Not only do people far away in Youzhou want to get in touch with Guanzhong, but Hanoi, which is only a little separated from Hedong, naturally got in touch with Guanzhong early.
Especially the Sima family in Hanoi.
Wen County is located in the western part of the northern Henan Plain, with the Yellow River on the south and the Taihang on the north. It has to be said that it is a good place.
Now the Sima family settlements in Wen County are somewhat bleak.
Qiuzang's work has been completed, but most of the food he received has to be handed over and sent to the granaries in the county town, and then it will be transferred to Yecheng and become supplies used by Cao's army.
There are many recruitment and limited harvests, so of course there is some additional financial resources...
Sima Fang's body has decayed. He could have run around with crutches before, but now...
In fact, Sima Fang's body has been getting worse every year, but the letters to Sima Yi and others did not mention a single word.
This kind of good news but bad news is also a habit.
However, even if you avoid narrating "sorrow", you cannot stop "sorrow" from coming to the door.
As the wall of the manor and fort, there have always been rotating monks on duty.
There are Sima's children and people with other surnames, such as Ma Chong.
Ma Chong's family escaped after suffering from Turkic wars in Yanmen County. They have been living in the Sima family for almost ten years and are considered half of the Sima family. The two brothers of this generation, the younger brother followed the Sima family's caravan to Hedong, while the elder brother kept them for the family's guard.
This is true for most families in this era. The elder brother stayed at home and inherited the family business, while the younger brother had to run around, expand the industry of the big family, or gain a way out for himself, and then become a prominent branch.
Although there is sunshine in winter, it does not feel much warmth when shining on your body.
The cold wind whistled, and it was a bit cold when it was blowing on his body. Although Ma Chong wore one more piece, it still made his heart feel cold when the wind blew. He could only follow others, get up and walk around, and then quickly find a corner to hide. Occasionally, he stretched out his head to look at the surrounding fields that seemed a bit desolate after the harvest of Zhuanghe.
The person on duty on the village wall was a small team with a captain, with ten village heads. Ma Chong was probably the position of a deputy captain. His weapons were a hunting bow with weak bow power, a bag of feather arrows, and a spear, without armor.
The price of a set of armor can create a spear of one or two hundred.
The situation in Hanoi has been a little nervous these two days.
The reason for the tension is not military struggle, but military orders.
In the past two years, Cao Cao's desire in that aspect has become higher and higher, ahem, it refers to the demand for food and grass.
The gentry in Jizhou naturally resisted the increasingly high desire of Cao Cao, but what happened after the resistance? Cao Cao's differentiation methods came out, and some people gained the benefit, which was to "betray" Jizhou...
Well, although Jizhou was not very "serious" originally...
As we all know, real enemies are often hidden inside. The same is true in Jizhou, and Hanoi is difficult to avoid. In exchange for more and greater benefits and higher positions, these guys who betrayed their original "companies" and ignored the original "covenant".
After all, if you betray "your own people", you can pay less money and food by yourself.
Besides, the Sima family had made so much money through the caravan before. Shouldn’t we take out more and make some contributions to everyone now?
Just like an employee who gets a reward for something, some people will definitely be muttering to treat you, but they completely forget that the company actually benefits more.
No matter whether you have tried or not, you must have a share when you see it.
The original contradiction between classes became the contradiction within the masses...
The Sima family today is somewhat acquainted with history, but is somewhat different.
In the early days, Sima Lang had an official position in Hanoi County at one stage, but then he saw that Boss Cao was in a bad state, so he discussed it with his family and simply retreated and resigned in the name of taking care of Sima Fang.
Who dares to stop me from doing my filial piety?
On the one hand, it is because Sima Hui, Sima Yi, Sima Fu and others have already held important positions under the cavalry. On the other hand, if they continue to hold positions in Cao Jun, the Sima family must give up the caravan with greater profits.
Although many people with official positions have their own caravans and shops, how could they turn power into small money? But the problem is that Sima Hui and Sima Yi are not ordinary positions in Guanzhong, so that the Sima family was naturally stared at by many people.
