"You're just a little old, how can you support such a big expense all of a sudden?"

Seeing the leading engineer leaving, Zhao Ting'er couldn't help but reach out and touch Han Qian's forehead to see if he was hot-headed and talking nonsense.

Zhao Ting'er can now be said to be the general ledger of the Zuo Division, the income and expenditure of the craftsman and the warehouse, as well as the expenses of the inspection room and the military room, and she knows the most in her heart.

At present, the military government of the cantonment camp gives 1,200 stone of japonica rice to the workshop every month, although it can cover the wages of the laborers hired by the workshop, but the military government has to take away 40,000 city bricks, 160,000 small green bricks, 2,000 quintals of lime, and 600 carts of charcoal every month, which accounts for almost eighty percent of the monthly output of the workshop, and the workshop can transport out the extra 1,600 quintals of lime and only 400 carts of charcoal every month, which can save about more than 150,000 yuan.

The trade route between Xuzhou and Jinling has also been opened, and as long as it does not suffer large losses, it should be able to save a lot every month.

In addition, the largest income is the 3 million dollars allowed by the military government to be used for public use every year.

However, this may not be enough to cover the increasing costs of the left division.

In addition to maintaining Zuo Si's current scout system, maintaining the boat gang and rebuilding Yangtan Water Village required money and food, secretly supported Feng Xuan, and ransomed the Xi clan to ask for money.

In fact, Zhao Ting'er not only did not preside over the expansion of the workshop's employment, but also thought that this time he could reduce the labor of the workshop.

The scale of the workshop is so huge, mainly because the workshop has been in continuous construction and expansion for more than a year.

Not to mention lime kilns, brick kilns, and warehouses, including the interior of the villa, houses and roads are constantly being built, and even sewage canals and seepage wells are being dug in consideration of the increase in the number of residents.

The excavation of coal caverns and the construction of sidewalks along the stream leading to the coal yards and quarries all required a lot of manpower.

At present, whether it is a mountain villa, a workshop, or a warehouse, it has been built on a large scale, and the next step is to maintain normal operation, so the additional manpower hired for large-scale construction should naturally be reduced.

Zhao Ting'er estimated that if the labor force of the workshop could be reduced to about 600 people, the surplus of the workshop would be considerable, and Zuo Si would be able to run well.

Now it is equivalent to recruiting nearly 300 more people, plus all the craftsmen have to subsidize an additional lunch, and they also have to bear the cost of more than 300 Zuo Si's children for centralized food and lodging.

How much is the difference between the inside and the outside?

Han Qian grabbed Zhao Ting'er's little hand and said, "It's not a matter of thinking about money and food now, I can't wait for them to dismantle Zuo Si's shelves, and then show them the color!" He said to Zhao Wuji again, "You have been with me for the longest time, and I should send you something to do." ”

"......" Zhao Wuji was always silent, nodding yes.

"You choose five or six agile and reliable people to be led by you, and they specialize in the method of hidden forbearance!" Han Qian said, "And the so-called reliability of these five or six people is that they can only be used by me, and they must not have the slightest stumbling in the camp!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Wuji said without hesitation, and then got up and withdrew, and set out to do what Han Qian had arranged.

The shock in Xi Ying's heart did not subside, she didn't know if Han Qian wanted Zhao Wuji to be in charge of leading a group of assassins, or a group of dead soldiers, or both?

Xi Ying was also curious, not knowing what the method of latent forbearance that Han Qian talked about.

Han Qian seemed to be able to see Xi Ying's doubts, and from the stack of manuscripts in front of the case, he turned out more than a dozen pages and handed them to her, saying, "Are you curious about what the hidden ninja technique is, you can take a look at this, maybe you will be able to use it soon." ”

Xi Ying took a dozen pages of paper suspiciously, but after reading it carefully, she wanted to throw away the dozen pages, as if these ten or so pages were a ball of flame, burning her hand, staring at Han Qian, and said sharply: "I, a disciple of the Xi family, will not become a bloody blade in your hand." ”

"You will accept it," Han Qian said, "The reason why anyone can exist must be valuable—even if you Xi clan children are brought together, the combined number of men, women, and children may be less than two thousand. It seems that Feng Changyu directly dismembered the Xi family, but really let the Xi family reunite into a clan, can the three surnames of Xiang Xiyang feel at ease? You Xi people, and you are all tortured, squeezed dry exhausted old and weak, sick and disabled, between Wushan and Wushui, how can you establish a clan? I'm teaching you the foundation of the Xi family, and then in the process, ask the Xi family for a small reward, what are you so nervous about? Could it be that what you think is a great good thing can be accomplished without sacrificing it with flesh and blood? ”

After compiling the "Annotations to the Usage Chapter", Han Qian didn't think that this was enough.

Hundreds of years later, the island country across the sea also fell into the chaos of warlordism, because of the need for intelligence collection, on the basis of martial arts, combined with the tactical art of war ideas contained in Confucius's art of war, ninjutsu was developed.

