Article 183 End of Grain Harvest
The wounded were gone, and more than a hundred soldiers were seriously wounded. This is still the Dali Baiyao imitated by the imperial doctor of Chutian on the way, it really played a big role, if it wasn't for the medicine sprinkled on the wound in the middle of the road to stop the bleeding, then there would be more soldiers who died in the middle of the road.
Last night, after getting the final report of the casualties, Dean sent three waves of fast horses to the capital overnight, and he wanted to play the attack as soon as possible. After the attack, he was delayed on the road for so long, but he forgot that such a big thing should have been played immediately after the attack. The forbidden army is the face of the emperor!
After all, Dean was a bit presumptuous this time, patronizing the angry and wanting to avenge the dead or injured brothers, if it wasn't for Cai Dao reminding him, it would really be possible to delay such an important matter.
At this moment, there was no need for Cai Dao to remind him again, Dean calmed down and thought about it alone, and finally understood the whole thing.
If the sneak attackers hadn't been wiped out on the spot in this bloody feud, they would have definitely never been able to find these bold lords again. Because, these fanatics who dared to attack the ranks of the forbidden army may have been a family member who saw that he was not pleasing to his eyes and wanted to rob the copper coins escorted this time. If these copper coins really had to be lost in their own hands, even if Song Shenzong wanted to protect himself, there was no way at all.
If it really comes to that time, Dean knows that it is impossible for his uncle Di Yong to continue to protect himself, and it would be good if he could not affect the entire Di family.
On the contrary, Cai Dao handled this matter very calmly, and the most important thing at the moment was to save the lives of those injured forbidden soldiers, and he would not have any superfluous thoughts about other messy things. The current result, after the children washed, treated, and bandaged, did save a lot of forbidden soldiers. After arriving at Shuibo Liangshan, only one forbidden army died.
But the key thing is that it was a few days later, and now it was still summer! Moreover, looking at this ghost weather, even in autumn, the autumn tiger will have to wreak havoc for more than ten days.
Because it is surrounded by water, the weather on Shuiboliang Mountain is very humid and hot compared to other places, so many wounded soldiers gather here, there are no effective anti-inflammatory drugs, and their wounds are very susceptible to infection.
This is the real enemy of trauma.
Don't look, only ten people have died now. But Cai Dao knew in his heart that if there were no anti-inflammatory drugs, in the next few days, the number of soldiers who died in the forbidden army would become more and more.
The more Cai Dao thought about it, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly ordered: "Dog, you go and invite General Di over immediately." Just go! ”
"No!" The dog agreed, and hurriedly walked out of the tent to look for Dean.
There was not much time, Dean hurried to Cai Dao's camp, and before anyone came in, the voice came in first: "Deputy Lieutenant Yuwu, what do you mean, since you have copper coins at the bottom, why did you ask the official family for the 500,000 copper coins?" You are guilty of deception! Do you know that the result of this is to kill so many brothers of the forbidden army for no reason! ”
"Don't talk nonsense, whether I do things by myself is a crime of deception, and I have my own officials to judge. You don't need to be here to meddle with rats. If you are willing to sue, go for it! Cai Dao was almost made amused by him when he heard that Dean came over and didn't ask the reason for the Xingshi.
He didn't bother to explain to Dian, and said that this uncle was not a master who played cards according to common sense, and as soon as his ship arrived, he could guess that it was filled with copper coins? Did he just guess and deceive himself, or did this guy just break into his ship and discover this secret? For this point, Cai Dao can't make up his mind. If it weren't for these two reasons, Cai Dao really couldn't think of the reason.
After thinking for a moment, Cai Dao continued: "If you don't care about the life or death of your subordinates, you will continue to care about the money here. Today, Poor Dao is very busy, and I don't have time to spend time with you here. The tone of the voice, not to mention how disdainful it was.
With a word, Cai Dao pushed back the rest of Dian's words. The wounds of the soldiers are easy to infect, and he naturally knows everything about him, an old soldier who has been a soldier for ten years, but this problem is simply a problem that plagued the armies of the world at that time, and now there is no military service around him. Dean also had no choice, he could only rely on this six-year-old doll.
The two of them were at a stalemate.
