The next day, Wu Kucheng was called to Liang's Mansion again to report to Liang Chun.

"What did the arsenal Ling Ning Ze do today?"

"Lord Yu, the arsenal order, the arsenal order......" Arsenal Cheng Mao Xi (xi) hesitated.

"What did the Arsenal Order do today?" Liang Teng asked loudly with a frown when he saw him slurching.

"Back to the young master," Mao Xi hurriedly raised his head, "The arsenal ordered to come over for a while this morning, and instead of asking people to start work, they took a day off. Then he went to the restaurant to set up a banquet to invite people to drink, and it is said that today he invited the rich merchants and gentry in the city......"

"How can this be reasonable!" Liang Chun was furious, slapped his right hand on the table, and made a dull loud noise, "Let him do a good job of the arsenal order, he is so passive and slacking off!"

"Father's anger!" Liang Teng was also shocked when he heard this, thinking to himself how could Ning Ze be like this? But after all, he was the one who saved it, and he had made a great contribution to eliminating the bandits of Pang Li Mountain and taking down Liu Bao, so he must not be such a careless person.

"Listen, listen!" Liang Chun pointed at Mao Xi and glared at his son, "I won't talk about it the first day, and today you dare to be passive and slack off and go out to invite someone to drink?"

"What misunderstanding is there in Xu?" Liang Teng hurriedly persuaded, "The arsenal order is not like a person who doesn't know the importance of it. ”

"Arsenal Cheng! Arsenal Ling invited people to drink, what did you talk about during the banquet?" Liang Chunqiang held back his anger and looked at Mao Xi and asked.

Mao Xi hurriedly replied: "My lord, we were not invited today, and the arsenal ordered us to go home and rest for a day, so ......"

"Bastard!" Liang Chun shot again.

"The lord is angry!" Mao Xi was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

Liang Teng could only persuade his father on the side: "Anyway, it's to test the ability of the arsenal order, since the deadline has been set, why don't you take a look and talk about it?" If the half-month period is not completed, or if nothing is done, it is not too late to be punished. ”

"Okay! Liang Chun suppressed his anger.

"In!"

"Give me a good look at the arsenal order tomorrow, no matter what he has done, what he has said, or who he has met, write them all down! If there is another situation where you don't know, you don't have to be this arsenal!"

"Don't worry, my lord! Tomorrow I will follow the arsenal order. Mao Xi hurriedly replied.

"Let's go down!"

"Whoa!"

On the third day, Liang Chun and his son shouted the arsenal to Mao Xi again.

"What did the Arsenal Order do today?"

Mao Xi's expression was a little strange: "My lord, the morning arsenal order will take me to the outside of the city to set up a shed to give porridge to help the homeless." And sent people to the nearby county town to issue an announcement, summoning all the displaced people in Hua County, saying that all those who came were raised......"

"Gather all the displaced people in the territory?" what does he want to do?" Liang Chun's eyes showed anger, "Wouldn't it ruin my reputation to let the displaced people gather in the county town and spread the word?"

"Father's anger!" Liang Teng hurriedly appeased, and then asked, "Where did the arsenal order get so much money?"

"Yes, the money that was given to him was not enough. Liang Chun also felt puzzled.

"The lord of the court, the young master, the arsenal order went to the master book to receive 3,000 gold, saying that it was the cost of building weapons, but it turned out that the money was used to buy food and use it to gather the displaced people ......"

"It's against him!" Liang Chun was even more angry, "Mao Xi, bring someone to take down the arsenal order for me!"

"Father is going to be angry," Liang Teng hurriedly stopped, "It's still early to ...... the half-moon period at this time."

"That kid embezzled 3,000 gold to save the homeless, obviously has a counter-intention! It seems that he didn't want to build a weapon at all, and he knew that he couldn't complete it in half a month. This is a desperate gamble!" Liang Chun raised his eyebrows, "If you don't take him down now, will you wait for Huajun to mess up?"

"But I don't think the Arsenal Ling is an ambitious person!" Liang Teng said, "There must be a reason for this." ”

"Blatantly taking 3,000 gold to gather the homeless, with no intention of building weapons at all. Do you think he has the heart to complete the task? Don't you think that he is afraid of being held accountable afterwards, so he prepares in advance?" Liang Chun said coldly, "Ambition is not something that can be seen with your eyes!"

"This ......" Liang Teng was dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer.

"The lord, the young master!" Mao Xi's expression was quite strange, "Actually, that ......"

"What?"

"My lord, in fact, I don't think the Arsenal Order has any objections. Although it is strange, it seems that he has a reason. Moreover, weapons have been arriving one after another this afternoon......"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Liang Chun asked suspiciously, "Where did the weapons come from?"

"Where did the weapon come from?" Liang Teng also asked curiously.

"It seems to be donated by the wealthy merchants and gentry in the city," Mao Xi replied, "and today I got a total of 800 longbows, 900 spears, 2,400 swords and shields, 50 armor, and 1,000 leather armor." The Arsenal Commander had a list of all the donors and the number of supplies. ”

The father and son of the Liang family looked at each other, and their eyes were full of surprise.

"Father, it seems that the arsenal has his own ideas, and it is indeed not passive sabotage. It's just a different way to complete the task!" Liang Teng said softly, "Since the emperor's edict, it is normal for wealthy businessmen and gentry to keep private soldiers, but it is rare to donate weapons and armor, I am afraid that the arsenal order will make any promises......"

