A few days later, a Japanese army camp was prepared along the coast of Dongyu.
Yang Xun just woke up from the bed, surrounded by Bai Shuangshuang who slept soundly.
Through communicating with Bai Shuangshuang in the past few days, Yang Xun also learned that the Bai family's business has now spread throughout the north and the Central Plains.
In addition to refined salt, Yang Xun's paper, perfume, and kiln brick businesses were all contracted to the Bai family.
("Paper Making Encyclopedia" and "Brick Firing Encyclopedia" were drawn previously, see Chapter 54 for details)
These things were quite profitable businesses in ancient times. Although the Bai family had to pay one million taels of silver to Beiyan every month, they still made a lot of money.
The Bai family used to be the richest man in Huaizhou, which was not enough when compared to the whole country, but now there is a vague tendency to become the richest man in the country.
After all, the Bai family now controls almost the entire refined salt and paper business in Daqian. In a few years, no aristocratic family will be able to do as well as the Bai family.
However, the head of the Bai family, Bai Songlin, also knew very well that everything the Bai family owned now was given by Yang Xun, so he was even more loyal to Yang Xun.
In Bai Shuangshuang's words, as long as Yang Xun gives the order, the Bai family will give money and people to others.
And what surprised Yang Xun the most was the little girl Bai Shuangshuang.
According to Jin Yiwei's report, the current business of the Bai family is basically led by this little girl who is pioneering and expanding the territory, while Bai Songlin is only responsible for doing the logistics work for her in the back.
The Bai family was able to expand its business to the entire northern Daqian and the Central Plains region in such a short period of time, and even made the paper, perfume, and kiln bricks of the Bai Chamber of Commerce so popular among the people, which shows Bai Shuangshuang's ability.
Even in Qianjing City, where wealthy families are everywhere, the Bai family still occupies a place.
Of course, the intimidation of Yang Xun is indispensable behind this, but it is not easy to achieve such results in such a short period of time.
You must know that the speed of the Bai family's expansion is almost the same as the speed of Yang Xun's expansion. While Yang Xun has a group of generals to help him, Bai Shuangshuang is the only one.
Yang Xun had never thought before that he could not let the Bai family dominate and find another family to check and balance. He even thought of the Lu family where the Lu family is located.
But now that Bai Shuangshuang has become Yang Xun's woman, this worry has disappeared.
Bai Songlin is such a daughter. No matter how much money she earns, she still belongs to Bai Shuangshuang?
Bai Shuangshuang is Yang Xun's woman, so doesn't the Bai family's money belong to Yang Xun?
But the Lu family is different. There are many heirs in the Lu family, and the money will eventually become cheaper.
The Bai family's loyalty to Yang Xun is not comparable to that of the Lu family. In this way, it doesn't matter if the Bai family is the only one.
Yang Xun had been struggling with the matter of getting married before. Although there were many women around Yang Xun now, he could only have one legal wife.
Yang Xun initially wanted to marry Cai Wenji or Diao Chan as his wife. After all, they were the first women to follow Yang Xun.
But the two of them considered themselves of low status and could not agree with anything.
Later, the Lu family and the concubines in the harem appeared. Although they were all perfect, they were once Li Qian's concubines after all. It was okay to be a concubine, but it was impossible to be a real wife.
As for Pa Aniya and Li Miaoyin, no, no, they haven't done it yet, and if one is a love brain and the other is stupid, how can he manage the king's harem well?
At this time, Yang Xun's eyes fell on Bai Shuangshuang. This girl was doing well in business and was also very calculating.
Thinking of this, Yang Xun felt a little sorry for Cai Wenji and Diao Chan, and became entangled for a while.
At this moment, Xuanwu's voice sounded outside the king's tent.
"Your Majesty, someone from Beiyan is here, saying they want to meet the prince."
"knew."
Yang Xun responded, dressed neatly and came outside the king's tent.
I saw Qianhu, a guard in Jinyi, standing next to Xuanwu, holding a dark thing in his hand, as thick as an adult man's arm, like a large firecracker.
Yang Xun's eyes suddenly lit up, he supported Qianhu who was about to kneel down, and said, "Did Liu Zheng ask you to bring this thing?"
"Back to your lord, this is exactly what Mr. Liu Zheng asked his subordinates to bring. It's called Zhentian Lei. It's the latest product of the Military Industry Department." Qianhu said quickly.
After hearing this, Yang Xun knew what this thing was for.
After the system rewarded "Gunpowder Production and Configuration Ratios", Yang Xun handed this skill book to the Military Industry Department, told them his design, and asked them to try to make something similar to a grenade, and started It's called Zhentian Lei.
After all, if you can’t make big cannons and blunderbuss, why can’t you make a small thunderbolt?
You must know that the earliest thunderbolts in the previous life had already appeared in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Yang Xun still had confidence in the craftsmen provided by the system.
I just didn't expect it to come out so quickly.
Thinking of this, he looked at the Thunderbolt in Qianhu's hand. The Thunderbolt was similar to what he had imagined. It had a thick body and a small mouth, and was wrapped in pig iron.
"How many thunderbolts did you bring here?"
"Go back to your lord, my subordinates have brought three pills in total." Qianhu said quickly.
"Let's go to the martial arts field to test our power!" Yang Xun said, leading Qianhu and Xuanwu toward the martial arts field.
At this time, Qi Jiguang and others were training in the martial arts field. Seeing that Yang Xun had brought people, they all came over.
Yang Xun ignored them, and immediately found a wide open space, and had people move in the straw men to form a circle, and then put these straw men in the iron armor of ordinary soldiers.
Then Yang Xun led everyone to the distant bunker and asked Qianhu for a thunderbolt to light the fuse.
The thousands of households were immediately shocked and said quickly: "Your Majesty, this thing is too powerful and may be dangerous. It's better to let your subordinates come and test it for Your Majesty!"
Yang Xun was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, if this thing was unreliable and exploded in advance, let alone having the power of an overlord, even if he was a thousand-year-old bastard, he wouldn't be able to withstand it!
"Okay, then just order one and try it!" Yang Xun nodded, but did not give Qianhu the thunderbolt in his hand.
The Qianhu took the order and hurriedly ran to the bunker in the other direction, away from everyone. Then they took out a thunderbolt, plugged in the fuse, lit it and threw it out.
The thunderbolt was thrown impartially into the middle of the circle of straw men. At Yang Xun's reminder, everyone quickly buried their heads behind the bunker.
"boom!"
With an earth-shaking loud noise, all the straw men were blown upside down.
Everyone was frightened by the loud noise like thunder, and it took a few seconds before anyone dared to poke their heads out.
Yang Xun didn't care to wait for the smoke to dissipate, and rushed over to pick up a pair of exploded armor. He found that there were many pig iron fragments inlaid on it, and there were even a few holes, indicating that the fragments were powerful enough to penetrate the armor!
"It's done, it's really done!"
Yang Xun was overjoyed, with excitement on his face.
Even the iron armor used by Japanese soldiers can be penetrated. What would happen if the enemies wearing leather armor or even no armor were bombed?