The aggrieved Dean endured it for a long time, seeing that Cai Dao didn't pay attention to him at all, and ate breakfast slowly, then asked, "What's the matter, you can say it!" ”
"Those wounded soldiers, as long as they can still move, immediately set off for Jeju to find a way to enter Juye County. If the governor doesn't let you into the city, rent some houses on the edge of the city. You can send someone into the city to find the magistrate of Juye County for help, don't look for that magistrate. This place, with a lack of medical care and medicine, and the hot and humid weather, can easily cause wound infection, and this place is not suitable for those wounded soldiers to recuperate. How much money is missing, I will make it up to you. Hurry up and arrange it, your battleship will be requisitioned after moving things in a while, but you must not drive the battleship within the sight of Juye City. Since Dean took the initiative to speak, Cai Dao didn't want to make things difficult for him, so he said.
"Good!" After listening to Cai Dao's words, Dean turned around and was about to leave.
Cai Dao hurriedly stopped Di An and said, "Wait, General Di, those forbidden troops who protected me before can't leave yet." ”
"Why, the official family has repeatedly emphasized that after the last general joins you, those soldiers will immediately rush to the Daimyo's mansion." Dean stopped and asked strangely, besides, those soldiers had already received Song Shenzong's will, and they couldn't control it themselves.
"I know what you're thinking, just to let you know. I will report the details to the official family to know. Putting so many copper coins here will definitely arouse the covetousness of the people or other forbidden troops, and once you leave, the others, including me, will not be able to suppress the remaining ruffians. Or those soldiers and brothers before knew the roots, and they used to rest assured. Once the copper coins are distributed and you return the battleship to me, you don't have to worry about that. "What should be explained, it still has to be explained, in fact, Cai Dao has already negotiated the conditions with the general who led the team.
Now this deputy general can be regarded as promoted, from Di'an's deputy general, he has been promoted to two grades at once, that is, a seventh-rank general. This time, the deputy general who accompanied Cai Dao out of Beijing together, except for Jiao Ting, who cheated to death, all the others were promoted.
"If you've negotiated, why do you have to tell me? Bring sand to the beach! The whining had not yet subsided, and Dean's men had already left far away.
After that, things went very smoothly, although the copper coins prepared by Cai Xi for Cai Dao this time were miscellaneous, they were all official coins produced by the Great Song Dynasty, and the people naturally recognized them.
And the guys on the battleship have been trained by the Cai family to know some words and numbers. Cai Dao sent them to trade with the people of nearly 10,000 people, and last night it was true that thousands of people left, but the news of the arrival of the copper coins escorted by the forbidden army yesterday still spread, and the people and gentry who had been watching the wind and were close to the neighborhood got the news, and they rushed to Shuibo Liangshan overnight with grain.
Even if these later people can no longer get the high price of 20 wen per bucket, but the price of 10 wen per bucket is also sky-high in today's Jingxi Road. The bumper harvest in the entire Central Plains not only did not bring any joy to the people, but brought panic to these kind-hearted people.
In the past, as long as it was not a disaster place, in addition to Bianliang City, that is, the Guanzhong region needed food, it was because of Cai Dao, a spoiler, that the old man Sun Jue took Zong Ze, Zhang Shuye and Cai Xuan, three cadres, to govern Guanzhong, so that this year also got an extraordinary harvest.
Therefore, except for the big grain merchants and gentry around Bianliang City, they can't even sell the grain in their own warehouses now, so how can they spend money to buy other people's grain.
In this way, the rumor that the 'fortune boy' Cai Dao was ordered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Zhao to buy grain at a high price of ten cents in Shuibo Liangshan became more and more widespread. First, it spread to the whole of Jeju, and it took less than three days to spread to other state capitals on Jingdongseo-ro. Even when Cai Dao left, there were still people who transported grain from farther away to Shuibo Liangshan.
The people who came here farthest away actually had Hebei and Huainan.
These simple people of the Great Song Dynasty, relying on backward means of transportation, trekked through mountains and rivers to transport their own grain to Shuibo Liangshan, just to earn a little more difference in the price of selling grain. On the other hand, it was a sign of the incompetence of the conservative ministers, or their own complicity with the local grain merchants. I didn't take Song Shenzong's will as a thing at all.
In the end, Cai Dao was delayed in Shuibo Liangshan for more than a month, and the task of purchasing grain was almost successfully completed.
However, a new round of political struggle between the reformers and the conservatives has only just begun.