Early the next morning, Wang Jiang and Chen Wen jointly issued a punishment decision.

The few officials in the old camp were beheaded for public display, and their wives were not enslaved in the official mansion; In view of the fact that he betrayed his wife's family first, his wife's family was sentenced to return to his own family, and his heirs were not allowed to use his surname; Qi Xiufeng, the quartermaster, was not well supervised, was punished with 50 rods, fined for three months, and removed from the post of quartermaster.

In line with the common purpose of punishing corruption, Wang Jiang and Chen Wen jointly discussed and decided on this punishment decision, and the punishment of the junior official of the old camp and the commander of the army who guarded and stole was based on the principle of severity, in order to give others a precaution.

Originally, Wang Jiang was going to confiscate the wife of the chief of Wu into the official mansion as a slave, but Chen Wen objected, no matter how he said that the woman was also a pregnant woman, which made him unable to do anything. So the final result is to send it to his mother's family, but the heirs of the chief will no longer use his surname, regardless of gender, and he will be regarded as having his children cut off from his grandchildren in name, at least in the eyes of the ancients, there is no difference between the surname and the loss of children and grandchildren.

As for Qi Xiufeng, although he did not participate in this corruption case, as a quartermaster, he was responsible for poor supervision. Cane scolding, punishment and dismissal seem to be much lighter, but the cane scolding alone can probably cost half the life of this weak scholar, in fact, it is not too much worse.

At the same time as the execution, Yu Guowang and others also came to the temporary camp of the Ming army in Dalanshan.

In fact, their respective stations are not very close to each other, and they are not far from this temporary camp. It's just that just as Wang Yi is the leader of the alliance in the Siming Mountain area, the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain is also the leader of the alliance with the strongest and most fair Xinchang Boyu Guowang. This time, Chen Wen peddled weapons for the Qing army, just in time for these Ming generals to discuss countermeasures to the situation at Yu Guowang's station, and also attracted more customers.

After the two sides met the ceremony, Chen Wen did not rush to invite these customers to dinner, nor did he take them directly to inspect the goods, but took them to a room where special trophies were collected.

There were as many as seven or eight generals of the Ming army who came this time, except for Yu Guowang, who was camped in a town not far away, Chen Wen only saw Jintang who raised troops against the Qing Dynasty with Yu Guowang and later divided into a battalion, and he had never seen any of the other generals of the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain.

Since I haven't seen it, we must first establish the credibility of the brand, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort. So, Chen Wen took them directly to the room where the captured Qing army flags were stored. Originally, the purpose of setting up such a room was to brainwash the recruits who were about to enter the camp, but now it is just the right time for these customers to strengthen their trust in Chen Wen, a second-class dealer.

Entering the house, a yard of green flags immediately caught the eyes of these Ming army generals. From Li Rong, the deputy general of the Zhejiang Admiral's Standard Battalion, to Song Hua, the general of the Left Battalion of the Zhejiang Admiral's Standard Battalion, and then to the scattered garrisons, thousands of generals, and general banners, a whole room was hung up.

At a glance, the whole room was rendered green at the moment the door was opened, and the source of these greens was all from the elite Admiral Biao Battalion of the Zhejiang Green Battalion, which really frightened these generals and general soldiers who were still suspicious before. When they looked at Chen Wen, the awe in their eyes could no longer be concealed, and even during the banquet, they were frequently courting Chen Wen, a garrison with the rank of guerrilla.

In fact, this is also very normal, in the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang, the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area needs to face the green battalions in Shaoxing and Ningbo all the year round due to the geographical location, and occasionally have to face the small-scale encirclement and suppression of the Qing army's standard battalion and Fubiao battalion, so it is generally better than the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain in terms of combat effectiveness, after all, there are many fewer combat opportunities here.

The strongest Ming army in the Tiantai Mountain area is the troops of Yu Guowang of Xinchang Bo, Yu Guowang has more than 10,000 troops, and has ambushed and defeated the small-scale encirclement and suppression troops of the standard battalion, which is already a rare elite here.

But it was also this army, in the battle of besieging Tiantai County in the third year of Yongli, in the case of internal response, it was actually defeated by Xu Shouxian, the garrison of the Qing army, with hundreds of casualties and returned in vain. During the siege of Xinchang last year, because Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu were ordered to return to Dalan Mountain, they did not conquer Xinchang as in history, and their combat effectiveness can be seen.

Therefore, now that there are such powerful allies, they naturally want to have a good relationship with Chen Wen, in order to be able to help each other in the future.

Due to the arms trade fair in the afternoon, Chen Wen did not prepare too much wine at the welcome banquet at noon, but even so, when the arms trade fair in the afternoon began, these Ming army generals were still scared out of a cold sweat.

Although the wine was not enough and the food was full, after resting for a while, Chen Wen took these Ming generals to the arsenal, where the weapons and equipment to be sold had been neatly placed in the open space, while the cloth and luxury goods were placed on the table for these Ming generals to buy.

The army of this era followed this concept of "expensive and miscellaneous soldiers" in the selection of weapons and equipment, and this theory was put forward by Qi Jiguang, and his mandarin duck array and subsequent battalions of multi-arms joint operations also followed this theory, in order to be able to cope with changes in the battlefield. This theory is extremely feasible to use in the Mandarin Duck Formation, which emphasizes mutual cooperation, and Qi Jiguang relied on these to beat the Japanese and Mongols in the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties.

