Early the next morning, Jiang Hao took a few hundred households to start looking for the guard, to check the situation, the Putuo guard station is stationed in the city, there are strong walls and fortresses, not afraid of robbers and pirates, there are military camps, school fields, granaries, workshops and shops in the city, and there are many residents.

On the school ground, Jiang Hao inspected the army, and more than 500 people stood there, all of them with dark skin, yellow faces and thin muscles, and they looked malnourished.

"How long has it been since you had a full meal?" Jiang Hao asked a soldier.

The soldier thought for a moment, "I don't remember, anyway, I don't seem to have eaten enough for as long as I can remember." ”

"How often do you eat meat?"

"Is fish counted?"

"Pork."

"I can eat a few slices a year."

Damn, this is a soldier, it's a group of people who ask for food, no wonder there were a large number of deserters in the late Ming Dynasty, ten out of ten to seven or eight, how could such an army support people.

Farming their own land and eating their own food, but also to pay taxes, weekdays can not even eat enough, and when you need to fight, you have to go out to work hard, the military membership will never come out, generations of children and grandchildren are military registration, the Ming Dynasty can continue for more than 200 years is a miracle.

"I ask you, do you want to have a full meal, do you want to eat meat!" Jiang Hao asked.

One by one, the soldiers blinked and did not dare to speak.

"If someone wants to, then they can eat it today, if they don't want to, then no, I'll ask you if you want to!" Jiang Hao said loudly.

This time he used his internal force, and the sound seemed to explode in everyone's ears, waking up these groggy guys one by one.

"I want to eat a full meal, I want to eat meat!"

Finally someone spoke up.

Jiang Hao looked over and was a young man who was not very old, probably sixteen or seventeen years old.

"I want to, too." Someone else said.

Then there were more voices, and many people shouted together, shouting out their hearts, who doesn't want to eat a full meal, who doesn't want to eat meat, they dream about it.

As more and more people shouted, finally everyone shouted, and the sound was earth-shattering, several times louder than the sound of their slogans just after the review.

Jiang Hao smiled, this is the first step to wake up, shouting out the dream in your heart.

Reaching into his arms, he took out a silver ticket, and slowly raised his hand, Jiang Hao said loudly: "Here is a thousand taels of silver tickets." ”

The soldiers who were shouting slogans stopped, looked at Jiang Hao quietly, and looked more at the silver ticket in Jiang Hao's hand swaying in the wind.

"Shen Yi, Yan Hui!" Jiang Hao said loudly.

"The subordinates are here."

Two hundred households are listed.

Jiang Hao shook the silver ticket in his hand and said: "Today, the task of the two of you is to turn this silver ticket into rice, into meat, and get it back, today I want to let the entire Putuo Guard up and down, from soldiers to miscellaneous soldiers, including family members, as long as it is the people of our Putuo Guard, all eat white rice, eat stewed pork, and eat all-you-can-eat!" ”

The school field became unusually quiet, only the flags flying on the sidelines made a hula sound, and people looked at Jiang Hao dumbfounded, they never imagined that this new garrison master would pay out of his own pocket and take out a thousand taels of silver to buy food for them.

They have seen many officials who scrape their flesh and drink their blood, but they have never seen anyone who has taken money out in turn, not a single one.

The hundreds of households were also stunned, and they couldn't believe it, a few hundred households suddenly remembered Jiang Hao's words last night, follow me, and take you to live a good life, is this?

Shen Yi stood in front of Jiang Hao, took the money and felt a little hot, and whispered: "My lord, although there are many of us, we can't use so much to eat a full meal." ”

One thousand taels of silver is not a small amount of money, with the current price of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver can buy 5 stone rice, so calculated, this thousand taels of silver can buy 5,000 stone of rice, that is, 600,000 catties, no matter how large a person's meal is, one pound of dry rice is enough for a meal, the entire Putuo Guard is only more than 4,600 people, a meal of 5,000 catties is enough, and it is the kind that is full.

Now Daming can buy more than 40 catties of pork for a tael of silver, or the high-quality pork that has been killed, if you buy live pigs and slaughter them yourself, the entire Putuo Guard, even if a meal is half a catty of pork per person, the total is only 50 taels of silver.

