Chapter 137: Tempering the Army to Prevent Smuggling

Lao Wang was really moved at this time, staring at Xiao Tao and kept looking, until Xiao Tao was seen and didn't know what to do, then asked, "Your ability is innate?" ”

"No, I figured it out later, and I usually have to practice holding my breath in the water, so I just pondered it myself."

Xiao Tao smiled shyly and replied.

"Really? Can this kind of ability be practiced? Okay, okay, Xiaotao, you don't have to go to get incense anymore, your family will have a good life in the future, wait, I'll come when I go. ”

As he spoke, Lao Wang ran to a box next to him, took out a few things from it, and then climbed to the top of the lookout and lit the things, and the fireworks exploded in the sky.

"Uncle, the one you set off is what they call fireworks? It's so beautiful, it looks better if you put it at night, uncle, what are you doing with that thing? ”

Xiao Tao heard the movement, looked out of the window, and saw fireworks exploding in the air, and the movement was not small, waking up the sleeping Uncle Xiaoshi.

"I said, Lao Wang, what are you doing? Got something you can't handle? I also let people not sleep. As soon as Xiao Tao's voice fell, the sound of the small stone sounded.

"Sleep, sleep, what can you do in a day but know how to sleep? Hurry up and cook, find the baby, hurry up, and the credit will be yours when the time comes. ”

Lao Wang kicked the two small stones in the past, and then turned his head to Xiao Tao and said: "In the future, you will work in the Chamber of Commerce, teach your skills to more people, the Chamber of Commerce will give you a lot of money, so that you don't have to worry about life at home, are you willing?" ”

"Is it doing things at the Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou? Yes, I do, I've heard for a long time that I get a lot of money for doing things in the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce, and I will do it for twenty wen a day. ”

Xiao Tao nodded again and again, even if he now knew the price of Jiaxiang, and he would catch a lot of money in a day, he still decided to do things in Luzhou, be stable, and don't worry about being bullied.

"It's not twenty wen, if your ability is true, you can get two hundred wen a day, which is definitely more than what you can make by selling incense by yourself."

Lao Wang has now regarded Xiao Tao as a treasure, if everyone in the Chamber of Commerce can learn this skill, then in the future, whether it is in danger, or work will become powerful.

No wonder the two of them were able to swim here last night, it turned out that there was a young man with great skills.

Xiao Shi asked again in confusion, and when he heard that Xiao Tao could swim to a depth of less than thirty zhang, he was not sleepy, and he got up and began to cook, so that new materials would arrive.

It took half an hour, six dishes, a soup was ready, and the rice wine was also boiled for Xiaotao and his son to eat.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don't know that the farthest lighthouse has found a treasure for them, and now the two of them just take out time to play with their younger brothers and sisters every day, the four little ones are eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating, and when they are rarely energetic, even if they are held in their arms, they will fall asleep after a while.

"Xiaobao, how do you teach them to speak, do you have to wait for them to talk after a few months?" Wang Juan hugged Zhang Xiaobao's younger brother and asked Zhang Xiaobao.

"No, you can do it now, don't look at them now, but they will listen, as long as they hear the voices of adults often, it's better to hold something and keep repeating the name of the thing, the more interested they are, the better.

Waiting for them to play when they want to play, they keep talking about this thing, if they are not the kind of congenital lack of heart, waiting for the vocal cords or something to be almost long, they want something else, they will naturally say the name, the simplest is to let them call Mom, this voice is the best to imitate. ”

Zhang Xiaobao's body swayed back and forth, and the sister in his arms squinted and fell asleep there.

"That's it? My brother and sister are not stupid, they must have been able to speak earlier, Xiaobao, I remember that in the past, when there were children in the family, there were *** but adults used two people to hold the children's legs, why do you have to let them pee on the mat now? ”

Wang Juan changed her sister's mat, she wanted to learn what she had seen before to make her younger brothers and sisters ***.

Zhang Xiaobao said: "No, this is not good, those children are actually a little older, now so small, the bones will not be able to stand it, you must use this mat, and after they can walk, then slowly let them train."

Now don't train them to walk, but bones, for example, sit up, keep rolling, and crawl, little by little, they are not like the two of us, they know their physical condition for more than ten months, and they can make adjustments, they don't understand, one carelessness will be over. ”

"Huh? And such a thing? Then let them continue to pee on the mat, there can be no washing machine, it is difficult to wash, and you have to change it many times a day. ”

Wang Juan Meiyu has raised children, where do you know this, Zhang Xiaobao learned in an orphanage before, and often there are newborn children who are thrown away by their parents, not a disability, but two people who don't seem to be able to have children, sixteen or seventeen-year-old have children, some are beaten down, and some are secretly born without knowing what to do.

If it is a child who goes to school, it is easy to be discovered, and it is impossible to ask for leave for such a long time, and the family must know that if you take a leave of absence, it will be difficult to go out to work.

