"What's the trouble?" Liu Changxin said calmly to Yun Tianzong: "Do you want to transfer troops?" ”

Yun Tianzong told Liu Chang: "No, it's a bit of trouble to count the property of corrupt officials." ”

"Someone's hands and feet are not clean?" Liu Chang first thought of this: "After opening Ruian City, everyone was very happy, so they fell lightly. ”

"No, no, no!" Yun Tianzong hurriedly told Liu Chang that there was nothing wrong with Nanxi: "We Nanxi Whistle are all good men in the rivers and lakes, and we will never meet a few taels of silver and forget morality, it is this time that a large amount of money is counted." ”

"Making money?" Liu Chang was a little curious: "What's wrong with making money?" ”

"Too many!" Yun Tianzong waved his hands helplessly: "According to preliminary statistics, more than 15,000 is too much, and as the inventory progresses, it is estimated that it is still increasing." ”

Fifteen thousand? Liu Chang had no concept of numbers at first, but soon he made a calculation in his heart: "Fifteen thousand", "Yes, there are so many copper coins, we can't transport this is a lot of money." ”

That's right, this is indeed a lot of money, although in this era, silver is expensive and cheap, one tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand hundreds of dollars, but how can fifteen thousand copper coins be worth about ten thousand taels of silver.

If you don't transport away these 15,000 taels of copper coins, it is equivalent to tens of thousands of taels of silver flying away in vain, but to transport 15,000 pieces away, this is beyond the ability of the dragon lance battalion.

It is simple to transport gold and silver, one catty of sixteen taels, ten thousand taels is six or seven hundred catties, a few mules and a few carts can be carried away, and if it doesn't work, use infantry to carry the burden.

But fifteen thousand copper coins, this amount is already counted as Liu Chang's scalp numb.

The copper coins seized now are all big money issued by Kangxi, and the consistent money, that is, 1,000 wen coins is 4,400 grams, that is, nearly nine catties in weight, of course, the Xianfeng Tongbao issued during the next war is much lighter, and the consistent money is only five catties, but it will not be officially issued until this year, and the 15,000 copper coins seized now are almost 130,000 catties.

The thought of transporting 130,000 catties of things back to Panshi Village, everyone had a headache, and the copper coins were thrown in Ruian and flew away in vain, but to transport 130,000 copper coins back to Panshi Village, how much transportation capacity is this.

Even if you can levy enough porters, one porter can carry a hundred catties of burden, then you have to have 1,300 porters, and you have to take care of the food, drink and Lazar of these 1,300 porters, and you have to guard against the porters running away directly with copper coins, and finally you have to worry about all kinds of accidents along the way.

In Yang Shanren's Mansion, the Dragon Lance Battalion had seized twenty or thirty copper coins, and at that time they were all discarded, but now it is not a small number of twenty or thirty yuan, it is fifteen thousand, and listening to Yun Tianzong's tone, it seems that it is still increasing.

"Transfer that millet boat, let's take the sea route", Huo Qiu first proposed such a plan: "The millet boat claims to be able to carry 1,500 stones, but in fact, how can it transport a few hundred stones." ”

"Time waits for no one," Sun Huzi objected to his proposal: "I think it's better to find a money shop to exchange it for silver, I see that there are many money shops in the local area to do this business." ”

"How much money can these money shops in our county town have, and a family can exchange a hundred taels for the sky, usually they are turnover with each other, and now that we make such a move, how much silver can they transfer out?" Huo Qiu objected to this plan: "It's better to transfer the millet boat!" ”

During this period, the amount of capital was very small, and even the threshold of the capital of the Shanghai Qianzhuang Guild, which only housed those with strong capital at that time, was only 500 taels, and these money banks with more than 500 taels of capital were considered to be big banks, which could provide deposit and exchange within the industry, and most of the money shops in Shanghai could not even take out the 500 taels of silver, let alone the money shops in small counties such as Ruian.

"I just want to transfer the millet boat, and we don't have a sailor to sail him out of the sea", Zhai Jie said: "Or you can ask Fifth Master Ge for help!" ”

"It's not easy!" Huo Qiu objected: "It's not appropriate to send so many copper coins to Ge Wuye's ship!" ”

Everyone knew what he meant by being inappropriate, but when he couldn't think of a good idea, Liu Chang had an idea: "There is!" ”

"Checkpoint, what's your idea?" Yun Tianzong asked, "Is there any way!" ”

"Casting Cannon Latent Bronze Object" Liu Chang had already thought of it: "Let's cast a bronze cannon!" ”

As soon as it came to the cast bronze cannon, Yun Tianzong slapped his thigh: "Why didn't I think of this section, good ideas, good ideas", "It's just that we lack craftsmen?" Liu Chang hesitated: "There is also a lack of equipment for building artillery!" ”

"No short, no short!" Huo Qiu followed Liu Chang's meaning and said: "There are craftsmen who build cannons in the compromise of Green Yingrui, and the clay mold has everything", in this era, bronze artillery can be said to be the best performance artillery, whether it is the East or the West, the position of steel cannons to replace bronze artillery will have to wait another decade or two, but copper cannons are too expensive, especially for China, which lacks copper resources and uses copper coins as the main currency, it is an extremely luxurious thing.

Even in the United States, many of their guns were originally cast in bronze, but after the outbreak of the Civil War, they switched to cast iron for the simple reason that the cost of iron cannons was only one-fifth of that of bronze artillery.

