Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 18
Although Champa rice was said to be cheap, merchants in Xin'an did not get rich because of it, mainly because there was no shortage of food in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The reason for the formation of Wuhuluanhua is not like that in the late Ming Dynasty. Due to the climate of the small ice river and the severe cold in the north, the Hu people in the north could not live in Mobei, so they invaded south.

The various reasons for the Wuhu chaos are mainly because Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, abolished his martial arts, brandished his sword from the palace, and abolished most of the army.After the unification of the world, Sima Yan issued an edict: "I will go to the prefectures and counties, and the large counties will have 50 military officials, and the small counties will have [-] people."With an army of this size, not to mention preventing rebellion, even thieves cannot be arrested.In particular, a Xianbei bald tribe with only three thousand settled (hukou) caused a rebellion immediately due to a dispute with the Qiang tribe in Liangzhou.It took nine years for the rebellion to be put down, which made Zhuhu see the weak nature of the Jin Dynasty.

Later, during the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, the kings fought for more than ten years, exhausting the last vitality of the Jin State.Zhu Hu rebelled.This is a man-made disaster not a natural disaster.Although the price of grain in the north is generally inflated, it is mainly due to the impact of the war that the common people cannot carry out grain production.Of course, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, especially in the Jiangnan area, unless there was a natural disaster, there would never be such a wonderful price of rice dendrobium.The real lack of food is the place of ghosts.However, the lack of food for the ghosts is man-made. If the Jianghuai Plain is fertile, there is absolutely no problem in feeding tens of millions of people.However, a large amount of fertile land is barren, and ghosts and abandoned people are living a precarious life, which has to be embarrassing.

Yu Bian went on to say: "You want to arm an army to guard the salt mines. Of course armor is indispensable, right? Zha Jia costs [-] yuan a set, do you want it?"

"Yes!" Lu Yonghua answered directly without hesitation.It is natural to know that a set of armor can increase the chances of soldiers surviving on the battlefield several times.The fully armed army can almost be described as slaughter when facing the unarmored rioters.

Yu Bian said again: "You also need bows and arrows and crossbows, don't you? A good bow and arrow costs 120 yuan for a stone ([-] catties of tension), and a crossbow is more expensive. Tool. Do you want it?"

Lu Yonghua didn't have the slightest immunity to these weapons and equipment, and directly skipped the procedure of counter-offering, almost mechanically nodding.After a short friendship, Lu Yonghua and the Xin'an Business Alliance negotiated a sky-high deal.Not only did Lu Yonghua spend nothing of the [-] gold that he had yet to get, but he also owed a huge debt of [-] gold to the Xin'an Business Alliance.

To say that the Xin'an businessman is really shrewd enough, the huge sum of 12 gold was returned to him without even leaving the treasury.Not only did he get the right to sell [-] shi of refined salt, but he also disposed of the backlog of goods.Lu Yonghua purchased a lot of things, including [-] bolts of fine linen, [-] bolts of cloth, and [-] catties of steel at a price of [-] yuan per catty.

It is not uncommon to say that Xin'an merchants can deal in food and cloth, but it is embarrassing to be able to get involved in the sale of large-scale weapons and equipment.This is mainly because the Eastern Jin Beizhong Lang general in Huaiyin, the governor Xu Yanqing and the Jinling military in Yangzhou, the leader Xu, and the governor of Yanerzhou, Xitan.Xi Tan is the son of Xi Jian, the former Taiwei of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the wife and brother of the famous calligrapher Wang Youjun Wang Xizhi.At the same time, he was Wang Xianzhi's first father-in-law (later his daughter Xi Daomao had a deep relationship with Wang Xianzhi, but Princess Xin'an (Sima Daofu, Huanji's wife) went to Wang Xianzhi and was forced to divorce. , died of melancholy at the age of 43. Xi Daomao and Wang Xianzhi died of melancholy after divorce, which can be called a mandarin duck.)
The topic is getting a bit far.Xi Tan is rich, bold, talented and incompetent.There is nothing that Xi Tan dare not do. Since he took office as General of Beizhong, he has started to resell military resources in order to make money. At the beginning, it was only military rations, salt, and cloth (note that the ancient army did not issue ready-made clothes, but only rolled-up cloth. Let the soldiers make their own clothes) Later, the cost increased, and there were no crossbows, bows, armors, knives, swords, axes, and shields that he dared not sell.