Looking at these guys who had never seen the market, Jiang Hao said with a calm face: "I bought them all, if I can't eat them, I won't keep them for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, do you just want to eat a full meal, don't you want to eat a full meal?!" ”

Shen Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, "Obey Lord Bei's order, I'll wait here to prepare." ”

After speaking, he and Yan Hui left with more than 100 soldiers and went to Zhoushan to buy rice and meat.

After inspecting the soldiers, he took a few hundred households to the iron forge workshop, which was Yuan De's territory, and he had been waiting here for a long time.

Inspecting the ironsmith workshop, the ironsmith manager explained to Jiang Hao on the side, the ironwork here is very complete, there is no problem in repairing knives and guns, repairing armor, casting bullets, casting sea ship iron, etc., in fact, it is no problem to build swords by yourself, but their swords and guns are all issued from above, and they are compiled in a unified format, so no one makes swords.

After turning around, Jiang Hao waved his hand to bring a box, and inside the box was an iron ball, which was a cannonball used by the Hongyi cannon, "Can this be built?" ”

The steward picked it up and looked at it, and said lightly: "My lord, this is simple, but it is larger than the shell of the Fulang machine gun, and with this as a model, it can definitely make exactly the same." ”

"If we start making these shells at full capacity, how many can we make in January?"

The steward thought for a moment, "Five hundred is no problem. ”

Jiang Hao was quite satisfied with this answer, and then he took out a piece of paper from his arms, handed it to the steward and said, "I have a hollow cannonball here, which needs to be filled with gunpowder, do you think it can be made?" ”

The steward looked at it, "I've seen similar flowering bombs before, but it's not as fine as the adult drawings, but it shouldn't be difficult." ”

Jiang Hao nodded, "Okay, divide your manpower into two groups, one group to build live ammunition, and one group to create flowering bullets." ”

The steward hesitated, and squeezed out a few words for a long time, "My lord, it's no problem to build, but, but we...".

"Tell me the truth."

"We don't have enough iron, we don't even have iron to repair and replenish swords and armor, and we don't have iron to make cannonballs, these cannonballs are very scrap iron." A cannonball is an iron lump, and all that goes out is money.

"How much silver do you think you'll need to make 500 pieces of each?" Jiang Hao asked.

The steward did the math, "It's not cheap, it costs about 260 taels of silver." ”

Brush~!

Jiang Hao had an extra silver ticket in his hand and said, "Ye Dachuan, Su Maonian come here." ”

As soon as the two hundred households saw Jiang Hao's posture, they knew that the garrison was about to pay again, so they immediately came over, "Your Excellency, please command." ”

"This is a thousand taels of silver tickets, you two take people, accompany the steward to buy iron materials, and buy them all." The two hurriedly took the silver ticket.

The steward's body trembled, and he said excitedly, "My lord, this silver can buy a lot of iron, enough to make the cannonballs you want, and can also repair the swords, guns, armor, and damaged parts of the ship, and there are still a lot left." ”

Jiang Hao looked at him disdainfully, "Can't you use the rest slowly, besides, those thousand shells are not enough, you will be busy in the future." ”

"That's a small thing." The steward bowed.

Two more went to do things, and at this moment, only Yuan De, the eunuch of the prison army, Ma Feng and Xu Quan, were left by Jiang Hao's side.

"Let's go to the gunpowder workshop."

The gunpowder workshop was far away from the camp, and after the inspection, he asked someone to bring a barrel of gunpowder stolen from Dongfang Undefeated, and the gunpowder workshop steward took the gunpowder in the palm of his hand and looked at it, tasted it with his mouth, and ordered some to try the effect, and finally said: "The villain almost already knows, and our gunpowder is not much worse than him." ”

Jiang Hao took out a piece of paper from his body, which recorded two kinds of propellant and two fuse charges, as well as the details of the subcontract, the distance that each weight pack could be launched, etc., these things that Jiang Hao took out were definitely higher than the gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty.

"The recipe on this could be made?" Jiang Hao handed the paper to the steward.

The steward of the gunpowder workshop looked at it carefully, pondered for a while, and said, "No problem, sir." ”

Jiang Hao nodded with satisfaction, and the Chinese craftsmen really didn't say, "From now on, a large number of gunpowder will be made, and it will be of great use in the future." ”

"But my lord, we don't have enough materials to make gunpowder." Stewardship.

