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Back in the room, Zhang Renjie took out two guns again, and neither gun was equipped with many bullets. The front-loading rifled gun was still minni, and there were fifty rounds in total. And this pole Spencer repeater is even more pitiful, with only twenty bullets. This kind of old antique is also quite novel in Zhang Renjie's eyes, and he is used to the advanced modern weapons of later generations, and suddenly it has become the original version, which is quite interesting. But Daddy said he could get him a dozen guns, but this amount is not enough to see!

Running a militia is not an easy task, and there are many things to consider. This involves soldiers, equipment, venues, salaries and daily consumption, and raising a soldier and horse is not something that the Zhang family's current financial resources can support. For example, Li Hongzhang's Huai Army originated in the Hunan Army and basically inherited the battalion system of the Hunan Army from the beginning. At present, there has been no major change in the salary of the Huai army in recent years, and the same system of generous salary has been implemented like that of the Hunan army. The monthly salary is 40 taels for the battalion officer, 6 taels for the sentry officer, 4 taels for the sentry chief, 2 taels and 5 taels for the chief, 2 taels and 3 yuan for the pro-soldier guard, and the chief husband can get 1 tael or 8 yuan. There was food in the army, and a soldier could feed his family by sending the silver home.

And if it is a battalion of soldiers and horses, there are about 700 to 800 men in each battalion. In less than half a year, the salary alone can wipe out the toss of the Zhang family's wealth. However, Zhang Renjie was not prepared to recruit so many township soldiers at once, and a maximum of 100 people at the beginning was enough! In this rural area, the militia township soldiers usually have to go home to help when they are busy with farming, so one tael of silver a month for food and accommodation is already a lot. Therefore, after calculating the initial investment in weapons, one hundred taels of silver is enough!

The biggest problem at present is that there is not enough grass-roots officers at hand, and there is no one in the troops. Completely poor and white, truly self-made. In these years, there are really few people who know how to train soldiers, and if you go to Shanghai and other places to invite a few retired foreign officers or soldiers from Britain, France, etc., you can find them, and that is what Zhang Renjie can afford now, and the salary is also a lot. Even if they can afford it, foreigners will not come. From a different perspective, the soldiers that Zhang Renjie wants to train can't be trained by those foreigners, so he still has to rely on his own slow training and training.

"Lord County, this is the case, this time my son is involved in this matter, the bandit who escaped will inevitably lead his accomplices to retaliate, for the stability of the township and the safety of my Zhang family, please allow your lordship!" The next morning, Zhang Youde and Zhang Renjie came to the county office together and found the county magistrate Lu Xiangjiu.

"Well, it's not a trivial matter to apply for armor, how many people are you going to recruit?" Lu Xiangjiu said slowly. At the same time, holding a blue and white porcelain tea bowl, he sat on his Taishi chair, leisurely, but his eyes glanced at Zhang Youde and the two from time to time. For the landlord gentry to handle the armor to run a group practice has long been commonplace, these landlords and gentry recruit some people to protect the family and no one can stop it, if he stops, he will immediately offend a piece of people, you must know that this Zhang family is abiding, handle the armor and come to him to say to go through the formal procedures, there are many places Haoqiang simply ignore his county order, take care of himself to run the group training. But since you have come to the door, it is not right if you don't knock on it.

"People are not ready to recruit more, they are all neighbors, dozens of people are enough! If you are really attacked by bandits, you have to rely on the soldiers and horses of adults. ”

"That's right, the bandits in this county who have not yet become a climate are all petty thieves. But your home is not far from Hongze Lake, the official was still worried about whether the people who were killed last time were the people over there, if those who died were really Hongze Lake water thieves, hehe, the official estimates that you can't do it, you want to protect the support of the official, and let the master issue you a document in a while, and the limit is 300 people! Lu Xiangjiu put down the tea bowl and said generously.

Zhang Renjie watched from the side and didn't bite a word. It's just that I secretly thought in my heart that Lu Xiangjiu's hand is high, he took the initiative to agree, and gave such generous conditions, can you still say it when you look back?

"Then don't disturb the county lord, and the contemptible person will retire!" Zhang Youde and Zhang Renjie gave a salute and then prepared to leave.

"Master Hu, take them to get the paperwork!"

"Master Zhang, Master Zhang, please!" Master Hu, who came out of the room, wore a melon skin hat, and a mustache on his long face, which was really like what was staged on TV, a typical master's appearance, Zhang Renjie wanted to laugh when he saw it.

It is also very fast to get the paperwork, this thing is very simple to put it bluntly, an official letter is written on it that allows the handling of the armor, and then it is good to stamp the county order seal, look at the appearance of this document, just now when the two of them were talking to the county commander Lu Xiangjiu, this Master Hu was already ready.

"Master Hu is fortunate, he is very unhappy to ask Lord Rao County and Master Hu, and he didn't bring any gifts when he came, these rights should be reparations! Next time, if Master Hu has time to go to the dock to sit, Zhang will definitely be satisfied with Master Hu! As he spoke, he handed over a small cloth bag. Needless to say, of course, you have loaded with silver, a full sixty taels, two twenty-five taels, and one ten taels. Of course, there are ten taels of the master, and I understand this rule!

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, the yamen is busy, I won't send it, Master Zhang, Gongzi Zhang, go slowly!" Master Hu said with a smile on his face.

"Farewell!" After speaking, Zhang Renjie helped Zhang Youde to leave the county office.

"This Zhang family is also very generous, fifty taels, it seems that he was frightened by the bandits, too, he is such a lone seedling, if something happens, hehe" County Commander Lu Xiangjiu looked at the fifty taels of silver in the small cloth bag, and said with a smile.

"It's just my lord, isn't it too much for you to allow him to recruit three hundred people at once!" Master Hu rubbed his eight-character beard and tilted his head and asked.

Lu Xiangjiu glanced at Master Hu: "Cut, although his Zhang family is also a big family, it's not that the official looks down on him, and his family really can't afford to support three hundred people." Even if I approve that he can recruit a thousand, it won't work! It's good to sell personal favors to him, look at it, he will beg for more things in the future! ”

"Yes, hehe, if his family wants to do armor, it is necessary to buy weapons, and now to buy a large number of muskets, they must be approved by the government, and without the documents issued by the government, it is a felony to keep weapons privately."

"If only you understood!"

On the way back, Zhang Renjie felt unhappy, the officials of the Qing Dynasty were all like this, and they didn't miss any opportunity to make money. If you find a county government to do something, no matter what you do, you must open the way with silver, otherwise you won't be able to do anything. This Qing court can be regarded as extremely corrupt, and the Qing court is such officials, so what else can this country save? Calculating the time, the Qing court still has nearly thirty years of life, and every qiē still has to follow the rules!

"Dad, we seem to have forgotten something!" Zhang Renjie, who was riding on a horse, said to Zhang Youde in the carriage.

"What's the matter?"

"Did we forget to ask the county government to issue a document for the purchase of ordnance at the same time? Without this paperwork, what should we do if he goes back and troubles us? Zhang Renjie said with a frown.

Zhang Youde lifted the curtain of the carriage and poked his head out: "You kid still lacks experience, these fifty taels of silver can't let that corrupt official help us do two things, the guns and ammunition will be bought back first, and then they will be made up later, as long as these guys have the silver, they won't ask anything." ”