The commercial war in full swing in Wuyin City is just a show of Mu Jing, and it has little to do with Mu Shan, the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, and he doesn't care much about these things because the current logistics are still guaranteed, and he is now more concerned about how to improve his combat effectiveness.

To survive in this situation, he did not dare to relax, and military power was the only thing he could rely on.

So he soaked in the camp that had just been built almost every day, training more than 3,000 soldiers under his command, although his soldiers and horses were strong in Nanyang, but the soldiers under his command were mixed, there were ordinary county soldiers, there were bandits, and there were some pure people who were forced to fall into the grass......

In fact, when it comes to fighting, they are a rabble, and they cannot exert the combat effectiveness of more than 3,000 people at all.

Therefore, military training is the most concentrated work he is currently focusing on.

If you are anxious to play and play routines, Mu Shan is definitely not as good as his ghost son Mu Jing.

But if it is a down-to-earth training, even if Mu Jing has some advanced training awareness, he can't beat the horse as well as Mu Shan, who has experienced a hundred battles on the battlefield.

In order to be able to train an elite army of soldiers and horses, Mu Shan used all his scheming this time, he and several generals under his command, as well as strategists who can speak, Cheng Luo Li Yan, Jiang Lu They discussed again and again, changed and changed the training method, and it can be regarded as a little effective.

More than a month has passed, and with the efforts of everyone, this group of rabble can be regarded as presentable, whether it is the pro-military battalion led by Mushan himself, or the cavalry battalion of Zhou Cang, or the vanguard battalion of Lei Gong, they are all quite effective at present.

For Mu Shan, this is a good start, as long as he is given another three months, he can increase the combat effectiveness of this nearly 4,000 army by more than half, but unfortunately God just doesn't give him time......

"Big boss!"

"Lord County Lieutenant!"

On this day, the weather was very good, and the sound of training outside was deafening, Cheng Luo and Li Yan walked into the middle tent of the camp side by side and saluted to the Mushan in the hall.

The relationship between Makiyama and Cai Tu began to become very delicate.

Mushan is now based on Wuyin, the so-called foothold, is to occupy the tax population of Wuyin, etc., which is naturally inseparable from the support of the county order Cai Tu, raising troops requires local financial support, and Cai Tu is also a child of the Cai family in Jingzhou, and has a great influence in reputation, but in view of Cai Tu's previous actions, he began to take precautions against Cai Tu and would not trust, so the two are not so much an alliance as a superficial cooperation.

But Li Yan is different.

Mu Shan still trusts this young man very much, after all, they have cooperated with each other several times, and the foundation of trust has been established, and he has not lost trust in Li Yan because of his dislike with Cai Tu.

Therefore, Li Yan can haunt the Mushan military camp by himself.

"You don't look very good, is something going on?"

Mu Shan was thinking about increasing the intensity of training, when he heard the voices of the two people, he looked up, and saw that the faces of the two were a little gloomy, and he frowned a little.

"Big boss, something big has happened!" Cheng Luo's face was gloomy and his voice was cold.

"What's the big deal?" When Mu Shan heard this, he was stunned for a moment, recently he has been dedicated to training and living a stable life, but it made him flutter and lose some sense of crisis, so he heard Cheng Luo's words and was a little distracted.

"My lord, just now, over there in Wancheng, the Taishou Mansion personally recruited the soldiers and horses from various counties in Nanyang, and gathered the elite soldiers of the county, and wanted to go out to fight the Yellow Turban thieves in Gepo!"

Li Yan opened his mouth and said: "Our Wuyin County soldiers are the vanguard, and within a month, we must enter Runan first!" ”

At the end of February this year, when Mushan was still in Tufu Mountain, Guo Tai, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, raised the Yellow Turban banner in the Baibo Valley, gathered more than 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and horses, and entered Hedong strongly, captured the counties in Hedong, plundered the population, and robbed the wealth, which suddenly shocked the court above, and the court hurriedly dispatched troops, but the Baibo Yellow Turban Army was like a broken bamboo, and the situation in Hedong became more and more festering.

The most important Liangzhou rebels have not yet been exterminated, and they are still preparing to move, holding back most of the main forces of the Han army stationed in the west.

Over time, the resurgence of the Yellow Turban Army began to spread gradually.

At the end of March, Zhang Yan, who inherited the Taiping Dao, left Julu and led the elite of the Taiping Dao to return to Montenegro, leading more than 100,000 troops under his command, and more than hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses attached to the Yellow Turban in Hebei, conquering the counties of Changshan and Zhongshan one after another.

