Chapter 21: Winter Hunting
On the third day of the lunar month of the first year of Guanghe, the weather was sunny, cloudless and windless, but it was very cold.
Early this morning, Gongsun Xun got up again in the morning, and then came out of Feng Zhi's room to wash, and finally went out without waiting for breakfast.
The people in the house have long been accustomed to this, and even have been prepared for a long time, because when it comes to the day of the drill and the bow, Gongsun Xun always has to go to the school in person to dine with the strong men of the various teams gathered last night, without exception.
As for today, it is said that it is the hardest so-called 'armed raid and training' in the exercise, that is, fully armed, with enough food and grass, imitating the march for dozens of miles, and maybe even camping in the local area, and then encircling and suppressing the wild beasts on a certain hill before they can be disbanded and returned. And it's always forbidden for outsiders to watch, unlike Keju...... The days when the Keju League is held are always like a festival, and almost everyone in the city has to go to see it except for a high Taishou who doesn't like it, and it's lively and interesting.
"Husband." When the two concubines helped their Lang Jun tie up the armor, Zhao Yun stepped forward and held the broken knife in person. "I hope that my husband can have a good harvest this winter hunt."
After the previous training to reach the destination, it is generally necessary to routinely encircle and suppress a certain mountain prey as the final drill, so it is not impossible to say that it is winter hunting.
"I hope so!" Gongsun Xun took the knife and said with a smile. "It's still early, my mother is probably still asleep, and it's common for me to go to school every two months, so I won't go to my mother to say goodbye, and you don't have to send me, I'll wait for my mother to get up and take care of her for me later."
Zhao Yun and Gongsun Xun glanced at each other, but only bowed slightly to show their answer, but there were no superfluous words.
"Lang Jun, don't worry, we will make my mother happy." Feng Zhi, who was on the side, hurriedly responded when she saw this, and immediately turned crimson. "You're going to be back early today, too."
"Lang Jun, take care." Bian Yu also leaned in.
Gongsun Xun didn't care, and directly put the broken knife on the inside of the armor, and then went out with a white breath, and went straight out.
"Let's clean up and go to have breakfast with my mother," waited until the other party was out of the courtyard, and Zhao Yun glanced back at the two concubines' rooms at this time. "Ah Zhi went to my room and helped me bring the cat."
Feng Zhi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and immediately didn't dare to say more.
At the same time, on the east side of Xiangping City, next to a water source, located in a place between the county guard and the east city gate, Xiangping County Cheng Judge with Hu Cao Wang Xiu, is also greeting a person.
"I'm going to work hard today." Judging and matching is a kind courtesy. "Today is a training, and it is a full training, there is a lot of grain and grass needed, and I also ask Tian Gong to open the warehouse door as soon as possible, and someone will enter the city to transport grain later."
"Oh, what's the point, what's the matter?" The person on the other side was Tian Shao, and after this guy stepped down from the county, Aunt Gongsun seemed to be a little unhappy for her son, so she took the initiative to ask for a position in charge of the 300 stone warehouse officials in the county.
From the county to the county, the face is also passable. Moreover, since Chang Ping was invented by Li Kui, it has long become the main official warehouse in the Qin and Han dynasties, not only for storing disaster prevention and preparing for war, but also for the daily functions of pacifying grain prices and mediating the market.
"I don't know how much grain and how much forage we need to call in today?" After Tian Shao introduced the other party into the courtyard in front of the warehouse, he asked people to take out the account books and seriously inquire about the records.
"The grain will cost 50,000 stones, and half of the forage will be taken away." Wang Xiu stepped forward and took out the document and said seriously. "In addition, the sundries needed for this march, such as tents, oil, salt and vinegar, etc., must be doubled!"
Tian Shao took the two well-known documents stamped by Taishou in the county, and without opening them, he directly returned them, and then motioned to the officials behind him to record them...... Unexpectedly, the official held a thin pen in his hand, and the ink dripped on the paper, but he was dumbfounded, not a word, as if he had been frozen by the weather.
"Any questions?" The judge held the knife and narrowed his eyes and asked the officer.
"yes, what's the problem?" Tian Shao couldn't help frowning. "Isn't it 50,000 stones, and then the tent is doubled? It's not that the tent won't be returned, a little salt and vinegar, this is a nod from the king......"
