The most powerful patriarch in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 141 Frank Booker
Chapter 139

The Hokkien Express was popular, and Lu Changle made a decisive decision to start printing the second issue.

Daily News is a bit difficult, mainly due to inconvenient transportation and immature distribution channels.

If the Xunbao feels that the interval is too long, it will be about four to five days to issue one issue.

I wrote all the manuscripts by myself, which was too tiring. After discussing with Yang Zhengbao, Lu Changle decided to solicit manuscripts from outside, and encouraged scholars to submit manuscripts to Minnan Express.

Moxiang Study often holds such activities and has rich experience. Let them do it better than Lu Changle.

Of course, the novel serialization has to be written by itself. It is said that there are many people looking forward to this serialization, and even Yang Xuan is making trouble every day to let Lu Changle write it quickly.

Things in Changle County are on the right track, Lu Changle took out his hand, mainly to do two things,
One is to strengthen the development of Tingping Mansion, especially the development of Youxi Iron Mine,
Lu Changle visited the mine, and it has large reserves, and mining began in the open pit. Lu Changle sent Xu Yiming's most promising disciple, Xiao Pangdun, to the mine. Down the river, transported to Changle for further processing.

The second thing is to expand the territory.

With soldiers in hand, Lu Changle straightened his waist and patrolled Fuzhou Prefecture in the name of chasing down Hua Dilong.
Zheng Xingtai, the magistrate of Fuzhou, was very dissatisfied at the beginning, saying that Lu Changle's hand was stretched too far,

Secretly ordered Zhao Ge, the county magistrate of Min County, to stop him. Lu Changle didn't talk nonsense to him, and directly blasted Zhao Ge away, and asked Lu Changwei to lead people into the Min County Yamen, and tied up Zhao Ge's son Zhao Jizhe. The crime was identified by a thief Zhao Jizhe is an accomplice who secretly provided information to Huntian Demon King.

Once this move was made, no one dared to stop it anymore, and Lu Changle's rural protection team could be transferred in Fuzhou mansion at will.

Everyone knows that Lu Changle beheaded more than 4000 people in the battle of Changle City and captured more than [-] people.
With so many captives in hand, it was too easy to find a few soft bones. Lu Changle let them bite whoever they wanted, and they dared to fight against him.

You know, the rural protection team controlled by Lu Changle has more than [-] people, not to mention a magistrate, even the commander of the guard has to speak politely when he sees Lu Changle.

Fuzhou Mansion and Yanping Mansion are actually under the control of Lu Changle.

"President Lu, please raise your hand, yes"

"I have the size of the arm, now start to measure the shoulder width"

In an exquisite mansion in Changle County, a tailor carefully measured Lu Changle's size.
Seeing that the wedding day is approaching day by day, I need to make some new clothes.

After measuring the size, Tailor Li with a gray beard asked flatteringly: "Mr. Lu, may I ask, do you usually see many customers? What kind of customers do you see?"

Lu Changle glanced at him, and asked with some doubts: "Does making clothes have anything to do with me meeting customers?"

This old tailor is not a spy who knows the enemy.

Lu Changle took a glance, startled Tailor Li, and quickly explained: "It does have something to do with going back to Mr. Lu. If you often see the superior, you need to bow your head and bend over. The front coat is shorter and the back coat is longer. See It will not look abrupt; if you often see your subordinates, you need to hold your head high, and the front coat should be longer and the back coat should be shorter, so that you will appear more energetic."

"No, just be a normal person." Lu Changle quickly gave the answer.

I'm not used to being humble, and I don't like to bully others, it's fine to be normal.

I didn't expect to have so much knowledge in making clothes.

Just now, I was a little distracted. I was not moved by Li Tailor's professionalism, but I remembered a classic scene in later generations. A successful man went to a famous brand suit shop to order a suit. , or used to put it on the right, the man said he couldn’t remember, so he asked the beautiful salesperson to read it for him,
As a result, the two happily rolled up the sheets.

After finally sending Tailor Li away, Lu Changle sat down to take a rest,
Just as he picked up the teacup, before putting it to his lips, Lu Changsheng rushed over excitedly and said loudly, "Patriarch, patriarch, someone is visiting."

The sound was like a broken trumpet, so loud and loud that Lu Changle almost spilled his tea in fright.

"When someone visits, someone visits. As for being so excited?" Lu Changle said angrily.

