Chapter Thirty Thousands of Threads
"Old Peng, what's going on?"
After waiting for more than half an hour, he confirmed that the pirates had dispersed and then took Long Changsheng to find Peng Yongde who was still standing on the wall of the village!
At this time, the sky began to light up. Peng Yongde saw that it was Li Bin, so he quickly asked someone to open the village door and walked out: "The business was too hot during this period, and he was targeted by the pirates!"
"Do you know it's that pirate?"
"It's not clear yet. I'll ask someone to come out to clean it while it's dawn to see if I can recognize it!"
Afterwards, more than 200 pirates were killed or injured, and more than 40 were killed and more than 30 were injured!
After cleaning the battlefield, Peng Yongde discovered the body of Huang Xiuyan, the pirate leader of an acquaintance, on the Zhoushan Islands!
"Damn it, I've helped him deliver a few returns before, but the damn thing actually caught me!"
"Normal, they are pirates after all. Now that they have lost their lives here, you should be content!"
"Besides, your soldiers are not good. There are so many casualties and injuries against the wall. I'm not by the side, I'm afraid I've been attacked by others! I'll recruit more people to practice hard when I make money now. There will definitely be more than one person who will be jealous in the future!"
"Young Master said, I'm going to expand to four hundred people! Can your musket be sold to me a little?"
"It's not possible now. That kind of musket is worth tens of thousands of yuan and can't be bought at all. I'll get you some good things in a few days! But you have to send someone to help me find some blacksmiths and carpenters! You need good skills!"
"Okay, okay, I'll send someone to find it now!"
Say goodbye to Peng Yongde and go back to his inner castle. Everyone was suppressing their lives and finally didn't explode!
Now that I have already gotten up, I stand on the city wall and look here!
"It's okay. The Pirate Guards have been driven away. Do whatever you should do!"
"Yun Lan, come here!"
"Young Master, what's the matter with me?"
"How much money do we have in our account?"
"When I took over, I had 130,000 taels together. This month I spent 37,000 taels on the work and materials outside, and less than 3,000 taels of living expenses and shopping items. Then Peng Qianhu sent 10,000 taels! There are still about 100,000 taels in the account now!"
"Okay, I get it!"
It’s so difficult to build a foundation from a deserted place!
Now it is only a carefree and easy-to-use inner castle wall. It is still a long way to go to complete the city wall of the middle castle!
The plan for Zhongbao is to the west of the military camp, to the east, to the north, to the residential area, and to the south is to the industrial area!
Now the military camp and residential area are only in the same shape, and the industrial area has not yet appeared!
This is the result of urging Lao Sun to speed up the progress every day! The person who Lao Sun sent out to buy bricks has already arrived in Yangzhou!
Underdeveloped productivity means scarce output, and you can’t buy much by temporary purchases!
Now his purchases are basically based on Peng Yongde, and he asked the ship who bought salt to bring cloth, grain, coal, pig iron, pyrite and other raw materials when it comes! Pay directly with salt here!
In fact, the biggest problem is that there are too few people who can read, so I add Guo Shaoan and his wife!
If you let illiterate workers operate and manufacture sulfuric acid, something will happen every day! Who dares to go there for a few days?
Let’s bear it first, the possibility of the enemy sending a large army to attack is not high for the time being!
The inner castle wall is six meters high, which is already at the level of the county town. There is a flat land around it, and a large army will be discovered if it attacks a few miles away. Moreover, Wang Han is also monitoring the news around him!
After breakfast, I continued to teach the Secretariat!
These women have a foundation and make rapid progress! And after a long time, I know that Li Bin really doesn’t seem to be greedy for their bodies, but just likes them to be able to read! He really wants to use them to do things!
If the brothel girl did not find a good home when she was young, they knew what would happen in their hearts. Now that they could eat and sleep peacefully, they would all be at ease!
Although the twenty people in the Logistics Department have not made such rapid progress, they have no foundation after all, but the most of them have already known hundreds of words. As long as they start, they will get faster and faster!
Li Bin’s headache was that these guards were asking them to read and kill them! Only Long Changsheng and Wang Han were studying hard, and the others laughed foolishly as soon as they were studying, and then said: “Just let the young master give instructions to you. Whatever the young master said, we will do what we do. If you can’t do big things, follow the young master!”
Li Bin looked at these guys who were not motivated and had no choice but to do anything!
When they get up early and exercise, they can see that they move quickly and move freely, and they don’t look like idiots!
Once they are literate, they are possessed by Zhu Bajie! Li Bin is helpless, maybe everyone has different talents!
While waiting, the fifty Yiwu youths brought back by Guo Shaoan. Originally, Li Bin told them to take their family with him, but he might be doubtful that he could get a high salary of 40 taels a month as a guard, so none of them brought their family with him.
Li Bin understood the reason and expressed his understanding, and arranged for them to settle in the military camp first!
There is a separate canteen in the military camp, so they let them take turns to cook! These people have good qualities, but in Li Bin's opinion, the nutrition is not enough, so they can raise it for a few days before Wang Han recruits it from Huaibei.
