In a restaurant in Mazi Erdun, several soldiers of the killer team who were on vacation were drinking, and the leader of the team was Zhong Laosi.

Zhong Laosi's eyes were red, and he slapped his palm on the table, "Your mother, Lao Tzu doesn't want to mix with farmers every day." ”

Zhou Shao'er took a sip of a glass of wine, and lazily persuaded: "Captain, that's called peasant soldiers, you care about our team of twelve talents, and the peasant soldiers are more than two hundred." ”

"Bullshit soldiers, Lao Tzu went to see the test team of Mazi Erdun, they all fucking farm clothes, and they called soldiers when they resisted the spear and bird, and Lao Tzu had a headache when he looked at it."

Chen Ying coughed, looked at the people around the wine shop, and said in a low voice: "Captain, Captain Wu is right, you have to change this complaint, maybe Huang Yuan just thinks you talk too much, so he replaced you with the peasant soldiers." ”

Zhong Laosi glanced at Chen Ying fiercely, this Dongjiang soldier seemed to have completely changed since he had killed enough eight Tartars, and he talked more, and after returning to Weihai, he even asked him to help find his daughter-in-law. Zhong Laosi is in the mood to care about Chen Ying now, he himself was injured in Luanzhou, and the injury was not strict, but there was a knife mark on his face, and he was always worried about affecting his daughter-in-law.

Originally, they were all from the 1,000th headquarters, but they were temporarily transferred to the second department and rushed back to Weihai. Not long after he came back, Zhong Laosi received an order to go to the peasant test team.

He remembered the peasant soldiers he saw in the morning, and he was angry, "Just that group of peasant soldiers, our team can fight a hundred." ”

Another strong man next to him said, "Captain, why don't you find Mr. Lu Qian and say, although we are now in charge of the adult, we are the first general people." How can the second always be transferred casually. "This strong man's name is Liu Yue, a mountain man from Dengzhou, who is the knife and stick hand on their team, and he is the one who killed him with men and horses in Luanzhou City.

Zhong Laosi held back for a while, and suddenly deflated: "The order was issued by Lord Chen. ”

The other three shook their heads together and said in unison, "Then what are you complaining about?" ”

Zhong Laosi poured a few sips of wine and continued to complain: "Lao Tzu is the first to be a long knife hand. Then he said that he didn't want to grow a knife, and Lao Tzu changed it to a knife training stick, and then he was promoted to captain and switched to a flag gun. It's good now, let Lao Tzu lead the peasant soldiers to practice muskets, and Lao Tzu has used half of the weapons in our Wendeng camp. By the way, those peasant soldiers still use spears, maybe the spear Lao Tzu also has to practice. ”

Zhou Shao'er said with a smile: "It's an all-rounder like you, Master Chen can see it, after you became the captain, Huang Yuan also forced you to practice muskets, and you can use any weapon, he must have recommended you to Lord Chen." ”

"This dog thing, according to Lao Tzu's style of play when he was in Luanzhou, how could they die in Guandi Temple."

Liu Yue hurriedly sandwiched a piece of meat into Zhong Laosi's bowl and whispered, "Captain." This can't be said nonsense, Lord Chen and Mr. Lu Qian both praised Huang Yuan's decisive action, and when you say this, you even say that Mr. Lu Qian and Mr. Chen are wrong, and you don't even have to bring peasant soldiers. ”

Zhong Laosi chewed indignantly for a while. said loudly to the three of them: "Lao Tzu has been your captain for a long time, and you can't come up with an idea, you have a fart, no matter what kind of soldiers your mother brings, as long as the monthly salary is still paid." Lao Tzu lived in Mazi Erdun, and your daughter-in-law Lao Tzu didn't care. ”

Chen Ying looked at Zhong Laosi dumbfounded. He can count on Zhong Laosi to make peace, Chen Ying turned out to be a stuffy gourd, and he didn't know anyone, and was about to open his mouth to beg Zhong Laosi, Zhou Shao'er smiled next to him: "I want you to take care of it, Zhao Xuan has agreed to help, his mouth can be said to be alive, and he will definitely be able to help us say that we have three wives and four concubines." ”

Chen Ying laughed when she heard this, and didn't go to ask Zhong Laosi anymore, and asked Zhou Shao'er, "Really?" My monthly salary adds up to ten taels, and I heard that I can get a total of twenty taels for this battle reward, and thirty taels of silver should be able to repair a yard. ”

Liu Yue also counted with his fingers, and said with a look of surprise: "I have enough, a brick house is only four taels, I will build a courtyard with one entry, six rooms, and take my father, mother and brother to live." ”

"You're so beautiful, the price has risen!" Zhong Laosi wiped the wine on his mouth, "I asked yesterday, a brick house is almost five taels, I heard that all the masons in Weihai came here, waiting to earn our silver." I want Lao Tzu to say, don't look for any masons, go to the Lao Wendeng camp to repair, there are many pier households over there, many have repaired the barracks, the price must be much lower, there are many pier households over there, and the war barracks are also there, all go to Weihai to join in the fun. ”

Liu Yue scratched his head and said: "I feel that Weihai is clean, and everyone looks very energetic." ”

