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It is true that Yang Yufan is young and courageous, and his vision of people is quite accurate, otherwise he would not have saved Laizhou City. But he cannot escape the fate of warriors in this era - his greed for yellow and white things is far more important than killing the enemy.
Serve the country more.
There are more than three million shi of military rations stored in Laizhou City. These are all grains shipped from the south. They were originally intended to be transported directly to Jinzhou and Ningyuan by sea for the Ming army outside the pass. Unexpectedly, Kong Youde and Wuqiao suddenly rebelled, and the traffic between the north and the south was cut off.
The Tianjin Navy, which was tasked with transporting grain, was completely wiped out outside Dengzhou City, so the grain that was supposed to be sent outside the customs was all piled up in Laizhou City.
Having so much food is suspected to be Xie Lian's motivation to stick to Laizhou, and also the reason why he never negotiated recruitment with the rebels in the first place. There is food in the city, but I am not hungry. How can I panic? Millions of stones of food have been given to the city.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were open to eating, and they could eat for two or three years. In addition, the city wall of Laizhou was tall and strong, so no one would leave the city and risk losing their heads to fight with the rebels.
If Liu Yulie, the governor, had not blindly advocated appeasement and fell into Kong Youde's trick of pretending to surrender, forcing Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian to leave the city to surrender, I am afraid that Xie Lian would have become famous by now, and Zhu Wannian would not have shouted "" in front of Laizhou City.
"Leave me alone, shoot me" tragedy.[
The deaths of Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian left Laizhou City in a similar state to when Shi Dayong was guarding Jinzhou. The difference was that Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong in Jinzhou City, was only seriously ill and had not yet died, and he also supported Dayong, a close confidant. The prefect Chen Ang, on the other hand,
He wanted to stir up trouble, but suffered from the lack of troops, so he was put under house arrest by Dayong. Yang Yufan was not as troublesome as Shi Dayong. The governor who was weighing him down died, and the owner of the city, the prefect, also died. He was the only one in Laizhou City who
The Commander-in-Chief is the biggest.
Without Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian, Yang Yufan seems to be the master of Laizhou City, or it is more accurate to say the savior. Also, if it were not for Yang Yufan, the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Laizhou City would have become the victims of the rebels.
It is true to say that he was the savior and benefactor of Laizhou. As long as the imperial court did not ask Tongzhou soldiers to return to the original defense area for one day, Yang Yufan could be the master of Laizhou for one day.
The last time Jiang Wanli was ordered by Shi Dayong to buy grain from Yang Yufan, Yang Zhentai was more or less concerned that he was a guest soldier and did not dare to go too far. If the court later inquired about the whereabouts of the grain in the city, it would be difficult for him to explain.
Now, he has no worries at all. He is also a member of the Zangzang Alliance. Yang Yufan knows what is happening outside the city. For the sake of the real money and silver that Shi Dayong continues to offer, Yang Zhentai opens his eyes.
Just close one eye and forget it. After all, they are all Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, and they are also guest troops. Why bother to take over this home for the imperial court? Besides, my subordinates have been holding on in Laizhou for several months, and they have suffered a lot of casualties.
Very good. Since someone has given out a lot of money, it can be easily accepted, which also makes the sons and daughters happy.
The Tongzhou soldiers rushed to Laizhou for reinforcements from the beginning of the rebellion. The Ministry of War urged them so hard that there was no chance of burning, killing, looting, or capturing anything from the rebels along the way. Therefore, until the rebellion was put down, except for the gifts sent by the gentry in the city led by the magistrate of Laizhou,
In addition to Xie Yi, Commander Yang actually didn't have much money in his pocket. Similarly, the Jingying camp from the capital, the Sichuan army transferred from Huguang, and the Jizhen soldiers from Jizhen included the Liao soldiers who were all lost to the Jinzhou army.
The soldiers also have no chance of winning.
If there are no gains, there will be no trophies. Without trophies, how can one not complain about coming all the way to quell the rebellion for the country?
If one party has nothing to gain, the other party has gained something, so naturally the two hit it off.
The food in Laizhou City is now Dayong's prey. In order to obtain this food, Dayong really spent a lot of money.
Dayong had plenty of money. Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde plundered half of Northern Zhili and half of Shandong, and looted everything in Denglai. The big local households and the poor and small households were all treated equally. How could the looted wealth be less?
What's more, there are warehouses in more than a dozen prefectures and counties. Not to mention anything else, Sun Yuanhua's vassal warehouse in Dengzhou City alone has a full 1.2 million taels of silver piled there!
