Wu Sangui laughed and patted Liu Xuanchu on the shoulder: "What Eight Banners special offerings?" Put his niang's bullshit! Isn't this king entitled to it? Since there is such a good thing, this king should try it first! ”

Liu Xuanchu wanted to stop Wu Sangui from using it, but he couldn't find any reason to refute it, so he could only delay it with a delaying tactic first, so he gave up his hand and said: "Marshal, General Wang must have better Fu Shou paste over there, these are for us to sell, not for our own use." As long as you can negotiate, they will definitely have better herbs for you to use. ”

"That's pretty much it! This king wants to talk to them right now! Wu Sangui smiled and leaned back.

Three days later, the Wu army and the Nanyang army met under the city of Lashio. The armies of both sides retreated five miles each, and Wang Xinyu led Gong Xiaoda, Hu Dedi, Li Kaishi, Albert, Luo Xiang and other generals to lead 300 personal soldiers into the city of Lashio; Wu Sangui took Wu Guogui, Hu Guozhu, Xia Guoxiang and Gao Dejie and other generals and strategists Liu Xuanchu, and also led 300 personal soldiers into Lashio City.

Wu Sangui saw the Nanyang Ming army at close range, and was very shocked by this well-equipped and neat army, and it was obvious that the three hundred soldiers of the Ming army were much more elite than Wu Sangui's, and they suppressed the Wu army in momentum.

Wang Xinyu finally saw Wu Sangui, only to see that this was a general in his fifties, wearing a golden helmet and a red satin python robe, with a handsome appearance and a scar on his face, revealing a kind of non-angry and self-authoritative momentum all over his body.

When the two sides met, Wang Xinyu arched his hand to Wu Sangui: "I have heard the name of the prince of Pingxi for a long time!" When I saw it today, it was really mighty! ”

Wu Sangui bowed his hand and saluted back: "General Qiongzhou Admiral Wang is really a young talent!" It is indeed an outstanding thing to make this king suffer such a big loss! ”

"Lord Wang, let's go, let's go inside and have a good talk!" Wang Xinyu invited.

Wu Sangui also made a "please" gesture: "Go, please inside!" ”

After some haggling, the two sides signed two secret treaties, the Armistice Agreement and the Trade Cooperation Agreement.

According to the agreement. Wu Sangui will withdraw his troops from Burma and return to the city of Kunming. Wu Jun was responsible for purchasing silk, ceramics, tea and other export goods from the interior, converting them into silver at a mutually acceptable price and selling them to the Nanyang Company. The Nanyang Company provided Wu Jun with ivory, jade, jade, cigarettes, and "Eight Banners Special Offerings" and other goods, which were provided to Wu Jun at preferential prices.

Nanyang will urge Li Dingguo to open up Bamo as a port for trade between the two sides.

Wu Jun was in charge of the transportation from Yunnan to Bamo, and after the goods arrived in Bamo, they were handed over to Li Dingguo, Nanyang's agent in Myanmar, and exchanged the equivalent goods from Li Dingguo for transportation back to Yunnan. Nanyang Company was responsible for transporting the goods from Phamo to Salem. It was sold to the British, the Portuguese and the Dutch.

During the negotiations, Wang Xinyu also proposed to Wu Sangui: "The roads in Yunnan are difficult to travel, and it is inconvenient to transport goods. ”

"Cement? What is it? Wu Sangui asked.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "Presumably the prince has also seen the fortress we built, right?" The prince must be wondering, why can we build a castle in a month? It's because of such a magical thing as cement! If this kind of thing is used to build roads, then the roads are not afraid of rain, and they can still be used by cars and horses on rainy days. ”

"There is such a wonderful thing, of course this king wants to buy it. However, this cement is also a military weapon. This king only needs to keep it for his own use, and will not sell it to the court! Wu Sangui said.

As for the issue of pricing, it will also be re-priced according to the quality of the goods, after this agreement comes into force. When Wu Sangui returned to Kunming, he would immediately send people to purchase goods. Wang Xinyu's cigarette factory will also be opened, and when Wu Sangui's goods arrive, the cigarette factory in Bamo will be able to ship.

Burmese specialties such as ivory, jade and jadeite are mined by locals. Provided to the Ming army. When Wu Sangui's goods arrived, Wang Xinyu had enough goods on hand to provide Wu Sangui.

In order to dispel Wu Sangui's concerns and avoid being discovered by the eyes of the imperial court, Wu Sangui "fornicated with thieves". The agreements were all signed in the name of the Nanyang Company, and Wu Sangui also traded with the Nanyang Company in the future. And the banner of Wang Xinyu's Ming army is the Qiongzhou Army, so even if the Qing court finds out that Wu Sangui and Nanyang Company are doing trade, it will not be able to grasp Wu Sangui's handle. What's more, Wu Sangui's own spy eyeliner also has a lot, and it is impossible for the imperial court to catch his pigtails.

