Chapter 208: Bottomless

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"There are 800 guards in the whole house, and each of them must first be equipped with a horizontal sword, a spear, a bow, 30 arrows, and 30 arrows."

As the Sima of the government, Luo Chengcheng is equivalent to the chief of staff of a regiment, what training, military discipline, and equipment are all under his control, and now 800 people are enough, but the equipment still has to find a way. In the previous county barracks, one spear per person was enough, and the captain could be equipped with a spear, and the team leader had a horizontal knife.

But now it's a government soldier, so it can't be so shabby.

As a government soldier, as long as you pay money, you can order the equipment you need through the Weifu channel, from horizontal knives and crossbows to war horses, but the premise is that you have money.

Let the soldiers pay money, this is a bit unrealistic, the original five hundred county soldiers, most of them are young men from poor families, there is no family background to speak of, although the harvest has just begun, one person can have a harvest of hundreds of stones, but this is just a season of harvest, it is not worth much.

It is unrealistic for them to shell out so much money to buy this full set of equipment at once.

"It's really not good, so I'll lend money from the government to the government soldiers first, buy some of the basic equipment first, and then the government soldiers will slowly repay the money to the military government."

"The government lends money to the government soldiers? Is there so much money in the house? Qi Guoyuan asked.

Ordnance is not cheap, let's talk about horizontal knives, no matter how cheap a horizontal knife is, it will cost 500 Wen, the team leader level will have to start at 1,000 Wen, and the horizontal knives equipped by the officers have already cost 2,000 Wen. A kitchen knife in the folk costs seventy or eighty dollars. Ordinary swords also cost from 200 yuan.

And the bow is more expensive.

Not to mention armor and war horses, these sets cost tens of thousands.

Nowadays, a ploughing ox is worth three or four cents, a first-class bull is worth five or six cents, a horse is worth more than ten cents, and a good war horse is worth more than twenty cents.

As for the armor.

An iron helmet is worth a consistent, a step bow is worth two runs, a horn bow is worth three runs, a piece of two armor is worth 12 runs, and a captain-level Mingguang armor can be worth 20 runs.

Now there are 800 people in the house, and they haven't even done it with a horizontal knife.

According to the purchase price of 500 yuan for a horizontal knife, 800 will get 400 yuan, and there is always more to prepare for the purchase point, so it will be calculated according to 1,000 pieces, and the horizontal knife will have to be 500 yuan.

Of these 800 helmets, one man has two helmets, and he has 1,600 helmets.

The more you calculate, the more headaches you get.

"There are tuntian, ironware and winery in the camp, and there is still a bit of a family. This year, more than 40,000 stone millet has been harvested in Tuntian, and there is no need to buy grain for the time being. Buy 1,000 horizontal swords, 1,000 bows, 1,000 spears, and 100,000 arrows. In addition, we have more than 100 war horses, so we will purchase 200 horses first, 300 pairs of horn bows, and 300 crossbows. ”

"Liangdangjia buys a thousand pairs, and Mingguang Jia doesn't buy it first."

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Qi Biao and Li Bao, the two lieutenants, were completely petrified there, staring at Luo Cheng like a fool.

"Luo Sima, do we have so much money?"

"Well, there's a bit of a family background."

"But with so many things, it's not enough to have a little family background, and the Wei Mansion can't let us owe debts, we must pay the money before giving the ordnance."

"I know." Luo Chengdao.

A thousand horizontal knives are five hundred times, a thousand lunges are two thousand times, an arrow costs a few dollars, a hundred thousand arrows cost a few hundred, not to mention a war horse, even if the worst one is counted as twenty times, two hundred times will cost four thousand, three hundred pairs of horned bows will cost six hundred times, and a pair of crossbows will cost thousands of dollars, and a pair of crossbows will cost several thousand dollars, and they will cost hundreds of times.

That's not counting a thousand pairs of armor, and it's worth 12,000 pieces.

If you count it casually, you will get 20,000 yuan.

