Chapter 0033: The Power of Commerce
It's just that Sun Qi didn't calculate it, he had quickly escaped from Quheshang Village, but he was attacked and killed by the bandits of the calf village halfway, Mao, are these bandits all scuds?
Therefore, if Yuan Yong is only the first report, then the chief Sun Qi is regarded as the second report, and when the prefect Han Wen found Sun Qi and asked, he really knew the details of the Mengyin City Change. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, when Sun Qicai talked about how he escaped from Mengyin, he must have whitewashed himself. If you really want to talk about it, Sun Qicai's performance that day was actually good, which made Xu Lie have illusions again and again.
So, against the bandits in the calf village, did the government send troops to encircle and suppress it? With the strength of Yizhou Mansion alone, I am afraid that it will not be able to handle this arduous task.
As a result, the contradiction was handed over again through the path of the Yizhou Mansion.
If the excerpt of the Yizhou Mansion arrives at the Governor's Mansion again, it is estimated that this matter will be like this, and Zhang Rumei will not bother with it anymore. But Han Wen, the prefect of Yizhou, changed his tricks, and he did not send this folded official document to the governor's mansion, but to the office of the prosecutor's office.
What do you do according to the Inspectorate? According to the judge, it is in charge of, arresting, arresting bandits and law and order, somewhat similar to the police station in later generations.
At this time, the Shandong Inspectorate was the famous Yuxian, a member of the Yellow Banner of the Han Army. Previously, this person had also done Yanyi Cao Jidao, and in fact, he had just been promoted from this Dao to the Inspectorate not long ago. And this Tao is just in charge of Yizhou. Therefore, the relationship between the prefect Hangul and Yuxian is very close.
And Yuxian is also a person, who is a character in Qi E's "Travels of the Old Remnant", known as the representative of "if a clean official is self-righteous, the harm is more serious than that of a corrupt official".
Yuxian's biggest feature is indiscriminate killing! Take killing as an official, and kill as an official! In the prefect of Caozhou, more than 2,000 people were killed, and he was a famous cool official in the late Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, this guy heard that there were bandits in Mengyin who dared to attack the county seat, and killed and injured nearly 100 people, and Yuan Yong, the county magistrate, was also seriously injured, and the next day he was even more daring, daring to chase and kill the squires and good people on the official road, and killed more than 20 people again. You can't be robbed of your name by a bunch of bandits!
As a result, Yuxian began to operate actively, preparing for the army to arrest and suppress.
It's just that it's the end of the year, even if Yuxian has any ideas, he has to wait for all walks of life in Shandong to finish the New Year. Naturally, don't think about moving troops before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
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In Xu Lie's opinion, the practice of 10 taels of silver + 50 catties of fine noodles for one person proposed by himself must be attractive to the poor, but Xu Lie did not expect that his strategy would not only be fatal to the kind of people who are extremely poor, but also to the kind of people who have a little property.
Because they have calculated an account, 10 taels of silver and 50 catties of fine noodles are nothing, the important thing is that their children go to the Mengshan army, and there is a salary of 3 taels of silver per month, Nima, 3 taels of silver a month, it makes people drool when they think about it, even if their children only died in the Mengshan army for a year, there are 36 taels of income, and the Mengshan army also said that if the children die in battle, there will be no less than 50 taels of silver pension, God, although no one wants to let the children die, but if they really die, Doesn't the family also have a thought?
Therefore, as long as there are two or three school-age young people in the family, they will try their best to send one to the calf village. Don't send it? Have you ever seen someone else send their children to hug the calf mountain, and staying at home is to build a new house and say that they are daughters-in-law?
Xu Lie's policy, what really suffers is those who have only one son in the family, because Xu Lie's Mengshan Army does not accept only sons, and everyone understands the truth, that is, once the only son dies in battle, his parents will have no one to support him. But this problem is impossible for Xu Lie to solve at present, if he really pulls his only son into the Mengshan Army, there will be more troubles in the future.
