Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 77 Wuyin Commercial War Twelve
The business war that is raging in Wuyin City is just a show of Mu Jing, and has little to do with Mu Shan, the handsome man of the Yellow Turban. As for the current logistics, he is not very concerned about these things. What he cares more about now is how Improve your combat effectiveness.

Surviving under such circumstances, he dare not relax, military power is the only thing he can rely on.

So he spends almost every day in the newly built camp, training more than [-] soldiers under him. Although his army is strong in Nanyang, his soldiers are mixed, including ordinary county soldiers and bandits. There are bandits, and there are also some innocent people who are forced to become bandits...

In fact, when fighting, they are a mob, and they can't exert the fighting power of more than 3000 people at all.

So military training is what he is currently most focused on.

If it comes to playing impatience and playing tricks, Mu Shan is definitely not as good as his spooky son Mu Jing.

But if it is a down-to-earth military training, even if Mu Jing has some advanced military training awareness, he can't compare with Mu Shan who has experienced many battles on the battlefield.

In order to train an elite army, Mu Shan tried his best this time. He and several generals under his command, as well as counselors who could talk, Cheng Luo, Li Yan, Jiang Lu, they discussed again and again, and changed again. Changing the training method can be regarded as somewhat effective.

More than a month has passed, and thanks to everyone's efforts, this group of mobs can be considered to have a good appearance. Whether it is Mu Shan's personal battalion, Zhou Cang's cavalry battalion, or Lei Gong's vanguard battalion, they are all pretty good at present. Has combat effectiveness.

For Mu Shan, this is a good start. As long as he is given another three months, he can increase the combat effectiveness of the nearly four thousand army by more than half. Unfortunately, God just doesn’t give him time...

"Big boss!"

"Master County Lieutenant!"

On this day, the weather was fine, and the sound of training outside was deafening. Cheng Luo and Li Yan walked into the middle tent of the camp side by side, and saluted Mushan in the hall.

The relationship between Mu Shan and Cai Tu began to become very delicate.

Mushan is now based in Wuyin. The so-called foothold means occupying the tax population of Wuyin, etc. Naturally, this is inseparable from the support of the county magistrate Cai Tu. Raising soldiers requires local financial support, and Cai Tu is also a descendant of the Cai family in Jingzhou. Reputation has great influence, but in view of Cai Tu's previous actions, he has begun to be on guard against Cai Tu and will not trust him, so the relationship between the two is not so much an alliance as it is a superficial cooperation.

But Li Yan was different.

Mu Shan still trusts this young man. After all, they have cooperated several times, and the foundation of trust has been established, and he did not lose trust in Li Yan because of the rift with Cai Tu.

Therefore, Li Yan can freely haunt the Mushan military camp.

"You don't look very good, did something happen?"

Mu Shan was thinking about increasing the intensity of training, when he heard the voices of the two, he raised his head and frowned when he saw the gloomy faces of the two.

"Big boss, something big happened!" Cheng Luo's face was gloomy and his voice was cold.

"What's the big deal?" Mu Shan was taken aback when he heard the words. Recently, he has devoted himself to military training and lived a stable life, which made him feel a little bit contented, but he lost some sense of crisis. That's why he heard Cheng Luo's words. Absent.

"My lord, just now, on the side of Wancheng, the prefect's mansion personally recruited soldiers and horses from various counties in Nanyang, and gathered the elite soldiers of the counties to attack the Yellow Turban rebels in Ge Po!"

Li Yan said: "Our soldiers from Wuyin County are the vanguard, and within a month, we must first enter Runan!"

At the end of February this year, when Mushan was still in Tufushan, Guo Tai, commander of the Yellow Turban Qu, raised the Yellow Turban Banner in Baibo Valley, gathered more than [-] Yellow Turban soldiers and horses, and rushed into Hedong, captured the counties in Hedong, plundered the population, and robbed Caibo suddenly frightened the imperial court above, and the imperial court hurriedly dispatched troops and generals, but the Baibo Yellow Turban army was in full swing, and the situation in Hedong became more and more deteriorating.

The most important Liangzhou rebel army has not yet been wiped out, and is still ready to move, restraining most of the main force of the Han army stationed in the west.

Over time, the resurgent influence of the Yellow Turban Army began to gradually spread.

At the end of March, Zhang Yan, who inherited the Taiping Dao, left Julu and led the Taiping Dao elite back to Heishan. county.

