"Master Hu, the student is justified here!"

Li Weiguo bowed respectfully, the one in front of him was his own official, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Huh!" Hu Zongxian stroked his beard and smiled: "It's rare that you, a busy person, still have time to come and see the old man!" ”

"That's natural, Master Hu has the grace of knowing students, where do students dare to snub Master Hu, do you say yes?"

It is not strange to have many courtesies, and it is not rude to come and go, Li Weiguo gave the Hu family housekeeper a gift when he came.

The gift is not big, it is a jade ring of several hundred taels of silver, and the current officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has become corrupt, including Hu Zongxian is not clean.

Hu Zongxian was a little surprised, perhaps in his eyes, a person who has just left the examination room and entered the officialdom should be an old pedant-like figure, where can he be old like this?

Thinking so in his heart, Hu Zongxian still couldn't bear to look at Li Weiguo in front of him.

Tanhualang is the treasure of the imperial court, and this little Tanhua in front of him asks for decentralization, but he still understands these people's sophistication?

Shaking his head, Hu Zongxian threw these thoughts out of his head, Li Weiguo came here today, presumably he had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.

"You kid came to my governor's palace today, I'm afraid something happened, right!?"

Hu Zongxian said with a smile.

"You see what you said, I can't come to see you if it's okay?"

Li Weiguo remained silent.

"Well, let the old man guess......" Hu Zongxian stared at Li Weiguo and said, his eyes were shining, and he seemed to be able to see through the world.

"You kid is training in Tongxiang now, but the imperial history is training, some are not worthy of the name, do you want to be a lack of children in the army, so that you can justify your name?"

This kid wrote about the anti-Japanese sparseness during the scientific examination, and he still regards it as a treasure, and this kid seems to know a lot about military affairs, and as soon as he arrives in Tongxiang, he will eliminate nine Japanese robbers!

Thinking about it, this kid must feel that he can't stretch his hands and feet, and wants to show it in Tongxiang, right!?

Tongxiang has always been the hardest hit area of the Japanese invaders, Li Weiguo can have such an idea, and Hu Zongxian is also quite appreciative, so he strokes his beard and smiles.

"The old man guesses that you must have come to the old man because of this!?"

Hu Zongxian had a sense of pleasure to see through others, but unexpectedly Li Weiguo shook his head.

Hu Zongxian is busy with daily affairs, and this person's willingness to spend time guessing his intentions still makes Li Weiguo a little moved, but to be honest, you underestimate me Li Weiguo too much!

"Governor Hu estimates that he will be busy with Wang Zhi and Xu Hai in the past few days, and the kid doesn't dare to waste a lot of Governor Hu's time here, in this case, the kid is here to get straight to the point, the kid came to Governor Hu this time to ask for silver!"

Li Weiguo smiled innocently.

Hu Zongxian was shocked, this kid is not stupid, and he knows that he is busy dealing with Wang Zhi and Xu Hai!?

"Hmm." Hu Zongxian pondered for a while, feeling that something was wrong, it is said that the soldiers and horses in Tongxiang are weak, and it is normal for people to form soldiers and horses.

It's just that why did this guy come to him in person to ask for money?

The imperial court has its own household department to distribute military salaries and silver money from all over the country, is it possible that you Li Weiguo still thinks about the lion's big mouth?

"Oh? How much money do you want? ”

Hu Zongxian was a little surprised, but still asked.

The Ming infantry was paid five cents and three cents of silver per month, which was almost customized, and Zhejiang was no exception.

Tongxiang 300 soldiers and horses, the military salary in January should be 167 taels, so calculated, a year is estimated to be about 2,000 taels, plus the purchase of some weapons, horse grass and the like, a year is estimated to touch 5 or 6,000 taels.

Hu Zongxian is not so familiar with this military salary, so he estimated.

Li Weiguo pretended to be mysterious and stretched out a finger.

"You want to ask the court for 10,000 taels of silver?"

Hu Zongxian is not stupid, this guy opened his mouth directly to himself, the amount of silver is naturally not small, but 10,000 taels, some lions opened their mouths, right!?

What is angry is that Hu Zongxian estimated that this is less than the estimate, and Li Weiguotian is shameless: "One hundred thousand taels!" ”

Hu Zongxian almost spit out a mouthful of hot tea: "What? 100,000 taels? You Tongxiang county soldiers and horses want the imperial court 100,000 taels of silver? Li Weiguo, are you crazy!? ”

"Governor Hu might as well listen to the students and settle an account for you."

Li Weiguo said.

"Okay, old man, I want to see, what kind of ledger can make you open your mouth so much?"

"Does Master Hu know about muskets?" Li Weiguo didn't say anything and asked rhetorically.

"This official naturally knows." At present, many troops in the Ming army are equipped with muskets, how can Hu Zongxian not know?

"A bird with solid workmanship costs dozens of taels of silver for a shot!" Li Weiguo said.

The most important part of the bird gun is the barrel.

In this era, it is difficult to build a barrel, and the first thing to do is to take steel.

This steel is taken from one out of ten pig iron, which is quite precious, and then it needs to be repeatedly beaten by a skilled blacksmith and rolled out of cold bone wrapped in iron sheets; After the roll is made, it is rolled up one layer at a time, two layers inside and outside.

Because it is purely artificial, the process is very cumbersome, and the high rejection rate is naturally conceivable.

