Volume 1 The East China Sea Dilemma Chapter 58 Asking for Grain and Grass
Originally, it didn't look like a very big restaurant from the outside, but after entering, it was a different world.
It's big inside!
Moreover, there are a lot of people lying down!
The inside of this restaurant is like a morgue, with rows of white stone beds densely arranged, and there is no end in sight!
On each stone bed lies a soldier in armor, whose swords, spears, bows, broadswords, and other weapons stand beside the stone bed.
"Yu Lin Wei!" From the outfits of these soldiers, Jiang Shenyu recognized it.
"This is Yu Lin Wei?" Xu Xiang frowned and asked, and then said, "Wouldn't this be the 20,000 Lin Wei who disappeared in the town that day?" ”
"Didn't you say that those 20,000 people had descended to Nangong? And there are not 20,000 people here, and if there are 100 people in each row, there are about 50 or 60 rows here, and there are only 50,000 or 6,000 people. ”
"Could this be the five thousand Lin Wei that your eldest brother brought over?" Xu Xiang hurriedly said, "Go and find out, see if your eldest brother is there!" ”
The soldier on the stone bed was still breathing evenly, and it seemed that he was only unconscious, not dead.
Xu Xiang noticed that there were hundreds of people in the corners, who were different from the soldiers of Yu Linwei, they were wearing leather armor and covering their faces, and the weapons around them were wrapped in strips of white cloth.
Xu Xiang picked up the weapon and removed the strip of cloth, revealing the true face of the weapon. /
"Muskets? Unexpectedly, my eldest brother had completely developed the musket in just over a month, and it looked much better than my shoddy one. Xu Xiang disassembled the parts of the musket and found that the spring in it was much more flexible than the spring he made, and the effect should be about twice that of the one he made.
"Well, the spring and the barrel should be able to withstand firing twenty or thirty bullets!"
In this way, these people here are all people brought over by Jiang Fu!
"Big brother! Wake up! Eldest brother?! When Xu Xiang was reassembling the musket, he heard Jiang Shenyu's anxious voice.
He hurriedly walked over and saw Jiang Fu lying on a stone bed, Jiang Shenyu helped him up, trying to wake him up.
"They didn't die, they just fell unconscious!" Xu Xiang said.
"Why are they unconscious here? Changsha, do you have a way to wake them up? Jiang Shenyu was anxious now, people saw it, but she was unconscious, she didn't know what to do, she could only look at Xu Xiang.
"There must be some reason why so many people are unconscious! If we don't find the reason, I'm afraid we won't be able to wake them up, and it seems that we have to go to the mountains! Xu Xiang thought in his heart, it is estimated that the answer will be on that high mountain.
"Then let's hurry up!"
"Don't worry! Everyone has found it, let's wait for Lao Yang and Qin Chong first! I had a vague sense of danger on the way up the mountain. Xu Xiang pondered for a moment and said.
Jidu, because Nangong set himself up as the king, has not built the palace first, so the Jishui County Ya has been slightly renovated and has become his temporary palace.
"Nonsense!" Nangong slammed his palm on the table, looking very angry, while below were more than a dozen nervous officials.
"Yuan Min! You go to Yangyang and bring back that rebel son! Nangong Que's actions in Sunrise during the day soon reached his ears, which made him very angry.
As soon as the country was established, Nangong Que was named a prince, but he didn't expect that a prince in a dignified state would actually wear beggar's clothes and beg along the street.
If this spreads, Suiguo will become a laughing stock!
He can be said to be very doting on his son, no matter what he does to rob people of gold and silver, linger in the Qinglou, or what other squishy children do, he thinks it's not a big deal, after all, he is a nobleman, and no one in the entire three cities of Suiguo dares to do anything to their father and son. But now, Nangong Que's behavior is simply a shame on him.
One of the officials below immediately knelt down and left.
"Zhang Xue, as the commander of the city guards, you will be given a task alone!"
"Your Majesty, please command!"
