The soldiers of the death camp each received forty taels of white silk ingots, of fine condition, five taels each, a total of eight fine silver ingots.

Everyone is happy, thanks to the blessing of General Liu, these soldiers were originally from poor families, how have they seen so much money, now they can go to Xuzhou Mansion to spend a lot of wine, and when the war stops for a while, you can also ask the letter to send some silver to the family, of course, most people are thousands of miles away from home, and came to the iron factory, it is an impossible dream to go home, staying in the death camp is the best choice, this is a high-paying job.

At present, the establishment of the death battalion is: three infantry teams, one cavalry team, each team of 100 people, the establishment of a company, the captain is called the company commander, every ten people under the company are a squad, 30 people are a platoon, and the remaining ten people are the direct squad of the company commander. Squad leaders and platoon leaders are all elected by the soldiers themselves.

The four company commanders were Zha Muhe, Anthony, Duncan, and a Henan Han named Zhong Shouyong, and Liu Ziguang concurrently served as a company commander.

Most of the cavalry companies are Mongols, and horseback people like Turks are skilled in bows and horses, and it is also expected that Zamuhe is the company commander.

Antony's company was mostly Tangut and ethnically mixed, including Uighurs, Dangxiang, Romans, and Arabs.

Duncan's company was mostly made up of southern prisoners of war: there were Annan, some seamen from the Zheng family in Fujian, Miao people from Xiangxi, and some Shengfan from Taiwan and Java.

Zhong Shouyong's subordinates are mostly from the Central Plains, most of them are the backbone of the original Zheng State's army, after Zheng Guo was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, they became prisoners of war, many people have practiced martial arts since childhood, and their kung fu is not weak.

The company under Liu Ziguang's personal command was equally chaotic, including a number of water bandits from Weishan Lake, a rebellious post guard from Shaanxi, a prisoner of war from the Eight Banners of the Han Army of the Qing Dynasty, and sailors from Goryeo. There are also the Rakshasas in the Far North.

It is really a regiment of all nations, the common language of the battalion is, of course, Chinese, clothing and armor are unified, the infantry wears fish scale armor, bowl helmets, cavalry wear mountain pattern armor, and shrimp tail helmets with face protection. Portable weapons can be freely selected, these people are veterans, their own accustomed weapons, fortunately the iron factory warehouse has everything, Western scimitars, maces, maces, flails, Western heavy swords, swords. The mandatory unification of long weapons and long-range weapons, the cavalry used a long lance, with a composite Mongolian short bow, and the infantry was different in each team, with a long-handled broadsword, a long axe, and an extremely long hook and sickle, and each person was equipped with a compound longbow.

Zhong Shouyong's chariot corps has ten bicycle crossbows, each crossbow is equipped with five crossbowmen, using horse-drawn carriages to maneuver, and each person is equipped with a self-defense Zhuge crossbow, in addition to the crossbows, the chariot corps is also responsible for the transportation of the entire army, there are fifty carriages.

The company commanders and Liu Ziguang's personal horse is also equipped with a limited edition talisman weapon from the iron factory, a six-round spring force revolver, although this thing is not very penetrating, but it is still very effective against enemies with weak armor, high rate of fire and high lethality.

As an employer, the iron factory could only provide a part of the weapons, and the extra crossbows, horses, and equipment were all deducted from the 560,000 taels of silver in the ineffective death camp.

The 20,000 taels of silver have been sent, but what about the remaining 560,000 taels? It turned out that the cunning old man Peng pushed the triangular debt to Liu Ziguang, and the Ministry of War owed one million taels of weapons to the iron factory, and he counted on Liu Ziguang to ask for it, the original sales work was in charge of Yu Hualong, and now Yu Hualong has been imprisoned, Ding Pengyuan took advantage of the chaos to escape, and the debt evasion work was handed over to Liu Ziguang, as long as he could get it back, in addition to the 560,000 taels of arrears, he would give Liu Ziguang a personal reward of 20,000 taels of silver. Sounds tempting to buy.

Isn't it just to be a debt collection company, easy, to repay debts, to kill people to pay for their lives, since ancient times, for the sake of the brothers, for the money, do it!

Liu Ziguang took Ding Libin to the account room to get the current account of the Ministry of War, followed by five Ma Ben wearing soft armor and carrying a Yanling knife, he is now concurrently serving as the prime minister of the account, several managers are carefully accompanied, now General Liu is the owner of the factory, or the top boss, he can't afford to offend, he didn't need to take the account book in person, but thinking that there is an old acquaintance in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, Liu Ziguang still came in person, and the assistant manager of the account room is still the assistant who makes Liu Ziguang sad, and I saw a bunch of people coming, He climbed out early and stood obediently with his head bowed to the side. Liu Ziguang's story of breaking the chain of horses is like thunder, showing off to others many times, my eyes have been hammered by General Liu, Liu Ziguang smiled and took the warrant issued by the factory owner himself to transfer the account book to the assistant. "It's all signed and stamped, right? If it is not enough, the prime minister will make up on the spot. ”

The assistant said with a sad face: "Your Excellency, don't be joking, in the past, it was Ren Dafeng's dog thief who confessed to make things difficult for the general, and the little one was guilty." ”

Of course, Liu Ziguang will no longer be embarrassed, he is not the kind of person who is cautious.

Ten account books, a box of receipts stamped by the Ministry of War, recorded the quantity, specifications, delivery time, time of receipt, seal of the signatory, and warehousing documents sold to the Ministry of War, such as knives and guns, spears, halberds, crossbows, armor, arrows, bicycle crossbows, etc. The largest transaction was 200 sets of steam repeaters, together with the supporting steam engines, pipes, and design and installation costs, totaling 600,000 taels of silver.

