Lu Gaolong's martial arts camp was expanded on the basis of the forbidden army in the inner palace of King Xian, and the original forbidden army of 1,000 people was left after half a year of fighting, and there were less than 700 people left.

"General Lu Gao, you led the people of the forbidden army headquarters to guard outside the department store, and no one is allowed to enter the second floor of the department store without the general's order."

"The last will obey."

The words fell, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) came to the second floor of the department store alone, Xiao Er was waiting in the most remote room, in front of a large box full of pearls.

"Brother Wei!" With a smile on her face, Xiao Er threw herself into Baili Yan's arms.

"I'm so happy to see my big brother?"

Xiao Er twisted and said:

"People miss you."

"How about the eldest brother marrying Xiao'er in a few days."

"I hate ......"

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan closed the door casually and continued: "There has been no abnormality in the past few days. ”

"Not yet, General Sikong is very careful, and he won't leave half a step."

"Well, that's good. How many beads did you collect this time? ”

"I probably clicked on it, and if I'm not mistaken, there are 30,683 of them, but there are still a lot of bad ones."

"Shhh...... How can there be so much less? Bai Liyan was puzzled.

"Some have only thirteen, fourteen or fifteen, not all mussels have sixteen, and the least is only nine."

"Oh, that's spit out or missed!"

Not every mussel implanted with an allomeric body can form a pearl, and if the implantation is not in place, the mussel will also spit out or alienate.

Xiao Er doesn't understand pearls, and according to their shape, pearls are roughly divided into three categories, round, ovate, and crooked melons and cracked dates are incomplete and deformed. Among them, more than 12,000 crooked melons and cracked jujubes are incomplete, more than 8,000 spherical pearls, and the rest are oval pearls.

Open a box full of crooked melons and cracked jujube pearls, pick up a handful and look close to the lamp, the situation is also varied. In addition to deformity and unshapedness, there are also many flat and steamed buns, all of which are also counted in the crooked melon and cracked dates.

"Xiao'er, pearls like this are actually worth a lot of money."

"yes, there's quite a bit of it in there."

"Well, let's divide the pearls tonight, big brother will teach you."

After all, in that era of industrial farming, artificially cultured pearls were extremely common, not rare gemstones, cheap five pieces of ten pieces a grain, expensive tens of thousands of them, never as expensive as nowadays.

The pearls produced in the deserted village are varied, and the colors of the pearls are as many as white, yellow, pink, silver, gold, and black, of which white and yellow are the most, followed by pink, and then silver, gold, and black are the least.

The largest spherical pearl weighs as much as one and a half dollars, the smallest is only larger than a grain of rice, and the forms are complex, in addition to the deformity, the oval and pear shape are the most, followed by the spherical beads, and the number of flat balls and steamed bread is also considerable.

Nowadays, the spherical pearls on the market are the most expensive, according to the size and color defects, from seventy or eighty, to two or three hundred, and even two thousand.

This is followed by oval pearls, which are about two-thirds of the spherical pearls at the same price. Steamed bun-shaped, pear-shaped pearls are used to make rings, pendants, earrings, and inlaid beads, and are second in price to oval pearls. Flat spherical pearls are the second-inferior, costing only one-fifth of the spherical pearls.

As for misshapen pearls, they can be ground into pearl powder and sold, and they can also be sold for a lot of money.

The two stayed up for a night, and more than 30,000 pearls were screened out of more than 22,000 grains, and the rest were deformed and defective.

"Brother Wei, do you have to dedicate all of this to the king?" Xiao Er yawned pitifully, faintly hinting that she wanted to intercept a batch.

"Of course we can't donate it all, it's our own planting, where can we donate it all, isn't it a big loss. See, here is all the family wealth left by the eldest brother for us. ”

Bai Liyan pointed to the wooden box the size of a basin on the table and said, and then pushed it to Xiao Er.

"Collect it for the eldest brother first, and in the future, I will purchase gifts and inevitably have to sell a few grains."

"Mm-hmm, let's plant it again in the future." Xiao Er nodded, and quickly took the pearl into her arms.

"Let's talk about it when we have a chance, it's almost dawn soon, you can go to sleep first."

More than 22,000 were selected, which can be regarded as a first-class one without flaws, and there are more than 800 beads with the best color, with different colors, more than 8,000 with slight flaws in fineness, and the rest are all middle and lower grades, Bailiyan intercepted more than 3,000 of them, and all the deformed pearls, and made up an integer of 19,000 to the king of salt. Of course, these riches should belong to Bailiyan, and there is no reason not to intercept them.

Before dawn, they briefly closed their eyes, and as soon as the sky was dark, the horse's hooves were hurrying, and Su Hong galloped across the horse, clamoring to see Bailiyan.

"General Lu, General Wei is here."

"Upstairs, no general is to summon you, and no one is allowed to enter."

"I have an urgent military situation, 100,000 urgent."

"That's not going to work, the general said, no one will be allowed in."

"Then you can pass it on."

"Neither will Ben."

The two argued, and the wooden window above their heads was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and Bai Liyan poked his head out and asked loudly:

"Su Hong, what an urgent military situation."

Su Hong raised his head and said:

"General, I just got the news that Pucheng is lost, and the black turban thieves are killing us."

"If you lose it, you lose it, what's there to make a fuss about. According to Ben, the black turban thief didn't kill him, and you yourself are almost scared. ”

"I didn't, wasn't I in a hurry."

Su Hong argued, and Lu Gao snickered on the side.

"Okay, after breakfast, let the brothers go to get weapons and step up training, especially the recruits, they must not be sloppy."

"No!"

