Zhao Yan naturally didn't want to make things too big, so he immediately wrote a letter to Zheng Shilian. Zheng Shilian is currently the biggest buyer and beneficiary of glass mirrors, and he is on the same chariot as him.

Then an enrollment expansion order was issued, and this enrollment expansion will recruit 700 musketeers and 400 longbow soldiers. After the enrollment expansion, the number of musketeers in the infantry battalion will reach 600 and 300 longbow soldiers.

Longbow soldiers showed good combat effectiveness in several battles, and their greatest use was to reduce the pressure on spearmen and reduce casualties of spearmen.

There were not many troops in the garrison, so this time we directly selected the refugees recruited. Wang Wenyue's second battalion was still suppressing bandits. Zhao Yan did not recall Wang Wenyue, but asked him to continue suppressing bandits.

The expansion of enrollment is to deal with the worst outcome. In addition to the expansion of enrollment, material reserves are also very important. Zhao Yan inspected the Military Weapons Bureau, but frowned. The biggest problem is that there is insufficient gunpowder, and the inventory is less than 10,000 kilograms. How can such a small amount of gunpowder be enough?

These days, the peak period of merchants who transport supplies to exchange for glass mirrors has passed, and the number of people has become much scarce. After all, it takes time for merchants to transport supplies. It is estimated that it will take several months to wait until they transport the next batch of supplies.

Zhao Yan checked the supplies shipped by the merchants, but found that there was no one on the order transporting nitrate soil to Zhaojiabao.

In the past month, more than twenty waves of merchants came to Zhaojiabao, and most of the things they transported were grain and iron materials, so that the grain had accumulated 80,000 stones and more than 40,000 kilograms of iron materials.

More than 5,000 horses were trafficked one after another, of which more than 3,000 horses were trafficked.

These supplies were all exchanged for a mirror of a few taels of silver. Without paying for other things, they were definitely profitable.

The only drawback is that there is no nitrite soil, and those merchants seem to have no interest in trafficking in nitrite soil.

"After all, the nitrate soil is too heavy. It takes ten thousand pounds to replace it with a mirror. After all, it is not convenient to transport it. In addition, it is strictly prohibited by the court, so it can only be purchased by the merchants everywhere." Zhao Quan explained to Zhao Yan.

"Increase the acquisition efforts and send people to buy outside the province. Also, see if you can buy it directly from the official army's gunpowder depot." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said that almost every county has gunpowder depot. If you want to buy these gunpowder, you will naturally have to stuff some silver to the warehouse ambassadors and ask them to steal gunpowder.

"That's all." Zhao Quan nodded and said. The Zhao family is rich now. Although it is nothing compared to those rich people, the key is that the silver source is constantly earning money.

In addition to purchasing, Zhao Yan decided to use the method of making nitrate by soil method. In addition to collecting it in corrals, toilets, and corners of old houses, it also extracts it from urine.

In the crazy history of later generations, people often used this method to make nitrogen, and a county town could produce millions of kilograms.

If you rely on the Zhao family to play the local law to make salt, it will definitely not meet the requirements. But what if it is expanded? You can teach the businessmen how to invest in some money and recruit some refugees to do it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, tens of millions of farmers left their homes, so a large amount of cheap labor emerged, just like the refugees recruited by the Zhao family, who only had two full meals a day, plus some bean cakes at noon could make them do the work of the day.

If you replace 10,000 kilograms of nitrite soil with a mirror, you will have a good profit. It is a way to make money with small investment and good benefits.

It just smells a little bad.

This is nothing, and it’s not that those businessmen are going to work in person. If you can have enough food, there will always be refugees who will do this job.

However, the distance cannot dissolve the near fire. I don’t know how the situation will develop. Maybe I really have to fight with the government army.

So for the time being, I can only buy it everywhere for money.

The most important thing is artillery. At present, Zhaojiabao lacks artillery. Only with artillery, the defense system is complete.

So Zhao Yan plunged into the Military Weapon Bureau and began to solve technical problems with his craftsmen.

...

In the yamen of the Governor's Office in Jinan, Zhu Dadian was enjoying the bright red peach blossoms. In March, the peach blossoms bloomed in a very beautiful way.

Suddenly, the housekeeper brought the censor Wang Zhenyi into the garden. Wang Zhenyi ran to Zhu Dadian in a panic and reported: "Sir, it's not good, it's not good."

"Why are you panic?" Zhu Dadian touched his elegant long beard, and his eyes were still staring at the bright red peach blossoms.

"Wu Anbang, the general of Dengzhou East Road, came to report that the Zhao family in Huangxian County of Dengzhou rebelled and fought against him in Dahe. Wu Anbang was defeated by the traitors..."

"What~!" Zhu Dadian was shocked and quickly turned around and took the letter from Wang Zhenyi's hand and read it. Zhu Dadian frowned slightly. When he saw the "unreckless" at the end, his brows couldn't help but frowned even deeper.

"I just pacified Shandong, why did someone make a monster again? It's so outrageous." Zhu Dadian couldn't help but be angry and asked, "Where did the thief attack?"

"I don't know this... I don't know about Xiaguan, but Wu Anbang didn't explain it in detail." Wang Zhenyi didn't know! The news he got was limited to this.

"Since there are rebels rising, why didn't there be any urgent reports from all prefectures and counties in Dengzhou?" Zhu Dadian wondered.

"Sir, Zheng Shilian, Hong Yongrong and other merchants were outside the government office and said they had something to do to meet him." A yamen runner ran in and reported to Zhu Dadian.

"No." Zhu Dadian waved his hand. It's time, and there's a monster in Dengzhou, so how could he have the intention to meet these merchants?

"Yes, sir." The yamen runner ran out again and ran to the governor's yamen. He saw Zheng Shilian waiting there with several Shandong merchants.

"Sir, I'll never see you." The yamen runner said.

Zheng Shilian took out two taels of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the yamen runner's hand, saying, "You go and report to the governor, we are going to sue the general of Dengzhou Wu Anbang to force Liang to be a bandit."

The yamen runner glanced at the silver in his hand, nodded, changed into a smile and went in again.

"Sir, the merchants outside said they wanted to sue Dengzhou General Wu Anbang to force Liang to be a gangster." When the yamen runner went in to report, Zhu Dadian was stunned and said angrily: "Why is this Wu Anbang again?"

"Sir, this matter must be related to the report from Wu Anbang. You can call us into the government office and find out after asking."

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