The banquet dispersed, and it was quiet in the dead of night.

Although Liu Jun drank a lot of wine, he was still very sober, and it was obvious that this body was also a long-tested one. I drank a lot of wine, but the wine at this time was not as strong as those of the later generations, and the few bowls of wine at the banquet made him a little uncomfortable at this time, and he became more and more clear and excited.

Since he couldn't sleep, Liu Jun simply lay on the bed and carefully sorted out the experience after the crossing.

In general, he was lucky enough to come to the Ming Dynasty, although it was the end of the world, but he was so young and strong. is still in a good squire's house, and he is still a martial arts student, with a good identity.

Now he is thinking about the way out in the future?

I had thought about climbing to the Liu family before, but I had a cold ass with a hot face, but I accidentally got acquainted with Li Chunjiang. Now Li Chunjiang is pulling him to build a horse team, because Li Chunjiang may just be waiting for a test to be free, an experience, a pastime. But Liu Jun felt that this might be an opportunity for himself.

Li Chunjiang may have left the horse team in three or five months to participate in the imperial examination. But Liu Jun doesn't think that he can be admitted to the martial arts martial arts, maybe this horse team is an opportunity, and he can manage it with his heart, as a little capital in this troubled world.

However, it is not so easy to build a horse team. No matter how armed the squires were, he belonged to a cavalry force. According to what Li Chunjiang told him before, his horse team has 50 official riders, but in addition to these official riders, there must be veterinarians, grooms, blacksmiths, carpenters, leathermen, etc., and a group of riders to follow.

According to his plan, there were fifty regular riders, and then about fifty horsemen, craftsmen, etc., and then there were a hundred riders.

So the size of this horse team was two hundred.

Each regular rider should be equipped with two good horses, one horse, and 20 horses, 30 mules, and dozens of cars.

It's quite a luxurious configuration.

Li Chunjiang has a great appetite, and if he wants to play, he can play big.

And if you really want to pull up such a luxurious horse team, the biggest problem is money. According to Liu Jun's original memory, in the eastern Hubei region, the price is not cheap to buy excellent war horses from abroad, especially in today's troubled times, when there is chaos everywhere. During the Taiping period, a horse in the horse market in eastern Liaodong cost more than ten taels of silver, and it was only twenty taels in Zhangjiakou.

Then now, in Eastern Hubei, a decent horse with a good mouth will get at least fifty taels of silver, and if it is a well-trained war horse, it will cost eighty taels at the bottom. And ordinary people haven't had a chance to get it, so they have to have a pretty hard relationship. Most of these horses were made from the best horses in the northern military towns, and they were completely domesticated and trained.

A horse is eighty taels, and two hundred mounts of a horse team are sixteen thousand taels of silver, and a horse or mule is cheaper, and it costs a thousand taels.

This is only a one-time expenditure, the cost of a good war horse is also extremely high, according to the border army's war horse supply, the war horse has to cost at least thirty taels of silver a year. Two hundred war horses cost another six thousand a year to raise horses.

And that's just the cost of the horses, but what about the equipment of the horses? Recruit the salaries of riders, squires, healers, etc. Like Li Chunjiang's plan, it is not an ordinary squire armament, but a practice similar to that of elite families. A rider estimates that he will have at least two taels of silver a month, and a doctor and so on will have to pay at least one or two taels a month.

For the number 200 people, they have to spend another 1,200 taels of salary in January.

Then food, equipment, and another expense.

Liu Jun calculated this way and found that if he wanted to pull up the horse team, he had to invest at least about 20,000 taels of silver in the initial stage. After that, he had to pay a few hundred taels of silver every month.

Twenty thousand taels is not a decimal number.

He now doubts, can Li Chunjiang really have so much money to invest in this horse team? The Li family must have taken out 20,000 taels of silver, the key is that they are willing to take such a large sum of money to build such a horse team?

Liu Jun suddenly felt that Li Chunjiang's plan was a little too big.

The size of the team is also planned to be a little larger. If only 50 riders were recruited, one for each horse, the cost would be greatly reduced. Fifty horses and eighty taels are only four thousand taels of silver, and each person's monthly salary is two taels, and a month is only one hundred taels of silver. The supply of fifty war horses in a month is only one hundred taels of silver, and after calculation, plus some equipment and food, two hundred taels of silver in a month is enough.

At this scale, there are 5,000 taels of silver at the beginning, and the team can almost be pulled up. He still has 1,000 taels of silver in his hand, and he can also put it in first, and Li Chunjiang can just take 4,000 taels out.

However, even if there is a good war horse, the cavalry cannot be trained overnight. A regular qualified cavalryman must have at least two or three years of hard training before he can achieve anything.

Besides, the right cavalry candidates are not so easy to recruit.

Liu Jun looked up at the four-foot-long small tip angle bow hanging on the wall in the room, short and easy to carry, with a yellow bow body and silk linen twisted strings, which was not very delicate and gorgeous, but it was very smooth and beautiful.

Liu Jun got up and went over and took off his bow.

