Chapter Twenty-Six: The Wooden Dragon Breaks and the World Is in Chaos (II)
87_87379 "Cheng! We've taken it! ”
In order to survive, Cao Baochu stomped his feet and gritted his teeth to meet Li Dacheng's request, he should not starve to death, and he may not die if he responds, and this matter cannot be chosen!
"Let's arrange for manpower! Thirty-six, three gangs! ”
Lao Cao left, Li Dacheng found Li Dagou again, and asked Lao Cao to bury three boxes of treasures that were only a small part of the treasure of the True Word Gate, and the remaining gold and silver nuggets, he planned to let Li Zhuang's brothers bury them, so that even if they were defeated, they would have a way back, and twenty or thirty thousand silver and several thousand taels of gold were enough for Zhuangzi.
Li Chengyou brought a mule cart, Lao Cao has not come back, taking the opportunity to transport clothes out, Li Dacheng asked the brothers of Li Zhuang to transport the gold and silver of the real word gate out of Gaozhai, how to bury where to bury things is simple.
After a busy night, the brothers of Li Zhuang and the big and small Li Zhuang left, and more than a dozen people in the team of Lao Cao's boatmen also left, and they took away nearly six thousand taels of silver, counting the buried, there was not much gold and silver in Li Dacheng's hand.
After sending down the ten pieces of Long Yang promised yesterday, Li Dacheng asked Li Cheng to close the accounts of the Yellow River Fist, and the Long Yang that Liu Laozhuang got still had more than 800 left, 300 taels of gold, and only two boxes of treasures left on the side of the True Word Gate, one box is a jewelry necklace, and the other is a box of broken silver, and the total price is only five or six thousand taels.
The wealth of nearly 10,000 taels of silver, although it looks like a lot, it can't bear the Yellow River Fist and eat more than 300 mouthfuls!
Normal people, there are food and vegetables for one person three catties of grain a day is enough, but the Yellow River boxing is not successful, even a dozen donkeys and mules, last night a meal on 1,500 catties of grain, in addition to the Gaozhai villagers eat, a person is also more than three catties of grain, the entire Yellow River boxing a day of nearly 3,000 catties of grain consumption, is not a small amount, sometimes silver can not be eaten.
Swept the weapons of Gaozhai and spent more than 100 taels of silver, but the equipment of the Yellow River Fist is still unsightly, Old Man Sun said that he can fight the idea of fighting the officials and soldiers of Cangzhou Prefecture, but if he wants to buy ordnance, the silver designation is indispensable, and 10,000 taels of silver is not enough to spend.
Rectify the Yellow River Boxing, Li Dacheng now has no time, no thought, in Gaozhai rest for the whole two or three days, he decided to set off to Cangzhou Mansion, when Lao Cao's people left, Li Dacheng gave an extra five hundred taels of silver, in order to let them distribute grain along the river, spread the news, let the boatmen from Shandong join the Yellow River Boxing.
When he arrived at Cangzhou Mansion, if the number of shipwrights was large, Li Dacheng planned to eat the official mansion, if there were not many personnel, he planned to go south, and at the junction of Zhilu and Lu, and then expand the scale of the Yellow River Boxing, at least one or two hundred people who could fight, plus more than 1,000 horses, before they could enter Tianjin Wei, otherwise the strength was too small, and they would have to be annexed by others.
Cangzhou is a place where many forces are mixed with gangs, officials and soldiers, regiments, bandits, and Boxers, and it is not easy to get close to Cangzhou Mansion, and the local forces will not let the Yellow River Fist enter Cangzhou Mansion lightly.
I wanted to get some knife wounds from Wang Tingxiang, but the old man said that there were only a few bottles in Gaozhai, and when I arrived at Cangzhou Mansion, I would give as much as I wanted, and Li Dacheng's manpower, medicines, weapons, and silver had all encountered a bottleneck now, that is, Cangzhou Mansion!
If you want to enter Tianjin Wei, Cangzhou is a checkpoint, Li Dacheng can't be the master of such a checkpoint, whether he can succeed or not, he will only know after passing through.
After three days of rest, Li Dacheng gave an order, and more than 300 people of the Yellow River Boxing marched to Cangzhou Mansion again, even if Li Cheng had been running around to buy in the past few days, he only got more than 20,000 catties of grain, more than 40 donkeys, mules, cattle and horses, these things can only maintain the consumption of the Yellow River Boxing for half a month, no income, sitting and eating, Li Dacheng can only hold on for half a month.
