Daming Yinghua

Chapter 433 I feel that I am very smart

At the beginning of this autumn, another servant of Tong Xiyu, Li Gui, told the mistress that his concubine, Jilantai, the maid sent to Mu Zaohua by Nurhaci, complained that Mu Zaohua would not let her remarry, so he persuaded Li Gui to come. He talked with Tong Xiyu and gave Mu Zaohua a stumbling block, such as Ban Daoer robbing her of Japanese copper.

Ji Lantai also excitedly revealed to Li Gui that when he went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to deliver food to Mu Zaohua, he overheard this Han woman showing off her knowledge to Yue Tuo. She knew that because of the high purity of Japanese copper, it was not only used in cannon-making It's easy to forge, and it's better to make copper coins. In this case, the robbed copper is worse than secretly minted into copper coins.

Ji Lantai had previously informed Tong Xiyu about the process of making cannons at Zhenglan Banner, and some of the secrets had somewhat solved the Tong family's confusion about making wax models.

In addition, Jilantai was the bannerman of Hetuala and the monitor appointed by the Great Khan, so Tong Xiyu dispelled his suspicion of her, and because of his jealousy and greed, he decided to try Jilantai's idea.

It's easier to do things if you have insider information.

Jilantai, as a native of the Ministry of Construction, instilled in Mu Zaohua in advance the temptation that there were villagers who were good at fishing for clam shells in the village by the river and could collect Dongzhu.

Sure enough, Tong Xiyu's servant found someone to pretend to be a clam fishing villager, which convinced Mu Zaohua.

The woman who rose to prominence after coming to Hetuala and stole the limelight finally came to kneel down and lick her, Tong Xiyu.

At this moment, Tong Xiyu was enjoying the pleasure of success and said calmly: "Come on, sister Zaohua, first teach us how to smoke Shencrow Cream."

The servant Lao Li slowly took out a copper cigarette rod.

"Brother Li, please light a lamp." Mu Zaohua said in a humble tone, even calling Tong Xiyu's slave "big brother".

Then, she chose a small piece of Shencrow paste and roasted it until soft on the flame of the oil lamp. With a look of treasure, she broke off half of a thumb-sized piece and put it into the smoke pot. She said to Old Li: "Every time I do this, "Plenty, enough. It takes a lot of effort to get this stuff from the sea."

Tong Xiyu pursed her lips and looked at it, and said sarcastically: "Sister, it seems that you don't love Sanbeile wholeheartedly. You know that he likes this, but you still hide so much."

Mu Zaohua sighed and made a heart-to-heart gesture: "Sister, after all, I am a lonely Chinese woman with no roots in Hetuala. I have many places to ask for help, so I always have to save some good things to please people. This time I remembered The idea of ​​changing Dongzhu is also because of this thought. "

As she spoke, she twisted a handful of tobacco from the kang table, covered the Shencrow paste in the smoke pot, lit it, put on the copper lid, and handed it to Tong Xiyu respectfully: "Suck it like a dry cigarette, that's it."

Tong Xiyu took a few puffs curiously, and it really had a sweet taste that was completely different from tobacco.

"Lao Li, you should try it too." She put the cigarette holder in front of the servant.

Lao Li also sighed: "I didn't expect that when this thing was hard, it smelled like urine, and it entered the smoker, and it smelled so good."

Mu Zaohua said flatteringly: "It's better for the elders to suck this. When I was a slave to that bitch named Zheng, I heard that her Taiwanese sweetheart and her capable lieutenant all sucked this. It will make you stronger than eating meat and more energetic than drinking. If my sister wants to get some for General Tong and others, I will think of a way later."

Tong Xiyu's heart moved.

Her brother Tong Yangxing spared no expense in investing the Tong family's assets to expand Wuzhenchaoha (Han military firearms team). Tong Xiyu had long been dissatisfied, and secretly complained to her nephew Tong Fengnian, who was close to her. Tong Fengnian also seems to be leaning towards his aunt.

"I'll give Fengnian some divine crow ointment later."

Tong Xiyu made a note in her mind, then softened her tone and said to Mu Zaohua: "Let's talk about your business. Let me ask you, didn't you say before that the copper we bought from Shanxi was not easy to use? Now Move it to build your Zhenglan Banner cannon, but don’t allow it to explode?”

Mu Zaohua said helplessly: "Isn't this? It's called an expedient measure in Chinese. The Great Khan values ​​​​making cannons so much. I lost my copper this time, so how dare I say anything about it? I loaded stones into the car and entered the city. But the Great Khan The soldiers of the two banners were watching the artillery factories of our two flags. After a while, they came to inspect the copper blocks from Shanxi. I tried to put something on them to make them look like Japanese copper. The soldiers on the left and right were not like us. He's good at it, but a stone can reveal its secrets at a glance."

Tong Xiyu stared at Mu Zaohua with her dirty eyes: "Do you really dare to tell me the truth? Are you not afraid that I will report it to the Khan?"

Mu Zaohua plopped down on the edge of the kang: "In Hetuala, besides my sister, who else can I look for for a woman who can speak Chinese to me like this? Sister, please save me. Besides, this matter only requires To hide it, actually..."

"Actually what?"

"Actually, it's better for the Tong family. We are Zhenglan Banner. If we patch up the Japanese copper bit by bit like this, no matter how smooth the wax model is, it's not as fast as my sister's family building the cannon for Sibeile, right?"

Tong Xiyu thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case.

Why do you want to pierce the window paper when you can give yourself a face?

Tong Xiyu was so happy that he was as happy as throwing an extra bone to a dog, giving an extra bit of kindness to the other party: "When you get the next batch of Japanese copper, don't be in a hurry to return it all to me. I'll give you 70%, and leave 30% for you. I'll You only need to send back 50% of the remaining copper bars for your emergency. I will continue to give you the rest."

"Thank you, sister! Big favor, sister!"

After Mu Zaohua left with a look of relief, Lao Li locked the door, climbed onto the kang, put his arms around Tong Xiyu's shoulders from behind, so that the hostess could lean on his arms and puff in a more comfortable posture. He said flatteringly: "Master is the most powerful."

Tong Xiyu blew out the cigarette holder, took a sip from Lao Li's Adam's apple, and asked him, "What's so great about it?"

"Japanese copper is of high purity. The copper coins poured out after melting are at least 30% more than brass. The batch we robbed was a business without capital, and we made a profit of 10% and 30% in one go. That silly woman later used the copper to pay off the debt. , let's go melt it and make money, it will definitely make more money than using brass. The master will leave some brass with the stupid woman, in exchange for her gratitude, and continue to pay tribute to the master. If the master abandons it in the future. If you get rid of General Tong and do business on your own, you can also take advantage of the stupid woman, that will be a bigger profit. "

Tong Xiyu was very satisfied with the compliment from his subordinate and lover.

That's right, the main masters of the current trade routes in the Kingdom of Jin are all Baylors of various banners. Tong Yangxing was the first Ming Dynasty person to secretly communicate with Dajin. Now he is involved in Wu Zhenchaoha, so he has a charter.

Mu Zaohua works as an Ezhen in the Ministry of Revenue. She is very good at helping Yuetuo to come up with ideas and achieve merit. She will surely have more and more say in front of Yuetuo and even the Khan.

Holding this woman's hand will be useful sooner or later.

Tong Xiyu thought proudly.