"Takura Cheng," the official shuddered as he handed over the account book and pen. "The stakes are high, why don't you write about it?"
"Why not?" Tian Shao immediately grabbed the account book impatiently, and then picked up the pen to write, but as soon as he wrote a word, he raised his head in a daze. "Five, fifty thousand stones? The two of you, tents, salt and vinegar are fine, and forage is not impossible, but 50,000 stone of grain...... Did Xianxian Cheng and Wang Hucao get it wrong? ”
"There is no mistake," replied the judge, holding his saber, without hesitation. "It is 50,000 stone of grain, and the people have gathered outside the east city gate at this time, and they will enter the city to get it when they are waiting for the warehouse to be opened."
Tian Shao's face was pale, and he wanted to stop talking, but he didn't know what to do...... Because, as he said just now, everything else is easy to say, but this 50,000 stone grain is too sensitive!
Stone is a very interesting unit of measurement, it is first of all a unit of capacity, a stone in the Han system is about 20,000 milliliters; However, because its main use is to measure the national economy and people's livelihood of the grain, so it was soon extended to the weight unit, one stone of grain, that is, 20,000 milliliters of corn is about 120 Han catties, so there is a stone four jun, one jun 30 Han catties; Eventually, because food was often used as an official stipend, the stone was soon extended to the rank of official......
But no matter what, whether it is from the perspective of the capacity unit or the weight unit, a stone of grain should be about 120 Han catties, and if you consider that one catty under the Han system is about one-half of the later city catty, a quarter of a kilogram, then roughly a stone of corn as a thirty kilograms of grain in later generations, there is still no way to run.
50,000 stones, that is, 1.5 million kilograms, or 3 million catties of grain, this figure, if you don't take into account any transportation losses, can probably save 10,000 people to eat for more than half a year.
And if he thought about it like this, it was no wonder that Tian Shao was dumbfounded...... He thought it was 500 stones!
"Don't you joke?" Tian Shao's hands trembled, and he could only grit his teeth to verify. "Fifty thousand stones...... It's just a day of training, even if it is disbanded tomorrow, it's only four or five thousand people to eat three meals, how can you need 50,000 stones? ”
"This training is to imitate the matter of transporting grain." Zhenzheng Nan was not ashamed. "Take out 50,000 stone of grain, escort it to Xuansu County, and then send it back, and the people who transport the grain at the door have even prepared livestock and carts."
"Why use real food?" Tian Shao was speechless. "Make 50,000 stone adobe to make a look......"
"My county gentleman likes to use real grain and real forage...... And how? ”
"This ......"
"Tian Cangcheng don't say these words," the judge was obviously a little impatient, and he directly held the knife and took a step forward and asked. "I only ask you, the large county of Youzhou in eastern Liaodong has a vast land and people, and it has the important task of supporting the border defense of the surrounding four counties, so there won't be even 50,000 stone of grain in this warehouse, right?"
"Yes, there is, there is." Tian Shao hurriedly explained. "But hoarding food is for border preparation and disaster prevention, except for sending troops and relief, where can we send so many ...... in one go"
"It's all said, don't say that," the judge asked, holding the knife forward again, forcing the person in front of him to take a step back. "Let me ask Tian Cangcheng again, is our document fake? Is the county seal on the paperwork fake? ”
"It's ...... naturally"
"In that case, what does this matter have to do with Tian Cangcheng?" The judge continued. "If something really goes wrong, do you think our Gongsun County Jun will shirk the blame and implicate you officials? And besides, it's only 50,000 stones, even if you really lose it when you go out, won't the Gongsun clan be able to afford it? ”
Wang Xiu also hurriedly stepped forward at this time and said seriously: "Tian Gong, this year's Saiwai Dafeng, now this good Liang rice in Liaodong City is 400 yuan a stone; The corn mixed with old rice in the warehouse is only 220 yuan and one stone...... 50,000 stones, which is only about 10 million yuan, and if you look at the gold price on the market today, it is only seven or eight hundred gold, plus this year's Dafeng outside the Saiwai, do you really think our county monarch can't afford to pay it? ”
Tian Shao was silent for a while...... He naturally understands this truth, in fact, according to his estimate, that is, the Amway does not specialize in purchasing grain, and at this time, there are probably 50,000 stones of grain stored in the warehouses outside the Saiwai.