"General Wang, the final price has not been finalized yet, and it depends on the price of the goods? So what if you cheat this king? Wu Sangui picked up the agreement that had not yet dried and glanced at it and asked.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "The prince can send a few cronies to be stationed in Bamo and set up an office there, and as for the price, they bargain with us and sign a specific agreement." If they are not satisfied with the price, they can raise an objection and we will negotiate with them separately. ”

"This method is still very fair and reasonable!" Wu Sangui nodded, and said secretly in his heart: This is a fat shortage, who will handle it? You must be trustworthy, otherwise you will cheat Lao Tzu, and the money will be earned by that kid!

Liu Xuanchu read the agreement and asked softly in Wu Sangui's ear: "Does the handsome know Zheng Zhilong?" He made his fortune in Haimao. With the cooperation of General Wang, although we are not close to the sea, we are also doing sea trade! ”

Wu Sangui smiled so hard that his mouth couldn't close it, he knew that in the future, the silver would continue to flow into his pocket like flowing water. As long as you don't fall out with Nanyang Company, you won't be able to make enough money.

When he was about to say goodbye, Liu Xuanchu asked: "General Wang's special offerings for the Eight Banners here are samples for us to sell, don't you know if there are more advanced special offerings?" Our prince wants to try this precious medicinal material and try how it works. If the prince himself is not satisfied, how can he convince others to buy us? ”

"None of this is a problem! We can specialize in making some high-end products for the prince! A batch of the best is provided to the prince every month, but it costs money to buy it. If it's cigarettes, we can give them to the prince for free. Wang Xinyu replied.

As for who to send to be the representative of the Wu Army's office stationed in Bamo? Wu Sangui thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to let his scholar Wang Shirong be the representative of the Wu army stationed in Bamo.

Wu Sangui believes that Wang Shirong is the most suitable candidate, this person is smart, flexible, and raised by himself since he was a child, and there is absolutely no problem in loyalty. is also a literati, unlike Hu Guozhu, Wu Guogui, and Gao Dejie. Wang Shirong is delicate and loyal, and he is definitely the best candidate.

"This king will hand over the scholar Wang Shirong to you, and if you set the price in the future, you will discuss it with him!" Before parting, Wu Sangui asked Wang Shirong to follow Wang Xinyu over to Bamo.

Wang Xinyu agreed: "This is no problem, but Mr. Wang is too tired to be alone, so he should send a few more people to assist him." ”

Wu Sangui asked Wang Shirong to select more than ten people from his own soldiers and follow Wang Shirong to Bamo.

The two armies parted ways. By the time Wang Xinyu led the Nanyang Army back to Bamo, it was already January 1661 in the Gregorian calendar, and it was getting closer and closer to the sixteenth year of the Yongli calendar and the first year of Kangxi.

"It seems that this year can only be celebrated in Yunnan, and this tobacco factory and pharmaceutical factory are under construction, and they are inseparable at all. After the New Year, we will start supplying to Wu Sangui! Wu Sangui's goods also arrived. This was a new sea trade channel, which could not only make money, but also divide the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Qing court. Wang Xinyu said to his subordinates.

Wang Xinyu smiled evilly and thought: Wait until Kang Xiaomazi discovers the harm of Fu Shou ointment in the future. A total ban on smoking will inevitably be ordered. When the time comes, Wu Sangui, who is making a windfall from the "Eight Banners Special Offerings", will he fight a ya-film war? Maybe the ya-piece war in this time and space will be provoked by Wu Sangui, that would be so interesting!

Li Rui said: "My lord at least has relatives here." The little prince and the little princess of the Jin Mansion are all your relatives. And we're here to see no relatives. ”

The efficiency of the ancients in building houses was actually quite high, and after Wang Xinyu returned to Bamo, a large warehouse had been erected by the Xibo River. The warehouse is full of tobacco. The flue-cured tobacco room has also been built, and the workers are following Wang Xinyu's method to roast tobacco leaves.

The factory of the cigarette factory is under construction. The foundations have been dug and the migrant workers have erected their scaffolding and started building their houses.

On the river, boats laden with cement sailed up from downstream and docked at the docks. Workers remove bags of cement from the ship and take them to the construction site. Cement is poured into a mixing tank, water, crushed stones, river sand, mixed into concrete, and then poured into reinforced wooden planks to form columns.

"It turns out that Lord Wang's cement is this kind of thing!" Wang Shirong watched as the migrant workers opened the cement bags and poured out a gray substance from them.

