Then, Xu Wenchang ordered the four generals of the Hu family to go out to purchase rice, vegetables, oil, salt, and meat. A few of them have a lot of money and a lot of money, and just talking about rice and grain, they can buy dozens of loads. And with the Lifu who came to carry rice and vegetables, many of them stayed in the inn and did not come out again.

After half a day's effort, the food and meat reserves in the inn are sufficient, and it will not be a problem to support them for a few months. At the same time, the inn also has its own well, but it is not afraid of a simple siege. On the other hand, the soldiers of the standard battalion under Hu Zongxian, pretending to be a force, also mixed in with dozens of people. Originally, Yan Hong only brought more than 20 Jinyi captains, although the four general banners and Yan Feng Yan Fu were good, after all, there were fewer people. As soon as these standard battalions were added, their numbers more than doubled, and the force at their disposal was greatly strengthened.

At the same time, Xu Wenchang made some other arrangements, and arranged the Jinyi guard and the standard battalion soldiers in shifts, taking turns to be on guard, and some people were responsible for guarding the door, some were responsible for watching the window, and some were responsible for watching the wind from upstairs. It is to eat and drink, and it is also carried out in batches to prevent poisoning and not wipe out the whole army.

On the other hand, the four families will continue to go out every day to openly inquire about the news. Yan Hong's side, every day or two, it is also spread that hundreds of households come to the inn to understand the outside world.

After all the deployments stopped, Xu Wenchang said with confidence: "With this arrangement, as long as Li Wenzao does not come to attack openly, we don't need to be afraid of him." Yan Hong couldn't help but admire Xu Wenchang when he saw that Xu Wenchang was so well arranged. Although I also gnawed two books on project management and time management before I crossed over, I really didn't get as good as this scholar when I really practiced it.

After that, Yan Hong, Xu Wenchang and others were trapped in this small inn, waiting for news from the court. There was nothing to do, so Yan Hong took advantage of this time to ask Xu Wenchang how the armaments of the Ming army were, and how the equipment, money, food, and soldiers were compared to the Japanese army.

After some conversation, Yan Hong didn't feel a little discouraged. It turned out that the Ming army was heavy on the border and the void, and the guard army in the southeast was inherited for many generations, and it had no name but no reality. Most of the sergeants' property was plundered by the commander, and he himself became the slave of the officer. Locally, anyone can drive the guards like slaves. In this kind of dark life, where the soldiers have the concept of "being a soldier", they flee one after another, causing more and more guards to die. By the time of the Zhengde Dynasty, more than 800,000 military households fled from the Weisuo Army, and the imperial court even set up a special Qing Army Yushi to investigate the deserters, but it had little effect.

Now the actual number of the Ming Dynasty's guards is not even half of the establishment, and most of them are still old and weak soldiers, or farmers who can only farm. There is no more than one in ten who really has combat effectiveness. Occasionally, some of them are bold, but most of them are also unaware of the tactics of war, although they are called regular troops, and they are not much more regular than bandits in battle, and the so-called rush forward when they gain momentum, and scatter in a hurry when they fail, which does not reflect the advantages of the regular army. Therefore, when fighting with the Japanese bandits, in the face of those fierce and ferocious robbers with their heads tied to their belts, and bent on making a fortune by burning and looting, the guards often either collapsed at the first touch or went north without a fight.

In this case, the main thing is to use conscription and battalion soldiers. Although the effect of fighting against the Japanese soldiers was better than that of the guards who had been passed down from generation to generation, the cost was high, and the silver coins used were not a fraction. Fortunately, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, was still a wealthy place, and it was more convenient to distribute grain and raise funds than elsewhere. In addition, relying on the qualifications of the Yan Party's periphery, there is also a little bit of the support of the Son of Heaven in it, so a large number of recruits and battalions have been organized. Hu Zongxian has been able to win a few battles in the Anti-Japanese War recently, and even set aside spare strength to recruit An Xu Hai and provoke Chen Dong and Ye Ma, which has nothing to do with this.

As for relying on local fundraising to prepare for the war, don't think about it. Don't think that when you mention the fight against the Japanese invaders, the local government will enthusiastically donate money or something, and those who have this idea are basically one-sidedly substituted into the Ming Dynasty with the experience of the Anti-Japanese War of later generations. Businessmen often value a piece of money more than life. It is okay to give money and gifts to win over officials, or even collude with Japanese criminals; However, in the name of the orthodox court, regardless of the distribution of food and money, it was met with resistance.

The reason is very simple, send money to Shangguan, and Shangguan remembers your benefits; Send money to the Wakos, who will spare your boat and even give you a carry. But donating money to the imperial court, apart from the worthless commendation order, who else remembers you? In this way, no one in the local gentry was willing to take the initiative to donate money and food to the imperial court. Sometimes, if the government wants to prepare funds to prevent Japanese invaders, it must set up a Hongmen banquet, invite the gentry and rich people, and give both soft and hard measures one by one. Sometimes it was necessary to threaten the gentry to go to the sea in order to raise money.

