Chapter 81 Liver skills are busy (please order first when it is released)

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 81 Liver skills are busy (please order first when it is released)

In the ancestral hall, Lin Xianyang was telling everyone what happened in the ghost market.

The old man of the family was sitting on the main seat, Lin Mojun was sitting on the side wearing a veil and a straw hat, the ninth aunt was sitting near the door, and Chang Ningwei, the eloquent person, was sitting in the ancestral hall.

After Lin Xianyang finished talking about his experience in the ghost market, Su Ze asked:

"You gave the money you used to buy sugar last time to the sea monkey. When you talked about buying a gun, he agreed immediately?"

Lin Xianyang nodded and said: "Yes, the sea monkey heard that he wanted to buy a gun, so he directly offered a price of one or two taels of silver, saying that it was a good product originating from Folangji."

"Although this price is more expensive than the Yuegang price mentioned by Xiong Wu, it is almost the same after shipping. Didn't Sea Monkey ask why you want to buy a gun?"

Lin Xianyang shook his head and said: "I didn't ask much, I just asked how many blunderbuss we want."

Su Ze quickly felt relieved. Nowadays, smuggling is rampant in the southeast region. Bird guns are not a rare thing. They can be sold openly in Yuegang. Zhang Haihu is a relatively large smuggler nearby, so it is normal for him to sell bird guns.

After calculating the money in his hand, Su Ze planned to buy twenty bird guns this time. While he was seeing if he could imitate them, he was preparing to train a small army that combined bird guns.

"Did you say you wanted twenty?"

Lin Xianyang nodded and said: "The sea monkey only asked me to prepare the money and unload the goods on the beach in seven days."

"What about the Folan cannon?"

Lin Xianyang said: "They asked for thirty taels of silver for this Fo Lang machine gun. They also said that it is not easy to transport such heavy equipment, so they have to pay a half-percent deposit in advance."

Su Ze secretly scolded the profiteers. Last time Xiong Wu said that the Folan cannon was only sold for twenty taels of silver in Yuegang. The price of this Sea Tiger increased by half in one breath, and he had to pay a deposit in advance before he would buy it.

It’s no wonder that these wealthy and powerful families in the southeast region have to get involved in the maritime trade business. This is really huge profits!

Now that Su Ze couldn't afford thirty taels of silver, he had to give up the purchase of the Folan cannon for the time being.

"Has all the salt been sold?"

Su Ze asked Lin Deqing who went to the ghost market with Lin Xianyang. The honest Lin Deqing immediately nodded and said:

"I just set up the stall, and the person in charge who bought refined salt last time brought people here."

“Will they also buy it if the price goes up?”

After subduing Zhu Qi's gang, Su Ze discovered that salt was equivalent to the general equivalent in the market these days. Selling it at such a low price would attract other people's attention and cause unnecessary trouble.

So this time when selling salt, Su Ze told Lin Deqing to sell it according to the market price of refined salt sold by Zhu Qi and others, which was 150 yuan per catty.

This time Su Ze asked Lin Deqing to bring 150 kilograms of refined salt, which Su Ze had refined over the past few days.

Lin Deqing said: "Buy it. The person in charge said that my salt is good, and their owners said it was good after they ate it. So even though the price has increased, they also accepted it."

It turns out that their own refined salt has no bitter taste and is of better quality than the refined salt that Zhu Qi sold before. The owner must be buying it as a gift. Even if the price increases, the manager can go back and quote a higher price.

Lin Deqing quickly took out a cloth bag, spread it out and handed the broken silver to Su Ze.

"After paying the five-cent silver in store tax, according to Brother Aze's words, I gave the five-cent silver to the tax collector last time. This is the remaining silver."

Lin Deqing's eyes were clear and there was no trace of greed on his expression. Su Ze sighed that he had found the right person when he asked Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market to sell goods.

Su Ze picked out a five-cent piece of silver from the silver, handed it to Lin Deqing and said, "Brother Deqing, this is yours."

Lin Deqing quickly refused, and Su Ze forced the money to him. With a power of seven points, Lin Deqing, a dutiful farmer, had no strength to refuse.

Su Ze gave Lin Xianyang another one and a half pieces of silver, and then said: "We are all clan brothers of Changning Wei. If you are more polite, I will fall out."

The two had no choice but to accept the scraps of money, and their eyes looked at Su Ze with even more gratitude.

Su Ze continued: "Next time Brother Deqing goes to the ghost market, I'd better ask a team of guardsmen to follow me. Brother Xianyang will help me find Luo Xia. Brothers who are willing to accompany me will be rewarded."

Lin Xianyang and Lin Deqing looked at each other and saw the warmth in each other's eyes. Su Ze was sincerely thinking about their safety.

Moreover, as long as you escort one trip, you will get money, and there are many people in Changning Guards who are willing.

Now people in Changningwei say that Su Ze is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth and has the ability to turn stone into gold.

Su Ze then divided the money into ten parts, then handed 20% to Lin Mojun and said, "This is for the guard station."

Then he handed 10% to the old man and said: "This is for the clan."

