The banquet dispersed and it was late at night.

Although Liu Jun drank a lot of wine, he was still very sober. Obviously, his body was also a long-standing test. He drank a lot of wine, but the wine was not as strong as those in later generations. The few bowls of wine on the banquet made him feel a little uneasy and more clear and excited at this time.

Since she couldn't sleep, Liu Jun simply lay on the bed and carefully sorted out his experience after traveling through time.

In general, he was lucky. He came to the Ming Dynasty. Although it was the end of the world, he was so young and strong. He was still in a good gentry family. He was still a martial arts student and had a good identity.

Now he is considering his future?

I had thought about going to cling to the Liu family before, but I put my face on my cold butt, but unexpectedly got to know Li Chunjiang. Now Li Chunjiang is pulling him to build a horse team, because Li Chunjiang may just be a trial and a pastime in his spare time. But Liu Jun felt that this might be an opportunity for him.

Li Chunjiang might have left the horse team three or five months later and went to participate in the imperial examination. But Liu Jun didn't think he could pass the martial arts and Jinshi. Maybe this horse team was an opportunity to manage it with his heart as a little capital in this troubled times.

However, it is not so easy to build a horse team. No matter how gentry is armed, he belongs to a cavalry. According to what Li Chunjiang said to him before, there are fifty formal riders in his horse team, but in addition to these formal riders, they also have to be equipped with veterinarians, groomsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, etc., and also have to get a group of rider entourage.

According to his plan, there were fifty-year-old riders, and then there were about fifty-year-old horsemen, etc., and then there were one hundred riders.

Therefore, the size of this horse team is 200 people.

Each regular rider must be equipped with two good horses outside the mouth, one entourage, and another logistics must be equipped with twenty horses, thirty mules, and dozens of carts.

This is a pretty luxurious configuration.

Li Chunjiang has a big appetite, so if you want to play, you can play big.

If you really want to start such a luxurious horse team, the biggest problem is money. According to Liu Jun’s original memory, in the eastern Hubei region, if you want to buy a good foreign war horse, the price is not cheap, especially in the current turbulent times, there are many wars everywhere. During the Taiping period, a horse in the horse market in Liaodong was only more than ten taels of silver, and it was only twenty taels of gold when you arrived in Zhangjiakou.

Then now, in eastern Hubei, a decent horse with a good mouth can cost at least fifty taels of silver. If it is a well-trained war horse, it will take 80 taels of base. And most people have not had the chance to get it, so they must have a very strong relationship. Most of these horses are top-notch horses made from military towns in the north, and they are completely well-trained.

A horse is eighty taels, and a team of two hundred mounts is ten thousand taels of silver. It is cheaper to pick up a horse and mule, and it is even more expensive.

This is just a one-time expense. The cost of supporting a good war horse is also extremely high. Judging from the supply of war horses by the border army, the war horses cost at least thirty taels of silver a year. The cost of raising a war horse for two hundred war horses a year is another 6,000.

This is just a horse fee, and what about the equipment of the horse? Recruiting riders, attendants, doctors and others’ salaries. Like Li Chunjiang’s plan, it is not ordinary gentry armed forces, but similar to the practice of elite servants. A rider probably needs at least 2 taels of silver per month, and entourage doctors and others also need at least 1 taels of one taels of one taels of one month.

For a person with a salary of 200, he will have to spend another 1,200 taels per month.

Then I have another expense for eating, equipment.

After Liu Jun calculated this, he found that to pull the horse team up, he would have to invest at least 20,000 taels of silver in the early stage. Then he would have to spend a few hundred taels of silver every month in the future.

Twenty thousand taels, not a decimal.

He now doubts that Li Chunjiang can really have so much money to invest in this horse team? The Li family must have given 20,000 taels of silver. The key is that they are willing to use such a large sum of money to build such a horse team?

Liu Jun suddenly felt that Li Chunjiang’s plan was a little too big.

The horse team is also planned to be larger. If only fifty riders are recruited and one horse is paired with, the expenses will be greatly reduced. Fifty horses each need only 80 taels of silver, with a monthly salary of 2 taels per person, and only 100 taels of silver per month. Fifty horses are only 100 taels of silver per month. After all, it will be more than 200 taels of silver per month.

If he had 5,000 taels of silver in the early stage, he would almost have to pull up the team. He still had 1,000 taels of silver in his hand, so he could also invest it first. Li Chunjiang just took 4,000 taels out.

However, even if you have excellent war horses, cavalry cannot be trained overnight. A regular qualified cavalry will have to be at least two or three years of hard training to achieve something.

Moreover, it is probably not easy to recruit suitable cavalry candidates.

Liu Jun looked up at the four-foot-long small horn bow hanging on the wall in the room. It was short and easy to carry. The yellow bow body and silk thread skeletons were not very exquisite and gorgeous, but it had a smooth beauty.

Liu Jun stood up and took off the bow.