"You led three thousand city guards in the starry night to Sunrise and go all out to hunt down spies from various countries! From now on, Sunshine is not allowed to enter or exit! Until all the spies of other countries are caught! Lone didn't want the news of the prince's presence in Sunrise City to get out. If the news is passed out, then you come and see you! ”
"Yes! The end will not live up to the king's command! ”
After finishing the order, Nangong Sui seemed to think of something again, looked at the officials below, and asked, "Who is in charge of the affairs of Yama Town?" ”
A thin official with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks stepped out of the crowd and replied, "Back to the king, it's a minister." ”
"How long has it been? Why hasn't Jiang Fu's whereabouts been found yet? Nangong Sui was in a very bad mood and asked sharply.
The man was so frightened that he quickly knelt down, put his head on the ground and said, "Go back to the king!" After Jiang Fu entered the town, it has been twelve days, and the minister has sent ten waves of spies in, but none of them have returned! I must have been killed by Jiang Fu! The minister thought that Jiang Fu was going to use the town as a camp, and planned to build up his strength to break through! ”
"Breakout? There is nothing to eat in Yama Town! Jiang Fu ran all the way, and the military rations he brought could last so long? What's going on here? Why didn't he enter the Shekou Formation? ”
"......" The thin official was speechless for a while, this matter is not something he can control, Jiang Fu did not enter the trap they set up as planned, this can't be blamed on him, right?
"Forget it!" Nangong Sui waved his hand, there was nothing to make him comfortable today.
"Your Majesty!" A man in a crimson official uniform stood up, this person's name is Yu Guanghua, about thirty years old, he is a talent secretly cultivated by his country, and he served as the chief bookkeeper in Jishui County before.
"What's the matter with Dr. Yu?"
Yu Guanghua replied, "There is a letter from Beimeng, saying that we should provide a batch of grain and grass and hand it over to the Beimeng army in Chudi. ”
"How much do they want?" Nangong Sui frowned, although the Three Cities were in his control, there was not much food in his hands, except for the 70,000 stones he had stored before the incident, the grain in the Three Cities warehouse was only 50,000 stones.
"Fifty thousand stones! That's a lot of money, so the minister hasn't agreed yet. ”
"Mu Shang is really a lion's mouth!" Hearing this number, Nangong stood up suddenly, looking very angry.
Beimeng helped himself at first, providing horses and weapons, and did not mention anything in return. But he knew that sooner or later Beimeng would come to him to ask for it, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.
He really needed horses and weapons, which were strategic essentials. The reason why it was able to block the counterattack of the East China Sea many times was that Beimeng's weapons and horses played a significant role.
"Doctor Yu, do you think you should give it?"
"The minister thinks it shouldn't be given! In the past few years, the grain harvest in the land of Great Xia has not been very good, and the grain of my country itself is not much, and if it is given, our own soldiers will have no food! ”
"However, if you don't give it, won't you offend Beimeng?" Another official spoke.
Nangong Sui agreed with Yu Guanghua's opinion, but he couldn't offend Beimeng, so he thought for a while and said: "You tell the envoy of Beimeng that our own food is not enough, at most we can take out 10,000 stones, and the remaining 40,000 stones can be exchanged for gold and silver of equal value!" In the end, Nangong Sui came up with a compromise solution, he didn't have enough food to eat, but he was not short of gold and silver, after all, Nangong Que had "collected" a lot of gold and silver in the past few days.
"Yes! The minister will do it immediately! Yu Guanghua bowed to him and left the hall.
"Wait!" Nangong Sui suddenly stopped him: "Ask again when you go over, see if Beimeng can still support us with three thousand horses, you can buy them at three times the market price!" ”
"Obey orders!"
In the post house of Jishui County, the envoy of Northern Mongolia, Xiang Yan, lived here.
There were still more than 80,000 troops in the Chu State of Northern Mongolia, plus the 50,000 people who attacked Minzhou in the East China Sea, a total of 130,000 people.
Because of the long supply lines, it was very difficult to feed the 130,000 people. Although the grain in the warehouse of Chu State can be taken out, it can't last so long, after all, it has been three years since the invasion of Northern Mongolia.
Therefore, Mushang sent him to Suiguo. The north of the sphere of influence of the three cities of Suiguo borders Northern Mongolia, and the west borders Zhongshan and Chu, so it is much more convenient to transport grain and grass than Northern Mongolia.
After Yu Guanghua came out of the palace, he immediately came to the post house to see Xiang Yan.