Wan Qiyong didn't know what Zhao Xing talked to the other party, he had heard Su Shi say that Zhao Xing knew the Tibetan language, and there was a concubine in the family who was a language master and was proficient in many Tibetan languages. Therefore, Zhao Xing was not shocked to talk to the Tibetan people in the Tibetan language. After Zhao Xing finished talking with the Tibetan people, he turned his head and told Wan Qianyong: "Yayan, you lead the official and the chief Faulkner to count the number of Tibetan people. ”

Faulkner understood what Zhao Xing meant, and hurriedly got up: "Master Jisi, please come with me." ”

Wan Qianyong shook around, Zhao Xing didn't seem to have finished talking to the foreigners, Faulkner invited Wan Qianyong into his office again, served fragrant tea and chatted, Wan Qianyong talked about Zhao Xing's thoughts, I heard that Zhao Xing planned to gradually move the Guangzhou City Boshi to Hong Kong, Faulkner nodded, and replied: "It's good, the channel where Lingdingyang can drive big ships is too narrow, and we have noticed that the fishing village in Hong Kong has noticed that the channel is very open." It is that the road is impassable, and it may be difficult to transport large quantities of goods. ”

Wan Qiyong shook the teacup and replied: "This year, my family plans to use 200,000 migrant workers to pave four parallel wide roads on that road. When the road is paved, it will be convenient for the goods to be transported inland.

In addition, my family plans to vigorously build a wharf there and vigorously develop maritime transportation. In the future, the goods will be transported inland mainly by sea, loaded on ships, and cargo ships can directly sail into Yangzhou to dock---- our inland ships will be able to increase the throughput of goods significantly. So you don't need to worry about the road conditions, just worry about whether your supply can keep up. ”

Faulkner said thoughtfully: "I am only worried about food and grass now, the first is the pirates in the Arabian Seas, because of the frequent harassment of pirates, only 70 percent of our ships reach Hong Kong safely. This forces us to seek out higher-value goods. So, the second problem comes, our goods are relatively monotonous, all of them are some ivory, tortoiseshell and other luxuries. Our supply has gone up. Can the Great Song Kingdom eat these goods underground? ”

Wan Qiyong smiled confidently. Intentionally or unintentionally, he revealed: "My family is forming a Guangzhou Navy Division, which also intends to hire some Tibetan people, once the Guangzhou Navy Division is formed, my family plans to eliminate the Nanyang pirates, so that the cost of your transportation will be reduced." There are many varieties of goods to choose from, such as iron iron.

My family said that the quality of iron in Nanyang was good, and in the past, people did not know how to process it, and the demand for iron was relatively small, but my family plans to start using government procurement at the end of the year. How much iron is purchased. Even if it's ore, we want it.

In addition, there is wood. There are many kinds of wood in the South Seas, and we only need hardwood, which is either branches or thick boards. We also have as much as we want. ”

Faulkner perked up, and when Wan Qianyong told him this, it was tantamount to telling him a way to make money, and he smiled meaningfully and said, "Branch? Hardwood? Your lord is going to make a bow and crossbow. Plates, could it be that he still wants to build ships? What else? ”

Faulkner said, took a money bag and stuffed it into Wan Qiyong's hand, Wan Qiyong opened the money bag and looked at it. It's full of sparkling gemstones of all colors. He immediately replied, "Gems, the gem trade seems to be in its infancy right now. My family has a jewelry store. I plan to withdraw from all kinds of gemstone jewelry, and there will be a large demand for gemstone fields in the future.

In addition, we also need war horses and cattle, I heard that the Arabian war horses are very good, resistant to heat and humidity, just suitable for Guangzhou---- we need a large number of southern Arabian war horses. The price of these war horses is very high, and I believe that everyone will be satisfied. ”

Faulkner nodded: "If Quang Nam City uses the national armed forces to help us escort us, then the risk of our caravan will be greatly reduced, and from now on we will no longer be afraid of other places except the waves." In this way, sailing has become a lucrative and stable profession, and there will be many people who will come to this industry, and they will no longer pursue a hundredfold, seventy-fold profit, so that a short trip to Tianzhu to sell something will become profitable, and the variety of goods will be diversified.

Please tell your lordship that I will try to keep as many merchants as possible. However, we never care about other people's promises, but about their actions---- and when the trade winds blow on the ground this fall, if we don't see the sailors escorting us, I think, most people will feel very disappointed. ”

Wan Qiyong nodded vigorously: "This autumn, you will definitely see our Earth Naval Division warship, and I will tell you here that the new warship uses a powerful weapon, which can definitely make the Arab pirates defenseless." ”

"Oh? Can you tell us about that? When Faulkner heard this, he pulled open the drawer and pulled out more money bags, which contained more, purer, and larger gems.

