Chapter 81 The Liver Skill is Busy (Please order first when it is available)
In the ancestral hall, Lin Xianyang was telling everyone what happened to him in the ghost market.
The old man of the family was sitting on the main seat, Lin Mojun was sitting on the side wearing a veil and hat, the ninth aunt was sitting near the door, and Chang Ningwei, the eloquent person, was sitting in the ancestral hall.
After Lin Xianyang finished talking about what happened in the ghost market, Su Ze asked,
"You gave the money you used to buy sugar last time to the sea monkey. When you talked about buying a gun, he agreed immediately?"
Lin Xianyang nodded and said, "Yes, the sea monkey heard that he wanted to buy a gun, so he directly offered a price of one or two taels of silver, saying it was a good product originating from Folangji." "Although the price is higher than the Yuegang mentioned by Xiong Wu
. The price is more expensive, but it’s about the same after shipping. Didn’t Sea Monkey ask why we wanted to buy a gun?"
Lin Xianyang shook his head and said, "I didn’t ask much, just how many guns we wanted."
Su Ze was quickly relieved. Now, Smuggling is rampant in the southeastern region, and bird guns are not a rare thing. They can be sold openly in Yuegang. Zhang Haihu is a relatively large smuggler nearby, so it is normal for him to sell bird guns.
After calculating the money in his hand, Su Ze planned to buy twenty blunderbuss this time, see if he could imitate them, and prepare to train a small army that combined the blunderbuss.
"Did you say you wanted twenty?"
Lin Xianyang nodded and said, "The Sea Monkey only asked me to prepare the money and unload the cargo on the beach in seven days." "
What about the Folan cannon?"
Lin Xianyang said: " They asked for thirty taels of silver for this Fo Lang machine gun. They also said that it is not easy to transport such heavy equipment, so they have to pay a half-percent deposit in advance."
Su Ze secretly cursed the profiteers. Last time Xiong Wu said that the Fo Lang machine gun could not be used in Yuegang. Priced at twenty taels of silver, the price of this sea tiger increased by half in one breath, and a deposit was required before anyone would buy it.
It’s no wonder that these powerful families in the southeast region are getting involved in the maritime trade business. This is really huge profits!
Now that Su Ze couldn't afford thirty taels of silver, he had to give up the purchase of the Folan cannon for the time being.
"Has all the salt been sold?"
Su Ze asked Lin Deqing who went to the ghost market with Lin Xianyang. The honest Lin Deqing immediately nodded and said:
"I just set up the stall, and the person in charge who bought refined salt last time brought people with him. Here it comes."
"Will they also buy it when the price increases?"
After subduing Zhu Qi and his gang, Su Ze discovered that salt is equivalent to the general equivalent in the market these days. Selling it at such a low price will attract other people's attention and cause unnecessary trouble. Trouble.
So this time when selling salt, Su Ze told Lin Deqing to sell it according to the market price of refined salt sold by Zhu Qi and others, which was one hundred and fifty cents per catty.
This time Su Ze asked Lin Deqing to bring 150 kilograms of refined salt, which Su Ze had refined over the past few days.
Lin Deqing said: "Buy, the person in charge said that my salt is good, and their owners said it was good after eating it, so even though the price has increased, they also accepted it." It turns out that the salt at home has no bitter taste and is better
than The refined salt Zhu Qi sold before was of better quality, so the owner must have bought it to give away. Even if the price increased, the manager could go back and quote a higher price.
Lin Deqing quickly took out a cloth bag, spread it out and handed the broken silver to Su Ze.
"After paying the five-cent silver in store tax, according to Brother Aze's words, I gave the five-cent silver to the tax collector last time. This is the remaining silver." Lin Deqing's eyes were clear and there was no trace of greed. Su
Ze She lamented that she had found the right person when she asked Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market to sell goods.
Su Ze picked out a five-cent piece of silver from the silver, handed it to Lin Deqing and said, "Brother Deqing, this is yours." Lin Deqing quickly
refused, and Su Ze forced the silver to him, with a power of seven points. Lin Deqing, a humble farmer, had no strength to refuse.
Su Ze gave Lin Xianyang another one and a half pieces of silver, and then said: "We are all clan brothers of Changning Wei. If you are more polite, I will fall out." The two had no choice but to accept the broken silver, and they looked
towards Su Ze's eyes were even more filled with gratitude.
