The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 193
The performances were wonderful, and the value of the thank you party invitation soared.

Too many high-ranking officials with good money want to see all seven performances, but unfortunately, there are very few distinguished guests who can get a full set of invitation letters for seven performances, definitely not more than thirty.

Of course, these [-] families are all officials with real power in their hands. The little princes of the British government came to deliver the invitation letter in person. These masters didn’t care at first, thinking that it was just a small singing of lyrics and songs, and Zhang Zhiji needed to come to the door in person. Ridiculous, ridiculous!
For the sake of the British public, the first performance, everyone who wanted to come or not came, they all had the same idea, showed off and exchanged a few words with the British public, thought it was meaningless, and then went home to sleep.

Unexpectedly, when the music sounded and the curtain opened, they were attracted. No one left the stage halfway, even holding back their urine. Several eunuchs couldn't hold back at all, and their crotches were all wet.

The dignitaries fell in love with this kind of performance later, drinking good wine and listening to good music, they had a great time, and they found that their invitation letter turned out to be a hot item that could not be bought for a few hundred taels of silver. Favorability greatly increased.

At the gate of the 'Jiuzhongtian', many patrons sent servants to offer high-priced acquisition invitations there, and there were only a handful of them that could be bought, but there were still many people who were unwilling to give up and came to try their luck every day.

Those who can get the invitation letter are dignitaries, local tyrants and gentry, whose family has no money?Seeing people vying for it, they were even more unwilling to give it. In the end, a local tyrant offered 500 taels of silver but failed.

This local tyrant was lucky and got what he wanted when the show was about to start, because a scholar surnamed Cheng gave him his own, and the one surnamed Cheng went in without an invitation letter.

It was the night of April [-]th, and he came to report how much he had done in April. The master craftsman who lived near Wang Gong's factory went to Huangjiawan Island, and Huang Sheng asked him to go to 'Jiuzhongtian' to drink and watch singing and dancing.

When he came to the gate, he found that a local tyrant was buying invitation letters at a high price. Huang Sheng took out one and gave it to Cheng Guanku, and told him with a smile that the 500 taels of silver would be his hard work these days.

Cheng Dashi has already been convinced by the great talent, he always does things down-to-earth in front of Huang Sheng, because he is smart, he finds that Master Huang is smarter than him, so he will never play tricks in front of smart people.

When Mr. Huang gave 500 taels of favor, he took it honestly, not pretentious, let alone refusing.Cheng Guanku has already won the fame of Juren, and has the official position of the eighth rank, and now he is waiting for a vacancy in the capital. There has been news that he may go to Funing to become the county magistrate.

Funing is not far from the south of Shanhaiguan. It is [-] miles away from the sea and has a port. It is very convenient to go to Juehua Island. If you are an official there, you may be able to follow the Huang family and make military achievements.
Cheng Guanku told him a strange phenomenon in the same year. Now somehow, the chief officials of the major camps in the capital became interested in gunpowder for a while, and they were all trying to hoard it.

The instigator of all this is of course Huang Sheng. Chinese people have the most serious herd mentality. Those civil servants and generals found that many people were trying their best to make gunpowder, and many people didn't know why.

But regardless of the reason, they found that gunpowder was getting more and more nervous, and they used their connections to hoard a large amount.

In this way, more and more people joined the army of hoarding gunpowder, and more than half of them could not explain their behavior clearly.

Especially the Shenji Battalion, their reason is the most sufficient.It is said that a lot of gunpowder is consumed during the exercise every day. Because the movement is too loud, the people in the capital are afraid of being disturbed, and the location of the exercise is far away from the capital.

After being swarmed by everyone, gunpowder became the most in-demand material in April.

Now the attention of Jinyi Weidong Factory is not completely focused on Huang Sheng and the nobles, but to pay close attention to the civil and military generals who have received the gunpowder but have not shipped it out of the capital.

The secret agents are getting big heads, and everyone can't figure out why gunpowder is so popular in April of the sixth year of the apocalypse?Because after their investigation and evidence collection, many people just think that gunpowder may be nervous and take precautions, without any purpose at all.

