Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 100 Find a way to beat him

Zhao Wen walked around the residence a few times, checked the quality of the house, and then went to the school grounds.

Zhao Wen looked at the recruits standing on the school grounds and kept nodding.

After such a long period of training, these soldiers have almost left the army.However, they are still holding ordinary knives and guns.

At this time, Zhao Wen and the former soldiers now have more than 700 people.

If this force was placed in the early Ming Dynasty, it might not be a big deal.But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the strength is not small.What's more, Zhao Wen still has weapons from later generations in his hands.

After all, the generals of the Ming army in this era are too hungry to eat, and the shortfall has reached about [-]%.

The remaining soldiers are basically old, weak, sick and disabled.

An important reason why the generals in the late Ming Dynasty supported their servants was because the soldiers were unusable.

Today, Zhao Daniu still serves as the leader of the personal guard battalion, but the number of soldiers under him has increased.

Even the three brothers of the Zhou family became the general banner.

For the three hundred soldiers in front of him, Zhao Wen was going to divide them among Song Hu, Wang Qi and Liu Wu.

There are already enough guard battalions today, and it would not be a problem if they expanded to the guard camps.

In this way, although they all bear the title of Hundred Households, they have nearly two hundred soldiers under their command.

Although such a military system is unreasonable, it is the most suitable distribution method for Zhao Wen at present.

In this way, the rights of these three people will be inflated.

Although these three people are extremely loyal to Zhao Wen, but as the saying goes, there must be no one among others, and the intention to harm others must not be absent.

Therefore, Zhao Wen only gave them the target of 56 strokes of 56 and a half.But the personal guard battalion is fully equipped, each with 56 and a half, and each of the three chief banner officers even has a [-]-type light machine gun.

The soldiers under Song Hu and the others were divided into two parts by Zhao Wen.

One part is holding 56 and a half, and the other part is holding ordinary knives and guns.

It is actually beneficial to do so. In this era, although Zhao Wen's weapons are fierce.But no matter what, they would encounter hand-to-hand combat, and these ordinary swordsmen were prepared by Zhao Wen for encountering hand-to-hand combat.

In this way, those soldiers holding 56 and a half can practice marksmanship with peace of mind.Those who hold a knife and gun can practice sword and marksmanship with peace of mind.

The only fly in the ointment is that the weapons in the hands of these swordsmen are all swords and guns of this era, and the quality is much worse.

After the ironworks officially started, Zhao Wen planned to equip every soldier with armor made of fine steel and knives and guns made of fine steel.

Zhao Wen looked at the soldiers wearing brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets on the school grounds, and said loudly: "You are no longer ordinary people. You are soldiers under my Zhao Wen. I want to ask you, who are you loyal to?"

"My lord, we will always be loyal to your lord!!!"

Three hundred recruits shouted in unison, making a sky-shattering roar.

"Okay, I'm very pleased that you can talk like this." Zhao Wen looked at the soldiers under the platform, squinted his eyes and smiled.

Zhao Wen chatted with them a few more words, then jumped off the stone platform and headed towards the Garrison Mansion.

Now is the time to allocate soldiers, Zhao Wen standing here is useless, so he simply returned to the defense mansion.

Not long after Zhao Wen sat in the hall, Liu Wenzhong walked in.

"My lord!" Liu Wenzhong saluted Fan Zheng in a polite manner.

Fan Zheng took a sip of tea and said, "Okay, okay, at the beginning you looked like a hooligan, but now you suddenly pretend to be elegant?"

When Liu Wenzhong heard this, he laughed, and then he was not polite, and sat directly next to Zhao Wen.

"What's wrong? What do you want from me?" Zhao Wen narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Wenzhong.

Liu Wenzhong put away his smile and said in a deep voice, "Do you know how much food we have left?"

Zhao Wen's heart tightened, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind.

During these times, because so many refugees are taken in, and these refugees and soldiers work hard every day, the consumption of food will be great.

The grain snatched from Jian Nu, together with the grain that Zhao Wenzuan had collected before, was not much left.

Zhao Wen frowned, looked at Liu Wenzhong, and said in a low voice, "How much?"

"Four thousand stones!" Liu Wenzhong said.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Wen stood up from his chair.

Although Zhao Wen had already thought that there was not much food left, he did not expect that there was only so little left.