In April, the Runan Yellow Turban finally couldn't hold its breath, Qu Shuai Gong Du, Qu Shuai Liu Bi, the two major Qu Shuai led the troops to revolt in Gepo, pulled up the anti-flag, rebelled against the imperial court, and entrenched in the junction of Runan and Yingchuan He Yi and Huang Shao saw this, and also led the troops to gather in the south to capture the county town in the north of Runan, four Yellow Turban soldiers and horses, gathered some of the Yingchuan remnants and Runan elites in the Yellow Turban Army, nearly 100,000, the momentum was huge, and the two Yellow Turban armies in the west and north were to call each other.

The resurgence of the Yellow Turban Army, the imperial court was naturally furious, and the emperor Liu Hong personally ordered Yingchuan, Jiujiang, Nanyang, and the three parties to send troops to conquer the Gepo Yellow Turban.

It's not that the imperial court doesn't want to send troops now, but the military power is balanced by He Jin, even if Liu Hong, the son of heaven, wants to dispatch the army, it is a little troublesome, and the current situation in Hedong is too festering, and there are still Xiliang rebels looking down, and the soldiers and horses in the capital dare not dispatch at all.

Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize local troops and horses.

The closest to Runan is Jiujiang Nanyang, and Yingchuan in the north, so the three counties can only send troops to conscript......

"Since the imperial court has ordered, it is inevitable that the soldiers and horses of Nanyang will conquer the Runan Yellow Turban, so Zhang Zhi wants to consume a certain army first?"

When Mu Shan heard this, he calmed down, thought about the core news, squinted his eyes slightly, and said faintly: "Because he is worried that once he sends troops, will he oppose him?" ”

The Yellow Turban Army in Runan rebelled, and he knew the news, and it was earlier than Zhang Shi and the others knew.

Wuyin and Runan are only separated by a river, and they are the most well-informed, and he is also very vigilant about the news of the Yellow Turban Army, so when the Runan Yellow Turban just raised the anti-banner and captured Shangcai and other places, he had already received the news.

But he didn't want to wade into troubled waters.

When Cheng Luo asked for help, they were also Yellow Turban generals not only saw death and did not save them, but also cut off Cheng Luo's wrist, Mu Shan hated them, especially Gong Du Liu Pi, but Mu Shan is now the commander of the first army, the commander is nearly 4,000 children, he also has to count his strength, the most important thing is that although he is wearing the skin of officers and soldiers, he is a Taiping Taoist in his bones, no matter how ungrateful they are, after all, they are the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai, which is a little difficult to start.

But he didn't expect that Zhang Shi would give him an unrefusable reason to send troops at this time.

It is a fact that Zhang Shi is jealous of the military power in his hands.

If it weren't for the fact that in the battle of Tufu Mountain, he collected thousands of thieves and soldiers to strengthen his strength, and the soldiers of Nanyang County would have already started a war with him.

Now he has thousands of soldiers and horses, which is enough to fight with the soldiers of Nanyang County, Zhang Zhi, as the Taishou of a county, is very jealous of him, so Zhang Zhi is ready to take advantage of this opportunity, and wants to let Mushan be the vanguard, which means to be cannon fodder.

It's hard for Mushan to refuse at this time, once he refuses to send troops, he will turn his face with the Taishou Mansion, this is a task from the imperial court, once he turns his face, Cai Tu will not stand on his side, and the entire Jingzhou will also regard him as a thief.

"Big boss, I am waiting in their hearts, like a thief, they can't trust us, so they forced us to send troops!" Cheng Luo said in a low voice.

"Positively, what do you think should be the best thing to do?"

Mu Shan didn't ask his henchman Cheng Luo for the first time, but asked Li Yan.

It's not that he trusts Li Yan more.

It's that he wants to be clear about Li Yan's position, this person he has begun to trust, but after all, he is Cai Tu's subordinate, and only by standing on his side completely can he feel at ease.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's hard to refuse this matter!" Li Yan thought about it, sighed in his heart, he was in a dilemma, he could only whisper: "If you refuse, give Zhang Shi an excuse to clean up us, after all, if he starts the Nanyang Civil War, he naturally doesn't need to send troops to Runan, for him, this is not a good opportunity!" ”

"But if we send troops, it's also dangerous for us!" Mu Shan did not further force him to express his position, but said in a deep voice: "At present, the integration training between us has not been completed, as well as the cooperation of the battle formation, the configuration of weapons, these have not been completed, the combat effectiveness can not be exerted, the most important thing is that once it is opened, logistics is a big problem, staying in Wuyin, we can still ensure logistics, but leaving Wuyin, the logistics line is elongated, I am afraid that the day will not be safe!" ”

"My lord, any refusal now will lead to a civil war, and you can only make a false promise!"

Li Yan said: "Maybe the situation is not to this point!" ”

"It's already at the door!" Cheng Luo gritted his teeth and said: "If we don't send troops, we will die, and if we don't send troops, we will die!" ”

"I'll think about it!"

