Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

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Huang Chong's expression turned slightly better now, and from Yang Chao's tone, he could hear his resolute attitude towards building dikes. If dikes can be built, then the fields here can be reclaimed.

I just have to worry about whether I can be the general manager here for a long time.

Yang Chao said again: "There are twenty soldiers in your battalion, and this officer allows each of them to reclaim [-] mu of land."

There is still a limit per person, but one person has [-] mu, and [-] people equals [-] mu, which is enough.

But Huang Chong still didn't make up his mind, he decided to go back and discuss with his family before making a decision.

After parting, Yang Chao went to the Ministry of War, found Xiong Mingyu, and shared his thoughts. Xiong Mingyu first praised Yang Chao's positive attitude in doing things.

However, he also said that the navy camp had been abandoned for a long time, which was due to accumulated disadvantages. The court had difficulties and indeed had no money to allocate. Yang Chao refurbished the barracks and dredged the wharf.

As for the important people and materials, he said that he could help Yang Chao find the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry to clear up.

Yang Chao knew that Xiong Mingyu was good at Tai Chi and football, and knew that you had to rush this old man to do things, so he didn't take Xiong Mingyu's words seriously.

After returning home, his father told Yang Chao that he had gone to find the craftsman, and he helped Yang Chao build weapons when he was free.

His father, Yang Yong, is a hereditary craftsman from the Bingzhan Bureau, and he has a deep relationship background. Although the people he knows are not high-ranking and powerful, there are many craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship.

The first batch of weapons that Yang Chao ordered were muskets that he had dreamed of for a long time. The standard muskets of the Ming Dynasty included three-eyed blunderbusses and bird blunderbuss.

Yang Chao wanted to get a batch of muskets last year, but unfortunately, he didn't believe in the workmanship of Bingzhanju, and probably no one believed in the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so there was a large backlog of guns in Bingzhanju, but he couldn't find a buyer. Those who are really willing to spend money will never want the blunderbuss of the military battle bureau.

Because of these bird guns, the probability of killing the enemy is almost as high as killing yourself.

Matchlock guns have become the main weapon in the West, and Japan was also equipped with a large number of matchlock guns. Only in the Ming Dynasty, due to workmanship problems, it was still unable to play its due role, which is a pity.

In addition to making muskets, the craftsmen who made armor were also found by my father.

Since the last time his own people fought fiercely with Jiang bandits and injured more than ten people, Yang Chao made up his mind to equip the soldiers with iron armor, because if these people had armor at that time, they would not have been injured at all, such as Li Liang and Zhang Dun, If there was a pair of iron armor protecting the neck at that time, it would be impossible to injure the artery.

However, the asking price for the iron armor of the Bingzhan Bureau is too high. A pair of full-body infantry armor costs 100 taels of silver.

After my father came back from Hangzhou, Leymus chinensis asked his father that the iron used for a pair of armor was only a few dozen catties. For the wages, a pair of iron armor cost twelve thirty taels of silver to support it to death.

The military battle situation is indeed too dark, so Yang Chao decided to build it himself, so he asked his father to find a suitable person.

After ordering the bird gun and iron armor, Yang Chao went straight to Jinchai Tower.

The Jinchai Building has been renovated again, and the scholar did not smash it last time.

It's just that some furniture has been changed and some cleaning has been done. It's still the old Jinchai Building.

Kang Hui kept busy, Yang Chao didn't intend to interfere with Kang Hui this time, and only gave him an idea, which shocked him.

Let Kang regret the idea of ​​inviting Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan to sing at Jinchai Tower.

You must know that the identities of these two people are too special. The whole Jiangnan was disturbed a few years ago, and even the well-known incident of Jiangnan scholars was caused by these two women. Yang Chao dared to let these two people appear on the stage. Isn’t this asking for trouble? .

But Yang Chao said that there is no need to worry, and Kang Hui doesn't need to worry anymore. He is superstitious that Yang Chao can handle everything. The scholar's noise is so loud that Yang Chao is not the last to handle it. Therefore, as long as Yang Chao says there is no need to worry, then there is no need to worry. up.

It's just that Dong Xiaowan hasn't come back to Suzhou to visit her mother, and when she comes back, Kang Hui plans to talk about it.

Wang Xiao was also in the Jinchai Tower and hosted a large number of guests.

Kang Hui has a lot of opinions on this, because Wang Xiao grew up a few years ago and now has a big banquet with guests, but he didn't pay, and all of them were recorded on the account.

"Brother Yang has already written down the account of 1000 taels of silver, it will not work if this continues, please tell me."

Kang Hui took out the ledger and showed it to Yang Chao.

It is clear from the above that Wang Xiao has hosted no less than fifty guests, and each time it is a banquet of 20 taels, which is really extravagant.

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "It seems that he is doing big business, let's not talk about it for the time being, everyone has difficulties. With Wang Xiao's temperament, if he didn't encounter difficulties, he would definitely not be ashamed to pay on credit."

Kang regretted his head: "I also know this, but he owes a little too much."

"Haha, brother Kang, have fun!"

Speaking of Wang Xiao, Wang Xiao yelled and walked in.

Seeing that Yang Chao was there, I was a little embarrassed, probably because of his debts.

Yang Chao didn't talk about it.

"Why is Wang Xiao happy, but has a big business?"

Yang Chao asked with a smile.

