Zheng Zhilong is older and is about to be named a guerrilla general, Lu Jiude is young, although he was favored by Chongzhen to serve as a special envoy for this trip to the southeast, but he has no official position, just a low-level little eunuch.

After the two of them discussed the tooth order, Lu Jiude worshipped Zheng Zhilong as his brother. After the bow, Zheng Zhilong was very happy, and he asked Zheng Zhihu to bring the two deer skin bags he was carrying.

Zheng Zhihu gently threw the two leather bags on the table of the Eight Immortals, and Lu Jiude suddenly heard the sound of metal hitting the leather bags.

Zheng Zhilong smiled and pushed a larger skin bag over, and said: "Although you and I are not compatriots of the same mother, but in the future, you and I will be our own brothers, and you will be closer to you in Taiwan these days." Taiwan is an overseas wilderness, and there are no good things, so this bag of Taiwanese Tuyi will be used by my younger brother to supplement the road expenses. ”

Then Zheng Zhilong pushed over another smaller leather bag and continued: "As for this bag, please ask the virtuous brother to transfer it to a few adults of Jinyiwei, a few adults have traveled thousands of miles to work hard for Zhilong's affairs, Zhilong is really ashamed, so he can only send a piece of Tuyi as a carriage fee." ”

Lu Jiude made a slight estimate, the large leather bag is estimated to be able to hold 100 taels, and the small one is estimated to be able to hold 6 or 70 taels. This amount is not much, it is a heavy gift in terms of human relations, but it is not enough to buy them the factory guards and eunuchs around the emperor.

Lu Jiude generously accepted the two skins and thanked Zheng Zhilong, and the relationship between the two was a little closer.

Lu Jiude stretched out his hand and swept the leather bag aside, and then asked with a straight face: "Then please ask the eldest brother for advice, which people in this list can't go to Beijing?" ”

Lu Jiude's attitude of not caring about money won a little favor from the Zheng brothers.

Zheng Zhilong smiled slightly, then took out a piece of paper from the pocket in his sleeve, put it on the table and pushed it over.

Lu Jiude cautiously picked up the paper and glanced at it, and suddenly looked up at Zheng Zhilong unexpectedly, and said with some astonishment: "This Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin, and Zheng Cai, aren't they your cronies eldest brother?" Why did the eldest brother write them on it too? Could it be that Big Brother gave me the name of the person to be selected? ”

Zheng Zhilong's face remained unchanged, and he still said with a smile: "Brother Xian doesn't know anything, just because they are my close subordinates, I also know them best. These people have tyrannical personalities, and there are many nobles in the capital, if something happens in the capital, I am afraid that I will disappoint His Majesty's kindness, and I am afraid that it will affect the virtuous brother. ”

Zheng Zhilong's words Lu Jiude didn't believe it, but he was also mixed up in the palace with sinister people's hearts, and he hadn't seen anything strange and weird. However, for the sake of the soil ceremony that Zheng Zhilong had just sent, Lu Jiude had no intention of demolishing him.

So Lu Jiude put away the note with a haha, and did not promise Zheng Zhilong that the people on the note would be removed from the list. After that, the two opened the topic, and they tacitly agreed not to talk about it anymore, and after greeting for half an hour, Zheng Zhilong got up and said goodbye.

After sending Zheng Zhilong out of the hospital, Lu Jiude slowly paced back to the living room, thinking about Zheng Zhilong's intentions.

He was about to walk to the backyard when he suddenly remembered that there were two more bags on the table, so he turned back. Lu Jiude went to carry the two skins, but soon he felt that the weight in his hand was wrong.

"It's heavy." Lu Jiude misestimated the weight, and his hand was so weak that he didn't lift it at once. He quickly opened the larger deerskin pouch, and suddenly a dazzling golden color caught his eyes.

"It's gold." Lu Jiude screamed involuntarily, and he reacted immediately and covered his mouth with his hand. Looking at this shiny gold, Lu Jiude couldn't think of anything in his mind, his mouth was dry, and he felt his heart beating like a drum.

Although the Ming people are heavy on silver and not heavy on gold, the gold and silver ratio before Jiajing is about 1:55, but with the gradual scarcity of gold on the market in recent years, the gold and silver ratio in Beijing has been between 1:7 and 8 recently.

As the lowest-ranking eunuch in the palace, Lu Jiude's personal net worth is only 3 or 50 taels of silver, which is still because His Majesty has earned extra money after valuing him. Suddenly, so much gold appeared in front of him, which was still a gift for him, which made Lu Jiude suddenly lose the ability to think.

After staring at the gold for a while, Lu Jiude suppressed his excitement and counted the amount in his skin. The gold was made into 20 gold bars of the same size, each weighing about 8 taels.

Lu Jiude rubbed all the gold bars again, and subconsciously took out a gold bar and bit it, and the not very clear tooth marks on the gold bars told him that these were all real gold. At this moment, Lu Jiude instantly understood why the eunuch seniors in the palace loved money so much, because the appearance of gold piled up together was really cute.

Lu Jiude subconsciously touched the note that he kept in his sleeve, originally he also wanted to investigate the names on the note to see if it was as Zheng Zhilong said, these people were all unruly. But at this moment, he suddenly felt in his heart that maybe Zheng Zhilong was really a loyal and patriotic hero, and he should still listen to Zheng Zhilong's opinion.

Lu Jiude hesitated for a while, and carefully opened the smaller leather bag, which was indeed gold bars, but there were only 12 of them.

Lu Jiude no longer hesitated, tied up two skins and carried them to the backyard. He called Lian Shanxiang, who was sorting out the information he had collected today with Zhao Chenfang, and went to his bedroom to discuss.

watched Lu Jiude cautiously close the door, and then handed him a leather bag. Lian Shanxiang opened his skin bag quietly, similar to Lu Jiude's expression just now, Lian Shanxiang lost his mind for a moment in a piece of gold, and his breathing was a little shorter.

However, Lian Shanxiang, who has also experienced a lot of things in Jinyiwei, quickly returned to normal. He pushed back the open skin, stared at Lu Jiude with his eyes and asked, "What does Grandpa Lu mean?" ”

Looking at Lian Shanxiang's expression, Lu Jiude said cautiously: "This is the Tuyi sent by Zheng Zhilong, and he asked me to transfer it to you." I don't know what Lian Baihu thinks about this? ”

"It's such a heavy gift when you were born, what does this Zheng Zhilong want to do?" Lian Shanxiang asked calmly.

Lu Jiude told Zheng Zhilong about what he had asked for, but he skipped the note that Zheng Zhilong handed him.

After Lian Shanxiang listened, he was silent for a while, and then said, "Grandpa Lu, there are a few words, I don't know whether to say them or not. ”

"Even if you have something to say, please say it directly, you and I have come all the way, are you still not clear about my person, a hundred households? We are all working for Your Majesty, and we have only come to this overseas island, if we can't help each other in the same boat, how can we complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty? Lu Jiude said sincerely.