Liu Ziguang is now a general, of course, he no longer deals with these boring data ledgers, so he asked the account office to pick two deputy managers who are proficient in the military department to follow him to deal with the entanglement in the accounts. Ren Dafeng was still working as an errand in the account room, and the factory owner was kind, but he confiscated his family property, demoted him to an apprentice, served tea and poured water for the masters in the account room, and cleaned up.

Liu Ziguang politely said thank you to Ren Dafeng, who came over with tea, looked at Ren Dafeng who was full of shame and said: "It's good to know that it's wrong, let's work from the grassroots again, there will be a day when you will come out....I'm optimistic about you." "The words are high-sounding, in fact, I also know that it is too difficult for Ren Dafeng to come out, with Ren's ability, he can be the head of the account office in any firm, and leaving him here as an apprentice is a disguised punishment.

If you do something wrong, you always have to pay a price.

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Fireworks in March.

The prime minister of the iron factory's account, the deputy general of the iron guard, the leader of the mercenary organization of the death camp, Liu Ziguang is going to Nanjing to ask for millions of arrears, and the accompanying personnel are, the black Duncan, the follower Ding Libin, two deputy managers of the account office, and twenty carefully selected soldiers of the death camp as entourage, bringing things such as the original military contract, the account book, the receipt and signing, etc., as well as several large boxes of gifts for dredging and dotting, all of which are specialties of the iron factory, excellent armor, sharp swords, and a few tightly packed large brocade boxes, I don't know what it is.

Also accompanied by the eldest lady Peng Jingrong, according to the factory owner, the eldest lady has a few good sisters in Beijing, and is a little familiar with the officialdom.

The old man wanted to help his daughter create opportunities, Liu Ziguang thought ill-intentioned, he was very happy, patted his chest red, and swore to ensure the safety of the eldest lady, and at the same time promised to recover all the arrears.

Everyone took the train to the canal wharf, the steamer of the iron factory had already lit a fire, the ship was very large, the front and rear were twenty zhang long, three zhang wide, the hull had three layers, the decoration was luxurious, the bow fluttered the flag of the iron factory, it was the iron factory specially to go to and from the south of the Yangtze River. On each side of the hull is a huge paddle wheel, powered by a steam engine, which is said to be much faster than a normal sailboat. Coal and grain had already been loaded onto the ship, and the boatmen in blue clothes lined up on the pier to greet them.

Liu Ziguang was surprised to find that there was no Peng Jingwei in the send-off team, I heard that this little girl had to go to Nanjing with her sister to play, and she was reprimanded by the factory owner and cried, maybe she had a temper, Liu Ziguang thought.

The factory owner was still talking to the eldest lady, and Liu Ziguang looked at the boxes of gifts being carried onto the ship by the subordinates, as well as a cage of carrier pigeons, which the subordinates said were for communication.

Still with carrier pigeons? It's been the train era and there is no telegraph.,It's a bit unexpected.,Who invented the telegraph? Dell? Bel? Morse? Liu Ziguang pondered for a long time, I can study it, the great enhancement of communication power, the military mobilization, and the transmission of government decrees are greatly improved.

The future scientist's train of thought is interrupted, and Ma Ben reminds him that it's time to quit and get on board.

Liu Ziguang hurriedly came over to give a salute to the factory owner and the brothers of the death camp, saying that he would go back and go, and the brothers would wait for the silver.

At the moment of getting on the boat, Liu Ziguang suddenly stopped and said to the owner of Peng: "If you install the track on the wheels of the iron car, you will not be afraid of any complicated terrain." After saying that, the confused old man Peng got on the boat.

Get on the boat, the whistle sounds, the paddle wheel fluctuates the splash, the ship slowly leaves the dock, heading southwest, the eldest lady with a few maids in the stern of the boat keeps waving, Liu Ziguang is also very emotional, finally left this place, nearly two years of slave life, the farthest to Xuzhou Mansion, now you can take a good look at the world, look at Jiangnan, look at the tiger in Longpan's Jingshi, look at the Qinhuai River, look at the Confucius Temple, Liu Ziguang stood in a daze at the head of the boat, looking forward to the trip to Nanjing, the bow of the boat broke through the turquoise river and moved forward quickly, The stern of the boat set off a large white wave, this boat is really fast.

The boat left the dock far away, Peng Jingrong walked from the stern with a melancholy face, it seems that the ancient people attached great importance to going out, the distance of 800 miles in ancient times was the difference of the sky, in the 21st century is just a few hours away.

Peng Jingrong took the cloak from the maid and put it on Liu Ziguang's body, and said softly: "The boat is windy, be careful of the wind and cold." "A look of concern.

This big girl cares about me so much, it seems that the common tribulation some time ago has established an immortal image in her heart, well, take advantage of this journey to push the eldest lady down.

Of course, Peng Jingrong didn't know about Liu Ziguang's dirty psychology, but just stood quietly with him to watch the budding trees and endless farmland on both sides of the river.

What's the point of seeing the same field, Liu Ziguang's evil hand quietly stretched out to Peng Jingrong's ***......

"Okay, what are you doing hiding here?" A delicate question was remembered behind the back, and Liu Ziguang's salty pig hand was retracted like lightning, and the two looked back, and it turned out to be the second lady Peng Jingwei, who was dressed as a sailor, looking at them proudly.