Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 246 Wang Jianji

When approaching Xiazhou City, a group of Kunfa party members drove up with a large herd of cattle and sheep.

There were about a hundred people, with horses, bows, and knives. Wang Jianji suddenly became nervous, and so did the new recruits of the Cai people.

Fu Cunshen pressed his arm, and said softly: "This is not Henan, so don't be so nervous. Didn't you see that those farmers turned a blind eye?"

Wang Jianji put down his riding bow, but his whole body was tense, as if something was wrong and he was going to kill someone.

Party members rode horses, sang incomprehensible songs, and swaggered past the team.

They were a little surprised when they saw the large group of Cai sergeants, but when they saw that they were not in horrifying brown military uniforms, they also held wooden spears in their hands.

Cai Bing, who had a bad temper, immediately cursed.

Our "Cai thief" runs across the north and south, puts his head on his head and kills people like hemp, when is it the party's turn to laugh at it?

But strictly speaking, the party members of this year also traveled to and from the towns in the northwest of Beijing to work hard, but the brand is not as big as "Cai Thief", and they are not so well-known.

But these two groups have one thing in common, that is fierceness.

Now that he entered Xiazhou, no matter how fierce he was, he had to restrain himself.The Cai people had to obey the orders of the commanders and envoys of the four capitals of Guanbei, and the party members had to obey the arrangements of the Wuzu of Guanbei.If you really don't like each other, go to the northern grassland to find a place where there is no one and have a showdown. In Xiazhou, whoever dares to make trouble will go to work in the mine directly. It is not an exaggeration at all.

"Since we want to vote for the king of Lingwu County, it is a great achievement for us to send so many people to Lingzhou safely. It is not worthwhile to conflict with those barbarians at this time." Xiazhou officials and generals who came to them advised them.

Only then did Wang Jianji put away his riding bow and relax his stiff body.

In Henan, it is true that Dangxiang savages were rarely encountered, and he overreacted a bit.

In fact, this is also due to the chaotic environment in Henan. Anyone who encounters an unidentified person approaching, the first reaction is to kill them, even if there was no wrongdoing or enmity before.

But Xiazhou's life is too different, and he hasn't changed for a while.

"The two are General Fu and Commander Wang, right? Someone is Zhao Zhi, the camp judge of the Xiazhou shogunate." A middle-aged man with a long beard got off his horse and bowed his hands in salute.

"I have met Judge Zhao." Fu and Wang also stepped forward to salute.

Zhao Zhi looked at the people in Heyang and Zezhou who couldn't see the end behind him, and said with admiration, "General Fu, do you know how far you have traveled? How long?"

"I can't remember how far I walked, but I walked and stopped, and it took more than two months." Fu Cunshen replied.

Zhao Zhi took a closer look at the military general from the outer town, but saw that he was quite tall, with good features, standing there neither humble nor overbearing, without the typical arrogance of ordinary warriors, and he did not have the intention of contemptuousness, which made him secretly praise him.

With this bearing alone, he has the qualifications of a general. If he can sharpen it a little bit more and have more experience in leading the army, he will have another army to make it difficult.

"Although I have never been to battle, I also know how difficult it is to lead tens of thousands of people on the road. Let's settle here first. The Arsenal Division borrowed some tents, and the barracks of the Wuwei Army and the Yi Cong Army over there are also empty. Come on, let’s arrange the people.” Zhao Zhi asked, “Is there still food in the army?”

"It's enough for more than ten days."

"That's good. When you go west in another day, you can get corn and wheat in Cangcheng, Wuyan City, Youzhou, and Yanzhou." Zhao Zhi said.

"Thank you, Judge Zhao, for your help."

"The commander-in-chief has orders, and we, the shogunate officials, must obey." Zhao Zhi said, "Is there any shortage of other equipment?"

"There are still insufficient winter clothes, and we can still bear it now. If it is more than a month, I am afraid they will not be able to survive. There are many women and children in the camp, and they may not be able to withstand it."

"The general is kind." Zhao Zhi praised again, and said: "The shogunate can't get out tens of thousands of winter clothes for a while. We can only move some of the winter clothes of the soldiers first, and we have to ask the Secretary of the Arsenal to transfer them. Don't worry, there are so many When the common people come, the commander-in-chief will take good care of them before they are happy. Someday, he will go to the marching army commander, the Lingzhou shogunate, and ask them to make winter clothes."

Fu Cunshen solemnly saluted and thanked him.

"The Central Plains is in chaos, and the generals are beating up. The people are miserable. It's good if we can save one more people. If we let them stay in Henan, I'm afraid they will be wiped out by Sun Ru's generation sooner or later." Zhao Zhi said.

Fu Cunshen was a little uncomfortable when he heard the words. He was obviously the one in the previous wave of fighting and killing.

Wang Jianji, on the other hand, didn't care and was indifferent, as if he didn't hear anything at all.

He is very satisfied with the relatively affluent life of the people in Xiazhou, and he is also very pleasantly surprised, because it means that these warriors are raised by someone, and they don’t have to run around for food, snatch it, and even eat people when they are out of stock. .

He also vaguely knew that it was because of the fighting from all walks of life that the people's life became increasingly difficult.But admitting you were wrong?If it doesn't exist, it's all Qin Zongquan's fault!

Zhao Zhi then inquired about what happened on the way, was quite emotional, and then left.

After Pei Tong, the general manager of Datong Maxing Bank, arrived in Suizhou, he sent someone to inform him that he was going to Shanguo to sit in the town soon, and there might be follow-up refugees coming in there.After Zhao Zhi received the news, he lamented again and again, these days, don't try to be lazy, you must be so busy that you hit the back of your head with your heels.