In April, the Runan Yellow Turbans finally lost their composure. Qu Commander Gong Du, Qu Commander Liu Pi, and the two Qu Commanders led their troops to join forces in Gepo to revolt. Seeing this, He Yi and Huang Shao at the junction of Sichuan and Sichuan also led their troops to the south and gathered to capture the county seat in the north of Runan. Four groups of Yellow Turban soldiers gathered some remnants of Yingchuan and the elite of Runan among the Yellow Turban Army. It is so huge that the two Yellow Turban armies in the west and north are going to greet each other.

The Yellow Turban Army revived, and the imperial court was naturally furious. Emperor Liu Hong personally ordered the prefects of Yingchuan, Jiujiang, and Nanyang to send troops to conquer Gepo Yellow Turban.

It's not that the imperial court doesn't want to send troops now, but the military power is being checked and balanced by He Jin. Even if the emperor Liu Hong wants to dispatch the army, it will be a little troublesome. In addition, the current situation in Hedong is too festering, and there are still Xiliang rebels looking down. Don't dare to schedule at all.

So it is necessary to mobilize local troops.

The closest to Runan is Jiangnanyang, Jiujiang, and Yingchuan in the north, so the three counties can only send troops to conquer...

"Since the imperial court ordered it, it is inevitable for Nanyang soldiers and horses to fight against the Runan Yellow Turban, so Zhang Zi wants to consume some troops first?"

Hearing the words, Mu Shan calmed down for a while, thought about the core news, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said quietly: "Because he is worried that if he sends troops, someone will turn against him?"

He knew the news that the Yellow Turban Army in Runan had rebelled, and it was known earlier than Zhang Zi and others.

Wuyin and Runan are only separated by a river, and the news is the most well-informed, and he is also very vigilant about the news of the Yellow Turban Army, so when the Runan Yellow Turbans just pulled up the anti-flag and captured Shangcai and other places, he had already received the news up.

But he didn't want to take this muddy water.

At the beginning when Cheng Luo asked for help, these fellow Yellow Turban generals not only refused to save him, but also cut off Cheng Luo's wrist. Mu Shan hated them, especially Liu Pi, the capital of Gong, but now Mu Shan is the commander of an army with nearly four thousand soldiers. Erlang, he also needs to check his strength. The most important thing is that although he wears the skin of an officer and soldier, he is actually a Daoist of peace in his bones.

But he didn't expect Zhang Zi to give him an undeniable reason to send troops at this time.

It is a fact that Zhang Zi is afraid of the military power in his hands.

If it wasn't for the fact that during the battle of Tufu Mountain, he collected thousands of bandits and strengthened his own strength, the soldiers of Nanyang County would have already started fighting with him.

Now he has thousands of soldiers and horses in his hand, enough to fight against the soldiers of Nanyang County. As the prefect of a county, Zhang Zi is very afraid of him, so Zhang Zi is going to take advantage of this opportunity. If he wants Mushan to be the vanguard, he will be cannon fodder the meaning of.

But at this time, Mu Shan couldn't refuse. Once he refused to send troops, he would turn against the prefect's house. This was the task of the court. Once turned against, Cai Tu would not stand by his side, and the whole Jingzhou also regarded him as a bandit.

"Boss, I'm waiting in their hearts like a thief. They can't trust us, so they force us to send troops!" Cheng Luo whispered.

"Zhengfang, what do you think should be done?"

Mu Shan didn't ask his confidant Cheng Luo about it immediately, but asked Li Yan.

It's not that he trusts Li Yan more.

It was that he had to be clear about Li Yan's position. He had already begun to trust this person, but after all, he was Cai Tu's subordinate. Only by completely standing on his side could he feel at ease.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's hard to refuse this matter!" Li Yan thought for a while and sighed in his heart. He was in a dilemma, so he could only say in a low voice: "If you refuse, let Zhang Zi take care of us." An excuse, after all, if he started the civil war in Nanyang, he would naturally not need to send troops to Runan, so for him, this might not be a good opportunity!"

"But it would be very dangerous for us to send troops!" Mu Shan did not force him to express his opinion further, but said in a deep voice: "Currently, our mutual fusion training has not been completed, and there are still battle formations and weapon configurations. , these have not been completed, and the combat effectiveness will not be fully utilized. The most important thing is that once the departure is launched, logistics will be a big problem. If we stay in Wuyin, we can still guarantee logistics, but if we leave Wuyin, the logistics line will be stretched. It's at stake!"

"My lord, any refusal now will trigger a civil war, so we can only pretend to be false!"

Li Yan said: "Perhaps the situation is not as good as this!"

"We've already reached the door!" Cheng Luo gritted his teeth and said, "We will die if we don't send troops, and we will die if we send troops!"

"I'll think it over!"

Mu Shan's eyes were deep and hesitant.

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in the city.

As the price of cloth and satin picked up, some people unknowingly began to find that the price of grain in the county was starting to go a little weird.

