"I heard that Ye Bima wished he could swallow you alive," said Li Sangou.

"It would be great if he could keep in this state forever. For generals, remember the four elements: they should not be cowardly. They would definitely lose in this battle, even soldiers would be the same. The more they were afraid of death, the faster they would die. They should not be arrogant, and arrogant soldiers would be defeated. They should not be impatient. They would also be defeated if they were impatient. They should not be angry. If they lost their calmness, they would still be defeated."

"It makes sense. Magistrate Wang, the tribes on the other side of the mountain have a very difficult life. Can you use the excuse of private businessmen to provide a little funding?"

"Let me do this, I'll send someone to transfer one thousand pieces of silk and two thousand kilograms of tea."

“Isn’t it too little?”

"Many, once there are too many, it will be conspicuous, and it is best not to fund it. Anyway, they will migrate together in the autumn. At that time, for safety, they must move forward quickly and lightly. Uncle Sangou, let me say one more thing, the income from alcohol is quite high, but can I continue to fund it? Take it seriously to raise private soldiers?"

Cai Tingzhen personally took out 5,000 guan of money and invested it in.

In addition, eight clerks were asked to "off" and took more than 20 servants and more than 50 soldiers to Chang'an with Zhu and Li's families. In the future, they had to go to Weizhou and Qinzhou. The main reason was that time was too tight, and they had to be fast, so they had to get money quickly and then hit the soldiers' heads. Otherwise, if autumn passed, even if they had money in their hands, they would not be too late.

It turned out that Cai Ting sent more people, but Wang Ju refused. He would rather let the Zhu and Li families trouble the situation than Cai Ting too deeply. He was not for Cai Ting, but for the future. After the autumn battle, the spoils could be partly given, and Wang Ju even wanted to sell prisoners of war. But unlike last year's three battles, there were too many enemies. It was impossible to have a fully annihilation-style battle like last year, and there would be no more gains on the battlefield.

Therefore, the profits of this wine shop may be drawn out, and Cai Ting will also ask for some of them in the future, and will ask for some money, build some armor and weapons for dressing, add some war horses, etc.

But in general, from the beginning of autumn, the income from the wine workshop will be gradually cut off from the military and Gyeongju.

This income will not be given to Zhu and Li families. Part of it will repay the money paid by the two companies. The two companies have already put a lot of effort into it and sent a large number of people to help. They have found it to be content. So the 20,000 chunks of money cannot be requested.

There are also donations from the remaining companies, which are also repaid according to the situation. But there are still places to use money, such as those Yeli tribes who have made great contributions and cannot let them come over naked. One resettlement will cost a lot of money. That is not a small number of people. More than a thousand accounts and tens of thousands of people. The cost of this resettlement is also amazing.

Of course, private businessmen have to stop.

However, Wang Ju would not stay in Huachi County for too long. After the battle after the autumn, there are many things to follow. After the New Year's Day, Zhao Shu will soon go to have tea with King Yan Luo. I believe Zhao Xu will not forget himself at that time.

Most of the arrangements are made. I will go to a certain pavilion and pavilion to plaster some gold, but this time will not be too long, and there will be many border affairs in the future. But who will fight? I will release it out again. As for where I put it out, I really can't calculate that from the Prefecture to Qinzhou, how many prefectures are there on this long border? It is impossible, and the four prefectures of Qingyan, Wei and Qin are impossible. Even if it is impossible, it is impossible for a large prefecture like Jingyuan, and it is too young. Then it may be a small prefecture or a small army, such as Yuanzhou, the Security Army, the Deshun Army, or the Tribunal.

As long as you reach the northwest, there will be war and money.

Therefore, this money has to be kept.

Some Wang Ju didn’t say it, while others said it.

"That's so thankful to Magistrate Wang, but I don't know where to place it?"

"Uncle Sangou, are you looking at the map?" Wang Ju pointed to the gap between Dashun City, the front line of Xinjiang Babao Castle, Liyuan Castle, and Rouyuan Road.

“This is inappropriate.”

"It's inappropriate. If the Xinjiang Ball Fort is still in the hands of the enemy, the Yeli tribes defected to our Song Dynasty and inserted a knife into Li Liangzuo at the critical moment, Li Liangzuo will definitely take revenge. Last year, the fate of the Tongjia Fort on the west side of the Deshun Army would have come to the Yeli tribe. But what if the Xinjiang Ball Fort is controlled by our Song Dynasty?"

