Xu Wei has thousands of years of experience, so naturally he will not be intimidated by this difficulty. At worst, he will buy war bonds. With the current state of Han merchants, he will definitely buy them enthusiastically. After all, if the Tengjia Army is defeated, all the merchants in Bingzhou will
They want to die without a burial place. Judging from Zhen An's donation of money, they also have this intention. I guess they know their current situation.
Although the government of the Tengjia Army does not have much money, it has hidden wealth among the people. The living conditions of ordinary people are much better than those of the Han Dynasty, not to mention the merchants. Now the entire Bingzhou has experienced an explosion of productivity because of Xu Wei, and these merchants have also
Earning a lot of money, it can be said that Bingzhou is now the most profitable place in the entire Han Dynasty. Some money from them is enough for Xu Wei to fight for another year.
If that doesn't work, you can simply learn from the Kingdom of Hope and put the entire Tengjia Army into a wartime state. You can even learn from the Great Qin and fight hard to consume. There is an army that is more powerful than the Great Qin that pretends to be a country. The Qin Dynasty can do this
,Why can’t the Tengjia Army do this?
However, the news from Zhang Baiqi also surprised Xu Wei. He was surprised that Huangfu Song could survive better than him. It turned out that Dong Zhuo helped him from behind. Gao Min Ling is really a kind of seven-injury fist that can kill the enemy.
800 stop loss 1000, but with the current small-scale peasant economy like the Han Dynasty, as long as there is food, half of the problem is solved. The remaining weapons and equipment have their own arsenal and the imperial court can manufacture them, so they do not necessarily use merchants. In this
It cannot be said that merchants are useless in this era, but they are indeed not as important as agriculture and industry. This can be seen from the ranking of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, which is summed up by the experience of the ancients!
There is no way this era is like this. The Three Kingdoms have been bartering for a long time. Although it is troublesome, everyone can still survive. The reason why merchants have a low status is because we have fewer merchants. Although life is difficult, but
We can still live, but we really can’t live without workers and peasants.
Although Dong Zhuo's Seven Injury Fist will face serious problems in the future, it has now injected chicken blood to solve the problem of the court's lack of money and food. This is the foundation of the competition with the Tengjia Army. With the money and food of these merchants, the Han Dynasty court can regain its health.
Huangfu Song has no shortage of money and food to fight against himself!
And Zhang Baiqi said that the cholera economy of the Han Dynasty robbed the Han Dynasty of the few supplies. Xu Wei agreed. No one in the world knew what would happen better than himself. I hope the country is not like this. Every time there is a crisis, it prints money.
, buying supplies from around the world to reduce his own inflation. Xu Wei was deeply affected by this at that time. As soon as he finished his studies, he encountered an economic crisis, and it was not over. It was difficult to find a good job.
And now because of Dong Zhuo's random massacre of merchants, the Han Dynasty's economy has come to a standstill and is about to face a serious economic crisis. If Zhen An and the others are allowed to cause trouble again, the Han Dynasty may enter the era of barter decades earlier!
The only thing that makes Xu Wei feel a little regretful is that they still have to pay copper coins instead of a blank piece of paper. In this era, copper coins are also an important strategic material, especially since Xu Wei has developed a bronze live cannon. The value of copper coins
It’s even higher!
Xu Wei thought for a while and thought of the country bumpkin next door. He could use woolen cloth as the equivalent to make woolen bills. It seemed that their Tengjia Army could also learn from this and use Mayi's wool as collateral to issue banknotes.
Paper was used to harvest the materials of the Han Dynasty, but Xu Wei thought that if the Han nobles really came to transport the woolen cloth from his place and sold it to Huangfu Song, then he would be in a cocoon. After all, woolen cloth is also a good thing at this time.
Strategic supplies for food!
Xu Wei thought for a while and decided to add a time limit for the extraction of these woolen cloths. If you want to collect them, you have to wait for half a year. In this half year, the war should be over. Even if it is not over, it will still be summer. Woolen cloths are not as valuable to Huangfu Song and others in winter.
high.
