Early the next morning, Zhang Yue took Yang Xuanli and others out of the county office, and went to the inn to pick up Shen Xuelian, and asked the five battalions of Zong Jingcheng's department to go south to Huining in order to accept the reorganization. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info were followed by infantry, walked slowly on the road, and stayed at the camp in Wolf Mountain for one night, and arrived in the afternoon two days later.

After a few days of light snowfall, the weather immediately became gloomy again, and it seemed that a bigger snowstorm was brewing. Looking at the weather, Zhang Yue didn't plan to delay in Huining, and was ready to go back to Jingzhou for the New Year.

In the evening of the same day, Zhang Yue summoned the generals to the state government to discuss the matter. First of all, he ordered: Song Lingguang of the second regiment led his troops north to Ulan on the same day and garrisoned the north of the state. At present, the population of Huizhou is small, and there are no township soldiers, so the town army bears the responsibility of defending the territory.

Then there were the six battalions of Quan Daojin and Hou Chao, which eliminated weak officers and soldiers, selected the elite from the whole army, and formed a more professional scout battalion. This matter is directly managed by Xuan Chongwen, who is in charge of training together with Hao Tianying.

The ninth and eleventh battalions were changed to the fifth and sixth battalions of the infantry army, and the third regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, with Zong Jingcheng and He Chenghui as the main and deputy commanders, and the two former deputy commanders were promoted to the chief and deputy senators, and the commanders of the battalions and the candidates for Yu Hou were reported for review at their own discretion.

The 11th and 14th battalions were changed to the 7th and 8th battalions, with Gao Hongxuan and Zong Yansi as the battalion commanders, and the fourth regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, with Yan Chengwang and Du Ximi as the main and deputy regiments, and the candidates for the regimental senate and the battalion Yuhou are to be decided.

Li Duofu, the former head of the 14th Battalion, moved to the 2nd Regiment and reported to the teaching battalion, and then took up his post after completing his studies. Shi Chenghong of the Second Regiment was transferred to the envoy of the Zhangyi Army.

After the reorganization order and the appointment of high-ranking officers were read out by Li Duoshou, Zhang Yue thought for a while, and said aloud: "Before the end of the first month of next year, the six infantry battalions of recruits will be awarded the numbers of the 5th, 6th, and 73rd regiments, and the battalions will be 9 to 14. Candidates for low-level officers are selected based on the merits of daily training, and outstanding veterans of the training battalion must be appointed at the head level and above. Also, how has the armor repair workshop been transformed? Scout-specific weapons, has the style been created? ”

"A few pairs have been produced, so wait a minute!" Xuan Chongwen got up and arched his hand, turned around and walked out of the lobby.

"The new cotton jacket uniforms, military boots, camping quilts, marching pots, coal stoves, instant military food cakes and other military supplies can be produced in batches, I remember that the workshop has moved from Yanzhou to Huining, right?" The matter on the main structure of the army has come to an end for the time being, and the training battalion is training suitable officers.

These are military and political logistics matters, usually Liu Xiansheng is responsible for daily management, presiding over practical affairs, and Li Liangbi, the state Sima Co-ordination, got up and arched his hand when he heard the words: "It is very troublesome to deseed that cotton, and it has only started this year to make military jackets, and two hundred sets of warehouses have not been distributed." The others have been mass-produced, but it's too extravagant to send them to soldiers, and you can't get back this money! ”

"Discontinued?" Zhang Yue asked in surprise, did he remember that when Qin Feng returned to Tokyo after the war, Bian Ji brought a lot of them, saying that they were sent to Kanto to sell.

"Not really, it's all sold! What do you think, how many groups of people are resettled before and after, farm tools are used for reclamation, and food, drink and clothing are used for immigrants' housing, which one of these does not use money, it is more than 100,000 people, and the court has not pulled out a penny, it is all filled by commercial banks, and the state government can owe huge debts, and I don't know if it can be repaid. Li Liangbi said depressedly with his fingers.

