marquis of jingan

Chapter 979 The first victory since the South Crossing!

At this moment, the sky is not yet bright.

Two young men of similar age were sitting on the ground of the tower with their backs against the city wall.

Master Shen raised his head and looked at the moonlight in the sky, and suddenly said with emotion: "Zheng Hu, Duan Chong and the others, in the past few years I fought against Japanese in the southeast with me. I can't say that killing people without blinking an eye, but my heart has hardened a lot. You still have a soft heart."

Yankang is Lin Sheng's nickname. He was born as a scholar. Among the eight team leaders of the Dibao Department under Shen Yi's command, he is the only one who took the nickname.

Biaozi in this era are generally related to one's own name, or they are mutual extensions, or complement each other. For example, Shen Yi's Biaozi Ziheng is the interpretation of Yizi.

Zhang Jian's surname is Yi'an, Zhao Zhi's surname is Changping, Master Lu's original name is Jizhong, and his surname is Anshi, all related to his original name.

Lin Sheng's word "Yankang" was also his teacher at the time, and the interpretation of his original name was born as Yankang.

It's just that he didn't go well in the examination, he failed the provincial examination twice, and he didn't pay much attention to the current literary policy. He felt that there was no hope in the examination in this life, so he joined the newspaper department.

At this time, Lin Siwu, who was born as a scholar, turned his head to look at Shen Yi, and shook his head: "Si Zheng, although my subordinates are not very good people, and they will not be good people in the future, but my subordinates feel that people You can not be a good person, but you can't be a bad person for no reason."

"The sage said there is something to be done and something not to be done."

"The woman my subordinate married in Xuzhou has never done anything evil, and she treats my subordinate very well. This subordinate cannot bear to hurt her."

Shen Yi glanced at him thoughtfully, and said with a smile: "I said, it's all up to you, you don't have to explain a lot to me."

Speaking of this, Master Shen said calmly: "It's just that you are a hero of Da Chen. If you want to be an official in the court in the future, you must prevent these women from harming you."

"Si Zheng, don't worry."

Lin Sheng lowered his head and said, "This subordinate will arrange for her properly."

Shen Yi heard the words, squinted his eyes to look at the moon in the sky, and didn't say much.

Lin Sheng also looked at the moon for a while, and after a while, seeing that Shen Yi hadn't left, he stood up, turned his head and glanced at the bustling city, sat down next to Shen Yi again, and asked: "Sizheng, the battle is raging in the city, why don't you go and have a look?"

"Look at what?"

Shen Yi glanced at him and let out a sigh of relief: "Want to see the blood and flesh flying around?"

"You can't bear to see blood."

Master Shen laughed at himself: "Actually, I don't really have the heart, especially I don't want to see the blood of my brothers in the same robe, but today the blood has to be shed."

"Therefore, if you can see it, don't see it."

Lin Sheng looked at Shen Yi, thoughtfully: "Si Zheng is so calm, it seems that the battle in Xuzhou City has been settled."

"There was no suspense."

Shen Yi said softly: "There are many Qi people from all directions in Xuzhou City, but if they want to come to support, the nearest Suqian Qi army will take two days."

He looked up at the sky, and said, "Our main force will arrive at dawn."

"The city gate of Xuzhou has been broken and cannot be guarded."

Shen Yi stood up and looked towards the city with his hands behind his back.

The city was full of flames, shouts of killing one after another, and occasionally the sound of gunpowder explosion could be heard.

After watching for a while, Shen Yi didn't continue to read, sat back next to Lin Sheng, lowered his eyebrows and said: "The next thing we need to consider is defending the city."

He looked at Lin Sheng and asked, "At the beginning of this year, you were asked to prepare food. How much food did you prepare?"

Hearing Shen Yi bring up the business, Lin Sheng didn't dare to neglect, and immediately said: "Back to Sizheng, my subordinates started to buy grain at the beginning of the year, but at that time there was no valid reason, so it was not easy to buy too much. He declared that he was going to open a grain store, and only then did he start buying grain on a large scale.”

"Until recently, Master Wang crossed the Huai River, and with the cooperation of Pan Mao, his subordinates were able to transport grain into the city on a large scale. Until now..."

"A total of about 20 shi of grain was bought."

Shen Yi frowned slightly, and said, "So few?"

When Shen Yi was in Jiangdu, the imperial court sent officials from the household department to Jiangdu to buy grain. With the purchase price of the imperial court and the 5 taels of silver from the household department, they took away nearly 20 shi of grain from Jiangdu. The cost is far more than 5 taels of silver. In the first half of this year, Master Shen spent nearly 20 taels of vain money on Lin Sheng.

Lin Sheng smiled wryly and said, "Sizheng, this year's food is a bit more expensive than in previous years, and the price of rice has gone up."

"What's more, most of the money you give to your subordinates is given to that Pan."

