"Oh?" The man with the big chin was stunned, "You mean there is something going on in Yulin Town? Where did the news come from?"
"I didn't take my brothers back from Gouchi via Sanshan Pass all night long. I found that the troops at Yansui seemed to have increased a lot compared to half a year ago, and they were all elite..." Noticing the slight change in his brother's face, he opened his eyes.
The older brother asked in confusion: "What's wrong, brother?"
"It's nothing. I didn't expect that there would be troops mobilized in Yansui Town (Yulin Town) during the New Year." The man with the big chin looked intently, as if he was thinking about something, "I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this year...
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"If we had some way, we would not be like this, but the Commander-in-Chief has no money. He only said that there is no allocation from the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion. What can we do?" The thin man stood up and rubbed the scabbard.
Chang Dao, "If this continues, sooner or later we will become the victims of the soldiers below."
Being a general is not that simple. If you cannot get enough food and salary for the soldiers below, then the sergeants below will not work for you. Moreover, when conflicts intensify, it is common for the officers below to use you as a scapegoat to take the blame.
matter.
Is there any year in these three towns and four towns that several mutinies of different sizes do not occur? Small ones of three to five people, large ones of hundreds of people, but over the years, because of the Tatars outside the northern border wall and the border trade within the border wall,
It's still relatively stable, and the Tatars are also internally stable, so even a mutiny won't cause any big trouble.
"Then what are your plans?" The man with the big chin had a deep look in his eyes, and his tone seemed a little colder.
"Brother, if you don't keep doing it, just like Wen Xiu said, just go to the brothers and borrow 20,000 taels of silver to appease the brothers below, and then find a way to pay it back slowly in the future."
The man with the exposed chest finally couldn't hold himself back anymore and said irritably: "If the brothers in the Kuai family know what's right, then we are still brothers. If we don't know what's right, then we have nothing to do."
"Hmph, if we were like you, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to get out of someone else's yard." The thin man said contemptuously: "As soon as you tell someone to go find someone, how can the brothers of the Yi family not be on guard? Do you think their family's
Are thousands of Cangtou soldiers vegetarian?"
"Even if the Yi family brothers are willing to help, they can't give you 20,000 taels of silver. Ten thousand taels is enough, but with so many brothers, one tael of silver per person is not enough. How long can they be comforted?" The man with the big chin said leisurely.
: "Unless we can completely wipe out the Kuai family,..."
"Brother, the Kuai family is not that easy to deal with. Kuaibai's spies are all over the city. Most of our troops are outside the city, but there are a thousand people of the Cangtou Army stationed in the city. I don't know what happened to the commander-in-chief.
Can we tolerate it? Isn't it the original rule that the Cangtou Army cannot enter the city with more than 500 people?" The thin man's face became more and more sinister, "I'm afraid that before our soldiers enter the city, our heads will be hanging on the city wall.
"
"Yes, the Kuai family's military strength is not weaker than ours, and they have more cavalry. If they were outside the city, I'm afraid we would suffer even more." The open-chested man obviously did not agree with the big-chin man's suggestion, "And even if we want to take action
, Commander-in-Chief, do you agree? I'm afraid that we could be labeled as damaging the stability of the border areas and attracting the invasion of the Tatars from Hetao."
"It won't work this way, and that won't work either? Then who can make money for us?" The man with the big chin calmly spread his hands, "Then I have to endure it myself, and tell my brothers to endure it again."
"I'm afraid it can't work, brother, then we won't be able to play anymore. Wenxiu, where are you?" The open-chested man shook his head repeatedly, "I can't do it here. If you keep dragging it on, one day my head may be lifted underneath.
In the hands of brothers."
"No one is the same. The few people below me have always been full of complaints. If I didn't still have some prestige on weekdays, they would have started to make trouble, but I'm afraid they can't suppress it this time." The thin man Tu Wenxiu was also very upset.
He said calmly: "Brother, you have always had an idea. If you say anything, we brothers will listen to you. We will go up the knife mountain and go down the frying pan. If your head falls off, it will be a scar as big as a bowl. Eighteen years later, you will be a good man again."
, just tell me, Zichao and I will handle it for you."
"Seriously?" The man with the big chin slightly raised his big chin and his eyes flickered.
Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu exchanged glances and both became serious, "Brother, you still don't know what our brothers' temperaments are? Just tell us what to do."
"Okay!" The man with the big chin rubbed his big chin vigorously and grinned: "Instead of trying to get ideas from that family, we might as well keep working on Shi Guangjue's ideas. I heard that he has been trying to get rid of Shi Guangjue in the past two years.
I have collected enough money and am ready to return to Beijing after spending the New Year. There are at least one or two hundred thousand taels of silver in the cellar. A man named Jin from Shanxi gave him 30,000 taels before the end of the year.
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"Ah?!" Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao both jumped up in shock. How long had this man surnamed Shi been the chief soldier, and he had actually made so much money? This was not even counting what had been sent away.
"Don't you believe it?" The man with the big chin said with a proud smile: "This is the news revealed to me by the Tatars. The Jin family sold thousands of iron pots to the Hetao in October last year, which were nominally iron pots.
, but what it is, God knows.”
Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao were both shocked. According to the current regulations, the import of iron pots to the grassland must be registered one by one, and the number of mutual trades is controlled every year. It is obviously not in line with common sense for thousands of iron pots to be imported into the grassland. If there are others, then
There is only one word, and that is to capitalize on the enemy.
"Did the Kuai family do it?" Xu Chao, the open-chested man couldn't help but ask.
"Huh, how capable are the Kuai family? There are all the cronies of the Commander-in-Chief at the checkpoint of the mutual market. How dare the Kuai family force their way through and deliver goods?" The man with the big chin smiled contemptuously, "These adults are from the capital.
