After being silent for a long time, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) took up a pen to reply to King Xian, put it in an iron letter and sealed it, and handed it to the guard who sent the letter:

"Be sure to deliver the letter to the king."

"Please rest assured, General Wei, it will be handed over to the king in the next decision."

The guard Lang took the iron letter and left, and Bailiyan found Sikong Nan, who was walking his horse:

"Brother Sikong, I'm so interested."

"Oh, the rebels are not moving, the brothers are a little idle, I took a few people to walk their horses nearby, and checked the post by the way."

"Well, there will be an important matter for Brother Sikong, I don't know if my brother is willing to go."

"But by the general's orders."

"Come with me."

When the two came to no man's land, Bailiyan overlooked the endless wasteland of Beihai County, was silent for a long time, and hesitated:

"Brother Sikong, you and I have known each other for more than two years."

"Yes, it's been two years. Back then, he went astray, but fortunately thanks to the general's great kindness, Sikong is where he is today, why did the general suddenly talk about it? ”

"There is something related to the livelihood of the country, and other people Wei can't rest assured, only Brother Sikong can trust him, I don't know if Brother Sikong is willing to go."

"The general has the grace of reinvention for Sikong, and Sikong should go to the soup and fight the fire."

"It's not necessary to go to the soup and fire, but people's hearts are unpredictable, so we have to guard against it."

"As long as the general gives the order, the last general will never fail to fulfill his mission."

"Okay, with Brother Sikong's words, Wei is relieved. At present, the military budget is huge, and the state treasury is already unable to make ends meet. The plan of our army's westward advance is no longer possible, and the only way to plan for today is to stick to Guangxin and Dingyang.

However, in this way, Guangxin and Dingyang are bound to become battlefields, and next year's spring and summer planting will be hit hard, and the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, there will be a huge amount of money that needs to be sent to collect it, but this amount is so huge that it must be done by top secret cronies. ”

Hearing that it was a huge amount of money, Sikong Nan was taken aback:

"Could it be Qin Han's stolen goods?"

"No, it's a pearl."

"Pearls! How many pearls can there be, seven or eight is already a lot, and the general can't have hundreds? Even if there are a hundred, it is only 70,000 or 80,000 inches of silver, and it can't solve the urgent need. ”

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan smiled very calmly.

I wanted to cultivate pearls at the beginning, I was looking for a way to make money for myself, and if I continued to develop with the trend, it was very likely to help the abuse, but now I don't want to give it away to make a wedding dress. (See Chapter 121 for details)

"Brother Sikong, do you know that pearls can also be grown like crops?"

"What!" Sikong Nan was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly said, "How is this possible! Although I have little knowledge, I also know that this pearl was born in a mussel, which is obtained by chance, and it is extremely rare, how can it be planted! ”

"That's right, Wei actually planted pearls in a deserted village more than two years ago, and he should have cultivated them by now, so it's time to take them at this time."

"Shhh...... Could it be that there are tens of thousands? ”

Bai Liyan nodded:

"The exact number is not clear, but the number should be no less than 10,000, you go and select a hundred cronies from your command, first go to Guangxin to pick up Miss Xiao'er, this matter is only known to her, and then immediately go to the deserted village.

In the lotus pond near the deserted village Yicaotang, there are more than 2,000 river mussels, and there are pearls planted in the river mussels, you only need to take them all, and then take them all to the Guangxin Department Store, which will be handled in person. ”

"But even then, there are only more than 2,000 pearls?"

"Ben Jiang won't hide it from you, a river mussel can plant twenty pearls, Ben Jiang won sixteen that year, and the rest, Brother Sikong will count it himself."

"Hiss......" Sikong Nan was suddenly shocked, and couldn't help but feel numb in disbelief.

"There should be no one in the deserted village at this time, you must act in secret, it is a matter of life and death, and you must not leak anything."

"The last general will definitely live up to the trust of the general."

"Well, let's go, go early and come back early."

At first, I didn't think much about it, I just thought that pearls should be very valuable, but I didn't pay attention to inquire, but I never thought that one would be so expensive.