It wasn't the first time he had tried this bow, and he pulled it away with ease. He estimated that the pulling force was about 120 pounds, and when he had previously tried it outside the house, he had found that the range of the projectile could reach 180 paces, and the effective range was 100 paces. One step is five feet, and one step is one meter six, and this bow can reach an effective range of one hundred and sixty meters, which is already quite good.

According to memory, this small bow was handed down from the Tang and Song dynasties, and was later improved. The bow is small, but it has a long range, and it is easy to open and has a fast rate of fire. It's not as powerful and precise as the long-tip bow, but it's already a very good bow.

If a horse team is formed, this small tip angle bow should be more suitable for riders.

According to Liu Jun's knowledge, during the early Zhengde period, the imperial court promulgated a "Wuxiang Test Rules", which planted three exams for martial arts, one and two for archery, and the third for written exams. The first attempt is based on 25 steps, and the second attempt is based on 80 steps.

In the martial arts examination of the imperial court, the heaviest martial arts are riding and shooting. Twenty-five steps at once, eighty steps down.

In the Ming Dynasty, one step was five feet, one foot was about one meter and six points, and immediately twenty-five steps were forty meters away, and the range of eighty steps reached a distance of one hundred and twenty-eight meters. Killing enemies from such a distance is really powerful.

Liu Jun himself tried this little tip, and he shot at the target in eighty steps, and he could almost hit 100 shots, even if he was extremely accurate immediately. It seems that he was able to be admitted to the Weiwu Academy at the beginning, and it was indeed all because of his true skills that he was admitted.

Looking down at his hands with thick joints and calluses, Liu Jun felt that the horse team mainly had to practice riding and shooting. As for firearms, they do not seem to be a suitable option.

If a team can be trained to his riding and archery skills, even at half the level, then this horse team can be called elite. However, if you can equip the riders with two short guns, you may still be able to greatly improve their combat effectiveness. However, although Liu Jun knows a lot about the history of the Ming Dynasty and is familiar with riding and archery, he doesn't seem to know anything about firearms.

Let's practice riding and archery first, aren't the Manchu Tartars also known for riding and archery?

Liu Jun and Liu Jun don't know much about firearms, but Liu Jun is still very clear about bows and arrows.

In the Ming Dynasty, bows and arrows should have developed to a new level, more advanced than in the Tang and Song dynasties. The typical situation is that on the basis of matching the weight of the arrow and the bow force, the relationship between the length of the arrow and the bow force is noted, and the record of the bow force is no longer calculated by the traditional stone, but has a special concept of force.

Liu Jun has a book "Archery" written by the Ming man Li Chengfen at home, which talks about the power of the bow and arrow, and wants it to be commensurate. The bow of the ancients measured the strength of the stone, and the bow of today measured the strength of a force, nine catties and four taels for a force, and ten forces for one stone.

Whoever has five bows and four arrows will be unstable when they are sent; And the three bows of strength, the arrows weighing seven coins, will be sent late and not fast. Why? The force is not relative either.

Therefore, the bow of the three forces uses arrows, and it is ten fists long. The so-called punch is called a handful. Ten arrows, which weigh four dollars and five cents. For example, the bow of the four forces is to use nine and a half arrows to be more than one and a half long, or to ten, which is especially proportionate, and its weight is five dollars and five cents. As for the bow of five forces and six powers, the arrow is also nine and a half fists. The bow of seven forces and eight forces uses only nine arrows, even if it is as long as nine and a half arrows.

Therefore, the length of the arrow depends on the weight of the bow. The fineness of the string buckle also depends on the strength of the bow.

One catty and sixteen taels in the Ming Dynasty was about 595 grams. One or two dozen dollars, one dollar is about 3.72 grams.

Therefore, Liu Jun converted according to what was said in the archery book, and the corresponding arrow weight of the three-force bow was 16.7 grams. The corresponding arrow of the four-force bow weighs 20.5 grams.

Calculated, a stone bow in the Ming Dynasty was converted into a modern bow force of pounds, a pound in the Ming Dynasty corresponded to 1.31 pounds in modern times, a force corresponded to about 12.11-12.61 pounds in modern times, and a stone corresponded to 121.1-126.1 pounds.

A force is nine catties and four taels, and ten forces are ninety-two and a half catties, which is equivalent to about 120 pounds, about 110 catties.

In this way, in fact, a stone bow is not a big exaggeration, and it is not as many descendants misunderstood, thinking that a stone bow is 94.4 kilograms of tensile force, which is too exaggerated. One stone of 94.4 kilograms is only the volumetric weight of ten buckets of rice, and it cannot be counted as a unit of bow strength.

Liu Jun's bow is actually a bow of ten forces, in other words, a stone bow. And as far as he remembers, there are not many Huangzhou Weiwu students who can shoot a stone bow. Generally, ordinary soldiers in the Ming army will open bows with six or seven forces, and junior officers will open bows with seven or eight forces.

Only those fierce generals who are extremely brave can open a bow with more than ten forces, twelve or thirteen forces, or even fourteen or fifteen strong bows.

Although most of the traditional bows produced in later generations were fifty or sixty pounds, many people were able to draw a 100-pound bow with ease after training, and even those Welsh longbowmen in England could draw a longbow of more than 200 pounds. This requires not only training, but also enough talent.