Chapter 478: The Cai Family's Plans
The loss of the mountain city of Muna greatly shook the Western Xia court. Li Jiqian hurriedly summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures.
This time, the behavior of the Song army was too abnormal, attacking from the direction of Mu Na Mountain, there was no precedent before. Opposite that direction is the Liao State. Although the Liao Kingdom is gone now, shouldn't that place belong to the Jin Kingdom?
Why did the Song Army appear?
Because of the heavy losses of the Iron Harrier, and the great Song Dynasty faced great pressure from the Jin State, the Song and Xia were unusually peaceful in the past two yearsโthere was not a single real war.
Li Jiqian didn't expect Song Guo to fight when he said he would fight, and he would fight so creatively. Attacking from Muna Mountain not only meant that the Song State had made a big detour, which greatly increased the logistical burden of the army, but also offended the Jin State, which Li Jiqian believed was the territory of the Jin State.
Could it be that Da Song is crazy?
"Your Majesty, the most important thing at the moment is to find out which army of the Song State is in Mu Nashan. Is it the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, or the Western army. If there is a forbidden army, it is Zhao Ji's decision, if it is only the Western Army, things will be easier. โ
Richard's words sound very reasonable.
"How?" His younger brother's words made Li Jiqian see some hope for solving the problem, and he hurriedly asked for a specific response.
"We should send envoys to Bianliang immediately to ask what Zhao Ji means, and at the same time gather men and horses to move towards the Shun Military Division on the right wing."
"Okay, according to the emperor's wishes."
Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers. This time, it was Brother Richard who led the team, and led the 30,000 Western Xia troops to the right wing of the Shun Military Division in advance.
The right chamber Chaoshun Military Division is the north gate of Xingqing Mansion, and it is the gateway that Mu Nashan must pass through to Xingqing Mansion. This place has Muna Mountain in front and Xingqing Mansion in the back, so although the location is important, there are not many troops stationed.
Now the situation has changed, and the Song State has gone against the norm and marched from Mu Na Mountain. Moreover, Mu Nashan has been lost, so the position of the Right Wing Chaoshun Military Division has become extremely important.
As the younger brother of the Emperor of Western Xia, Brother Richard personally led the team, which shows the importance of this matter to Western Xia.
At the same time, Li Jiqian ordered to immediately organize an envoy delegation to the Song State immediately, and be sure to reach Bianliang as soon as possible to find out what Zhao Ji meant.
This matter is also as urgent as a spark, and relying on the steady rhythm of civil officials is too delayed.
In the end, Li Jiqian chose one person from the Iron Harrier - Yeli Zhigao, as the head of the envoy group, and immediately rushed to Bianliang.
At the same time, Li Jiqian also issued a holy decree to summon troops from all over Western Xia to come to King Qin of Xingqing Mansion.
Brother Richard was in a hurry, and led the team to the speed of a rapid march, and finally rushed to the right wing of the Chaoshun Military Division, and saw that the banner of Western Xia was still fluttering on the head of the city, and Brother Richard finally breathed a sigh of relief - the city is still there, so it's good that it hasn't been lost.
In the battle of Muna Mountain City, some Western Xia people who saw that the situation was not good escaped from the city early, so the Western Xia court could receive the news.
For the rapid seizure of Mu Nashan, Richard had a deep worry in his heart.
Those who fled said that the enemy had a large number of strange cars, which were not drawn by oxen but were running very fast. And the enemy has powerful firearms, and he can kill people without showing his face at all.
The Song army had been using firearms for a long time, and the Western Xia also knew about the heavenly thunder and artillery. Richard always had an idea of firearms, so he didn't know anything.
But the firearms were so sharp, but Richard didn't expect it. The Great Song Dynasty originally had artillery, but it was useless, so Western Xia did not engage in artillery.
Now that artillery is being used on the battlefield by the Great Song Dynasty, Richard doesn't think it's that powerful - in his mind, artillery should be about the same as a large trebuchet.
In Western Xia, there was a pranky army - a small trebuchet carried by camels, and naturally they also had a large trebuchet.
They have trebuchets themselves, the enemy has artillery, and it seems that they are evenly matched. But Brother Richard felt that even if he went to fight Mu Nashan by himself, it would be impossible to defeat it so quickly.
The siege battles of this time and space are all time-consuming, and it is the starting price to fight for a month or two, and it is common to fight for half a year or even a year.
