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With the support of the contemporary heads of the Mei and Li families, who are the leaders of the four major families, the other clans naturally have to sell a face, not to mention that the Liu family also has strong support, so they naturally can't lag behind.

This family is out of 200, that family is out of 100, and the families who were invited and those big businesses in Macheng are also considered to be out of blood today. Liu Jun stood there, listening to these subsidies, and he was almost a little incredulous.

Every family paid real money, and everyone almost knew the reason for tonight's meal before they came. Therefore, before they came, they all brought money, and at this time, the family members came up with boxes and boxes, and took out all the money reported by their lords.

Li Chunjiang took the cashiers of Liu Jun's family, and bowed down to express his gratitude for each collection.

In the end, the silver was piled up in a large chest.

The Li family's banquet was very successful, and they received more than 5,700 taels of silver at the banquet. In addition, there were 46 horses that each family promised to sponsor and support, and more than 500 stone of grain promised by each family.

It simply made Liu Jun very happy, with this money, if he only maintained the current seventy people, it was basically enough, and even their horses were almost enough for one horse.

Of course, there is a price to pay for taking so many benefits.

The price is that a lot of wine has been poured in, and those who have paid for it have figured out what Liu Jun is all about, but since Mei, Li and Liu are so supportive, they have also taken the initiative to show their goodwill, you have a cup and I have a cup, and before you know it, this wine has been drunk a lot. In the end, you can't favor one over the other, even if you drink almost, you have to grit your teeth and drink it all.

At the end of the drink, Liu Jun was even vain, and he didn't even know when the banquet would end.

When I woke up again, it was already clear outside and the morning light was clear.

Shaking his head that hurt a little, Liu Jun got up, only to find that he had stayed at Li's house all night. As soon as he woke up, the Li family's maid immediately came to serve, fetching water and handing towels, and brought green salt and a toothbrush to brush his teeth. In the end, they even sent him a brand new set of clothes, shoes and socks.

"Brother Jiye, your head must still hurt, right?" Li Chunjiang rubbed his head and appeared in front of Liu Junfang's door.

"I didn't say anything rude after I got drunk last night, hey, I don't even know how I got here, I'm too drunk." Liu Jun said with a smile.

"Although it is really uncomfortable to be drunk, it is still worth it for us to drink so much wine yesterday, five thousand seven hundred and fifty taels of silver, forty-six good horses, and five hundred and fifty stone of grain, which is worth it, very much. If I can get drunk again and get so much money and food, I am willing to get drunk again. Li Chunjiang said.

"Hahaha!" Liu Jun couldn't help laughing.

"Pack up and come with me."

While arranging his clothes, Liu Jun asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Of course, we went to get equipment, and now we have people, horses, money and food, and the only thing we lack is equipment." Li Chunjiang said a little impatiently.

Speaking of this, Liu Jun was also a little puzzled, they belonged to the self-built squire army, and they belonged to the township regiment of Mei Zhihuan, the big squire. The township regiment belongs to the squire army, where does this equipment come from?

He asked Li Chunjiang questions, but Li Chunjiang just smiled and didn't regard him as a problem at all.

"It's not a problem, as long as you have money, you can get any weapons and equipment you want."

After Li Chunjiang's introduction and explanation, Liu Jun was able to solve some doubts. It turned out that it was precisely because of the chaos in various places, especially after the thieves in Shaanxi started up, that now not only Shaanxi, but even most of the Central Plains have been run by thieves. Bandits are running around, which in turn leads to the swarming of bandits and bandits from all over the country.

The armaments of the guards in various places have long been abandoned, and most of the soldiers and horses recruited by the imperial court are concentrated in the northern frontier. Although he also sent ministers to supervise the troops to suppress bandits in the Central Plains, he always pressed the gourd and scooped up. It was in this embarrassing situation that the imperial court supported local township regiments and militia training.

The local government often did not have the money to set up a township regiment, so in the end it allowed the gentry and landlords in various places to recruit people and horses to establish a township regiment at their own expense to protect the township. Nominally, the township regiment was still under the command of the local government, but in reality it became the personal armed forces of the squires.

Just like in Macheng, there is not only the Mei family in a township group. The Mei family's Baoshengbao Township Group is only the most powerful, and there are many wealthy families in Macheng, such as the four major families of Mei, Li, Zhou, and Liu, each family has more than 1,000 slaves, and each family has a family team. Originally, it was only equipped with sticks and the like, but since the peasant army became more and more powerful, each family began to equip its family with knives, guns and arrows.

And Mei Zhihuan, even through his own connections, spent a lot of money to get a lot of cannons and firearms, and even directly borrowed a firearms unit of more than 300 people from Nanjiang.

And such as the Li family, the Liu family, the Zhou family, etc., have also brought knives, guns, bows and arrows, war horses and firearms to their family members through their relationships. It can be said that as long as you have a relationship, you have money, and you can have any weapons and equipment if you want it, and the ironclad artillery that has always been strictly banned by the state can now be obtained.

