Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 396 Barbecue Storm
"Okay, let's start according to the original plan." Chailin said.

After arranging things, Chai Lin and Chai Meng had nothing else to do. They strolled south along the road, preparing to return to the inn in Tokyo City. The tasks for this trip were basically completed, and there was nothing else to do.

The court's response was far lower than Chai Lin's expectations. According to internal information, Gao Qiu wrote a letter requesting that Guan Sheng lead [-] troops to Hejian Mansion.But was dissuaded by other ministers.

The meaning of the other ministers is obvious. Now that the entire Song Dynasty is on fire, it can no longer stand the toss.It's just that Cangzhou township soldiers have been given the title of disobeying orders.

The reason is also very good. The Cangzhou township soldiers fought the Song flag, and did not set up a separate court like Tian Hu and Fang La, so at most they were maliciously asking for salary, that is to say, the Cangzhou township soldiers occupied Hejian Mansion for military pay.

This definition made Chai Lin feel fresh and new. The two sides just had a tacit understanding, because the western army of the imperial court was suppressing Tianhu's rebellion in Hebei, Jiangnan was fighting with Fang La again, and Xixia was still ready to move. It was already a third-front battle, and it was unable to open up a new front.

Chai Lin and Chai Meng came to Leizi BBQ.

In the winter afternoon, it starts to get dark around five o'clock.

The lights on the entire snack street are just beginning to come on, and the bustling crowds come and go.

The master chef in the barbecue shop moved the barbecue oven to the side of the road, holding a cattail fan and fanning it to smoke.

Sliced ​​carp, strings of lamb loins, large strings of lamb, and the smell of cumin and chili powder permeated the air.

The mutton is skewered, the mutton is skewered, it is delicious and not expensive, and there are constant shouts.

Green Grass Python Zhang San works as the supervisor in the lobby. Zhang San is well-informed, he has seen the world, and he can deal with what people say, but he can handle it like a duck to water.

Seeing Chai Lin coming, the waiter at the door pretended not to know him, and shouted enthusiastically: "You two guests, what do you want to eat, please come inside."

Chai Meng said: "Ten skewers of mutton, two skewers of kidneys are enough, remember to roast them thoroughly."

"Okay, don't worry, it's 100% familiar." The guy yelled.

Chai Meng chose a table against the wall, and sat down with Chai Lin to have some barbecue in peace.

Although he didn't say hello, the cook knew that this was his own boss, so he was naturally extra careful in cooking.

After a while, four boys came to the next table, about seventeen or eighteen years old, all wearing satin clothes, fast boots on their feet, and exquisite riding whips in their hands, obviously they had just returned from riding a horse.

Chai Lin and Chai Meng ate the meat skewers, and couldn't help admiring: "Ok, this place has a lot of traffic, and the room was full just now."

Chai Meng pointed outside and said, "In the courtyard, there are many people sitting in the courtyard."

The two ate and chatted, talking about something in a low voice.

There was nothing wrong at first, but someone picked something up.

A fat boy with a strong body at the next table pointed to Chai Lin's table and said, "Look at how shabby she is, just order a few skewers for a barbecue without drinking."

Another thin boy said: "It looks like the suffering in the escort agency, haha, it's good to be able to eat meat."

Chai Lin didn't care too much, he looked like a young man who lacked discipline and couldn't have the same knowledge as them.

Chai Meng didn't take it seriously, he didn't take it seriously, he looked to the side and raised his eyebrows.

The fat man was not happy anymore, he pointed at Chai Meng with a bamboo stick and said, "You're pretty good, tell me what's wrong with you, and what to look at."

Chai Meng is the person in charge of the intelligence port, and he is in charge of more than 2000 elite personnel. He has a detached position in the Cangzhou Army, except for Chai Lin and a few generals who hold heavy troops, that is Chai Meng.

Chai Meng said coldly: "Little kid, didn't your adults teach you to be polite when you come out?"

The four teenagers were furious at the time, and they came over with a horsewhip and scolded: "You really want to be whipped."

Those who run a restaurant are most afraid of this kind of disturbance. When there is a disturbance, several tables will be skipped.

Lei Zi hired Zhang San and Li Forty to watch the scene, and now this group of people is also shotgun-changing. They are all dressed in black and fast boots. .

Zhang San laughed and said: "Four little friends, both friends, calm down. Give me the green grass python, and go back and eat."

The four teenagers knew that if there was a fight in this place, the restaurant would definitely quit, so they didn't bother.

Seeing that he lost his interest, Chai Lin said, "Let's go, there are two skewers left. Let's take each skewer and eat while walking."

Chai Meng took dozens of Wenhui to pay the bill, turned around and left.

The two of them also didn't ride horses and walked a few miles towards South Street. Chai Meng said, "Brother, these four boys follow us."

People at intelligence outlets are very sensitive, and Chailin is no exception.

The brain is spinning rapidly, is this an accidental contradiction or a deliberate arrangement?
It's fine if it's just an accidental conflict, but it's dangerous if it's deliberately arranged.

