Each of the soldiers in the death camp received forty taels of white filament ingots, five taels each of fine quality, for a total of eight fine silver ingots.
Everyone was happy, and it was all thanks to General Liu. These soldiers were originally from poor families. How could they have seen so much money? Now they can go to Xuzhou Mansion to have a good time and drink. When the war stops for a while, they can also trust
The guests send some money home. Of course, most of them are thousands of miles away from home and come to the iron factory. Returning home is already an impossible dream. Staying in the death camp is the best choice. This is a high-paying job.
The current organization of the death battalion is: three infantry teams, one cavalry team, each team has 100 people, organized into a company, the leader is called the company commander, every ten people under the company are in a squad, thirty people are in a platoon, and the remaining ten people are called the company
The squad leader is directly subordinate to the squad leader. Squad leaders and platoon leaders are elected by the soldiers themselves.
The four company commanders were respectively Zamuhe, Anthony, Duncan, and a big man from Henan named Zhong Shouyong. Liu Ziguang also served as one company commander.
Most of the cavalry companies were Mongolians and Turks, who were horseback peoples. They were all skilled in bow and horse, and Zhamuhe was expected to be the company commander.
Most of the companies led by Anthony were Xixia people, and they were also a mixture of ethnic groups, including Uighurs, Dangxiangs, Romans, and Arabs.
Most of Duncan's company were prisoners of war from the South: Annamites, some sailors from the Zheng family in Fujian, Miao people from western Hunan, and some students from Taiwan and Java.
Most of Zhong Shouyong's men were from the Central Plains, and most of them were the backbone of the original Zheng army. After Zheng was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, they became prisoners of war. Many of them had practiced martial arts since childhood, and their kung fu was not weak.
The company under Liu Ziguang's personal supervision was also in chaos. There were some water bandits from Weishan Lake, postmen from the Shaanxi rebellion, prisoners of war from the Eight Banners of the Han Army in the Qing Dynasty, sailors from the Goryeo Kingdom, and Rakshasa from the Far North.
Chinese.
It’s really a regiment of ten thousand people. The common language in the camp is of course Chinese. The uniforms and armors are uniform. The infantry wears fish-scale armor and bowl helmets. The cavalry wears mountain pattern armor and shrimp-tail helmets with face protection. You can choose your personal weapons freely. These people are all
He is a veteran and has the weapons he is accustomed to using. Fortunately, the iron factory has everything he needs in the warehouse, including Western scimitars, maces, maces, flails, Western epees, and Japanese swords. Long weapons and long-range weapons are compulsorily unified, and cavalry
A ten-foot-long spear is used, equipped with a composite Mongolian short bow. Each infantry team is different, with long-handled swords, long axes, and extremely long hooks and sickles. Each person is equipped with a composite long bow.
Zhong Shouyong's chariot team has ten bicycle crossbows. Each crossbow is equipped with five crossbowmen, which are maneuvered by horse-drawn carriages. Each person is equipped with a self-defense Zhuge Liannu. In addition to the chariot crossbows, the chariot team is also responsible for the transportation of the entire army.
There are fifty carriages.
The company commanders and Liu Ziguang's personal Ma Bian are also equipped with a limited-edition protective weapon from the iron factory, a six-shot spring-force revolver. Although this weapon does not have strong penetrating power, it has a high rate of fire against enemies with weak armor.
, it is very lethal and very effective.
These equipments are expensive. As the employer, the iron factory can only provide part of the weapons on a voluntary basis. The extra crossbows, war horses, and equipment are all deducted from the 560,000 taels of silver owed to the dead camp.
The 20,000 taels of silver were distributed, but what about the remaining 560,000 taels? It turned out that the cunning old man Peng passed the triangular debt to Liu Ziguang. The Ministry of War owed the iron factory a million taels of weapons and expected Liu Ziguang to collect it. It turned out that
Yu Hualong was responsible for the sales work. Now that Yu Hualong has been imprisoned, Ding Pengyuan took advantage of the chaos and escaped. The task of evading the debt was left to Liu Ziguang. As long as he could get it back, in addition to the 560,000 taels owed, the other
I will also give Liu Ziguang a personal reward of 20,000 taels of silver. It sounds like a very tempting deal.