It is no wonder that when the general account of Guanzhong was counted, there was still income on the book, and it may be that all these handicrafts were sold. Zhang Yue stroked his forehead and had a headache, the ideal tiger and wolf team still had a long way to go if he wanted to polish it. A strong army is not only to be experienced in a hundred battles, equipment is also a very important factor, otherwise it would be contrary to the original intention to pile up elite soldiers with human lives.

"How much debt is there?" Zhang Yue asked. When all the officers in the hall heard this, they all pricked up their ears.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Li Liangbi coughed dryly, glanced at everyone, and stretched out his thumb to gesture.

Everyone couldn't figure it out, but Zhang Yue understood that it should be 500,000 yuan. According to the calculation of one thousand yuan is equivalent to about 400 yuan, which is equivalent to more than 100 million yuan in the future! What is the concept of billion, Zhang Yue was uneasy in his heart, he had such a pampered financial resource in a few years, and it was too dangerous to fall in the eyes of people with a heart.

No way! Huihe Commercial Bank can no longer have any superficial relationship with himself, and Bian Ji can't participate because he is related to him, so he must find another person, or a few super capable businessmen, to take charge of his affairs, which can only be said next year.

"I'll talk about this later, let's take a look at the weapons first!" Zhang Yue saw that Xuan Chongwen led five or six people, including blacksmith Xu Pingzhong and carpenter Suo Keda, to the court, so he started the topic.

"The lowly rank has seen Zhang Envoy Jun!" Xu Pingzhong and Suo Keda saluted.

"Excuse me!" Zhang Yue waved his hand, and when he saw several craftsmen behind them coming in with a large wooden box, he was curious, so he got up and walked around the table and stepped forward to let the craftsman open the box.

The previous box is an improved horn bow crossbow, wooden single crossbow, Zhang Yue picked up one and looked at it, the pale yellow handle of tung oil and the crossbow machine are connected as a whole, the front end is equipped with a flat round bow arm that looks strong and powerful, and the string is a cow tendon, but the deer tendon is the top grade, but it is difficult to find a thousand gold. The lower hanging knife and some of the main parts are made of steel, and the upper chord does not need to be pulled directly, and a handle on the side can be pulled backwards.

Zhang Yue grasped the crossbow machine with one hand, and held the handle with the other hand to wind it and tried it, which was much more labor-saving than the original horn bow crossbow and crossbow, and at the same time pulled the string upwards with both hands, and couldn't help but ask with great satisfaction: "Has the horn bow crossbow been tested?" What about range and accuracy? ”

"Back to the envoy! In the Tang Dynasty, the horn bow crossbow was mostly used as a riding crossbow, with a range of 200 steps. Now the Tokyo Forbidden Army has improved its range, with a range of 180 paces, but it is still laborious to wind. Our bow arm tension is slightly reduced, the range is one hundred and sixty steps, one hundred and twenty or thirty steps accuracy deviation is extremely low, can penetrate heavy armor, horse army infantry can be used. The second is the wooden single crossbow, which is now used with small wooden single crossbows, with a range of 160 steps, and we have improved it to be 130 steps, with high accuracy and strong lethality. Suo Keda replied a little proudly.

"Excellent! If it is debugged and calibrated, it can be built in batches. Zhang Yue nodded, handed the horned bow and crossbow in his hand to Xuan Chongwen, he had already seen it, and handed it to the officers on the left and right.

Zhang Yueshuang lifted a string of ropes from a box next to him, which was a jet-black fine iron flying fox with a small iron hook tied at one end. The rope appears to be made of cow tendon mixed with tough plant fibers such as kudzu and hemp, and is very suitable for climbing mountain cliffs or city walls.

