Chapter 90: The Quagmire of War
Xie Shence really thinks that it is not cost-effective to eat a meal and watch a dance with a hundred taels of silver. However, since it was not spent on him, he was relieved.
But Xie Shence immediately regretted that he had eaten an extra bowl of haggis soup in the afternoon, so he didn't let go of it at the table just now.
Xie Shence didn't have a meal of 100,000 yuan in Chuzhou, but he hadn't seen anyone pay. Now that I think about it, spending tens of thousands of taels of silver on the royal family's sacrifice back then was simply extravagant, and it couldn't be more extravagant.
Tens of thousands of taels of silver were enough for a thousand soldiers to live for a year.
When converted into copper coins, there are more than 100,000 catties.
Who said money can't kill people?
Eating and drinking enough is naturally not the pursuit of people at such levels as Xie Shence, and after keeping warm, think about other things.
Of course, places like Qinglou brothels and Xie Shence and others will not go.
They went to take a bath.
Daba City is designed according to the city model of the Han nationality, and all kinds of facilities are complete, so there are bathrooms called "Perfume Hall".
Xie Shence and the others came to a perfume hall with a very good environment under the guidance of Langlang'er, asked for a high-quality perfume room, and took a good bath, during which several waiters came in to change towels a few times.
(Who says you can't bathe twice a day?) )
Mr. Yang couldn't get wet because of a shoulder injury, so he casually ordered a foot pinching master to go comfortably.
After bathing, Xie Shence and the others went out of Fang City, and Lang Er called back a few coachmen, and then returned to the inn.
Then Mr. Yang and Mr. Zhang came to Xie Shence and He Ruoque's room.
"According to the secret report, the nest of the Erli people has been clearly explored, and it is a Goolan courtyard in the Fang City, called Wufang He. This Goolan Courtyard is the most popular in Daba City, and it is a gold cave that Xianbei people, Dajin people, Western Qin people and even Rouran people are very keen on, and a family monopolizes nearly 30% of the Fengyue business in Daba City. The spring splendid scenery that I went to tonight, but the people of Xiqin have only built it in recent years, although the rising momentum is quite violent, but compared with the five directions, there is still a big gap. ”
Xie Shence touched his chin and said, "Spring Splendid is so expensive, and it is far from Wufang Lotus?" From this point of view, this Wufang Lotus is really very confident. If it weren't for the fact that both black and white dishes could be eaten, they would never dare to ask for such a price, and they would not be able to do such a big business. But then again, it's not unusual for Erli people's wrists to be made of these. Now that the nest has been found, has the main character been determined? ”
Mr. Zhang unfolded a roll of white cloth, which was a white towel from the perfume hall! It smells of soaphorn.
Thank you for taking a shower and getting the towel out? It's too deductible, and I won't let it go of such a little cheapness.
After laying out the two-foot-long and one-foot-wide white towel on the table, Mr. Yang then found a square cloth from the package, sprayed it with water evenly and finely, and then spread the white towel on the square cloth, and slowly pressed it back and forth with the bookcase. About half an hour later, Mr. Yang took off the white scarf, and Xie Shence saw dense Chinese characters and two very small maps on the white scarf.
Mr. Yang breathed a sigh of relief. Although the calligraphy and painting are small, they are still clear.
Xie Shence sighed in his heart: The color change reaction, so witty. Spies are not easy to be, look at these two commanders of the cavalry division, one is a good hand at touching the terrain, the other is a good hand at using poison, both of them have their own specialties, and they both have good kung fu.
Xie Shence looked at the words, and there were many names listed in the upper part, including Duanshui guy, Mr. Bookkeeper, Toupai, Turtle Gong, Boiling Water, Mafu, and of course, the boss.
There are more than 30 people on the list, which basically includes all the trades in Goolan Courtyard, and there are killers from Erli in each line. Among them, there are as many as four of them, and one of them is still a Class B listing person. Mr. Bookkeeper and a top card have been identified as Class A listed persons, and the conductor has not yet been identified. In addition, there are several people whose rank and identity cannot be determined.
Among these people, basically half of them live in Goolan, and there are more than a dozen people who live in a few squares near Fang City, and their addresses are very scattered, but two or three people live in one place, so that they can cooperate with each other. There are a few other people on the list who are not from the Goolan Courtyard, they live in the market and do small business, but whether they are selling vegetables or firewood, they have a record of going to Wufanghe from time to time. The small map below the list is two small maps, one of which shows the lodging of individuals in the Golan Monastery and the other of which is the lodging of people outside the courtyard.
What a ride! Unexpectedly, he touched the stronghold here without making a sound.
Xie Shence was secretly surprised, how much effort it had to take to be so meticulous!
It is conceivable how much effort it took to get rid of this Erli stronghold in Daba City.
Of course, Xie Shence knew that as early as after deducing that the stronghold of the Erli people was in Daba City, Grandpa and Tiqi began to plan. As a member of the Tiqi Division, Zhang and Yang clearly know how many people Tiqi and the Xie family used, how much money they spent, and how many channels they went to come up with so much news.
For money alone, His Majesty allocated 100,000 taels of silver in the name of the military expenses of the Northwest Army!
100,000 taels is just an appropriation, not counting the potential costs lost by tangling in various aspects.
Why would they know? Because it was Zhou Jinmian who told them.
Well, if the people of Erli knew that the Jin State had spent so much effort to get rid of one of their strongholds, they would be proud to be dead.
However, even if you figure this out, you can't do it right away, and Xie Shence still needs more accurate data.