Isn't it just working as a debt collection agency? It's easy. Pay back debts and kill people to pay for their lives. It's a natural and natural law since ancient times. For the sake of the brothers and money, I did it!
Liu Ziguang took Ding Libin to the accounting room to get the account of the Ministry of War. He was followed by five men wearing soft armor and carrying wild goose feather knives. He now also serves as the chief minister of the accounting room. Several managers carefully accompanied him. Now General Liu
However, the factory owner's popular person is still his immediate boss and he can never afford to offend him. Originally, he did not need to come to collect the account books in person, but thinking that there was an old acquaintance in Zangjing Pavilion, Liu Ziguang came over in person. The assistant accountant was still the one who made things difficult.
When I passed Liu Ziguang's assistant manager, he saw a bunch of people coming. He crawled out early and stood with his head bowed obediently. Liu Ziguang was very familiar with the story of how he broke the chain horse, and he showed it off to others many times. My eyes were hit by General Liu.
Damn it, Liu Ziguang smiled and showed the assistant manager the warrant for transferring the account books personally signed by the factory owner. "Is it complete with signature, seal and so on? If it is not enough, I will make up for it on the spot."
The associate minister said with a sad face: "Prime Minister, please stop joking. In the past, it was Ren Dafeng who told me to make things difficult for the general. I have been convicted."
Of course Liu Ziguang will not embarrass the assistant again, he is not the kind of narrow-minded person.
There are ten account books and a box of receipts stamped by the Ministry of War, recording the quantity, specifications, and delivery time of the swords and guns, spears and halberds, crossbows, armor, arrows, bicycle crossbows, etc. sold to the Ministry of War.
, the time of receipt, the signature of the signer, and the warehousing receipt. The largest transaction was two hundred sets of steam repeating crossbows, together with the supporting steam engines and pipelines, and the total design and installation cost was 600,000 taels of silver.
Now that Liu Ziguang has become a general, of course he no longer has to deal with these boring data ledgers, so he asked the accounting office to pick two assistant managers who are proficient in the military department to follow them to deal with the entanglements in accounting. Ren Dafeng is still working in the accounting office, and the factory owner is kind.
They just confiscated his family property and demoted him to an apprenticeship, serving tea and water and cleaning for the masters in the accounting room.
Liu Ziguang politely said thank you to Ren Dafeng who was bringing tea. Looking at Ren Dafeng who was full of shame, he said: "It's good to know that you are wrong. Why don't you start from the grassroots level? You will have a bright future... I am optimistic about you."
"The words are high-sounding, but in fact, we also know that it is too difficult for Ren Dafeng to get ahead. Regardless of Ren Dafeng's ability, he can work as the account manager in any company. Keeping him here as an apprentice is a disguised punishment.
If you do something wrong, you always have to pay the price.
Fireworks in March.
The chief accountant of the iron factory, the deputy general of the iron guard, and the leader of the mercenary organization of the death camp, Mr. Liu Ziguang is going to Nanjing to collect millions of arrears. The people accompanying him include Duncan the black man, the follower Ding Libin, two assistant accountants, and
Twenty carefully selected soldiers from the death battalion served as followers. They brought with them original military contracts, account books, receipts and signatures, etc., as well as several large boxes of gifts for communication and management. They were all specialties of the iron factory and were of high quality.
Armor, sharp Bailian swords, and several tightly packed large brocade boxes, I don’t know what they are.
The eldest daughter, Peng Jinrong, was also accompanying her. According to the factory owner, the eldest daughter had several good sisters in the capital and was a little familiar with them in official circles. This time she went to Nanjing to help the factory purchase some goods, so she was on the same ship.