Changbai Mansion has been established for half a year, and it actually has such a thick family background.

"Twenty thousand, naturally, there is none." Luo Cheng said very simply, "In addition to the 40,000 stone millets in our house now, there are about 2,000 yuan in the remaining money account, as well as some iron and iron utensils and wine. ”

"Those iron and iron utensils and wine are not worth eighteen thousand yuan, are they?" Qi Biao asked.

"Well, it's definitely not worth that much."

"Then you still say you want to buy so much?"

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "But two thousand yuan is indeed a lot." ”

"But it's far from it."

"Then we'll crack down on the bandits!"

"Bandits?"

"That's right, this Changbai Mountain was cleared once last time, and now there are no bandits, but there is more than one Changbai Mountain in Qi County. Even if there are no bandits in Changbai Mountain, there are no Daishan bandits, there are also Jishui water thieves, Yellow River water thieves, and even to the west and east, there are a lot of bandits. ”

"When did the thieves become so rich?" Li Bao asked.

"Although the bandits are not producing, but they will rob it, besides, this bandit itself is very valuable, killing the head can be exchanged for reward, and it is more valuable to be captured alive and sold directly as a slave, now a young and strong slave can be worth two or three horses, and it is not uncommon to sell twenty or thirty times."

If you catch a hundred bandits, won't you be able to sell them for two or three thousand yuan?

Coupled with the thief's dirt copied from the thief's den, it must be worth a hundred and eighty yuan.

"We only need to raid one or twenty of his bandits' dens, and we'll really have it."

Qi Biao and Li Bao both admired Luo Cheng's idea very much.

"With these 800 recruits, it's not so easy to suppress bandits, right? In case of death or injury, you have to pay a pension, and besides, fighting bandits, spending money and food, and rewarding military merits, this is not a small expense. ”

"It's a lot of money, but it's a big deal. When I was the lieutenant of the county camp before, I led the brothers to suppress bandits, but I really made a lot of money, and then I suppressed them a few times in this Changshan, but the brothers' pockets were filled a lot. Most of today's family business is based on the first money earned at that time. ”

"Speaking of which, it is just through the suppression of bandits to train troops, the best way to train troops is to fight, and the soldiers who are fought in actual combat are the fastest and most useful."

Qi Biao nodded hurriedly, "What Luo Sima said is extremely true, but now there is still a problem, we don't have ordnance, so we want to suppress bandits and buy ordnance, but if we want to suppress bandits, we don't have ordnance yet?" ”

"These weapons are enough now, enough to deal with those rabble."

"Captain Qi Lieutenant Li, when I was still the lieutenant of the county camp before, I contacted the county soldiers and captains of Dongping County, Dong County, Jibei County, Jiyin County and other counties in Henan, we had dinner and drank together, and proposed to form a township alliance to help each other and share information on bandits.

"I'm still the one responsible for summarizing intelligence and distributing news, and now I know exactly where there are bandits' dens and where there are thieves' dens on the boundaries of our Henan counties. We happen to take the newly established brothers of Weifu out for a few circles now, kill thieves, make some foreign money, and also have a relationship with brothers in other counties and earn some favors. ”

Qi Guoyuan's chubby face seemed to open up all of a sudden.

His eyes, which were always squinted, widened.

He looked at this young Fu Sima with some strangeness, not only brought out 500 young men who dared to fight, but also operated 20,000 acres of tuntian, and also built an iron workshop and a brewery to make money, saving a lot of money.

But he actually had some kind of alliance with the counties, and he became a scoop handle, which made him feel bottomless all of a sudden.

"Why, the two captains won't even dare to suppress bandits and thieves, right?"

Li Bao snorted violently, "I'm afraid of a bird, Lao Tzu has never been cowardly with the Turks in the frontier every year, how many thieves will be instigated?" ”

"That's it, fuck it." Qi Guoyuan's fat face shrank again, and his eyes narrowed into a slit.