"That wouldn't matter," Li Sangou said happily.

In that case, from Rouyuan Village to Xinjiang Basin, then to Dashun City, Liyuan Castle, it happened to form an oval defense line, which tightly stifled the enemy's attack. Or a small group of enemies lurked, but the harm would not be great. The Yeli tribe could defeat them by themselves, and of course, they had to send people to patrol. However, because of last year's migration, a large area of ​​blank areas was created on the front line, not to mention a thousand or hundreds of tents, even two or hundreds of tents were placed. With Wang Ju's funding, not only could they have no worries about food and clothing, but they could also build some simple forts to defend. At least the escaped Yeli tribe escaped from the sea of ​​suffering.

"But this news cannot be told to them, at least it will be possible to say it until the Xixia sends troops, otherwise there will be a risk of leakage."

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"Fai'er, I'll take you out for a walk."

"Okay." Li Fei'er said happily. Wang Ju's feelings were a bit messy. Zhao Niannu was obviously older than him. He always thought that Zhao Niannu was a little girl, but Zhao Niannu regarded him half as the lover and half as his younger brother. Li Fei'er was obviously a fiancée, and Wang Ju might not have much feeling for his fiancée, but mostly regarded Li Fei'er as his younger sister.

Li Fei'er rode on the horse and hugged him.

It’s difficult to start, but it’s not difficult to start. In addition, the folk customs in the northwest are already very open, and Li Fei’er is used to it now.

Feeling the softness of the girl behind her, Wang Ju said, "Fai'er, eat more, you're too thin."

"It's only beautiful to be thin." Li Fei'er said.

The Tang Dynasty regarded fertility as beauty, but the Song Dynasty was slim as beauty. People were thinner than yellow flowers, and many people even liked young and liked pork ribs. This taste was too heavy.

Wang Ju said: "That's what others think. Just be slim. It's not good to be too thin."

The two rode on the horse and spoke, and quickly came to the workshop.

The officials and craftsmen from the capital sent by the court have returned to the capital. They not only left behind a hundred stone cannons, but also took away advanced technology. Of course, it depends on how the court used it, which is not something they can decide.

The workshop was handed over to Wang Ju, but the owner was very strange. It was not even clear whether it belonged to Qingzhou or Wang Ju.

The actual master doesn't care. Anyway, the armor and weapons produced must be handed over to the officers and soldiers, but to the officers and soldiers of Huachi County.

Wang Ju looked carefully. After a while, Zhang Feng actually came.

"Zi'an, it happened that Mr. Cai asked me to come to the workshop to take a look at the armor."

"Please see, brother, please."

It mainly produces knives, spearheads, arrows, crossbows, spearheads, irons, and armor.

There were many types of weapons in the Song Dynasty, including guns, knives, sticks, iron (a kind of iron grab that throws against cavalry), hammer whip, sword hook, spear mace, fork grab, boring spear, bow, crossbow, shield, etc.

Wang Ju chose the most common weapons, but the spearhead was not the spearhead of the spear. He was also planning to inlaid it on a short spear to make a short spear, and combined with the shield iron, and use the infantry square formation to deal with the cavalry.

The sword is also different from the common Song sword. The Song sword is mostly narrow and long. It is of narrow and long. It will save effort when chopping, and heavy and heavy. Although it is laborious when chopping, it is difficult to cut. However, it is powerful and has stronger lethality. In fact, the Song Dynasty also had heavy sword types, which should be chosen according to the soldiers' preferences. Another point is that the standard swords of the Song Dynasty are mostly straight.

Therefore, according to his own ideas, Wang Ju listened to the opinions of the soldiers and made some changes to the knife. The narrow and long sword disappeared, but changed to medium-length, and short-thick. The former is a combat knife used by infantry, while the latter is a combat knife used by cavalry. The straight shape is gone. Instead, it is changed to an arc. The main purpose is to take suicide damage. At the same time, the contact surface of the arc knife is smaller than that of the linear knife. According to the principle of pressure, the lethality will also be enhanced.

This change is quite similar to the later Mongolian swords.

The second thing to change is the armor, which is still in its original style, but the armor piece has become very thin.

Wang Ju took a knife and competed with the original Song Knife, but then broke the original Song Knife.

