Chapter 23 Preparation for the Study Tour

Half an hour later, Wang Dakuan and others led hundreds of people to attack the gate of Heihu Zhai Mountain and stopped more than 200 meters away from the gate of Heihu Village. Wang Dakuan asked the two captives to come forward and shout, telling them to open the gate of the fortress and surrender, otherwise they would attack the cottage and kill whoever resisted.

After the two captives stepped forward and walked dozens of meters, they shouted to the people on the wall: "Brothers, I am Shi Lao Qishi Wei, after we were injured and captured, the leader of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce did not count the gap and asked people to bandage the wounds of our injured people, they are good people with great benevolence and righteousness." Leader Wang said, let everyone open the gate of the wall, and unconditionally surrender to the Wantong Chamber of Commerce. At that time, everyone who is willing to go home will be given two pieces of money, 20 catties of grain, and everyone will go home to farm. Those who are homeless or unwilling to go home follow them to Henan. They Wantong Commercial Bank will go to Yuejiazhuang in Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, Henan Province, to open various workshops there, which requires several thousand people, and everyone will work there, including food and lodging, and pay two yuan a month. Dozens of our wounded brothers were willing to follow them. I advise everyone to follow them, because there is no future for being a bandit, and children and grandchildren will not be able to raise their heads. ”

"Let's hurry up and open the gate, the wall of the stone barrier can block the officers and soldiers, but not the people of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, they have thunder. The sky thundered loudly, and the village was destroyed and people died. Whoever leads someone to block and prevent the people of Wantong Commercial Bank from entering the village, rushes in after a while to kill him first, and then kill other accomplices. The king leader said, let me count from one to ten, if you still open the gate of the village, they will summon the heavenly thunder. One, two, three...... Ten. ”

"Haha, you coax ghosts, when everyone is a fool, now Shi Laoqi has counted to ten, why hasn't Tianlei ...... yet"

The man dressed as a scribe on the wall was about to ask, "Why hasn't the thunder sounded yet?" The word has not been pronounced yet, just listen to "Wow!" With a bang, the very arrogant middle-aged scribe on the wall, Master Lou, who is called your little Zhang Liang, had a bloody hole in his eyebrows, and he fell off the wall and died.

Immediately after, "Boom...... Boom", the bodyguard team fired ten cannons in unison, and at a distance of more than 200 meters, six shells bombarded the gate, and four shells bombarded the door frame near the walled gate, and the gate was blasted open at once. The more than 200 bandits who had just tried to resist on the wall jumped off the wall and ran into the wall. Wang Dakuan, Yuan Shuming and others took the opportunity to lead everyone to attack the village. Shi Laoqi and the others, who followed the bodyguard team, were ordered to persuade everyone to go to the martial arts training ground in front of the Juyi Hall to combine.

In a short time, in addition to more than 110 dead and wounded, more than a dozen horsemen fled on horseback. There are more than 10 people, and they have climbed out of the top of the wall of the back village. In addition, more than a dozen people were found, who were trying to escape with their usual savings, and were executed in public. A total of 1,428 people were captured, of which more than 400 were villagers from the nearby mountains, who were willing to go home to farm again, and each was given two yuan of money and 20 catties of grain, and each person took it home. The remaining nearly 1,000 people, each with 20 to 30 catties of grain, went down the mountain and put it on the carriage, and the remaining materials and money were all carried down to the village by horses, and finally set fire to the cottage. Fortunately, Bai Xiaohe and the others bought dozens of taels of carriages along the road, and more than sixty percent of the goods were sold, and most of the carriages were empty, so they finished loading the mountains of grain and other goods.

When we arrived at the bottom of the mountain, it was past eleven o'clock in the morning. Wang Dakuan asked everyone to hold on for a while, and only after going down the mountain did they find a suitable place to bury the pot and cook rice. After a while, Bai Xiaohe had summarized the harvest of this fight against the Black Tiger Village and reported to Wang Dakuan: "There are 998 new captives who followed the north, including 226 women, all of whom are young women between the ages of 15 and 25. Therefore, they are all young women abandoned by their hometown parents, although they are not ugly, none of them are willing to go home, and they all choose to go north.

There were 70,000 catties of grain, three hundred and twenty-two horses, twelve mules, and fifteen donkeys. In addition to the rewards and distributions, there were more than 15,000 pieces of gold and silver money left, as well as a number of various skins and instruments.

After reading the report list, Wang Dakuan now really believed what Zhao Chongyang said before leaving: "Senior Brother Wang, don't be afraid of trouble when you encounter a robber strongman, according to your equipment, they will only be beaten." When you encounter someone who is not long-sighted, you will directly destroy the cottage, not only to train the soldiers, but also to make money, in short, you will not accompany the book. ”

When Wang Dakuan and the others passed all the way, and with zero casualties, they directly destroyed the big village of the disaster, Black Tiger Village, Zhao Chongyang and Wang Daping were listening to the teachers' lectures in the house. In the blink of an eye, Zhao Chongyang and others have been studying in Fuxue for more than two months. In mid-March, the one-year intensive training at the school ended. Before the end of the speed, several professors of the state school conducted several mock exams for hundreds of judges, and Zhao Chongyang deliberately hid his strength, and his score remained within 20, and he won the sixth place in the best test. Wang Daping and Huang Fengming are equal in strength and are always within the top ten. The teacher said that the two are expected to win the second class jinshi, and if they play well, they can rush into the first class. And his eldest brother-in-law Zhou Daifu was instructed by Mr. Chen Yongfu to change his learning methods, and often exchanged learning experiences with Zhao Chongyang, Wang Daping, Huang Fengming and others, discussed some controversial topics, and wrote with a dipping pen, saving a lot of study time, so this year's skills have made great progress, and the exam ranking has always been among the top 50, and often close to Zhao Benhua and Zhao Yungui. He is an old student of Fuxue, and he is very clear about his original strength teachers, and they are very happy for him when they see him improve his skills after he is lifted. said to him: "Continue to work hard, I hope to be admitted to the third-class jinshi and fight for a reputation as a jinshi." If you play well, you are expected to enter the top two and be born. ”

Zhao Chongyang has made an appointment with Zhou Daifu, Huang Fengming, Wang Daping, Zhao Benhua, Zhao Yungui, Xie Zhengyuan, Hu Taoshu and others, went home to prepare for a few days, and then set off with the business group, the business group developed business business, and they traveled together to study, think about life, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers.

