Blood from Daming

Chapter 608 Buying Grain
Gao Yigong plucked up the courage to invite Xue Yun to Mizhi’s Gaojiajunzhai, just to seek happiness for his sister, and also to test whether Xue Yun liked his sister; Xue Yun knew Gao Yigong’s little Jiujiu well, However, Xue Yun was not fully ready to accept this lover who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

But Xue Yun thought maliciously, what would Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang, be like without Gao Guiying? Wives and concubines, they took Harijula ​​and Namuzhong by themselves, and they didn't care about one more Gao Guiying.

Xue Yun thought of this and said to his future brother-in-law: "One achievement, the battle in Liaodong is in full swing. I have to go back to Datong to handle military affairs, and I have an appointment with Lin Danhan from Chahar. I will come back when I come back from Mongolia." Mizhi sees your sister."

Gao Yigong was a little disappointed after hearing Xue Yun's words, but fortunately Xue Yun made it clear that he was going to see his sister, which relieved Gao Yigong's worries a lot, and then Xue Yun told Gao Yigong a lot There may be civil unrest in Shaanxi, and how the Gaojiajunzhai will handle its status in the turbulent Shaanxi.

What Xue Yun meant was that the Gao family’s army camp was sticking to the Lushan Mountain in Mizhi Hu, delayed the court’s recruitment, only protected the environment and the people around Mizhi, kept a respectful distance from the rioting peasant army, and kept in touch with the Datong government at all times. Zhu Sheng's suggestion: build high walls, accumulate food widely, and become king slowly.

Hearing Xue Yun's words, Gao Yigong felt his heart beating wildly. It seems that his future brother-in-law is ambitious. As long as the time is right, he will be a big anti-king. However, Gao Yigong believes that Xue Jiajun does have the capital. My brother-in-law can achieve great things, my sister is the imperial concubine, and I am the uncle of the dynasty. Gao Yigong has already begun to look forward to the bright future.

In the afternoon, Wenwen's subordinates brought ten fat pigs, fifty strong sheep, a batch of grain and water and wine from Jiangzhou City, preparing to improve the lives of the soldiers and civilians of Xue's army at Wuping Pass. For the ten large boxes for Xue Yun, Wang Erwa commanded his subordinates to carry the ten large boxes to the main hall of the Commander's Yamen. When only Wang Erwa, Li Xiaoyong, and Gao Yigong were left in the hall, Xue Yun ordered Wang Erwa, Li Xiaoyong Xiaoyong and the two opened the ten large boxes.

The ten large boxes that were opened were full of horseshoe gold, silver ingots and their respective gold and silver jewelry. Gao Yigong looked at the glittering gold jewelry and almost held his breath. This was the first time he saw such Hearing Xue Yun calling him, Gao Yigong managed to recover his eyes dazzled by the treasures in the box.

Xue Yun said cordially: "One merit, take these belongings back to Mizhi, and let your sister buy all kinds of grain to prepare for the famine. Don't think that grain is expensive. Gold and silver are some beautiful stones in a catastrophe."

Gao Yigong was completely fascinated by these gold, silver and jewels. After all, for a fledgling young man, even though he followed his uncle Gao Yingxiang, he only saw cattle, sheep, mules and horses in one day. It was also a small matter, when did he see tens of thousands of gold and silver at a time, so the gold and silver treasure of 8 taels of silver was indeed an astronomical sum for Gao Yigong.

When Gao Yigong learned that these gold, silver and jewels belonged to his sister, they naturally belonged to his own control. Gao Yigong didn't listen to what Xue Yun said later, but felt that he suddenly became a rich man. , staring at those boxes alone began to dream.

It was not until Xue Yun asked Wang Erwa and Li Xiaoyong to close the lid of the box that Gao Yigong woke up from his dreamy dream, and looked at Xue Yun with an embarrassed smile. At first glance, I still understand very well in my heart. If ordinary young people suddenly see so much property, if they can still maintain a normal mind, then this person is either out of his mind, or this person is too scary.

Xue Yun and the important generals of the Xue family army accompanied Gao Yigong to dinner, and then returned to Jiangzhou City with a thousand soldiers under Li Xiaoyong and Wang Erwa. Now Li Xiaoyong can be [-]% sure that the young master really likes Gao Yigong His older sister Gao Guiying is gone, and Li Xiaoyong is complacent there, but what Li Xiaoyong doesn't know is that all of this stems from his messy mandarin ducks.

Li Xiaoyong's attitude towards Xue Yun's future brother-in-law, Gao Yigong, was even more friendly. On the one hand, he sent additional manpower to Gao Yigong to guard the gold and silver treasures, and offered to escort Gao Yigong to Suide Prefecture, waiting for Ma Ming's cavalry to meet him. He had just returned to Datong Mansion, Gao Yigong only brought [-] soldiers, and was worried that it would be unsafe to carry a large amount of gold and silver treasures on the road. Now that Li Xiaoyong was willing to escort him, Gao Yigong naturally accepted Li Xiaoyong's kindness happily.

Li Xiaoyong stayed at Wuping Pass for several days, helping Lei Batian stabilize his position in Wuping Pass, and simply reinforced some of the Wuping Pass’s walls and villages and other facilities for Lei Batian. In the end, he left five hundred new and old With a team of soldiers, the task of large-scale repairs to Wuping Pass fell to Lei Batian and Wen Cunyang.