Su Ze continued: "Next time Brother Deqing goes to the ghost market, it is better to find a group of guard soldiers to follow. Brother Xianyang will help me find Luo Xia. Brothers who are willing to accompany me will be rewarded." Lin Xianyang and Lin Deqing said to each other
. After glancing at each other, they could see the warmth in the other person's eyes. Su Ze was sincerely thinking about their safety.
Moreover, as long as you escort one trip, you will get money, and there are many people in Changning Guard who are willing.
Now people in Changningwei say that Su Ze is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth and has the ability to turn stone into gold.
Su Ze then divided the money into ten parts, then handed 20% to Lin Mojun and said, "This is for the guard station."
Then he handed 10% to the old man and said, "This is for the clan."
Aunt Jiu looked at Su Ze with a complicated expression.
Now, whether it is the old man, Lin Mojun, a hundred households, or the soldiers of a hundred households, or the remnants of the Changning Guard, they will listen carefully to Su Ze's opinions. Su Ze has unknowingly become the most important person in the Changning Guard. That group of people.
Who would have thought that Su Ze, who is now sitting in the ancestral hall and talking eloquently, has only settled in Changningwei for more than two months.
At this time, Su Ze suddenly said to Lin Mojun:
"Hundred households, I want to select 20 people from the military remnants to train a group of bird gunners."
"Bird gunners?"
Bird guns are not something that can be found on the southeast coast. What a rare thing. When Zhu Wan destroyed Shuangyu Island, the Ming army captured a lot of bird guns.
Some Japanese pirates will also use bird guns sporadically, and many guard stations will also seize some bird guns.
But today's coastal guards rarely use long-range weapons such as bows and arrows or blunderbuss.
The reason is simple, no money.
In fact, logically speaking, there should be a team of archers for the one hundred regular soldiers of Changning Guard.
However, due to a long-term lack of equipment, the archer unit was canceled when Baihu was appointed.
Archers are considered a proper technical arm in this era, and they are also an arm that requires long-term training to mature.
This training process not only requires the use of a bow, but also wastes arrows.
Arrows were consumables in ancient times.
Because ancient arrowheads and arrow feathers were easily deformed, even if it was just for practice, an arrow could only be shot a few times.
If you shoot too much, the arrow will lose its accuracy and there will be no value in practicing.
On the battlefield, bows and arrows are disposable consumables. On a life-and-death battlefield, no archer would shoot with arrows picked up everywhere on the battlefield.
It takes several years to train an archer, and archers are a proper unit of strength.
For actual combat bows in the Ming Dynasty, large bows with three to six power were generally selected. During training, heavy bows with more than ten strengths are also used to train strength. Archers are the best-fed in the entire army, otherwise they will not be able to draw the bow.
Nowadays, the only person in the Changning Guard who can draw a bow and shoot an arrow is Lin Mojun.
Changning Guard can hardly afford to raise infantry, let alone archers.
Although bird guns are cheaper than bows, the bullets (lead balls) are three cents and three cents of silver per pound, and the gunpowder is one cent and four cents per pound of silver. Match ropes that can be used for smoldering are also not cheap. Twenty fire gunmen can train one Months, the ammunition consumption alone is a terrifying figure.
It's not that Lin Mojun doesn't want a gunman, but he really can't afford such a team.
Su Ze said with a smile: "Grandpa, I want to train a regiment to defend my reed fields and newly opened land. I will pay for the training of gunmen. As long as the clan provides manpower, the rest of the army at the guard station will be available." After practicing the Yuanyang Formation, just train for another two hours. I'll provide the food for the day of training."
The old man also knows that these are troubled times, and many villages are training rural warriors to build teams.
The old man just thought about it for a moment, and then readily agreed: "Okay, you can choose who you want, and the ancestral hall will take care of the food!" Just after they agreed to form a
team of gunners, a soldier hurried into the ancestral hall. , said to Lin Mojun:
"Hundred households, urgent military information!"
After hearing the urgent military information, Lin Mojun immediately stood up, walked towards the soldier who was delivering the order, and took over the urgent military information sent from the express delivery shop. It was military information sent from the General Directorate of Beiwa, Fujian. Lin Mojun quickly opened the envelope, read it quickly and sighed.
The old man also stood up and asked:
"Baihu, what's wrong?"
Lin Mojun said: "The demon Luo Fu from Jiangxi gathered a crowd to rebel, and asked the general commander to ask the guards to strengthen maritime patrols and eliminate large groups of Japanese pirates in the offshore."
Su Ze He came over and took the military information document from Lin Mojun's hand. Lin Mojun just glanced at Su Ze and didn't say anything to stop him.
