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Chapter 240 Good News
"How much do these ships cost?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, each ship is equipped with eight Hongyi cannons, and each Hongyi cannon uses more than three thousand catties of copper, and the cost is about 200 taels. It is much cheaper, about 300 taels each, and the artillery alone costs 2000 taels, plus the battleship itself, other firearms, etc., the cost of each ship is about 5 taels, five ships, a total of 25 taels Two." Qin Yaozu pointed to the big blessing boat and said.

"... This kind of smaller warship is much cheaper, about 5000 taels is enough, ten ships are around 15 taels, horse clippers are cheaper, 5000 taels is enough, the construction cost of this fleet , a total of about 41 taels." Qin Yaozu continued.

"Wait, why are your cannons so expensive? The Hongyi cannons cost 200 taels each?" Yang Reform felt that there was a problem. If I remember correctly, the price of copper is only about a hundred yuan. Copper is only 400 taels of silver, plus the cost of casting, each door should be between 600 and [-] taels of silver. This guy’s quotation is really not ordinary high. Feelings regard themselves as a winner!
Qin Yaozu's quotation was based on the quotation from the Military Bureau, and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, it is difficult to cast the Hongyi cannon. Usually, to produce a qualified cannon, several cannons will be scrapped. Therefore, the casting price Just high."

"Well, I got it, remove the cannon first and don't count it, let's just count the price of the ship, let's talk about the casting of the cannon later." Yang Reform is really dissatisfied with the cannon, the price is too high At this point, I decided to go to my cannon casting consultant Sun Yuanhua when I had time to find out how much the cannon cost. Now the quotation given by my arsenal is a bit outrageous, which definitely hinders the popularization of cannons.

Qin Yaozu was dumbfounded. He built ships but not guns. Can this battleship still be called a battleship?But still agreed.

"Yes, Your Majesty, minus the cost of casting the cannon, the cost of each ship is much cheaper, about half the price, about 25 taels is enough."

"Well, I got it." Yang Reform felt that the high cost of the ship was caused by the artillery, and decided to lower the casting price of the artillery. Otherwise, the artillery would not be popularized, and the warships would not be able to build more.

"Mate, place an order with Zheng Huaizhong and tell him to rebuild the fleet like this, and the ship types and samples will be made according to this." Yang Reform said.

"Your servant obeys." Wang Cheng promised.

The shipbuilding business is not over yet, the cannon casting business is not resolved, and the power of the battleship is always limited. Yang Reform wiped his forehead, thinking that this matter is really troublesome, wave after wave, endless.

……

Qin Yaozu left, packed his luggage, and went to be his fishery admiral.

"Big companion, is there any news about Sun Yuanhua who cast the cannon? I don't know what's going on?" Yang Reform asked again.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the servants are not clear, so I will send someone to ask." Wang Chengen agreed.

Yang Reform looked at the sky outside, it was getting late, thought for a while, and said, "Forget it, I'll talk about it later, I'm really tired today." Jinshi, who are on the front line of disaster relief, gave me encouragement, but now it seems that I can't go today.It's getting late today.

"Yes, Your Majesty, but you want to go back to the palace to rest?" Wang Chengen asked.

"Well, go to Kunning Palace." Yang Reform decided to leave work. There is a limit to handling political affairs, and he doesn't want to age prematurely.

Kunning Palace.

Zhou Wan'er had already received the news and was waiting for the emperor to come over. Seeing that the emperor's chariot had finally arrived, she hurried over to pick him up.

After some salutes, Yang Reform held Zhou Wan'er's hand and said, "Wan'er, I'm exhausted today, you have to give me a good massage to loosen my muscles and bones..."

Zhou Wan'er was led by the emperor with a happy face.

Yang Reform went straight to the sitting bed, then lay down, waiting for Zhou Wan'er to pinch and massage his back.Zhou Wan'er gave Yang Reform a massage lightly. Yang Reform thought it was a bit strange, and the massage was weak, but he was really tired, so he didn't care if someone had a massage, and just started talking to his queen in a daze.

"Wan'er, where is the father-in-law now?" The sugarcane plantation that Yang Reform is concerned about, this is a way, after all, it must not be broken, Yang Reform can count on this way to accommodate refugees.

"Your Majesty, I just received a letter from my father, saying that I have arrived in Guangxi, and I will be able to find a place to settle down in a few days and start buying sugarcane gardens." Zhou Wan'er said with a smile, gently massaging Yang Reform , It is better to say that it is a massage than a stroking.

