"The wound has been treated, but the high fever requires a few days of rest in Xue's hospital before it can completely subside..." After washing his hands in the copper basin, Doctor Xue took the tray from his apprentice. Zhong took a cup of brewed Chinese herbal tea and took two sips slowly before he had time to express his further medical opinions to the official Kang Daguan!
The latter, without much thought, agreed to his suggestion. After all, others are the authority. The poor alien traveler and his subordinates, after witnessing Dr. That's a bit polite!
"Then we have Dr. Lao! In this case, I will leave two brothers to wait here. If Uncle Liu wakes up, I will send them to Hongbin Tower to notify us..." Seeing that Liu Laoliu had taken the fever-reducing decoction, he came out. Drenched in sweat and already falling into a deep sleep, Kang Lin carefully closed the door and nodded to his personal follower Jiang San to hand over the consultation fee of five taels of silver. Next, the head of Kangda, who had other things to do, did not linger too much in this dilapidated and depressing courtyard. Instead, he bowed to Doctor Xue and prepared to leave with his men! However, after Doctor Xue saw the silver lock that Jiang San handed over, he stopped Kang Lin and his party who were about to leave the yard.
"There are too many guests, there are too many. Two taels of silver are enough. How can we use so much..." Kang Lin turned around and saw that the old man carefully put the two silver coins into his sleeve pockets and put the remaining ones into his sleeves. The three silver coins were reluctantly handed back to Jiang San, and he couldn't help but secretly praise the Ming doctors for their professional ethics! He is so poor that he is almost eating dirt, but he still refuses to collect money that he shouldn't, but he is much more disciplined than modern doctors.
"Take it if it's given to you. You deserve it. Uncle Six is my most important elder. As long as you can give me a healthy Uncle Six, no matter how much money it is!" Compared to Doctor Xue Hu Although he is cautious and cautious, Boss Kang's attitude towards life is much more domineering. Now that he needs someone to treat his chief manager's injuries, he will not be stingy with a few taels of silver.
"Then thank you sir, I will do my best to heal your elder..." Seeing Kang Lin's insistence, Doctor Xue had no choice but to accept the three silver coins. Next, after Kang Lin and his party disappeared from sight, Doctor Xue immediately ordered his apprentice, "Disciple, go to the Huichun Hall on West Street to buy a ginseng. It seems that we have encountered a big gold this time." Lord!"
Hongbin Tower.
Three days have passed unknowingly since Liu Laoliu checked into Doctor Xue's thatched hut. During this period, Kang Lin and Han Wu were eating and drinking, and their relationship got closer! At least, when the two of them are messing around together, they don't have to deal with the courtesy of fifth brother and younger brother, because they have officially become sworn brothers under the witness of the Three Realms Demon-Conquering Emperor Shenwei Yuanzhen Tianzun Guan Shengdi! Liu Chongqi, who is thirty years old in a hundred households, is the eldest brother; Xiaoqi Han, who is twenty-five years old, is the second brother; Kang Lin is the youngest, only eighteen years old, so he naturally becomes the third child. Yes, you read that right. The man who came out with his own BGM is now mixed up with Kang Lin. The reason for his rapid decline is very simple. He needs money, a lot of money, to compete with his enemy Jiang Baihu for the flag. Military official positions in hundreds of households! Boss Kang, who had disposed of some of the seized items, happened to have sufficient free funds, so they colluded closely with the help of the middleman Han Wu: Kang Lin paid funds to support Liu Chongqi's bid for the official position of the Banner Army Seal Hundreds, while Liu Chongqi After successfully taking over, he acted as the protector and agent behind the Chiyang fleet! The three of them even planned over the wine table to jointly set up a small business to handle the import and export trade of various commodities between Chiyang Fleet and Donghai City!
And this does not actually violate the agreement between Kanglin and the Donghai Chamber of Commerce! After all, Qiao Si had previously only promised to escort the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce a few times a year for a fee on the basis that he provided the fleet with an initial foothold and guided the advance ships to East China Sea City. It did not involve the import and export trade of goods (well, actually It was Liu and Han who organized grain, metal ingots, ships, weapons, and various daily necessities on the shore to the Chiyang fleet headed by Kang Lin, and the Chiyang fleet sold them at low prices all kinds of looted goods. Commodities and gold and silver), and now he is partnering with others to do this business. I believe that Qiao Si and the Donghai Chamber of Commerce behind him will not be able to cause any trouble! Moreover, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce is so wealthy and powerful that they may not care about this pitiful throughput at all. They simply want to find a pirate force to serve as bodyguards and thugs for their merchant fleet. There is no need for them to be shy. , look for them to humiliate themselves! Of course, from a personal point of view, Kang Lin thinks Qiao Si is a good person. If he is willing to invest funds, channels, and information, the boss will not mind taking him to make a little fortune. After all, multiple people can have one or two more paths at critical moments, right?
