Li Yang followed Lei to ride into the big tent, Lei Qi raised his hand to the side and instructed Li Yang to sit down, he went to the copywriter and picked up a pot of wine and two wine glasses and walked over, put the wine glass in front of Li Yang and got a glass of wine, Li Yang saw this and quickly got up and respectfully stretched out his hands to pick up the wine glass: General Xie gave wine

After speaking, he took the wine jug from Wang Dilei's horseman, and respectfully bowed to the general Lei to ride a glass of wine

Lei Qi picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine: 15 years ago, there was a rebellion in Zhejiang, at that time my brother Wang had not yet ascended the throne, my father wanted to select a person with both ability and political integrity among the heirs of the royal family to pass the throne to him, so he sent these heirs to various provinces as officials for two years, and whoever achieved the best results passed the throne to him, and one of these heirs named Lei Yun stood out

Speaking of this Lei Yun he is still my cousin and my brother Wang, Lei Yun not only has both ability and political integrity but also has the talent to govern the world, many civil and military generals have followed him, at that time, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military also including I thought that my father would pass the throne to Lei Yun, but I didn't expect my father to pass the throne to the mediocre Wang brother before his death, which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among civil and military generals

What is unexpected is that Lei Yun actually took the initiative to say that he wanted to assist Brother Wang wholeheartedly, in the end, everyone is their own brother, what is there to discuss, Lei Yun helped Brother Wang stabilize the situation and restore the government, at that time, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military can be said to be united, and they want to revitalize Zhejiang

In the second year of Brother Wang's ascension to the throne, the Fu army raised 100,000 troops to invade Zhejiang and broke through several cities one after another, Brother Wang immediately mobilized 150,000 main forces of Zhejiang to respond to the battle, just when the two countries were at war, Lei Yun took advantage of the emptiness of the capital to launch a mutiny, and the murderer also took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the palace and wanted to assassinate Brother Wang, at that time, Wang Jian and I led two thousand Janissaries to resist desperately, and then reluctantly took Brother Wang out of the palace and escaped from Yufeng City

Later, Brother Wang was transferred back to Zhejiang to besiege Yufeng City, when the general Wang Ben was only a governor, he turned against the battle and opened the city gate to lead Brother Wang to lead the army into the city, and also captured the thief Lei Yun and his fellow DA alive

g, Brother Wang Nian is the same clan, and the killer couldn't bear the pain, so he encircled them, but unexpectedly, Lei Yun actually burned the entire house and died in the fire with the people who chased him

Later, the Governor's Department found out that the rebellion was jointly planned by Lei Yun and the flower scorpion, and this flower scorpion was the largest business group in Zhejiang at that time, as long as it was a profitable business, they would do whatever it took to monopolize it, many dignitaries and dignitaries had close contacts with the flower scorpion, Brother Wang ordered me and Wang Jian to lead the troops to carry out a devastating encirclement and suppression of the flower scorpion, but I didn't expect this kill to be tens of thousands of people

This is also the only thing I feel guilty about in my life, and I don't know if it was right or wrong to do it back then, after so many years I have been also a flower scorpion It disappeared from this world, but I didn't expect it to still exist here, and today's Zhejiang is really a foreign and internal trouble

Li Yang It seems that they have already set their sights on you, you have to be more careful in the future, although they missed this time, they will still find an opportunity to attack you, as the so-called open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to prevent

Li Yang hugged his fists and bowed: The last general remembered the general's teachings, and after the assassination of the general, the general sent people to block the main roads leading from Taizhou to various states, and strictly investigated the passers-by once they found the murderer, they would be killed on the spot

Lei Qi closed his eyes and pondered: No need, you can think of a reason to prevaricate yourself

Li Yang responded: The last general understands, and the general should almost go back

Lei Qi nodded: Well-keep yourself a little more heart

Li Yang bowed: General, you also have to strengthen your precautions

The late autumn sun is still hot, the yellow leaves all over the mountain make people have a kind of indescribable vicissitudes, the soldiers are slightly tired and drove the carriage for a day, and when they returned to Alan County, it was already dark, and before Li Yang entered the courtyard, the two state cavalry greeted him: Your Excellency, Lord Sun, will summon you to the state capital yamen tomorrow