As for saying that the people sent their sons to fight the Japanese invaders, this is not gratuitous. If you have money, you can talk, if you don't have money, you can eat food and support your family, and no son's son will be sacrificed for the court. The so-called enthusiastic sending children to the battlefield, this rare creature is rare, but there are more enthusiastic sending children to be widows. There is no other reason, when you are a Japanese maritime businessman, you can come directly to the money. The so-called "three-foot boy also regards pirates as his parents, and the military gate as a generational enemy", "Hangzhou's home of sece, knowing that pirates, are greedy for their profits, let them pile up goods, and escort them". In this context, although Xu Wenchang is a handsome man in the world, it is also difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

As for the equipment of the Ming army, I can't say much. The sailors of the Ming Dynasty were also majestic, such as Zheng He's huge fleet in the Western Ocean. However, Zheng He himself was a eunuch, and this identity made civil officials wary of going to the West itself. Fearing that Zhongguan would take power, the ministers vigorously slandered Zheng He's trip to the West, believing that he had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in money and food, and that the soldiers and civilians had died in tens of thousands, but there was no substantial benefit to the Ming Dynasty itself. Under the influence of this kind of public opinion, even the nautical charts and ship charts of the year ended up missing, and those big ships at the beginning naturally did not want to reappear in the world.

As for this dynasty, after the Ningbo tribute competition in the second year of Jiajing, the Son of Heaven was furious and strengthened the sea ban, and the result of this sea ban was first of all to destroy the sea ships that the official could mobilize. For many years, there was a lack of money and few people, and the quality of Daming's warships was really poor at this time. When fighting against the Japanese invaders, land warfare is certainly difficult to fight, and water warfare is even more difficult to deal with. Even with a famous general like Yu Dayou, he could only attack the Japanese ships after the Japanese landed and cut off their way back, and once the Japanese escaped, it was impossible to drive the ships to chase them at sea.

Of course, it is not for nothing that the war at sea has been won. For example, a few years ago, under the auspices of Zhu Kun, hundreds of warships were dispatched to attack the private merchants and thieves in Shuangyu, defeating the combined forces of the maritime merchants, the Japanese and the little Franc man, and beheading thousands. Then that time the fish that slipped through the net included Wang Zhi. And this giant businessman and thief is no longer stubbornly defending one island and one island, but is based on Japan and divides his troops to attack, and his strength has long been higher than a few years ago. Relatively speaking, the Ming army is not as good as it used to be.

It can be said that now Hu Zongxian is fighting this anti-Japanese war against the background of a difficult war and insufficient equipment, and the money and food support should not be in short supply, and it is not enough to talk about abundance. The difficulty of his situation is also truly sympathetic. It is precisely because of this situation that Hu Zongxian must befriend the gentry and local civil officials and seek their support in terms of human and material resources. He didn't dare to provoke the timely rain recognized in the Zhejiang officialdom casually, and it was not difficult to understand Li Wenzao, the overlord of the Jiangnan soil.

When Yan Hong heard this, he sighed: "The lack of soldiers and silver is certainly the reason for the disadvantage of resisting the Japanese. However, the sea is forbidden, and it will be difficult for me to solve such a dilemma. The imperial court has no money to use, and there is no way to talk about any strong army and rich country. He couldn't help but think of the predecessors who had read countless YY novels in his previous life, who had built steam engines, invented new guns, engaged in industrialization, and opened banks in ancient times, and really didn't know how their money came from.

Yan Hong and Xu Wenchang were talking about business here, but they heard a soft cry in the room of Xu Hai and his wife, and it was Wang Cuiqiao who was sobbing. There is also a persuasion of green beads in the middle. Yan Hong and Xu Wenchang glanced at each other and stood up at the same time. Xu Wenchang said: "It is difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, but he can't allow this stupid thing to bully Cui Qiao like this. Yan Hong said: "I, Yan Hong, am not a clean official in the first place, so I can naturally manage it." ”

So they went straight to knock on the door. After a while, the door opened, and it turned out that Xu Hai and his wife and Lu Zhu were inside, and when they saw these two masters coming, they hurriedly stepped forward to pay their respects. Yan Hong found that Wang Cuiqiao's eyes were red, her eyes were swollen, and she had just cried. Seeing Xu Hai's embarrassed face again, he understood a little, and asked, "Sister Cuiqiao, why are you sad?" Could it be that my sister-in-law bullied you? ”

Wang Cuiqiao was asked by him, but he couldn't help but feel sad, crying and crying, and told the truth of the matter. It turned out that Xu Hai still didn't believe that Wang Cuiqiao was so beautiful after all, Yan Hong walked with her for a long time, and once slept in the same room, but she was not dyed. He was a rough man, and he couldn't hold words in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask. He also made bold remarks again and again, patted his chest, and said that as long as Wang Cuiqiao was interested, he would definitely let her and Yan Hong fly and stay together, and would never leave it difficult to retaliate, just begging Wang Cuiqiao to give him a clear explanation.

Wang Cuiqiao saw that her husband was still in trouble, but she asked about this matter again, thinking that Yan Hong treated her politely along the way, but she was still suspicious by her husband, and suddenly felt aggrieved. She didn't reflect on her suspicion of flirting with Yan Hong in front of Xu Hai, but only poured her head on her innocence and grievances, Xu Hai's ingratitude, and cried out in one go.

As the so-called 100 steels become fingers around the soft, this howl, a mighty thief in the East China Sea crying has no fire, and has lost countless cautions, as long as Wang Cuiqiao doesn't want to cry, so as not to cry and hurt the child in the abdomen. He explained again that he didn't have a problem, but just wanted to ask clearly. If Cui Qiao and Yan Hong really have a relationship, he is really willing to let her go free and go to Yan's house to live that life of fine clothes and food......

It's okay if he doesn't say it, but after he says it, this thought is exchanged for Wang Cuiqiao's cuckoo crying blood. The maid Luzhu rushed over, angry at the young lady's lack of self-respect, and hated the uncle's inability to speak, so she kept persuading each other in the middle. But after persuading and persuading, I remembered that Xu Hai and Wang Cuiqiao had used their brains to give themselves to Yan Hong, but they couldn't help crying even by themselves.