"Ten taels, it's so much for ten taels...... But ten taels can exchange your life on the battlefield, it's worth it! Chen Wenzhao said, "Even if the sword on the battlefield is quite lost, I hope that Lord Ji can buy as many swords as possible, and replace them at any time." ”

This is a matter of course, Ji Qingwen naturally agreed.

Chen Wenzhao said: "It is not enough to have a knife, but also to have shields, spears, wolf stalks, bows and arrows and other weapons, in addition to muskets, artillery, war horses, and chariots are also indispensable. ”

Ji Qingwen secretly remembered what Chen Wenzhao said in his heart, and asked again: "The shield and spear are good, I will spend money to buy the best equipment." But what kind of weapon is the wolf? How come I've never heard of it? ”

Chen Wenzhao hadn't yet answered, but Li Yan said: "This weapon is recorded in the "New Book of Ji Xiao", if you don't believe it, please take a look." ”

As he spoke, Li Yan opened the "New Book of Ji Xiao" in his hand and found a pattern, so he pointed it out to Ji Qingwen.

Ji Qingwen looked at it, it turned out that the shape of this "wolf pole" was roughly similar to an iron bamboo pole with the blades cut off, and the iron spear tips scattered on the special "bamboo pole" stabbed the enemy in front of him, and at first glance it was a rather tricky and vicious weapon.

Chen Wenzhao got acquainted with him again: "Other weapons need to practice moves to play a role. Only this wolf sword, as long as the person who holds it is bold and fearless, can become a barrier for the whole army. When my Qi family's army was fighting against the Japanese and the Jurchens, the wolf was very useful. It's just that this weapon is forbidden by the imperial court, and it is not sold in the market, so it needs to be specially made by adults. ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and agreed: "I will naturally find a skilled blacksmith to build according to the pattern." ”

Chen Wenzhao said: "There are also firearms, muskets, and artillery are all necessary things. It is also best to build a tank as a support for the combat of the car battalion. ”

Ji Qingwen frowned and said: "I know some about muskets and artillery, and I can also let Zheng Zhilong buy them from Westerners, and we can also imitate some." As for the chariot, but I don't know what it is? ”

In Ji Qingwen's heart, the so-called chariot is something like a tank, could it be that there was such a big killer at the end of the Ming Dynasty? Are the Jurchen cavalry still beaten?

But he heard Chen Wenzhao say: "This is a sharp weapon for the infantry to resist the cavalry head-on, but unfortunately it was lost in the battle of Hunhe." It is necessary for Hime-sama to ask a skilled craftsman to re-weave. As he spoke, Chen Wenzhao briefly introduced the structure, materials, and combat methods of the chariot to everyone.

Ji Qingwen suddenly realized, and immediately patted his chest and said: "There is a filial piety named Song Yingxing in the weaving yamen in Suzhou, and he likes to fiddle with this kind of thing the most." I also knew a Western missionary named John Tong, who knew some Western techniques. If the chariot is handed over to them to build, it will definitely be able to stand out from the blue. ”

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And so they deliberated all night, until the next morning, when the wind and snow had ceased outside the tent, and the snow reflected the brilliance of the rising sun, shining brightly between heaven and earth, and seemed to subdue all the filth, dust, and darkness of the world.

Ji Qingwen opened the curtain of the tent door, and when he saw such a snowy scene, he suddenly became poetic, and suddenly had an idea, and chanted: "The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging. Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test. It must be a sunny day, and look at the red dress, which is extraordinarily enchanting. ”

Li Yan followed behind him and said with some surprise: "Brother Ji has always said that he has no literary talent, but this song "Qinyuan Spring" is of the highest quality, I don't know if there is still a lower rank?" ”

So Ji Qingwen continued to recite: "There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, leading countless heroes to bend their waists. Regret the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose the literary style; Tang Zong and Song Zu are slightly less coquettish. A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle. The past, the number of romantic figures, but also look at the present. ”

After hearing this, Li Yan was even more surprised, and said: "The lower que is better than the upper que, this song "Qinyuan Spring" by Brother Ji is full of momentum and has the universe in mind, compared to the words filled in by Su Dongpo (Su Shi) and Xin Jiaxuan (Xin Qiji), it is not at all below. Brother Ji chanted casually again, and this talent is probably only comparable to Wang Zi'an (Wang Bo), who wrote the "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion". From now on, I don't dare to boast in front of Brother Ji anymore......"