"Third brother, how many men and ships do you have under your command now? I have already asked Ambassador Ku for you. If you only buy a small amount of military supplies, he will not have time to see you..." In the secret room, three sworn brothers were discussing matters. There were eight-color dishes and a pot of Jiannao Shaochun on the table. Seeing the two brothers getting drunk, Liu Chongqi, the eldest brother, put down his wine glass and asked Kang Lin, who was holding a duck leg in his hand, that he could eat it well.
"Uh..." Confronted with the sworn brother's inquiry, Kang Lin was obviously stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer his question. But this guy is a time traveler from the 21st century after all. He has extensive knowledge and a good brain. He just rolled his eyes and figured out what to say! It's definitely not possible to tell the whole truth, but people can tell that something is wrong when they hear it, so you can only use a mixture of truth and falsehood to fool your sworn brother, "Big Brother" , my younger brother is not talented, he only has three to four hundred brothers and seven or eight boats..."
"Three to four hundred men and horses, seven or eight ships, third brother, with your strength, how much military supplies can you buy? Don't just give in for a mere dozen blunderbuss, three or two bowl-mouth blunderbuss, and dozens of waist knives. My brother went to discuss with Ambassador Shen, and he lost our brother's face for nothing, and he still owed favor to others!" Liu Chongqi couldn't help but become nervous when he heard that Kang Lin only had a few hundred men and seven or eight ships under his command. He boasted to Haikou in front of his fellow commander Weng Yuli and Ku ambassador Shen Sanda, saying that he would definitely help them find a rich man to get rid of the remaining junk in the warehouse of the guard station. And now I heard that my third brother only has this little money in his hands, and I guess he doesn’t need too much junk, oh no, military resources to arm his fleet. His originally excited mood was like having a scoop of ice poured on his head. The water suddenly became dejected. However, unlike Liu Chongqi's worries, Kang Lin's second brother, Cao Shi Da Chong, and Han Wuye were full of praise for Kang Lin's power. From the perspective of this shortage, his third brother had three to four hundred men under his command. The Banner Army can now serve as Deputy Qianhu. He should be able to purchase enough arms and allow his eldest brother to earn enough intermediary fees to continue competing with the dude surnamed Jiang for the official position of Chief Baihu.
"Yes, although there are few people, they are all elite, and they will expand in the future. Therefore, brother, don't worry about our purchasing power..." Seeing the worry on his sworn brother's face, Kang Lin took out the jade from his waist. He filled a short cigarette rod with some shredded tobacco, then lit it with the candle on the table, and started to smoke beautifully. He didn't know that the cheap brother, fellow conductor Weng Yuli, and Ku ambassador Shen Sanda were in a quarrel, but out of comfort Liu Chongqi, considering stabilizing the relationship between the three of them, asked,
"Brother, are there any arms sales from Ambassador Shen? You know, with the current situation of our fleet, we don't need a mess of outdated firearms to make up the numbers. We need advanced and high-quality weapons!"
"Of course they are all good products! Third brother, Ambassador Shen said that as long as you can afford the money, you can choose from the fine weapons in the arsenal! Here, here is a partial list, take a look..." Seeing Kang Lin smoking dry cigarettes and accepting the purchase, Liu Chongqi's face returned to a smile. As long as there was money to be made, he, his commander Weng Yuli, and Ambassador Shen Sanda did not care who the leaked weapons were sold to! After all, they have done this kind of thing before. The boss behind the evil beggar, the capital commander Hu Lian is an expert. Otherwise, where do you think the firearms on the ship in the hands of the fierce shark pirates come from? The corrupt and bold officials of the Ming Dynasty guard station were not afraid that the leaked weapons would get into the hands of the pirates and they would turn around and attack them! Moreover, what Liu, Weng, and Shen sold to Kang Lin were not the sophisticated weapons made by Jizhen that they boasted, but scrap metal that had been used by the Banner Army for many years and was only eliminated this year. Some of them even had good quality. The bad artillery is an antique from the previous emperor's time in power. I don't know if it can still be successfully launched!
"Twelve large Folangjis, fifteen Tiger Crouching Cannons, five Second General Cannons, three Great General Cannons, twelve Bowl Mouth Cannons, five Ye Gong Shen Guns, Xuan Zi Guns, and three Ye Gong Cannons. The word "gun" means "gun..." Liu Chongqi stood up and flicked the candle on the table so that Kang Lin could see the list in his hand more clearly, but he didn't expect that his third brother would have such a big reaction after reading the list! This fat man who weighed more than 160 kilograms actually slapped the table and swayed all the fat on his body. He just wanted to buy some lead bullets and use the cannonballs to enrich his weapons. But he didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty officials, who were obsessed with profit, would I will give myself an artillery gift package! And if these artillery can be used, then my strength will be improved to a higher level. In the future, even if I encounter the vicious shark pirates and the Mamat natives, I will be able to fight them to the end without any fear!
"Yes, the Fo Lang machine, the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and the Ye Gong Divine Cannon are all new firearms. Third brother, your fleet will definitely be able to use these important weapons of the country!" Seeing Kang Lin's ecstatic expression, Liu Chongqi Knowing that he had taken the bait, he changed his mind and began to introduce the detailed parameters of various artillery to him.
