Chapter 189: The third son of the Sun family came to the door

Everyone immediately bowed their heads and kept silent. Zheng Sha scolded him there:

"If you buy cannons and the great god of the guardian eunuch is placed there, are you still afraid that you can't buy it? Let us handle it on our behalf, that is to give us face. We should think that this matter can be done more properly. Now our Zheng family is begging him, do you know!"

When the old pirate said that, all the people suddenly realized it, but they were even more troubled. They also understood the situation with Li Meng. If there were naturally many ways to please him in Fujian, in Nanzhili and Shandong, they would probably have the same positions as gold, silver, and beautiful colors.

But Li Meng is a general, and is obviously a general. He controls Shandong's private salt and sells private salt at sea. He is also a rich man. As for beauty, Jiangnan literary sages privately criticize who is criticizing the "children of the eunuch party" who dominates the stunning charm? This is also worth mentioning.

So someone suggested that "Let's buy the cannon and give it to Li Meng", and was immediately scoffed by everyone. Who would care about the cost of hundreds of taels of silver for a cannon? As long as Li Meng increases and decreases the amount of sea salt by one or two, a transportation trip will be about a thousand taels of floating, and the money for cannons is really a small amount.

However, I worked together and came up with a solution, and someone said:

"I heard from my third brother that Li Mengping didn't care much about wealth and sex. He was devoted to training troops. Today he asked us to buy cannons. He must be a general who likes such weapons and fire weapons. He is the elders in front of him. I think that it would be better to give him fishing nets than to send someone else's fishing nets, and it would be better to find some artisans who cast cannons to send them."

It seems that the Zheng family is a scholar. I am afraid that Zheng Sha and the others will not understand it, so I explained the saying "It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish" in vernacular.

For people like Zheng Sha, craftsmen are similar to brothel women, but they are just a living commodity that can be solved with money. The gift of craftsmen by the Zheng family’s son has opened up ideas for these people. There are many craftsmen who cast robes in Guangdong and Tianjin, and they are not in short supply. They will definitely succeed if they spend a lot of money to recruit them.

But someone immediately proposed a statement that the cannon casting craftsmen is indeed a good gift, but there is not too special, so it should be better.

The Zheng family in Nanzhili originally thought that they could get Li Meng's salt farm in Shandong through various methods, and took this opportunity to have one or two ports and a small small city in Shandong. In the eyes of the Zheng family, the Zheng family almost felt that they could play with him.

Who would have thought that the situation suddenly changed. Behind Li Meng was one of the most powerful people in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the iron-blooded style of Li Meng forced the leader of the Zheng family to change his strategy.

Marine trade on the entire Asian sea surface is 10,000 yuan a day, but the Zheng family transported sea salt to Fujian for sale in Shandong, and the profits are also rich and have political significance. Zheng Zhilong was just a coastal defense guerrilla in Fujian at this time, but the Zheng family already believed that Fujian was its territory.

To control this land, eating salt is a big problem. People need to eat salt, but Fujian is rainy and humid, and it is not easy to boil salt while drying salt, and the price of salt is extremely high. It must be imported from other places. Lianghuai salt merchants have their own interests, and the same is true in Guangdong. When dealing with the Zheng family's private salt, there are always additional conditions attached, or the price is very serious.

Moreover, although the Zheng family's fleet has the strength to dominate the Asian sea surface, such a large fleet only has a port completely under its control in Fujian. The rest of the places can only be docked for commercial reasons and cannot have other purposes.

Li Meng controlled the salt farms in Shandong, and the nearby ports of these salt farms could be transformed into ports. At present, Li Meng needed a large sea salt buyer, while the people of the Zheng family needed a sea salt seller and a strong shelter from the northern ports.

Both sides have demands for each other, and to measure it, the Zheng family currently needs Li Meng's existence more. Moreover, because Liu Fulai behind Li Meng's eunuch, the Zheng family felt that it was more necessary to please Li Meng. They took a step back and said that it was necessary to please a general who was in charge of eastern Shandong and had a strong strength.

The Zheng family discussed it very seriously. Although the Zheng family had few official relationships in Nanzhili, their pirate career back then made them have a lot of contact in the world. The news was extremely well-informed. Soon, a leader in the Zheng family who was in charge of contacting Songjiang remembered something.

The man said to Zheng Sha with some excitement:

"Uncle, I have something to tell you. The three young men of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, were all in Songjiang Mansion at this time. Sun Yuanhua is an expert in making guns and cannons. I guess his sons are not bad."

