Chapter 08: Too Expensive!
Zheng Long arranged seven days to recruit family members.
Jiading is a landmark strong soldier in the Ming Dynasty, not only is the treatment two, three or even ten times that of ordinary soldiers, but some generals even have to take care of Jiading's finding-little-sister.
Like Wanli years, Liaodong General Army, Li Rusong, the son of the famous general Li Chengliang. Later, he relied on his family to inherit his father's position and became the chief soldier of Liaodong.
What did he do with his family? Jia Ding Cheng plans to befriend the famous runaway girl. Li Rusong thought that Cheng Mou was his general and the head of the warriors, so he generously donated money and let Cheng Mou get his wish. This is the aftermath of the aftermath of the anti-Japanese campaign to aid Korea and resist the Japanese, Cheng Mou led his family to return to the siege and save Li Rusong's life.
The family not only treats the best, but even hides some illegal acts from the lord and lets them do whatever they want.
Therefore, after Zheng Long listened to some words, he realized that it was no wonder that he recruited Xiang Yong, and even his sixth uncle Zheng Yinghui was unwilling to let his three sons do it, but as soon as he said that he was recruiting a family, he immediately let his three sons take refuge on the spot.
Since it is now the seventeenth century, during the feudal dynasty, Zheng Long did not have the idea of building an iron army, which is too unrealistic.
It is necessary to fundamentally and thoroughly reshape the spirit of a nation and reshape its world outlook. This difficulty, tsk tsk.
Zheng Long thought that he was not a great man, at most he was a lucky person, so he conformed to the trend of the times.
Then, recruiting soldiers, those silver taels are enough, and even more than enough, but they can recruit families, and these silver taels are too ordinary to even enter the stream.
It's just that Zheng Long snickered, it seems that the Ming people in Sichuan are indeed turtles, and outside in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a family member has no face to see people for five or two months, but here, two or five dollars can buy a lot of people's hearts.
Zheng Long ordered twenty-five clone farmers to arrange tables and chairs, and he held a brush and wrote the names of his family members crookedly. As for the place of origin, appearance, and identity, I found a famous old boy in Zhengjia Village, and Zhou Jiwen wrote.
Speaking of which, Zhou Jiwen is Zheng Long's distant cousin-in-law.
Zheng Long was also relieved to let Lao Zhou shake his head.
On the first day, there were enough 300 people in Zhengjia Village to take refuge. Choosing its elite, two hundred people were chosen.
The next day, another 200 people from Zhengjia Village took refuge, and another 100 people were selected, making up 300 people.
On the third day, people from all over the neighboring towns came, and there were enough predecessors, and the best of the best were selected, and the remaining 200 people were filled.
The surnames Yang, Liao, Niu, Li, and Pei in the neighboring townships have divided the remaining 200 places, like the boundaries of Pi County, Peng County, and Chongning County in neighboring counties.
Zheng Long's early recruitment of 500 people was fully considered, and he thought of the acceptance of the Ming Dynasty gentry.
Zheng Long's money, Sensei said that raising a mere 500 people means raising 5,000 people, and 10,000 people is enough to support them, but the family of 500 people is not conspicuous, 5,000 people? I'm afraid that the first thing the Ming army will deal with is you!
You are in the mainland, more than 200 years, but also in the first year of the Apocalypse (1621) broke out of the rebellion of luxury, Chengdu I near the capital suffered a military disaster, Chongzhen ten years Li Zicheng army into Sichuan, captured more than 30 states and counties, a few months later out of Sichuan. For more than 200 years, there are only a few small bandits, and you are not the commander or general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, you raise 5,000 soldiers, what do you want to do!?
Sensei said that Emperor Chongzhen, it is at this time that Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan who went out of Sichuan to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, will transfer troops to suppress you!
However, five hundred people is really not much, so Zheng Long uses this as a limit.
Zheng Long asked his tenants to collect timber and stone, which he bought at a high price, and at the same time ordered the clone farmers to build villas.
Detached family, six bedrooms, three living rooms and three bathrooms, 190 square meters of townhouse.
Under their hands-on teaching, in three days, more than 50 villagers in Zhengjia Village have been taught to learn to build stone houses.
Speaking of which, except that it is not reinforced concrete, but only iron and stone, the rest is not much different from European houses.
The brick house is more Chinese, but the bricks are quite expensive, and Zheng Long is reluctant.