With great power, more and more people came to give gifts and seek friendship, and Lu Changle was a little too lazy to deal with it.

Strange, how come the person who sent the letter was Lu Changsheng, what about the others?
Isn't he training?
Lu Changsheng didn't refute when he was reprimanded, he took out a gift list with a smile and said, "Patriarch, please read the gift list first."

Lu Changle saw the red gift list, then looked at Lu Changsheng's excited face, suppressed the thought of teaching him a lesson,
Open the gift list casually and look, it's very ordinary,

A set of the Four Treasures of the Study, ten boxes of dried fruit, ten boxes of snacks, twenty packs of frosting sugar,
Looking down again, Lu Changle's eyes straightened:
A set of flower armor, three Flang cannons, and three hundred shells.

Some people send themselves artillery, and shells?

Look at the signature on the back, Frank Booker.

No wonder Lu Changsheng was so excited. It turned out that someone sent artillery and shells.

Lu Changsheng likes firearms very much. He heard that after Lu Changle had a trial shot, he always wanted to learn how to shoot it.
Now that there are three more doors at once, Lu Changsheng's chances of firing the cannon are greatly increased, no wonder he is so excited.

"How did you come here? Where is the person?" Lu Changle asked, shaking the gift slip in his hand.

You don't even need to ask, just looking at the name, you can tell that he is from the Tom family. I didn't expect him to fall so fast.

"Patriarch, when I led people on patrol, I saw two big ships approaching. Good guy, those are big ships. They are bigger than the wheeled ship that escorted Cheng's Trading Company last time. They didn't come close, and they stopped at a distance of more than three miles away. From far away, someone came by boat and brought a greeting gift to the patriarch."

While nodding, Lu Changle stood up and said, "It's wrong to be wronged. The guests have arrived. I'll go and pick them up."

Soon, Lu Changle welcomed Frank Booker in and invited him to sit down and drink tea.

"I didn't expect Mr. Booker to come. I'm sorry to welcome you."

"Dear Lu, please forgive me for coming uninvited, because you saved my lovely nephew, I must personally express our gratitude to the Frank family, oh, yes, and the one hundred thousand gold coins that Tom owes you, I I brought it too, it's just outside the mansion, please ask President Lu to check it out."

Lu Changle moved and said: "I am deeply moved by the generosity and integrity of the Frank family, as you said, Mr. Booker."

After speaking, Lu Changle asked Lu Changsheng to count the gold coins.

Favors belong to favors, and it is better to have a clearer number.

All of a sudden, another [-] gold coins were added, and Lu Changle was in a good mood.

Lu Changle asked about Tom's situation with concern, and Frank Booker also answered them one by one.

Frank Booker saw that the timing was almost the same, and said directly: "President Lu, I saw the mirror and spices that Tom brought back, and I was fascinated by everything. From the perspective of a businessman, I hope we can reach a long-term cooperation agreement." Agreement, so as to achieve the goal of win-win situation.”

Frank Booker has been thinking about the magical mirror and spices in his heart, and he can't wait to come up with his own ideas.

Lu Changle had already guessed his purpose, nodded upon hearing the words and said: "I appreciate your straightforwardness, Mr. Booker, as long as there is a good price, I think it will be difficult for me to refuse a generous businessman."

The mirror and spices are given to Tom on credit in order to catch the big guy behind him.

It came faster than Lu Changle expected.

Frank Booker said greedily: "Dear Lu, for Tom's sake, I am happy to cooperate with you, and I am willing to pay the same price as Tom for the transaction. For sake, sell all the spices and mirrors to the Far East Trading Company, is that okay?"

If this kind of mirror spreads out, people will snap it up like crazy.

Only you sell it by yourself, and the pricing power is in your own hands.

If there is a second person and a third person to participate in the competition, the profit will be greatly reduced,

The reason why Frank Booker went out in person was to monopolize the business of mirrors and spices.

Lu Changle shook his head and said: "Mr. Booker, let's talk about the exclusive right to buy and sell overseas, and buy and sell in Daming. I have already cooperated with a firm with a very good reputation."

"I just want to go overseas, my dear Lu, as long as you want, we can sign the contract immediately." Frank Booker said overjoyed.

Things went smoother than I imagined, and the corners of Frank Booker's mouth couldn't help but rise.

Lu Changle waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Booker, if you want to get the exclusive right to operate, you have to pay a little price. After I finish speaking, we will decide whether we will sign a contract."

(End of this chapter)