Late Tang

When it comes to harvest, everyone's mood immediately soars.Taking down a private island of the Feng family at one time, even the giant thieves like Baibeard and others who have been in the Liaohai Sea for decades couldn't help smiling.

An unprecedented harvest, the Feng family has been operating Cat Island for 50 years, turning it into a private transfer station close to the port of Duli Town.The merchant ships from Feng's family to Duli Town unloaded their goods directly at Cat Island, and the goods that Feng's family planned to transport back to Datang from Liaodong and other places were also transported to Cat Island in advance for preparation.In this way, the fleet can come and go quickly every time without delay.Moreover, it is safer to put these goods on the island first.

It's just that the Feng family would never have imagined that their private island, which they thought was more convenient and safer than the port in Duli Town, would be quietly captured overnight.

"How's the harvest? Has it been counted?" White Beard asked with a smile.

The yellow beard also laughed and said: "It should be almost the same, I guess Mr. Zhao and Mr. Wang will come to report soon." Mr. Zhao and Mr. Wang are the two tall and thin masters who Li Jing saw in the camp before. Old man, both of them are in their early fifties.It is said that both of them used to be Han Chinese who lived near Beisha City.It's a pity that the Goguryeo people in the mountains of Liaozhong later robbed the villages in southern Liao. Their villages were all robbed, and finally they were burnt down by Goguryeo thieves.Many people are heading south, preparing to float back to Dengzhou and return to the middle land of the Tang Dynasty.However, the two were robbed by Zhendonghai at sea, and White Beard saw the two were dressed in Confucian robes, refined and gentle, and in the end he conscripted them into the staff.The two of them were a bit reluctant to join the bandits at first, but later they saw that Zhen Donghai was not a bandit without reason, so they gradually joined in.

After a while, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Wang rushed to the hall.As soon as the two entered the hall, they immediately shouted to Whitebeard with smiles on their faces: "Big leader, big harvest, unprecedented big harvest. The preliminary count has been made, and the results of this battle are so rich that it is unbelievable."

"Tell me quickly, how much food, treasures, and weapons?" White Beard asked with a smile.

"According to the inventory, the cat island castle was captured in this battle, 36 warehouses were opened, plus a secret room in the basement of the castle, and a private coin workshop. The total amount of copper coins seized was 12, 540, and 1000 taels of silver collars. , 3000 taels of gold collars. In addition, there are 37 pieces of silk, 40 pieces of linen, [-] pieces of silk, and [-] pieces of mirror flower silk. In addition, [-] stones of tea, [-] stones of pepper, and [-] stones of frosting sugar were copied. A hundred stones of various spices."

The voice of Mr. Zhao's recitation was trembling with excitement, and the rich harvest this time was shocking.When he led people to open the closed warehouses, his heart couldn't bear the surprise.

He continued to recite: "In addition, a thousand boxes of celadon were found, totaling more than [-] pieces. And two large granaries were found on the island, with five thousand shi of soybeans, eight thousand shi of wheat, and three thousand shi of rice. Five thousand shi of millet, five thousand shi of sorghum."

Hearing this sum of numbers, Li Jing, Bai Huzi and the others all smiled happily, but then they all frowned.Not counting other things, these few warehouses of grain alone add up to 1000 shi.Although so much food makes people happy, how can they be transported away?Time was running out, half of the [-] ships in Zhendonghai were warships, and only a small half were converted from merchant ships. The total load capacity was just close to ten thousand shi.If the necessary boatmen are removed, a maximum of eight thousand stones can be transported at a time.This is without counting the remaining [-] pirates.

Li Jing was really unwilling to give up such a large amount of food.Frowning and thinking for a while, Li Jing gritted his teeth and said: "Although the rain outside is a little lighter now, it is still heavy. There are still about two hours before dawn, but I guess the rain will not stop for a while. The patrol boats may not come to patrol on time. Why don't we load the food now, temporarily transport it to the unnamed island where we stopped before, and hide the food there. If the eighteen ships add more All the small boats on board can be transported together, eight thousand shi can be transported at a time, and the grain can be transported away in three trips."

White Beard doesn't care much about the food, they are not short of food, and they don't realize the urgency of Li Jing's current shortage of money and food, and they don't know that this year of Datang will be another year of famine. The Central Plains will starve again.At that time, they didn't know how precious food would be.In his opinion, these 2 shi grains are incomparable to those copper coins, gold and silver, that is, those tea leaves, pepper, spices and frosted sugar, each of which is much more precious than grain.

"Brother, we also seized more than 30 boats belonging to the Feng family at the pier. These boats were of various sizes, but the combined load reached more than 2 shi. We will start to move all the boats now, and we can transport 1 shi at a time. Two Sixteen thousand shi of grain, [-] shi of spices and tea, silk, hemp, silk, silk, silk, and silk add up to more than [-] shi, and gold, silver and copper coins add up to nearly [-] shi, which add up to nearly [-] shi. As long as we move quickly, we can finish the shipment in two trips." Seeing that Li Jing was unwilling to give up the hard-won supplies, Yellow Beard suggested to White Beard.

