Chapter 1157

In the early morning of the next day, Jiang Hao took a few hundred households to start thinking about the guards and inspecting the situation. The Putuo Guards were stationed in the city, with strong walls and fortresses, not afraid of robbers and pirates. There were military camps, school yards, granaries, and workshops in the city The shop, and many residents.

On the school grounds, Jiang Hao inspected the army. There were more than 500 people standing there, all of them were dark-skinned, sallow and emaciated, and looked malnourished.

"How long has it been since you had a full meal?" Jiang Hao asked a soldier.

The soldier thought for a while, "I don't remember, anyway, since I can remember, I don't seem to have eaten enough."

"How often do you eat meat?"

"Does fish count, my lord?"

"pork."

"You can eat a few slices a year."

Damn, these are not soldiers, they are just a group of beggars. No wonder there were a large number of deserters in the guards in the late Ming Dynasty. How could such an army support people.

Farming the land and eating food by yourself, and paying taxes, you can’t even have enough to eat on weekdays, and when you need to fight, you have to go out and fight hard. It is a miracle that it lasted for more than two hundred years.

"I ask you, do you want to have a full meal and meat!" Jiang Hao asked.

The soldiers blinked their eyes and dared not speak.

"If someone wants it, they can eat it today. If they don't want it, then they don't. I'll ask you if you want it!" Jiang Hao said loudly.

This time he used his inner strength, and the sound seemed to explode in everyone's ears, waking up these drowsy guys with a jolt.

"Think, I want to have a full meal, I want to eat meat!"

Finally someone spoke up.

Jiang Hao looked over and saw that he was a young man, about sixteen or seventeen years old.

"I think so too." Another said.

Then there were more voices, and many people shouted together, shouting out their own voices, who doesn't want to have enough food, who doesn't want to eat meat, they all dream about it.

As more and more people shouted, everyone finally shouted, and the voice was loud, several times louder than when they shouted slogans during the inspection just now.

Jiang Hao smiled, this is the first step of awakening, calling out the dream in your heart.

Stretching his hand into his bosom, he took out a silver note, and slowly raised his hand, Jiang Hao said loudly, "Here is a thousand taels of silver note."

The soldiers chanting slogans stopped and looked at Jiang Hao quietly, and more eyes looked at the silver ticket swaying in the wind in Jiang Hao's hand.

"Shen Yi, Yan Hui!" Jiang Hao said loudly.

"The subordinates are here."

Two hundred households came out.

Jiang Hao shook the silver note in his hand and said: "Today, the task of the two of you is to turn this silver note into rice and meat, and get it back. Today I will let the entire Putuo guard go up and down, and join the army. From soldiers to handymen, including family members, as long as they are people in our Putuo Guard, they will all eat white rice and stewed pork, and eat as much as they want!"

The school field became extremely quiet, only the flags fluttering around the field made the sound of whirring. People looked at Jiang Hao in a daze. They never imagined that this new garrison master would pay for it by himself and take out a thousand taels of silver. Buy them food.

They have seen too many officials who scraped their flesh and drank their blood, but they have never seen anyone who pays out money in reverse, not a single one.

The hundreds of households were also stunned, unable to believe it in their hearts. A few hundred households suddenly remembered Jiang Hao's words last night, follow me and lead you to a good life, is that it?

Standing in front of Jiang Hao, Shen Yi felt a little hot when he took the money, and said in a low voice, "My lord, although there are many of us, we don't need so much for a full meal."

One thousand taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Based on the current prices in Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver can buy five shi of rice. In this way, this one thousand taels of silver can buy five thousand shi of rice, which is 600,000 catties. No matter how big the appetite is, one catty of dry rice is enough for a meal. There are only more than 4,600 people in the entire Putuo Guard, and a meal of five thousand catties is enough, and it is the kind that is full.

Nowadays, one tael of silver in Daming can buy more than 40 catties of pork, which is still the first-class pork that has been slaughtered. It is cheaper to buy live pigs and slaughter them yourself. In the entire Putuo guard, even half a catty of pork per person for a meal is only 50 taels in total. silver.

Looking at these guys who have never seen the market, Jiang Hao said with a serious face: "I bought them all. If I can't eat them, I won't save them for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Don't you just want to have a full meal instead of a full meal?" ?!"

