Chapter 81 Liver skills are busy (please order first when it is released)
Author: Fat Bird Goes First
Chapter 81 Liver skills are busy (please order first when it is released)
In the ancestral hall, Lin Xianyang was telling everyone what happened in the ghost market.
The old man of the family was sitting on the main seat, Lin Mojun was sitting on the side wearing a veil and a straw hat, the ninth aunt was sitting near the door, and Chang Ningwei, the eloquent person, was sitting in the ancestral hall.
After Lin Xianyang finished talking about his experience in the ghost market, Su Ze asked:
"You gave the money you used to buy sugar last time to the sea monkey. When you talked about buying a gun, he agreed immediately?"
Lin Xianyang nodded and said: "Yes, the sea monkey heard that he wanted to buy a gun, so he directly offered a price of one or two taels of silver, saying that it was a good product originating from Folangji."
"Although this price is more expensive than the Yuegang price mentioned by Xiong Wu, it is almost the same after shipping. Didn't Sea Monkey ask why you want to buy a gun?"
Lin Xianyang shook his head and said: "I didn't ask much, I just asked how many blunderbuss we want."
Su Ze quickly felt relieved. Nowadays, smuggling is rampant in the southeast region. Bird guns are not a rare thing. They can be sold openly in Yuegang. Zhang Haihu is a relatively large smuggler nearby, so it is normal for him to sell bird guns.
After calculating the money in his hand, Su Ze planned to buy twenty bird guns this time. While he was seeing if he could imitate them, he was preparing to train a small army that combined bird guns.
"Did you say you wanted twenty?"
Lin Xianyang nodded and said: "The sea monkey only asked me to prepare the money and unload the goods on the beach in seven days."
"What about the Folan cannon?"
Lin Xianyang said: "They asked for thirty taels of silver for this Fo Lang machine gun. They also said that it is not easy to transport such heavy equipment, so they have to pay a half-percent deposit in advance."
Su Ze secretly scolded the profiteers. Last time Xiong Wu said that the Folan cannon was only sold for twenty taels of silver in Yuegang. The price of this Sea Tiger increased by half in one breath, and he had to pay a deposit in advance before he would buy it.
It’s no wonder that these wealthy and powerful families in the southeast region have to get involved in the maritime trade business. This is really huge profits!
Now that Su Ze couldn't afford thirty taels of silver, he had to give up the purchase of the Folan cannon for the time being.
"Has all the salt been sold?"
Su Ze asked Lin Deqing who went to the ghost market with Lin Xianyang. The honest Lin Deqing immediately nodded and said:
"I just set up the stall, and the person in charge who bought refined salt last time brought people here."
“Will they also buy it if the price goes up?”
After subduing Zhu Qi's gang, Su Ze discovered that salt was equivalent to the general equivalent in the market these days. Selling it at such a low price would attract other people's attention and cause unnecessary trouble.
So this time when selling salt, Su Ze told Lin Deqing to sell it according to the market price of refined salt sold by Zhu Qi and others, which was 150 yuan per catty.
This time Su Ze asked Lin Deqing to bring 150 kilograms of refined salt, which Su Ze had refined over the past few days.
Lin Deqing said: "Buy it. The person in charge said that my salt is good, and their owners said it was good after they ate it. So even though the price has increased, they also accepted it."
It turns out that their own refined salt has no bitter taste and is of better quality than the refined salt that Zhu Qi sold before. The owner must be buying it as a gift. Even if the price increases, the manager can go back and quote a higher price.
Lin Deqing quickly took out a cloth bag, spread it out and handed the broken silver to Su Ze.
"After paying the five-cent silver in store tax, according to Brother Aze's words, I gave the five-cent silver to the tax collector last time. This is the remaining silver."
Lin Deqing's eyes were clear and there was no trace of greed on his expression. Su Ze sighed that he had found the right person when he asked Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market to sell goods.
Su Ze picked out a five-cent piece of silver from the silver, handed it to Lin Deqing and said, "Brother Deqing, this is yours."
Lin Deqing quickly refused, and Su Ze forced the money to him. With a power of seven points, Lin Deqing, a dutiful farmer, had no strength to refuse.
Su Ze gave Lin Xianyang another one and a half pieces of silver, and then said: "We are all clan brothers of Changning Wei. If you are more polite, I will fall out."
The two had no choice but to accept the scraps of money, and their eyes looked at Su Ze with even more gratitude.
