin! From the Zheng family in Quanzhou, he is a guest of the Zheng Governor's Mansion, and he came to visit the Hou Ye this time, and he was also entrusted by my family.

Hou Ye's trip to Liaodong is invincible, my family has long admired Hou Ye's name, and the special dispatch came to talk about paying respect! ”

The middle-aged man who called himself Zhang Jin didn't care about Liu Hong's increasingly provocative words.

How could he not see that it was actually this young marquis who had taken a fancy to his firecracker.

But he didn't explain, isn't it just a firecracker, just go back and ask the master for a new one.

If this time things are done, what is a firearm from the Netherlands?

Zhang Jin took out a silver ticket from his waist and respectfully placed it on Liu Hong's table.

Liu Hong gradually glanced at the silver ticket on the table, good guy, 200,000 taels!

Is this Lao Zheng so tyrant in giving gifts?

But Liu Hongjian only glanced at it, he didn't lack silver, if he needed silver, the armory could make money for him at full speed.

He was even more surprised by the simplified pistol!

"What do you mean by that?

Does this official look like a corrupt official? ”

"Where, where, my lord's little meaning, not respect!"

Zhang Jin also had some differences, he kept staring at the eyes of the young marquis in front of him.

200,000 taels of silver tickets, who won't be shocked when they see it?

But the young man in front of him just glanced at it! It doesn't seem to be taken seriously.

"This kind of broken gun was forged by your Zheng family's own workshop?" Liu Hong gradually let the large silver ticket be thrown on the table, and instead asked questions that he didn't want to do.

"No, my lord, it is a felony to make weapons privately, and my family is also an official of the imperial court, how can he know the law and break the law?

This firearm was a reward for the ...... who had taken possession of the Dutch's smuggling fleet and found it from their ships for self-defense."

Zhang Jin explained unhurriedly, he was telling the truth.

The Zheng family was born as a pirate, and is good at sabotage more than production, except for a secret artillery workshop, most of the rest of the equipment is purchased from overseas, and more simply looting!

The reason why the firearms of the imperial court are not used is for no other reason, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty are getting more and more deviated in the later period, and they are overwhelmed by reuse!

Liu Hongjian was noncommittal about Zhang Jin's answer, this guy doesn't look like that kind of honest person.

"Does your Zheng family have a young master named Zheng Chenggong?" Liu Hongjian finally decided the biggest question in his heart, Zheng Zhilong must not be a good bird, otherwise there would be nothing to do with his son.

"Lord Hui, my family has six sons, but there is no one named Zheng Chenggong." Zhang Jin looked at the Hou Ye in front of him suspiciously, and said honestly.