Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 62

[Chapter 62]

Victory and Loss “Zeng, Zong…” The

sound of metal clashing continued.

After a quarter of an hour, the two stopped panting.

No one was hurt, and the knives in their hands were completely unsightly.

Zhao Xu was very satisfied, and he said to Wang Ying: “If you want money for money, if you want people for money, do your best to produce. You must wear it within a month.”

“The plate armor?” Wang Ying hesitated. The success of the armor surprised him, but he still wanted to make another armor.

“This is not a conflict. After your hydraulic forging hammer is forged, you can produce plate armor and replace it. Before that, my army can’t always wear inferior armor, not to mention that in the future, my army may not only have these two Thousands of people.” Zhao Xu said lightly.

Hearing this, Liu Fu showed an interesting smile.

Great praise of the law system, the prince’s fief is at most one state.

But since the founding of the country, basically no prince has ever owned the land of a state.

The most records are no more than five counties.

With the increase of land seals, the number of royal troops can be expanded.

Now that King Yan suddenly said this, is he confident that he can get more feudal lands for his meritorious service?

Before, he wouldn’t think so, but now, hehe.

…

“The armor made by the Bing Zhansi is so powerful?”

In the small courtyard of Chang Wei’s recuperation in the palace, Chang Wei stared at the new armor Xu Lie was wearing, and his eyes almost overflowed with desire.

After they came back, they told Chang Wei the news.

“It can be fake, I and the guards have tried it.” Xu Lie deliberately turned around to show off to Chang Wei.

“I don’t believe it.” Chang Wei shook his head.

A guard like Xu Lie has a close relationship with him and always likes to mess around.

He felt that Xu Lie was teasing him.

Xu Lie didn’t speak, and suddenly bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot at a guard standing at the door.

Chang Wei was startled when he saw him, and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

He was immediately angry, thinking to himself why Xu Lie was so contemptuous of human life.

But after hearing a “ding…”, he saw the arrow hit the guard’s armor and fell to the ground.

“Commander, how can you do this? This is a brand new armor, and now this piece of armor is deflated and not perfect.” The guard was unprepared and reacted with an aggrieved expression.

Xu Lie scratched his head, “Offended, offended, haha, I’ll treat you to a drink tonight.”

Chang Wei froze in place. It took him a while to recover, and his expression gradually became agitated.

Regardless of the presence of the crowd, he went to find King Yan.

After a while, he came back satisfied, packed his things and prepared to go to Peking University.

“General, where are you going? Your injury hasn’t healed yet.” Xu Lie said in surprise when he saw this.

“My injury has healed by 70%, so I don’t have to work hard. Your Highness has allowed me to go back to the camp. Hehe, I want to see the soldiers of the pro-army put on the armor of the soldiers.” Chang Wei looked excited.

When he went to mention this matter, King Yan naturally disagreed, but he stalked him relentlessly.

Guaranteed to only supervise the equipping of soldiers with armor, leaving aside other heavy work.

King Yan reluctantly agreed.

After tidying up his things, Chang Wei left the palace without looking back, ten times more energetic than before.

Xu Lie and the others looked at Chang Wei’s leaving back and shook their heads helplessly.

Sleeping hall.

Zhao Xu went to the study after dinner.

The manufacture of the scale armor was on the right track, but he didn’t relax because of it.

The last time Chang Wei was injured and came back, he realized that Beidi people are not so easy to fight.

In particular, there are almost no cavalry in the current royal army.

The most tyrannical in Beidi is the cavalry.

Infantry versus cavalry, the disadvantage in warfare is enormous.

Because it means that a battle is won and the enemy’s cavalry can easily retreat.

At the same time, if his supply lines were stretched, the enemy could easily cut off his supplies with cavalry.

As a result, he can basically only play defensive battles.

Therefore, building a cavalry is very important and needs to be put on the agenda.

The cavalry needs horses, and a war horse basically costs thirty taels.

A cavalry requires at least two horses.

It would cost 300,000 taels of silver to form a cavalry of 5,000 men.

This does not include the usual cost of raising horses.

“Raising soldiers is really an arduous task.” Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn’t help sighing.

Calculated in this way, the armor, food, horses and soldiers’ salaries, etc. of the 20,000 royal family’s troops add up to a huge cost.

The government affairs system in Yan County also needs the support of the palace.

After all, he refused to impose heavy taxes on the people.

However, he has no regrets.

Because if heavy taxes were imposed, he would be dead long ago, and now at least he still has time to plan.

Thinking of this, he called Qin Accountant over.