Now that the Song army has taken the mountain city of Muna almost immediately, Richard believes that it is the failure to hide Bojie and make a fatal mistake.
He shouldn't have gone out of the city with a large army to fight. If the city is held firmly, the enemy will never attack it so easily.
Now Richard entered the right chamber of the Chaoshun Military Division, and immediately ordered to tighten the defenses everywhere, and at the same time strictly ordered all departments not to leave the city without his order.
After doing these two things, Richard ordered the Western Xia army to send a large number of scouts to the direction of Muna Mountain to reconnoiter the enemy's movements.
Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, Brother Richard must also do this!
The Western Xia scouts headed all the way north, in the direction of Muna Mountain. They expected to meet the vanguard of the Song army soon, but they did not expect to walk for several days without seeing a single enemy.
This made the scouts of Western Xia a little puzzled. Didn't the enemy take advantage of the southward movement when he defeated Mu Na Mountain?
If you go south, according to the general pace of marching, you should have found the vanguard of the Song army a few days ago.
But until now, they have not even seen the shadow of the enemy. What's going on?
Of course, the Western Xia scouts didn't know that all the guards were resting in Muna Mountain. Machines need to be repaired, materials need to be replenished, and those that have fallen behind must be rebuilt, and the key is that Qin Mu must build here.
The Guards can't push all the way through, that will pull the big front. If the whole of Western Xia was defeated, the Guards would not be able to maintain order throughout Western Xia.
A chaotic Western Xia is not what Qin Mu wants, on the contrary, this is what he has always wanted to avoid.
It was Qin Mu's pursuit to transfer from the old order to the new order as painlessly as possible.
Muna Mountain City is the beginning and a pilot. The entire Guard, both military and civilian, must accumulate sufficient experience here.
The place of Muna Mountain has become a huge construction site.
The walls of the city were about to be torn down. Where the people can't dismantle it, the guards will directly go up to the ** to blow it up. All that remained of the four walls was now a pile of earth more than a foot above the ground.
This mound of earth will not be left in the end, it will become a building material and fill the roadbed.
Order in the city was gradually restored. But this order is not the previous order, but a new order, the order of labor.
Because the city wall was demolished, the people in the city had bricks to make building materials. They immediately began to renovate their houses.
At this time, some smart people started to use their brains. When they saw that all the aliens had been taken away, many houses in the city were vacant. Why do you still build a house by yourself, can't you just grab it and live there?
But the people who did such things were all stopped by the Guards. Those who dared to disobey were all killed.
Only then did the people have a deeper understanding of the Guards. They don't just kill strangers, they kill their own people as well. If you want to live well, you have to listen to them and follow their rules.
Qin Mu believes that labor is the only correct way to improve life, and it must not be tolerated by ingenuity.
Those who want to get something for nothing are all negative teaching materials in the new world, and for such people, the Guards are not merciful in dealing with such people.
In this way, the people of Mu Nashan no longer have the intention of taking advantage of the house, and they began to build their own houses with one mind.
Gradually, however, they discovered that the Guards did not forbid them to demolish the empty houses. This discovery gave the people of Muna Mountain a large number of building materials.
Soon, the courtyards of the rooms that had lost their owners were torn down as if no one had ever existed in the place.
The traces of aliens were quickly erased from the mountain city of Muna.
Liu Yunfei admired the wisdom of the army commander more and more. This hand can be said to be a stroke of genius, almost invisible, but it works more than any method.
If you had been a few days late, you would not have known that this place had ever been inhabited by aliens. It seems that this is just an ordinary city in the Great Song Dynasty - the real moisturizing things are silent.
Building a house for your own family does not bring you any income. And the commodity stalls placed by the Guards in the city seduced the hearts of the people day after day.
The Guards have too many good things, all kinds of enamel products, glass products, hardware tools, daily necessities, food and clothing, Jia Hongxian almost moved the department store to Mu Nashan.
This made the local buns in the city open their eyes at once.
They want everything, but they don't have the money to buy it. The Guards didn't want gold, silver, and copper coins, let alone Western Xia money, they just wanted their own colorful and exquisite paper money.
If you want to buy good things, you have to have these banknotes, and if you want to get them, you have to work for the Guards.
There are now more than a dozen brigades of cooks cooking for the laborers on the construction site. They are the first people in Muna Mountain City to get rich.
Getting rich first is not about having more money, but about having more good things.
Jia Hongxian is true to his word, and his salary is paid daily. These women got the money, and without exception, they all exchanged it for goods provided by the Guards at the first time.