Yang Reform was puzzled. He had been there for several months, and he had just arrived in Guangxi. This guy must have traveled too far.

"Isn't it? It's been several months, and you haven't arrived in Guangxi?" Yang Reform groaned. It's already the middle of May, and the first year of Chongzhen is almost halfway through, and the old man has only just arrived in Guangxi?I still expect this guy to buy sugarcane fields this year to make money, it seems that it will be a chicken and an egg.

Zhou Wan'er pretended to be angry, gently pinched Yang Reform, and said, "Where, it took more than half a month to send my father's letter. At this time, I'm afraid I have already started buying land. Why did I only arrive in Guangxi? Your Majesty has forgotten, is the journey far and wide between the north and the south?”

Yang Reform patted himself on the forehead, and said: "Yes, yes, I made a mistake to blame my father-in-law, I made a mistake." Yang Reform also forgot about this ancient traffic, if he wrote a letter saying he entered Guangxi territory, at this time Should really be buying land.It seems that my old man is quite positive!
Zhou Wan'er was very happy, and gently massaged the emperor.

Yang Reform felt that today was a bit strange again. He hadn't had a massage for the past few days. How could his Wan'er's hand strength be so weak?It seems to be stroking, not massaging!Yang reform is strange.

Zhou Wan'er suddenly vomited, and the maid next to her immediately took a spittoon and went to pick it up.

Yang Reform turned over violently, looked at his queen, and said, "Wan'er, what are you?" Yang Reform seemed to remember what this phenomenon was called!

The maid on one side said happily: "Your Majesty, the empress is happy. The imperial doctor has come here today and took the pulse. It is sure to be happy."

"Ah!" Yang Reform remembered that this kind of reaction should be called pregnancy reaction.

"Wan'er, is this true? Doesn't this mean that I'm going to be a father? Hahaha..." Yang Reform laughed, and he was about to be promoted to be a father. This is a time when everyone should be happy.

Zhou Wan'er just retched, rinsed her mouth with clean water, and then felt better, said: "Well, I feel a lot lazy these days, I can't eat, and I often vomit. Today, the imperial doctor came and said yes I have..." At the end, Zhou Wan'er lowered her head, she couldn't be more shy.

"Hehe...hehe...good...hehe, I can be a father so soon, good...hehe...good thing..." Yang Reform was happy, he didn't know what to say, he could only use hehe to replace his excitement Mood.

"Come, come, Wan'er, sit, sit...Since you are pregnant with my son, don't be so tired, pay more attention to rest, don't get tired, come and sit..." Yang Reform immediately let the queen sit on the bed with.

"Are you tired there? Not tired, how does His Majesty know it must be a son? What if it is a princess?" Zhou Wan'er happily sat on the couch, chatting with the emperor about family affairs. This is either a son or a daughter. This is the best son. No, you have to get vaccinated too.

"Hey... this, hey, it must be a son, it must be a son! I know this..." Yang Reform said with a smile. If I remember correctly, the prince will be born soon. I remember that when the country is forgotten in the future, the prince will be Fifteen or sixteen years old!In addition to being pregnant in October, it has been almost 17 years. In history, there are only 17 years left in my own life?If the prince doesn't come out again, when will we wait?
"Your Majesty..." Zhou Wan'er acted happily.

"Wan'er, don't move, don't move, it won't be good if you move your fetus." Yang Reform cared meticulously.

Zhou Wan'er frowned slightly when she saw the emperor pampering her so much, and said: "Your Majesty, Tian and Yuan have been in the palace for many days, and they rarely see His Majesty. If Your Majesty is free, go and see more."

"Go there when you're free, go when you're free." Yang Reform was ashamed, remembering that he still has a lot of women, and he's been living a tight life recently, so busy that the sky is dark and dizzy. It's all gone, and a woman?However, the queen is pregnant and really needs other women.

"The tasks that His Majesty entrusted to the concubines have all been completed very well." Empress Zhou Wan'er began to report her recent work to the emperor. At an age that loves to play, he is favored by the emperor, and he can help the emperor with his work, so he is very motivated.

"Oh, hehe, what have you done?" Yang Reform asked with great interest.

"On the 25th of last month, the concubine summoned some wives and daughters of the Imperial College, and talked with them all morning, and then summoned several batches one after another..."

