The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 261: To support the alloy boss, one must pay an equal amount of gold? !

The young man looked through his own pocket money with a sad face.

One small gold ingot, two small gold ingots... It has only been in the last three years that my father has taken his current position, and it has also only been in the last three years that he has been able to receive gold ingots as New Year's money.

In the money box, there were only five gold ingots with the inscriptions of "Bi Ding Ruyi" and "Zhuangyuan Jidi". The heaviest one weighed less than one ounce, and the lightest seemed to weigh only five coins.

"Auspiciousness and Abundance", "Eight Treasures for Spring Festival", and those plum blossom and crabapple shaped silver ingots, add up to less than twenty of them. Although they are larger than gold ingots, they are not heavier.

Even if we add in the money, gold pumpkin seeds, his monthly allowance, and various small change, the total amount...

"Five taels of gold? Fifty taels of silver?"

Wow, he is so poor...

He held the box, weighed it left and right, took out a few ingots, and put a few back.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and only kept one silver ingot for himself, and held the rest in front of Xiao Jin:
"Xiao Jin, you eat!"

The strange beast with golden hair sniffed the gold and silver in the box, turned its head, and used its claws to pry open the wooden box.

He needs to grow up and leap over the boundary of being a cub. This little bit of gold and silver is not enough, not even enough to fill his teeth!

"You won't eat? ... Not enough? How much more do you want? ... What, the same weight of gold as you have now, or ten times as much silver?"

The boy's face instantly turned bitter. Shen Le beside him twitched his lips:

The alloy big guy, even in its juvenile state, is now the size of an adult dog. Such a big dog must weigh at least 60 to 70 kilograms, or even 80 to 90 kilograms or even 100 kilograms;

For a beast that feeds on gold and iron, if its body density were closer to that of metal rather than flesh and blood, then it would have to be at least seven or eight times denser...

An equal weight of gold, or ten times the weight of silver?
Well, in ancient times, one catty was equal to sixteen taels, so one hundred catties of gold was equal to about one thousand six hundred taels. If it was silver, that would be sixteen thousand taels of silver...

Gold is unlikely, but 16,000 taels of silver... we can still think of a way...

The boy hesitated for a moment, then squatted next to Xiao Jin and held it tightly and lifted it up.

I lifted it once, but nothing happened. I lifted it again, and Xiao Jin's front foot barely left the ground. I lifted it again, and it was as high as my knees, but it fell down...

Shen Le covered his face silently. It was over, it was over. The Alloy Boss didn't look like a flesh and blood body, but a metal body!

The specific gravity of copper is 8.9, and the specific gravity of iron is 7.8. Let's take a round number and call it 8. 800 jin, is it really that heavy?
The boy has not grown up yet, and his weight is estimated to be around 55 kilograms. What is the world record for men's clean and jerk in this weight range?

200 kg? Or 250 kg?

As expected, it couldn't be lifted, and it fell down...

Well, this weight, the same weight of gold, is 12800 taels. Or ten times the weight of silver, taels...

How much does it cost?

Shen Le wanted to take out a calculator and press some numbers. Before he could figure out how much money it would cost and whether his savings were enough, the boy had already taken action:

He held the box and ran back to the inner hall to find his father.

His pocket money was not enough, and most of his mother's savings were used to support servants and the disabled.

Including the young orphans who trained with him, the only meat they could eat a day was supplemented by their mothers' private savings.

If you want to feed Xiao Jin, it depends on whether his father is able to support you!

"Count on me?!"

The middle-aged man stared at his son in disbelief. After a while, he picked up the horse whip in front of the hall and walked quickly towards his son:

"You are blackmailing your father!"

"How rich do you think your father is?"

"These are military pay! Military pay!"

"The supplies delivered every year are all weapons, cotton clothes, and food. These account for the majority! There is not much silver! For salary and rewards, only that much will fall into your father's hands!
——Eighty percent of it is banknotes, and only twenty percent is silver. Your father has to find ways to supplement it himself! You still have to feed your little thing! When he grows up, how many of you can he beat? ! "

The boy really didn't know the answer to this question. He and Xiao Jin would chase each other and play around, but he had never used all his strength:

If Xiao Jin charged at him headfirst, he would knock him down. If he opened his mouth and took a bite, he would bite any steel knife or sword in half, and even a copper hammer would be gnawed into a big hole.
More importantly, it is invulnerable!
Invulnerable to swords and guns!

You chop it with all your strength, and the steel knife bounces back directly, with the blade curling!
He ran back to communicate with Xiao Jin unhappily. The man and the beast gestured and chatted for a long time. The boy dragged Xiao Jin and ran in front of his father, sweating all over.

"He said that when he grows up, he can carry me into battle! He can disperse a cavalry of a thousand men with just a roar on the battlefield! Father~~~"

"Well……"

The middle-aged man observed the strange beast with an evaluating look.

A beast as tall as a horse, invulnerable to swords and spears, eating gold and chewing iron, can indeed be as brave as ten thousand men when it charges with all its strength;

However, if only his son could control such a beast... his son was still young, the price of such a charge would probably be that the beast would be fine, but his son would be covered in wounds...