However, after a few people set off this year, they will not be able to return until the end of the year after the two-year competition (provincial test). Liu Qiaoyun and Zhao's second sister Zhao Qionghua have reached the age of marriage, and the Zhao and Liu families urged Huang Fengming and Wang Daping to marry the two girls back home and then go on a study tour.

Since the two adults are in a hurry, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, although Zhao Chongyang is small, he is not light, and he is not a word: the Wang family is set for March 18, and the Huang family is set for March 22, and the newcomer will be married, and a month later, the two couples will spend their honeymoon, and everyone will set off. The Huang family's parents were happy, fortunately, they had tens of thousands of dollars before the year, and now they have just repaired their new home, and they are about to marry a newcomer, Huang Fengming's parents smiled from ear to ear.

The cousin and the second sister's banquet were hosted by two adults, and Zhao Gongzi was just busy with his own affairs every day. He called Liu Jinlong, Cheng Dakang, Ling Zhen and several talented young house slaves together to continue to learn about machinery. And tell them how to carry out a simple mechanical design.

After two or three months, Cheng Dakang's revolver production technology has become more and more mature, due to the existence of machine tools, each person can be responsible for processing one or two main parts, and gradually formed an assembly line operation. Now they have built hundreds of revolvers and a full supply of ammunition. Years later, when the two masters and Wang Dakuan left, there were only more than 20 stocks in stock, and he took out more than 10 to give the bodyguard team to the chief officer above the company level, and gave Bai Xiaohe and Yuan Shuming also revolvers, and gave the two masters a sword and pistol in each hand, the pistol is a rare thing, the two gladly accepted, and the two did not take the sword. Because in the world, there are very few people who can make Zhou Daxia Zhou Tong shine his sword.

Now that there is a large amount of inventory, Zhao Chongyang assigned the revolver to the platoon-level cadres of the bodyguard team, and arranged five of each platoon as training guns, requiring that after training flintlock guns, bows and arrows, repeating crossbows, and bomb throwing, the pistols should be trained in rotation. At the same time, Zhao Chongyang also gave each soldier five throwing guns. The spear is two feet long, and when fighting, it can hurt the enemy from a distance of 100 meters. In addition, each company has at least one platoon to practice operating various artillery pieces. The 300-pound heavy gun is operated by 6 people, the 200-pound medium gun is operated by 4 people, and the 100-pound small gun is operated by 3 people.

In addition to stipulating the training items, Zhao Chongyang also formulated the "Infantry Drill Code" for the bodyguard team, so that each company can eliminate the basic assassination actions and conduct queues, physical fitness and other aspects of the drill according to the infantry drill code.

In a lively atmosphere, the four families completed the marriage. Next, Zhao Chongyang asked all the scholars who went out to study to gather together to participate in the training of the bodyguard team at Zhaojia Wharf in Nanjing this month, and even mastered crossbows, assassinations, guns, guns, and bombs, so that when they went out to study, they had the ability to protect themselves. Moreover, Wang Dakuan and Huang Fengming have a foundation in martial arts, and Zhao Chongyang will equip each of them with a pistol.

Wang Dakuan and Liu Qiaoyun's new house was originally arranged in the headquarters of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, Huang Fengming came here for training, Zhao Chongyang could not let the newlywed second sister stay alone in the empty room, and asked people to arrange another house for them here, so that her second sister also temporarily came to live in the Nanjing Wantong Chamber of Commerce. It just so happened that a large number of young people who could write and calculate were needed everywhere, Zhao Chongyang asked his father to find a group of young women who could read and write among the domestic slaves to participate in the training, and only selected more than ten of them, at this time Wang Dakuan and Bai Xiaohe came back with more than 200 young women. These women were all rescued from various cottages, and there were nearly 30 of them who were coarse in writing and ink, and it was certainly easier for them to participate in the training of financial personnel than to work in the workshop, so there was no reluctance to choose them. In this way, the two new daughters-in-law became arithmetic teachers here.

While several other scholars were busy with training, Zhao Chongyang returned to Liujia Village, took Liu Qiaoling and a dozen young female slaves, and later added 50 young women brought from the north, using quicklime, plant ash and grease as raw materials, and after more than ten days of repeated experiments, he made more than 50 pieces of soap the size of children's palms for the first time. Next, mass production began, and by the time Zhao Chongyang and them set off, more than 500 pieces had been produced. Zhao Chongyang handed over the product promotion to Bai Xiaohe, and the preliminary price was ten yuan a piece. At the same time, he told Liu Qiaoling and others that if various spices were added to the soap, soap could be made. Let them try to make their own soap.

Zhao Chongyang told his father about the use of soap and soap

, let him choose a site at Zhaojia Wharf to repair soap and fertilizer is workshop. The core technology is mastered by Liu Qiaoling and others.