At midnight, the banquet in the governor's mansion dispersed, and the generals left the mansion with flushed faces, happy and drunken faces. They asked the guards who had been waiting here to get on their horses with oil lamps, lead the way, and escort the generals back to the camp outside the city.
Rest.
At this time, the soldiers in the camp outside the city had just finished sweeping away the wine and meat that Cao Shuang asked Yang Zong, the chief clerk, to bring. With satisfaction on their faces, they happily lay down in the tent.
He fell into a deep sleep, and for a while there was a lot of snoring in the Wei army camp. Only the soldiers on night watch were patrolling every corner of the camp with long guns holding incense sticks.
The dull footsteps of the preface gave the sleeping soldiers a sense of security.
Soldiers on night watch were distributed at key points in the camp to stand watch to prevent the Wu army from attacking. The soldiers of the Wei army were satisfied with their victory over the Wu army.
Cao Shuang asked the chief secretary Yang Zong to lead the quartermaster in the camp to buy some meat and wine for the soldiers to eat meat and drink wine. Before this, the middle and upper ranks of the Wei army could still see some meat and wine more or less every month.
The life of the lower-class soldiers is slightly better than that of ordinary people, but they have to support their families and cannot use their "salary" to buy wine and meat. It takes several months to have a few mouthfuls of wine and meat.
The soldiers of Cao Wei were supplied with sixty hu of dendrobium per person every year, five hu of dendrobium per month, or more than 1 dou and 6 liters per day.
One hu of dendrobium in the Eastern Han Dynasty is about 27 kilograms, which is 135 kilograms per month for soldiers. Calculated based on the modern rice price of 3 yuan per kilogram, during the Three Kingdoms period, the basic salary of Cao Wei soldiers was 405 yuan (meters are wages and can be exchanged for money)
"The Remaining Stele of Zheng Zizhen's Residence" records that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a "villa" in Hanzhong City. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, one dendrobium of rice was equal to 100 qian, and Cao Wei soldiers supplied 5 dendrobium per month, which was equivalent to 500 qian per month.
In other words, 20 months' salary can buy a "villa" in the city center. (Of course, it may also be bloody battlefield after 20 months)
This number may be calculated based on unpeeled rice. If calculated based on peeled rice, it is only about 8 liters.
This standard is much lower than the standard for soldiers in the Han Dynasty.
In fact, this number is just an imaginary number. In many cases, the food that soldiers eat is less than this number. After all, there are generals at all levels who want to take a share of the pie. Soldiers can keep themselves and their families fed and clothed.
Even if it’s pretty good.
But tonight the general allowed them to eat meat and drink alcohol freely. This was something they had never thought of before. Of course, this was a treatment that only came after a great victory. If it were a different general or someone who was very "picky" with his soldiers in the past, he would
Cao Shuang, who is "one of his own" but very good, does not receive this kind of treatment for his subordinates who work hard.
They are happy that after experiencing the battle between Cao Wei and Sun Wu, they can still live to see the sun tomorrow. When they go back, they can still see their wives, parents and children who have been waiting hard at home for their safe return... p>
In their sleep, all the soldiers thought of their wives' hot kangs or some other wonderful things. In their sleep, the corners of the mouths of these rough soldiers showed a few happy smiles.
When the sixth general returned to camp, he asked his trusted soldiers to bring him a basin of cold water and washed himself. Then he rested casually. After all, in the hot and humid weather in Jingzhou in the middle of May, it was more refreshing and comfortable to wash in cold water.
And Wang Ling, Sikong, who was over fifty years old, also asked Cai Mi, a wealthy businessman in Xiling, to willingly "borrow" a good mansion for him to live temporarily in Jingzhou City. If Wang Ling hadn't refused, Cai Mi would have left the mansion.
I gave it to him directly.
Of course, the main reason is that General Cao Shuang is still watching. If he accepts it blatantly, he may make General Cao Shuang unhappy and even cancel the marriage with the Wang family, which would be very bad.
