She Song

Chapter 115
At the beginning of May, the accumulated book amount of Hanshi United Investment Bank was as high as 900 million guan, Hanji Bank 300 million guan, and Royal Caipu 200 million guan.

Shi Kun's banknote shop and warehouse were naturally full of money.

Of course, the two did not forget to move to the three capitals, sending capable personnel to the three prefectures of Daming, Henan, and Yingtian, and used a huge amount of money to quietly acquire popular land with great potential for appreciation.

Moreover, according to Han Xiaoyao's instructions, these lands are temporarily unused as reserves. They will withdraw when the new land developers in Tokyo City are in full swing.

By then, Hanshi Investment has already prepared a huge pit for them to lure those cash-strapped giants to develop Sanjing.

This insidious strategy made Shi Kun secretly sweat. If he hadn't joined forces with Han Ji, he would have been tricked and bankrupted.

Fortunately, I saw the opportunity quickly!
After explaining the commercial layout of various projects in Tokyo, Han Xiaoyao left Zhang Cheng and Shen Sanniang behind and rushed back to the Dibei camp with his entourage.

The first thing is to inspect the steelmaking plant. With the master craftsman Zeng Ming in charge, the Beiying Steel Plant produces 800 kilograms of steel a day. Currently, the Dibei Township Soldiers have officially established [-] people, fully armed, and also stocked a large number of swords, shields and gun heads. Arrows, and plate armor with extremely strong protective properties.

Li Daoyi's secret letter to Han Xiaoyao stated that the current storage of equipment can equip an additional 500 people, and by the end of May, an additional [-] sets of armor can be added.

Han Xiaoyao paid special attention to Zeng Ming and treated him with great courtesy. At the same time, he hoped that Li Daoyi would lead Beiying Iron and Steel Works to continue bold attempts to refine high-carbon steel with higher hardness.

This kind of steel is very useful for casting individual swords and armor-piercing arrows.

At the same time, Zeng Ming was also instructed to develop spring steel with better flexibility, which can be used as sofa mattresses and machine crossbow springs to increase the firing rate and penetration power of mobile repeating crossbows.

Xiao Fugui's repeating crossbow, which was carefully crafted by the South Branch Workshop of the Liao Kingdom, has been initially copied by the Crossbow Workshop.

However, Han Xiaoyao believed that disposable repeating crossbows were overqualified for assassination or self-defense, so he ordered the crossbow group to be improved into a quiver-type repeating crossbow.

The size of the quiver-type repeating crossbow is like three later keyboards stacked together. It is fired through a strong spring and a steel mechanism. Each quiver contains six all-steel short arrows, and the quiver can be quickly loaded and unloaded.

The wooden model has been completed long ago, but the spring steel has never been up to standard. Therefore, after getting Zeng Ming's "pie" that fell from the sky and stocking up on enough armor, Han Xiaoyao made spring steel a priority project. .

In short, Han Xiaoyao gave Li Daoyi and Zeng Ming a message.

"If you want someone to give someone, if you want money to give money, as long as you can practice spring steel, I will personally award you gold medals!"

Han Xiaoyao left, but the steel factory was boiling.

Award of honor!
Since the first awarding ceremony in the training camp, gold, silver and bronze medals have become the most dazzling honors.

Moreover, since Hanji was established more than three months ago, only dozens of people have received medals, of which only five gold medals have been issued.

Li Daoyi didn't expect that as a blacksmith, he would have the opportunity to obtain a gold medal.

Whether we can honor our ancestors depends on this opportunity, and we have to fight to the death to refine the spring steel!

Therefore, Li Daoyi specially set aside two blast furnaces to cooperate with Zeng Ming's experiment, and worked in six shifts throughout the day to continuously adjust the carbon content of molten steel, striving to complete the task as soon as possible and get the gold medal.

Leaving Beiying, Han Xiaoyao found Xiao Fugui's inner guard secret camp.

Another month passed, and Xiao Fugui lived up to expectations and awarded five Grade A students.

It's so timely!

After the interview, Han Xiaoyao made careful arrangements.

Qinglong and Gray Crow sneaked into the Western Army, starting with the big-headed soldiers.

Goldfish sneaked into Tokyo city and broke into the mansions of powerful people on his own.

Suzaku will follow Fengsheng and sneak into the Kingdom of Jin, waiting for an opportunity to get acquainted with the Jurchen high-level officials.

Xuanwu plans to set up an assassination team to strengthen sniper attacks in various environments in the city.

Xiao Fugui's arrangements for the eight Class A students are very clear, only the whereabouts of "Sable" last month is unknown, and that is the only female student.

