Chapter 298 Did you bring any money?

Therefore, Lin Xiao decided to go to Guangzhou City in person, find a way to raid the granary, take food for tens of thousands of hungry people, and at the same time, let the special combat team members increase their actual combat experience.

After explaining all the affairs of Haojing to Qu Shiqi and Li Tao, Lin Xiao immediately found Situ Zheng and asked him to draw out a team, set off overnight with enough ammunition, and went all the way from the Pearl River to Guangzhou.

Both speedboats were taken away by the big boat, Lin Xiao and the others had to find a small sail clipper, more than a hundred kilometers of waterway, and it took almost two days to stop and go.

In the middle of the night last night, after everyone sneaked ashore from the east of the city, they went all the way around the city to the vicinity of Zhenhai Tower at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain in the north of the city.

In later generations, Lin Xiao has been to Guangzhou many times, and is very impressed by the place names and landforms here, but the current city of Guangzhou, compared with the modern metropolis in later generations, is naturally not the same, this Zhenhai Tower, is already outside the north gate.

Guangzhou, known as Jiaozhou in ancient times, alias Yangcheng, is the center of Lingnan culture since ancient times, is now the Ming Dynasty Guangdong Provincial Government Office, is also the seat of Guangzhou Prefecture, the only foreign trade port in the Ming Dynasty, since last year was captured by the Qing army, Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi entrenched here.

The whole city of Guangzhou faces the back of the river, the broad Pearl River surrounds the city from the west and south, there are two large Jiangxinzhou in the river, which are called "Datansha" and "Ersha Island" respectively, and just form two large wharves.

To the north of the city is the group of peaks headed by Baiyun Mountain, as well as the hills and mountains that stretch for dozens of miles, which belong to the remaining veins of Jiulian Mountain south of Wuling.

According to the advance reconnaissance of the top soldiers, the large granary of King Shang Kexi of Pingnan was built in a barracks at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain, and judging from the scale of the granary, there were at least 500,000 or 600,000 stone military rations in it.

Along the way, Lin Xiao and Xia Bomin talked to each other several times, and learned that they had taken Zhaoqing and were seizing the time to search for stragglers to deal with the aftermath.

Xia Bomin reported that the captured military rations were not much, only tens of thousands of stones, and it seems that Shang Kexi was indeed very cunning, leaving all the important materials in Guangzhou, and the rations of the defenders of Zhaoqing were regularly transported by Guangzhou.

Lin Xiao instructed him that the vanguard should be immediately dispatched to clear the strongholds on the outskirts of Guangzhou one by one, so that it was expected that after a day or a half of time, the siege of the city could be organized.

In the end, Lin Xiao told Xia Bomin not to forget to order the Northern Route Army near Shaozhou to immediately go south, march into the Chaoshan area, outflank Guangzhou, and prevent it from escaping to southern Fujian.

Lin Xiao and the soldiers touched a dense forest in a mountain col, and found a ruined temple on the slope of the forest not far away.

In order not to alarm the people, Lin Xiao had to order the soldiers to disperse and hide in the forest, and sent several reconnaissance teams to feel the terrain near the barracks and the garrison.

As soon as it was dawn, the reconnaissance groups began to sneak back one after another.

After Lin Xiao summarized the intelligence of each group, he found that this barracks was probably located in the location of the Yuexiu Mountain Stadium in the later generations, which was a large open space left after years of opening the mountain and taking stones, surrounded by mountains on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Lin Xiao found that the intelligence of the soldiers was not perfect, and there were several key data, such as the number of defenders, patrol rules, the time of the grain transport team, the number of grains transported each time, etc., which had to be reconnoitred at close range after dawn.

Therefore, Lin Xiao decided that each group would reconnoiter for another day during the day, and only start at night when it was dark, and by that time, Xia Bomin's army would almost arrive.

After the assembly time and contact signals were arranged, Lin Xiao took Situ Zheng to simply change his clothes and decided to go to the area of Zhenhai Tower to reconnoitre.

