Qiming 1158

Chapter 861 This war is gold and silver

Zhao Yucheng and other leaders of the peasant army were stunned by the proactive contact of the Song Army's quarters department.

They never thought that such a situation would happen, and they were also very shocked by the corruption and collapse within the Song Army.

Can the equipment and supplies of my own army be sold for money?
Isn't this accurate counting, accurate distribution, and not allowing the slightest omission?

Isn't the audit department in the army closely watching, and if there is a slight error, it will be checked immediately?

Isn't it a soldier who can go directly to the audit department to file a secret complaint whenever he finds something wrong?
The munitions department in the Ming army has a lot of eyes on it, and they don't dare to slack off at all.

How could Song Jun's quartermaster do this?

The incomprehensible peasant army leaders felt that they were in a different world from the Song army.

However, they still accepted the trading suggestions of the quartermasters and traded with them, exchanging their gold and silver for food, steel knives, divine arm bows and other materials urgently needed by the peasant army.

Apart from bringing a lot of gold and silver, they don't have any other advantages, and it is not easy to spend gold and silver under normal circumstances. It is undoubtedly beneficial to be able to exchange gold and silver for these important ordnance materials now.

Of course, Zhao Yucheng was still very suspicious of the motives of these quartermasters.

So during a certain transaction, Zhao Yucheng personally dressed up as an ordinary soldier in the transaction and asked the other party's transaction personnel, if they sold weapons to the peasant army like this, wouldn't they be afraid that the peasant army would kill their colleagues?
As a result, a quartermaster who participated in the transaction sneered.

"What does it have to do with me? I'm a quartermaster, and I don't want to fight on the battlefield. Those thieves and the army did not think of us when they were eating and drinking spicy food and bullying men and women. Of course we have to find a way to make money for ourselves. A quartermaster, can't you make a fortune?"

Zhao Yucheng was surprised by their answers.

"Even so, don't you worry that we will win the war if you sell us all the food and weapons?"

"What does it have to do with me? If you beat you, you should worry about the court, the emperor, and the people in the Privy Council. I won't worry about it, I only care about this."

The quartermaster picked up a piece of gold and felt the heavy feeling of gold: "The court doesn't care about the lives of us people, what else do I care about winning or losing? As long as there is money to make, as long as I have it, I can sell you anything. .

I also hope that your best fight is smoother. With you, we will have the opportunity to make money. If you fight harder, the court will allocate more money, so that we can make money. You still don’t understand, you I feel that there are only winners and losers in wars, but in my eyes, this war is gold and silver. "

The quartermaster touched the gold on his hand, and the disgusting smile on his face made Zhao Yucheng unforgettable for a long time.

He suddenly realized that the integrity and integrity of the Daming army is purely a scorpion tail in this world. After leaving the Daming army, the world is full of filth and corruption, and everything is unsightly everywhere.

What surprised him even more was the request of the quartermaster.

"It's okay to sell you things, but it's hard to reach an agreement when you're away from home. We should also help each other out. In this way, the business can last a long time. What do you think?"

Zhao Yucheng frowned.

"what do you mean?"

"It's very simple, let's sell things to you, this warehouse will be empty, and the quantity will be wrong. If we don't check it down, we are safe. The ghost knows which day the above is suddenly ill and will come to check the quantity of the ordnance, then Can't we explain it?"

The quartermaster said in a low voice, "So, after you go back, tell your generals, can you help us? When the time comes to check the armory, you will attack at night and take out all the empty armory and granary. Burn it, and then we'll be safe."

"Can it still be like this?"

Zhao Yucheng was greatly shocked.

"Or else? Always give the above an explanation!"

The quartermaster didn't take it seriously, he just thought they were a bunch of scumbags who had never seen the world before and said, "You all think this is a fuss? This is too normal in the Song Dynasty, let alone us, those guys who look after the imperial treasury are basically all Treat the imperial treasury as your own money bag.

Usually, if they don't check it, they will sell the contents for money. When someone from above comes to check, they will either pass the test with shoddy stuff, or they will be burned to death without proof, and at most they will be dismissed from office afterwards.

But the money they got in exchange was used for them to buy land. After they were dismissed from office, they were transformed. They were the local rich man, the emperor of the land. Scared, how can this be? "

Zhao Yucheng touched the seeds on his head, with a "learned" expression on his face, and it took a while to express emotion.

"If you want to talk about this, you still know a lot. We really can't think of these things."

"Hahaha, that's natural, you learn a little bit, maybe you can use it later."

The quartermaster was triumphant.

Seeing how proud he was instead of being ashamed, Zhao Yucheng finally understood why Su Yonglin always said that the Southern Song Dynasty was not saved and would surely perish.

The demise of the country may not only be a military attack from the outside, but more of an internal self-splitting and collapse.

The words that Su Yonglin always talked about also made Zhao Yucheng feel more deeply.

When officials are like this, how long can the Southern Song Dynasty persist?
That is to say, the foundation is solid and the finances can still be maintained. Once the finances collapse, the Southern Song Dynasty will not be far from a complete collapse.

After this transaction, Zhao Yucheng returned to the mountains and held many meetings, talking about this issue, and told the soldiers of the peasant army about the corruption of the Southern Song quartermaster and the top-down collapse of the Song army.

Perhaps the best way to defeat an enemy is to lead them to defeat themselves.

Such a harmonious bilateral relationship lasted for more than a month. Qi Fang led the Song army to fish all the time, and reached the arrival of Shao Hongyuan, the capital of Chizhou.

Shao Hongyuan emerged in the Jin-Song War more than 20 years ago. He was known as the bravery of Guan Yu and Ma Chao.

It's just that I followed the wrong person and took the wrong team politically, and suffered a lot.

When he recovered again, he relied on Zhang Jun's appreciation and recommendation. He appeared in front of the officials of the court's main war faction with the political appearance of a main war faction general, and was appreciated and recommended by them.

So in this war against rebellion, Zhang Jun planned to let Shao Hongyuan dispatch, earn a wave of credit, and help him quell the rebellion on Jiangnan West Road by the way.

When Shao Hongyuan received the order, he was still reorganizing the army, and replaced some of the officers who had previously obeyed Li Xianzhong's command with his own, making the army an army that obeyed his own orders.

Only then can we go to Jizhou to participate in the war.

Shao Hongyuan brought 1 people, which can be regarded as a relatively rare elite in the Song Army. Shao Hongyuan himself can be regarded as a general with good commanding ability, so Zhang Jun is full of expectations for him.

However, the master will be Qi Fang.

Qi Fang didn't plan to fight the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain at all. After Shao Hongyuan rushed to Jizhou, he saw lazy officers and soldiers without military discipline. It didn't look like a war at all, but like During group vacations, or everyone engages in team building together.

Shao Hongyuan was very puzzled by this.

"General, aren't we going to attack the thieves in Luoxiao Mountain? When will we attack?"

While reviewing his progress this month, Qi Fang casually replied: "General Shao has come from a long way, don't rush to attack first, let the soldiers rest for a while. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)