Walking out of Gaozhai, the chaos of Zhili came into view, and Master Ma, Zhao Tongjin, and Zhenzimen were different from these wealth and robbery, and the Boxers of Zhili were really killing devils and burning churches!
Dozens of miles a day, the team of the Yellow River Boxing saw four or five sets of red clothes and red turbans dressed in the Zhili Boxers, and the burned down chapel saw one, which is said to have been built by Ermaozi, the church was burned, and the Ermaozi who built the church was also burned, and the anger of the Zhili Boxers came from, Li Dacheng did not know where it came from.
Unlike Shandong, there are not many conflicts between the people and the people in Zhili, and the origin of such anger is somewhat unknown!
With the advancement of footsteps, Cangzhou Mansion is getting closer and closer, and the origin of the anger of the people of Zhili Boxer, Li Dacheng gradually became clear, it is not a church but a railway, and the construction of the railway naturally has to be straightened, and this alone is enough trouble.
The railway is bound to pass through the city and walk through the village to the place where there are many people, there are tombs in the place where there are many people, these tombs are the origin of the anger of the people of Zhili, although the railway is built by the imperial court, but the right of way, design and construction are dominated by foreigners.
Merchants wanted to take advantage of the right of way, the landlords were angry that the railway destroyed the cultivated land and pulled away the tenant farmers, and the officials of the imperial court also had some miscellaneous ideas.
The big businessmen and gentry, officials and officials, distorted many things, and constantly provoked the refugees and the people to confront the foreigners, and the people, things, and things that could be seen and touched by the railways, churches, and Ermaozi became the objects of the ignorant people to vent their anger in the troubled times.
Beating, killing, destroying, and burning are just appearances, and only one word is the key to the Boxers being able to make trouble, and that is: rob!
This word robbery can best describe the essence of the Boxers, not only gold, silver, food, and clothing, but also status, dignity and honor!
Walking on the road, Li Dacheng can hear the news brought by the Zhili boxers at any time, a certain box, a certain door destroyed a few Ermaozi, burned a few churches, and even burned a few Ermaozi houses, a certain person because of his meritorious fist, won the praise of the local gentry, won the county master's reception, or the officials and officials of a certain state and county also joined the Boxer Rebellion, etc......
Looking at the jubilant boxers, Li Dacheng was very helpless, this boxing was too biased and too accurate, but because the boxers were proud of the boxers, as if they had killed Ermaozi, they were not ordinary people, and they could be on an equal footing with the high-ranking gentry.
What is accurate is that the people who promoted the Boxers behind the scenes accurately captured the minds of the refugees and the people, this record is accurate and vicious, the boxers make trouble with the people, the boxers make trouble with foreigners, the boxers protect the court, and the boxers do not make trouble with the official gentry, this calculation is very shrewd, but Li Dacheng decided to change this rule for them, where does the gold and silver sea come from if the officials and gentry do not make trouble?
"The second, third, sixth, and old Cao greet each other, and all the refugees in Shandong, we will accept all the Yellow River Boxing!"
The second Li Dahan, the third Li Dagou, the sixth Li Chengyou, and the old Cao Cao Baochu are the four generals under Li Dacheng.
Li Dacheng's order, not only Sun Shouye and Wang Tingxiang, who followed all the way, frowned, but also the second, third, sixth, and Cao in his mouth also frowned.
"Do it! Before arriving at Cangzhou Mansion, all Shandong refugees and Boxers were all accepted, and those who were not satisfied were scattered and collected, and those who were willing to follow had food and drink! ”
With the support of Li Dahan, Li Dagou, and Li Chengyou, the people of the Yellow River Fist directly crossed the team, and collected the Shandong refugees and Boxers on the periphery of Cangzhou Mansion along the way.
Cangzhou Mansion is at the junction with Wuding Mansion in Shandong, from east to west, Zhanhua, Wudi, Leling, Huimin, Ningjin these places are disaster areas once the Yellow River floods, unfortunately last year the Yellow River waterway in Henan broke out, these prefectures and counties are disaster areas, refugees and victims in the north must go to Cangzhou Prefecture.
Further west, Lingxian, Pingyuan, Guanxian, is the birthplace of the Boxers, in addition to the vermilion lantern and eighteen kui, the boxers and refugees here, to Tianjin Wei also have to go to Cangzhou Mansion.
Further southwest, Yanggu, Liangshan, Yuncheng, Cao County people are fierce, to say something unpleasant, that is, out of the boundary of the horse, the Boxers are more fierce, they go north, in addition to the two states of Jishen in Zhili, the third road is Cangzhou Mansion.
