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Chapter 27 Xingji Business, the Lady in Red

Before the sun went down that day, Liu Sheng returned to the Liu family with eight entourages including Wang Laowu, Shi Jincai, and Yang Kuiwu, as well as ten households (42 people) from Dashui Pingzhai, and [-] shi of grain. Village.

The ten families who moved from Dashui Ping Village were temporarily arranged in Liujiazhai.

For one thing, now that there is food, Liujiazhai is not afraid of having dozens more people.

Secondly, if Liujiazhai's defensive buildings such as walls and arrow towers are to be built quickly, additional manpower is still needed.

As for food, Liu Sheng only left a hundred stones in Liujiazhai, and took the rest to the living room on the first floor of his house to pile it up.

This can prevent Liujiazhai from suffering, and all the food will be robbed or destroyed.It is also convenient for North America to obtain food - even if Liu Sheng is not here, Liu Dachuan and others can still obtain food through Zou Runniang.

Not sending it directly to North America is a kind of control over North America.

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May eleventh.

Before the sun had risen, Liu Sheng led his men and horses to Dashui Pingzhai to join Ma Jinliang.

The horse here is not a virtual reference, but an actual reference.

He brought all the five horses that he had previously seized from the archers of the Inspection Department, and selected five of the mules he bought for the first time at Maojiaji, making up ten horses.

He himself can ride a horse, and his equestrian skills are not bad.Wang Laowu can also ride a horse, but his riding skills are mediocre.

Seven people including Yang Kuiwu and Shi Jincai did not know how to ride horses, but Liu Sheng asked them to learn on the road.

As for the two extra mules, he and Wang Laowu would each lead one, carrying the "treasures" he wanted to sell as well as dry food, drinking water and other items.

As for weapons, he naturally brought them with him, and Liu Sheng was wearing a full set of stab-proof clothing.

Liu Sheng's preparations were so adequate and reasonable that he was shocked when he saw Ma Jinliang's "team".

Ma Jinliang and his concubine sat in a carriage, with a servant driving the carriage and the steward Ma Gui riding a donkey.

That's it, it's gone.

So Liu Sheng directly called Ma Jinliang out of the carriage.

"Brother Ma, we are going to do business this time. I'm afraid it won't be good for you to take your concubine with you, right?"

Ma Jinliang said with a face full of embarrassment: "Brother Liu, I can't help it. She rarely travels far away. I heard that I am going to the county town, and I have to follow her life and death. If I don't agree, I couldn't go to bed last night."

"It turns out that Brother Ma has a weak husband." Liu Sheng smiled, "This is easy to handle, let me help you."

After speaking, he drew his knife and raised the car curtain.

Not to mention, Ma Jinliang, this concubine who looked less than 20 years old, was quite pretty, but when she suddenly saw the knife, she was so frightened that her beauty turned pale.

Before she could scream or shout anything, Liu Sheng said coldly: "Get off the car and go back."

Although Liu Sheng did not come out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, he had experienced many thrilling battles, killed many enemies, and developed a killing spirit.

At this time, a pair of Ma Jinliang's concubines showed murderous intent. They were so frightened that they nodded in haste and took the initiative to get out of the car.

Liu Sheng said to Ma Gui again: "Steward Ma will send her off and call two more reliable servants. The road is not peaceful now. We have to restrain the refugees when we come back and have more manpower to help us. If there are mules and horses, it would be best. Arrange two horses.”

"Okay."

After hearing Liu Sheng's order, Ma Gui immediately agreed.

He let Ma Jinliang's concubine ride the donkey, and soon entered the Walled City. After a while, he came out with two servants riding mules with bows and knives on their backs.

Then the two teams set off...
"Brother Liu, please look, right in front of you is Xingji, which is under the jurisdiction of Xinyang Prefecture."

When there were still one or two miles away from Xingji, Ma Jinliang sat beside the carriage and pointed ahead.

Liu Sheng looked over and saw that the scale of the Xingji building was slightly inferior to that of Maojiaji, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

However, there were quite a few refugees gathered outside Xingji. There were a few hundred people just to the north of the market entrance.

As for the scene, it was similar to what Liu Sheng saw when he went to Maoji Town for the second time. It was very miserable, or even more miserable.

As the team approached the market, some of the refugees who were already extremely hungry braved their way forward, but they were afraid that Liu Sheng and others were young and strong and carried weapons, so they did not dare to get too close.

