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Chapter 152: Business

"In the first year of China, the summer and May of the twelfth year of Mengyuan Zhizheng. Timur also led an army of 300,000 first, and confronted Liu Futong, the marshal of the red scarf, in Shahe, and could not advance an inch for several decades.

In the second half of June, the Huaidong generals Wu 22 and Chen De led 3,000 strong men to help, carrying more than 40 artillery pieces in small boats.

The Yuan army was frightened, trampled on each other, and suffered countless casualties. The younger brother of the prime minister, Henan Pingzhang also wanted to escape first, and controlled his horse left and right. Timur also led the saber and said: "I am not my life!" "Then he went.

The puppet Yuan Lake Guangping Zhang Gong Buban wanted to reorganize the army to fight against the war, but Chen De bombarded it and shattered it. Liu Futong, Sesame Li, and Zhao Junyong each led an army to land, rushing left and right, as if entering a no-man's land. In the morning, the Yuan army was dispersed, and the military resources were all owned by the righteous army.

Chen Dezhi, the word is good, is the son of Chen Shouxin, the Wanhu of the Huguang Han Army. Shouxin was well-known in the army, and was hated by Huguang Pingzhang Gongbuban, and designed to kill him, pretending to be drunk and fell from a horse and died. Chen De avenged his father's grievances for several years to no avail, and angrily threw a red scarf. He was the deputy commander of the Fourth Army under Zhu 81's account, with outstanding intelligence and the ability to convince the public. Together with Hu Dahai, Wang Bi, Wu Yongchun, and Rakshasa Ivan, they are called the Five Tigers of Huaidong" "National History, Biography No. 121"

"Timur also collected the soldiers first and resisted. The general said: "You are a general, when you see the enemy rushing, I will impeach you, and this city cannot be entered." "It is to go around the city and stay in Zhongmu.

Before long, the Red Turban Army arrived, smashed the south gate with gunpowder, and entered the outer city. Meng Yuanwei Wang Kuanche Ge shot Sesame Li with a strong crossbow, in the left shoulder. Sesame Li pulled out his knife and broke the arrow, climbed the ladder with one arm to climb the wall, cut Kuan Che Ge, and Bianliang was broken. Zhao Jun used the victory to lead the army eastward, Kesuizhou and Suiyang. Liu Futong led the army to coerce Zhongmu, but Timur did not dare to fight and escaped across the Yellow River. Bu Wangsan led troops to respond to Futong, Lianketang, Song, Ru, Luoyang and other prefectures and counties. Henan Jiangbei Province, so most of it is owned by red scarves" "New Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 225"

This summer is destined to leave a strong mark on history. For more than half a month, Meng Yuan successively lost Bianliang, Suizhou, Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Yingyang, Hujiaoguan, and Luoyang. Jiangnan and Hebei Province land, four to the third. After the Red Turban Army seized Huai'an, an important place of finance and taxation at the end of May, it completely connected Huai'an Road, Guide Mansion, Bianliang Road, Henan Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, Runing Mansion, Anfeng Road, etc., and the four prefectures and three roads. Watch and help each other, and fight the enemy side by side.

What's more, the artillery made a name for itself in this chaotic and fierce battle. The four-pound cannon produced from the Huai'an Red Scarf General Workshop has become the most favored weapon of the red scarf from all walks of life. Not only were they used as magic weapons to defeat the enemy in the original Xuzhou team such as Sesame Li, Zhao Junyong, and Mao Gui, Liu Futong, Bu Wangsan and others also sent henchmen to Huai'an City to queue up for purchases with heavy gold, copper ingots, wrought iron and other strategic materials.

Qingjiang Town, which is more than ten miles northeast of Huai'an City, is the most mysterious place in the eyes of all foreign guests who come to Huai'an. This triangular area, which is bordered by the Huai River on the left, the canal on the right, and the Yellow River on the north, was classified as a military forbidden land shortly after Huai'an City fell into the hands of the Red Turban Army. Without the handwritten warrants of important figures such as Zhu Bayi, Su Mingzhe, and Xu Da, as long as ordinary people dared to approach, they would be driven away by the cavalry. If he dared to continue to approach after being expelled twice in a row, the third time, a salvo of dozens of arquebuses awaited him. Within fifty steps, no matter how clever a spy is, he will be beaten into a hornet's nest.

There is a saying that curiosity kills cats. The more places that are not allowed to be prowned, the more people want to know what secrets are hidden inside. Some good idlers did not dare to go to the Qingjiang River from 6 places, so they rented boats and went down the west bank of the Huai River.

This trick really works, as long as they don't get close to the weapon workshop on the west bank, Zhu Eighty-one can't be so arrogant that he can't even stop the waterway. It's just that the voyeur relies on a pair of naked eyes, but it is difficult to observe the reason. According to them, the entire town of Qingjiang, along this side of the Huai River, has become a watermill workshop. Two or three feet high waterwheels are next to each other, almost lining up the riverbank. The sound of tinkling iron is non-stop day and night, and it can be heard clearly from more than ten miles away.

"Also, dare you see dozens of waterwheels after a lot of effort?" Some guests who came from afar inquired in the teahouse tavern, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Also, there's the dockyard. The Qingjiang River was originally a good place for shipbuilding, and many of the big ships on the canal and the Yellow River came from there. We were far away and saw that the dockyard seemed to be expanding. But it's not as conspicuous as a waterwheel! ”

"Shipbuilding? Didn't Zhu Dudu already have a sailor under his account, why did he want to build more ships? The out-of-town guest frowned and continued to get to the bottom of it.

