The Song family, which was entrenched in Chengdu Prefecture, married Song Xinyou, the only legitimate daughter of this generation, to Wang Hongyi, and gave many dowries, the most precious of which was fifty uncastrated war horses in the name of dowry.
This book was given to Wang Hongyi by the Song family to improve his strength.
As a result, when passing through Hongze Mansion, the town commander confiscated them in the name of military supplies and only replaced them with inferior Guizhou donkeys.
Nothing like this happened in the original novel.
Although all the vassal towns were very coveted, considering the power of the Song family and the Wang family, they did not do such a thing after all.
But this moment is the same as that moment.
At this time in the original work, Wang Hongyi had not yet conquered Taisu County!
How could he become famous in one battle and be known all over the world now?
Hongze Mansion is adjacent to Changding Mansion controlled by Wang Hongyi.
Wang Hongyi’s next expansion plan will definitely be to Hongze Mansion.
Du Gongzhen, the commander-in-chief of Hongze Prefecture, was temporarily unable to take the lead in attacking Wang Hongyi because he was restrained by Chengdu Prefecture, so he could only adjust and prepare step by step.
Under such circumstances, how could Du Gongzhen, the commander-in-chief of Hongze Mansion, watch helplessly as the Song family sent war horses to Wang Hongyi to increase his strength!
However, Du Gongzhen didn't do anything wrong. He took away the war horse and gave it back to the donkey and horse.
After all, the Song family is very powerful not only in Shu, but also in the entire world.
Even Wei Cundong of Chengdu Prefecture attaches great importance to the Song family's opinions - well, under normal circumstances!
Under unusual circumstances, Wei Cundong just put the Song family in order!
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Song Heng, the head of the Song family, felt very guilty and embarrassed in this regard.
He was worried that Wang Hongyi would look down on the Song family because of this.
After all, in the original work, when the Song and King families got married, the two families were considered to be well-matched, and the Song family was slightly superior.
But now Wang Hongyi has captured the town of Changding, and his official positions have been the fifth-rank magistrate and the fifth-rank guerrilla general. The Wang family owns the land of both houses, and its power is faintly superior to the Song family.
Especially these are troubled times.
The Wang family controls the military, which is another advantage!
The Song family wanted to join forces because they liked the Wang family's advantage in commanding troops, so as to provide the Song family with insurance in troubled times and to fight for great wealth!
After all, choosing Wang Hongyi is equivalent to being tied to the Wang family's chariot.
Fortunately, Wang Hongyi has a calm temper and is a good person.
Although Wang Hongyi forcibly married an ordinary woman as his equal wife before marrying the legitimate daughter of the Song family, this made the Song family very dissatisfied.
However, in the face of Wang Hongyi's record, all dissatisfaction can be tolerated.
The Song family felt guilty that the loss of fifty war horses not only failed to enhance Wang Hongyi's strength, but also enhanced the strength of his enemies.
But Wang Hongyi didn't care.
Because the war horses Wu Siyuan gave him were not only large in quantity, but also of much higher quality.
Wang Hongyi didn't care at all about the Song family's fifty war horses.
Three days after the wedding.
Wang Hongyi left Song Xinyou's gentle hometown without hesitation, went directly to the barracks, and conducted military training non-stop.
While training his troops, he also established multiple craft workshops to make paper armor, forge weapons, and research explosives.
Not only does it provide generous rewards, but it also allows those with outstanding performance to obtain official status.
This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of these craftsmen.
Wang Hongyi also popularized the concept of assembly lines to speed up production.
Only Wang Hongyi, who conquered the town of Changding, became Wang Zunzhi's heir, took charge of the resources of Wenyang and Changding towns, and obtained the assistance of the Song family, could do this for these craftsmen's workshops.
Let’s not talk about weapons for now.
That paper armor is the ultimate move that Wang Hongyi has been holding back for a long time!
Paper armor is made of hard cloth mounted on bones and then paper tendons. If you also pay attention to gorgeousness and beauty, you can paint it with gold paint and various patterns to make it dazzling. It is used to equip the army, making the lineup appear neat and majestic.
The defensive power of this paper armor is not low. The defensive power of high-quality paper armor is no less than that of iron armor. To make this kind of armor, the paper is first beaten into a wheel, folded into three inches thick, and four nails are hammered into each square inch, and then cut into pieces.
Armor, if it is soaked by rain, it will be difficult for a blunderbuss arrow to penetrate it.
If we arm the entire army, these 10,000 soldiers can fight 20,000!
But the cost is much lower than leather armor.
Wang Hongyi just mentioned an idea. The skilled craftsmen below had already figured out the manufacturing method after a few experiments. They divided it into various processes and produced it in the form of an assembly line. The efficiency was suddenly improved a lot.
Even though it is armor made of paper, it actually has very strong defense. Within twenty steps, if you wear paper armor, as long as it does not directly hit the vital point, you will only be injured.
Forty steps or more, wearing paper armor, and using a bow and arrow is basically no threat.
It also has quite high defensive capabilities for battlefield fighting and long knife slashing.
It can be said that its defensive capabilities are no longer inferior to those of iron armor, but it is afraid of fire and water!
In the history of the earth, the "New Book of Tang" records that during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Shang defended Puzhou with thousands of soldiers. The armor was made of folded paper and could not be penetrated by powerful arrows, which shows its flexibility and safety.
The current production capacity is 500 sets per month.
However, with nearly tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Wang Hongyi's command, this output is far from satisfactory.
Therefore, Wang Hongyi ordered to increase the recruitment and training of craftsmen and increase the production speed.
Of course, this all costs money!
Although Wang Hongyi achieved a bumper harvest in the two counties, which seemed good at first, as his territory expanded rapidly in a short period of time, more and more soldiers and horses were under his command, and more and more money and food were consumed.
With the little money and food he had and the finances of the prefecture and county under Wang Zunzhi's control, he could barely maintain it.
After all, Wang Hongyi now has nearly 10,000 troops under his command, while Wang Zunzhi only had 2,000 troops before, which was very difficult to maintain.
But if you want to support Wang Hongyi's large-scale expansion and development, you are a bit stretched.
This forced Wang Hongyi to find ways to develop financial resources.
Wang Hongyi racked his brains and finally came up with a solution.
He thought of the capital that Li Chengye had started his business in in his previous life - an open-pit gold mine located in Shunyi County, Changding Town, upstream of the Jishui River.
This gold mine is not big. It was completed in seven years of mining. There are 5,000 taels of gold every year, but it is extremely easy to mine.
This is the fastest way to relieve his financial pressure.
So he called Lai Tongyu, who was appointed as the magistrate of Shunyi County, and secretly handed over this task to him.
Lai Tongyu took the order and left.
Five thousand taels of gold every year is equivalent to fifty thousand taels of silver. On average, you can get about 4,000 taels of silver a month.
Although this amount of money is not much, it is crucial to his current situation.
With this money, Wang Hongyi can not only open various craft workshops, but also continue to operate schools and martial arts halls, and develop them to two towns. Even the most expensive intelligence agency, the Thirteenth Division, can