The rear army is located outside the city. They belong to the auxiliary system. As a rule, they must stay away from the battle point to prevent the enemy from damaging the food, grass and baggage.
However, Yiyang City has returned to the embrace of the official army, so the rear army has arrived outside the city. A large number of auxiliary troops have been arranged to enter the city to put out the fire. People unloaded the baggage in an orderly manner and waited for the fire in the city to be extinguished before sending the supplies into the city.
Stored in warehouse.
It is worth mentioning that all the grain and grass seized by the Yellow Turban Army were placed in warehouses within the city.
Almost from the time of Yao, Shun, and Yu, the ancients have realized the importance of fire prevention. Therefore, ancient warehouses were kept away from bustling town centers, and a remote and sparsely populated land was specially planned to build granaries.
However, most government granaries can run away with rats, so the government granaries on weekdays are rented to local powerful people. There is no place to store the grain and gold and silver jewelry stolen by the Yellow Turban Army, so they can only be placed here.
When Yu Changgen died, Guo Daxian was so frightened that he had no time to escape. He had no time to care about all this. All the valuable things inside were looted by the soldiers of the forward army.
Lu Zhi would not care about these trophies. In ancient siege battles, in order to reward the army and boost the morale of the soldiers, there was even a saying that soldiers were allowed to loot after the city was broken. As for the materials seized during the battle, they were not handed over.
According to the tradition, hiding trophies privately has long been an unspoken rule.
Of course, Liu Bei's troops were the ones who looted the most in the vanguard. Don't forget that in addition to the 500 soldiers, Chen Mu also had more than a thousand surrendered soldiers at his disposal. With Liu Bei's charisma, these surrendered soldiers had already followed him wholeheartedly.
He was secretly sent to the warehouse to haul things by Chen Mu.
Although there were a few soldiers who had evil intentions and wanted to grab something and run away, the father and son who had been helped by Liu Bei before noticed it and immediately started shouting, attracting most of the soldiers who were willing to follow Liu Bei to take those soldiers away.
A dozen soldiers who stole things and tried to escape were arrested and escorted to Chen Mu for disposal. This made Chen Mu have to start to admire Liu Bei's method of winning people's hearts.
Chen Mu sent people to rob the warehouses in the city and obtained gold, silver and jewelry worth millions of dollars. After the city of Yiyang was destroyed, many local rich and powerful were robbed by the Yellow Turban thieves, but most of the gold, silver and jewelry were stolen by the thieves.
, carried on the body, so there are very few gold, silver and jewelry in the warehouse.
If Yu Changgen and Guo Daxian hadn't left some to pay tribute to Zhang Jiao, Chen Mu might not have left the gold and silver jewelry worth millions of dollars.
The other money was five baht. Although there were hundreds of millions of coins piled up in the warehouse, they could not be taken away. Later, the officers and soldiers only glanced at the looted warehouse and found that there were only five baht in it.
The money turned around and left. So much money was left in the warehouse that no one cared about it.
Some people may wonder why no one takes money when they have it? Isn’t five baht money money?
the reason is simple.
The baht in five baht is the unit of measurement. As the saying goes, one baht must be calculated, which means that even one baht must be calculated, which describes people who are very stingy. One baht has a similar meaning to the dime in our daily life, and five baht means
It is a piece of money that weighs as much as five baht.
In the Han Dynasty, one pound was worth sixteen taels, and one tael was worth twenty-four baht.
This means that 77 five-baht coins weigh one kilogram. Although one kilogram in the Eastern Han Dynasty is only equivalent to 222.73 grams in modern times, 4.5 kilograms is equivalent to 1 kilogram in later generations.
But even if you are extremely strong and can carry a five-baht coin that is equivalent to a modern weight of 100 kilograms, in fact, a bag of money is only equivalent to 34,650 coins.
What can you do with 34,650 five-baht coins?
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the price of a stone of rice ranged from two to three hundred to four to five hundred yuan in peacetime, but in famine years it could rise to seven to eight hundred yuan or even one to two thousand yuan.
It costs tens of millions of dollars to buy an official position of two thousand stone or above as a prefect, and hundreds of millions for the position of three princes. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was one of the nine ministers. He bribed the ten ministers and donated money to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.
It took 100 million yuan to buy a Taiwei.
