The Barbarian Mountain Commander's Mansion, one by one the boxes were opened, the silver of the white flowers appeared, everyone was dazzled, one by one as if they were stupid and speechless, after a while, Wu Langha suddenly pounced on the silver and cried, she grabbed the silver ingots with both hands and said to Li Yu with tears in her eyes: "Yuzi, this money is really ours?" We've got money, Elm, and I'll take care of it, and no one will try to take a pengot from me. ”

Li Yu glared at her very dissatisfied, and didn't bother to say anything, Wu Langha is really too wealthy, Wulan is much better, people have seen the world in the rich Shunyi Palace, although their eyes are red and trembling, but they can still control it.

"Just let Mrs. Wu Langha help me manage the money, she will live a good life, I don't have enough people there, she can help me a lot." Li Fugui thinks this is a good idea, he has dealt with Wu Langha a few times, and knows that this woman is very greedy for money and picky, but she is indeed a good manager of financial management, Li Yu thought about it and agreed, Wu Langha got his wish but cried even more, Wulan couldn't stand it, and dragged Wu Langha, who was crying and howling, out.

"This money is easy to take, but it's not easy to pay back! Where are we going to find 80,000 taels of silver to pay off the debt in two years," Ortai was a little lacking in confidence, stood dumbfounded for a while, and beckoned to everyone, "Don't be stupid, let's discuss how to make money." ”

Everyone sat together and discussed for a while, and agreed that unless Fengzhou didn't want to live anymore, the debt could not be repaid at all, and finally everyone couldn't help but scold the two black-hearted businessmen for being rich and unkind, and they didn't even let go of the poor.

"It's very good for people to lend us money, what are you scolding people for, speaking of which they take a greater risk than us, not to mention asking us to pay back 80,000 taels, even if we pay back 100,000 taels, it is also a matter of course, think about it, how much can we do with this money? How many people have been saved? Li Fugui glanced at everyone disdainfully, "There's nothing to figure out, people are helping us, we have to thank others, if we don't pay the money, we don't have the ability to do it, don't blame others!" ”

Namur suddenly said a stupid word: "Then what if we don't pay it back?" What can they do to us. ”

"You can say this kind of thing, you are still a person who has read books," Ortai slapped Na Mu'er on the head, Na Mu'er didn't dare to talk anymore, Ortai sighed and said to Li Fugui: "I also understand this truth, but my heart is empty, I can't pay my debts, I don't want this old face, but the face of the great commander is the face of the people of the whole Tumut River, we can't afford to lose this person!" If you really can't do it, you can rely on other people's debts, and use coal, iron, timber, and salt to pay off your debts. ”

"It's really not good, let's go out and grab it." Zhao Ji regretted it as soon as he said it, this is equivalent to not saying it, if you want to rob, you have to have a place to rob it, the Ming Kingdom and Chahar next to Fengzhou are all big and round, robbing them is tantamount to looking for death, Ordos on the west side of the Yellow River dare not rob, they themselves are so poor that they are tinkling, you go to beat them, you can't get a few things back, and you will come with a large group of people to eat.

Li Yu waved his hand and said: "I'll talk about it later, if we don't have this money now, we won't be able to live anymore, let's think about the things in front of us first." ”

"Yuzi is right, the most important thing in front of you is the most important, Yuzi's money came at the right time, this year's plague has almost passed, and the gates of the Ming Kingdom have been opened to us one after another, this is the time to hurry up farming and replanting." Li Fugui then continued, he greeted him, and Yun Rong got up to report the current situation - Yun Rong was now messing around behind Li Fugui's ass.

This year's plague is menacing, almost destroyed the Toyoshu River, fortunately, the Fengzhou health system is tightly organized, mobilization is rapid, everyone to the words of the commander is a hundred responses, work together to resist the plague, so far the number of deaths reported from all over the country has dropped rapidly to less than ten people a day, this plague should be able to subside in the near future, but the loss of the Toyoshu River is huge, more than 7,300 people died in more than two months, of which 2,000 are young and strong, originally the Great Commander's Office because a large number of Chahar people defected to build another two thousand households, now there is no need.

