Chapter 20: "Weapons"
The new military camp that Zhao Xi arranged for Wang Hengyue and these people was huge, the houses were bright, and the guys inside were as readily available as Zhao Xi said.
This is a little taste, this is the first pleasant thing that Wang Hengyue encountered after arriving in Rong County.
Not long after, Yu Lei, who went to Leshan, also returned, with both bad news and good news. The bad news is that he Shi Fengrong said that the salary must be allocated, the Wang team is loyal to the country, Shi Fengrong admires it very much, and specially allocates a month's salary to him for emergency, as for a month later? He doesn't want to fight for the future, and he will definitely urge him to go to the peak again and again, but before that, the Wang team officer must find another way by himself, and he will be earnest.
The implication of this could not be clearer, if you ask for money, it is already a big face to give you Wang Hengyue a month's salary.
Wang Hengyue was very angry in his heart, and it took him half a day to get three hundred taels of silver? Give Shi Fengrong a chance to eat one hundred and fifty people's empty salaries every month?
"Adults don't have to worry, it's a good thing for adults." Yu Lei didn't care at all: "Originally, the filial piety that the adults gave to Shi Fengrong every month was indispensable, but now this Shi Fengrong takes away one hundred and fifty people's empty salaries from Rong County every month, which is regarded as filial piety, and Shi Fengrong owes the adults a favor every month, as long as he is in the position for one day, it will be much easier for the adults to talk to him again in the future. ”
Wang Hengyue sighed, it could only be like this.
"However, in terms of weapons, our silver has played a role, Shi Fengrong has allocated a batch, and has sent someone to escort it with the students, and now the accompanying soldiers are waiting outside the camp."
These words immediately lifted Wang Hengyue's spirits, and he didn't have to think of another way to pay money, and it was not bad if the weapon arrived. He hurriedly led his men to the outside of the camp, full of weapons in two wagons, and covered them tightly with straw and firewood.
The shed that led the team saluted Wang Hengyue: "Please accept the inspection of the Wang team officer, my brother still has official business, and he doesn't dare to stay for a long time." ”
"There is labor, there is labor." Wang Hengyue arched his hand and asked people to take away the straw and firewood.
At first glance, the nose is almost crooked.
Six Ma Tini guns copied by the Sichuan Machinery Bureau, two Shinaide guns that were changed from old breech guns to breech guns, and one fast gun designed and manufactured by China itself, these three guns are barely usable. The rest are all guns that have been used in large quantities in the Qing army since the Opium War, and have long been eliminated! Look at the carriage behind it, there are gunpowder bullets on it.
Okay, very good, the Opium War has been used until now, no one has used it, and it has been used by Lao Tzu! These garbage goods, looking at the entire Chinese New Army, who else is using them except Lao Tzu? Wang Hengyue was angry and annoyed.
"Something is better than nothing." Liu Sihai whispered in Wang Hengyue's ear.
Wang Hengyue put away his anger, asked people to seal a letter of silver to Pengmu, sent it out, and turned around and lost his temper: "Fuck, do you really think Lao Tzu is a place for Huazi to stay?" Give Lao Tzu 300 taels of silver, and give away weapons that no one wants, which new army does Lao Tzu train? ”
"Your Excellency is angry." Yu Lei didn't seem to be in a hurry: "Being able to have these things has already given adults a lot of face." Fortunately, there is no fighting nearby, and we can still try it slowly. ”
"Slowly?" Wang Hengyue glared: "Lao Tzu just blew the bull, I want to clean up Lu Baoyin and rectify that inferior gentleman Yu Yurui Township!" Now let Lao Tzu take these burning sticks and fight the bandits? ”
"Who?" Yu Lei suddenly asked.
"What kind of inferior gentleman Yu Ruixiang, it is said to collude with bandits." Wang Hengyue replied casually, and then looked at Yu Lei: "What, do you recognize this person?" ”
Yu Lei's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and then he said respectfully: "I don't recognize it." ”
"Forget it, forget it!" Wang Hengyue waved his hand: "Anyway, there are still a few guns that can be used, come here, and start recruiting soldiers tomorrow!" Xie Shuixiang, Li Yifeng, Xu Mu, Deng Xia, Pete, Liu Sihai, the six of you are specifically responsible. Remember, the weapons we took were rags, but the people recruited must be usable people, and it is better to recruit another batch of opium ghosts for Lao Tzu! ”
"Yes!"
Although the mood was not very pleasant, it was difficult to make a start.
Who would have thought that in the afternoon of the next day, Wang Hengyue leisurely came to the recruitment office set up on River Street, full of confidence that since Zhao Xi's great help, he would inevitably be crowded with people if he wanted to come to the recruitment office, who would have expected that the front was empty, except for a few of his subordinates!
"Not a single one?" Wang Hengyue's eyes widened.
"Nope." Pete shrugged: "If it doesn't have tomorrow, I want to learn how to play horse hanging with them, at least it won't be so boring." ”
"Fuck off!" Wang Hengyue directly called Li Yifeng over: "Zishan, what about people?" The three of you are here, don't Xianggong have any appeal at all? ”
"It's not that the teacher doesn't have appeal, it's that something has happened."
"Condition? What is the situation? ”
Li Yifeng's expression tightened: "I just want to talk to adults." I also thought it was strange, but later someone from the same family came to tell us that a foreigner came to Rong County. ”
"What's so strange about foreigners?" Wang Hengyue asked curiously.
"There is nothing strange about foreigners, but this foreigner is a little different." Li Yifeng immediately said: "This person is from England, his name is Opiain, and it is said that he is a 'Ding Lishi' in England."
"It's Hercules." Pete added for fear that others would not know.
Li Yifeng nodded: "Yes, this person was originally going to Chengdu to set up a ring, but for some reason he first came to our Rong County, and now he has set up a ring in the south of the city, and he is arrogant, saying that he wants to fight Rong County first, then Chengdu, then Sichuan, and then all over China!" ”
"Fuck off!" Wang Hengyue scolded, glared at Pete as he spoke: "Who do you say you foreigners are?" ”
"It's none of my business." Pete was innocent, and said repeatedly: "I'm an American, he's British, it's none of our Americans' business!" ”
Wang Hengyue actually knows very well that it is an ordinary thing for foreigners to come to China to fight in the ring in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it is a group of foreign performers, who come to China to suppress the Chinese, and secondly, a very important reason is to come to China to make money by relying on such a "ring".
But in my memory, these people have never taken advantage of anything.
Chinese martial artists have taught them too many lessons, including Ding Faxiang, who defeated two Russian Hercules in succession; Fan Xudong, who angrily beat more than ten Russian boxers; There were three times in the ring and killed the monk Shi Degen of the Songshan Shaolin Temple of the British royal boxer Chuswell.
As for the single sword Li, Du Xinwu, Huo Yuanjia, etc., these great martial artists who have repeatedly defeated foreigners abound!