As a result, at this juncture, Fan Liang received a recommendation from his younger brother Fan Bao, saying that there was a person named Peng Yulong, who was very good at fighting, and I heard that he was also very good at water warfare, so Fan Bao recommended this person to his eldest brother.

So why would Fan Bao recommend this person, and Fan Li can still use it, here I have to talk about Peng Yulong's strength.

This Peng Yulong is a scholar, he has been gifted and intelligent since he was a child, to what extent is he smart? Even when his teacher saw him, he was surprised: I'll it! How can there be such a smart child, this child is too powerful! I taught him to read.

As a result, when the book was almost read, the place was not peaceful, and there were bandits and all kinds of uprisings! Peng Yulong signed up for the army, saying that I would do my best in my hometown and I would defend my hometown. Then he did a very good job and was promoted by the leader.

But promotion is promotion, Peng Yulong didn't do it! Why not? Because the leader who promoted him thinks that Peng Yulong is a military general, you fight so well, then you must be a military general, I will promote you to be a military attaché. But in his heart, Peng Yulong has always thought that he is a literati, and he regards himself as a Confucian scholar, and practicing martial arts is just my part-time job, just my hobby. You treat me as a general, you look down on me, then I won't do it with you, so he didn't go!

Because from ancient times to the present, literati have disdained and looked down on military generals! In the eyes of the literati, those generals were just martial artists, who could only use their swords to show off their strength, and in addition to fighting and killing, they had no role in saving the country and benefiting the people.

Therefore, even if a civil official and a military attache are of the same rank in terms of official position, in the bottom of my heart, the military attache is a cut below the civil official of the same level, and he is always a head shorter. So Peng Yulong said why did you promote me to be a military attaché, you are looking down on me, he feels like this.

You can see Peng Yulong's feelings here, and secondly, at this time, the hometown is still relatively peaceful again, and the banditry has been calmed down, so I don't have to dance with a knife and get a gun, and I will go back to study.

So Peng Yulong went back to his hometown to find a job and worked as a bookkeeper in a pawnshop. You see, I'm good at fighting, but I'm not bad at being a bookkeeper, because Mr. Bookkeeper, he requires you to be very shrewd and sensitive to numbers.

But Peng Yulong, the bookkeeper, didn't work for long, and the previous banditry was peaceful, but there was another wave of banditry. This incident made Peng Yulong angry, saying that why do you always come to destroy my hometown?

So he donated his money, recruited a group of people, and raised a team in his hometown to defend his hometown, so Peng Yulong is so famous. And the place where he is not far from the place where Fan Liang is training, so Fan Bao will know such a person, and he will recommend Peng Yulong to his eldest brother.

Fan Liang had also heard of this person, and saw his brother's recommendation, so he met Peng Yulong. Do you remember saying before that Fan Li can read faces? He often boasted that he could look at people, so when he saw that Peng Yulong was really born with a heroic body, after chatting, he felt that Peng Yulong could, not bad! I was appointed.

After Peng Yulong took office, he was not blind in vain, he also had a study of the water master, and it is said that he still had a book of "Gongjin Water Master Tactics" in his hand, so he did a good job and did not disappoint Fan Li.

By this time, all the things in Fan Li were basically ready, the people were almost the same, the generals were there, and the ship had been being built and almost built, and it had only been prepared for a year.

So think about it, Fan Li has been recruiting and training, raising money for shipbuilding, and making various preparations in this year, so how much has he had to do! It's just going to work non-stop, but I finally have results, and I've done well in all aspects.

But Fan Li can't set off at this time, even if the emperor urges me, it's useless, because the cannon he ordered hasn't arrived yet, and the courier hasn't come yet. Without a cannon, my gunboat is.

And then there's another important reason, and that's money! Before the soldiers and horses move the grain and grass, what kind of battle do you fight without money? But the emperor doesn't care, anyway, I give you the power you want, you have to figure out how to do the money, whether you can do it or not, if you can't do it, you have to do it hard, anyway, the emperor only looks at the results.

But the problem is that Fan Li has no money, if you send troops to fight without food and grass ready, then you will die. Not to mention whether you can raise people's salaries, if you don't give the soldiers food and drink, and you can't solve the basic problem of food and clothing, it is impossible for the soldiers to starve and fight for you.

So it's still the same sentence: what if you want the horse to run, but don't give the horse grazing, play? What kind of horse, even an electronic horse, you have to charge him. So at this time, in addition to waiting for the express, Fan Li also had to try to raise money.

How to raise the money? There's no silver for you at this time, so what should I do? You have to be like Gao Ji at the beginning, and find a way to squeeze some money out of the local rich family. But Fan Li's fundraising this time is much more difficult than Gao Ji's fundraising. Gao Ji was because the soldiers came to the city, so I brought these rich people: do you want to take the money? If you don't take the money, okay, when the rebels come in, they will rob you of everything, and you will have nothing. If you take the money, even if I borrow it, if this battle is won, everyone will benefit, and after the money comes down, I will pay you back, and you will have a good reputation!

But when it comes to Fan Li, the soldiers didn't overwhelm the city! The rich man has no sense of crisis, he still lives his luxurious life, I can borrow it or not! You don't have a word when you go to someone's house. I don't borrow, I keep the money and spend it; If I borrow it, you go out to war, and if you burp, I'll ask someone for money. So these rich people are not happy to borrow.

Fan Li searched and found the richest man in Huizhou. This richest man also has a lot of background, he replied to Fan Li: Either you can't borrow money, or I have a request! The requirement is that you have to get my grandfather to the Xiangxian Temple.

What's going on? Let's just say that this richest man, his grandfather once served as the governor of Beizhou, that is to say, this richest man is a descendant of officials, it is not difficult to infer from this relationship that when his grandfather was the governor of Beizhou, he must have gotten money from his family, so he could become the top rich man in Huizhou. It is precisely because his grandfather was corrupt and bribed, had a bad reputation, and everyone stinked of him in the officialdom, so after his grandfather's death, the emperor's attitude towards him was also very resolute, that is, he was not allowed to enter the Xiangxian Temple.

The so-called Xiangxian Ancestral Hall, you can basically understand seven or eight points when you look at the literally, that is, there is this ancestral hall, which is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and good people who have gone out from us, commemorating their exploits, and what good things they have done. And although the grandfather of the richest man is a provincial governor, he is a corrupt criminal, so he can't enter the Xiangxian Temple, if you enter, it is equivalent to saying that the court allows and approves of this kind of corruption and bribery, which is definitely not good.