Chapter 347 C-character scroll Yuyang 鼙 agitated to come (2)

   "Oh?" The man with the big chin froze, "You mean there is movement in Yulin Town? Where did you get the news?"

"One Ye Bu Shou brother came back from Gouchi via Sanshan Pass, and found that the strength of Yansui's troops seems to have increased a lot compared to half a year ago, and they are all elite..." Noticed that his brother's face changed slightly, and his chest was exposed The man asked suspiciously, "What's the matter, brother?"

"It's nothing, I didn't expect that Yansui Town (Yulin Town) would be able to mobilize troops at the end of the year." The man with a big chin looked hard, as if he was thinking about something, "I'm afraid this year won't last,... "

"As long as there is a way, we won't be like this, but the commander-in-chief didn't pay a penny, he only said that the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion didn't send it down, so why?" The thin man stood up and stroked the scabbard. Long Dao, "If this goes on, sooner or later we will become the ghosts of the soldiers below."

It's not that simple to be a general. If you can't get enough food and pay for the soldiers below, then the sergeants below will not work for you. Moreover, when conflicts intensify, it is common for the officers below to use you as a scapegoat to cover the crime. matter.

   In what year did there not occur several mutinies of various sizes in the four towns on the three sides? There are three or five small people, and hundreds of big people. It's just that the Tatars outside the northern wall and the border trade market inside the wall have been relatively stable over the years, and the Tatars are also stable inside, so even mutiny can't be done. It's just something big going on.

   "Then what are your plans?" The man with the big chin had deep eyes, and his tone seemed to have turned a little cold.

"Brother, if you don't want to do both, just like what Wenxiu said, you might as well go to the brother of the Qi family and borrow 20,000 taels of silver to appease the brothers below, and then find a way to pay it back slowly." The bare-chested man finally couldn't hold back anymore, and said dryly: "If the brothers in the family know the fun, then we are still brothers. If we don't know the fun, then the brothers have nothing to do."

"Hmph, if everyone is like you, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get out of their yard." The skinny man said contemptuously: "If you just say to find someone, how can the brothers of the family be unprepared? Do you think their family Are the thousands of Cangtou soldiers vegetarian?"

"Even if the brothers from the Xiao family are willing to help, it is impossible to give you 20,000 taels of silver. Ten thousand taels is the best, but with so many brothers, one tael of silver is not enough for each of them. How long can you appease them?" the man with the big chin said leisurely. : "Unless we can completely cleanse the family,..."

"Brother, the Xiao family is not so easy to deal with. The Xiaobai's eyeliner is all over the city. Most of our troops are outside the city, but the Cangtou Army has a thousand people stationed in the city. I don't know what the commander-in-chief is doing. Can it be tolerated? Isn't it the original rule that the Cangtou Army cannot enter the city with more than 500 people?" The skinny man's face became more and more stern, "I'm afraid our heads can be hung on the city wall before our soldiers enter the city. "

"That's right, the army of the Qi family is not weaker than ours, and they have more cavalry. If they are outside the city, I'm afraid we will suffer even more." The open-chested man obviously disagreed with the man's suggestion, "And even if we want to fight Do you agree with the commander-in-chief? I'm afraid that the hat of destroying the stability of the frontier and attracting the invasion of Hetao Tatars will be put on our heads."

   "This doesn't work, that doesn't work? Then who can conjure us money?" The man with the big chin spread his hands calmly, "Then I have to bear it myself, and tell my brothers to bear it."

"I'm afraid not, big brother, then we won't be able to play, Wenxiu, what about your side?" The open-chested man shook his head again and again, "I can't do it here, if this drags on, maybe one day my head will be lifted up brothers' hands."

"Who's not the same? The guys below me have been full of complaints for a long time. If it wasn't for my prestige, they would have started to make noises, but this time I'm afraid I can't hold it down." The skinny man Tu Wenxiu was also very angry. He said calmly: "Brother, you have always had your own ideas. If you have something to say, our brothers will listen to you. If you go up the mountain of knives and go down to the pan of oil, if your head falls off, it will be a scar the size of a bowl. Eighteen years later, you will be a good man again." , just put it aside, Zichao and I will take care of everything for you."

   "Really?" The man with the big chin raised his big chin slightly, his eyes flickering.

  Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu exchanged glances, and they both became serious, "Brother, you still don't know what kind of temperament our brothers are? Just say what to do."

"Okay!" The man with the big chin rubbed his big chin vigorously, and grinned: "Instead of trying to get the idea of ​​that family, let's just keep doing it and get the idea of ​​Shi Guangjue. I have earned enough money, and I am going to return to Beijing after a year. In the cellar, there are at least one or two million taels of silver. Jin, who came from Shanxi alone, gave him 30,000 taels before the end of the year. !"

   "Huh?!" Both Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao jumped up in shock. This man surnamed Shi has only been the general soldier for how long, and he has made so much money? This is not counted as having been sent away.

"Do you think you don't believe it?" The man with the big chin smiled proudly: "This is the news that the Tatars revealed to me. Last October, the Jin family sold thousands of iron pots to Hetao. , but what it is, God knows."

Both Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao were shocked. According to the current regulations, the import of iron pots into the grassland must be registered one by one, and the number of mutual markets is controlled every year. It is obviously unreasonable to import thousands of iron pots into the grassland. If there are other things, then There is only one word, and that is capital enemy.

   "Did the Qi family do it?" Xu Chao, that is, the open-chested man couldn't help asking.