During Sima Lang's tenure as Cao Cao, some people repeatedly hinted that the Sima family would give up the caravan and be taken over by the "official" of the Hanoi county. Of course, if Sima Lang is willing to give up, he will receive certain compensation, such as further positions, or local shops in Hanoi, etc.
Simply put, the foreign trade route has "risk", and it is best for Cao to bear this "risk"...
Isn't it very reasonable?
In the Ganges.
However, if there is no foreign trade route, what is the difference between the Sima family and other poultry raised?
Sima Lang's withdrawal from his career in Hanoi was equivalent to expressing his attitude.
The head can be broken, blood can flow, hairstyle, well, the caravan cannot be messed up!
In addition, over the past period of time, the Cao political group's recruitment for Hanoi has become increasingly higher and higher. Such high recruitment level has certainly caused dissatisfaction, and many people have put the Sima family in front. Although neither Sima Fang nor Sima Lang expressed any objection, many people have expressed to Le Jin, "As long as the Sima family is handed over, I will hand over it!"
Then when the Sima family paid, these people shouted again, "The Sima family is so rich, isn't it in the Ganges? Let the Sima family pay more, and we will only pay twice as much!"
The Sima family swallowed their anger and shrank their heads and pretended to be a turtle.
During the Sima family's forbearance, there was also a misunderstanding.
Oh, this Sima family is so stupid that it’s so easy to bully!
Will anyone feel sad and ashamed to stop after bullying an honest person?
What a joke? Of course, one must continue to "bully" the two, two, and three, all things. Year by month, generation by generation, reincarnation is continuous and bullying is endless!
Someone ran from afar and shouted in anger: "No, huh... no, okay! Big thing, not good!"
With a panic on the wall of Sima Village, Ma Chong poked his head out of the wall and found that the person who came was the familiar Wenxian Youxia'er, and a bad premonition rose in his heart...
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Time is a little bit back.
Chenjiaping is the closest military camp to Wen County.
Because Hanoi is close to Hedong and the other end of the Taihang Mountains is Shangdang, it is under two pressures. Therefore, in the Hanoi region, the area of ​​alert is actually quite wide. In addition to the soldiers in the counties and counties of Hanoi, there are also many soldiers on duty in some local areas.
Over the past two years, Le Jin has been recruiting new recruits, training in military camps like Chen Jiaping, and then continuously drawing elite new recruits away...
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Le Jin was full of resentment towards the three auxiliary servants of Guanzhong, at least he was extremely defensive and quite hostile.
However, these things have little to do with Chen Feng, who was a recruit training camp in Chenjiaping. He is from Yuzhou and has little ability, let alone ambition. He took Cao Cao to eat military food in the early days. Later, when he got older, he became the current military marquis and recruit coach in Chenjiaping.
His current position is to train new recruits on the one hand, and to maintain surrounding public security, including defending some important granaries and post stations.
Chen Feng is also very satisfied with this kind of life.
Living in the countryside, following orders, and not going out to fight to gain fame and fortune, he can get a warm bed with his wife and children when he goes home. He is inevitably fed with food and drink on weekdays, but he is somewhat conscience-related, and he can't use his old and weak body to move forward in wartime. Naturally, he has a stronger and more eager for fame and fortune.
If you can live your life safely, it would be a good idea.
After the winter began, the weather was cold, and military training was reduced a lot. In addition, the new generation of soldiers had not arrived yet, and this year was about to get through. Chen Feng became more and more lazy. He went to the military camp where he was in charge once every three or two days, and his superiors were not very strict in his subordinates, and he enjoyed leisure in his private house all day long.
Who would have thought that Chen Feng was preparing a few dishes in his house, preparing to drink two cups of delicious food, and then fell asleep, his subordinates suddenly came to him, saying that Le Jin's subordinate Sima, Le Sheng arrived at Chenjiaping Military Camp and summoned him!
