Chapter 265: Debt Collection
Ji Tong saw that Bailiyan (Wei Xian) had no intention of pursuing it, and a look hinted at Li Yi, and poured wine for Bailiyan again and again, intending to get him drunk, but he didn't know that Bailiyan had an amazing amount of wine, and his liver function was strong, and his belly did not change color after five cups, and he was not drunk at all.
Bai Liyan also sniffed a hint of taste, and the feelings came here today not specifically to test the tone of the poisonous wine, but also to do something else, otherwise what would she do with the wine she poured herself.
"Master Hou, Wei is not drunk with a thousand cups, you don't have to go to great lengths to get Wei drunk, you have something to say."
"Oh......" Ji Tong looked embarrassed, and wondered in his heart, six liquors are in his stomach, why is he not a little drunk, it turns out that this person drinks like drinking water, and he will not be drunk at all. But how did Ji Tong know that Baili Yan's liver function is full of two hangover enzymes, and no matter how much alcohol you drink, it's fine.
At this time, Li Yi, who was patronizing the vegetables, said without heart:
"General Wei, Shao Ping's Xian army won 60,000 or 70,000 donkeys and horses in the first battle, and now it can be said that the soldiers and horses are strong, and the credit of my Liang Guo's military horses is indispensable."
Li Yi said without a glance, Bai Liyan understood that this horse had only been lent to the Xianjun for less than three months, and they were looking for the Xianjun to repay the debt.
In the first battle of Shaoping, in addition to the 10,000 elite horses of the Xian army, the remaining 50,000 war horses were all elite war horses of the Liang State. After returning to the east, there were more than 46,000 war horses left in the Liang army, and less than 6,000 war horses in the Xian army.
Ji Tong asked for a war horse in this matter, and he didn't lose it at all, the previous 1.5 million stone grain and grass was a drop in the bucket for a coal mine, and after Liang Guoxia harvested it, he didn't know how many 1.5 million stones were put into storage.
If the Xianjun returned the horse to Ji Tong at this time, he would not be able to return to the old society overnight, not to mention that many mares are now pregnant, so why can't they return it now. I didn't come to invite each other a few days ago, but I sent someone to find out the situation, so I set up a game to let myself drill.
Thinking of this, Baili Yan smiled and said:
"What Li Gongzi said is extremely true, the war horses of the Liang State ran for 300 miles a day without getting tired, and the thieves fled in despair, which can be called the world's gods, and the Xian army can have this great victory, all thanks to the Liang army's BMW. Li Gongzi must not be stingy, otherwise this Yongxing River will not be able to hold, and it will be difficult to ensure that Liang Guo is worry-free. ”
Ji Tong heard the news that the war horse ran three hundred miles a day, and the corners of his mouth suddenly twitched violently, it was really not his own thing, it was not good at all, and he greeted him to death, can this horse run three hundred miles a day, and he is not tired to death, even two horses can't run three hundred miles every day.
Li Yi was a little tender after all, Bai Liyan's sentence "Don't be stingy" made him speechless and couldn't take the stubble, Ji Tong saw the opportunity to say at this time:
"General Wei, the Xian army has no less than 1450,000 horses at the moment, and the horses of my Liang country were borrowed by your army after all, can you consider returning them to our army, and Benhou should explain to the Son of Heaven as soon as possible." Besides, Xianguo can't afford to keep such horses. ”
Bai Liyan's face was straight, the smile on the corner of his mouth disappeared, and he said:
"Master Hou, Wei is really not secret, our army got an important news in the battle of Shaoping, I don't know if Master Hou wants to hear it."
Ji Tong didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Baili Yan gourd, so he asked carefully:
"What does General Wei mean?"
"This news is much more important than the 50,000 military horses of your army, if the Hou Ye wants to know, the horses are indispensable to be lent to the Xian army, if you don't want to know, Wei will not be able to be the master, and the matter of the war horse is also asked to discuss with the king and Zhao Shuai, and a certain person does not dare to make a conclusion."