Li Yang responded: It's good to have two workers

Before I had time to eat dinner, I summoned the big guy to the conference hall, Xiaozhou and Xiaozhuang sisters put a pot of noodles and a bowl of oil and miscellaneous sauce in front of the indulgent people, the big guy's hungry stomach "cooed" after a busy day, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and wiped it on his body to take out the noodles in the basin, and then put a spoonful of sauce into the noodles and mixed it, and the big guy swallowed it and ate it

Li Yang hiccuped: Although the assassination of the man in black failed, this incident also sounded the alarm for us, and in the future, Alan County will have to strengthen its precautions at night and set up cards at various intersections to send troops to guard them, and the government officials will also send people out to patrol at night

Han Juzheng gave his hand: Brother Li Alan County has 35,000 people, and 200 officials are a little unable to maintain law and order, after this assassination, the officials should pay more attention to their faces to prevent people with bad intentions from mixing into Alan County, and send a part to patrol every night, see if you can recruit some more officials

Li Yang thought about it: Ju Zheng is recruiting 300 servants from the Xinmin, and in the future, this Li family manor will be guarded by the ghost face team

Gao Yuan shook his head and picked up a steel knife: I didn't find anything, but the weapons used by this group of black-clothed people are quite sophisticated, you see this steel knife looks a bit like a Japanese knife in the blink of an eye, and it is different from the Japanese knife, the Japanese knife is curved and this knife is straight, I tried this knife is much lighter than the knife we use, it can save physical strength for a long time to fight, and this knife is also very tough, as long as the strength is greater, you can cut off the ordinary steel knife, many brothers were killed by cutting off the steel knife in the battle

Li Yang stretched out his right hand and waved it back, Gao Yuan threw the steel knife over, Li Yang caught the steel knife and looked it up and down carefully, and gently flicked the "nail" on the steel knife with his hand with a crisp sound: The second child will ask Ouyang Xiu tomorrow if we can forge such a steel knife, but this knife seems to be more iron-saving than the knife we use

Yuan Kui took out a crossbow from the sack on the side: the crossbow used by the man in black is also very powerful, the range of the bow and arrow is about 150 steps, and the range of this crossbow arrow is about 200 steps, within 100 steps can easily shoot through the light armor, its loading speed is much slower than the bow and arrow, if our soldiers are equipped with this kind of crossbow arrow, they can kill the enemy at a distance on the battlefield in the future

Li Yang responded: The second child happened to bring this crossbow with him

Gao Yuan: When I saw this sword and crossbow, I remembered one thing, the newly recruited navy is not yet equipped, and the swords and armor used by many soldiers should also be replaced

Li Yang: I will implement this matter in the past few days, and the head of the Guanshan Road is bothering you to go to Longfeng Mountain tomorrow to measure the direction of the two canals, and now it is time to start digging the canals

Guanshan arched his hand: The owner can rest assured that he will do his best in this matter

Li Yang stood up from the chair: It's nothing, let's disperse today

Hearing the rooster's "cluck-cluck" crow, Li Yang got up from the bed lazily, put on his clothes in a daze, hit a basin of water and pounced on his face with his hands, went to the kitchen to get a steamed bun and rode to Taizhou City

It was almost noon when he arrived at the yamen of the state capital, and the official led Li Yang to the inner hall: Lord Sun has some official business to deal with, so let you wait here for a while

Li Yang arched his hand: It's so hard

I looked around and I was in the inner hall, so I sat on a chair and stretched out my waist and lifted Erlang's legs, "Ah" and snorted, anyway, there is no one else, I will take a nap first, if there is footsteps outside, I can also listen, I thought it was just a nap and really fell asleep

Before Sun Yuanwu entered the inner hall, he heard a loud snoring sound, "Huh-huh", who is so bold that he dares to be lazy to sleep in broad daylight, even if you are lazy, you have to avoid it, the snoring is still so loud, as soon as he enters the inner hall, he sees Li Yang crooked, and the corners of his mouth are still hanging on the corners of his mouth, and he is asleep

Sun Yuanwu shook his head helplessly, I said Who is so bold It turned out to be your kid "Cough" coughed lightly, Li Yang raised his hand and scratched his neck and continued to fall asleep

Seeing this, Sun Yuanwu coughed vigorously, and Li Yang woke up after hearing this, and hurriedly stood up from the chair: The last general will meet Master Sun

Sun Yuanwu walked to the copywriter and sat down: I heard that someone went to the Li family manor to assassinate him two days ago, but he didn't find out who did it

Li Yang looked puzzled: How do you know about this, my lord

Sun Yuanwu: You sent troops to set up checkpoints on various passes and key roads in Taizhou to strictly check passers-by, and made such a big move, if the government didn't know, then how could I be the prefect?

