Chapter 7 Whoever loves and wants to go to this town of Qingshan
Money is a good thing. As soon as Lin Ziran left, Boss Wang and two craftsmen in the workshop got busy, and he was also preparing to temporarily recruit people to modify the muskets.
Lin Ziran naturally doesn't care about these things. As long as Boss Wang can change his smoothbore guns into rifled guns, and then come up with a mold that melts and suppresses mini bullets, Lin Ziran won't bother to care about what Boss Wang does.
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After finalizing the Mini rifle, Lin Ziran was in a great mood!
Yesterday evening, after initially deciding to stay in Qingshan Town for a long time, Lin Ziran was thinking about how to go in the future. Let's not talk about other things, but the Mini rifle must be built first.
The Mini rifle has an effective range of three to four hundred meters, while the effective range of a smoothbore gun, such as the Fuyuan Musket, is only a few dozen meters. It is basically useless if it exceeds a hundred meters.
With this thing, you will be more confident when encountering enemies later, especially when encountering officers and soldiers.
Lin Ziran was in a good mood, and even looking at Luo Mazi was not so annoying.
However, Lin Ziran was in a good mood, but Wang Jinquan was in a bad mood when he returned to the guard house.
Today, I originally wanted to send the bandit news to Lin Ziran's officers and soldiers, so that they could go and suppress the bandits as soon as possible, but looking at the posture of Lin Ziran and the others in the iron workshop today, it was obvious that they were going to stay for a long time.
what to do?
In the governor's mansion, Wang Jinquan, the fake governor, thought hard but couldn't come up with a good solution.
A group of subordinates also had sad faces. They obviously did not expect that those 'officers and soldiers' were so shameless and planned to stay in Qingshan Town for a long time.
A small soldier or bandit next to him said: "Boss, why don't we leave directly? We don't want this Qingshan Town anymore. If you stay with these officers and soldiers for a long time, you will be discovered sooner or later!"
But someone else said: "If we leave directly, our trip will be in vain. We originally managed to get more than two thousand yuan, but in the end, those officers and soldiers took away two thousand yuan!"
"Yes, even if you want to leave, you have to get the money before you leave. Let's work harder and get two or three thousand before we leave!"
"Although Qingshan Town is a bit small, there is still money to be made. The boss of the iron workshop, Mr. Wang, is said to be very rich. Let's go to him and make a fortune first?"
Wang Jinquan said: "You can't move at the iron workshop. Now the officers and soldiers are watching over it. Let's make a fortune in the name of the government and leave after we get it. Whoever likes to be treated in Qingshan Town will be left alone!"
Wang Jinquan and the others made a decision, and the people in the city were in bad luck. Not only the people in the town, but also the people outside the city were in bad luck again and again.
Wang Jinquan and the others talked about collecting autumn taxes in advance, and said that the army was short of money to suppress bandits and had to share the expenses. In addition, they were bandits to begin with, very ruthless, and had no regard for people's livelihood, so they made money very quickly.
Lin Ziran, who was nearby, had also heard about Wang Jinquan and the others, but this was a matter for the local government. Lin Ziran and the others were just 'officers' who were passing by to suppress the bandits. According to common sense, they had no control over the affairs of other people's garrison.
So Lin Ziran pretended not to see it, and he also thought that he would let them fish it first, and when he left, a yellow bird would come behind him and serve it directly from the pot.
Now Lin Ziran is more concerned about Mini rifles and recruiting people.
Lin Ziran and the others stayed in Qingshan Town, their main purpose was to use this place to develop and grow.
To put it simply, it is to make money to recruit soldiers and build guns.
The gun matter has already been taken care of.
As for the money and food, we already have a batch of them, and before leaving, Lin Ziran and the others will directly bring them to the governor's mansion, so there is no need to worry.
Naturally, these soldiers need to be recruited locally.
In the past few days after arriving in Qingshan Town, Lin Ziran pretended to send some of his men to wander outside, saying that they were looking for traces of bandits, but in fact they were on guard in nearby areas to prevent officers and soldiers from coming from other places.