However, the more this is the case, the more shocked he becomes, because this Gongsun County Jun does not use his own grain, instead of using the official warehouse, as if it is to facilitate the centralized transportation of the people outside the city, and considering the other party's previous practice of calling the people of the whole county to train the soldiers and bow down, it is clear that it was premeditated, and then he intended to do something more than he imagined.
It's really beyond imagination...... Training troops and mobilizing official rations to go out of the city will not be a rebellion, right? Tian Shao could only think like this at first, but if he rebelled, why not launch it directly in Xiangping City? Why do you want to ship the grain out?
Seeing that the other party was uncertain, the judge knew that the other party was a little shaken, so he let go of the hand holding the knife, stepped forward and said frankly: "My county gentleman has a sentence, I will tell Tian Gong that today's matter, he will not affect anyone if he loses it; If it is done, we will not forget the kindness of everyone! As for what it is, you will know in a few days. ”
Tian Shao let out a long sigh...... Yes, even with the worst idea, that is, if this Gongsun clan really wants to rebel, I am afraid that it will be able to sweep Liaodong in a short time, even if I don't want to be a thief, I can't help but talk about current affairs, right?
Besides, it doesn't look like people are going to rebel, right? So, get out of the way!
"Fifty thousand stones is fifty thousand stones." Tian Shao gritted his teeth and lowered his head to record, but he couldn't help but ask. "But at this time, the stakes are very high, can I go to report to the government afterwards?"
"As soon as the food leaves the city, I'm afraid it will alarm the city." The judge couldn't help but laugh. "But if Gao Fujun ignores it, Tian Gong and all the warehouse officials may wish to wait for two or three days, and then my county monarch will be grateful."
When Tian Shao heard this, he became even more relaxed...... Allow yourself to tell Taishou that nine times out of ten it is not a rebellion, and as long as it is not a rebellion, what does it matter to him?!
"The account books have been entered," Tian Shao put away the account books and said with his hands. "I'm going to ask people to draw the threshold of the courtyard gate, check the grain and grass, and ask the county magistrate to let people enter the city immediately to transport it...... While the sky is still not bright and there are not many people, the transportation industry is faster at this time. ”
"That's exactly how it should be!" The judge took a few steps back and bowed down. "Thank you Tian Gong this time...... If you want to come to Tian Gong, you will definitely be famous all over the world for this incident in the future. ”
Tian Shao couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The city gate had already been opened under the order of the county lieutenant, and the men and strong men who had been ordered to rush to the east of the city yesterday afternoon with weapons, township carts, and cattle had actually had breakfast in the school field, and at this time, they were even under the leadership of Han Dang to carry grain and grass in the city...... The news they got was that the county was about to send 50,000 stone of grain and a lot of forage to Xuansu, so they were invited by the Gongsun County Jun as the content of this drill.
Although this is a bit of a feeling of conscription and forced labor, it doesn't hurt if someone organizes it, anyway, there is food to eat, and Xuansu is too close, so it should be regarded as a hard day of practice...... Two consecutive months of drills and juju have made these people's trust in Gongsun Xun reach a certain level.
Fifty thousand stone of grain, plus half a warehouse of forage, must be a lot, but in front of thousands of people who had already prepared, as well as a large number of livestock and vehicles, it was only easy. Not to mention that Wang Xiu commanded properly, blocking the road, entering the city from the right, and leaving the city from the right...... In the end, it was already out of the city when it was dark.
At this time, the city was already crowded with people, but even Aunt Cui Qi, the confidant of Gongsun Auntie who came out to buy in the morning, only heard from passers-by that the county government sent grain and grass to Xuansu, temporarily recruited armed people, and then closed the road for a while...... Didn't do what he thought. In fact, Aunt Gongsun didn't see her son on the second day, so she asked casually, and after learning about it, she didn't think much about it.
After all, from Xiangping City, the county of Liaodong County to Goguryeo City, the county of Xuansu County (yes, it was the station of Goguryeo before the rebellion, it was the northeast side of Shenyang, and it was only more than 100 miles, and when there were enough vehicles and livestock, it was only two or three days to move along the main road.