"Hehe, this horse was borrowed by General Wei, and now General Wei says that he can't be the master, this is child's play." Ji Tong said without being salty.
"It seems that Hou Ye doesn't want to know this urgent news, so please ask Hou Ye to negotiate with the king and Zhao Shuai about the war horse, and Wei will leave!"
After that, Bailiyan stood up and wanted to leave, Ji Tong stopped the way and said:
"General Wei, I'm in a hurry to leave, it's too early."
"What's the matter, Hou Ye still has something else to do?"
"Didn't General Wei say that there is important news, why only say half of it?"
"Wei said that this news is more important than horses, I am afraid that after the Hou Ye gets the horses, it will be time for the class to return to the court."
Ji Tong frowned and asked:
"What does the general mean?"
Baili Yan pretended to be strange:
"What, doesn't Master Hou know?"
Ji Tong was even more confused when he heard the news:
"What does Ben Hou know?"
"Naturally, Liang Tianzi's head is about to be lost, and Hou Ye is in a hurry to ask for horses, isn't it just for the sake of the class teacher to return to the court?"
Ji Tong's face sank, and he was unhappy in his heart, and said in a deep voice:
"General Wei's words are not disrespectful, isn't it that he has won a few battles and overestimated himself."
Bailiyan disagreed:
"It seems that Hou Ye doesn't believe it, okay, our army has captured a lot of commanders from Shao Ping this time, if Hou Ye is interested, he can ask for interrogation. Let's see how the Black Turban Army is intended, so as not to make any more insulting remarks from Wei. Farewell! ”
Arching his hand, Bailiyan turned away.
Li Yi didn't know why, and asked Ji Tong:
"Uncle, General Wei doesn't have to tear his face like this for tens of thousands of horses, right?"
"My nephew, tens of thousands of war horses are a decimal, you really don't know the importance at all. These tens of thousands of high-grade war horses are worth hundreds of dollars, and where are the small numbers. ”
Although the southern part of the Central Plains has a vast grassland, horses are relatively abundant, and the price is acceptable, but one or two horses are not a problem, and the problem is that there are many horses, which is not a small number. A low-grade war horse costs as little as twenty or thirty yuan, the most expensive one is fifty or sixty yuan, and the better one costs seventy or eighty yuan, and it may be cheaper to trade silver and goods, even if it is an ordinary pack horse, it costs more than ten yuan. Fifty thousand first-class war horses, to say the least, cost four or five million copper coins, or equivalent goods.
In fact, the princes of the countries have many horses, but the best first-class war horses are only owned by Xu and Song, followed by Wei Guo and Zhi Guo, and the Wei war horses are slightly inferior to Xu and Song war horses.
The war horses of Xu and Song are made of Jin Xuedi war horses, which have a variety of excellent characteristics such as tall body, fast speed, and strong endurance, so they are regarded as divine horses by the world, and there are many thousands of horses handed down.
Even the Liang Kingdom is rarely equipped with the war horses of the Xu Kingdom, and the purchases are all high-grade and medium-grade horses. The horses produced by Forte in the Central Plains, whether in endurance or speed, are not as good as the plateau mixed horses of Xu and Song, and they are usually selected on the basis of merit, and the middle and inferior horses are selected as war horses, and the rest of the last horses are all used as pack horses.
Nearly 50,000 war horses will not come back, so that Ji Tong will be in a hurry.
Bailiyan went away, just out of the Liangguo Minister's Mansion with his front feet, he raised his eyes and saw a carriage parked outside the door, and a middle-aged man stood outside the carriage looking inside the door of the mansion.
"Your Excellency is General Wei."
The middle-aged man opened his mouth to speak with a Qiguo accent, and Bai Liyan knew that he must have been sent by the minister of Qiguo to wait.
"Your Excellency?"
"Liu Chensi, the envoy of the Xia Qi State in the Xian State."
"Oh...... Lord Liu, I don't know what Lord Liu is doing? Bai Liyan asked knowingly.