Su Ze continued: "Next time Brother Deqing goes to the ghost market, I'd better ask a team of guardsmen to follow me. Brother Xianyang will help me find Luo Xia. Brothers who are willing to accompany me will be rewarded."
Lin Xianyang and Lin Deqing looked at each other and saw the warmth in each other's eyes. Su Ze was sincerely thinking about their safety.
Moreover, as long as you escort one trip, you will get money, and there are many people in Changning Guards who are willing.
Now people in Changningwei say that Su Ze is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth and has the ability to turn stone into gold.
Su Ze then divided the money into ten parts, then handed 20% to Lin Mojun and said, "This is for the guard station."
Then he handed 10% to the old man and said: "This is for the clan."
Aunt Jiu looked at Su Ze with a complicated expression.
Now, whether it is my grandfather, Lin Mojun, a hundred households, or the soldiers of a hundred households, or the remnants of the Changning Guard, they will listen to Su Ze's opinions carefully. Su Ze has unknowingly become the most important person in the Changning Guard.
That group of people.
Who would have thought that Su Ze, who is now sitting in the ancestral hall and talking freely, has only settled in Changningwei for more than two months.
At this time, Su Ze suddenly said to Lin Mojun:
"Hundred households, I want to select 20 people from the military surplus to train a group of gunners."
"Birdgunner?"
Bird guns are not a rare thing on the southeast coast. When Zhu Wan conquered Shuangyu Island, the Ming army captured a lot of bird guns.
Some Japanese pirates also used bird guns sporadically, and many guard stations also seized some bird guns.
But today's coastal guards rarely use long-range weapons such as bows and arrows or blunderbuss.
The reason is simple, no money.
In fact, logically speaking, there should be one group of archers for the one hundred regular soldiers of Changning Guard.
However, due to a long-term lack of equipment, the archer unit was canceled when Baihu took office.
Archers are considered a proper technical arm in this era, and they are also an arm that requires long-term training to mature.
This training process not only requires the use of a bow, but also wastes arrows.
Arrows were consumables in ancient times.
Because ancient arrowheads and arrow feathers were easily deformed, even if it was just for practice, an arrow could only be shot a few times.
If you shoot too much, the arrow will lose its accuracy and there will be no value in practicing.
On the battlefield, bows and arrows are disposable consumables. On a life-and-death battlefield, no archer would shoot with arrows picked up everywhere on the battlefield.
It takes several years to train an archer, and archers are a proper unit of strength.
In the Ming Dynasty, actual combat bows generally used large bows with three to six strengths. During training, heavy bows with more than ten strengths were also used to train strength. Archers were the best-fed in the entire army, otherwise they would not even be able to pull the bow.
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Currently, the only person in the Changning Guard who can draw a bow and shoot an arrow is Lin Mojun.
The Changning Guards can hardly afford to raise infantry, let alone archers.
Although bird guns are cheaper than bows, the bullets (lead balls) are three cents and three cents of silver per pound, and the gunpowder is one cent and four cents per pound of silver. Match ropes that can be used for smoldering are also not cheap. Twenty fire gunners can train one
Months, the ammunition consumption alone is a terrifying figure.
It's not that Lin Mojun doesn't want a gunman, but he really can't afford such a team.
Su Ze smiled and said: "Grandpa, I want to train a regiment to defend my reed fields and newly opened land. I will pay for the training of gunners. As long as the clan provides manpower, I will have the remaining troops in the guard station."
After practicing the Yuanyang Formation, just train for another two hours. I will provide the food for the training day."
Grandpa also knows that these are troubled times, and many villages are training village warriors to build teams.
The old man just thought about it for a moment and agreed readily: "Okay, you can choose the person you want, and the ancestral hall will take care of the food!"
Just after they had just agreed to form a team of gunners, a soldier hurried into the ancestral hall and said to Lin Mojun:
"Hundred households, urgent military situation!"
Upon hearing the urgent military information, Lin Mojun immediately stood up, walked towards the soldier who was delivering the order, and took over the urgent military information sent from the express delivery shop.
It was military information sent from the General Directorate of Beiwa, Fujian. Lin Mojun quickly opened the envelope, read it quickly and sighed.
The old man also stood up and asked:
"Baihu, what's wrong?"
Lin Mojun said: "The demon Luo Fu from Jiangxi gathered a crowd to rebel, and asked the general commander to ask the guards to strengthen maritime patrols and eliminate large groups of Japanese pirates in the offshore areas."
Su Ze came over and took the military information document from Lin Mojun's hand. Lin Mojun just glanced at Su Ze and didn't say anything to stop it.