However, this cannot be regarded as paper money. It should be a kind of bond. The woolen cloth of Mayi is used as collateral to issue bonds to purchase various materials that the Han Dynasty has entered. The amount of woolen cloth in the hands of the Tengjia Army is enough to exchange for
Dahan has tens of billions of goods. Without so much goods, Dahan's prices will skyrocket. The money Dong Zhuo grabs will depreciate several times, making it difficult for Dong Zhuo to obtain enough goods. It will also easily make the world
The people were angry and resentful towards Dong Zhuo.
Moreover, the only ones who still have supplies now are the aristocratic clans. After defeating Huangfu Song, and then attacking the aristocratic clans, these things will return to their hands in a circle. It can be said that it kills three birds with one stone.
Xu Wei thought for a long time and made sure there was no big problem before he explained the bond issuance to Zhang Baiqi and the others!
The words are divided into two parts!
The Han army’s main tent!
Huangfusong dealt with the military information coming from everywhere!
Xu Rong, as his deputy, was assisting them!
"Why do you think that there are not enough medicinal materials transported? Could it be that the officials of the imperial court just looked at the soldiers of the Han Dynasty and died of serious injuries because of the lack of medicinal materials!" Huangfu Song said angrily when he saw the letter passed by the doctor at the rear.
During the battle with the Tengjia Army, the casualties among his men were always very high. He also attached great importance to the injured soldiers. As long as they could be treated well, they were an experienced veteran. For Huangfusong, an experienced veteran was worth more than five
All new recruits must be stronger, especially when the Tengjia Army soldiers are more elite than the soldiers in his hands. Each additional veteran in his hands will increase his chances of winning by one point.
But now, one of these veterans died because of a simple injury without receiving care. How could this not make Huangfu Song angry?
Xu Rong, who was on the side, read the letter requesting support for medicinal materials, and said to Huangfu Song with a wry smile: "Ming Gong, now the imperial court has issued an indictment throughout the Central Plains. The medicinal merchants have either been killed by the imperial army or have gone into hiding. Now
It’s very difficult to buy medicinal materials to treat tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, I’m afraid we have to find a way to solve the problem of medicinal materials ourselves!”
Huangfu Song frowned when he heard this. Dong Zhuo issued the complaint to support his army. He couldn't say anything. He could only say to Xu Rong: "The merchants in Youzhou are not unaffected. Find some medicinal materials from Youzhou."
Businessmen solve this problem. Our soldiers are not as elite as the Tengjia Army. If these veterans are injured or killed because of problems with medicinal materials, we will not be the opponent of the Tengjia Army. And we must do a good job in taking care of their injuries.
thing!"
Huangfusong thought for a while and said, "Go and find a way to contact the wealthy noble families in Youzhou and ask them to get a batch of medicinal materials!"
At this time, only the powerful nobles can use tens of thousands of medicinal materials!
Xu Rong nodded: "I'll let someone do it later!"
At this time, Ju Yi broke in and said: "Ming Gong, has the woolen cloth distributed by the imperial court arrived? If not, I'm afraid our soldiers in the Shield and Sword Battalion will be so cold that they can't even hold their knives! It's so cold in Youzhou this winter.
, I can’t believe it, it’s not as cold as here in Xiliang!”
Huangfu Song was surprised and said: "I wrote to the court in October asking for the transportation of 500,000 pieces of woolen cloth. Has it not come yet?"
Xu Rong smiled bitterly and said: "The imperial court found a way to get 30,000 pieces of cloth, and they are still on the way. They told us to let us figure out the other things ourselves, and these pieces of cloth are still on the way!"
Huangfusong asked: "Why are there so few? I remember that the price of woolen cloth has been falling over the years, and now it is no longer comparable to the price of ordinary silk! If the whole Han Dynasty is not full of woolen cloth, how can it be possible to get less than 500,000?
A piece of woolen cloth?”
Now the entire Mayi has become the largest textile center in the Han Dynasty. In recent years, not only Tengjia Army has been expanding production, Zhen'an and others are also expanding production capacity. Now, Bingzhou produces more than hundreds of millions of woolen cloths every year. It is naturally impossible for Bingzhou to eat
After buying so much woolen cloth, Zhen An and his caravan sold the woolen cloth throughout the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and Hu merchants even sold it throughout the entire desert. Now the caravan has reached as far as the sixteen countries of the Western Regions.
