He Yong crossed his legs on the kang and counted by himself several times.
It wasn't until his head was spinning and he felt like he was falling into the clouds that he finally confirmed that he had found a new job.
Every month, the Dibaotang newspaper and the Garrison Office had to keep files, and it would take a long time to collect a batch, so he couldn't get the original files to Liu Chengzong.
It can only be re-copied, but the monthly Tang Bao Di Bao collects all military and political matters in the world, and is selected by the Ministry of War to be sent to various government offices according to the level. There are many words.
So this is hard-earned money.
Very generous hard-earned money.
But is He Yong afraid of hard work?
He is not afraid. He has been working hard with He Renlong for more than ten years. For more than ten years, he has been relying on his mother's words to ask him to fight hard to reach heaven.
The most generous silver reward I have received in more than ten years is three taels.
The first time was when I entered the Lion Camp to meet Liu Chengzong, and the last time was when I blocked three arrows for my family in the second year of Tianqi.
He was still young at that time, just twenty years old, and his three taels of silver was not a small amount of money.
Now ten years have passed, but his and He Renlong's identities have not changed. He Renlong still has the same income, while his salary is even less than ten years ago, and his three taels of silver has even increased.
This time He Yong knew full well that it was more or less mixed with the personal feelings of working for more than ten years in order to earn three taels of silver.
And with this five taels per month, there is almost no need to take any risks, and it is even possible to earn two hundred taels a year.
For a long time, He Yong thought that he was a chicken or dog who did not have time to ascend to heaven, but he did not expect that he turned out to be a little silver man.
Twelve years, two thousand four hundred taels, one hundred and fifty pounds.
One hundred and fifty pounds of silver, as heavy as himself.
He Yong stayed at Wen'an Yi for three days and returned on horseback.
It's April, and the wheat fields in Mizhi are close to ripening. There are thieves everywhere. The people are worried that the ripening of the grain will attract thieves, so they start to harvest before it is ripe.
When buying grain, He Yong heard from farmers that this year's harvest was still not good, but the price of noodles had dropped a bit. He bought seven buckets of noodles with two taels of silver, and spent some money to buy a jar of thick wine, which he carried on horseback.
Back to Yuhe Fort.
The same goes for Yuhe Fort. Because of the snow last year, the situation was much better than the year before.
They were not worried about thieves. The three hundred strong men in the fort even expected thieves to visit, so the military fields outside the city were transforming from green to golden.
Although wheat is falling in large areas, these occupied military fields, no matter how much they produce, can provide more supplies for Yuhe Fort's army.
He Yong was in a great mood all the way back and was happy with everything he saw.
When the general returned with his men from setting up camp outside the city, He Yong quickly ran to report.
"You're back? Just a few days after you left, Aimu led a dozen defeated soldiers through Yuhe Fort."
He Renlong put his hands on the leather belt around his waist, and while leading He Yong into the official office, he shook his head and said with emotion: "The little lion is really good at fighting."
After entering the official office, He Renlong took off his leather belt and hung the knife beside him. He then rubbed his strangled belly and let out a sigh of relief. He sat down and said, "Tell me, what will happen if you go to his place this time?"
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"General, when the villain passed by, the battle was over. More than a hundred people in the Lion Camp were wounded by artillery. The Guanzhong soldiers led by Aimu surrendered nearly two thousand. Finally, the post city was breached. There was a thousand generals in the city and hundreds of them.
People would rather die than surrender, but they cannot be stopped."
"Can't stop it?"
He Renlong was not interested in how the battle would be fought at first.
But after hearing what He Yong said, he frowned and said, "You can't stop it in the city?"
"I can't stop it. The lion's team is called the Lion Camp. The people there are really like lions. Many of them are former frontier soldiers, mainly in the towns of Guyuan and Yansui. The food is much better than in the fort."
When he mentioned this, He Yong licked his lips unconsciously, and then noticed He Renlong looking at him, and then smiled sheepishly.
"Hey, wait a minute." He Renlong stopped him and asked, "What happened to the tooth? Did it get beaten?"
"Oh, you said this."
He Yong bared his left tooth, pointed to the tiger tooth with a piece missing, shook his head and smiled: "No, I was eating horse meat and burning it. There was a cannon that I didn't take out, and a piece was broken... ah, Cao Yao made it." p>
Cao Yao.
He Renlong remembered the guards who had been released before, and the thieves he had recruited in his early years: "What else would he do?"
"Yes, there are many who know it. I once cooked donkey meat in Yuhebao. Didn't he work in the Beijing Army Firearms Camp in the past? Now he is the commander of the artillery post in the Lion Camp."
He Renlong felt a little unbalanced: "They eat this every day outside?"
Fortunately, He Renlong felt quite uncomfortable on the day he sent his troops out, fearing that his soldiers would suffer outside.