Shen Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, "Observe the orders of the Lord, I'll get ready right away."

After speaking, together with Yan Hui, they took more than a hundred soldiers of their own and left to buy rice and meat in Zhoushan.

After inspecting the soldiers, he brought a few hundred households to the Iron Forge, which was Yuan De's territory, and he had been waiting here for a long time.

Inspecting the Iron Ware Workshop, the steward of the Iron Ware Workshop explained to Jiang Hao that there is a complete range of items for blacksmithing here, such as repairing knives and guns, repairing armor, casting bullets, and casting iron parts for sea ships. Their knives and guns are all issued from above, and they are compiled in a unified format, so no one makes swords.

Turning around, Jiang Hao waved someone to bring a box. Inside the box was an iron ball, which is the shell used by the Hongyi Cannon. "Can this be made?"

The steward picked it up to look at it, and said relaxedly: "My lord, this one is simple, it's just bigger than the shell of the Fulang machine gun. With this as a model, it can definitely be made exactly the same."

"If you go all out to make this kind of shells, how many can you make in one month?"

The steward thought for a while, "Five hundred coins is no problem."

Jiang Hao was quite satisfied with this answer, and then he took out a piece of paper from his arms, handed it to the steward and said, "I have a kind of hollow shell, which needs to be filled with gunpowder. Do you think it can be made?"

The steward looked at it, "I've seen similar flowering ammunition before, but it's not as detailed as the master's blueprint, but it shouldn't be difficult."

Jiang Hao nodded, "Okay, then divide your manpower into two groups, one group makes live ammunition, and the other group makes explosive ammunition."

The steward hesitated, and murmured for a long time to squeeze out a few words, "My lord, there is no problem with the construction, but, but us.".

"Tell me the truth."

"We don't have enough iron materials. We don't even have iron materials to repair and supplement swords and armors. We don't have iron at all to make cannonballs. These cannonballs are very scrap iron."

"To make 500 pieces of each, how much silver do you think it will take?" Jiang Hao asked.

The steward calculated in his mind, "It's not cheap, it will cost about 260 taels of silver."

Brush ~!

Jiang Hao had an extra silver ticket in his hand, and said, "Ye Dachuan, Su Maonian is here."

Seeing Jiang Hao's posture, the two hundred households knew that the garrison was going to pay again, so they came over immediately, "My lord, please order."

"This is one thousand taels of silver bills. You two took people and accompanied the steward to buy iron materials. I bought them all." The two hurriedly took the silver bills.

The steward's body was trembling, and he said excitedly, "My lord, this silver can buy a lot of iron materials, enough to make the shells you want, and you can also repair the knives, guns, armor, and damaged parts on the ship, and there are still a lot of leftovers." Woolen cloth."

Jiang Hao looked at him disdainfully, "Can't you use the rest slowly? Besides, the thousand shells are not enough. You will be busy in the future."

"That's a small matter." The steward said with a bow.

Two more were sent away to do work. At this moment, only Yuan De, Ma Feng, and Xu Quan, the eunuchs of the army, were left with Jiang Hao.

"Come on, let's go to the gunpowder workshop."

The gunpowder workshop was far away from the camp. After the inspection, someone brought a barrel of gunpowder stolen from Dongfang Bubai. The manager of the gunpowder workshop took the gunpowder in his hand, tasted it with his mouth, and ordered some more to try. As a result, he finally said: "The villain almost already knows that our gunpowder is not much worse than him."

Jiang Hao took out a piece of paper from his body, which recorded two types of propellant and two types of fuze, as well as details of subcontracting, and the distance that each weight package can be fired, etc. These things Jiang Hao took out, It is definitely more advanced than the gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty.

"Is it possible to make the formula above?" Jiang Hao handed the paper to the steward.

The steward of the gunpowder shop looked at it carefully, then pondered for a while and said, "No problem, sir."

Jiang Hao nodded in satisfaction. Chinese craftsmen really have nothing to say, "From now on, mass production of gunpowder will be of great use in the future."

"But my lord, we don't have enough materials to make gunpowder," said the steward.

Brush~~!

