"Your Highness, junior brother, this is the wheel firegun you want. My father bought it from a merchant from the Hongyi Kingdom."

After Wei Zaode left, Zhu Cihong's senior brother Zheng Sen went to Yongchun Garden and brought Zhu Cihong a flintlock gun produced in Europe. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called a runner firecracker. This kind of firecracker had actually appeared a long time ago.

, due to immature technology, they have not been able to be mass-produced. For the Ming Dynasty under Prince Zhu, the production capacity of matchlocks was greatly insufficient, so there was no need to think about developing flintlock guns in one step.

"Oh, show it to me." Zhu Cixiang took the fire blunderbuss and asked Zheng Sen while playing with it, "When can your father come?"

"It's coming, it's coming." Zheng Sen said, "My father has been buying firecrackers for His Highness these days. When I collect 5,000, I will send them all together. In addition, in addition"

"What else?" Zhu Cixiang asked.

Zheng Sen said: "I have a compatriot sister named Cha Gu, who is fourteen years old this year. My father wants to bring her to Nanjing so that Mr. Qiantose can see her."

"Tea Gu?" Zhu Cixi smiled when he heard the name. Zheng Zhilong would really name his children! Zheng Chenggong called him "Damu" and his sister called "Tea Gu". They both had sex with plants.

Zheng Sen saw Zhu Cixiang's smile and said quickly: "Your Highness, junior brother, my sister is quite colorful, and she is knowledgeable and courteous. If she can serve junior brother,"

Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded, "Okay, I have always valued the Zheng family in Anping, and I have long wanted to get married. Now that your father intends to let your sister enter the palace, I naturally want it!"

It's certainly a good thing to have another daughter-in-law, the daughter of the richest man in the Ming Dynasty! In fact, Prince Zhu has been thinking about Zheng Zhilong's daughter for a long time. When the richest man in the Ming Dynasty marries his daughter, why should he give a dowry of one to two million?

If Lao Zheng didn't mention it himself, he would ask Zheng Sen to come forward to protect the media.

Seeing Zhu Cixiang happily agreeing, Zheng Sen's heart dropped to the ground. He knew that Zhu Cixiang and Wu Sanmei had a good relationship, and was worried that Prince Zhu would not accept his sister as his chosen attendant.

Judging from the current attitude of Prince Zhu, it is obvious that he is a mature "politician in bed". Marriage in an imperial family is originally a political bargaining chip! The Ming Dynasty did not engage in political marriages for more than two hundred years, and specialized in marrying wives from small families.

In fact, it is a waste of resources!

And Zhu Cixiang doesn't have much capital now, so he certainly won't refuse to marry Zheng, the richest man.

After talking about the marriage, Zhu Cixiang has almost finished playing with the flintlock gun that is made to look like a handicraft. It is a good gun, but it is not easy to imitate!

Prince Zhu has been rectifying the Tianjin craftsmen who came with the army these days. He also wants to select some of them with really good skills to form a small "royal blacksmithing workshop", and let Su Ziwen, Li Zubai and Li Shi pick the people.

I asked, but I still haven’t received a reply. I guess I can’t find many satisfactory experts. If this “high-tech” workshop can be established, maybe we can let them try to make a few flintlock guns.

However, Jiangnan is now a center for weaving and porcelain, and does not produce very good ironware. At this time, the center of China's ironware production was in Foshan Town, Guangdong. Zhu Cixiang had already inquired about the situation of Foshan's iron industry. At this time, the Luoding area produced high-quality ironware.

Iron ore, northern Guangdong is rich in lime (removal of slag) and wood, and Guangdong's developed water transportation can transport these things to Foshan for processing.

In addition, because Foshan is close to Macau, it has absorbed many Western technologies over the past hundred years, so that Foshan's iron industry ranks first in the world!

The iron smelting industry in Jiangnan has gradually declined due to competition from Foshan Iron Industry. Now it no longer has much competitiveness. It will take a lot of effort to revive it!

Speaking of this technology tree, it’s really not easy to climb it just because you want to.

"Xiaobao," Zhu Cihong handed the blunderbuss to Huang Xiaobao, "give it to Chen Shifang to keep, and then let him and Feng Sizhong come over together."

"Here."

Seeing Huang Xiaobao walking away with the blunderbuss, Zhu Cihong waved his hand again and dismissed all the young eunuchs serving in Yongchun Pavilion, leaving only Zheng Sen and himself.

"Senior brother, what's the arrangement?" Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile.

"Your Highness, everything has been arranged." Zheng Sen lowered his voice, "We will serve wine tonight at Baimen Pavilion. We have invited Hou Fangyu, Huang Zongxi, Luo Dagong, Mao Xiang, Zhang Huangyan, and the two women Li Yulin and Zhang Jingyi.

The school secretary will also go."

"Duke Luo? Who is he?" Zhu Cixiang asked. He knew Hou Fangyu, Huang Zongxi, and Maoxiang, but he had never heard of Grand Duke Luo.

