Chapter 27 Collar Armor

Walking along the avenue all the way, it didn't take long to arrive at the Yamen of the Dusi.

After waiting for half an hour, Du Si Lin Guoquan rode back surrounded by several family members.

Originally, at the beginning of the recovery of Liaodong, there was no battalion in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the major generals who were temporarily ordered to lead the army to go out on the expedition, the usual town guards and small-scale wars were responsible for the commanders of the envoys, and the divisions were under the command of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and later the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was divided into five, and the local Governors were controlled by civil officials, and then the battalions rose, and the guards were useless, and the Governors of various places gradually lost their powers, and the Liaoyang Governors were the same, but the situation in Liaodong was somewhat different from that of the Guannei, and there were no prefectures, prefectures, and counties in various places, and millions of people were under the jurisdiction of the Guards. The Liaoyang Metropolitan Division was responsible for iron smelting, salt mining, and post transmission, while the civilian officers and soldiers were responsible for civil administration and other affairs, and the Metropolitan Division had some power compared to other places.

"Han Xu, you are brave in martial arts, and you understand when you see things, the official sees that you are a man, and it is good to dare to kill prisoners." Lin Guoquan didn't greet Han Xu too much, the identities of the two sides were quite different, and Lin Guoquan did not have a battalion officer, after meeting, he praised a few words and asked people to go to the arsenal to move the ordnance over.

After a while, some people brought iron armor, knives, guns, throwing guns, flying axes and other things over, piling up like a small mountain.

What surprised Han Xu was that the armor was all iron armor, not ordinary cotton armor or chain mail.

"These are all real iron-scaled armor, and the official has less than a hundred collars in his treasury here." Lin Guoquan looked at Han Xu's expression and smiled happily: "The official family members are not all wearing iron armor, only a few people wear it, this armor was originally intended to be used by Jing Liu, but it is the same for you." ”

The Ming army's iron armor storage is not much, this thing takes several months to make a craftsman, one by one iron leaves are integrated with cow tendons, with iron helmets, shoulder guards, shin guards, and iron gloves The total value is about 100 taels, and it is not necessary to have more than 100 officers or generals to be qualified to wear it, ordinary battalion soldiers are not to think about it, better mountain armor and cold-forged iron armor, that is, non-leading generals can not wear, a collar of Qingtang armor, worth a thousand gold.

These iron armor in front of you are real iron scale armor, exquisite workmanship, with a lot of iron blades, feel very heavy when you carry it, a collar of cotton armor weighs thirty or forty pounds, with iron but ten pounds, can only barely block the damage of the bow and arrow, although the iron armor in front of you is not as good as the mountain armor is also very good, even if it is more than 10,000 people in the garrison of Fengji Fort, this kind of iron armor is only a few hundred collars, and there will be no more.

With this generous gift in front of him, coupled with those well-made waist swords, shields, and weapons such as throwing spears and axes, Han Xu was completely worthwhile.

"Thank you, Lord Toji!"

Han Xu knelt down on one leg and thanked Lin Guoquan.

This time he knelt down not because of the official position of the other party, but because of his great help this time.

"Half of the official's help to you is because of sycophants," Lin Guoquan said with a smile: "Half of it is to see that you can really kill captives, to be honest, this official has no ability, but there are those who can kill captives, and they will always help!" ”

Han Xu bowed silently, although there are many shameless people in the Ming army who are timid to defect to the enemy or greedy for wealth and even embezzle military salaries and wait and see, but there are also heroes like Lin Dusi in front of him, but most of such people are annihilated in the long history and are not known, but they are not as famous as those scum.

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"Han Tou'er, I bought 600 catties of fine noodles, 10 yuan per catty, 6,000 catties of money, 2,000 catties of coarse grain, 3,000 catties of money, 20,000 yuan of pork, I bought 100 catties, 2,000 yuan of money, a chicken is 40 yuan, I bought 50 ducks and geese, ducks and geese are very expensive, I didn't buy them, sheep bought live sheep, but it was cheaper than the price of pigs, I bought ten sheep, rushed back and slowly slaughtered and eaten, vegetables and vegetables bought a car, and those shopkeepers gave sesame oil lard half a car, green onion and ginger were also sent by people......"

In the evening, Gao Xiaosan rushed over and was also overjoyed to see the piles of armor and stomach weapons. After he returned home, his face was also full of glory, and it was a complete leap from the actual hunter of a hereditary army to the crown and banner of the seventh rank!

The inland guard officer is not worth much, the hundred households are the feeling of the village head, the seven-grade general flag is nothing at all, after all, it is a military and health guard here in Liaozhen, the guard officer is still honorable and decent, Gao Xiaosan's family still has an old lady in the hall, supported by his brother, after wanting to come home, he also received similar treatment as Yang Guoyong, this guy joined the army, I am afraid that I never expected such a day, and the gratitude is a little deeper.

With this heart, Gao Xiaosan hurriedly shouted at the hired cart to load the car, and he also brought two carts of all kinds of food to buy, and he also hurriedly reported the price to Han Xu. This person has a talent for digital accounts, and this thing can be done by a primary school student in later generations, and in the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, those who have this ability can be considered intriguing.

Gao Xiaosan was still chattering: "The money is changed in the money shop, one or two silver is only exchanged for nine hundred dollars, and it took me half a day to add twenty dollars, this is really no way, it's not that I don't use it......"

This price is actually quite cheap, and the price of money is also fair, Han Xu knows that in the future, the Ming Dynasty seems to have natural disasters for decades, prices are soaring, and there has always been a war here in Liaodong, and it is estimated that prices will continue to rise. As for the exchange of silver money, the Ming Dynasty adopted the silver standard, the government copper mining is seriously insufficient, and the coinage is not enough for private use.

Han Xu interrupted Gao Xiaosan's words and said with a smile: "You're just it, you're not checking the accounts now, can you tell me how much you share?" ”

"Twenty-seven taels and four dollars were shared."

"It's good."

Han Xu thought for a while, the two cars in front of him were like a hill of food products, but the money was not much, and he still had more than four hundred taels of silver on hand, which was enough to feed fifty people for a long time.

Of course, his subordinates also have food in the camp, but in the next step, Han Xu plans to increase the physical reserves of his subordinates and strengthen their training, these people are all unruly, no matter how strict the military discipline is, if they don't strengthen their treatment, I'm afraid they won't be able to control it.

At this time, Yang Guoxiong also rushed over, his face was also full of pride, and those who followed Han Xu's first attack were now in official positions, which made the rest of the newly surrendered Ye Bushu full of envy.

Everyone went out of the city together, planning to walk another ten miles before dark, from Liaoyang to Shenyang and Fengjibao There are many mule and horse shops where you can stay, Han Xu's time is very urgent, and he can't afford to delay a little.

When the twilight gradually came up, everyone lit the torches next to the cart, and the coachmen also lit the lanterns while sitting on the wheels, and the long procession seemed to have turned into a small fire dragon, moving forward on the winding road, Han Xu's ears heard the whispers and laughter of the cavalry from time to time, the neighing of the horses, the creaking of the cart walking, when all the sounds were gathered in one place, the whole team seemed to be integrated into a whole, and it seemed that every bit of movement was closely related to Han Xu, flesh and blood.