CHAPTER XVI
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However, in the real troubled times, grain and grass are far more important than gold.
After all, gold can't be used to eat and drink, but grain and grass are fine. As long as there is food and grass, you can recruit enough soldiers and horses, how can you be afraid of not having gold at that time?
Although it is far from the point of troubled times, people with a discerning eye can see that the current situation will not be particularly stable for a period of time in the future.
For the sake of these interests, even if it is the order of Wang De, the county order, I am afraid that it will not be taken into their eyes.
But Yan Shao is different...
From a certain point of view, Yan Shao can be said to be their savior.
Even in later generations, those iron rooster-like landlords and old fortunes are also special circumstances, and they are more concerned about their own evaluation. The same is true of these families, if they are ordinary people, they can naturally ignore them, but Yan Shao is their savior, if it is the same, it is easy to end up with an ungrateful reputation.
So despite some embarrassment in their hearts, after discussing with each other, those people nodded in agreement.
Of course, in addition to Yan Shao saving them, the reason why he agreed was not a lot of food in exchange for Baijin, which was also one of the very important reasons.
Hundred gold, it seems to be a lot, but in this era, gold is not a circulating currency, not to mention that it is made up by the rich families in the city, and there may be a lot of it on one family, but there are not many of a few dozen households.
"I just don't know what you want to do with so much food, my lord?"
After all, it is grain worth 100 gold, even if the rich families in the city contribute together, it is not easy to get together, that is, this kung fu, Wang De asked Yan Shao.
It's also a little embarrassing, this Wang De is almost forty or fifty years old, and Yan Shao is only in his early 20s, but Yan Shao's position is much higher than Wang De, but Wang De has been in the officialdom for a long time, although it is just an ordinary county order, he is very thick-skinned.
This is not something worth keeping secret, so Yan Shao did not keep it a secret from Wang De, but said after a deep groan. "I want to build bridges and pave roads in Beihai, open canals and dams, and do something beneficial to the people, but it takes a lot of money to do so. With the money from the county guard alone, I am afraid that I will not be able to make ends meet, let alone build bridges and pave roads, I am afraid that I will not even be able to pay for the money of the hired people, and God blesses me, so that I can catch up with such a thing, this time I captured a lot of Yellow Turban remnants, just enough to take them to Beihai to do hard labor, and even the wages were saved..."
"But wages can be saved, food can not be saved, I haven't been to Beihai yet, and it's not clear whether there is any surplus grain in the granary, so I have to get more food, so that those yellow scarves won't starve to death..."
Although Yan Shao really has a headache about that place in Beihai, since he has become the Taishou there, he needs to manage it well. Although Qingzhou is a little embarrassing, there is Yuan Shao in the north, Cao Cao in the south, and there are heroes like Liu Bei and Lu Bu, but Yan Shao also has his own advantages.
It's not just the advantage of the traverser, it's also about time.
At this time, there is still a period of time before the appearance of Dong Zhuo's Roshan Great Demon King, Yan Shao can take this opportunity to include Beihai and even Qingzhou, so that even if it is a hero like Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, Yan Shao will also have the power to compete.
It's just that now Qingzhou can be said to be the most powerful place in the Yellow Turban, and even a large state with its original wealth has been ruined. If you want to develop well, I'm afraid you need a lot of extra effort.
The manpower and material resources required for this are definitely not something that a single Beihai County can bear.
Yan Shao didn't even dare to imagine what kind of mess he was going to take after arriving in Beihai. In order to think more about himself, Yan Shao could only focus on these yellow scarves who had just been surrendered...
"My lord has such ambitions, it's better to be a lower official, but these are the remnants of the traitorous party, if you forgive them like this, I'm afraid that the above will know..."
Hearing Yan Shao's plan, Wang De also breathed a sigh of relief, perhaps because of the raid, this time he won very smoothly, and even got many prisoners, there were more than 1,000 people in Jingzhuang alone, plus their families.
With so many people, one Gaotang alone can't afford to raise them.
However, in all dynasties, the policies against the betrayal of the party were relatively unified, which was a killing word.