However, after only a day's walking, on the morning of the fourth day of the lunar month, Gongsun Xun did not order the people to leave, but still waited in the camp and did not move, and even asked the people to go to the frozen Xiaoliao water next to them to dig ice and fish to improve the food.
The people are composed of detachments, and the captains of each team are originally elected and have prestige. And Gongsun Xun in the past two months and let these detachments continue to eliminate and integrate in the exercises, the more outstanding teams are in accordance with the Han military system, the so-called two teams and one tun, two tun and one song, five songs and one song, a total of one was set aside, just one thousand people were preferred; The remaining fifty or sixty teams were roughly organized according to the composition of five or six tun songs, and a large part of two or three thousand people was compiled.
But no matter what, the army structure is there, plus Gongsun Xun has always had prestige, and there is enough food and grass, but he didn't let these people and strong men think about it much, just did what he said...... Until the afternoon of the same day, the smoke and dust on the other side of the river were billowing and thousands of cavalry arrived from the west bank of the river.
"Don't panic, go back immediately and tell the people of this team that these Hu cavalry have been recruited by Xuansu Taishou and will go to Xuansu with us."
Lu Fan and Han Dang were each in charge, and at this time, they carried their knives and commanded the two officers who had already been summoned with dozens of righteousness.
Although the officers of the two departments had some drills, they had a civilian mentality after all, so as soon as they dispersed, they talked about each other.
"It's transporting grain again, and it's recruiting Hu Qi, I'm afraid that Xuansu's side will fight!"
"I heard that Goguryeo has the power to usurp the throne, so he wants to fight abroad to establish his authority, and I, Liaodong, practice all the time, Goguryeo people will definitely not dare to come......"
"Are you saying that the Goguryeo people are going to beat us Xuansu? I'm afraid I don't have the guts, right?! ”
"Brother Wang thinks it's bad, I mean that the Goguryeo people are afraid that they will fight the Fuyu people, and don't you Xuanfu people always want to send troops to support the Fuyu people?"
"My brother is right! It's just a pity that we just want to transport grain to Goguryeo? ”
"What do you think?" Seeing that the people around him were talking about it, and as the explanation was conveyed to the bottom, it became more and more chaotic, but the leader of the rangers surnamed Liu from Ping Guo couldn't help but ask questions to the person next to him.
"Qu Chang laughed, how can I understand this?" The person who was asked was also the first hunter in Liaodong surnamed Liu before, and his face couldn't help but turn red at this time. "But if it's a group of dwarves in Goguryeo, it's not that we haven't seen it, or I'm not afraid of a real fight, maybe I can make some contributions, but I'm afraid that it's not our business."
"Who's to say it isn't?" The middle-aged ranger leader couldn't help but feel a little anxious. "I'm afraid that I will come back after sending food, and it has nothing to do with us......"
In other words, although the two have a lot of different backgrounds, because they have the same surname Liu, they were both selected into the 1,000 elite troops, the ranger leader became a civil defense qu chief (who did not dare to call a military marquis), and the honest Orion became a tun chief in the qu, but he became more and more familiar with it.
And just when the two were about to continue discussing, on the other side, Hu Qi on the west bank of Xiaoliaoshui was in a clear formation, and entered the camp gate under the leadership of a few people, so he hurriedly threw away these words, and each brought his deployment and came to the avenue in the middle of the camp to watch the onlookers.
Unexpectedly, in front of all the Hu Qi and Hu nobles, there were actually two young nobles dressed as Han Chinese. And Gongsun Xun, who was standing in the middle of the camp, looked at these two people, although he had more than a smile in his eyes, he still held the sword with the crown and the sword, and then led Lu, Lou, Shen, Han, Wang and others to stand calmly and without moving.
"Meet my brother!"
"I haven't seen you for a few years, but my brother is fine?!"
These two young nobles with thousands of horsemen dismounted as soon as they entered the camp, and as soon as they came to Gongsun Xun, they actually fell directly to the ground.
