Three executives of the British East India Company and Zhu Hetian's messenger Ji Dabao finally took a ship carrying an old gate with a load of only more than 200 tons tonnes, left the Huangpu Island Pier, and took advantage of the west wind blowing from the upper reaches of the Xijiang River to slowly head towards the Lingdingyang.

The Big Oriental, which has a load of up to 500 tons, was slightly injured because it was affected by a burning Portuguese galley in the Battle of Haojiang Inner Harbor. Therefore, it is now waiting for a "disassembly overhaul" in a dry dock in Haojiang Inner Harbor.

The so-called dismantling overhaul is to quickly remove wooden boards and strips from the ship, measure the size, weigh the weight, draw the drawings, and make the model. And they will also invite Han boatmen and Portuguese craftsmen from Dahao and Guangzhou to dismantle them together.

The British cast iron cannons and flintlock rifles on the ship were also joined by Zhu Heying's army. The cast iron cannons were matched with field cannons made by Portuguese craftsmen in Macau and became field cannons. The number of flintlock rifles was not large, with only more than 100 of them, and they were all given to Zhu Heying's bearded cavalry.

Of course, whether it is a cast iron cannon or a flintlock rifle, Zhu Hezang personally measured the size and drew the figures, and prepared to organize craftsmen in Foshan Town to imitate them in the future.

Although the sailing ship became an old gate ship, even the weapons on the ship were removed. However, the British East India Company did not suffer any loss in this "forced" transaction. Not only did it not lose, but it could also make a fortune.

Zhu Heying gave enough "ship price" and "arms money", and even the Westerners and black crew members who were "forced" to serve the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Heying paid them full compensation.

As for all the considerations and compensation, Zhu Hetian used perfume to fill the accounts and gave a total of 300 kilograms of "Guifei Xiang" and "Gentleman Xiang".

In addition to the 300 kilograms of priceless perfume, the three foreigners also used the money of the East India Company to purchase a large amount of "Thaozhou Special White" (white sugar) and Chaozhou rum, filling the entire old gate ship with all its money.

After this trip, the three of them shared their income alone, which was enough for them to buy a manor in England to have a comfortable retirement.

With the three of them as role models, Zhu Hetian was not worried that there would be no Western adventurers coming to Guangdong to buy his perfume, wine, sugar and other good things. This is a business. Making money is the most important thing. Whether to make money by kneeling, standing, sitting, or lying down, it doesn't matter at all for the unscrupulous English and Dutch who had not yet become rich in the 17th century.

After seeing off the three British men and Ji Dabao, Zhu Heying devoted himself to the two major issues of expanding the army and training.

When others fight, they recruit soldiers first, then train the troops, and then do it when they are ready. Zhu Hetian went to the front line and started to expand the army and train. Even some of the weapons and equipment have to be fought on the front line, which is really hasty.

But there is nothing to do about this, there is really no population!

There are only more than 30,000 men, women, young and old, and there is no place to recruit soldiers. I can only think about it in my dream.

But now, I finally got rich, no, I'm "provoking someone"!

"Criminal Master, this is the training plan for the six towns in front, back, left, right, middle, and Jinyi's personal army. Please check it out."

"Criminal Master, this is the training plan for the three counties and township soldiers in Xiangshan, Shunde and Nanhai. Please review it."

"Criminal, this is the list of Macau Portuguese soldiers who are willing to serve for the Ming Dynasty. Each of them is willing to swear to you in the name of Jesus."

In the lobby of Jinyi’s personal army in Shenjing Village, military advisor Zhuge, Master Guo, and Teacher Bei’s father Beilo all reported the good news to Zhu Heying with the details!

Zhu Heying also felt like a nouveau riche this time. His Jinyi Personal Army had only a total of more than 20 leaders, only 1,300 and 1,300. After conquering Macau, it expanded to more than 3,000 people, and now it has expanded to six towns!

