Chapter 30: The Price of the Mouth (I)

87_87379 Lao Cao attracted these Cao Yong, although the quality is poor, but they are also half a regular army, familiar with the army's drill method, killing style, martial arts, in fact, it is so three moves and two styles, all changes are not separated from their sect, with these old Cao Yong, the Yellow River boxing people can actually practice.

After a short period of practice, it will depend on courage in the future, and if you dare to get started, you can kill people, and if you dare not get started, you can only be killed.

After paying the money promised to this gang of Cao Yong, Li Dacheng arranged for Li Cheng to take people to follow the boat to Shandong, the canal and Cao Road are still safe, although Cao Yun is broken, but there are still some merchants on the canal, pretending to be a fleet returning from Beijing and Tianjin, Shandong will not be suspicious, with these old shipwrights, what can not be fooled?

Putting this gang of Cao Yong in the inner camp, Li Dacheng can be regarded as having a thought, but it is still a problem that the silver is not declining! At night, he had a dream, the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion did not fulfill the contract, and he smiled brightly in the dream.

"Brother Dacheng, yesterday the grain ordered by Lao Cao came, and Cangzhou Mansion sent five thousand taels of silver."

"Just five thousand taels? What about people? ”

"It's still there!"

"Let's go! Take Lao Tzu to see, really think Lao Tzu is a leopard? ”

Turning over, Li Dacheng was just about to take the knife, and after thinking about it, he threw his big knife to Li Dahan.

"Cao Baofu, take your people up, let's go ask for the account!"

"Gotcha! Just wait for the elder brother's orders! ”

The old man got up early, although Cao Baofu and others said that they were not old, but their bodies were old, and they got up early, dressed in a short gray dress, wearing a blue headcloth, so they looked younger, with a big knife behind him, and a big gun with a hard pole more than two meters long in their hands.

With more than 200 people, when they arrived at the gate of the camp, the 100,000 catties of grain were asked for yesterday and had not been paid, and there was no money in the camp now, and the five thousand taels of silver from the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion could only be used as food money.

"Who is the treasurer of the grain stack? How much food was sent? ”

Food is the big thing, silver money is second, and when he arrived at the door, Li Dacheng didn't pay attention to the group of people in short clothes, but looked at a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman.

"The contemptible person is the shopkeeper of the Tongfeng Grain Store, Liu Changhe, yesterday the senior brother ordered 100,000 catties of grain in my Tongfeng, Tongfeng thank you for taking care of the senior brother.

However, the food in the city is limited, and 100,000 catties of grain were taken out in a short time, and Tongfeng did not have such a great ability, so he exhausted the inventory, and Tongfeng barely scraped together more than 30,000 catties of grain for the senior brother.

Seventy stones of the second-class Shaanxi Valley, one hundred and seventy stones of one hundred and seventy coins and one stone of one hundred and twenty coins of the first-class local sorghum rice, seventy stones of miscellaneous grains and bad grains, and one stone of eight coins of silver, a total of three hundred and seventy-seven taels of silver! ”

Millet and sorghum rice are considered coarse grains, and the price of grain is about the same, 100,000 catties of grain, although it is not much, but it is also a lot for a grain stack.

This grain store shopkeeper only sent 30,000 catties of grain, I'm afraid he is also tempting, if he doesn't give money, the rest of the food will be gone, give money, and then there will naturally be food.

"This is the silver given by the masters of Cangzhou Mansion?"

"Yes! 5,000 taels of silver! ”

"Second brother, count 1,500 taels of silver for Shopkeeper Liu as food money.

Shopkeeper Liu, I paid the money first, you can send as much food as you can buy, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, you can eat it! ”

After asking the few short-dressed people and confirming that the silver was his own, Li Dacheng asked Li Dahan to count 1,500 taels of silver, which was enough to buy 100,000 catties of grain.

"This ......"

Looking at the 1,500 taels of silver in front of him, Liu Changhe, the shopkeeper of Tongfeng, was a little troubled, he quoted the price of this grain as the official silver, and the silver given on the other side was not the official silver!