On the morning of the third day of June, Li Xiaoyong led more than 500 people from his headquarters, and together with 500 people who had made great achievements, they rode along the north of Jiangzhou to Taiping Pass in the bright sun. The Ming army was terrified. Before Xue's army arrived, more than 1000 people retreated and went to Fenzhou Guard.

On the fifth day of June, the Li Xiaoyong and Gao Yigong troops of the Xue Family Army who passed the Taiping Pass set up a business posture in Xiangling on the west bank of the Fenshui River. , so that the merchants and people in Xiangling and even Pingyang Prefecture flocked to it.

In just three days, 30 carts were purchased, more than [-] catties of wheat, sorghum, and soybeans were purchased, and Gao Yigong’s own cart was added to transport all of them. Starting from Yan'an Mansion is more than twice as cheap, and the saved money is used to buy two hundred carts, and there is still a lot left over. The mules and horses for the carts are also much cheaper than those in Shaanxi. Gao Yigong is so happy that he is dreaming They all woke up laughing.

However, the officials of Pingyang Mansion were not happy. They were very disgusted and afraid of Xue Jiajun’s purchase of mules and horses in Xiangling. It opened at the hour and closed an hour earlier in the afternoon, and the south gate and west gate of Pingyang Mansion have not been opened at all in the past few days.

The merchants and people in Pingyang Prefecture wanted to do business with Xue’s army, but the nearby Pingyang Prefecture was very inconvenient. Most of the merchants and people got the news on the sixth day of the lunar new year. He made a fortune. The businessmen from Pingyang Prefecture who arrived in the afternoon on the eighth day of the lunar new year did not have such luck. Xue Jiajun’s camp was empty. The local people have made money, and they are very dissatisfied with the fuss made by the officials of Pingyang Mansion, but they still have to drag the cart back to Pingyang Mansion dejectedly.

Xue Yun, who had been spying on the movement of Pingyang Mansion secretly, began to prepare to leave Jiangzhou City after Li Xiaoyong and Gao Yigong left Xiangling. Xue Yun stayed in Jiangzhou City for more than ten days and had frequent contacts with Li Zhizhou. Zhizhou also had a better understanding of Xue Jiajun, and began to lean further towards Xue Jiajun.

Jiangzhou City has Wang Dajun as a temporary garrison. After being supplemented by 700 soldiers from Li Xiaoyong's department, Xue's army defending Jiangzhou City has expanded to [-] people in the past few days. There is also support from Wupingguan at critical times.

During this period, Li Zhizhou communicated closely with the Pingyang Mansion, hoping that the Pingyang Mansion would recognize his military exploits, but the Pingyang Mansion never said a word. With Zhao Riman, the chief executive of the Pingyang Mansion, leaving Jiangzhou City, Jiangzhou City temporarily calmed down. What will happen to Jiangzhou in the future, Xue Yun is really going to leave Jiangzhou City.

On the tenth day of June, Xue Yun led Yang Zhenlei, Wang Erwa, and Yan Laoyao with more than [-] troops and set off northward along the route marched by Li Xiaoyong and Gao Yigong's troops. Arrived at the boundary of Xiangling in the evening, where Xue Yun met many belated businessmen.

There are about 40 to [-] of these businessmen, and most of them did not catch up with Li Xiaoyong and Gao Yigong to make transactions, or came to the businessmen after hearing the news. Most of the businessmen left discouragedly, but there were still some businessmen who stayed to rest, partly because they were unwilling to give up on the lost big business, and partly because they were exhausted and wanted to stay and rest.

The arrival of the army led by Xue Yun brought a glimmer of hope to the thirty or forty businessmen, and immediately surrounded the Xue family army who were still camping, hoping that this Xue family army could also do business with them merchants. The soldiers stopped the merchants who were building the camp, and after thinking about it, they ordered the soldiers to take these merchants to a flat wasteland.

Xue Yun asked Yang Zhenlei to accompany him to meet those merchants. As soon as Xue Yun and Yang Zhenlei arrived at the wasteland where the merchants gathered, these merchants surrounded Xue Yun and Yang Zhenlei to sell all kinds of food and supplies they brought, including The mules, horses and carts are also going to be sold together, but the quoted price is really outrageous.

Xue Yun smiled wryly because he asked Gao Yigong to rush to buy food at all costs. He didn’t expect Gao Yigong to buy food at a high price in Pingyang Prefecture. Even so, it was much cheaper than Yan’an Prefecture in Shaanxi, but the price was placed in Pingyang Prefecture or Datong. The government is a little outrageous.

Xue Yun looked at the grain and supplies piled up not far away, and thought of the peasant riots that would break out in a month or two. At that time, food was really a good thing. As long as there is food in hand, it is king, especially when Xue Yun left Jiangzhou today When the city was in the city, the food reserves at Wuping Pass were only enough to feed more than 2000 soldiers and civilians in the pass until the end of September. God knows what will happen to the food after this year's autumn harvest. Xue Yun intends to buy the food and supplies from these merchants.

So Xue Yun said: "The price you are asking is too outrageous. Our Xue family army will not consider buying your food and supplies at such a high price."

(End of this chapter)