Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 168 Three Fights
"The owner's culinary skills are really amazing, why don't you go to Chang'an to open a shop? The business will definitely be great." Beside the Yehuquan Waiyi Road, Liu Sandou and his subordinates finished eating cooked meat and mustard cakes, and praised.

"Chang'an foxes and rabbits come and go, I'm afraid there is not much business." A scholar just sat down, shook his head and sighed.

"It's better this year." Liu Sandou said: "The court officials are gradually returning, and the family members have increased. Last year Li Keyong of Hedong offered big wood, and this year Li Xiang, a gold merchant, offered wood again to help sages and officials repair palaces, The mansion should be popular."

"A few years ago, the nest thief burned the palace and went away. The Taoist soldiers entered the city and looted. The houses of the palace and temple were also destroyed. Sixteen or seventeen people were destroyed. Wang Sikong spent many years repairing the palace, and only one or two of the palace was completed. If there is another sword in the future , I'm afraid there will be no survivors." The scholar sighed.

Suddenly, he saw a lot of people sitting by the roadside, all with dusty faces, dragging their families, young and old, wondering: "Who is this? Could it be that there are also people in Shaanxi?

"These are all Heyang people, a total of more than 160 households, who want to go to Tongzhou." Liu Sandou replied: "The situation in Heyang is not stable, and the people are in poverty, so they go to other towns to beg for work."

"Shaanguo is considered stable, why not stay there?"

Liu Sandou glanced at it and said: "My general rescued him from the fire and water, how can he stay in Shanguo?"

"This..." The scholar said in shock: "Isn't this robbing good people?"

After finishing speaking, he looked at the more than thirty men in the shop carrying bows and swords, and immediately shut his mouth and did not speak.

There are more than [-] people who are skilled in archery and horses, and they may have blood on their hands. Is it useful to argue with them?

Liu Sandou didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, if he had the time, he might as well close his eyes and rest for a while, the trip to Tongzhou was not close.

The horse business is booming this year, and the horses of the five Guanzhong horse shops in Tongzhou, Huazhou, Fuping, Chang'an, and Wugong are all sold out.The most sold ones are actually not war horses, but draft horses and pack horses.

The Qinghai Cong of Yinchuan Ranch, just like human beings, naturally cannot be the same.Some are tall and handsome, and such good horses can be sold at a high price.Some are average in appearance and can also be used as war horses.Some are shorter and can be used as riding horses, draft horses for pulling carts, or pack horses for carrying goods.

Now that the situation is tense and the clouds of war are thick, there is a great demand for war horses, draft horses, pack horses, and riding horses.

The horse-drawn carts for transporting grain, each carrying more than [-] hu, are not enough for the consumption of [-] sergeants in one month.If there are [-] sergeants, the monthly consumption of military rations will exceed [-] horse-drawn carts.In fact, it is impossible for the front line to only store military rations for one month. Unless there is really no food, otherwise, they will have to stockpile it for two or three months, so as to avoid accidents and food roads being intercepted.

In addition, there are fodder, ordnance and other various materials, and it is normal to need thousands of horse-drawn carts to transport the goods at the same time, so there is a great demand for draft horses.

The same goes for pack horses.In places where it is inconvenient for carts to pass, horses and mules are needed to carry goods, and the demand is also not small.

Therefore, the business of Yinchuan Ranch is really good this year. In the first half of the year, more than 5000 horses were directly sold. Among them, the most draft horses and draft horses were purchased by Guanzhong County.

But in the second half of the year, Warhorse's business should improve.

War is all about it.Sometimes in order to win, it is not uncommon for hundreds or thousands of horses to die in one trip.If there are more cavalry fighting and charging, it is not surprising that thousands of horses will die.

The grassland horses used by Qinghai Cong are slightly better than those used by Li Ke. Customers in Guanzhong, Jinshang, Sanchuan, Shanguo, Hezhong and other places like them very much, and they give priority to buying them.The Dingnan Army's horse shop went as far as Zhaoyi, and Pei Tong, the head of the horse shop, had more than a thousand people who were skilled in horse bows and horses, and he spent money from selling [-] horses a year to support these people. Still worth it.

The world is not peaceful, how can we do business without raising some manpower?Looking at the commercial firms in various places, anyone who wants to do business across states and counties has raised a lot of people, has complete equipment, and is skilled in bows and horses. Anyway, the cost will be added to the goods.

"This guest has misunderstood. The people of Datong Maxing have always helped people in trouble. Wei Bo's rebellious army and Hedong wolves disturbed the peace of Heyang, Zhaoyi and other places. Datong Maxing gave money and food to save the tired people. This is a righteous act." The shopkeeper came over, brought soup cakes to the scholars, and said: "If not all the family business is here, I have gone to Xiazhou. I heard that it is very stable there, and the soldiers don't plunder the people. Taxes are light, party items are handled very honestly, which is very different from Guanzhong. The guests are also scholars, so why not go and have a look, and come back and talk to someone about whether the rumors are true or not.”

"Xiazhou is impoverished, and there are chaos in Tubo and the scourge of the party." The scholar shook his head and said: "Under the influence of Hu Feng, the people are all aggressive, and they often kill and injure people. After the Daizong Dynasty, there were many officials. I’ve read Sanji, it’s not a good place.”

"No matter how bad it is, can it be worse than Zhan Luan Land?" The shopkeeper sighed.

