What Wang Jixun wants to do? Song Jiu can't control it. The evil people will be punished by the evil people, and he will not end up well. But Song Jiu was lucky enough to remember this history, so he didn't want to have anything to do with Wang Jixun. However, Wang Jixun intervened, and Song Jiu was worried about the back. Maybe Zhao Kuangyin was kind-hearted. Seeing that he had not started work, he thought he was not rich enough. It happened that his brother-in-law and a group of generals gained a lot from Bashu. He spent it on the river bank rather than spend it on his own.

If you don’t appreciate it, that’s not good.

Song Jiu thought for a while and asked, "How much capital do you all raise?"

"If you have money, silk, and others, you can get about 120,000 yuan in total."

"Let's go," Song Jiudao.

Taking them to Hezhou, Song Jiu found Li Zhu who was helping in the crowd and called Li Zhu over and asked, "Li Zhu, how much money have you raised with Hu Xingtou?"

Li Zhu calculated it very clearly and immediately replied: "Mr. Jiu, there are more than 34,600 chunks of money in total."

"So much?" Song Jiu said that more than 120,000 yuan was not much money, which was slow to raise, which means that many people don't believe it, or are unwilling to let their children stay below them, or have some other ideas, otherwise 320,000 yuan was not much money, and it was a lot of yamen. The people in the river do not have much money, even 30,000 yuan was not much money. This is also a theory of relativity.

"Mr. Jiu, there are many, but not only those from Hezhong, but also from Hebei, and some merchants have also invested some money in it."

Song Jiumo calculated, saying, "So, there is still more than 10,000 yuan in money. I can also withdraw several thousand yuan in money to cushion it. I guess it is still 10,000 yuan in money. Pan Erlang and Fu Sanlang. When you go back, you will immediately find a way to collect the 10,000 yuan in money. Then let out the news. The 250,000 yuan is full, and you can't collect it anymore. But if the uncle is willing, then collect three or four thousand pieces of silk."

The two nodded understandingly.

Fu Zhaoshou is Zhao Kuangyi's uncle, but his uncle is far inferior to Wang Jixun's treasure. Moreover, Wang Jixun relies on Zhao Kuangyin's favor for him and has been domineering in the capital. No matter Fu Zhaoshou or Gao Chugong, he does not want to provoke this person.

The two of them hurried back. It was not difficult to get together ten thousand yuan, but they couldn't delay time. It would be difficult to grab time.

Song Jiu would not refuse, it had nothing to do with Song Jiu, so he simply looked at the construction site.

The four piers of Dahong Bridge have been repaired, but they are actually two piers. Each two piers by the river are connected into a whole, with some connected steel on it. One is firm, and the other is to facilitate future generations to change steel cables or apply oil under the current. But it has nothing to do with painting. If it is painted, scaffolding must be installed.

Xiaohong Bridge does not use steel cables, but also has bridge piers. It is the two bridge piers below. The technology of Xiaohong Bridge is the real technology to promote the Bian Water Flying Bridge in the future. The cost of doing this in Dahong Bridge is too high. There are also stone bridges and docks on the river bank.

It will not be over until winter, and maybe there will be some finishing projects next spring. This is the power of the state machine. Otherwise, the labor cost alone will be unimaginable.

Song Jiu looked around. Han Chongyun called him over. There was a mighty man standing beside him, carrying a huge bow and arrow on his back. Han Chongyun introduced: "This is General Gao."

"Gao Huai..."

"I am Gao Huaide," Gao Huaide smiled. Because his wife's eldest princess, his son Gao Kugong and Song Jiu were a little accomplicated. This is the children's affairs and he would not interfere. And he thought more clearly that this is Song Jiu's nonsense, a poor family. If his wife succeeds and his son brings these yamen together, the troubles of the Gao family will come!

Gao Huaide didn't dare to tell his wife that it would be even worse if he was stabbed to the emperor. Song Jiu flatly refused. Gao Huaide was afraid and happy when he heard this. Song Jiu wanted to show his respect, and Gao Huaide waved his hand and said, "I'm just going out of the city to hunt. Seeing General Han here, I came over to see General Han. You don't have to be too polite. But Song Jiu, you did a good thing, especially these steel. When I led troops to fight, I didn't want armor under my command, but I had armor but were afraid of roughness. Do you know there is an allusion?"

"What allusion?"

"God of Tang wanted to re-appoint Xue Rengui, and asked if it could. If Xue Rengui had not been asked, he took out a strong bow on the spot and pierced five or six layers of armor with one arrow. General Xue's force was amazing, which is something that ordinary people could imagine. But it also shows that the armor of the Tang Dynasty may not be very good. If it is really steel armor, don't talk about five or six layers of armor, even two layers of armor cannot pass through." Gao Huaide said this, searched around and found a steel plate, which was about the same thickness as that of the armor of the Song Dynasty. He bent his bow and took an arrow, and shot it with an arrow.

