Zhao Peng smiled and said, "When your Majesty is kind and loving today, even the Fu King, who has ascended the throne for several days, has not been executed. He is just sent to Fengyang to guard the tomb. You and the two of you have not been called emperors and are the elders of the emperor. How could the emperor harm the two His Highnesses?"

Zhu Changqing sighed: "King Fu ascended the throne without knowing it. Moreover, King Fu did not ascend the throne voluntarily, but the ministers in the court supported the throne. But I and King Gui themselves did not obey the king's transformation, did not obey the court's orders, and raised an army to cause chaos. How could Your Majesty spare us and the two of us?"

Zhao Peng showed a harmless smile on his face: "The two princes are not in their original intention to commit rebellion. The gentry of Huguang did not accept Wang Hua and originally followed Zuo Menggeng to treason. Later, he saw Zuo Menggeng being destroyed. In order to save his life, he encouraged the two princes to rebel and cause rebellion. After all, the gentry of Huguang is strong and the two princes cannot resist. The two princes said right?"

Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing understood immediately. Isn’t this meant to let them bite the gentry? There were rumors that the new emperor Zhu Cilang had long disliked the gentry. When the late emperor Chongzhen was there, he asked the officials for military pay, but they all cried and were poor. When the thieves broke into the capital, they actually copied more than 70 million taels of silver!

Those people were obviously rich but were silent. No wonder Zhu Cilang was ready to attack them.

Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing thought in their minds that it would be a big problem to save their lives, but they must not even think about glory and wealth. Zhu Cilang will definitely withdraw their vassal.

The fleet continued to sail along the way and sailed overnight. At the 9 o'clock in the morning of the third day, the fleet arrived in Wuzhou.

When they arrived in Wuzhou, Zhao Peng did not get off the boat, but chose twelve quick-witted and powerful Jinyiwei lieutenants, and handed them some official documents and seals to them, so that they could get ashore in Wuzhou and prepare to build a Jinyiwei Hundred House in Wuzhou.

After passing Wuzhou, Zhaoqing, the location of the Governor General Office of Guangdong and Guangxi, is located in front of it. From Wuzhou to Zhaoqing for more than 300 miles, the fleet can sail more than 400 miles a day and night. It is expected that at the early morning of the next day, the sky will be able to reach Zhaoqing before it is completely dawn.

The fleet continued to go downstream because it was about to arrive in Zhaoqing early the next morning, and several personnel needed to be arranged to disembark in Zhaoqing to form a hundred-household office of the Jinyiwei in Zhaoqing. After Zhao Peng explained the twelve Jinyiwei captains who were preparing to disembark in Zhaoqing, they returned to their cockpit early to sleep. Even Zuo Xianmei did not let her stay in her cabin overnight. She lay alone on the bed and fell asleep at the end.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, the fleet leaned on the dock. When the ship slowed down and was about to dock, Zhao Peng woke up from his sleep because he was lying in his clothes. After getting up, he washed up and the boat just stopped.

Twelve Jinyiwei guards who were about to get off the ship stood on the front deck. Zhao Peng stood in front of them and opened his voice and spoke loudly: "Brothers, you bring the documents and seals and get off the ship here. In the future, the important task of establishing Jinyiwei Hundred Houses in Zhaoqing will fall on your shoulders! Zhaoqing is very close to Guangzhou. Originally, Jinyiwei has set up Jinyiwei Qianyiwei in Guangzhou and Wuzhou, so there is no need to set up a hundred houses in Zhaoqing. However, Zhaoqing is the location of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi. Our Jinyiwei cannot be vacant here, right? Therefore, Zhaoqing must also set up a Jinyiwei 100 houses in Zhaoqing. Remember, like Nanning, recruit local people, and the officers of the hundred houses also choose to station local spies. After the hundred houses are fully established, you will go back to Nanjing."

"No!" The twelve Jinyiwei responded in unison.

After the twelve Jinyiwei guards who were preparing to build the Jinyiwei Hundred Houses in Zhaoqing got off the ship, the fleet set sail and continued to go down the river. The next stop was Foshan. After arriving in Foshan, Zhao Peng and his team would all disembark and prepare to build a steel company here in Foshan. When the matter here comes to an end, Zheng Family Army's fleet will arrive in Guangzhou.

Foshan is very close to Guangzhou. You can walk to the Pearl River. If you cross the Pearl River by boat, you will be Guangzhou.