Makiyama's eyes were deep, and he was a little hesitant.

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City.

As the price of cloth and silk picked up, some people began to find that the price of grain in the county began to move a little strangely.

"Six hundred dollars a stone?"

An ordinary merchant walked into Gong's grain store, and after asking, he was a little embarrassed: "Didn't it cost five hundred and eighty yuan before?" ”

What he wants to sell is chestnut rice, that is, millet, the cheapest rice.

Better rice costs about a thousand dollars.

There are even some good rice, which can cost thousands of dollars per stone.

"Guest officer, I'm sorry, the price has increased a little recently!"

"Okay!" The merchant nodded helplessly: "Bring me fifty stones!" ”

"Okay!"

A few guys were not suspicious, after all, it was normal for a merchant to sell rice and then go down to the village to buy and sell.

It's just that the shopkeeper who has been settling accounts next to him is a little confused.

"Why is business so good lately?"

The shopkeeper is an in-law of the Gong family, surnamed Luo, of course, the so-called in-law is that he gave his daughter to Gong Chang as a concubine, just like Gong Chang wants to please the scholars, he wants to please Gong Chang, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp.

Shopkeeper Luo looked at the accounts again, and said in his heart: "There is nothing abnormal, the most sold is about 100 stones, and it is basically sold for dozens of stones!" ”

"But it's only been a few days, how can we consume more than a thousand stone of grain in stock!"

He thought about it, and still walked towards the Gong family with the account book.

……

One of the markets in the west of the city is a grain store.

"Shopkeeper, eighty stone beams (excellent millet)!"

"Liang rice is not cheap, it costs nine hundred and eighty yuan a stone!"

"Good!"

……

As the grain from one grain store after another slowly entered several huge warehouses set up by Jingping Commercial Bank, the price of grain on the market became higher and higher.

……

Jingping Commercial Bank.

"Big shopkeeper, at present, we have invested 6,000 gold and purchased a full 21,000 stone of grain, of which the principal is not much, but we have mobilized too much manpower for secrecy, and the wages have taken up a lot!" Zhang Heng reported.

The target of purchasing grain is Gongchang.

Capture the thief and capture the king.

If you want to win the Wuyin business world, you must win Gongchang and win this businessman who represents the scholar family, so as to completely unify the entire Wuyin business world.

"Don't be afraid of wasting, time is the most precious!" Mujing responded.

More than 20,000 stones of grain seems to be a lot, enough for the Mushan army to support a year and a half, but in Wuyin County, which has a population of more than 100,000, the proportion of grain circulation is not very high, which is not enough to influence the situation of this food war.

"Yes!" Zhang Heng nodded.

"Some of the merchants in the city we use, as well as pretending to be big dealers, and the number of transactions is suppressed below a hundred stones, no one will find out at all, but the frequency of our shots is too high, but it has attracted some attention, and even the market price has increased by about one or two percent!"

"Can't hide it?" Mu Jing squinted.

"Although Gong Chang started by relying on the Shi clan, this person is extremely shrewd, I'm afraid it's just a matter of the past few days!"

Zhang Heng, as the No. 1 silk merchant in Wuyin County, is incompatible with Gongchang, the largest grain dealer in Wuyin, and has been in trouble before, and he knows Gongchang very well.

"In that case, move faster!" Mu Jing immediately made a decision and said: "The final decisive battle is coming, immediately let everyone buy as much as they can in a short period of time, not afraid of exposure, not afraid of wasting money, all the principal can be pressed in, and at this time, I am not afraid that they will be vigilant, as long as they can smash the grain!" ”

"No!"

Zhang Heng received the order.

……

Gong Mansion.

Gong Chang is still at a loss for the affairs of Zhang's Silk Village, and he has not been able to take Zhang's Silk Village, which makes the Shi clan lose trust in him, and he knows very well that everything he has comes from the trust of the Shi clan.

"This Zhang Heng has eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall!"

He sat in the hall and said to himself: "Does he think that if he takes refuge in a yellow turban thief, he can fight against the scholars!" ”

In fact, he didn't understand in his heart, as soon as the Shi clan opened his mouth, he didn't have to do anything at all, and these shops would close their doors by themselves, but Zhang's Silk Village became more and more high-profile, quite a bit of a rival with the Shi clan.

The scholar family is not just a family of scholars, but a family of officials, the so-called scholar family, and the ancestors must have the continuation of the officials.

This is an era of bureaucracy.

The official word is two-mouthed, saying that you are a soldier is a soldier, saying that you are a thief is a thief, you can't open the door if you close the door, and you don't dare to close the door if you open the door, so the scholar clan controls most of the influence of this era.

However, this time it was different from what he thought, the road of the county government had first been controlled by Cai Tu, and if he wanted to use official power to balance these merchants, the scholars couldn't do it at all.