Brush~~!

Jiang Hao took out another silver ticket.

This is really a silver ticket without saying a word.

The three people behind him saw Jiang Hao's movements, and for some reason, they felt that Master Jiang's movements were so handsome.

"Ma Feng."

As soon as Jiang Hao finished shouting, Ma Baihu jumped over and saluted respectfully, "The subordinates are here." ”

"This is a thousand taels, accompany the manager of the gunpowder workshop to buy enough materials." Jiang Hao said.

"My subordinates must do a good job." Ma Feng respectfully accepted the silver ticket.

After leaving the gunpowder workshop, when he walked back, Jiang Hao said to Xu Quan, "Xu Quan, I'll give you a task." ”

"Your Excellency, please command."

Brush~~!

Jiang Hao took out a silver ticket and handed it to Xu Quan.

"Send someone to overhaul our warship from the inside out, change the cable and change the cable, change the canvas and change the canvas, repair the place that should be repaired, paint the place that should be painted, at most a month, I want our ship to withstand the wind and waves at sea." Jiang Hao said in a deep voice.

"Yes, my lord." Xu Quan took the silver ticket with both hands and went immediately.

Only the dead eunuch Yuan De was left, and Jiang Hao asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be inspected?" ”

Yuan Deha said with a smile, "Lord Jiang, are you interested in taking a look at the warehouse, our warehouse over there has a money warehouse, a grain warehouse, a timber warehouse, a cloth warehouse, a sword warehouse, a bow and arrow warehouse, a cable warehouse... ”

Jiang Hao took a look at this guy and naturally guessed his thoughts, "You don't want me to fill them up, do you?" ”

Yuan De looked at Jiang Hao with a blank eye.

Brush~!

Jiang Hao took out another silver ticket, "This is a thousand taels, buy cloth, make new clothes for the people in the guard, you look at the clothes on those people, patches and patches, all of them are similar to those who ask for food, how can there be a little bit of the majesty of the soldiers of the Daming Guard." ”

Yuan Dexin said, isn't it just a group of people who want food, it's not bad if you don't starve to death.

"I'll do it for someone, but what about the other warehouses?" Yuan De took the silver ticket with a smile and asked without giving up.

Jiang Hao looked at him, "Those warehouses should be empty first, and they will be filled later, but I'm afraid that you will think the warehouses will be small by then." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, and the others were all sent to be busy, but Jiang Hao was idle, anyway, he had nothing to do, so he took the three girls to the beach, and asked people to prepare a spaceship, and the three of them went to the sea to play, which was very good.

Jiang Hao's actions in the barracks today soon spread throughout the Putuo Guard, and everyone was talking about this new garrison lord.

A group of women weaving together shouted and chatted.

"What is the origin of our garrison lord, even the Yuan Jian army is afraid of him, seeing him is like a grandson meeting his grandfather, and his usual arrogance is gone."

"We don't know, but it should be big."

"Jiang Shoubei paid his own money to buy rice and meat for us, saying that we would have a big dinner tonight, you can eat as much as you want, eat as much as you want, my God, I don't dare to think about it during the New Year, it's white rice and fat pork."

"Not only to buy rice and meat, I heard that this person also took money to let the ironsmith and gunpowder shop buy materials, and several hundred households went out, which is thousands of taels of silver, obediently."

"Who do you say this Jiang Garrison is, it's very different from those adults who thought they came?"

"It doesn't matter who he is, anyway, the person who can feed us is a good person, and he is ten thousand times stronger than that Tian Qianhu."

"I can eat with an open stomach tonight, but I haven't eaten meat for a long time, think about that big fat meat, I'm very hungry now."

At this moment, a group of people came over, stood at the corner of the street and shouted: "The garrison has spoken, make new clothes for the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers, buy cloth now, and those who have cloth in their hands shall quickly take it to the yamen of the prison army and sell it, the price is the same as the price collected by the cloth village in the city, and give it cash." ”

Wow~!

Hearing the news, the women blew up the pot, all ran to their homes, on weekdays, these women will weave cloth to supplement the family, but when they sell it to the cloth village, they can't get the money for a while, and they always have to press you a few horses, and now there is cash, which is a good thing, and it will naturally be sold.

The old ladies ran fast one by one, for fear that they would have enough and not have their own share.