The third thing is the news about the illness of the King of Jin, according to the news that the King of Jin began this year, his health deteriorated, and he did not go to court for three days.

This situation was somewhat unexpected by Bai Liyan (Wei Xian).

King Jin should be fifty years old this year, although he is old, his big body has always been very good, and this situation is mostly a malignant disease.

For a person who is in excellent health on weekdays, and suddenly falls seriously ill and goes to the hospital to find out, most of them are malignant tumors or cancer. For example, lung cancer, stomach cancer, and intestinal cancer are all invisible killers, and it is almost difficult to find malignant diseases through observation, observation, look, and inquiring about them in the middle and advanced stages.

Once you start coughing up blood, the symptoms disappear after a while, and you feel good, but it actually progresses slowly, and then the condition quickly starts to worsen, and the cancer spreads, and you die quickly within a few weeks, months, or even a year or two.

In the last year or two, most of the Jin State's series of tricks are the alternation of power, and the change in the relationship of interests between the nobles and magnates in the Jin State and the local wealthy families, which has caused conflicts.

After all, there is a background behind the prince's main room and favorite concubines, and whether the family interests represented behind them can be integrated with the family interests represented by the King of Jin, from the beginning of the prince's auxiliary government, the interests and groups of all parties began to clash with each other.

Bai Liyan even suspected that the inaction of Ji Guang in the battle of Shao Ping was probably one of the causes of the change of power in the Jin Kingdom, but it was really shocking that the Black Turban Army grasped it so accurately.

The fourth thing is more interesting, Ding Su has traveled south and north for several years, and found that the demand for one thing in various countries is very high, but the output of each country is not large, because it is still at the level of accidental mineral mining and collection, which cannot be synthesized and obtained in large quantities, and the profit is very low, and it is also a military supply, and it is very common to say, that is, "alkali".

Alkali is also needed for edible soda and soda for workshops, and alkali is also needed for military production, such as the processing of leather and the fixing of cloth color, especially in inland areas.

Most of the common people's edible alkali comes from alkaline water and lime concocted from straw ash, and part of the alkali used in handicraft industry comes from straw ash and lime, and part of it is a toxic by-product of mining.

Ding Su knew that Baili Yan could refine edible white alkali, but he didn't know that Baili Yan was used to make soap, so Ding Su proposed that a large number of white alkali could be made and sold in various countries, although the profit was not much, but the market was a large number of people, and the final profit would be very considerable.

Reading through the whole letter, Bai Liyan lit the oil lamp to give a fire to the essence of the fire, and then Xiao Er asked:

"Big brother, when will Ding Caidong come back?"

"It's early, it's going to have to be next year. In a few days, you will also pack up, put all the cash into the box, and in another month or two, you may have to go back to Chenling, and the home that the eldest brother left here before should also be taken away with you, don't leave it behind. ”

"But the rebels are so tightly surrounded now, can they walk?" Xiao Er asked stupidly.

"Don't worry, with the eldest brother here, there is always a way to live. You go to Baiwei Building and order a few dishes, and put them on the second floor, and the eldest brother will discuss important matters with a few brothers tonight. ”

"Xiao Er, let's go."

Not long after Xiao Er left, Bai Liyan ordered the guards to invite Sikong Nan, Su Hong, Bai He, and Lu Zhao to the department store, and about two quarters of an hour later, the four of them arrived one after another, and Xiao Er had not yet returned from Baiwei Building.

"General, what are your orders for calling me and others to come?" Su Hong said.

"You guys sit down first, Xiao Er will go to Baiweilou to order, maybe it will take a while, you sit down first, try this first."

As she spoke, Bai Liyan took out two pieces of sugar paste wrapped in oiled paper from the cloth bag she carried, folded them into four petals, and gave one to the four of them.

Sikong Nan took the sugar paste and smelled it, remembering that he passed by Zuixiangju a few days ago, and he also smelled this smell.

"General, this is what Zuixiangju did."

"Yes, it is the latest new dry food that Ben will make, which can satisfy hunger, quickly recover strength, and can withstand the food and meat needed for most of the day."

Hearing this, the four of them looked at each other, and Su Hong was a little incredulous:

"General, such a whole piece is only two or three taels, how can I eat two full stomachs, if the brothers know about it, I have to poke my backbone in front of me."

"Of course, the stomach can't be filled, but it can restore strength, so the soldiers still need to bring enough dry food."

At this time, Lu Zhao touched his beard and said:

"General Wei, don't you really want to travel hundreds of miles a day with light clothes!"

As soon as Lu Zhao said this, Sikong Nan and the three of them turned their eyes to Bailiyan one after another, and they already understood in their hearts that this was going to be a war.

"Well, the sugar paste is only a part, and the five thousand warriors and three thousand archers of the Feather Arrow Battalion will each distribute six catties of jerky, three pieces of sugar paste, and seven days of other cooked dry food. Depart from Tim Thanh in mid-September and arrive at Tim Thanh within seven days. ”

"Seven days!" Sikong Nan was taken aback: "This is more than a hundred miles a day, can people stand it." ”

"Yes, a hundred miles a day, I have to break my leg." Bai He also said.

"All men shall take off their armor, and carry only rations, weapons, and water bladders, and shall not use fire sickles unless absolutely necessary, and discard everything else."

"But in case of encountering the main force or even the elite of the rebels, the soldiers are not equipped with armor, I am afraid it will be difficult to parry." Sikong Nan worried.

"As long as they are faster than the rebels, they can't fly. In addition, Su Hong, you pick 500 people from the Xiaocai battalion, and then pick 500 of the best horses from the whole army, and act with the general, so as to deal with the unexpected. ”

"Just five hundred!"

