Li Zhi was excited there, and Cha Yunke, the boss of Yuan Xingxing, walked up and said, "Commanding the servant, what a big deal!" ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "Master Cha bought two sets of drinking utensils, and he can also earn a lot of silver!" ”

Chayunke said: "The hard money of my two sets of glasses is really thin compared to the profits of the commanding staff! It is said that there are eight major businesses in Tianjin, and I think it should have been changed to nine major businesses a long time ago! ”

Li Zhi knew that this Cha Yunke was in the business of running to the sea, and he made a lot of profits in a year, and the profit from selling two sets of glass wine sets was not a big deal for him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Thinking of the sea boat, Li Zhi asked casually: "Master Cha made a lot of money when he went to sea, and Master Cha's boat was built by himself?" ”

Seeing Li Zhi asking, Cha Yunke thought for a while and said, "Don't hide my integrity, my boat was built by a shipwright." Ethics asks this, do you also want to do this business of running the sea? ”

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty opened the sea ban for many years, but the number of ships that went to the sea and the ocean was limited, and only the maritime merchants who received the "ship guidance" of the city ship division could set off from Fujian Yuegang to go to the sea and open the ocean. There were only a little more than a hundred copies of this ship every year, and they were pocketed by some of the most well-connected merchants. And there are many maritime merchants who want to go to sea but do not have a relationship with the city, so they can only smuggle.

But smuggling ships are officially considered pirates and cannot be operated without local connections. Chayunke is the nephew of Bing Beidao, and Bing Beidao is in charge of the coastal defense of the Tian0jin Sea, which allows Chayunke to sail into the sea from Tian0jin with confidence.

Li Zhi is only in charge of Fanjiazhuang with integrity, and it is currently impossible to operate this kind of transaction, and Li Zhi also asked casually.

Li Zhi said with a smile: "If I want to build a ship in the future, I will have to ask Master Cha to introduce the shipbuilder!" ”

Cha Yunke looked at Li Zhi, smiled arrogantly, and said with a big grin: "It's easy for Lord Ethics to build a ship, but whether you can go to the sea or not is a matter of two words, things on the sea are not so easy." However, if you want to build a ship, just look for me. ”

The glass trade made a lot of money, and Li Zhi set up a physical examination tent in Fanjiazhuang to recruit troops.

This time, Li Zhi wants to recruit another 2,000 families.

The battle of Ru 0 made Li Zhi understand that having soldiers in this troubled world is the most important thing. With strong soldiers and horses, the governor, the general soldier and even the prime minister will respect you. Although the head of the beheading cannot be included in all the bags, and it must be distributed to other high-ranking military attachés, it is still possible to slowly promote the rank with combat merits.

Although the military attaches of the Ming Dynasty did not agree with Li Zhi's thinking, they felt that he was using silver to build a strong army, which was too loser. But these people don't know that Li Zhi, as a traverser, is not too difficult to make money, and it is not a stupid thing to lose.

As long as there are more and more soldiers in his hands, as long as he has a slowly increasing official position, Li Zhi will have real strength, he will be able to protect his industry, and he will be able to earn more silver.

And speaking of which, Gyeonggi at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a dangerous place, and the Jurchens came in and looted at every turn. Once a city is breached by the Jurchens, it is often a bloodbath. Cheon0jin is located on the east side of Gyeonggi, so it is naturally not a safe place. From the perspective of self-preservation, Li Zhi also has to hurry up to train more strong soldiers and horses.

Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are well paid, and the first batch of 2,000 families have already gone to the well-off, which is something that the residents of the surrounding dozens of miles know. As soon as the second batch of recruitment notices went out, tens of thousands of people immediately flocked to Fanjiazhuang to apply, and they hoped to join the team that selected Li Zhi and become a soldier with three or two months of money and three meals of meat.

The physical examination and interview were carried out step by step, and on December 27, the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi recruited 2,000 families before the Chinese New Year. The new 2,000 Jiading formed a new regiment, known as the Broken Prisoner Regiment, and the head of the regiment was Li Zhi's younger brother Li Xing. Li Zhi selected outstanding officers and soldiers from the selection regiment to serve as officers in the Broken Regiment, and built up the organizational framework.

Fang Laosan is a new soldier in the Broken Regiment.

He was originally a child of a private household in Fangjia Village, west of Fanjiazhuang, and a few days ago he heard from people who had read books in the village that a notice had been posted in the town, saying that Fanjiazhuang was recruiting family members. Fanjiazhuang's family, what a desirable errand it is, I used to hear well-informed people in the village say: Fanjiazhuang's soldiers provide three full meals a day, meat dishes for meals, and three taels of silver a month. It's a good thing that you can't find it with a lantern!

Although the family members of Fanjiazhuang wanted to go out to fight, they won a big victory every time, and I didn't hear that anyone was wounded and died in battle.

Fang's third sister is married, and there is an eldest brother and a younger brother in the family. There are only 33 acres of dry land in the family, and no matter how you look at it, you can't afford three men to start a family. Fang Laosan urgently needs to find a way out! Hearing the news of Fanjiazhuang's recruitment, Fang Laosan immediately came to apply with more than a dozen young people in the village, and finally had a physical examination and interview, but only Fang Laosan was hired.

He has been healthy since he was a child, and he is not blind at night, and he is honest, which meets the requirements of Fanjiazhuang.

The news of Fang Laosan's employment spread, and the entire Fangjia Village came to Fang Laosan's house to congratulate him. Fang Laosan's father was happy, so he simply borrowed three taels of silver and set up two tables of flowing water at the door of his house, and invited the whole village to eat.

The whole village happily came to eat the flowing water banquet, and the atmosphere was as if Fang Laosan had won the show.

Fang Laosan's father unceremoniously said to Fang Laosan that the three taels of silver from this flowing water seat would be repaid by Fang Laosan in the future - that is, knowing that Fang Laosan would have money to repay his debts in the future, others would lend these three taels of silver to the Fang family.

Later, two days later, Fang Laosan and his father borrowed four taels of silver in the village and made a decent set of new cotton clothes for each of the five members of the family, saying that the money would also be repaid by Fang Laosan in the future.

Now the people of the Fang family regard Fang Laosan as a rich man, after all, there are three taels of monthly money a month! If you are more frugal these days, the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation for one person is only seven or eight dollars of silver a month, and three taels of silver can support four people. Fang Laosan is a bachelor, he eats and lives in the barracks, where did he spend three taels of silver?

Fang Laosan could only smile and agree to these debts - he was recruited as a family member by the Li family of Fanjiazhuang, and when he encountered this great good thing, he didn't give some money to make his family happy, which was really unreasonable.

After being happy at home for half a month, Fang Laosan said goodbye to his family and went to Fanjiazhuang to report as required.

He was assigned to the first squad of the third platoon of the third company of the first battalion of the Broken Regiment. On the day of the report, the company commander gave him a wooden waist tag engraved with his name.

After getting the waist card, Fang Laosan followed the squad leader to the barracks to put his luggage. Fang Laosan's squad leader is called Jiang Chong, and he is a very strong veteran. Along the way, Jiang Chong didn't talk to Fang Laosan, and the other party's third recruit, a recruit, looked down on him.

The barracks were built in the south of the city and were large dormitories, one room per class, with four bunk beds. Every fifth dormitory is built with a communal bathhouse and toilets. The bathhouse was equipped with free soap and hot water, and the squad leader Jiang Chong told Fang Laosan when he arrived at the barracks that the recruits should take a bath in the bathhouse immediately after entering the barracks, and they would take a bath every three days in the winter. Bathing every day in spring, autumn and summer.

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