Chapter 39 Lack of Silver
After this incident, the celebration banquet naturally broke up unhappily, and not long after Hao Dayong left, two people came to carry back the black iron who was knocked out.
All the officers were relatively speechless, Bin Shiqian walked over and the corners of his mouth squirmed and wanted to say something, but for some reason the words came to his lips but he swallowed them back, and then shook his head and left, but Qi Wuming walked over
patted Pang Gang on the shoulder and said: "Brother Pang, Hao Qianhu also has his difficulties, but our tiger skin is not easy to come by, if it is really impossible for you, you will go to Qingzhou in person!" ”
Pang Gang knew that what Qi Wuming meant was that if Hao Dayong went back to embarrass Pang Gang, he should personally go to Qingzhou to explain the situation to Commander Song, presumably Song Xinghe would give him justice. However, Pang Gang never thought of going to Qingzhou to explain anything to Song Xinghe, this kind of thing has always been more and more black, but Hao Dayong said that it would not be so easy if he really dared to embarrass himself, although his own guard was under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, but Hao Dayong was not a thousand households in the Lingshan Guard, and it was not so easy to embarrass himself.
"Brother Qi, your kind-hearted little brother understands it, but it's not so easy for him to embarrass me if he wants to! Otherwise, the little brother doesn't mind letting him know what regret is! There was a faint chill in Pang Gang's relaxed words.
"Brother Pang, you won't think about wanting to fall into the grass, your current position is not easy to come by." Qi Wuming, who thought that Pang Gang couldn't figure out and wanted to kill the official and fall into the grass, suddenly became anxious, although he didn't have a long relationship with Pang Gang, but he was very close to him, he really didn't want to see Pang Gang go that far.
"Hahaha" Pang Gang laughed, "Brother Qi, you see where you want to go, even if I am confused, I will not take that road of no return, besides"
"No, besides!" Qi Wuming hurriedly intercepted Pang Gang's words: "This matter is not big or small, as long as you are careful, I guess there will be no problem, you be careful yourself, brother, I will leave first!" After saying that, Qi Wuming slipped away towards his tent, leaving Pang Gang standing alone.
"Besides, this Ming Dynasty may collapse at any time because it has rotted to the roots, how long can I be a Ming officer?" Watching Qi Wu Ming's distant figure disappear into the night, Pang Gang muttered to himself.
There was nothing to say all night, and the second day everyone parted ways in the same place, Hao Dayong returned to Qingzhou with dozens of subordinates and hundreds of prisoners, and Lingshan Wei and hundreds of households also returned to the guard and Wanghai Fort after being separated from Pang Gang.
When Pang Gang led the sergeants to the battle and escorted the spoils back to Wanghai Fort, the entire fort was in a sensation, and the people of Li Xian, Li Yuan, father and son who stayed behind led the whole fort to greet them. Seeing that everyone was able to return safe and sound, and brought back a few hundred stones of grain and a box full of silver, Wanghai Fort was filled with joy. At the same time, some people in the fort also shed tears of excitement when they saw that their families had returned smoothly.
After the soldiers returned to Wanghai Fort, the fort suddenly became lively, and those soldiers who stayed behind saw that the companions who followed Pang Gang to suppress the bandits came back one by one with the rewards of adults in their pockets, and their eyes couldn't help but show a look of envy. However, after Pang Gang then announced that he would give a reward of one bucket of rice to each of the remaining personnel, the cheers of everyone reached **
In the 100 households of Wanghai Fort, Pang Gang sat in his room, and there was a brazier burning vigorously on the ground. Pang Gang was sitting next to the brazier, next to the silver taels that were left over after the distribution of the reward. In these years, there is no distinction between public and private, in Wanghai Fort Pang Gang is completely a soil emperor, all the people and finances are under his control, and all the property in the fort naturally belongs to him.
At that time, he almost didn't laugh Hua Yan to death, until Hua Yan explained to Pang Gang that he knew that he belonged to the Tun Army, and the officials below 100 households in the Tun Army had no military salary, and the entire property of Wanghai Fort was his, was it necessary to lead the army's salary?
Pang just happened to be brain congested when he heard the news at first glance, and it was all mine? This surprise should not be too big, okay! With Huayan's explanation, Pang Gang learned about the other side of the Ming Dynasty guard system, the Ming Dynasty's guard is generally hereditary, that is to say, Pang Gang is now the 100 households of Wanghai Fort can be said to be a lifelong system, if he is not promoted or did something rebellious before being dismissed by the emperor Lao Tzu, everything in the radius of Wanghai Fort is decided by him, and the life and death of everyone here are also in his thoughts, and Pang Gang can also pass on the title of 100 households to his sons and grandsons. It was passed down from generation to generation until the Ming Dynasty did not exist.
"Nima's, who said that the military system is a pit system, this is clearly a system that is not too happy! In the future, who will say that the system of the guard center is not good, buddy will be the first to slap him! "Comrade Pang Gang, as a vested interest group, was immediately full of guilt at that time, this kind of system is really a blessing for officials! Although he was very excited at the time, Pang Gang, who soon came to his senses, immediately sighed again, it seems that the life span of the Ming Dynasty, which has lasted for more than two hundred years, is coming to an end, and no matter how good this system is, he can't enjoy it for a few years.
sighed, threw a few ingots of broken silver back into the box, and began to calculate it in his heart, and found more than two thousand taels of silver from the treasury of Inuya Mountain, and divided it into forty percent, that is, more than eight hundred cars, and after dividing the soldiers who participated in the war, there were still more than five hundred taels left, these silver seemed to be a lot, but now there are too many places to use silver, and money is needed everywhere, and I am also very headache.
The current Wanghai Fort is too thin, and there is not even a decent shop in the entire fort, so such a place cannot attract a large number of displaced people to settle down.
"You have to think of a way to make money! With silver, you can buy more pig iron to exchange for weapons and equipment, with silver, you can transform the outer wall of Wanghai Fort into a diamond-shaped fort with stronger protection, and with silver, you can appease the hearts of the military households in the fort. Pang Gang muttered, sitting in his chair silent, but his brain was spinning rapidly.
"How can you quickly accumulate a considerable amount of money to improve your strength?" Pang Gang thought about it again and again, and his brain was about to get bigger.
"Huh? By the way, I can set up a cement factory! As long as this thing is made, it won't be unmarketable! A bright light flashed in his mind, and Pang Gang was so excited that he slapped his thigh and stood up.
In the future, Pang Gang worked in a cement factory for half a year when he just graduated from university, and he is very familiar with the process of cement production.
Cement is an indispensable material used in all kinds of buildings in later generations, tracing the history of its appearance, it can be said that in 1796, the Englishman Parker was using marl to fire a kind of brown cement, called Roman cement or natural cement. In 1824, the Englishman Aspudin made cement from limestone and clay, and the hardened color was similar to the stone used for construction in Portland, England Island, and was named Portland cement and obtained a patent. In 1813, the French civil engineer Picas discovered that cement made from a three-to-one mixture of lime and clay was the best. Since then, cement has appeared in large quantities in later generations.
Once the cement plant is built, whether it is the construction of the Wanghai Fort city wall or the construction of roads and bridges or the construction of houses, it can all be used, thinking of the 1.868 billion tons of the country every year, accounting for more than 50% of the world's output to know how big China's demand for cement is, Pang Gang suddenly felt a fever in his heart.
Thinking of this, Pang Gang stood up and was about to go out to discuss with someone, when he saw Li Xian walking in from outside.
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