In addition to this year's spring cold and heavy snow, followed by drought, which seriously affected the spring ploughing, so far Fengzhou has only sown 50,000 acres of crops, now the spring ploughing season has passed, can only consider replanting some fast growth and drought-tolerant crops, such as potatoes, this thing has an amazing yield and drought tolerance does not pick the ground, this year this thing is vigorously promoted, each thousand households, hundreds of households planted in large quantities, the people are also planted in their own reclamation land, but this needs to continue to dig ditches to divert water to expand irrigable land, but also have seeds, farm tools should also be supplemented, For example, the mirror plough produced in Yangcheng, Shanxi Province is very easy to use, and there are only five pairs in the whole Fengzhou, and the craftsman camp cannot be imitated at present. The situation of the livestock is not good, and the animals are in the spring when they give birth, but the people are not enough to eat, how can there be enough fodder to feed them, and as a result, many young animals starve to death.

"So we have to buy some food from the customs as soon as possible and supplement some rations for everyone, this year is difficult! Everyone is working with their stomachs tightened, and many old and weak people are so hungry that they can't walk, so they can continue to work by eating a few full meals, and they must buy seeds and farm tools, otherwise we will have no food for the winter this year. Seeing the sighs of the people present, Yun Rong smiled bitterly and said: "We have calculated it, Chahar is even worse, they can't come up with any way to deal with the plague and famine, they can only fill it with human lives, more than 20,000 people have died now, the momentum of the plague has not been suppressed, twenty or thirty people have to die every day, the common people are looking for food everywhere without anyone to care, I heard that cannibalism has occurred in some places, the Great Khan has asked us for help again, the Great Commander, you see ......"

"Needless to say, the Great Khan will send two thousand taels of silver immediately," Li Yu interrupted Yun Rong's words, glanced at everyone and said softly, "We still have food to eat, but the neighbors are starving, and we can't eat this meal!" If you can't get food, you give money. ”

Ertai shook and sighed again and again but didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to say anything if they didn't open their mouths, even if this matter was passed, Yun Rong hugged his head and sobbed in a low voice as soon as he sat down, and Na Mu'er next to him hurriedly comforted him softly.

Li Fugui said: "We determined the development direction of Fengzhou is to pay equal attention to agriculture, animal husbandry and industry and commerce, agriculture and animal husbandry and industry and commerce rely on each other, mutual funding, but at present, Fengzhou's agriculture and animal husbandry development potential is limited, I plan to use this money mainly for iron, boiling salt, Lao Fan for us to find some craftsmen in the Guan, but this plague scared people back, when people can come we don't know, we can't wait, the way to boil salt is simple, that is, the pot is not enough, this time there is money, I want to ask Ma Qi to smuggle some iron plates from the Guannai to boil salt, We must have at least 100 pairs of iron plates, and the output can reach more than 10,000 catties per month, and I also plan to expand the blacksmith workshop of our craftsman's camp into an iron factory, and in the future we will be able to smelt pig iron and iron-making tools ourselves, and we will need at least 10,000 taels of silver to do these two things, but this money must be spent. ”

"Yuzi, give me some money, our guards are miserable! The military salary promised by Datong has not seen a shadow until now, and the plague is still a little chaotic in the hearts of the people a few days ago, I want to make a dress for each of you, and add some knives, spears, and arrows, and take advantage of the time when the farmers are slack to let the young and strong soldiers of the guard battalion and the thousands of households train and train the soldiers, and boost their morale. Zhao Ji begged Li Yu pitifully.

"Commander, give me some money, our children are miserable! I can't eat enough, and I haven't had books to read, so I want to add a tent to each hundred households as a school, and add some books, and the paper-making workshop of our craftsman camp should also be expanded, and the printing workshop should not always be so busy, but should also add a few houses and increase some manpower. ”

"Commander, give me some money, we are also miserable! ……”

Li Yu's head was noisy, he panicked when he had no money, and when he had money, he was even more panicked by these guys who reached out to ask for money, Li Yu hurriedly announced the dissolution of the meeting, and he ran out first.

"How does Du Mengqing arrange it? The man has already arrived at the Barbarian Mountain, and you can't leave him aside. Li Huai and Ortai caught up with Li Yu and asked in a low voice.

"He is a learned person, of course we have to use it, but he doesn't understand Mongolian, and he can't do things when he goes down, I want him to stay in the Grand Commander's Mansion as a secretary first," Li Yu thought for a while and said, "Buyantu is also a talent, I want to transfer Buck from Matou Mountain back to the Grand Commander's Mansion to listen to it, and then send Brother Wenliang to Matou Mountain to preside over government affairs, what do you think?" ”

Buyantu and Zabutu stayed in the Barbarian Mountain for a while, experienced some things, and calmed down, Zabutu entered the guard camp as the captain, Zhao Ji didn't know what to think, and arranged Zabutu into the Chahar Chaolu outpost, but Buyantu was not assigned an errand, and now he is still doing miscellaneous work in the Great Commander's Mansion.

