Moreover, this historian only took out 500 taels of so much money, which gave everyone here a very bad start.

Sure enough, after the historian opened his mouth to give five hundred taels, several other people also spoke one after another, but they all said three hundred taels, two hundred taels, one hundred taels, and some even shouted out fifty taels of silver.

This made Lin Zhe very angry, if it was according to this kind of number, wouldn't it be less than four thousand taels in a circle?

Four thousand taels is a fart, and even a month's maintenance cost of his battalion is not enough!

So Lin Zhe's face darkened in an instant, Lin Zhe didn't care about the people in the officialdom, he was not interested in playing any conspiracy with everyone, he immediately snorted coldly, and then said in a cold tone: "Your kindness is appreciated by the officials, presumably with your funding, the soldiers of our battalion who are struggling to catch the long-haired thieves will be very pleased, and the officers of the next few days will not have to worry about their rewards!" ”

Lin Zhe's words were very cold, and there was a very obvious meaning revealed in his words, that is, the operation to catch the long hair would continue.

Does Changxing have long-haired spies? There must be, but can Lin Zhe catch it? Unlikely, but why keep caught?

This is the same as before, the capture of long hair is just a cover, and it will definitely continue to harass the families in the future.

That Shi Anjin immediately frowned, it seems that this Lin Zhe's appetite is even greater than he imagined, the Shi family, as the leading gentry family in Changxing, was already a common family before he came, in the face of Lin Zhe's blackmail, he had to give money, and he couldn't give more at that time, what everyone agreed was that dozens of families would share it, and finally put together four thousand taels of silver to Lin Zhe.

You must know that four thousand taels in this era is not less, can't it satisfy Lin Zhe's appetite?

But he knew that Lin Zhe was asking for money to support the army, not for his own corruption!

If you want to say that there is such a thing as enriching your pockets, Lin Zhe really doesn't bother to do it, what? His Lin family is not short of money, and tens of thousands of taels can be taken out without blinking.

He asked for money to raise the army, and raising the army can solve the problem with a few thousand taels of silver, and the cost of four thousand taels a month is not enough, if he doesn't squeeze out tens of thousands of taels of silver from this group of people today, he will not give up.

Shi Anjin frowned, while the others were all looking at Shi Anjin, it was obvious that this group of people had reached some kind of agreement before they came, and it depended on Shi Anjin's movements to advance and retreat.

Shi Anjin kept thinking in his mind, speaking from his heart, he was not afraid of Lin Zhe, his Shi family was also a family of gentry, and his old father was also an official in the court, and there were many relationships in Zhejiang officialdom, but now this Lin Zhe made it clear that he didn't want to talk about any officialdom routines, if he didn't give in now, this Lin Zhe would probably use the excuse of arresting Long Mao to use the knife against them tomorrow, and it would be himself who would make a big loss at that time, even if he could impeach Lin Zhe afterwards, it would be useless.

Immediately, he gritted his teeth and said: "The adults are dedicated to the people, and the grass people admire it very much, I see that the soldiers of your camp are still lacking in clothes and hats, and I am willing to donate another 1,000 taels of silver to strengthen the prestige of the camp!" ”

Sure enough, after Shi Anjin spoke again, others also spoke one after another, this person said that he was willing to donate five hundred taels of silver, that person said that he was willing to donate four hundred taels of grain, grass and silver, and some people said that he was willing to donate three hundred taels of medicine, and he donated hundreds of taels under various names.

Lin Zhe listened and calculated silently, in this way, it should not be a problem to harvest ten thousand taels of silver today, so his brows slowly stretched, and his face also dissipated, and a smile appeared.

Although 10,000 taels of silver is also a drop in the bucket for Lin Zhe to raise the army, at most it will last for about two months, but Lin Zhe also knows that he can't force them too quickly, and if they are too anxious, people won't give them, and he can't learn from the Taiping Army to go directly to the door to rob the house.

As for the cost of raising the army in the future, we will talk about it later, there is always a shortage of money for running a regiment to train and raise the army, and it is impossible to say that all the future military expenditure problems will be solved in one day, and today the military expenses of 10,000 taels of silver have been squeezed out from these people, plus the previous allocation fees given by Shaoxing and Hangzhou, as well as the 1,000 taels of silver per month promised by Huang Zonghan, at least in the next three months, there is no need to worry about not being able to pay the silver.

Next, Lin Zhe changed his previous bland look and put on a smile, although he was still talking about city defense, strict prevention of long-haired spies and the like, but from his tone and demeanor, it could be seen that the next action would not continue to target the rich families in the city.

This also made Shi Anjin and the others feel a lot more at ease, and sure enough, in the two days they waited, although the soldiers of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County continued to search the long-haired spies in the city, they no longer harassed those gentry and wealthy families.

In addition to peace of mind, those big families also took out their pens one after another and sent letters one after another, to the family members of the officials in the DPRK and the Central Committee or other related officials, trying to get them to impeach Lin Zhe, and even Huang Zonghan received such letters.