Nowadays, due to the lack of technology and knowledge, pearls are not obtained by manual excavation and smelting in gold and silver mines, almost by chance, and the price of pearls is comparable to the value of diamonds before the advent of pearl cultivation technology.

At present, a small pearl the size of a soybean costs forty or fifty inches of silver, and if it is larger, it will cost hundreds. Pearls worth seven or eight hundred in one or a half dollars, and two thousand inches of silver in excellent condition, and the price is staggering.

This means that more than 2,000 river mussels can produce at least 30,000 pearls, excluding the defective products that do not form shapes, at least more than 20,000 spherical and olive-shaped pearls can be harvested, which will undoubtedly be a huge amount of money for the current treasury.

Of course, the unexpected huge amount of money is not without economic consequences, a large number of pearls suddenly into the market, will directly lead to the depreciation of prices, once the outside world is known that pearls can also be cultivated on a large scale, it is bound to break the market price in a short period of time, and all the way down.

But it is not without benefits, how to grow pearls, only Xiao Er knows, even if Sikong Nan knows that pearls can be planted, but he only knows what it means and does not know the reason.

In the future, once pearls become a monopoly specialty of the Xianguo and monopolize the market, the Xianguo will undoubtedly obtain the sole pricing power, and no one will be able to compete with the Baili Yan, which means that even if the price falls, as long as the price is right, it can still be used to obtain enough rich returns in quantity.

The sharp turn of the war situation is almost despairing, Ye Xin is undoubtedly one of them, Zhao Xun issued a military order to arrive later than the day of King Xian, the letter acquiesced to Bailiyan's proposal to abandon Pucheng and lure the Jin army into the war, but strictly ordered Ye Xin's troops not to attack westward, and must be sure to defend Guangxin and Dingyang after the arrival of reinforcements, otherwise military law will be engaged.

This is the second time that Bai Liyan has seen Zhao Xun's strict order to "engage in military law", the last time was six years ago, Yin Yangcheng was in danger, Zhao Xun ordered to fight until one soldier and one soldier, and those who retreated from the battle were engaged in military law.

That night, Ye Xin convened the generals to discuss the military aircraft, and how to fight became the core issue.

This time there were only 30,000 reinforcements, a total of 60,000 people in Ye Xin's department. There are 20,000 defenders of Dingyang City, more than 30,000 defenders of Guangxin, and the strength of the rest of the cities in Beihai County will not exceed 10,000.

Except for the Guangxin Army, almost all of the defenders were weak county soldiers, miscellaneous soldiers, and even civilian troops who did not even have blades and had no strict training with bamboo guns and wooden guns, and it was almost impossible to deal with the 200,000 black turban army with these rabble.

The final conclusion of the military opportunity was to divide the troops and defend it, Jiang Min, the Duke of Guangxin, still led his troops to garrison the city of Guangxin, and the army of King Qin of Beihai County moved to defend Dingyang, considering that the population and city of Dingyang City were not as good as Guangxin, Ye Xin led 30,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Dingyang, and the Bailiyan pioneer battalion continued to garrison Guangxin.

In this way, the Guangxin garrison will increase to about 60,000 people, and Dingyang City also has 60,000 people, although there are more than half of the miscellaneous soldiers, but it is better than the bad form of rushing to fight seven or eight days ago, Bailiyan dragged the Thunder Heavenly King, and the strategic intention of fighting for reinforcements and preparation time was all achieved.

The strategic policy was decided, and there were still two fatal problems left, one was how to deploy the cavalry of Ding Yang, if the cavalry was tethered to the city to act as infantry, where would the fodder for the horses come from, it would be a huge problem.

The second question determines the first question after the rebels conquer Pucheng, whether to concentrate their forces to fight Guangxin or Dingyang, or divide their troops to besiege Guangxin and Dingyang.

If the main direction of the rebel attack is in Guangxin, this means that the 30,000 cavalry of Dingyang can be deployed outside the city, if the main direction of attack is Dingyang, the cavalry can only shrink in the city, or the cavalry and the Guangxin army will be transferred in advance, so that the Guangxin army can fill in Dingyang City, but obviously it can't be done.

