That night, the Xiliang soldiers brought the corpse of the ferocious beast back to the city. Li Xiang said that he would invite the people in the city to eat the ferocious beast's meat, and naturally it came true.
The meat of the ferocious beasts brought back was cut into pieces, leaving enough ferocious beast meat for the soldiers of Xiliang. Now the meat is distributed to the people in the city.
The walls of Langya City are very broken, but there are a lot of people inside. The total population reaches 110,000, of which about 80,000 are related to Yuan Mine, about 30,000 are from the mines, and the rest
It is the relatives of these miners, and their families depend on Yuan mine for their livelihood.
Some of the remaining 40,000 people work in the city, and there are also some city wall hunters who specialize in hunting wild wolves outside.
Because there are basically no bandits in the northwest, and they will not appear on this trade road, the walls of Langya City are only made of earth fortresses, just to resist the attacks of some wolves.
There is a lack of materials for the buildings in the city, and they only build some low-rise mud houses. Don't look at the appearance of Langya City, but the people inside are not poor. Needless to say the mining people, as long as you work hard, you can earn more than fifty yuan a year.
Two taels of silver is not a problem. Excluding various expenses and equipment consumption, you can save more than twenty taels of silver every year.
Hunters make even more money. In addition to wolves, there are all kinds of wild beasts outside Langya City. These are all meat. All the meat in the city is provided by these hunters. Even if you kill wolves, the profit is not small.
, wolf fangs, and wolf skins will be collected.
The three major families also do some business. There are many caravans passing through Langya City every year. This is a good business opportunity. Food and water can be exchanged for some money. The bulk of it is the various materials they collect from the civilians in the city.
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The outside of Langya City is shabby, and every household in the city has a hundred or so taels of silver. Unfortunately, money is of little use in Langya City. Many people prefer to exchange things for things. For them, the silver taels can only be hidden.
When Li Xiang returned to the camp, he saw that the silver coins, grain and other things prepared for him in the city had been returned, but the silver coins had been left behind.
The Xiliang soldier in charge of logistics said: "Lord, there are a total of ten thousand taels of silver in these boxes!"
"So much!" Li Xiang couldn't believe it. He walked to the box and looked at the silver that was glowing silver.
The logistics soldier said: "Langya City looks very shabby, but every household has a lot of silver.
When you led your bodyguards on the early hunt, your subordinates transported the food to the Lord's Mansion of Langya City. When they saw the transactions along the way, the money bags in the hands of those people were very heavy."
Li Xiang looked at the soldier and said, "Are you going to deliver food or to see other people's money?"
The soldier smiled sheepishly: "Isn't this a professional habit? I saw the silver in the warehouse was decreasing little by little, and there was no money coming in. I was a little anxious!"
When this logistics manager was in Xiliang City, he was the caretaker of the Xiliang City warehouse. The warehouse was almost infinitely large. If he was transferred to the militia, he only needed the consent of Prime Minister Li. To transfer to the high-level arms, these soldiers needed to arrive with silver coins.
Job transfer in specialized military camps.
At this time, soldiers are needed to take out the silver coins. This guy is the first batch of warehouse guards. They will only take out the silver coins and give them to others only under the order of Prime Minister Li.
Li Xiangmo looked at the silver in the box: "We can rob the enemy's silver, but we can only use trade to get the silver from our friends. Do you understand?"
The logistics manager nodded: "My subordinates understand!"
"When my subordinates went to share the meat of ferocious beasts today, they found a business opportunity!" The logistics director did not make any riddles, but said directly: "The people in Langya City have a strong desire for ferocious beasts, so let's get the ferocious beast meat After the delivery, many people asked if they could buy the ferocious beast.
We came to the northwest for ferocious beasts, and it would be troublesome to send the meat of these ferocious beasts back outside the customs. We can sell these ferocious beasts to the people in Langya City."
"That's okay!" Li Xiang nodded. The population in Langya City is not very large, and the number of purchases is not very large. If you want to make more money, you have to move to Longling City, the largest city on the trade road and the city in the middle of the trade road. .
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When the Xiliang soldiers entered the city, there was no massacre. The Xiliang soldiers left a good impression on Langya City. These tall soldiers were more disciplined than the soldiers in Daqian.
Except on the city wall and guarding the city gate, Xiliang soldiers are basically invisible. As long as people living near the military camp can hear the continuous training sounds of Xiliang soldiers.
