Chapter 242 Happy News

“How much does these ships cost?”

"Your Majesty, each of these big ships is equipped with eight red cannons. Each red cannon uses more than 3,000 kilograms of copper, and the cost is about 1,200 taels. A thousand kilograms of Folang machine is much cheaper, each one is about 300 taels. These cannons alone are 22,000 taels. Add to the warship itself, other firearms, etc., the cost of each ship is about 50,000 taels, and five ships, totaling 250,000 taels." Qin Yaozu pointed to the big blessing ship and said.

"...This kind of smaller warship is much cheaper, about 15,000 taels, ten ships are about 15,000 taels, and horse and fast ships are even cheaper, five,000 taels, and the construction cost of this fleet is about 410,000 taels." Qin Yaozu continued.

"Wait, how could your artillery be so expensive? Each Red Cannon costs 1,200 taels?" Yang Jing felt that there was a problem. If you remember correctly, the price of copper is only about a hundred cents. Even if it is 4,000 kilograms, the copper price is only 400 taels of silver. With the cost of casting, each door should be between five and six hundred taels of silver. This guy's offer is really not very high. He treats himself as a kid!

Qin Yaozu's offer came from the quote in the military battle, saying: "Report to Your Majesty, it is difficult to cast the red cannon. Usually, a qualified cannon will be made, which will destroy several, so the price of this casting is high."

"Well, I understand. Remove this cannon first and do not count it. Just count the price of the ship. Let's talk about it later." Yang Jie was really dissatisfied with the cannon building. The price was too high. He decided to find his own cannon consultant Sun Yuanhua to ask, and see how much the cannon cost. Now the price his arsenal gave him is a bit outrageous, which definitely hinders the popularity of cannons.

Qin Yaozu was stunned. If he built ships or guns, could this warship still be called a warship? But he still agreed.

"As for orders, Your Majesty, remove the cost of this cannon, and the construction cost of each ship is much cheaper, about half the price, about 250,000 taels are enough."

"Well, I know." Yang Jie felt that the cost of this ship was so high, it was caused by this artillery, so he decided to reduce the casting price of the artillery. Otherwise, the artillery would not be popularized and the warships would not be able to build more.

"Big partner, please place an order for Zheng Huaizhong and tell him that if you rebuild this fleet, the ship shape and the ship's appearance will be made according to this." Yang Jingwei said.

"Sister to obey the order." Wang Chengshang agreed.

The shipbuilding matter is not over yet, and the cannon casting matter is not resolved, and the power of the warship is always very limited. Yang Jie wiped his forehead and felt that this matter was really troublesome, one after another, endless.

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

"Big partner, is there news now that Sun Yuanhua casting cannon? I don't know how it is going?" Yang Jingwei asked again.

"Report to Your Majesty, I don't know anything, so I will send someone to ask." Wang Chengen agreed.

Yang Jie looked at the sky outside and it was getting late. He thought for a while and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it in the future. Today, he was really tired." Yang Jie originally planned to go to the Imperial College to take a look and cheer for the Jinshi and Juren who were about to go to the front line of disaster relief, but now it seems that he can't go today. Today is getting late.

"As for your order, your Majesty, are you going to go back to the palace to rest?" Wang Chengen asked.

"Well, go to Kunning Palace." Yang Jing decided to get off work. There is a limit to dealing with political affairs. He doesn't want to aging before he grows old.

Kunning Palace.

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

After a greeting, Yang Jie held Zhou Wan'er's hand and said, "Wan'er, I'm so 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 Jie went to the bed and lay down, waiting for Zhou Wan'er to pinch his back and massage him. Zhou Wan'er gently massaged Yang Jie. Yang Jie felt it was a bit strange and the massage was not powerful. However, he was really tired and someone didn't care about the massage. He was confused and had sex with his queen.

"Wan'er, where has the father-in-law been now?" The sugarcane garden matter that Yang Jing concerned about is a path, and must not be cut off. Yang Jing can count on this path to accommodate refugees.

