Huang Xiaobao is indeed a loyal and capable eunuch who works quickly and reliably.

Emperor Zhu asked him to prepare a suitable place for Mary Mancini a month ago, so that this beauty would not have to live in the residence of Prince Condé - how uncomfortable Prince Condé was! Such a good little foreign horse can only

Looks like you can't ride it...

Now the little foreign horse has her own "little home", which is on the edge of Tangquan Town, next to a high wall of Tangquan Palace. The original owner was the Catholic eunuch Pang Tianshou of Emperor Chongzhen.

Because Eunuch Pang believes in Western religion, he especially likes Western-style things. Except for little foreign things like Mary, he doesn't like them at all and gets annoyed when he sees them!

But no matter how troublesome Xiao Yangma is, he has no choice but to transfer the recently built Western-style mansion to Mary Mancini - of course not for free. Huang Xiaobao spent Emperor Zhu twenty-five thousand taels of silver to buy the house.

Another five thousand taels were spent on adding furniture and building corridors. After the completion, Mary Mancini was arranged to move in.

By the way, we also arranged for someone to "serve" Miss Mary.

On the way to "Pang's Garden" (in order to deceive others, the name of this residence is still Pang's Garden), Huang Xiaobao also told Zhu Cixiang the conditions for Mary Mancini to "sell herself".

"Long live my lord, I have negotiated a price with Miss Mary. I will give you 30,000 taels at a time, and 500 taels per month in the future. In addition, all the expenses of Pang's garden will be yours. The contract also stipulates a year and a period of ten years.

After the expiration, you can ask to renew the contract, and Miss Mary cannot refuse. The price is a bit expensive, but Miss Mary refuses to be cheap, you see..."

A garden house, a one-time payment of 30,000 taels of silver, and an additional 6,000 taels of pocket money a year, and the daily expenses of the house are also included... Zhu Cihong said in his heart: Although Huang Xiaobao is a good eunuch, he doesn't know how to negotiate business.

! If I had known if I had asked Huang Jiang to negotiate, I could have negotiated for half the price!

"Not expensive, not expensive..." Zhu Cixiang thought in his heart, but there was no expression of pain on his face, and he smiled and said to Huang Xiaobao, "The money spent on her can be recovered tenfold and a hundredfold."

Yes, so it’s not expensive!”

What? Get it back? How to get it?

Huang Xiaobao was confused when he heard this, and thought to himself: How can you make money from such debauched and immoral things? How can you make money? You can't let Little Beauty Mary open the door for business, right?

Zhu Cixiang looked back at him and said with a smile: "Xiaobao, you don't understand about making money! Do you know who makes the most money in the world?"

"This..." Huang Xiaobao shook his head and thought: Of course it's your money that makes the most money! Didn't Miss Mary earn as much money as you did? Thirty thousand at a time, six thousand a year.

Ten years is 90,000 taels of silver, and adding a house is 120,000 taels!

Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Of course women make the best money! Why do Westerners like our silk so much? Isn't it because their women like it? Women love beauty, so why spend some money just to look beautiful? And women like it.

Comparison, if you have it, I have to have it too! What’s the point of spending some money? Xiaobao, do you understand how I want to make money through Mary?”

"I don't understand!" Huang Xiaobao still shook his head. Although he went in and out with a group of women all day long, and even married himself a wife, he really didn't understand women... and he was also quite stingy.

He is not very willing to spend money on women, he is not an ordinary stingy person!

To be honest, even with Mary Mancini's beauty, no matter how much she tempted him, she would never be able to dig out a single silver coin from his pocket.

Zhu Cixiang sighed and said with a smile: "Forget it if you don't understand this... Let me tell you this, if we want to make more money from Europe, we have to think about how to make European women spend money."

money!"

While he was speaking, the emperor had already passed through the corridor and arrived at the back door of Pang's garden. The door was already open, and a fairy-like little pony dressed as a lady was already standing at the door with a smile to greet him...

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The weather has gradually gotten hotter. Although Pukou on the north bank of the Yangtze River is cooler than Nanjing on the south bank, people walking on the street still put on thin robes and short clothes. People in undressed clothes are more common on the streets of big cities in China and Nanjing.

