Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

After Li Shizhen acted as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he planned a strategy to recover Qiongzhou with great fanfare.But to prepare for another southern expedition, more troops, more food and more ships are needed, all of which are scarce in Guangdong Province.The problem of troop strength is still easy to solve. In addition to recruiting some townspeople in Guangdong Province, the Qing court is trying to find ways to transfer troops from Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places to Guangdong. However, the problem of food, wages and ships is not so It was easy to solve, so I flew to Beijing like a snowflake.

For this reason, in July of the 25th year of Kangxi, the Ministry of Household Affairs collected three points (3%) of the floating income of grain grain from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, and Shandong.Since this move only increased the Qing government’s tribute rice income by less than 50 shi, which was not enough to cover the huge military expenditures of the three southeastern provinces, the Qing household department restored and rebuilt during the Shunzhi period. Zhili Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, Longquan, Liaodong Fengtian, Shanxi Shahukou, Shandong Linqingguan, Jiangnan Huaianguan, Fengyangguan, Wuhuguan, Yangzhouguan, Xixinguan, Hushuguan, Zhejiang Beixinguan, Jiangxi Jiujiang, Ganguan, On the basis of nineteen banknote gates including Min'anguan in Fujian, eight new banknote gates were built, including Zhili Zuliang Hall, Shanhaiguan, Zhongjiang in Liaodong, Wuchangguang in Hubei, Dajianlu in Sichuan, Kuiguan, and Taipingguan in Guangdong. In addition, Tianjin Customs and others also required to hand over "surplus" and additional "surplus" to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Seeing that the Ministry of Households has a lot of money, so in order to share the worries of the "sage king", the Qing Ministry of Industry was unwilling to fall behind, so it set up an industrial customs on the basis of the bamboo and wood and bamboo and wood products of the Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty. There are Linqing in Shandong, Longjiang in Jiangsu, Wuhu in Anhui, Nanxin in Zhejiang, Jingguan in Hubei, Chenguan in Hunan, and Yuguan in Sichuan. 800, 260 at Linqing, 800 at Suqian, 800 at Wuhu, 7000 at Longjiang, 5000 at Jingguan, and 3000 at Tongyongdao

The money problem has finally been preliminarily resolved, but the ship will not be able to get together for a while. This is not just a problem in Guangdong Province. You must know that the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong are currently building ships at a rapid pace, but the southeast region is suitable for shipbuilding. It has already been felled completely. Even if suitable large trees can be obtained from the mountains of Liaodong and Yunnan, Guizhou, the shipping cost is enough to scare people to death.As a last resort, the naval divisions of the three provinces had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. When Zheng Jun’s gunboats were getting bigger and bigger, they could only use small boats with a thousand materials or even eight hundred or five hundred materials to make up for the number, trying to use more to fight the few. Scared off Zheng Jun.

However, Li Shizhen himself has no idea whether the small boat can defeat the Zheng Jun navy in the naval battle --- Guangdong is not like Zhejiang Province, which only needs to be wary of Zheng Jun's landing, and it is not like Fujian Province, which is responsible for the main task of attacking Dongning but because of the presence of a prince. He can fight steadily and is forced to take back Qiongzhou as quickly as possible. There is no room for him to procrastinate or take risks and finally fail—so contacting the Portuguese in Macau again has become his top choice among options. .

Of course, the Macau side also saw clearly Li Shizhen’s embarrassment, so they did not hesitate to ask for a huge asking price, trying to ask the Qing government to close the customs of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and grant Guangdong province the exclusive right to trade, silk and raw silk, porcelain and The pricing power of tea, the re-establishment of Macau's status and so on.In this regard, Li Shizhen responded to the tit-for-tat request that if he did not send a ship to escort the Guangdong Navy, he would take back Macau and cut off trade with the Portuguese.

"Shopkeeper Sun, did you invite these barbarian boats at sea?" An angry look appeared on the face of someone who had made an agreement with Fei. "Why? Can't you trust this account? If that's the case, please go back. There are many people who want to do business with this account. It's not a big deal to lose you."

"Why is Master Ruan making such a big fuss?" Fei Fei pushed the other party back unceremoniously. "Be careful when doing business for the first time. I don't want to chase all the way to Shenglong to ask for this batch of goods." Fei Fei stared closely at someone Ruan's eyes. "Could it be that Master Ruan has some problems here?"

"There is no problem with this account, but I'm afraid you have problems." Dongzhu Ruan responded coldly. "In case Yi Chuan was killed when you and I traded, wouldn't this account be beaten? If you want to make a deal, you can tell Yi Chuan to retreat two miles."

Fei's face was serious, and then he stood up: "Aren't you talking speculatively, then let's just shoot and break up."

Seeing that Fei was about to leave, the guards over there put their hands on the handle of the knife one after another: "Why did you see the poor dagger?"

There was a strange smile on Fei's face, and then he flipped his hand, and the fire box lit up. The person on the other side couldn't see it well, and rushed to grab it, but how could there be time, a fire meteor rose into the air immediately middle.

