After a short period of excitement, Su Chengyu quickly reined in his thoughts and began to think about the current arrangement.

He first remembered the extremely simple weapons and equipment of Yu Xin's department, although it could not solve everyone's equipment problem for the time being, but it was always better than nothing.

When Long Nan has to solve the weapon problem as soon as possible, the flintlock gun will have to be manufactured on a large scale. Thinking of this, Su Chengyu immediately remembered that the seven craftsmen he had recruited were still in the palace.

He originally thought that he was going to "travel" to various places in the south of the Ming Dynasty, so he let these people stay in the palace. The wages were still paid to them as promised, and the palace didn't care about this expenditure.

Now that we are going to train troops, we must bring these talents with us.

He asked Qiao Qian and several guards to ride back to Fujing. They were instructed to bring the seven craftsmen with them, and they were given the favorable terms to be given to the craftsmen. The second is to bring more guns and gunpowder from the palace on the road.

In the end, he looked at the people brought by Huang Qi, and saw that nearly half of them did not ride horses, so he asked Qiao Qian to bring three carriages.

Several people claimed to be so, got on the horse and left.

Because the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Zhu Linmiao had provoked Zheng Zhilong and was convicted, Su Chengyu didn't even meet him along the way.

He didn't want to deal with these officials too much, so the group settled at the post station and waited for the return of the people who had gone to Fujing.

Dozens of people packed the post station, and the guards even had to pitch tents in the courtyard.

With nothing to do, Su Chengyu simply began to teach everyone how to make granular gunpowder, and wrapped lead bullets and gunpowder into fixed bullets with paper.

The guards were very familiar with the firecracker, and after trying the fixed reload, they were all amazed - at least the reload time was reduced by 20%!

The guards ran to the dirt slope behind the post station with fixed ammunition and tried firing them with bangs, and they were full of praise for this simple invention, but they were so frightened that they cowered in the house and did not dare to come out. In the end, Su Chengyu came forward to stop it, and they hurriedly collected the guns and went back to rest.

At noon the next day, when the guards had finished making gunpowder and wanted to test shoot again, Shi Lin looked at Yi Cheng's timid expression and finally stopped them.

In fact, Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training" recorded the production of granular gunpowder decades ago, but when Qi's army was completely wiped out in Shenyang, no one in the Ming Dynasty thought of this technology anymore.

The scholars who came with Huang Lu obviously also had a strong interest in gunpowder and fixed-loading ammunition, but they didn't have firearms in their hands, so they could only knock on gunpowder and bag fixed-loading ammunition to get over their addiction.

However, these scholars were different from the guards who only knew about repetition, and by the afternoon, some people had figured out a new way to make it easier for the paper packets to fall apart. This was something Su Chengyu didn't expect.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that Qiao Qian and the others finally came back.

He was accompanied by more than a dozen craftsmen. After Su Chengyu's inquiry, he learned that the seven craftsmen not only came by themselves, but also brought their apprentices with them.

When they heard that the king of Chenzhou had personally recruited him, and had increased his salary by 20% and helped to settle his family, he immediately agreed to go to Jiangxi with Su Chengyu for development.

However, there is no one to bring their families, and now the west of Fujing is uneasy, and they want to wait until it is peaceful before moving. Anyway, the princes of the county have opened the golden mouth, and they are not in a hurry at this time.

In addition, Qiao Qian also brought more than 40 bird guns and large boxes of gunpowder and lead from the palace, and it is said that only three guns were left in the palace. However, it is not difficult for the palace to add some bird guns in Tianxing Mansion.

As soon as he left the post station and walked more than ten miles, he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind the official road.

Soon, four people on horseback caught up with Su Chengyu's convoy, and one of them said loudly: "King Chenzhou, please stay!" ”

Su Chengyu hurriedly ordered to stop. The four men also dismounted, led by a fair-skinned man in his thirties with a beardless face, followed by two burly young men. Another young man led his horse and stood still. They were all dressed as merchants, and they carried some goods on horseback.

The two young men just stood far away, their eyes blazing. The fair-skinned man walked towards Su Chengyu.

Shi Lin frowned, and was about to stretch out his hand to stop him, when he heard the man say in a shrill voice that was just right for Su Chengyu to hear: "Your Highness, our family has something important for you." ”

Su Chengyu motioned for Shi Lin and the surrounding guards to retreat farther away. Shi Lin has led the palace guards for many years, and he is very eye-catching, so he immediately beckoned the guards to retreat two or three feet away, and stood in a circle with his back to Su Chengyu.

The father-in-law walked up to Su Chengyu, and he didn't see any courtesy, quietly took out a wax-sealed wooden box from his body and handed it to Su Chengyu, smiled and whispered: "The emperor's secret decree." Then he immediately added, "The Holy One said, don't kneel." ”

Sure enough, as Huang Geng said, Su Chengyu's heart jumped, it seemed that Longwu had discussed it with Huang Daozhou.

He carefully took the wooden box, and listened to the eunuch again: "The Holy Lord said that His Highness can appoint officials below the third rank cheaply during his operation. Above the third grade, the official can be awarded first, and then the supplementary performance. ”

After saying this, the eunuch did not stop at all, and immediately took three of his attendants on his horse and whipped away.

Su Chengyu lifted off the sealing wax and opened the wooden box, and he was greatly moved by the contents of the box. I saw that the top was a brocade cloth, and below there were hundreds of blank letters of appointment, each of which was stamped with the seal of the ministry, the cabinet and the imperial seal, as long as the name and official position were written, it could take effect immediately!

With this box of power of attorney, he can simply build a small court by himself.

He unfolded the brocade cloth again, and the first row of words read, "Imperial Nephew Zhu Linmi's Secret Qizun Xing", and the back read: Order the imperial nephew to take full charge of military training, and I will directly control it. The grain, grass and military salaries are temporarily distributed to the Ganzhou Department, and if there is a special situation, it will be secretly played in me immediately, and the side matters can be handed over to the cabinet Huang Daozhou to handle it personally. This new army is given the name Longwei, and it needs to be diligent for training, and take the national fortune as its responsibility, and never slack off.

Su Chengyu looked in the direction of Tianxing Mansion and said in a low voice: "Interesting!" I also promise to give you back a prosperous and powerful Ming! ”

When he returned to the car, he suddenly remembered that during the Northern Expedition of the Zodiac Zhou in history, Longwu only gave him one soldier one tael of silver, plus a hundred blank letters of appointment. Huang Ge Lao took his disciples and protégés and collected more than 4,000 taels of military salaries and went on the road.

Zodiac Zhou's disciples, protégés, military salaries, blank letters of appointment...... Su Chengyu found that it seemed that after he stopped the Northern Expedition of Huang Daozhou, the resources that should have been in the hands of Huang Ge Lao were transferred to his own hands.

Except that Longwu didn't give me a tael of silver, Su Chengyu couldn't help but scratch his current net worth when he thought of this-three thousand taels brought out from the palace, the gold and silver sent by Huang Daozhou added up to more than four thousand taels, and the "labor army money" was eight thousand taels, totaling more than fifteen thousand taels.

It seems like a lot, but according to the market situation that Su Chengyu has learned, if he wants to build a battalion of troops according to his ideal state, the money is far from enough.

You must know that every month the salaries of the officers and soldiers are tens of thousands of taels of silver!

You have to find a way to make money, he let out a long breath. Fighting a war is still money in the end.

The group continued along the official road, and two days later arrived at the border of Tingzhou Mansion in southwest Fujian.