After Zhao Zhi left, Wang Jianji looked at the tall and solid city walls of Xiazhou, and praised: "There is such a majestic city in the land of Shuofang."

"This is the Tongwan City built by Helian Bobo. It has been repaired since the kingdom. It is tall and precipitous, and it cannot be attacked by human beings." Fu Cunshen also looked at the white city without blinking.

"I told Master Yang to regret it! Everyone has underestimated the Dingnan Army, Commander Shao is well-run." Wang Jianji said with a smile: "I heard that there are [-] troops in Dingnan Town earlier. I thought it was Qin Zongquan's random army. What about the troops drawn up. Looking at it today, the people of Xiazhou are living a fairly prosperous life, so the Dingnan Army may not be a mob who coerces refugees into the army, but most of them are Yamen who eat and drink. Terrible. Well, it would be great if someone had such a foundation."

Fu Cunshen glanced at him.When Wang Jian and this guy were locked up by themselves in the river, they kept shouting and cursing every day.

After entering Suizhou, releasing him actually meant letting him go.But he rode a horse around Longquan County, and the first thing he said when he came back was: "There is a lot of money and silk in Suizhou East City! There are also an astonishing amount of livestock being sold. I'm afraid it will sell thousands of cows a year. "

Fu Cunshen almost didn't realize it, thinking that he was inciting himself to plunder Fangshi.

Later, when passing through Dabin County, he rode his horse around a few more times, and never mentioned his intention to leave when he came back.

This guy and Yang Shihou are not the same people at all, how did they get mixed up in the first place?Fu Cunshen can guarantee that when Yang Shihou sees the prosperous Suizhou East City, he will only become more determined to be self-reliant, and then find a way to grab one.

Wang Jianji's ambition is incomparable with Yang Shihou's.

"How can someone who can drive a horse everywhere be an ordinary person?"

"What positions will the king of Lingwu County promise us?"

"Actually, we only brought 400 people to vote, and the lieutenant is as good as the sky." Fu Cunshen looked away from the city wall, and said, "Actually, just fight hard. There are many things now, and there are many places where warriors are used. Afraid of not having a chance to make meritorious deeds?"

"Are you going to visit the city?"

"How can the master leave the army without permission? Don't go." Fu Cunshen shook his head and said, "These people have to be sent to Lingzhou to be considered successful. It is still halfway, how can you take it lightly. If you want to go, go by yourself. "

Now Fu Cunshen also thinks that Wang Jianji is bothering him. He asked one question on the left and the other on the right. If he had known, he would have let him go earlier.

Wang Jianji smiled, ignored Fu Cunjian, and rode into the city by himself.

The two sides of the post road into the city are already quite prosperous.

There are a few rice sellers with small facades. The women pick vegetables in the gardens in the country, and the men cook and sell rice in the shop for the food of merchants and travelers.

Wang Jianji has also seen this kind of rice sellers in Henan, but they mainly exist in prefectures and counties.Xiazhou not only has them around the city, but also in the wilderness. It is not easy to do this. At least the town must be stable and there are no large groups of bandits and rebellious soldiers.

Wang Jianji was not very interested in this kind of small shop, although the shopkeeper kept soliciting, saying that there were newly caught hares.He just let out a cold snort, and went out to shoot and hunt by himself. He could shoot as many hares as he wanted.

After entering the city from the east gate, Wang Jianji felt dizzy for a while, there were too many people.

Entering the door is a huge silk market. Potbellied merchants, scholars in green shirts and long sleeves, fashionable ladies, and barbarians in fur coats are all picking and choosing from shop after shop.

"Lizhou silk cloth, Langzhou heavy lotus silk!"

"Shuzhou Huasha, Baisiluo, Pengzhou Shuoshuo!"

"Chengdu Jin, Hanzhou Shanduan, Mianzhou Qingrong!"

"Lingzhou Exi silk, Zizhou white silk!"

Wang Jianji stared at those silk practicers without moving.

When Li Han ruled the army, he gave very few rewards. He always used the bait of allowing the soldiers to plunder the people to drive them to work hard.

Silk is equivalent to money in the country.The silk practice in front of me is available in various colors, and the quality is good. They should all be produced in the middle of Sichuan, so the value is quite high.

If I were the governor of Xiazhou, I would rob these merchants of all their goods today, give some to the sergeants as rewards, and take some of them myself, wouldn't it be beautiful?

Of course, Wang Jianji also understands that this is just a conjecture, and it is not Xiazhou's turn to make decisions.It's just that he has never seen so many silks and satins in his life, and he was shocked for a while, and his mind was a little shaken.

At that meeting in Suizhou East City, he saw a businessman who was foaming at the mouth, who bought hundreds of cows in one transaction, a merchant who bought more than a thousand pieces of skins, and the one who bought dozens of carts of ox horns, A wealthy businessman of miscellaneous tendons and Toba.

Entering Xiazhou City today, I saw such a high-end silk market again.

Wang Jianji was not stupid, he knew that merchants would not trade at a loss, since they had opened so many silk workshops and brought so many silks and satins from Sichuan, they would definitely be able to sell them.

Shao Shude was the Jiedu envoy, and Li Hanzhi was also the Jiedu envoy, but Xiazhou was so prosperous that people almost thought it was in a peaceful and prosperous age, but the fireworks in Heyang were cut off, the people fled one after another, and dead bodies on the side of the road can be seen everywhere.

The difference is too big!

It was really wrong for Master Yang not to come!

(End of this chapter)