Chapter 44: The first battalion of soldiers demanded 180,000 taels of silver (1)

Next to the barracks in Wuzhai Fort, there is a military weapon bureau, which is specially placed on the armor, military uniforms and weapons of the Wuzhai Fort flag soldiers. Next to it is the Shenji Hangar and the Gunpowder Bureau, which specifically places firearms, gunpowder used by the soldiers.

Not far from the Military Weapon Bureau, there is the marshal camp where the military craftsman Liu Tianlu and Liu Zongqi led a group of military craftsmen to make weapons.

"Sir, please come inside."

After the morning military parade, Huang Laifu invited the officers from all over the hundred households to have lunch. After returning to Qianhu's house for a while, Huang Laifu led Jiang Dazhong and other servants to the Military Weapon Bureau. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapons.

Huang Laifu is now very concerned about how much wealth he has.

When Huang Ruzhen, the deputy envoy of the Military Weapon Bureau, heard the news, he led a group of minor officials to wait outside the door. Huang Ruzhen is forty years old this year and is a cautious person. Because he is a distant relative of the Huang family, he can take charge of such an important place.

When Huang Laifu arrived, he looked like he was doing business. Huang Ruzhen did not dare to neglect and knelt down at the door to greet him. Huang Laifu stopped his empty politeness and said straight to the point: "Director Huang doesn't need to be too polite. I came here to check the equipment in the warehouse.

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Huang Ruzhen responded respectfully and led Huang Laifu to check the military weapons bureau. Huang Laifu looked at the account book while checking Huang Ruzhen everywhere. After counting the family wealth, there were a total of weapons and equipment inside:

There is not a pair of armor, and there is not a single extra military uniform. But there are five pairs of arms and hands. There are fifteen flags on the back, fifty flagpoles, sixty bows in force, seventy bowstrings, and seven thousand five hundred arrows.

There are 200 knives, 300 spears, 15 harnesses, 20 coconut scoops, 24 xihong rain cages, and thirty-four xihong felt jackets.

In addition, there are rattan cards, movers, wolves, hooks and guns, iron-tip shoulder poles, and many big sticks. Saddle guards, bridles, belly belts, rolling belly, wooden trips. Grass chopping and tripping horse ropes.

Then I walked to the Shenji Hangar and Gunpowder Bureau next to me, there were 70 bird guns, 50 hand guns, 50 guards, 40 tin turtles, 20 rockets, and 50 arrow baskets. There were 10 oil covers and 20 fuses.

There are also medicine tubes, lead bags, guns, gunpowder, and gunpowder. There are several leads. The most valuable ones are a tiger squat cannon, equipped with a hammer, a cut, and a cone. One medicine box, one medicine lifts one, and two woods are given.

After all, these are all Huang Laifu's inventory.

Huang Laifu said unbelievably: "It's over? Is that just a little bit?" Apart from the weapons at hand of the flag soldiers, the only weapon in it can only barely update the flag soldiers in the fort. This is far from enough for Huang Laifu's long-term plan.

Huang Ruzhen thought Huang Laifu suspected that he was greedy, so he said in panic: "Sir, all the swords and equipment in the castle are here. My subordinates will never dare to deceive you."

Huang Laifu was stunned and laughed loudly, "Don't worry, I don't suspect you are corrupt. Okay, come with me and go to the craftsman camp to visit." Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu behind Huang Laifu also laughed.

Huang Ruzhen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled awkwardly.

Wuzhaibao Craft Camp!

I saw the jingling here, and the military craftsmen of Wuzhai Fort were working hard to do things, many of them were naked, revealing their strong muscles. Compared with the pale and thin faces at the beginning of the year, everyone has completely changed now.

Everyone rarely speaks. They are all concentrating on making waterwheel tools and other things in their hands.

Since Huang Laifu hired them last year, he has set up rewards and punishment measures. Now their treatment is related to their own work. Anyone who does not work hard will be punished. Those who are diligent will receive generous rewards.

In this way, everyone is desperately trying to work to get higher treatment.

Now they have made Huang Laifu water truck, Huang Laifu water truck, Huang Laifu hand press and other things, and they are all very familiar and flowing.

Moreover, the water trucks and other items they make are of extremely high quality, and tools that are not of high quality will never flow outside.

According to Huang Laifu's regulations, everything they made requires special people to check and test. Each water truck has the words "endorsed, at some time, in a certain year, in a certain season" on it. If there is a problem with quality, it is his personal compensation.

If there are many problems, this person is finished and it is impossible for him to stay in the craftsman camp anymore.

With the harvest of Wuzhai Fort in front of us, more and more civilians from Wuzhai Fort bought water trucks and other goods from Wuzhai Fort, these military craftsmen worked even more happily because they also had a commission for each water truck made.

The highest person actually gets two stones and five dou of monthly food every month.

Liu Tianlu and Liu General Qi were inspecting the water trucks and other items made by everyone, and stopped from time to time to guide someone.