Zhong Laosi scolded impatiently: "Weihai Tunhu has divided the land, and the other landless ones are opened up on weekdays, and the family and children are all doing chores in the workshop to make money, or raising pigs and chickens, and having silver of course the spirit, you think about what kind of cowardice you just went down the mountain, so poor that you have never even seen steamed cakes, and you have a fart spirit." You are looking for a daughter-in-law to settle down here, and people have to look up to you, and the training is in Wendeng camp, you can only come back once a year, how good it is to settle down outside the camp, if Lao Tzu is the president of Bai, find a reason to send you out at night for half an hour, you can sleep with your wife. ”

Liu Yue smirked, Zhou Shao'er and Chen Ying listened to Zhong Laosi's words, and they were also a little hesitant, Weihai was the first place they stayed, and they were kind to here, and they subconsciously wanted to settle their home on the side of Mazidun, the shacks outside the Wendeng camp were everywhere, and the environment was very poor, the only thing was that the barracks were cleaner. But Zhong Laosi said that they thought it might be more convenient for Wendeng Camp.

Zhong Laosi himself muttered, "It's a pity that Lao Tzu can't be a hundred presidents, and it's good to manage the peasants and soldiers, and you can hold your wife to sleep when you are on duty." ”

"The Wendeng camp is positioned as Tuntian and the army, the Baolong River is rich in water, and it is also close to the Rushan Village, there are iron ore mines of two officials in Ninghai Prefecture over there, the raw materials are more convenient, and the weapon workshop should be slowly transferred to that side, and some depth is more conducive to defense for the weapon workshop and the army. Weihai positioning is trade and commerce, copper coins, commercial products are temporarily produced here, in addition to Chengshan and Jinghai each build a port, with Tunpu for each other, in this way, with Wendeng camp as the center, there are ports on the north and southeast sides, can be used as a transshipment port for sea trade and southern goods, and then through guò our commercial outlets sales, at least to monopolize the southern goods market in Wendeng, and then through guò wholesale, the southern goods market in Denglai accounted for a part, so that we can pass guò southern goods first lay Denglai's commercial outlets. ”

Chen Xin discussed the commercial outlets with Liu Minyou on the map, and Liu Minyou said after listening: "Now there are many shops in Weihai and Wendengying, most of which are gentry and officials, all of which are sold separately. Other products are not sold, so as not to make a despair for the merchant. ”

Chen Xin said while recording: "Grain must be necessary, when my sailor is built, the Jiangnan Cao Boat will leave some entrained grain, which can be used as our reserve grain." Tobacco sales are definitely good, but I don't think sugar and tea will sell much, and a group of tun households who are willing to spend money on that thing. ”

"It's okay to divide the land in the tunpu, each family is twenty acres, one acre and one stone, give it to us two buckets, they can still have some spare money, the income of the workshop and breeding is also very good, and there is also the ability to consume, plus after the soldiers become families, the military salary will enter the market in large quantities, so sugar and tea can be sold in better tunpu. However, there is a lot of silver taels issued recently, and the price has a tendency to rise, so your second batch of combat rewards will be slowed down a little, and wait for other sources of goods to come in and adjust, so as not to be made in vain by those merchants. ”

Chen Xin thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "Then tell the soldiers to take it together at the end of the year,"

"What if someone sues you?"

Chen Xin didn't raise his head and said: "I'm not robbing them, how much silver Yang Yunnong gave, how much silver I give, what do they tell me to do, they are all entrained, and they can't see the light either." Who really dares to sue, sink it directly next time. By the way, why do we want to sell this ironware ourselves? ”

"Iron tools are mainly agricultural tools and pots in the kitchen, once a large number of tunpu is built, the amount will be very large, our workshop needs to produce to support people, even if the profit is lower, the main thing is to cultivate the workshop and iron-making industry, first take the road of dumping at low prices, and drive other ironware out of Wendeng."

Chen Xin asked, "Can you not buy Min Tie?" ”

"You still have to buy the Min Iron to build weapons. Not only Fujian iron, we also buy steel from Dengzhou, the steel production of the ironmaking workshop has been very small, and now there are more and more places where steel is used, mainly the cutting edges of weapons and the cutting edges of tools. ”

Chen Xin also rubbed his forehead, his biggest problem now is that he has a single source of income, although he has a military salary, it is only enough to pay the monthly money of the regular soldiers, and he has to pay for equipment and training, and any iron armor of the killer team is dozens of taels. There are also peasants and soldiers who also need some expenses, even if it is only a reserve nature, his economy has always been strictly dependent on sea trade, in case Li Guozhu has three long and two short, he will only have tuntian and military salaries, these are not enough for his expenses, he thinks about it, or only to make more profits from domestic commerce, one is the sea route to the south of the Yangtze River, and the other is along the Grand Canal, so it is more important to go to Nanjing to see Xu Xinsu this time.

Liu Minyou looked at him, shook his head and said: "The canal business is a big deal, it is completely a Red Sea competition, even if there is Xu Xinsu to supply, we don't have much advantage, the sea route is slightly better, but the area we can radiate is only limited to the vicinity of Dengzhou, and the most important thing is that we don't have ......."

"The core competitiveness, everything is people's, we try our best to make a little transfer fee, and there are many people who do it, or a monopoly state-owned enterprise, electric tiger oil tiger money tiger, you can earn as much as you want."

Liu Minyou laughed when he heard it: "So their services and products are always the worst." Southern goods are only enough for us to maintain a shop, and if we want to make money, we have to rely on new products. ”

"Well, hurry up and finish arranging the things at hand, and we'll leave for Jiangnan in a few days." ……)

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