Chapter 32: The Price of the Mouth (II)
87_87379 For a day and a half, a whole night, and a whole day, Li Dacheng's refugee camp has also taken a rudimentary shape, with a trench two meters wide and one meter deep, an earthen wall one and a half meters high, ten wells, dozens of thatched houses, and if there are some tents, this boundary is said to be a military camp, and it is said to be a refugee camp.
These wells and latrines are built, I am afraid that the officials and gentry of Cangzhou Mansion will not be able to sit still, this is a sign that they will be stationed, Li Dacheng does not believe that they will not come to him tomorrow.
The filial piety of the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion was also sent before dark, and there were 300,000 silver dollars, including official silver, silver dollars, and privately minted silver taels, and the most was ten taels of silver bars with the ticket number Taichang imprint; In addition, there are fifty gold bars of ten taels, twenty gold ingots of ten taels, eleven ghost-headed broadswords, and more than thirty horses. When the Boxers were playing at home?
There are 23,000 taels of official silver they sent, Li Dacheng gave it to Cao Baofu, 14,000 is the remaining 9,000 in arrears, which is used to recruit Cao Yong in Shandong, and 32 is also a team of 300 people.
Gold and silver are easy to say, eleven ghost head broadswords, but Li Dacheng is a little embarrassed, the knife is very good, it should be regarded as the best among the big knives, especially the big knife inlaid with gold ghost heads, the knife body is full of gray and white moire, the blade is still with blue light after years, the back of the knife is thick and heavy, the tip of the knife is open, the knife is also a paperback steel gauntlet prepared for actual combat, the ruler-long handle is wrapped with python skin, the counterweight ghost head is made of gold, the two ghost eyes are embedded with rubies, and the pitch-black mouth is also embedded with black gems, The scabbard is a leather scabbard that can be carried on the body, and it is also decorated with gold and silver, and the wood the thickness of the arm is broken by the knife.
The knife is a good knife, but it's a pity it's too heavy! Li Dacheng weighed it, the big knife was thirteen catties and seven taels, the scabbard was one catty and two taels, and the rest of the ghost head knife weighed around twelve catties.
Li Dacheng made a short simple knife in the old man Sun, the size is about the same as the ghost head knife, but the blade is narrower, the back of the knife is thinner, and the flat head has no tip, but it is only four catties heavier, which is twice the weight of the difference.
For these eleven ghost head knives, Cao Baofu didn't even look at them, except for the executioner, there are not many people who can use such a big knife, the bigger the knife, the slower the knife, the power of the ghost head knife is true, but the speed is really slow, and it is tiring to carry it! Whoever wants this thing is a fool.
But there are really fools in the Yellow River boxing, Li Dacheng is one of them, Li Dahan, Li Dagou, Qian Laoba is the third, Li Dacheng has personal experience, in the process of fighting with Ma Wenxuan, he just suffered a loss of slow knife, but the reason why he chose the gold-handled ghost head knife is also very sufficient, this knife is hideous and domineering can calm people, the number of people and horses is increasing, and there are not many times when he needs to go into battle in person, unless he encounters a vicious war, even if he encounters a vicious war, he also has Qian Lao Ba and others around him to support, the knife is slow and the knife is fast, which has little impact on him, As long as the lethality is high, it is enough.
As for Qian Laoba, he is not a person, a ghost head knife of more than ten catties, in his hand is like a short knife, wielding like the wind, but he doesn't know any knife skills, but it's a pity that he has a good knife.
As for Li Dahan and Li Dagou, they purely took a fancy to the appearance of the ghost head knife, Li Dacheng did not obey their wishes, after all, the main generals of the battlefield in the future are the two of them, and they will die quickly if they take such a thing.
"Lao Cao, among the people who are newly trained, you choose nine people with great strength, who can wield this knife for two quarters of an hour, and these nine people are selected to let Qian Lao Ba take them and be my guard!"
Li Dacheng, who had a great harvest, did not sleep peacefully that night, and he did not plan to hide the gold and silver given by the uncles of Cangzhou Mansion in the Sun family compound, after all, he had just obtained such gold and silver, and Cangzhou Mansion would pay attention to him, and how to spend these gold and silver was a big problem that troubled him.
