Since the matter of training artillery was settled, Lin Dong was relieved. Otherwise, if there were only cannons but no qualified artillery, wouldn’t this be nonsense?

You should know that artillery at this time had already begun to be used on the battlefield, especially in several wars in the late Ming Dynasty. The Qing army relied on invincible artillery to capture one city after another.

When he returned to the military camp, it was already dark. After a busy day, Lin Dong still had to rest. Over the past year, a large number of military affairs had been accumulated in the army waiting for him to deal with.

The current situation of Andong Army is that there are many low-level talents, but few are able to bear great responsibilities. Lin Dong feels very troubled when he thinks of this.

If there were a few outstanding talents in the army, I would have been much more relaxed.

Lin Dong was busy all night and was not able to rest until it was about to light up. Seeing that the sky was getting light up, Lin Dong simply stopped sleeping, but came to the yard to start punching.

Since practicing Yang Jiu's boxing style, Lin Dong's body has gradually become stronger. The continuous training over the years has made him much stronger.

"General, Shang Ba asked for a visit."

Lin Dong had just finished a set of boxing skills when he saw a soldier coming in to report.

"Please come in." A look of surprise flashed across Lin Dong's face.

Just Shang Ba was welcomed in, and he saw that his clothes were cracked all over his body and looked very embarrassed.

"Shang Ba, what's going on?" Lin Dong asked with a frown.

"General, we met pirates when we went out to sea this time. We finally escaped and rushed over."

"Escape pirates?" Lin Dong was shocked and hurriedly asked about the details. It turned out that when Shang Ba and the others went to sea, they were targeted by a group of pirates. Moreover, these pirates were also old enemies of An Dongjun.

, it is the Huang Xin who attacked the East China Sea Zhongsou.

When he heard that the ship was Anton Army's cargo, he summoned people to encircle Shang Ba and others' merchant ships.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Shang Ba and others immediately fled to the shore. Unfortunately, Shang Ba and his merchant ship could not escape the other's warships. After a day and night of pursuit, they were finally chased by pirates.

Seeing that the merchant ship was about to dock, the other party kept firing fires at the merchant ship. As a result, the merchant ship was hit by a pirate warship and sank to the bottom of the sea. Shang Ba escaped his life with a small boat.

"Boss Shang, thank you for your hard work, you can take a break first. You don't have to care about the cargo ship."

Lin Dong was calm on the surface, but there was a nameless fire in his heart. These pirates were really rampant and dared to openly cause trouble for An Dongjun.

"It seems that the establishment of a navy must be accelerated." Lin Dong said to himself. Judging from the previous information, Shangba's business in Japan was a huge profit. In the past year, Shangba's team has been the first to do business.

The caravan made hundreds of thousands of taels. If it weren't for Shang Ba's support, Anton's army wouldn't have developed so smoothly.

It’s a pity that Anton Jun’s caravan is now targeted by Huang Xin, the pirate leader. If you want to do business in Japan, you are afraid it’s a bit difficult.

Thinking of this, Lin Dong was in a bad mood, but if there was no caravan's income, An Dongjun's income would be greatly reduced. Where should this expense be filled?

Seeing Lin Dong's depressed look, Shang Ba stood up again and said, "Are the general worried about military expenditure?"

Lin Dong nodded. Now the number of Anding Army has increased year by year, while the chassis of Anding Army has not increased. If military spending cannot be obtained through commerce, it will be a big trouble.

"General, I have an idea, it depends on whether the general dares to do it." Shang Ba said with a smile.

"Oh, there's something else? Let's hear it?"

"Have you heard of coin minting?"

"Ah?" Lin Dong was startled and stared at Shang Ba with his eyes tightly. He immediately stared at Shang Ba so that he almost knelt down and begged for mercy. The pressure was too great.

"General..., if it doesn't work, pretend I didn't say it." Shang Ba said carefully.

"No, Shang Ba, you have a good idea, just do it."

What Shang Ba did not expect was that Lin Dong made a decision directly.

"Ah? General!"

In fact, Shang Ba mentioned this only. He didn't dare to mint his private money, after all, this was a beheading business.

"Haha, Shang Ba, thanks to your reminder, otherwise I would have never thought of it for a while." Lin Dong suddenly became happy.

As a modern person, no one knows better how much profit is in it than him. You must know that issuing currency is a huge profit.

"However, we cannot do this too obviously, we have to think of a solution."

Seeing that Lin Dong had no intention of issuing currency with great fanfare, Shang Ba finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Ming Dynasty is now in internal and external troubles, the government still has a great power, and this force has always existed until the Ming Dynasty was destroyed.

As a modern person, Lin Dong naturally knew the benefits and interests of it, so he would not do the kind of thing that offends the court.

"I wonder what the general has to do?"

Lin Dong pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, you can find a way to contact the Jiangnan Money Factory and find a way to let them hand over the right to mint coins to us." Lin Dong pondered for a moment and said.

"General, this is probably a bit difficult." Shang Bayi said with a worried look on his face.

"Don't worry, as long as you have money, there is nothing that can't be done." Lin Dong had already seen through the officials of the Ming Dynasty. As long as you have money, they could do everything.

Shang Ba nodded and agreed immediately. Then Lin Dong called Su Yi over and asked him to pay some money to Shang Ba to do business.

At the beginning, Su Yi said he was unwilling to do anything, only saying that Shang Ba suffered too much this time, which had already hurt An Dongjun's roots and was no longer willing to pay.

In the end, Lin Dong issued a military order to ask the iron rooster to take out several thousand taels of silver and hand it over to Shang Ba.

Lin Dong laughed secretly at this. Su Yi didn't seem to be so stingy when he just followed him. Why did he become stingy after staying in An Dongjun for a long time? Could it be that Lin Dong is the kind of person who is jealous of money?

Is it?

Lin Dong complained in his heart and sent the two out. After this incident, the importance of the navy became more and more important. It seems that Xu Tuzhi's plan must be modified.

Time flies very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, a month passed. In this month, Lin Dong dealt with all the military affairs that he had pulled during this period, and also took a look at An Dongjun's assets.

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After this calculation, Lin Dong was shocked. If he continued to develop at this rate, he would probably not be able to hold up the military pay of Andong's army next year.

Thinking of this, Lin Dong was as big as a bucket. Fortunately, Shangba had already contacted the Jiangnan Mint.
Chapter completed!