“Xian nephew, there is a batch of obsolete armaments in my army, all of them can be used, if Xian nephew doesn’t mind, he can take them.”
Marquis Linhuai was very satisfied with Zhu Pingan’s suggestion, considering that Zhu Pingan was responsible for reorganising the army, and the rations that he had just taken from the Ministry of War were not sufficient, in order to thank Zhu Pingan, he said that there was a batch of obsolete armaments in his army that he could support.
“Thank you uncle for your support.”How could Zhu Pingan refuse, the first time he arched his hand and thanked Marquis Linhuai.
“You’re welcome, Xian Nephew. There is also that rustling thief, uncle will come to the door some other day, in addition to shaming his old face, and set it as a batch of suitable benefits for your nephew to ask for.”Marquis Linhuai smiled faintly and once again stated.
“It is an honour to have Ping An’s suggestion adopted by Duke Wei, how dare I ask for favours.”Zhu Pingan smiled and shook his head.
“Xian nephew you are too generous. You don’t care, this is something that uncle will do for you.”Marquis Linhuai waved his hand.
Well, you are the elder, I can t say it ……Zhu Pingan smiled bitterly on his face and applauded warmly in his heart.
The two agreed that tomorrow morning, Zhu Pingan would bring someone to Marquis Linhuai’s camp to receive the eliminated military equipment. Then, the two parted ways. Linhuai Hou was in a hurry to go back to write his sangs, and his fat figure walked as if he were flying ……
On the morning of the second day, Zhu Pingan took Liu Dazhu and the others with him, commandeered ten more officers from the Tidings and Judgeship Department Yamen, rented twenty carriages, and went in great numbers to the camp of the Manipulating River Water Army led by Marquis Linhuai.
“Fifth Auntie you’re here, Master is waiting for you in the camp.”
Steward Li II had specially waited outside the camp, and when he saw Zhu Pingan from afar, he greeted him.
“I’m grateful to Steward Li for waiting outside the camp.”Zhu Pingan smiled and greeted Li II.
“You’re welcome, Auntie, please.”Li II smiled with a bright smile and guided Zhu Pingan and his party towards the military camp.
Zhu Pingan walked forward while observing Linhuai Hou’s barracks, the barracks was stationed at the mouth of the river, half of it was on the river and half on the river bank, stretching for miles and miles and miles, the outermost part of the barracks was the antlers, and behind the antlers a fence was erected, enclosing the barracks.
LinHuaiHou’s military camp stationed quite have rules and regulations, but there are also shortcomings, camping for a place, so it is easy to be wrapped up in a dumpling. General cautious generals camping, will be divided into two or three camps, two camps to form a hand, two camps to take care of each other, a camp is attacked, another camp can go to support; three camps to form a zigzag tripod position, a camp is attacked, two camps can go to support the three camps to cooperate with each other.
“Master Li please ……”
There was a team of eight guards in two columns outside the camp’s yamen gate, when they saw Li Er leading Zhu Pingan and his party to come, the guards on duty all knew Li Er and rushed to greet him, although they did not know Zhu Pingan and the others, they also opened the camp gate without asking, inviting Li Er and Zhu Pingan and his party to enter the barracks.
Without checking their identities, they opened the regulator gate and invited their own party to enter ……
The military discipline is not good.
Seeing this scene in front of the regulator gate, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but shake his head slightly.
Military discipline is not strict, the level of military governance is not optimistic, Zhu Pingan expressed his concern about the level of military governance of Marquis Linhuai.
Sure enough, Zhu Pingan entered the barracks and found that the tents were still in order, but the soldiers were undisciplined. The soldiers who were training in the field were in loose formation, while those who weren’t training were either walking casually between the tents or sitting on the ground in groups of five or five without any image, tilting their heads, and there were even a few open spaces with a lot of people around them, and the coaxing and bustling sounds spread far and wide, as if they were rolling the dice to gamble…….
Li II led Zhu Pingan and his entourage all the way to the marquis Linhuai’s marquee, and only encountered his own soldiers blocking them thirty metres in front of the marquee.
“Steward Li, who are they?!”A group of personal soldiers came forward and asked.
