When Xia Qiang went to revise the official document, Zhu Ping'an looked at Hu Wei and his uncle Zhu Shouren and asked, "Mr. Hu, uncle, have you calculated the results? How much food do you need to ask for from Suzhou Prefecture?"
"Sir, I don't think I made a mistake in my calculations." Hu Wei was so confused that he didn't realize he was wrong. After calculating it again, he still came up with the same answer.
Zhu Ping'an looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren, "Uncle, have you calculated the results?"
"Ahem, I think Brother Hu is right." Uncle Zhu Shouren coughed, and he once again chose to believe Hu Wei.
On the one hand, when Hu Wei did the calculations just now, he calculated very carefully with an abacus and straw paper.
On the other hand, the uncle Zhu Shouren is not good at calculations and cannot even do abacus. Fortunately, there is nothing he can do about the smaller numbers but the larger ones. The quantity of grain and grass was beyond his ability to calculate. What could he do if he didn't believe Hu Wei? He couldn't calculate it himself, so he could only choose to believe Hu Wei.
For a moment, Hu Wei and his uncle Zhu Shouren both looked at Zhu Pingan with a look on their face.
"Mr. Hu, how many days are there in a month?" Zhu Pingan had no choice but to ask Hu Wei helplessly.
"Of course it's thirty days." Hu Wei replied without hesitation.
"How many days did Mr. Hu count?" Zhu Ping'an looked at Hu Wei with burning eyes and asked slowly.
"Of course I counted thirty." Hu Wei replied without thinking, but he remembered what went wrong just halfway through his words, "Oh, my god, I seem to have calculated it based on ten days."
"Ah?! You calculated it based on ten days?" Uncle Zhu Shouren suddenly panicked and looked at Hu Wei nervously and asked, "Then the gunpowder and weapons you calculated for me were also calculated based on ten days?"
The corner of Zhu Ping'an's mouth twitched. The uncle was really an uncle, and he hadn't changed at all.
"No." Hu Wei shook his head.
"Oh, that's fine." Uncle Zhu Shouren breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next second, he couldn't let go.
"Because you calculated the consumption for half a month, I first calculated it based on one month, and then reduced it by half. In other words, I calculated it based on five days." Hu Wei said with some embarrassment.
"Five days." The uncle's face turned dark, "Brother Hu, it's useless for me to trust you so much. You let me down so much."
"You can't blame me. Didn't I ask you to calculate it? You're right." Hu Wei couldn't help but complain.
"If I could figure it out, would I still need your help?" the uncle said confidently.
Let me go, what you said makes sense, but I was speechless. Hu Wei was immediately speechless.
"Ahem, nephew, do you want to read the official document I wrote?" Uncle Zhu Shouren asked sarcastically, holding the official document.
"Uncle, do you think I still need to watch it?" Zhu Pingan asked with a wry smile.
"Ahem, let's wait for Brother Hu to do the calculation again. After we correct it, we can show it to my nephew." Uncle Zhu Shouren said coquettishly, put away the official document and put it back on the table.
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There seemed to be a piece of paper under the official document that the uncle had placed, and Zhu Pingan's sharp eyes saw it at once.
Zhu Ping'an stepped forward to pick up his uncle's official documents.
"After you change the numbers, my dear nephew, let's read it again." Uncle Zhu Shouren was a little nervous and held down his official document.
"It's okay, what I want to see is not an official document." Zhu Pingan smiled slightly and pulled his uncle's hand away. Under the uncle's nervous eyes, Zhu Pingan picked up the official document and saw another official document below.
Seeing that Zhu Ping'an saw the official document hidden underneath, a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on the forehead of his uncle Zhu Shouren.
Zhu Pingan picked up the official document below and laughed angrily when he saw it.
The uncle's official letter was modeled on the official letter asking for gunpowder and weapons, but the content was about asking for money.
In the official document, the uncle asked the Suzhou government to allocate three thousand taels of silver to reward the soldiers and boost the morale of the soldiers, so that in the upcoming war against the Japanese, the soldiers would exert 100% of their strength and fight to the death.
The uncle's appetite was really getting bigger and bigger. He secretly asked for silver behind his back, and the reward was three thousand taels of silver.
What kind of nonsense is it to reward soldiers? With the uncle's character, his sneaky ways behind his back, and the cold sweat on his face now, Zhu Ping'an is extremely clear. As long as the three thousand taels of silver are invited, all of them will definitely fall into the uncle's hands. pocket.
"Uncle, what is this?"
Zhu Pingan picked up the official letter of invitation secretly written by his uncle, looked at him with burning eyes, and asked lightly.
"My dear nephew, please listen to my quibbles, ah no, I'm just explaining." Uncle Zhu Shouren suddenly became bald.
"Then you can quibble." Zhu Pingan said lightly.
"Ahem, the explanation is to explain my nephew." Uncle Zhu Shouren coughed and emphasized repeatedly.
Zhu Ping'an looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren noncommittally, and his uncle Zhu Shouren shut his mouth and stopped emphasizing the sophistry and explained instead.
"My dear nephew, it's like this. Didn't I hear you say that the Japanese pirates are about to attack Suzhou? You asked Brother Hu to buy food, Brother Xia to arrange training, and asked me to buy gunpowder and weapons. There is going to be a war soon. .”
"War is not a child's play. Isn't there an old saying that the most important affairs of the country are sacrifices and wars? Since there is going to be a war, the uncle must help his nephew check and fill in the gaps. When it comes to war, it is indispensable to have the right time, the right place and the right people. , as the saying goes, 'The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people', 'harmony' is too important in war."
"How to improve the 'humanity', the uncle thought of the saying that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. If you want to improve the spirit of the soldiers, what is better than giving a reward of silver? If Yes, that’s two deals.”
"So, I applied to Suzhou Prefecture for three thousand taels of silver. When the time comes, each soldier will be given one tael, so I won't worry if they don't try their best to kill the Japanese."
"Brothers fighting tigers, father and son go into battle. I am the uncle. This is what an uncle should do. My nephew, you don't need to thank me."
The uncle Zhu Shouren became more fluent as he made it up, and became more confident as he spoke. It was obvious that he was really good at telling lies.
Quietly watching his uncle lie, Zhu Ping'an also commented on this test in his mind: Hu Wei and Xia Qiang are both careless people and unreliable. They cannot handle major military affairs. Leave it to them and leave it to yourself. Don't worry; as for the uncle Zhu Shouren, it's even more unreliable. He cheats and cheats, works hard and fails, and fails to succeed. If he sees money, he will only try his best to make money for himself if he comes to help him. , even as long as the money is in place, the uncle can sell the Zhejiang Army and himself completely.
Therefore, it is better to send them away as soon as possible.
Zhu Pingan made up his mind.
Forget about the crouching dragon, phoenix and so on, my temple is small and cannot accommodate you three giant Buddhas.