The artillery team has always lacked suitable artillery, and this time it only dragged out four mountain-splitting cannons, and Sun Huzi also agreed very much: "It is absolutely okay to build a batch of copper cannons, and a batch of more than 200 catties to 5 or 600 catties will be built!" ”

"Can the artillery team take it away?" Zhai Jie asked this question: "Although there are more of them than cannons now. ”

"If there is a cannon, I'm afraid that we won't be able to drive it out!" Sun Huzi was born in the green battalion and is very familiar with artillery: "We will go north next, we can build a batch of camp cannons, general cannons, and hit stone shells to blast the city wall open and go to the ",..."

Although building a copper cannon is a luxury to the point of failure, but there is a surplus copper coin in hand that cannot be transported, why not waste it, everyone is interested for a while.

The cast artillery is considered light artillery, of course, there are also some five or six hundred kilogram artillery, which can be regarded as heavy artillery in the sequence of Manchu artillery: "As long as you pull up a dozen or so guns, let alone a county town like Ruian, even the capital city can be bombarded with shells!" ”

In addition, some field artillery pieces were cast, in fact, the performance of these artillery pieces was far from the performance of advanced Western artillery, but the extravagant behavior of the losers gave them an absolute advantage over the Qing artillery: "It is all bronze cannons, and even the standard battalion of the governor is not so luxurious!" ”

After a careful estimate, Liu Chang found that in addition to the double wages paid to the craftsmen and other costs of building the cannons, the fifteen thousand copper coins could still cast at least two hundred copper cannons.

Now Liu Chang's dragon gun battalion plus the newly incorporated auxiliary troops is only a thousand-person scale, presumably it can't tow away two hundred copper cannons at one time, so Liu Chang quickly thought of a suggestion: "Let Jintang Whistle and Niudao Whistle come over to tow the artillery in batches, let's drag it slowly, at least we have to drag dozens of copper cannons back!" ”

Sun Huzi put forward his suggestion again: "We can also find a money shop to exchange for silver, how much can be exchanged", "That's okay!" Can't let this fifteen thousand rot here, even if you can't cast a bronze cannon to give a reward to your brother" Liu Chang has already made up his mind: "The matter of casting cannons, you have full authority to do it, who you want to transfer, how much money you want, I can rest assured", just as he was talking, someone over there came to report: "Yaoshuai has entered the city", Liu Chang seized the opportunity, monopolized Ruian City and even refused to allow the large troops of the Red Turban Army to enter the city, Zhai Zhenhan was so angry that he couldn't eat breakfast, and he ate a little bit of lunch, and finally had no choice but to take the generals of the Red Turban Army into the city collectively.

It's just that before entering the city, he got good news, the Pangu Sun family not only planted half of the yellow flag in Anyi Fort, but even prepared 10,000 taels of silver for labor and military expenses, which made his face much better.

Although he had made all the preparations for the separation, Liu Chang had made all the rituals, and he gave Zhai Zhenhan a big gift: "Liu Chang saw that the marshal saw the city gate open yesterday, and the fighter plane was rare, so he led a battalion of dragon spears to rush into Ruian County, and after a night of fierce fighting, he conquered the county seat, killed and wounded hundreds of Qing demons, and captured a thousand Qi, who are still purging the remnants of the enemy, and immediately withdrew from Ruian County." ”

Liu Chang's excuse for refusing the Red Turban Army to enter the city was that he was still in the process of purging the remnants of the enemy, and Zhai Zhenhan did not have a seizure, but just asked: "There are only a few remnants of the Qing Demon Army, why do you want to mobilize the army like this." ”

The Red Turban Army now has five or six thousand troops outside the city, and the dragon spear battalion in the city is only a thousand people, but in terms of actual combat strength, the dragon spear battalion that occupies the county seat is not much inferior, and Liu Chang can also rearm the regimental training in the city if he is in a hurry, so Zhai Zhenhan has never been able to make up his mind to fight, he just wants to enter the city as soon as possible.

"If it is as short as three or five days, it will be as long as ** days, and the whole city will be cleared." Liu Chang's speech was very artistic: "Please rest assured that Zhai Shuai has not committed any offense against the city Qiu." ”

It's just that the land in this city was scraped by you first, Zhai Zhenhan couldn't help but sulk, but he couldn't find anything wrong in Liu Chang's words: "Well, this time we have laid down Ruian County, and most of Wenzhou Mansion is ours, so I will give General Liu a first credit." ”

It's just that when he said that, someone suddenly said: "The inspection point also has to clear the Qing demons in Ruian County, presumably it will not be able to reinforce the Red Turban Volunteers in Pingyang County in a short time, and the 10,000 taels of silver of the Red Turban Volunteers will not have to be paid." ”

Liu Chang raised his eyes and looked, it was the Ying Wuzi who had seen Zhai Zhenhan who was by Zhai Zhenhan's side yesterday, he glanced at Yu Village, the messenger of the Pingyang Red Money Volunteers, and Yu Cun stood up: "Check, this is our Brother Zhao Qi Zhao!" ”

It turned out that this was Zhao Qi, the head of the money money meeting in another time and space, and this time and space became the leader of the red money volunteers, and Liu Chang was not polite: "Brother Yu, but you promised me a reward of 10,000 silver, and I spent a lot of effort to kill it all the way, and you also saw it in your eyes."

"It's the red money volunteers who owe me silver, it's not you, Mr. Yu, I don't ask you for it, and I don't make it difficult for you, anyway, Kunyang Town is only a river away from here, so I asked the dragon lance battalion to drag a few cannons over to ask for it."

ps:Although there are still a few monthly passes to 180 monthly passes,But still update this chapter first.,Wait for 180 monthly passes to come out.,There will be more.,It's just that a book friend smashed the 29 update ticket today.,I'll do my best.,Tomorrow's four more will not be counted in the plus more.,Plus is estimated to be updated the day after tomorrow.,Having said so much,Just ask everyone to smash up the monthly pass (to be continued)