However, the battle formations commonly used by the Ming and Qing armies in this era were too demanding for the ability of military generals, the reactions of junior officers, and the quality of soldiers. Therefore, the armies of this era generally used spears and sword and shield soldiers as the main force, supplemented by soldiers who used other weapons as assistance, in order to achieve the effect of different paths to the same end.

Because the standard battalion still follows this theory, the weapons captured by the Ming army are exaggerated, which can be said to be swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, sticks, mallets, whips, hammers, abductors, meteors, what with pointed, thorny, edged, bladed, velvet rope, chained, with inverted tooth hooks, with Emei thorns, eighteen kinds of blades, everything.

FOR THOSE WEAPONS THAT ARE MORE INDIVIDUAL, CHEN WEN, WHO IS NOT AWARE OF IT, DIRECTLY DEFINES THEM AS THE NEEDS OF SOLDIERS TO USE COSPALY IN THE POPULAR TEXTS OF THIS ERA, SUCH AS "ROMANCE OF THE GODS" AND "ROMANCE OF THE SUI AND TANG DYNASTIES", WHO CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE USE OF THESE IS IN THE BATTLE ARRAY?

The arms trade fair was still going on, so Chen Wen found a reason to leave the place - as allies of the Ming army, it was really inappropriate to bargain face-to-face, so he asked Gu Shouli to handle the matter, while he waited until the time was almost up to come out to win some favor and deal with some more difficult customers.

Soon, a general of the Ming army finished buying the spears and swords and shields he needed, and he had no idea about other weapons for the time being, of course, because of his shyness, he had to choose these. It's just that when he was about to go to negotiate, he looked at Gu Shouli, who was fiddling with the abacus, and he was covered in sweat.

Chen Wen knew that it was inconvenient to bargain face-to-face, and this general of the Ming army was not stupid, since he had left the master book of the army, he was obviously ready to slaughter. It's just that his strength is not strong, and he doesn't have much money, so he is not prepared to buy much at all, and the weapons from the soldiers of the Raising Battalion are far more well-made than them, so he has to be slaughtered.

Walking over tremblingly, he thought it would be a difficult bargaining journey, but who knew that Gu Shouli had a list of forms that could be used to exchange these weapons and equipment. In addition to money, grain, vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry, pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, and other livestock can all be exchanged, and even firecrackers, charcoal, saltpeter, sulfur, and other materials used to make gunpowder can also be exchanged.

After hearing this, the general of the Ming army immediately doubled his confidence, he didn't have much money, and he didn't plan to exchange the few firearms, but there were many others. In this era when there is no concept of anti-humanity, the general of the Ming army feels that it is extremely cost-effective to be able to exchange for more good weapons, even if he and his subordinates eat less food every day.

After listening to the exchange price, thinking that buying more should be able to cut some more price, the general of the Ming army ran back with confidence, lest others snatch away what he had hesitated to buy before......

The reason why this is the case is mainly out of consideration for dealing with the economic crisis of the Ming army in Dalanshan. Although there are already many people who are thinking about their fields at home and planning to return to Siming Mountain, Chen Wen knows very well that the Qing army has once again encircled and suppressed Siming Mountain before attacking Zhoushan this year, and they are almost certain to die if they return here.

Seeing this, Chen Wen persuaded Wang Jiang to inform the people in the name of the old camp in Dalanshan that it was okay to go back, but only until the end of this year, because the Qing army would besiege Zhoushan this year, and the area around Siming Mountain was not safe.

However, in this way, the economic pressure will never be alleviated, and the expansion of the army and the subsequent offensive plan cannot be carried out, so he can only act in this way. Of course, Chen Wen has also considered the worst plan, that is, to take the rich people of his peers, and the consequences of doing so are what he does not want to see.

After a long time, Chen Wen hurried back slowly. Most of the Ming generals here have already completed their purchases, but at this moment, they did not continue to appreciate the things they bought, but watched a Ming army general bargain with Gu Shouli.

"What's going on?"

Hearing Chen Wen's inquiry, Gu Shouli hurriedly got up and saluted, and then explained the whole story. The general of the Ming army who bargained with him was called Dong Keshen, who was stationed in Xianju County, Taizhou Prefecture, and this time he purchased more goods, and the road was not close, so he always wanted to kill some more prices, and he became the leader of these Ming army bargains.

Chen Wen knew that what he said was the truth, and in modern times, freight costs should also be calculated within the cost, and Chen Wen, who was not familiar with the place, would definitely not send someone to transport, so it was also an inevitable choice to reduce the price appropriately for these customers.

It's just that if he is here alone, everyone is watching the outcome of this matter, once Chen Wen lowers the price for him, others will inevitably demand the same treatment. Chen Wen thought about it for a while and decided to come up with a compromise to solve this problem.

Since Dong Shuai feels that the road is far away and the freight is a big problem, it is better to hand over the goods purchased by Dong Shuai to Xinchangbo for transportation, and the two parties will agree on an acceptable location for delivery. As for Xinchangbo's side, there is still a big deal to negotiate in the end, and some concessions can be made in return, how? ”

PS: This is yesterday's chapter, and I started writing about today after eating.

PS: The second volume will not be as slow as the previous one, and it is estimated that there are still a few chapters to complete, and then start to regain lost ground.