"This is an adventure. It will be dawn soon, will the rain really continue?" Whitebeard asked.

Li Jing hurriedly called Yuan Hong, and Yuan Hong replied that the rain would last at least until night.

"Have you considered the problem of loading and unloading? So many goods are loaded and disembarked, and the goods are shipped to the island and unloaded, and then repeated. Although the round-trip time does not take long, it takes too long to load and unload, and it is In the rain, it is even more difficult. We cannot guarantee that Duli Town will not find out what is going on here. If once we find out, our ships are full of goods, and they are not even at the dock. What will we do then? We will be trapped here."

"But we can't just spit out the fat that reaches our mouths so easily. It's hard for the brothers to fight hard. This deal alone is worth the profit we made in the past few years." Huang Beard said on the side.

White Beard looked at Li Jing, hoping that Li Jing would give up.However, although Li Jing was not fascinated by these money and materials, he was really unwilling to give up all the things he got at this time.But with a little certainty, he will try it.The population of Shamen Town has exceeded the 2 mark. If you add those people who flocked to work from all directions, there are now nearly 4000 people.What's more important is that he is now expanding his army, and he has [-] troops all at once, and he hasn't even got all the weapons yet.Every day after opening his eyes, he still had to fill in a huge amount of money and food, so Li Jing had to seize the opportunity to hug money and food.

"Okay!" Seeing that Li Jing was silent, White Beard reluctantly agreed, "Leave ten boats at the pier, and all the rest of the boats will be used to load the seized and transported to the unnamed island. First, gold, silver, copper coins, and then silk and hemp." Then transport spices, etc., and finally transport grain. Once the time is too late, we can also minimize the loss.” In the face of this mountain of seizures, grain is the least valuable in the eyes of Whitebeard.If it weren't for Li Jing's insistence, he would definitely not be willing to take the risk of rushing to transport these.

The yellow beard hurriedly went out to direct the shipment of supplies, and the white beard continued to ask: "What else do you have to gain? Have you found the batch of ordnance that Brother Li has?"

"I found it. A thousand sets of brand-new ordnance are lying in the ordnance warehouse. Besides the thousand sets of ordnance, there are still stocks."

Hearing that there were other weapons, both Whitebeard and Li Jing were surprised at the same time.

"There are many?"

"Three hundred sets of iron armor, five hundred sets of leather armor, eight hundred horizontal knives, one thousand spears, five hundred longbows, three hundred horn bows, and 30 feathered arrows." Mr. Zhao sighed and said: "According to the warehouse guard, this batch of ordnance, including the batch of General Li, was just sent by Feng Zhang. It is said that it is going to be sold to the Goguryeo people. It was originally scheduled to be shipped in three days, but now it is cheaper for us. "

Li Jing secretly scolded Feng Zhangli in his heart, then looked at White Beard with a smile.In addition to his own part of this batch of ordnance, he also wanted to share some of it.He knew that White Beard definitely wanted this batch of ordnance, and there was no one who didn't want such equipment.

"How about half of one person?" White Beard was also very generous. "Three hundred sets of iron armor, one thousand spears, and another three hundred horned bows are yours. I want five hundred sets of leather armor, eight hundred horizontal knives, and five hundred long bows. 30 arrows, you and I each half."

Li Jing thought for a while, Zhendonghai is a pirate, and pirates are particular about coming and going like the wind, elusive, and they mostly fight sneak attacks and melee combat.They want leather armor, horizontal knives and longbows, which are suitable for their tactics.He kept his iron armor and spear and hornbow, which is not bad.This battle was originally dominated by them, and Li Jing only sent 200 people. He had already left so many craftsmen before, and now he can still get so many ordnance, which is already very satisfying.

"Thank you, Master, for your kindness, and I thank you very much."

"Okay, happy!" Whitebeard laughed, "What else, let's talk about it together."

"There are three hundred war horses!" Mr. Zhao laughed. "In the stable behind the castle, there are three hundred horses, all of which are grassland war horses. Each horse is more than four feet tall, weighs six hundred catties, and can carry heavy loads." Five hundred catties, the fastest speed is 180 miles an hour, and can travel 120 miles a day. Absolutely good horses, the best war horses for cavalry. These horses are all good horses that Feng just bought from the Khitan people at a huge price , [-] coins per horse!"

When Li Jing heard this, his eyes lit up. The cavalry in each team of his soldier battalion didn't even have real horses.He was having a headache about this matter. He originally wanted to wait until the battle barracks was equipped with horses, and he also intended to form a 200-man cavalry capital separately in the battalion command.But without a horse, he could only put this plan on paper.Now there are 22 war horses, at least 260 cavalry battalions and [-] four cavalry, all of them have war horses at once.

Seeing Li Jing's excited eyes, White Beard immediately understood what he meant by wanting these horses.He just laughed a few times, and immediately said: "Since General Li likes these horses, you can take them all. You don't have to thank me, I am a pirate in Zhendonghai, and it is useless to have these horses. It’s better to give the hero to BMW, and leave everything to you.”

(To be continued)