Here the Xian army had to face a huge paradox, the Jin army would eventually occupy Pucheng, but would it send troops to attack the rebels. This issue has long been decided within the vanguard battalion, but the generals of the other armies still have illusions.

Bailiyan concluded that after the Jin army captured Pucheng, it would definitely not extend an olive branch, and judged by military common sense, if there was a Jin army stationed in Pucheng, the rebels should not attack Guangxin, because the Jin army was behind the rebels and could be killed anytime and anywhere, so they could only go to Dingyangcheng.

But the question is whether the Jin army will do this, if the Jin army is holding the mentality of Guangxin losing and picking up cheap, the Jin army will definitely not take the initiative to attack before breaking the city.

Secondly, the Black Turban Army evacuated the main forces of Gu Bai and Ikeda, and the population moved away, leaving the empty city, and with the situation of the Jin army, it was unlikely to occupy the two distant empty cities and dependent territories.

Compared with Gubai and Ikeda, Pucheng on the coast is obviously more tempting. Therefore, even if the Black Turban Army stationed heavy troops in Pucheng, the Jin army still has the possibility of attacking Pucheng, after all, the Jin army in Leicheng has 150,000 people, and Wei Han's 100,000 Jin army is in the Yongxing River, if the two armies fight together, the rebels are simply unable to parry.

But the premise is that the main force of the rebels is not around Pucheng, which directly determines whether the Jin army will attack Pucheng.

After all, there are 200,000 rebels, and from Pucheng to Guangxin, the rapid march of the infantry army only takes more than a day, which is closer than the need for more than two days from Pucheng to Dingyang, so theoretically it should be attacked Dingyang.

The Jin army besieged Pucheng, which was heavily controlled by the rebels, and the rebels in Dingyang needed two days to march even in a hurry, plus the transmission of news on the road, it would take four days to reach Pucheng at the earliest, and they would also be attacked by the cavalry of the Xian army, so the Jin army had enough time to attack Pucheng

If 200,000 rebels besieged Guangxin and lost Pucheng at the same time, this is obviously a very obvious flaw. Therefore, according to common sense, if the main force of the rebel army is not in Pucheng, it will definitely not attack Guangxin, but besiege Dingyang.

Dingyang City is small, with a population of more than 400,000 less than Guangxin, little vitality, lack of veteran troops and ordnance, and the city is not covered with bricks, so it cannot withstand the violent beating.

The rebels besieged Dingyang, which could not only be broken in a relatively short period of time, but also far away from Pucheng, otherwise the Jin army would never risk being surrounded to fight Pucheng, but this is the most unlikely situation, but it is the most likely to happen.

First of all, even if the Jin army occupied Pucheng, it would not attack the rebels. Secondly, if Guangxin is lost, it must have gone through a bloody battle, the rebels were exhausted and injured, and the 150,000 elites of the Jin army were dispatched, and the rebels could be defeated with one blow and occupy Guangxin, so the main force of the rebels was gathered near Guangxin, and the Jin army still had the possibility of taking risks and licking the blood to see death.

Secondly, the Jin army had the only motive for attacking Pucheng, that is, Pucheng was the gateway of Guangxin, and along the coast, Guangxin would be lost in the future, and the Jin army would attack Guangxin and occupy the territory.

Therefore, if a situation was created in which the Jin army attacked Pucheng while tolerating the main force of the Black Turban Army to assemble near Pucheng, although this is a logical paradox, it is in fact highly probable, then what is the motive of the Black Turban Army?

The Black Turban Army could completely hold Pucheng and not give the Jin army a chance to take advantage of it, and then continue to attack Guangxin. But now all signs indicate that the rebels are deliberately luring the Jin army to attack Pucheng, even if the rebels expect that the Jin army will not attack from behind, then what is the point of the Black Turban Army doing this, why take this risk?

If this must be done, there is only one explanation: the rebels have more sinister motives. This time, Bai Liyan really couldn't figure out which play Thunder was singing.

After all, in such a small area, the emergence of two situations that are completely contrary to normal logic is a paradox in itself, and it is a success.