Yang Ce's fleet arrived at the end of May from the port of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, and their ships were not empty, but a large amount of gold and silver goods were missing.

They stayed longer than expected, and they spent more, and they withdrew a huge amount of 83 million tongbao from the military government four times, and escorted gold, silver, and jewelry worth 103,750 taels of silver into the military government in three batches.

A large amount of it is gold, which is lacking in the military government.

Before they left, Zou Yuanbiao, the magistrate of the county, in order to thank Yang Ce for bringing huge tax revenues, specially approved the military government to sell Yang Ce 500 sets of tropical infantry equipment worth 523 cents of silver at half price and Changsheng exported 500 sets of tropical infantry equipment worth 1825 cents of silver.

It includes a full set of Jinghai costumes, an old Wanli two-year arquebus, a Nanyang waist knife, an iron hat, a canvas wrap and a pair of soap boots, and a set of 30 wooden medicine cylinders, wooden kettle and chopsticks, and a set of canvas insect repellent medicine waist bag.

'Earn less' is the greatest kindness of Chen Papi.

It is good that the world is connected, and the pirate king of the Han Dynasty, Lin Feng, or Yang Ce, directly controlled the maritime trade of the Songhai Empire in northwest Africa, which was a flourishing North African land empire, bordering Morocco in the north and the sea in the west, with a relatively complete European bureaucracy, shells as currency, mining and textile capabilities, and wealth derived from trade routes through the Sahara desert.

Gold, iron ore, slaves, ivory, spices, coranuts and cotton were exported, and salt, sugar, weapons, horses, copper, glassware, shoes and woollen products were imported.

Chen Mu was not interested in Kolago and slaves, but he wanted everything else that the Songhai Empire produced, and Asia could produce the same thing that Songhai urgently needed but would not do, salt.

This means that everything in Songhai is like a free gift to the Oriental Military Government.

Before leaving, Yang Ce passed through Mexico City according to Chen Mu's suggestion, signed a contract with Yang Ting, and founded Dahan Dongyang Company, which was held by Lin Feng, the king of Min of the Han Kingdom, and Yang Ce, a general, and operated on the west coast of southern Africa, becoming the first company to be established and put into operation.

They were not the first companies to be registered, and the prosperity of Fujian, Guangzhou, and Hesheng alone had founded three companies, including seventeen companies of all sizes registered in New Spain, but other companies did not have enough ships and goods, and the Oriental Brazilian Company founded by the adopted son of Li Yuxi, a merchant of Quan, had some ships, but they could only wait for the goods to be brought by the third phase of Beiyang before they could set off.

Only Yang Ce, who had both men and boats, pulled five boatloads of salt and six ships of sugar from New Spain and left.

O warship!

If Lin Afeng was here, he might not sign this contract, and he might not be tempted by the Ming warship - Lin Feng would think that the imperial court could build it, and he could build it, wouldn't it be a big ship!

But Yang Ce is different, in his eyes, the warships of the imperial court are the best ships in the world, and the Liuding Liujia battleship is 10,000 times better than the Spanish galleon!

In addition to the eleven ships that can buy the hard currency of the Songhai Empire, Yang Ce also bought 80,000 catties of gunpowder from Changsheng at a price of 100 catties and 30 taels, some of which are newly made and those left over after the big competition, this batch of gunpowder is no longer safe in the strict sense Yang Ce knows it, but he can't help it.

Everyone knew that the advantages of well-trained veterans using bird guns and heavy artillery were equally unacceptable, especially for the Han Kingdom, where they had no shortage of manpower, and the vast African coast was full of inexhaustible manpower, but there was no place for them to obtain an inexhaustible supply of gunpowder.

Even if it is not so safe gunpowder, it is equally important to Yang Ce.

Zou Yuanbiao, who is always victorious, is obsessed with Zhang Luo's martial arts, as the saying goes, close to Zhu Zhechi, and Chen Mu have been working together for a long time, and everyone will see Yinzi happy.

In fact, this is not Chen Mu's fault, everyone will see Yinzi happy, but in the past, they were all hidden in their hearts and buried in the dark, and they had to pretend to be reserved on their faces, but Chen Mu was different.

He is cold and hungry, and his goal is to raise endless gold and silver for the imperial court to catalyze the qualitative change of industry, and there is no need to be ashamed of doing the right thing.

It is a great thing to strengthen the national strength internally and establish order externally.

And do your best not to hurt people.

Zou Yuanbiao also thinks that this is a great thing, and he needs money because there are still so many canals and bridges in his Changsheng County that have not been built.

Especially after Yang Ce left, the tax revenue suddenly decreased by forty percent, which made him understand a truth - most of the wealth is always in the hands of a few, and as a magistrate, he must find a way to hold the wealth of a few people in his hands through taxes, and then seek benefits for the majority.

A small number of people have been able to meet their basic survival needs, and they need something different, which is not limited to the winning teahouses and restaurants, but also the good seats for martial arts.

And Chen Mu also has a soft spot for martial arts, he believes that this is a good way to maintain the combat effectiveness of the flag army in peacetime, and people hope to get a good ranking to get rewards, and work together to make them invincible.

Therefore, Chang Sheng is about to start a new round of martial arts, this time the subject is spear and spear stabbing and cold army formation.

After the last shooting competition, Zou Zhixian tasted the sweetness, even if you count the gunpowder consumption in the county through the sale of tickets, shop leasing still makes a lot of money, this time the military government is more bold in operation, the competition is divided into more than 30 games, open for a month, and the official gambling game allows the people to bet in each game, with 100 households as a unit, the winner in the competition can get the people's bet on them, and the loser's bet will be distributed to the people who bet on the winner.

It's just that the bet is not high, and the people will not get rich if they bet right, and it doesn't hurt to bet wrong, and it is a lottery reward for the flag army.

Although the ticket price is not too high, for Zou Yuanbiao, there is a trickle of income in the county.

In addition, after a long period of familiarity with the military law system and the practice of military skills, the militia armor of Changsheng County was finally approved to recruit one of the ten people, and after selection, the Changsheng Thousand Households Office was formed and became an official army with an establishment.

In fact, Zou Yuanbiao knows that all this means that the center of gravity of the Oriental Military Government is about to move to the east coast, which means that they can directly threaten the land with mature production capacity on the other side of the Great Eastern Ocean - Europa!

In late June, news finally came from Majiagang that the third phase of the Beiyang fleet, which was larger than last year, had crossed the ocean from the distant Ming Dynasty and set foot on this land that could not be called unknown to the Ming Dynasty, and their journey had just begun at the moment of arrival in Asia.