Chapter 82: Returning with a full load
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Lin Chong stayed in Zhujiazhuang for two more days, and on the third day, he began to return to Liangshan with a huge amount of money and grain in the morning. Countless villagers, helping the old and the young, incense flowers and candles, and thanking each other on the road.
Roughly similar to the original Water Margin story, this time Liang Shanjun broke Zhujiazhuang, and he also made a big fortune, even much greater than Song Jiang's harvest!
This Zhujiazhuang is also rich, and Zhu Chaofeng is even more wealthy.
Needless to say, the 500,000 stone grain in the grain depot was worth more than 500,000 stone of grain, in addition to the more than 100,000 stone of grain distributed to the villagers, the Liangshan army received 380,000 stone for grain alone, worth more than 500,000 yuan.
In addition to the huge amount of grain and grass, in the treasury of the Zhu family, he copied 23,000 taels of garlic strips and gold, more than 56,000 taels of silver, more than 64,000 taels of copper coins, more than 85,000 yuan of banknotes, and other jewelry and valuables were roughly estimated to be worth more than 150,000 yuan.
In addition, there were tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys and mules and other livestock, all of which have now become the trophies of the Liangshan army.
When Lin Chong heard these numbers, he couldn't help but exclaim, this Zhujiazhuang is really rich.
However, what made him even more amazed was still to come, after separating Zhu Ba and the other three chief stewards for interrogation, Liang Shanjun also dug up an underground in the ancestral hall of the Zhu family according to their confessions, and found a large gold ingot that was melted into one thousand taels, a full fifty, and a large silver ingot of one thousand taels, which was also a full fifty, and another 600,000 yuan.
Roughly calculated, Zhujiazhuang can take away nearly two million yuan of floating wealth excluding real estate such as fields and houses, and now all the villagers of Liangshanjun and Zhujiazhuang who were originally exploited by them are cheap.
and all the Zhu family's original surname Qingzhuang also became prisoners of war of the Liangshan Army, and their fate was to be escorted to Liangshan and then worked as coolies.
Now Liangshan is in ruins, and there is a shortage of manpower on the mountain.
Logging wood, leveling the land, building roads, burning bricks, burning cement, building warships, transports, and even steelmaking to shovel coal all require a large number of workers.
When these people arrive, they can save a lot of money.
In addition to these, for Lin Chong, the greater gain is that he has obtained a base area with a radius of more than 30 miles and complex terrain.
After several old men took the lead in expressing their stance that day, the other villagers also bowed down together, expressing their willingness to do everything but the Liangshan army and horses were the first to look forward.
When many young and strong people saw that the soldiers of the Liangshan Army were all high-spirited, full of spirit, and the equipment was so good, they immediately became hot and asked to go up the mountain to join the Liangshan Army.
However, Liangshan had already received enough people before, and in the face of this situation, Lin Chong could only choose the best of the best, and promised to select 500 tall and bold people to join the Liangshan army, and the rest would stay in Zhujiazhuang and be sent by the Liangshan army to help train.
On the other side, Hujiazhuang also selected five hundred of the most exquisite young men, led by Hu Sanniang, and followed Lin Chong to Liangshan.
"Brother, I have convinced you, this time I laid down Zhujiazhuang, not only made a big fortune, but also won the support of so many people at once, and turned the entire Dulonggang into our base."
Lu Fang rode a horse and followed Lin Chong's side, his heart was full of joy, and he was dancing all the way, smiling from ear to ear.
Li Tianyou on the side also smiled brightly: "No, don't look at my Liangshan Army to send 1230,000 stone grain at one time!"
Looking for it all over the world, how can there be such a righteous and squandered wealth and helped the poor and the poor like us? And give them ten dollars for each family, at least fifty acres of land, how is it not worth them to follow us with all their hearts? ”
Teng Ji is more concerned about the five hundred strong offspring who wish the family Zhuang to be similar this time.
