Han ride

Chapter 235
"This Wu Sangui has a wicked heart!" Song Xiance suddenly pulled his goatee, thought carefully, and finally whispered something in Li Xin's ear.

"I'm afraid I'm the only one who will do this matter myself. Hehe, I'd like to see what other tricks Wu Sangui will have." Li Xin's eyes lit up, and he greeted everyone with a smile: "Go back, relying on It is impossible for more than 1000 people to attack the city. From now on, we will send him some food and grass every day. We cannot make them have the strength to attack, but we must not let him have no strength. Before our army comes, we still need Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses Watch for us." Li Xin believed that Wu Sangui would not leave at this time, and once he left, the imperial court would settle accounts with him.

Wu Sangui was also sad, after scolding for an hour or two outside the city, he finally found that no one paid any attention to him, so he had no choice but to lead the cavalry to camp outside the city.Fortunately, Li Xin also sent people to bring food and grass, which saved him from searching around for food and grass.When Wu Sangui was even more angry, the current him would neither leave nor stay.

The matter waited until the fifth day, and Wu Sangui finally couldn't sit still, because the rebel army was only ten miles away from Dengzhou City at this time.But Dengzhou City was still quiet, except for the defense, no one spoke to Wu Sangui again.He looked as if he didn't know the arrival of the rebels.

What he didn't know was that Li Xin was meeting the members of the Xiao clan at this moment. The Xiao clan finally entered Dengzhou under Wang Haoxian's arrangement, and Li Xin also opened the treasury according to the original order and let Wang Haoxian carry away the weapons. There was Wu Sangui, and the rebels. How this Wang Haoxian transported the weapons was not what he wanted to know.

Xiao Hengshan, the patriarch of the Xiao Clan, is a wealthy middle-aged man, but his appearance is somewhat similar to Xiao Yu.Even under house arrest for a long time, seeing a general like Li Xin, there is still no worry or fear on his face, just looking at Xiao Yu on the side, with a trace of sadness and shame on his face.

"Patriarch Xiao, congratulations for escaping the catastrophe this time!" Li Xin looked at Xiao Hengshan and said in relief.

"The villain also needs to thank the general for saving his life." Xiao Hengshan looked at Li Xin with a complicated look on his face. Li Xin saved the lives of Xiao's family. As a businessman, he naturally knew that Li Xin saved the whole family with conditions. Yes, Xiao's only sister can be used as a bargaining chip now.For his younger sister, he can be regarded as a brother like a father, and he also hopes that his sister can be happy, but is there happiness with Li Xin?Xiao Hengshan didn't know, but the matter had reached this point, and there was nothing he could do.

"This time the Xiao family can escape the catastrophe, I wonder what the Xiao family will do in the future?" Li Xin waved his hand.

"But according to the general's orders." Xiao Hengshan was about to say something casually, but suddenly saw his sister shaking his head behind Li Xin, and quickly changed his words.

"The Xiao family can be regarded as a big family in Shandong. It has been passed down for a hundred years. Such a family can't just decline like this. And I also need you." Li Xin thought for a while and said: "You also know that I am very happy on the grassland now. Prestige, but in the Central Plains, those people will not help me. Even the Shanxi merchants are attached to me on the surface, but God knows if they are loyal. I used to have Zhang Yifu, and now Zhang Yifu has other As a result, our army’s food, grass, money, food, etc., even many military supplies, need to be transported from the Central Plains to the grasslands. I wonder if you can act as an agent? Don’t worry, I won’t take advantage of you in vain. Like Shanxi Merchants, whatever their price is, your price will be yours. What do you think?"

"Thank you, General." Xiao Hengshan was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, it is very good to be able to escape his life. This time, Li Xin's tone is obviously to support him to restore Xiao's reputation. It was a surprise.

"It's not necessary to be a family." Li Xin said with a smile: "Soon, our army will come here. At that time, you and your wife will return to Huacheng first and go to Shi Yuanzhi. He will naturally arrange for you of."

"Your subordinate obeys orders." After listening to Li Xin's words, Xiao Hengshan consciously regarded himself as a subordinate to the other party, showing a trace of caution on his face.

"Your brother and sister haven't seen each other for a long time, let's go down first!" Li Xin glanced at Xiao Yu and Xiao Hengshan, with a smile on his face, and said, "I still have things to deal with."

"Thank you, General." Xiao Yu blushed, quickly bowed to Li Xin, and followed Xiao Hengshan out of the hall.

