Chapter 22: Tortoise Shell Player Li Bin
"Lao Zhang, how are you doing these days?"
"Ah, young master, you are here! The situation is good, the progress has exceeded. They were still asking yesterday why they didn't see the young master!"
"Haha, they want to settle the first phase of the project payment!"
"Look at them, they have this idea!"
"It's okay, please inform them all to come over, remember Lao Sun also called him over!"
The 12 foremen who dug trenches and Lao Sun squeezed in front of Li Bin. Li Bin smiled: "Don't squeeze so tightly, you have enough money, everyone has a share! I'll say a few words before sending the money!"
"I have seen everyone's progress. It's really good. Everything is arranged very well. Today, we are here to bring you money, and second, we have a new project to hand it over to everyone! I originally planned to prepare everyone to complete the work before starting, but now I have enough money, so I need to find more people to speed up, otherwise you won't have to drink the soup!"
A group of foremen applauded below: "Don't worry, young master, there are many people."
"I'm relieved to say this! Now each of you has only brought about 100 people. If you want to recruit another 200 more, I promise you will go from the beginning of the year to the end of the year!"
After saying that, he hung the drawings he brought on Lao Zhang's ox carport: "Look, this is the farm I will ask you to build next! The budget is 30,000 taels, and the moat and rammed earth walls in the outermost circle will be done by your team. Master Sun from the blue brick house inside will lead people to do it!"
The picture drawn by Li Bin shocked a group of foremen: "Young master, why do your farmhouse have to build so many corners to stretch out?"
"Oh, that's why I can see the scenery on it!"
Is this human being? He built a octagonal castle and actually fooled the foreman to see the scenery!
Li Bin's picture is crazy to design! A octagonal prism with an inner circle diameter of 80 meters has an available area of about 5,000 square meters. Li Bin's future residence and laboratory, modern tools will be placed here, so it is necessary to be more solid!
There is no condition now, so I can only use rammed earth to make it six meters high. He deliberately left a little wider the gap between the city wall and the moat. The two meters left were he planned to be able to make cement by then, and directly wrapped the rammed earth wall with two meters thick concrete and then increased it to 15 meters.
He really made this happen. Not to mention 1639, even in 1900, there was no way to get such a castle!
Sure enough, every modern person is afraid of death!
And this is just his first phase of the project. His plan is to build three circles like this! A wall and a river will expand outward until it is completed!
The outer circle is surrounded by laborers and the middle circle is the management, and the innermost part is his safe!
What you have taken out now is the temporary plan for the innermost circle!
After listening to Li Bin's explanation, the foremen below were all excited! They all knew how big this project was!
Mr. Li asked them to recruit 300 people!
Today is the second day of the second month. Li Bin’s request is to complete the exterior wall and moat on April 15th!
It is convenient to mix the soil dug from the moat with reeds and rammed earth, but it is completely free of charge!
The houses inside must be repaired first at the same time, where they want to live now! Let’s slowly get the rest behind them.
Li Bin was also angry: Isn’t it just money?
The location is in the middle of his current territory. The size of this land is only three kilometers in radius. In the future, it will be a residential area. If it expands, it will be a factory to move out of the factory!
I discussed it with the foreman, explained the drawings clearly to them, and then signed a contract to pay the money! I was busy until dark before I got home!
Wang Han hasn't come back yet, and the intelligence work is not urgent. If you don't know, you will die!
Li Bin continued to tinker with his strange things that no one could understand!
The mirror business has just been negotiated for a few days, and the next delivery will be calculated from the first day of March! No one is disturbing now. It seems that the speed of the Zhenbao Pavilion is in the normal range in the Ming Dynasty!
Li Bin is now thinking about what method to use, Peng Yongde is in control, so that he can have a layer of skin beyond the juren!
With this skin, you can start a new business of private salt! Silver and gold are not rolling in!
Two days later, just as the sky got dark, Wang Han came back: "Young Master, I've found out clearly!"
"Thank you for your hard work, drink water and eat first, let's talk about it later!"
Wang Han not only found out about Peng Yongde's range of activities, but also drew a simple picture of Peng Yongde's yard, and tried his best to make the information detailed!
"I have changed my mind now. We must secretly get Peng Yongde out and not kill him directly!"
"Young Master, this is too difficult! He has three sons, two of whom are already adults! There are fifteen people guarding the yard at night, four wives and concubines, and no less than twenty maids and servants, so it is hard to fix it!"
"He usually likes to stay in those places?"
"There is no place to go around this place. He usually supervises the military households to make salt in the office, and he will stay at home! He will go to Songjiang for two nights around 15 a month, but at that time he brought at least twenty people, and he took a boat, so there was no chance on the way!"
"Well, the people I brought here must be by his side at night, and Songjiang is the city of the city, so the noise is too big. It seems that we can only do it on the road!"
There are only five people in total now. Although he is confident that he will hide by the river and shoot Peng Yongde to death, the dead Peng Yongde is of no value to him.
It is a bit difficult for five people to wipe out more than 20 people! It will be less perfect if you run away from a plan afterwards!
My head is so covered with lard! Li Bin slapped his forehead hard!