Anyway, Su Ze is also a member of the Guard, and the people discussing matters here today are all close relatives, so there is no harm in showing Su Ze the military situation.
After reading the military information, Su Ze said doubtfully: "There was a rebellion in Jiangxi. Why did the General Manager ask the coastal guards to patrol the sea? I don't think Luo Fu rebelled on land?"
Lin Mojun said: "A few years ago. The civil unrest in Fujian and Guangzhou also colluded with Japanese pirates to cause rebellion. Every time there was civil unrest in the southeast in recent years, Japanese pirates took advantage of the fire and robbed them." "Why is there
another rebellion in Jiangxi?" Su Ze asked.
The reason why the word "you" is used is because Jiangxi is the hometown of old rebels.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had some geographical disadvantages. According to some of the most famous stereotypes of this era, "Cantonese people are good at prostitution," "Lu people are good at officials," and "Gan people are good at rebelliousness."
The folk customs in Guangdong are more open than those in the Central Plains. Due to trade in goods, more women are exposed.
Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats who served as officials in Guangdong believed that Cantonese people were promiscuous, and often criticized Cantonese people in their notes and articles for "immorality".
Lu people like to be officials because Shandong has been keen on being officials since ancient times.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was said that "people from Lu know more about the classics". In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations were divided into Jinshi subjects and Ming Jing subjects.
But people in Shandong are keen on studying the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, as long as they can blend into the system, it doesn't matter whether they are big or small.
Song Jiang, a famous rebel in the Song Dynasty, was Yasi of Yuncheng County, Shandong Province. After he went to Liangshan, he thought about being imprisoned day and night, which shows how addicted he is to being an official.
In the Ming Dynasty, Shandong had the largest number of civil servants who served as officials. Today, the chief administrator of Nanping County is a Shandong official. Some officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs even joked that "half of the chief administrators in the world are from Shandong."
The first two regional stereotypes are the arrogance and discrimination of senior scholars, and the stereotype of Jiangxi is a complete regional attack.
But Jiangxi has been rich in rebels since ancient times. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi became even more frequent.
The most recent major rebel is Zhu Chenhao, Prince of Ning, who was enfeoffed in Nanchang during the Zhengde period.
This rebellion, known as the "Ningwang Rebellion" in history, was finally put down by the Xinxue great Confucian Wang Yangming with his troops, affecting almost half of Jiangxi.
Although there were no major rebellions in Jiangxi after this, small rebellions still came one after another.
Su Ze noticed the word "demon" in front of Luo Fu, the leader of the rebellion, and asked Lin Baihu:
"Baihu, do you know the details of Luo Fu?"
Lin Baihu nodded and said: "In the past few years, Fujian Dusi This monster Luo Fu was mentioned in the official documents of the Yamen. He rebelled and surrendered several times, and then he rebelled again after only two years of silence." Su Ze also sighed, the Ming Dynasty's characteristic system was rich in
such rebels who rebelled repeatedly.
Because officials only care about their examination results during their term of office, they often tolerate small groups of rebels and support traitors. When the rebellion becomes strong, it often spreads to several counties or prefectures. By then, the biggest job of prefectural and county officials is to write official documents. They accused the rebels of being raised by other prefectures and counties.
Some prefecture and county officials even bribed the rebel leaders to attack the neighboring prefecture and county, just so that their exam results would not look too bad and they would not be held accountable by the court.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty had serious party disputes since the mid-term, and its policies were very fragmented. Often the previous general responsible for countering rebellion advocated appeasement, and then his successor would make a 180-degree turn and insist on eradication, and then another general would advocate appeasement. Even if the rebels surrender, they are always ready to rebel again to prevent the court from becoming ruthless.
The civil unrest in Jiangxi, like the Japanese pirates along the coast, was already a long-standing problem for the Ming Dynasty. However, in recent years, the civil unrest and the Japanese pirates colluded with each other and became more intense.
Lin Baihu added: "This Luo Fu takes the banner of 'Innocent Old Mother, Vacuum Hometown' and calls himself the Son of Maitreya Buddha. He has tens of thousands of believers in Jiangxi." Su Ze suddenly realized that this Luo Fu was a member of the Luo Sect
. .
The Luo Jiao, a famous folk secret society that was equally divided between the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the famous anti-thief organization the White Lotus Sect, worshiped "the Mingming God, the immeasurable, pure, supreme, holy, supreme, and holy ruler of all spirits in the ten directions", also known as the Inanimate Old Mother. .
