What Wang Jixun wants to do, Song Jiu can't control it, the wicked have their own wicked grinding, and he won't end well. But Song Jiu was lucky to remember this history, so he didn't want to have anything to do with Wang Jixun, but Wang Jixun intervened, Song Jiu was worried about the back, maybe Zhao Kuangyin was kind, seeing that he hadn't started work yet, he thought that the money was insufficient, and it happened that the brother-in-law and a group of generals had a huge harvest on the side of Bashu, so it was better to spend it on Hezhou.

If you don't appreciate it, it's not good.

Song Jiu thought for a while and asked, "How much principal did one of you raise?" ”

"There is money, silk and other things, which are converted into more than 120,000 yuan."

"Let's go," Song Jiu said.

Taking them to Hezhou, Song Jiu found Li Zhu in the crowd to help, called Li Zhu over and asked, "Li Zhu, how much money did you and Hu Xingtou raise?" ”

Li Zhu calculated very clearly, and immediately replied: "Mr. Jiu, a total of more than 34,600 yuan. ”

"So much?" Song Jiudao, the more than 120,000 yuan over there is not a lot of money, this is a slow fundraising, which shows that there are still many people who don't believe it, or are unwilling to let their children live under themselves, or some other ideas, otherwise 320,000 yuan is not too much, how much is in the ya. The people in the river don't have much money, even 30,000 yuan is not too little. This is also a theory of relativity.

"Mr. Jiu, there are a lot, but not only in the river, but also in Hebei, and some businessmen have also invested some money in it."

Song Jiu calculated silently and said: "Then speaking, there is still a difference of more than 10,000 yuan, and I can also draw a few thousand yuan to put it on the front, and it is estimated that there is still a difference of 10,000 yuan." Pan Erlang, Fu Saburo. When you go back, you immediately find a way to get together the 10,000 yuan. Then let out the sound of the wind. Two hundred and fifty thousand are full, and they can no longer be collected. But Uncle Guo has a heart, so he will collect three or four thousand silks. ”

The two nodded knowingly.

Fu Zhaoshou is Zhao Kuangyi's uncle, but his uncle is far inferior to Wang Jixun's baby, and Wang Jixun has been domineering in the capital by relying on Zhao Kuangyin's favor for him.

The two hurried back. It's not difficult to put together 10,000 yuan, but you can't waste time. It's hard to grab time.

Song Jiu would not refuse, it had nothing to do with Song Jiu, he simply looked at the construction site.

The four piers of the big Hongqiao bridge have been repaired, in fact, there are two bridge piers, and the piers of each two rivers are connected into a whole, and there are some connected steels on them, one is firm, and the other is convenient for future people to go up to change the steel cable, or oil now. But it has nothing to do with painting, if it is painted, it must be scaffolded.

Xiaohongqiao does not use steel cables, and there are also bridge piers. It is the following two piers, the technique of the small Hongqiao is the real technique promoted by the Bianshui Flying Bridge in the future, and the cost of the big Hongqiao is too high. There is also a stone bridge over the river bank. as well as the docks.

It won't be over until winter, and maybe there will be some finishing touches next spring. This is the strength of the state apparatus. Otherwise, just the labor cost is unimaginable.

Song Jiu looked around. Han Chongyun called him over, and there was a mighty man standing beside him, carrying an extra-large bow and arrow on his back, Han Chongyun introduced: "This is General Gao." ”

"Gao Huai......?"

"I'm Gao Huaide," Gao Huaide smiled. Because of his wife, the eldest princess, his son Gao Chugong and Song Jiu have a little bit of a life, this is a matter for the children, and he will not intervene. And he thought more clearly, this is Song Jiu messing around, a son of a poor family, if he lets his wife succeed and let his son condense these yamen together, the Gao family will come to disaster!

