Of course Wei Yuntian doesn't need to borrow money, because the boss has already given it.
Before Liu Changan died, he left a will and asked his wife and daughter to bury him on the spot without sending him back to his hometown. Liu Xiangqin didn't want to make a fuss about it. He just asked the monks from the temple outside the city to perform a ritual ceremony and chose a nearby land with beautiful scenery. They were buried together in the treasure house.
In order to give Wei Yuntian a chance to perform, neither Xiao Chen nor Chen Jisheng participated, leaving the young couple to discuss the matter on their own.
The funeral was quickly completed, but the happy event could not be held immediately because Liu Xiangqin needed to observe mourning for her parents for three years.
During this period, the two of them are theoretically not allowed to see each other.
You can be together during a funeral. This is called following the right of urgency. If you are still together after the funeral is over, it is unethical, morally corrupt, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is adultery...
Just asking if you are worried about others?
Therefore, the poems of the ancients are actually very life-like. What does it mean to be filled with water and feel speechless?
This is the current state of Wei Yuntian and Liu Xiangqin.
That night, everyone gathered in Xiao Chen's house for a meeting. The content of the meeting was the completion of the matters Xiao Chen had assigned him a few days ago.
Wen Shanchang purchased ten cartloads of medicinal materials, and found a pharmaceutical factory to process them into medicinal powders, ointments, and pills. Together with the work and materials, the budget may be more than 30,000 taels of silver. Anyway, your boss asked me to make it, so why not Let me get some more...
Surgical curved needles are easy to use. All you need to do is buy some sewing needles and modify them slightly, but there are not so many catguts. Wen Shanchang directly chose stronger fishing lines instead, which is also acceptable.
He also bought a lot of coarse gauze to wrap the wounds, as well as some elastic tendon ropes that could be used to tie up and stop bleeding. Xiao Chen didn't explain this, it was his own decision.
Xiao Chen expressed that he was very pleased and Shan Chang was doing well.
Liu Mofeng went to the War Bureau and checked their inventory. There were more than a thousand large and small fire blunderbuss in them. However, due to their age and poor maintenance, only three or four out of ten of them seemed to be usable.
He picked out a few good ones and brought them back to Xiao Chen, who made Xiao Chen sigh in admiration. Damn it, this thing is not a firearm, it's just a fire stick!
The current firearms are still very clumsy, and the technology is quite backward. They are all made of cast iron. Each one weighs more than thirty kilograms, and it is very difficult to hold it!
When firing, you need to fill the gunpowder from the front of the barrel in advance. The gunpowder is tamped first, and then an iron projectile is put in. Next, you have to light the fuse, commonly known as the gunpowder. You have to wait for the fuse to burn out before firing...
The process is extremely cumbersome, and it takes a long time to reload after each round of shooting. This is even if there is no malfunction.
Malfunctions also occurred frequently. For example, the amount of gunpowder was too small, and the projectile only shot a dozen meters or less.
Either the amount of gunpowder is too large, which directly causes the chamber to explode, or the gunpowder is so wet that it cannot be ignited at all, or there is something wrong with the gunpowder and it cannot be burned inside for a long time, but it may explode when you want to check...
Many frontline soldiers hated this thing, saying that it was very powerful, but even if it could injure the enemy a thousand, it would only damage itself by eight hundred!
A soldier's basic quality is to be brave and not afraid of death, but it would be too cowardly to die under the weapons in his own hands.
The main reason is that it is not practical. In addition to the various conditions and frequent accidents, daily maintenance, storage, safety, and transportation are all big problems.
It's simply not as good as a bow and arrow.
At first, there was a musketeer battalion in the imperial army, but because there were too many casualties during training, it was simply disbanded.
At present, there are still some used by border troops outside, but relatively few. They are generally used for castle defense operations and are rarely used during attacks.
The eunuch in charge of the Military War Bureau heard that Mr. Xiao was interested in this thing, so he waved his hand and asked him to pick it up! I'll wait until you Xichang brothers pick out the rest and then send them out!
If it's just this kind of crap... then let's keep it, at least it's better than nothing.
Chen Xiaohu went to the horse farm outside the city, but there were quite a lot of horses there. There were only more than 80,000 horses in the several horse farms, but half of them were ponies.
Because there are no grassland pastures around Fengyang City, all fodder needs to be transported from other places.
Moreover, the feeding of war horses is different from that of ordinary pack horses. They need to add a lot of concentrated feed, such as soybeans and black beans, which are all grains, so the cost is extremely high, and they cannot afford to feed too many.
The officer at the racecourse heard that Mr. Xiao, the Duke of Xichang Factory, wanted horses, and immediately said that if you ride it yourself, your brother can choose one or two horses for you without any problem, but if there are more, it will not work.
Because we are currently in extremely short supply of war horses, we must report to the Ministry of War for approval.
The weapons arsenal of the Ministry of War is sufficient, and all kinds of weapons are also very well maintained. Winter coats are no problem. Zhang Dafu's clothing supervisor does not have that much inventory, but he can contact the garment factory outside the palace and they can rush it in a few days. Of course, you have to ask for money to come out.
Zhuge Xiaosheng got the latest map of the Northern Territory, and also asked for some maps left by the previous Han Dynasty. They were all hung on the wall. He was holding a long bamboo stick in his hand and pointing at it, which was quite modern military. It means fighting.
There is a natural danger in the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is the Yanyun Mountain Range that stretches for 800 miles. One of the great passes is the world-famous Yanyunguan Pass.
The reason why it is famous all over the world is that since the establishment of this pass, it has never been breached by enemies from the north... The surrender of the defender or being incited to rebel does not count.
Yanyunguan Pass has been the gateway to the Central Plains in the past dynasties, because the south of Yanyun City and Fengyang City are all flat plains, and there are no natural dangers to defend.
In the north of Yanyun Mountain is Yanyun County. There are a total of eighteen prefectures, known as the Eighteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
Yanyun County is nominally the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but in fact most of it is controlled by the major tribes and clans in the north.
The five cities that Xiao Chen won back actually belonged to the powerful men of the previous dynasty, and they were unable to take them back after they were forcibly taken away.
In short, these are all issues left over from history, and they are all marked in red on rigorous military maps.
Even if Xiao Chen didn't know much about military affairs, he was still confused. "What the hell, there are no mountains in this large area?"
There are some, but there are none that can be used as natural protection. Almost all the cities in Yanyun County are located on the endless plains.
Therefore, the population of Yanyun County is pitifully small. There are only a few hundred thousand people registered in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which is about the same as Jiangdong County.
If it weren't for the imperial court's strict order not to allow them to enter the customs, they might all have fled back...
Now not only is the Xianbo sending troops to harass, but several other tribes are also ready to take advantage of the opportunity to attack and occupy the territory and rob the population... The situation can be said to be quite serious.
Under this situation, even Fengyang King Li Feng or even Zhongcheng King Li Wanyun may not be able to go.
If Li Wanjiang really sent Xiao Chen, he would really comply with Chen Jisheng's words.
You will definitely die if you go here!