At the same time, Lin Ziran also sent people to the countryside outside the city to recruit people!
The banner was naturally to recruit officers and soldiers for the Fifth Patrol Battalion. As for whether it was true or false, the country people didn't know.
Unfortunately, the recruitment effect was not very good. In three days, only about twenty people were recruited. This is not normal.
Although the population in the town is small, there is a large population in the surrounding villages. Moreover, this place is not a wealthy place. The options for farmers' children are limited. Serving as a soldier and earning food is still relatively attractive to many people, but
Why can't we recruit soldiers?
Lin Ziran personally went to a recruitment point outside the town and took a look, and suddenly became very angry!
Damn it, who set the recruitment standards?
Others are mentioned, but what about military pay? What about settlement allowance?
You don’t have a dime and you still want to recruit people?
He immediately said: "Who set the recruitment standards?
Seeing that Lin Ziran's expression was not very good, Luo Mazi, who was scolded every day, said carefully: "Sir, it was decided by Xiao Xiao, and it is all according to the old rules!"
Old rules?
Hearing this, Lin Ziran was speechless!
This group of people are bandits, and they are all bandits who join voluntarily. They are not paid on weekdays. They all eat from a big pot. They eat together when they have food, drink together when they have wine, and they starve together when they have nothing!
Nowadays, although they are holding the banner of the Fifth Patrol Battalion and recruiting people in the name of officers and soldiers, in fact, they are still recruiting bandits, and naturally they don't get the salary or anything like that.
The most important thing is that it doesn’t even include food and accommodation!
In this way, it will be difficult for them to recruit people. If they see that there is nothing, who will be stupid enough to work for you?
It's a pity that they don't have the money to pay salaries.
They could hardly afford to eat in the past few days.
The two thousand yuan obtained from Qingshan Town was already used by Lin Ziran to fund the renovation of guns, and the rest was used to purchase flash caps, lead bullets, and gunpowder.
So Lin Ziran, who originally wanted to get angry, endured it forcefully.
Finally, he whispered a few words to Luo Mazi!
Luo Mazi nodded frequently while listening. After listening, he went over and re-wrote Zhang's recruitment notice.
The requirements for the soldiers in this notice remain the same, which are nothing more than physical fitness and so on. In terms of remuneration, ten kilograms of grain will be given as a settlement allowance, and a monthly salary of eight yuan will be provided.
But what is not written is that from these eight yuan, food expenses, bedding expenses, various expenses, and other equipment expenses will also be deducted. After deducting these 7,788 yuan, there is probably not much left.
In fact, when Lin Ziran and the others ate and drank together before, the expenses for each person in a month were almost the same, and sometimes even exceeded this amount.
Therefore, Lin Ziran just changed the method, but the essence is still the same!
But with a slight change like this, the effect came out immediately.
As soon as he heard about the pay, many children from poor families came over and said they wanted to join the army, which Lin Ziran did not expect.
What he didn't know was that Wang Jinquan helped him a lot in this matter. Wang Jinquan made money in the name of early tax collection, apportionment, etc., which not only caused great harm to the people in the town, but also caused great harm to the surrounding people.
The villages are also extremely miserable due to disaster.
As a result, there will be more children from poor families who do not have enough to eat.
After nearly ten days, they actually recruited nearly 200 people. Basically, they recruited almost all the people nearby who met the conditions and were willing to serve as soldiers and feed themselves.
"Okay!" Lin Ziran felt happy when he saw the final recruitment results!
In today's troubled times, having soldiers and guns is the way to go. With the addition of these two hundred people, he has nearly 350 people under his command. Although there are still a few guns, there are dozens of them in the official warehouse in Qingshan Town.
The spare old guns were also taken away by Lin Ziran, making up a total of two hundred guns.
Good things come in pairs. Lin Ziran recruited someone here. Boss Wang from the iron workshop also came over and said that the first batch of guns had already been rifled, and he also brought the molds for the bullets.