Chapter 39: Thieves and Firearms
More than 100 people mobilized together to clean up the camp, and they were busy for a long time, cleaning up several piles of garbage. All the houses were cleaned and wiped clean, and even the weeds in the two large open spaces were removed.
Liu Jun also arranged for more than a dozen people to wash the well, and more than a dozen people continued to draw water from the well, and finally temporarily lifted the well water, and then let the people go down to use buckets to fish up the sediment and debris inside, and spread a few loads of clean river sand into it. After cleaning it once, the well water gushing out again is already clear and sweet.
Li Chunjiang became the shopkeeper and went to sleep alone. Liu Jun had to act as a big butler and arrange people to do this and that. After the final sweep, the camp area was divided again, and the two playgrounds, one as a training ground for the left banner and the other as a training ground for the right flag, and as for the middle flag, a slightly smaller field was set aside for them to train.
In the end, the dozen or so large houses were also divided, and the largest ones, the original main house hall, were used as parts. In addition, there are several side rooms on the side, one each for Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun.
Each team is arranged to live together, with the team leader and the firefighters living in one room, and the ten soldiers below, one in one room.
The groom veterinarian arranged to stay in the stable, and in short, all the people were arranged in the end.
At dinner that day, Liu Jun distributed food to each team, and each team began to start their own group. Each team's firefighters are responsible for cooking, and the others are responsible for helping.
The first meal was good, with meat and vegetables with big white rice, and even half a catty of rice wine per person. These are also reward foods sent by local squires, including wine, meat, and vegetables.
After marching for half a day during the day and cleaning for half a day, everyone was very tired. The new station and new barracks are also a new beginning of the life of the villagers, and Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang both made speeches, said some words of encouragement, and described a lot of bright prospects. All in all, the meal was good, and everyone was very satisfied with this life.
It's just that Liu Jun was just smiling on the side, and Li Chunjiang, who was already very familiar with Liu Jun, immediately understood that those villagers were still too young.
After the dinner in the cafeteria was dispersed, Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang sat in the hall together and talked on the oil lamp.
"Jiye, Squire Zhang mentioned something to me today, recently there are bandits near the Queen City, looting everywhere, and many merchants in the Queen City have suffered a lot of losses. He wanted to ask our horse team to help him and suppress these bandits. ”
Liu Jun shook his head very unceremoniously, "Gongji, we are just recruiting people and horses now, and we haven't even gotten down the ordnance and horses. But in reality, I haven't even trained for a day. Are we going to fight the bandits now, or are we going to die? ”
"Gongji, I'm against what bandits are being suppressed now. Although the local squire was very polite to us, he gave us a thousand taels of silver, and in the evening he was rewarded with wine and meat. But we can't let that stop us from knowing how many pounds and taels we have. I think that now that we are stationed in Queen City, the bandits in the neighborhood will know about it. If they were smart, they would have left the area first and gone elsewhere to do the crime, so we wouldn't have to do it at all. If they are still doing crimes here, it means that they must be very confident, these thieves must be quite fierce and have a certain strength, if so, then we will be more dangerous if we take the initiative to attack. ”
"But Squire Zhang just gave us such a big gift, and made such a small request, but we immediately refused, which is not good." Li Chunjiang felt that his face was a little indelible. Moreover, he didn't take the thief much in his heart. There are more than 100 people under him now.
Liu Jun felt a little headache, and Li Chunjiang was still a little bookish many times.
He thought for a moment, "Have you already promised Squire Zhang?" ”
Li Chunjiang nodded a little embarrassedly, "Didn't I drink more at that time, and I agreed for a while." ”
"Now that you've promised him, it's hard to regret it." Liu Jun smacked his mouth, "That's it, let's send Ye Buhui to investigate and reconnoiter the movements of this gang of bandits first, and then discuss countermeasures after we find out his whereabouts, what do you think?" ”
Li Chunjiang nodded hurriedly, "Only when you know the other can you survive a hundred battles, it's very good, just do what you say." ”
The night passed, and at dawn the next day, Liu Jun was fetching water by the well to wash his face and rinse his mouth, but a soldier standing guard at the gate of the camp came to report. A convoy came outside the door, saying it was here to make deliveries.
When Liu Jun heard this, he hurriedly wiped his face and rushed to the door. When he arrived, Li Chunjiang had already arrived first, and was directing people to open the door and let the convoy in. It turned out to be Mr. Zhao, who brought the ordnance that Liu Jun had ordered earlier. There were several big cars, and Liu Jun was in a happy mood.
"I knew you were waiting for it, so I urged it a little more, but fortunately it was all ready-made goods, just a transfer. Well, it was originally said that it would take seven days, but now it will be transferred to you in three days. As soon as Mr. Zhao saw Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang, he immediately smiled and stepped forward to ask for credit.
"Thank you so much Uncle Zhao."
Liu Jun stepped forward to receive the goods, and the cargo compartment of a car was opened, and the large and small compartments were lifted down, and then counted one by one.
"Uncle Zhao, this goods are all ours?"
"Yes, it's all yours."
"But that's a bit wrong. For example, we only ordered 30 of them, but now we have 100 of them, and we have 300 pipes. We originally ordered 100 copies of gunpowder, but now we have 300 copies. In addition, there are 30 three-eyed guns, 30 fast guns, and equipped with fire = medicine, etc., which we didn't order. ”
The more Liu Jun looked at it, the more wrong it became, there were many things they hadn't ordered at all, or the quantity was wrong. It's not that it's less, it's more ordinary.
In the end, Liu Jun was even quite surprised to find that there were six tiger squat guns in the list of goods.
Mr. Zhao walked over with a calm face, "You count it first, and see if the goods on the car are consistent with those on this list." ”
Liu Jun took the manifest and checked it again, and found that the goods sent were consistent with the manifest, but they were completely different from his order.
"Since it's the same as the manifest, it's fine."
Li Chunjiang was also puzzled, "Uncle Zhao, what's going on?" ”
"Hey, this extra one was given to you by Mei Gong. It includes 70 bird guns, 300 guns, 30 three-eyed guns, 30 fast guns, and 6 tiger squat guns, in addition to 10 clairglasses. Twenty other crossbows, gunpowder leads, rockets, crossbow arrows, big arrows, etc., the extra ones are all extra gifts from Mei Gong. ”
"Mei Gong is full of expectations for you, don't let down Mei Gong's high expectations."
"This" Liu Jun didn't know what to say, and Mei Zhihuan was too good to them. These things may not be anything to Mei Zhilian, but for them when the team has just opened, they are quite precious materials.
In the end, Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang still accepted this batch of ordnance with gratitude.
Later, the Li family also sent someone to send one hundred and twenty good horses, and the colleagues also transported their hundreds of stone of grain and a batch of horse feed.
The ordnance and armor have arrived, the war horses have also arrived, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.