"There may not be a fight in Guanzhong." The scholar said: "The commander-in-chief of King Yiwu has already set off for Hezhong. If he succeeds in his post, this battle will not be fought."

Wang Chucun has indeed set off, and this person is really a loyal minister.At first, the imperial court asked him to move the town, but he said on the table that he would change and Dingxin would recover.Later, the imperial court urged him to go on the road, but he couldn't make excuses, and he actually went on the road, going to Hezhong to take up his post.

Combining with what I heard about Huang Chao crying after he broke Chang'an, and then led troops from Hebei to Guanzhong to quell the chaos, Wang Chucun really has nothing to say to the court and the emperor, and he is a rare loyal minister.

"Well, maybe you talk a lot. I haven't read the book, so I don't know much about it." The owner said: "But the price of salt has risen, and it costs one hundred and fifty yuan a bucket. The merchants in Hezhong are still knowledgeable, and they are still snapping up salt. The prices of millet, wheat, rice, and cloth are rising twice a day. I don’t want to go to war, so this business has to go on.”

The scholar was a little uncertain after being told by the shopkeeper.Wang Chongrong ruled Hezhong for many years, and Wang Chucun took office. Will the four prefectures really buy it?If you don't buy it, if you are lucky, you can go back. If you are unlucky, you will be attacked and killed, and you will have nowhere to redress your grievances.

This battle is indeed very likely to be fought!
"Enough rest, let's go." After dozing off on the wooden pillar for a while, Liu Sandou got up and said.

Following his order, more than [-] horse guards immediately checked their equipment, and went out to greet the households resting on the side of the road to get up and go on their way.The shopkeeper's family brought out basket after basket of Hubing from the kitchen, all bought by Liu Sandou and the others, to supplement the food stock in the team.

When traveling in Shanzhou, they brought more than [-] vinegar-dried rice cakes and more than a hundred dendrobium grains and beans, enough to last for half a month.Everywhere they go, they will also take out money and silk to buy food and replenish consumption as much as possible until they arrive at the next horse shop.

Liu Sandou once calculated that if the people were escorted from Heyang to Suizhou, an average household would consume seven dendrobium grains on the way.The common people may or may not have a little food before they go out. In short, the consumption is very large.

One thousand households is seven thousand grains, which is equivalent to the income of selling two or three hundred horses.If there are four thousand households a year, the money for one thousand horses will be gone.Liu Sandou was very distressed by this, but the commander-in-chief didn't care, and even thought it was worth it.If it weren't for the fact that there was no way to get more people, the marshal would have spent half of the horse money to attract immigrants.

Of course, with the continuous prosperity of Suizhou's foreign trade, more and more businessmen have been to Xiasui, and the real situation of the world north of Hengshan has also begun to spread in a small area.

In the eight counties of Fuping in the north of Guanzhong, people have a good impression of Shao Dashuai who protects the environment and the people, and punishes the people and punishes crimes.With the cloud of battle in Guanzhong, some people simply gritted their teeth and headed north.

This kind of spontaneous immigration is still rare now, but as the situation in the world becomes more and more chaotic, I believe there will be more and more.

After leaving Yedian, Liu Sandou and his party walked for seven days and finally arrived at the Tongzhou horse shop, and handed over these Heyang households to the next wave of people to take them to Danzhou.And they themselves will return to Shanzhou.

If there is no accident, Liu Sandou will continue to sit in Shanzhou for another four years.Four years later, he was transferred to Hezhong, and the rotation continued.Before that, he had stayed in Zhaoyi Town, and he had a wealth of experience.

In fact, there are many people like Liu Sandou, and the origins are also very complicated.There are older sergeants who have retired from the army, generally in their 40s, and their strength is not as good as before, and they are no longer suitable for front-line fighting.There are also newcomers recruited in Guanzhong, and there are even many Hengshan party items.It was the persistent work of these people day after day that allowed a large number of Kanto refugees or families of soldiers to cross the state and counties to start a new life on the territory of the Dingnan Army.

Over the past few years, many of them have been killed or injured for various reasons.Those who died of illness, those who were attacked by bandits, and those who were plundered and killed by rebels, every person who died or was disabled in battle, if his family members were in the six prefectures of Dingnan, could receive a monthly grain gift, and directly received Ten years, same as sergeant standard.

In order to fool people, Shao Dashuai did spend a lot of money.

Of course, this is also inseparable from the cooperation of other feudal towns, and Shanguo and Hezhong are the key.Brothers Wang Chongrong and Wang Chongying are good at dancing, they never offend neighboring towns and strong towns, and they even made friends on purpose.If it were a bad neighbor like Wei Bo, Marshal Shao probably wouldn't be able to do this business, so Ma Xing would have closed down earlier.

So, on Shao Dashuai's side, the impression of Wang Chongrong's brothers is very good.In addition, he didn't want Li Ke to use his in-law Wang Chucun to be the commander-in-chief of Hezhong. As long as Wang Chongrong got the position, it didn't matter, so what if he just helped you.

Among the vassals and towns, there are also people with sophistication.Just relying on Wang Chongrong's good conduct, he won't be able to lose this round.

　Push the book "1768 Wuzi Revolution", haven't read it yet.The author told me that the protagonist in the book is not a good person, afraid of being sprayed, this. . .

　　
　
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