Chen Feng recovered from his senses and didn't care about any food and drinks. He quickly changed his clothes, put on his military uniform, and after finishing his tie, he put on a war knife and looked like it, and then rushed all the way to the place where his military camp was.
Chenjiaping is on the hill outside the county town.
This area is very large and if it is fully occupied, it will definitely accommodate four or five thousand soldiers. However, because on the one hand, the number of new recruits is not so many, and on the other hand, according to Chen Feng's temperament, he never thought of expanding the scale, so most of the places are empty.
Several Chen Feng's subordinates were kneeling outside the gate with dejected expression.
A Cao family army with a bright armor and a bright stomach held a halberd. When he saw Chen Feng coming, he looked straight and stared at the coming with a stern face, and shouted with a majestic momentum, "My Sima is in the camp, you are the Marquis of the Marquis!
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Chen Feng was at this age and had a young temper long ago. He didn't care whether his position was higher than that of the soldier holding a halberd in front of the tent. So he smiled and claimed that he was at the bottom of the army. He also stuffed some money into the central army with a halberd. "What happened? I'll ask for instructions. I'm going to be prepared, right?"
Le Jin took over the Hanoi counties for only a few years. He focused on establishing Hanoi's direct troops, collecting property, food and grass to train elite soldiers and generals to prevent cavalry and horses. For relatively second-level problems, such as standardizing veterans like Chen Feng, Le Jin really has no time and energy to manage them. As long as there is no big problem, he will do whatever he wants.
This naturally caused Chen Feng and others to relax.
As soon as the army Sima Lesheng arrived at Chenjiaping's military camp, he caught several Chen Feng's subordinates who gathered in the camp to gamble.
They were the ones who were punished squatting at the gate...
Le Sheng specially sent a central army to hold a spear to give Chen Feng a warning, but he didn't expect that Chen Feng would still look so funny and not scared at all. He didn't even ask the guys at the gate what the specific situation was.
Chen Feng knew in his heart, what could be done in the camp?
And gambling, this crime can be either big or small.
Even in the camp directly under Lejin, aren’t there any gambling money?
The military training life is boring. Sometimes, can you bet on small gambling? Compete for rankings, eat food or something? Can it be considered a gamble?
If even these are considered crimes, they will be arrested and beheaded, I am afraid that most of them will be killed?
So seeing Chen Feng so slippery, the Central Army looked at the half-purse exposed in his arms with a halberd, and waved his hand, "Get in quickly, my Sima is waiting for you, I will know everything when the time comes!"
Chen Feng walked away with a smile. When he passed by the men who were squatting at the gate and being punished, he cursed: "You must be lazy again and are being cleaned up! When I come out, I have to settle the score with you!"
If you have to settle the accounts, of course you can live. What’s the point of losing your account if you die? Will you settle the accounts in the underworld?
Inside the central army's tent, in front of a messy stall, Sima Lesheng entered the army, was confused in military uniform, and put one hand on the sword at his waist, gently tapping the handle of the knife.
Le Sheng was Le Jin's family general. He followed Le Jin and fought all the way and got to the current position of Sima in the army.
Positions like Sima in the army generally do not have a specific formal recognition in the court. The level of the position depends on which general. For example, Le Jin's army Sima is obviously not as good as Xiahou Dun's army Sima, although they are all called Army Sima...
This time Le Sheng was ordered to come to Wen County to act and went straight to Chenjiaping's camp. Seeing that the military camp was destroyed and the remaining soldiers did not follow the military rules and gathered to gamble, he wanted to give Chen Feng a warning so that Chen Feng could cooperate with the action.
So when Chen Feng came in, signed up and saluted deeply, Le Sheng deliberately pricked Chen Feng's gift, and even with a stern face, scolded: "You are the good soldiers you are leading! You are in charge of the good camp!"
