There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 383 Glass, glass!

When he was not an official, he could recognize his righteous sisters casually, and all the maids in the family became sisters.

But when he became an official, this kind of thing disappeared.

All because one of the reasons Bo Zhen impeached him at the time was to form a party for personal gain.

Because he married his younger sisters to Jin Yiwei.

Although he covered it up at the beginning, he still remembered this lesson. Up to now, he will still return the maid in her twenties to her freely, and the family will also accompany her with a certain dowry, so that she can marry her in a safe, stable and beautiful manner. Go out, but never recognize a girl again.

But this time he held a group wedding, he did not set up a wedding account, and accepted the gift anonymously.

There are only one hundred big red wooden boxes placed at the entrance with numbers on them, which are the same as the numbers of the sedan chairs that came.

There are also the names of the groom and the bride on the sedan chair, and only the numbers are left on it.

There are two young lads who are in charge of guarding the box, one keeps the accounts and the other sings.

There are quite a few wealthy people in Shanghai County now, and everyone knows that the hundred couples are all orphans in the navy and textile factories.

Therefore, it is also very particular about the gift. The rich will prepare a hundred small silver ingots of one tael, and put one in each box.

Wealthy families will put ten brand new copper plates, and those who are not rich will also put in one brand new copper plate.

This is just their blessing to the sailors who got married.

"That's right, the more aboveboard you are, the less guilty you are." Zhang Shen is more familiar with the tricks of some boring people than Wantong.

The Sixi meatballs in the wedding banquet were delicious, Wu Youwei ate half of it by himself, and gave the remaining half to Wantong: "So I invited so many people to the banquet and provided food and drink, hehehe."

Anyone who dares to say that he is making money with this is a fool.

He spent more than 5 taels for the thousand-table wedding banquet alone.

Fortunately, because many people came to Shanghai County to buy houses a few days ago, he sold some houses and distributed a sum of money, so he was a little rich in his pocket.

What I earned in the past was either invested or spent. The savings are really not much.

Well, you are the smartest. "Wantong looked at the dishes on the wedding banquet, and thought that he was smart.

As expected of Tanhualang.

Sixi meatballs, braised pork, boiled chicken.

Cold day lily, mouth watering cucumber and spiced tofu.

Delicious sea fish soup, served with large white rice, and rice wine dumplings for dessert.

That's how it is for ordinary people to get married. Wu Youwei managed to make a sixty-six fortune, or a fortune of eight or eight.

Six dishes, including the staple food and soup, is eight.

The dessert is the rice wine dumpling which symbolizes the long-term reunion.

It would be nine dishes together, but if it is calculated like this, then the plate of snacks before the meal at the wedding banquet can also be counted, really speaking, it can be perfect.

After the wedding banquet, everyone gradually dispersed. Zhang Shen took the newcomers back to Yingdao, and let them make trouble in the bridal chamber, but don't overdo it.

Since Zhang Shen was in Wantong, he was not in a hurry to go back. He and Wu Youwei went back to the county government office.

The harvest in Shanghai County is still bumper this autumn, and Wu Youwei is still in bed at night thinking about buying new crops.

After they finished attending the group wedding, the DPRK and Central Committee also came to report, dealing with the result of Li Yizhang, the Zhongguan guarding Zhejiang, killing Ma Zhang, the commander of the Ningbo Guards, and it came out.

The strange thing is that the statement given by the court is only three words: Zhao, don't ask.

"What do you mean?" Wu Youwei was confused.

These three words are too simple, so simple that he, Tanhualang, doesn't know how to understand them.

"Just don't ask." Wantong was serious: "It's really embarrassing to say."

"You know?" Wu Youwei became curious.

Wantong didn't say a word, Wu Youwei lay on him and tortured him vigorously: "Say it! Say it!"

"Because Ma Zhang resold the grenade, if Li Yi hadn't been so strict in monitoring, this thing might have entered the pockets of Japanese pirates." Wantong told Wu Youwei: "Li Yi was almost pissed to death!"

It turned out that the Japanese pirates saw the power of hot weapons such as grenades and grenades, and they were immediately shocked.