On the second day after arriving at Langya City, Xiliang soldiers mainly built military camps, and a large number of soldiers came from behind.
The scout team and Wang Tianlong went north to look for traces of the ferocious beasts. Yu Chixing and others were relieved to see that the Xiliang soldiers did not affect the lives of the civilians in Langya City.
Now it seems that the Xiliang army is going to turn this city into Xiliang's city within the pass. Judging from the construction of military camps, more Xiliang people will come.
Li Xiang went out hunting with his cavalry every day, and he always brought back some ferocious beasts. The quantity was too small, just enough for the Xiliang soldiers to eat. Sometimes the extra ones were sold in the market, and he could harvest dozens of taels of silver every day.
On the fifth day when the Xiliang army occupied Langya City, the logistics troops finally arrived. The civilians of Langya City saw a long black line coming from the depths of the vast white land, black leather armor, and tall and mighty soldiers.
There were also those loaded carriages. Li Xiang had received the news from the infantry troops a long time ago and was waiting for the arrival of the infantry in the city without going out.
The arrival of the infantry means that the Xiliang cavalry can move.
The Xiliang army is not busy these days. The scouts have clearly explored the surrounding terrain, ferocious beasts, and the locations of the wild beasts. Li Xiang also paid for the exploration with his personal guards every day.
At the same time, news also came from Jiuyuan County. At this time, most of the northern part of the northwest land has been occupied by ferocious beasts. The north is colder than the south. Most of the lovers in the northwest land live in the south.
Some cities in the north were still attacked by ferocious beasts, and entire cities were wiped out. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city were also killed and eaten by ferocious beasts.
For ferocious beasts, humans are not their favorite food. Of course, these are ordinary people. If they are cultivators, they like to eat them very much.
In the eyes of ordinary people, most ferocious beasts, people are like some edible but not very delicious food. If a ferocious beast of different races and ten humans are placed in front of them and let them choose, they will choose first. Fierce beast.
Human beings, and only those who are cultivators, are the food they like to eat. Their bodies contain a lot of spiritual energy. Eating it can improve themselves and make their brains that have been invaded by evil spirits become clearer.
The ferocious beasts are currently in the north. According to the scouts and the news from Jiuyuan County, there are already more than 150,000 ferocious beasts in the north, and a large number of ferocious beasts are continuously coming out of the snow forest.
It is expected that the entire northwest will be dominated by ferocious beasts. Li Xiang took a rough map of the northwest. With his current strength, he could not obtain an accurate map.
Take a pen and draw a line on the map to separate the north and south, and also draw the trade route.
"We need to set up sentry posts here!" Red ink drew dots on the animal skin map: "These places are relatively high terrain, how many people have been brought here?"
The leader of the rear army said: "Back to my lord, I brought fifty construction workers here this time!"
"Okay, bring enough materials before tomorrow, and each will bring fifty cavalry to escort!" Li Xiang said to his generals: "The situation is getting more and more urgent. Let the five armies speed up and leave the outside world to them!"
The situation in the northwestern land makes it impossible for Prime Minister Li to be distracted outside the pass. Moreover, the forces outside the pass are no longer opponents of Xiliang. The five legions can be dealt with. Now it depends on the training speed of these five legions.
"Longling City must be taken down!" Li Xiang said: "Longling City is the northernmost city among the three cities. The three cities connected together are like a bow. When the ferocious beasts from the north move south, this distance is not the first to suffer.
The closest Langya City to Yumen Pass is Longling City!
Wang Tianlong, Longling City, you, a member of the Great Wall Legion, should know this!"
Wang Tianlong stood up: "The founder of Longling City was the Long Family. The Long Family was the largest bandit gang in the northwest at first. Their main job was to rob some small caravans heading outside the customs. Later, for some unknown reason, the Long Family
The family occupied the area of Longling City and built Longling City.
The Long family has been in business for more than 500 years now. The number of people in the city is about 300,000, and there are 50,000 soldiers. The city is two feet high. It is the most powerful city on the trade road, and the head of the Long family is a first-class expert.
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"Is it so strong?" Li Xiang thought that even if Longling City was stronger, it would not be as strong as Langya City. It seemed that Longling City was a bit difficult to win.
Wang Tianlong continued: "Besides these smiles, there is also news that the Long family seems to have a relationship with a certain prince in Jiuyuan County. If the Long family is touched, that person will be offended!"
