The pangolin was buried by Xu Renjie, but he didn't dare to get angry, and said with a bitter face: "Brother Generalissimo, if you count it as a brother, please beg you, you can do it, give me something to eat, and the big brother said that I will accept your love and repay it in the future." ”

Xu Renjie was impatient and wanted to drive him out, but suddenly a post guard ran in from outside, handed a letter to Xu Renjie with both hands and said, "Brother Zhu sent an urgent letter, please take a look at it immediately." ”

"Oh? Is there a letter at this moment? Xu Renjie was secretly curious in his heart, and in front of the pangolin, he took the letter and unfolded it. The pangolin craned his neck and looked at the letter, but unfortunately he was illiterate at all, so it was useless to look at it.

Xu Renjie only looked at two lines and smiled, it turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had already expected that the mixed 100,000 would come to beg for food, and this letter was specially written to instruct Xu Renjie how to deal with the mixed 100,000. The letter explains in detail how to deal with the situation, and even the reasons are clear.

After Xu Renjie finished reading it, he had a number in his heart, and when he turned his head to look at the pangolin, it was like looking at a fat sheep, his eyes flashed.

The pangolin was seen by him with his hair standing on end: "Brother Generalissimo, you ...... What do you think I'm doing? ”

Xu Renjie said: "I didn't want to give you food, but our Eighth Brother Zhu is kind-hearted and wrote a letter asking me to take care of you." ”

Pangolin Daxi: "Really? ”

Xu Renjie snorted: "Bugling Zhu just loves to be a good person, alas...... Forget it, let's be brothers, naturally only the eldest brother is the first to look forward, he said to help you, then help. ”

The pangolin was overjoyed: "How much grain did Bugling Zhu promise to give us?" ”

Xu Renjie said: "Food can't be given to you directly...... Ahem, but ...... It's okay to pay for it...... The big brother of 100,000 broke through Yan'an Mansion and also robbed a lot of silver, why not use the silver to buy it from us? Our price is fair, twenty dollars a pound of taro......"

The pangolin heard this. pouted, in fact, when he sent him to beg for food, he also knew that he might not be able to get it. Why do other people's food give you in vain? So I secretly told that if I can't get it, I can buy it with money. In fact, in this year of great drought, people are not even willing to sell money, after all, grain is a strategic material, and you have to thank God for being able to buy it. He heard that he could buy it, but he was actually very happy, not to mention that twenty yuan a pound is not expensive.

He knew nothing about internal affairs, let alone arithmetic. So he asked: "Brother Generalissimo, you help me calculate, our army used to have more than 10,000 people, and since the occupation of Ting'an Mansion, many old villagers have come to vote." Now the total number has exceeded 30,000...... With 30,000 people and 30,000 mouths, how much food do I have to buy to last a year and a half? How many taels of silver do you need? You quote a price, I'll go back and ask if you can get 100,000 yuan. ”

Xu Renjie didn't bother to help him calculate this, so he casually reported: "If it is a bumper harvest year, the price of grain is low, and a person eats it a year, about two taels of silver, but now the price of grain has risen five times compared with the harvest grain, and a person has a mouth." If you don't say anything, you have to eat ten taels of silver, what about you 30,000 people...... Well...... It's almost enough to prepare 300,000 taels. ”

"Three hundred thousand taels?" The pangolin's mouth was as wide as a hat, and his jaw almost fell to the ground: "Brother Generalissimo, you are ...... Isn't it a little more expensive? ”

"Expensive? Don't buy it if you're afraid of being expensive. "Xu Renjie is a businessman, and he is a first-class level for mastering the psychology of customers. As soon as you see the pangolin's expression and eyes, you know that this price can be bitten and not loosened.

"How can this be a good ......" The pangolin turned in circles with a bitter face: "How can our army have so much money...... Is there any compromise? ”

"No, prepare the money."

"Hey......" The pangolin was so anxious that he was about to cry, and the huge man was anxious like this. It's actually quite miserable.

Xu Renjie blinked, and suddenly the tone of his words changed: "Brother Zhu actually proposed a method that can save you a lot of money, but I'm afraid you won't ......."

Pangolin Daxi: "Tell me about it? ”

Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Brother Zhu said, your army and we are both righteous soldiers, and the parents and brothers of your soldiers are the parents and brothers of our army, since they are their own parents and brothers, of course they have to borrow them to support them......

He said it around and around, and the pangolin couldn't understand it, so he jumped in a hurry.

Xu Renjie finally concluded: "You can send all the old and weak women in the army to southern Shaanxi, we are willing to take them to southern Shaanxi to support, they can be distributed to the fields here, cultivate food, and live a happy and comfortable life...... Our Bugs will take care of people. ”

When the pangolin heard this, he finally understood, and his mouth suddenly opened wide: "You guys...... Do you want to take over the old and weak women of our army to help us raise them? ”

"yes."