Those children ended up being brought by other older children in the orphanage, after all, there were too few staff inside, and Zhang Xiaobao learned something from that time.

"You're both here, huh? What a coincidence. Just when Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were talking about how to take care of the child, Li Xun walked in from outside.

He now has to come over every day, look at the four little ones, and discuss letting him take them with him, but every time he is rejected, he never changes.

"How's it going? Aren't you going to train the remaining 2,000 men? How's the training? Zhang Xiaobao put his sister in the cradle and gently pushed it, and asked Li Xun.

"Then you don't need to ask, the people I teach will not be bad, really, if you don't believe it, you can go and see, and I will take care of the child for a while."

Li Xun was about to stretch out his hand to Wang Juan's younger brother, but he was beaten back, and said while holding his hands there.

"Two thousand people don't seem to be enough, waiting for this time to gain a firm foothold over there, even if the imperial court sends troops to protect it, it is impossible to send people from the capital, and it is not the surrounding places to send troops, if we don't train well here, there may be no chance, it's a good place, as long as other people know about it, they will find a way to worry about it."

The best way is naturally to smuggle, that is, in the name of the army's escort of things, secretly transport back the things that come from there and sell them, without paying that share of the tax, this thing must not happen, otherwise, once they are in the habit of being formed, it will be the same in other places in the future. ”

Zhang Xiaobao knew that Li Xun wouldn't do anything when he went there, just watched, he didn't need to take care of the training, there were a total of 3,000 people, which is said to be a lot, but it was necessary to form combat effectiveness, otherwise, don't look at the place that Luzhou found first, and sent troops over first.

It's still easy for the rest of the people to think about it, as long as the time comes to send their soldiers who can fight, and find a reason to say that it's a competition, and if their own side wins, it's okay to say, if they lose, they can let someone else take the task of guarding.

The army does not do business, so naturally they do not have to pay any taxes, not to mention that they themselves are the people who inspect them, and they will inevitably secretly transport things here at that time, if it is just like this, it is nothing, and the transportation will be carried out, I am afraid that they will not only transport, but also deliberately lower the price in order to be able to sell things faster.

As long as the tax money is lowered, other ordinary people and businessmen will not be able to bear it, so this matter must be put an end to, otherwise it can cause big trouble.

Li Xun quietly listened to Zhang Xiaobao's analysis there, and after listening, he also began to worry, and said, "Then what if a certain prince or a waiting master is involved?" It's that the people in the house go to get things and then come back to make a fortune, and the price of something in the capital will be affected. ”

Li Xun is indeed very worried, it is too easy to find a reason to go over, just like he went to Luzhou, who will care about him, if he really wants to let the prince and the waiting master join, then it will be troublesome, and you can't use soldiers to intercept it, right?

Zhang Xiaobao has long considered this problem, and said to Li Xun: "This is easy to do, now the past is the most direct way, and the boats used are not all good ships, and then we make a fortune first, and start to detour, if they can find the way by themselves, that is their ability, if they can't find it, don't think of going there."

The merchants in Jiangnan Dongdao are also treated the same, let them provide boats, and we will send people to help them row, go around in a circle, and don't let them find the way first, if you want to do this, then you must take over the matter of escort, otherwise the army will not dare to let them go around. ”

Li Xun understood now, and finally put it on top of the army, thought about it and said: "Then I will ask my father to send more people, they have all been trained, and I believe that they can do things well." ”

"This can't be done, can the people of the palace go out casually? Let's train our own people, not to mention that we can manage it now, and when we are all gone, will the army in Luzhou never have any combat effectiveness?

I have a good plan, that is, when the 1,000 people who went in front of me have taken the place, let them come back, and send out another 1,000 people, and take turns back and forth, and when they get to the place, they will find a way to rob more local people and things, especially those who are hostile to us.

The slightly better people will be co-opted, and the bad ones will be eliminated, so that we can train our troops, well, just do it, don't worry, give them a better weapon, a better defense on their bodies, and treat their injuries, if they die, there is no way, how can there be immortals in war, so the current 2,000 people have to practice well. ”

Zhang Xiaobao finally used another plan on Li Xun's body, and he could help carry it if something happened.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Xun heard Zhang Xiaobao keep emphasizing the army, he frowned and said: "It's easy to talk about other things, but it's not easy to do, where can I find so many weapons and armor?" The imperial court will not send it here. ”

"We can make it ourselves, I'm afraid someone won't let us." As soon as Zhang Xiaobao's words came out, Wang Juan understood that he wanted to find an excuse to make weapons, and he also needed official recognition.

