Chapter 19: Intrigue and Intrigues
The first bowl of wine is also worth three yuan, the second bowl of wine is six yuan, the third bowl of wine is fifteen yuan, as for the fourth bowl, two yuan is a catty, and the fifth bowl, tribute wine, three gold and one catty. "The people have a kind of money that they don't have much money to spare, and they go to the top of their nobilities, so they buy taste and face, and make better money.
"Ah, Your Majesty, someone will buy the last two bowls of wine?"
"You ask Yong'an Hou, will he buy it?"
Lin Xiao was already drunk, but when he heard Lin Feng's words, he still said: "Sure, the daughter buys drunk, and the drink is face!" An Heng, you follow the strategy of the imperial brother, that's right! ”
"Yes!"
Lin Feng stared at An Heng and reminded again: "An Heng, I let you be fully responsible for these two things, even Han Kui and Liu Shan are temporarily handed over to you, you must do this for me, remember that the secret recipe must be in the hands of your cronies, by the way, the production process is operated step by step, even if someone has a ghost, don't want to leak the secret." ”
"Yes, little man. It's just a distribution operation, is it the assembly line operation that the emperor said? An Heng's excitement was uncontrollable, at this moment, he finally became the emperor's cronies, such a big matter was handed over to himself, if it was done badly, it would be shameless. For the sake of prudence, he still asked Lin Feng one last question.
"Hmmm! It's a pipeline operation. Lin Feng bowed his head and said to Liushan Han Kui: "Liushan, Han Kui, you pass on the technology to the salt master, find some clever people, and form a caravan, the salt wine is very profitable, in the future, I don't want outsiders to get involved, and it is my interests to embezzle." ”
An Heng and the three of them recruited wine-making and salt-making masters early, and lived in two manors in the suburbs of Beijing, and tinkered with the winery and salt house in the manor for several days, and finally let the recruited masters understand the technology of salt-making and winemaking, some of which are extremely cumbersome, time-consuming and laborious, but the masters are experts after all. Once you get the core know-how, everything else is much simpler.
Lin Feng lurked into the two manors many times in the past few days, secretly observed, and found that the masters were performing their duties, making salt and making wine, and finally spread out.
In order to prevent outsiders from peeking inside the technology, Lin Feng sent five hundred dragon cavalry guards to stay here at any time to monitor, arrest, and torture people with abnormal behavior.
The problem of money does not worry him for the time being, and when the wealth brought back from the grassland is consumed, the new wine and new salt will be on the market for about a while, and there will be some profit.
At this moment, Lin Feng's mind began to shift to other things, training troops, solving the threat of the noble clan, and eliminating the courtiers and traitors. However, the courtiers, traitors and scholars are in collusion, and they have private soldiers in their hands, and their power should not be underestimated. After thinking about it, Lin Feng decided to train the troops first, and then clear the king's side.
How to train soldiers, how to train soldiers, what kind of soldiers to train, Lin Feng paid a little attention in his heart, Yan Kingdom is located in the north and borders the Saiwai, coupled with the fierce folk customs, the dragoon guards and the tiger and leopard battalions are both cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is inferior to the Saiwai cavalry, but they are also famous in the north.
Yan Guo is small, but Lin Feng's ambition is not small, if it is just to relieve the border troubles, it is enough to train cavalry, and to plan the world, it is necessary to lay a good foundation in advance, cavalry must be had, and infantry must also be trained. Moreover, the infantry and cavalry should be refined, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, archers, crossbowmen, and spearmen, which are divided into different arms, for various battles, and various types of troops.
During this period, Lin Feng specially asked people to create new weapons for him, one horse chopping knife and two military stabs.
The chopping knife is about five feet, the handle is two feet, the blade is three feet, the blade flashes with murderous aura after opening, the whole knife is round, the blade is slightly wider, the handle is long and easy to grasp with both hands, the blade is wide, and the lethality is crazy.
The army-thorn was Lin Feng's favorite in the fierce battle in his previous life, and he was good at cold weapons, but these two army-thorns were slightly thicker and had a deeper blood groove. The slasher is used for impact fighting, and the military-stab is used for hand-to-hand combat. The two weapons complement each other, and each has its own merits.
Holding the weapon again, the blood boiled all over his body, as if he was in the middle of the battlefield, the war horses neighed, and the drums vibrate. Lin Feng was familiar with the sword and demonstrated a set of killing skills, which were summed up in the fierce battles in his previous life, and were far more suitable for killing people than fancy martial arts.
"Your Majesty, meet the Marquis of Yong'an!" An Heng put on the brewing technique as a master and sent two shrewd eunuchs to stay behind, and a few days ago, he had returned to the palace. Hearing An Heng's voice, Lin Feng put away the horse chopping knife into the sheath, lifted the military spur, inserted it into the scabbard made of calf cowhide, picked up the teacup, and tasted the fragrant tea with a carefree expression.
"Brother Huang, today's recruitment is complete, a total of 80,000 people!" Since the success of the new salt and new wine, Lin Xiao can be said to have admired Lin Feng's five-body throw. It is rumored that the emperor is mediocre and ignores the government after returning from a great victory, but those who are really close to Lin Feng know that he is shrewd, capable of governing the country with literature and martial arts, but he has not really revealed his minions. I'm afraid that, as the emperor said, if he doesn't make a sound, he will already be a blockbuster.