“Qin accountant, what is the income and expenditure of the palace during this time?” Zhao Xu asked.

Qin Zhangfang flipped through the account books and replied: “This time, the Wangfu received 30,000 taels of silver from Jinling’s ice-making profits. The main income came from wine brewing. The total income was 980,000 taels. Last time, it was collected from Huang Du. The family confiscated two hundred thousand taels of silver.”

After a pause, he said: “The main expenses are the military uniforms and food of the royal family’s troops, and now the raw materials for the soldiers, as well as the money for the wine jars, the cost of buying green ant wine, etc., are still on the books now. Three hundred and sixty thousand taels of silver.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

Although his wine sells for fifteen taels a jug, the cost of the jug and green ant wine has to be deducted from it.

So on the whole, the profit is only about ten taels.

The key is in exchange for the land of the Hao family in Yan County.

During this period, most of the profits from selling wine were used to pay off debts.

Otherwise, there would not be only this little money on the books.

“You can’t be satisfied with what you have in front of you.” Zhao Xu secretly said.

Asking Qin to go back to the cashier, Zhao Xu leaned on the chair and pondered for a while, feeling that the plan to make money still cannot be stopped.

…

the next day.

Zhao Xu’s Shen Meng ended in a burst of noise.

Waking up from the bed, Zhao Xu looked outside with puzzled eyes.

Feng’er came in at this time, pouted and said: “Your Highness, it’s Dong An and Yang He. They want to see Your Highness.”

Zhao Xu remembered that today is the day to set up the staff of the firm.

After washing up, he ate breakfast and met Dong An and Yang He.

“Yo, those who didn’t know thought you two were going to be grooms today.” Zhao Xu teased the two of them.

It seems that he is sure that he can be an official in the palace.

Dong An and Yang He are more energetic than the other.

And as if they had agreed, both of them were wearing bright red robes.

Although not the groom’s kind, but also very festive.

Dong An and Yang He looked at each other and each snorted.

Dong An said: “Your Highness, he is my follower. He will learn whatever I do.”

Yang He made a look of vomiting, “You can say such shameless words, aren’t you afraid that you won’t be able to sleep at night?”

Seeing that the two started bickering again, Zhao Xu said: “Okay, after the officials of the firm are settled later, Keep arguing.” The

two of them stopped talking after hearing this.

Not long after, the children of other wealthy families also arrived one after another.

Because this time he wanted to ask Tsui Hark and others about what everyone was doing these days, so he set his location at the palace.

After all the staff arrived, Zhao Xu asked everyone to write down the amount of raw materials they bought during this period of time on a piece of paper.

After the submission, Dong An and Yang He were indeed among the best.

But just like Dong An’s self-confidence, Yang He lost a little to Dong An.

Feeling concerned, he asked everyone to wait.

He came to a yard by himself and sent someone to call Xu Ke and others.

“During this time, how did your investigation go?” Zhao Xu asked.

Xu Ke said: “Your Highness, the younger one has been following Dong An. He didn’t cheat, but his father secretly supported him with a batch of materials, but Dong An didn’t know about it, so Yang He actually won.

” Nodded, “Indeed, Your Highness, Yang He is a small watcher, and he relied on his own three-inch tongue throughout the whole process.”

Hearing this, Zhao Xu was greatly surprised.

I didn’t expect things to turn around like this.

If this matter is known to Dong An, I don’t know what his expression will be.

“Li Qiao, Gao Jian, Sun Yi, etc. cheated and were disqualified. The rest of them are ranked according to the number of deliveries during this period. The first place is Yang He, and the second place is Dong An…”

“Second place? Your Highness, this… this Wrong, why is this second place?”

After Xu Hark and others revealed the spying situation, Zhao Xu immediately announced the ranking.

When Dong An heard this, his complacent smile disappeared and turned into surprise.

The other wealthy children who were reprimanded for cheating were also somewhat dissatisfied, and quibbled: “Your Highness, we have worked so hard, and we did not cheat…”

Zhao Xu sneered, “Li Qiao, you have a private discussion with the merchant, and first sell it at a low price. You, after the selection, you can make up the difference and make up the high price, isn’t it okay?”

A young man from a rich family who was standing behind was stunned when he heard this.

I was horrified, how did the King of Yan know this.

Thinking of these days, there seemed to be someone staring at him vaguely, and he was even more afraid to raise his head and look at King Yan.

The other children of the wealthy family also thought about it, and those who cheated did not dare to speak up.

Dong An knew that he hadn’t cheated, so he said dissatisfiedly: “Your Highness, why don’t you accept me?”

(End of this chapter)