Da Wei Chun

Chapter 682
Li Chengzhi beckoned to Li Xiaoxian: "Have you prepared the horse?"

Li Xiao first respectfully said: "It's ready, it's downstairs!"

"it is good!"

Li Chengzhi nodded, then smiled at Liu Fang and the others, "After seeing the barracks, I would like to invite you to look elsewhere, may I?"

Liu Fang suddenly came back to her senses, and forced herself to cheer up a little: "I wish for it!"

Those conspired by the imperial court are one for soldiers and the other for food.If one part of the West Sea is cut off, there will be nothing to continue, and then you can take advantage of the vacancy.

But seeing that the soldiers in the camp are strong and the horses are strong, the extravagant hopes of the imperial court have become one of two things, and now they can only hope that the West Sea will surely provide food.

Almost as comforting, Liu Fang had a similar thought in her heart.But it is not good to be too direct, asking Li Chengzhi to open the grain depot and let him take a look, so he can only press it temporarily and find another opportunity.

Several people followed suit, followed Li Chengzhi down the town building, and then stepped onto the blood-blooded horse of Li Xiaoxian.

After leaving Guancheng and going north for more than two miles, you will find Ruoshui.The river is based on a boat and a pontoon bridge is built.

After crossing the bridge, there are various squares and fields on the west bank.Without deliberately choosing, Li Chengzhi walked in along the first one.

Liu Fang and the others followed closely behind, and took a special look when they entered the door, only to see a four-foot-square plaque on the gate tower, with a golden word "Qian" written on it.

Knowing the meaning by looking at the words, everyone immediately knew that this should be the place where Xihai's coins were minted.

It's not a grain depot, it's a little unsatisfactory.However, "money and food" have never been separated, and it would be good to see what Xihai replaces "coins".

Liu Fang raised her spirits a little, and followed Li Chengzhi into the courtyard.

Therefore, the field is very empty, only a dozen or so figures are seated under the thatched shed in the distance.In addition, Li Shiliang greeted him at the door with his principal and deputy principals.

Now that the army is out fighting, it consumes countless things every day, so women and people have already been recruited by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to rush to make military supplies everywhere.Nowadays, most of the people who stay in the coin factory are the old, weak and disabled who are not good at walking.

Seeing that these people have difficulty even walking, but they still work here, Liu Fang and others suddenly showed curiosity, and there was even a trace of hope in Fanzhong: even these semi-disabled people are unwilling to let go, It can be seen how short of people is in Xihai?

Thinking about it, Liu Fang pointed to the thatched shed: "Can I take a closer look?"

Today I planned to let them see enough, Li Chengzhi naturally agreed: "There is nothing you can do, please!"

Responding in his mouth, he walked forward.

Seeing a group of people coming, the civilian husband subconsciously stopped the work in his hands.When they got closer and recognized Li Chengzhi, the group of people became even more terrified.

Some people have a broken leg, but they can still get up with crutches, and some have a broken arm, and they can walk without hindrance.However, if two legs are broken, or both arms are broken, and those who cannot stand up without any help, they will simply kneel on the ground.

Some called generals, some called dukes, and even some called "Lang Jun".

In addition, there are some old and weak, both men and women, all of whom are gray-haired and senile.

Seeing those who lacked arms and legs, they were all young and strong, Yang Shu's eyes flashed brightly: "Could they all be wounded soldiers in the army?"

Li Chengzhi smiled noncommittally: "Mr. Yanrong has good eyesight!"

Yuan Yuan couldn't believe it, his eyes seemed to pop out.He took two quick steps, staring at a strong soldier whose legs were broken at the knee, and asked in surprise, "This injury is so new, it doesn't take long to heal? Dare I ask when and how it was injured, Er What was your job then?"

The strong soldier looked at Li Chengzhi, saw him nodding his head slightly, and then responded loudly: "When I was marching in Shanshan in April, I was hit by falling stones from the top of the city... At that time, the villain was in charge of the chief..."

When Shanshan was conquered... it will be three months from now?
Yuan Yuan held back his doubts: "How did you survive?"

The strong soldier didn't see Li Chengzhi nodding, so he laughed aloud: "It's just a small man with a big life!"

Judging from his expression and tone, Yuan Yuan knew it was a perfunctory word as soon as he heard it.

His family has a long history of education, and he himself can be considered a battle-hardened man, not to mention seeing it with his own eyes, but he has rarely heard of a wounded soldier who was so severely injured and survived.

There must be another reason.

But if people don't want to talk about it, can they still force them to ask?

Yuan Yuan instinctively thought of Li Chengzhi's superb medical skills.

It must be his skillful hand to rejuvenate, bringing this kind of mortal person back to life.

But medical skills are only second. What surprised Yuan Yuan was that there was no hostility on these people's faces, let alone resentment in their eyes. It is even more known that Li Chengzhi must have worked hard to save him.

This person is just a corps leader, and the rest of the wounded soldiers are faintly headed by this person, presumably they are just ordinary soldiers.It can be seen that there must be many such disabled soldiers in Xihai.

