"Mr. Van der Vaart, why did you suddenly come to Nanjing, shouldn't you have been sitting in Nagasaki?"

Deng Yu calmed down and asked, Van der Vaart, the commercial consul of the East India Company, this guy's status is much higher than that of two people, and in the first official party, it is equivalent to the position of the third or fifth master, but it is not something that his two little people can climb.

Van der Vaart smiled mysteriously and replied: "Naturally, I came here to make a fortune, two generals, how about it, do you want to make a windfall together?" ”

Deng Yu smiled bitterly: "Mr. Van der Vaart said that he is joking, this is not in Fujian, our two brothers have also left the Fujian Navy, and if we want to make a fortune, we two can't help......"

If it is in the Fujian Water Division, on the ground in Fujian, those two people can show it, not to mention anything else, a few years ago, the two of them still had some energy under Zheng Zhilong. Now, it's a tiger falling into Pingyang, you can't do anything, how can you get rich together? The Dutch's silver is not so easy to take.

Van der Vaart smiled: "The two of you are a little arrogant, this time, I came specially for the two of you, and only the two generals can help me." ”

Oh?

Deng Yu and Lou Bo were shocked, and asked, "Why?" ”

Van der Vaart stood up and walked to the door, saw that there was no one outside, and said, "Chris, you are guarding the door, no one should let them come close!" ”

Chris agreed.

Van der Vaart put away his smile and said in a low voice: "The two generals, this time they came to Nanjing for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's arms......"

"Munitions!"

Deng Yu and Lou Bo's faces changed greatly, and they stood up, they didn't expect that this Van der Vaart was really bold enough, and he actually set his sights on arms, too, and now the two of them are working together in the Ordnance Department and the Firearms Bureau, isn't this what they are responsible for? Although he is not the number one, he still has a lot of power in his hands, in order to be able to appease the people of the Fujian Sailor, Cha Zhu and Qin Mufeng have spent a lot of effort and given a lot of authority to the two people, but, this matter, dare to do it, this is a matter of losing their heads!

Van der Vaart said indifferently: "What? The two generals are scared? There is a proverb in China that you can't be a general if you are timid, and if you want to get rich, how can you not take risks? If it weren't for this windfall, I wouldn't have risked killing my head and came to Nanjing, once I was discovered, would I be able to keep my head? ”

Deng Yu and Lou Bo's eyes kept rolling, calculating the benefits and losses, it seems that the benefits are not small, otherwise, Van der Vaart is a dignified commercial consul.

Deng Yu said in a deep voice: "Mr. Van der Vaart, this matter is very important, it is related to the lives of our brothers, once the matter is revealed, the life and death of the two of us are small, and if it is not good, the whole family will be in a different place!" ”

Lou Bo nodded hurriedly, what Deng Yu said was right, this is not only a sin of turning around, but even raiding the house......

"Haha, two generals, once it's done, you still have to worry about this?"

Van der Vaart smiled: "Two generals, do you know how big a business I have to do? As many guns and ammunition as you can get, I will buy as many guns and ammunition as you can, eight taels of silver for an arquebus, fifteen taels of silver for a flintlock musket, and one hundred taels of silver for a box of ammunition, and these money, if you can get me a few thousand guns and hundreds of boxes of ammunition, it will be no less than 100,000 taels of silver, and with the annual income of the two of you, it is enough for you to earn for a hundred years......

Hiss......

The two brothers gasped, 100,000 taels of silver, both of them are over 50 years old, according to the regulations of the imperial court, after the age of 60, all the officials of the four grades are Zhishi, and they will work for ten years at most, and the two of them will all leave, and in ten years, it would be good for two people to earn 10,000 taels of silver, after all, although the Ordnance Department is well paid, it is not a prominent position, there is not so much oil and water, dry, or not?

"Mr. Van der Vaart, 100,000 taels of silver is indeed enough for us to do it for a hundred years, but once we do it, then there will be no place for us in the entire Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid that we have a life to earn this silver, but we don't have a life to spend it......"

Lou Bo smiled bitterly.

Van der Vaart whispered: "Isn't this simple? Now your little marquis, you can't count on it, right? Then you can only count on another little marquis, in Dongying, don't you still have a family member? ”

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, and the other little marquis, there is no doubt that this is talking about Tagawa Qizaemon, behind the old marquis, only the eldest son and the second prince are adults, the eldest prince has now inherited the title and was transferred to Beijing, the second prince is now forced to flee overseas, and even this time the Yanhuang company had an accident that he did, and finally forced the Fujian Navy Division to be disbanded and all merged into the imperial navy.

The two of them were silent for a moment, and Lou Bo said in a low voice: "The second prince is now in Dongying, but although we don't remember the kindness of the eldest prince, we dare not forget the kindness of the old marquis, the entire Zheng family is rumored that the second prince killed the old marquis, killed his father, and the beasts did nothing, how can we go to the second prince?" ”

Van der Vaart had already thought of this, and replied lightly: "Two generals, the rumor, this is just the rumor, don't forget, the old marquis was against the court at the beginning, the eldest prince insisted on submitting to the court, and it was the two of them who were incompatible, not the old marquis and the eldest prince, on the contrary, the old marquis has been protecting the second son, don't you want to think about it, water is more likely to harm the old marquis?" You don't want to think about it, if it is really the old marquis who was killed by the second son, then General Zheng Cai and Dongying's Yiguan party backbone will follow the second son? ”

Forehead......

Deng Yu and Lou Bo's hearts sank, this question, the two of them didn't think about it, but they didn't dare to think, my God, could it be that the eldest prince is full of poetry and books, and he can still do such a thing as a beast and sell his father for glory?

"And you don't want to think about it, the Hou Ye rebelled, it was the eldest prince and which of you Fifth Master reported to the imperial court, and they also helped the imperial court control the water division! Can't you see who is who? ”

Van der Vaart said that he was alive and said that all the dead were alive, and completely surrounded Deng Yu and Lou Bo!