Of course, there is also a rope soft ladder, which is relatively easy to make, and the bearing capacity is enough to reach six or seven hundred catties, and the stronger ones are not available for the time being, so there is nothing to look at. Zhang Yue took out a slender iron chisel short iron gun about three or four feet long from another long strip-shaped box, which was actually a javelin with a thick middle and thin at both ends, the head of the spear was flat and had a blood groove, and no three-edged was used, which could be used to break the shield and armor when the horse army rushed into battle, and there was no problem in penetrating the heavy armor within thirty steps.

"I've tried it and it works! What's the name? Do you want to equip the horse army? Xuan Chongwen asked.

"Equip the scouts for the time being, let's call it a throwing armor penetration cone!" This is Zhang Yue's own drawing design, originally wanted to use the triangular style, but if this is seen to be secretly learned, it will be a big trouble to spread, in this era of low survival rate at birth, Jane is really more terrible than the plague.

The last box is a new type of knife and gun, Zhang Yue called it "Miao knife", the total length is five feet, the handle is one foot two inches long, the blade is three feet eight inches long, slightly bent like a seedling, which is used by the infantry army. The one used by the Ma army is slightly shorter, lighter, and also has a blood groove.

As for the gun head, it is made of better steel, thinned and lengthened by two inches, and the iron pipe with a wooden handle on the rear end has also been specially lengthened. The barrel of the gun is made of solid hardwood such as ironwood and yellow sandalwood, and the cross-sectional diameter of the rod used for riding the gun is one inch and the length is seven feet; There are many kinds of infantry military guns, and the thickest one has a diameter of three inches, and the length varies greatly depending on the use.

The white wax rod does not exist at all, it is used by the Jianghu entertainers to play with the spear. With this kind of gun on the battlefield, I don't know how to die. The reason is very simple, the white wax rod is a soft rod, whether it is a stabbing or picking, it is elastic, and there is a certain time delay, even a microsecond is enough to kill you.

And there are very few people who use iron guns, and Hao Tianying can do it alone in the whole army. Zhang Yue used a composite gun shaft, although it was also elastic, but it would only bounce up if he shook the gun hard, but he had already asked the blacksmith Xu Pingzhong to find good iron materials and prepare to use an iron gun instead.

"The style is good, but the material seems to be poor, and the iron is not enough, right?" Zhang Yue suddenly remembered that he had heard that an iron ore had been discovered in Quwu Mountain last year, but it had not been mined due to external reasons, and it was not good to talk about these things on this occasion now.

"Exactly, it's the lack of iron, this is still the iron material that Li Deliang transported from Nanyang, and the road is far away and the transportation is inconvenient." Xuan Chongwen obviously thought of the iron ore as well, and smiled.

"That's it! That's it for today! Tomorrow there will be a day's delay here, and all the workshops will be seen. Zhang Yue waved his sleeves, glanced at Xuan Chongwen, and strode towards the official room behind.

A group of officers in the hall got up and gathered around, picked up the new weapons and looked at them, and they were amazed. Xuan Chongwen followed Zhang Yue to the official room in the back hall, closed the door and sat down at the table.

"How's the matter with the iron mines? Who is currently guarding? Zhang Yue asked with interest.

"Actually...... There are not only Quwushan iron mines in Huizhou, but also coal mines, copper mines, and silver mines in the mountainous areas of Huiningguan, which are treasures of feng shui, and I don't know what to do now. Xuan Chongwen didn't answer the question, and said with a very complicated face.

"What?" Zhang Yue was in a daze for a while, thought about it and said indifferently: "Forget about silver and copper, you can only open a coal mine for the time being, and the iron mine must find a way, and you can't be in Baoshan and sigh." ”

"Only a few of our chief officials know about the iron mine, and we found that more than a dozen families of Liang Qiang people in the mining area were moved to Huiningguan to mine coal.

"If you can't cover this matter, let's report it! Let the court pay for the mining and send personnel to supervise, we have no problem getting the first month near the water, and it is better to use it as soon as possible. Zhang Yue said very distressedly. (To be continued.) )