It was only about 160 miles from Zhaoqing to Foshan. The fleet continued to go downstream and was expected to arrive in Foshan in the evening of that day.

In the evening, the fleet arrived at Foshan. When the Xijiang River arrived here, it had already entered the Pearl River Delta with complex waterways. When the Xijiang River arrived here, the mainstream was to turn south and flow into the sea near Haojing (Macao). There was also a tributary entering the Yamen Waterway and flowing into the sea at Xinhui Yashan. There was also a relatively large tributary flowing into the estuary of the Pearl River and flowing into the sea from the Pearl River estuary. There was also a tributary flowing through the urban area of ​​Guangzhou, and there were several tributaries flowing through the Pearl River Delta.

In short, the river channels in the Pearl River Delta are complicated, and if a boatman who is not familiar with the local waterways will get lost.

The boatmen who came from Nanning were only familiar with the routes from Nanning to Foshan and to Haojing, and they were not familiar with other waterways. The fleet stopped at Foshan Wharf and asked the Jinyiwei to get off the boat, and then returned to Nanning.

Previously, in order to be able to take over Foshan Iron Industry, Zhao Peng sent the Jinyiwei to lurk in Foshan early.

A man who looked like a businessman came up and saluted Zhao Peng respectfully: "Caomin Liang Wei joined the Marquis!"

"Get up, stop pretending, still be a slut? Others don't know you, but I know you are my own. Anyway, we have all come here, so you don't have to hide your identity in the future. Just make it public that you are the Jinyiwei." Zhao Peng said.

"Mr. Marquis, I have helped you find someone who is willing to cooperate with our Jinyiwei. It is the Liang family in Foshan and the boss of the Longxing Iron Walking in Foshan. In order to enter their Liang family, Beizhi changed his name and surname and changed it to Liang Wei." Liang Wei said. In fact, his real name is not Liang Wei, but Chen Zhi, but in order to complete the task of Jinyiwei, he entered the Liang family's Iron Walking in as a primary school apprentice.

At that time, Foshan Iron Industry taught his apprentices very strictly and his skills were never passed down. In order to get close to his boss, Chen Zhi made a fake identity and changed his name and changed his surname to Liang Wei, which was the only way to gain the trust of the Liang family.

Liang Wei introduced: "Longxing Iron Shopping has industries such as porcelain shops and dyeing workshops in Foshan. The family also has official reputations from generation to generation, and it is also considered a famous family in Foshan. But such a wealthy merchant is not a big deal in Foshan. There are hundreds of large and small iron shops in Foshan, and the iron tools they produce are famous all over the world. Many officers and soldiers in the south use Foshan iron tools."

Foshan's iron industry is famous all over the world, and Zhao Peng has long heard of it. The quality of the high-quality steel produced here is not inferior to Su Steel. Moreover, the output of high-quality steel in Foshan is much greater than that of Suzhou. As long as Foshan is controlled, the high-quality spring steel produced can completely allow Zhao Peng to start mass production of flintlock rifles.

Su Gang is a steel-fried steel made by a blacksmith with a hammer and hammer. The cost is very high and cannot be mass-produced on a large scale. Naturally, Zhao Peng cannot change his flintlock rifle on a large scale. However, there are specialists who make the steel in Foshan directly from the blast furnace, and the output is much larger than Su Gang.

The quality of steel may be slightly inferior to that of handmade Sugang, but the flintlock machine used to make flintlock rifles is completely sufficient, mainly due to the large output.

It is not easy to be brave enough to control Foshan? In this era, the blockade of industry technology is not as relaxed as the blockade of technology by the beautiful country in later generations. The masters of this era only teach their own skills, and outsiders don’t even think about it. Even the Jinyiwei, they are not afraid.

Located in Guangzhou, Foshan and other places in Lingnan, it is a local kingdom far away from the imperial court. Guangdong, no government or gentry, will give Jinyiwei face.

Jinyiwei? What is it? The emperor is far away from Lingnan. Even if an Jinyiwei kills him, who can control him?

The Yuan family in Dongguan is an example. The Yuan family’s Yuandu was made into a skin duck by Chongzhen in Yanjing, but the Yuan family’s property, far away in Guangdong, could not move at all. The Jinyiwei Tiqi could not even enter the door of the Yuan family, so how could he search the house?
Chapter completed!