Chapter 192: The Cannon Is Coming

Now on the ground in Dengzhou, who is the person who speaks effectively, after Jiang Feng led the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion - or his 2,000 Ding Yaowu to parade, everyone understood.

What was Dong Qianping in the past half of Dengzhou, but now the manor land under Jiang Feng is mostly half of Dengzhou, and how many tenants and long-term workers farm and eat under him. His soldiers are well-armoured, and they are not the kind of nest soldiers who eat military salaries and farm land. And young people all know that they are soldiers under the command of Master Jiang, they eat well and are full of momentum.

Even the Dengzhou Left Guard military households, on the first day, each person was given nearly two taels of silver in money and grain, where would such a good official be found?

Although Jiang Feng has no plans to recruit new soldiers here, there is an unprecedented problem at the gate of the yamen in Fucheng asking whether it is recruiting soldiers recently.

Dengzhou Tiger, this is what the military and civilians of Dengzhou call Jiang Feng in private.

In the text of the military department, there is no mention of how to deal with the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households that Jiang Feng originally managed, and logically speaking, it is not a guard post on the nine sides, and it is a burden to the military department, the household department, or the officers.

The land in Dengzhou is barren, and the more military households there are, the more they will not have much more harvest, and no one wants to pay more for the silver they have to buy grain, so there are a lot of vacancies in the guards. Jiang Feng didn't know these things, for him, the more soldiers there were, the bigger the place he managed, it was naturally a good thing.

The problem is that he thinks so, and those people in the military department don't think so. simply blurred the past, Jiang Feng was not polite, since he didn't say it clearly, then he was the commander of the Dengzhou Left Guard, the capital of the Dengzhou battalion plus the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain, everyone was confused.

But Yantai Mountain Thousand Households is extremely important to Jiang Feng, and it can even be said that if there is no private port of Yantai Mountain Thousand Households, he will not be able to maintain such a strong army under his command at all.

Jiang Feng is now the commander of the guard, the capital of Dengzhou, naturally has the power to protect and appoint subordinates, Dengzhou Zuowei vacated two thousand households, and there are many hundreds, the position of the general flag, and there are more than a dozen vacancies under the thousand households of Yantai Mountain. Jiang Feng does not shy away from relatives, Yang Da and Luo Yi both have the grade of 100 households, and temporarily act as the 1,000 households of Dengzhou Zuowei.

The most important Yantai Mountain Thousand Households Office is under the jurisdiction of Zhang Liang, who is already the class of the General Banner, and is from an orthodox military officer family, so his order was quickly approved, approving Zhang Liang as a Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain.

Liu Shisan is now just the identity of a small banner, but in the Jiangfeng Dengzhou camp, there is a garrison identity, although everyone is under the jurisdiction of many military households everywhere, but their positions are in the Dengzhou camp, and there are four garrisons under the Dengzhou Metropolitan Division, that is, Zhang Liang, Luo Yi, Yang Da and Liu Shisan.

These four people each received five hundred, but Zhang Liang and Luo Yi led half of the cavalry and half of the infantry, the men of Weishan Island were all under the two of them, and Yang Da and Liu Shisan's men were all artisan recruits recruited by Tianjin Wei. Although there is no suspicion between each other now, we must be on guard after all.

The Tie Ding were to be controlled by Jiang Feng himself, so although more than a hundred Tie Ding had such and such official titles on their bodies, they were still under his direct control as Jiang Feng's real personal guard armies, and more than a dozen Orions could not have anything to do with the government for various reasons.

However, he still moved into the city and lived around Jiang Feng's mansion, probably after everything was arranged, the "tiger" in the mouth of the military and civilians in Dengzhou was in the Qianhu House in Yantai Mountain. Jiang Feng's time was not all spent in the city, and he basically had to spend fifteen days a month in the Thousand Households of the Guard.

Leading the troops in person is the minimum requirement for a general to control the troops, although Jiang Feng is ignorant, but such a thing seems to be instinctive, and he should have known it.

After tossing for nearly three months, the Xia family's fleet finally bought two cannons this time, and the soldiers of the Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain and Xia Cuiyu's men delivered the news almost at the same time. To tell the truth, after Jiang Feng really sat firmly in this position in Dengzhou, he was a little lazy and bored in his heart.

In this era, no matter how you evaluate it, he Jiang Feng is a quite successful general, not to mention his outstanding military achievements, but the difficulties encountered by the general military in officialdom have never been a problem in front of Jiang Feng.

That is, more than two years of hard work, from a small Jinyi guard patrol street colonel to thousands of military households, the commander of the guard post guarding Dengzhou, such a speed can be called a rocket climbing, but it can't make people say a little problem, because his military exploits are real, all of them have the first level and the like as proof.

married the daughter of the political envoy as his wife, the family has a lot of money, and it is needless to say that he is making money every day, and he is almost like Lu Bing's kind of set in advance.