Xin'an businessman is his off-line for selling stolen goods, so the passion is deep.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Lu Yonghua said: "Ten miles ahead, we stop at the north bank, and we can reach Wild Wolf Valley by more than [-] miles north."

Yu Bian said: "This place is far enough away, it looks like we won't be able to make it before sunset!"

Before Lu Yonghua answered Yu Bian's words, he heard a dissatisfied voice from behind, "It will take so long. If I had known that I was going to come to such a ghostly place, I would not have come. Brother Yu, is there anything to eat? I'm hungry. up"

I saw a super fat lazily lying on the soft couch, and said with a displeased face: "Even if you kill me, I won't come to this damn place, there isn't even a beautiful woman, this is killing me!" "

This person is none other than Chen Ying, the young master of the Qimen Chen family, one of the four major merchants in Xin'an (this is a guest appearance by book friends looking forward to friendship every day).

俞變不知道怎么看到陈应就老有一种想揍他的冲动，陈应这个超级巨胖居然厚着脸皮去向黟县俞家求亲，要娶自己刚刚14岁的嫡亲妹妹俞羡儿。What made Yu even more helpless was that his father Yu Gan actually agreed.

In just two years, when Yu Xian'er turns 16, they will get married, and Chen Ying will become his sister-in-law.

Yu Bian had 1 objections to this marriage, but there was no other way.Yu Bian can still dictate the family business, but marriage matters, parents' order, matchmaker's words, Yu Qian is still there, does Yu Bian still have the right to interfere in Yu Xianer's marriage matters.Out of the consideration of Yu Chen's marriage and a strong alliance, he still wants to marry Chen Ying's sick sister.

As for Chen Ying, it was Yu Bian who grew up naked.But unlike Yu Bian, Chen Ying has been a bad ruffian since he was a child. He started going in and out of brothels when he was 12 years old.As long as Chen Ying went to the street, if there was a daughter-in-law or a sister in the family, he would quickly close the door and let the dogs out.

In fact, Chen Ying is not as unbearable as Yu Bian said.Chen Ying is a flirtatious ruffian, flirtatious but not obscene.At least he has never used power to overwhelm others, and bad people are famous, but he likes to smash people with money.There is a widow on Qimen South Street, whose husband died early, and the only one who has worked hard to raise a pair of children, sells tofu for a living, and her fame spreads far and wide, known as Tofu Xishi.

Chen Yingchu, who was 14 years old at the time, was shocked when he saw "Tofu Xishi", and took his servants and slaves to buy tofu at the tofu shop on South Street every day. Let the servants give it to passers-by or beggars on the road for free.From time to time, they would send gold and silver jewelry, rouge and gouache, or silk and satin to Tofu Xishi.It didn't take long for Tofu Xishi to be captured by Chen Ying, and the good thing came true after half-pushing and half-satisfying.

But although Tofu Xishi is well-known, she is not young enough to be Chen Ying's mother.It is naturally impossible to enter the Qimen Chen family.The point is that once Chen Ying was hungover and actually climbed onto the bed of Tofu Xi Shi's daughter.The 12-year-old daughter of Tofu Xishi was so frightened that she was crushed by Chen Ying.Tofu Xishi knew that she had been married before, and she was too old, so she would definitely not be able to enter the Chen family. Although her daughter's accident was minor, it was impossible to be a wife, but being a concubine would be a good destination.Tofu Xi Shi earnestly persuaded her daughter to follow Chen Ying.It turned out to be a big joke. It is not too strange for a mother and daughter to serve a husband. The most strange thing is that the mother and daughter are pregnant at the same time and give birth in the same month.I really don't know how Chen should handle the relationship between these two children.Chen Ying, the mother and daughter of Tofu Xishi, bought a house and raised it, occasionally giving some money and food, and rarely staying overnight.

If Chen Ying only had this feat, it wouldn't make Yu Bian hate Chen Ying.The key is that as a child, Yu Bian has been friends for a long time and often plays together. In terms of chasing women, Yu Bian will never be a match for the fat and fat Chen Ying.Yu Bian looked at Jiankang Wangjianglou's top celebrity, Li Qingcheng, and Li Xiaoxiao.Yu Bian chased Li Xiaoxiao hard for more than three months, and spent no less than 3000 million on Li Xiaoxiao, but he didn't even enter Li Xiaoxiao's boudoir.But fat man Chen Ying managed to catch him after only three days of chasing him.Chen Ying redeemed Li Xiaoxiao's body and became Chen Ying's No.18 concubine.

(End of this chapter)