"Haha, six towns, twelve associations, sixty battalions and more than 18,000 people!" Zhu Hezhi first took the detailed text handed over by Zhuge Sanhe, looked at it, and smiled so hard that he couldn't stop smiling. "We always said before that it was invincible, but now it's 18,000!"

Zhuge Sanhe smiled and said, "It's more than 18,000! There are 6,000 soldiers from three counties and townships and more than 25,000 Portuguese soldiers from Macau!

In addition, there are more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians who can be incorporated into the personal army. However, there are too few young soldiers who can be officers and there is no supply of equipment and armor, so we can only train the 60th battalion's personal army first."

Guo Youde, who is in charge of the logistics of the entire army, took over the topic with a smile: "Criminal Master, when we conquer Guangzhou, relying on the population, grain, and industry of Guangzhou, 50,000 troops can also provide armor and equipment. In addition to our own Nangang Factory, there is also Bujialao Factory in Macau. Foshan Town in Nanhai County is even more powerful. It is the world's number one iron smelting center. How many armor and equipment can be built! "

Not only did there be people in Guangzhou Prefecture have food, but it was also a major city in China's iron industry at that time!

Foshan Iron Industry's products are not only sold in China, but also sold to Southeast Asia and Japan. Moreover, Foshan Iron Industry is completely a product of the market economy, and it depends entirely on the excellent product quality and low cost to be launched in the domestic and foreign markets.

In addition, a considerable number of Southeast Asian products exported by Foshan Iron Industry are muskets and artillery!

In recent years, Southeast Asian countries have been in chaos, with civil and foreign wars endlessly fighting, and Western colonists have been involved. There is a huge demand for arms! Foshan Iron Industry has been supplying local warlords in Southeast Asian countries all year round. Most of the "Europa foreign guns and cannons" sold to them by the Portuguese and the Dutch were made in Foshan.

The most interesting thing is that the unscrupulous businessmen in Foshan are still "making swords" for Japan to export to the Chinese market, and some of them have been passed down to later generations, with the steel seal "Japan Samuzhou" on it, and the unrestrained fools.

This important iron smelting town in Foshan has now been taken over by Zhu Hetong, and a semi-finished town is also stationed.

The so-called semi-finished town is a town with full staff but the training has not been completed, and only a part of the equipment and armor has been distributed.

The six towns in Jinyi’s front, back, left, right, middle, and middle are all like this, and the semi-finished products are still used.

Among them, the Qianjun Town led by Lin Ahu is now stationed in Foshan, the Houjun Town commanded by Su Zhanhai was sent to the Humen by Zhu and Jian, and the Zhongjun Town led by Zhao Hongkui is stationed in Macau.

The remaining three towns on the left, right and personal army are stationed in Haizhu Island, Huangzhou Island and Huangpu Island respectively.

In addition to these six towns belonging to Zhu and Jian, Qiu Rong also led two towns of the Qiu family army to land in Huangpu capital on the north bank of the Pearl River, and also established a Huangpu camp there, watching the Qing army retracted into Guangzhou City.

As for the attack on Guangzhou City, Zhu Hetong was not anxious at all. Of course, he couldn't come out even if he was anxious. The Qing army in Guangzhou City had tens of thousands of people, and could not be defeated by one or two thousand sharp sword troops.

So Zhu Hezhi had to train troops in the last battle and practice the soldiers of the six towns at hand well before he could lead them to pick the biggest fruit of this battle, Guangzhou City!

Zhu and the emperor were thinking that they would enter Guangzhou City in one or two months and then dominate the south, Scar Rong Qiu Rong rushed into the lobby in a blistering manner, and while walking, they were shouting: "Criminal, Prince, something happened in Chaozhou! Something happened in Chaozhou!"

Something happened in Chaozhou?

Several people in the lobby were shocked. Military Advisor Zhuge was the first to react, shaking his goose feather fan and asked: "Sir Qiu, what happened? Could it be that Shang Kexi could not defeat Jieyang and switched to using troops to attack Chaoyang and Chenghai?"
Chapter completed!