- Red Star Battalion

At this time, the Red Star Battalion was decorating with lights, warmly celebrating the triumphant return of the warriors who had gone out.

In the cafeteria, Yue Yang was holding a chicken leg in one hand and gnawing on the other, and dozens of people around him listened to the bragging, not to mention how great it felt.

"There are not many people who come to listen to the class, and the status is not very high, that is, there are a few children of two thousand stones in the family, and the real power is the back, Qiu Liju, the king of Wuhuan, knows, right? He specially sent someone to beg our husband to save them, in order to beg for him, he first sacrificed a good horse, and then sacrificed cattle and sheep, and then said that it is really not possible I will give you my daughter too, you know, our husband is not a woman, and he is kind-hearted, so he agreed. ”

People in this era have little entertainment, and going out to treat the plague in a state and save the people in a place like this can make Yue Yang talk about it for a year.

"Dead horse! Stinky horse! You don't come to me when you come back... Sister, what did you say Yue Yang said, is Princess Wuhuan beautiful? Lu Qingcheng pouted and looked at the conference room guarded by the samurai in the distance, and asked Lu Qingcheng.

Lu Qingling covered her mouth and smiled, "Sir, if you like women, I think you are the first one who can't escape, you see that Uncle Lin's family has been in trouble recently because of this." ”

Lu An was heartbroken because of his wife's death, and made a promise never to renew the strings, Yang Wanli was disabled and unwilling to provoke others, and the other Lin Huansan were actually not too old, and now that the conditions are good, I don't know how many people come to the door to say goodbye.

This is also a normal situation in this era, it is not a shame for ordinary people to marry their daughters to big families as concubines, so they can eat well in other people's homes.

People, you still have to have just the right meal.

When Lu Qingcheng heard Lu Qinglime's words, his face couldn't help but turn red.

"Sister! What nonsense are you talking about! ”

The two had a fight, and in the conference room, Ma Qiang sat in the main seat, and the five elders were at the bottom, talking to each other about this period of time.

Now almost all of Dasong Village has moved out, and only a few young people are left to take turns guarding their homes in the mountains, therefore, even Yang Wanli is also a permanent resident of the Red Star Camp, of course, it is not so much that those young people are guarding the house, it is more appropriate to guard the Tiger Sister, the Tiger Sister will still bring the loess to see the white smoke from time to time, whether it is Dasong Village or the Red Star Camp, everyone knows the magic of the Tiger Sister family, and no one is afraid of them, but there are often women holding their children to see the strange.

"It's a pity that I can't make the antidote in the secret codex, otherwise I wouldn't have died so much."

In the conference room, Ma Qiang sighed and briefly talked about the things during this time.

"A big epidemic, only more than 2,000 people died in the whole state, which is an unprecedented thing, and Ma Lang doesn't need to be like this." Lin Huan comforted him, and then said with a smile, "Although it is a little inappropriate, but this epidemic has made our soap popular all over the world, and merchants from Luoyang, Qingxu and other places have come to buy goods, and it is said that in Luoyang, the price of a piece of soap is worth three times." ”

"Luoyang already has soap?" Ma Qiang didn't expect that in such an era, logistics would be so powerful, and it would take half a month for Guangyang and Luoyang to ride horses.

After all, not everyone has a red rabbit.

"In that case, you should give your majesty some offerings."

Ma Qiang came from later generations, so he naturally knew how much economic benefit could be generated by the royal special signboard.

"In this way, the workshop will at once make five hundred of the finest soaps, and the boxes will be written with special offerings, and I will send them to the palace, so that our prices can be raised again."

"This thing is now connected to the treatment of plague, if we raise the price, will it be inappropriate?" Yang Wanli said with some concern.

"Well, what the fifth brother said is reasonable, Ma Lang, although making money is important, reputation is even more important, I suggest that it is best to press the price down a little more, anyway, we have enough money to spend now." After Guo Ping finished speaking, the others also nodded in agreement.

Ma Qiang only felt tears streaming down his face, and those who sat on the ground and raised prices in the face of disasters in later generations showed me if they wanted to be faced! To face no!

These ancients really valued righteousness over profit.

No, it should be said that it is right to value fame over profit, and the reputation of a fish and a common man in this era can ruin a family.

If it was a peaceful period, Ma Qiang wouldn't care, but now Ma Qiang needs money.

"Our soaps and soaps are not something that ordinary people can afford... Otherwise, the price of inferior soap will be lowered, and a box will be changed to 30 Wen, as for the price of soap and delicate soap, not only can not be reduced, but it must be raised, these are for those big families to use, their money is not made in vain. ”

Lin Huan and the others also felt reasonable when they heard it, this is the same as the price of linen, everyone hopes that it is better to be lower, and no one cares about silk or anything equivalent to gold.

"In addition, uncles, I also got an extremely important piece of information in Jixian County this time, you should already know that Zhang Jiao, the great sage and good teacher of Taiping Dao, once looked for me, right?"

A few people nodded to indicate that they knew that there was too much entertainment in this era, and a little thing would soon spread all over the streets.

"I got a breath from Zhang Jiao's mouth, Taiping Dao is preparing to rebel at the beginning of next year, I estimate that the Daoists under his command can gather at least a million soldiers and horses, and then it will inevitably be a war, we have a gap with Taiping Dao, how to protect ourselves in the war next year, we have to discuss it well."

Ma Qiang's words shocked everyone, millions of soldiers and horses, what is the concept?

Let's put it this way, there were not so many soldiers and horses in the Eastern Han Dynasty at this time.

The Eastern Han Dynasty implemented a policy of elite soldiers, and the Central Army stationed near Luoyang, that is, Yulin, Wuying, etc., had a total of only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Among the various counties, only the border counties have standing armies, and each of the 36 border counties of the Han Dynasty has no more than four or five thousand soldiers, which means that the standing county soldiers of the Eastern Han Dynasty are less than 200,000.

As for the border army, in fact, most of them are righteous servants, and the real Han border army is less than 20,000, and the meaning of righteous servants is that they follow voluntarily, but who will give you your life if you don't have money! In fact, this is a mercenary, recruited from foreign races such as Wuhuan and Xiongnu, for example, in the past, Duan Xi was led by more than 10,000 Huangzhong Yicong who were mainly Qiang people rampant in Xiliang, and these Yiyi were as high as tens of thousands, more than the real Han border army.

That is to say, at this moment, there are only about 300,000 soldiers and horses in the establishment, but don't underestimate these 300,000, these 300,000 are real soldiers, not some people.

Of course, this is also because there has not been a major war at this time, once the war machine of the Eastern Han Dynasty is fully mobilized, the equipment of the arsenals in various places can equip millions of troops at any time.

"Ma Lang, is this true? If this is the case, it should be reported to the court in the morning. Lin Huan's anxious beard was pulled off, such a scale of turmoil can be said to be something that has not been done for more than 100 years since Guangwu, Lin Huan and others came out of the Han army, and they still have confidence in the combat power of the Han army, but there are more ants to bite the elephant.

Ma Qiang shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't, Zhang Jiao originally wanted to lure me into Taiping Road, so he told me that I had no evidence in my hand, how could I report it?" ”

"Ma Lang is right, if I tell the news, I'm afraid that Taiping Dao will do a battle of trapped beasts, and my Red Star Camp and even Dasong Village will be in trouble." Yang Wanli was the first to agree with Ma Qiang's suggestion, as long as he was good, he would care about the flood of others.