Liu Zhongyong was very happy because Liu bu not only agreed to his plan, but also left more people.

As an officer, it is natural that Han Xin ordered the troops. The more, the better.

However, he could also hear Liu Bu\'s meaning. They would not recruit troops in the short term. They had to train these soldiers.

Liu Zhongyong is an old army leader. Naturally, he knows that these soldiers can only be said to be good seedlings. It will take some time to train them.

Veterans who have been on the battlefield know that soldiers who have not passed the training, no matter how strong their individual combat ability, are actually no different from ordinary bandits and robbers. If you meet the regular army and are suppressed by the other party\'s team, you will be finished at once.

Therefore, after deciding the list set by Liu Bu, he will transfer the family list of these people to Liu Fuqi, determine the contract, and then he will be responsible for training these recruits.

His training this time is different from those before the training. Before the training, they were all hospital guards, mainly to protect the Liu family\'s property and personnel, belonging to the category of bodyguards.

But now it\'s different. They belong to regular forces. We should train them to line up, get familiar with various formations and queues, and prepare for war.

800 family members can not be counted as less. If they are really trained, they conduct war training on the battlefield. It can be said that the Liu family has also become one of the powerful forces today.

After Liu Bu made a decision, he immediately went back to the old house to discuss with Liu Fuqi.

Liu Fuqi said: "young master, you have made a decision. Naturally, you do it according to your instructions. Hundreds of people have little impact, but now we really have to train people and play a role. There are 800 servants, which is very powerful in Daming. Our servants\' quality and weapons are no worse than those of the officers and soldiers. As long as we train them, we have the ability to protect ourselves."

Liu Bu said, "uncle Liu, I want to ask you if you can help me arrange someone to go to Macao and let them sell some firerope guns or firerope gun technology to us?"

Liu Fuqi\'s face was a little strange and said, "I\'m afraid I can\'t go to the Portuguese in Macao."

Liu Bu said: "why? The Portuguese have the best fire gun technology, and their red cannon is far superior to Daming. If possible, one day we will buy our own red cannon. Without cannon, we will never become a strong army."

Liu Fuqi said, "we also cooperate with some maritime businessmen. Zheng Zhibao, the second master of the Zheng family in Fujian, cooperates with our Liu family. He is a life and death friend of our master."

Liu Bu said in surprise, "Friends of life and death? Why don\'t I know?"

Zheng Zhibao\'s reputation may not be very famous, but if you mention his brother, Zheng Zhizhi, who runs across the sea, is a big man in the southeast coast. Now he has been appeased by Fujian governor Xiong Wencan. As a general of Fujian Navy, he joined Daming. Moreover, he has a nephew who is more powerful, that is Zheng Chenggong, who is famous all over the world in the future.

However, Zheng Zhilong himself is a man of the moment in the world.

Last year, Zheng Zhilong defeated the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the Golden Gate naval battle off the coast of Fujian. Since then, Zheng Zhilong has controlled the sea route and charged the berthing fees of commercial ships from various countries. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong has quickly become rich and can turn the country into a country. It seems to be called the Lord and sea overlord of Southern Fujian, and gives the Zheng family a flag for the merchant ship that pays protection fees to Zhilong (a large ship needs to pay 3000 liang of silver); If you want to pass through Zhilong sea area without paying, you may not escape the fate of being robbed. Zheng Zhilong Zhilong was so powerful that the Dutch East India Company was uneasy. The Dutch people often combined with other forces to attack Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong continued to expand his power and defeated the Dutch many times.

Liu Bu is a little surprised. Liu Jiafu is really not bragging. His father has such a good relationship with the second leader of the Zheng family.

Housekeeper Liu Fuqi said: "In the past, master Zheng Er always mixed with the Dutch. Everything we got from overseas came from the Zheng family. Moreover, the things we shipped overseas were resold through the Zheng family, and then we always attacked the Portuguese. The Portuguese and the Portuguese regarded them as a thorn in the eye, while the master was close to the Zheng family. It was certainly impossible to do business with the Portuguese. We could have Trading with the Dutch, the Dutch have no worse weapons than the Portuguese, but now the Zheng family is fighting with the Dutch. The Zheng family is the most powerful force in the southeast coast. Both the Portuguese and the Dutch are very taboo against them, and it is impossible to obtain military materials through them. "

Liu Bu was very surprised and said, "why don\'t I know these things?"

Liu Fuqi said strangely, "you have no impression of the Zheng family?"

"No," Liu preached

Liu Fuqi tried, "Luocha female ghost!"

Liu Bu was stunned and said, "what is it?"