Therefore, Liu Jun's hometown brave horse team does not have to worry about equipment problems at all. As long as you have money, you can get all kinds of equipment through ready-made channels.

Of course, these equipment are actually obtained from the local guards and even the country's ordnance workshops, which is basically a well-known thing, and there is no risk. Although it may sound strange that the squires could easily get a large number of national armaments, this is the case.

Li Chunjiang pulled Liu Jun to go to Shenzhuang Baosheng Fort, and went there to find one of Mei Zhihuan's staff, who was specially responsible for equipment. Liu Jun What they want, just ask him for help and contact, there are special people to sell all kinds of equipment. What do you need, prepare the money, and then find the corresponding contact person to place an order, negotiate the price, you can sit and wait for the receipt, never worry about other problems, their reputation is very good.

"What gear are you going to buy?" Is there a list? Mei Zhihuan's staff member was a Chinese man with a very beautiful long beard, and he was not at all surprised by Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang's intentions, as if Liu Jun was not here to buy ordnance, but just to make soy sauce.

Li Chunjiang patted his head at this time, "Well, first come a hundred sets of iron armor, then two hundred three-eyed guns, well, another two hundred waist knives, and some gunpowder."

"Wait." Liu Jun can't listen to it anymore, you really think you're here to make soy sauce, such an important equipment procurement, you just pat your head and decide, you don't have to discuss it carefully?

"Gongji, I think we should discuss it more carefully. For example, we have more than 70 people now, and the equipment will be purchased according to this amount first, and our horse team doesn't need iron armor, right? Also, the Three-Eyed Gun doesn't seem to be a good fit for us. ”

Li Chunjiang felt that he should buy more, "We have more than 70 people now, and we will definitely increase it in the future, and there will definitely be some damage to the training and operation, so it is always better to be prepared to buy more." In addition, the three-eyed gun is very good, it is said that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry has been equipped with a large number of three-eyed guns, and the soldiers all say that the three-eyed gun is easy to use, and it can be used as a mace after the fight, which can both attack from a distance and fight in close combat, which is a good thing. ”

Although Liu Jun doesn't know much about firearms, he also knows that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the three-eyed gun was by no means the best firearm, and he practiced the three-eyed gun when he was studying martial arts in the guard, and knew that this kind of firearm that can fire three shots is actually a rather backward firearm gun, which needs to be ignited with a fire fold to shoot, and even the arquebus, the most backward firearm in his impression, is greatly inferior.

Not to mention that the accuracy is extremely low, and the shooting distance is also extremely short, according to the three-eyed gun he remembered used in martial arts, the effective strike distance seems to be only two zhang when it is lethal. If it is more than two feet, it will be no different from shooting at the sky, you can't hit people, and you can't kill people.

The only advantage is that after the launch is completed, it can still be used as a mace. After all, this thing is actually a wooden stick stabbed on a pile of iron pipes of several catties connected by three iron barrels.

"I've used the three-eyed gun, it's not a powerful firearm, in my opinion, it's better to buy a three-eyed gun than to buy a bird gun, it's an arquebus, compared to the three-eyed gun is only two feet away, the bird gun can break the iron armor within a hundred steps, and it has a high accuracy." Liu Jun said.

"But I've heard that the bird gun can be very troublesome to use, and it can take half a day to reload and launch, and many people can't even figure out how to use it."

"That's just untrained, as long as you are well-trained, a pillar of incense can shoot at least one shot, or even two."

Li Chunjiang was a little surprised, "Is the bird gun really so easy to use?" Then why don't the northern border armies use birds? ”

At this time, the middle-aged staff interjected, "The bird gun is indeed stronger than the three-eyed gun, but the weapon is dead, and the talent is alive." What's the use if the person who uses it isn't used to a better bird's gun. As he spoke, he looked at Liu Jun, a little surprised that this young martial artist actually knew so much about firearms.

"However, the bird gun is indeed very complicated to use, if there is no sufficient training, the bird gun will not play as powerful as it should be, but it is not as good as the three-eyed gun, after all, the three-eyed gun is simple to use, especially those barbarians of the Northern Army, as soon as the temperament comes up, they always like to use firearms as maces, if the bird guns are not used to shoot, it is actually better to burn the fire stick." He introduced with a smile.

"It's so complicated. So let's buy a bird? ”

Liu Jun still shook his head, "Although the fire gun is powerful, it takes time to train, and without sufficient training, it is difficult for the bird gun to play." Our horse team was newly built, and I didn't think it was suitable to equip all of them with birds. It is possible to buy some Bird Guns, then some Bows and Arrows, and some Hook Guns and Waist Knives as melee weapons. ”

"What you say makes sense, then according to what you mean, let's draw up a list first." Li Chunjiang did not insist on his three-eyed eye, nor did he insist on building a pure firearm cavalry, and followed Liu Jun's advice from the decision of Ji Ruliu, and first got a batch of firearms, bows, arrows, knives and guns.