Chapter 549: On the eve of departure
Yangxia Black Crow and Shangshui Green Crow, Zhao Hongrun finally has two hidden forces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although these two groups of hidden thieves actually have hidden thieves who are good at intelligence and assassination, they are somewhat different from each other.
The crow is on the side of assassination, while the green crow is on the side of inquiring.
As for how to make these two hidden thieves check and balance each other, it is actually very simple, Zhao Hongrun only needs to merge those who are willing to surrender in the Fuqiu crowd into the black crows, and in the long run, it will be enough for the original Yi Qiu people to gradually distance themselves from the black crows.
This is also considering that the strength of the hidden thieves in Fuqiu is indeed outstanding.
Anyway, now that Jin Gou has escaped from Yangxia and killed these outstanding hidden thieves in Fuqiu, it would be a pity to let the young Fuqiu people called Bai take this group of people to merge into the black crows, so that the grievances between the Fuqiu people and the Yiqiu people will be passed on to the black crows and the green crows.
On the 5th of March, the Yiqiu people, no, the Qingya people, who should have been called the ones who had merged Duanlou and Genglou, withdrew from Geyang Mountain one after another with their belongings and headed in the direction of Shangshui County.
Shangshui County, as Zhao Hongrun's disguised fiefdom, believes that the Green Crows will be able to take root in this county town that is not inferior to the royal capital in terms of vigor and vigor, and gradually become stronger.
At the same time, the black crows of the black spider and the mourning crow officially entered Geyang Mountain, and on the basis of the original nest of the Yiqiu people, they began to build a hidden thief village, and successively brought the families of the hidden thieves who were hiding outside Yangxia City to this village.
And in this regard, Zhao Hongrun is a little depressed.
Because when the black crows and white crows moved away the families of the hidden thieves under their hands, Zhao Hongrun suddenly found that the population of Yangxia County had plummeted by three percent.
It was actually reduced by three percent!
What does this mean?
This means that Zhao Hongrun thought that he had controlled the hidden thief forces in the county a while ago, but in fact, there are still many people related to hidden thieves who live in Yangxia and live under his nose.
Sure enough, the hidden thieves still have to be ruled by the hidden thieves......
Zhao Hongrun shook his head.
It's no wonder, after all, the merchant water army he has high hopes for, although he has made great achievements this time, but he has beaten the jackal and run away from the tiger, those hidden thief forces that are really lurking in Yangxia and have threats, the Shang water army has patrolled in vain for a few days, but they have not found it.
But the good news is that this is over.
After he arranged the final deployment, he would be able to leave Yangxia with confidence and go to Yanling or Shangshui.
During this period, Zhao Hongrun asked You Ma whether he would stay in Yangxia or go to Shangshui with the green crows.
You Ma thought about it and decided to move to Shangshui County, after all, compared to the Black Spider and the Mourning Crow and others, the relationship between him and Ying Kang is closer, since Ying Kang has moved to Shangshui County, what is the point of him You Ma Zhong continuing to stay in Yangxia?
Even, it will provoke the white eyes of the black spider and the mourning crow, after all, the current Yangxia has become the black crow's sphere of influence, and if he continues to stay here with a cheeky face, it is very likely that there will be friction with each other.
"I hope His Royal Highness King Su can let me settle down in Shangshui and enjoy a place."
You Ma sincerely made a request to Zhao Hongrun.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun happily promised, and then, he asked Youma: "This king told you at the beginning that this king will open up to Youma. …… So now, have you ever thought about restoring the number of the cavalry team? ”
For Zhao Hongrun's suggestion, You Ma was moved, but after thinking about it carefully, he once again politely rejected Zhao Hongrun's kindness.
As the so-called self-management knows, the traveling horses under his command now are still the famous Dangjun traveling horses back then?
The backbone of the group of Youma Army back then, the death of the dead, the death of the dead, so that the small leader of the Youma, the little leader of the rank of the chief of the year, can become the leader of the Youma people, even if the number of the Youma is restored, what can it be?
It's just a shame on the name of Dangjun Youma.
However, for Zhao Hongrun to mention this matter again, You Ma still felt very puzzled, and asked: "My Great Wei also has cavalry that is good at fighting, why do you feel that Your Highness seems to be obsessed with my swimming horse?" ”
Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly when he heard this.