Wang Xiao smiled awkwardly: "Brother Yang has to help."

Yang Chao smiled and said, "Since when have you been so polite, just ask me for help."

Wang Xiao nodded and said: "It's really hard to say. I want to ask the next two brothers, and one of them wants to join the Jinchai Building. I can't evade it, so I-"

Having said that, Wang Xiao stopped.

Kang Hui frowned immediately: "Jinchai Building is a partnership of three companies, how can you make the decision yourself, I don't agree!"

Wang Xiao looked at Yang Chao for help.

Yang Chao spread his hands: "I don't agree either."

Wang Xiao begged: "Forget me begging the two brothers, how about deducting from my share?"

Wang Xiao now has a dejected look on his face, and he doesn't have the confidence and decisiveness of the rich businessman he knew back then.

Yang Chao knew at a glance that something must have happened.

It's all here, and it's hard to justify not helping.

Yang Chao asked, "But it's about business?"

Wang Xiao sighed: "Isn't it? Last year the grocery store was short of more than 1000 taels of silver. It used to be supported by the Wang family, but now it has become the burden of my younger brother. It is really hard to support it alone."

Yang Chao sighed: "Supposedly it shouldn't be. Didn't you resell a lot of goods and earn a lot of money?"

Wang Xiao made a small profit last year by taking advantage of the customer relationship of Jinchai Building to dump the supply of goods.

Wang Xiao sighed: "It's a drop in the bucket, if it weren't for that, the deficit would be at least 3000 taels."

Yang Chao said: "If you are short of money, all my money is stored with you, so you can use it with 1 taels."

Wang Xiao smiled wryly: "It's really not a matter of money, it's about the future, so I implore the two brothers to help each other once."

Speaking of this, Yang Chao really couldn't say anything more.

But Jinchai Tower can't let Wang Xiao lose like this. One day, someone will be brought in, and tomorrow, it will be endless.

It seems that the shareholding structure of Jinchai Building needs to be reformed.

In the past, it was a partnership of three people, each with one share, but now it has to be subdivided.

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, I agree. But it will be deducted from your share. Where is Brother Kang?"

Seeing that Yang Chao agreed, Kang Hui could only nod helplessly.

Yang Chao then said: "Well, the three of us count as one hundred shares each. Brother Wang, if you are willing to give up your one hundred shares to others, you can go and give it up. You have the final say on how many shares you want, but I advise you Don't sell it cheap."

Seeing that the two agreed, Brother Wang thanked them again and again, with an indescribable joy on his face. It seemed that a good door had indeed been opened up, but the condition was to let someone join the Jinchai Building.

Wang Xiao left, Kang Hui looked worried.

"Brother Yang, what do you think about this? Who knows who is joining the gang?"

Yang Chao knew that Kang Hui was worried that someone would forcibly occupy the property of Jinchailou. If he recruited a strong man to join Jinchailou, it would be tantamount to leading a wolf into the house.

Yang Chao comforted him and said, "Don't worry. Wang Xiao has [-] shares, but you and I have [-] shares. Even if he sells all his shares, it's only one-third less. You The two of us still occupy two-thirds of it. We still have the final say on Jinchai Tower. As for someone occupying it by force, hehe, I’m afraid it’s not that easy.”

Yang Chao's strength could not be underestimated in Nanjing, so Kang Hui felt relieved.

He also told Kang Hui about the Jinchai Building, and Yang Chao was most concerned about the issue of Erlishe.

The group of scholars set up Erlishe's headquarters in Jinchai Building, but they didn't make much trouble. The Jinchai Building was full of girls, and the scholars didn't provoke them.

And after the commotion ended, most of the scholars went home, only some non-local scholars who couldn't go home for the time being, made the floor of Erli Hall.

This floor shop was given by Yang Chao, and asked Huang Feng's mansion to accept favors and win over some poor scholars from other places.

Of course, they are all scholars without fame. The real juren and even scholars are not so poor that they are on the floor. They can rent a house in Nanjing. The rich rent river houses, and the poor ones stay in Nanshi buildings. At worst, you can stay in an inn.

But Kang Hui was still very worried about these scholars.

After all, all the scholars in Jiangnan are very flamboyant, and the government doesn't want to mess with them. Erli Society, a society with more than 500 scholars, has its headquarters in Jinchai Building, making Kang Hui feel as uncomfortable as sitting on a powder keg.

But Yang Chao told him that if he wanted Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan to stay in Jinchai Building, he had to keep these scholars. After all, with these scholars, no one would dare to trouble two famous prostitutes. Think about the noisy scholars from years ago.

The reason why the scholars made a fuss a few years ago was very complicated. It was because Tian Wan was doing something wrong in the south of the Yangtze River, and the purpose of Tian Wan's doing something wrong was firstly to collect beautiful women, and secondly to collect money, chasing Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan to Nanjing. These two can't do it, they are just looking for an excuse to make money.

But people don't want to think about too complicated things. In everyone's eyes, Tian Wan came here because of these two famous prostitutes, and the scholar also made a fuss because of these two famous prostitutes, so the scholar stayed in Jinchai Building, It's just a big amulet, at least the government dare not mess with it.

Hearing Yang Chao's explanation, Kang Hui suddenly realized that Yang Chao had asked the scholars to set up the Erli Hall in the Jinchai Building, and there was such a long-distance deployment, so he felt more relieved.

(End of this chapter)