Zhang Bin's words made Zhang Jun fall into thought, in fact, he had already had the idea of opening a shop in Jinling, but, unfortunately, it was not a coincidence, he could not open it.

Now, Zhang Bin mentioned the opening of the store, he couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, fifth brother, I also wanted to open a shop in Jinling, but my father did not agree."

Zhang Bin couldn’t help but wonder: “I don’t agree, why?”

Zhang Jun hesitated, even if he said frankly: "Well, my father did not let us talk about business in front of you, since you asked, I told you it would be okay, you don't know it yet, my father is ready to withdraw from Dongsheng Hall."

Zhang Bin did not listen to his family mentioned the matter of the East Shengtang in front of him, nor did he ask, in his he wanted to come to the East Shengtang, that is, the use of the big gold ship to secretly transport something to go to sea, take risks, earn some money, it is no big deal.

This is smuggling, he as a court official, do not know on the line, if you ask, everyone is embarrassed.

However, it is different now, he intends to raise private soldiers, and it is far from the big gold of the thousand people, it will take a lot of silver, he also thought to slowly develop the East Hall, quit, then how?Where's the money for private soldiers!

He asked, “Why did my father leave?”

Zhang Jun looked at him awkwardly, and then explained: "Because you are an official, there is a British public support, your official will certainly become bigger and bigger, when the time to collect some students, we will take all the money in hand to buy land, a year to close the rent also a lot of money, can feed our family, so that we Zhang family will become an official eunuch family."

Zhang Bin said, indeed, cooperate with pirates, engage in smuggling, that is prohibited, let people know, the old Zhang family is finished, buy land and rent can be different, and now Da Ming officials do not make money so much, this is called to conform to the trend.

Now Daming if it is a peaceful world, this is indeed the best choice, lying at home to collect money, there is no risk at all, but also to train future generations to go to the science, and slowly develop the family.

But the problem is that the world is about to be in chaos, at this time to go to the squire tyrant, that is purely to find death, the peasant army to clean up is the squire tyrant!

Thinking of this, he shook his head firmly: "No, you can't quit Dongsheng Hall."

The army asked, “Why?”

Zhang Bin couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, fourth brother, I didn't tell you that the chaos is coming, and we want to train our troops to protect ourselves."

Zhang Jun was even more puzzled: "What does this have to do with the exit from the East Shengtang, we can practice hard ah, anyway, we only need to get out of the military pay on the line."

Zhang Bin immediately shook his head: "A thousand people are not enough, at least tens of thousands of people."

Zhang Jun was surprised: “Hundreds of thousands!”

Say it again, he fell into thought, seemingly in his heart to calculate how much 10,000 horses consume.

Zhang Bin said so long is also a little thirsty, he can not help but take up the cup, while drinking tea, while the mind to calculate, tens of thousands of horses consume how much, if the whole exercise and Qijiajun, enough to protect themselves?

The brothers were both meditating, and the hall was instantly quiet, only to drink tea.

Soon, Zhang Jun said: "Ten thousand horses, one or two pieces of grain and two pieces of food every month, a year is 240,000 stones of grain, 122,000 silver."If the land purchased is rented to the tenant farmer, an acre of land can probably be rented a stone, so that it is about 400,000 acres of land to raise 10,000 horses, according to the calculation of 25 acres of land, that is, ten million two!Five, five thousand is enough?The big gold originally had more than 100,000 acres of land, in recent years my father also bought some, and now there are almost two hundred thousand acres, we can make up about a million or two, and buy 40,000 acres of land, raising 5,000 horses should be no problem.

"ShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHow big is this business in the East!

He asked incredulously, “Brother, how much money can Dongsheng Hall make in a year?”

Zhang Jun estimated: "In previous years, a year is the same as two hundred and thirty thousand two, but this year is not the same, because the power of the uncle Zheng at sea is getting bigger and bigger, our East Shengtang business is also getting bigger and bigger, last year our East Shengtang's gross profit was almost half a million, this year, look at this momentum, a million two should be there."

A million a year!

Zhang Bin drummed his eyes, like looking at the monster, looked at Zhang Jun, and then asked: "How many percent of our family is accounted for?"

Zhang Jun said, as many of them: "We Zhang, Huangjia and Zheng's family are all 30%, and the other 10% is divided among uncles."

Zhang Bin was really startled by the scale of Dongsheng Hall, he originally thought that Dongsheng Hall is a small shop for smuggling, half a day is a year can earn millions of dollars of big business, quit, what a joke!

No wonder there is no record of the Zhang Chengde family in history, it turns out that they withdrew halfway.

However, Zheng Cai left their names, it seems that they should choose to rely on Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Bin can not help but test: "What does the Huang family and a few uncles mean?"

Zhang Jun sighed: "The Huang family wants to withdraw with us, after all, this uncle Zheng has an iron heart to be a pirate, with his relationship, then there will be no good fruit to eat."Just a few uncles are a little hesitant, like the uncle of the second uncle, they want to follow so Uncle Zheng to make a lot of money.

Sure enough, the Huang family also withdrew, Zheng Cai they became Zheng Zhilong's eighteen zhi.

At this time, you can definitely not withdraw, not only can not quit, but also firmly control the East Shengtang in the hands, and even the forces of Zheng Zhilong must find a way to fully control.

You know, to the Chongchen Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong is a cow, there are nearly seven hundred battleships under his hand, more than 100,000 pirates, the entire southeast coast and the South Ocean are controlled by him, it is rumored that he was extremely prosperous, the income of a year is tens of millions, it is simply a master who has money than Daming!

However, Zheng Zhilong finally played a good hand.

At first, he accepted Xiong Wencan's recruitment and used the name of the court to clean up the pirates, so as to dominate the entire southeast coast and the South China Sea area, which can be said to be quite shrewd.

However, I don't know what happened, behind him even ran to surrender to the Qing court, the result, in addition to Zheng success, a family of old and small was cut!

This guy, it is really inexplicable, let him dominate the entire southeast coast and the South China Sea area, is simply a waste of resources, Zhang Bin decided, or come by himself.

He firmly said: "At this time, absolutely can not withdraw from the East Shengtang, it seems that sending Zhang sent them back can't do, I have to talk to Uncle Xiao Liu, let him go back to persuade his father."