Co-authoring is letting them go out to enjoy their happiness!
"I don't eat it every day. I eat a lot of dried meat. This horse meat is usually eaten after winning a battle."
He Yong explained, and then said: "But I heard that they have been fighting this year, fighting four or five battles in Shaanxi and four or five battles in Shanxi, and the Shanxi soldiers are still unwilling to follow him.
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"When there is war, there is food and there are dead horses, donkeys and mules. These people have no shortage of meat to eat and are very wealthy."
He Yong shook his head. This trip to the Lion Camp actually gave him a lot of experience. He glared and said: "Even the two to three hundred of those prisoners of Guanzhong soldiers were injured by iron caltrops. The Lions sent doctors to treat them.
Pack it up and have a good meal for two days."
When he said this, he paused deliberately, waiting for He Renlong to think about it.
He Renlong was indeed daydreaming, nodding slowly.
This food, this treatment, to put it bluntly, the frontier soldiers of Yuhe Fort, there are only two doctors in the whole fort, a father and a son, and they treat people and animals together.
The doctors at the Lion Camp are so wealthy that they can also treat the prisoners after treating the wounded soldiers. In addition, they are not only full but also well-fed.
Who can they beat if they can't beat them?
This incident made He Renlong feel mixed emotions.
I have been pursuing a goal for more than ten years but failed to achieve it. My former servant went out to wander around for a year and achieved it.
When He Yong said this, although he did not directly answer Du Wenhuan's question this time, He Renlong already had the answer in his heart.
It is impossible for Liu Shizi to surrender.
The money and food spent to supply this army was six times higher than He Renlong expected.
He Renlong's original idea was to reduce the number of 4,000 men to 1,000 and use the 4,000 troops as food and salary. In this way, the rations allocated by the court would be enough rice and flour to feed 1,000 people and also feed 1,000 mules. But these four thousand people eat meat.
From Liu Shishi, He Renlong saw the signs of bankruptcy of the court's recruitment plan.
If Liu Shishi is appeased.
If the three thousand people disperse and he stops robbing, the three thousand people will continue to robbing.
If the soldiers and horses are not dispersed, Liu Shizi will continue to grab it.
The imperial court thought of appeasement in a very beautiful way, just like when the governor and ministers opened their mouths, the mud-legged people would stick to the front and the back of the horse.
If you are really a mud-legged person who has never seen anything, there is still some possibility.
But the imperial court's plan is clearly to remove the real losers from the peasant army and leave some elite soldiers who are good at fighting to serve the imperial court.
How could this group of people be willing? People flatter high-ranking officials, never because of the talents and character of the officials, but because they want to use flattery to use their power in exchange for benefits.
I've already flattered you, but you can't teach me to be a noble person.
He also saw that when the imperial recruitment plan went bankrupt, the next way to solve the problem was to kill.
Even if you kill me until I become you and you become me, I will keep killing you until I can finish killing you.
He Renlong seemed to have seen the scene of Shaanxi turning into a hell on earth. He shook his head, threw the idea behind him, and asked: "How many men and horses does the lion have now, six thousand?"
"It's still more than four thousand."
He Yong said: "It seems that he is unwilling to use force to expand his troops. He recruits prisoners to surrender and allows them to volunteer. If they are willing to follow, they can stay. If they are not willing to follow, they can leave. He will also give them travel expenses and dry food, and let them return to Guanzhong."<
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"So there are not many left, only more than 300 people. They are all those who have nothing to worry about in Guanzhong."
He Renlong's eyebrows furrowed together, his mouth opened slightly and he inhaled. He leaned back in his chair, paused for a moment and asked, "Has he always done this?"
"Yes, I asked around. He has been doing this since the earliest days in Yanshui Pass, so he has never had many people."
He Yong has almost learned a lot about the Lion Camp in the past few days, and he can talk about it like this: "While other leaders can gather thousands of people, he only has four or five hundred people."
"Others, thousands of people, ran to death against Shangguan's army. There were only one or two hundred people left. There was a man named Cao Cao. He had three thousand people last winter. No one attacked him even after the whole winter. So he followed
There was no one left in the internal strife, so I recruited two thousand people, and after a round of running into Aimu, there was no one left."
"The Lion Camp is different. The number of people is gradually increasing, especially for the frontier army. The frontier army brothers are hungry. If there are 200 prisoners, he can recruit 150. But after fighting four or five battles in Shanxi, his men
There are less than 200 people in Shanxi."
He Yong came to a conclusion: "Just like the Guanzhong soldiers, others will not follow him wherever he can have enough to eat."
He Renlong stopped talking.
Before today, he actually didn't pay much attention to Liu Chengzong's team.
But after what He Yong said, He Renlong discovered that compared with Liu Chengzong, the other leaders in northern Shaanxi were nothing.