So, I used gold and silver to buy some cement from the Star Castle, and directly built it stone by stone.
Of course, the best dozens of villas, Zheng Long plans to use the manganese copper steel bars produced by the Star Castle, this future alloy, in terms of hardness and flexibility, is no worse than the armor steel of the twenty-first century, and it is better to use only the ore that the Star Castle comes with to produce it.
The Star Castle also gave the official price, like a complete set of manganese bronze knight's cuirass, or knight's plate armor, the whole body is ergonomically tailor-made, and the system price is a set of one hundred taels of gold.
Considering this armor, unless it is a direct hit by a cannon, it basically ignores the heavy crossbow or even the musket at this time, then, a hundred taels of gold is also worth it!
Star Castle can even clone future dragon-blooded horses with Zerg mammoth blood. The standard dragon-blooded horse stallion weighs 925 kilograms, is 1.75 meters tall at the shoulder, and is as majestic as a mountain, with a maximum speed of 85 kilometers per hour, and can run at a speed of 45 kilometers for 12 hours without rest. It's not a problem to travel thousands of miles a day.
However, the price of such a horse, a star-castle, is three hundred taels of gold or the equivalent of silver!
Three hundred taels of gold, according to the ratio of gold and silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even according to the most conservative and most loss-making official discount price of one to eight, it is still two thousand four hundred taels of silver, which is appallingly expensive!
The waistcoat was again a hundred taels of gold.
In other words, a cavalryman needs a price of five hundred taels of gold to buy a complete set of interstellar castle properties.
Five hundred taels of gold for a cavalryman, this price made Zheng Long gasp in distress.
If it's a swordsman's equipment, it's much cheaper.
A swordsman, a light chain armor, even if it is made of manganese-copper alloy, is only twenty taels of gold, and a sword, that is, ten taels of gold, a helmet, a pair of combat boots, and ten taels of gold. All the pieces are complete, and it is only forty taels of gold.
Therefore, Zheng Long considered it, and equipped the forty people who had been slightly trained in martial arts, and the most important ones who listened to the order, with dragon blood horses and knight heavy armor and heavy spears, and the remaining four hundred and sixty people, all equipped with cross swordsman equipment.
With this equipment, although it is light chain armor, it can't be shot through by ordinary hard bows, unless it is a god arm bow that can break through the armor within ten meters with a hard crossbow on its feet, and ordinary bandits really can't hold it.
Even if you are so careful, you need 38,400 taels of gold!
Based on the current five hundred taels of gold, five hundred taels of gold equivalent to silver, it will take thirty-nine days to output.
That's not going to work, so it's time to upgrade the center of the town to the center of the town.
Moreover, it is not that Zheng Long is too worried, but that the equipment of five hundred taels of gold of the elephant cavalry, if there is no effective management means, it really cannot be easily issued to the soldiers, after all, a thousand miles of horses that can be seen at a glance like the dragon blood horse are too valuable. Like manganese-copper alloy, it looks like gold helmet and gold armor, and fools know that this thing is worth the money of the old nose.
Even if Zheng Long treats them sincerely, they steal horses and equipment to sell them for a thousand taels of silver, and they are thousands of miles away, where are you going to arrest people?
Even the swordsman's ten taels of gold, far exceeding the manganese copper sword of 100 steel, cannot be easily taken out, otherwise, even if it is a villager in the village, or even a villager in a neighboring village, steals and sells it, and then leaves, it will be okay to take him.
Zheng Long is not a law enforcer, Zheng Long is a landlord patriarch, unless he wants to be a local tyrant and a shoddy gentleman, otherwise, he really can't do it. Although it shows that the life of the last man is like grass, but if Zheng Long wants to do this, he is a modern person who has received modern civilization education, and he really has mental obstacles.
As the patriarch, the head of the family, and the big fight against the family, don't you want to stay in this family?
But to Zheng Long's great annoyance, Scarlet Feather jumped out and said: "As a reserve interstellar knight, the master must have the courage to charge single-handedly in the face of the bombardment of thousands of troops and horses, thousands of cannons. Therefore, don't take care of people's lives, they are all your serfs. ”
Zheng Long: ....... You're a chubby girl, are you schizophrenic? One moment the justice is awe-inspiring, and the next moment it is like the Manchu nobles.