The arrow pierced in like lightning, but not deep, and only a little bit of it. The tail of the arrow kept trembling in the air. Gao Huaide said: "I stood here for forty steps, which is the greatest distance for the bow and arrow. Moreover, my bow is a three-stone bow. Although Xue Rengui's arm strength is amazing, I believe he is at most twice as strong as me. If it were steel armor, how could it pierce through five or six layers? One layer could pierce through one layer, which would be considered good. Or if it were my arm strength, I haven't been on the battlefield for several years, but there are not many men in the army who can surpass my arm strength. Just one arrow, just this best distance, and one arrow only enters a little, and this is impossible to cause damage to the soldiers behind the armor."

Song Jiu looked at Gao Huaide suspiciously, not knowing what he was going to say.

"Song Jiu, come and shoot."

"General Gao, I have never taken a bow."

"Try it, you must go to the battlefield to kill the enemy."

Song Jiu had to take the bow and then pull it hard, but it was not fully pulled. Gao Huaide said: "No, I have strength."

The first is arm strength and the second is skill. It seems that the archers are simple, but in fact, real archers can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Archers usually need to train for three years to just pull the bow and shoot arrows. Song Jiu can pull into most of the arcs, and Gao Huaide said again: "Be careful to hurt your fingers."

He came over and taught Song Jiu some skills, and then said, "You shoot."

It was a steel plate with a large target. Song Jiu released an arrow and hit the steel plate. After a few bounces, it seemed to drill a little, but it was even shallower. After struggling for a few times, the arrow fell to the ground.

"Song Jiu, do you know what your steel means?"

"I don't understand very much yet. Please make clear General Gao."

"The cost of a standard armor in my court is almost thirty to forty jin, and nearly fifty jin. The cost of a jin of armor is seven or eight hundred cents, why is it so much? Because the quality of transported by various subways is relatively poor. It must be forged repeatedly and then worn with money. The loss of iron, labor costs, and other materials, so the cost of a pair of armor reaches nearly forty jin. However, they can only be forged a few times. I have heard of the steel theory you mentioned, that is, there is no uniform carbon?"

“Carbon alloying.”

"Anyway, it can't be considered steel, it can only be said to be iron armor. But even this iron armor, if produced at standard, can prevent some weapons from slashing and arrow damage. What I am afraid of is the collusion between officials, greed, shoddy, and weight, the soldiers cannot run fast when wearing it, affect their speed, cannot be agile during combat, and have no defense. Such armor is better than wearing some leather armor and paper armor. Song Jiu. Do you understand what I mean?"

"So that's it..." Song Jiu understood.

With gunpowder, iron products have increased. With the steel surveillance, even if the quality of the steel surveillance is still not up to standard, it can be considered steel. As long as it is forged two or three times in the steel surveillance, it will be handed over to various weapons. Even if they are greedy, the armor they make can be considered steel armor. The weapons are also sharper than before. Therefore, from the perspective of the army, Gao Huaide said that Song Jiu did a good thing.

However, Song Jiu vaguely saw the loss in his eyes.

He also saw this expression in Han Chongyun's eyes.

Perhaps Pan Mei and Cao Bin made great contributions in another time and space. But everyone neglected one thing, such as Gao Huaide, Han Chongyun and others, who can't fight? Half of them are not inferior to Cao Pan's martial arts, and nearly ten people are even better at fighting than Pan Cao, but Zhao Kuangyin doesn't give them a chance.

So some people believe in Buddhism, and some people hunt outside the city like Gao Huaide all day, but they can't see anyone.

Song Jiu didn't know what to say, but changed the topic and said: "General Gao is not realistic. We have more than 100,000 banished soldiers in our ranks, and we don't count them. One person needs 40 to 50 kilograms of steel. Although there is a steel supervisor, there will be losses. A set of armor must have 100 to 150 kilograms of iron. This refers to the iron smelted from the blast furnace, otherwise it will be more. Then it is unlikely that the entire Song army needs 20 million kilograms of iron to change clothes."

"But if you have something better than nothing, as long as you have it, you can change it slowly. You will use real steel armor sooner or later in a day."

Song Jiu still disagreed.

Even if you use steel armor all the time?

Not to mention the generals who were successively sent to retreat, just talking about the ban on the ban, Zhao Kuangyin had many ideas. When the Tang army was most powerful, the time when the government soldiers had not completely collapsed. The capital city was jointly undertaken by the Yulin Army and the government soldiers who were garrisoned by various prefectures and counties.

Those soldiers from the countryside came up from the countryside, were simple in nature, brave and good at fighting, and could also drive the training enthusiasm of the Yulin Army in the capital. But the Song Dynasty in turn was raised together in the capital and in this world of flowers, and the imperial guards would sooner or later develop a flower stand.

Perhaps Zhao Kuangyin had his considerations, at least it could be said that the country could quickly rectify the situation. As Song Jiu, he didn't want the Five Dynasties to re-start the stage. Don't develop Hezhou at that time, so save your life!

Song Jiu did not understand military affairs, Gao Huaide and others did not understand steel, and they also neglected a possibility that the cost of armor did not decrease, but reduced the weight of the armor to twenty-five to thirty Song jin. Using this saving cost to forge two to three more times, perhaps sacrificing part of the defense. However, what does it mean to reduce the weight of the armor by twenty kilograms?