Refugees can give some, but not all out, he is not a gold and silver mine, in the face of tens of thousands of refugees he does not have such the ability to pay, manpower can no longer expand, the team of three thousand people, is not small, the team can only continue to refine and can not continue to expand, in his opinion more than a thousand people are enough, too much attention!
There are ways to spend this money, but most of them don't work, one is to buy food so that it can ensure the operation of the refugee camp, but buying food for 10,000 or 20,000 is enough, too much is useless! Weapons, 3,000 blades, 3,000 spearheads, and gun barrels cost no more than 1,800 taels of silver, and the clothes of the Yellow River Fist, according to the red outfits of the Boxers outside, were only a few hundred taels of silver.
Buy guns, such a large quantity, who the would dare to sell them? Moreover, the ** of the official army of Cangzhou Prefecture, he really can't look down on it, and the things in front are too backward. If you buy a horse, you can carry food, and these people haven't even learned land warfare! Learn to fight horses, you will laugh to death!
Buying a boat, is a good idea, Cao Gang in their own team, operating the boat is their business, at this time the boat is faster than walking, riding a horse, of course, this fast refers to the speed of the march, if there can be a hundred and ten river boats, whether it is to transport people or things, two days to Tianjin Wei, four days to the capital, what they lack is this thing.
Thinking about this, Li Dacheng got up in the middle of the night and pulled up Cao Baochu, and asked him to go out to find a boat with a deposit of two thousand taels.
The rest of the silver can also be loaded on the ship and taken away, which one dares to play with those old Cao Yong on the ship? They have no body in land battles, they are no worse than young men when they get on the boat, if there is a cannon river boat, they can also become a warship, and foreign devils can't always take river warships with them, right?
Thinking of this, Li Dacheng slept very sweetly in the second half of the night, he dreamed of gold and silver seas, and dreamed of blood and fire.
"Brother Dacheng, there is a Master Jiang outside the camp gate, who is from the government."
As soon as the day dawned, Li Dahan brought good news, the government came to people, and the tent in the camp had a provenance, but for this Master Jiang, Li Dacheng had some good feelings, it was these people who supported the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, without these people, maybe the ability and ethics of the officials would be better, after all, most of the people who read are some discipline, but with the master, this bureaucratic system is much darker.
"Let him in!"
I took a look at my camp, although the materials were good, but they were still shabby and dilapidated, and it was still good to meet guests in this place.
"This strong man is the senior brother of the Yellow River Boxing, Jiang Huiyun is polite!"
"Mr. Jiang is here, sit down quickly, it's a little shabby here, don't mind Mr. Jiang!"
"A strong man is also a fellow believer?"
"Don't dare, don't dare, country boy!"
"Strong man, I don't know what to ask for in Cangzhou Mansion to put such a formation?"
"Mr. Jiang understands people! In that case, let's get straight to the point! ”
"Right in the middle, strong man, please say!"
Jiang Huiyun is different from those uncles in Cangzhou Mansion, he sees the shape very clearly, and when he saw that Li Dacheng was difficult, he came directly to the point.
For Cangzhou Mansion, Li Da has something to ask for, otherwise what would he do in this position? It's best to get straight to the point!
"The timing of this fist is not too good, just in time for the famine in Shandong, and Mr. Don't hide that he himself is from the disaster area in Shandong!
This boxer plus the refugees is enough to disturb the place, the boxers are in order to help clear the ocean, but these refugees are different, often under the banner of boxers, do some things like chickens and dogs, and they come like this, first, to disturb the place, and second, to damage the reputation of my boxers.
Seeing this scene, I felt both resentment and pity in my heart, why did the refugees flee to Zhili? The reason is simple, there is no food to eat, as long as there is food, the refugees will be stable, the refugees will be stable, the place will be peaceful, and the reputation of the boxers will be right!
In between, I opened this refugee camp on the boundary of Cangzhou Prefecture, but the daily consumption of grain and grass is quite large, and I ask Cangzhou Prefecture to take over the refugee camp, which is what I think! ”
Listening to Li Dacheng's words, Jiang Huiyun also nodded frequently, this is good, the reason is right, and the thing is good, but these are not the other party's requirements, listening to his accent, where is the refugee from Shandong, it is clearly a changed Beijing accent, this master is afraid that he has never been to Shandong, and he will not become an anti-dog.