But he also knew that Han Xiaoyao did this deliberately to protect Sable.

Spies, the fewer people who know about them, the safer they are.

"White Cat has seized a lot of mice this month. I have made preliminary checks and found that there is corresponding evidence. Do you want to kill them as a warning to others?"

Xiao Fugui handed the secret file to Han Xiaoyao.

Han Xiaoyao took the secret file and said with a smile while reading: "It seems that the wasteland is really delicious. The Imperial City Department, Kaifeng Mansion, Internal Affairs Department, Privy Council... Since all the visitors are guests, let's entertain them slowly. , you are allocating B-level students for rotation monitoring and treating them as actual combat training!" Xiao Fugui nodded and asked again: "Five have already been placed in the training camp, and two or three more will come in every month, until every Until everything is arranged in the capital."

"Okay!" Han Xiaoyao did not hesitate. Military power is always the most important, and this has nothing to do with trust in generals at all levels.

In Han Xiaoyao's mind, the system of planning for a rainy day is more reliable than anything else.

In the end, Xiao Fugui mentioned the labor camp, saying that Zheng Liang and his attendants were about to be given [-]-day hard labor. Should they be released or kept?
Han Xiaoyao patted his forehead. He was really negligent in not mentioning this matter.

"How many people have you placed at Hao Ren's place?"

"There are two for light and dark. At the same time, someone will sneak into the group of reform-through-labor prisoners every month. Well, I have arranged people for all departments of Hanji, some are fixed and some are rotating."

Han Xiaoyao nodded and left immediately, heading straight to the labor camp.

Hao Ren was not surprised by Han Xiaoyao's arrival and directly asked Zheng Liang to be taken to the public house.

Han Xiaoyao looked at Zheng Liang again, the first to be caught and the backbone of the original eight kings, the head of Zheng who was ambushed by Zhang Cheng.

In fact, he was from Fan and served in the most elite cavalry of the Western Army. During the Caowozi ambush, if he had been riding a horse, Zhang Cheng would have definitely been killed by Zheng Liang.

Han Ji's cavalry is about to be established, and Han Xiaoyao's purpose of making a special trip to visit Zheng Liang at this time is very obvious.

"Zheng Dutou, what plans do you have after your labor term expires?"

Zheng Liang replied without hesitation: "Go home!"

Han Xiaoyao nodded to express his understanding, but asked: "We are preparing to form a cavalry battalion and are short of a commander. I am more optimistic about you. Can you come back and take up the post after you have settled down with your family?"

Zheng Liang looked at Han Xiaoyao in surprise, and finally asked, "Why did you choose me?"

"During the Song Dynasty, the Western Army was the elite, and the Western Army's Fan people were the best at riding and shooting. You are a member of the Western Army's Fan Cavalry. You have fought in Dangxiang, Jiangnan, and Yanyun and have made meritorious deeds. You also know how to behave appropriately.

Therefore, the Han Ji Cavalry Battalion needs troop leaders like you! "

Han Xiaoyao told the whole story very straightforwardly.

After speaking, he placed a file in front of Zheng Liang.

Zheng Liang opened the file, it was a letter of appointment for the commander of the cavalry battalion, and ten 20 taels of Hanji bank notes.

"follow me."

Han Xiaoyao took Zheng Liang out of the labor camp. At the camp gate, Jiang Queer was holding a tall horse. When they saw the two coming out, they handed the reins to Han Xiaoyao.

"A military horse?"

Zheng Liang could tell at a glance that this was an authentic military horse.

"Well, I spent a lot of effort to get it. Currently, the cavalry camp has nearly a hundred horses. If you come back, there will definitely be enough for a commander."

With that said, Han Xiaoyao put the reins in Zheng Liang's hands.

"This horse is given to you. All the equipment, food and clothing are ready. Let's go!"

Zheng Liang put the file in his arms, stepped on the stirrups and flew up. The horse galloped forward with a long neigh.

Zheng Liang reined in the reins, turned to look back at Han Xiaoyao, then turned around and drove his horse all the way west.

Under the morning light, the sound of horse hooves crackled, and smoke and dust rose up, covering the figures in an instant.

"Master, if he doesn't come back, will we suffer a big loss?"

Looking at Zheng Liang running for his life, Jiang Queer asked with some worry.

Han Xiaoyao shook his head.

"Every aspect shows that Zheng Liang performed well during his labor service and never slackened in his efforts. Even when the Eighth Prince Bai's military advisor pulled him to escape from prison, he did not follow him. Do you know what this means?"

(End of this chapter)