Zhang Bonan felt very happy, because he could finally compete with Yang Yinglong in terms of equipment! Although the people in Banzhou are fierce and the morale of the soldiers is high, they are suffering from limited equipment, especially compared with the wolves brought by Li Hualong, the gap is not half a point! Yang Yinglong's family soldiers have had firearms for a long time, and they are like gods of war here, which are not comparable to ordinary bows and arrows at all, and his subordinates have often fought with the Yuan army before, and their experience is not ordinarily rich! He was very worried about whether his soldiers would be able to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

But a new problem has arisen: there is really no place to practice the cannon! This is a big deal, this cannon cost so much money to get, if it can't be used because there is no place, wouldn't it be a big loss? He hurriedly found Li Hualong to discuss, but Li Hualong was also at a loss, after all, he was a civilian official, and he only knew a little bit about how to train the army, so in desperation, he had to let the wolves go to Beijing to ask the emperor quickly.

Wanli couldn't cry or laugh after getting the news, so he had to give Zhu Yidao a secret decree again, asking him to think of a way. Lao Zhu's reply was very simple: Isn't there a military camp named Ma Chiwei on the Sichuan-Guizhou border, and I can rent it to Zhang Bonan! Wanli laughed, this business is definitely done! weakened Zhang Bonan while attacking Yang Yinglong, and it was not so easy for him to become Yang Yinglong's second again!

When Zhang Bonan met Li Hualong again, his face became more and more ugly. It seems that Ma Chiwei can only be rented, but this rent is ...... It costs 80,000 taels of silver every month! That's a bit too much, right? He only felt dizzy, his feelings were a bottomless pit, and how much silver he had to spend to see the end?!

Li Hualong folded his fingers and counted for him: Look, these 100 people have to ask for silver to eat, drink, and sleep, right? In this practice, the loss of gunpowder shells also requires silver, right? I won't count the loss of firearms for you, let's pay for it, but you have to buy gunpowder and shells, right? Also, for such a long journey, we can provide you with horses for free, but you have to be responsible for the horse material, right? What's more, Ma Chiwei's original personnel must all be dismissed, which also requires silver......

Zhang Bonan couldn't listen to it anymore. Only then did he realize how much financial and material resources it would take to maintain an army with strong combat effectiveness! In fact, his family soldiers spend a lot of money and food every year, but his wife has always been responsible for the finances on weekdays, and he hasn't worried much about it, so he will ask for so much! No wonder Daming will be strong and strong, people's annual military spending has to be millions of taels, how can he compete with Daming with just one toast? He is becoming more and more afraid of the Ming army, but at the moment the training of artillery is a must, and this thing can definitely play a decisive role in Banzhou! No matter how much money you have, you have to feed them!

"Okay! That's it! Zhang Bonan finally mustered up the courage to make this decision with difficulty.

Li Hualong also showed a satisfied smile on his face. The emperor's move was too ruthless, and it hit Zhang Bonan's death ** at once, he couldn't listen to it if he wanted to! But then again, Zhu Yidao, who gave the emperor this idea, is the real talent, and he quietly controlled Zhang Bonan firmly in his hands! How could the emperor transfer himself here? Zhu Yidao should be allowed to come! His impression of Zhu Yidao's minister in his heart was gradually changing, this person was ...... It's really hard to say!

After all, paper can't contain fire. Yang Yinglong soon got the news, which made him nervous. What does this mean? Do you want the Zhang family to replace me? Although the imperial court has little influence in Banzhou, the toasts are now very excited about the imperial court and want to get the court's assistance and support! If they are allowed to grow with the help of the imperial court...... He didn't dare to think about it, so he quickly asked someone to check. However, the news he got made him breathe a sigh of relief: it turned out that Zhang Bonan's firearms were all smuggled from Tan Xisi, the governor of neighboring Sichuan, and they were just some firearms. He was a little amused, this firearm is so easy to use? What a delicate thing! And it's also very complicated to operate, and you can't play it without long-term training! This thing can only exert its due power in the hands of his Yang Jiabing, relying on those garbage families of his Zhang Bonan...... It's no different from a burning stick! Don't worry, it can also consume the Zhang family's silver!

Internally, he claimed that the firearms were smuggled from the governor of Sichuan, and it was Zhu Yidao's idea. He made it clear in his secret decree to the emperor that he must paralyze Yang Yinglong as much as possible, but he must not be taken too seriously, only in this way can he have the effect of disturbing the enemy! Wanli passed his words to Li Hualong intact, and Li Hualong was suddenly shocked! This Zhu Qianhu was born to be the material of the Jinyi guard, it seems that his worries are superfluous, the emperor will not put him in the civil official system no matter what, he is worried in vain.