It's not like Cai Mi didn't give Cao Shuang a "mansion" and a beautiful woman, but Cao Shuang insisted on not accepting it, saying that this time Cai Qing had made great contributions to Cao Wei's defeat of Jing State, and there was no reward yet, so it was hard to accept anything from Qing.
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In the past, Cao Shuang would have accepted them all without hesitation, but now that Cao Shuang is an "ambitious young man", he can no longer covet "luxury houses" and beauties.
Naturally, Wang Ling couldn't accept it directly. He just said that we would talk about it later and winked at Cai Mi. Cai Mi was a "veteran" who was in the business world in Jingzhou, Jianye, and Luoyang, and was popular with everyone in the court. Naturally, it was instant.
I understand the meaning in Wang Ling's eyes.
Then he cupped his hands and said with a smile: "What Wang Sikong said is absolutely true, the days ahead will be long!"
After the dinner, Cao Shuang, with a red face, personally escorted several generals under his command and Wang Sikong out of the house. After that, his maid Sun Luban served him. After he washed up and drank a bowl of sobering soup, he and Sun Luban rested together.
Cao Shuang blew out the oil lamp and rushed towards Sun Luban. Sun Luban closed his eyes and said softly: "General, please have mercy."
At this moment, Sun Luban had obviously accepted her fate. When she was imprisoned by Cao Shuang as a canary in Wan County, she still had great illusions. She thought that she had heard from Zhou Xun that Cao Shuang was an often defeated general who repeatedly lost battles.
, not like a general of Cao Wei who is good at fighting.
Five years ago, in the fifth year of the Zhengshi year of Cao Wei (244), in order to establish his prestige, the general assisting Cao Shuang launched a campaign to conquer the Shu Han and seize Hanzhong. This time Cao Shuang assembled more than 100,000 troops. However, Wang Ping, who was stationed in Hanzhong, commanded about 30,000 troops. Facing the powerful incoming Wei army, Wang Ping commanded it properly and finally cooperated with the reinforcements led by Fei Yi.
In the Battle of Xingshi, he encircled Cao Shuang's troops and severely damaged the Wei army. As a result, Cao Shuang's prestige among the Wei army plummeted, which gave the old thief Sima an opportunity to launch a rebellion five years later.
Before, she naively believed that relying on her father to conquer all directions, defeating Cao Wei's 200,000 army with tens of thousands of horses in Chibi, and setting fire to the entire camp in the Battle of Yiling,
After defeating his uncle Liu Bei for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei avenged the menacing revenge army. This time he will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory, defeat Cao Shuang's army, regain the lost territory in Jiangbei, and rescue himself from Cao's thieves.
It's a pity that in the end she overestimated her father and underestimated Cao Shuang. After all, Zhou Xun's father Zhou Lang and Governor Lu Xun were no longer alive at this moment.
In the end, Biyaner failed to successfully feign surrender and counterattack, and even destroyed 200,000 troops in Jingzhou. He gave Cao Shuang such great credit, and it was the kind of thing that would make all the Wei soldiers laugh out of their dreams.
After arriving in Jingzhou, Sun Luban also learned that the 200,000 troops sent by his father to pretend to surrender were all destroyed in the reed swamps among the rivers and lakes outside Jingzhou City. Most of Nanjun had also fallen, and it would be completely reduced to Wei in a few days.
I no longer hold out hope that my father will send an army to rescue me from Cao's thief's den.
She had no choice but to accept her fate obediently, and just asked Cao Shuang to let her go to the reed swamp outside Jingzhou City to pay homage to the dead soldiers of Soochow. She no longer had the idea of returning to Soochow. She only hoped to use her presence to calm the Cao Wei and Sun Wu families.
The conflict gave Soochow some time to breathe and recuperate.
After a while, the north room of Jingzhou County Sheriff's Office was full of spring night. Sun Luban undressed and took off his belt, and his mature and plump body exuded a seductive smell...
Sun Quan once again sacrificed women and soldiers. Last time it was his younger sister Sun Xiaomei, but this time he sacrificed his eldest daughter, making Cao Shuang his cheap son-in-law.