This means that you can’t just buy an official position if you want. For example, if you want to buy a county magistrate, you must first be a county captain, pay a sum of money to be a county magistrate, then pay a sum of money to be a governor, and then pay a sum of money to be a county magistrate.
Prefect... In this way, you progress step by step, and you can continue to climb up step by step by spending double or even several times the price as before.
It's not like you spend 100 million yuan and you can instantly change your identity from a white body to a three-legged male.
More than thirty thousand and five bahts, even Liu Bei, the captain of Anxi County, could not buy it. During the famine years, when the price of rice reached two thousand yuan and one stone, he could only buy more than ten stones of rice, equivalent to more than 400 kilograms of food. In fact,
The value is very small.
This is equivalent to the fact that if a war breaks out among modern people, no one will go to war with a hundred or ten kilograms of coins with a face value of one cent.
Therefore, the five-baht coin can still be circulated in peacetime, but in wartime, it is quite worthless in the eyes of soldiers.
But since he couldn't take them away and couldn't waste them, Chen Mu simply rewarded them all to the soldiers, as long as they could bring them all. The more than a thousand surrendered soldiers were originally very poor, but now they each carry several thousand coins.
Zi robbed millions, which made the dozens of soldiers who wanted to steal regret their hearts.
Here, Chen Mu was chatting and laughing with Lu Zhi again after making war fortune.
Over there, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were on their way to pick up weapons and equipment.
After leaving the city, Guan Yu saw Zhao Lin, the chief secretary of the Northern Army, and suddenly remembered Chen Mu's speculation. He couldn't restrain his curiosity and said to Zhao Lin: "Master Zhao."
"oh?"
Zhao Lin turned around in confusion: "Captain Guan, when?"
"Is Madam Ru a native of Shu?"
Guan Yu asked.
Zhao Lin's expression changed drastically, and she looked at Guan Yu with a cannibalistic gaze.
In an instant, Guan Yu regretted his recklessness. Asking an unfamiliar person about his family situation was obviously a very rude thing and could easily be misunderstood.
Guan Yu quickly explained: "Master, please don't misunderstand. It's not that Yu secretly snooped on the master's family affairs, nor did he use this to blackmail the master. In fact, it was my fourth brother Chen Mu who told me that Mr. Zhao's wife is from Shu. I am very surprised."
Just out of curiosity, if it’s inconvenient for me to register, it’s just a joke.”
Zhao Lin looked ugly and asked in a low voice: "Chief Guan, please tell Zhao Lin what the reason is?"
Guan Yu was embarrassed, he would not have been so curious if he had known it earlier.
Originally, Guan Yu had a relatively calm personality and would not really pry into other people's privacy.
It's just that Chen Mu's previous speculation has been lingering in his mind, and Guan Yu respects capable people very much. It's unbelievable that Chen Mu can guess his family situation so clearly just by looking at one person. Now it's just right.
When I met Mr. Zhao, I just wanted to ask him to verify whether what Chen Mu said was true.
After asking, I remembered that it is taboo to inquire about someone else's family situation with a stranger. Moreover, he started asking about someone else's wife. It is easy for people to misunderstand that Guan Yu thinks about someone else's wife, which is quite like Prime Minister Cao.
Since Guan Yu was not good at words, he was very embarrassed when Master Zhao looked at him and was afraid that he would be mistaken for a person with bad character.
Fortunately, Zhang Fei came to the rescue and laughed loudly and said: "Actually, it's not a big deal. It was my fourth brother who said that Mr. Zhao was struggling to make a living in Luoyang. We were curious about why he knew about it, so he told us that you have a wife, and my mother even
There are still brothers and sisters to support, so in order to verify, the second brother will ask."
As he spoke, he took out Chen Mu's previous reasoning. After hearing Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's explanation, Zhao Lin's expression softened. She unconsciously touched the sachet on her waist and showed a smile: "Chen Zigui is really the real person."
God is also a man, yes, my wife is indeed from Shu. When I went to study in Shu, looking for the great scholar Mao An Gong and Dingzu Gong, I got lost in the endless mountains and forests of Guanghan, ran out of dry food, and almost died in the belly of a wealthy wolf.
