On the way back, Wang Fu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. The 60,000 military camps may not be as good as 60,000 ducks. If the Qing soldiers headed south and there were 60,000 ducks blocking the way, the Qing army might have to arrest them for a long time, but the 60,000 people might have surrendered as soon as the Qing army arrived. No wonder the Hongguang Dynasty was completely destroyed when Yangzhou was lost in history.

"Tian Cheng, come to the car." Wang Fu summoned the call outside and signaled the coachman to slow down the carriage.

"I... I... How dare I join the car with the emperor?" Tian Cheng stammered.

"Stop talking nonsense, just come up if you ask me to come up."

"I follow the order..." Tian Cheng then trembled and climbed onto the carriage and sat down on the side of the carriage.

"Sit here, I won't eat you."

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty." The coachman had restarted the carriage, and Tian Cheng used his hands and feet together, almost crawling to Wang Fu.

Just as Tian Cheng lifted the curtain and entered the carriage, one of the two walking women not far from the carriage stopped. The petite girl with a young figure and a not-grown chest pointed at the carriage with her fingers tremblingly, muttering to herself: "It's him, that foolish monarch."

"Wan'er, don't talk nonsense." Another woman was a plump young woman with a fair face. She was shocked when she heard the girl's words. She quickly grabbed the girl's hand pointing to the carriage with one hand and covered the girl's mouth with the other.

"Um, um." The girl broke free from the hand that covered her lips: "Mom, it's that foolish monarch, I want to avenge my mother." After that, the girl was about to rush towards the direction of the carriage. The young woman had to hug her daughter tightly and cover her daughter's mouth again.

This scene was not seen by Wang Fu, and no one even paid attention to it on the street. The carriage drove for a distance before the young woman let go of her daughter. The girl's eyes were filled with tears: "Mom, that's a demon. Why don't you let your daughter take revenge? Why don't you let your daughter take revenge?"

"He is the emperor, how can we take revenge? Wan'er, do you have to let your mother die before you can be willing to?" The young woman's tears also flowed down.

Seeing the young woman crying silently, the girl panicked and quickly wiped the tears on the young woman's face with her hands while comforting: "Mom, don't cry, it's Qiu Wan's bad. Qiu Wan shouldn't make you angry

"Wan'er, this is fate. The fate of our mother and daughter. Mother takes you to Master Huijing. From then on, our mother and the ancient Buddha of Qinglantern depend on each other for their lives."

The girl named Qiu Wan clenched her fists, and did not listen to the young woman's words. She silently said: "Why can he do whatever he wants if he is the emperor? Why? We did something wrong, even my father doesn't want us. Is this fate? I don't believe it."

Inside the carriage, Wang Fu was instructing Tian Cheng: "Tian Cheng, I have a very important thing that I have to send someone to do. This matter is of great importance. If it is done, I will have a lot of rewards. If it is not done, I don't have to punish you anymore. I will not be able to protect myself. Maybe it won't take long to follow Emperor Sizong."

When Wang Fu used to read history, he would scold him whenever he read about eunuchs chaotic politics. How could the emperor be so stupid? When it was his turn, he didn't expect to rely on eunuchs. Now he doesn't even know a few ministers in the court. So what if he doesn't rely on eunuchs around him?

Tian Cheng kowtowed heavily: "If the emperor has something to do, just ask the slave, and the slave... If the slave cannot do it, he will be willing to apologize to the emperor for death." Tian Cheng choked when he spoke, making people unable to doubt his sincerity in his speech.

"I want you to bring you 500,000 taels of silver, 50,000 taels of gold, and 100,000 silk pieces. Go to the oyster mirror and buy all the firearms you can buy there. It is best to have the machinery and equipment for producing firearms. Also, try to hire more Franchise robots. If you are willing to accept employment, ordinary musketeers can pay 10 taels of silver every month, and the officers and artillery doubles. If you are a technician who can start the machine, the treatment is the same as that of artillery. You don't have to worry about spending money. The more people you hire, the better."

As far as Wang Fu knew, the quality of Portuguese soldiers at this time was extremely high, and they were willing to accept employment. Many small countries in Southeast Asia often hired one or two hundred Portuguese soldiers to turn the situation around. Of course, the cost of hiring was not low, and they often mixed with some treaties that were humiliating. The Ming Dynasty was not a small country, and the Qing Dynasty was not a few hundred, and thousands of Portuguese soldiers could stop it. Wang Fu hired Portuguese soldiers just to rely on a more layer of confidence in escaping.

"Ten taels of silver per month." Tian Cheng felt so painful when he heard this. Whether it was the four towns in Jiangbei or the Beijing camp, each soldier had only twenty taels of silver per year, including the Lumi, and at least half of them would be embezzled by the officers above. However, the emperor had to pay an annual salary of 120 taels of silver to hire Franchise people. Although the emperor spent the emperor's money, Tian Cheng was still heartbroken.

"Your Majesty, why bother to go to Oyster Mirror to buy firearms? What kind of firearms do Yingtianfu Craftsmen need? Besides, the soldiers are the most reliable soldiers of our Ming Dynasty. I am not unwilling to go to Oyster Mirror to handle it, but I just think that the emperor..."

"Do you think I'm doing this alone?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not."

"Why should I spend a lot of money on the firearms in the Craftsmen to buy them? As for hiring Folang Jimen, you can see the appearance of Jing Jian. The military pay of 60,000 will cost 1.2 million taels per year. I can hire 10,000 Folang Jimen musketeers. Even if I can hire 1,000 people, I think it is more than enough to defeat 60,000 people."

The firearms of Franchisemen were better than the Ming Dynasty. Tian Cheng completely believed that many firearms of the Ming Dynasty were imitating Franchisemen, especially the artillery. However, if one thousand Franchisemen could defeat the 60,000 Beijing camps of the Ming Dynasty, Tian Cheng did not believe it anyway. Naturally, he did not know that in another two hundred years, the Qing Dynasty, which was even more corrupt than the Ming army, was captured by a few thousand British and French coalition forces.

But since the emperor said so clearly, Tian Cheng naturally would not argue with the emperor again: "Don't worry, the servants will do this for the emperor."

"Well, Yang Lin is good today. You are going to waste your mirrors. The journey is not close, and you have to bring a lot of gold and silver. The safety along the way should not be underestimated. I will issue an order to escort him and his subordinates. In addition, my guards will also give you a piece, go and go back quickly."

Almost one-third of the property in the inner warehouse was given to him, and even if he had the most trust, he would have restricted it. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Tian Cheng to not return this time in the face of such a huge temptation of property.

Tian Cheng also understood this. When he heard that the emperor would send hundreds of people to protect him, he did not look strange and focused on it: "I obey the order."

"Also, if the money is not enough, I will allow you to temporarily borrow the property in the Guangdong vassal treasury. No matter what the ministers in the court have to say about you, I will support you."

Along the way, Wang Fu almost talked about the details of buying firearms from Portugal and hiring troops. When he returned to the palace and sat down, Wang Fu immediately ordered the eunuch beside him: "Go, pass on my will and let the commander of the Jinyiwei Shi Feng Kezong into the palace to see him."

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Chapter completed!