It is undeniable that they did not have cavalry teams in the Wei State, and those cavalry teams were not very weak, such as the Xiao cavalry battalion of the Junshui Army and the hunting cavalry of the Dangshan Army, all of which were excellent cavalry teams.
However, it was only a cavalry team, it was a team, at best it was just a battalion, and the original intention of its creation was only to cooperate with the two arms of the infantry and bow, and it could not be regarded as a cavalry army that could take charge of itself at all. On the other hand, South Korea, the neighboring country in the north of Wei, their cavalry is based on the army, often tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, which is a country with heavy cavalry.
In the Wei State, the cavalry was regarded as an army that could be formed alone, not as an auxiliary to the two arms of the infantry bow, and there was only the Dangjun Traveling Horse as an experimental army back then, so Zhao Hongrun wanted to try to see if he could gather the veterans of the Dangshan Traveling Horse to reproduce this real cavalry army.
After all, although the archers in northern Sichuan are powerful, they are the cavalry of the Qian people after all, and the dignified Wei State can't even build a real cavalry army?
But unfortunately, Youma told Zhao Hongrun that the Youma under his command now is no longer the Dangjun Youma of the past, and even if Zhao Hongrun reluctantly expands it into a cavalry, it is just a new army with no experience and no training.
It's no wonder, after all, after more than ten years, even if it is an old soldier such as Youma, who was a horse in Dangjun at the beginning, he has not been in contact with war horses and riding for more than ten years, and he has long been abandoned, not to mention that most of the young people who are traveling horses today are the children of those old pawns.
So, Zhao Hongrun gave up the idea of resuming the traveling horse.
On March 7, Zhao Hongrun led more than 20,000 Shangshui troops to officially withdraw from Yangxia County and go to Shangshui County.
In fact, this time Zhao Hongrun went south just to assist the Ministry of Rites in dealing with the contradictions between the two cities and counties of Yanling and Anling, well, it was mainly the contradiction between the Chu people who defected to the Wei State and the original Wei people.
However, because the Shangshui army had to return to the Shangshui garrison, and also had to arrange a location for the crows to build the hidden thief village, Zhao Hongrun still decided to go to Shangshui first, and then go to Yanling after arranging the crows.
Before leaving Yangxia, Zhao Hongrun sent someone to summon Huang Yu's wife and brother, the head of the county, He Zhirong, to Yangxia and asked him to temporarily take the post of Yangxia county commander.
After all, in recent years, it was the original Yiqiu people who maintained the law and order of Yangxia, and now that the Yiqiu people have changed their name to Qingyazhong and moved away from Yangxia and went to Shangshui, Yangxia is likely to be in chaos.
Although there are still black crows in Yangxia, Zhao Hongrun doesn't think that the two leaders of the black spider and the mourning crow are talents who are good at this area, after all, these two guys are rough people, if they want to maintain law and order in Yangxia, then I really don't know how many people will be killed by them.
In all fairness, Zhao Hongrun has no authority to appoint He Zhirong as the commander of Yangxia County, after all, this is within the purview of the Ministry of Officials, but when he reports what happened in Yangxia to the imperial court, and then the imperial court selects a suitable candidate and sends him to serve as the commander of Yangxia County, it will take at least three months to come and go.
Do you want to let Yang Xia go for three months?
So, Zhao Hongrun thought about it, and finally decided to overstep his authority to appoint He Zhirong as the temporary commander of Yangxia County, anyway, there are crows in Yangxia, even if Yangxia still has some hidden thieves and ranger forces who have escaped the catastrophe, they will never dare to coerce He Zhirong.
As for Ma Qian, the original county commander of Yangxiayuan, Zhao Hongrun thought about it a lot, and finally decided to let him live in the county office.
It is worth mentioning that on the same day, Zhao Hongrun sent the gift from Ying Kang and others, that is, the arm of Jin Gou, the former leader of Fuqiu, to Ma Qian, and clearly told the latter that this was the hand of the mastermind who killed his wife and children back then, Ma Qian actually sat on that arm for most of the day.
And, according to the Shang Shui soldiers who were waiting on the side, Ma Qian's face at that time was sometimes resentful and sometimes dazed, as if there were signs of complete soberness.