Different from the elegant dress of the sleeve scarf, there are almost no such self-proclaimed "celebrities" in Pukou.

The narrow-sleeved and close-fitting clothes that are popular here look particularly energetic when worn. Many people also hang a two or three-foot long sword on their belts, which looks like a knight walking in the world - in fact, these belts

The people wearing swords and narrow-sleeved clothes are not knights. Most of them are teachers and students from schools in Pukou and Laoshan areas or low-level officials from various government offices, and some are officers and soldiers on vacation.

Officials wear swords to show their status - Zhu Cixiang set the rules for officials to wear swords when he was the prince of Fujun. Not only were they required to wear swords, but younger officials also had to learn to fencing, archery and use muskets!

Being an official in troubled times is not enough without any martial arts!

As for the "new schools" in the Pukou and Laoshan areas, regardless of whether they are military studies or not, all students, including girls, are required to wear swords. Not only are they required to wear swords, but they are also required to learn fencing, bows and arrows, muskets, and, of course, horseback riding.

It is compulsory! Students who are under the age of 10 and have their hair tied or with hair extensions can only wear wooden swords and cannot wear more lethal iron swords. Only after the ceremony of binding the hair and the extension of the hair extensions, will the teacher award the sword with an unopened edge.

——This is a weapon given by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty for them to use to defend the country of Ming Dynasty! Only after passing a series of martial arts examinations can the sword be used, and they can be regarded as a qualified successor to the feudalism of Ming Dynasty.

As for the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army, they would also receive swords nominally given by the emperor on the day they enlisted in the army - which were also unbladed. The swords could not be opened until they completed the corresponding training, symbolizing that they had become Ming Dynasty soldiers.

A good warrior of feudalism.

These swords distributed to officials, sergeants, and students all have special shapes and are prohibited from private imitation. In a sense, they are also symbols of privileges, obligations, and responsibilities!

In Pukou and Laoshan, industrial and commercial people working and living in the area generally do not wear swords (of course they can wear swords). If there is a need for self-defense, at most they can only carry a flintlock pistol...

The Ming Dynasty now allows people to hold guns, but the permission to hold guns is gradually tightened. In the early years of Hongxing, the government didn't care at all, but starting from the eighth year of Hongxing, the court promulgated the "Firelock Monopoly Law". Only by obtaining the monopoly

Only authorized merchants can sell firearms. And customers who purchase new firearms must pass the review, and must also participate in training and pass the assessment (you can also take the exam directly) before they can obtain a firearms license and legally hold the firearm.

By the way, in addition to being able to legally hold guns, people in the Ming Dynasty can also legally hold cannons! Even cannons, with bullets weighing less than 10 kilograms, can be held legally! However, a "gun license" is much harder to get than a gun license. It's not casual.

Anyone can buy a cannon and play with it at home...the cannon makes too much noise and disturbs the people!

According to the provisions of the Artillery Monopoly Law, only merchant shipowners and nobles who own castles (nobles with a large number of land grants in frontier provinces or regions can build private castles) can purchase cannons, and the cannons they purchase must be stored in specified

Location (fortress or ship), cannot be moved without permission.

In addition, artillery can not be bought everywhere. Only in the eastern and western capitals of the Ming Dynasty (Yingtianfu, Wuhanfu), as well as Shanghai, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Macau and other places, cannon monopoly stores are opened.

shop.

Anyone who wants to buy artillery must go to these ten cities with a lot of paperwork and apply to the yamen that manages the monopoly. Only after obtaining approval can the purchase be made.

In short, buying a cannon is a troublesome thing. Moreover, you have to pay a considerable amount of artillery purchase tax, and you also have to buy a cannon-driving course. You really can’t afford it if you don’t have any wealth!

Jabs, a big businessman from outside the customs and North Korea, is a businessman who is not afraid of trouble and money. This time, he used the reason of purchasing a large number of artillery to leave Hanyang where the head office of Jiale City Bank is located (he entered the court in Duduo
Chapter completed!