"My lord, the rebel army is here." Song Xiance led Zhang Wu and other generals in, and said with cupped hands.Although it was relatively short time to join Li Xin's subordinates, Song Xiance felt a strange atmosphere.He had also seen the rebels, and he had seen the imperial army.Compared with these armies, Li Xin's army gave him the biggest impression of military discipline, and the military discipline in Li Xin's army was strict.Of course, the formation of such an army is also because of the salary given by Li Xin.In the Ming army, the salaries of soldiers were very low. According to records, during the Jiajing period, Qi Jiguang recruited soldiers and bought horses in Fujian. It was clearly stipulated that the annual salary of soldiers was 18 taels. If you don’t want to participate in important battles, or if you are not in an important area, the price of recruiting soldiers is lower: Mingxiu’s "Wujin County Chronicles" stated that the local recruiters paid one cent of Japanese silver, and their annual salary was less than four taels.During the reign of Chongzhen, wars were frequent, a large number of people were displaced and had no food to support, and it became easier to recruit soldiers. In addition, the imperial court's finances were tight, and the military pay was much lower than that of the same period.The normal consumption of maintaining an army of 8 people should be [-] taels of silver and [-] shi of food per year.The salary of the army in the Ming Dynasty was not much. Part of the income was monthly rations and part of it was travel rations, which was the money paid during the expedition, which was equivalent to today's travel expenses. This kind of income could basically support a family of several people.However, the soldiers under Li Xin's command were paid extremely generously, each with two taels of silver per month, which was almost double that of the Jiajing period, not counting food.This is also the result of Li Xin's unification of the grassland and the support of the seven great families, otherwise, he would not have had so many troops.With this money, let's train the army. Although these soldiers feel hard work, they can only endure it for the sake of money. In this way, there is a guarantee to train an elite soldier.Song Xiance also believed that with such elite soldiers in hand, as long as Li Xin had a little bit of ambition, he would be able to do things that would change the world.

"Oh. It's here so soon." Li Xin was very curious after hearing this.

"If they can escape with their lives, how could these people not come." Song Xiance said with a smile: "Then Wu Sangui heard that the rebels were coming, so he quickly retreated to the west gate and set up camp, waiting for the arrival of Zhu Dadian and others."

"By the way, what happened to Huachai and the others?" Li Xin stood there, squinting his eyes, and asked Song Xiance.

"Recently, I've been very honest. After being taught a lesson by the lord, I'm training with those soldiers." Song Xiance thought for a while and said, "Master, are you worried that this Huachai will contact the rebels?"

"Just in case." Li Xin shook his head and said, "I killed Su Yougong at the beginning, but I didn't want Su Yougong to be around, and these rebels would form a group. It may become a big trend in the future, and at that time I planned to It was Xingbing who went north, but what I didn't expect was that the rebels and Zhu Dadian had already gone south before I went north."

"Isn't this very good? My lord can take this opportunity to beat the imperial court a little bit, so that the teacher will not trouble us when the time comes." Song Xiance said with a smile.

"You, you!" Li Xin felt extremely relieved when he heard this, waved his hands and said, "Let's go, let's go and see how the rebels are doing. Kong Youde can run across Shandong, I've seen such a character."

"Yes." Zhang Wu and Song Xiance followed closely behind Li Xin and left by the north gate.

In the side hall of the government office, Xiao Hengshan and Xiao Yu sat opposite each other, they pondered for a while, then Xiao Hengshan sighed: "Little sister, this time has really been hard for you."

"Brother, the matter has already passed, so don't mention the past." Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "Isn't it good now?"

"Hey! It's all because the elder brother is incompetent." Xiao Hengshan sighed, and asked again: "He, how did he treat you?"

"General, the general is very good to me. Brother, don't worry about it." Xiao Yu blushed, lowered her head, and said shyly.

"I heard that you sent the information about my Xiao family to the general?" Xiao Hengshan glanced around and said softly when he saw that there were no idlers waiting.

"Isn't that why Xiao Shi can attract him?" Xiao Yu thought that Xiao Hengshan was dissatisfied, and frowned slightly.

"This thing is not something that the owner can grasp. If it is still in the hands of my Xiao, it will be a disaster." Xiao Hengshan shook his head and said calmly: "Brother, I want to ask, and this information is still in the hands of my brother." In your hand?"

"Yes! What's the matter?" Xiao Yu asked curiously.

"You have to hand over this thing as soon as possible. Just like I said just now, this thing is beyond the control of the owner." Xiao Hengshan said solemnly, "I heard that there are many rear houses for generals. In addition to Madam, there are many women in the grassland. Although you are smart and beautiful, you are not the main wife. You are a member of the back house. Throughout the dynasties, you have seen how many people from the back house interfere with the government. What good will happen? of?"

"It's not that serious!" Xiao Yu hesitated for a while, then said nervously.

"Stupid." Xiao Hengshan snorted coldly: "Who do you think the general is? Now that the eldest lady is still young, it doesn't matter that the general has no children. In the future, the general's territory will become bigger and bigger, and the children under his knees will be more and more important." There are more and more, and you still hold this thing, how can the general's back house be peaceful? The general is talented, but his future achievements will not be as good as it is now. Get out now to avoid bad luck in the future."

"Okay, little sister will return this errand later." Xiao Yu said unwillingly.

"Hey! Companion to a king is like companion to a tiger, little sister, you must remember this." Xiao Hengshan persuaded from the side.

(End of this chapter)