Li Yang: My lord, these assassins have all been strictly trained, and I wanted to catch a few live ones to find out who sent them, but I didn't expect the assassins to wield a knife to kill themselves when they were captured, and now the last general has not found any clues but is a little puzzled

Sun Yuanwu: If you have any doubts, let's hear about it

Li Yang arched his hand: My lord, forgive the last general's courage, several senior officials from the national capital were assassinated as soon as they left, will this matter be related to those dignitaries and dignitaries in the national capital, because the last general sold salt and cut off some people's financial routes

Sun Yuanwu nodded slightly, "Hmm" You are thinking about this matter with this mansion, Li Yang is not only mixed but also very deep, you have also seen the methods of these people in the national capital, even so, are you still going to sell salt

Li Yang took a long breath: The adult general knows that the road of selling salt will be difficult, but there is no other way to choose but to take this road, no matter how difficult and distant it is, the general will go to the end

Sun Yuanwu raised his head and pondered: This mansion is the same as you, and there is no other way to go, since you insist on it, the mansion will give you the official certificate to sell salt

Li Yang: My lord, will you offend those dignitaries in the national capital for this?

Sun Yuanwu: As long as you manage the salt in your hands well, Taizhou has to raise taxes, and those dignitaries and dignitaries can't do anything about this government, and the government has income from you, I used to be afraid of offending people and just wanted to keep my official position, but now the soldiers are about to run out of food, not to mention the people, I hope you don't let the government down, let go of it, and when your life is at stake, the government will be with you

After hearing this, Li Yang got up excitedly and kowtowed: The last general will never be dishonored, and the last general still has one more thing that I hope the adults can approve

Sun Yuanwu: Then you can say it

Li Yang: Can adults pay 5,000 yuan in salt field tax first, and the remaining 5,000 will be paid together with the salt tax?

Sun Yuanwu: "Well, it's nothing, this mansion also has something to discuss with you."

Li Yang arched his hand: Please make it clear

Sun Yuanwu: Don't sell salt in Taizhou City in the future, so that the government can also give an explanation to those dignitaries and dignitaries in the national capital, I hope you can understand the difficulties of the government

Li Yang: The last general obeys the order, if the adults have nothing to do, then the last general will retire first

Sun Yuanwu looked at the sky: It's noon, so you can stay and have a meal with the mansion and go

Li Yang responded respectfully: The last general Xie is good, but the last general still has some things to deal with if you want to deal with it

Sun Yuanwu: "Oh, that's the case, then you can go and get busy."

Back at the manor, Li Song and Ouyang Xiu had been waiting in the council hall for a long time, and as soon as they saw Li Yang coming back, Ouyang Xiu stood up from the chair: The old man has seen the owner

Li Yang arched his hand: Senior Ouyang, you came just in time, the second child should have told you, I don't know if we can forge this kind of steel knife and crossbow arrows

Ouyang Xiu: The owner of this steel knife weighs about 4 pounds, is made of high-quality steel repeatedly folded forging, the advantage of this knife is that it is sharp and suitable for close killing, the disadvantage is that once it encounters a blunt weapon, it may be broken, as long as there is enough iron this steel knife we can forge, is the cost is much higher than the general steel knife, a piece is about 1 silver coin, if you want to forge this kind of steel knife, the old man suggests that the weight of the knife is increased to 5 catties, the width and thickness are increased so that the forged steel knife is not easy to break

Li Yang: Senior Ouyang: According to what you said, a craftsman can forge a steel knife like this in a few days

Ouyang Xiu picked his fingers and calculated: It will take 3 days

Li Yang: Can we build Ouyang's predecessor's crossbow?

Ouyang Xiu looked at the crossbow arrow: I have to go back and study this carefully, don't look at this crossbow arrow, there are many doorways in its small area, and when the old man thoroughly studies it, he will tell the owner

Li Yang: Can we make the armor of our predecessors?