Sun Yuanhua was one of the great masters of Eastern and Western cultural exchanges in the late Ming Dynasty. He once translated the first six volumes of the ancient Greek mathematical work "The Origin of Geometry" with Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci, assisting Xu Guangqi in completing the compilation of "Pythagorean Meaning". Although these are of great significance in history, the Ming military and civilians are more aware of the "Western Fresh Ji" and "The Complete Book of Jingwu" written by Sun Yuanhua. Among them, "Western Fresh Ji" is the first military and scientific work in China introducing Western artillery casting, making gunpowder, building forts, etc.

Although Sun Yuanhua was very talented, his luck was not very good. He was very famous among the army in Denglai. Even though the soldiers in Liao Town and Kong Youde rebelled and deceived the city of Laizhou, the first thing the soldiers caught Sun Yuanhua was to check whether there were any equipment that could commit suicide on him.

After nearly two years of rebellion, most of the officials of Dengzhou prefectures and counties were killed by rebels, but Sun Yuanhua was safe and sound. Kong Youde and his generals also hoped that Sun Yuanhua would be their leader, and Sun Yuanhua would never obey.

After Kong Youde led the rebels to the sea to surrender the Jurchens in the East, he released Sun Yuanhua for some unknown purpose. Perhaps he knew that if he didn't kill him, someone would take action.

Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen sentenced Sun Yuanhua to death for collusion with the enemy, and he was never ruthless in killing the governor...

After Sun Yuanhua was killed by Emperor Chongzhen, everyone said he was wronged, so even the powerful men on the sea such as Zheng Sha knew a lot. The Zheng family was very good at these ports along the coast, and they could know a lot about big and big things. What this person was talking about was Sun Yuanhua's three sons, Sun Heding, Sun Hedou, and Sun Hejing.

Because of the murder of his father, he was sad and disappointed with the court. Although Sun Yuanhua's subordinates and friends recommended the three of them to go out to be officials several times, they were all rejected. The three of them are currently organizing various works of their father into a book at home. This collection is the famous "Shui Yifang Renren" in the history of science.

What book is compiled? The Zheng family doesn't know, but they know that since Sun Yuanhua is so skilled in firearms, the three young masters must not be of poor quality. Zheng Sha laughed loudly. This really solved a problem. He didn't hesitate and said directly:

"Since that's the case, let's go to Songjiang to invite people to Jiaozhou. This is also a good thing to do."

For the Zheng family, it is actually not difficult to buy artillery. It takes a day or two to deal with foreigners of the Flang machine in Macau. As long as you spend money, you will definitely have goods. However, it takes some time to transport these artillery at sea, from Guangdong to Shandong.

As for these three young masters of the Sun family, they only went from Songshan to Shandong, and the speed was much faster.

In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, a small case occurred in Songjiang Mansion. The Sun Mansion, who was closed, suddenly all three young men and their families disappeared overnight and were missing.

Of course, the soldiers in charge of the Shuimen of Songjiang Prefecture had a lot of money in their pockets, so no one knew about this. The family of the criminal official did not need much attention. After they disappeared, they could deal with it with the documents. Originally, Sun Yuanhua's relatives and friends were still very anxious.

However, after receiving several private messages, they all became quiet. Of course, this was already June of the tenth year of Chongzhen.

In the Jiaozhou Camp system, after Guo Dong's wife got Li Meng's attitude, when Mu Yunyao went to the house again, she asked the responsible women not to stop them and just let the young lady in.

Since there was an order from above, the people below were naturally unwilling to offend others too much. Mu Yunyao walked in swaggeringly. The girl was wearing a sage robe. This was not like Kaifeng, who had to put on makeup and go out. Instead, in the salt administration inspection yamen house in Jiaozhouying, Mu Yunyao did a job reading documents, adding annotations, and explaining to Li Meng that this work was consistent with the long gown worn by the sermon.

This house is where the King of Yan lived in the past. This is the only place in the entire inspection house that has not been transformed into a study and a service hall. The soldiers, civil servants and subordinates on duty in this salt administration inspection office all live in the newly opened houses around them. The high-priced acquisitions are always tempted.

Li Meng lived in this house for a while, and later moved to a small house a few steps away from most of the guards' barracks.

The house of King Mou Yan was not much different from the residences of rich families at that time. Gu Hengbo, the woman, and the maids and servants they brought with them, lived in great wealth.

Mu Yunyao, wearing men's clothing, walked in fiercely. The two little maids chatting by the door quickly stood up to greet him. But when they saw Mu Yunyao's outfit, the two little maids were stunned at first, and then quickly bowed and asked:

"What's wrong with this lady?"
Chapter completed!