Gao Huaide didn't dare to say to his wife if he had some ideas, it would be even worse if he stabbed the emperor. Song Jiu categorically refused, and Gao Huaide was afraid and happy when he heard it. Song Jiu wanted to give a salute, Gao Huaide waved his hand and said: "I just went out of the city to hunt, and I saw General Han here, so I came to see General Han, you don't need to be polite." But Song Jiu, you have done a good thing, especially these steels, when I led the troops to fight in the past, my subordinates had no armor and wanted armor, and if they had armor, they were afraid of shoddy production. Do you know that there is an allusion to the Tao? ”

"What allusion?"

Tang Gaozong wanted to reactivate Xue Rengui and asked if he could, but Xue Rengui did not say whether he was or not, and took out a strong bow on the spot, and pierced five or six layers of armor with an arrow. General Xue's strength is amazing, which is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. But it also shows a problem, Tang Dynasty armor may not be very good. If it is really steel armor, Hugh said that five or six layers of armor cannot be worn through even two layers. When Gao Huaide said this, he looked around and found a steel plate, which was about the same thickness as the armor of the Song Dynasty. Bend your bow and shoot an arrow.

The arrow bolted into it like lightning, but not deeply, only a little, and the tail of the arrow kept trembling in the air. Gao Huaide said: "I am standing here forty paces, which is the most powerful distance of the bow and arrow, and my bow is a three-stone bow, although Xue Rengui's arm strength is amazing, but I believe that he is at most twice as strong as me." If it is steel armor, how can it penetrate five or six layers, and it is good to be able to penetrate one layer. Or in the case of my arm strength, I haven't been on the battlefield for several years, but there are not many sons in the army who can surpass my arm strength. It's just an arrow, at this optimal distance, an arrow only goes a little, and this is not possible to damage the soldiers behind the armor at all. ”

Song Jiuhu looked at Gao Huaide suspiciously, not knowing what he was going to say.

"Song Jiu, you come and shoot."

"General Gao, I've never held a bow."

"Try it, and I won't let you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy."

Song Jiu had no choice but to take the bow, and then pull it with force, but it was not completely full, Gao Huaide said: "Yes, have strength." ”

Pulling the bow is arm strength, the second is skill, and it seems that the archers are simple, in fact, the real archers can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and the archers generally have to train for three years just to pull the bow and release the arrows, Song Jiu can pull into a large half arc is very good, Gao Huaide said again: "Be careful of hurting your fingers." ”

He came over again and taught Song Jiu some skills, and then said, "You shoot." ”

It was a foot-wide steel plate, the target was relatively large, Song Jiuyi released an arrow, hit the steel plate, bounced a few bullets, and seemed to drill into a little, but it was even shallower, struggled a few times, and the arrow fell to the ground.

"Song Jiu, do you know what the meaning of your steel is?"

"I don't quite understand it yet, please make it clear to General Gao."

"I cost almost thirty to forty dollars for a standard suit of armor, and it weighs nearly fifty pounds. The cost of a pound of armor is seven or eight hundred yuan, why is it so much? Because the quality of the subway is relatively poor. It had to be forged again and again, and then worn with money. The wear and tear of iron, the cost of labor, and other materials, so the cost of a suit of armor reached nearly forty dollars. However, they can only be forged a few times, and I have heard of the steel theory you mentioned, that is, there is no uniform carbon or something? ”

"Carbon alloying."

"Anyway, it can't be considered steel, it can only be said to be iron armor. But even this iron armor, if produced as standard, can also prevent some weapons from chopping. Arrow damage. What I am afraid of is the collusion of officials, greed for ink, shoddy manufacturing, weight, wearing soldiers on the body can not run fast, affecting speed, can not be agile in battle, and there is no defense, such armor is better than wearing some leather armor and paper armor. Song Jiu. Do you understand what I mean? ”

"I see, that's ......," Song Jiu understood.

