Since Liu Bu made the decision, Liu Yuanshan had nothing to hesitate. He said, "Okay, I will go to the capital to do this for you tomorrow."

Shandong has an advantage, that is, it is very close to the capital, and the Grand Canal is connected. If they only need to quickly horses, they can reach the capital in three or four days.

Liu Bu said, "I hope to go with you this time with my uncle, and my nephew also wants to see the appearance of the capital."

Liu Yuanshan thought for a while and said, "It's okay, it's time for you to go to the capital to see it. If this matter becomes easy, you can go to the Ministry of War to handle the procedures together."

Liu Bu nodded. He knew that if General Qian and General Manager took over, they would go to the Fangshi Department of the Ministry of War in the capital to register and handle the procedures.

The last time he served as the Thousand Houses of Fushan Institute, he should have reported to the Ministry of War, but Liu Yuanshan stuffed money and avoided this journey.

This time, Liu Bu was going to go to the capital. He also said something, and he also wanted to see what Beijing was like at this time.

Now it happened that they had wiped out the Giant Peak Thief and everything here became calm.

Moreover, he knew that Liu Zeqing was going to attack them, but if the other party attacked, it was not just a matter of just starting to do it. They had to make the matter in Jimo County bigger and hot, and then they could take the opportunity to enter Laizhou Prefecture.

Otherwise, if they would send troops directly in like this, it would probably lead to a dispute between the two governors.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Bu was going to go to the capital to see it, and he didn't go to the capital to play. This time he brought Mao Qiao and he went there.

Mao Qiao worked in the Military Weapon Bureau of the Ministry of Works of the Capital. He knew many craftsmen here. According to him, these craftsmen were treated very low. If the Qianhu was willing to accommodate these people, he could lobby at least twenty or thirty craftsmen with great skills to come to him for help.

Among these craftsmen, some are good at making bird guns, some are good at making armor, and some are good at making weapons, but they are bullied from above in the capital and cannot even have enough food. If Liu Bu is willing to take them in, they can let their whole family come here.

This completely aroused Liu Bu's interest. Liu Bu knew that the manufacturing technology of the Ming Dynasty was actually very high, and there were many craftsmen with superb skills in the folk and the official government, but they were exploited by these officials and were not like human beings, so they could not do anything.

If it is the weapon fired from the workshop of the Ministry of Works and Military Weapons Bureau, its quality is quite high. It can be seen that these people's craftsmanship is quite good. Even the red-clothed cannons in the Ming Dynasty cannons, which shows that their craftsmen are extremely powerful.

However, the Ming Dynasty's level was divided into four levels: scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Of course, the officials were the first level, followed by farmers, craftsmen, and finally merchants.

In fact, after Emperor Chengzu, all the merchants had already jumped to the second place and steadily pressed the peasants and workers. Therefore, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were actually at the bottom without hesitation. The most lowly class in the entire social system, their craftsmanship was called strange skills and was not valued.

Others do not value craftsmen, but Liu Bu attaches great importance to it. For example, this time he attaches importance to Mao Qiao, and he has obtained a weapon that is about to be lost. Moreover, they also use the weapon of the Divine Arm, a killing weapon, to kill the bandits in Jufeng Mountain crying and crying for their parents, and they are defeated. This is a killing weapon, which is enough to increase the force of their army to a higher level.

Liu Bu knew one thing, that is, if you want to do something well, you must first sharpen your weapons, so he now wants to get more craftsmen to join their logistics department, and then set up a special department to build weapons for them and make weapons.

Don’t look at their Fushan Site. Now it looks majestic and even the Giant Peak Thiefs were killed. However, all their weapons were basically bribed and bought. They could only barely create some spears, bows, arrows, long swords and farm tools. They would not be able to create a little more complicated stuff.

For example, they cannot make armor themselves, and there are even a little more complicated things that cannot be made, so their military weapon workshops are urgently needed.

In the future, you will go to a hostile country and bribe the other scientists. How difficult it is to lose your life in minutes.

But it is very easy to hear Mao Qiao's tone here, saying that no one cares about their craftsmen, and as long as the goods are delivered on time, no one will pay attention to you. They stay in the capital, just because they have no other place to go. If there is another place that is willing to accept them and give them a place to stay, they will probably go immediately.

As for what Liu Bu had imagined, these craftsmen should be monitored by Jinyiwei.

But Mao Qiao told him directly: "In the past 250 years of the Ming Dynasty, I have never heard of the Jinyiwei who monitored craftsmen. How much a stinky craftsman is worth is worth sending Jinyiwei to monitor. Even the craftsmen and technicians they invited from Portugal were free to go in and out, and no one paid attention to it."

