Chapter 26: With Silver Coins Come Weapons!

  As he spoke, Zhao Xi took out a silver ticket and placed it in front of Wang Hengyue. Wang Hengyue only took one glance, and his eyes lit up instantly.

  A 30,000 tael silver note!

  Timely help in trouble, timely help in trouble!

  We have our own people now, what we lack most is weapons and money! With money, we can get any kind of weapon!

  It was clear that this was for himself, but when dealing with these famous scholars, he couldn't show even a hint of joy on his face. Wang Hengyue pretended to glance over and asked: "What does this mean, Master Xiang?"

  "His Excellency Wang is devoted to the country, fighting to the death. Now that he has trained a new army, how can we not do our best to assist him? When His Excellency was recovering from his injuries, Zhao Xi gathered the gentry and merchants of Rong County to discuss this matter. Zhao Xi took the lead in donating 20,000 taels of silver, and the other gentry members also made successive donations, totaling 30,000 taels of silver, wishing to lend His Excellency a helping hand!"

  Now that it had come to this, Wang Hengyue was no longer polite. He stood up, ignoring the pain of his wounds, and bowed deeply: "Xiang Gong's great righteousness, Hengyue will remember in his heart! When the new army is trained, I will definitely invite Xiang Gong to inspect it!"

  Zhao Xi thought that he had also made a contribution to the training of the new army and was very pleased with himself.

  Seeing off Zhao Xi, Wang Hengyue hastily called over all his subordinates. Now that they had the silver, it was time to think of ways to get weapons. The most beautiful way would be to take over an arsenal and produce their own weapons, but this idea seemed like a fool's dream at present.

  Talking about where to get the weapons, all sorts of things were said. Wang Hengyue was listening carefully there, suddenly he slapped his head and shouted loudly, scaring all his subordinates, who didn't know what situation their officer had gotten into.

  "Fang Yun!" Wang Hengyue hastily said to Yang Fangyun: "You go back to Chengdu tomorrow, bring 15,000 taels of silver, then go find Qin Zhanggui and tell him to help me use this 15,000 taels of silver to buy all the white cloth that can be bought in Chengdu!"

  He spoke quickly, and Yang Fangyun took a moment to think before understanding what he was saying: "Sir, what do you want so much white cloth for?"

  White cloth is not very useful in everyday life, and some small fabric shops may only sell one piece of white cloth in a year or two. It's no wonder that Yang Fangyun was greatly surprised when Wang Hengyue made such an inexplicable request at this time.

  "Don't bother, I'm going to make a big deal!" Wang Hengyue thought about it more and more, feeling pleased: "Tell Qin Guan that he should believe his brother's words and let him also buy as much white cloth as possible, turning all the idle money into white cloth. If Chengdu is sold out, go to neighboring prefectures and counties to buy. If Sichuan is sold out, go to Yunnan to buy. We want high-quality, medium-quality, and low-quality white cloth, in short, we'll buy as much as we can!"

  The adults have gone mad! This is what Wang Hengyue's subordinates unanimously think!

  I'm afraid that with so much white cloth, it will last a lifetime! Fifteen thousand taels of silver, all gone like flowing water?

  "Qin big brother, no matter what, you must get this done. I guarantee you'll make a huge profit. Even if you don't want to hoard goods, I still need all of my silver changed into white cloth. Even if I lose every last bit of silver, I'll be eternally grateful to you."

  "Yes, I will tell Mr. Qin exactly what you said, without missing a single word!" Since the adult had made up his mind, Yang Fangyun didn't say anything more.

  Wang Heng let out a long sigh of relief, fortunately he had a flash of inspiration and came up with this money-making idea. Nowadays everyone thinks they're an idiot, but in the future, who knows, maybe one by one they'll all think they're geniuses.

  After finishing the white cloth matter, he shifted the topic to weapons. Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, Pitt slowly said: "It's easy for adults to get weapons."

  "Oh, you have a way?" Wang Hengyue was surprised.

  Pete looked pleased with himself: "My uncle Willie is a big businessman, doing business in Chongqing and also having an office in Chengdu. He's the one who deals with weapons, how many do you need?"

  "Damn it, since you have this relationship, why didn't you say so earlier?"

  Pete spread his hands: "Before the adults had no money, why should I say? No money, no weapons. With money, there are weapons. Now you have silver, of course, you have weapons. And you said before that there were two hundred guns like yours coming from America, are you bragging?"

  "You, you damn foreign devil!" Wang Hengyue was so angry that he burst out laughing. These foreigners really don't care about saving face when doing business.

  "The three words 'dog day' gave Pitt a headache: 'I have two dogs at home in the US, but I don't have a relationship with them. I don't like dogs. I'm not a dog day.'"

  With a "boom", they burst into loud laughter on the side.

  Wang Hengyue cried and laughed: "Alright, alright, I admit defeat. Damn it! Fang Yun, take Pete back to Chengdu with you. Pete, get the person in charge of your uncle's office to come to Rong County, just say that I have a deal to discuss with him!"

  "No problem!" Pete patted his chest and said with a big smile: "Although your business is not big, we are the best of friends. For your face, I will bring people."

  Wang Heng was furious, I helped him with business and instead owed Peter a favor?

  But for now, it's still not possible to offend this dead foreign devil, and in the future, when discussing the price of weapons, we'll still have to rely on him. Moreover, with just that little silver, we have to purchase weapons and make military uniforms, it's not necessarily feasible. In case there is a shortage of silver, we can't help but ask this "best friend" Peter to mediate.

  Having figured out this link, Wang Hengyue's mood was relaxed: "Everyone, the matter of weapons has some clues now. Everyone returns to the army and each team must intensify their training. Let's discuss together how to train better. Liu Sihai is a returned overseas Chinese, if there are any questions, you can ask him. Also, military discipline is the most important thing, everyone should strictly supervise their subordinates, don't let me cause trouble and be driven out by the people of Rong County!"

  "We obey your orders, sir!" his subordinates replied in unison.

  Yu Lei suddenly asked: "Everyone, who is the officer of this first team?"

  Everyone was taken aback, and Yu Lei calmly said: "Remember, the first team officer is Wang Hengyue. When we first came to Rong County, we had no one and no silver, it was all brought down by Officer Wang's life. This point, I ask you all to remember clearly. Our first team is not something that outsiders can intervene in."

  Everyone fell silent, then nodded slowly.

  Yu Lei suddenly came again, leaving Wang Hengyue somewhat unprepared.

  Now he is somewhat puzzled by Yu Lei, this person is either shameless or really loyal to himself. Or maybe Yu Lei has other ideas in his heart that he doesn't know about?

  Shook his head slowly and put this idea aside for the time being!