Jiang Hao took out another bank note.

This is really just paying for the silver ticket when there is a disagreement.

The three people behind him saw Jiang Hao's movements, and for some reason, they felt that Mr. Jiang's movements were so handsome.

"Ma Feng."

As soon as Jiang Hao finished shouting, Ma Baihu jumped over and saluted respectfully, "My subordinate is here."

"This is one thousand taels. I will buy enough materials with the manager of the Gunpowder Workshop," Jiang Hao said.

"Your subordinates must do a good job." Ma Feng took the bank note respectfully.

After leaving the gunpowder workshop and walking back, Jiang Hao said to Xu Quan, "Xu Quan, I have a task for you."

"My lord, please give me your instructions."

Brush~~!

Jiang Hao took out a bank note and handed it to Xu Quan.

"Send someone to overhaul our warship from inside to outside. Change the rope for the rope, change the canvas for the canvas, repair the place that needs to be repaired, and paint the place that needs to be painted. It will take a month at most. I want our The boat can withstand the wind and waves at sea." Jiang Hao said in a deep voice.

"It's my lord." Xu Quan took the bank note with both hands and went immediately.

Only the dead eunuch Yuan De was left, Jiang Hao asked: "Is there any other places that need to be inspected?"

Yuan De bowed his waist and smiled and said, "Master Jiang, are you interested in looking at the warehouses? Our warehouses include money warehouses, grain warehouses, timber warehouses, cloth warehouses, sword warehouses, bow and arrow warehouses, and cable warehouses. "

Jiang Hao took a look at this guy, and naturally guessed his thoughts, "You don't want me to fill them up, do you?"

Yuan De looked at Jiang Hao anxiously.

Brush ~!

Jiang Hao took out another bank note, "This is one thousand taels, to buy cloth and make new clothes for the people in the guard. Look at the clothes on those people, patch on patch, all of them are dressed like beggars , how can there be a little bit of the mighty strength of the soldiers of the Daming Guard."

Yuan Dexin said, isn't it just a group of beggars? It would be nice if they didn't starve to death.

"I'll let someone handle it, what about the other warehouses?" Yuan De smiled as he took the bank note and asked without giving up.

Jiang Hao glanced at him, "Let's leave those warehouses empty first, and they will be filled in the future. I'm afraid you think the warehouses are too small."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left. Everyone else was sent to work, but Jiang Hao was idle. He had nothing to do anyway. He brought the three girls to the seaside, and asked someone to prepare a spaceship. The three of them went out to sea for fun. Excellent.

Jiang Hao's actions in the military camp today quickly spread throughout the Putuo Guard, and everyone was talking about the new guard.

A group of women weaving together shouted and chatted.

"What is the background of our lord guard? Even Supervisor Yuan is afraid of him. Seeing him is like a grandson meeting his grandfather. His usual arrogance is gone."

"We don't know, but it should have a big background."

"Jiang Shoubei bought rice and meat for us with his own money. He said it was a big meal tonight. You can eat as much as you want. Oh my god, I don't even dare to think about Chinese New Year. Rice and fatty pork."

"It's more than just buying rice and meat. I heard that this person even took money to let the ironware workshop and gunpowder workshop buy materials. Several hundred households have gone out. That's thousands of taels of silver, my dear."

"Who do you think Jiang Shoubei is? He's very different from the adults you thought he came here?"

"It doesn't matter who he is, anyway, the person who can feed us is a good person, and he is ten thousand times better than that Tian Qianhu."

"I can open my stomach to eat tonight. I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Thinking about the big fat meat, I'm very hungry now."

At this moment, a group of people came over and stood at the intersection of the street and shouted loudly: "Master Garrison has spoken to make new clothes for the soldiers and miscellaneous servants. Now we are buying cloth. If you have cloth in your hand, hurry up and sell it at the prison's yamen. The price is the same as the price charged by the cloth shop in the city, and it will be given in cash."

Wow~!

Hearing this news, the women were blown up, and all ran to their homes. These women usually weave cloth to supplement their household expenses, but they can’t get any money after selling it to the cloth shop. Silver, this is a good thing, so naturally it will be sold.

The old women ran fast one by one, afraid that they would not have their share if they had collected enough.