Of course, Han Qian didn't know what the specific content of ninjutsu contained, but he had the basis for compiling the "Commentary on the Use of the Chapter", and summarized the methods of lurking, scouting, reconnaissance and assassination in the current world, as well as the training method of the children of the soldiers in the early stage.

Han Qian called it the method of latent forbearance.

Of course, Han Qian didn't have time to gather a group of potential children for strict training, and the fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers met the conditions and were very few, so letting Zhao Wuji choose five or six people could only be an emergency, but the children of the Xi family experienced the disaster of extermination, and then were trafficked into slavery in southern Hunan and Qianzhong.

Xi Ying's personality is much more flamboyant at this time, but she served Feng Changyu when she was a girl, how forbearant was her intentions?

And on the basis of the fighting and sword fighting skills she cultivated in her childhood, she has been hiding from the Feng clan's penance over the years, and she has developed in a strange direction, so that she can walk silently while wearing a silver-ringed bell on her feet.

Therefore, when she looked at the dozen or so pages, she immediately guessed Han Qian's intentions, and intuitively felt that these ten or so pages seemed to be burning her hands with flames.

Han Qian was not worried that Xi Ying would refuse his arrangement.

"You're a demon." Even though Xi Ying guessed that Han Qian was very likely to let Feng Xuan first choose a young man from the Xi clan who was suitable for cultivating the method of hidden forbearance to redeem him, in the end, he still couldn't help but throw the dozen pages in his hand in Han Qian's face.

"Ting'er, did I say I'm a good person?" Han Qian asked Zhao Ting'er with a smile.

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The next day, the third prince Yang Yuanpu also came to the military palace again according to the frequency of going out of the city the next day.

However, this time, Yang Yuanpu got up early in the morning and didn't stay long in the military office, so he went directly into the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard surrounded by the guard camp and came to see Han Qian.

Everyone is busy with a thing in their hands, so they can always accompany Yang Yuanpu by Chen De, Chai Jian, and Li Chong - this is also the responsibility of the three of them.

Even if Guo Rong is an envoy to the army, he does not come over easily, so as not to block the two.

Han Qian had just gotten up and practiced boxing twice, and had breakfast with salted duck eggs in the courtyard, glanced at Chai Jian and Li Chong, got up and greeted Yang Yuanpu and said, "Your Highness has not had breakfast, come and taste the salted duck eggs made by the villa......"

Zhai Xinping is a foodie, most of the mathematical formulas have forgotten everything, but he remembers the text of the pickled duck eggs written in the "Diaoding Collection": "The eggs are weighed two catties of salt per 100, slightly added with water, and the eggs are soaked in well water for a night, and the salt grass ash is more fattened with sake lees or pickled meat, and the stone mortar is pounded evenly, and the wine and marinade are reused to marinate it like paste, and the eggs should be vertical and the big head is up......"

It looks like a simple salted duck egg, but what comes out of the villa is shell green, butter, and a faint aroma of wine.

Yang Yuanpu sat down, ate all the eight-petaled salty duck eggs, and shouted: "Master Han, you should really help train and train the chef in my house." ”

"If Your Highness likes it, I will ask Zhao Ting'er to copy the recipe to His Highness and bring it back." Han Qian said with a smile.

"I came to the villa and saw a lot of teenagers also going this way, what does Master Han want?" Yang Yuanpu asked.

"Lord Zhou transferred 200 people from the workshop, and the villa is now in dire need of manpower. And I think that the two hundred men and horses of the Zuo Division are loyal to His Highness, but their children are poor and helpless, without food and clothing, my ability is limited, and I can't help everyone in the military government to have no worries about food and clothing, so I can only gather all the children of the right age of the Zuo Division first, and the Zuo Division will provide food and lodging, and then ask them to learn to work in the craftsman's workshop," Han Qian glanced at Chai Jian and Li Chong, and said, "I thought that Lord Chai already knew about this and explained it to His Highness." ”

Chai Jian was slightly stunned, of course he already knew about this last night, but everyone firmly thought that Han Qian would not be able to maintain such a big situation, so they decided to wait and see what happened.

"Okay!" No matter what others think in their hearts, Yang Yuanpu naturally supports Han Qian's decision.

Yang Yuanpu supported Han Qian's preparation for the establishment of the Secretary Cao Zuosi, and he was unwilling to have the authority of the Dragon Bird Army, all of which were in the hands of the people of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion, and even promised to allocate an additional three million dollars to Zuo Si every year, all of which Yang Yuanpu allocated from the private treasury of the Linjiang Marquis Mansion and the rewards he received from the palace during the New Year's holidays.

Han Qian's measures, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is to strengthen the cohesion and control within the Zuo Division, Yang Yuanpu also has such an eye now, how can he not support it?

Of course, whether Yang Yuanpu is following Shen Yang to listen to lectures these days, or the ideas instilled in him by Han Qian, the core is the word "money and food", and he is just worried about whether Zuo Si can support the increasingly large and numerous expenses.

Han Qian didn't seem to have any worries at all, and no matter what Chen De, Chai Jian, Li Chong and the others who accompanied him thought, he invited Yang Yuanpu to visit the operation of the workshop......