When Jiang Min came from the Yongxing River, each war horse carried a number of weapons and armor, which was regarded as a solution to Guangxin's urgent need.

Drove Su Hong away, Bailiyan was completely sleepy, took the four treasures of the study room and wrote six pieces of paper, loaded the iron letter and then came downstairs:

"General Lu Gao, immediately lead the veterans of the Longwu Battalion out of the east gate, send this letter to the Lingling, and be sure to hand it over to the king in person."

Lu Gao suddenly wondered:

"General Wei, a secret letter needs to be dispatched by the Long Wu Battalion?"

"Secret letter is just one of them, you come with me."

The second monk Lu Gao was confused, and followed Bai Liyan to the second floor of the department store and walked into a room. The room was dimly lit, there was an oil lamp lit on the table, and there were eight or nine wooden boxes on the ground, seven of which had been sealed with copper sheets, and pointing to one of them, Bai Liyan said:

"This batch of wooden boxes must be handed over to the king to open in person, remember, this matter is related to the life and death of the Xian country, the wooden boxes must not be opened halfway, let alone obtained by outsiders, must be personally guarded by the forbidden army of the inner palace, General Lu can understand."

"What is it in this that makes you so excited?"

"The box contains the national fortune of the Xianguo, and the rest of the repairs are more asked. Remember, the king must open the box himself, and no one else is allowed to open the box, but whoever opens the box, the looter, will be killed. General Lu knows it all."

"The last will obey."

"In addition, more than 20,000 war horses borrowed by the Guangxin Army from Zhao Shuai were led out of the city by the Longwu Battalion and rushed back to the Yongxing River. As for the war in Guangxin, if the king sends you back to Guangxin, you will come back, and if the king has other arrangements, you will be sent by the king. ”

There are 1,500,600 veterans of the Longwu battalion, detouring to Lincheng, driving 20,000 horses to Qiling, one way to say less seven or eight days, at that time Guangxin has already been surrounded by rebels, Lu Gao led the troops to kill back, there is no meaning.

After explaining in detail to Lu Gao, the two successively carried seven boxes of pearls down the department store, loaded them into two carriages, and were escorted out of the city by Lu Gao's personal forbidden army, and Lu Gao led the rest of the Longwu camp to the camp in the south of the city to lead the horses.

At about six o'clock in the morning, someone from the Minister's Mansion came to ask Bailiyan to come to the Mansion to discuss the military situation.

The Black Turban Army occupied Pucheng at dusk yesterday and hit the road this morning with a force of 100,000 troops, which was exactly what Bailiyan had expected, and the Black Turban Army was coming towards Guangxin.

When they arrived at the mansion, Luo Songting, Chen Yunfeng, Song Ping, Hu Mo, Wang Jiu, Jiang Qian, Jiang Rong, and the injured Xu Rong were already waiting in the study.

"The young master, the county lord, Mr. Luo, Brother Yunfeng, and the generals, Wei is polite."

"General Wei is exempt." Jiang Rong said first, her face was filled with a mysterious smile, and a white leno was even more charming, quite the temperament of a great new woman.

"The county lord is gracious." Baili Yan gave a deep salute, but he didn't lose his politeness because he was about to pass through the door. Then he turned his gaze to Luo Songting and said, "Mr. Luo, where is Jiang Gong?" ”

"The lord is not in good health, so he got up late."

"Oh, it's Wei who is disrespectful."

At this time, Jiang Qian said:

"General Wei, the black turban thief really came to fight this time, and General Wei thinks our army should respond to the war."

"I don't know how many young men have been recruited in the city, and how the training is." Bai Liyan asked.

"Thanks to General Wei's clever plan, he delayed for Guangxin for nearly ten days, and now he has recruited nearly 30,000 strong men, and my father brought back more than 23,000 people yesterday, thousands of wounded soldiers, and the total of the original Guangxin army and the incorporated county soldiers, there should be less than 70,000 people, and the total of General Wei's vanguard battalion and baggage battalion is less than 90,000."

"So many people!"

Jiang Gan opened his mouth, Baili Yanli was taken aback, just a few days of effort, Jiang Qian actually expanded by 30,000 people, and said that as long as there were 10,000 people, this was not approved, but it was expanded by 30,000, if there was an approval, it was not allowed to occupy all the surrounding cities.

Coming back to his senses, Bai Liyan said:

"Newly recruited 30,000 strong men, 20,000 people will be organized into garrisons, the young master should not have any objections."

Luo Songting smiled ill-willedly:

"Hehe, as long as General Wei has food, people can ask for it."

Bai Liyan was furious when he heard this, and before he could open his mouth, Luo Songting said again:

"General Wei has a complaint in his heart, Luo can understand, but after all, the Guangxin Mansion presides over the civil affairs of the whole city of Guangxin, and this year it has sewn out production, and the victims are in urgent need of relief, although the government has surplus grain, but it has to feed more than 700,000 people for nine months, it is really difficult to say that it is very rich, so as long as General Wei has food, the Lord will not embarrass General Wei for raising troops."

"Humph!" Bai Liyan snorted unhappily: "That's good, I hope Mr. Luo won't regret it." ”

Luo Songting suddenly felt that the taste was wrong, he had already heard Chen Yunfeng's report that Baili Yan had sold Qin Han's property ten days ago and raised 100,000 stones of grain and grass. There are about 100,000 stone of grain and grass in the treasury and military warehouse of the Taishou Mansion, and the total is only 200,000 stones.

The pioneer battalion now has nearly 10,000 personnel, and there are thousands of people in the baggage battalion, and if he raises another 20,000 people, 200,000 stone grain and grass will not even be enough for disaster relief, where will he have enough to eat.