"Being angry is not good for the liver. Come on, eat some chicken wings first to relieve your anger."
Song Che took off two chicken wings and handed them to He Qiu and Xu Xiao.
He Qiu stared at the chicken wings for a long time, then stared at Song Che: "If you knew what they did, you would never be so calm."
Song Che calmly flipped and grilled the chicken wings, it had nothing to do with him anyway.
"They poked the whole Han people in the back!"
He Qiu said angrily: "In the early hours of last night, a basket of bloody human heads were placed at the gates of Suzhou City and Xiuzhou City. They were all common people who had been harmed by Japanese pirates. Their arrogance was simply outrageous!"
Song Che frowned. This group of Japanese pirates could silently send their heads outside Suzhou City. This was more than just arrogance, it was clearly a provocation.
He sighed: "What do you want me to do? What can I do?"
"You have suppressed bandits in Qili Mountain, and you have suppressed Japanese in Hangzhou. Xiuzhou and Suzhou are close friends. If Xiuzhou changes, Suzhou will not be peaceful either."
"Master He, you think too highly of me -"
"If I look down on you, why would I come to visit you in person?"
Hearing He Qiu say this, Song Che felt very comfortable for some reason.
Song Che didn't answer for the time being, sprinkled a pinch of salt on the chicken wings, and murmured: "I am a businessman, I have to do something..."
He Qiu shouted: "For peace in the world, I hope you can sprinkle more salt on the chicken wings!"
Song Che shook his head: "I'm not that great."
"you!"
He Qiu cursed: "Profiteer!"
He shook his sleeves and asked, "What do you want?"
Song Che didn't show off and said, "Five hundred kilograms of pig iron and two hundred kilograms of black powder."
"Are you crazy? Do you know how many people have been raped and executed for these things throughout the ages?" He Qiu couldn't believe it.
Song Che blinked at him: "That's why I want to ask Mr. He."
He Qiu gritted his teeth and sighed for a long time: "These are sensitive things. You must not do anything sensitive."
"My lord, please be careful, I have my own sense of discretion."
Song Che skewered another chicken wing and handed it to He Qiu with a smile: "Try it, you're welcome."
He Qiu reluctantly took the chicken wings and took a small bite. His eyes instantly brightened a little and he sighed, "I hope your idea tastes as good as these chicken wings."
Song Che took some more fresh chicken wings and put them on the barbecue grill. While using scissors to change the knife, he asked: "How many bandits are there in Shanghai?"
Xu Xiao said: "They are in groups of twenty or thirty, and there are five or six groups, along the coastline, specifically to harass villages and towns. After the harm is done, they run away, and they appear and disappear. We are very passive."
"There's no fleet, right?" Song Che asked again.
Xu Xiao shook his head: "They are just some rogues. No pirate ships have been found yet."
"How many troops do we have?" Song Che asked again.
Xu Xiao said: "Including the reinforcements sent by Suzhou, there are more than 2,500 people in total."
"Hmm..." Song Che brushed oil on the chicken wings over and over again. When he reached the eighth time, he suddenly thought of something and said:
"The mouse got into the hole after stealing the oil. No matter how ferocious the tiger is, it can't catch it. Why not change the idea. Since they are mice, we can simply turn into cats and play a cat-and-mouse game with them——
Go and tell Xiuzhou that all the 2,500 soldiers should take off their armor, put on lighter cloth and swords, and form a group of fifty people to imitate the Japanese pirates and roam around the coastal areas of Xiuzhou;
Each person and team should be equipped with chariots and horses as much as possible, and must have bolide stars on them. Once a Japanese pirate is discovered, a signal will be sent to notify;
With such a dense deployment of troops, there will definitely be friendly troops lingering nearby. Once they see a signal, they will rush to support them. "
Xu Xiao had objections: "It's not that my ambition is to destroy my own prestige. These wandering Japanese pirates are not low in small group combat capabilities. If officers and soldiers in a team of fifty people encounter them, they will most likely not be their opponents."
"That's the point." Song Che said without denying: "Japanese pirates are all ronin warriors. They fight fiercely and cruelly all year round. With the fighting power of our Jiangnan veteran soldiers, even three against one may not be able to gain the upper hand. Therefore, ——
The state capital should unite and issue a reward announcement, calling on people from all over the world to cooperate with officers and soldiers to fight against Japanese pirates;
I have come into contact with many knights-errants, many of whom are highly skilled in martial arts. Their strength should be reused. "
"People from the martial arts world?" A hint of disdain flashed in He Qiu's eyes, "Those so-called 'chivalrous people' who wander in the martial arts world are either criminals or on the road to crime. If you recruit them into the army, wouldn't you be walking with hungry wolves?"
Song Che shook his head, "In the face of national justice, those with a chivalrous heart will never stick to small details - killing Japanese pirates can serve as a crime; killing Japanese pirates can protect the family and the country; killing Japanese pirates can earn rewards, why not do it?"
He looked at He Qiu: "As long as the government is honest, gives you what you deserve, and gets what they deserve, this matter won't be difficult to handle."
What are Japanese pirates?
A group of hooligans from a small country, Daliang can drown them all with just a spit of spit.
The fundamental reason why Japanese pirates are rampant is that officialdom is corrupt and the military and civilians cannot work together.
Take the premeditated assassination of Gao Chen in Yangzhou as an example. Some people actually used Japanese pirates as weapons to achieve their political goals. It is really hateful, sad and pitiful.
"Okay, then let's try it according to your plan."
He Qiu spit out the chicken bones and left the small courtyard with Xu Xiao.