Ouyang Xiu: There are many styles of armor of the owner, leather armor - hard cloth armor - piercing armor - fish scale armor - chain mail - light armor - heavy armor - paper armor which one do you want to forge

Li Yang: Which kind of armor is low in cost and relatively high in defense

Ouyang Xiu thought for a while: the old man recommends piercing armor, this kind of armor is not only high in defense but also easy to maintain, the production process is simpler than other iron armor, suitable for mass production, it takes 50-60 catties of iron to make a pair of armor, and it takes a craftsman 10 days to build

Li Yang: In the next two days, the steel will be transported to the forging workshop, and I am still recruiting some blacksmiths, and then you can definitely take care of it for me

Ouyang Xiu smiled and arched his hand: This please rest assured that the old man will do his best, if the owner has nothing else to do, the old man will go back to prepare first

Li Yang got up respectfully: Everything has to be done

After Ouyang Xiu left, Li Song and I came to the kitchen and took out two steamed buns from the pot, and then took two green onions on the vegetable pier and squatted in the corner to eat

Li Song took a bite of the steamed bun and took a bite of the green onion, chewing and saying: The boss shochu workshop has started to make wine, and in the past two days, an oil mill and a tofu workshop have been opened, and I don't know how much rent to charge

After a month or two of operation, I will see whether to continue to cooperate or rent out the shop, and if it is rented out, we will negotiate a mutually acceptable price, and in the past two days, I have discussed with some residents to open a butcher shop, and they will go hunting in the nearby mountains and sell the game to us, and we are selling it to the big guy to make a difference

Li Yang nodded: You can decide the matter of the second shop yourself, isn't our grocery store in Taizhou City gone, and you can choose the best and largest one in the store to be the grocery store

Li Song: Then I'll go to the street to see which shop is more suitable

After separating from Li Song, Li Yang came to the sailors' camp, and saw Long Chuan standing in front with his hands straight behind his back, holding a wooden battle in his hand and training the soldiers, Hengqi and others were also in the training team, about 200 soldiers were all running along the coast shirtless, 500 people stood in a phalanx about two meters apart, "drink-drink", holding steel knives-spears for chopping and assassination training, and the remaining hundreds of people stood on the suspension bridge made of ropes, swaying left and right to imitate the shaking of ships when they went to sea

Li Yang stepped forward and bowed: The last general has seen General Long

Long Chuan turned around and said, "Oh, you came just in time, General Ben happened to have something to look for you, this sailor camp is too simple, you have to build a new sailor camp as soon as possible."

Li Yang: General Long's current camp is just a temporary transition, the last general will send someone tomorrow when the general arrives, he only needs to tell him the specifications of the camp, and the last will build a new sailor camp as soon as possible

Long Chuan laughed "Haha" sailors generally do not wear iron armor, once they fall into the water in naval battles, they will be pressed in the sea by heavy iron armor, if they can't break free in time, it is easy to drown, so sailors generally wear leather armor

Li Yang: General Long's leather in Zhejiang is scarce, and the cost of making a pair of leather armor is much higher than that of iron armor, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy so much leather, so is there any other armor suitable for sailors to wear?

Long Chuan: Then there is only hard cloth armor, which is much thicker than ordinary clothes from the outside, but it is inlaid with iron plates that can effectively block the slashing of bows and swords, and as for weapons, it is actually similar to infantry

Li Yang nodded slightly: General Long is dissatisfied with you and said, when these 1,000 sailors are trained and equipped, I am ready to recruit 1,000 sailors and expand the current 8 three-sail warships to 20 or 30

Long Chuan was a little excited when he heard this, but he didn't want to pretend to be calm in front of Li Yang: This is a good thing

Li Yang: General Long has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not

Ryukawa: But it doesn't hurt for you to say it

Li Yang's face was respectful: The general thought that by letting the soldiers go to sea in warships, he could train these sailors faster

Long Chuan responded: That's right, you and General Ben thought about this together, and the basic operation of the warship soldiers almost knew it, so let's see that the day after tomorrow will take the soldiers out to sea

Li Yang: Can you bring some fishermen to help you catch fish when the general's warship goes to sea?

Long Chuan laughed out loud when he heard this: It's really bad for you to use a warship to go to sea to fish

Li Yang sighed lightly: There is no other way for the general to be the general, Alan County has to feed tens of thousands of people and consumes a lot of food every day, and the beef and mutton big guys don't dare to hope for it, so they all rely on going out to sea to catch some sea fish to improve it for the big guys, and I hope the general can sympathize with the suffering of the general

Long Chuan took a long breath: I have heard a little about your resettlement of 30,000 disaster victims, and General Ben also admires your courage, so set the day after tomorrow to go to sea, and then you can let the fishermen gather here

Li Yang bowed: The last general thanked the general