Although the two doctors chatted enthusiastically, it was obviously not suitable for a large-scale construction of a school before the victory of the flood fight.

Zhao Hao asked Li Zhen to report to Wu County first, and then work in Suzhou City during the day, and return to Kunshan the next night to teach students.

After all, squeezing the value of assets to the maximum is an instinct engraved in the bones of capitalists.

Although the two cities are seventy miles apart, the Loujiang River starts from the Changmen of Suzhou and leads directly to the Chaoyang Gate of Kunshan City, and can be reached in less than an hour.

Of course, the return journey will take nearly two hours, but Dr. Zhao will arrange the most comfortable clipper boat for Dr. Li, with two best boatmen, who can control the sailing time in one and a half hours.

In this way, Dr. Li only needs to go out on the fifth watch, so he will not miss the morning class at all, and he can also sleep in the cradle-like cabin on the way.

Perfect!

~~

Sending away Li Zhen, who was about to live a life in a twin city four hundred years in advance, Zhao Hao asked Gao Wu to invite Jin Ke in.

Jinke came to report the results of the investigation of the armed forces in the county.

"Childe, I've figured it out. Kunshan County has a squad of 500 gunners, and the camp is located in the north of Zhihetang. However, I went to see that there were only 180 people in the camp, and it seemed that most of them had gone home to earn a living because they had not been paid for too long. ”

In the past few years, the Japanese army was seriously troubled, and the officers and soldiers were unable to protect the people. All prefectures and counties have funded their own regimental training to defend the county seat and resist the Japanese invaders.

Naturally, Kunshan County has also set up a team of gunners, and has also built its own swords, guns, and firearms, and hired retired officers for training, which really costs a lot of money.

It's just that in the past two years, the plague has gradually subsided, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there has been no invasion by a large number of Japanese pirates for several years, and the counties have slackened.

Especially in a poor place like Kunshan, it is natural to cut expenses year after year, leaving only a shelf just in case......

"How's the weapon?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"There are fifty bird guns, and the workmanship is not bad, but the maintenance is too poor. There were a lot of firecrackers, but they didn't do much. Jin Ke smiled bitterly: "And the problem is that all the gunpowder is damp, and this ghost weather can't be sun, so it can't hit a shot for the time being." ”

"In addition, there are a lot of spears, broadswords, and shuttles, but they all need to be repaired before they can be used."

"Well, not unexpected." Zhao Hao nodded, looking at the slackness and depression permeating the whole county, he could think that the situation of Xiangyong was not much better.

"Let's do our best to do it yourself, and fix as much as you can. After a while, I'll ask someone from the Ordnance Bureau to come, and then I'll replace them all with new ones. ”

"It's really not in a hurry, it's useless to give them a good bird gun now, they have to practice hard!" Jinke clicked his knuckles, then sighed:

"But they told me the conditions, that I had to be paid to train. And the amount of training should be linked to the salary, and the half-salary can only be trained for half a day......"

"What about double pay?" Zhao Gongzi's eyes lit up.

"According to their ideas, it should be possible to train twice...... Jin Ke smiled bitterly: "Hey, I heard that Suzhou people are shrewd, but I didn't think that Kunshan people are the same." ”

"There's nothing wrong with being shrewd." Zhao Hao waved his hand and said, "As long as you take the money to work, you can do it." Tomorrow, you will first give them last month's salary, and tell them that as long as they train as good students, they can make up for the arrears at the end of the month. In the future, as long as you train seriously, you can also pay double salary...... Of course, you decide exactly how to send it. ”

"Yes!" Jin Ke immediately saluted.

Along the way south, General Kim has completely corrected his position.

As long as the money and food are sufficient, he will train Zhao Hao wholeheartedly. As for the rest, it wasn't his turn to worry about it, and he didn't care at all.

No way, who let Zhao Gongzi give too much?

Only one month's salary was paid, which was enough for him to pay off his debts, and he would be able to buy land and build a big house in his hometown next month.

This is really a pro-emperor pro-heaven and earth, and it is not as good as Zhao Gongzi's silver pro-......

~~

"My dad has already announced that the whole county is in a state of flood control, and several bans will be announced tomorrow. If there is not enough armed force to guarantee it, the county will definitely be chaotic. ”

Zhao Hao instructed Jin Kedao again: "Therefore, the strength and combat effectiveness of the gunner team must be restored as soon as possible in order to maintain order in the county." ”

"Yes." Jin Ke responded in a deep voice, and reminded Zhao Hao:

"There are 60 servants in three classes in the county, and 100 people in the white service. There are 42 archers in the inspection department, 18 post guards in the post house, 30 soldiers in the express delivery shop, and 60 guards in the delivery station...... Before the Gunners can use them, they have to be replenished. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hao nodded, and said with a sly smile: "Tonight, their chief is going to go up to the embankment, and these shrimp soldiers and crabs will gather together and rebuild on Brother Laojin." ”

Xu Wei came up with the idea of asking Zhao Shouzheng to get all the sesame mung bean officials in the county to live on the embankment, of course, for the purpose of flood fighting, but why not divert the tiger from the mountain?

Only in this way can their soldiers be gathered in a justifiable manner, and they will be trained and deployed in a unified manner.

As for what will become of the county in the future, now the flood fight is overwhelming, who has the time to think so far?

"Yes." Jinke did not hesitate to respond.

"Can Brother Jin be busy alone?" Zhao Gongzi asked with anticipation: "When will our helper arrive?" ”

"It's going to be a few days." Jin Ke also said with a smile on his face: "They are estimated to have arrived in Huzhou by this time." ”

"So fast?" Zhao Hao's expression perked up.

"It's nothing." Jin Ke took it for granted: "If it weren't for the disabled comrades, they would have arrived earlier than us." ”

"It's okay to be two days late, otherwise if you go to Suzhou City, you don't think we're a fool?" Zhao Gongzi said with a smile.

After Zhao Hao and Qi Jiguang negotiated and helped settle the disabled and retired soldiers of Qi Jiajun, the three of them wrote to their former colleagues in Zhejiang. Tell them that if they have nothing to live on, they can go to Suzhou and go to Zhaozhi County.

Suzhou is the most prosperous city in the world, and there are former generals, so it is naturally very attractive to those veterans of the Qi family army who are generally unsatisfactory after being discharged from the army.

As a result, hundreds of people wanted to sign up.

Jinke asked Zhao Hao, and Zhao Gongzi extended a warm welcome.

However, the passage of hundreds of people is too eye-catching, and the scores come one after another.

When they left Nanjing, they received a letter saying that the first group of eighty people had already departed.

I didn't expect that it was only a few days, and the people were about to arrive.

In this way, Zhao Hao was completely relieved.

Eighty former Qi family soldiers, even if there are only twenty people with all beards and tails, it is enough to make a qualitative change in Kunshan's armed forces.

~~

Zhao Hao also told Jin Ke that he must strictly enforce military discipline and never allow him to appear, and disturb the people by maintaining order.

This may be difficult for other generals of the Ming Dynasty to accept.

However, the Qi family's army was strictly disciplined, and there was no crime in the autumn, and the people everywhere they went ate the rice pot to welcome the king. Therefore, Jinke fully understands and supports Zhao Gongzi's decision.

ps. Second Update.