How can we care about this? They just want to be the commander-in-chief for a few years and make a fortune and then leave. Just like Commander-in-Chief Shi, I am afraid that the city wall of Ningxia Town will be destroyed by him."
"Brother, you said it's not difficult to deal with Shi Guangjue. He only has a few personal soldiers. Even though he is fierce, there are only 100 people. We can kill him at the cost of human life. But what will we do after we deal with it?"
Tu Wenxiu was much calmer: "Go out of the fortress and seek refuge with Su Nang or the Stone-divining Rabbit? Or run to the west?"
It should be the safest move to leave the fortress and go to the Loop. Now Lalik is dead, Sanniang is bedridden, Su Nangtaiji and Bu Shitu are facing each other, and both sides are trying to win over all forces.
There are also many Han people in the Hetao area, especially after Ida paid tribute and handed over Li Zixin and Zhao Quan, the leaders of the Bansheng White Lotus Sect, to the Great Zhou Dynasty. This also triggered a backlash from the White Lotus sect members on the Bansheng side. A large number of White Lotus sect members
The believers led the people and ran from Bansheng to Hetao to reclaim wasteland. Many of them had even become relatively powerful figures, and even the Tatars wanted to win over them.
Running to the west is also a way, but it is a bit difficult. The current situation in Gansu Town is not much better than that in Ningxia Town. As long as we attack, we can completely destroy the Big and Small Songshan Mountains in Guyuan Town. If we occupy the Big and Small Songshan Mountains, we can attack, retreat or defend.
If we unite with the Tatars in the north, we might as well become a semi-independent kingdom.
"Why are you running?" The man with the big chin suddenly turned stern. "How much strength does Da Zhou still have in the three sides and four towns now? Huh, if there is no food and salary allocation for several years, the sergeants have long complained. Except for Feng Tang from Yulin Town, who dares to use his iron fist to
I ruthlessly raided a large number of large households and managed to fool the people below. I can still hold on. What about the other towns? Guyuan Town has long been in vain. Gansu Town is worse than our Ningxia Town, but it has caught up with Achitu.
The Moghuls in the Ministry and the west have lost their energy in the past few years. If they really want to take action, I don’t believe that those Moghuls who are accustomed to picking up bargains will not be tempted? The Achitu tribe has also been eyeing it for a long time.
It's just that Su Nang Tai Ji and Bu Shi Tu have always been unclear about their attitude, so they didn't dare to take action."
The Achitu tribe were the Tatars who originally occupied the Big and Little Songshan Mountains. However, they were expelled from the Big and Little Songshan Mountains more than ten years ago. They are now guarded by Zhuang Langwei from Gansu Town and Jingluwei from Guyuan Town. They are also guarded in the north.
After renovating the Great Wall, as long as we capture this place, we can connect with the Achitu tribe, advance, retreat, or defend. We can even attack the Liangzhou Guard and Yongchang Guard west of Gansu Town and completely destroy the Gansu Town.
Tu Wenxiu laughed and narrowed his eyes, "Brother, are you in contact with Achitu? I wonder why Achitu has been so honest in the past two years? In the past years, he would come over from time to time to harass me. Last year, he was stunned.
No one was seen."
Xu Chao also understood and laughed ferociously, "Brother, where is the Kuai family? Why are you hiding it from us brothers? I said, brother, why have you been standing still for the past few months and are so confident? You have done a good job of hiding it from us.
It’s tight.”
The man with the big chin, the eldest brother of Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao, Liu Dongyang, the deputy commander of Ningxia Town, also laughed, "Do you think I am willing? If not everyone can't survive, who would be willing?"
Take this step? If you take a wrong step, you will die and your family will be destroyed. Do I dare to say that casually? "
Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu were both silent. Who would be willing to take this step unless they had to? If you step out, there will be no way out. If you can only fight to the end, it will be a dead end.
After a long time, Xu Chaocai sighed with emotion: "Brother, let's do it. What will happen if we don't do it? Unless the court immediately replaces a general soldier, otherwise, if we don't starve to death, we will be chopped alive by the people below. What can we do?"
"Brother, what do the Kuai family say?" Tu Wenxiu thought further than Xu Chao. If the Kuai family also joined in, then this drama might not really be a dead end.
"There should be no problem with the Kuai family. They are also overwhelmed by Shi Guangjue's appetite." Liu Dongyang said indifferently: "Before the festival, Kuai Bai took Kuai Cheng'en, Kuai Chengchong, and Kuai Yun to visit Shi Guangjue.
After giving away 5,000 taels of silver, Shi Guangjue made it clear that he would leave next year and replace him with a new general, but he would not be so easy to talk to. Kuaibai probably also felt that their good days would not be long, so..."
"Humph, his good life doesn't last long, and we can't survive at all,..." Xu Chao said bitterly: "General Shi is really going to favor one over the other."
"This is also a good thing, otherwise how can we get together?" Liu Dongyang said coldly: "I have already contacted Achitu. We will take down Jingtai and Songshan Fort first, and then the big and small Songshan Mountains will be handed over to them.
As long as Weifan Town, Liangzhou Guard and Yongchang Guard completely destroy Gansu Town,..."
Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao were both shocked, "Brother, you mean we go west? Didn't you say we won't go?"
"If you don't beat the Gansu guards to pieces, are you waiting for the imperial court to attack from both sides?" Liu Dongyang said with a ferocious look on his face, "Do you still hope that things will get better at this time? Wenxiu, Xu Chao, let me tell you, if this matter comes together, either we
Either the two towns of Gansu and Ningxia will never belong to the Zhou Dynasty, either the two towns of Gansu and Ningxia will never belong to the Zhou Dynasty. That is the only way for us to survive! There is no other way!"
This chapter has been completed!