"You are living in poverty. How can you support such a large expenditure all at once?"
Seeing the leading engineer leaving, Zhao Ting'er couldn't help but reach out and touch Han Qian's forehead to see if he was talking nonsense.
Zhao Ting'er can now be said to have the best knowledge of the income and expenditure of Zuosi's general accounting room, workshop, warehouse, as well as the inspection room, barracks and other expenses.
At present, the military government in the camp gives the craftsmen 1,200 shi of rice every month. Although it can cover the wages of the laborers hired by the craftsmen, the military government takes away 40,000 city bricks and 160,000 small green bricks every month.
Bricks, 2,000 loads of lime, and 600 loads of charcoal, which account for almost 80% of the monthly output of the workshop. However, the additional shipments that the workshop can transport for external sales each month are only 1,600 loads of lime and 400 loads of charcoal.
If you buy a car, you can save about 150,000 yuan.
The trade route between Xuzhou and Jinling has also been opened up. As long as we don't suffer big losses, we should be able to save a lot every month.
In addition, the largest income is the three million yuan allowed by the military government for public use every year.
However, these may not be able to cover Zuosi's increasing expenses.
In addition to maintaining Zuo Si's current scouting system, maintaining the boat gang and rebuilding Yangtan Water Village requires money and food, and secretly supporting Feng Xuan and redeeming the Xi clan requires money.
In fact, Zhao Ting'er not only did not preside over the expansion of labor in the workshop, but also thought that this time he could reduce the labor in the workshop.
The main reason why the scale of the craftsman's labor force is so huge is that the craftsmanship has been under constant construction and expansion for more than a year.
Not to mention lime kilns, brick kilns, and warehouses, houses and roads are constantly being built inside the villa. Even considering the increase in residents, sewage canals and seepage wells are being dug.
Excavation of coal tunnels, construction of access roads along streams to coal mines and quarries, etc., all consume a lot of manpower.
At present, whether it is the villa, the workshop, or the warehouse, it has been completed to a large scale. The next step is to maintain normal operations. Then the additional manpower hired previously due to large-scale construction should naturally be laid off.
Zhao Ting'er estimated that if the number of workers in the workshop could be reduced to about 600, the workshop's surplus would be considerable, and Zuo Si would be able to operate smoothly.
Now, the increase is equivalent to recruiting nearly 300 more people. In addition, all the craftsmen need to be subsidized with an extra lunch, and they have to bear the additional cost of food and accommodation for more than 300 Zuosi disciples.
What's the difference between them?
Han Qian grabbed Zhao Ting'er's little hand and said, "We are not thinking about money and food now. I can't wait for them to dismantle Zuo Si's pretensions before showing them any shame!" He then said to Zhao Wuji, "You have been with me the longest.
, I should also give you something to do."
"..." Zhao Wuji always nodded in silence.
"You choose five or six agile and reliable people to lead and specialize in the art of endurance!" Han Qian said, "And the so-called reliability of these five or six people means that they can only be used by me in the camp.
There must be no ties at all!"
"Yes!" Zhao Wuji said without hesitation. After that, he stood up and left, starting to do what Han Qian arranged.
The shock in Xi Rong's heart did not subside. She didn't know whether Han Qian wanted Zhao Wuji to lead a group of assassins, a group of dead soldiers, or both?
At the same time, Xi Rong was also curious and didn't know what the method of patience that Han Qian talked about was.
Han Qian seemed to be able to see Xi Yong's doubts. He took out a dozen pages from the stack of manuscripts in front of the case and handed them to her, saying: "Are you curious about the art of forbearance? You can take a look at this. Maybe
You'll need it soon."
Xi Rong took over a dozen pages of paper with confusion, but after looking at it carefully, she wanted to throw away the dozen pages of paper, as if these ten pages of paper were a ball of flames, burning her hands, stared at Han Qian, and said sternly: "
I, a descendant of the Xi family, will not become a bloody blade in your hands."
"You will accept it," Han Qian said, "The reason why anyone can exist must be valuable - even if your Xi family members are gathered together, the total number of men, women, old and young may be less than 2,000. It seems that Feng
Changyu directly dismembered the Xi family, but if the Xi family is really reunited as a clan, can the three surnames of Xiang Xiyang feel at ease? People like you, the Xi family, are all old and weak people who have been tortured and squeezed dry.
How can a disabled person, in the middle of Wushan and Wushui, establish a clan? I am teaching you the foundation for the Xi family to establish a clan, and then in the process, I ask for a small reward from the Xi family. Why are you so nervous? Is it difficult?
Isn't it possible that the great good thing you think is so great can be accomplished without sacrificing flesh and blood?"
After compiling "Yongjian Pian Commentary", Han Qian did not feel that this was enough.
Hundreds of years later, the island nation across the sea also fell into a chaotic era of warlord rule. Due to the need for intelligence collection, Ninjutsu was developed on the basis of fighting skills and combined with the tactical warfare ideas contained in Confucius' Art of War.
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Of course Han Qian didn't know what the specific content of ninjutsu included, but he had the basis for writing the "Yongjian Chapter Commentary" and summarized the current methods of lurking, scouting, reconnaissance and assassination, as well as the early training methods for family soldiers.