.
But even though the market already had tens of millions of square kilometers, it was quickly filled with this flood of woolen cloth. In just a few years, woolen cloth fell from a high-end product comparable to Shu brocade to a textile inferior to ordinary silk.
Even judging from the trend, its status will soon be comparable to Azabu.
Xu Rong said helplessly: "Ming Gong, the woolen cloth of the entire Han Dynasty is produced by the Tengjia Army. There are only a small amount of woolen cloth in other places, and the price is also expensive. Now we are fighting with the Tengjia Army, and the Tengjia Army's woolen cloth has been
He rarely left Bingzhou. When the order came out, the merchants in Bingzhou did not dare to show up. Naturally, the court could not find woolen cloth. Because of the lack of woolen cloth, the price of woolen cloth had soared to 10,000 yuan.
, and it’s still priceless!”
The advantage of suing Minling is that you can get a lot of money, but the disadvantage is that you can't buy anything even if you have money. Even now, craftsmen in small workshops everywhere dare not make various materials and tools, for fear that the court will regard themselves as businessmen.
By then, no money has been made, and no life has been lost. It can be said that the economic activities of the entire Han Dynasty have basically stopped!
Huangfu Song can get enough money and food, but only money and food!
Xu Rong could only say helplessly: "Ming Gong, the only things the imperial court can provide us now are money and food, the weapons and armors we reported, and other logistical supplies. When we have 30% of the capital here, it will be considered very good. Ming Gong should let the country
Please give me some money, and we can buy some supplies in Youzhou so that we can go faster!"
Ju Yi was surprised and said: "We still have to fight against the Tengjia Army in the wild, without even winter clothes. Our 200,000-strong army can have combat effectiveness. If Lei Gong attacks us now, won't we become lambs to be slaughtered? Let's let it go
These 200,000 troops just stay on the kang!"
Speaking of which, Han's 200,000-strong army has not been frozen to death. Thanks to Xu Wei's invention of the fire kang and the hornet's nest. Even with these two magic weapons, Huangfu Song's 200,000-strong army can still fight against him!
Xu Rong thought for a while and said: "It's hard for me to help you with winter clothes, but Youzhou is rich in coal mines. I can find a way to ask the folk to make more briquettes for you!"
Ju Yi rolled his eyes at Xu Rong and said, "Then I'm going to command the army and fight the Thunder Lord on the Kang!"
Then he said to Huangfu Song: "Ming Gong, if we really can't get winter clothes, we should retreat now! Although this may not save Youzhou, it can save our 200,000 troops. With these 200,000 troops here, we can still
We can guarantee Jizhou, otherwise when the world gets colder, most of our 200,000 troops will be frozen to death, and the army will be destroyed by Thunder God’s strike. By then, let alone Youzhou, not even Jizhou will be able to be saved!"
Huangfusong thought for a while and said: "I will find a way to make winter clothes. The Tengjia Army can make woolen cloth. The local nobles in Youzhou want it and there are many parents who know how to make woolen cloth. There will be no shortage of woolen cloth in their hands.
Let’s go buy it from him!”
Then Huangfu Song said to Xu Rong: "Since the imperial court can't support us with other supplies, you can ask the Prime Minister for money and we can buy it ourselves in Youzhou. There are hundreds of noble families in Youzhou. With their family property, we can make a living."
Our army of 200,000!"
Xu Rong said helplessly: "Youzhou is now a war zone, and the prices of various goods have skyrocketed. Even if the Prime Minister gives money, it will be difficult for us to purchase enough logistics materials, and my subordinates are worried that they will not sell them.
Give us!"
Huangfu Song said with a cold face: "We are not protecting the safety of their family in Wo Bing Cang Xue. If they are still so ignorant, you can tell the families of these powerful gentry that the denunciation order cannot be implemented in Youzhou."
, let them be more sensible and don’t force me to use 200,000 troops to rob it!"
Then Huangfusong said to Xu Rong: "These words, you told the noble families in Youzhou exactly, if our army wants to spend this winter safely, it is unreliable to rely on the court, and there are only noble families in Youzhou."
Only with the supplies can we meet the needs of our 200,000-strong army!"