Let’s talk about the refugees when they come back!
Peng Yongde had just sent more than 20 blacksmiths and carpenters, and Wang Han also brought people back!
The people who came later were all refugees, who were with their families. Li Bin worked for three consecutive days before he settled all these people!
The craftsmen were arranged in the residential area of Zhongbao, with one room for each household! The refugee family members also had one room for each household, and they were given rations for a month first! The logistics department asked the women of them to start making military uniforms!
It’s summer now, and military uniforms are short-sleeved and extended trousers. Get money according to the output! The remaining half of the boys are allocated to craftsmen as apprentices, the blacksmith begins to refine pig iron, and the carpenter starts to make butt stocks!
The drawings are all ready-made. Li Bin got the detailed drawings of Sharps' rear-loading gun from the outside network, and it was a version of the later use of metal fixed-loading bullets!
All fifty males were stuffed into the military camp!
There are now a hundred people in the military camp!
Of course, Li Bin didn't dare to start to tormenting them directly! Besides, he had to observe, so he divided the dormitory for them, broke up all 10 people a room, and then scraped them into a big bald head!
It was a bit resistant, but Li Bin told them that they either shaved their heads or left, and they did not have the fierce reaction they thought!
Yes, those who can come out as guards and those who become refugees are too poor to survive. They don’t have many choices between hair and the life of the whole family!
Of course, he couldn't be idle after shaving his head, so Li Bin started teaching them.
They are all young people aged 18 to 25, so it is not difficult to teach.
"You have been here for half a month. You have been here. You are very good at food and drink every day to keep you healthy. The guards in my village don't have to waste! The training is very hard afterwards. If there are those who can't endure hardships, stand up now and I will send you to the workshop as an apprentice. I can get one tael of silver every month and get some coarse grains to fill your stomach! In the guards, four taels of silver a month, three meals a day, and two meals with meat! All clothes are covered. I will treat them if they are injured or sick, I will raise them if they are disabled, and I will give them one hundred taels of pensions if they are dead! Now everyone chooses it themselves!"
The fool just quit! How good is eating? Ordinary landlords don’t have this kind of life! They sit in the cafeteria and listen to classes every day!
The people below are not stupid, at least they look good in front of you!
"Since I don't want to withdraw, I can't go back on my word. Otherwise, the military law will deal with it! Now, follow my orders and the people in the same dormitory stand in the same circle!"
Although these 100 people didn't know what he was going to do, they still stood in the circle obediently!
On the playground, Long Changsheng had already drawn ten large circles with lime, just one in the dormitory!
"Now you choose one squad leader for every ten of you, and the squad leader will be 6 taels of silver per month!"
"Young Master, how to choose?"
Someone is shouting below!
Li Bin winked at Long Changsheng. The latter was now a loyal dog. He rushed up and put the two sticks he was calling: "Young master is not allowed to interrupt when speaking, and report to him if you want to speak!"
"It's very simple. This squad leader will grab it by himself! Whoever stands at the end is the squad leader, and it doesn't count if you are out of the circle! Now!"
Li Bin has never led a soldier, but he subconsciously thought that he was ignorant of a group of refugees who could not read a word, not to mention that everyone did not understand each other and did not have prestige. The simplest and fastest way is to pick out the most fierce one.
Haven’t you seen that the army’s training has been relying on sticks and leather boots until World War I? How can there be no fierce grassroots officer to ensure that the army can rush forward in the rain of bullets?
The people below were confused. What kind of routine is this? But I really understand how to get six taels in a month when I became a squad leader!
Some of the quick-reacting eyes were already murderous intent!
The people Li Bin looked for were originally tough people. Within a minute, there were already roars on the court! But it lasted for more than ten minutes before it calmed down!
Li Bin and Long Changsheng were nothing, but they scared the two beautiful girls from the Secretariat who had called these people to register and their faces were pale and trembled!
This is a ruleless group of Europeans, and even the image of the winner is not much better! Each of them is crooked and ragged!
This is busy registering, and there is a doctor who was coerced and tempted by Wang Han from Songjiang Prefecture to distribute medicine to treat it!
Everyone was bare-handed and empty-handed. Except for some who had lost their big teeth, the rest were all injured in a little flesh, so it didn't matter!
Li Bin did this and let these people know that the boss is a ruthless person, and he must hide it first if he has some minor thoughts!
Did you clean up everyone without seeing your hands?
"Hiss, I said, "The fourth brother, you can really do it, you're beaten me today!"
"Call the squad leader!"
"You kid is still shaking. Today, you can win by hammering me around me?"
"Don't convince? Why don't we go to the young master's place to compete?"
"I dare not! Mr. Li looked at a white scholar who was so innocent that he came up with such a vicious plan?"
"Study talents are so vicious, please be more at ease. A few days ago, you were dispersed in the dormitory just after you pulled a group of people! Our Young Master Li doesn't look like a fool!"
"As long as I can pay my monthly salary on time and deduct a little less, I, Fan Gouzi, will be the young master's dog!"
Chapter completed!