With gunpowder, the number of iron products increased, and with the steel superintendent, even if the quality of the steel smelted could not keep up. But at least it can be regarded as steel, as long as it is forged two or three times in the steel prison, and handed over to the weapons for work. Even if they are greedy for ink, the armor they make can also be regarded as steel armor. The weapon is also sharper than the original. Therefore, from the perspective of the army, Gao Huaide said that Song Jiu had done a good thing.

However, Song Jiu faintly saw the loss in his eyes.

He had also seen this expression in Han Chongyun's eyes.

Maybe in another time and space, Pan Mei and Cao Bin have a lot of credit. But everyone overlooked one thing, like Gao Huaide, Han Chongyun, which one of them can't fight? Half of them are not weaker than Cao Pan in martial arts, and there are even nearly ten people who are better than Pan Cao, but Zhao Kuangyin didn't give them a chance.

So some people believe in Buddhism, and some people like Gao Huaide hunt outside the city all day long, and they can't see people.

Song Jiu didn't know what Lu Dao said, so he diverted the topic and said: "General Gao, it's not very realistic, I have more than 100,000 forbidden soldiers, and the box soldiers are not counted, one person needs forty or fifty catties of steel for a set of armor, although there is a steel supervisor, there will be loss, and a set of armor must be one hundred to one hundred and fifty catties of iron, which still refers to the iron smelted by the blast furnace, otherwise it will be more." Then the entire Song army needs 20 million catties of iron to change its clothes, which is unlikely. ”

"But there is something stronger than not, as long as there is, you can change it slowly, and sooner or later all the real steel armor will be used."

Song Jiu still didn't think so.

Even if all the steel armor was used, what about it?

Not to mention that the generals have been delegated and retired one after another, let's just say that the forbidden soldiers, Zhao Kuangyin has a lot of ideas, and the most powerful time of the Tang Army is when the government soldiers have not completely collapsed. The Gongwei of the capital is jointly undertaken by the Yulin Army and the government soldiers of the prefectures and counties.

Those government soldiers came up from the countryside, they were simple by nature, brave and good at fighting, and they could also drive the training enthusiasm of the Yulin Army in the capital. But the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, raised together in the capital, raised in this world of flowers, and the forbidden army sooner or later developed a flower shelf.

Maybe Zhao Kuangyin has his considerations, at least he can say that he can quickly set things right in the country, as Song Jiu, he doesn't want the five generations to be staged again, don't develop Hezhou when the time comes, save your life!

Song Jiu didn't understand military affairs, Gao Huaide didn't understand steel, and they also neglected a possibility, the cost of armor was not reduced, but the weight of the armor was reduced to twenty-five to thirty Song Jin, and the cost of this savings was forged two or three times more, perhaps sacrificing part of the defensive power, but what would be the significance of reducing the weight of the armor by twenty catties.

Song Jiu only wanted that weapons were useless, and he was still thinking about something he didn't understand, saying that Zhao Kuangyin valued literature over martial arts, and didn't use many real literati, Zhao Pu They can't be regarded as literati, they are half-literate and half-martial scribes, for example, Li Chuyun, who was born as a scrivener, has been famous for his bravery since he was a child, so when Murong Yanzhao fell ill when he went south, he immediately took over the army. If it is a threat, these people can be civil and martial, and the threat is even greater.

There are many things he can't think about, and the more he thinks about it, the more he will see a person's shadow.

didn't say much, one of the two brothers became a foreman, and the other became a hunter, let them tell their hearts slowly, Song Jiu left and continued to watch the construction site.

On the third day, Pan Weide, Fu Zhaoshou, Shi Baozheng and Gao Chugong joined forces again, Gao Chugong has been to the Song family for a long time, I don't know if Lu Dao is the side on the river, what Gao Huaide said to his son, today is here. Fu Zhaoshou said: "Jiulang, the money is ready. ”

"Okay."

Song Jiu took the account book, plus Boss Hu's side, and the original rest of the money and silk, exactly more than 253,000 yuan, and had to give Wang Jixun face, Fu Zhaoshou wrote a letter to Wang Jixun, explaining the reason, and only accepted Wang Jixun's 5,000 silks.