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The changes in heaven and earth are endless.
Winter of the sixteenth year of the Yong'an calendar.
Daliang and Xiqiang successfully formed an alliance and jointly attacked Dijon, and the war in the north was slowed down.
They also used Lianghe as the boundary to cut off Northern Liang and seek peace with the Hu people. The war in the northwest that lasted for six years finally subsided briefly.
The Japanese invasion along the coast is getting worse day by day. Rogue bandits have joined forces with pirates to occupy most ports, among which Hebei, Jingdong, Huainan, and Fujian-Guangzhou are the most serious.
Expelling the Japanese pirates is urgent!
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…
One month later.
Song Che's "cat and mouse strategy" successfully drove away the Xiuzhou bandits, the salt was re-transported, and the salt price returned to normal.
It's the tenth day of October, a light snow day.
Before the first snowfall in Suzhou, the weather has turned sharply cold. People put on thick coats, and Yunshuifang has completely ushered in the off-season.
There is still sun in the sky, but it is difficult to suppress the cold current.
Song Che took out the charcoal in the brazier to make the temperature in the study warmer.
In my hand is the list of shopkeepers who have passed this assessment, a total of two men and six women, Lao Zhang from the field, Xu Nian from the dyeing workshop, Chen E and Wang Yue from the weaving workshop, Huang Mei and Zheng Juan from the embroidery room, the receptionist at the store Lin Guoer, the master of ceremonies, and Cao Lin, the daughter of Cao Tian, the transfer envoy who was rescued from Luoyang by Song Che.
In addition to the eight carefully selected chief and deputy shopkeepers, Song Che also selected twelve key clerks based on assessment results. There are four new stores, two shopkeepers, and three employees, both men and women, who work well together so that the work is not tiring.
This month, more than 3,000 pieces of private jewelry were rushed into the shop. Song Che was afraid that the products would be too monotonous, so he transferred 5,000 jars of pearl white jade paste from a jewelry store in Hangzhou.
If Yangzhou produces beauties, they will definitely earn more money.
"Cuckoo..." Several pigeons chirped outside the window.
Song Che quickly opened the window, and a gust of cold wind hit his face, making him shiver with coldness. A white dove was preening its feathers outside the window sill.
"thank you."
Song Che took the pigeon back, closed the window, grabbed a handful of rice grains to feed, took off the creed from its claws, opened it and took a look, there were six small words:
"The transfer envoy has arrived."
Song Che smiled and threw the creed into the brazier.
"Uh-"
The study door was suddenly pushed open.
Shen Wenjun hurriedly waved an invitation: "There is a happy event in the family, there is a happy event in the family! Our useless cousin is finally getting married."
In fact, Shen Fang and Song Che will get married before the end of the year. Song Che asked with a faint smile: "When is the wedding date?"
Shen Wenjun said: "October 21st, there are eleven days left. We have almost prepared the goods for the new store, why not start early?"
Going to Yangzhou... facing the Yang family, it must be very dangerous.
Song Che put his beloved wife into his arms and said seriously: "Wenjun, our mother's belly is getting bigger day by day. You should stay and take care of her. The weather is so cold, why don't you go?"
Shen Wenjun pouted and said resolutely: "One hundred people can't, one thousand people don't want to, ten thousand people -"
"Okay, okay, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Just take good care of her.
"Even if you don't tell me, I still know that going to Yangzhou this time is a life and death contest with the Yang family," Shen Wenjun squeezed Song Che's hand and said loudly and forcefully.
"Husband and wife working together can make a difference!"
"Okay."
…
In the afternoon, Song Che first went to Wang's blacksmith shop.
These brothers are really powerful in swinging their iron hammers, some are coarse and some are fine, some are fine and some are coarse. Their 120 muskets are all of top quality.
According to the previous agreement, a piece of silver is ten taels, and if it exceeds one hundred taels, it will be counted as twenty taels, for a total of one thousand, four hundred taels. After deducting the original deposit of 500 taels, there is still a balance of 900 taels. Song Che gave one thousand taels. Two, and the extra one hundred taels will be used as a reward.
"Blacksmith Wang, are you tired?"
“Earn money and don’t feel tired!”
"Then how about continuing to build? Raise the price to twelve taels per handful, and you can buy as many as you want."
"Okay, God of Wealth!"
"May the power of the hammer be with you!"
The blacksmith shop makes a profit of 1,500 taels a month. After deducting pig iron materials, labor costs, and apprentice wages, the three brothers can earn at least 300 taels a month. This income is more than 90% of the people in Suzhou City.
After collecting the goods at the blacksmith shop, Song Che took the state documents and went to the military camp to collect black powder.
Finally, we came to the west dock of the city, rented a passenger ship, and asked Liu San'er to find a group of reliable helpers to carry the muskets, gunpowder, bullets, private houses, and white jade paste onto the ship.
Go home in the evening,
Since he fell into the water outside Luoyang City last time, most of the medicines he brought from modern times have been lost.
The electric baton was originally damaged by a short circuit, but fortunately Song Che did not give up and kept it in the rice vat for half a month. After drying, it miraculously "alive" again.
Shooting with muskets in long-distance combat and using electric batons in close combat were indispensable means for a Muggle like him who had no martial arts skills to save his life and defeat the enemy.
Use the generator to fill up the electric baton, bring all the remaining twelve fire gourds, and fill the pistol with ammunition.
One hundred thousand taels of silver, ten thousand taels of gold. Only with money can you have confidence——
Everything is ready, go straight to Yangzhou!