How to describe it?
Like a hungry jackal, it subconsciously follows the herd.

Liu Sheng did not abuse his sympathy and always remembered the purpose of his trip. "This Xingji doesn't look big. Even if the shops inside can accept my treasures, I'm afraid they won't be able to give me good prices and won't be able to accept many items, right?" He looked at Ma Jinliang and asked.

"It's hard for me to say this, but you can give it a try."

Liu Sheng nodded and said no more.

A group of people entered Xingji.

What happened later proved that Ma Jinliang's business partner, Liu Sheng, was not wrong.With Ma Baihu's identity at the front, Liu Sheng's business in Xingji was somewhat unexpectedly smooth.

He bought a set of glasses, a small mirror no bigger than the palm of his hand, and a set of exquisite plastic dolls, in exchange for more than 800 taels of silver.

But food prices have risen again as expected, with an average of 35 taels of brown rice or gray flour.

Liu Sheng was not reluctant to part with the money and bought twenty stones in one go.

Then they recruited 40 families of refugees from outside Xingji, a total of 146 people!
At this time, Ma Jinliang couldn't stand it anymore.

When Liu Sheng asked Wang Laowu and Shi Jincai to organize these people to line up, Ma Jinliang pulled him aside, stared at him and asked, "Brother Liu, are you going to take all these people to Tianmu Mountain to reclaim wasteland?"

Liu Sheng nodded, "That's right."

"Do you know how much food these more than 100 people consume every month?"

"I know," Liu Sheng said. "Based on the average consumption of one and a half kilograms of grain per person per day, 146 people will consume 35 shi of grain per month. However, with meat, wild vegetables, and wild fruits, the monthly consumption should be reduced to two kilograms." A dozen stones.”

Ma Jinliang was stunned by these words.

He didn't expect Liu Sheng to calculate so carefully, and even said that it would be served with meat... It was simply incomprehensible!
Then he had a terrible idea——

"Brother Liu, you should know that there will be a locust plague after a severe drought. The land in Tianmu Mountain is barren and is not suitable for large-scale land reclamation.

You recruited so many people, so you couldn't be more careful about getting food from me, right? "

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "Brother Ma, don't worry, I, Liu Sheng, can only borrow and buy food, not snatch it."

Ma Jinliang almost cried when he heard this.

He thought to himself: Don’t you know how to grab food?But borrowing food is more ruthless than robbing it.

Then he said sincerely: "Brother Liu, let me be honest, I really don't have much food at home. Even if you really go to grab it, you won't be able to grab much. It will never be enough for you to feed these people!"

Liu Sheng patted Ma Jinliang on the shoulder, "Brother Ma doesn't need to worry about whether I can support these people. Brother Ma only needs to help me get them back to Tianmu Mountain.

By the way, this is the commission for Brother Ma, 44 two or three cents of silver, every penny is a lot, keep it. "

At the end of the conversation, Liu Sheng thrust a bag of silver into Ma Jinliang's hand and went back to organizing refugees.

Ma Jinliang looked at the silver in his hand, then at Liu Sheng's back, and couldn't help but stamp his feet.

"What the hell is this on my stall?"

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Liu Sheng gave the refugees a lunch of millet porridge, and bought some coarse cloth, ironware and other daily necessities for land reclamation in Xingji. Then he took the refugees away from Xingji and returned to Tianmu Mountain.

Not long after Liu Sheng and others left Xingji, several riders appeared outside the South Street entrance of Xingji.

The first person, wearing red clothes under a red cloak, wrapped her slim body, was clearly a young woman.

Even the dust on her face cannot hide her beauty and heroic spirit.

She reined in her horse and stopped at the edge of the official road. She pointed the soft whip in her right hand at the market in front of her and asked, "Is this Xing Ji?"

A middle-aged man following him nodded, "Yes, this is Xing Ji."

"How many households are there in Xingji? Is there an inspection department?"

The middle-aged man looked embarrassed and said: "Although I have been to Xingji many times, I really don't know how many households there are. There is an inspection department, but I don't know how many archers there are."

The woman smiled and said, "Everyone is here, let's go in and take a look."

She trotted out of the street on her horse and saw refugees on both sides. She smiled at the men accompanying her and said, "Tomorrow these will be our comrades. They are so hungry. We can't ignore them. We will do it soon." When you’re done, buy some rice and noodles to share with them.”

"The benevolence and righteousness of the great master!"

(End of this chapter)