Anyway, Su Ze is also a member of the Guard, and the people discussing matters here today are all close relatives, so there is no harm in showing Su Ze the military situation.
After reading the military information, Su Ze said doubtfully: "There is a rebellion in Jiangxi. Why did the General Secretary ask the coastal guards to patrol the sea? I don't think Luo Fu rebelled on land?"
Lin Mojun said: "In the past few years, people in Fujian and Guangzhou were involved in civil unrest, and they also colluded with Japanese pirates to cause chaos. In recent years, every time there was civil unrest in the southeast, Japanese pirates took advantage of the fire to plunder."
"Why is there another rebellion in Jiangxi?" Su Ze asked.
The reason why the word "you" is used is because Jiangxi is the hometown of old rebels.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had some geographical disadvantages. According to some of the most famous stereotypes of this era, "Cantonese people are good at prostitution," "Lu people are good at officials," and "Gan people are good at rebelliousness."
The folk customs in Guangdong are more open than those in the Central Plains. Due to trade in goods, more women are exposed.
Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats who served as officials in Guangdong believed that Cantonese people were promiscuous, and often criticized Cantonese people in their notes and articles for "immorality".
Lu people like to be officials because Shandong has been keen on being an official since ancient times.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was said that "people from Lu know more about the classics". In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations were divided into Jinshi subjects and Ming Jing subjects. The Jinshi subjects had the highest gold content, while the Ming Jing subjects had the lowest gold content. If you passed the examination, you could only become a minor official.
But people in Shandong are keen on studying the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, as long as they can blend into the system, it doesn't matter whether they are big or small.
Song Jiang, a famous rebel in the Song Dynasty, was the governor of Yuncheng County, Shandong Province. After he went to Liangshan, he thought about being imprisoned day and night, which shows how addicted he is to being an official.
In the Ming Dynasty, Shandong had the largest number of civil servants who served as officials. Today, the chief administrator of Nanping County is a Shandong official. Some officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs even jokingly said that "half of the chief administrators in the world are from Shandong."
The first two regional stereotypes are the arrogance and discrimination of senior scholars, and the stereotype of Jiangxi is a complete regional attack.
However, Jiangxi has been rich in rebels since ancient times. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi became even more frequent.
The most recent major rebel is Zhu Chenhao, Prince of Ning who was enfeoffed in Nanchang during the Zhengde period.
This rebellion was known as the "Ningwang Rebellion" in history. It was finally put down by the Xinxue great scholar Wang Yangming and his troops were put down. It spread to almost half of Jiangxi.
Although there were no major rebellions in Jiangxi after this, small rebellions still came one after another.
Su Ze noticed the word "demon" in front of Luo Fu, the leader of the rebellion, and asked Lin Baihu:
"Baihu, do you know the details of Luo Fu?"
Lin Baihu nodded and said: "A few years ago, Fujian Dusi Yamen mentioned this monster Luo Fu in official documents. He rebelled several times and surrendered. He only rebelled for two years and rebelled again."
Su Ze also sighed, the system characteristic of the Ming Dynasty was rich in such rebels who rebelled repeatedly.
Because officials only care about their examination results during their term of office, they often tolerate small groups of rebels. When the rebellion becomes strong, it often spreads to several counties or prefectures. By then, the biggest job of prefecture and county officials is to write official documents.
They accused the rebels of being raised by other prefectures and counties.
Some prefecture and county officials even bribed anti-bandit leaders to attack the neighboring prefecture and county, just so that their exam results would not look too bad and they would not be held accountable by the court.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty had serious party disputes since the mid-term, and its policies were very fragmented. Often the previous general responsible for countering rebellion advocated appeasement, and then the successor would make a 180-degree turn and insist on eradication, and the next one would advocate appeasement.
Even if the rebels surrender, they are always ready to rebel again to prevent the court from becoming ruthless.
The civil unrest in Jiangxi, like the Japanese pirates along the coast, was already a long-standing problem for the Ming Dynasty. However, in recent years, the civil unrest and the Japanese pirates colluded with each other and became more and more intense.
Lin Baihu added: "This Luo Fu takes the banner of 'Innocent Old Mother, Vacuum Hometown' and calls himself the Son of Maitreya Buddha. He has tens of thousands of believers in Jiangxi."
Su Ze suddenly realized that this Luo Fu was from the Luo Sect.
The Luo Jiao, a famous folk secret society that was equally divided between the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the famous anti-thief organization the White Lotus Sect, worshiped "the Mingming God, the Infinite Pure, the Supreme, the Holy, the Holy Master of all spirits in the ten directions", which is also the so-called Wusheng Old Mother.