"Go out the east gate, find a small pier, and ask the brothers on the water to ask them." Chailin said.

The two quickened their pace, and the four behind them rode horses, and they were high-quality big food horses with extremely fast sprints, so they followed unhurriedly.

After a short distance, Chai Meng hailed a mule cart and asked the driver to speed up and leave the east gate. He got off the mule cart when he reached a remote port.

Wait at the port.

Sure enough, in less than a moment, four teenagers arrived on horseback.

The four of them actually drew short knives from their horses and surrounded them.

The fat man at the head said: "I didn't even ask who the young master is, but he dared to provoke the young master. I'll let you two bleed."

Chai Lin said, "Be gentle, don't hurt them."

The fat man said strangely: "Could it be that the brain is burned out, who are you talking to?"

"Look back." Chai Meng teased.

The boy behind him poked the fat man with his finger, and turned around to see twenty big men in black, each holding a sharp simple knife.

"You, who are you? My father is the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture." The fat man was obviously timid.

"Should we let us do it, or put down the knife ourselves."

What bad intentions could these four teenagers have? Usually they just broke a few people's legs and ruined a few beauties.

The cold blade of the man in black made them feel deep fear, the world is different from what they imagined, they are not invincible, some heroes who care who your father is.

"Dang." A boy couldn't take it anymore and threw the knife on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, all four lost their knives.

The men in black rushed forward, stripped off the four clothes, tied them with thick ropes, and fell upside down.

"Say, who sent you here."

"No one sent us here, but I just got angry when I saw you eating mutton skewers." The fat man said.

There happened to be a simple gantry crane on the water at the pier. The four people were hung upside down, and they fell into the water as soon as they lowered their heads lightly.

After a while, the man in black came to report and said: "No problem, the four of them are all small yamen, and they are all bad. Regardless of their young age, they have done all kinds of bad things. Do you want to?"

The man in black made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Chai Meng shook his head: "No need. Just do what we are supposed to do. We are not a government office. The four of you are knocked out and put near the city gate. The horses are left behind. Just treat them as being robbed."

The four unlucky guys lost all the horses. In the middle of the night, the soldiers and horses of the five cities found them at the gate of the city. After careful questioning, they were all in the small yamen. They were all masters. They could not be offended and gave them away obediently went back.The strange thing is that these four people only said that they were robbed, and didn't say much else, which is really weird.

Things in Tokyo City were properly arranged, and the two of them didn't stay for long, and ran to the big car shop in Dongping Prefecture that night.

In Dongping City, Cheng Wanli, the magistrate, is complaining to Master Jia.

"Having lived innocently for half of my life, I was tricked when I was old. What do you call this? My son-in-law is not worried. He occupied Hejian Mansion without saying a word." Cheng Wanli said .

Master Jia said: "If it wasn't for your son-in-law, our two old lives would have been entrusted to Dongping long ago."

"Hmph." Cheng Wanli turned his head angrily, "Death is a small thing, but loss of integrity is a big thing."

Master Jia said, "Isn't there a saying that it is better for an old woman to be good than a chaste maiden?"

Cheng Wanli almost choked to death, "You, you, you. Is there a metaphor like you?"

"My analogy is very appropriate. Mr. Cheng has worked hard for half his life, and the court may not remember your kindness, but if there is any disturbance, I am afraid that everything will be denied, and if it happens, the family will be ransacked."

Cheng Wanli got up and took a few steps, and said: "This Chailin is an extremely rare talent. I won't say much about Dongping Zhifang and winter vegetables. You have witnessed the development with your own eyes. The wheelbarrow made on his village is exquisite. Unparalleled, with rubber as the wheel, steel as the hub, and steel rods as the spokes, it is rare in the world. The potatoes he introduced have a yield of four to five thousand catties per mu. The yield of corn is more than 800 catties per mu. The cotton he promoted can weave cloth , how many people can be saved from cold and hunger by being able to make cotton clothes. All of them are good things, rare talents. But they cannot be used by the court.”

"You son-in-law is doing well, you will have a great future." Master Jia said.

Cheng Wanli said: "You know more than I do, and you haven't told me many things. There is no one else in this study, so you might as well tell me in detail. What's so important about my son-in-law?"

Master Jia said: "Didn't you send me to visit Miss when autumn just started? I wandered around from Chaijiazhuang. The owner of Chaijiazhuang treated me sincerely and took me to visit the farms and factories in Chaijiazhuang. , the village soldiers of Chaijiazhuang, I knew at that time that the rise of Chaijiazhuang is no longer possible to be stopped, not even Song Dynasty with the power of the whole country."

"What is it that stimulated you? You were so surprised after looking at the workshop." Cheng Wanli said puzzled.

"There are at least a hundred thousand horses, cows, donkeys and mules near Chaijiazhuang. What kind of mobilization force is this?"

Mr. Jia took out a delicate and compact revolving firecracker. The caliber of this firecracker was 25 millimeters and the length was [-] centimeters, which was much smaller than the big firecracker used by Chailin and the others.