Wan Qiyong shook his head and smiled. In fact, he didn't know much about gunpowder, and Zhao Xing had always been careful to keep it secret, and he had just talked to Faulkner because he used the word "Arab" instead of the term "black food".

"Black clothes and big food" is the current Song Dynasty name for Arabia, but if they wear green clothes when they come to China, they will be called "green clothes big food", and later those merchants who come in white clothes are also called "white clothes big food". Wan Qiyong often heard Zhao Xing refer to it as "Arabian", so he also used Zhao Xing's way of addressing the Tibetan people to talk to them. Unexpectedly, when Faulkner heard it, he felt that Wan Qiyong knew a lot about the world outside the Great Song Dynasty, and completely regarded him as an expert.

But since Wan Qiyong didn't know about gunpowder, no matter how many bribes Faulkner offered, he still smiled inscrutably and implicitly, until Faulkner gave ten bags of gems, Wan Qiyong was slightly relieved: "This new weapon is said to be the weapon used by the God of Fire and Thor...... This time, my family made a soft sailing boat, and I also needed to hire some people to operate the soft sails and teach the sailors...... You want to know this weapon, why bother. ”

Faulkner understood and hurriedly agreed: "Our ship has been resting at the dock for half a year, and the sailors are all getting lice, so I will definitely send out those idle sailors to help you teach the sailors, and by the way, I will also get on board to see the new weapon." ”

At this moment, Zhao Xing sent someone to greet Wan Qianyong, and an Indian servant bowed to Wan Qianyong and said, "Lord Jisi, Lord Zhao Jingluo has finished his inspection. Waiting for you at the door. ”

Wan Qiyong stood up gracefully. Faulkner grabbed the jewel bag on the table and eagerly put it into Wan Qiyong's arms, Wan Qianyong pretended not to know, looking around at the layout of Faulkner's office, and there was nothing to say in his mouth: "Strange, how can your official office be arranged in the same way as my family's lords." ”

No one cared about Wan Qianyong's words, and when the money bag was finished, Wan Qianyong staggered out of the Zhufan Pavilion with official steps, climbed on his mount, and rushed back with Zhao Xing. On the road. Zhao Xing kept looking at him and laughing. I'm about to see my own office. Zhao Xing suddenly asked, "How much did you catch?" ”

Wan Qiyong pretended not to mind with a look on his face. The corners of his mouth were almost up to the sky, and he replied, "Eleven bags of precious stones...... Some I haven't looked at in detail. ”

Zhao Xing asked again: "How much inside story has been revealed?" ”

Wan Qianyong replied: "The commander agreed to send sailors to train our crews, and promised to send out all the idle people in the Zhufan Pavilion. Zhao Xing spread out his hand: "Half of the meeting, I don't want more." Just give me three bags of gems. ”

Wan Qiyong reached into his arms in pain, hummed and took out three bags of gems and handed them to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing didn't look at them and put them in his arms, the two looked at each other and laughed.

In Zhao Xing's mansion, Shuai Fan was waiting for Zhao Xing, and when he saw Zhao Xing and Wan Qi Yongle coming in, he complained: "You two can still laugh, my lord." Isn't the condition of your recruiting place too high? If you have to be from a good family, there are many places where the army has signed up so far. Excluding the prodigals, we only recruited 11 people. My lord, eleven people, do we have to rely on these eleven people to fight the world? ”

Wan Qiyong stopped and asked in surprise: "Eleven people, so few, there are more than 700,000 people in Guangzhou, and there are 700,000 people outside Guangzhou and in the entire Guangnan East Road, why are there only eleven people to serve as soldiers, is the treatment given by adults not enough?" ”

Shuai Fan then explained: "It's good enough, the forbidden army has fifty wen a day, one liter of rice, and it is only five per month. But the salary given by the adults has reached six ---- four times that of the forbidden army, and the charcoal salary, grain and grass money are not leaked.

We have already spent ten times a month raising a soldier, and ordinary county officials only get so much salary in a month. We give too much land in terms of salary, but adults, although they are given generous treatment, good families are afraid of tattooing on their faces. Let me ask you, they said that although the adults refused to give them tattoos on their faces, they were afraid that other officials would come in the future and would have to tattoo them, so they would have to flee. ”

Shuai Fan explained there that Zhao Xing had already set his sights on the servant who greeted him.