Aunt Jiu looked at Su Ze with a complicated expression.

Now, whether it is my grandfather, Lin Mojun, a hundred households, or the soldiers of a hundred households, or the remnants of the Changning Guard, they will listen to Su Ze's opinions carefully. Su Ze has unknowingly become the most important person in the Changning Guard.

That group of people.

Who would have thought that Su Ze, who is now sitting in the ancestral hall and talking freely, has only settled in Changningwei for more than two months.

At this time, Su Ze suddenly said to Lin Mojun:

"Hundred households, I want to select 20 people from the military surplus to train a group of gunners."

"Birdgunner?"

Bird guns are not a rare thing on the southeast coast. When Zhu Wan conquered Shuangyu Island, the Ming army captured a lot of bird guns.

Some Japanese pirates also used bird guns sporadically, and many guard stations also seized some bird guns.

But today's coastal guards rarely use long-range weapons such as bows and arrows or blunderbuss.

The reason is simple, no money.

In fact, logically speaking, there should be one group of archers for the one hundred regular soldiers of Changning Guard.

However, due to a long-term lack of equipment, the archer unit was canceled when Baihu took office.

Archers are considered a proper technical arm in this era, and they are also an arm that requires long-term training to mature.

This training process not only requires the use of a bow, but also wastes arrows.

Arrows were consumables in ancient times.

Because ancient arrowheads and arrow feathers were easily deformed, even if it was just for practice, an arrow could only be shot a few times.

If you shoot too much, the arrow will lose its accuracy and there will be no value in practicing.

On the battlefield, bows and arrows are disposable consumables. On a life-and-death battlefield, no archer would shoot with arrows picked up everywhere on the battlefield.

It takes several years to train an archer, and archers are a proper unit of strength.

In the Ming Dynasty, actual combat bows generally used large bows with three to six strengths. During training, heavy bows with more than ten strengths were also used to train strength. Archers were the best-fed in the entire army, otherwise they would not even be able to pull the bow.

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Currently, the only person in the Changning Guard who can draw a bow and shoot an arrow is Lin Mojun.

The Changning Guards can hardly afford to raise infantry, let alone archers.

Although bird guns are cheaper than bows, the bullets (lead balls) are three cents and three cents of silver per pound, and the gunpowder is one cent and four cents per pound of silver. Match ropes that can be used for smoldering are also not cheap. Twenty fire gunners can train one

Months, the ammunition consumption alone is a terrifying figure.

It's not that Lin Mojun doesn't want a gunman, but he really can't afford such a team.

Su Ze smiled and said: "Grandpa, I want to train a regiment to defend my reed fields and newly opened land. I will pay for the training of gunners. As long as the clan provides manpower, I will have the remaining troops in the guard station."

After practicing the Yuanyang Formation, just train for another two hours. I will provide the food for the training day."

Grandpa also knows that these are troubled times, and many villages are training village warriors to build teams.

The old man just thought about it for a moment and agreed readily: "Okay, you can choose the person you want, and the ancestral hall will take care of the food!"

Just after they had just agreed to form a team of gunners, a soldier hurried into the ancestral hall and said to Lin Mojun:

"Hundred households, urgent military situation!"

Upon hearing the urgent military information, Lin Mojun immediately stood up, walked towards the soldier who was delivering the order, and took over the urgent military information sent from the express delivery shop.

It was military information sent from the General Directorate of Beiwa, Fujian. Lin Mojun quickly opened the envelope, read it quickly and sighed.

The old man also stood up and asked:

"Baihu, what's wrong?"

Lin Mojun said: "The demon Luo Fu from Jiangxi gathered a crowd to rebel, and asked the general commander to ask the guards to strengthen maritime patrols and eliminate large groups of Japanese pirates in the offshore areas."

Su Ze came over and took the military information document from Lin Mojun's hand. Lin Mojun just glanced at Su Ze and didn't say anything to stop it.

Anyway, Su Ze is also a member of the Guard, and the people discussing matters here today are all close relatives, so there is no harm in showing Su Ze the military situation.

After reading the military information, Su Ze said doubtfully: "There is a rebellion in Jiangxi. Why did the General Secretary ask the coastal guards to patrol the sea? I don't think Luo Fu rebelled on land?"

Lin Mojun said: "In the past few years, people in Fujian and Guangzhou were involved in civil unrest, and they also colluded with Japanese pirates to cause chaos. In recent years, every time there was civil unrest in the southeast, Japanese pirates took advantage of the fire to plunder."

"Why is there another rebellion in Jiangxi?" Su Ze asked.

The reason why the word "you" is used is because Jiangxi is the hometown of old rebels.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had some geographical disadvantages. According to some of the most famous stereotypes of this era, "Cantonese people are good at prostitution," "Lu people are good at officials," and "Gan people are good at rebelliousness."

The folk customs in Guangdong are more open than those in the Central Plains. Due to trade in goods, more women are exposed.

Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats who served as officials in Guangdong believed that Cantonese people were promiscuous, and often criticized Cantonese people in their notes and articles for "immorality".
To be continued...