However, after reading these letters, Huang Zonghan just smiled and ignored them, didn't he just ask for 10,000 taels of military funds on the ground, this is not a big deal, if Lin Zhe can bring out the regimental training, keep Changxing well, and even win a few battles, how can this be done without military support?

Huang Zonghan knew that Lin Zhe's battalion cost a lot, and he couldn't beat three thousand taels a month, and the Zhejiang government didn't have so much money for Lin Zhe, and most of the military expenses could only be raised by Lin Zhe himself.

In other words, in fact, from the very beginning, Huang Zonghan tacitly let Lin Zhe raise his own military expenses locally.

Of course, Lin Zhe's current actions are a bit big, and it is necessary to raise military expenses by himself, but he can't make too bad a relationship with the local government.

"In the end, it's a young man, and he doesn't think about it!" Huang Zonghan thought of this, and immediately wrote a short message to Lin Zhe, in addition to encouraging Lin Zhe to guard Huzhou, he also proposed to let Lin Zhe properly handle the relationship with the local government and not be too stiff.

After Lin Zhe received the letter, he also understood what Huang Zonghan meant, but he didn't care.

In the final analysis, Lin Zhe is not a person in the officialdom, let alone a person in this era, his thinking is completely different from that of contemporary officialdom, he does not look forward to the future, nor is he worried about the so-called career.

He Lin Zhe held this group training, not to be an official, let alone to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he came to rebel.

As the so-called clear wear does not rebel, chrysanthemum set electric drill.

After coming to this era, I think that since God has come to this era himself, what can he do but rebel?

Could it be that he dragged his pigtails and played intrigue with the officials of this era, and played a so-called official fight? Or go hook up with a few Manchu Gege? Brothers and sisters with those brothers? Bow down to the Manchu Emperor again?

, he, Lin Zhe, is here to rebel!

And he didn't worry about what would happen after the rebellion failed, the big deal was that he patted his ass and ran to the Shanghai Concession, and then went abroad to continue to be his rich man, and maybe he could make a comeback from overseas in the future.

Lin Zhe, who had this kind of thought, naturally didn't have too many scruples in his actions, and he didn't even bother to think about how to deal with the aftermath after he offended a circle of people.

As long as the army in his hand is strong enough and large, does he care what other people think?

Of course, if you don't care what other people think, you have to have a strong army in your hand, so after Lin Zhe went to Changxing to make money, he was once again obsessed with training troops and expanding troops as before.

Changxing County School Field, this school field used to be stationed many other Qing troops, but now it has been occupied by the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, at this time the soldiers of the Yuyao County Yong Camp are undergoing the same training.

Speaking of troop training in this era, it is actually very simple and boring, mainly for queue and loading training.

The musket units of this era played with queues and bayonets, both of which required very high discipline in the troops.

The modern troops of later generations required the troops to have faith, fanatical combat enthusiasm, skilled combat skills.

But for modern troops, there is really only one requirement: discipline.

The highest level of modern troops is to train soldiers to be machined people, there can be no thoughts and independent ideas, fear or fanaticism are not needed, what they need is an instinctive response to orders, even if it is a rain of bullets in front, let them reload, shoot when they shoot, when the officer asks them to step forward against the bullets, they have to numb step by step, and can ignore the comrades around them and fall one after another.

In the words of Hunter Wilhelm, only a soldier who is numb enough is a good soldier.

Now Lin Zhe looked at the soldiers who were lining up in front of him, he didn't know if his soldiers were numb and calm enough, but he could see that their movements in line were already decent.

Under the command of those officers, the soldiers constantly changed various formations, and the time required to change from column to horizontal formation was very short, and the formation was not chaotic at all.

Hunter William said in a proud tone: "In terms of discipline and reload speed, they are no less than any army I have ever seen!" ”

Lin Zhe didn't know how much boasting there was in this sentence, but he knew that his army already looked decent.

Just when Lin Zhe continued to observe this training accompanied by Khant William, a knight galloped from the north, and by looking at his dress, he knew that he was a scout of the Qing army.

The county seat of Changxing is not big, and soon this knight arrived at the gate of the school, and after a while, he gasped and arrived in front of Lin Zhe.

After listening to the words of the detective, Lin Zhe frowned: "Ten miles to the north, found traces of the Taiping Army?" How many people are there? Is that part of it? ”

After speaking, he said again: "Slow down, don't worry, speak slowly!" ”

The scout is about twenty years old, and he is one of the cavalrymen in the Yongying Guards of Yuyao County, he is a bandit, he is very good at riding, and his skills are also very good, because the guards are the only cavalry troops under Lin Zhe, so the daily peripheral reconnaissance can only rely on them.

The detective took a few deep breaths and then said: "There are at least five hundred people in the thief army, and the banner is 'Dong', which part it belongs to because I haven't caught it alive, so it's not clear for the time being, but there are a lot of bandits among them, and there are a lot of foreign guns!" ”