, fortunately, she was discovered by a hunter, brought home, and saved her life. Although my wife is the daughter of a hunter, she is pregnant with love, dignified and beautiful, without losing the gentleness of a Sichuan woman. We have been together for half a month, and we have already made a private decision for the rest of our lives. Later, I
I became a disciple of my grandfather in Mianzhu, and after I returned to my hometown after completing my studies, I still missed her all day long. Fortunately, my mother knew her righteousness well and did not despise her family's poverty, so she persuaded me to marry her. Only then did I make up my mind to return home.
After arriving in Sichuan, I knelt in front of her house for three days before bringing my wife back to Fufeng."
After hearing this, Guan Yu couldn't help but stand in awe and said: "Master Zhao is really an infatuated person."
Zhang Fei happily gave a thumbs up: "The journey from Fufeng in Guanzhong to Guanghan in Bashu is probably no less than two thousand miles. Chief Zhao went back and forth twice for a daughter of an Orion. I think he is a real god."
Zhao Lin didn't care about Zhang Fei's teasing. She stroked the sachet in her hand and said with a smile: "This sachet was sewn by my wife. Although it is a little rough, it is something I cherish. Whenever I see this,
I will always think of her instructions before she left. Although I am a descendant of the Fufeng Zhao family, my ancestor is the Tianshui Zhao family, and there have been many high-ranking officials in my family. But when it comes to my generation, the family status has withered and the prosperity is gone. With me now
From this poor family, I am lucky to have such a good wife, so what else can I ask for? I am willing to run another two thousand miles."
"It turns out he is a descendant of the Zhao family in Tianshui." Guan Yu was surprised. He was from Jieliang, Hedong. Jieliang County is very close to Yongzhou, almost on the border between Yongzhou and Sizhou, so he also knows a little about some prominent families in Guanzhong.
The Tianshui Zhao family is very remarkable. They are descendants of the Zhao family among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. After Qin Shihuang unified the country, he moved the Zhao royal family to Tianshui County, Yongzhou. The Zhao family in Fufeng County is a branch of the Tianshui Zhao family, and their ancestors also had children.
There are many celebrities, such as Zhao Yu, the court lieutenant during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Zhao Yu, the doctor in the early Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, the Fufeng Zhao family was in decline by Zhao Lin's generation, and could no longer be considered a prominent family. Therefore, although Zhao Lin became a disciple of Ren An, a famous scholar in Shu, and promoted Xiaolian, she still did not have any high-ranking officials. Former
There was a severe drought in Guanzhong for several years, so he had to flee to Luoyang with his family. He was appointed as the chief administrator of the Sangong Mansion by Liu Kuanzheng, the then leader of the Three Dukes. Last year, Liu Kuan resigned from the position of the Three Dukes and became Guanglu Xun.
He became a subordinate officer of Guangluxun again.
Since General Wu Guan Zhonglang is also an official of Guang Luxun, Lu Zhi's dispatch of troops this time theoretically requires Liu Kuan to send troops to assist him. However, the battlefield is very dangerous, and no one from those aristocratic families is willing to come.
Only Zhao Lin recommended herself and came to Lu Zhijun as the chief clerk in charge of clerical and logistical affairs.
Guan Yu was a man who was arrogant and never looked down upon his subordinates. When he heard that Zhao Lin was not a disciple of an aristocratic family, but was from a poor family like him, and was also very infatuated, he couldn't help but feel good about him, and said: "Master Zhao is really a sweet-tempered man, but it's a pity that the military
Drinking is not allowed in the palace. When the war is over, Yu wants to invite the chief to have a drink with him. What do you think?"
Zhao Lin smiled and said: "There is nothing wrong with me."
Generally speaking, Zhao Lin is the chief registrar of 600 shi, and his official position is higher than that of the local county magistrate, while Guan Yu is only the village chief of 200 shi. Their official positions are not equal, and Guan Yu is not qualified to invite Zhao Lin.
However, Zhao Lin was born in a young age and was not as domineering as the children of the aristocratic family. Moreover, Liu Bei was now a popular figure in front of Lu Zhi. The younger brother was more important than the older brother. Of course, Zhao Lin was willing to have many friends and many paths, so she readily agreed to date.
Zhang Fei laughed and said: "How can you forget me when you drink? Let's drink three hundred cups!"
The three of them talked and laughed, and the atmosphere became much closer.