Such an algorithm, go to a fire consumption of one into five, and he will not make any money, this senior brother of the Boxers, there are too many people under him, and 100,000 catties of grain are far from enough, so he will pay the bill with such privately minted silver, and he will have to lose his family in less than two months.

But the silver is from several uncles of Cangzhou Mansion, who dares to ask them for fire consumption, this matter is difficult, he can't afford to provoke the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion, this refreshing elder brother, he can't afford to provoke it, I haven't seen the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion, do you have to send filial piety silver to others?

"Senior brother, this silver is not official silver!"

Li Dahan has seen some of the world in the past few days, and he knows what the official silver looks like, it's not that the official silver is worthless, the problem should be here.

"Oh...... So be it! Five thousand taels of silver, Liu shopkeeper will take it away, you can give as much food as you can buy, you can give less and no more!

Go back and tell your uncles, Lao Tzu's fire consumption here is fifty percent, and five thousand taels of silver is two thousand five hundred taels, which is not enough! ”

Liu Changhe of the grain store, Li Dacheng doesn't intend to offend, after all, he has no way to buy grain, and offending the grain merchants will not benefit him at all, as for those uncles in Cangzhou Mansion, to put it nicely, they are people in the rivers and lakes who assist the official, and if it is not good, they are scoundrels on the ground in Cangzhou Mansion.

Liu Changhe is a good person, he risked not paying the bill to send food, no matter what the reason, the result of this is good, at least the people have kept the safety of the city.

In this way, whether it is a grain merchant or a scoundrel, this account is very clear!

"Look up and don't look down, senior brother, don't deceive people too much."

Li Dacheng sent away Liu Changhe, who was on the Tongfeng, and the young men who came to give the silver also showed their minions, five thousand taels of silver is already a lot, and it is still necessary, does this mean that you want to fight?

"Too much deception? Cangzhou Mansion's income from the ground in the previous year, how can it be 100,000 yuan?

According to the calculation of 190,000, you should give me 95,000 taels of silver, if you still send such silver, it is good to send 190,000 directly to the fire!

Give you an hour, go!

If you can't send it, bring someone here, let's talk about it later! ”

Li Dacheng still owes Cao Baofu 14,000 taels of silver! This account will not drag on for a few days, from Cangzhou to Shandong, it will only take four or five days to run back and forth, plus the food and drink of the refugees, Li Dacheng does not want to go bankrupt, so he has to cut through the mess quickly.

"Lao Cao, let's go back! Will you draft? ”

This old Cao is Cao Baofu, this should be Cao Baochu's brother, and it is difficult to get this title if there are more people with the same surname.

"Yes! With strong arms, slender legs and feet, strong arms to hold a knife, and slender legs to run, you can fight with these two things. ”

"Okay, you can pick 2,000 people from the refugees, the older ones are the same as you, and if you want to stay, I will give them 30 taels of settling-in allowance, and after the people and horses are chosen, they will practice according to your original method and practice in the camp outside.

Second, you come with me! ”

The people who left Cao Baofu selected the people, Li Dacheng took Li Dahan to the inner camp, Cao Yong and the refugees cannot be entangled, Cao Yong can let Cao Baochu take them, the refugees and the Yellow River Fist must be given to Li Dahan and Li Dagou, otherwise they will be set up by Cao Yong.

"Brother Dacheng, can they believe Lao Cao?"

Li Dahan also has such doubts here, after all, a day ago, everyone was ignorant, and after one night, the power of the Yellow River Fist was handed over to these Cao Yong, Li Dahan felt that this was not a good thing.

"Who knows? So clamp them down.

The knife hand of the Yellow River Fist is left for me, you and the big dog take the other horses of the Yellow River Fist to mix with the selected refugees, the two of you are divided in half, Cao Baofu and they help us train the troops, but only you and the big dog have the final say in the matter of leading the troops.

There are those who can fight, some who are real, some who are alone and have no family, or those who have many families, all of them are sent to me, remember that they must be good and young, and they don't want to be thirty-five years old or older.

