Wang Xifeng, the second grandmother of Lian, a famous professional manager, once famously said, "There are great difficulties, but now they are just empty on the outside, and empty on the inside." This sentence is most appropriate for Li Shouhan.

The garrison mansion has more than 400,000 acres of land! There are more than 200 buffaloes. In the warehouse, more than 10,000 stones of rice have been accumulated over the years. Otherwise, though, it's a bit frustrating to talk about. There were thirty-one pieces of armor and two hundred pieces of uniform. However, the armor was still made by Li Shouhan's father when he first became a garrison. Military uniforms, except for wormholes and rat droppings, there is nothing superfluous. There are five pairs of arms. There are fifteen back flags, fifty flagpoles, sixty bows, seventy bowstrings, and 7,500 arrows. 200 waist knives, 300 spears, 15 belts, 20 coconut scoops, 24 red rain cages, and 34 red felt jackets.

In addition, there are rattan cards, handles, wolf whisks, and hook guns. Iron-tipped flat poles, a number of big sticks. Saddle fights, bridles, belly belts, tumbling bells, wooden stumbling, straw guillotines, and several pairs of tripping ropes.

There are 70 firearms. 5 handcuffs, 50 sticks, 40 tin turtles. 200 rockets and 50 arrow baskets. 1 oil cover and 20 fire ropes. There are also medicine pipes, lead bags, gun sleeves, gunpowder, and some lead. The most precious thing in it is a tiger squat cannon, equipped with a hammer and a pair of scissors. A handful of cones. One medicine wire box, one medicine liter, and two wooden sticks. There are 10,000 catties of copper and 30,000 catties of lead. 1,000 oak poles. 43,517 pounds of pig iron. There are fifteen ships of 500 and three ships of 1,000 on the wharf. There were no artillery on board.

Listening to the numbers reported from Fuber one by one, Li Shouhan's heart was like being kicked into the ice of the Mariana Trench from the edge of a fire in the Himalayas.

"What are we going to do with all that copper and lead?" After learning that his money had been exchanged for copper and lead by Lao Tzu, Li Shouhan was greatly annoyed, if it wasn't for so much copper and lead, then wouldn't Lao Tzu be able to take the white silver and walk away? Find a place to go casually?!

"Young Master, please take a look." Fauber spread out a map and pointed it with his finger. "This is the area under the jurisdiction of our garrison, and to the east is the sea, and we have more than a dozen fishing boats fishing at sea. There are still a lot of fish and shrimp here, which can ensure the food and clothing of hundreds of families. The sea is our eastern barrier and moat. And, in our west, north, and south, in all three directions, are a pack of hungry wolves. ”

Annam in this era is the so-called period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Vietnam, in fact, it is better to say that it is the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it is better to say that it is the Three Kingdoms period, a Li Dynasty that everyone recognizes, but there are two so-called regimes of Southern Nguyen and Northern Zheng, and in the more distant northern Gaoping area, there is also a remnant of the Mo regime. In the south, there is also a Champa state. So what is it if it is not a three-country melee?

In order to protect his own living environment, at the same time, but also for his own economic interests, Li Shouhan's dead ghost Lao Tzu, in the garrison official village to open a furnace to mint money, those copper and lead, according to the ratio of copper six lead four, by the craftsmen of the craftsman workshop into Jiajing Tongbao, in the vast area of Annam, in exchange for the peace and prosperity of this garrison official village.

After listening to Fu Bo's introduction, Li Shouhan sat on the chair of Huanghuali's official hat.

It is now the forty-fifth year of Wanli, and soon, in the history books, in the pen of the Donglin Party, the famous Wanli Emperor who is greedy for money and good goods will die after the defeat of the Salhu War, and he will soon be the short-lived Taichang Emperor, the emperor who is only one month, and he almost does not even have a year name. Then there was the carpenter emperor Tianqi, and his younger brother Chongzhen came to power as emperor. Chongzhen has been an emperor for 17 years, and then he went to Jingshan to find the famous crooked neck tree to discuss the themes of ideals, the value of life, and the eternal meaning of life. The year was 1644, so the year is 1617.

In this year, the ** Hachi in the northeast rebelled and called Khan, and a year later he swore against the Ming with the so-called seven hatreds, and officially became a separatist. After his death, his eighth young master, Huang Taiji, came to power and would soon unify Mongolia, conquer Korea, and go all out against the Ming Dynasty.

In this year, in the east of Japan, the Tokugawa family had already secured the position of the shogun of Seiyi, and the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate began the Tokugawa shogunate period.

Next year, Liu Ru in Qinhuai Bayan was born.

Next year, the Thirty Years' War in Europe officially began.

Next year, earthquakes and other natural disasters in the interior will occur frequently, and in the last years of the Apocalypse, there will be a severe drought in Shaanxi and other places, and Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others will also find a promising career as a liukou, and they will wander around between the Jianghuai River and the Han until they enter the city of Beijing.

Spain, Portugal and France fought over who was the rightful heir. Next door to Siam's powerful minister Basai. Tong began to wield absolute power, and then, a few years later, established himself as king. The Ayutthaya dynasty was over.

In a few years, across the Pacific Ocean, the Dutch would buy Manhattan Island from the Indians and begin building New Amsterdam.

A few years later, the Russians began to build the famous city of Yakusk on the territory of Lord Vee, using the city as the center of expansion into the Far East, and then all the way east, bloodstained all the way to the sea.