As a mid-level officer, he did not pay attention to the combat effectiveness displayed by the Lion Battalion.
Combat strength can be gained through hundreds of battles. In other words, those who have followed Liu Chengzong from the beginning have now fought nearly ten battles with the official army, and their combat experience is even richer than that of the border troops.
He Renlong is more concerned about the unity of the Lion Camp.
This is the heart of an outlaw.
Regardless of whether it was the deserters from Yansui or Guyuan who surrendered, or the soldiers who were willing to stay in Guanzhong, Shanxi, all of them were desperadoes with no worries.
He never thought that someone would organize an army in this way.
Because He Renlong had heard about what the Lion Battalion had done, the moral level of this unit was much higher than the average.
Only in this paradoxical era of theirs can a group of desperadoes be organized and restrained.
In any previous era, if you wanted to restrain soldiers, you had to be from a good family.
But this era is very easy. No matter you are a mud-legged person who failed to dig in the soil, or you are a heroic man who can wield a powerful bow of a hundred pounds, what people ask for but cannot get is a full meal.
Thinking of this, He Renlong couldn't help but sneer.
The maintenance of Lion Camp depends on one very important thing.
There are always officers and soldiers going to beat him.
There are always officers and soldiers who, when they can't figure out what the Lion Camp is, will attack them as if they were dealing with the refugee army.
Isn’t this just giving meat to the lion?
At this moment, He Renlong can say without hesitation that he is already the person who knows the Lion Camp best among the officers in Yansui Town.
"Then when you go over, what will Liu Shizi say?"
He Yong shook his head and said: "I didn't say anything. I chatted with him, but he didn't want to. He just asked me to talk about something. I said that the general sent me there because he was not satisfied with the current situation."
Speaking of this, he secretly looked at He Renlong's expression and saw that the guard was not angry, so he continued: "He asked me to bring back twenty taels of silver to the general, and another ten taels for me."
He Yong said, took out a money bag from his side, opened it and placed it on the table. There were thirty taels of silver in it.
"In addition, he also wants me to make a copy of the Tang and Di newspapers of the Garrison Department and send them to him every month."
He Renlong showed joy on his face and asked: "Where to send it?"
"Let me be sent to Crouching Mountain in Yanchuan. That's the village. There are still seventy or eighty households living there. There are no thieves in there. According to what he said, someone will go there every month to get it."
Crouching Tiger Mountain in Yanchuan has basically nothing to do with Liu Chengzong.
If there is any connection, it would be that when the Lion Battalion first entered Shanxi, Liu Chengzong led his men there to build a canal for the people.
Liu Chengzong also told He Yong truthfully about this, because he did not want Yuhebao to do anything stupid and hurt the local people.
He Renlong nodded, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Smart."
He was not praising He Yong, but Liu Chengzong.
He Yong carefully added: "He said that if I submit the report to his residence on time every month, he will give me five taels of silver."
"Give it away. If you don't give it to him, he will find other ways to get it."
He Renlong took this matter very seriously.
Tang Bao Di Bao has a certain degree of confidentiality. For example, you can see different things according to different levels, but this is only relative.
In fact, officials are surrounded by countless leakers, intentionally or unintentionally. As long as others want to take a look, it is not difficult.
The best way to keep secrets is actually the level of education of the people in the market.
After all, this is a very strange era. In the second year of the Apocalypse, Du Wenhuan led his army to attack the Mongolian tribes to destroy their nests in order to avoid aiding the Liao Dynasty.
The Mongols' method of retaliation for this incident was to write a letter to the governors of the three sides of Shaanxi Province, saying that Du Wenhuan came to attack us to avoid aiding the Liao Dynasty, and hoped that the court would uphold justice.
Without justice, the Mongols went south and broke into Yan'an Prefecture.
As long as one wants to know, even what Du Wenhuan is thinking cannot be hidden from the Mongols.
Not to mention the Tang Bao Di newspaper that can only be seen by the district garrison office.
He Renlong looked at the money bag on the table, smiled, and said to He Yong: "You can keep the money. It's time to start a family. Which aunt is your favorite? He will go and match you."<
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He smiled, then tied the money bag and handed it to He Yong. Unexpectedly, his unintentional action caused He Yong to kneel to the ground and kowtow: "The general is a great kindness, and a villain can't repay it."<
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He Renlong was startled. He picked him up with a smile and asked, "You really have a crush on your aunt, right?"
"Hey, not yet, not yet."
He Yong stuttered a little and thought about it: "The villain really plans to ask the general to take action in the future... I didn't expect the general to say it."
"Why are you so polite between you and me?" He Renlong patted He Yong on the shoulder: "You did a very good job this time. It's a good start. In the future, he will also be able to provide us with information. These things will help us leave Yuhe."
The basics of fort."
He Yong took a deep breath and nodded: "Yes, it's a good start."