Chapter 183: Food

From Xuanzhou to Huzhou, there was no large-scale war, which was actually quite unexpected for Qin Hao, I used to hear people say that many wars in the past were child's play. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is said that it is tens of thousands of people, but it is always the cores around the main general who really fight, and the others are all watching the excitement, and it is okay to fight with the wind, and when they see that the momentum is not good, they run away.

Fang La rebelled, gathering millions of people, but in the face of Tong Guan's 150,000 army, it was defeated like a mountain, which only lasted for a few months, and during this period, even if Qin Hao racked his brains, he did not find a big battle that was enough to go down in history.

There is no big war, it does not mean that there is no suffering of war, from Chengshan to Huzhou City, the fertile field is vast, but you can't see people's labor, and the whole field is particularly desolate.

Huzhou came to Huzhou City with a heavy heart, and the scene in the city made him even happier, although Huzhou is located in the rich Jiangnan, but it is not a big city, with a permanent population of less than 100,000.

And it is such a small city with a population of less than 100,000, but nearly 70,000 people are stationed in Lu Xing'er, this burden is heavy, and Qin Hao, as a modern person, really can't imagine it.

Whether it was the streets or corners of the city, there were a large number of refugees lying tired, and when Qin Hao walked past them, no one reached out to beg, everyone looked at him with a blank look.

This kind of look made Qin Hao feel very distressed, because from their eyes, there was no trace of desire to survive, and that feeling was like a group of people waiting there to die.

The war cannot be allowed to continue, this sudden war must be ended as soon as possible, Qin Hao did not linger on the street, he really couldn't bear to look at those desperate eyes.

Although Yang Zaixing and Ma Kuo captured Huzhou in the morning, the two of them did not have many men and horses after all, and their role was mainly to hold on to the four city gates, and the cleaning of the battlefield was limited to collecting the corpses of both the enemy and the enemy.

When Qin Hao came to the mansion, he saw hundreds of corpses densely packed in the open space in front of the mansion, most of them were rebels, and only a few were forbidden troops on his side.

"Zhang Yi, Mao Xue, you two go to the city to find a coffin shop, and bury these people well!" Qin Hao really couldn't bear to let these corpses be here, not to mention that corpses were the best carrier for storing bacteria.

In this era when a cold can kill people, once the plague is launched, it is really unimaginable.

Yang Zaixing saw that Zhang Yi was about to leave in the snow, shook his head and said, "The two elder brothers don't have to go, there is no coffin in this city for a long time, and the owner of the coffin shop is still lying here." ”

Qin Hao muttered: "Then lead the team to the countryside, put away all the dry wood, make a coffin for each of them, if there are not enough people, then mobilize the masses, in short, the day after tomorrow at the latest, they will all be buried." ”

It is now the beginning of March, the weather in Jiangnan is still relatively cool, and the corpses will not rot for two days, Qin Hao's heart is a little calm, and then he called two teams of soldiers and asked them to take a good look at these corpses.

This morning, when Lu Xing'er came out to attack Chengshan, he didn't expect that Yang Zaixing and Ma Kuo would take advantage of the emptiness of Huzhou and take the opportunity to seize the city, so when they came out, they didn't bring any food except a little dry food.

During the war years, people's first priority was to live, and food was the foundation for people to live, so after Qin Hao dealt with these trivial things, he took Lu Xiaoqing to Lu Xing'er's granary.

There is not much grain in the granary, that is to the 70,000 people led by Lu Xing'er, and for the 5,000 people led by Qin Hao, the grain in the granary is enough, enough for them to eat for two or three months.

"How much military ration is left from the imperial court?" Qin Hao came to the granary, grabbed the grain and asked Lu Xiaoqing.

Lu Xiaoqing said: "The military rations that the imperial court pulled out to us can still be eaten for a month and a half, and the silver is converted into copper coins, and there are more than 70,000 yuan, which is just enough for our three months of military sound, and the private silver taels have not moved for the time being." ”

Qin Hao nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Take out all the grain in the granary and relieve the poor people, when I entered the city just now, I saw that they were not a little angry, it is not okay to go on like this." ”

"Good!" Lu Xiaoqing replied very simply, these grains were originally robbed by Lu Xing'er from those rich households, and then returned to those ordinary people.

Liang Hongyu said: "It is not enough to just distribute grain to the people in this city, there is no farming, no stability, no business, no life, I just passed by the market, I deliberately went in to see, the shops inside are not open, and there are no small merchants and vendors on the roadside." ”

"I've noticed what you said, so let's do it, Ruby Girl, don't we have some money on hand? Huzhou's silk and brushes are good, as well as fruits and tea, as long as the people are willing to sell, they can buy as much as they want. ”

Liang Hongyu was a little hesitant about Qin Hao's decision, "It's right that you want to invigorate the bazaar through our trading, and it's not wrong to buy some fruits and other things to eat, but only a few people in our army can use it, can this work?" ”

Qin Hao said: "Now there are wars everywhere, except for food, everything else is the price of vomiting blood, at this time, a large number of purchases, not only can help those people, we can also earn a sum, why not?" ”

"Earning a fortune?" Liang Hongyu felt a little surprised, "Are you saying that these things we bought are not for our own use, but for business?" But we're still at war, where are we going to do business? ”

Qin Hao smiled and said: "Things like silk tea leaves and brushes can be stored, and although these things are not valuable here, as long as they are taken to Tokyo or sold overseas, they are all sought-after goods." ”

Tian Xiaoqian saw that Liang Hongyu was still confused, and took over the topic and said: "It's not a secret, before Qin Hao sent an envoy to the Jin Kingdom, he asked his father to help him build a few merchant ships, and according to the progress, it is estimated that it is almost the same now." ”

"Oh, I see, no wonder you want to recruit all the people of Fang La to Jeju Island, it turns out that you want to use Jeju Island as a springboard and then do business at sea?" After listening to Tian Xiaoqian's words, Liang Hongyu suddenly realized.

Qin Hao said with a smile: "That's right, I just want to do business on the sea, and the most afraid of doing business on the sea is pirates, if you want to make this business bigger, you must have a very strong caravan guard." ”

During the conversation, I suddenly saw a fat man with a group of people in silk clothes hurrying here, and saw Lu Xiaoqing directing the sergeants to move the grain, and suddenly stopped his hand and said: "Wait, you can't move this food!" ”

"Why can't you move?" Lu Xiaoqing felt a little dazed, and said with a frown.

"Because the grain is ours!" The fat man said unceremoniously.