The news of the occupation of Guide Mansion spread everywhere like wings, and at this time, some people in Nanjing City had already adapted this incident into a novel and a story. Compared with the speed at which the government gets the news, the people get the news faster and more accurately.

Liu Xia's actions once again found hope for those who were originally disheartened against the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Xia's rush to Guide Mansion with thousands of men and horses also made some people worry about Liu Xia, who thought that the Qing court would definitely send a large army to retaliate and would not spare Liu Xia.

There are some people who are very optimistic about Liu Xia, after all, Liu Xia rushed out of Yangzhou City and hit Duoduo hard. There are also some people who don't like Liu Xia, in their eyes, Liu Xia's ability to hit Duoduo that time was completely caused by the attack at night, and this time the Qing court will definitely not be careless, so this time Liu Xia will die.

Guide to the province

At this time, it was not yet three quarters, and the sun in the sky was still shining hot on the earth. The trees on the side of the road made a screeching sound, and the wind blew through a refreshing sound.

Liu Xia led the guards and Chen Liu to the place where the craftsmen and tailors were, and it was impossible to temporarily find houses for thousands of people in the city, so Chen Liu arranged these people to the camps outside the city, except for the tiger camp and the wolf howling camp guarding the various city gates, as well as the Yingyang camp that managed public security in the city with Liu Xia's personal guard camp at all times, and the other battalions were stationed outside the city.

"The General is Coming"

There are more than 3,600 soldiers in this camp, the recruit battalion and the tiger battalion, and as for the logistics battalion, they are not stationed outside at this time, because of the particularity of the logistics battalion, Liu Xia deliberately moved them all to the city.

In this place, Liu Xia let these craftsmen eat and drink well, and gave enough silver taels, and these craftsmen were naturally very willing.

Originally, these craftsmen were very angry and unwilling to work, after all, they were all forcibly brought from home by Zhang Yuan, Liu Xia said before that he was unwilling to come and then tied up, but there were not a few who were willing to come, most of them were unwilling to come, so they were naturally tied up. However, when he knew that Liu Xia gave such a generous treatment, he didn't say anything more, one tael of silver a day, equivalent to one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to more than six hundred yuan now, in the past, they didn't necessarily get so much money even if they worked for three days and five days, and they didn't agree if they had money to earn?

Which of these craftsmen is still bitter now? Seeing Liu Xia coming, it was like looking at a mountain of gold and silver, talking with dignity and respect. Zhu Yuanzhang divided the people into military households, artisan households and civilian households, which would have a way to survive in peacetime. Now that the army is in chaos and the officials are corrupt, it would be good to be able to eat, where can I earn so much silver?

Thousands of artisans and tailors selected dozens of representatives to greet Liu Xia. As soon as they saw Liu Xia's shadow, these craftsmen immediately knelt on the ground one by one, kowtowing happily, as if they were seeing relatives.

Liu Xia said: "Everyone, please get up, everyone, please get up." ”

One of the men in his forties said to Liu Xia with a thick voice: "General, you don't know, the life of our craftsmen is hard, when the Ming court was in charge, not only the government oppressed, but even those ordinary people also looked down on us. ”

"Later, after this place was managed by King Chuang, although no longer mentioned the artisan households, but King Chuang only cared about fighting, collecting grain, and naturally did not have a good life, and later after being managed by the Qing army, the income did not change much, but the number of times he was angry was more than one time, these Qing troops simply did not treat people as people, and smashing was a common thing, and Lao Wu in the neighboring village was beaten to death because he did a little wrong when doing things for those Qing troops."

"Now the general is willing to give the little ones a tael of silver every day, that's really the food and clothing parents of the little ones, I don't know if the general will need the little ones in the future."

Liu Xia thought that he would definitely have to leave in a few days, but since these craftsmen are so willing to follow him, he might as well take them away, after all, the industrial base is very important, and the industrial base needs a large number of craftsmen, even after arriving in Luoyang, he needs to find a large number of craftsmen, rather than spending a lot of effort to find a few, it is better to raise these craftsmen first, and take them with him when he leaves here, so that he doesn't have to look everywhere at that time.

Liu Xia said: "In the future, the general will need more weapons and clothes, of course, you need to build for the general, but this must be said first, the general does not want defective products, weapons can not cut corners, if the general finds out which of you dares to cut corners, he will be severely punished." ”

Those craftsmen hurriedly laughed and said, "How dare the little ones do this thing of cutting corners, general?" It will definitely be the strongest and best for the general. ”

Liu Xia sighed, and then asked, "Do you craftsmen make muskets?" "The musket is something that must be had in the future, and it cannot be developed, and there was a Shenji battalion in the Ming Dynasty that used muskets specially, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt and deducted food and wages, so that those craftsmen could not eat enough and wear no warmth, where did those craftsmen still have the peace of mind to build muskets for the government? As a result, most muskets are defective and can easily explode.

The muskets of the Ming Dynasty were easy to explode and also made the Qing army dare not use muskets, so that in the future, muskets were basically replaced by cold weapons again in China. Hundreds of years later, the country was opened by the Western powers, others used muskets, and the Qing army also used broadswords and spears.

When those craftsmen saw Liu Xia ask, they frowned one by one and began to exchange their heads.

Liu Xia didn't have much hope for whether there would be anyone among these people who could make muskets, after all, these were all folk craftsmen, and the craftsmen who made muskets were all craftsmen used by the royal family, so naturally they couldn't be compared.

Just when Liu Xia lost hope in this matter, an old man in his fifties among those craftsmen suddenly came out and said: "Back to the general, Xiao Lao'er will build muskets, and Xiao Lao'er's three sons and two nephews will also build them. ”

"Really?" Liu Xia's face showed excitement, there really was, Liu Xia continued: "You really know how to build a musket?" ”

The old man bowed to Liu Xia and said, "Little Lao'er doesn't dare to coax the general, what he said is true." ”

Liu Xia became excited in his heart, and said to Chen Liu beside him: "You will count how many can build muskets in a while." ”