"Your Majesty, I just received a letter from my father, saying that it was close to Guangxi and that I could find a place to settle down soon and start buying sugarcane gardens." Zhou Wan'er said with a smile, and massaged Yang Jie lightly, saying it was a massage, but it was better to say it was a caress.

Yang Jie was puzzled and had been there for several months. He had just arrived in Guangxi. This guy was too far away.

"No? It's been several months since we arrived in Guangxi?" Yang Jing cried out. It's mid-May, and the first year of Chongzhen is almost half over, and his father-in-law has just arrived in Guangxi. He still expects this guy to buy sugarcane fields to make money this year. It seems that he will be beaten up.

Zhou Wan'er pretended to be angry, gently pinched Yang Jingwei and said, "Where did my father send me a letter? It took me more than half a month. At this time, I was afraid that I had already started buying land. How could I go to Guangxi? Your Majesty forgot that this is far away from all over the world?"

Yang Jie patted his forehead and said, "Yes, yes, I blame my father-in-law for wrongly, I blamed him for wrongly." Yang Jie forgot about the ancient transportation again. If he said he entered Guangxi when he wrote a letter, he should be really buying land at this time. It seems that his father-in-law is quite active!

Zhou Wan'er was very happy and gave the emperor a massage with ease.

Yang Jie felt that it was strange again today. I haven’t had a massage these days. Why is his Wan’er’s hand strength so weak? It seems that he is stroking, not massage! Yang Jie was just strange.

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

Yang Jing turned over suddenly, looked at his queen and said, "Wan'er, are you?" Yang Jing remembered that this phenomenon seemed to be called!

The palace maid on the side said happily: "Your Majesty, it's the Empress that the Empress is happy. The Imperial Doctor has arrived today. I have taken the pulse and I am sure I am happy."

"Ah!" Yang Jie thought of this reaction, which should be called pregnancy reaction.

"Wan'er, is this true? Doesn't this mean that I'm going to be a father? Hahaha..." Yang Jing laughed out loud, about to be upgraded to become a father, and this is when everyone is happy.

Zhou Wan'er just retching and rinsed her mouth with clean water. She felt better and said, "Well, I have felt much lazy these days and can't eat. I often vomit. Today, the imperial doctor came over and said he had it..." At the end, Zhou Wan'er lowered her head, so shy that she could not be shy anymore.

"Haha...hehe...good...hehe, I can be a father so soon, okay...hehe...good thing..." Yang Jing was very happy, not knowing what to say, so he could only use hehe to replace his excitement.

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

"I'm tired there? I'm not tired. How could Your Majesty know that it must be a son? What if it's a princess?" Zhou Wan'er sat happily on the bed and talked to the emperor about family matters. This is either a son or a daughter. This is the best son. No, she also needs to be vaccinated.

"Hehe... this, hehe, it must be a son, it must be a son! I know this..." Yang Jie smiled and said, "If you remember correctly, the prince is about to be born. I remember when I forgot the country in the future, the prince was fifteen or sixteen years old! In addition, ten months of pregnancy, it has been almost seventeen years. In history, his own life will be only seventeen years? If the prince doesn't come out again, when will he wait?

"Emperor..." Zhou Wan'er acted coquettishly happily.

"Wan'er, don't move, it will be bad if you move." Yang Jingwei was meticulously caring.

Seeing that the emperor loved her so much, Zhou Wan'er frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty, Tian and Yuan, sisters, have been in the palace for many days, and you rarely see Your Majesty. When you have time, go and see more."

"If you have time, go over, go over, go over." Yang Jingwei was ashamed. He remembered that he still had many women. He had been busy recently, and was so busy that he was dizzy. If you have time to control these things, you will lose your life. If you want to return it to a woman? However, the queen is pregnant, and she really needs other women.

"Your Majesty has completed all the tasks assigned to me by me." Empress Zhou Wan'er began to report her recent work to the emperor. Zhou Wan'er was still a woman of seventeen or eighteen years old at this time. She was still at the age of playing the most, and she was favored by the emperor and could help the emperor. Therefore, she was very motivated.

"Oh, haha, what have you done?" Yang Jingang asked with interest.