Go to.
The old man wanted to create opportunities for his daughter, Liu Ziguang thought maliciously, and felt very happy. His chest turned red and he vowed to ensure the safety of the eldest lady and at the same time, he promised to recover the debt in full.
Everyone took the train to the canal pier. The ironworks steamboat had already been lit. The ship was very big, twenty feet long from front to back and three feet wide.
, the hull has three floors, is luxuriously decorated, and the flag of the iron factory is flying on the bow. It is a canoe ship specially used by the iron factory to travel to the south of the Yangtze River. There is a huge paddle wheel on each side of the hull, driven by a steam engine. It is said that the speed is faster than ordinary sailing ships.
It was much faster. Coal and grain had been loaded onto the boat, and boatmen in blue shirts lined up on the pier to greet them.
Factory owner Peng personally led the team to see him off, and said polite words about immediate success. Liu Ziguang was surprised to find that Peng Jingwei was not in the send-off team. He heard that this little girl insisted on going to Nanjing with her sister and was scolded by the factory owner.
They all cried, maybe because they lost their temper, Liu Ziguang thought.
The factory owner was still talking to the eldest lady, and Liu Ziguang watched boxes after boxes of gifts being carried onto the boat by the servants, as well as a cage of carrier pigeons, which the servants said were used for communication.
Still using carrier pigeons? It’s the train era and there is no telegraph yet. It’s a bit unexpected. Who invented the telegraph? Dell? Bell? Morse? Liu Ziguang thought hard, I can study it. The communication power has been greatly enhanced.
Military mobilization and the communication of government orders have been greatly improved.
The future scientist's train of thought was interrupted, and Ma Bian reminded him that it was time to say goodbye and board the ship.
Liu Ziguang hurriedly came over to say goodbye to the factory owner and the brothers from the death camp. He said he would go back as soon as he said goodbye. The brothers would just wait for the money.
When he was about to board the ship, Liu Ziguang suddenly stopped and said to the factory owner Peng: "If you install the track on the wheels of the iron car, you will not be afraid of any complex terrain." After saying this, the confused old man Peng was left behind.
Got on board.
As we boarded the ship, the whistle blew and the paddle wheel rippled with water. The ship slowly left the pier and headed southwest. The eldest lady and several maids kept waving at the stern. Liu Ziguang was also very emotional. He finally left this place. It took nearly two years.
During the years of slave life, I went as far as Xuzhou. Now I can take a good look at the world, look at the south of the Yangtze River, look at the capital where tigers and dragons roost, look at the Qinhuai River, look at the Confucius Temple, Liu Ziguang standing on the boat
With my hair dazed, I was looking forward to the trip to Nanjing. The bow of the boat broke through the turquoise river water and moved forward quickly, while the stern raised large groups of white waves. This boat is really fast.
The ship was far away from the dock. Peng Jingrong walked over from the stern of the ship with a melancholy look on her face. It seemed that people in ancient times attached great importance to traveling far away. In ancient times, the distance of eight hundred miles was just two miles apart. In the 21st century, it is only a few hours' journey.
Peng Jinrong took the cloak from the maid's hand and put it on Liu Ziguang, and said softly: "It's windy on the boat, be careful if you get cold." She looked concerned.
This eldest girl cares about me so much. It seems that the shared adversity some time ago has established an immortal image in her heart. Well, I will take advantage of this journey to push the eldest lady down.
Of course Peng Jinrong didn't know about Liu Ziguang's dirty mentality. She just stood quietly with him and looked at the budding trees on both sides of the strait and the endless farmland.
What's there to see in the same fields? Liu Ziguang's sinful hand quietly reached out to Peng Jinrong's small waist...
"Okay, what are you doing hiding here secretly?" A delicate question came to mind behind his back, which frightened Liu Ziguang's hands to retract like lightning. The two of them looked back, and it turned out that it was the second lady Peng Jingwei, who was dressed as a sailor and was enjoying herself.