According to Lin Hai's plan, the brothers separated and began to prepare supplies according to Lin Hai's instructions.
Big brother Wang Liang took a team of people to the outside of the city and found a sheltered and secluded place to set up camp first. Any supplies purchased later would also be shipped out of the city first. Lin Hai firmly believed that once he had more supplies, trouble would follow. Whether he could successfully leave the city at that time was an unknown. Therefore, not only did the camp have to be set up today, but the supplies purchased outside the city would no longer be brought into the city and could be directly stored in the camp.
Nineteenth Brother Lu You took seven or eight of his brothers to several blacksmith shops in the city to guard them. Yes, just guard them. Lin Hai understood that after such a long period of war, most people would have some weapons in their homes, and the empire would definitely do everything it could to confiscate them, but the Ministry of War's announcement stated that they would be confiscated unconditionally.
Lin Hai understood that even though the empire couldn't afford to pay any more money, confiscation without compensation was still the same as not being able to confiscate it. After all, the common people didn't have much money, and weapons meant high-quality iron, which was a considerable fortune for everyone. Lin Hai needed iron, especially for the future land reclamation, when the large amount of farm tools would consume a huge amount of iron.
"Brother Nineteen, you stay there and ask the blacksmith how much they pay per pound for weapons. If anyone comes to sell them, you take them. Mix the good quality weapons with other supplies and take them out of the city. If they are of poor quality, you must melt them down in front of many people and beat them into iron ingots. We also want the iron ingots."
According to Lin Hai's plan, purchasing iron and grain would cost almost 80% of the cash.
As for food, the Ministry of Revenue has actually made it clear that the food from the Chen Dynasty across the border is very cheap and can be exported in large quantities. This has given Lin Hai on the border great convenience. Anyway, the four countries have already concluded a peace treaty, so it is reasonable to proceed with normal trade.
Lin Hai planned to discuss this matter personally. Of course, for safety reasons, it was reasonable to gather more than thirty brothers when leaving the city. Lin Hai said that it was mainly because one person couldn't carry so much food...
Thanks to countless farming literature, Lin Hai felt he hadn't wasted a single penny. After a few days, only a fraction of the cash wages earned by hundreds of men through hard work remained. The rest had been transformed into weapons, iron ingots, food, medicine, seeds, coarse cloth, and even three donkey carts, all hidden from view.
While making separate procurement plans, Lin Hai asked Xu Qingtao, the medicine purveyor, to buy a small amount of sulfur, citing skin disease as a precaution. He also secretly went to a leather shop to get some saltpeter, adding it to the charcoal he had already burned in the camp. Yes, Lin Hai wanted to do another experiment.
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