"Humph, how capable is the Xiao family? The fortress of the exchange market checkpoint is full of the confidantes of Lord Zongbing, how dare the Xiao family dare to forcefully break through the customs to deliver the goods?" The man with a big chin smiled contemptuously, "These adults from the capital You guys, how can they manage these things, they just want to be the chief soldier for a few years to get a sum of money and then leave, but if they make money like President Shi, I am afraid that the city wall of Ningxia Town should be destroyed by him."

"Brother, you said it's not difficult to do Shi Guangjue. He only has a few personal soldiers. Even if he is fierce, there are only one hundred and ten people. We can kill them with our lives, but what will we do after we finish?" Tu Wenxiu was much calmer: "Go out of the fortress to join Su Nang or Bushitu? Or run west?"

  Going to the Hetao should be the safest move. Now that La Like is dead, the third lady is bedridden, Su Nang Taiji and Bu Shitu are confronting each other, and both sides are trying to win over various forces.

There are also many Han people on the Hetao side, especially since the leaders of the Bansheng White Lotus Sect, Li Zixin and Zhao Quan, were handed over to Dazhou after the tribute was paid by Alda, which also triggered a rebound from the White Lotus Sect members on the Bansheng side. The believers ran from Bansheng to Hetao to reclaim wasteland with the people under their arm. Many of them had even become small and powerful characters, and even the Tatars wanted to win them over.

Running to the west is also a way, but it will be a bit difficult. The current situation of Gansu Town is not much better than that of Ningxia Town. As long as it attacks westward, the big and small Songshan Mountains jointly managed by Guyuan Town and Gansu Town can be completely corrupted, occupying the big and small Songshan Mountains. It can be attacked, retreated and defended. If it unites with the Tatars in the north, it might not be able to become a semi-independent kingdom.

"Why did you run?" The man with the big chin suddenly turned cold. "How much power does Da Zhou have in the three sides and four towns now? Hmph, the sergeants have long complained about the lack of food and pay for several years, except Feng Tanggan from Yulin Town Ruthlessly copying out a group of big households to barely fool the people below, but still stable, what about the other towns? Guyuan Town has long been useless, and Gansu Town is worse than our Ningxia Town, but it just caught up with Achitu The Ministry and the Mughals in the west have not been energetic in the past few years. If they really want to move, I don’t believe that those Mughals who are used to picking up cheap will not be moved? The Achitu Ministry has long been eyeing it. It's just that Su Nang Taiji and Bu Shitu have been unclear about their attitudes, so they dare not act."

The Achitu tribe was originally the Tatars who were entrenched in the big and small Songshan Mountains, but they were expelled from the Big and Small Songshan Mountains more than ten years ago. Now they are guarded by Zhuanglangwei in Gansu Town and Jingluwei in Guyuan Town. The Great Wall has been repaired. As long as you take this place, you can link up with the Achitu tribe, advance, attack, retreat, and defend. You can even attack Liangzhouwei and Yongchangwei in Gansu Town to the west, completely smashing Gansu Town.

Tu Wenxiu laughed and narrowed his eyes, "Brother, don't you have a relationship with Achitu? I said why Achitu has been so honest in the past two years? In previous years, he would come over to harass him from time to time. Last year, he was stunned. There is no one in sight."

Xu Chao also understood, and grinned, "Brother, what about the Xiao family? Why did you hide it from our brothers? I said why the elder brother has been standing still for the past few months, and you have a plan in mind. You are hiding us well. Tight."

The man with the big chin, who is the elder brother of Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao, Liu Dongyang, the deputy commander of the Ningxia Township, also laughed, "Do you think I am willing? If everyone can't get along, who would want to leave? This step? If you take a wrong step, you will die, do you dare to say it casually?"

  Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu are silent, if not forced, who is willing to take this step? If you step out, there is no way out, except for one shot to the end, it is a dead end.

   After a long time, Xu Chao sighed with emotion: "Brother, let's do it. What if we don't do it? Unless the court immediately replaces a general soldier, otherwise, if we don't starve to death, we will be cut alive by the people below, what can we do?"

   "Brother, what does the Xiao family say?" Tu Wenxiu thinks farther than Xu Chao, if the Xiao family also joins in, then this big drama may not really be a dead end.

"There shouldn't be a problem with the Xiao family. They couldn't take it anymore because of Shi Guangjue's appetite." Liu Dongyang said indifferently: "Before the holiday, Xiaobai took Xiao Chengen, Xiao Chengchong, and Xiaoyun to visit Shi Guangjue. After giving away 5,000 taels of silver, Shi Guangjue made it clear that he would leave next year and change to a general soldier. I'm afraid it won't be so easy to talk about. I guess I think their good life is not long, so..."

   "Hmph, he doesn't have a good life for long, we can't live on at all..." Xu Chao said bitterly: "Mr. Shi really treats one more than another."

"This is also a good thing, otherwise how can we get together?" Liu Dongyang said coldly: "I have already contacted Achitu. Let's take Jingtai and Songshan Fort first. Then the big and small Songshan will be handed over to them. As long as Weifan Town, Liangzhou Wei and Yongchang Wei completely smash Gansu Town,..."

  Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao were both taken aback, "Brother, you mean we're going west? Didn't you say we're not going?"

"If you don't smash the guards in Gansu to death, don't you wait for the court to attack from both sides?" Liu Dongyang said with a grim look on his face, "Do you still hope to be good at this time? Wenxiu, Xu Chao, let me tell you, if this matter comes together, or we Death and family destruction, or the two towns of Gansu and Ningxia will never belong to the Great Zhou, that is the only way for us to survive! There is no other way!"

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  (end of this chapter)