"A good knife, is it like a Taoxi sword?"

Wang Ju shook his head: "Brother, it's better, first of all, the Taoxi sword is forged more times, and secondly, the Taoxi sword is all good steel as a whole, but in order to save costs and manpower and increase speed, this knife is forged less times. In addition, like other Song swords, only steel is inlaid at the edge of the knife, and the rest is pig iron. However, it is more lethal than the original Song sword, and this has been investigated after repeated trials. Besides, the knife can steal some machines and get some tricks, but the armor is not good."

Wang Ju took out another piece of armor and said, "This is the new type of armor, weighing 25 kilograms (nearly thirty kilograms), but the defense has not been weakened."

"How much does it cost?" Zhang Feng immediately heard its significance.

"More than thirty stakes."

“Very good, very good.”

"Brother, don't be optimistic. This is the cost of the workshop manufacturing at present. If it is replaced by the official workshops such as the school, there will be corruption by officials and a lot of waste. The only advantage is that it is that it will reduce the shipping cost. But if the court wants to build exactly the same armor, it will definitely exceed forty silos, otherwise the armor will be inferior armor."

However, from the perspective, although it is a little more expensive, it is more than 20 kilograms lighter, so the soldiers will act faster and can exert stronger combat effectiveness on the battlefield.

How the court chooses? First, see the comparison of the future and the battle, and second, see if there are anyone in the court who understands it. This is not the final word that Wang Ju said, nor is it the final word that Zhang Feng said.

"No wonder Mr. Cai also wanted to change some of the soldiers."

"How can that be?"

This is another problem that Wang Ju didn't expect when he was studying in Yanzhou before, that is, inefficiency.

Especially armor.

Why is armor so expensive? It is not only because of the materials, but it is good. It takes a lot of tempering from iron to armor. A pair of armor weighing more than 50 kilograms often requires more than 200 kilograms of iron, but the cost is not amazing. Good cooked iron costs only 30 cents per kilogram, and transported to Huachi County plus the shipping cost is only 50 cents per kilogram. As well as other materials, the overall value of the material will not exceed ten cents.

Why did the final cost become forty cents?

The efficiency is too slow. Often, a skilled craftsman will build a pair of armor for at least one or two months, and it will take three or four months to get rid of it. In addition, the original assembly line production method of the Song Dynasty has already been released, otherwise it will take longer.

For such a long time, the labor cost alone would cost a lot of money. In addition, the corruption of clerks, unnecessary waste, and other things became the cost of a set of armor forty cents.

Wang Ju has no corruption or big waste, but two-thirds of the cost is piled on manpower.

After hearing the story of the official craftsmen last winter, Wang Ju immediately recruited a large number of apprentices, so after several craftsmen in the capital left, there were more than 100 people in the workshop. Not only that, Wang Ju sent a battalion of officers and soldiers to take turns to station, not Yidu. This was not for the sake of defense, but for the sake of manpower, so that the officers and soldiers could conquer miscellaneous items and improve efficiency.

Even if you have enough materials and enough money now, everyone can only make two or three hundred sets of armor every month. Don’t mention changing the equipment, even the vests of the Fankai may not be satisfied after the autumn, and other weapons will not be built anymore?

"It's not difficult. Mr. Cai plans to transfer a large number of craftsmen from the Qingzhou Institute."

"How many craftsmen can be transferred to the Qingzhou School? Unless Mr. Cai can also transfer a large number of craftsmen from other regions, with at least one hundred, I will not agree."

"It's probably not too difficult, I'll go back and talk."

"Also, please let Mr. Cai inform the court again and ask the court to send a large number of irons from Jingzhao Prefecture." Wang Judao. Although the court has financial difficulties, the fire immediately burned to the eyebrow. As a matter of fact, the court did not support it at all?

"This is probably not difficult. By the way, why when I discussed with Mr. Cai, I said, "Can I take over the Xinjiang Ball Fort?" Mr. Cai said that the country has financial difficulties and can only be repelled by the enemy. It cannot be troublesome, and this fort cannot be taken."

"Donald Cai actually said this?" Wang Juyi Dai. He knew the financial difficulties of the country, but what does it have to do with the acquisition of the Xinjiang Ball Fort? If he could not obtain the Xinjiang Ball Fort, so many Yeli tribes immediately fleeing over, and Wang Juyi would be swollen. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!