"Ah Yue, Ah Fan, you two have worked hard." Gongsun Xun raised his hand slightly, and did not personally step forward to help the other party, not that he was holding it up, but that he tacitly wanted to use this to establish his authority. "Ah Yue has not seen him for several years, but he is growing heroic; And Afan...... Uh, Wendian, I'm ashamed to delay going to Luozhong for my business. ”
"Originally, I was going to go to Luoyang with Brother Bogui, but when I received a letter from my brother, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, the battle of Danhan Mountain was not in sight, and this time I was about to see my brother Huwei!" Gongsun Fan held his head high, and in terms of his hands, it was a set.
Of course, Gongsun Xun knew that this guy was not telling the truth...... On that day, this guy was indeed going to go to Luoyang with Gongsun Zhan, who had raised filial piety, but Gongsun Zhan didn't want to see this brother-in-law, so Gongsun Fan took the initiative to stay at home at that time, and was going to go to Luoyang again after missing a period of time, but he didn't want to suddenly receive a private message from Gongsun Xun handed over by Zhao Bao.
That's right, Gongsun Xun recruited these Hu Qi this time, but he followed the path of his wife Zhao Yun, in the name of his father-in-law Zhao Bao, and then asked Gongsun Yue and Gongsun Fan to do it in Liaoxi. Of course, there are some twists and turns, such as my father-in-law who refused at first, but fortunately, the brine dotted tofu, one thing drops one thing, and my father-in-law is a mother-in-law, where can he withstand his mother-in-law who is both bold and transparent?
So, this matter was finally agreed, and according to Gongsun Xun's intentions, Mohu Xianbei, Duan Xianbei, Wuhuan Shan Yu Qiu Liju's nephew Mudun's private department, three elite Hu horses, and several scattered medium tribes, a total of more than 3,000 horses, directly took the documents of Liaoxi County, and took the Liaoxi Road to here.
After seeing the two clan brothers, Gongsun Xun looked at the several Hu leaders behind the other party.
In other words, although the leader of the collapse has some identities, he respects Zhao Bao after all, and he also knows that the person in front of him is not the man who only took a few people to save people in front of the battle...... The first battle of Danhan Mountain, everyone in northern Xinjiang knows about it...... Therefore, it is also to put away the edge for the time being and salute respectfully.
Then, Duan Ri Yuming, the leader of the Xianbei of the Duan Department who saw Gongsun Xun for the first time, also hurriedly stepped forward to bow respectfully...... You must know that there is a reason why Duan Bu is so respectful, this Xianbei tribe lost its foundation after the Battle of Liucheng, and was almost annexed by the Wuhuan people and brought back as slaves to dispose of, but fortunately, the leader Duan Riyu Ming has always had some knowledge, so he gathered a large number of local remnants of Xianbei forces after the defeat and lost his sincerity to Zhao Bao.
Therefore, instead of regaining his foothold, he became the representative of the Xianbei forces raised by the Han government, and the Duan Department was also becoming stronger and stronger, and he was no worse than the Mohu Department among the Xianbei people in Western Liaoning.
However, Duan Ri Yu Ming's respectful bow did not have a good effect, but some of them seemed a little embarrassed and not respectful enough.
Because immediately after, Mo Huqi, who was deliberately waiting for this moment, suddenly stepped forward, and then threw himself to the ground in front of thousands of Han soldiers and thousands of Hu Qi, including his own tribe, and cried loudly holding one of Gongsun Xun's feet!
"In the battle of Danhan Mountain, the little slave was separated from the adult, I thought that he was going to be searched and killed, and he was separated from the adult yin and yang, but he didn't want to be blessed by the gods, and he could still live to see the adult again!" Mo Hu burst into tears like rain, crying endlessly, and almost cried his back. "I didn't expect that I could serve adults again!"
Most of the people such as the trial and the collapse were stunned, and Duan Riyu Ming, Wang Xiu and other honest people turned red, but Lou Zibo and Gongsun Fan, who had seen the level of this person, couldn't help but treat each other coldly.
"Mo Hutou, please get up," Gongsun Xun endured the cold and helped the other party up. "This time to conquer Goguryeo, I am the commander-in-chief, and I am asking the Mohutou people to help me, how can I wrap my arms around my feet?"
As soon as these words came out, the nobles on both sides of Hu Qi and Han Hu were fine, but the Han army on the lookers gradually stirred, and finally suddenly the camp could no longer be suppressed, and the whole camp actually cheered and jumped, so that the sound shook the Liao River.
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