Xu Rong was surprised and said: "Ming Gong, if you threaten each family like this, I'm afraid they will complain to the court, which will be detrimental to Ming Gong in the future!"
Huangfu Song said nonchalantly: "What else can be disadvantageous? Thunder Lord is about to capture the entire Youzhou. Are these people still guarding their property and waiting to be harvested by Thunder Lord?"
Instead of being hanged by Thunder God and having their family property and land distributed to the people by Thunder God to win people's hearts, it is better for them to give it all now to help us defeat Thunder God. Although their family property is not saved in this way, their lives are saved. Their lives are saved.
The land is also saved!”
Ju Yi said with a smile that caused trouble: "Ming Gong is right. We won't be able to keep our family property anyway, so we might as well fight it all with Lei Gong. Even if we fail, it won't make Lei Gong feel better. This is the true nature of a man in my generation! Is this true?
We must learn from those powerful noble families in Bingzhou, who were all sobbing and hanged at the trial of Duke Lei, and the members of the family did not dare to avenge their own families!"
"I heard that there are still many big families with more than 2,000 shi under the rule of Lei Gong. They have not escaped from Bingzhou at all, but are living cautiously under Lei Gong. Lei Gong hates noble families, and even they may not let them.
They became high-ranking officials, and all their disciples, former officials, and family status in Bingzhou were wiped out by Lei Gong. Now they can only live in front of becoming merchants in Bingzhou. If they dare to appear in the Han Dynasty, they might all be massacred by Fatty Dong!
"
Ju Yi didn't have much favorable impressions of the noble families in the Central Plains, especially those families with little knowledge. Thunder Lord wanted to invade Youzhou. They all couldn't find a way to support them. Instead, they hid in their own forts one by one. They really thought they were
The family's Xiaowu Fort can withstand Thunder Lord's army of hundreds of thousands!
The thing that dissatisfied Ju Yi the most was that he knew that most of the powerful noble families in Youzhou had their children in Bingzhou. It could be said that they were in two different positions among the Han Dynasty and the Tengjia Army. He wanted to lead Ju Yi with his violent temper.
The army massacred them, and they were fighting to the death in Youzhou just to protect these short-sighted noble families.
Okay! But they have already joined forces with the Tengjia Army. What’s the point of all they did in Youzhou!
It's better to go back to Jizhou and let these noble families in Youzhou fend for themselves and see if Lei Gong will let their families go! Ju Yi dares to bet a dollar, Lei Gong will definitely hang them all!
Huangfusong looked at Ju Yi dissatisfied and said: "You have time to cause trouble here, why not think of ways to deal with Thunder Lord. After winter, Thunder Lord will definitely launch an attack. How can we resist it then?"
Ju Yi also became serious when talking about business. He first asked Huangfu Song: "Ming Gong, have we made Lei Gong's gunpowder?"
Yes, on the Han side, black gunpowder still returned to its original name, because calling it Tianlei would easily affect the morale of the army and make the soldiers think that Lei Gong really knew the thunder method, so they made black gunpowder and the Taoist doctor thought about it and gave it a
The name gunpowder, after all, its raw materials are medicinal materials, and it has fire, so it is worthy of its name!
Ju Yi now attaches great importance to gunpowder. He has experienced hundreds of battles. Not long ago, he was almost hacked to death by soldiers from Mo Dao Camp. But the battle he was most afraid of was when Lei Gong used black gunpowder a few months ago.
The battle to break their camp.
Lei Gong's attack was really lightning and thunder, and the thunder was rolling, as if it was the end of the world. However, not only the soldiers were afraid of the situation, but even he himself was afraid. He saw many soldiers were blown to pieces by Lei Gong's black gunpowder. Ju Yi was like
With a look of shock on his face, he was shocked that his martial arts skills were useless when faced with black powder.
Ju Yi had a keen sense that after the emergence of black gunpowder, the powerful generals with ten thousand enemies would become the ultimate enemy. This thing is the enemy of all their powerful generals!