"Then how do we know! Our Zhu Dudu has always been mysterious and secretive in doing things! "The local idlers bent their arms and made dissatisfaction." If you want to say that we are Zhu Dudu, everything is good. It's just that it's always unreasonable! Since he came to the old man's house, this dirty water cannot be splashed on the street casually, garbage is not allowed to be dumped outside the yard casually, and even the back of the buttocks of donkeys and buffaloes must be hung with a dung bag. If you are dragged on the street by the servant and take the fine, it is really not ambiguous at all! ”

"Then you old and young masters in Huai'an will endure it?" The outsider was stunned again, and said in a somewhat provocative tone.

"Patience! Of course you have to bear with it! I can't bear to do anything?! Those salt merchants are amazing, and they were chopped clean by Zhu Dudu in just one night. Besides, although this Zhu Dudu has strange rules, he does things fairly. Never pull people to work in vain, as long as you do it, you will definitely be paid! ”

"Salary, do you also pay for doing things for the government?"

"Of course, only those bastard officials of the Great Yuan Dynasty pull people to work without paying them! Our Zhu Dudu is under the command of the revolutionary army! Revolution, you know? It is to change his life against the sky, and change all the original rules of bullying! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a team of errand officers suddenly walked in at the door. first made a gesture at everyone, then raised an iron horn and shouted, "Fathers and fellow villagers, excuse me." Locals don't move. Visitors from outside, please take out the ID card you received when you enter the city! ”

"This, this is not allowed to eat?" Several guests with out-of-town accents were furious, stood up, and waved their arms in protest.

Their protests did not elicit sympathy from the locals. Including the idlers who had been drinking tea and chatting with them before, they all sat honestly on their chairs and put on a picture of nothing to do with themselves.

Immediately, a group of three or four officers stepped forward and asked the out-of-town visitors for identity papers for inspection. According to the age, place of origin, appearance, and purpose of coming to Huai'an written above, check them one by one. If it is completely accurate, it will politely salute, return the identity paper to the other party, and leave a few tea dollars to make amends. The existing impostor was immediately tied up with a rope and arrested on the spot. If anyone dares to resist, the brass whistle that they carry with them is immediately sounded. Soon, the soldiers of the Red Turban Army trained nearby rushed over, and the spears and knives were greeted at the same time, chopping the rebels into meat sauce.

Similar incidents, after entering July, were staged in the city several times a day. Hundreds of spies were caught red-handed, and the prison in Huai'an City was stuffed to the brim. What made Zhu Eighty-one and the others laugh the most was that more than two-thirds of the spies they captured were not from Meng Yuan's side, but from the Red Turban Army. There are Haozhou Guo Zixing's subordinates, Luoyang Busan's subordinates, and Dingyuan Sun Deya's subordinates. Even Xu Shouhui, who was far away in Huguang, sent eyeliners to find out the secrets of artillery manufacturing.

"Didn't I promise to sell it to you for money?" Annoyed by the spies, Zhu Eighty-one took out a few of them from the prison and protested in person.

"This, this, Governor, Governor, you will be angry for the time being!" I also knew that I was not doing this properly, and the leaders of the spies blushed and stammered in response, "You are old, your old copper cannon is powerful, but it can brake to a thousand catties of copper, and the price is too scary." Therefore, when it comes to my family, my master is thinking about it to see if he can ask for a recipe to go back, and he will also cast a few cannons for himself. First, the price is cheaper, and secondly, there is no need to wait in line at your place! ”

"Fuck off!" Zhu Eighty-one was furious, raised his foot and kicked the speaker on his stomach. "When Lao Tzu makes cannons, he doesn't need to pay craftsmen. Lao Tzu makes cannons, so there is no need for firewood and molds. The effort and materials that Lao Tzu wasted in order to make cannons are not money?! Get out of here, go back where you came from. Go back and tell your master, if you are caught by Lao Tzu next time, you want to buy anything from Lao Tzu in the future. Zhu has always done what he said! ”

"Hong San, take all the spies of the Red Turban Army in the prison to the ship and deport them. The spies sent by Meng Yuan were also immediately escorted outside the city and beheaded the public! Lao Tzu doesn't have so much food to feed these bastards! ”

"Yes!" Xu Hongsan, the commander of the personal guards, agreed, picked up dozens of heavily armed guards, and swarmed up. First the spies of the Red Turbans were brought to the ship, and then all the people from the Red Turbans were taken from the prison and thrown to the north bank of the Yellow River to leave on their own.

Those spies of Meng Yuan are not treated so well. After being identified, he was immediately taken outside the city to be executed. There are also some people who neither belong to the Red Turban Friendly Army, nor are they lost to the Mengyuan side, but purely belong to the Jianghu characters who have nothing to do, and they were escorted to the salt works by the sea to serve in labor, and they did not have a time of three or five years, and they never had the opportunity to come out and cause chaos for the Huai'an Army.

And Zhu Eighty-one, obviously still had anger in his heart, and soon, he issued a more domineering order, "Order, from tomorrow, to General Manager Li, Zhao Changshi and Mao Dudu to reduce the price of their artillery by 30%, and give priority to delivery." The supply to Marshal Liu was arranged in the second order, and the price was reduced by two percent. Others, all those who have sent spies to Huai'an, will increase the price by 50 percent, and the order will be according to the number of spies caught. The more you send, the lower your position! ”