This is only the production of the barrel, after the barrel is made, it also needs the butt of Taka wood and a variety of fine iron bolts and other things, and finally this is brushed with tung oil and dried......

These things are not easy to use, so the cost of this bird gun is also conceivable, and it is ridiculously high.

Hu Zongxian naturally knew these things, and he didn't need Li Weiguo to put up a running account, Li Weiguo said that this was like a few treasures: "Three hundred refined muskets, this will cost more than 10,000 taels of silver!" ”

"Let's talk about the cannon again!"

Li Weiguo said again: "Master Hu, do you know that tiger squatting cannon? ”

The red-coated cannon is too heavy, two or three tons, and cannot be used in the place where the Jiangnan River network is moored, and the Chinese have also invented a curved cannon similar to a mortar during the Ming Dynasty, which was widely used in the later Qi family army.

This curved cannon is the tiger squat cannon.

"I know."

The tiger squat cannon is not heavy, hundreds of catties of appearance, easy to carry, fire a few catties of lead, the siege is a little difficult, but for field warfare, quite suitable.

Think about the Jiangnan River network, this thing will definitely shine, how did Li Weiguo come up with these things?

"The value of this tiger squat cannon is naturally very expensive, the kid needs at least fifteen of them! And ......"

"Enough ......"

Hu Zongxian was really angry and funny, and he estimated that if someone else opened his mouth like this, this person would go crazy directly.

With 300 soldiers and horses in a county, you want to have 300 muskets, 15 tiger squat cannons, a number of fire flying crows, and underwater dragon king cannons......?

It's just that the Shenji Battalion in the capital division doesn't have so many new things, and you still want to turn the sky upside down in Tongxiang City?

"The old man sees that you still don't have to open your mouth, your request, even if it is mentioned in the imperial front, the saint will not agree!"

Hu Zongxian smiled angrily: "The imperial court doesn't have so much money to serve you Tongxiang soldiers and horses!" ”

Do you really think you're a coriander glutton?

"But Zhejiang's soldiers and horses are weak, and the soldiers of Tongxiang are afraid of death, what does Lord Hu think this should be?"

"There are soldiers and horses running around in the imperial court, and there is a shortage of soldiers and major generals, and these own official arrangements!"

Having said that, he was a little unhappy, if Li Weiguo was smart, he should shut up at this time.

Li Weiguo is young, Hu Zongxian may only be a child for a while, they all came from this age, and Hu Zongxian naturally won't care too much.

It's a pity that this kid doesn't seem to hit the south wall yet.

"At present, Tongxiang is a mess, soldiers can't be used, and generals can't be used, how can Master Hu let me defend this Tongxiang? How to protect the tens of thousands of people in Tongxiang? ”

Step by step, it seems that Li Weiguo has no intention of compromising.

"You!?"

Hu Zongxian was dumbfounded for a while: "No matter what method you use, as long as you keep Tongxiang, this official is fine!" ”

Then he added: "It's just 100,000 taels of silver!?" The old man didn't, no! ”

turned the sky upside down, 100,000 taels! Is it really your family who opened the treasury?

You dare to ask for 100,000 taels of silver! There are so many counties in the Ming Dynasty, and each county asks for 100,000 taels of silver, and the imperial court has long been yellow?

Li Weiguo waved his hand indifferently: "Since Master Hu doesn't give it, then the student has to find a way by himself!" ”

"You can use whatever method you like, but if you can't keep Tongxiang, this official will only ask you!"

Hu Zongxian said angrily.

"Cheng, that's what you want, and the students will figure it out for themselves!"

Li Weiguo smiled treacherously.

Hu Zongxian also came back to his senses at this time, no, did he fall into a trap?

The small county town asked the court for 100,000 taels of silver? I thought it was this kid's whims, but now that I look at the kid like this, this product obviously knows that it is impossible for the court to agree!

Could it be that there is a fraud in it?

Alas, this world is true, and now you have to be so careful when dealing with children!

"What do you mean?"

Hu Zongxian couldn't help but raise his vigilance.

"Earn money to train soldiers!" Li Weiguo said indifferently: "Since the imperial court can't allocate money, then let's figure out our own way." ”

"What's the solution?" Hu Zongxian suddenly had a bad premonition.

Although Tongxiang County is rich, where can you mess around?

"Don't worry, naturally it's not to loot the people's fat and people's ointment, the student is the imperial history, and this truth is naturally understood." Li Weiguo said: "I'm going to do business. ”

"What kind of deal?"

Do you dare to spread out the bureau of 100,000 taels of military spending when you do business?

What is so violent about buying and selling? Hu Zongxian is not stupid, thinking of this, he suddenly widened his eyes: "Are you trying to ......?"

"Lord Hu doesn't want to?"

Li Weiguo didn't say anything, but asked rhetorically.

Hu Zongxian's eyes were about to fall out, you are so bold?

"The sea ban was set by the Taizu of this dynasty during the Hongwu Dynasty, and now that you are an official of the imperial court, you actually want to know the law and break the law? Do you still have a king in your eyes? ”

Hu Zongxian was furious.

"Don't you want to do it?" Li Weiguo did not back down, it was very difficult to do this today, and he had expected it when he came, so he naturally had prepared his rhetoric a long time ago.

"If Lord Hu doesn't want to, why is Lord Hu willing to spend so much time serving Wang Zhi?"

Wang Zhi was thinking about the imperial court's policy of opening up the sea ban. (To be continued.) )