Zhang Bonan deeply believes this. He didn't tell a few people inside him about this matter, what he was afraid of was that the leak would lead to serious consequences - the Yang family acted in advance, and his own soldiers had not yet formed combat effectiveness, and the Zhang family would be in danger. asked for so much silver to leave, his wife Zhang Liu interrogated him several times, and he lied that it was for business, after all, maybe when he would turn his face with the Yang family, get more silver to defend himself, in case of the worst, a large family would not starve to death. This made Zhang Liu's doubts dispelled, and he was a little more relieved, the old man still knew how to worry!

It took a few nights of hard work to pull all the people and horses to Ma Chiwei, and the follow-up 100-person team of the Beijing Division also arrived directly to Ma Chiwei, and the training finally began.

Jiang Fei was extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Jiabing, in his opinion, these people were just a bunch of rice bucket waste, although their physical fitness was generally relatively high, but what was the use of this? Do you plan to use your flesh and blood against firearms? Before letting them officially touch the firearms, Jiang Fei specially asked Zhang Jiabing to visit a drill at the Right Institute of the Beijing Division.

The shock brought by this small-scale exercise to Zhang Jiabing was extremely huge. It turns out that firearms can still be used like this, and it turns out that wars can still be fought like this! The right sergeant has taken the combination of the firearm and the artillery and the bow and crossbow in his hand to the extreme, and under their strange tactics, the trainees of the Zhang family soldiers feel that they are so vulnerable! It also opened Zhang Bonan's eyes, how many years have Daming reached this point! If you have such an elite in your own hands, other Banzhou, maybe even Sichuan...... But he didn't think about it anymore, it was too early to think about it.

With this drill, all the original complaints of Zhang Jiabing were thrown aside. The characteristic of the Miao people is that they respect the strong, especially this kind of army that is much stronger than themselves, which makes them even more heartbroken! No one shouted that they were tired, but they were full of energy to show the right sergeant that he was not a bad seed! Because it is necessary to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, all physical training and queue training have been canceled, and it is directly set that each person must shoot 100 rounds of ammunition per day, and he is not allowed to eat if he can't finish the fight; If you are not allowed to eat; If you can't beat well, you won't be allowed to eat! Of course, the food is completely according to the right place of the Jingshi.

A week is about to pass, the change in Zhang Jiabing's mental outlook is huge, and Zhang Bonan's silver is also well spent. The first batch of three million taels of silver had been secretly escorted to Jingshi, and when Wanli saw the silver coming back, his eyes were almost straight: when had he ever seen such a war, the silver spent before the war was all collected before the war started, and he also earned at least twice as much silver! It turns out that you can also make money by fighting wars? The attendants were also dumbfounded, no wonder the emperor favored Zhu Yidao so much, this guy is not only a thousand households, but also the God of Wealth! The inside is full of a lot at once!

Wanli, who had exactly gotten the benefits, did not hesitate to approve Zhu Yidao's application for military spending in the eighteenth year of Wanli, because he knew that this was only half of it, and the follow-up money had not yet arrived! At the same time, he made a secret decree and asked Lao Zhu if he could sell the equipment to a few other toasts in Banzhou?

Zhu Yidao suddenly had a black line on his face. But he also wondered in his heart, yes, why can't he do business with a few other toasts?

Yang Yinglong also stepped up the deployment, frequently visited several other Tusi, like they promised, in the future, everyone can set up a toast conference, with three years as a term, just like the Ming officials take turns to sit in the village, and at the same time benefit who sits in the village who takes the lion. In the face of such conditions, it is not that there is no toast to be tempted, but it has not been effective for the time being, so everyone can't reach an agreement, but they ask to start with the Zhang family - everyone knows that Yang Zhang is the mother of the Yang family, if she doesn't let her family sit in the village first, then it will definitely not be the turn of other toasts, after all, she doesn't even take care of her own wife and mother's family, can you care about other people? At the same time as the distant friendship, Yang Yinglong also launched a close offensive against the Ma family, and he publicly warned the Ma family not to greedily embezzle the property of the people of Banzhou, and must check and hand over all the assets under the name of his family, otherwise he will have to pay the price for his actions!

Of course, the Ma family will not be arrested, and Tusima Yuwen also retorted unceremoniously, these assets belonged to the Ma family many years ago, why should they be handed over to your Yang family? If you want to pay it, then all the toast families have to pay it! For a while, the war of words between the two families was very happy, and Zhang Bonan remained silent, he knew that the storm might come soon!

After a period of training, Zhang Jiabing's mastery of firearms has reached a considerable level, and Jiang Fei has to admit that these Miao people are simply natural warriors! During the training, the Miao people kindly reminded that the climate here in Banzhou is relatively dry all year round, but there will still be a rainy and humid climate for one or two months, and during this time, the power of firearms will definitely be greatly reduced, so the knife * still cannot be wasted, and it must be exercised at the same time. Jiang Fei and Li Hualong couldn't help but look at each other, Jiang Fei was very angry, what did the Jinyi guard who did intelligence do to eat? I don't even know such important information!