Li Xiang chuckled lightly: "I, Li Xiang, am a prisoner, so why should I be afraid of the prince?"
"It's a bit difficult to take down this Longling City, but do you know the combat effectiveness of Longling City's soldiers?"
"The soldiers of Longling City are very strong. They are different from the soldiers photographed in Jiuyuan County. The soldiers of Longling City need to fight the beasts in the northwest and eat meat every day. Those soldiers just lack good skills.
Otherwise they are almost like ordinary troops of my Great Wall Legion!"
After hearing this metaphor, Li Xiang understood somewhat. He had fought against the troops of the Great Wall Legion, and the combat effectiveness of those soldiers crushed most of the forces outside the pass. In this way, the Longling City troops were about the same as the Qing Army.
"The current city lord of Longling City is Long Zhantian, a second-rate master. Although he is the city lord, he acts very willfully. Sometimes he even robs caravans. He thinks he is doing a good job, but no one
Know.
But I don’t know that the only city around Longling City that can mobilize a large amount of manpower is Longling City. If they don’t want to go too far, many small caravans would not want to go to Longling City.”
"Oh?" Li Xiang was a little curious: "If a city lord is like this, his troops will also obey him?"
Wang Tianlong said: "There is nothing we can do if we don't accept it. All the troops in Longling City are in his hands and no one is dissatisfied. In addition, his father is the head of the family and he is the only son."
"Maybe the ancestors of the Long family have done too many unscrupulous things. They are all passed down alone, and they have many daughters!" Wang Tianlong said with some gloating: "Long Zhantian even gave birth to six daughters in a row, but I didn't see it.
One with a handle!”
"Tell me, if we are afraid of ferocious beasts and go south to carry silver with us to Jiuyuan County, dozens of boxes of silver, and the number of guarding troops reaches 5,000, do you think Long Zhantian will come and kill us?"
This strategy came to Li Xiang's mind after he heard Wang Tianlong say that Long Zhantian would loot some small caravans.
Long Zhantian can loot some small caravans, which represents his greed for wealth. The number of people in Longling City has reached 50,000. Faced with only 5,000 people from Langya City, what will they choose?
No one from Langya City can go to Longling City these days, and no one in Longling City knows about the Xiliang army.
On the plain, even if all 50,000 of the opponent's troops appeared, Li Xiang would dare to charge with his army. Unlike the Xiliang soldiers, these people could fight to the death and not retreat. As long as the number of casualties reached one side, they would be automatically defeated.
Wang Tianlong was a little shocked. After only a few dozen breaths, Li Xiang had already found a way to deal with Longling City. If Long Zhantian knew that hundreds of thousands of silver were dispatched, given the greed of the other party, he might still do it in normal times.
Press it down.
But these are troubled times, and there are ferocious beasts everywhere. If you find an excuse later, who knows they did it!
"City Lord Li, this is a good strategy!"
"Longling City must be taken down. We don't have much time left. Let's make preparations. I'll go discuss it with City Lord Yuchi and others!"
Li Xiang settled the matter swiftly and resolutely, mounted his war horse and headed to the city lord's palace.
After Li Xiang finished talking about the plan, Yuchixing invited the other three family clan heads. Well, they also knew something about Longling City, but because the people in Jiuyuan County knew Yuchixing's identity, and their young people
As a generation grows up, Longling City doesn't dare to do anything to them.
Longling City was built by the Long family themselves, and the government doesn't care much. It only requires you to pay enough taxes. Langya City is different. This is a city set up by Jiuyuan County, and there are also court officials in it.
, whoever dares to make a move is going against Da Gan.
"I wonder how much money General Li thinks we should bring?" The head of the Xiao family asked with his head lowered. The other two people also listened carefully. It is very likely that these silver coins have gone away and will not come back again. It's like a tiger's mouth.
, can I still get it back?
"No need!" Li Xiang shook his head and said: "Just take the silver coins you sent to my military camp, put heavier stones at the bottom of the box, and then put the silver on top, and that's it!"
Carrying hundreds of thousands of taels of silver around, probably only a fool could do it!
"However, one of the three family heads needs to accompany me!" Li Xiang looked at the three of them.
"I'll go!" Head Liu said bluntly: "I'm familiar with the area around Longling City, and I'm a third-rate person, so even if something goes wrong, I can still handle it!"