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

"On the sixth day of the fifth month this month, I summoned the imperial edict and noble ladies to talk to them about the glass mirror, which made them envious..."

"Every few days, I will write a letter to urge my father to hurry up and go to Guangxi to buy land and plant sugarcane to share your worries... Your Majesty, do you think I am doing well?" Zhou Wan'er is still at a very naive age. When she reported to the emperor, she also looked innocent, scolding her one by one, for fear that her contribution would be missed.

Yang Jinghui smiled and said, "Okay, okay! Not bad, no wonder, the business of the Imperial College is so good. It turns out that Wan'er has a lot of credit!" The Imperial College was so popular that it collected a lot of money.

"Of course..." Zhou Wan'er was very happy. She felt very awesome to be praised by the emperor.

At the same time, Guangxi, Leizhou Prefecture, a deep-seated mansion was the new mansion purchased by the emperor's father-in-law Zhou Kui.

"Dad, I said, we ran for several months just to buy land where the birds don't poop and exiled prisoners? Did we eat too much?" Zhou Kui's son Zhou Yi complained. Zhou Yi and his father traveled a long distance from the northernmost part of the Ming Dynasty to the southernmost part of the country. According to his father, it was just to buy land for the emperor. In Zhou Yi's opinion, this was all bullshit. Their family is now a royal relative, his father and father, and he also holds the title of official on him. He is quite a big official, but now he goes to this ghost place to buy land. It is really incredible not to enjoy the happiness in the capital.

"Shut up. If you don't want to, get out of here and go back to your hometown. I will pretend that you don't have your son." Zhou Kui also got angry.

"Dad, I'm just talking, talk. Don't get angry like this. Didn't I just come with you? I'm still going back now? Why don't I come with you?" Zhou Yi stopped complaining when he saw his father get angry.

"Well, that's good. Tomorrow, I'll go with me to visit the prefect in the government office." Zhou Kui said.

"Go to him? Dad, you are the father-in-law, much larger than his fourth-rank official. Even the official I am carrying is higher than him. How can we go to pay homage to him?" Zhou Yi said.

"What do you know? A strong dragon will not defeat local snakes. Although your father is the father-in-law, in the eyes of those sour scholars, I am afraid that it is not a good product... Forget it, if we don't talk about this, we can only worship the temple to do things well. What Your Majesty has to do must be done. This is related to our family's wealth and status in the palace. Do you cheer me up? "In the Ming Dynasty, these relatives, including the princesses of various vassal kings, were all small surnames and were not looked down upon by orthodox literati.

Zhou Kui got angry when he saw his son looking careless.

Zhou Yi said angrily: "What are they? We are the emperor's relatives and royal relatives. What is his magistrate? We have to go to worship him. We are also the emperor's envoy. He dares to stop him? If it gets angry, I will use a knife to hit him..." Zhou Yi finally acted like he was raising his hands and saw his father scolding him, and stopped again and stopped.

Zhou Kui probably scolded his son, but he was tired of scolding him. He sat down and took a tea, preparing to relieve his son, and said, "Son! I ask you, is your sister the empress of the current emperor?"

"That's natural, we are the real royal relatives." Zhou Yi said proudly.

"Then let me ask you again, although your sister is still the queen now, has she given birth to a man and a half daughter for the emperor? She has given birth to a prince?"

"This, dad, my sister just became the queen, why did she give birth to the prince so quickly? Not so fast." Zhou Yi said.

"You are such a useless person, you know that your sister did not give birth to a prince, and that is to say, who will be the emperor in the future? If it weren't for my grandson, your nephew, and our family life, how would you live?" Zhou Kui asked.

"This... no, dad, my sister is the queen. There is no reason why the prince in the future will not be my nephew!" Zhou Yi also began to think that this was a problem.