They were the first to enjoy the full range of industrialization. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, only they can't think of it, and there is nothing that Weishan Lake can't provide.
This made the whole city greedy. Women can cook and boil water, and men can also move bricks and pick soil, and it still depends on the man's strength to work.
They also want to work on construction sites. But the Guards now do not accept individual workers - it is too difficult to manage.
The Guards asked them to form a team of dozens of people, find a leader, and work together.
In this way, Cai Feng became the captain of the first migrant labor team. He has more than 100 people under his command, and he is the largest migrant worker team in Muna Mountain.
The people believed in him more because his wife was the first to deal with the Guards.
Mrs. Cai is now in charge of three brigades of cooks, with a number of nearly two hundred, and she is the real figure of the year in Muna Mountain City.
This is not only because she has a large number of subordinates, but also because the people know that the beautiful lady has been to Mrs. Cai's house. I heard that I gave the Cai family a lot of good things.
The little Jiuniang of the Cai family seems to be recognized as a goddaughter by that beautiful lady.
There is a right and a wrong in this statement. Jia Hongxian did visit Mrs. Cai's home, but she did not recognize Jiuniang as her daughter.
Jia Hongxian knows very well that any little thing about his children will be a major event in the harem, or even a major event in the world.
Now that Fang Haoyin and Zhe Meiluan's stomachs are getting bigger and bigger, they are getting closer and closer to giving birth, at this time, if they cause some trouble and make the two of them give birth unsmoothly, then their sins will be great.
Even if it is none of their business to have a difficult birth, they give others a handle. You can't do that.
When she came to visit Cai's house, she simply went to the grassroots level and grasped more about all aspects of the people in Western Xia. Of course, Jiu Niang's cuteness is also an important reason why she came to Cai's house.
But the people didn't know this, and Mrs. Cai intentionally or unintentionally hinted that Jiuniang was Jia Honghong's goddaughter, and they all thought that the Cai family had really climbed to a high branch this time.
In this way, the people are willing to follow the Cai family. Cai Feng and his wife have a large number of people under their hands, delivering labor to the construction site every day.
The captain of every labor team is paid a lot of money - more than the workers, according to the head.
The Cai family has two captains, and they have more than one team, which allows the Cai family to quickly accumulate a large fortune - all of which are the banknotes of the New World Group.
But banknotes are banknotes. Backed by the Guards and a large number of goods, the New World Group's banknotes were almost immediately recognized by the people of Munashan.
Now even if they traded among themselves, they had abandoned the currency of Western Xia.
The dominance of the New World Group was quickly established.
While counting today's income under the kerosene lamp, Mrs. Cai said to Cai Feng: "Her father, I brought ten more people in today, and I made more money than yesterday, I want to add a cotton coat to one of our families, what do you think?" โ
Now that New World Group has abundant cotton and cotton cloth, cotton clothing has become a new commodity.
It's autumn now, and autumn in the northwest is already very cold. There are new winter clothes, and the Cai family has money in their hands, so of course they have to buy cotton clothes to keep out the cold.
"Let's just buy one with Jiu Niang. Don't buy it from Gorou Shichiro. โ
"Why? Sons are not human? Mrs. Cai felt strange. Cai Feng was much better to his son than to his daughter before. Why are you opposed to buying cotton clothes for your sons today?
"That's not what I meant." When Cai Feng said this, he lowered his voice and leaned close to his wife's ear and said, "I heard that the Guards are going to build a school in the city and recruit students. Students are provided with room and board, and clothes are returned. I'm going to have all of Gorou Shichiro go to school. In this way, you can not only mix the future, but also mix the clothes. โ
"You mean that the Emperor of the Li family will never be able to fight again?" Mrs. Cai couldn't believe that there was such a good thing. She had actually been worried about the aliens coming back.
"Even if they call, what is there to worry about!" Cai Feng is much more knowledgeable than Mrs. Cai: "Those cars, those cannons, and those machine guns of the Guards, which one can the Li family withstand?" I see, the Guards did this school just to get some locals to show them the way. Otherwise, they would have entered Xingqing Mansion a long time ago. โ
Cai Feng's insight can be described as not unintelligent. He even thought of the party that led the way.
In the next room, Cai's Goro Shichiro secretly climbed back into bed. They had been eavesdropping on their parents' conversation, and now they looked at each other in the dark.
At the same time, they understood what each other meant: "The school of the Guards, shall we go or not?" โ