Chapter 116: Old Friends Meet

After storing the old department, Zhao Rui uniformly distributed camouflage uniforms, boots and other equipment, but in the end, there were still a few thousand pieces missing, and it seems that he has to go back to buy some.

At noon, Zhao Rui went to the Lin family's room to check, and sure enough, Lin Shizhao's fever had subsided, and he said a few words to Zhao Rui weakly.

Seeing that the effect of the medicine was very good, Zhao Rui directly handed over the pills and iodophor to Lin Mengyao, and carefully taught her how to use it, when she spoke, Lin Mengyao kept staring at herself, her eyes were shining, and she didn't know whether to thank herself for saving his brother, or if she thought she was too handsome?

However, she had just lost her loved one, and Zhao Rui was not joking, so she went out and left after the instructions, and Mrs. Lin took Meng Yao to thank her and sent Zhao Rui out of the door.

For three consecutive days, there was an endless stream of people who came to join the Jingzhong Society, most of them heard that Zhao Rui was about to go to the fiefdom of Yongping Village, and they all wanted to do something under Zhao Rui.

Zhao Rui thought that since it was a fiefdom, there was no need to choose some people with outstanding literary and martial arts, but anyone who was in good health could carry out production and construction.

So Zhao Rui instructed Zhao Xiaoyi to relax the recruitment standards, which made Zhao Xiaoyi a lot easier, and some people who couldn't enter the Jingzhong Club before were grateful to Zhao Rui.

In a short period of time, Zhao Rui recruited more than 2,000 young people, plus Zhao Rui's previous strength of 4,000 people, it has reached 6,000.

Originally, most of Zhao Rui's deposits were sent to Yongping Village, which was a little stretched, but the rich wealth of the Zhou family made Zhao Rui have no worries about money, and the soldiers ate and drank well, and they worked harder in training.

Zhao Rui, a new 2,000 people, did not let them be idle, and after the adaptation exercise, the daily spare time activity was to build a flatbed car, which not only improved their physical strength, but also strengthened their teamwork ability.

After a few days, I moved to Yongping Village, and there were too many things that needed to be transported. And Zhao Rui has a lot of horses here, and it is extremely convenient to use a horse-drawn cart.

In the end, after a week of preparation, Zhao Rui's side was finally on the road, with more than 30 carriages of all sizes, and it was very magnificent to follow the team.

In order to show his loyalty, Zhu Ji sent Zhao Rui and them to Yongzhou, and introduced Yang Han, the prefect of Yongzhou, and other officials for Zhao Rui.

When the prince arrived, Yongzhou naturally did not dare to slack off, and arranged a high-level banquet, and a group of officials praised Zhao Rui as a guest, and the wine table was full of joy.

Zhao Rui carefully found that most of the officials in Yongzhou were a little timid and timid, and it was estimated that they were also unwilling in the officialdom, so they were sent to serve in such a marginal state capital.

While eating, Zhao Rui inquired about the news, and the more he listened, the more he felt that the situation in Yongping Village was indeed not as good as he imagined.

First of all, the villages in Guangxi are full of Zhuang people, and they implement the local official system, and most of the so-called local officials are served by the leaders of the tribe, and there are even local official yamen and prisons.

Moreover, there are clan customs, and the orders of the court officials are often not as good as the words of the head of the family.

The second is that the Zhuang people practice martial arts more, the people advocate martial arts, and every year in the winter leisure season, each village in Zhuang Township hires a master to teach martial arts.

This Zhao Rui feels that it is nothing, people who practice martial arts have a good physical foundation, and if they are used for themselves at that time, they will also be elite soldiers.

Then there are the Chen Dynasty people who are frequently on the border of Jiaozhi and come from Langzhou City, and often harass Yongping Village, Pingxiangtong and other places.

The more Zhao Rui listened, the more he wanted to go to Yongping Village to see the situation, the sumptuous meal in front of him was a little unbearable, and he was just about to leave, when he suddenly had a sharp pain in his abdomen, and hurriedly ran to the thatched house.

Oh no, it's especially close to the rainforest area, so it can't be a miasma!

Fortunately, it's just an ordinary diarrhea, and it is estimated that I am a little uncomfortable when I came back from the north.

Zhao Rui also lost the interest in eating, and called all the soldiers to get up and go on the road, Zhu Ji and Yang Han took a group of officials and sent Zhao Rui out of the West City Gate.

The team passed through an unknown number of villages, and such a large number of people made the locals look sideways.

When approaching Yongping Village, Sun Tie came to report, saying that someone was vomiting and diarrhea, and Zhao Rui didn't take it seriously, but Sun Tie said that they were hot and cold, and Zhao Rui's expression was immediately wrong.

The most feared thing is starting to happen, it is malaria!

In ancient times, people believed that it was the miasma in the rainforest that caused people to get sick, but Zhao Rui knew very clearly that the so-called miasma of the ancients was that swarms of mosquitoes gathered together, like a puff of black smoke.

And malaria is caused by the bite of mosquitoes, although it will not be transmitted from person to person, but the people who get sick are often dying, very dangerous, when the Northern Song Dynasty attacked Jiaozhi, the officers and soldiers who came to fight were killed and injured more than half because of malaria.

"Lao Tie, you put all the people who are afraid of cold and fever on the carriage, let's speed up the march!"

"Yes, Lord Wang!"

With Zhao Rui's arrangement, the speed of the team's march was significantly accelerated, and when they arrived at Yongping Village, the local native soldiers were baffled, and they thought that the Tartars had called.