And being called to work here is definitely not as simple as Li Chengzhi sucking out the marrow, let alone feeding him.Nine times out of ten, it is because they are afraid of hurting the dead and feel depressed, thinking that they are useless, and thus end their remaining lives.

For this alone, it is difficult for the imperial court to flatter a horse...

No wonder it doesn't matter whether the soldiers came from Guanzhong, Dunhuang, or the six towns.Regardless of whether they were strong or weak before, whether they were Han or Hu, as long as they belong to the Six Towns, it is like being reborn, and their morale is like a rainbow?

It's all because Li Chengzhi made the four words "love soldiers like sons" to the extreme.

Yuan Yuan felt lost, and remained silent for a long time, Liu Fang only thought that he was surprised by Li Chengzhi's high medical skills.

But like Yang Shu, his eyes kept rolling.He kept looking at Li Chengzhi, the soldiers, the copper water in the canal, and the copper grains on the straw mat at the bottom of the canal.

There were many thoughts in my heart, and I hesitated to speak several times, but finally didn't dare to open my mouth.

Because Yang Shu knew in his heart that if Li Chengzhi didn't want to say it, he wouldn't want to hear a truth if he said that he put a knife on his neck...

The process of copper smelting and coin making was nothing interesting. Li Chengzhi got straight to the point and asked Li Shiliang to open the coin vault.

The currency warehouse is built underground, more than ten feet deep.The surrounding area is built with five-foot-thick stone bricks, and the inner wall is welded with steel plates.

Even each door is welded with nearly [-] thick steel plates.

In this day and age, there is no safer place in the world than here, not to mention people, not even a fly can fly in.

After going down two steps and opening three more iron gates, I finally saw the real face of the coin storehouse.

As the wall lamps were lit one by one, everyone was dumbfounded, suddenly dreaming.

Bright, not so bright, his eyes were so pierced that he couldn't open them.

Although the basement is less than ten feet high, it is huge.There is no border on the left and right, and the front and back are also ten feet wide.Every zhang in the square is supported by pillars that are as thick as an adult's waist.

In it, like a grain hopper, there are layers of cash boxes placed one after another.It was not covered, so when I looked away, my eyes were full of gold, and I felt like I was in a sea of ​​gold.

Yang Shu took a deep breath and couldn't even roll his eyes.

Yuan Yuan exclaimed in surprise: "Real gold?"

"No!"

Li Chengzhi laughed loudly, stepped forward, grabbed a handful at random, and handed it to Yuan Yuan, "It's just brighter copper!"

Yuan Yuan didn't seem to believe in evil, so he put it in his mouth and took a bite.There was only a "creak" sound, as if the tooth had slipped, and the mouth was full of sour water.

He paused and seemed to be muttering to himself: "It's really copper? But even if it's copper, it's too much..."

Gao Zhao raised his eyes and looked around, his eyes were uncertain.After looking at it for a long time, I asked in a low voice: "Food is the most important thing for the people. Even if there are countless coins in this treasury, they are just dead things. What's the use of letting me watch it?"

"What the Taiwei said is true. At this time, it is really useless for me. Because there is nowhere to spend flowers, I have saved so much. But for me before, it was of great use!"

Li Chengzhi threw the copper coins into the box, and said with a gentle smile, "Is the captain pretending to be crazy, or is he really ignorant? I think you should feel familiar?"

Gao Zhao sneered: "It's as good as Gao's and Li's. I haven't seen you give me half of this thing. How can you say it's familiar?"

"Oh? That's my idea."

Hearing his sarcasm, Li Chengzhi didn't care, "I thought the Taiwei must have seen this thing in Guanzhong or Liuzhen..."

Guanzhong... six towns?
Gao Zhao's eyes were fixed, he took two quick steps, and grabbed a handful of copper coins from the box.

After taking a closer look, his face turned pale instantly: "This is clearly brass?"

Seeing him like this, Yang Shu leaned over and asked suspiciously, "But what do you say?"

The same is true for Liu Fang and Yuan Yuan, they all stared at Gao Zhao with burning eyes.

The strange thing is that Gao Zhao seemed to be frozen.

"What else can I say? Everyone thinks that Li Chengzhi is complacent and wants me to take a look at the wealth of Xihai, but I don't know that he wants to let the queen mother and the court know that Xihai is not short of soldiers, let alone food. ..."

After being stunned for a long time, he said in a leisurely voice: "The so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass go first. Since I have plotted to stand on my own, I naturally plan the food and grass first, so that I can recruit soldiers and horses first. Therefore, since you defeated Nanliang, the Queen Mother And when I ordered the old man to lead his troops to resist Rouran, I instructed Yuan Chen, who was the army commander at that time, to secretly raise food for Beizhen and Wuzhou with Gao Meng and Gao Zhi.

Never thought that you can't buy food even with your wealth?After careful questioning, I found out that in recent years, a large number of caravans have suddenly traveled between the six towns and Guanzhong, as well as various tribes in Rouran, including Han and Hu.If it is a Hu merchant, he will exchange food with cattle, horses, livestock, pearls and gems.If it is a Han merchant, it will be exchanged with silk, gold and copper.The price is extremely generous, abruptly raising the price of food by three times.