All of this is extremely enviable, but Jiang Feng feels a little bored, he is ambitious, and he doesn't want to enjoy the rich life of the Ming Dynasty like this. A young man who is not inferior in a modern legal society. Travel back in time to this dynasty where there are more possibilities.

Jiang Feng knew what his desires and goals were, and what he wrote with his eyes closed that time was not so much to write out the wishes in his heart as to remind himself.

But looking at it now, after Jiang Feng found that he had achieved the position of commander of the guard, the way to continue moving forward was suddenly gone, or in other words, he didn't know how to make his position higher and expand his power even more.

Jiang Feng, who was originally a rough man, suddenly sighed inexplicably, it would be good if the speed of his promotion and expansion of power was slower, so that at least he could enjoy the fun of the process. Life has to go on, Jiang Feng's daily pastime is to fight with Zhang Liang and Liu Shisan in his yard.

Liu Shisan, who had always been a little unconvinced in his heart, but he couldn't find a chance to compete with Jiang Feng, finally knew how powerful Jiang Feng was, and after being knocked down by Jiang Feng dozens of times in three days, he was finally convinced, and completely understood why a group of tiger wolves like Tie Ding would honestly be like sheep in front of Jiang Feng.

Is this the cannon of this era, Jiang Feng looked at the two thick black iron pipes in front of him, and he really couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, although these two things in front of him looked crude, they represented advanced huge firepower, and they were overwhelming forces.

Xia Qingjiao didn't follow this time, the principal of the fleet is a middle-aged man in his forties, it is said that he is also an elder of the Xia family, others call him Xia Wu, he is also the kind of bronze skin that blows in the wind and rain on the sea, and he is quite gentle, which is quite different from the arrogant Xia Cuiyu reserved Xia Qingjiao.

Seeing Jiang Feng watching around the two guns on the harbor there, Xia Wu said with a smile:

"These two cannons are not easy to get, our three masters have been wandering around Guangdong and Nanyang, usually those ghosts are corresponding to the smiling faces of our Xia family, as soon as I heard that we were going to buy cannons, they all shook their heads down, and kept saying that artillery is a secret that the state is not allowed to sell, and it cannot be sold."

Listening to this Xia Wu's witty words, Jiang Feng was also in a good mood when he saw the cannon, and then asked:

"And how did you get these two guns?"

Xia Wu took out a gourd from his waist, opened the stopper and poured a few sips, the aroma of wine overflowed, obviously excited, drank a few sips to moisten his throat, and then wiped his mouth there and continued:

"The silver was smashed, Xia San gave five thousand taels and one doors at the beginning, and later when it was added to ten thousand taels and one doors, the captain of the Franc machine was the clapper at that time, and he unloaded two cannons on the ship that night, saying that it was a broken weapon that needed to be sunk into the sea for disposal, and it was also equipped with ten shells, turtle son's, what kind of state secrets are there, the silver is smashed, and he is willing to sell anything!"

Jiang Feng remembered clearly that the silver he gave to Xia Qingjiao was more than 40,000 taels, and the Xia Wu in front of him said it without any scruples, almost swallowing 20,000 taels of silver, but Jiang Feng didn't have any objection, this kind of Western artillery, if he didn't have a way, he really couldn't get it, and it was helpless for the silver to be earned.

There were also a few Xia family members from the Jade Building who followed them to the dock, and when they heard this, they all had a fever on their faces, and hurriedly went over to remind them, Xia Wu was touched by his juniors a few times, and explained in a low voice, this is to understand that he said the wrong words, his bronze face has turned purple and turned black, and he said without words:

"It's not enough to have cannons and shells, the three of us are still trying our best to find gunners, those ghosts on the ship are all soldiers, although they are greedy for our silver, but the military law does not dare to come, it took more than a month of effort, but I didn't expect someone to take the initiative to come to us, saying that they were willing to come to be an artillery master."

Among the craftsmen of Tianjin Wei, there are quite a lot of firearms manufacturing backgrounds, which is also when Jiang Feng asked Tie Dan to go to Tianjin Wei to recruit soldiers, he paid special attention to recruiting, if there are people in Tie Ding's family who know how to manufacture firearms, they are the priority objects. This time, there were a few old craftsmen who came to see the cannons, all of whom had cast cannons.

They were also happy to see the hunt, and after Jiang Feng retreated, the old craftsmen surrounded him and studied it carefully. Jiang Feng only heard Xia Wu's introduction at this time. I thought to myself, how could I not see it just now, but I didn't expect that on the beach behind Xia Wu, a sailor in tattered clothes stood up lazily.

After the sailor over there took off the headscarf on his head, he saw that this was a white man - in fact, he was very tanned, and he had been lying on the side just now, wearing the clothes of the sailors of the Xia family.