The spies immediately felt that their network of relationships was not simple, and they secretly stored some, hoping to make a small fortune when the gunpowder was tense.

Huang Sheng listened to the situation introduced by Cheng Guanku, and thought that provoking the nobles had already received a large amount of gunpowder, and artificially created an atmosphere where gunpowder was a rare commodity to live in, which attracted more people to participate in the hoarding.

In the past month, many gunpowder masters from Wanggong Factory have been taken away through cheating and deceit, which has directly affected the production of gunpowder. Now there should not be too much gunpowder there, at least not the 200 to [-] as estimated by historians. ten thousand catties.

I still have the official documents to collect gunpowder for the army under the command of the entire Liaodong Economic Strategy. Tomorrow is the first day of May, and it is time to act.

At this time, another 50 catties of gunpowder will be removed. When the explosion came on the sixth day of May, there should be no inventory in the gunpowder depot of Wang Gong Factory.

If it was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster, the big explosion at Wang Gong Factory might not have happened. Even if the disaster still happened, the power would have dropped a lot, right?
For a moment, Huang Sheng was a little excited. He planned with all his heart, and he would see the result in a few days, but he didn't know how it would develop?

In the early morning of May [-]st, Huang Sheng came to visit Duke Ying, and everyone in the mansion thought that the talented man was here to propose marriage?
Everyone can't laugh or cry, there is no reason for him to come to the door to propose a marriage recklessly, he should invite a worthy matchmaker to make a match!
Zhang Weixian was also very surprised. After seeing his future son-in-law in the study, he suddenly realized that the great talent came to the door for business!

The prospective son-in-law worked for the Liaodong Economic Strategy and was responsible for collecting 50 catties of gunpowder from the gunpowder depot of Wanggong Factory and escorting them to Shanhaiguan. Fearing that he would make trouble and make mistakes, he asked the British public to help.

The British public knew that their sons and daughters were listening outside the door, nine out of ten they bewitched Mr. Huang Sheng to come to beg for him, and Zhang Weixian didn't know about those who got the supplies.

It is estimated that Mr. Gaodi has also put a margin. If the talented man can receive 50 catties in full, he will definitely get tens of thousands of taels of silver.

We all know what layer upon layer of deductions is, and we all know that ten collars and nine deficiencies, a great talent can sell 50 catties for a full amount of 40 catties, and hand over [-] catties of gunpowder to the Liaodong Economic Strategy and everyone will be happy.

Zhang Weixian considered things based on the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. He knew that raising a family cost a lot. Today, using his power to take down his old face and accompany his son-in-law for a trip is equivalent to helping Huang Sheng more than 1 taels of silver.

The British Duke readily agreed to Huang Sheng's request, ordered a team of servants, and brought his son Zhang Zhiji to accompany Huang Sheng to the gunpowder storehouse of Wang Gong Factory.

It's too awesome. The British official came forward to help Huang Sheng, a hero and talented man who is famous for the "Fuzhou Great Victory", complete the task of collecting gunpowder for the Liaodong army.

Where else would anyone dare to squawk, let alone reach out, such a large batch of goods out of the warehouse turned out to be full, which may be the only time in decades.

Officials at all levels in charge of Wang Gongchang’s military supply depot complained endlessly. If they had known this, they should have made some out of the warehouse first. Now they have received 50 catties under the command of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and their friends have to wait in line to claim it.

Huang Sheng was not polite at all when he got the gunpowder. He took 20 catties by himself, shipped them to Tianjin Wei, and sent them to the newly built arsenal on Scorpion Island by sea.

As for how much inventory Wang Gong Factory still has, Huang Sheng doesn't know at all, but judging from the faces of those officials, there should be very little left.

In the evening, Cheng Guanku found out the news through the same year. The inventory there had reached the bottom line. These guaranteed stocks were prepared for the defense of the capital, and no one dared to move them. Between 30 catties.

On May [-]rd, the commodity fair started, and the people of the capital who had been waiting for more than a month flocked outside Guangqumen. Sure enough, as advertised, there were a variety of commodities, and they were really cheap and high-quality.

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