In fact, including the money and silk that leveled Hezhou last year, a total of more than 282,000 yuan, not including the many money and silk that Song Jiu pasted upside down. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, this was also an astonishing astronomical figure.

Song Jiu said after reading the account book: "You send a few more reliable dealers and stewards, go to Wuyue, give some deposits to the local people, let them grow a variety of sugarcane, and send people to the north, or the surrounding pastures, sign a contract with the herdsmen, and buy milk after the autumn of next year, as long as the milk, goat milk and mare's milk are not wanted, but not scattered, I will study a preservation method next year, so that it can be transported to the capital and will not deteriorate." ”

The four of them hurried back. The four families all took a lot of money, the Fu family also took more than 7,000 yuan, and the Pan family also took more than 5,000 yuan. With so much money, it can't be said to be a play ticket.

Song Jiu began to organize manual labor.

There is no rush to transport various materials, but first dig a few large deep pits, which is to do the future of the cold room, not only the ice cellar, there will be various ingredients in the future, must be refrigerated and preserved. Even if it's a playground, there should be some restaurants and drinks.

……

As soon as the sun came out, it pierced people's eyes hotly, and they moaned weakly in the trees.

The eldest sister took a sip of ice mung bean soup, put down the bowl, and felt very comfortable, maybe in her eyes, it was the happiest time to drink cold drinks every day in summer. Then he said: "Tomorrow your brother-in-law and sister-in-law get married, you have to go over, otherwise people will say that you are developed and forget your roots." ”

"Eldest sister, okay, I'll give you some silk as a gift, and I don't have time to go tomorrow morning, so I can only go in the afternoon."

"How long do you have to be busy?"

"Come on, what will come out of the store next winter, and the business will be familiar, so it won't be busy. If other industries start in the future, everyone will be familiar with it, and there is no need to be so busy. ”

"You're not too young."

"Eldest sister, I know that it will be next winter."

The eldest sister glanced at Yuping nervously, Yuping's expression was normal, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Your fifth brother-in-law and a cousin want to go to school, and your fifth sister came last time, and it is not easy to say it." ”

"How's the conduct?"

"It's okay, if the person is not good, your fifth sister dares to do more of this?"

"Where is his home?"

"At Anyefang."

"That's still north of Xiangguo Temple, the road is too far."

"People are not too far away, aren't the two doctors' homes even farther away, and they don't come to teach every day?"

"It's not too far away." Song Jiudao, this is not a real national formal educational institution, why can't you open a small back door? Song Jiu went to the back and brought a few silks as a congratulatory gift, and then drank a big bowl of ice mung bean soup, ready to go to Hezhou, at this moment, there was a noise outside, Song Jiu, eldest sister, and Yuping came to the door to take a look, and saw a small yellow door pointing at the servant, unloading many tables and chairs from a car.

The classroom has already been opened, that is fast, knock down the wall, put on a beam, move the courtyard wall to a nest, paint some lime, the project is over, a matter of a few days. However, the weather is hot, the affairs of the Shangguan Mansion in Hezhou, the affairs of his own family, and the test laboratory cannot be lost, Song Jiu is too lazy to recruit new students, and he is ready to delay until the end of the dog days.

However, the tables and chairs have been delivered, and you still don't understand?

Song Jiu was helpless, and instructed the officials to move the tables and chairs into the classroom and put them away, and this time it was finally a unified table and chair. With the small yellow door, the officials moved in some books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones. Cui'er muttered, "Jiulang is going to be busier again. ”

But as Song Jiu said, in the past two years, twenty-one students have grown up, and they can not only be assistants for the test, but also teachers, and then they will have some experience in Hezhou business. At that time, Song Jiu's happy time came.

Xiao Huangmen was not very old, scratched his head after hearing this, he didn't know what to say, and only then did he remember his task and said, "Song Jiu, Your Majesty has summoned you to the palace." (To be continued......)