During these times, Liu Tianlu and Liu Zongqi were full of spring breezes. Not only now, he is well-fed and well-doned, he no longer lives the hungry life he used to be, but also because of his outstanding work, he is often rewarded by the Thousand Houses. Now his thatched hut thatched hut that is about to fall has been newly renovated into a brick and tile house, becoming one of the newly rich people in Wuzhaibao.

Mr. Liu also knew that his good life now comes from Lord Huang Laifu, so he never dared to neglect Huang Laifu's instructions.

At this time, General Liu saw Huang Laifu coming to the craftsman camp accompanied by Huangru Town and several servants. He hurriedly greeted him and kowtowed to Huang Laifu respectfully: "I am welcome to you, Master."

Huang Laifu said quietly: "Get up."

Under the guidance of Liu Tianlu and General Banner, he inspected the entire craftsmanship workshop. Seeing that everyone was busy and busy, no one dared to speak or whisper, he was lazy and nodded in satisfaction.

However, this place was originally a place for making weapons, but now it has become a place for producing agricultural tools, which makes people feel a little weird.

He ordered Liu Zongqi: "Mr. Liu, there is one thing you want to start doing today."

Mr. Liu quickly hugged and clasped his fists respectfully and said, "My sir, I have instructions, and all my subordinates will follow you."

Huang Laifu said: "From today, I want you to divide the craftsman workshop into two parts, one is a civilian object such as a water truck, which is called the Wuzhai Fort Civil Arts Shop. The workshop location can be found in the fort. In this regard, you can go to Mr. Yang, who has money and grain, and he will cooperate with you.

One is the Wuzhai Fort Military Mailhouse, and the armor and weapons are restored. I plan to start today and start at least 3,000 knives, guns and other equipment from the beginning of June next year."

Speaking of this, Huang Laifu remembered something: "By the way, how much have you completed the military weapon quota for our Wuzhai Fort this year?"

According to the Ming Dynasty system, the military weapons bureaus of various garrisons in the world needed to produce some ordinary armor and bows and knives, and each had its own military weapons manufacturing quota every year. In the second year of Jingtai, it was stipulated that each garrison would need to build 160 military weapons every year, and each garrison would have forty gurus.

In the second year of Hongzhi, each of them was reduced by half and changed to eighty and twenty pairs.

The manufacturing quota for these military weapons must be submitted, and the Wuzhai Fort also needs to hand over twenty military weapons every year. Each military weapon contains: one helmet, armor, and a waist knife. One bow, two strings, and thirty arrows.

A pair of bags, five guns, and one spear.

These military weapons in each garrison are a heavy burden for some poor garrisons, because the materials and costs required for production must be handled by the military and guards. Only four years later, Zhengde issued an approval to give Xuanfu 200,000 kilograms of iron.

Twenty-two years later, the A-shaped library of the warehouse will support 150,000 kilograms of iron in each town every five years. However, the wards did not have such treatment, and all the money for these raw materials had to be paid by themselves.

Like the Wuzhai Fort in the past, every year when manufacturing these military weapons, a large number of cooked iron, buffalo skin, cotton rope, jute, cooked copper, fishing line glue, raw lacquer, tung oil and other items were needed. These were all not available in Wuzhai Fort, and they had to spend a lot of money to buy them every year.

In the past, Wuzhai Fort was not wealthy, so it would be even worse for buying and producing these military objects. However, this year Huang Laifu was the master of his family and his economy improved. The production of these military weapons was not worth mentioning for Huang Laifu. Now that I think of it, I just ask casually.

Mr. Liu said respectfully: "Sir, my subordinates have never dared to slack off on the matters in the fort. Now they have already caused 15 military weapons. There will be no problem with the solution to the military weapons at the end of the year."

Huang Laifu nodded.

Mr. Liu tentatively said: "Just just now, our Wuzhai Fort will build 3,000 swords and guns next year? I wonder why he wants to build so many military weapons?"

Huang Laifu sighed and said, "A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure. Now our Five Village Forts is about to have a great harvest. What should I do if such a good harvest is coveted by villains? We need to protect ourselves."

Mr. Liu and Huang Ruzhen, who was listening respectfully, suddenly realized and nodded, "My lord has high opinions, deep thoughts, and my subordinates admire him.

"Their interests are all connected with Huang Laifu. As Huang Laifu said, if a villain covets and the Wuzhaibao industry is taken away, they will definitely return to their previous life of eating braised vegetables.

This is something that everyone in Wuzhai Fort is unwilling to do, so whenever foreign enemies invade, in order to protect their current good life, everyone in Wuzhai Fort will definitely fight to the death.

Huang Laifu said: "We not only need to build swords and guns, but also armor. Our Wuzhai Fort has more than 1,000 flag troops, and we should have at least 1,000 pairs of armor."

At this time, there was a strange phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, that is, everyone has armor, and except for some officers, the infantry soldiers, including firearms, all have no armor. Even the Qi family army led by General Qi Jiguang before was the same.

But Huang Laifu believes that the lives of soldiers are precious. As long as his financial ability allows him, he does not mind spending more money to ensure the lives of soldiers.

Mr. Liu pondered: "According to what the adults said, the money, grain, iron and material needed will be a lot."
Chapter completed!