Because of the capture of nearly 300 horses of the Yunzhou Forbidden Army of Dong Ping's department, and the capture of more than 300 good horses after breaking Zhujiazhuang, Lin Chong decided to expand the cavalry by two more battalions.
In Liangshan's military training, veterans have always led new recruits, and a "veteran" was drawn from the second battalion of the field army horse army, so the cavalry battalion where Teng Ji was located also had to add another recruit this time.
Teng Ji immediately took a fancy to this batch of Zhujiazhuang's descendants, which was different from the previous ones, and this time these five hundred recruits were carefully selected from nearly 10,000 young descendants.
All of them are tall and sturdy young men, and they have a good body that has been trained by long-term hard work, which is gratifying to look at; Not to mention the temperament of these young students, honest and duty, willing to obey, able to endure hardships, not lacking in courage, and not afraid of people.
These are all good seedlings of elite soldiers!
"Brother of the military master, the five hundred new recruits who have come up the mountain in Zhujiazhuang this time are all good seedlings of elite soldiers, and this time the recruits supplemented by the second battalion of our horse army will be selected from here, right?"
Lin Chong also smiled happily, but said: "This still has to be according to the rules, if it is all for your camp, it will make other camps complain about my partiality."
However, I advise you not to get your hopes up too much, it is estimated that half of these 500 people will be selected into the Beiwei Army, and the rest will be selected into the Heavy Axe Battalion and the Special Service Battalion. ”
Teng Ji sighed, but he was not too disappointed.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Liangshan Army, it was to take the Jurchens as an imaginary enemy, and the best weapons to deal with the Jurchens were light cavalry long-range shooting and heavy cavalry wall charges, and heavy axe soldiers advancing like a wall.
Therefore, the back army and the heavy axe soldiers are the best of the best, and there are still more than one-third of them that have not been fully established, and the selection of troops is also a priority, these army masters have long stated that they are in advance, and Teng Ji has no opinion.
So he smiled and changed the subject: "The army master's brother wants to expand two more battalions of cavalry, has the commander been decided?" ”
Lu Fang, Li Tianyou, Zhuo Mao, Xiang Chong, Guo Gu and others on the side also stopped talking and listened attentively.
Lin Chong saw that their interest was so high, so he said, "It's not decided yet, but it should be Bian Xiang and Luan Tingyu." ”
Speaking of which, the Liangshan Army has also developed too fast, and in just over two months, the number of soldiers and training recruits has exceeded 10,000, and even if it is counted as a 500-person army, it will also need 20 battalion commanders.
But in fact, the Liangshan Army does not have such a heavy general, and many of the active commanders are only barely qualified, but they have to allocate time and energy to lead two battalions, or even more battalions.
This is also the reason why Lin Chong values Luan Tingyu so much, although he can't beat Bian Xiang in martial arts, and his training ability is far inferior to himself, but Luan Tingyu has brought out one or two thousand "great dealers" in Zhujiazhuang after all, and in the original Water Margin story, Song Jiang lost his temper.
It's already hard to come by.
However, even if Luan Tingyu went up the mountain, there was still a serious shortage of generals and talents on the mountain.
Seeing Teng Ji and Lu Fang and the others looking at each other, they smiled knowingly, and Lu Fang said, "Brother, what about Hu Sanniang?" ”
"Eh, this depends on her, if she is only willing to take the five hundred guests of Hujiazhuang, she will follow her; If she is willing to join my Liangshan army, I am prepared to let her take a battalion of guards. ”
Several people couldn't help but take a breath when they heard this, take a battalion of guards, aren't you the same as Lu Fang?
You must know that Lu Fang is one of the first henchmen to follow the military master, and the military master really values this Hu Sanniang.
It's just that this Hu Sanniang hasn't said that she wants to join the Liangshan Army?
Lu Fang couldn't help asking, "Brother, what happened to you and Hu Sanniang?" ”