Daming Yinghua

Chapter 208 Meeting

Behind the carved building where Yao Qianhu entertained Liaodong businessmen, there is a large yard facing the sea. At this time, there are several knots of huanghuali wood piled up. It's amazing.

"Little carpenter, do you know what kind of wood this is?"

Yao Qianhu picked the mutton shreds between his teeth and asked Ah Shan arrogantly.

Ah Shan shook his head.

It was indeed the first time for him to see such a beautiful piece of wood, and he couldn't help feeling secretly that the Ming Kingdom is really vast and rich in resources and rare treasures. Even the wood looks more like gold than the gold-embedded belt of the sweat.

Yao Qianhu said: "You bumpkin, this is called huanghuali. It's from Qionghai. One or two feet is more precious than your life. These two bosses have seen the chairs on your car and like them very much. Yang The county magistrate ordered you to make a few handfuls of huanghuali and take them away with the bosses. You should make your work more frankly, otherwise, if I say a word, your tigress will have to pay twice as much in autumn."

Ah Shan obediently agreed, walked to the side of the wood, put down the load full of tools, and walked over again, flattering him, saying: "Your little one must fix the chair, and I beg the general to speak kindly to the county master and take care of our Zhengjiazhuang. The long guns and small cannons made by our wife cost a lot of money."

Yao Qianhu snorted, with a wretched look in his eyes, and said to the two Liao merchants: "The tigress is just a fool, you say, what kind of guns and cannons does a woman use, women, why don't we?" Just give them a few shots from time to time with a gun, that's all right?"

After he finished speaking, he seemed to be proud of his obscene remarks, and he laughed uncontrollably, but soon found that Liao Shang didn't laugh with the occasion.

"Master Yao," the elder Liao merchant said solemnly, "When Fushun was beating the Tartars, we people in southern Liaoning heard that the imperial court's firearms were transported from Songjiang. It turns out that Chongming Island also made firearms? "

Yao Qianhu rolled his eyes: "Ah, yes, what you are talking about should be the woman who was ordered by the imperial court's sixth grade, surnamed Zheng, to occupy the South Island."

After the two Liao merchants looked at each other, the older one glanced at Ah Shan who was immersed in measuring the timber, and made a gesture of "Let me speak" to Yao Qianhu.

Walking outside the courtyard, the Liao merchant said in a low voice, "Master, can you sell the firearm that Mrs. Zheng made?"

Yao Qianhu was taken aback for a moment, thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Do you want to buy it?"

"That's right, sell it to the north and sell it to bandits, and you can earn more than silk cloth grain."

Yao Qianhu looked distressed: "I reckon that tigress is not willing. I heard that her firearms were inspected and made by the Ministry of War, and then shipped to Border Town and Fujian."

"Oh..." The elder Liao Shang understood, "So, the imperial court is her big and only customer."

The younger Liao merchants encouraged them unwillingly: "Yao master finds a way to get some, twenty or thirty, and the gross profit is better than a hundred dan of homemade cloth."

Yao Qianhu rolled his eyes: "I'll give it a try. I'm an upright Qianhu in Chongming. Soldiers and soldiers, soldiers first and then soldiers, the rules of the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't make sense for her to have guns and cannons in the barracks, I am dignified The Qianhusuo will not fire guns or cannons."

The young Liao merchant added more firewood to the fire: "That is, the huge Chongming, the gateway to the East China Sea, the camp has a guy's business, but the guard doesn't have it. Is the court raising a female pirate?"

The elder smiled and said: "When Master Yao gets the guns, we should arrive on the next boat, just in time to send money to Master Yao."

"It's easy to say, easy to say," Yao Qianhu's eyes lit up, and he turned and pointed to the courtyard, "You two, send the little carpenter, but Yang Xiancheng came forward to call him. He is working here, and his boss dare not come and talk .”

"Thank you Master Yao, do you want Master Yao to take a rest? The two of us chatted with the little carpenter brother, and went to the beach to enjoy the warm air and let off the smell of alcohol."

……

Yao Qianhu hummed a little tune, and his back disappeared in the front hall of the Diaohua Building.This Qiu Ba has built another business here privately in Hong Kong, raising girls from brothels picked from Suzhou, and he goes to the other business to hang out when he has nothing to do.

The two Liao merchants came to Ah Shan's side and said almost at the same time: "Master."

"Ah."

Yue Tuo responded lightly, his eyes still lingering on the huanghuali.

"Nikan dog Dongsi disrespected his master just now, and we will take his dog's life later." The young Liao merchant said bitterly.

