Chapter 15: The First Guest
There are only 6 days left before the agreement with Li Shuang, and Sun Tianhao is quite a bit of a time, soaking in the salt industry group and the construction group every day, and he doesn't even have the heart to quarrel with Cheng Yiyi. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xu Lang has been much more relaxed these days, in addition to participating in Liu Jun's Sanya dialect training class and Han Wantao's relatively humane military training every day, he is constantly discussing with Lu Tianxiang and other committee members the situation and countermeasures that he may encounter when he meets Li Shuang in a few days.
Five days later, Xu Lang, Zhang Hai, Liu Jun and Sun Tianhao each carried a bag of salt and set off, because the food was about to bottom out again. These days, the construction team and the salt industry group have been working in black and white, and finally reluctantly built an evaporation pond and a crystallization pond in three shifts, plus filtration and purification, and finally made less than 200 catties of refined salt, and the large-scale production had to be delayed for a few days.
Zhang Hai did not have a 95 bayonet in his waist, but hung a copycat three-edged thorn built by Shen Daxing. Shen Daxing's blacksmithing workshop can now be regarded as a preliminary operation, because the current weapons of the time-travelers still bring guns and knives from the previous time and space, so Han Wantao asked to build some three-edged thorns first, install wooden poles, and use them as spears, whether in modern times or in the era of cold weapons, assassination is still the most effective method of fighting. And Zhang Hai was a fanatical triangular thorn enthusiast, so he asked Shen Daxing for equipment for himself.
It took the four of them a whole day to arrive at the agreed place, and Li Shuang had already waited here with people. For the four people who only brought less than 200 catties of salt, Li Shuang was slightly disappointed. Because the quantity is too small, and although the quality is much better than the salt of the Ming Dynasty now, it still can't be compared with the modern salt that Sun Tianhao gave to Li Shuang last time. Sun Tianhao has repeatedly said that this is just a sample, and there will be no problem with a large supply in the future.
The two sides sat on the floor and began to discuss the price again. According to Lu Tianxiang's introduction, during the Wanli period of Mingshenzong, the price of one stone of rice was 0.7-1 taels of silver; During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the normal rice price was 2-3 taels per stone, and the disaster area was 3.6 taels to 5 taels per stone. The price of salt is much more expensive, during the Jiajing period, according to the record of Zhu Tingli's "Salt Political Chronicles", "at the beginning of Jiajing, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Nanjing sold three cents of silver per catty of salt, and during the seven or eight years of Jiajing, Huguang and Jiangxi sold one and a half cents of silver per catty of salt." The area around Nanjing sells silver for one and a half cents. "Because this is Hainan, or Chongzhen years, so the price is somewhat different, the two sides finally agreed to use the price of rice as the basis of exchange, two catties of salt for one catty of rice. And Sun Tianhao said that now the traversers only need food and iron tools, and nothing else. After Shen Daxing's overtime work these days, he basically ran out of iron tools on the two ships, and if he continued to produce, he was afraid that the ship would be dismantled.
Before leaving, Xu Lang consulted the committee on the question of whether Li Shuang could be brought back to Yulin Bay, and the final decision was to act cheaply according to the situation. After half a month of hard work, the current defense system of Yulin Bay has been basically established, according to the estimation of Lin Zhaolong and Han Wantao, with the existing weapons of the crossing group and the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army, Yulin Bay can completely block the attack of less than 1,000 people, so Li Shuang's dozens of smugglers should not pose a threat to Yulin Bay.
In the current situation, it seems that it is impossible not to take Li Shuang to Yulin Bay once. Because Li Shuang brought more than 2,000 catties of grain alone this time, as well as some hoes and other tools, Xu Lang and 4 people alone could not transport them back to Yulin Bay. So after a simple consultation, the four of them unanimously agreed to invite Li Shuang to Yulin Bay once.
For the invitation of the traversers, Li Shuang gladly accepted. He had always been curious about these people who claimed to be relics of the Great Song Dynasty, especially this time when he saw Zhang Hai's three-edged thorns. Zhang Hai generously handed over the three-edged thorn to Li Shuang's hands, and after carefully studying it for a while, Li Shuang felt that this thing seemed simple and useless, but if it really started a war, it should also be a big killer. I really don't know what other strange things these people have, Li Shuang is bold by nature, but he didn't think much about it, plus the other party had helped him, so he decided to go to Yulin Bay once.