"Six hundred dollars a stone?"

An ordinary peddler walked into Gong's Grain Store, and after asking for a while, he was a little embarrassed: "Isn't it 580 yuan before?"

What he wants to sell is chestnut rice, which is millet, the cheapest rice.

Better rice costs about a thousand dollars.

Even some high-quality rice costs thousands of dollars per stone.

"Guest officer, I'm sorry, the price has increased a little recently!"

"Okay!" The salesman nodded helplessly: "Give me fifty stone!"

"okay!"

The guys were not suspicious, after all, it was normal for a salesman to sell rice and then go down the street to the village to buy and sell.

It's just that the shopkeeper who has been settling accounts next to him is a little puzzled.

"Why is business so good recently?"

The shopkeeper is an in-law of the Gong family, surnamed Luo. Of course, the so-called in-law is that he gave his daughter to Gong Chang as a concubine. eat shrimp.

Shopkeeper Luo looked at the accounts again, and said in his heart: "There is nothing unusual, the most sold is probably around a hundred stones, and basically it is sold for dozens of stones!"

"But it's only been a few days, how come the more than 1000 shi grains in stock have been consumed!"

After thinking about it, he still walked towards Gong's house with the ledger.

……

One of the markets in the west of the city is a grain store.

"The shopkeeper, eighty Shiliang rice (fine millet)!"

"Liang Mi is not cheap, it costs 980 yuan a stone!"

"it is good!"

……

As the grain from each grain shop slowly entered several huge warehouses set up by Jingping Commercial Bank, the price of grain on the market became higher and higher.

……

Jingping Firm.

"Boss, at present we have invested six thousand gold and purchased a full twenty-one thousand shi of grain. The principal is not much, but we have mobilized too much manpower for the sake of secrecy, and the wages have taken up a lot!" Zhang Heng reported.

The goal of purchasing grain is Gongchang.

Capture the thief and capture the king.

If you want to take down the Wuyin business world, you have to take down Gongchang, the merchant who represents the gentry, in order to completely unify the entire Wuyin business world.

"Don't be afraid of wasting time, time is the most precious!" Mu Jing responded.

More than 2 shi of grain seems to be a lot, enough to support the Mushan army for a year and a half, but in Wuyin County with a population of more than 10, the proportion of grain circulation is not very high, and it is not enough to influence the grain war situation.

"Yes!" Zhang Heng nodded.

"We used some peddlers in the city and pretended to be big households, and the volume of transactions was suppressed below a hundred stones, so no one would find out, but the frequency of our sales was too high, which attracted some attention, and even the market price rose a bit. About [-]%!"

"You can't hide anymore?" Mu Jing narrowed his eyes.

"Although Gong Zhang started his business by relying on the gentry, he is extremely shrewd. I'm afraid it's just a few days ago!"

As the number one silk merchant in Wuyin County, Zhang Heng couldn't get along with Gong Chang, the largest grain dealer in Wuyin. He had had a fight before, and he knew Gong Chang very well.

"Since this is the case, act faster!" Mu Jing made a decisive decision and said, "The final decisive battle is coming. Immediately let everyone buy as much as they can in a short period of time. Don't be afraid of being exposed or wasting money. All the principal can be bought." Press it in, and at this time, they are not afraid of being vigilant, as long as they smash the food!"

"promise!"

Zhang Heng took the order.

……

Gong Mansion.

Gong Chang is still at a loss for what to do about Zhang's Silk and Satin Manor. He has been unable to win Zhang's Silk and Satin Manor. This time, the gentry lost their trust in him. He knows very well that everything he has comes from the gentry's trust.

"This piece of Heng has eaten the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard!"

Sitting in the hall, he said to himself: "Does he think that he can fight against the gentry by taking refuge in a Yellow Turban rebel!"

In fact, he couldn't figure it out. Usually, when the gentry opened their mouths, they didn't have to do anything. These shops would automatically close their doors. However, Zhang's Silk and Satin Shop became more high-profile, and it seemed to be trying to compete with the gentry.

The gentry is not just a simple family of scholars, but a family of official careers. The so-called gentry must have officials who have been officials in their ancestors.

This is an era of bureaucracy.

There are two official words, if you say you are a soldier, you are a soldier, and if you say you are a thief, you are a thief. If you are told to close the door, you will not be able to open it, and if you are asked to open the door, you will not dare to close the door. Therefore, the gentry controlled most of the influence of this era.

However, this time it was different from what he thought. The county government had already been controlled by Cai Tu, and it was impossible for the gentry to use official power to check and balance these merchants.

　A chapter of [-] words, today may be such a chapter!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)