All the way to the bottom of the mountain, not far from Zhenhai Tower, there is a place called the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue, although it is outside the city, it is also quite lively, in addition to some early citizens on the street, more are ragged homeless people, they probably shrink in the vicinity for the night, and get up early in the morning to beg for food.

In the flow of people, some people have shaved their hair and kept braids, while others have not, which seems quite mixed.

In Lin Xiao's impression, not far to the west here, there is a water surface called Liuhua Lake, and the scenery is very beautiful; Less than five miles north along the foot of the mountain, it should be the famous Sanyuanli; And go south, more than three miles into the city is the city center, and the palace should be in the palace office of the ancient Nanyue country.

After Lin Xiao and the others walked around, they found that this place was more than a mile west of the barracks, and the street in front of them was the only way for the barracks to reach the north gate.

The two walked along the street and came to the door of a two-story restaurant, and when they looked up, there were three big characters written on a plaque at the door: "Tao Ranju".

This restaurant opened early in the morning, it is estimated that in addition to wine and food, it also serves morning tea, Lin Xiao looked around, touched his pocket, and asked Situ Zheng in a low voice: "Did you bring any money?" ”

The location of this restaurant is excellent, sitting at the window can peek into the panoramic view of the street, if the Qing army's grain transport team passes by, it will definitely fall into the eyes.

"Bring it, sir."

Situ Zheng looked up at the restaurant, immediately understood, and grinned and whispered, it is no secret that the commander-in-chief will never have any money.

Lin Xiao's monthly salary is the same as that of ordinary soldiers, and it is also five taels per month. Lin Xiao's idea is very simple, what kind of money do you want to be a soldier, you soak in the barracks every day, you usually eat and drink at public expense, what money can you spend?

In fact, Lin Xiao didn't pick the door everywhere, he set a very high monthly salary for technicians at the beginning, especially the four expert engineers, with a monthly salary of as high as fifty taels each.

Although Lin Xiao knew that it was useless for them to take so much money, his original intention was to "buy horse bones with a thousand dollars".

Through this move, he wants to send a signal that the extreme emphasis on technical talents can at least motivate those skilled workers and the children who are studying in the school to work hard.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 300 years, and the maladministration is terminally ill, and the most important thing is that officials at all levels are not lacking.

However, if you want to compete with Western foreigners and let Daming re-emerge in the East, what you really need most is scientific and technological talents.

Lin Xiao is determined to start from here first, he wants to lift the top figures in various industries to the sky, and gradually reverse the rigid thinking of the government and the opposition, reading is a good thing, but to read useful books, he doesn't want to talk about it, let alone shake his head and shake his head.

Zhou Gong and Cao Gong don't care about money, they are in factories and laboratories every day and race against time, how can there be any time to spend money, fifty taels and five hundred taels are just a number.

However, Sun Lei and Lu Hua are different, Sun Lei already has a family, with such a high salary, the happiness index of their family is estimated to stimulate the craftsmen in Tiger Harbor every day.

And Lu Hua is different, she is a little woman after all, women are always more careful, and a little money around them can make them more at ease, and if they have a baby or something in the future, there will always be money.

Motherhood is a woman's nature, no matter how elegant the temperament of the little fairy, if she reaches the age of motherhood, has a child and is still sunny and snowy every day, and does not eat the fireworks of the world, then it is really a fairy, and she should not be born in the world.

Therefore, after half a year, Lu Hua has saved more than 200 taels of silver, the last time in the Qinzhou Academy, Lin Xiao handed over all half a year's salary, at that time Lu Hua also laughed at him, a big man only earns 30 taels in half a year, and he can't afford her for a month!

Now it seems that the salary of officers is indeed a bit unreasonable, especially with the expansion of the army, many of the Ming officials and generals who came to serve are dragging their families, and Lin Xiao's military discipline is very strict, neither corrupt nor disturbing the people, and their lives are under great pressure.

After fighting this battle, it's time to reconsider and adjust their position and treatment, fortunately, Lin Xiao is not short of money at the moment, what he lacks is food, food, food!

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