It is also for this reason that in the early stage, Uncle Cao and the second uncle went down the mountain to pull, and after entering the New Year, there was no need for anyone to say that those who wanted to be soldiers in the village were strung together and brought their fathers and brothers together, and collectively came to Salamander Village to find the Hu family contact. In less than half an hour, someone will come to the mountain to register, pick them up, and leave the money behind. The person who came to pick up people was just a young man from a certain village ten days ago, and everyone knew the roots.
So someone asked about life on the mountain. People from the mountains naturally agreed to have one meal of meat, two dry meals, and one porridge and steamed bun every day. The people at the foot of the mountain asked again if they were bitter, and the people from the mountain replied, and the commander said that if you eat so much food every day and don't exercise, you will grow into a pig. The people at the bottom of the mountain asked if they would beat people, and the people from the mountains replied that if you make a mistake, you will be beaten, and if your son is too stupid, it is better not to send him to the mountain.
Indeed, if he is too clumsy, Xu Lie will not accept it.
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As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, Yuxian began to launch the attack plan.
His plan was for him to serve as the commander-in-chief of the attack, with the general's office sending 500 people, the Yizhou garrison sending 300 troops, and claiming to be 2,000 people to go to Baoqian Mountain to attack.
During the Chinese New Year, Yuxian also called Sun Qicai to Jinan and asked about the situation of Baoqian Mountain. In Yuxian's view, although the mountain is dangerous, the bandit army has artillery, as long as there is a bombardment on the mountain, he believes that no matter how strong the bandits are, they will only run away in fear.
As for the rumors that the bandits in the calf village have a magic horse with a repeating gun and an iron horse, Yuxian pointed out sharply that it is just a foreigner's trick and trick, is it so terrible?
Foreigners are indeed terrible, but foreigners are a country with a steady stream of troops. But the mountain bandits in the mountain can be said to be more than a hundred people, even if it is five for one, or even ten for one, will the calf village be an opponent?
Although the matter of suppressing bandits began after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the food and wages were in place, it was already the end of the first month, and the army set out from Jinan and went to Mengyin through Laiwu, about 450 miles, and Yuxian planned to walk for half a month, that is, to reach Mengyin before February 15.
Therefore, before leaving, Yuxian sent an official letter to both the Yizhou Prefecture and Mengyin Zhi County, asking them to prepare for the reception, especially Mengyin County, which must prepare a month's salary for 2,000 people before February 15.
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The difference between commercial society and feudal society is that commercial society pays relative attention to "sharing", that is, everyone has wealth together, and everyone can work together to make the cake bigger. In feudal society, most of them talk about monopoly and eating alone.
Xu Lie's terrible, in a sense, is not his military, but his goods and commodities. After almost a month of commercial trade, there were nearly ten merchants in Mengyin, all of whom had obtained tangible benefits from Xu Lie, such as the gold watches and iron nails underwritten by the Lu family, which were not only sold to Jinan, but also to Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province.
The gold watch does not say, only the iron nails, this kind of goods that are basically rarely used in later generations, called "foreign nails" in this era, are very scarce things, even if the new dragon country is in short supply for a long time.
In any farmhouse, a few iron nails are nailed to the wall, which can be hung on clothes and tied to ropes, which is very useful, especially the iron nails are also necessary for making furniture. Therefore, its sales are very terrifying, and the price is also very high, and the profit of one or two iron nails is equivalent to the profit of a pound of salt in this era.
Although the Lu family invested no less than 2,000 taels of silver in this business, in less than a month, the Lu family had earned 400 taels of silver from Xu Lie. 400 taels a month, wouldn't it cost nearly 5,000 taels of profit a year? This number, not to mention Lu Xiang, who handled it, even the head of the Lu family felt that this money was too easy to come by.
Other families, compared with the Lu family, earn more or less. Generally speaking, the first batch of people who ate crabs really became full of oil.