Cangzhou Mansion is destined to be a gathering point for Shandong refugees and boxers, and they can only go straight to Beijing and Tianjin with Cangzhou as a springboard, Li Dacheng's hand is to encircle the Boxers from Shandong, just do it, you don't need to go to Cangzhou, you can gather hundreds of people in one day.
"Dacheng! If you do this, Cangzhou Mansion will be shaken, and it will not be good to provoke the officials and soldiers! ”
poked an opportunity, Sun Shouye intercepted Li Dacheng who was patrolling the team, this kid is playing like this, he is afraid of attracting the attention of the government, once the above ideas change, the first unlucky person is this child.
"Uncle Sun, they don't dare! The officials of Cangzhou Mansion did not dare! This is not Yuan Guizi Shandong, nor is it Tianjin Wei with a governor and a garrison, and further on is the Cangzhou Mansion that does not make a sound in the Beijing-Tianjin border of Zhilu!
Even if Lao Tzu gathers the people for chaos, what can the officials of Cangzhou Mansion do?
Suppress Lao Tzu, let's not talk about the imperial court, or the strength of Cangzhou Mansion, let's talk about Tianjin Wei! The Cangzhou Mansion suppressed the Boxers, so they were not afraid that the Boxers of Tianjin Wei would collide with the Governor's Yamen? When the time comes, who will die first?
With the pressure of the governor of Tianjin Wei, as long as Lao Tzu does not kill officials, whether it is open robbery or blackmail, the officials of Cangzhou Mansion have to endure Lao Tzu! ”
Li Dacheng pierced the fig leaf of Cangzhou Mansion with one finger, and now the situation in Cangzhou Mansion can be confirmed, with the permission of the imperial court, the gentry below, the connivance of the governor Yamen of Tianjin Wei in the north, and the Yuan devil in the south forcing his fist to advance north.
Cangzhou Mansion in Jishen Erzhou in the Zhili area is a rat in the bellows, subject to the splint gas in all directions, they have to listen to the words of the imperial court, the governor and the governor are crushed to death at the first level, the gentry and rich households are their food and clothing, the people are the grandparents, the Boxers are the lawless demon kings of the world, burning, killing and looting are reasonable and legal, and the yamen of Cangzhou Mansion is now a furnishing that can't be managed!
"Dacheng, there are many heroes in the gathering roar, beware of them taking the helm!"
The more people there are, the more chaotic they are, Sun Shouye is only afraid that Li Dacheng will not be able to suppress more and more manpower when he is young, Li Dacheng's ability, Sun Shouye has seen it, and he is still successful in scaring refugees, and when he really encounters hard stubble, he is really not an opponent.
"Uncle Sun, don't you remember what Lao Cao said, the wooden dragon is broken, and the world is in chaos!
Cao Gang! ”
"Cao Gang Lian Yong?"
"Humph! I'm afraid it's long gone, and now it's a refugee! ”
"How to get trust?"
"Gold and silver settle down!"
"Alas...... Or do you understand! ”
Sun Shouye sighed, and walked upside down, the wooden dragon was broken, the world was chaotic, the original Cao Gang was scattered, giving this kid a chance, gold and silver settled down, and he rushed to this hand, more and more Cao Gang boatmen will join the Yellow River Boxing, with the disciples of the Yellow River Boxing to curb the Cao Gang, and the disciples of the Cao Gang to curb the Yellow River Boxing, Dacheng This kid just sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight.
There is a stunned young man in the army, and if you help a few people to get up, you can firmly restrain the stunned young man, these patronize and fight, and in the end, it is not the benefit of the commander and the commander above? This kind of truth, Sun Shouye only figured it out after leaving the official army, how old a child is Dacheng, it is really not to bully the poor young man!
A proverb of the Cao Gang directly became the basis for this kid to enter Cangzhou Mansion, if he took the Boxer Rebellion composed of the Cao Gang to Beijing and Tianjin, it would be impossible for Beijing and Tianjin to have no wind and no waves.
The idea was made, and it was also implemented, the scale of the Yellow River Boxing was growing all the time, three hundred, five hundred, eight hundred, and on the first night of leaving Gaozhai, the number of the Yellow River Boxing had passed eight hundred.
And the Cao Gang disciples who were sent out by Li Dacheng to gather refugees and the Boxers also came back without a shortage, and the first day of the temptation was considered a success