Li Xun pursed his lips and said: "I know that you don't have any good intentions, sure enough, okay, okay, since you are going to build it, you will build it first, I will write to it, you can't let the army here have no weapons, and when it's time to register it." ”

Li Xun is no longer the person who was tricked at the beginning, he has become very shrewd, after listening to Zhang Xiaobao's words, he knows what Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan mean by connecting the things before and after.

Both of them have various craftsmen in their homes, so it's not easy to make some weapons? What's more, there is no shortage of resources here, it is nothing more than a fear of responsibility, and a well-known excuse is needed.

If it were someone else, Li Xun would definitely veto it, after all, weapons can't be made casually, even if someone is stealing, it can be replaced by the Zhang family, and the technology handed over by the Zhang family is good for war, so it is very common to create another weapon.

With such confidence, Li Xun agreed so happily, and laughed with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, which can be regarded as another kind of agreement.

The three of them discussed it again, Li Xun left, and Zhang Xiaobao also ordered people to start bringing the matter of weapon manufacturing to the surface, and there was no need to make it secretly.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan just finished the matter, the farthest lighthouse place to pass the news over, the lighthouse place after knowing that Xiao Tao can dive so deep, after the fireworks are released, immediately began to make some preparations, and when the patrol boat saw the signal coming, they asked the patrol boat to pass the matter back quickly, and also sent Xiao Tao's father and son to the ship, and brought them back together.

The speed of the patrol ship to transmit the news is fast, the ship brings the pigeon, and the direct release, the regular ship takes more than half a month to reach the distance of the place, if the pigeon flies, it will not take a day.

"Great, we finally found a better talent, we have such a person here, amazing." After Zhang Xiaobao received the news, he said happily there.

Wang Juan is also happy, being able to dive so deep, and when the time comes, it will be more useful to train more people.

The two of them didn't doubt this matter, in the past, when they were there, some people had been specially trained and could dive to deeper places, but the method was not easy to master, but they didn't expect that there were people here who had figured out their own practice.

In fact, it is very simple, the reason is that people can adjust their heartbeat and movements, and when the time comes, they can go into the water and distribute oxygen to the places where they need it, such as the brain and heart, and the rest of the parts are temporarily deprived of oxygen.

In this way, this method allows people to use oxygen more rationally and persist for a longer period of time after taking a breath.

The reason is simple, but it is too difficult to do, especially to control yourself, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan can't do it, the people here can, it's really unusual.

"I decided, give him better treatment, and even set up a special department for him to do this, and then their family will also be sent to Luzhou, so that they will not continue to stay elsewhere."

Zhang Xiaobao has made a decision in his heart, such talents must be retained, and now they can't publicize it, and after more people learn this method, let other people know and know how the Zhang family treats talented people, this talent is not only for words and other knowledge, including all aspects of skills.

Zhang Xiaobao believes that there are more skilled craftsmen in this era who have been buried, and have not passed on their skills, and finally a special skill has disappeared in the long river of history, which is a loss to the entire Chinese nation.

Wang Juan also knew Zhang Xiaobao's thoughts, she also wanted to make her country stronger, touched the note that was passed back, and said: "Hurry up and grow up, when the time comes, it will be the strongest period of the Tang Dynasty, let's go to Li Longji to talk, how can you make him less mediocre when you talk about it?" ”

"Simple, war, as long as he keeps fighting, he will have the spirit, I already have this plan, I don't have to think about it now, it can't reach that level."

Zhang Xiaobao had a plan for the future, thought about it, and said: "Now I have decided to start dealing with the Ning family, I can't let others attack once and then not fight back, that's not our style of doing things, since we are attacking, we must have the consciousness to withstand counterattacks." ”

"Well, yes, fight back, is it to arrest the people of the Five Lakes Chamber of Commerce, and then let them point it? The seal they use should be fake, is it dumping? Let Qinzhou's economy collapse? ”

Wang Juan waved his small fist and found that he had no good way to clean up the people of the Ning family.

"That's not good, it's not that you can't bring down the economy of Qinzhou, the economy-based is still very easy to clean up, it's too simple, it's okay to attack directly at food, so what should the people do?

This time I'm going to use deception, it's for the Ning family, it won't have much impact on the people, and the poor road is about to break the vows, Amen! ”

Zhang Xiaobao found a powerful talent and was in a happy mood, which was ready to make the Ning family unhappy.

Wang Juan smiled softly, "What a mess, are you going to let people go over to them, say that they are good, and then cheat?" ”

"No, no, no, that kind of deception is too inferior, I will let you see the highest level of deception this time, and let people send it to the door to be deceived." Zhang Xiaobao smiled slightly.

Wang Juan's big eyes blinked at Zhang Xiaobao, what she liked most was Zhang Xiaobao's appearance at this time, don't look at it as a child's body, but whenever Zhang Xiaobao makes a move, especially in deception, then she will find that Zhang Xiaobao will have a unique temperament.

That kind of empty look really has the momentum of self-esteem in the sky and on the ground.