After thinking of many ways, I don't know what price I paid, and finally got involved with this Ma Zhang. At the price of ten thousand taels of silver, I only asked Ma Zhang to give me ten grenades.

"It's so expensive!" Wu Youwei's eyes widened, ten thousand taels of silver, ten grenades!

"It's not expensive. If Japanese pirates had such sharp weapons, it would be like no one's land in and out of Ming Dynasty." The longer it was used, the more Wantong valued hot weapons.

With this weapon, crowd tactics will no longer prevail.

It is said that they originally wanted to buy people from Shanghai County. After all, there is an arsenal here.

However, Wu Youwei's management of Shanghai County is too strict. It is really like "needle can't get in, water can't get in, and smoke can't get in".

The Japanese pirates used money to clear the way, but the people of Shanghai County had more money.

And who dares to reach out to take such ill-gotten gains?

Aren't you afraid of losing your head and implicating the nine clans?

"What?" Wu Youwei was also angry when he heard this: "How could he... How could he cooperate with the enemy?"

"It's not just grenades." Wan Tao said, "The Japanese pirates want mortars more, but you also know what serial number you asked the arsenal to fix. They are all recorded, and where they are assigned, they must be signed and signed by the other party before they can be given out." , this thing is also produced in the Shanghai Armory Factory, where it appears, you can find out where it is when you check it, and you also have artillery along with the mortar, one mortar has four artillery, and the two who fired the artillery are ready. The replacement one, there is also one that specializes in shells. The number of shells is counted once a day. It is stricter than the eyeballs. They also eat and live together all day long. They are inseparable. The shells are numbered. He didn't even dare to take the shell casings back.

At the beginning, Wantong thought it troublesome for Wu Youwei to make so many marks, but now he is very grateful for Wu Youwei's tricky behavior, which makes people afraid to stretch their claws on it!

Wu Youwei was amused: "From now on, I will take care of it like this!"

In fact, he just wanted to make people pay attention to thermal weapons at first, but he didn't expect to have anti-theft function.

"The musket is even more powerful, and now it can shoot 300 meters away." With a distance of 300 meters, no matter how powerful the bow and arrow are, it is impossible for everyone to be a good archer, but the musket is different, as long as you can pull the trigger , the bullet can be shot out.

Skilled craftsmen have already created a small bullet machine. Although it is only a small job of filling the medicine, it is still an improvement.

Wu Youwei has taught them assembly line work, division of labor and cooperation.

The two talked about it until midnight before falling asleep.

Gengzi, Wang Yue attacked Mandulu, Boluohu, and Jiasilan in Hongyanchi, and defeated them.

The tribes gradually left the Hetao area.

Up and down in the middle, there was joy and encouragement.

Although the land of Hetao has not been taken back, there are no aliens occupying it

In addition, the cement is really powerful. The Great Wall, which has been dilapidated for many years, once again demonstrated its defensive ability. After repairs, the city wall was not only covered with a layer of bricks and cement, but even the wall was widened.

There are also roads, only a small part of which has been repaired now, but people can see the benefits.

The Ministry of Industry used to be a department where parents didn't care for them, and they could find them for any job, and they were often bullied. Now, many people come to the door and ask for cement!

Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry now walks with wind!

In the report Wu Youwei received, he even publicized the military power of Ming Dynasty.

It may be that the army has given Emperor Xianzong a lot of face in the past two years. In Dongyue Dingyou, the emperor reviewed riding and shooting in Xiyuan.

This time the Fenwu Camp was inspected. After the baptism of blood and fire, the Fenwu Battalion became more and more murderous.

Especially at the moment when they passed by in the phalanx, the powerful, majestic, and inviolable military appearance made Emperor Xianzong, who had never used force for a long time, value military power even more.

Wu Youwei, on the other hand, took advantage of the cool weather to study the glass vigorously. After unremitting efforts, he finally fired the glass that satisfied him.

The first set of products is a tea set.

Make a beautiful set and send it to Beijing as a tribute next year. "Wu Youwei looked at the glass tea set and thought it was okay.

It can't compare to the purity of later generations, but this kind of household glass is already good.