Yue Tuo raised his eyes and said softly: "That's not necessary. If he didn't treat me as a little carpenter, it would be terrible. Besides, what we have to work hard to remove are those powerful characters in Ming Dynasty, like Yao Qianhu It's better to keep such a money-grubbing waste, maybe it will be a coated slave who will open the way for me in the future."

When the elder Liao merchant heard the words, he immediately responded respectfully, and taught his son: "Feng Nian, master's wisdom, you must keep in mind, so that you can follow the master to accomplish great things."

The father and son posing as Liao merchants, namely Tong Yangzheng and the eldest son Tong Fengnian, both followed Tong Yangxing to Nurhachi during the Fushun defense war.

Tong Yangzheng also has a son named Tong Shengnian, who was named "Turai" by the old chief Nurhachi.In history, Tong Tulai's daughter married Emperor Shunzhi and gave birth to the later Emperor Kangxi. However, Tong Tulai was only thirteen or fourteen years old at this time, and he did not follow his father and brother out to serve as a spy for Houjin.

As for Yue Tuo, who showed himself as a carpenter, he had an even bigger background. He was the grandson of Nurhachi and the son of Dabeile Daishan.

Yue Tuo lost his mother in childhood, and his stepmother treated Yue Tuo harshly under the connivance of Daishan. After Nurhachi knew about it, he asked Huang Taiji's mother, Meng Gu Zhezhe, to raise Yue Tuo.Therefore, Yue Tuo and his uncle Huang Taiji have a deep relationship, but they are strangers to their biological father Daishan.

During the Battle of Fushun, Yue Tuo was going to the Haixi Jurchen in the north to select horses. He had never met Zheng Haizhu and others in Hetuala before, and his Chinese was the best among the descendants of the old chief Nurhachi. Huang Taiji then appointed him to spy on various military situations from the south.

Huang Taiji was insidious and meticulous, found a few hoarders outside Kuandian, and ordered armored soldiers to torture and kill the Han people wantonly, forcing the Han people to flee westward, and then designed a scene of chasing and killing, so that Yue Tuo could enter the pass in the middle.

On the other hand, the Tong family was also dispatched by Nurhachi to Huang Taiji. Tong Yangzheng and his son began to launch from a seaport close to North Korea, pretending to be smuggling sea merchants, while Tong Xiyu entered Songjiang by land.

At this moment, Tong Fengnian walked to the gate of the courtyard to watch out, while Tong Yangzheng took out a blank ledger.

Yue Tuo took out the ink fountain, a tool commonly used by carpenters, and opened the ink tank. There was no cotton balls of ink stored in the ink tank, but thick ink.

He sawed wood for a while, then stopped, took a pen and dipped in ink, and drew a map on the account book for a while, all of which he saw on the way to the south by boat, from various guards in the Liaohai Sea to the East China Sea.

After drawing the map, Yue Tuo began to trace the appearance of the machine gun, heavy arquebus, large and small iron cannons, and marked their destruction distance to the chariot.

As for the multi-spindle spinning car, it did not appear on paper.

So what if we can spin a lot of cotton balls at the same time, where do we Jurchens get so much cotton.

Yue Tuo thought helplessly.

After painting in one go, Yue Tuo handed the account book to Tong Yangzheng, and asked a little relaxedly: "Fengnian's baby, have you landed yet? Are you a grandfather?"

Tong Yangzheng's eyes darkened, and he said with a wry smile: "He's a kid, but he doesn't support him, he can't get milk, and his bones are not good."

Yue Tuo thought of the strong boy in his family, and couldn't help asking: "Why is there no milk?"

Tong Yangzheng sighed, and then said pleadingly: "Master, let's talk to Da Khan and Sibeile on behalf of the slaves. Gege married our Tong family and cut off Fengnian's daughter-in-law and concubine's chest. That's all right, anyway. Reward a nanny and leave a queen for Fengnian."

Yue Tuo was startled.

He knew that he had an aunt in his late thirties, her two predecessors were dead, and Tong Fengnian was handsome, so Da Khan bestowed this old Gege to the Tong family.

Unexpectedly, Tong Fengnian's family was harmed.

That's not going to work, turning around has angered the Tong family, and if they turn against each other again.

After all, being a traitor is often the difference between zero and countless times.

Then, Yue Tuo thought of Aya, the docile but capable little widow under Zheng Haizhu.

Yue Tuo finally understood why he felt something was wrong with Aya when he went to deliver the wooden horse rocking cart a few days ago.

Her chest is also flat.

(End of this chapter)