Traveler Major League

Chapter 136 Liu Yingyu
Listening to Lao Zhou's arrangement of Hongmaoman, Liu Yingyu became more and more curious, and just wanted to go there early to find out. Fortunately, the two-day journey passed quickly, and the destination was getting closer and closer. Several people are becoming more and more familiar.

When he arrived at Fengqi Town, the destination in the north of Luochuan County, Lao Zhou, who had already completed the delivery task, felt a little bit sad. He had never met such a negotiable employer, so Liu Yingyu simply hired him again. I took Lao Zhou's donkey cart for a while, and said that when I go back to Yan'an, I can have a car for half the journey.

In fact, the real reason is that Liu Ying discovered that the entire order in Luochuan County was completely different from that under Daming's rule after meeting him. Even if he wanted to hire other cars, he didn't have any, because all the cars were requisitioned by the People's Army for a fee.

"Boss, it's right here, the purchase point of the People's Army, and all cash will be given when it arrives." The entourage who came here twice before pointed to a courtyard used as a warehouse and said. There was a long motorcade lined up on the road in front of the warehouse. Most of them are unicycles and two-wheeled carts. There are few donkey carts, ox carts, and even no horse carts.

In front of the courtyard, a group of militiamen dressed in civilian clothes and armed with knives and shields stood guard to maintain order. In the open space next to it, several desks were placed in the open air, and there was a table and a clerk making records.

"Eighty catties of millet." A clerk poured out a sack of grain, spread it out to check that it was correct, and reported the amount. The other two who followed him repacked the grain in the same sack, put it aside, and waited for the next one. hawker.

Hearing the sound of counting, the clerk made a few counts, then raised his eyes and asked, "How about six taels of silver? Or exchange it with six glass beads, which are only worth one tael of silver." , this is a treasure, the quantity is limited, and it will be exchanged while supplies last, or snowflake salt."

"I want glass orbs, I want glass orbs, and now I can make a necklace." The peddler hurriedly said, his happy smile couldn't stop, the materials that the People's Army is buying now are cash or other materials discounted.

For example, purified snowflake salt and glass beads are the main products, and glass beads can be threaded into bracelets and necklaces, which can be worn by men, women, and children, and their value is doubled, because this is the only supply in the world, so Merchants of all sizes flocked here.

"There are six taels of silver for eighty catties of grain? In Yan'an, it is less than two taels. These people are really unscrupulous in order to collect grain." Liu Yingyu sighed to his followers. After waiting for a long time, Liu Yingyu's two carts Cotton has also been inspected.

Still holding the brush, the scribe raised his eyes and asked, "Want silver? Glass treasure? Or snowflake salt?"

Liu Yingyu squeezed a pinch of snowflake salt into her mouth and tasted it: "It's really like snow, without any bitterness."

He picked up another glass bead, this bead is not pure, but its appearance is smooth, completely different from the glass bead, so he asked curiously: "Brother, where did this glass bead come from?"

"This is obtained from the confiscation of rich landowners. It is said to be the treasure of Zhurong. It is extremely rare. Our commander is kind-hearted. Seeing the disasters in these four miles and eight villages, we scattered all our belongings and bought food and other things to feed the poor." The official said clichés, full of pride, looked at Liu Yingyu's clothes up and down, and continued, "Your cotton and silk are a little expensive, why don't you take a look at my glass vase? How about using this to pay for it?" money."

The clerk took out a glass bottle like a beer bottle from the box behind him, and sighed: "If this glass bottle is pawned, it will cost several times the interest. Our quantity is limited, and only big customers can have the opportunity to exchange it. Those hawkers can only exchange some glass beads."

"Then I'll change that glass bottle." Liu Yingyu stretched out his hand to pick it up as he said that. The clerk knew how to do it, so he didn't send it over directly. Instead, he put it on the desk first, and then motioned to pick it up. This was to prevent handing over the items. Antique rules that are dropped and damaged from time to time.

Liu Yingyu stretched out his hand to take it, and saw that the bottle had no decoration, it was simple and had no patterns. It felt cool to the palm of his hand, and he held it up to look at the sun. There was still a faint green light inside the bottle. It was really a treasure, Liu Yingyu packed it in a wooden box full of straw, and he was staggering when he walked.

The entourage followed behind him and asked, "Master, is this treasure really so valuable?"

"Hey." Liu Yingyu touched the box and sighed, "I have never seen this bottle of treasure, but the people's army traded them for food, cotton, silk and other things at a discount. I have never heard of such a treasure. The matter, this thief, has a very big picture." Liu Yingyu said in his heart, he had never heard of this kind of glass bottle, although the number of the scribes was limited, when he took the glass bottle, Liu Yingyu clearly I don't know how many same wooden boxes are neatly packed in the box.

I am a new businessman who can get these here in exchange. If a trench merchant comes here, I can't even imagine it. Thinking of this, Liu Yingyu made up his mind to go back and check the business routes strictly, and block them so that grains can't get here. Luochuan County.

"Look, that's the big camp. I heard that people within two hundred miles have brought their families with them. Anyone who comes will not be rejected. They will be given two meals of porridge with chopsticks inserted in the morning and evening, and the children will be taught by the teacher. , Here." Lao Zhou pointed to a large-scale camp in the distance.

Liu Yingyu took a closer look, and found that the entire camp was built along the river, distributed on both sides, most of which were simple sheds, and the paths in the middle were horizontal and vertical, very regular: "What's there?"

Following the direction of Liu Yingyu's finger, Lao Zhou touched his head and said, "I don't know about that."

Although he didn't get the answer, Liu Yingyu already had the answer in his heart, because the building was so familiar that he might never forget it in his life. It was the fortress that suddenly appeared during the siege a month ago. It was very different from the traditional city defense. The structure is very low. Although the fort seen this time is too short to see clearly, it is definitely much larger than the previous one. The artillery and sentries on the triangular fort outside are still clearly visible.

Just when the few people were fascinated by it, there was a sudden sound of reading, which brought Liu Yingyu back to his thoughts. He searched left and right, and finally found the source of the sound in a courtyard surrounded by earthen walls. .

The yard is full of children, big and small, the big ones are fourteen or five years old, and the young ones are seven or eight years old. Everyone sits on a small wooden stool, and the crowd concentrates on following the young man at the front. Reading, there is a blackened wooden board hanging on the wall, which is full of words and unintelligible symbols.

The young man pointed to a line of words with a serious expression: "Students, read it to me again, aoei uü."

"ai ei ui ao ou iu ieüe er"

"renmin (people)."

Listening to these unfamiliar character sounds, Liu Yingyu stroked his beard subconsciously, then walked around the professor's courtyard, and sighed: "There are five hundred children here, and there is that big camp. The daily consumption of money and food is immeasurable, so why is this people’s army like this? Once the imperial army arrives, there will be nothing left.”

(End of this chapter)