When the teenagers in Wangjiadao had joys and worries for the red list ranking, Han Yue was full of sadness in the small courtyard of the Han family, and if nothing else, he pretended to be too much for himself: the settlement fee was 5 taels of silver, and the family members who moved to Shoulong Island would be provided with a month's food for free.

At present, Han Yue only has 400 taels of silver in his hands, 50 taels of gold is about worth 400 taels of silver, a total of 800 taels, and about 60 stones of grain.

If all the 96 people recruited this time move to Shoulong Island, then the family fee alone will be about 500 taels, and in addition to the recruited soldiers, the family members of each family will be counted as 4 people, and each person will be less than 2 catties of rations per day. According to 1.5 catties, a family needs 6 catties of rations a day, and ninety-six households need 576 catties of grain a day, which is as much as 3 stones, and a month's free ration supply will cost 90 stones, and according to the current market price, it will cost about 700 taels of silver, even if Wang Erkui goes to Lushun to contact Xiao Yishan to urgently buy a batch of grain from Fenglong, according to the previous oral agreement, it is about 3 taels of silver and one stone, and it will cost nearly 300 taels of silver.

It cost 800 taels of silver for the settling-in allowance and rations that B had promised him.

Coupled with the monthly salary of 1 tael of silver per soldier and 2 catties of rations per day, the monthly expenses are about 200 taels, plus miscellaneous may need an additional 200 taels.

All added together, the first moonlight on Shoulong Island to feed the 100 Corps and their families will cost 1,200 taels of silver, and this is only in terms of food, not counting infrastructure.

In addition, the wharf should be repaired, the barracks should be built, the houses where the families lived, and the channels and cisterns leading to the springs should be built......

These miscellaneous things make Han Yue himself a headache, and it is estimated that without 5,000 taels of start-up capital, he will not be able to support it in the first month of Shoulong Island.

There is no choice but to start that batch of 'black silver' in advance.

There are also two most important things: weapons and staff.

It is unrealistic to want to build firearms for the time being, there are no craftsmen and no raw materials, Han Yue plans to wait for the period to mature and customize a batch from the Xiao family, I believe that with the strength of the Xiao family, it should not be difficult to do it, and it is no secret that small-scale weapons smuggling among the people is not a secret.

Therefore, for the time being, the soldiers trained had to use the most common spears and waist knives, whether it was stalking or fighting, they had to get a batch from Xu Zumin, as for the military uniforms, they only made themselves, and the armor did not have to think about it for the time being, a pair of iron armor was dozens of taels of silver, and a pair of leather armor was also thirty-four taels.

As for the staff, the top priority at the moment is to recruit a person who can read and write to help him deal with some copywriting matters, Han Jinniang was enlightened for a year or two when she was a child, but what she can do is very limited, and Han Yue wants to train her in the direction of accounting, Wang Erkui doesn't know a few big characters, Xue Hu is from a family and can naturally read and write, but it is mainly a military book, and he is the person in charge of the military in the future, and one person cannot hold multiple positions.

It is really difficult to find staff candidates, and the limited number of talents in Wangjiadao are probably not willing to deign to be under his command.

But fortunately, in yesterday's assessment, Han Yuexiang was selected as a staff candidate, and this person was the person who ranked first in the cultural assessment, but his physical fitness assessment and martial arts assessment were too poor, and he finally ranked behind the top two hundred.

“…… There is Bole in the world, and then there is Maxima. Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have. Therefore, although there is a famous horse, it is only humiliated by the hands of slaves, and it is not called a thousand miles. Horses are thousands of miles, a food or a stone. Horse eaters don't know that they can eat thousands of miles. Is it a horse, although it has the ability of thousands of miles, it is not full of food, and its strength is insufficient, so it is beautiful and not outward, and it is impossible to get it with the usual horse, so it can be thousands of miles away? The strategy is not its way, the food can not be used to the best of its materials, the song can not be understood by its meaning, and the policy is coming, saying: "There is no horse in the world!" "Woohoo! Is it really evil? He really doesn't know that Ma is ......" Han Yue held a densely written exam paper, the content of which was "Ma Said" written by Han Yu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.

"Bole and Maxima? I, Han Yue, want to be Bole, it depends on whether you have the talent of a thousand miles. Han Yue looked at the signature 'One Hundred and Forty-Two Lin Hongze' under the scroll, with a smile on his face.

……

Lin Hongze is nineteen years old this year, a native of Haizhou, Liaodong, after the Jin Tatars occupied Haizhou, he fled to Guanglu Island with his childhood sweetheart's cousin, and later moved to Wangjiadao to settle down.

He was enlightened at the age of five and was familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, but the heavens were not beautiful, and he failed in the county examinations in a row, and he has not even won the name of a showman, and the failure of the imperial examination also made him a little disheartened.

In Wangjiadao, he relied on odd jobs everywhere to get by, and his childhood sweetheart's cousin also washed clothes for people to subsidize the family.

Dragging a somewhat tired body, Lin Hongze returned to his home, these three low thatched huts were built by him with the last few taels of silver he brought from Haizhou, one for himself, one for his cousin, and one for the kitchen.

Because they are not married, they do not live together because they abide by the etiquette and law, and they are also cousins and sisters to the outside world, but the neighbors are very aware of the relationship between the two, and sometimes they will make fun of this pair of young people with good personalities, which makes the two a little embarrassed.

It's not that the two don't love each other, it's not that the two don't plan to get married, but on the way to escape, Lin Hongze once promised her that he would definitely give her a beautiful wedding, in fact, she didn't care about this, as long as she was safe, but she knew the pride in his heart, and she was willing to wait, waiting for the day when he would get ahead.

"Cousin, you're back." The girl heard footsteps and walked out of the kitchen, in fact, she was only sixteen years old, and she had a good face and felt like a little jasper.

"Sister Wan." Lin Hongze greeted with a smile, he didn't tell her about going to the recruitment assessment today, and she didn't have time to watch the prosperity of Wangjiadao because she had to help the Qian family wash clothes.

The two walked into the kitchen, where three small bowls were already on a shabby but clean table, one of which was covered.

Xu Wan'er prepared clean chopsticks for Lin Hongze, and then opened the covered bowl, which turned out to be a small boiled sea fish.

Lin Hongze was a little stunned.

"Aunt Cao gave it today." Xu Wan'er explained in a low voice.

Lin Hongze smiled apologetically, the family has not seen meat for a long time, fishing tools and technology are limited in this era, even fishermen sell the few harvests for some silver, and rarely keep them for their own food.

In front of them is a bowl of porridge cooked with dried sea vegetables and brown rice, which is their main food, and even then there is no guarantee that they will be able to eat it every day. There are obviously more sea vegetables and rice grains in her bowl, and there is basically only soup in her bowl, Lin Hongze felt sad in his heart.

Xu Wan'er waited contentedly for Lin Hongze to move the chopsticks first, in her heart, as long as she was safe with her cousin, she would be better than everything.

"Is Lin Hongze Lin Gongzi at home?" A gruff voice rang out outside the house.

Lin Hongze put down his chopsticks and walked outside the house, Xu Wan'er stood up nervously, and he smiled at him and signaled that it was okay.

"In Xia Lin Hongze, I don't know what the military master has to do?" Lin Hongze asked Xue Yan.

"My family has an invite, please come with me."