"On the sixth day of May this month, my concubine summoned Gaoming, the noble lady, and talked with them about the glass mirror, making them all envious..."

"Every few days, my concubine would write to urge my father to hurry up and go to Guangxi to buy land to plant sugarcane, so as to share the worries of His Majesty...Your Majesty, do you think this concubine is doing well?" Zhou Wan'er was still in the At a very naive age, he also looked naive when reporting to the emperor, counting one by one, for fear that his credit would be missed.

Yang Reform smiled and said: "Okay, good! Not bad, no wonder, the business of Guozijian is so good. It turns out that Wan'er is also responsible for it!" The popularity of Guozijian has collected a lot of money.

"Of course..." Zhou Wan'er was overjoyed, and felt very honored to be praised by the emperor.

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At the same time, Guangxi, Leizhou Mansion, a deep mansion, was newly bought by Zhou Kui, the emperor's father-in-law.

"Father, let me tell you, we ran away for a few months just to buy something in this place where prisoners are exiled? Have we eaten too much?" Zhou Kui's son Zhou Yi complained, Zhou Yi He traveled long distances with his father, from the northernmost part of the Ming Dynasty to the southernmost part. According to his father, it was to buy land for the emperor. In Zhou Yi’s view, this was all bullshit, and their family is now The relatives of the emperor, his father, the head of the country, he himself has the title of some kind of official, and the official is quite big, but now, he ran to this ghost place to buy land?It is unbelievable not to enjoy happiness in the capital.

"Shut up, if you don't want to, just get out, go back to your hometown, and I'll treat you as my son." Zhou Kui also got angry.

"Father, I'm just talking, just talking, don't get so angry, didn't I just follow your old man? I'm going back now? Then I might as well not come with you." Zhou Yi saw his father Get angry and stop complaining.

"Well, that's good. Tomorrow, come with me to visit the magistrate in the government office." Zhou Kui said.

"Meet him? Dad, you are the head of the country, much bigger than his fourth-rank official, and even the official on my back is higher than him. Why are we going to visit him?" Zhou Yi said.

"What do you know, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake, although your father is the head of the country, but in the eyes of those sour scholars, I am afraid that he is not a high-end product... Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's come here, You can only do things after paying homage to the temple. Your Majesty's instructions must be done properly. This is related to the prosperity and wealth of our family, and it is related to your sister's status in the palace. Please cheer me up Do you understand?" In the Ming Dynasty, these relatives, including the concubines of various vassal kings, all had small surnames, and they were not highly regarded by those orthodox literati.

Zhou Kui got angry when he saw his son acting like a fool.

Zhou Yi said in a bad voice: "What are they? We are the emperor's in-laws, relatives of the emperor, what is he a magistrate? We have to go to worship him, we are also on business for the emperor, imperial envoys, He dared to stop him? I got angry, I slashed him with a knife..." At the end of Zhou Yi, he made a gesture of raising the knife with his hand, and when he saw his father scolding him, he stopped again and remained silent.

Zhou Kui probably trained his son, but he was also tired from the training. He sat down to drink some tea, and prepared to relieve his son. He said, "Son! Let me ask you, is your sister the current emperor's queen?"

"Naturally, we are the official relatives of the emperor." Zhou Yi said proudly.

"Then let me ask you again, although your sister is still a queen, has she ever given birth to a boy and a half girl for the emperor? Has she ever given birth to a prince?"

"Well, Dad, my sister just became a queen, why did she give birth to a prince so quickly? Not so fast." Zhou Yi said.

"You are useless, you still know that your sister didn't give birth to a prince, this one didn't give birth to a prince, that is to say, who will be the emperor in the future, if it wasn't for my grandson, your nephew, the days of our family, What did you say?" Zhou Kui asked.

"This... No way, Dad, my sister is the queen, there is no reason why the future prince is not my nephew!" Zhou Yi also began to think that this was a problem.

"Hmph! I'm afraid you don't know yet. At the beginning, His Majesty warned your father in the palace, saying that my family and the royal family are both prosperous and both are prosperous. If the Ming Dynasty is still there, we will still be the head of the Ming Dynasty. Uncle Guo, if the Ming Dynasty is overthrown, then we will be prisoners of the new dynasty. You say, if the dynasty changes in the future, can we bypass the queen's family? You say, do you want to be the uncle of the Ming Dynasty, the head of the country, or How about being a prisoner of the new dynasty?" Zhou Kui suddenly realized after being interviewed by the emperor that the risk of being the head of the Ming Dynasty was very high.