In addition to making tea sets, Wu Youwei's biggest requirement is glass mirrors.

Now is a good time for this thing!

However, there is mercury in the paint on the back, so he asked everyone to be careful, and the purchase channel for mercury is Baiyunguan.

But this kind of thing, Wu Youwei also has a half-knowledge, so... still have to experiment.

"Next year's tribute will be glassware." Wu Youwei's small abacus is crackling: "The next year's tribute will be a small glass mirror, and the next year's tribute will be replaced by a large glass mirror.

The tribute of three or four years came out.

Wantong couldn't listen anymore: "What about this year? It's already winter months, and I haven't seen you sending tribute back?"

"I asked Liu Ju to bring those things back this year, and I'm not satisfied?" Wu Youwei plausibly said, "How much is too much? Do I have to get him a bicycle?"

"What's all this mess?" Wantong was confused by what he said.

But Liu Ju brought back so many things, it is indeed interesting enough, if you don't give tribute, don't give it, presumably the emperor won't care...

It also snows in Shanghai County in winter, but it just melts when it hits the ground. However, I heard that the monsoon is coming from the sea, and many people have prepared charcoal early. Sure enough, during Laba, it suddenly became cold outside, and it snowed.

Wu Youwei asked the cook to make a mutton pot early on.

Wantong also ordered the Huotou army in the barracks to stew the mutton for the guy to keep out the cold.

Zhang Shen didn't eat pure stewed mutton, he ate a pot of pork stewed with sauerkraut, and ordered a green onion roll.

Seeing that nothing happened in the camp, Wantong returned to Shanghai County.

He and Zhang Shen have separated management now, Zhang Shen is in charge of the Navy, and Wantong is in charge of the Zhenwei Camp.

Zhenwei Camp is now half stationed in Bailonggang and half in Shanghai County; while Wusong Camp is stationed in Wusongkou and Yingdao.

Wu Youwei laughed as soon as he saw Wantong: "I guess you have to come back today. In such a cold day, it would be best to eat some mutton pot."

"Yeah!" Wantong's cloak was wet from snow and water, Wu Youwei took it off for him, and threw it to the housekeeper who stood by: "Let's get someone to cook!"

"Yes, sir." The butler asked, "The chili oil...or?"

Before Wu Youwei could speak, Wantong shook his head: "No!"

Wu Youwei blushed: "Then don't want it."

The housekeeper was very considerate and went down with a wet cloak, and gave the things to his daughter-in-law to wash, iron and iron them properly, then went to the back to find the cook, and ordered to put more pepper, but no chili.

Wu Youwei sat in front of the window and opened the window, looking at the cloudy sky outside and the gloomy snowstorm, rubbed his hands: "I never thought that Shanghai County would be this cold, it wasn't like this in the past two years.

"It is said that this year Huguang, Jinei, Shanxi, Nanji, Shaanxi and other places are colder than in previous years. Fortunately, corn is not afraid of the cold." Wantong changed into clean and simple clothes and said, "Don't sit by the window, it's very cold .”

Close the window, take the person to the table in the dining room and sit down: "I heard that the rice fields over there are failing!"

It seems that dry land is more secure.

"Let's plant dry fields!" Wu Youwei said, "It's not the soil for paddy fields."

Talking about current affairs, eating a hot pot, especially the atmosphere of an old man, the evening is even more beautiful and harmonious.

This year, Huguang, Jinei, Shanxi, Nanji, and Shaanxi were exempted from taxation and grain.

Vibrate Ji Nei, Shaanxi hunger, vibrate Shanxi again, and Shandong three.

This really shows that Emperor Xianzong is not short of money, and the food tax is exempted if he says it is exempted. In fact, there is no famine in the local area, but some lands have poor harvests, so it is not impossible to pay taxes and grains.

However, Emperor Xianzong felt sorry for the people and sympathized with his people. The local officials were even more moved, and told the people again and again that this was the great grace of the emperor.

Emperor Xianzong has been on the throne for ten years, and his reputation among the people has increased.

During the New Year, Hami, Ryukyu, and Siam paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.