It was not the first time he tried this bow, so he pulled it open easily. He estimated that the pulling force was about 120 pounds. When he was testing the room outside the house, he found that the range of shots could reach more than 60 feet, and it was more than 120 steps away.

According to memory, this small-shot bow was passed down from the Tang and Song dynasties and was later improved. Although the bow is small, its range is very long, it is easy to draw the bow and has a fast firing speed. Although it is not as strong and precise as the long-shot bow, it is already a very good bow.

If a horse team is formed, this small-shot horn bow should be more suitable for riders.

As far as Liu Jun knows, during the Zhengde period, the imperial court issued a "Wuxiang Test Paper", which was held in the Ming Dynasty for three exams, one and two exams for archery, and the third written exam. The first test was taken at the right time, with twenty-five steps as the basis, and the second test was taken at the right time, with eighty steps as the basis.

In the court's martial arts examination, the most important thing in martial arts was cavalry and shooting. We immediately took twenty-five steps and eighty steps down.

In the Ming Dynasty, one step was five feet, one foot was about one meter and six points, and twenty-five steps were immediately forty meters away, and the range of eighty steps reached a distance of 128 meters. Killing the enemy at such a long distance is indeed amazing.

Liu Jun tried this small shoot by himself, and shot the target with eighty steps. He could almost hit every shot, and he was extremely accurate immediately. It seemed that he was admitted to Weiwu Academy because of his real skills.

Looking down at his hands with thick joints and calloused hands, Liu Jun felt that the horse team had to practice riding and shooting. As for firearms, it didn't seem to be a suitable choice.

If a team of people can be trained to his riding and shooting skills, even half of his level, then this horse team can be called an elite. However, if he can equip the riders with two short guns, it may still greatly improve his combat effectiveness. However, although Liu Jun is very familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty and is familiar with riding and shooting, he seems to have no idea about firearms at all.

Let’s practice riding and shooting first. Didn’t the Qing Tartars dominate the throne by riding and shooting?

Liu Jun and Liu Jun didn't know clearly about firearms, but Liu Jun was still very clear about bows and arrows.

In the Ming Dynasty, bows and arrows should have developed to a new level, which is more progressive than in the Tang and Song dynasties. A typical situation is that on the basis of matching the weight of arrows and the force of bows, we noticed the relationship between arrow length and bows. In the record of bows, we no longer calculated using traditional stones, but had a dedicated concept of force.

Liu Jun's family has a book called "Shooting Technique" written by Li Chengfen, a Ming Dynasty man. It talks about the power of bows and arrows, which is to match them. In ancient times, bows used stones to measure their power, while today's bows used one force, nine jin and four liang to make one stone, and ten jin to make one stone.

Anyone who has five powers and the arrow weighs four cents will be shaking and unstable when it is fired; while a bow with three powers and an arrow weighs seven cents will be fired slowly but not fast. Why? The force is not opposite.

Therefore, if a bow with three forces is used, ten fists will grow. The so-called one fist is called one fist. The weight of ten arrows is four cents and five cents. For a bow with four forces, nine and a half arrows are used to be long, or ten, which is particularly equivalent. The weight is five cents and five cents. As for a bow with five forces and six forces, the arrow is also used to be half of nine fists. A bow with seven forces and eight forces, only nine arrows can be used, and even nine and a half can grow.

Therefore, the length of an arrow depends on the strength of the bow, and the thickness of the string buckle also depends on the strength of the bow.

In the Ming Dynasty, one pound of sixteen taels was about 595 grams. One or two dozen coins, one ounce was about 3.72 grams.

Therefore, Liu Jun converted according to what was said in the book of shooting. The three-force bow corresponds to the weight of the arrow 16.7 grams, and the four-force bow corresponds to the weight of the arrow 20.5 grams.

After all, a stone bow from the Ming Dynasty was converted into a modern bow pound. One pound in the Ming Dynasty corresponds to 1.31 pound in the modern era, one force corresponds to about 12.11-12.61 pounds in the modern era, and one stone corresponds to 121.1-126.1 pounds.

One force is nine pounds and four pounds, and ten force is ninety-two and a half pounds, which is equivalent to about 120 pounds, which is about 110 pounds.

By doing this, the Yishi Bow is not a big exaggeration. It is not as many later generations misunderstood. It is thought that the Ming Yishi Bow has a pulling force of 94.4 kilograms, which is too exaggerated. The 94.4 kilograms of a stone is just the volume weight of ten dou of rice and cannot be considered a unit of bow force.

Liu Jun's bow is actually a bow of ten forces, in other words, a stone bow. As far as he remembers, there are not many students from Huangzhou Weiwu who can drive a stone bow. Generally, ordinary soldiers of the Ming army only draw six or seven bows, and small officers draw seven or eight bows. Only those who are good at shooting can draw eight or nine forces, and those who can drive ten forces are already very impressive.

Only those extremely brave generals can draw bows of more than ten forces, twelve or three forces, or even fourteen or five forces.
Chapter completed!