For example, what time does the bookkeeper end up at work, such as the number one card that does not accept customers for a few days, such as how often the vegetable seller and the firewood seller deliver the goods
These are all critical.
Subsequently, Xie Shence asked General Secretary Yang to relieve Xu Luwei of a certain degree of poison, and then asked about the specific situation of the people in Erli of Daba City. Xu Luwei didn't know much about the situation here, but Xie Shence just needed to determine which ones were Class A and which were Class B, and what the commander who killed her whole family looked like.
In the next few days, Xie Shence and the others began their tour around Daba City. The prodigal boy nicknamed Ma Wu took Xie Shence and the others to visit all the major scenic spots in Daba City, every snack street, and the suburbs outside the city.
Ma Wu is busy and crazy during this time. On the one hand, he has to change his tricks to make Xie Shence and others happy, and on the other hand, he has to ask his friends about the characteristics and customs of the neighborhoods he doesn't frequent, so his life is unprecedentedly sufficient.
He is just a prodigal, with no job and no job, so he wants to seek a life from the hands of these officials of Huaiyang Dao.
It's not a dream.
His performance made several officials very satisfied, and the reward in the past few days was actually more than ten taels of silver! He concluded from the gossip of several officials that several officials wanted to build an office in Daba City, and the caravan in Sizhou City of Huaiyang Dao had found a partner who could cooperate for a long time and wanted to conduct long-term business contacts.
That's his chance.
You need space to set up an office, right? He knows where the site meets the requirements and the rent is low. To build an office, you want to publicize it, right? He can help find someone to help. The most important thing is that you need guys to build an office, right? He can! Maybe he's not very honest and capable, but he can still do it for a tael of silver a month!
Ma Wu is full of expectations for life.
During the period of thanks, Shence went to the spring splendid several times, and also went to the Wufang Lotus a few times. I have to go to that perfume hall every two days to take a bath, and I won't leave until I change my white towel twice and soak in hot water twice.
Xie Shence is busy every night now, he has to calculate the activity rules of the Erli people, he has to speculate on the behavior style of the Erli people, and sometimes he needs the help of Xu Luwei. As I said before, Xu Luwei didn't know much about the Erli people in Daba City, but she could help Xie Shence confirm many things and provide many clues. What surprised Xu Luwei was Xie Shence's logical thinking and associative ability, Xie Shence was able to send how much firewood to the Wufang Lotus at a time, so as to deduce that Mr. Ledger had recently started work later than in the past by an average of two quarters of an hour, and then speculated that a certain Qingqi'er in the Wufang Lotus had gone to a foreign businessman. This ability to write and scratch on hemp paper to calculate another thing from one thing made Xu Luwei envious.
Twenty days later, one day in April, the caravan of Sizhou City had all its affairs taken care of, exchanging all the silk and other goods for deeds of negotiable third parties and a large amount of cash. Then it took two more days to approve the business documents from the Yamen of Daba City, and then he was ready to set off for the return.
It was the last day of April. The weather is already very warm.
The war between Duan Bu and Wang Ting was at a stalemate at this time. In addition to leaving some people behind to prevent the surprise attack of Xi and Northern Rouran, more than 100,000 iron horsemen went south and launched the most fierce attack on Duan Xianbei. The Xianbei Yuwen Department was trying to blockade the Xing'an Mountains to defend against the Northern Yan cavalry coming from the east through the mountains. The Northwest Army of the Jin State firmly controlled the battle line on the belly of the gourd, and the Huangsha Pass and the Tonglu Pass were horns of each other, unbreakable, and bit the tens of thousands of iron horsemen in the section. In the northern frontier of the Great Jin Dynasty, Sima Bihu was in the fortress, and he didn't know how to make tens of thousands of horse bandits in Shandong disappear, and he took out his efforts to stare closely at the 100,000 iron cavalry of Fanyang in Youzhou, so that the most elite troops of the Murong clan could not move. To the west of the Great Jin Dynasty, Bai Liangyu of the Qin State was in Tongguan, and Xie Yi only brought hundreds of guards to drink and feast in Hangu Pass all day long.
The eyes of the whole world are focused on the great war between Duan Xianbei and the countries, and the four sides of the Great Jin are only peaceful in the south except for the vast sea. At this time, the Chuzhou camp held several cross-river military exercises one after another, if it were not for the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor's envoys to run fast, the Jin Emperor's edict in time, Huaiyang Dao's tens of thousands of troops would really be able to cross the moat.
At this time, in the imperial garden in the capital of Qin, the young emperor of Qin said to the three people in front of him: "What does the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty think? Tell me about it? ”
An old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face said: "Emperor Jin is taking chestnuts in the fire, and wants to level the northwest and then the north." ”
The young emperor nodded with a sparse beard on his slightly green face, and then looked at another black-robed old man and said, "How should I deal with it?" What do you think? ”
The old man in the black robe and the gold silk belt was in good spirits, and said with a smile: "The old man is just a businessman, and I can't care about these wars. I only know that the bursting of the Yellow River last year did not cause much trouble to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Even though the Jin Kingdom had been at war with Duan Xianbei for nearly two months, the price of grain had not risen much, and the increase was less than the eleventh year after the disaster in previous years. ”
Another young man sitting at the end of the seat said with a smile: "The old man of Baili still said that he is not good, which is really too modest." According to Wei Chen's meaning, I, Daqin, might as well wait. ”
Emperor Qin said: "Why did Zhang Qing say this? ”
The young man surnamed Zhang said: "The minister thinks that it is unwise to start a war with the Eastern Jin Dynasty at this time, and there are three reasons. ”