The so-called "literati are light", it can be said that it is not easy to get such a heartfelt praise from Li Yan, a high-minded and well-educated man.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen was very proud, and was about to say a few humble words half-truthfully, but suddenly thought that he had plagiarized to the head of "his old man", he couldn't help but feel tight, stuck out his tongue, and said: "With this bit of ink in my stomach, how can I write such good words?" This is the masterpiece of a master in Changsha Mansion, Huguang Province, and he can't help but recite it today. ”

Li Yanxin nodded convincingly: "Then I have the fate to ask this master for advice in person......

Ji Qingwen was reluctant to extend this topic at all, and said hesitantly: "I'm afraid...... I'm afraid I want to see this master...... Also...... It's not too easy to ......."

The two were chanting the wind and the moon, bragging nonsense, and Chen Wenzhao also got out of the tent.

When he saw this heavy snowfall, he had no interest in chanting poetry, so he hurriedly shouted to the miners in the mine and deployed them one after another, asking them to clear the heavy snow immediately and check their safety.

Ji Qingwen saw that these miners were forbidden, and when he heard the order, he took action, and couldn't help but praise: "General Chen, I see that these brothers in your mine are all strong and strong, and they obey your orders very much, and they are also young, why don't you take these brothers down the mine and go to Suzhou with me?" ”

Chen Wenzhao immediately vetoed: "No." These are the sons and daughters of the brothers who died in the Battle of Hunhe, and I can't bear to let their fathers die after they sacrificed their lives for the country......"

Chen Wenzhao's thoughts, Ji Qingwen also understood, so he didn't continue to talk on this topic, and changed the conversation and said: "We have discussed all night, and we haven't decided how many people we need to recruit!" I thought about it for a while, and recruited 200 people first......"

Chen Wenzhao frowned and said, "Two hundred...... It seems to be a little less. The number of combatants in the Qi family army was 3,072, and there were 200 logistics personnel such as men, military doctors, craftsmen, and horses. Logistics personnel participate in the training together, and the combat personnel are replenished when they are reduced, so that the complete combat effectiveness can be maintained. So two hundred people...... It seems like a little too little. ”

Ji Qingwen calculated, if according to Chen Wenzhao's teachings, maintain a full Qi family army establishment team, that year's military salary alone will be almost 500,000 taels of silver, not including weapons, rewards and other expenses - such expenses are not able to be solved by a small weaving commander at present.

Ji Qingwen just wanted to find a way to refuse, but Chen Wenzhao said: "It is indeed difficult to directly recruit 3,000 people at the moment. I remember that the older generation said that General Qi Jiguang raised a team of 3,000 people, and he almost exhausted his efforts, and sometimes he was not exempt from arrears. It's a good choice to recruit 200 people to train first, and then slowly expand on top of that......"

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Due to the heavy snow sealing the mountain, Ji Qingwen and others and Chen Wenzhao stayed on the mountain for one more day, and then reluctantly went down the mountain on the third day, and when they went down the mountain, it was already evening, thanks to Chen Wenzhao's familiarity and big face in Yiwu City, he found an inn to live in.

Early the next morning, everyone dressed up and had breakfast, and then went to the gate of Yiwu and set up a table to prepare to recruit soldiers.

Although Yiwu is a small city, it is also quite prosperous and lively, at this time the pedestrian in and out is endless, among which there are many young men of school age who can serve as soldiers.

So Chen Wenzhao jumped on the table, and was about to speak, but he heard Ji Qingwen say: "General Chen, slow down, I haven't completely put out the pomp yet!" ”

Chen Wenzhao felt strange when he heard this, but he saw Ji Qingwen instructing Huang Degong to take out two big flags out of nowhere, put them on two wooden poles that were two feet long, and insert them into the soil.

A gust of wind blew, blowing the two flags into the wind, but I saw that the two flags were green and red, and the green flags were embroidered with a black word "Ji" - naturally the surname of "Ji Qingwen"; And the red flag was embroidered with gold thread with the word "Qi" the size of a sea bowl - isn't it the word "Qi" of "Qi Jiguang" and "Qi Jiajun"?