"Wenliang is indeed a talent, don't be a pity, just do it." Ortai nodded, and asked puzzledly, "What is Buck transferring back for, do you have another errand for him?" ”

"I want Yun Rong to go to the Great Khan to discuss, please allow our caravan to do business in the territory of the Chahar people, we promised Lao Fan that their affairs must be done in a way, I guess the Great Khan will not embarrass our caravan, so we will build a caravan to protect it, I originally wanted to transfer Qiu Xian or Borshu, but neither of them did it, although Buck has not read books and does not understand government affairs, but he is alert, bold and careful, and likes to make friends with people, and the matter of escorting the caravan will be handed over to him in the future." Li Yu replied.

Ortai nodded and agreed, Fengzhou lacked talents, Matoushan camp, Wuhai and Buck each had their own thousand households and sentinels, but these two people were not people who could handle government affairs, and the two thousand households were a little chaotic, and the Great Commander's Office had no choice but to call the Thousand Households Ulden of the Wild Horse River to sit in Matou Mountain and manage the government affairs of the three Thousand Households at the same time, and the Great Commander's Office was now running at both ends of the day, and the Great Commander's Office intended to transfer the Thousand Households of Urden to the West Outpost, and the Wild Horse River was handed over to the Matou Mountain Camp to manage, so it was necessary to send a competent person to Matou MountainAt present, only Buyantu is suitable for the people in the hands of the Great Commander's Mansion, he has been a butcher in the Shunyi Palace, and he should be able to manage the government affairs of the two thousand households.

The weather is getting hotter, no matter how unwilling the people of Fengzhou are, the time to sow seeds has passed, and in the end only more than 70,000 acres of land have been grabbed, Li Fugui is already very satisfied with such a result, and now his mind turns to the salt field and iron factory, Ortai is to inspect and handle cases in thousands of households, Zhao Ji is busy training the army, and Na Mu'er also went down to the hundred households to rectify his school, Li Yu has not had time to be lazy, and Bai Xianzhi was called to Datong by the governor Zhang Zongheng for a meeting.

Zhang Zongheng convened a meeting of the generals and above from all walks of life in the town is something that the Ming army is looking forward to, the governor of the Beijing division does not get along well with his soldiers, and he is usually too lazy to convene everyone, but every time he pays his salary, he will definitely find the senior generals of Datong Town to train him. Sure enough, this time is no exception, Zhang Zongheng personally went to the Datong General Military Mansion, at the meeting first announced the repayment of two months' military salary, and then taught everyone a lesson, Zhang Zongheng taught everyone, in case of trouble, you should think about the emperor first, think about the court, don't always talk about your own military salary, from last year to the present, Liaoxi, Jizhen have mutinied, but since the official took over Datong, how has there been an accident, this is because the official often teaches you to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, considerate of the subordinates, you understand the reason before there has been an accident, Therefore, you must listen to the words of the official in the future, and those who are disobedient will end up like Mao Wenlong.

Zhang Zongheng trained for most of the hour, and then slapped his ass and left, Li Yu hid in the corner as usual - his official promotion was too fast, among the senior generals in Datong Town, his qualifications were also the shallower, plus he was a general, so he could only stand aside, Zhang Zongheng almost fell asleep standing when he spoke, but the name "Mao Wenlong" woke him up, could it be that something happened to Mao Wenlong, as soon as Zhang Zongheng left, he came to Man Gui to ask what happened to Mao Wenlong, Man Gui glared at him fiercely, Pointing to a pile of waste paper at the foot of the table, he said, there is a pond newspaper from the imperial court, you can read it yourself.

Man Gui is not very literate, the Tang newspaper of the imperial court is not as good as the paper to wipe his ass for him, usually let the scribe select important content for him to read it once, and then throw it aside, but this time it scared him, he didn't care about Mao Wenlong's life or death, he never looked down on Mao Wenlong, in his eyes Mao Wenlong is similar to the bandit leader, what he is afraid of is Yuan Chonghuan, the emperor gave two Shangfang swords in Liaoxi during the Apocalypse, one was given to him, and the other was given to Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River, this Yuan Chonghuan is ruthless enough, Dare to kill the general soldier of Cishang Fangjian in charge of a town, and the little emperor of Jingshi not only recognized it but also wiped his ass to Lao Yuan, fortunately, God has eyes to let him be lucky enough to go to Datong, if he still stays in Liaoxi, how will Yuan Chonghuan, who has turned his face with him, clean him up? When he thought of this, he felt scared, and he also held back the fire in his belly.