Are you a person who is a conspiracy? If you have to use your own shortcomings to compete with others, you may not die quickly enough!
What are your own advantages? Weapons, equipment and tactics that exceed the other party’s imagination! IQ is not necessarily bad when I play conspiracies and tricks to compete with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Just look at Peng Yongde who found out that he was a fat sheep and took action resolutely. After discovering that things should not be done, he immediately spread rumors and made a comeback! He could do a prosperous private salt business, and that one thing shows that the other party is not a simple person!
If such a person deceives him into it entirely through conspiracy, he will definitely not be convinced. Only by showing his strength to him and making him convinced can he be devoted!
When Li Bin thought of this, he suddenly realized his whole body!
Yes, you can play any conspiracy and tricks, and what tricks to play with people! You must learn to be strong by your own advantages, rather than being pulled to the same level as the indigenous people of the Ming Dynasty, and then be defeated by them with the rich experience they have on this level!
"We have ten days left. We will be ready for the past ten days. Then we will do this on his way to Songjiang!"
Wang Han: "But young master, there are at least twenty or thirty people when he goes out. It's probably not enough to rely on the five of us, otherwise we will call He Yinnian and the others back!"
"What? Are you scared?"
"How could it be? We have a bad life! We just worry that the young man is so delicate and expensive, so there is no need to fight against such a warrior!"
"You will know if you are fighting hard. You will be able to go to Songjiang Mansion tomorrow and buy six samurai swords. You should also have a weapon. You always have bare hands and punches. Others think you are servants. Go back and give two more hands to the construction site! Let Lao He and the others be careful at the construction site. If Peng Yongde asks trouble at the construction site, they will protect Butler Zhang and leave!"
"Yes, young master!"
But there seems to be something else in this "Young Master"!
It was February 14 in the blink of an eye. Early in the morning, Li Bin arranged for Long Changsheng to buy twenty kilograms of candy and forty porcelain bottles for wine. Even the barrel of gasoline that Li Bin had left, he took the tent to walk to the construction site in Pudong!
When he arrived at the construction site, he arranged for Wang Han to lie by the river and watch the movements on the other side with a telescope, and he inspected the entire construction site!
Money has never reduced its power throughout history!
The price of working with Li Bin is high, and the payment is easy. No one dares to do things without any care! He is eager to continue working with Li Bin for a long time, so he will have no worries about food and drink!
"How is it? Is there any movement?"
In ancient times, it was very troublesome for people to go out. Such officials and gentry were more particular, not to mention having to spend the night!
Even if you are not far away, you have to prepare a lot of things, and you can't stop enjoying it for a moment!
"Are they the two small boats opposite?"
"It should be, it's a passenger ship at first glance! The docks opposite are all ships that pull cargo to stop!"
Both ships are not big, only about ten meters long. Sanzaogang is a small river, and a boat that is too big cannot enter, so the pedestrian has to take two boats in a separate row!
"Look at it a little bit, if he leaves early, it will be another trouble!"
Li Bin and his group were at the construction site until dark, and Wang Han also confirmed that the opposite side should set off tomorrow morning!
Li Bin and the others were not delaying, and slowly carried the things brought from the ox cart and walked upstream!
After walking for four or five miles, Li Bin saw that there was a flat ground around him, with only a few sparse reeds swaying slightly, and they could not hide people at all.
"Just here, set up the tent first, everyone will take turns to watch at night, and everyone will squeeze in!"
"Young Master, there is no one hidden here!"
"What I want is that I can't hide people, otherwise twenty or thirty people would run around and catch them like this!"
Wang Han and others didn’t know where Li Bin came from, but Li Bin made the decision, and there was nothing they could do if they didn’t listen to them after reminding him!
Seeing that they set up a tent, Li Bin was not idle either, so he poured the sugar he brought into the gasoline barrel and shook it vigorously!
I shook my hand and felt soft. I opened the lid and saw that the gasoline had become sticky. Then I directed them to pour this thing into porcelain bottles and stuff it tightly with a cloth strip on the bottle! Even if the simple version of the molten bottle is ready! I pour some gasoline on the cloth strip tomorrow morning, light the fire and throw it out to burn two small wooden boats as if it were fun!
It was still dawn in February, and Li Bin was too lazy to get up too early, so he went to bed until six o'clock!
I took the telescope from Wang Han's hand and looked at it. There was no movement on the dock that belonged to the garrison in the distance.
Turning around and asking them to mow the grass and cover up the tent! Then they started to weave auspicious clothes with straw!
Li Bin's craftsmanship can only be said to be terrible, but this thing is just one-time, as long as it is hung on it like a pile of grass!
All five of them were covered with grass on their bodies and lay down!
The four guards grabbed the samurai sword in their hands, but Li Bin fiddled with the awm sniper rifle in their hands!
"Remember, no one is allowed to move if I didn't shout. If I shout, I lit the cloth on the bottle and smashed it on the boat where the soldier was sitting! Don't smash it on Peng Yongde's boat. If it burns it to death, we will be in vain! Do you understand?"
"clear!"
Chapter completed!