They were defeated by the gunpowder in Thunder God's hand. This was after Huangfu Song demonstrated it to the army with the gunpowder he had copied from the stronghold, breaking the superstition of Thunder God and letting the soldiers know that Thunder God did not know magic, and his so-called thunder method was just
It was just an explosive weapon. After the soldiers understood it, they eliminated the fear of the unknown in their hearts, and this prevented the entire army from being defeated!
Xu Rong sighed and said: "It cannot be said that our black gunpowder has made no progress, but its power is indeed not as powerful as Thunder God's. Thunder God's black gunpowder can crack mountains and crack rocks. Ours can't even kill a bird so far, and it consumes such things as sulfur and saltpeter."
Very quickly, the court issued a notice, so that we couldn’t find the raw materials for making black powder if we wanted to buy it. Even if we did make black powder with the same power as Lei Gong, it would be difficult to do it in one go like Lei Gong.
Use thousands of them!”
Huangfu Song couldn't help but sigh, this battle was too difficult, and he couldn't find a way to defeat Thunder Lord!
Ju Yi said: "Ming Gong, don't worry too much. Lei Gong has never used gunpowder since the last time he used it. It can be seen that this gunpowder is not only difficult for us to get, but also for Lei Gong!"
Huangfu Song shook his head and said: "But now Lei Gong has a winter to replenish gunpowder. We are not as good as Lei Gong in field battles. We can defend against Lei Gong's gunpowder and crossbows, and the weapons are powerful. Now we can't attack or defend. It depends entirely on the number of troops and
The weather has maintained the current situation, but when spring comes and the flowers bloom, the possibility of our defeat is too high in the face of Thunder God's attack!"
This is something that makes Xu Rong and the others helpless. The most powerful thing about Lei Gong cannot even be said to be gunpowder. The quantity of this thing is small and can only be used as a surprise weapon. The real power of Lei Gong is the hundreds of trebuchets that can shoot more than 300 steps. This The weapons fired far exceeded all Huangfu Song's weapons, so that they could only be beaten even in the camp.
There are also many exaggerated bows and arrows. In the past few months of their battle with Lei Gong, Lei Gong has shot millions or even tens of millions of crossbow arrows. Such exaggerated arrows made Xu Rong and Ju Yi doubt that in this world, All the long arrows are in the hands of Lei Gong, so he can use them so unscrupulously. It can be said that since the war between the Han army and Lei Gong, the casualties of the Eight Ministers were caused by the crossbow arrows of the Tengjia Army. Huangfu Song and the others were most afraid of the Tengjia Army. It’s also the endless crossbow arrows!
It was these two weapons that made it very difficult for Huangfu Song to defend himself. If the cold weather hadn't made Lei Gong's crossbows lose their power, Huangfu Song's army might have collapsed if Lei Gong continued to attack for half a month!
Ju Yi scratched his forehead and said: "If we want to continue fighting against Thunder Lord, we have to find a way to get these equipment from Thunder Lord. Thunder Lord has a trebuchet, and we also need to equip it. We can use a trebuchet to make a big trebuchet. As for crossbows, , let Fatty Dong mobilize all the crossbows from the entire Central Plains arsenal!"
But Huangfu Song shook his head and said: "It's useless. The trebuchet in the Luoyang arsenal can only have 200 steps at most, and it can only fire a few dozen kilograms of projectiles, which is completely incomparable to Thunder God's. Needless to say the crossbow arrows, the entire Central Plains has been in turmoil. It has been 4-5 years. How much inventory is there in the arsenal? Those that can be mobilized have already been mobilized by this general!"
Xu Rong thought for a long time and then said: "Ming Gong, we have tried our best in Youzhou, but we are really inferior to others. Now if we want to change our situation, we can only ask the Prime Minister to lead the northern and southern armies to attack Taiyuan from Hedong. , the entire Sili army has 180,000 troops, it would be a waste to garrison it in Luoyang City like this. If the Prime Minister leads an army of 100,000 troops to attack Taiyuan, Lei Gong will not say that he will retreat, but at the very least he will return troops to rescue!"
Huangfusong thought for a while and found that there was only one way to change the situation of the war. The Thunder God was so powerful that it would be difficult for the big man to defeat him unless he tried his best!
Thinking of this, Huangfu Song began to write to the court, requesting the court to send Dong Zhuo to attack Taiyuan County!