Meng Cong kept talking about his nephew and uncle, but he looked like a businessman's tone.

Shen Rui couldn't help but smile. In fact, this was better. He did not deliberately refute the word "nephew" and just asked: "What kind of business is it?"

"At present, the sea is in such chaos, and your merchant ships cannot get on the shore of Japan. They must be the life of feeding fish." Meng Cong said.

Another pointing at the vast blue waves outside the window, "I know you are practicing navy, but your navy, huh, either I look down on people, or even hit giant sharks, it's just a matter of being unprepared. If you really go into the sea, you can't point to anything

Sample."

Shen Rui still smiled and listened.

Meng Cong leaned forward and his voice lowered a little, "Your people want to train troops, try new guys, just in time, come and help me clean up the girl named Tu and Meng Zhaoqing's little boy. I will protect Dengzhou in the future.

Merchant ships traveled to and from Japan and the Ming Dynasty safely. I won 20% of the landed in Japan, and I won't even draw gold, silver or goods if they were transported away."

Shen Rui raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but smile: "You want the soldiers raised by the court to be used as swordsman for you? Don't say that I can't make this decision, even if I can do it, how can I agree?"

Meng Cong leaned back, "Don't mention the sword without sword, it's mutual benefit? You need to practice troops, how can you practice if you don't fight?

"What is the Giant Shark Gang? You find a storyteller to talk about it in a mess. That's just a dead loach, like a wooden target, and you throw two turbulent oil tanks. You navy will be invincible in the world?

Ha ha ha ha."

He laughed, as if he had told the funnyest joke in the world.

Shen Rui's expression remained unchanged, but he sighed in his heart. Shandong has been peaceful for a long time, and the navy lacks combat experience. Although there are people from Nanjing Navy to help with the training, there is still a certain gap between them and actual combat.

It is a good time to practice mobile phones when fighting the giant shark, but the giant shark is too weak, and it is indeed like a little loach. The navy slaughtered one-sidedly. Although the morale is high, it will inevitably make the opponent look too simple.

, developed a desire to underestimate the enemy.

"Just say you went out to stop the giant shark's official ship, four hundred materials and five hundred materials, it was so big. When you really arrived at the sea, before you could turn around, the shadow of the express ship was gone.

"A ship with five hundred materials costs one thousand taels of silver, not just an ordnance.

A pointed whistle ship, a ten-pad spaceship, a high-hand whistle ship costs only a few dozen taels of silver, each ship is equipped with twenty kilograms of gunpowder, just ignite the fire and put the ship to hit it. How many hundred materials can the court afford to lose?”

Meng Cong is a qualified businessman. When he mentions money, he always puts his thoughts on his ideas.

There are not many ships nowadays, and the shipbuilding cycle is quite long. In addition, the supply of raw wood is insufficient, so the imperial court cannot afford many ships.

Shen Rui lowered his eyelids and said, "That's right, since the navy in the court is so useless, how could he dare to pull out the deep sea to fight against the aunt Tu of the Nine-Headed Dragon?"

Meng Cong choked and put himself in.

He couldn't help glaring at Shen Rui, cursing the bad guy in his heart, and said, "Don't go too far, I will force Meng Zhaoqing's little bastard man to Wendeng's seaside. Your man is really a knife to go up.

I'll get a shot after two games, and I'll get a training.

"I don't want any of Meng Zhaoqing's ships. If it's not enough to compensate for the ships you lose, plus the soldiers' pensions, all of them are mine."

He waved his hand with great pride and looked completely rich, "Isn't it good for you to make money without losing money, you have captured and military achievements?"

"Auntie Tu, if you eat, you will usually deal with the ship, and it's yours." Meng Cong's eyes flashed with a cunning light, "If you want to build a navy, the more the ship, the better the more it is."

Shen Rui took a deep breath.

This is a great temptation.

The ship, Dengzhou Navy needs it very much.

He also wants to clear the sea.

But, not now.

The Dengzhou Navy was just established and lacked experience. There are many variables and great risks on the vast sea. Who knows if the entire army will be wiped out in one mistake!

Then Shen Rui will never be able to redeem his sins even if he dies!

Shen Rui's mind was rumbling a few times, staring at Meng Cong's eyes, and asked, "You know the importance of the navy, why should I come to the court's navy? What can the navy help you?"

Meng Cong closed his eyes and said, "I said, I won't go around in circles with you, so I will just say it. I need gunpowder, tin oil, and your bowl guns, magical machine arrows...

You cannot sell these to me, so then your people will use them, and I will pay the money to buy you to go to war."

"If the situation in the nine-headed dragon is dragged on, it's hard to say who will win. Aunt Tu still has some of the top. If Aunt Tu wins, Donghai will not be the stable situation where Meng Hongtong is in the past.

I said that opening the sea is not good for us. Aunt Tu is a man who eats people and does not spit out bones. She will bite all the ships that go out to sea to death and continue to monopolize this business. This is not what the court wants to see.

The court must have a battle with Aunt Tu. Now that I cooperate with me, my chances of winning are quite high. If Aunt Tu eats Meng Zhaoqing and unify the nine-headed dragon, the court will have no chance of winning at all.

Meng Cong looked at Shen Rui and said, "I am also afraid that the court will turn around and eat me after he has cleaned up Aunt Tu. If someone else is in this position, I will not go this trip. Just because it is you, it is not.

Help me, and you won't hurt me."