"No way, Dad, you said that the Ming Dynasty turned the altar?" This topic scared Zhou Yi half to death, and his voice was so frightened that he lost his voice.

"Hush...be gentle, I'm only telling you now because we've arrived in Leizhou, so remember not to reveal it." Zhou Kui explained in a low voice.

"I said, Dad, no way, how could the Ming Dynasty overthrow the altar? This, this is too scary, isn't it too unreliable." Zhou Yi was terrified. If the Ming Dynasty overthrew the altar, they would This family of royal relatives will definitely not have a good life.

"Hehe, at first I thought it was unlikely, but His Majesty did say so. Later, I thought about it carefully, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was possible. You think, at last, I will fight Donglu, right? Losing more and winning less? Famine is everywhere, the pirates on the sea are rampant, they have all landed, and the chieftain rebelled in the southwest, tell me, is this very dangerous..." Zhou Kui said with a look of fear.What the emperor said to him at the beginning frightened him and made him nervous, making him feel jittery and thinking about everything about the change of Ming Dynasty.

"I said, Dad, no way, although some places are rebelling, it is too much to say that the Ming Dynasty will overthrow the altar..." Anyway, Zhou Yi does not believe that the Ming Dynasty will collapse.

"Your Majesty said this to me personally. Can there be any falsehood? It is dangerous to say that the Ming Dynasty continues to fall like this. Do you think that if there is no shadow, Your Majesty will say this? That's why Your Majesty asked your father to come to Guangxi." Buy land, buy sugarcane land, and turn it into white sugar in the future so that you can sell it at a high price. In this way, the money you get will be shared with your majesty, so that your majesty can use this as military expenses to put down the rebellion." Zhou Kui said, thinking of the emperor and him When it was explained that if he turned the altar, he would shrink his neck and feel terrible.

"Ah! That's right! But, Dad, you don't really have to run so far, and you can come by yourself, just send a few servants. Even if you come by yourself, you don't necessarily have to drag me too Come on, this bird place is too..." Zhou Yi misses those days in the capital very much, those were the good days, this Leizhou obviously cannot compare with the capital, not even with some prosperous and wealthy counties in the south of the Yangtze River Fabi, the whole place is a place where no bird shits.

"What do you know, do you know that your sister has repeatedly urged my family to share the worries of His Majesty, and urged your father to go to the south in person, so that your sister can be favored by His Majesty when she is in the palace. If you can start and be favored, you will have a prince in the future, and if you have a prince, my family's wealth will only last for a long time. Otherwise, when someone else's son becomes emperor, how do you think my family will live? So, I have to be in the palace for your sister. Zhonggu Chong, you don't understand this?" Zhou Kui began to educate his son.

"But, Dad, you don't have to drag me to this place..." Zhou Yi still blamed his father for dragging him to this place.

"You bastard, I brought you here for your own good. You have to know that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will be overthrown, and our family will have no place to run. Now, I happen to get an errand to the south. The Ming Dynasty is really dead, and there is still a family member in our family. At that time, you will take a boat and go overseas. Your father has thought about it. This is probably the last way out for my family, otherwise, there will be no future! "Zhou Kui had thought of all the ways out, and brought one of his own sons here, purely for the future.

Zhou Yi looked at his father stupidly!

Looking at his foolish son, Zhou Kui also shed tears and said: "Son! Your father is doing it for your own good! It is also for our family's good! For the present plan, the first thing is to plant sugar cane for His Majesty, sell white sugar, and raise money for His Majesty." Military expenses, so that His Majesty can quell the rebellion, and secondly, to keep your sister's favor and protect your sister's status in the palace. After your sister gives birth to a dragon son and becomes a prince, my family will be temporarily safe, and you will be your country. Uncle, I will be my head of state, and my family is rich and prosperous. I will take a step back and find a foothold for my family in the south. If the Ming Dynasty turns over in the future, it will not work. It is better to make preparations. Calmly retreat from the sea and go overseas, and hide your name from now on, so that the incense in my house will not be cut off, son! Do you understand?"

Zhou Yi never thought that there are so many detours in the matter of buying sugarcane fields, he was stupid.

(End of this chapter)