Song Jiu only thought that weapons were useless, and he was still thinking about something he didn't understand. He said that Zhao Kuangyin valued literature and over military affairs, and he did not use many real literati. Zhao Pu and others could not be considered literati, but were half-literate and half-martial clerks. For example, Li Chuyun, who was a clerk, was famous for his bravery since he was a child. So when he went south, Murong Yanzhao fell ill, and he immediately took over the army. If it were threats, these people could be both literary and military, and the threat was even greater.

There are many things he can’t understand, and the more he thinks about, the more he will see a person’s shadow.

Without further ado, the two brothers became foreman and the other became hunters. Let them slowly express their feelings. Song Jiu left and continued to look at the construction site.

On the third day, Pan Weide, Fu Zhaoshou, Shi Baozheng and Gao Kokong came together again. Gao Kokong had been in the Song family for a long time. I don’t know if it was on the Hezhou side, Gao Huaide said something to his son, and today he came. Fu Zhaoshou said, “Jiulang, you have all the money.”

"good."

Song Jiu took over the account book, plus Boss Hu's side, and the remaining money and silk were exactly 253,000 yuan, and he had to give Wang Jixun a face. Fu Zhaoshou wrote a letter to Wang Jixun, explaining the reason, and only accepted 5,000 pieces of silk from Wang Jixun.

In fact, the money and silk that had flattened Hezhou last year was more than 282,000 yuan, not including the many money and silk that Song Jiu had paid. In the early Song Dynasty, this was also an astonishing astronomical figure.

After reading the account book, Song Jiu said: "You will send a few more reliable people and managers to Wuyue, and give local people some deposits to give them a variety of sugarcane. In addition, they will send people to the north or surrounding ranches to sign contracts with the herdsmen. After the autumn next year, they will buy milk in large quantities. As long as milk, goat milk and horse milk are not allowed, but they cannot be scattered. I will develop a method of preservation next year so that it can be transported to the capital and will not deteriorate."

The four of them hurried back. All the four families took a lot of money, and the Fu family also took more than 7,000 guan of money, while the Pan family also took more than 5,000 guan of money. So much money can't be said to be a fun ticket.

Song Jiu began to organize manual work.

I didn’t rush to transport various materials, but first dug a few large deep pits. This is the future refrigeration room. Not only is the ice cellar, but various ingredients will appear in the future, and they must be refrigerated and kept fresh. Even if it is a game venue, there must be some restaurants and drinks.

...

As soon as the sun came out, it was pissing the eyes with a burning fire, and the cicadas moaned weakly on the tree.

The eldest sister took a sip of ice mung bean soup and put down the bowl. She felt very comfortable. Perhaps in her eyes, she could drink cold drinks every day in summer, which was the happiest time. Then she said, "Tomorrow your brother-in-law and sister-in-law get married, you have to go over, otherwise people will say that you are well-developed and forget your roots."

"Sister, okay, I'll give you some silk as a gift. In addition, I don't have time to go tomorrow morning, so I can only go in the afternoon if I want to go."

"When do you have to be busy?"

"It's time to go out. If you are familiar with the business, you will probably not be busy. If other industries start construction in the future, everyone will be familiar with them, so you won't have to be so busy."

"You are not young anymore."

"Sister, I know, it's going to be next winter."

The eldest sister looked at Yuping nervously. Yuping looked very normal. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your fifth brother-in-law and a cousin want to enter school. Your fifth sister came last time, but it was hard to say."

“How is the conduct?”

"It's okay. If the person is not good, your fifth sister dares to do this more?"

"Where is his home?"

“In Anyefang.”

"That's still north of Xiangguo Temple, the road is too far."

"They don't bother to be far away. Aren't the two doctoral families even further? They're coming to teach every day?"

"Come on the way." Song Jiu said, this is not a real national formal education institution, so why can't we open a small back door? Song Jiu came to the back and brought a few pieces of silk as a gift, then drank a large bowl of ice mung bean soup and was about to go to Hezhou. At this moment, a noise came from outside. Song Jiu and his elder sister and Yuping came to the door and saw a small yellow door pointing at the yamen runners and unloading many tables and chairs from one car.

The classroom has been opened long ago. It’s time to knock down the wall, put on a beam, move the courtyard wall to paint some lime, and make a few days to do it. However, the hot weather is hot, and the affairs of the government office in Hezhou, his own affairs, and the laboratory cannot be lost. Song Jiu was too lazy to recruit new students, so he planned to delay it until the end of the three-day holidays.

However, the tables and chairs have been delivered, but I still don’t understand?

Song Jiu had no choice but to direct the yamen runners to move the tables and chairs into the classroom. This time, there were finally a unified table and chairs. As the little yellow gate asked the yamen runners to move in some books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Cui'er murmured: "Jiulang is going to be busier again."

But as Song Jiu said, it was only in the past two years that twenty-one students grew up slowly. They could not only be assistants to experiments, but also teachers. At that time, Hezhou business would also have some experience. Song Jiu's happy time came.
Chapter completed!