Liu Fuqi breathed a sigh of relief: "these are illegal activities, and you didn\'t care much about things at home before, so you didn\'t know."

Liu Bu asked, "Dad, what\'s his relationship with master Zheng er?"

Liu Fuqi said: "there is no friendship between friends, but there is friendship between friends. When he was young, he also traveled in the Jianghu and wandered for a while. He met master Zheng er. They have been in contact for decades."

Liu Bu said, "so we have always had a good relationship with the Zheng family, haven\'t we?"

Liu Fuqi also looked a little strange on his face, but he turned around with a cough and said, "of course."

Liu Bu said excitedly, "in this way, can we ask the Zheng family to get us some fire rope guns, red cannon and other things, and the price is easy to discuss."

Liu Fuqi had made up his mind. He said, "yes, as long as you open your mouth, how can they refuse?"

Liu Bu was very happy and said, "thanks uncle Liu for your help. If we have firearms, our army will be stronger.

Liu Fuqi was a little dismissive. He said, "firearms are just a gimmick today. No army in the world today depends entirely on firearms. The Qi family army was famous all over the world in those years, but it was their iron blood military discipline."

Liu Bu said very cleverly, "uncle, you can rest assured that I won\'t let you down."

In this way, Liu Bu easily solved the problem of the source of fire guns and artillery. Liu Bu felt the convenience of working as a family. Their contacts are so broad. Basically, they want money, money, people and overseas relations. They can get so many advanced things. If they can\'t make some career, they are stupid.

As the saying goes, if you want to do well, you must first sharpen your weapons. Liu Bu\'s military equipment is quite advanced. Their military equipment is obtained directly from the military equipment supervision warehouse or the military readiness Road warehouse by bribing corrupt officials. If others don\'t look at the flag, they are no different.

However, now Liu Jiajun\'s grass creation, they still look a little crude and look like a grass-roots team.

For example, their weapons are several kinds of long guns, simple knives, bows and arrows.

In war, long gunmen line up with long guns, then push forward and stab each other.

The sword shield hand follows closely behind to fight more closely, which is the most common way of fighting on the battlefield at present.

Now Liu Bu decided to increase investment and engage more than 200 archers, which also gave them the ability of long-range attack and cover.

Liu Zhongyong is full of confidence. Now he has weapons and someone. As long as he is trained, he can become a strong army.

Liu Bu deeply understands that if he wants to do well, he must first sharpen his weapons, so their weapons channels are quite good. They have an ordnance department here. Their ordnance workshop can make some weapons, but they can\'t make armor and crossbows.

Their ordnance workshop usually uses farm tools. If they are asked to make weapons and repair swords, they can still do it, but the technology of making armor and bow is not good. Arrows can be made by themselves, but they can\'t make bow and crossbow technology and raw materials, so they can only purchase, and bow and crossbow can be purchased It\'s a little sensitive. The price is on the high side.

Another problem is that Liu Bu has always planned that the bow and crossbow is only a temporary transition, so he has no idea of vigorously developing a powerful and large-scale bow and crossbow army. Therefore, their bow and crossbow are insufficient, and they can only secretly bribe them to see if they can get some.

Originally, Liu bu also had his own plan to make his own weapons, but looking at the craftsmanship of the craftsmen in his ordnance workshop, he could only create general things and couldn\'t fight a little more complex. He usually did some work to build farm tools and repair weapons, so he decided to take the lead in this way for the time being.

However, Liu Bu has an idea. When the problem of military personnel is almost the same, he must get some expert craftsmen to make his own weapons. At present, they are making cold weapons. In the end, they still need to make things like firerope guns and artillery.

He once read a report that in the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhao Shizhen invented a fire gun called Lumi gun. It is said that it is not much worse than the Portuguese fire gun, but the cost is too high, the corrupt officials of the Ministry of industry are serious, and the emperor refused to pay, so there is only small batch production. However, he has the highest evaluation of all fire guns.

Liu Bu was thinking that if they could have the rumored manufacturing technology of Lumi gun, they would be able to make Lumi gun and use it in war. The rumored Lumi gun has great power and long range. It is a combat gun in a firegun, but the cost is too high. The imperial court is not willing to build it, they are not willing to do it, but I Liu Bu is willing to do it.

When Liu Bu was inspecting the ordnance workshop, his assistant Liu Ning hurriedly came in and said, "my Lord, Zhou Hui will report quickly."

Liu Bu thought for a moment before he remembered who Zhou Hui was. Isn\'t that the person he secretly sent to protect Chen Yuanyuan?

Liu Bu asked, "what can I do for Zhou Hui?"