In the Fire Temple, a group of thugs are having a meeting.
"Brother, have you heard that someone in the city is secretly purchasing gunpowder. The price given is 10% higher than the black market price."
"Well, that's the case. The one who has come forward now is Sun Qiaizi, the owner of the Dayushu Iron Mine. His small iron mine must not have used much gunpowder. I don't know who bought it behind the scenes."
"Brother, we have connections in several Qianhu offices. The gunpowder we get from the Qianhu offices only costs five cents of silver per barrel, and we sell it for one tael of silver when resold."
"Such a high profit, done."
Santun Camp, Jizhen Government Office.
"Brother-in-law, I have a big deal for you," Hou San said, licking his face.
"What good can you do if you burn incense without causing trouble for me?" Sun Xiancai, the ambassador of Jizhen Military Supplies Warehouse, scolded.
"I have a friend who is mining. I want to buy a batch of gunpowder. I'll give you this number for one barrel." Hou San made the sign of nine.
"Nine coins" Sun Xiancai was a little tempted.
Generally, when reselling military gunpowder, everyone is looking for a bargain. Basically, the price is half of the cost. For the quartermaster, it is a costless business, and all the money goes into his own pocket. In the future, he will report damage due to moisture or something like that and scrap it.
deal with.
"How much does he want if he is given three more silver coins per barrel?" Sun Xiancai's eyes flashed with greed. This kind of good thing will not happen for ten years. He usually quoted six silver coins per barrel on the black market.
"As much as you want," Hou San said in a low voice.
There was a fierce look in Sun Xiancai's eyes. He could not see the silver in his black eyes. There were 35,000 barrels of gunpowder in the warehouse. They were supplied to the entire Ji Town.
"Tell him, if he offers a tael of silver, I'll sell him ten thousand barrels. I guarantee it will be the best."
Sun Xiancai didn't know what the mysterious buyer behind the scenes wanted so much gunpowder, and he didn't want to get into it. As long as he got the money, he didn't care.
Over the years, his appetite has become more and more greedy, and the five-bedroom concubine in the family spends money like water.
As for whether Inspector Yuan would suddenly come to inspect the warehouse, he automatically put it in the back of his mind. It was impossible to move them all out anyway, just replace the bottom ones with sand.
Zhao Fu was busy counting the gunpowder he had purchased secretly. He had made so many muskets that they couldn't survive without gunpowder. He was also planning to let the soldiers go free to fight. It would be like shooting them all out.
"Manager, we have done the counting. In the past ten days, we have collected a total of 1,842 barrels." The boy wiped his sweat and reported. "The master requested that the reserve be no less than 5,000 barrels, but there is still a lot left."
"There's probably only so much that can be bought on the black market. Let's see how much Ji Town can get the rest," Zhao Fu said.
Dongshan Camp, the team training of the six teams was very happy today.
Lord Yang Fan came this morning.
Zhang Gada, the regimental training envoy, has arrived, as has Zhao Fu, the military supervisor.
In the morning, the first thing is to distribute weapons. Each person is given a sharp gun and taught how to use it.
What makes them even more happy is that each person is given a complete set of inner and outer clothes.
Then, marching backpacks were distributed, including gunpowder, bullets, blankets, water bottles, engineering shovels, and a pack of ten naan cakes per person.
It's just that these clothes are very strange. They are all close-fitting and are very different from the wide robes with long sleeves and dark clothes worn daily. There is a row of buttons in the middle of the top. It is actually on the right side. How can it be the same as Hufu.
This dress is still made of flowers. Isn’t this a hundred-year-old dress? If you look closely, it’s not true. They are all made of extremely strong and good cloth.
This is actually the camouflage uniform that Yang Fan bought. The earliest version was extremely wear-resistant, so it was always worn by migrant workers.
Cheap, strong and durable.
Yang Fan feels that an army must have uniform uniforms so that it can have a sense of collective belonging.
In this era, there were no factories that made large-scale garments. It was too slow to make it yourself.
I simply ordered them from Hyundai.
The shoes are long riding boots of the same style custom-made from dozens of leather workshops in Zunhua City. They are shiny and can be seen on people. They look very military-like when worn.
Then the troops were reviewed. First, they were reviewed in groups. They walked through the reviewing stand in accordance with the drills of the past ten days.
After reviewing, there is another good news.
This month's salary will be paid in advance.
Because, adults know, they have just settled down and have too many things to buy, including clothes, bedding, pots and pans, etc.
According to the rules of the Xinghe regiment, the pay must be handed out to everyone in Yang Fan's household. Everyone whose name is called walks up to the reviewing stand and receives the military pay from Yang Fan.
If it is not passed through other hands, no one will deduct it.
The whole military camp was as happy as the Chinese New Year. Although the training for these ten days was very hard, the food was very good. It was all rice and flour, and a spoonful of meat a day.
Zhang Ga raised his arms and shouted: "Whose food will we eat?"
All the soldiers shouted: "Eat Master Yang's food"
"Whose clothes are you wearing?"
"Wear Mr. Yang's clothes"
"Whose military salary do you receive?"
"Receive military pay from Master Yang"
"Listen to who?"
"Death for Mr. Yang"
Zhao Fu cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Everyone is here, let's eat."
One hundred fat pigs have been put into the pot.
Braised braised pork.
A whole pot of rice.
"Everyone, let go of your belly and eat as much as you can."
Immediately, morale rose to its peak.
In the afternoon, gunshots rang out throughout the camp like popping beans, one after another all afternoon.
Mr. Yang said that the gunpowder bullets are very powerful. If the musket is damaged, a new one will be issued. Just to practice the operation and accuracy of the gun.
Each squadron does not yet have a squadron leader, but three squad captains, who take turns to serve. In subsequent training and competitions, whichever squad leader performs better will be promoted to squadron captain. And the squad that ranks first in the squadron assessment will be promoted to squadron leader.
Give one hundred dollars.
After giving the order, the regiment went crazy in training. They practiced shooting at all costs.
A cavalryman quickly rushed into the gate of Dongshan Camp.
Yang Fan is modifying the map.
There is a modern satellite map spread on the table in front of him, but the coastline is different from that in the late Ming Dynasty. He is making corrections based on the actual situation of this era and referring to the map of this era. Other mountains and lakes have not changed.
Zhang Gada walked in quickly, holding an urgent military report in his hands.
Yang Fan took it and opened it to take a look.
"It's finally here. I thought they would make some moves in the next few days." Yang Fan said to himself.
Although the rocky beach is a barren land, through recent research on this map, Yang Fan discovered that the river outside the village can be navigated upstream to the Bashang grassland. If Jiannu wanted to enter the pass, it would be very difficult to go down the river from the upstream.
It is convenient for transporting supplies. But the Rock Beach Baihu Station is just stuck in a key position.
If we control this place, we can threaten the four cities of Zunhua, Jixian, and Yongping. With the convenience of water transportation, materials and soldiers for establishing slaves can be continuously sent from Duoyan Sanwei.
On the surface, these slave builders who sneaked in were plundering to make a living. In fact, they were blocking the battlefield in advance, killing all the villages and outlying guard posts, turning them into no-man's land to facilitate the follow-up actions of large forces.
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How to fight this battle? Yang Fan touched his chin. After all, he was just a junior high school graduate with a background as a migrant worker and had no military experience.
But Yang Fan doesn't care. Everything in this world is about learning by doing, rather than doing it after learning.
