Chapter 8: Selling Fields

Zhang Dou came to the cart, picked up a sheepskin and looked at it carefully. Not to mention, this old man's craftsmanship is really not covered.

The sheepskin is not damaged at all, and each one is a complete sheepskin, which can definitely be done without leakage. Zhang Dou was excited to see such a perfect sheepskin, and his plan had taken a step forward.

Next to the sheepskin were several large baskets containing mutilated mutton. There was also a large basket filled with sheep and goods, all of which had been washed and cleaned.

Zhang Dou looked at it and nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Ergou to pay the money and returned to the barracks. And told the old man that in the future, as long as they do not go on the expedition, they will send so many sheep every day.

After arranging for the firefighters to nitrate the sheepskin so that it would not dry out and unusable, Zhang Dou ordered someone to carry the mutton to the school grounds.

As soon as the mutton comes out, who competes. The soldiers, who were already tired of dogs, cheered and jumped. In this year, only during the New Year can you eat a meal of meat and beat your teeth.

Even if it is the landlord's family, it is impossible to eat a large piece of meat casually every day, and everyone is crazy at this moment, and they are all praising Zhang Dou for loving soldiers like a son, he is a rare good general, and he must die for the general.

Zhang Dou didn't expect that a simple meal of mutton would buy this group of simple men, what he didn't know was. In the Ming army, unless there is a war, it is a luxury to even have a full meal.

At lunch, Zhang Dou looked at the soldiers who were feasting and mourned for three minutes in his heart. He laughed in his heart: Now you thank yourself, and when you practice tomorrow, you should scold yourself!

After lunch, Zhang Dou announced the content of each day's training. When the soldiers heard that they had to train every day, their faces suddenly became bitter.

They all muttered to themselves, this meat is really not so delicious, and they have to train every day, is this to train the rhythm of the dead?

When they heard Zhang Dou's training plan, they were dumbfounded, and they got up in the morning to run laps for 5 miles. Then there's an hour of cohort training.

After lunch, there is an hour of standing military posture training, and finally the practice of mandarin duck formation hand-to-hand killing. Under this set, even good people have to practice fart, let alone do it every day. But at the thought of fragrant mutton swirling in their mouths, their saliva suddenly flowed backwards.

Zhang Ergou's face became more and more bitter when he heard Zhang Dou's decision, and today these 20 sheep cost 60 taels of silver. That's it, the old man discounted it.

If you eat like this, you will be able to eat Zhang Dou in less than half a month. When Zhang Dou eats the northwest wind, they will also be unlucky.

He carefully reminded Zhang Dou, "General! Today's meal of meat cost almost a hundred taels of silver, and we can't last half a month if we consume it like this. ”

Zhang Dou pondered for a while after listening to this, and said, "That's not good! ”

Ergou thought that Zhang Dou had changed his mind, and was just about to say a few words about the general's wisdom and so on.

Then Zhang Dou spoke again, "I have to find a way to get some silver, and I have to last for half a month." And we have too little gunpowder, so we have to go to the arsenal to get some. ”

Hearing his words, Zhang Ergou rolled his eyes, yes! I persuaded him in vain just now, how could my own general be so defeated after waking up from injury!

He said angrily: "It's not easy to get silver, just sell the 200 acres of fertile land handed down by your ancestors!" Anyway, you are also a person who feeds the whole family and is not hungry, and it is useless to keep it or not! ”

God is pitiful, he is angry and angry, but I didn't expect Zhang Dou to really care.

"Ergou, you said I still have good land at home?"

Zhang Ergou realized that he might have said the wrong thing, and nodded mechanically.

"I'm the only one left in my house?" Zhang Dou asked.

Zhang Ergou still nodded.

"Then you say how much money and silver can our land be worth?" Zhang Dou asked again.

"I can't sell it for any amount of money! General, that's what your ancestors have handed down, and it's the ancestral property that you want to leave to future generations, but you can't move it! "Zhang Ergou is really anxious, although he is only Zhang Dou's personal soldier, but after a few years of getting along, the two and his brother are not much different.

As soon as he heard that Zhang Dou was going to sell his ancestral land, he was really anxious. The love of the land of the Chinese people is beyond anyone's imagination, and they feel that only the land can be passed on to future generations permanently, so the ancestral field can not be touched lightly, which is the rule passed down from the ancestors.

If someone sells their ancestral land, they are a loser. will be scolded by everyone and looked down upon. So Ergouzi tried his best to stop Zhang Dou's decision to sell his ancestral land, he couldn't watch Zhang Dou go on like this crazy again.

There is really nothing for Zhang Dou, a later generation, all the land in later generations is state, and the Chinese people are not still alive.