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The Inanimate Old Mother is known as the creator god and the savior. Those who worship the Inanimate Old Mother can enter the "vacuum hometown" after death and gain eternal peace and joy.
Su Ze now understood why "demon" was added. The people who were called "demon" in official documents of the Ming Dynasty were rebels with a religious nature.
The attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards various sects of Buddhism and Taoism was simple and direct, that is, they were frantically suppressing them.
The Quanzhen Tao, which is often mentioned in immortality novels, is the Yitianshi Tao, and its heyday was actually the Yuan Dynasty.
The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was the era when the canonization of state teachers was the most generous. It gave Taoism the status of the state religion and conferred many orders to Taoist temples all over the world.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, everyone including the Zhang family of the Tianshi Prefecture was crazily underdressed by the imperial court. Not only did they deprive themselves of the title of imperial master, they also strictly limited the size of the sect and prohibited private preaching.
Even if the current emperor likes to cultivate immortals, he also suppresses these Taoist sects crazily, because Emperor Jiajing himself named himself the Taoist Emperor. The emperor is already a Taoist, so why do you need other sects like you?
The Taoist priests Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen who were once favored by the emperor, although they came from the Zhengyi sect, the emperor only used them as alchemists. Their main job was to let them make alchemy or stargazing, and had no intention of supporting their sect.
Luo Fu is the leader of Luojiao in Jiangxi. The rebellion this time must be quite large, and he happened to encounter the Yushi Qing army. Lin Mojun, who has always been calm and calm, is now a little panicked.
Today happens to be the day we return to the south. There is a lot of humidity in the air, and the dull air makes people feel breathless.
There was a roar of thunder, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and fine raindrops suddenly slanted down from the sky, at least dispelling some of the sultry weather.
Su Ze walked to the window and looked at the dense rain pillars hanging from the eaves. A heavy rain hit Changning Wei in an instant.
"The rain is coming." Su Ze murmured as he looked at the rain curtain outside the window.
In the days that followed, Su Ze seized the time to improve his skills.
When he was not studying at the School of Health, he would go to the school to learn the art of war with Lin Mojun, and occasionally go to the fields to guide Zhu Qi and the Arhats in farming.
The rest of the time is devoted to carpentry and masonry skills.
Su Ze discovered that the fastest carpenter to brush is to make bamboo chopsticks, and the fastest masonry worker to brush is to make stone bowls. A pair of wooden chopsticks can increase one point of carpentry experience, and making a stone bowl can increase five points of masonry experience.
Little carrot head Lin Liangjun and little carrot head Lin Cainiang didn't understand why Su Ze wanted to make these worthless things. They only regarded these things as Su Ze's hobbies.
After Su Ze finished making the stone bowls and bamboo chopsticks, they were piled everywhere in the family temple. He asked several students and Zhu Qi's men to carry the stone bowls and bamboo chopsticks and distribute them to each household in the guard house.
Gained reputation again in Changning Guard.
During the day of the day when he and Haihou'er agreed to deliver the gun, Su Ze finally reached the full level of L4 in both his "Carpentry" and "Masonry" skills.
After making the last stone bowl, the system finally popped up a prompt.
"Skill 'Masonry' breaks through Lv5, please choose passive skills!"
One basket and two greens. This result is also a normal probability. Su Ze turned over the card and saw——
These three passive skills are:
[Green Passive—Mason’s Arm: The physical consumption of working as a mason is reduced by 10%.]
[Green Passive - Stonemason's Heart: When working as a stonemason, increase work efficiency by 5%. 】
[Blue Passive - Ingenuity: Using craftsman skills, there is a chance to create items that exceed your own skill level. 】
This is simply choosing with your eyes closed! Stonemasonry skill is not a particularly versatile skill, and Su Ze is not ready to continue stonemasonry.
The passive skill of Ingenuity can be used on all craftsman skills, and there is a probability of producing items that exceed the skill level. In game terms, it means that there is a probability of producing small masterpieces!
After quickly choosing this talent, Su Ze immediately made a pair of chopsticks, and his carpentry skills were also upgraded to Lv5.
"Skill 'Carpentry' breaks through Lv5, please choose passive skills!"
Three blue rays of light blinded Su Ze's eyes. Could it be that his fortune had really changed? Did he change the fate of the non-chief in the game?
Looking at these three passives, Su Ze was even more confused, how to choose!