"Why is there only so little left?" Zhao Wen looked at Liu Wenzhong in disbelief.

Liu Wenzhong continued: "My lord, apart from building iron smelting furnaces and textile factories, these refugees are cultivating fertile land."

"Reclamation of grain fields? How many acres have been cultivated?" Zhao Wen asked.

"Nearly a thousand acres of grain fields." Liu Wenzhong said. "Winter wheat has been planted on this thousand acres of fertile land, but the weather is getting drier. I don't think the harvest will be good next year."

Zhao Wen couldn't understand the meaning of Liu Wenzhong's words, it was telling him to make plans early.

Zhao Wen sat on the chair, looked at the ceiling, and sighed: "Food, food, where does this food come from? This food is in the hands of Shanxi merchants."

"Nowadays, there are still refugees coming in. If we don't make plans early, we won't be able to eat the food for a long time."

Liu Wenzhong spoke again.

"These Shanxi merchants are all in the eyes of money. If we go to buy grain from them now, we will probably raise the price on the ground." Zhao Wen kept talking, feeling a little bored in his heart.

Shanxi merchants will definitely do such a thing.

Zhao Wen doesn't want to buy food from Shanxi merchants now, and the glass mirror business has just started, which is a good time to make money.

If they lowered the price of the mirror or raised the price of grain because of the grain, then a lot of money would be lost all of a sudden.

Today's Longmenbao family has a big business, and it is the time for massive construction, and there are places where money is spent everywhere.

For Zhao Wen now, food is important, and money is equally important.

Although you can't have both, Zhao Wen wants both.

Zhao Wen stood up from his chair and walked around the hall, thinking about the issue of food.

At this time, Li Xiaoying walked in from the door.

"Brother Zhao!" The voice came before the person walked in from the door.

Li Xiaoying walked quickly to Zhao Wen.

"Xiaoying, why are you here?" Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying, and his mood improved a lot in an instant.

"Brother Zhao, I have to tell you something." Li Xiaoying frowned.

"What is it?"

"I went outside this morning and found a lot of refugees coming," Li Xiaoying said.

"Refugees? This is normal. Refugees come here almost every day. What's so strange about it?" Zhao Wen asked with some doubts.

Nowadays, refugees come to Longmen Fort every day, what's so strange about these refugees?Did you come here to tell yourself?
Li Xiaoying said: "Brother Zhao, these refugees are not ordinary. These refugees came from the Xuanfu. I was curious and asked. Guess what? It turned out that the north of Xuanfu Town is located in the north of the Great Wall. The outer fort was breached.

However, the frontier army in Xuanfu Town did nothing, and the people living near the fort suffered disaster.In desperation, they came to us.I thought, since these Tartars can attack Xuanfu, they are likely to attack us. I came here to tell Brother Zhao to make preparations early. "

Although Liu Wenzhong has been busy with refugee affairs, recently he was busy with food and housing matters, so he didn't notice it.

"Tartars? Hehe, I'm still worrying that they won't come. Even if they don't come, I'm still going to find them." Zhao Wen slapped the table and sneered twice.

But he smiled, and a bright light suddenly appeared in his eyes, "I know how to solve the food problem."

"Why didn't I think of this? We can take the soldiers out of the Great Wall and go to the grassland to plunder. If the Tartars can rob us, then we can rob them too." Zhao Wen jumped up excitedly on the ground, He hugged Li Xiaoying directly, and kissed Li Xiaoying on the face.

In fact, in the past, the Ming army often went out to the Great Wall to plunder the Tartars.

This method is called burning wasteland, but now that the Ming army has declined, this method has been stopped for many years.

"Haha, you are such a clever little ghost. If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have thought of such a good solution. If Xiaoying didn't remind me, I'm still in a hurry."

Seeing this, Liu Wenzhong hurriedly turned his head and pretended not to see it.

Li Xiaoying was stunned by Zhao Wen's sudden action, she jumped to the ground, her face turned red up to her ears.She coquettishly said: "Brother Zhao, Uncle Liu is still here, how can you do this?"

Zhao Xiaoni was lying outside the door, blinking her big eyes, looking inside curiously.

Li Xiaoying gave Zhao Wen a blank look, and then ran out.

(End of this chapter)