This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. They looked down on and looked down on craftsmen. Liu Bu thought that this was a chance given to him by God, so this time he not only brought 10,000 taels of silver, but brought a lot of silver into the capital, preparing to buy a large number of craftsmen at that time. If he could get craftsmen who made muskets and cannons, he would become more developed. Even if he used a knife to snatch the other party and tied them to Fushan.

So this time Liu Bu entered the capital, which was made through a special plan. Not only did he come by himself, but he also brought more than fifty guards and servants.

These personal soldiers were led by Liu Kang and Liu Yu. The leader of the archer Mao Shengli also followed them into the capital to protect Liu Bu in close proximity, and they would also protect the craftsmen they received at that time.

Mao Qiao told him that if they operated well this time, they would probably be able to bring twenty or thirty excellent craftsmen to join their military weapon workshop production team, which greatly strengthened their strength. Such actions deserve Liu Bu's attention.

Moreover, they did not go to the capital empty-handed. Liu Yuanshan often traveled between Shandong and the capital. He often transported goods to the capital to sell goods. Yes, you heard that right, his commander Tongzhi, did not stay in his Aoshan City, acted as his official, and defended his people, but often transported goods to the capital.

He, the commander of Tongzhi, spent much longer in business than he stayed in the commander of Tongzhi.

So this time was no exception. Liu Yuanshan pulled N ships' cargo and drove directly to Dezhou through the canal. This meant that it was originally a journey of three or four days, but it took seven or eight days.

Liu Yuanshan said, "We can go to Beijing for a long journey, and we can't go there once in vain. The most advantageous thing for doing business is to have a round trip and carry it back and forth, so that we won't lose money."

Liu Bu was speechless. A senior officer actually did this kind of thing all day long. If he had put forward so much thought and thoughts in doing business when he was an official, the official would definitely have done better.

However, he himself knew that time was not very fast, so he had to follow him. If there was no one to guide Liu Yuanshan, it would be inconvenient for them to go out alone.

The Ming Dynasty had a policy like later generations, that is, local people are not allowed to leave the local area within a hundred miles. If you want to leave the local area, there must be a road guide issued by the government. If there is no road guide, you will not be able to pass the level along the way.

Liu Bu himself had the right to open a way out, but the problem was that he didn't want others to know his identity, and he had to be low-key, so he became one of Liu Yuanshan's servants and entered the capital with low-key.

They called twenty large ships, pulled the cargo, and then headed to the capital in a mighty manner.

Liu Bu saw so many large ships carrying cargo and was surprised and said, "Are these ships rented? Is the rent expensive?"

Liu Yuanshan felt a little strange. He said, "What are you renting? You haven't seen these ships all hang on the Liu family's banner. These are all ships of our Liu family. Our Liu family owns one of the four commercial fleets of the canal..."

Liu Bu didn't dare to speak, he knew one truth, that is, the truth of many mistakes. If he asked so many common sense mistakes, others would see the flaws. He would never dare to ask these questions randomly anymore. He just felt strange and let it rot in his stomach. Now he just understood one thing, that is, the Liu family in the Linqing Qing Dynasty was rich and well-deserved.

Their fleet, with the Liu family's font, sailed towards the north in a mighty way. They felt comfortable riding on the boat, and they didn't ride on horseback like they did when they returned to Linqing last time, almost making them fall apart.

Liu Bu is essentially a spoiled person. If he walks like an ordinary person, he will definitely not do it. He will probably take his life.

The Liu family fleet sailed northward, and both sides of the canal were the most important parts of the Ming Dynasty, which produced the famous canal culture in history.

There are many checkpoints along the canal, but under the banner of their Liu family, it was unobstructed and entered Tongzhou directly. After all the grain and water routes from the south were transported to Tongzhou, they were reloaded on the carriage, and entered the inner city by land through Chaoyang Gate. There was a grain ear carriage engraved on the door.

Liu Yuanshan introduced: "The capital is the Forbidden City. The outer city has twenty city gates, seven outer city, nine Forbidden City, and four imperial city. All cars and horses entering the inner city have strict regulations. Not any city gate can be entered. Xizhimen takes the water truck. Every day, water is pulled from Yuquan Mountain to enter the palace. The door hole is carved with water ripples. Chaoyangmen takes the grain truck, and the door hole is carved with a grain ear; Fuchengmen takes the coal truck, and the coal from the west of Beijing enters the inner city through this gate.
Chapter completed!