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 request from Suzhou Prefecture?"
"Sir, I don't think I made a mistake in my calculation." Hu Wei, who was in the middle of a mistake, 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 used an abacus and calculated very carefully using straw paper.
On the other hand, his uncle Zhu Shouren was not good at calculations and could not even do abacus. There was nothing he could do about the smaller numbers but the larger ones. The quantity of grain and grass was beyond the range that he could calculate. What could Hu Wei do if he didn't believe him?
He couldn't calculate it himself, so he had no choice but 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 Pingan looked at Hu Wei with burning eyes and asked slowly.
"Of course I calculated it at thirty." Hu Wei replied without thinking, but he remembered what went wrong just halfway through the sentence, "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. He 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 have disappointed me so much."
"You can't blame me. Didn't I ask you to calculate it? You're right." Hu Wei couldn't help complaining.
"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 am 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 nonchalantly, 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 immediately saw it.
Zhu Ping'an stepped forward to pick up his uncle's official documents.
"After the numbers are corrected, my dear nephew, let's take a look at it." Uncle Zhu Shouren was a little nervous and held down his official document.
"It's okay, it's not an official document I want to read." 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 Zhu Ping'an see the official document hidden underneath, a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on the forehead of his uncle Zhu Shouren.
Zhu Ping'an picked up the official document below and laughed when he saw it. He laughed angrily.
The uncle's official letter was modeled on the official letter asking for gunpowder and weapons, but the content was actually asking for silver.
In the official document, the uncle requested 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 money behind his back and got three thousand taels of silver in return.
What kind of nonsense is it to reward soldiers? With his uncle's character, his sneaky ways behind his back, and the cold sweat on his face now, Zhu Ping'an is very 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 Ping'an picked up the official letter of invitation secretly written by his uncle, looked at him with burning eyes, and asked lightly.
"My dear nephew, listen to me, let me explain to you, ah, no, I want to explain." 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. He stopped emphasizing the sophistry and explained.
"My dear nephew, it's like this. Didn't I hear you say that the Japanese pirates are coming to attack Suzhou soon? 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 means two transactions."
"So, I applied to the Suzhou Prefecture for three thousand taels of silver. When the time comes, each soldier will be given one tael. I am not afraid that they will not try their best to kill the Japanese."
"Brothers fighting tigers, father and son go into battle. I am the eldest uncle. This is what an uncle should do. My nephew does not need to thank me."
Uncle Zhu Shouren's story became smoother and smoother as he made it up, and he 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 do it yourself.
Don't worry; as for the uncle Zhu Shouren, it's even more unreliable. He cheats and cheats, works hard and fails, and succeeds more than he does. If he sees money, if he comes to help him, he will only try his best to make money for himself.
, even as long as the money is in place, the uncle can sell out the Zhejiang Army and himself.
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 three big Buddhas like you.
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