Chapter 1752 Listen to my sophistry
Xia Qiang went to revise the official document. Zhu Pingan looked at Hu Wei and uncle Zhu Shouren aside and asked, "Mr. Hu, uncle, have you calculated the results? How much food do I need to ask for from Suzhou Prefecture?”
“Sir, I think I made a mistake.” Hu Wei did not realize his mistake, but after calculating it again, he still came up with the same answer.
Zhu Pingan looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren, "Uncle, have you calculated the result?"
"Ahem, I think Brother Hu is right." Uncle Zhu Shouren coughed. With a sound, he once again chose to believe in Hu Wei.
On the one hand, when Hu Wei did the calculations just now, he used an abacus and straw paper, and he calculated very carefully.
On the other hand, the uncle Zhu Shouren is not good at calculations, and he can’t even do abacus. It’s okay to have a smaller number, but there’s nothing he can do about a larger number. The amount of food and grass was beyond his ability to calculate. What can he do if he doesn't believe Hu Wei? He can't calculate it himself, so he can only choose to believe Hu Wei.
For a moment, Hu Wei and his uncle Zhu Shouren both looked at Zhu Pingan with a look on their face.
"Mr. Hu, how many days are there in a month?" Zhu Pingan had no choice but to ask Hu Wei with a look of helplessness.
“Of course it’s thirty days.” Hu Wei replied without hesitation.
"How many days did Mr. Hu count?" Zhu Pingan looked at Hu Wei with burning eyes and asked slowly.
“Of course I counted thirty.” Hu Wei replied without thinking, but just halfway through, he remembered what went wrong, “Oh, my God, I seemed to count it according to ten. It’s calculated in days.”
“Ah! You’re calculated in ten days.” "Uncle Zhu Shouren suddenly panicked and looked at Hu Wei nervously and asked, "Did you calculate the gunpowder and weapons for me based on ten days?"
The corner of Zhu Ping'an's mouth twitched. , Uncle is really an uncle, he hasn’t changed at all.
“No.” Hu Wei shook his head.
"Oh, that's fine." Uncle Zhu Shouren breathed a sigh of relief.
But the next second, he couldn't let go.
"Because you calculated the consumption for half a month, I first calculated it based on one month, and then reduced it by half. In other words, I calculated it based on five days." Hu Wei was a little embarrassed. said.
“Five days.” The uncle’s face turned dark. “Brother Hu, I trust you so much in vain. You have disappointed me so much.”
“You can’t blame me for this. I’m not letting you down. Did you calculate it? You are right." Hu Wei couldn't help complaining.
"If I could figure it out, would I still need your help?" the uncle said confidently.
Let me go. What you said makes sense. I was speechless. Hu Wei was immediately speechless.
"Ahem, nephew, do you want to read the official document I wrote?" Uncle Zhu Shouren asked sarcastically, holding the official document.
"Uncle, do you think I still need to watch it?" Zhu Pingan asked with a wry smile.
"Ahem, let's wait for Brother Hu to do the calculation again. After we correct it, we can show it to my nephew." Uncle Zhu Shouren said coquettishly, put away the official document and put it back on the table.
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There seemed to be a piece of paper under the official document that the uncle had placed. Zhu Pingan's sharp eyes saw it at once.
Zhu Ping'an stepped forward to pick up his uncle's official documents.
"After the numbers are corrected, my nephew will read it again." Uncle Zhu Shouren was a little nervous and held down his official document.
"It's okay, what I want to see is not an official document." Zhu Pingan smiled slightly and pulled his uncle's hand away. In the uncle's nervous eyes, Zhu Pingan picked up the official document and saw the following. Another official letter.
Seeing that Zhu Ping'an saw the official document hidden underneath, a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on the forehead of his uncle Zhu Shouren.
Zhu Ping'an picked up the official document below and laughed when he saw it. He laughed angrily.
This official letter from the uncle was modeled on the official document asking for gunpowder and weapons, but the content was about asking for money.
In the official document, the uncle asked the Suzhou government to allocate three thousand taels of silver to reward the soldiers and boost the morale of the soldiers, so that in the upcoming war against the Japanese, the soldiers can exert 100% of their strength and fight for the victory. Death.
The uncle's appetite is really getting bigger and bigger. He secretly asks for money behind his back, and the reward is three thousand taels of silver.
What kind of nonsense is it to reward soldiers? With the uncle's character, his sneaky ways behind his back, and the cold sweat on his face now, Zhu Ping'an is extremely clear. As long as the three thousand taels of silver are invited, all of them will definitely fall into the uncle's hands. pocket.
"Uncle, what is this?"
Zhu Ping'an picked up the official letter of request for silver that the uncle secretly drafted, looked at him with burning eyes, and asked lightly.
"My dear nephew, please listen to me and let me quibble with you, ah, no, I want to explain." Uncle Zhu Shouren suddenly became bald.
"Then you can quibble." Zhu Pingan said lightly.
"Ahem, the explanation is to explain my nephew." Uncle Zhu Shouren coughed and emphasized repeatedly.
Zhu Ping'an looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren noncommittally. His uncle Zhu Shouren shut his mouth and stopped emphasizing the sophistry and explained instead.
"My dear nephew, it's like this. Didn't I hear you say that the Japanese pirates are coming to attack Suzhou soon? You asked Brother Hu to buy food, asked Brother Xia to arrange training, and asked me to buy gunpowder and weapons. This Will fight soon There's a war."
"War is not a child's play. As the old saying goes, the most important thing in the country is sacrifice and war. . When it comes to fighting, the right time and place and the right people are indispensable. As the saying goes, "the right time and the right place are not as good as the right place and the right place is not as good as the right people." "Humanity" is too important in war. "
"How to improve the "good luck". Well, the uncle thought of the saying that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. If you want to improve the morale of the soldiers, what is better than giving out a reward of silver? If so, then give out two rewards. .”
"So, I applied to Suzhou Prefecture for three thousand taels of silver. When the time comes, each soldier will be given one tael. I am not afraid that they will not try their best to kill the Japanese."
"Brothers fighting tigers, father and son soldiers, I It's the uncle, this is what an uncle should do, no need to thank me, my dear nephew."
The uncle Zhu Shouren became more and more fluent in his words, and the more he spoke, the more confident he became. It was obvious that he was really good at lying.
Quietly watching his uncle lie, Zhu Ping'an also commented on this test in his mind: Hu Wei and Xia Qiang are both careless and unreliable people, and they cannot handle major military affairs. , I don’t feel at ease if I leave it to them; as for my uncle Zhu Shouren, it’s even more unreliable. He is a cheater, a cheater, a cheater, a man who succeeds only when he fails, and is blind to money. If he comes to help him, he will only try his best to get money for himself. As long as the money is in place, he can give the Zhejiang Army and himself to the uncle. Sell them all
So, it’s better to send them away as soon as possible.
Zhu Pingan made up his mind.
Forget it all about the crouching dragon, phoenix and chicks. My temple here is small and cannot accommodate you three giant Buddhas. (End of this chapter)