"Hmph! You're afraid you don't know yet. At the beginning, Your Majesty warned your father in the palace, saying that my family and the royal family will be prosperous and both prosperous and lose. If the Ming Dynasty is still there, we will still be the father-in-law and uncle of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty turns over, then we will be the criminals of the New Dynasty. Do you think that if the dynasty changes in the future, can we bypass the queen's family? Do you think that it's better to be the uncle of the Ming Dynasty, the father-in-law, or the prisoner of the New Dynasty?" After being interviewed by the emperor, Zhou Kui suddenly realized that the risk of being the father-in-law of the Ming Dynasty was very high.

"No, Dad, do you think the Ming Dynasty has turned around?" This topic scared Zhou Yi to death, and even his voice was abrupt.

"Shhh... be gentle, until now, I've told you that it's because we arrived in Leizhou. Remember not to expose our whispers." Zhou Kui explained in a low voice.

"I said, Dad, no, how could the Ming Dynasty turn over the world? This is too terrible, it's too unreliable." Zhou Yi was so scared that if the Ming Dynasty turned over the world, their royal relatives would 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 most, if I fight against the Donglu, would I lose more than I win? There are famines everywhere, the pirates on the sea are very rampant, and they all fight ashore, and there are chieftains in the southwest rebellions. Do you think this is very dangerous..." Zhou Kui said with a look of fear. What the emperor said to him frightened him and made him feel nervous, making him feel panic, thinking about everything being changed to the Ming Dynasty.

"I said, Dad, no, although some places are rebelling, it is too much to say that the Ming Dynasty will overturn the world..." Anyway, in any case, Zhou Yi did not believe that the Ming Dynasty would collapse.

"This is what Your Majesty said to me personally. Can it be false? It would be dangerous to say that if the Ming Dynasty continues like this, you think, if there is no shadow, your Majesty will say this? Therefore, Your Majesty asked your father to come to Guangxi to buy land and sugarcane land. In the future, it will be sold at a high price. In this way, the money you get will be divided with Your Majesty, and your Majesty can use this as military expenses to quell the rebellion." Zhou Kui said, and when he thought of the emperor's words that the emperor had explained to him that he had turned the throne, he shrank his neck and felt terrible.

"Ah! That's right! But, Dad, you don't have to really run so far. And come on your own and just send a few servants. Even if you come on your own, you may not necessarily bring me here too. This bird place is too..." Zhou Yi missed the days in the capital very much. That was a good day. This Leizhou is obviously incomparable to the capital, and even in some prosperous and wealthy prefectures and counties in Jiangnan. It's just a place where birds don't shit.

"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 personally. In this way, your sister can be favored by His Majesty, raise her head, be favored, and be able to give birth to a crown prince in the future. My family's wealth will last longer. Otherwise, when someone else's son becomes the emperor, how can my family live? So, you have to be favored by your sister in the palace, you don't understand?" Zhou Kui began to educate his son.

"But, dad, you don't have to pull me to this place..." Zhou Yi still blamed his father for pulling him to this place.

"You bastard, you are here for your own good. You must know that in the future, the Ming Dynasty has turned over, and our family has no place to run. Now, we happen to have an errand to go to the south. If the Ming Dynasty really doesn't work, our family will also have a family member who will continue the family line. At that time, you will run overseas. Your father has thought about it. This is probably my family's last way out, otherwise, we will be defeated!" Zhou Kui thought about all the retreat and pulled his son over here purely for the sake of running away in the future.

Zhou Yi looked at his father stupidly!

Looking at his stupid son, Zhou Kui also cried and said, "Son! Your father is also for your own good! It is also for our family's good! For the sake of the present, the first thing is to plant sugarcane for Your Majesty, sell sugar, and raise military expenses for Your Majesty so that Your Majesty can quell the rebellion. Second, you must be favored by your sister and protect your sister's status in the palace. After your sister gave birth to a dragon son and became the prince, my family will be temporarily safe. You are your uncle and my father-in-law. My family is inseparable from the glory of my family. Take a step back and find a place for my family to be in the south. If the Ming Dynasty turns over in the future, it will be impossible, and you will be prepared to retreat from the sea to the overseas. From then on, you will be incognito and not be cut off from my family's incense. Do you understand?"

Zhou Yi never thought that there were so many twists and turns in buying sugarcane fields, so he was stupid.
Chapter completed!