"I think he wants to rebel!" Liang Chun's finger lightly tapped on the table, "Privately befriending the rich merchants and gentry in the city, and gathering the displaced people in the territory, who will give him the right?" This matter is not trivial, it seems that more people should be sent to keep an eye on him, but if there is a change, he will take it directly!"

"Father, why don't you let me go over tomorrow and ask the whole thing in person!" Liang Teng said, "If he really has a different heart, I will do it myself at that time!"

"Well, you can't let the displaced people gather in Huajun, do you know how many displaced people there are in Huajun? Once they assemble and make a rebellion, it will be more dangerous than the Panglishan bandits!" Liang Chun said solemnly, "If the order goes down, the county towns must stop the displaced people, and they can't step into Huajun!"

"Father," Liang Teng thought for a while, "I don't think it's too late to make a decision after meeting the arsenal order tomorrow and asking him in person." Anyway, the homeless people don't come in a day or two. ”

"This ......"

"Even if the homeless people gather in Huajun, the arsenal Ling really has different intentions, I will control the situation as soon as possible!"

Seeing Liang Teng's vow, Liang Chun nodded, his son's martial courage and resourcefulness are definitely trustworthy: "Okay! Then give me a good look at the arsenal order." ”

"Whoa!"

On the fourth day, Liang Teng really came over early in the morning and found Ning Ze.

At this moment, Ning Ze is leading his subordinates, including Mao Xi, to give porridge outside the city to pick up the displaced people who have appeared around Jihua County one after another.

Originally, there were only more than 1,000 people outside Huajun City, but today the number has reached three or four thousand, and there is a steady stream of people coming from afar, all of whom have heard the news and rushed to survive.

"Arsenal Order!" It was his subordinates who were busy, Ning Ze was talking to the homeless people everywhere on the side, and Liang Teng took advantage of his time to stop them.

"Superintendent!" Ning Ze stopped, hurriedly came over and saluted with a smile, "I don't know if Superintendent is coming today, what are your orders?"

"You've been having a lot of fun these days, I can't come over to take a look?" Liang Teng turned his head to look at the densely packed and ragged homeless people, with a slight worry between his eyebrows, "I heard that you received 3,000 gold from the main book in the name of building weapons, but they were all used to help the homeless?"

"No!" Ning Ze shrugged, "Two days ago, a banquet was held to invite his subordinates to drink, and there were also rich businessmen and gentry in the city, all of which were spent with public funds. ”

Liang Teng heard that a black line appeared on his forehead, and said in his heart, "Do you really dare to say it in front of me?" Seeing that he showed no weakness, he asked: "What do you think? Do you know that if you do this, Fuzun will be able to cure your sin in anger!"

Ning Ze smiled slightly: "The lower officials are to relieve the worries of the mansion, where is the sin?"

"Solve your worries, Fu Zun ordered you to build enough weapons within half a month, but you can use all the money to help the homeless, how to complete the task then?"

"This has been solved!" Ning Ze shrugged his shoulders lightly.

"What do you mean?"

"Yesterday I invited the wealthy merchants and gentry in the city to drink, and asked for donations in the name of the Liang family during the banquet. These wealthy businessmen and gentry donated corresponding resources according to their own circumstances, and I would write down their names in the merit book, and then report them to the Fuzun, so that the Fuzun would know that these were people who were loyal to the Liang family and had contributed to the Liang family. ”

"In the name of the Liang family, what promises did you make to these rich businessmen and gentry?" Liang Teng said, "This is not a joke!"

"I'm just a small arsenal order, what promise can I make?" Ning Ze said with a smile, "The post governor thinks too highly of me! Just tell these rich businessmen and gentry that the main purpose of the fundraising activity is to check the hearts of the people, and the hearts are there." It is estimated that the more they donate, the more loyal they are to Fuzun, and the name is remembered by Fuzun, and it will be more convenient to do business and do things in Huajun in the future. To put it simply, I'm called the white wolf with empty gloves, and I just borrowed the prestige of the mansion. By the way, the list is here, and the number of weapons and armor promised by all the wealthy merchants and gentry at the banquet is also clearly recorded. 3,000 longbows, 7,000 spears, 21,000 sets of swords and shields, 500 sets of armor, 4,300 sets of leather armor, and a number of wealthy merchants donated a total of 220,000 stone of military rations. ”

The cloth book handed over by Ning Ze was clearly filled with the names of the donors and how many resources each person had donated. Liang Teng held it in his hand, dumbfounded.

"By the way, the bamboo crossbow still needs to be produced by itself, and the problem is that the arsenal workshop is short of manpower and materials," Ning Ze continued, "So I gathered the displaced people and predicted that there would be about twenty or thirty thousand people in the various counties. In the past few days, we have set up porridge and tents to manage the food and shelter of the displaced people, and when they have the strength, let them go up the mountain to cut down bamboo and timber, and I will personally guide the production of bamboo crossbows! There are many people and great strength, and 5,000 bamboo crossbows are nothing!"

"Teach the homeless people to make bamboo crossbows? What do you think! In case these homeless people rebel and make bamboo crossbows against us......

"Don't worry, I'll separate them, and a team of people will only teach the practice of one part of the bamboo crossbow. First of all, they don't know what they're doing, and even if they do, if I don't say it, they won't know how to assemble these parts and turn them into bamboo crossbows!" Ning Ze replied with a smile.