How can he be a refugee from Shandong if he can gather so many displaced people in a short period of time, build a refugee camp in one day and one night, and dare to blackmail the Cangzhou Mansion gang for 300,000 taels of silver? This matter is strange and troublesome, I heard that there are several masters in the capital, who are Ming Daming who support the Boxers, and these masters are still young and strong among the banner people, is it ...... Even if it's not, this person over there should be a lot of weight.
"The strong man said clearly! I don't know what Cangzhou Mansion can do? ”
Obedient does not listen to the deep meaning, just listen to the origin of the person, whether this person is from Beijing or not, with these people he is gathering now, Cangzhou Mansion will not be able to provoke others, and if you talk, you can only let people make conditions.
"You mean, let the gentlemen make a price?"
Seeing that Jiang Huiyun had misunderstood, Li Dacheng misled him again, pulled the tiger and pulled the banner, and it was the eight kings in these shallow pools who were fooled! They couldn't enter the deep water, they couldn't see the big Buddha, they could only guess with little information, and they were really right.
"Yes!"
"There is a rule for gentlemen, there is no price when you open your mouth!"
"Even if the strong man opens his mouth, the Cangzhou Mansion that can be taken will naturally take it, and the strong man who can't take it will still not be able to take it out!"
"Good! Joyfully!
One is food, so many victims have poured into Cangzhou Mansion, this food has to be starved to death no matter how full it is, right?
The second is the tent, seeing that the sky is getting hotter and hotter, the sun is blowing and the wind is blowing, and the morning dew is sleeping overnight, it is inevitable that there will be an epidemic, and the military tent Cangzhou Mansion should provide it, right?
The third is debt, you have helped you manage the refugees for so long, and you have spent tens of thousands of silver, Cangzhou Mansion can't let you go out by yourself, right?
At the moment, what does Mr. Jiang think? ”
I thought about mentioning ordnance, but Li Dacheng thought about it and broke off this idea, there is no ordinary blacksmith in Cangzhou Mansion who has a good ordnance, and he is timid!
Moreover, Jiang Huiyun came with sincerity, he went too far, and the bad thing was the future of the refugees, now as long as the Cangzhou Mansion can handle the food and tent affairs, and when the boat is enough to train the people and horses, after more than ten days, he will be able to set off for Tianjin Wei, a team of more than 3,000 people, Tianjin Wei must always think about it.
"Reasonable! Although the imperial court did not allocate the grain, it was not only appropriate but also obligatory to mobilize the gentry of Cangzhou Mansion to help the victims!
As for the military tents, Cangzhou Mansion also has them, but there are not many of them, and they are old, and the specific number still needs to be checked in the treasury, and there may be some old accumulation.
As for the debt, Jiang still needs to discuss this matter with Lord Futai, after all, the amount is not small, how do you think the strong man will deal with it like this? ”
Li Dacheng's conditions, in addition to silver, Cangzhou Mansion can be handled, and silver is not a difficult matter, but it involves gold and silver, Jiang Huiyun is a staff member, and it is not easy to make decisions for the government.
"Good! Cangzhou Mansion is very pragmatic, since this is the case, you can do it! The gentleman didn't stay long in Cangzhou Mansion, but this refugee camp still has to stay, after all, ......"
As he spoke, Li Dacheng pointed to it, and Jiang Huiyun also nodded like a chicken pecking rice, it depends on how to say this, if it is said that it is a gathering of people to cause chaos, it should be killed! It is said that it is the political achievements of Futai, that is, the policy of benefiting the people is worth advocating, how to say that it is all on the stick of a pen, this thing is a good thing to make political achievements.
After all, the imperial court's attitude towards the Boxers is still a little obscure, and such a policy to reduce the number of Boxers may be greatly praised.
"Thanks for the pointers!"
"Huh...... Well done, there's a good thing to do! ”
"Then Jiang said goodbye......"
"Don't send it!".