"There can't be any more, the more cavalry, the more rebels will be pursued, and when the time comes, the city will be captured, but it will have to be surrounded, which will be very troublesome. Now let's talk about what the sugar paste tastes like. ”

"Uh...... It's very sweet, a smell of wine, it's good to eat, it's such a small piece, and it's not hungry. Bai He said, the opinion is quite big.

"General, what else is there besides sugar?" Su Hong asked.

Sikong Nan blurted out at this time:

"It is the pomace of wine, and cooked vegetable oil and glutinous rice flour, which the general did in a deserted village back then, and this time it was wrapped in a layer of sugar, and it tasted particularly crispy, and it seemed that the production method had changed."

"So, this piece of sugar paste is quite expensive!" Lu Zhao wiped his mouth, and his eyes rolled to the question of money.

Bai Liyan nodded and affirmed Lu Zhao:

"Sugar and vegetable oil are not cheap, so we can only spend money to buy them for the time being, and leave the rest for the future when it is too peaceful."

As she spoke, Xiao Er pushed the door in with a food box, and the dishes from Baiwei Building arrived.

"Brother Wei, the dish is here, and the wine is only rice wine."

"Rice wine is fine, just make do."

Bai Liyan took the food box and put it on the table, Su Hong's eyes turned and looked at Xiao Er:

"General, this is the third sister-in-law."

Xiao Er blushed and said:

"General Su teased."

At this time, Bailiyan said:

"Xiao'er, it's all big men here, it's not appropriate for you to stay, let's go down first."

"Well, a few generals use it slowly."

Xiao Er immediately withdrew from the door, and Su Hong began to talk nonsense again:

"General, I Su Hong haven't married yet, why don't the general let us find one in Guile Fang?"

Bai Liyan glanced at him quietly:

"How many do you want?"

"Hehe, one first, and a taste of what a woman tastes like."

"Oh, I want one first, you don't have a lot of feelings, and you will have a group of wives and concubines in the future."

Bai Liyan stared like a tiger, her face sank, and Su Hong's heart jumped suddenly, and she hurriedly begged for mercy

"No, no, the general misunderstood, and one of them will be done."

"I can tell you, now that there are too many men in various countries, you want to ask for a few women, and you will not care, but don't like the new and hate the old after you go back, and finally ask for a bunch of complaints, I won't spare you.

The ugly words are ahead, in the future, the big politics of Xianguo will change, and men will not be allowed to act mischief after three wives and four concubines, and they will not be able to have the right to have merit, you can understand! ”

"The last will understand."

Everyone spoke in unison, and Su Hong saw that Bailiyan was relieved, and immediately returned to his original form without any scruples.

After that, the five of them chatted while eating, and quickly finalized the plan to attack Tiancheng after dark.

At the same time, Luo Songting informed the Jiang father and son in detail of the plan to attack Tiancheng.

"Songting, this plan is very dangerous, how sure is Wei Xian going to the bottom?"

"Seventy or eighty."

"Marching a hundred miles every day, even if the iron is beaten and the copper is cast, I can't stand it, in case I am caught up by the rebels, how can I parry." Jiang Qian said in disbelief.

"Wei Xian has already responded to this matter, and most of it will not be fake. Even if we are caught up by the rebels and defeated, it will not hinder our army's plans. And if Wei Xian's plan succeeds, the tide of the battle will be reversed, and the lord and the young lord should now plan the next step. ”

"Then according to the meaning of Songting, what should our army do next?"

"Take Lincheng first, and then occupy Pucheng. Sooner or later, the Pucheng rebels will have to withdraw, but not now. The population of Pucheng has moved to Lincheng, and I am afraid that it will not move back to Pucheng in the future, and the Jin army is very likely to occupy Lincheng first, so our army can send troops to Lincheng in the name of protecting Lincheng, so that it will be under the control of the lord. ”

"Well, then act according to the plan, and Wei Xian will allocate all the degrees he needs. In addition, the news came from Chenling, King Xian did not know where to get a huge amount of money, this time only from Zhiguo to buy grain, grass, utensils with a total price of up to 20,000 inches of silver, at first I thought it was the seizure of the Gongsun Yue thief party, but after thinking about it, where can the Gongsun Yue thief party have such financial resources. Songting, do you know why? ”

"This ...... Songting really couldn't guess. ”

In order to deter the rebels and boost morale, King Xian intended to release the news that Zhiguo's grain and grass had arrived in Chenling, and now he was a rural horseman, and he also knew that King Xian spent money to transport three million stone grain and grass, tens of thousands of ploughing cattle, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and hundreds of thousands of farm tools from Zhiguo.

If the news is false, it is impossible for the king of Xian to open warehouses in various places to help the refugees, if it is true, not to mention where he got so much money to buy grain, he will not be able to borrow more than three million stones of grain, and even if he borrows it, Xianguo will not be able to repay the interest.

So in Jiang Min's opinion, the strange origin of King Xian's grain and grass, there is no way to know where King Xian got the huge amount of money and the grain and grass he bought from Zhiguo.

In the next few days, Guangxin stepped up preparations for war, and the Jin army stationed outside the West Gate was like a vicious dog that smelled the smell of meat, as long as there was a little bit of meat, it could reveal its greedy nature.

"General Wei, what did the princess's letter say?" Ji Guang asked while drinking rice wine, feeling unhappy lately.

"The princess said that King Xian came from a huge amount of money out of nowhere today, secretly made peace with his old enemy Zhiguo, and raised countless loads of grain and grass, and was still recruiting the people army from the countries of the West Sea."

"And that sort of thing!" Ji Guang was taken aback, then put down the wine bowl and snatched Wei Han's secret letter to take a closer look.