"What about the young man?"

Xu Renjie said: "It's a bit inappropriate for Qingzhuang to get into our territory with knives and guns, right?" We don't dare to take this. ”

The pangolin said: "In other words, only help us support the weak women, not the soldiers?" ”

"Exactly." Xu Renjie smiled: "Don't want to? ”

"This ......" the pangolin hesitated: "I...... I have to think about it. ”

In fact, for any righteous army, the old and weak women are a very troublesome problem, whether it is a big thief like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, or a small thief like 100,000, they have to take the old and weak women with them when they are wandering around, and even when they are fighting, they have to let these burdens follow behind. They themselves knew that there was no other benefit to taking these people than wasting food and slowing down the march, but they could not do without them, otherwise the army would collapse in an instant.

Someone is willing to help them carve out a plot to raise them, which is naturally good, but I am afraid that the soldiers are not willing to be separated from their families, it is terrible. Moreover, it seems that something is wrong with the families of the soldiers who have all fallen into the hands of others.

Xu Renjie seemed to see through his concerns, and added: "Don't worry, our Zhu Jun will never make any fuss about your old and weak women, and promise to just take care of them well, just like their own parents." If our two armies fight each other, Zhu Baba will also promise not to hurt half of their fingers...... What Zhu Bugling said, doesn't it count? Hum! When our Zhu Bugs debuted, they didn't know which ravine they were suffering in. ”

The pangolin scratched his head, he didn't dare to answer this question, it was better to go back and let the big brother get the idea, so he hurriedly said goodbye and went back to Yan'an to ask for his life.

As soon as this guy left, Li Panlong came out from behind the screen, his face was full of puzzlement, and he asked Xu Renjie, "What the hell is Brother Zhu doing?" What's the use of taking in a group of old, sick, and disabled people? ”

"Of course it's useful." Xu Renjie said with a smile: "First of all, this is more than 20,000 people, our Shaanxi * West is sparsely populated, and the most lacking thing for the base is the population, don't care about the old and weak women or what, the more the population, the better, although their physical strength is a little worse, but it is not a problem for the family to work together to serve an acre of soil, even if there is no land to plan, you can also weave clothes." ”

Li Panlong smiled bitterly: "It's okay not to mention this use. ”

Xu Renjie said again: "The second effect is great...... Mastering this group of old and weak women, our army is equivalent to mastering the lifeblood of 100,000 people, and we can pinch him at any time. ”

Li Panlongqi said: "Didn't you just say that you would never blackmail these old and weak women?" He learned Xu Renjie's tone just now, and said in a strange manner: "If our two armies fight each other, Zhu Bugling will also promise not to hurt half of their fingers......"

"Cut, Li Panlong, I look at you at a loss, and you are as stupid as a thief." Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Although we don't move a finger of these old and weak women, won't they move their mouths to their sons?" As long as they write a letter to their family and tell their son Zhu Ba that it is better here than 100,000 yuan, they will live a very happy life, with food, clothing, and a house...... Who do you think these soldiers who received letters from home would listen to in the end? ”

Li Panlong Khan: "You, you and Zhu Bugger are so cunning. I think, although the bastard 100,000 is stupid, but such an obvious truth, as long as he spends two nights raising his pillow to think about it, he can think of it after all, and people will not fall for it. ”

"No, that's up to him." Xu Renjie shook his head and said: "What we are doing is not a conspiracy at all, but an upright conspiracy, even if he knows that it is inappropriate to do this, but if he doesn't do it, he will starve to death, do you say he will do it or not?" ”

Li Panlong hid his face and left: "You are too insidious, I want to draw a line with you." ”

"I can't draw Luo." Xu Renjie laughed: "My wife and concubine are now living in your house, and you are in front of the thief's official, what do you say to draw a line...... By the way, aren't you also a sinister guy? Where did the energy that chased and killed Miao Mei go before? ”

A few days later, the pangolins arrived in Luochuan with 100,000 taels of silver to buy food for 10,000 people. It seems that the 10,000-strong army of 100,000 soldiers can fight, and the other 20,000 old and weak women had to be obediently sent to southern Shaanxi to let the Zhu army "take care of them."

The border line of Luochuan was suddenly lively, and the soldiers of the mixed 100,000 army came to see off their parents, wives and children, and they couldn't bear to be separated from their families, but if they didn't separate, it would be the end of the family starving to death.

"Father, Mother...... When you arrive in southern Shaanxi and settle down, please be sure to write a letter to your children to report safety......"

"Child, aren't you illiterate?"

"This ...... If you draw a circle on the letterhead, you'll be fine. ”

"the kid...... Don't cry, Brother Zhu's benevolent name is spread all over the world, and he won't treat you two badly...... You just go back to our family's old house in Pucheng and find our family's ancestral land to farm...... Although it is only one acre and seven points of land, it is the ...... that our family has passed down for seven generations" (to be continued.) )