You wait, go to Cangzhou Mansion to find a group of blacksmiths, and then buy some iron with some silver, and let them fight knives according to the style of our simple knives! The weapons in the pawnshops in Cangzhou Mansion, you also go to take a look, you might as well do this, let these pawnshops bring weapons, we pay according to the price, if the merchants in Cangzhou Mansion don't believe us, you look for the shopkeeper Liu of Tongfeng, he should be able to help say something. ”

After arranging the errand, Li Dacheng squatted on the grain cart and looked at the south gate of Cangzhou Mansion, an hour was short, and I was afraid that they would not be able to do it if those masters prepared 190,000 silver.

In addition to the fire and negotiation, it just dragged through this stall, and he wants to open his mouth again, isn't it easy? It's not easy for anyone, and I don't want to pay this price, so I said at the time, it's too late to talk about it now!

Rules are rules, if the rules are not good, what should the rules do? Seeing half of the meeting, he Li Dacheng opened his mouth, and the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion could kill him, otherwise he would have waited to be stabbed!

Squatting on the carriage, breathing the clean air of Zhili, looking at the busy people and horses below, watching the golden sun move slowly, an hour passed quickly, there was nothing abnormal at the south gate of Cangzhou Mansion, it seems that the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion are not ready to accept it.

"Qian Laoba, you go to the second, third, and Cao, tell them, and let the people who have just been selected line up and go out of the camp to gather at the south gate of Cangzhou Mansion!"

It's almost time for lunch, whether it is the disciples of the Yellow River Fist or the refugees who have just been gathered, they are a little lazy and slack in their actions, but no matter what, the people still moved, moving towards the south gate of Cangzhou Mansion.

As soon as this side moved, the city head of Cangzhou Mansion also sounded, and the three-cornered dragon flags were raised, this face was good, but there were fewer people in the city, and two or three hundred people faced tens of thousands of refugees under the city, don't their legs and stomachs tremble?

Li Dacheng is watching Da Han, Da Dog and Lao Cao restraining the team! Cao Laoer, that is, Cao Baochu, hurriedly rushed over.

"Senior brother, do you really want to storm the city? This head is not familiar yet! I'm afraid that the city will fall apart! ”

The people who have just been selected can only go out by scolding, and if they rush to the city and do not wait for the city gate, the people will have to run away.

"Cao Lao Er, which told you that Lao Tzu is going to let people rush to the city? Lao Tzu just saw that the brothers of the Yellow River Boxing were a little lazy, and let them go out to move their muscles and bones, and come back to eat after the activity, and be full!

Cao Lao Er, how many people have been made underneath? ”

Storming the city? Without ten days and eight days of training, these people are afraid that they will not be able to do it, these people under Li Dacheng, I am afraid that only the more than 200 people of Lao Cao and Cao Baofu and a dozen swordsmen around him have the courage to rush to the city, and the others, the officials and soldiers at the head of the city will be scattered if they scold a few words.

"More than 3,000 and less than 4,000, senior brother, how are these refugees organized? They can eat us to death! ”

The sense of belonging is also very easy to come by, and now Li Dacheng is the iron rice bowl of Lao Cao, Cao Lao Er and others, and there is still an account of 14,000 taels of silver owed to them here! The refugees have eaten the Yellow River fist, where are they going to eat?

"This is the matter of Cangzhou Mansion, it has nothing to do with us, the grain given now, Cangzhou Mansion will pay according to the price, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, someone should come to us."

While talking about Li Dacheng, he glanced at the situation in Cangzhou Mansion, his Yellow River fist did not move, the officers and soldiers of Cangzhou Mansion did not dare to move, and saw smoke and dust rising near the east gate, Li Dacheng took a closer look, the figures on the horse, weren't they the uncles last night?

I forced them, they couldn't help but come out, but the Cangzhou Mansion opened its mouth, did they dare not come out? If you don't come out, then you are really looking for death, the official army may not be able to deal with the Yellow River Fist, but it is more than enough to deal with them, if the official army in the land of Fucheng can't contain the local forces, then you still need a fart official army?

Come out, things will be easy to do, now this situation, there is the pressure of Cangzhou Mansion, even if these uncles really want to fight, they can't fight, it's their turn to ask for the price and not pay back, what a good day today!.