“Baldy Li, blind your dog’s eyes, even dare to stop the Fifth Aunt. This is our residence’s fifth auntie, a scholar of the dynasty, and now the Commander of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Tidings and Investigation Division of the fifth rank, Lord Zhu Pingan Zhu, responsible for the preparation of the army and leading the **** regiment. His Lordship asked your uncle to come to the camp to receive the armaments we eliminated and assist your uncle in reorganising the militia regiments’ armaments.”Li Er Er stepped forward and cursed, introducing them to Zhu Pingan.
“So it’s Master Auntie, the younger ones have eyes and don’t recognise Tai Tai, forgive us, we’ll go and inform the master.”Li Baldy and other personal soldiers were instantly enthusiastic, sending people to report to the marshal tent, and also helped push the carriage.
“Oh, virtuous nephew, you’ve come.”After Marquis Linhuai got the report, he welcomed out of the tent with a smile on his face.
“Uncle.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand in salute.
“Come, come, quickly enter the tent and drink a cup of hot tea to warm your body.”Marquis Linhuai smiled as he introduced Zhu Pingan into the tent, and before entering the tent, he instructed his personal soldiers, “Li II, Li Baldy, you greet the people that Xian Nephew has brought with him.”
Zhu Pingan stepped into the tent, Marquis Linhuai poured a cup of tea for Zhu Pingan, and then anxiously brought a zhengshi to Zhu Pingan.
“Xian nephew, do you think it’s alright for me to submit a report like this?”Marquis Linhuai asked.
Zhu Pingan took the zhang rustic and read it carefully, the content is almost exactly the same as his own suggestion, there is no problem with the wording, there is no impropriety in it, so he nodded, “uncle, the content of the zhang rustic is not inappropriate, after uncle touched up, this zhang rustic is more feasible, great good.”
“Xian nephew, can be signed?”Marquis Linhuai asked.
Zhu Pingan shook his head, “Uncle, it is better for me to avoid suspicion.”
“Alright.”Marquis Linhuai nodded, so he signed with a seal and had it expedited to be sent to the capital’s General Secretary, while revealing the post to be sent to the Cabinet.
After the sermon, Marquis Linhuai had the quartermaster called up and took Zhu Pingan and his entourage to the barracks storehouse to receive the eliminated armaments.
The quartermaster opened one of the storehouses, pointing to the messy piles of military uniforms inside, and said to Zhu Pingan, “Sir Zhu, there are more than twelve hundred sets of eliminated military uniforms in this storehouse, all of which are unusual military uniforms, and all of which can be reused.”
Zhu Ping An approached to observe and nodded, these military uniforms were all changed, basically still intact.
“Can there be armour?”Zhu Pingan asked.
“There is armour, just ……”The quartermaster wanted to say something.
“Xian nephew, it’s not that I won’t give you armour, it’s just that the armour is all old armour forged in the past and poorly maintained ……”Lin Huai Hou explained.
Sure enough, when the quartermaster opened a storage room where the armour was stored, a musty rusty smell came out from it, and the armour inside was all rusty and tattered, there was almost no intact armour, and there were many holes in almost every piece of armour leaf. This kind of armour rotten to the finger, wear on just a burden, pressure can not protect the body, so by Lin Huai Hou their military camp abandoned as if it was worn out, still by them in the treasury then rags …….
However, the rotten armour is also armour, pull back to the furnace as scrap iron, forging blades, armour is possible.
Zhu Pingan also opened his mouth and asked for all of these tattered armours.
Next, the quartermaster opened several more storerooms, from which Zhu Pingan received 600 spears, 500 swords and 200 longbows. To Zhu Pingan’s delight, in the corner of one of the storerooms, Zhu Pingan also found three hundred cannons.
“Oh, these burning sticks are not suitable for our navy, not to mention the trouble of loading them, they will be mute once the tide is in, not as good as the bow and arrow contract.”
Marquis Linhuai was disdainful of the cannons.
It is a waste to have firearms and not use them! Seeing this, Zhu Pingan nonchalantly asked for these 300 cannons.
This trip was fully loaded.