Zhao Gong stepped forward and asked Song Fengyi's residence, and the native soldier suddenly realized: "Oh, you mean Song Yuanwai!" Follow this road all the way, and the largest white house in the north is it! ”

Zhao Rui also heard it on the side, looking at the narrow dirt road in front of him was still called the big road, what the small road looked like, Zhao Rui couldn't imagine.

It sounds like Song Fengyi is very famous here, Zhao Rui is looking forward to meeting him, and riding a horse and walking in front with Zhao Gong.

Entering the village, there are "ganlan" wooden houses on both sides of the road. It is divided into two floors, where people live on the top and livestock and sundries are stored on the bottom.

Zhao Rui knew that such buildings were still preserved in some remote areas until modern times.

Sure enough, Zhao Rui saw the blue-tiled and white-walled house in the north from afar, covering a large area, it seems that Song Fengyi built it right!

Zhao Gong rushed forward to call the door.

The one who opened the door was also Kunnu, who entered the Zhao Mansion at the same time as Zhao Gong, and he recognized him as soon as he met?

"Huh? Are you Zhao Gong? I grew taller and stronger...... Eh, is that a young master? ”

This Kunnu hurriedly saluted Zhao Rui, and after Zhao Rui asked him to get up, he ran to the courtyard to call people.

"The young master is here! It's all out! The young master is here! ”

Hearing the shout, everyone came out, and then came out of the inner courtyard Song Fengyi and Li Xiaozhen and his wife, both saluted Zhao Rui.

Everyone knows about Zhao Rui becoming a military attachΓ©, but because the news is blocked, they don't know that Zhao Rui was removed from office and became a prince again.

Zhao Rui looked at them strangely, all of them were wearing coarse cloth shirts, rolled up their sleeves and trousers, as if they were going to do farm work.

"Fengyi, are you going to go to the ground?" Zhao Rui couldn't help asking.

"Yes, Brother Zhao, oh no, Lord Zhao, the natives we hired were all called back by the patriarch to sacrifice, so no one collected food, so we can only go into battle together, and in a few days it will be the day to pay the field rent, and it will be troublesome to delay."

Song Fengyi knew that Zhao Rui's identity was different from the past, and he was particularly respectful in his attitude. Li Xiaozhen next to him looked at Zhao Rui in a complicated way, and he couldn't imagine that a young man would become a member of the five-grade court at the beginning, and he just couldn't look down on himself, which was really a big pity.

Zhao Rui said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't go!" Fengyi, talk to me at home! ”

Song Fengyi didn't understand why Zhao Rui wanted to leave everyone, didn't he know that the field rent had to be handed over on time, and was about to speak, Zhao Gong understood and said with a smile: "Mr. Song, don't go, the young master is now the king of Yongping, the entire Yongping Village is our own, what rent do you still pay, your own grain, it won't get in the way if you harvest a few days late!" ”

"What!"

"King Yongping?"

Song Fengyi wondered if his ears had misheard, and stared at Zhao Rui, hoping to get a definite answer from him.

"That's right, I'm the prince now, the fiefdom of Yongping Village, you see, this is my waist card."

Zhao Rui pointed to the sign hanging on his belt and said with a smile.

Song Fengyi had read the books on official tokens, and when he stepped forward to look at them carefully, it was really not bad at all.

"Zhao Rui, you ...... You're a prince......"

Song Fengyi's expression changed from stunned to surprised, feeling that this is great news!

If such a large chassis of Yongpingzhai is all Zhao Rui, then the future is limitless!

From paying rent to collecting rent, at the same time, you can also raise soldiers, you can also build, everything is not a problem, even if the future Tartars come over, Yongping Village is definitely a battle!

A group of Kunnu on the opposite side were also overjoyed, as if they were one step closer to Zhao Rui's promise to their achievements. Among them, Li Xiaozhen was the only one who was not so happy, and even thought melancholy, if Zhao Rui accepted him at the beginning, then wouldn't she be Princess Yongping now? Even if it can't be a main room, it's still the prince's wife!

But these are all wishful thinking on the part of Li Xiaozhen, thinking of a handmaid like her, who doesn't know how many men she has had, how could Zhao Rui look at it.

Immediately after that, the large army followed up, a team of more than 6,000 people, but the people on Song Fengyi's side were shocked, no matter how big the yard was, these people couldn't live there!

So Song Fengyi could only arrange for the soldiers to rest in the courtyard, and hurriedly beckoned those kunnu to cook, and later the ingredients were not enough, so he ordered Li Xiaozhen to take someone to buy them.

"Lord Wang, let's go inside and have tea, and I'll tell you about the situation." Song Fengyi said with a smile, and suddenly felt that the title of prince was a little contrasting with Zhao Rui, who would have expected that the son of a broken family would become a prince.

Zhao Rui suddenly remembered the sick person, and hurriedly told Song Fengyi, Song Fengyi was in the southwest for a long time, and he knew the horror of miasma very well, so he quickly called a Kunnu to ask for a strong doctor.

The Zhuang doctors here and the Chinese medicine in the Central Plains are probably the same way, and they are also herbal acupuncture and moxibustion, etc., but they are more adept at diseases such as miasma.

Zhao Rui thought that he should go to modern times to get some special medicines, after all, in ancient times, there was no guarantee that he would be 100% fine, in case there was a large-scale infection again, but it would directly affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

On the way here, Zhao Rui remembered that there were many open spaces around, so he called Xiao Yi, Sun Tie and others, and asked them to go to the surrounding area to see if there was a suitable place to build a palace and a military camp, plan it, and then hand over the plan to himself.