The military households are busy with spring ploughing, and businessmen such as Wan Youqing are busy with going to sea.

Going to sea is not a house, it is not just a boat, there are too many things to prepare.

If nothing else, it takes a lot of effort just to find the crew.

Li Chuan lacked resources in this regard, so he could only lure him into profits, drive those businessmen to take the lead for him, pass on some unpredictable risks, and wait for those businessmen to make a good road before they would consider how to take Taiwan.

The barracks have been busy recently, and after the fifteenth five-year round, Li Chuan ordered the conscription of 2,000 soldiers, and the soldiers of Jinweishan were fully numbered, and they are currently training for physical fitness, and the previous 3,000 soldiers have been trained for three months of intensive training, and they are currently training guns, and guns and cannons often roar on the sea near Jinshanwei.

At first, the military households thought that foreign enemies were invading, but later they gradually got used to it.

The mud and sand of the naval camp have been cleared, and the craftsmen are driving piles, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until May at the earliest.

In March, the spring breeze is full of green flowers and flowers, which is a good season in the south of the Yangtze River.

There was nothing to do, Li Chuan was going to take Su Xiaomei and go to Songjiang Mansion for a sightseeing tour.

At this time, a piece of news spread all over the land of Jiangnan.

In March, the thief chief Zhang Xianzhong led the army out of the hidden mountain, and broke through Taihu Lake, Qizhou, Huangzhou and other places.

Jiangnan is on guard, and Jinling is also mobilizing troops.

The year before last, the peasant army had hit Jiangbei, Zhang Xianzhong's department was to capture the capital of Fengyang, digging the imperial tomb, many people poured blood mold, was cut off by the emperor, and then Zhang Xianzhong was even more in one go to capture Luzhou, hit the capital of Hezhou, only more than 100 miles away from Jinling, Jiangshi can frighten the officials and lords in the south of the Yangtze River, and even some people fled south with their families.

Fortunately, the rebels had no intention of crossing the river to the south, so they left after fighting Hezhou and grabbing it.

After that, the imperial court was quite powerful, and the peasant army was beaten to a pulp.

Even the thief chief Gao Yingxiang was caught and chopped, and the surging thief finally suppressed it.

However, it has only been stable for a year, and why is it chaotic again.

The officials and gentry in Jiangnan were a little flustered, and they felt that they really couldn't live this day.

Li Chuan was also in the mood to travel, he was not very happy, those military heroes who had just recruited the curtain were unlucky, and they took off a layer of skin in just three days after being drilled, and several small officials of Jin Shanwei were also unlucky.

In the past, when the barracks and the naval barracks were rebuilt, some people were up and down, and Li Chuan kept pressing and not dealing with them, but now that the barracks have been completed, and the most difficult project of the naval barracks has been completed, it is time to settle accounts after the autumn.

However, the relationship between people is like a big net, and there is no end to the intertwined links.

Even if the character is small, it is inevitable that there will always be some roots.

After several officials were arrested, the pleas soon came to the door.

It was Zhang Kuan, who came from the right thousand households, and said with an embarrassed face: "My lord, can you give Chen Cai a chance?" ”

"Who are you?"

Li Chuan didn't beat around the bush, staring at his question with a wide range of eyes.

Zhang Kuan hesitated, knowing that he couldn't hide anything from his family, so he had to say: "The lower official accepted Chen Cai's sister as a concubine." ”

"It's okay to give him a chance."

Li Chuan said: "The silver for rebuilding the military camp is from this official, this generation is bold, even the official's silver dares to take it, and the official wants to chop it up, but since you come forward to intercede, then Chen Cai is greedy for three hundred silver, then fine three thousand silver!" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Kuan was embarrassed, three thousand taels of silver was not a small amount.

Li Chuan said lightly: "If it's too much, then chop your hands!" ”

Zhang Kuan was helpless, so he had to pinch his nose and agree, but he was thinking about how much property Zhang Cai had, although Jin Shanwei was also rich, but Zhang Cai was a small official, he was an errand runner before, even if he could be greedy, it was estimated that the family property was not three thousand taels.

After all, such a big project as rebuilding the camp will not be encountered once in a hundred years.

Of the seven officials, six have backgrounds, and only one has no background.

Of course, this background refers to being able to find Li Chuan here, in fact, even if there is no back, it doesn't have nothing to do with it, but the relationship level is a bit low, and I can't ask Li Chuan here.

Li Chuan always believes that killing people is never a good way to solve problems.

Take corruption as an example, Ming Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang killed fewer people? But there is still no way to eradicate corruption, how to prevent corruption for the time being, but how to deal with corruption, killing people is not necessarily the best way to solve the problem.

In fact, if you take another approach, there may be other gains.

Li Chuan's method is to get ten times the amount of silver he is greedy, and he will chop his hands if he has no money.

The seven officials finally paid ten times the amount of silver obtained from corruption, and it is said that they all owed a lot of foreign debts, and once they returned to the pre-liberation period, of course, these are not what Li Chuan has to care about, anyway, he is in a very happy mood.

Tens of thousands of taels of silver were put into the account out of thin air, although it was only a drop in the bucket for him, but for the military households, for the price of Daming, tens of thousands of taels of silver were really a huge amount of money.

Not to mention anything else, these tens of thousands of taels of silver are enough for him to support 5,000 troops for a month.

This expenditure included the food, drink, lazar and wages of the 5,000 soldiers, except for guns and ammunition.

After dealing with the embezzlers, Wan Youqing and others finally arrived.

Den.

Li Chuan sat at the top, and as soon as the buttocks of the seven people sat firmly, he couldn't wait to ask, "How are you preparing?" ”

Wan Youqing said: "A hundred sailors have been recruited, and the goods are ready, and we are ready to board the ship from Ningbo Mansion and set off." The ships of the adults are all warships, and they can't carry much cargo, so I'll rent a few cargo ships. ”

"Good, good!"

Li Chuan got up and clapped his hands, turned around in his mind, and said: "You are very thoughtful, it's better to rent a boat, and it won't cost much silver, my ships are all snatched from the Zheng family, and they are really suitable for going to sea, and they can't load much goods." ”

A few people were a little embarrassed, but quickly covered it up.

In fact, those warships are better than merchant ships for navigation, and they can't load goods is secondary, the most important thing is that those three warships were snatched by Li Chuan from the Zheng family.

Even if you think about it with your ass, you know what will happen if you encounter the Zheng family's fleet.

"Everything is to explore the road as the first task, the problem that can be solved with silver is not a problem, try not to clash with the forces of all parties, and when encountering pirates, you must also save your life as the first priority, as long as you can bring back the news, it doesn't hurt if the goods are lost, I will make up for it when I go back." I'll tell you to go back and let Huang Tianxiang bring some people with you. ”

The seven of them glanced at each other and hurriedly responded.