"Besides, Mr. Wang's navy is also famous. If he can encircle and suppress it from all sides, no matter how cunning Aunt Tu is, he will never escape."

After Meng Cong said that, he added the last weight, "Shandong has been drought for several years, and Dengzhou is not a place with good soil and water.

"I heard that you came back from Liaodong last year with frozen cattle and sheep and relieved the famine. As a result, more and more people came to Dengzhou to escape, and they were waiting for dinner.

"Food is always short. The three prefectures of Susong Lake were flooded. Suzhou Prefecture redeemed 250,000 shi of military rations and 200,000 shi. I am afraid it will not be possible to help Shandong in the south.

"I have food." Meng Cong smiled big and said, "The Japanese court is in chaos, and the people are suffering. In the first few years, I have helped the Japanese to open up wasteland and grow grain in my own territory. They are all fat fields and the weather is warm.

, , two cooked a year, and a lot of food has been stocked up. Not to mention supporting the people in Dengzhou Prefecture, it is no problem to help and relieve the difficulties."

Shen Rui took a deep breath.

Ship, grain, sea trade routes, overseas markets.

All of them are needed by Dengzhou.

But can the young navy in Dengzhou complete the mission perfectly and get these things in exchange?

"What you said is too big, I can't afford it. I have to report to God." Shen Rui said slowly.

Meng Cong stretched out three fingers and said, "At most, three months. Meng Zhaoqing can't hold on for that long. Now he is not dead, so someone is waiting for him to consume Aunt Tu. But he himself cannot do it. In another three months, the wind and waves on the sea

It’s not easy to go to sea.”

He paused and said to Shen Rui seriously: "Also, after this matter is settled, I will not be recruited. Perhaps you who are taking the imperial examination and going to the official career think that recruiting officials is the best way out, but for us,

Entering the officialdom is a dead end.”

Shen Rui also breathed a sigh of relief, sighed low, and said, "I'm still worried that you want to recruit peace. Since you are so transparent, there is no need for me to say more."

Meng Cong laughed and slapped his high-high, "Good boy! It's not that elm-headed one."

After a pause, he said, "But I also know that you are a solid child, who believes in the loyalty of the emperor. But after hearing what the old man said, don't be foolish and loyal. Don't tell the emperor about your relationship with you and me, now I believe you Loyalty to the Lord, you will still use this to chop your head in the future.”

Shen Rui nodded silently.

Of course he would not be foolish.

If he had said that there was such an uncle, he would have never known it before, but what about the third master?

The third master knew everything, but he did not report it. He also spent money to pave the way in the officialdom with the money of his brother Hai Pirate. He was still in such a high position as Tongzheng Envoy. This was a serious crime to deceive the emperor.

If this is pursued, the Shen family is guilty of all the people.

Seeing Shen Rui nodding, Meng Cong's eyes softer, and added: "Don't worry, when his adoptive father was in the Nine-Headed Dragon, he was called Meng Xing. Others only guessed that his original surname was Xing, and he was saved by my father's life. Change his surname to Meng.

"Actually, it's not. Xing, the name of his old elder brother.

"Their three brothers are Chen Xing, Chen Ye, Chen Bang.

"Sun Mengsheng is also a pseudonym, and no one can connect with Meng Xing.

"The adoptive father has washed himself clean and cannot find out at all.

"As for this face..."

Meng Cong laughed at himself, "You don't have to worry. I'm a bearded since I was an adult. I've basically died of all those who have seen me look like a young man. This time I had to disguise and shaved my beard. In addition to Ashan, I also went to No one has seen it before.

"When I go back to the sea, I have a big beard and add two scars. Who can tell what?

"Many people know that I have girls, but I know that my girls are dead but no more. Then I will take a wife and a family to be my sister's brother-in-law and nephew. I will raise them in Japan, so I will never think about them anymore. ”

He straightened his waist and regained a little domineering as the sea lord, and said, "You tell the emperor that I want to join forces with the court, except for Aunt Tu, not seeking reunion or rewards from the court, but only ask him to give him a light imperial edict."

"I have a piece of land in Japan, but I just robbed it myself. Since Japan is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, I asked the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to issue an edict and ordered Japan to grant me a name. Well, it is a general. I justified the land to me as a fief.

"Don't worry, I will give you a Japanese name, and it won't make it difficult for the imperial court to do it."

He looked bright and said, "Tell the emperor, if I become this general, I can try my best to control the sea and prevent the Japanese pirates from disturbing the coast of the Ming Dynasty."

"If the imperial court wants to trade with Japan in sea trade, I can also contribute to it and secretly provide the imperial court with the food, Japanese swords and even ships they want.

"And all I want is the land of Japan, the taxes of Japan, and the imperial court does not need to spend a cent of silver. How about it?"

Is this considered another form of overseas colony?

Shen Rui burst into laughter.

He thought that the Ming Navy would become stronger in the future and could build a plantation in Southeast Asia. He did not have the idea of ​​North Korea, but he really never thought about Japan.

"Then you should stay in the capital city first?" Shen Rui asked with a smile.

Meng Cong shook his head and said, "I'll just disguise myself and go to your island to take a look and walk around the coast. At the latest one month, I will return to the Fucheng. The imperial post station said that within eight days, the fast horse can reach all the world. I think you will go and go back and forth, one month is enough.”

*

When she returned to the mansion, Shen Ruite invited Xu into the secret room before telling her about Meng Cong's past events.
To be continued...