"What should I do?" You can't escape, even from here, the garrison of Annan escaped, fled to the interior of the Ming Dynasty, at most for more than ten or twenty years, the Manchu Tartars will enter the customs in a big way, and at that time, either die in the massacre, or have a shameful money rat tail on the top of their heads, and they have no face to see their ancestors and ancestors when they die.

I can't escape the tide of the big time, so I should be swallowed by the tide? And then there is no scum left to die so silently?

Should I be killed like this? Should I be someone else's stepping stone to push the wheel of history? Should I be a victim of national integration? When it became the so-called wolf gene injection, the part that was eliminated?!

"Fauber, tell me how much we have in population." Young Master Li gritted his back molars and squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.

"According to the establishment of the dynasty, there are 1,120 soldiers in a thousand households, because we stayed here by the order of Lord Mao, so there were more people and horses, and 1,500 soldiers and horses were given, in addition, there were 300 sailors. Most of the boats on the wharf today are still fishing, and most of them are descendants of these 300 sailors. While speaking, Fu Bo pointed at Zuo Xiaopeng and Xu Dahu, who were guarding at the door of the study with a waist knife, "These two little cubs are also the descendants of the sailor. If it weren't for them back then, young master, I'm afraid you would have ......"

Well? Could it be that these two followers around him are still the life-saving benefactors of the former Young Master Li?

"How many people are there today? Household registration? Ding Zhuang? ”

"As of last month, the total population of military households was 58,532. Strongmen, 11,912 people. However, "

"But what?"

"These households are not all in our hands, many of them are in the hands of hundreds of households and general banners. In our hands, there are less than 4,000 strong men. ”

Well? I have nearly 4,000 strong men in my hands? It seems that things still need to be done!

"Households, we have nearly 4,000 strong men......"

"Wait! We still have households?! ”

"Yes! Young master, in recent years, in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, there are many people and few places, many people in Fujian and Guangdong provinces have gone to the sea to make a living, and there are many in Annan, because in Hejing, there is our garrison here, so there are many displaced people in Fujian and Guangdong provinces who rely on the garrison to make a living. ”

"There are more than 4,000 strong men?" Li Shouhan's voice trembled, just to see people coming and going on the street outside, but he didn't expect that he still had a lot of resources in his hands.

"Yes. Because going to sea to make a living is nine deaths and a life, therefore, most of them are young and strong, and there are few women and children. ”

Sitting on the comfortable Taishi chair, Li Shouhan unconsciously tapped the armrest with his index and middle fingers, which was his habit, and whenever he thought about it, he would have such movements.

There are nearly 10,000 strong men, although there is a little less, but in a place like Nanzhong, if the strength of these nearly 10,000 strong men and 60,000 people is brought into play, what can not be done? !

"What are these people's skills? What do you do for a living? Trying to stabilize his mind, Li Shouhan wanted to know what talents he had in these available personnel. If there are people who know how to make cannons and steel, in this troubled world, they can run rampant.

Unfortunately, the answer I got was very disappointing.

"Young master, most of the households composed of these homeless people make a living from farming." Fu Bo's slightly hoarse voice brought Li Shouhan a very frustrating message.

Since Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the common people of the country have been divided into military households, artisan households, civilian households and so on. In the precinct of the garrison, the subordinate households are also organized in a general way, but a little more progressively, according to your means of livelihood. Those who can strike iron will naturally not be compiled in the same booklet as those who farm. Those who know how to build ships and those who cut wood are arranged in the relevant albums. In comparison, he has to inherit people, and this management model of the garrison still has his advanced nature.

"There are about 4,000 craftsmen according to their skills, such as ironsmiths, shipbuilders, carpenters, papermakers, winemakers, weaving cloth, kiln firing, net weaving, and so on."

In the industrial system of the Ming Dynasty, if it is not a highly professional town, it is already very good to have such a personnel structure.

Looking at Li Shouhan's face full of exhaustion and unhappiness, Fu Bo waved his hand and motioned for a few people to exit the room, "Young master, there are still a few days left in the master's funeral, you should settle it earlier, those outside things, no matter what, you must wait until the master is buried in the ground to be safe, you can only see the real chapter, don't be in a hurry, so as not to tire your body." ”

Hearing Fu Bo say this, the salt girl who was waiting on the side quickly made the bed, and the mermaids in the room withdrew, leaving only the salt girl and Li Shouhan.

Lying on the big bed made of yellow pear zuò, Li Shouhan's mind was surging, and his thoughts were fluctuating. I simply got up in my clothes, bypassed the salt girl who was sleeping on the footboard, and walked lightly to the bookcase, looking for some idle book to see. Drain yourself of your feelings.

Well? What is it?

On the inside of the bookcase, his hand touched a schoolbag, which turned out to be the bag he was carrying when he was going to do it that day!

Using a silver knife to light the candles, Li Shouhan began to check his belongings. Well, a few printed novels, this is still a time-traveling novel sorted out after downloading from the office computer, and a famous golden scale, a white one. (You've seen them all, right?!) Hehe! A caliper, with a metric system and market capitalization. There is also a work log when I was the company's technical director, as well as some technical information. There is also an order request from a customer.

Flipping through these things in front of him, Li Shouhan suddenly felt that the candlelight in front of him was brighter than any previous lights, "Lao Tzu's Golden Avenue is at your feet!" ”