"He is our classmate," Zheng Sen said with a smile. "He is the teacher's favorite disciple. He is known as Mr. Songjiang Grand Duke, but he is actually an official fan. I have made an agreement with him that he will speak for Qiantose Master when the time comes."

"How about being an official fan?" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "Then why doesn't the teacher recommend him to be an official?"

"How can a recommended officer be as good as a non-commissioned officer who has passed the examination?"

"That's right!" Zhu Cixiang suddenly looked at Zheng Sen, "Senior brother, Enke, you can take the exam next spring and get a Jinshi too!"

Zheng Sen was overjoyed when he heard this and was about to thank him when an announcement sounded outside the door. It turned out that the admiral Chen Shifang of the East Factory and the foreman guard Feng Sizhong had arrived.

Zhu Cixiang smiled and said to Zheng Sen, who was about to salute: "I'm one of you, no need to thank me. It's getting late. We should go incognito for a private visit!"

The Qinhuai River in Nanjing is divided into three parts: the inner city, the west section, and the east section. The most prosperous part is of course the west section. Outside the Sanshan Gate, there are many shops and it is extremely prosperous. But in this bustling area, there are also mixed things.

There are too many street fireworks, and a bit of elegance and leisure are missing. Therefore, the section of Qinhuai River in Sanshan Gate is the most popular among the talented and beautiful.

A courtyard is built on the bank of the Qinhuai River not far from Sanshanmen Wengcheng. It has three entrances and three exits. It is small in area, but extremely elegant.

This courtyard is backed by Qinhuai.

Not only can you enjoy the scenery of Qinhuai, but it also has a small pier, which allows boating guests to come and go quietly, which is quite original.

In a small attic in the courtyard, Duke Luo, the Duke of Songjiang, was leaning against the railing, holding a folding fan, talking loudly with Huang Zongxi and two white-faced scholars.

"Have you heard? Sun Zhixie, the eunuch leader who defected to the Tatars, has arrived in Shandong and will be coming to Nanjing in a few days. He has now shaved his head, braided it, and is dressed like a Huru.

You are no longer a Confucian disciple!"

"Sun Zhixian, a remnant of the eunuchs, is no longer a Confucian disciple! Otherwise, why would he defect to the Tatars?"

"I heard that Beijing is expelling Han people these days! All the Han people in Beijing have been driven out to make room for the Tatars! As long as the Tatars take a liking to the land within 300 miles of Beijing, they will seize it.

All the Han people above will become slaves, and those who do not want to be slaves will be driven away immediately!"

“Wouldn’t that mean we have to drive away millions of people?”

"What's the expulsion? It's clear that the Han people in Beizhili are forced to die."

"Humph, this is not caused by abandoning Beijing and moving south! Moving south means abandoning the land and people of our ancestors!"

“Taichong”

Grand Duke Luo had been creating public opinion for a long time, but was retorted by Huang Zongxi. He didn't know what to say.

At this moment, Kou Baimen's voice suddenly came from downstairs.

"Bai Men has met Mr. Zheng, this is"

This "Baimen Pavilion" is the club that Zheng Sen bought for Zhu Cixiang. It was entrusted to Kou Baimen, a Qinhuai prostitute, to host such a club. Of course, it was for the convenience of dealing with the juniors of Donglin and Fushe.

The so-called Eight Beauties of Qinhuai are actually the social beauties promoted by these shameless literati. The juniors in Donglin and Fushe are obsessed with these prostitutes.

And now Zhu Cixiang does not intend to kill all the juniors of Donglin and Fushe immediately, but wants to lead them because only by becoming their leader can he clean them slowly and effectively in the most effective way!

If we put them on the opposite side and suppress them brutally as soon as they come up, we are afraid that if they are not completely wiped out for a while, the Tatars will attack again, and if these shameless literati continue to act as a leader or something, Zhu Cixiang will be in big trouble.

So now he feels that if Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, and Wei Zaode are to be the new Three Kings of Donglin, and he will be the leader of the next Donglin, then the Donglin Party will unite around the leadership group with Zhu Cixiang as the core!

"This is Zhu Yaofei from Beijing." Zheng Sen reported the "pseudonym" of Zhu Cihong.

"Master Zhu, please come in." Kou Baimen frowned slightly, without looking at Zhu Cixiang, he just made a sign of respecting guests, and then led the way.

And Zhu Cixiang had no interest in this Qinhuai prostitute. Although Kou Baimen looked at it with the aesthetics of later generations, she was also very beautiful. But her father was neither the richest man, nor a warlord, nor the Tatar regent, so Zhu Da had the world in mind.

The prince will not accept her.

Zhu Cixiang looked back at Feng Sizhong who was following him. Feng Sizhong walked in immediately with his sword and followed Kou Baimen upstairs. Outside the door were a dozen guards and Dongchang Jingjun, all with Zhu Cixiang.

Those who arrived in the same boat, under the command of Chen Shifang, surrounded Baimen Pavilion.
Chapter completed!