He said helplessly: "Otherwise, there is no way to get in touch with Zhizhou Yamen in a short time, let alone marry Pan Mao's niece home."

Speaking of this, he paused, and said: "As far as my subordinates know, Pan Mao hasn't had time to send the money out yet. After you occupy Xuzhou, Si Zheng, you should be able to get back a lot of the money."

Shen Yi stroked his chin, silently settling accounts in his mind.

Seeing that Shen Yi bowed his head and remained silent, Lin Sheng said, "Si Zheng, my subordinates have calculated that the Huai'an Army has at most 5 people, and this food is enough to feed the Huai'an Army for two years!"

Shen Yi raised his head and glanced at him.

"Then the people in Xuzhou City don't care?"

In this era, a stone of grain is 150 catties, and 20 stones is almost 3000 million catties of grain.

That sounds like a lot already.

If only the Huai'an army is distributed, each person can get 20 catties of grain, and it is not a big problem to eat for a year or two, but Xuzhou is a big city with a permanent population of more than [-].

Shen Yi must guard the city for a long time. After a long time, he will have to take care of the food and drink of these common people.

Otherwise, when people start to starve to death in the city, there will be chaos.

Even if Xuzhou is recovered in the future, it will be unpopular.

Lin Sheng faltered and said nothing.

"Forget it, don't think about it."

Master Shen stretched his waist and said, "It's not easy to get these grains in such a short period of time. If it wasn't for Pan Maoli's fainting, he should have thought it was wrong for you to buy so much grain."

20 shi is too much for a businessman.

In fact, when the Dachen household department went to Jiangdu to collect grain a few years ago, the 20 shi of grain collected was almost half of the inventory of all grain merchants in Jiangdu.

It is obviously unreasonable for "Shen Ping" to buy so much grain at once when he just entered the grain business industry.

Lin Sheng said with a smile: "He is not in a daze, he is very shrewd. His subordinates told him that [-]% of the income from the sale of grain belongs to him. In the past few months, especially in the last month, he has often urged I'm going to buy food."

"Because there is Pan Mao, the prefect, the food is relatively reasonable."

Lin Sheng replied: "Almost everyone thought it was the governor of Xuzhou who was buying grain."

At this point, Lin Sheng paused, and suddenly said: "Si Zheng, this subordinate has an idea."

Shen Yi looked at him.

"You said."

Lin Sheng bowed his head and said: "According to what you said, Si Zheng, we will be able to occupy Xuzhou tomorrow and drive out the Xuzhou defenders. You may not know, Si Zheng, that the Northern Qi court called our Grand Master Chen a "Southern Bandit". Or "Southern Thieves", many people in Xuzhou fear my master Wang like a tiger."

"Tomorrow, after the Xuzhou garrison is driven out, or after the Xuzhou garrison is wiped out, Lord Shen can open the city gate for a period of time and allow the people to leave the city. Perhaps nearly half or even most of the people in Xuzhou will flee."

"so…"

He lowered his head slightly and said, "Our food pressure has dropped sharply."

Shen Yi touched his chin and thought about it seriously.

"This method, I have to think about it."

That's it, two people of the same age, sitting on the tower, started to discuss the fate of Xuzhou City in the future.

Time passed little by little.

Soon, it was daylight.

When the sun rose slowly and some smoky sun shone on Shen Yi's face, under Xuzhou City, an army of nearly 2 people was approaching Xuzhou in an orderly manner, and then entered Xuzhou City in an orderly manner according to the command.

A moment later, Ling Su, who was in armor, climbed up the tower, kneeled respectfully in front of Shen Yi, lowered his head and said, "Subordinate Ling Su, pay homage to Duke Shen!"

Only then did Shen Yi stand up, and he stretched out his hand to help Ling Su up, finally showing a smile on his face: "General Ling, the gate of Xuzhou City has been broken."

"I want you to control the whole of Xuzhou, especially the city gates, before sunset."

Shen Yi paused, and then added: "Try not to hurt innocent people and harass the people."

At this moment, the Huai'an Army has achieved an absolute superiority in strength in Xuzhou City. This kind of battle no longer requires any skills.

When the advantage is big enough, it is enough for A to go up.

Ling Su bowed his head respectfully, cupping his fists in salute.

"Subordinates obey!"

As Ling Su retreated from the tower, Shen Yi faced the sun in the east and Xuzhou City in the east.

The sun shone on his face, making him slightly unable to open his eyes.

Lin Sheng also stood up and stood behind Shen Yi. After looking at the distance for a while, he suddenly asked, "Si Zheng, are we taking back Xuzhou?"

Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "Not yet."

"Even if Xuzhou is controlled, it can only be regarded as occupation."

Master Shen looked at Xuzhou City from a distance, and his voice was calm.

"But even so..."

Shen Yi turned to look at Lin Sheng with a smile on his face.

"This is already the first victory since Nandu..."

(End of this chapter)