Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 191

The next day, Luan Tingyu hurried back to Sunjiazhuang in person, and came to the Supervisory Committee to report the situation as soon as he got off his horse.

There is no updated news, but Luan Tingyu took the initiative to say that Zong Ze went to his first battalion to meet him yesterday, and inspected their farmers and soldiers:
Zong Ze repeatedly asked him how he won such a big victory, and praised him extraordinarily.

Luan Tingyu paused for the word "extra", which meant that Zong Ze obviously had the idea of ​​wooing him, and wanted to ask Sun Xin in front of everyone in the supervisory committee how he should deal with it.

It is not surprising that Luan Tingyu came back to report these situations on his own initiative. The peasants and soldiers in Sunjiazhuang are all real good family members. They all have at least five acres of self-cultivated land in the village, and their annual income can exceed six taels of silver. This is Sun Xin. The new greatest confidence.

No matter how much Zong Ze tried to win him over, Luan Tingyu would not have any intention of betraying him, because the ownership of this team was not in his hands at all, he was just a commander.

Not to mention that Luan Tingyu himself was not such a perfidious person, even if he really wanted to take soldiers to join Zongze, these peasants and soldiers would not abandon their homes and careers to join the army with him.

In the past few years, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty have followed Zhao Guanjia and Cai Jing's wonderful policy of "sealing their salaries to prepare for offerings". Use it to make art for Zhao Guan's family. A group of veterans are almost like beggars. Except for criminals, who would take the initiative to be a soldier of the Song Dynasty?

According to Luan Tingyu, now Zongze is obviously surprised by the fighting power of his team, and wants to eat his own weapons.

Sun Xin smiled slightly, "Wait for Zong Tong to be judged by Zhuangzi first."

Zong Ze came on the second day of the meeting. It was completely different from the last time he came to inspect the Sun Family Village and prepared in advance. This time, the General Judge came in a hurry, but Sun Xincheng was the one who was favored by him.

Sun Xin set up an incense table in front of Zhuangzi's gate, and welcomed Zong Tongpan into Zhuangzi in a splendid manner.

As soon as he entered the flower hall and sat down, Zong Ze took the initiative to smile and said: "This time, Zhuang Zhuang really made great contributions to us in Dengzhou, keeping the peace and safety of the people. I really don't know how such strong soldiers in Guizhuang are trained?"

Sun Xin thanked Zong Tongpan for his praise, "Since you are a local, you should benefit your hometown. The more than 100 baoding in my village were paid a lot of money, and they were trained with great difficulty. This time we can achieve such results. The entire Sun Family Village is also bright."

Zong Ze nodded and said with a smile: "Master Sun Xin, the musket you Baoding is equipped with is really powerful."

Sun Xin's eyes froze, and Zong Ze's eyes were indeed vicious. He only went to his farmer's barracks to see once, and he knew that the main result of this battle came from Suifa's gun.

But he knew that Luan Tingyu didn't reveal all the details to Zongze. For example, Zongze didn't know the existence of the bronze cannon that played an extraordinary role in the war.

"This musket is a rare item I bought from overseas. Now there are only such a batch in the world, and they are all equipped for my family's Zhuang Ding."

After hearing this, Zong Ze didn't believe it. He thought about it for a while and said with a smile: "I heard that there is a man named Tang Long in Sun Zhuangzhuang's village. I heard that he makes military weapons very neatly. This flintlock gun Could it be that this Tang Long couldn't imitate it?"

Sun Xin shook his head like a wave drum and said solemnly: "This thing is really difficult to imitate. If Tong San doesn't believe it, I can give Tong San a shot. Please go and make it yourself."

Sun Xin is completely at ease, based on the difficulty of making guns at this age, it is just a barrel heating and tempering technology. He and Tang Long both know the direction and have studied it for half a year. Even if Zongze is given a gun, with his financial and material resources And the situation that there are no talents in science and engineering at all, unless Zongze engages in corruption and spends all the finances and taxes of Dengzhou to develop this flintlock, otherwise he will not know if he can figure out a trick in ten years.

Zong Ze was taken aback when he heard the words, originally he wanted to trick this novice Sun into getting a flintlock gun, but he never expected that this young man has such a heart.

People's guns are all bought from overseas with a lot of money. You can't just ask them for it, right?
And although he could obviously feel that Sun Xin was prevaricating and lying, he couldn't say it out, so he didn't give up, so he said to Sun Xin: "Can I go and see you pretending to be that Tang Long?"

I thought that Sun Xin would hesitate, but I didn't expect that as soon as Sun Xin stuttered, he asked the dealer to quickly find Tang Long.

Tang Long put on clean clothes today, even washed his hands clean, there is no soot on his face, and his hair is meticulously done. How can this look like a blacksmith?

Zong Ze was speechless again when he saw it. It was obvious that Sun Xin had planned to meet him today, so he asked Tang Long to dress up a long time ago.

Why was my every step of the way taken into consideration by this kid?
After some chatting, Zong Ze directly confirmed that Sun Xin had indeed prepared in advance, and that Tang Long ignored his own words, let alone had any interest in his solicitation.

Sun Xin looked at this scene with a pure expression on his face, but he was amused in his heart. Zong Ze failed to recruit his own peasants and soldiers, and now he actually wanted to recruit his own blacksmith.

The living conditions of the official handicraftsmen in the Song Dynasty were worse than those of the peasants and soldiers. The peasants and soldiers were just not paid, while the official handicraftsmen had to do free labor for the court every year in addition to not being paid. The rest of the time is your own. If the quality of the things you make during your service is not good, you will even be accused by the government. Moreover, the government is very corrupt. .

The reason why Tang Long didn't want to continue working in the army at that time was largely because it was far less cost-effective to build equipment in the army than to do business by himself.

But now that Tang Long runs a blacksmith shop in Sunjiazhuang, his annual income can be close to 100 taels, and he enjoys the taste of power in the supervisory committee. thought?
After asking Zong Ze, he was very speechless. He looked fiercely in front of him, as if Sun Xin, who was still drinking tea without knowing it, found that Sun Xin had counted every step of his calculations today.

Zongze really wanted to have a capable force under his command, otherwise it would be just a civil servant who did not do things well, but the peasants and soldiers who he had calculated that he should be able to win over were not interested in his greetings at all, so he recruited them out of the way. Sun Xin's blacksmith's plan can't be done either.

Zongze couldn't help feeling: How did Sun Xin grow his brain?Such a young man has so many minds. If this son is given a few more years, his future is really unimaginable.

At this time, Sun Xin smiled and said, "Although I don't have many broken hair guns to sell outside, but if the general judge wants to employ people, our Baojia in Sunjiazhuang is right. , go into the fire!"

(End of this chapter)