At that time, there was a lucky person who offered this thing to the old man, saying that it came from Hu merchants, and this thing was obtained in exchange for food.But everyone in the world knows that Beizhen is bitter and cold, and there is nothing to produce. All the generals, tycoons, soldiers, and herdsmen of the six towns secretly trade with Rouran, whether it is silk, hemp, grain, grass, knives, bows, or soldiers. First……

What's more, some brave people even trafficked Rouran's raw iron (roughly smelted iron ore) and horses to Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other states, and then transported them to Nanliang... so they knew that the general was Xiang Rouran's income from selling food, and thinking of filial piety, so he didn't pay attention to it...

But if the old man's major event is broken, he must find a foothold.But after checking and checking, whether Hu merchants or Han merchants, they all have their origins and whereabouts?

The old man is the marshal of the conquest, not the corrupt censor.And this is what I want to do, so naturally I can't make a big fanfare and destroy my foundation.After thinking about it in every possible way, he deceived Yuan Yi into claiming that the army was short of food and grass. He first coaxed him to cut off the way to sell grain from the six states and the northern states, and then encouraged him to pay for the grain and forcibly collect grain from the northern land and the six towns.Then he instructed Yuan Chen (Gao Zhao's son-in-law) to embezzle ink.

But with a hundred thousand troops Chen Yu Beizhen, how huge is the daily expense?Besides, Yuan Yi was at odds with the old man, so guarding against Yuan Chen is like guarding against thieves.Yuan Chen is also timid, so it is like a drop in the bucket, far from what the old man planned.But this matter is not accomplished overnight, the old man has nothing to do, he can only plan it slowly.

After that, Rouran retreated, and the old man returned to the court with his troops, and cleverly used a clever trick to transfer Yuan Chen to Guanzhong to seek food from Guanzhong.

The time of the war is over, but the six towns and the Northland are devastated, starving and dying everywhere.Therefore, the imperial court will surely transport grain from Changping in Guanzhong to rescue the six towns.The weather in Guanzhong is even more favorable, and the grain production is abundant.Of course, Chang Ping warehouse would not dare to touch it, but it is even easier for Yuan Chen to buy some when he collects grain...

But who would have thought that when Yuanchen went to Guanzhong to raise grain, the price of grain in Guanzhong was more expensive than that of the six towns, and it was five times the market price?And only gold and copper are recognized, and the rest, such as silk and silk, are not recognized at all?
Gao Zhao let go of his palm, revealing the copper coin inside: "Yuanchen sent an envoy to report to me, and he brought this thing at that time, saying that such a golden copper coin weighing ten baht can only be exchanged for one catty of grain. And if Yu Guanzhong In exchange for money, one piece of this coin can be exchanged for five baht and five cents in Han. The price of food was roughly one penny per catty before, so wouldn’t it be five times as much?
At that time, I only thought that when I was the first emperor, Gao had offended the nobles in Guanzhong too much, and the harmed son-in-law was also implicated by the old man.It was supposed to be Yuanchen who wanted to find another way to prepare food and grass.But you bewitched Li Shao, trapped Yuan Chen in Guanzhong, and was defeated and killed in the end, so there is no news about this matter.

And my Gao family completely cut off the source of food and grass... You can also know that when Yuan Cheng came to Xiazhou to persuade him to surrender, everyone under Gao Zhao could not eat two meals, and the people even had Yizi And the image of food.If not, how could I descend so fast? "

Gao Zhao paused for a while, then smiled miserably: "It doesn't matter whether it's the empress dowager, the princes, or even the people in Lulu, they all think that I, Gao Zhao, are extremely vicious and insane, and vow to rebel against the world of Yuan and Wei. The oriole was behind, but in the end it was just a wedding dress for Mrs. Li..."

Hearing Gao Zhao's words, several people were shocked, suspicious, and contemptuous!

If it is as he said, it seems that the Gao family is only a small evil, and Li Chengzhi is the big evil: If it weren't for Xihai to drive up grain prices, the Gao family would not be unable to raise grain, and naturally they would not use Yuan Yi to attack, and eventually forced The people of the five prefectures rebelled, which eventually caused chaos in the North.

If it weren't for Li Chengzhi, Gao Zhao would not have had to plan six towns for food and grass, sowing the seeds of chaos in Beizhen.

In a word, Gao Zhao made thousands of mistakes, not as many as Li Chengzhi...

"Nonsense, it's bullshit!"

Yuan Yuan was furious, and cursed angrily, "Could it be that Li Chengzhi put the knife on your Gao Zhaoyou's neck, forcing you to rebel?"

Gao Zhao was choked speechless and just snorted coldly.

Liu Fang and Yang Shu also remained silent, and their faces were as dark as ink.

When Gao Zhao said so much, his original intention was to prove for Li Chengzhi why there is no shortage of food in Xihai!

That's why Yuan Yuan became angry from embarrassment...

(End of this chapter)