"I just have some pocket money here." He wrote a note:
"Go to the inner account office and withdraw 200 taels of silver, which will be considered as a personal gift from your father. For the rest, you can go to the battlefield and earn it yourself!

——Capture one, get a bounty of 30 taels, behead one, get a bounty of 20 taels, spend the money you earn, spend it all on it, I won’t care about you!”

It costs 30 taels to capture a prisoner, and it is very difficult to bring him back alive. It costs 20 taels to behead a prisoner, and if the little gold is fed to grow up, the alloy boss now weighs 780 kilograms, which means more than 6000 heads will be needed...

Shen Le shuddered. With this number of beheadings, will all the Tartars in the north be wiped out?
You must know that the merit of beheading only counts the number of soldiers you killed with your own hands; the elderly, the weak, women and children do not count at all!

Also, with the merit of beheading more than 6000 heads, are you sure you can still make this money on the battlefield?

With dozens at the least and hundreds at the most, you will be promoted to an officer. You can't earn the bounty for beheading, right?

The boy obviously didn't think about this question for a moment. He happily responded and ran out with Xiao Jin:
"Xiao Jin, let's go! Get ready, let's go to the battlefield! I will definitely raise you up!"

Xiao Jin cried a few times. The boy laughed happily:

"You said you want to go to the battlefield with me? Earn bounties together? Great! Come on!"

With an invulnerable beast following him, the boy's lethality is almost bug-level.

He first followed the large group of people, and soon joined the light scouts, commonly known as "night patrols".

Together with our companions, we went far beyond the border fortresses and divided into different routes to spy on the enemy:
Where are the enemy tribes and armies? Is it possible that they will attack Caogu? Is it possible that they will invade in large numbers?

"coming!"

"Enemy attack!"

Arrows whizzed and horses clattered. The enemy was obviously much more familiar with the terrain than they were. Suddenly, they emerged from a deep ditch, first with a hail of arrows, then with strange cries, they rushed over.

The young man hid in a stirrup very nimbly, avoiding the rain of arrows. Just as he sat up straight, there was a loud roar in front of him, and several enemy horses neighed in shock and stood still.

"There's a dog!"

"No, there's a monster!"

"What kind of monster is this——"

The monster, which was the size of a grown dog, could bite off a horse's leg with one bite; if it pounced on the horse again, it could bite off the arm holding the knife, including the arm armor, with a crack.

That was not enough, the monster bit off the arm armor and the steel knife, and swallowed them, not even leaving out the fragments of the steel knife!
"Help! Help!"

"Run away——"

The Tartar soldiers screamed and fled for their lives. The young man sat upright on his horse, drew his bow and drew his arrow, and shouted:
"Xiao Jin, don't be so busy eating! Stop them all! Each head costs 20 taels!"

In this battle alone, more than twenty Tartar soldiers were killed. The boy's five comrades each harvested two heads. The boy and Xiao Jin harvested a total of 12 heads.

Reporting his achievements, fulfilling his promises, and claiming his rewards, Xiao Jin swallowed up several hundred taels of silver in one gulp and wagged his tail in dissatisfaction:
not enough!

"I know it's not enough. Don't worry, we'll send out troops next time. A little bit will add up to a lot, and there will always be enough!"

The young man smiled and comforted Xiao Jin. Little by little, they fought from summer to autumn, from twenty or thirty miles out of the tower to a hundred miles away, wandering outside for five or six days, or even ten days.

The boy's military merits finally accumulated to the point of beheading 100 people, and he was promoted from a new recruit to the position of a thousand households:

"There's going to be a big battle this fall! - You follow along, lead the team well, and see if you can break through a few big tents!"

The Tatars claimed to have a population of one million and an army of 600,000 - of course, in reality, it was impossible for them to have that many people, and it was also impossible for them to have that many people on the battle line they were facing.

However, the pressure on the front line was still very great. When tens of thousands of troops gathered together, it was like a dark cloud. Shen Le felt a tightness in his chest just by looking at them.

Of course, the military tent of such a large army and a large tribal leader must be extremely wealthy:

The sun shone on the top of the tent, reflecting a golden light, which made Xiao Jin jump and drool.

"Is that gold? That thing that decorates the top of the tent, is it really gold?

"Xiao Jin, don't be impatient! Let's follow the team and fight for the honor of beating a general and capturing a flag. Once we get into the tent, you can eat whatever you want!"

The young man made a heroic promise. As the son of the commander-in-chief, he was assigned the most important position. When the battle was at a stalemate, he led the cavalry to break through the formation.

"Ouch!"

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——”

Xiao Jin's roar shook the battlefield. He bit off the horse's leg with one bite, then bit off the horse's leg with another bite, then bit off the flagpole with another bite...

A ray of golden light flew in front of the horse, clearing a bloody path for the young cavalry team, and they charged straight towards the enemy chief and the military tent!
"The enemy leader has surrendered! Put down your weapons, kneel down and I won't kill you—"

After half an hour, the young man stood high on the horse, raised his head, and shouted an order. Then, he quickly dismounted and rushed into the military tent:
"Ah! My hairpin!!!"

A tender exclamation. The young man looked at it carefully, and without thinking, he took a golden hairpin from Xiao Jin's mouth and handed it back to the girl on the couch:

"Xiao Jin! Don't!"

"Ow—"

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