These servants were hired locally in Guangzhou, where many nationalities lived, and some of the fashions brought by foreigners made fancy dresses very popular, such as in the hot summer, men like to wear a big pants, a sweatshirt, and drag slippers on the street. And the woman is a belly pocket, and a pair of Song Dynasty cropped pants dare to swagger on the street.

Readers in the Song Dynasty hated the phenomenon of strange costumes in Guangzhou, saying that their clothing did not conform to the etiquette system, and called them "serving demons".

It's not summer yet, but the Guangzhou native has already put on big trousers, only a short coat on his upper body, and dragged a pair of clogs under his feet, he took Zhao Xing's horse, took small steps, and the wooden teeth on the clogs knocked on the stone road to make a crisp croaking sound, and went straight to the stable. Zhao Xing stared thoughtfully at his back and disappeared at the Moon Gate, and it was not until Shuai Fan urged him to come back to his senses.

Shuai Fan asked urgently: "My lord, come up with a way." It takes at least three years to train the navy, seven months to be sloppy, and about four months to train the army, but now we only have eleven people. ”

Zhao Xing replied slowly: "What kind of soldiers can the Great Song Dynasty not tattoo?" ”

Shuai Fan replied: "Unless it's a martial artist, or some special utility." ”

Zhao Xing nodded and replied unhurriedly: "Yes, utility, you forgot, I am very good at using utility, what kind of utility does not tattoo on the face?" For example, generals. We will assign each soldier the title of general, so that everyone will be a general, and we will build a battalion of generals, generals. ”

Shuai Fan's eyes lit up, and he muttered in a low voice: "What is good at using utility, I'm afraid it is good at exploiting loopholes." ”

Wan Qiyong hurriedly persuaded: "My lord, this is not good. ”

Shuai Fan hurriedly interjected: "What's not good, anyway, my Emperor Song has no quota for generals, and these generals don't need the court to spend money to support them, just a false name." Why care. ”

Wan Qian said leisurely: "The general is an official." My lord, if you divide hundreds of officials at once, you may care about each of them, and you will divide tens of thousands of officials at once, and when these people see the magistrate in the future, they don't have to kneel, and the magistrate is afraid that he will be dissatisfied. ”

Zhao Xing pursed his lips: "As an official, if you just want to enjoy the kneeling and kowtowing of the common people, if there is someone who dares to shout loudly in such an official ----, I will dismiss him." ”

Wan Qianyong continued: "The general has no salary, but has to bring his own bow and horse armor. So. How do we raise an army. I'm afraid most people still don't want to join the army. ”

Shuai Fan was also stumped by this question, he turned his face to look at Zhao Xing, and gave an inquiring look. Zhao Xing clapped his hands and replied, "You two." It's all brains. Have you forgotten that my Great Song Dynasty allowed part-time jobs---- double salaries, three positions and three salaries, who stipulated that generals could not be soldiers at the same time? Let him take on the task of a soldier and receive a soldier's salary, wouldn't it. ”

Wan Qiyong opened his mouth and stammered: "My lord, the general is an officer, and the soldier is a pawn, this and this...... What the hell is this thing counting. ”

Shuai Fan clapped his hands on the side. Learn Zhao Xingdi's tone and say: "Miaoye! It is often the case that officials hold multiple official positions. But who stipulates that officials cannot concurrently serve as soldiers and petty officials? General's Battalion! All the generals in the camp are Emperor Song---- this is a good name! It's beautiful! ”

Zhao Xing smiled and added: "Yes, since it is a general's camp." The costume can't be the same as the usual Praetorian Army. We should make a few sets of imposing uniforms, how to be majestic. For example, it is enough to ---- shorts and shorts in Xia Changfu, and the hat can be made into a cloth hat---- and the brim of the Fan Yang hat can be shortened to make it look like a foreigner's top hat...... From now on, it will be called a helmet!

In winter, the clothes are thicker, and the canvas, soft sheepskin, and cowhide are used to make a similar appearance of cloth armor and leather armor, and the style should be tight and neat. Then inlaid with copper nails and copper buckles to make buttons and decorations, so that the soldiers wear a majestic style, we can call this winter clothing "cowboy armor...... This word is not good, and in the future it will be called utility armor, or simply jacket.

In addition to summer and winter clothes, each of them will be given two large dresses, which are also divided into winter and summer clothes. Then there is a training suit for the season, which can be made of canvas, which is wear-resistant and dirt-resistant, and can be worn out of shape. The color, my Song Jun is still in a red suit, and the upper body is all red makeup, the most vivid kind of red, and the lower body is still black pants---- the same as the forbidden army.