Great wealth, real great wealth. Others cannot obtain great wealth in their lifetime, but Da Yong got it. Although behind all these wealth are blood and tears, murderous cases of killing families one after another, and countless lives lost, in the end, it is still possible for him to
Wealth that no one can even imagine.
Yang Yufan and other guest soldiers must return to their original garrison, so food is of no value to them at all. It is impossible for them to find enough means of transportation to blatantly transport the imperial army food home, let alone to openly transport the food.
Sell it out. Even if they want to sell it, someone has to buy it. Looking around, is there anyone in Denglai who can spend money to buy food? Gold and silver that can be carried around and easy to use are what these visiting soldiers want most.
Also the best trophy.
Dayong, on the other hand, was desperately trying to get rid of the gold and silver in his hands. All he wanted was food. Those yellow and white things that looked dazzling were really of no use to him.
The Jinzhou Army is suffering from enough food. The post-disaster reconstruction in Dengzhou also needs a lot of food. Those hungry victims are eager for food to save their lives! Before the Jinzhou Army occupied Dengzhou, some people who survived by chance could
It’s already Yizi and eaten!
Dayong couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of the tragedy of exchanging children for food. He had eaten people before, and he knew what it meant. As long as the situation was not over, how could a parent let go of his own child?
Food! The more the better, even if it means spending all the gold and silver in your hands!
Dayong, a local tycoon who had made great fortune in the country, used the gold and silver in his hands to open up all the joints. Gao Qiqian used other methods to give him a batch of grain. Lin Qing and Pei Shaokuan, who had old connections with Hujing camp, also earned a fortune.
Of course, the biggest seller of pens must still be Laizhou City. When Jiang Wanli once again asked Yang Zhentai to buy grain for a large amount of money on behalf of Dayong, Yang Yufan agreed without hesitation. If Dayong didn’t have the money to buy grain, Tongzhou soldiers would have lost all their money this time.
After returning home, I will definitely rob the place on the way back. I am afraid that before I get to Tongzhou, the local magistrate's complaint will fly to Beijing like snowflakes.
Now it's fine. After taking care of what needs to be taken care of, just take the money and leave. There is no need to ask anything. The reasons are all sufficient: Do you need to relieve the people when the rebellion is over? Do you need food supplies for the Jinzhou Army to continue to suppress bandits? Such as
Dayong was very considerate and thought of more than ten reasons for Yang Yufan.
The reason is there, what is being sold is the country's food, or in other words, it is the food of the Jinzhou Army, so why not do it.
"Sell, sell out, sell out!"
After Yang Yufan made the decision, all the cattle, horses and carts in Laizhou City were sold out overnight. Day and night, the city gate was filled with grain carts filled with large and small bags. The lights were bright and it was very lively. All the scribes in the Yamen rushed to the scene.
The front line acted as a businessman and made a lot of money. It can be said that everyone worked together to make a fortune.[
Not only food, but also anything else that could be sold by Yang Yufan, including swords, bows and arrows, armor and leather goods, hoes and sickles, medicinal materials, fish in the sea, and even literate scholars and doctors, as long as they were needed by the Jinzhou Army.
The prices are clearly marked for sale in all towns and cities.
The actions of the government soon spread to the people. The merchants in Laizhou City were not affected by the disaster. Seeing the Jinzhou Army holding large sums of gold and silver to beg for shopping supplies, they instantly returned to their true nature as merchants. Whatever was on the market or in stock, as long as they could
They sold everything to the Jinzhou Army. Even the common people followed. The city was in a state of chaos. All livestock that could be used as meat were sent to the Jinzhou Army's camp, so that Laizhou City was connected to the Jinzhou Army.
I haven't seen a dog for months.
The old ladies with little feet also carefully sold the eggs they had finally saved to the Jinzhou soldiers. After the other party generously paid the money, the old ladies were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear.
There were also people who came to sell vegetables, ginger, pears, apples from the orchard, etc. Some people even took out all the salt at home and sold it.
A scene of bullying by children and elders that had not been seen for many years was actually staged in Laizhou City within a few days after the rebellion subsided. It really made the soldiers and people in the city sigh: From now on, the world will finally be peaceful.
The crazy selling behavior directly affected the future lives of the soldiers and civilians in Laizhou, because they found that they seemed to have nothing in their hands except money, so a new round of panic took place in Laizhou.