Back at Yulin Bay, it was already dusk the next day. An earthen wall more than a zhang high caught Li Shuang's eyes, and there was a wide and deep trench outside the earthen wall. Inside the earthen walls, some messy houses were being built, all of which were made of wood and had no bricks. Li Shuang smiled secretly in his heart: "The construction level of these Great Song Dynasty relics is too poor, this wall is only an earthen fence at best, and there are no bricks, who can this stop, those wooden houses, don't they burn out if they are set on fire." It seems that although these people can make a lot of strange things, they are just obscene tricks. ”
A scene inside the earthen wall still attracted the attention of Li Shuang and his people. About 30 people lined up in three rows, holding what looked like a spear in their hands, repeating a movement under the command of a person who seemed to be the commander, and constantly shouting something in their mouths. Behind them, too, 30 people gathered together, sometimes taking two steps at a very strange pace, sometimes circling in the same place under another general command.
Li Shuang watched it for a long time, but he was still puzzled.
"This is military training." Liu Jun explained behind him.
"Military training? What do you mean? Li Shuang asked.
"Military training is 。。。。。。" Liu Jun felt that he couldn't explain the word military training clearly to these Ming Dynasty people, so he had to say, "Practice to fight." ”
"Haha." Li Shuang's people suddenly let out a burst of laughter.
"You can fight like this?" A person beside Li Shuang asked with a smile, "Fighting depends on strength, not turning in circles." ”
"What, not convinced? Do you want to try it? Lin Zhaolong didn't know when he came over, after a few days of assault training by Liu Jun, the current traversers can also understand a little bit of the local dialect.
"The third." Li Shuang drank his subordinates who were about to speak, and hugged his fist at Lin Zhaolong, "My brother doesn't know the depths, look at this strong man Haihan." ”
"It's nothing, let's talk about it, and it's up to the point." Zhang Hai said on the side.
Seeing that Zhang Hai also said the same, Li Shuang thought to himself: "It's good to learn from each other, and let these people see our ability, the obscene skills may not be as good, and we are not vegetarians in terms of fists and feet." ”
Thinking of this, Li Shuang hugged his fist again: "Since this is the case, Li is better to be respectful than to obey his fate." The third child, until the point is reached, don't hurt the harmony. ”
"Boss, just look at it."
I heard that I was going to compete with the people of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the traversers came over. Lin Zhaolong had the intention of suppressing the momentum of these Ming Dynasty people, so he selected 10 people, lined up in 2 rows, and took spears upside down. These 10 traversers are basically marines and veterans before the crossing, Lin Zhaolong beckoned to Li Shuang's people: "You can go up together." ”
The third child looked at the 10 people in front of him strangely, with a trace of disdain on his face, he took out a single knife from under his ribs, reversed the back of the knife, and then arched his hand and shouted: "Offend." "A cat's waist, the first one rushed over. The stick is afraid of getting close, the gun is afraid of hidden weapons, this third child is still an expert.
It's a pity that the third child only rushed forward 2 steps, and he heard a burst of shouts in front of him, and five wooden sticks stabbed from five directions, and the third hurriedly dodged sideways, and with a wave of the steel knife in his hand, he knocked the 2 wooden sticks in front of him. But before he could make a move, there was another loud shout on the other side, and the five wooden sticks in the second row stabbed at the same time. The third child only felt that there were sticks flying in front of him, and there was no way to avoid it, and he felt pain in his chest and ribs, and he was hit twice.
The third child was in a hurry, jumped back two steps, and shouted behind him; "Let's go together." More than a dozen people rushed over waving the weapons in their hands, and the 10 wooden sticks on the opposite side were still stabbing continuously, short and dense, and several people were stabbed in an instant. Although the traverser reversed the spearhead, he was stabbed by the hardwood spear shaft, which still hurt a little.
The third child rolled his eyes, and suddenly shouted again: "Attack his flank." More than 10 people, under the leadership of the third child, hurriedly ran around the traverser, but no matter how they ran, the traverser just stood still, turned left, turned right, and the sticks always pointed at these Ming Dynasty people in unison.
The third child is really anxious, he has never seen such a way of playing, his own people are running out of breath, but the other party is just turning in circles, and he just can't get close. "All the people go up together and surround them!" The third child can't take care of the number of participants in advance now, which is a bit of a loss of face. More than 40 people under Li Shuang swarmed up and surrounded the 10 traversers in the center, but the traversers were still not in a hurry, just a few turns left and right, and the 2 rows of teams turned into a back-to-back circle, no matter how the Ming Dynasty attacked, they were greeted by 3 or 4 spears at the same time.
"Alright." Li Shuang stopped the sweaty third child on the side, and then arched his hand at Lin Zhaolong and Zhang Hai, "Li knows today that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky." In the future, wherever there is a use, go to the soup and fire, and never give up. ”
Zhang Hai hugged his fists and smiled: "Brother Li is serious, agree, accept." ”
Liu Jun muttered in a low voice on the side: "When did the deputy squad leader drag the Chinese text?" ”