"Their long guns are half a foot long, with bayonets on them. It only takes three or four counts to change the ammunition. It takes a year to train an archer, and it only takes three months to train a gunner The machine factory was rushing to work day and night, and it was not a problem to have tens of thousands of long-fired guns in stock. The [-] cavalry of Arich were annihilated by six thousand long-fired guns. This is not the most surprising thing, the most surprising thing is Annihilated [-] cavalry, not a single musketeer was killed."

Cheng Wanli was stunned. As a magistrate who was on horseback to manage the army and dismounted to manage the people, he was not a military rookie. He knew the cavalry very well, so he naturally understood how powerful the cavalry was.

Liao's elite cavalry became vulnerable in front of the musketeers.

Mr. Jia said: "The firecracker is a small guy. The bigger one weighs more than 1000 catties. Pulled by two mules, it is much more powerful than the cannons of the imperial court. Wherever it goes, it breaks mountains and rocks. Hundreds of cannons fired together. The mountains are shaken. The big boats they build can travel thousands of miles a day without sails. Most of their arrow shaft production workshops are already mechanical. A dozen people can produce more than 2 arrow shafts a day, and 60 arrow shafts a month. Arrow shafts. You must know that even if the court produces arrow shafts, no matter how skilled the craftsman is, they can’t produce dozens of arrow shafts a day. Everything is much more than the court.”

Cheng Wanli suddenly realized that it was too ruthless, and it could kill people just by consuming resources.

"It turns out that this kid has been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. According to what you said, his hidden military strength is probably one hundred and eighty thousand."

"My lord Cheng, don't you understand? It's not simply a question of the number of troops. Thousands of gunfire soldiers face each other for a round, and many soldiers of the Song Dynasty have to flee. The old nose with poor weapons is far away, not the strength of troops. It can be made up to a certain extent. You must know that the Cangzhou army is not a foreigner, and there will be no psychological pressure for the Xiang army from all over the country to surrender." Mr. Jia said.

Having been an official for more than [-] years, Cheng Wanli knows it all too well.

The Xiang army in various places is insufficiently trained, insufficiently paid, poorly equipped, and their fighting will is so-so.

Usually suppressing bandits is okay against some rogues, but once you encounter a strong enemy, you will be discouraged.

Often when encountering a strong enemy, the general ran away before the battle started.

Once the general runs away, which soldier is willing to go all out? This time the Liao Kingdom's attack on grass valley is the best example.In Hejian Prefecture, Jizhou Prefecture, and Shenzhou, more than 1 troops ran faster than rabbits, and they didn't even have the courage to defend the city.

Cheng Wanli looked at Master Jia and said, "So we have no way to turn back? What are we going to do now?"

"What to do, of course, you should do what you should do. The court didn't say that you won't be allowed to be a magistrate. This year's new crop experiment has been a great success, and we will go all out to promote it in the spring. Now that there is enough money and food in the treasury, it is natural to build roads and bridges now. Treat the people well. What is our original intention? Do you remember what you said when you found me 20 years ago?" Master Jia said.

Master Jia was originally a swordsman and scholar. He studied and practiced swords all his life. He was passionate and only willing to serve the country and the people.

Cheng Wanli said: "It's been more than 20 years, I don't remember it."

"You put your hands behind your back and told me with a cool look that the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least. The people are the foundation of the country, and the world belongs to the people. I Cheng Wanli is determined to be a good official. Only for the people of the world." Master Jia said following Cheng Wanli.

Cheng Wanli shook his head. Although he has been polished in the officialdom for so many years, he is not old yet, only in his 40s.

"I haven't forgotten. It's just that I'm worried about gains and losses. From tomorrow, we have to work hard to persuade farmers and mulberry. Promote new crops and livestock breeding. The pig food is safe for the world. Now that the food is available, the livestock is not enough. Let Chailin do it. Ten thousand donkeys came to help the poor farmers in Dongping Prefecture." Cheng Wanli said.

Mr. Jia said: "The price of ten thousand donkeys is skyrocketing. It is still feasible for commercial banks to promote foster donkeys a little bit, but it takes time and the breeding speed of large animals is slow. If you want me to say, we should develop pigs first, didn't you just say that?" , Pig food is safe for the world. Next year, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn will be one kind. Food will not be a problem. If there is more food, we will naturally raise pigs. The promotion of pigs and sheep is the top priority."

"Let's do it, encourage the development of pig breeding. Manage the public security well and let the people raise more pigs." Cheng Wanli said.

There are still many government regulation strategies. When assessing the county government, pig breeding is included in the assessment.

As a result, the local officials are very concerned about raising pigs. The big family may have free space to build a large pig house in the field and raise thirty or fifty pigs free-range.Generally, farmers only raise two or three pigs. Farmers raise pigs and sell them for money. The first priority is to solve the problem of fertilizer. Only with more fertilizer can the grain be harvested. Farming without fertilization means that food cannot be digested.

(End of this chapter)