Although the trajectory of the bolide was not very obvious during the day, the trailing white smoke still gave a good reminder to the dog-fighting team who were paying attention to the situation at sea, so the lightest notification ship sailed straight over like flying.But even though it had the smallest load in the team, it was still huge compared to the small wooden boat of the Beihe people, not to mention the four dark cannons on board.

"Shopkeeper Sun, you are as expensive as tiles and jade with us." Proprietor Ruan spoke Chinese fluently, but anyone could understand the threatening tone. "In case a jade and a stone are burnt together, it will be your own loss."

"Sun is just a small shopkeeper of the big boss's family, so why talk about wealth." Fei smiled lightly, not caring at all about being in the hands of the other party, but said frankly. "But if you move, our boss will definitely be furious. When the time comes to retaliate, we can't afford to send Dongzhu Ruan and the people behind Dongzhu Ruan."

Dongzhu Ruan acquiesced, that's right, a firm that can produce hundreds of bird guns in the shortest time, and can hire plywood boats as bodyguards, one can imagine its profound heritage.However, even though he had some scruples about the power behind Fei, Dongzhu Ruan couldn't make up his mind for a while whether he should give up threatening the other party with Fei's life.

Dongzhu Ruan hasn't made a decision yet, someone here will choose for him.The notification ship that was speeding over drew a large arc on the sea surface, and quickly aimed the side gun muzzle at the trading sea area, and then a red light flashed, and the rumbling gun sound was accompanied by the water column that shot up into the sky. stand up.One shot, two shots, and then the hull turned around, and another shot, two shots, the impact of the shells was getting closer and closer, and the last jet of water even poured over Sun Fei and Dongzhu Ruan.

"Shopkeeper Sun, I was rude just now." Dongzhu Ruan, who was able to stretch and bend, immediately signaled his subordinates to let Fei go. "You see, this is all a misunderstanding. Please also ask shopkeeper Sun to restrain Yi Chuan's actions so that you and I can save and trade."

"Continue to trade?" Fei Fei gave Dongzhu Ruan a distrustful look. "Can you continue to trade?"

"Yes, yes, people, this account is ready, and it is hidden on the sandbar at the mouth of the river. It was just a misunderstanding." Dongzhu Ruan tactfully called what he just did a misunderstanding. Of course Fei sneered, but still It wasn't Fei's turn to criticize the other party, and Dongzhu Ruan, who saw the notification boat turned back, no longer cared about making excuses, and saw him eagerly begging. "Shopkeeper Sun, let your boat stop first, otherwise everyone will be finished."

Fei hesitated for a moment, and when Dongzhu Ruan was about to jump on his feet, he suddenly said: "I just searched for my trumpet, so let's find it and fire three in a row."

Before Fei could say anything, the people in Beihe hurriedly lit the fireball, and seeing the fireball rising almost at the same time, the notification ship, which was about to fire again, ended the original figure-of-eight loop sailing, and then set sail And went, and parked a little farther away.

"How do you trade people and firearms?" Sun Fei looked at Dongzhu Ruan who was still in shock and said. "I think you and I don't trust each other. I propose that for every 500 people you send over, I will give you a hundred bird guns. After the last 500 people are sent to the inspection, I will give you the gunpowder and lead. Don't know if this is okay?"

"Okay, very good." Of course Dongzhu Ruan agreed, so that no one would suffer too much. "Just do it"

Small wooden boats carrying girls with their hands tied behind their backs boarded the nearby blessing boats. The watermen on the boats inspected them one by one. It's cheap enough, but they don't dare to take the lead, after all, this business is led by the military.

However, the result of the inspections one by one was the slow speed. Proprietor Ruan impatiently suggested: "The speed is too slow, can five ships be traded together? I am not afraid of anything else, except that the news will leak out."

"Mr. Ruan, we don't even worry about the approaching typhoon. Are you afraid of news leaking when you are on land?"

Fei Fei looked at Dongzhu Ruan with a sneer on his face, the other party dared to use so many women to return the firearm.Naturally, Beihe has settled everything up and down. Worried about the news leaking?Using such an abusive excuse shows that the other party must still have some kind of ulterior motives. Of course, Fei will not point out him, but just express his position firmly.

"Be safe, I believe it will be good for everyone."

After Sun Fei said this, Dongzhu Ruan naturally didn't dare to say anything more, so the two sat opposite each other speechlessly, letting the sun move little by little.After much difficulty, the transaction was finally completed. One of the ships of both sides, full of people and weapons, disappeared in the depths of the river, and the other moved to the side of several two-masted gunboats.

"Master Ruan, the transaction has been completed, so let's break up."

"Shopkeeper Sun, wait a moment." Fei was taken aback for a moment, and saw Dongzhu Ruan say something to his subordinates, and after a while, two stunning women walked out of the cabin. "This time, I was reckless. These two are still virgins. This is my apology to your proprietor. I hope we will have the opportunity to do a few more deals in the future."

"East Master Ruan is fully prepared and knows that he will make an apology." Fei chuckled lightly. "Okay, I'll accept the person. As for the business next time, let's talk about it next time."