Wang Xinyu proudly introduced: "Yes, this kind of thing is magical cement." As long as you are willing to buy, we can sell it to you. It's just that this kind of thing is not cheap. ”

"As long as we can work together smoothly, money is not a problem! But do you have that much cement? Wang Shirong said.

Wang Xinyu nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes!" You want as much as you want! ”

After a year and a half of construction, the cement plant on the island of Borneo has become very large-scale, and can produce enough cement every month for Wang Xinyu to build a factory and build a fort. The first phase of the steel plant at the mouth of Dingguo Bay has also been completed, and the steel plant has begun to produce steel. Iron ore and coal from Qiongzhou are transported to Dingguo Bay, where they are smelted into steel and transported by ship to where they are needed. With the first large-scale steel plant and the first large-scale cement plant, Nanyang has developed by leaps and bounds, and the development speed has increased significantly compared with the past year and a half.

Wang Xinyu walked to a mud-brick flue-cured tobacco house, only to see workers adding firewood to the bottom of the flue-cured tobacco room and lighting a fire, which raised the temperature in the flue-cured tobacco room. In the flue-cured tobacco room, a large number of tobacco leaves are being roasted.

The reason why the taste of the tobacco they smoked was particularly difficult to smoke was because the tobacco was made in the sun, not only did the tobacco take a long time to produce, but also the taste of the tobacco was difficult to smoke after it was loaded into the pipe. Wang Xinyu brought the later generation of flue-cured tobacco production methods, the taste of roasted tobacco is much better, at a certain temperature and humidity, the green tobacco leaves turn yellow, fermentation, enhance the fragrance, remove miscellaneous flavors and pungent taste.

Li Rui reminded in Wang Xinyu's ear: "My lord, this flue-cured tobacco method is the secret of our money, and it can't be learned by Wang Shirong, otherwise Wu Sangui will get rid of us if he produces flue-cured tobacco by himself." ”

"He can't learn! I've got some spices and recipes to add to my cigarettes. Wu Sangui didn't know these recipes, and even if he produced them, the taste of the cigarettes was very difficult to smoke, and he couldn't sell them at a good price. Wang Xinyu said with a smile. The taste of fake cigarettes in later generations is very different from that of real cigarettes, because of the problem of the formula. People who have been smoking well for a long time, as soon as they smoke fake cigarettes, they would rather throw them away than continue to smoke fake cigarettes that are extremely difficult to smoke.

The principle of the flue-cured tobacco house is the principle of the northerners' hot kang, which lights a fire below and ignites firewood and grass. Inside is a closed flue-cured tobacco room, in which a large number of tobacco leaves are hung and roasted.

"Lord Wang, go over there and have a look." A Nanyang staff member said.

Wang Xinyu followed the Nanyang employee to the door of a flue-cured tobacco room.

The door of the flue-cured tobacco room opened, and the freshly roasted tobacco was delivered, and the original green tobacco leaves had turned yellow. But these tobacco leaves are not ready to be used, and they have to be re-roasted. The workers first cut the tobacco leaves and tobacco stems, and then sent them to the re-curing tobacco room for re-roasting, and the curing time of the tobacco leaves and tobacco stems is different.

The door of the re-roasted tobacco room was opened, and the re-roasted tobacco leaves were sent out and sent to the cutting room by the workers.

After the tobacco leaves are delivered, the tobacco leaves are first cut into small pieces with a knife by the roughing workers, and then sent to the finishing workers, and the small pieces of tobacco are cut into tobacco shreds with a hand-cranked cutting machine, so that the production of tobacco shreds is completed.

However, this kind of tobacco still cannot be used immediately, and various spices must be added, such as spice additives such as mint and agarwood, which can remove the irritating taste of tobacco and increase the flavor.

The addition of spices is a confidential link, and it is impossible for Wang Xinyu to let too many people know what spices to add. Tobacco that has been mixed with spices is then sent to bake, so that it can be used to make cigarettes.

After visiting the construction site of the tobacco factory, Wang Xinyu went to see the DA cigarette factory next to the tobacco factory.

The wild poppy fruits picked by the people of Li Dingguo from the mountains were brought here, and then boiled in a pot, and after being refined, they turned into a black object.

"The prince of Pingxi wants some special offerings for him, and I will make the special offerings of the prince according to my recipe." Wang Xinyu handed a note to the staff sent by Nanyang Company to serve as the manager of the DA cigarette factory.

At this moment, a clipper boat arrived on the shore, and an employee of Nanyang Company hurriedly came over and reported two major events to Wang Xinyu: "Boss, Annan refused our cooperation in developing coal mines, and also detained Guo Zhiqi, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and 30,000 Ming troops!" ”

"Is the monkey looking for death?" Wang Xinyu said angrily. (To be continued.) )