At this point, it can be seen from Huangfu Song's attitude towards the Yellow Turban captives that more than 100,000 captives were killed when they said they were killed, and even made a rare Jingguan in the world.
If Yan Shao surrenders these captives, in case the above knows the blame, don't look at Yan Shao as a county guard, I'm afraid that I can't afford to bear the guilt.
"Don't worry about this, I have my own way, not to mention that if I can solve the problem by just killing people, I won't be messing up this field now..."
When the heroes were divided, the storage of yellow scarves had actually become a very common thing.
Not to mention Cao Cao's Qingzhou army, other princes have also done this, even Liu Bei has been like this, if it weren't for this, then Liu Bi is afraid that he will not be so desperate for Liu Bei.
The problem is that now is not the time for Dong Zhuo to come out and make a big fuss, and doing so at this time is definitely a taboo for the imperial court. However, Yan Shao is not worried, because there are people above him...
What's more, although Dong Zhuo has not yet made a fuss, the Han family's control over the place has declined, but this is obvious to all.
Wang De also reminded Yan Shao for the sake of rescue, and saw that Yan Shao didn't take it to heart, so he didn't say anything more.
Looking at Yan Shao's departing back, Wang De shook his head. "Sure enough, it's a hero out of a young man, seeing such a young man, I'm ashamed of my old bones..."
"What's the matter, my lord..."Behind Wang De, a local rich man smiled.
"Then again, why did the adults give him so much face? It's just a Beihai Taishou..."Standing behind him, another rich man also spoke, his face a little unhappy.
Although it is only more than 100 gold of grain, and it is still evenly shared, but at the moment the grain is the most valuable time, there are no wealthy families in Gaotang, most of them are just rich families, and the family business is not very large, so they were taken away from a sum of food, which still makes them feel a little distressed.
Sure enough, as soon as the rich man's voice fell, several people already chimed in.
Don't look at Yan Shao is the Taishou of Beihai County, they are really not very afraid, after all, Gaotang is not under the jurisdiction of Beihai County.
Looking at their appearance, Wang De sighed secretly, but his governance in Gaotang was inseparable from these people, so he could only shake his head and explain. "Having said that, don't forget that the current situation is chaotic, especially the rampant yellow turbans in Qingzhou, this time the Yellow Turban siege is not the first time, and it will definitely not be the last, what if you encounter such a thing next time?"
"I'm afraid that the state family and the county guard can't count on it, but this Yan Taishou's subordinates are strong and strong, especially the two fierce generals under his command, if they can build a good relationship, if something happens next, at least there is hope..."
Hearing this, those rich people finally understood Wang De's good intentions.
The food was quickly gathered, and Yan Shao simply took nearly 2,000 Yellow Turban remnants and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses of his own, plus the food he got from Gaotang, and headed towards Beihai.
During this period, there were also some small groups of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, but there were two fierce generals, Guan Hai and Sun Guan, who killed these Yellow Turbans in just one face, and even the team with Yan Shao has grown a lot.
At the head of the city, Li Gan was looking at the city boredly.
Although Qingzhou has a lot of trouble with the yellow scarves, but now the yellow scarves have just been devastated, and even the Qingzhou yellow scarves have settled a lot. Even if the county seat is concerned, a big city like Beihai has never been besieged, and even the guards with Beihai are idle.
Just when Li Gan was thinking that he would go home for a while and buy some meat for his mother-in-law and children from time to time, a puff of smoke and dust suddenly floated from the end of the horizon in the distance.
At first, Li Gan didn't care, but when he saw the dense figure appear at the end of the horizon, his face turned pale.
"Bell, bell, bell..."
The sound of the alarm bell wafted over the North Sea, and the officials and residents of the city were unaware of it at first, but when they realized what the sound meant, they suddenly became confused.
At the same time, looking at the chaotic city in the distance, Yan Shao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
"It's just that I brought some people to take office, as for making such a big noise..."
Just looking back at the thousands of people behind him, Yan Shao also felt a little weak.