In order to gather the funds for the purchase of ordnance this time, Lin Ziran almost turned his wallet upside down.

He raised about 200,000 yuan in cash from the Qingshan Petroleum Company, and embezzled all their taxes from Qingshan Town, Sanyang Town, and other five towns to raise more than 50,000 yuan.

This alone is not enough, there is still a gap of more than 60,000.

In the end, an agreement was reached with Zhou Li's side, and the remaining more than 60,000 yuan was paid directly with kerosene, and with the current production capacity of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, if you work overtime to produce, you will be able to raise these kerosene in six days at most.

Zhou Li also has no opinion on this, it is nothing more than waiting for five or six more days, anyway, after his fleet goes north, it will take time to unload the cargo, and it will take time to rest, so waiting for five or six days is nothing.

After such a toss, it can be regarded as raising this amount of money.

Standing on the dock, Zhou Li, who was full of red light, introduced Lin Ziran: "Because of your request, Lord Lin, this time we have transported the goods that were originally planned for three months to be transported at one time. ”

"Whether it's quantity or quality, I believe it's enough to satisfy you, Lord Lin!"

Lin Ziran nodded slightly, while Luo Mazi on the side muttered: "If it weren't for our promise to increase the price, how could you transport it now." ”

Zhou Li heard Luo Mazi's muttering, and he didn't have any embarrassed look, but explained: "This is also no way, now the situation is chaotic, there is a shortage of weapons everywhere, it is not easy to get so many weapons in a short time." ”

Regarding Zhou Li's statement, Lin Ziran also understood.

This was originally a troubled time, the war between Luo'an County and Guang'an County has been fought for three years, and now there is a civil strife in Luo'an County, not only in Luo'an County, but even in Guang'an County and even in Luohai County.

Armaments are the gunner's, and in this case there is no price increase, but no arms dealer will sell it to you.

But it's still the same sentence, whether it's money or something, he Lin Ziran doesn't care much, what he cares about is expanding the army and raising the army.

There are enough troops, and you are afraid that there will be no money?

Joke!

At this time, Zhou Li continued: "This time, we have shipped ten nine-pound new field guns, and twelve five-pound new-type field guns!" ”

"There are 5,000 Fuyuan muskets, including 4,500 infantry models and 500 short-barreled cavalry models!" 15 2 1 11 4

"There is also enough ammunition, 200,000 copies of fire cap propellant lead bullets, 3,000 copies of new grenades and grenades for field artillery, and 1,000 grenades and grenades of heavy artillery have been transported according to your orders, Lord Lin!"

"Five hundred six-round revolvers, five hundred cavalry sabers, one thousand five hundred sergeant artillery sabers, eight hundred sergeant sabers, and five thousand individual shovels."

"A batch of woolen woolen and various fabrics used to make military uniforms and quilts, as well as 7,000 sets of individual military equipment such as military kettles and lunch boxes, 1,000 small tents, 300 medium-sized tents, 50 large tents, and a batch of customized flags, military music equipment, banknotes and ink consumables, canned glass meat, and canned fruits."

Zhou Li continued to talk about the materials he transported, and this long list made Luo Mazi and the others behind him feel painful.

It's all money!

Nowadays, except for basic food and solid ball shells, they need to buy everything else, and they can't even make their own military uniforms, because there is not a single textile factory in Lianguan County.

However, the cost of purchasing ready-to-wear directly is too high, so Lin Ziran and his family now purchase various fabrics instead, and then distribute them directly to the people in the five northern towns of Lianguan to sew.

On the one hand, this is to reduce costs, and on the other hand, it is actually to give these people under their rule a chance to earn extra money.

Although the sewing processing fee given by the military is small, it is better than nothing.

The sum of so many materials is 310,000.

Except for some of the money paid off by kerosene, a lot of it was cash, including gold coins and cashier's checks from the Nanzhou Bank.

When it was time to make the payment, Ding Quankun and the others looked at several boxes of gold coins that were carried onto the ship by Zhou Li's men, and their expressions were as ugly as they were.

Those are all gold coins, hundreds of thousands of cash gold coins, hundreds of kilograms.

After the gold coins were moved, Zhou Li stepped forward to find Ding Quankun to ask for the remaining promissory note from the Nanzhou Bank.

Although Ding Quankun handed over the cashier's check, he clenched it tightly and didn't let go, Zhou Li didn't take it when he took it, and secretly pulled it a little harder, but he still didn't pull it over.

In the end, he said helplessly: "Manager Ding, if you do this again, it will be torn apart, and our Nanzhou Bank does not recognize the bank cashier's check that is too badly damaged!" ”

At this time, Lin Ziran also looked at Ding Quankun and glared at him.

This little family's angry appearance makes people hate it, isn't it just more than 300,000, and I will take you to grab a few more territories when I go back.

Besides, when the strength is awesome, it's not impossible to turn around and rob Nanzhou Bank directly.

In the end, Ding Quankun still let go and gave Zhou Li the cashier's check of Nanzhou Bank worth more than 100,000 yuan.

After giving the money, Ding Quankun's whole person was like losing his soul.

However, no one paid attention to him anymore, and Lin Ziran's attention was already on the ordnance that had just been put on the dock.

Lin Ziran looked at the materials piled up on the dock, and was in a good mood, and immediately said loudly: "Move the things back, and the food and salary department will make another plan to make up for the ammunition and materials that the troops lack!" ”

Then he called Gao Gao over: "Lao Gao, when you go back, you can transfer some more bone ** soldiers from the artillery battalion, plus some artillery transferred from the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, you can barely make up for these twenty-two artillery groups." ”

Among this batch of materials, the most important materials are these 22 artillery pieces and shells.

In Daheng war, small-scale battles are easy to say, but in large-scale battles, although guns and other things are also important, artillery is more important, and there is no way to fight without artillery.

Lin Ziran had already felt this deeply during the Nanguang Campaign.

Without the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment and the ten nine-pound new field guns, the Battle of Nanguangcheng would not have been fought so easily, even if their own infantry units had Mini rifles, it was estimated that it would be difficult to hold on.

Therefore, the most important thing now is to train these 22 new artillery pieces and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

HD nodded in response.

Then Lin Ziran instructed others to transport the Fuyuan musket back to Qingshan Town as soon as possible, and let the Qingshan Machinery Factory in charge of Boss Wang carry out modification and processing, and convert these smoothbore guns into rifled muskets as soon as possible.

What's more, he's still recruiting new recruits, and their muskets haven't been landed yet.

After all the orders were completed, Lin Ziran looked at the ordnance that began to be carried back, revealing a look of expectation.

Now that the guns are available and new recruits are being recruited, an army of 10,000 people can be expected!

When he pulls out an army of 10,000 people, it doesn't matter what his combat effectiveness is, but in Luo'an County, who dares to underestimate him?

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