"Hehe, I don't know if General Wei can be convenient, how about you and I borrow a step to speak?"
"If Lord Liu persuades Wei to return to the country, I think please be excused. Wei is now working for Xianguo, and Wei is forgiven for his disobedience. ”
"This ...... Hehe. Liu Chensi smiled awkwardly: "General Wei is really fast-talking, but he doesn't dare to agree. It is an unjust act for you to be a Qi person and not know how to serve your mother country. Your Excellency has the great talent to stabilize the country and the country, and my king is thirsty for talent, rather than being unable to sleep at night in this stormy Xianguo, why don't you consider returning to the country to serve our king. ”
"Humph!" Bai Liyan sneered: "King Xian treats the general as a close relative, and grants Wei a certain authority, and the general will be stubborn and stubborn to serve the king of Xian." If I fall back into dissonance, King Qi will be able to do this to me. Not to mention that Qiguo is a state under the defense of the country, now there are 30,000 Jin troops stationed for no reason, and the Jin army regards me as a thorn in the eye. ”
"Your Excellency doesn't know that the Jin army stationed in the country is really my king's suffering, and it is all because the second son did not respect the king's order, and was killed by the Xian army without authorization, how can your Excellency be in the company of the enemy country."
"Humph!" Bai Liyan said unhappily: "There is no need to mention this matter again, Lord Liu, please go back." ”
If you don't mention it, it's just that the Jin army relies on the account of the country and does not leave is all on Bailiyan's head, what kind of truth is this.
Even if the Jin army is mourning, he will not leave 30,000 horses in Qiguo, he is a pig's brain, the tiger did not drive away and recruited the wolf, and he dreamed of using the Jin State to balance the country, and he could figure it out. The Jin Kingdom is more than 24,000 miles away, and the sea route is not much shorter, and it will take at least three months to increase troops from the waterway, and it will take three months to defend the country and not wipe out the Qiguo.
If it weren't for the fact that the country was fighting fiercely now, it would not have been destroyed sooner. When will the Jin Kingdom decline, and the Patriotic Dynasty will be unified, and the backhand will be able to find the Qi Guo to open the knife, such a simple truth, the civil and military forces of the Qi State and the Manchu Dynasty can still not see through? Not to mention that Baili Yan returned to ambiguity as the second son, Baili Law couldn't tolerate him, even if he returned to Qi as Wei Xian, the Jin Kingdom didn't let Bai Lilu take off his head.
There are soldiers in the hands of those who stay in Xianguo, and some people cover them, and when they return to Qiguo, they are meat on the board, and sooner or later they will be stabbed.
Not long after Bailiyan rode away, Liu Chensi was about to leave, and Li Yi heard that Liu Chensi, the envoy of the Qiguo country, was outside, and immediately called him to see him.
At the same time, Baili Yan rode through the Prince's Mansion, and inexplicably thought of the fact that the Lei Cheng Jin army would not move. Although Ye Xin said that he went to Wei Han to "settle accounts", most of the time there would be no result.
Although Wei Han is the general of Zhenbei, he can only mobilize the northern army of the Jin army stationed in Yongxinghe at the moment, and the northern army stationed in Leicheng has actually been controlled by the general of the expedition to the north, and Wei Han of the Jin army in Leicheng has no right to intervene. But to say that Xihuan doesn't know anything about the inside story is too much.
Dismounted and came to the front of the house, Bai Liyan handed over the waist card and said:
"After a sigh of exhaustion, Wei Xian asked to see him."
The guards also knew Bailiyan, handed back the waist card and said:
"The crown prince is still in the palace, General Wei, please go back."
"I know that I will pay attention to your honor, and I will work hard."
handed over two hundred dollars, put the head of the guard into his arms, and without saying a word, he turned around and went to the mansion to pass Xihuan.
A foreign man who is not related to him and asks to see his female relatives, especially the crown princess, is not in accordance with the etiquette and rules, and it is easy to be criticized when it is spread out. Just saying that it is a request to see, without mentioning the parties, can be regarded as a kind of workaround.