"Well, with these 80,000 recruits, given time to train, they will become a division of 80,000 tigers and wolves." Lin Feng put down the teacup and looked at Lin Xiao with a smile: "Second brother, these 80,000 recruits, I am going to train them myself, what do you think?" ”
"The imperial brother is wise and foolish, wise and martial, and personally trains new soldiers, and he will definitely be able to show the former glory of the Great Yan cavalry." Lin Xiao's expression changed slightly, and he quickly regained his composure, although he didn't know why Lin Feng personally trained the troops, he didn't express his dissatisfaction.
"Alright, you and my brother, don't be a sycophant!" Lin Feng waved his hand, glanced at Lin Xiao, and said angrily: "As far as I know, the Yan State is currently surrounded by enemies on all sides, not to mention the Cypriot Rong clan, only the Zhao State in the West has one million soldiers, the Eastern Jin State has 500,000 tiger and wolf troops, the Zheng State in the south has 800,000 troops, and the troops of the neighboring countries are also tens of thousands, I am very curious why the Yan State has less than 60,000 troops, and it can still survive in the gap between several major powers." Regardless of luck or disdain of the other party, in short, the recent recruitment of 80,000 new soldiers is only the beginning, although the soldiers are not many but fine, but Yan Guo also needs to have 300,000 elite soldiers. Once the money and food are rich, 500,000, or even more, sooner or later there will be a day when you will be in charge, what are you worried about? Worried that I will be jealous of you and will not let you get in touch with military power, or are I worried that I will depose you and imprison you, will my brother not be able to see your careful thoughts? ”
"Hey, hey!" Lin Xiao smiled embarrassedly, his mind was seen through by Lin Feng without reservation, he scratched his head, and took a sip of herbal tea to suppress his shock. "I listen to the emperor's brother, but I don't let my brother train at the moment, and my brother has nothing to do!"
His expression was slightly stunned, Lin Feng felt incredible, he was busy all day, it was dark, and he didn't even have much time to rest, Lin Xiao felt that he had nothing to do.
"There's nothing to do, you're embarrassed to say it!" Lin Xiao was puzzled, he was born for war, he didn't train or fight, he really had nothing to do! When he was puzzled, he heard Lin Feng continue: "You don't know the security of Yanjing, you have nothing to do, bring some dragon rider guards, you can always punish the bullying and bullying on the street, but this matter is up to you, it's a bit overkill, since you have nothing to do, you might as well find someone to destroy the spies from various countries who are spying on intelligence in Yanjing, this thing will always work!" ”
If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, you don't know the hardships of the secret wars of the kings. Although Lin Feng did not go to the court, or stayed in the court for a very short time, he seemed to have no intention of asking about politics, but in fact, he had secretly installed An Heng, Han Kui and others, closely paying attention to the trends in all aspects, and the situation of Yan Guo in all aspects, and put them on his warm pavilion desk. It can be said that he does not leave the temple and knows the affairs of the rivers and lakes.
"Brother is embarrassed, let's do it." Lin Xiao wanted to get a training errand on this trip, but Lin Feng took it back and asked him to catch spies from various countries, but thinking about it, this is indeed not a trivial matter.
At the beginning of July, when the sun is scorching, the scorching sun shines on the ground, which can ignite the ground, and the streets are sparsely populated with pedestrians, and occasionally people will appear and leave quickly.
At noon, the sun is more sunny, and the birds and cicadas are quiet, as if they deliberately avoid the scorching sun. At this moment, six or seven horse-drawn carriages suddenly appeared on the street, and the coachman drove quickly through the street, pulling the sparse pedestrians on the street, and drove towards the same place.
Han Mansion, the backyard side door, the tightly closed jujube red door slowly opened, revealing a small door crack, a pair of round eyes were exposed in the crack of the door, the thief's eyebrows swept the surroundings, and slowly walked out.
At this time, a carriage drove quickly and stopped not far from the little guy, the little guy hurriedly stepped forward, and when the owner of the car opened the curtain, the little guy immediately walked up, and the owner of the carriage asked in a low voice: "Are all the people here?" ”
The little guy said in a low voice: "It's all right, just wait for Master Wei." ”
The two did not communicate with each other, the little servant led Master Wei to walk quickly to the Han Mansion, someone opened the gate, hurriedly ran out, pulled the carriage parked outside into the courtyard, and came out to look around, found that there were no pedestrians on all sides, and quickly returned to the house, and the side door of the Han Mansion was closed again.
The Han Mansion is not big, and it looks like an ordinary mansion from the outside. The mansion is extremely luxurious, with white marble pavilions, gold inlaid lintels, rockeries several meters high, high-quality cow hair carpets on the ground, and countless rare flowers.
Passing through the corridor, the little guy took Master Wen to the side hall, the door of the side hall was closed, the little guy grabbed the knocker, knocked three times, and hurriedly buckled three times, Shaoqing, the closed door was wide open, someone walked in with Lord Wei, and said to the little guy: "Be vigilant, there is any movement around the mansion, report it immediately." The little guy nodded silently and turned to leave.
Master Wen walked into the side hall, there was no one in the side hall, but he walked quickly, walked to the bookshelf where the books were placed, and pressed his palm the top row, the fourth book. The books sank, the bookshelves rotated and half-opened, and Master Wei walked in without hesitation, and the process seemed very familiar.
In the secret room, there were three candlesticks, still dim.
The seven people who exchanged ears saw Lord Wen walk in, nodded at him, Lord Wen nodded in return, sat in the vacant seat, picked up the hot tea prepared next to him, took a small sip, and said apologetically: "There was a little trouble on the way, the carriage hit a pariah, and it was delayed for a while." ”