When it comes to the issue of money and food, everyone is speechless, after all, Linhuai is only thirty miles away from Fengyang, the central capital, and Fengyang is the Fengyang who "said Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since there was an Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years".

Fengyang in the late Ming Dynasty was already a standard land of poor mountains and bad waters due to the extreme deterioration of the ecology of the Yellow River to seize Huai, and after Zhang Xianzhong broke through Fengyang in the eighth year of Chongzhen, it was even more ruined by bandits, and it was unable to supply the army at all, which was also one of the main reasons why the Linhuai military and civilians refused Liu Liangzuo to open the town of Linhuai.

Fortunately, now Jin'er is the first to stand up and support Liu Yongxi: "It turns out that Brother Yongxi returned Xing Shengping's five camps to Zhao because of money and food, which does make some sense. ”

Everyone thinks that what Jin'er said is roughly right, but they feel that Liu Yongxi's matter seems to be wrong, but they don't know how to refute Jin'er.

And Liu Yongxi laughed: "The reason why money and food can't be helped, the key is that we have organized two battalions of horse teams, but let's talk about it, should these two battalions of horse teams be trained?" ”

Liu Yongxi's self-led five battalions and Xing Shengping's five battalions were originally composed of more than 300 people per battalion, but before Liu Yongxi deliberately returned the system, Xing Shengping's battalion was replenished to more than 400 people, and the total strength of Xing Shengping's department increased from 1,500 to 2,300 people, which made Gao Jie and Mrs. Xing happy.

In addition, Liu Yongxi also used the captured horses to form two battalions of horse teams, which are different from the infantry team, each battalion of horse teams has four teams with a total of 200 horsemen, and the two battalions have a total of 400 horses.

It's just that the two battalions of horses are less than the size of the first battalion of infantry in terms of establishment, and the money and food consumed are about the same as those of the three battalions of infantry.

It is these two battalions of horses that make everyone feel sad, although with the accumulation of history and the capture of this Linhuai battle, it can last for a month or two for the time being.

But everyone felt that they would definitely not be able to support it for a long time, and if Xing Shengping's fifth battalion continued to stay in Linhuai, this day would definitely not be able to live.

But for the decision to return Xing Shengping's fifth battalion to Xingping Bo Gaojie, everyone was still unconvinced, and even Fuding, the sincere uncle's hometown, stood up and said two fair words: "Little uncle, I shouldn't have said this, but now I don't vomit or be unhappy, if Xing Shengping's fifth battalion is still there, we can go to Shouzhou to grab a good time!"

Shouzhou is Liu Liangzuo's territory, and Liu Liangzuo is a defeated general of Linhuai Town, and the ten battalion leaders add up to almost 6,000 people, which is enough to launch a large-scale offensive against Shouzhou.

But Liu Yongxi's opinion is completely different from Fuding: "Don't underestimate Liu Liangzuo, Liu Liangzuo really wants to jump off the wall and fight with us, even if Xing Shengping participates in the war, it can only be a lose-lose ending!" Besides, Liu Liangzuo's good things have been robbed by us, how much loot can we have in Shouzhou, and the robbery must be out to grab a good time, Huama Liu is too thin, we have to change the target!"

Everyone thinks that Liu Yongxi is very reasonable, Liu Liangzuo threw almost all the baggage to Liu Yongxi in the previous Linhuai War, and it was with this capture that Liu Yongxi was able to use veterans and captured war horses to form two battalions of horse teams.

And at this time, Li Huaiqing, an outlaw from the Beijing camp, stood up and said: "Zongzhen, you tell us where you want to go to grab a good time, as long as you give an order, the brothers will immediately go out!"

Liu Yongxi laughed: "What's the hurry, there is only one opportunity, if you miss it, you will regret it for the rest of your life, we have to find a rich man who is not benevolent to do the right thing for heaven!"

Qian Weikun over there couldn't wait to say: "Uncle Sincerity, you show me the direction, I'll go to explore the way now, I won't know until this year what it is to be rich and unkind, and I must do the right thing for heaven!"

Liu Yongxi didn't expect Qian Weikun, the prime minister of Jinshi, to have such a vicious side, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was understandable.

Qian Weikun is a native of Changzhou, Suzhou, and as soon as the news of Qian Weikun's "thief" arrived in Suzhou in May this year, several scholarly families who usually have a good relationship with Qian Weikun mobilized the masses to loot Qian Weikun's house, and finally set a fire to it when he left.

Poor Changzhou Qian's business for several generations has been burned clean by this fire, but Qian Weikun clearly knows who is behind the scenes, but after the southern crossing, he did not dare to stay in his hometown in Suzhou.

Several battalion officers present felt that it was a good choice to let Qian Weikun go to the stone to ask for directions, and Li Huaiqing had already said: "General Town, this matter can indeed be entrusted to Lord Qian, as long as Lord Qian finds the target, he can solve the big problem!"

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said: "Although this matter can be entrusted to Qian Xianggong, but you can't do things according to your ideas, I still say the same thing, let's do it if we want to do it, find a rich and unkind big fortune to do the way for the sky, we can't think about eating grass by the nest, and grabbing three or five hundred stones near Linhuai will not help our current predicament!"

Li Huaiqing immediately argued with Liu Yongxi: "Zongzhen, as long as we are willing to put some thought into it, we can at least get one or two thousand stone rice beans!"

In the war-ravaged Lianghuai region, it is already a very brilliant achievement to get thousands of stone rice beans at one time, and Liu Yongxi in the previous Linhuai battle was only in Liu Liangzuo's camp, and he only captured more than 2,000 stone of rice beans.

But Liu Yongxi laughed: "But my goal is to get 100,000 stone rice beans, so that our Linhuai Town can completely rest easy!"

Li Huaiqing was taken aback by Liu Yongxi's generosity, he felt that even the governor of Fengyang and the governor of Lianghuai might not be able to conjure up 100,000 stone rice beans in one go, even if the top heroes in those places were at most a few thousand stone rice beans plus a few thousand taels of gold and silver.

And Chen Yuan, a battalion officer in Gaojie's camp who was born like Xing Shengping, was also frightened by Liu Yongxi's big move: "Zongzhen, if we can have 100,000 stone rice beans, we can be invincible between Jianghuai, let alone one Liu Liangzuo, even a few Liu Liangzuo are not our opponents!"

In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, whether it was the official army or the thieves, they were all short of food and clothing, and they mainly relied on looting to make a living, if Liu Yongxi could get 100,000 stone rice beans at one time, Linhuai Town would naturally have one of the best elite soldiers in the world after major expansions, even if they met the northern captives, they dared to confront each other head-on, not to mention Liu Liangzuo, a weak chicken.