It's a pity that when Zhao Hongrun happily went to visit, he saw that Ma Qian had returned to his usual madness, as if his previous sobriety was just a flash in the pan.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun could only ask He Zhirong to take good care of Ma Qian.
However, to Zhao Hongrun's surprise, He Zhirong is good at chess, and Ma Qian is also good at chess, and these two people who are smarter than Zhao Hongrun in chess skills are actually quite popular, which makes Zhao Hongrun quite happy.
Of course, if Ma Qian called He Zhirong's name instead of calling the latter the head of the class, I believe Zhao Hongrun would be even happier.
And the last thing, that is Zhao Hongrun's own private affairs.
He led the guards to the former site of the nest of the former Fuqiu people, and summoned the servants who had now become a member of the crows, and asked him about something.
After all, this young man called Bai used to follow Jin Gou, the leader of the original Fuqiu people, and naturally learned a lot of things that ordinary Fuqiu people didn't know, for example, who spent 50,000 gold to make the Fuqiu people assassinate him Zhao Hongrun several times a while ago.
This doubt, Zhao Hongrun has been hiding in his heart for a long time, and the reason why he didn't ask about it until today is because he knows that Jin Gou can't tell him easily.
After all, Jin is cunning and cunning, unless Zhao Hongrun gives him enough benefits, how can he easily reveal this secret?
So, Zhao Hongrun simply didn't bother to ask, and it wasn't until the matter was over that he asked the young man around Jin Gou.
However, to Zhao Hongrun's regret, he told him that the person who rewarded him with a heavy amount of money for Zhao Hongrun's head did not show up at the beginning, and the other party just asked someone to send a few boxes of gold bricks, and there was a letter attached to the box, a letter with the words "rewarding the head of King Su Zhao Run".
And the real reason why Jin Gou did not hesitate to risk a great danger to send an assassin to assassinate Zhao Hongrun was because the letter was clearly written: 50,000 gold is just a deposit, and after the matter is completed, there will be another good reward.
Yes, at the beginning, the hidden thieves of Yangxia offered him a reward of 50,000 yuan for Zhao Hongrun's head, which was actually just a deposit, and it is no wonder that even a treacherous and cunning guy like Jin Gou couldn't control his greed, and sent an assassination of Zhao Hongrun for money, and finally ended up with the destruction of the Fuqiu people and his own escape to a foreign land.
While talking, he took Zhao Hongrun to the depths of the secret room and came to the place where the gold bricks were stacked by the golden hook.
When Zhao Hongrun saw those gold bricks, his complexion was a little unnatural.
The reason is very simple, because the size of those gold bricks is really a bit unexpected by him.
I saw Zhao Hongrun pick up a gold brick with both hands and check it, then frowned, and then picked up another one after putting it down.
This is......
Zhao Hongrun's complexion became worse and worse, because he found that the weight of these two gold bricks was almost the same.
"How heavy is this gold brick?" Zhao Hongrun asked solemnly.
I don't know why, and I said truthfully: "One stone." Note: Su's weights and measures have not yet been popularized, so the people still use the old Jin system, and one stone (dan) is about 15kg today.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun's complexion became worse.
Because in his impression, even if it is a nobleman with a lot of wealth, it is rare to cast this kind of brick-like gold brick, because the weight is too heavy and the value is too high, and it is inconvenient to circulate. Therefore, the nobles in the Wei State generally melted and cast about one or two gold cakes, gold bars, and gold ingots.
Who will melt a gold brick weighing one stone?
There is only one place!
In the entire Wei State, there should be only one place where this kind of gold brick will be cast, and that is the treasury of the Wei State.
In order to facilitate the stacking, the officials and smelters of the household department would melt the gold handed over to the state treasury into gold bricks worth about 2,000 taels.
50,000 gold, a full twenty-five pieces of treasury gold......
Zhao Hongrun was speechless by what he heard and saw.
He never imagined that the bounty for buying his head was actually the treasury of the treasury under the control of the household department.
"Shen Yu, take a piece away, immediately send someone to Daliang, and personally hand it over to Li Liang, the head of the household department!"
"Yes!" (To be continued.) )