Chen Feng slowly straightened his waist, smiled calmly, and said, "So that the military Sima knew that to manage the camp well and train the soldiers well, all he needed was money and food. Now, the lack of money and food in the camp has been reduced by half this month! Seeing that the cold winter is approaching, there is a shortage of clothes and food in the camp, and there is no military pay in place. I have done my best to maintain this place like this. If the military Sima is still accustomed to it, I am willing to take the blame and let the military Sima come to take charge of the place..."
Chen Feng's words actually choked Le Sheng.
As a general garrison in Hanoi, Le Jin did not want to develop the Hanoi economy, build water conservancy and encourage agriculture and sericulture. His only idea was to create an elite soldier, and then take revenge and express the insulted hatred in the next battle with the cavalry!
Under such a guiding ideology, in addition to completing the task of paying taxes, money and grain to Cao Cao, Le Jin also plundered the local area extremely hard, and tried to ensure that the elite soldiers of the fifth battalion he directly led could have sufficient money and salary, and strong troops, as for the rest...
In this way, for example, a veteran like Chen Feng who has been in the local area for many years, can cooperate with all parties and maintain the situation, he can really not drive him away if he says he wants to drive him away, otherwise what if something goes wrong in the local area? Could it be that Le Sheng really went from being directly under Lejin to work in this dilapidated recruit camp?
Le Sheng could only give up when he was so rude and hard that he was forced back. Anyway, his main purpose was not for this.
Le Sheng stood still and revealed the topic, "Tonight, the generals are coming soon! The camp must be cleaned up first! Also, tomorrow you need to select a few guides and lead us to the Taihang Valley!"
Chen Feng didn't ask much, bent down and took the order: "This is all in the next job, and it will definitely be done."
Le Sheng waved his hand, obviously not wanting to talk to Chen Feng for too much, "Go and arrange it! The camp will be martial law tonight! There will be no entry or exit. Tomorrow morning, you will lead the soldiers in the camp and set off with someone!"
After Chen Feng received the order, he withdrew respectfully.
At this moment, some soldiers rushed over in the camp, and the tent bonfires in the camp were also ignited. At the critical points such as the gate of the Yingkou, some soldiers brought by Le Sheng had been taken over.
Tonight, this camp has in and out, which is definitely to prevent the leak of news...
"Taihang River Valley..." Chen Feng thought about it, and then his heart jumped.
If he couldn't control Chen Feng, the men of Chen Feng at the gate naturally came back.
"Mr. Chen, what's going on?"
The Lejin direct soldiers brigade, which has not been seen once a year, came hundreds of people at once. If you still say nothing is wrong, it would be an insult to people's IQ.
『Stop talking nonsense…』 Chen Feng said, 『Everyone is more peaceful, get up early tomorrow, and go to Taihang Valley!』
"Taihang River Valley..." a subordinate said, "What are you doing in Taihang River Valley? There are so many people... Are you going to hunt? Or are you talking about thieves there?"
"What a fucking thief... don't you tell me which family belongs to the side of Taihang River Valley?" Another soldier laughed twice, "I bet twenty Western money, and I must go to trouble the Sima family!"
"Qu (其其其), aren't you sure to win? Who is going to bet on you? But Mr. Chen, why are you looking for Sima's family?"
『How can I know?!" Chen Feng said, 『Anyway, you guys, find someone to go out and tell the Sima family...that's all we can do...it's more or less...it's a bit of a hot topic...
A subordinate looked back at the gate, "But these guys are guarding the gate..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Chen Feng glanced at him, "Don't fucking think I don't know you have a way in the back camp... You don't need to go in person. I'll just find a young man and give him a few boys? If you talk a little longer, I'll punish you for gambling together!"
The subordinate shrank his head, "Okay, Mr. Chen, listen to you!" Then he glanced at the Lejin personal soldiers in the camp, and hurried away, disappearing in the back camp in a few sways.
Chen Feng tilted his head and looked in the direction of the Sima family, muttering in his heart, what did the Sima family do?
Want to move such a big formation?
Could it be...
Is the Sima family going to be rebellious?
Chapter completed!