Li Yu read the Tang newspaper with relish on the side, Mao Wenlong was really killed, and there were many crimes, and the Jiliao Governor convicted him of twelve capital crimes, such as **** party, soldiers, horses, money and grain are not subject to nuclear; Wild words and horses take Nanjing as a backhand, and it is a big rebellion; The salary is not given to the soldiers, and the rice is scattered three and a half times a month, and the army is stolen; Eight years after the town was opened, he could not regain an inch of land, and waited and watched to raise the enemy; Unauthorized opening of the horse market, fornication and robbery of merchants, forced marriage of people's daughters, false claims, driving people away from the thief of ginseng, etc., Li Yu felt that Ji Liao Governor was simply, according to his standards, I am afraid that there are few officers in the Ming Dynasty who are clean, and not listening to his old Yuan may be the real reason for Lao Mao's head loss, Li Yu does not have any good impression of Mao Wenlong, but his death in the hands of the Ming State Governor is a bit funny, the one who wants Mao Wenlong's life the most should be the Jin State Zhushen, this news spread to the Jin State, probably Zhu Shen will be so happy that he can't sleep.

Li Yu flipped through the Tang newspaper and suddenly saw a familiar name - Liu Xingzuo, Dongjiang Town played at the beginning of the year: Dongjiang Town Ming Army Zhenjiang Victory, Jiannu General Liu Xingzuo led 5,000 people to dismount and surrender in front of the battle, and the imperial court Xugong named Liu Xingzuo as a guerrilla, and the department was ordered to garrison Phi Island. In May, the Jiliao Governor was played, and Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, was convicted and beheaded, and Dongjiang Town did not have a separate general army, and the officers and soldiers were originally divided into two associations, which were divided into two associations by deputy generals Chen Jisheng and Liu Xingzuo.

Man Gui saw Li Yu in a daze, his stomach was on fire, and he scolded Li Yu with his head and face, Bai Xianzhi saw that it was not good, so he took Li Yu's hand and ran away.

On the way back to Fengzhou, Bai Xianzhi complained, and the governor took him to scold him, scolding him for his incompetence in governing the army, and his soldiers died and fled, so that Datong Town suffered heavy losses.

Lao Bai said aggrievedly: "Can I be blamed for this? Obviously, he mobilized the army indiscriminately, and we still have more than 500 people, why did he only pay 400 people, and he was satisfied that we all died outside the gate? ”

"Brother Bai, don't be angry, we are not as good as you, your people are paid one or two or eight dollars according to the horsemen, and there are four dollars of horse material silver, but my five hundred fine horsemen are paid by foot soldiers of one or two or two dollars, and the horse material and silver are not given, why is this?" Li Yu's heart was even more angry, and the two of them walked away for a while, Li Yu suddenly stopped his horse and said, "Brother Bai, if you go on like this, your morale will be gone, let's gather the soldiers for a period of drills, and the brothers will have something to do, and their morale will be cheered up." ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you, I'm looking for something to vent my anger."

A few days later, the drums on the wild horse river sounded, the horn sounded, a red background flying tiger flag fluttering in the wind, surrounded by twelve black eagle flags and a red Ming army flag, Li Yu was wearing a red cloak, a silver fish scale armor, standing under the flag of the flying tiger, he shouted loudly to the soldiers: "Brothers, do you still remember the way our Fengzhou iron cavalry played?" ”

"Yes." The soldiers responded loudly together.

"Okay, the column cone formation will follow me"

"Hao-Rui! Hao-Rui! Li Yu shouted and rushed to the front.

"Hao-Rui! Hao-Rui! The soldiers rushed forward after Li Yu.

The Iron Rider galloped across the grassland like a burst of flame.

(The first part of this book is updated, the plot of the next part will develop to the Ming Dynasty, about mid-October to resume the update, this book narrates the magnificent history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties from the perspective of big history, the plot of the Later Jin and Mongolia can not be omitted, some people therefore say that the old law is full of legacy, the old law affirms that he is a Han people who are like a fake, of course, he will never be a nationalist, this book does not force commercial value, but in the form of retelling history to call for the universal inherent rationality and kindness of human beings themselves, I hope book friends can like it)