Everything now should make way for the decisive battle of the Hunhe River in half a month, and if you die in battle, everything will be someone else's. Zu Tian didn't have a dime to do with him, so he patiently explained to Ergouzi.

After all, the sale of Zutian has to come forward with two dogs, and he really doesn't understand the Tao in this future generations.

Zhang Dou pulled the second dog to a secluded place before he said leisurely: "Do you think I really want to sell some ancestral fields?" ”

Hearing his words, the two dogs were stunned, could it be that his own general still had any hidden secrets!

"Hey! I got the most reliable news, and in half a month we will go to Shengjing to fight a decisive battle with the tens of thousands of troops of Jiannu. This news shocked Ergouzi on the spot.

Zhang Dou continued: "This battle is extremely dangerous, it would be good if we won." In case of defeat, in the face of tens of thousands of Jiannu cavalry, we will have no possibility of escaping at all. That's why I broke through the cauldron and fought with all my might. If you win, there will naturally be a large reward, and everything will be there at that time. If you lose, then you will all rest! ”

In the end, Zhang Dou finally persuaded Ergouzi to sell his 200 acres of ancestral land, and he had to prepare for the next decisive battle, just like he just said.

Win! There is still a chance. Defeated, everything is over!

In the afternoon, Zhang Dou began to teach the soldiers to stand in a military posture, which was a test of willpower, and almost every soldier in later generations of Chinese soldiers had to go through.

If you don't stand well in a military posture, you are not worthy of being a qualified soldier. So one hour in the afternoon, Zhang Dou was giving a cordial lecture to this group of soldiers.

Forehead! To be precise, he was holding a bamboo cane. If you find that there are soldiers with non-standard movements, you can do it all of a sudden, the length of the bamboo cane is just right, and it hurts very much on the body, and it will not damage the soldiers. It's really a must-have for home travel and fighting.

After training for an hour, Zhang Dou called a halt. After arranging the practice of each army commander to lead the mandarin duck array, Zhang Dou took the two dogs to the arsenal again.

This time he went to the arsenal Zhang Dou was full of confidence, and the person with the strip in his arms was different. With this slip, he was able to leave a large sum of silver and buy more gunpowder.

When he arrived at the arsenal in a hurry, he was dumbfounded, and the director of the arsenal used two words to give him back, no medicine. Forehead! There is no gunpowder. It's useless to take anyone's strips, no is nothing!

Zhang Dou's whole person was not good at that time, how could there be no gunpowder in the dignified Liaodong land? Isn't that fun? Don't be so foolish.

"Please help this adult!" Zhang Dou said, and handed over a five-tael piece of silver without leaving a trace.

"Not really!" The head of the arsenal accepted the silver, and his tone was no longer as stiff as it was just now. But he still insisted that there was no extra gunpowder for Zhang Dou, and Zhang Dou had no choice but to hand over another five taels of silver.

This time, the attitude of the principal finally loosened a little, "To tell you the truth, there is really a shortage of newly arrived gunpowder, and there is no shortage of points at all." So! ”

Zhang Dou understood as soon as he heard it, and handed over two pieces of silver, and this time the principal finally agreed. However, there is really not much new gunpowder, so Zhang Dou can only take away 300 catties.

And there is a lot of old gunpowder, which can be taken by Zhang Dou as he pleases. However, he explained to Zhang Dou that most of the old gunpowder is not very easy to use because it has been stored for too long, and it is normal to mute the fire, so don't come to them if there is a problem.

Zhang Dou was happy when he heard it, because the gunpowder was not made into pellets, so it was in the process of transportation and storage. Due to the different specific gravity of sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal, it is easy for them to separate naturally, so the situation of dumb fire will occur.

This is a good solution, just take it back and stir it again, and then make it into granulated gunpowder. So he didn't care if it was new gunpowder or not, and immediately happily paid for the gunpowder that could be pulled away.

There is a buy word on it, that's right! The officials of the Ming Dynasty's arsenal basically regarded the contents of the arsenal as their private property. Even if you have official documents and don't have filial piety silver, then the things you get must be rags, so going to the arsenal to get things is basically the same as buying.

After Zhang Dou left, a figure came to the arsenal.

"Master Wang has worked hard, I will report truthfully to Mr. Chen!"

"General Bai is polite, it's not enough to worry about trivial things! This time, all the gunpowder that the lower officials gave to Zhang Dou was in the armament inventory for many years, and it would definitely not be able to hit it if he took it out! In this matter, General Bai asked for a lot of kind words from the chief soldier! ”

"Definitely! Certain! Ha ha!! ”

Two obscene voices burst into laughter in the room.