In addition, the shoes should also be made beautiful, so that our generals and soldiers walk on the street and envy each other...... In this way, I don't believe that there is no one willing to serve as a soldier again. ”

Shuai Fan Xing rushed to agree, but immediately he asked again: "My lord, the soldiers you recruited from Guangxi Lizhai have also been in place, does this general's treatment also include them?" ”

"Included! We treat everyone equally", Zhao Xing smiled a little treacherously: "On the road to Huanqing, we once used culture as a weapon to defeat the Xixia people, and here in Guangnan, we must also be good at using cultural weapons ---- recruit this group of soldiers, and in the future, we will all become messengers to spread our local culture, and promote our Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty to their brothers and sisters."

This is a means of psychological warfare. There are many ethnic groups in Guangxi, there are constant disputes, there are also constant conflicts, and the private fighting among the people is serious, so that the Guangxi military cannot spare their hands, and it also requires a large number of troops to be stationed and inspected by our routes for transporting money. And after these Yi generals retire and return to their hometowns, they will be our allies and our grassroots supporters.

They should be trained in strict discipline and given cultural lessons--- which will be the case for all the troops in the future. Shuai Jian Division, how strict are you when you go out for training. For example, when they are standing in the queue, they can throw stones and shoot headless arrows into the queue, and if they disturb the queue because of these harassments, they will be severely punished. The order to obey orders and keep in line is carved into their muscles and becomes their subconscious.

In the afternoon, we should let them study, learn the words and poems of our Great Song Dynasty, learn the military discipline of our Great Song Dynasty, learn the skills of combat, and teach them a craft, so that after they retire, everyone can read and write, and can recite one or two crooked poems. By the way, I practiced the personal skill bar sign in my family, and I also practiced it in the generals.

With the logo to wear, the skills they know in front of everyone, coupled with different salaries, competitiveness will make the soldiers spontaneously and actively learn new skills, new technologies, and constantly apply for assessment and acceptance. In this way, we don't have to watch them train, we just sit in the house and test them. There is no need to worry that the soldiers will be idle, they will fight, they will cause trouble in the streets--- they will not have that idle time.

At such a cost, I can't turn the army into a collector's item, I have to train them repeatedly. A team that can maintain discipline on the march is an army that can fight. We need to divide the recruited troops into ten groups and drag them out for training once every ten days, so that there are training troops on the official roads of Guangzhou every day, so as to deter bandits.

The training was an opportunity for propaganda, and the troops were ordered to dress me better and wear a little more majesty during the training. Each training session was carried out on the road for five days, followed by a five-day holiday, where they were allowed to tour the area at will, and then return to the team on time by carriage and horse. We have few soldiers, and it will not be possible to put a thousand people anywhere, so let these soldiers flow, and make people feel that there are soldiers everywhere in Guangdong, and only in this way can the road be peaceful.

In addition, the assessment of all soldiers must be quantified by numbers, and we are building a regular army, so we must use measurable dimensions to restrain the army. For example, one point will be deducted for violating a certain precept, one point will be awarded for performance, and so on. It is also necessary to stipulate how many points will be punished and how many points will be dismissed, so that the arbitrariness of generals and officers can be reduced, and only then can we ensure that our military practices standardization rather than the rule of individual officers.

The corporal punishment of soldiers has been abolished for me, and I hope to cultivate an army with a sense of honor, and corporal punishment damages the sense of honor of individuals---- change! In the future, if he makes a mistake, he will change the small black room, lock the person in a room without light, so that he can not hear any sound, and only hear some footsteps when he is delivering food every day, and he will miss his group and his companions in the darkness.

I promise this whipping is effective. After the whipping, the soldiers could not guarantee that they would not make mistakes again, and after the small dark room was closed, few people wanted to go in and taste the darkness and loneliness again. They will appreciate how precious their companionship is! ”

Shuai Fan smiled and agreed: "I know, I know!" You have talked to me about these methods before, but in Huanqing, we can't let go of our hands and feet, here everything starts anew, we start from scratch, and build a new team, a team that transcends this era. Adults can rest assured.

However, in addition to the affairs of the army, there is another thing that is a top priority, it is February, and we see that the spring money is about to be shipped, but our naval army has not yet taken shape, what should we do? ”

Wan Qianyong interjected: "This spring's money deposit is a bit difficult, in addition to the fact that the water army has not been formed, our money casting division has only completed the project of replacing equipment in Huizhou, and the other roads are either debugging the machine, or waiting for the installation of new machines...... Nowadays, the amount of money minted by the major money supervisors is extremely shrinking, and I am afraid that we will not be able to complete our task this year. My lord, ...... at the other end of the court? ”