In the past few months, I have written more than a dozen pages of content in addition to the Commentary on Yongjian Pian.
Han Qian calls it the method of patience.
Of course, Han Qian did not have time to assemble a group of children with potential for rigorous training, and there were very few young people aged fourteen or fifteen who met the conditions. It was only an emergency to let Zhao Wuji choose five or six people, but the children of the Xi family experienced genocide.
After the disaster, he was later sold to southern Hunan and became a slave in central Guizhou. His young mind was actually the most suitable for the method of endurance and could be quickly trained.
Xi Rong's character is much more open at this time, but when she was a girl, she served Feng Changyu, how forbearing was she?
On the basis of the fighting and fencing skills she had learned in her childhood, she had been practicing hard over the years without the knowledge of the Feng clan, and it had developed in strange directions. Even though she wore silver rings and bells on her feet, she could still walk silently.
Therefore, when she took a closer look at the dozens of pages, she immediately guessed Han Qian's intentions, and intuitively felt that the dozens of pages were burning her hands like flames.
Han Qian was not worried that Xi Rong would reject his arrangement.
"You are a devil." Even though Xi Rong guessed that Han Qian would most likely ask Feng Xuan to select a young boy from the Xi family who was suitable for specializing in the art of forbearance, she still resisted throwing the dozen pages of paper at Han Qian in the end.
face.
"Ting'er, have I ever said that I am a good person?" Han Qian asked Zhao Ting'er with a smile.
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The next day, the third prince Yang Yuanpu also came to the camp military mansion as often as he left the city the next day.
However, this time Yang Yuanpu got up early and did not stay in the military office for long. Surrounded by the guard camp, he went directly into the Qiuhu Mountain Villa to see Han Qian.
Everyone has a lot of things to do, so the three people who can always accompany Yang Yuanpu are Chen De, Chai Jian, and Li Chong - this is also the responsibility of the three of them.
Even though Guo Rong is the supervisor of the army, he will not come over easily to avoid being blocked by both parties.
Han Qian had just gotten up and practiced boxing twice. He was having breakfast with salted duck eggs in the yard. He glanced at Chai Jian and Li Chong, stood up and greeted Yang Yuanpu and said, "Have you had breakfast, Your Highness? Come and try the villa's secret salty duck eggs."
Duck eggs…”
Zhai Xinping is a foodie. He has forgotten most of the mathematical formulas, but he remembers the words about pickled duck eggs in "Tiao Ding Ji": "Weigh two pounds of salt for every hundred eggs, add a little water, and soak them in well water first."
Leave the eggs overnight, add distiller's grains or bacon to the salt and grass ashes to make them fatter, mash them evenly in a stone mortar, and then mix them with wine and marinade to make a paste. The eggs should be erect, with the big end facing up..."
It looks like a simple salted duck egg, but when it comes from the villa, it has green shells, butter, and a faint aroma of wine.
Yang Yuanpu sat down, ate all eight salty duck eggs in one go, and shouted: "Master Han, you should really help train the cooks in my house."
"If Your Highness likes it, I will ask Zhao Ting'er to copy the recipe and take it back to Your Highness." Han Qian said with a smile.
"When I came to the villa, I saw many young people walking this way. What did Master Han want to do?" Yang Yuanpu asked.
"Master Zhou transferred 200 people from the workshop. The villa is now in urgent need of manpower. And I think about Zuosi's 200 people serving His Highness, but their children are poor and helpless, without food and clothing. My abilities are limited.
We can't help everyone in the army to have enough food and clothing. We can only gather all the disciples of Zuo Si's age, and Zuo Si will provide them with food and accommodation, and then let them learn to work in the craftsman's workshop." Han Qian looked at Chai Jian, Li
He glanced at it and said, "I thought Master Chai already knew about this and explained it to His Highness."
Chai Jian was slightly startled. Of course he already knew about this last night, but everyone firmly believed that Han Qian could not maintain such a big situation and decided to wait and see what would happen.
"Okay!" No matter what others think, Yang Yuanpu naturally supports Han Qian's decision.
Yang Yuanpu supported Han Qian's plan to establish Secret Cao Zuosi because he did not want the power of the Longque Army to be controlled by people from the Xinchang Houfu. He even promised to allocate an additional three million yuan to Zuosi every year for expenses.
Yang Yuanpu allocated additional funds from the private treasury of Linjiang Marquis Mansion and from the rewards he received from the palace during festivals and festivals.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these measures taken by Han Qian are to strengthen the cohesion and control within Zuosi. Yang Yuanpu also has such a vision now, so how can he not support it?
Of course, whether Yang Yuanpu is following Shen Yang's lectures these days or the ideas instilled in him by Han Qian, the core is the word "money and food". At this time, he is just worried about whether Zuo Si can support the growing and numerous
of expenses.
Han Qian seemed to have no worries at all, and regardless of what Chen De, Chai Jian, Li Chong and others who accompanied him thought, he invited Yang Yuanpu to visit the operation of the workshop...