The Inanimate Old Mother is known as the creator god and the savior. Those who worship the Inanimate Old Mother can enter the "vacuum hometown" after death and gain eternal peace and joy.
Su Ze now understood why "demon" was added. The people who were called "demon" in official documents of the Ming Dynasty were rebels with a religious nature.
The Ming Dynasty's attitude towards various sects of Buddhism and Taoism was simple and direct, that is, it was frantically suppressing them.
Quanzhen Taoism and Zhengtianshi Taoism, which are often mentioned in immortality novels, actually had their heyday during the Yuan Dynasty.
The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was the era when the canonization of state teachers was the most liberal. It gave Taoism the status of the state religion and conferred many orders on Taoist temples all over the world.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, everyone including the Zhang family of the Tianshi Mansion was forced to wear small shoes by the imperial court. Not only did they deprive them of the imperial title, they also strictly limited the size of the sect and prohibited private preaching.
Even if the current emperor likes to cultivate immortality, he is also madly suppressing these Taoist sects, because Emperor Jiajing himself named himself the Taoist Emperor. The emperor is already a Taoist, so why do you need other sects like you?
The Taoist priests Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen who were once favored by the emperor, although they came from the Zhengyi sect, the emperor only used them as alchemists. Their main job was to let them make alchemy or stargazing, and had no intention of supporting their sect.
Luo Fu is the leader of Jiangxi Luojiao. The rebellion this time must be quite large, and he happened to encounter the Yushi Qing army. Lin Mojun, who has always been calm and calm, is now a little panicked.
Today happens to be the day we return to the south. There is a lot of humidity in the air, and the dull air makes people feel breathless.
There was a roar of thunder, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and fine raindrops suddenly slanted down from the sky, at least dispelling some of the sultry weather.
Su Ze walked to the window and looked at the dense rain pillars hanging from the eaves. A heavy rain hit Changning Wei in an instant.
"The rain is coming." Su Ze murmured as he looked at the rain curtain outside the window.
In the days that followed, Su Ze seized the time to develop his skills.
When he was not studying at the School of Health, he would go to the school to learn the art of war with Lin Mojun, and occasionally go to the fields to guide Zhu Qi and the Arhats in farming.
The rest of the time was devoted to carpentry and masonry skills.
Su Ze discovered that the fastest carpenter to brush is to make bamboo chopsticks, and the fastest masonry worker to brush is to make stone bowls. A pair of wooden chopsticks can increase one point of carpentry experience, and making a stone bowl can increase five points of masonry experience.
Little carrot head Lin Liangjun and little carrot head Lin Cainiang didn't understand why Su Ze wanted to make these worthless things. They only regarded these things as Su Ze's hobbies.
After Su Ze finished making the stone bowls and bamboo chopsticks, they were piled everywhere in the family temple. He asked several students and Zhu Qi's men to carry the stone bowls and bamboo chopsticks and distribute them to each household in the guard house. Gained another reputation in Changning Guard.
During the day of the day when he and Haihou'er agreed to deliver the gun, Su Ze finally reached the full level of L4 in both his "Carpentry" and "Masonry" skills.
After making the last stone bowl, the system finally prompted a sound.
"Skill 'Masonry' breaks through Lv5, please choose a passive skill!"
Two greens in one basket, this result is also a normal probability. Su Ze turned over the card and saw -
these three passive skills are:
[Green Passive - Stonemason's Arm : The physical consumption of masonry work is reduced by 10%. ]
[Green Passive - Stonemason's Heart: When working as a stonemason, increase work efficiency by 5%. ]
[Blue Passive - Ingenuity: Using craftsman skills, there is a chance to create items that exceed your own skill level. 】
This is simply choosing with your eyes closed! Stonemasonry skills are not a particularly versatile skill, and Su Ze is not ready to continue stonemasonry.
The passive skill of Ingenuity can be used on all craftsman skills, and there is a probability of producing items that exceed the skill level. In game terms, it means that there is a probability of producing small masterpieces!
After quickly choosing this talent, Su Ze immediately made a pair of chopsticks, and his carpentry skills were also upgraded to Level 5.
"Skill 'Carpentry' has exceeded Level 5, please choose a passive skill!"
Three blue rays of light blinded Su Ze's eyes. Could it be that his fortune really turned out? Has it changed the fate of the African Emirates who draw cards in the game?
Looking at these three passives, Su Ze was even more confused. How to choose!
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