【122】Shandong Commune (3)

Yao Fan said calmly: "My subordinates are all infantry, and my reconnaissance ability is not good, I need cavalry as a scout horse to help me reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army. ”

Bai Xiaoqi nodded and said: "Since the Twist Army was surrounded and suppressed by the Huai Army and defeated, our White Horse Club has suffered a great loss of vitality, and we no longer have the strength to fight hard with the Qing Army, but our Jianghu people have clear grievances, as long as En openly speaks, I Bai Xiaoqi will never frown." ”

Yao Fan looked at Bai Xiaoqi's heroic spirit and exclaimed: "Sister-in-law Bai is really a heroine among women!" But please believe me Yao Fan, I will never use you as cannon fodder, and I don't want you to charge into battle, I really just need to explore the horse.

And I pay a high price, a cavalry to explore the horse will give 5o taels of silver a month, but I don't care about grain, grass and horses, these need to be bought and raised by yourself, as for weapons, all the knives and guns, bows and arrows, bird guns, guns, spears and black powder I captured in the Qingdao garrison camp can be given to you in the White Horse Club, and nothing will be taken! ”

Bai Xiaoqi closed his mouth in surprise: "5o taels of silver!" Why does Eun Gong give so much? Now a tael of silver is 17o yuan, although the price of grain has risen to 13o yuan a catty, but 5o taels of silver is enough to buy 65o catties of rice! ”

Yao Fan said with a smile: "It turns out that Sister-in-law Bai's arithmetic is so good, not bad, 65o catties of rice, in this disaster year, it is enough to feed 2o people." ”

"More than 2o! Mixed with wild vegetables and sweet potatoes, the porridge tastes delicious! If the sweet potato is mixed with rice to make porridge, it will not spit out sour water because of eating too much sweet potato, which is enough to feed 5o people. Bai Xiaoqi confessed very frankly, as a bandit leader who came out of a mountain bandit den like Shizhai where poor birds don't, she knew the weight of 65o catties of rice.

"Yao Dongjia, you have invested so much, do you really just need to explore the horse?" Bai Xiaoqi asked.

"Sister-in-law Bai, you have lived in my Yaojiazhuang for so long, what do you think of my Yaojiazhuang? Have you ever seen anyone who doesn't have enough to eat? Yao Fan asked rhetorically.

"Yaojiazhuang is a paradise, everyone has a job to do, eat dry, to be honest, I eat better than I in the village, although I am the owner of the White Horse Club, but I have never eaten so white rice, so white steamed buns! And the big stove is all about cooking dry rice, I often think, this is the landlord's old wealth can't eat like this every day! This is probably the emperor's life, right? Bai Xiaoqi praised.

"Sister-in-law Bai, this is not the emperor's life, this is the life that the common people should live! I, Yao Fan, rebelled, so that my compatriots of all ethnic groups in China can live this kind of life in my Yaojiazhuang! ”

Bai Xiaoqi's eyes lit up and said: "An acre of paddy field is planted with morning and evening rice, according to the fertility of the field, the yield per mu is about 1oo catties to 25o catties, even if the yield per mu is 15o catties, you can harvest 3oo catties in the morning and evening of a year, according to the threshing and grinding of seventy percent of polished rice, it is 2oo catties of good polished rice, if a family of three has 5 acres of land, you can get 1ooo catties of rice, and one person can spread more than 3oo catties, I haven't counted the imperial grain and donations." But even so, Yaojiazhuang's food is much stronger than this! Engong, if you can let everyone in the world live such a good life, then are you still worried that the heroes of the world will not come to run? ”

Yao Fan said: "The Manchu government was mediocre and exploited the people, so that the poor people in the world could never turn over, I rebelled, and distributed the fields of those landlords who did not work hard to the people, so that the cultivators had their fields."

The landlords do not work, but eat the people's fat and ointment like rice worms, such a society must be completely overthrown! ”

Bai Xiaoqi stood up and said proudly: "Engong, you just have to speak, how many horses do you want?" ”

Yao Fan said: "If you want 5o, don't hand it over to me to command, it is still under the leadership of the White Horse Club, and you are responsible for the deployment and arrangement." They don't want to rob or kill officers and soldiers, but just let me know the movements of the Qing army, and once the existing Qing army is assembled, they will immediately find out the general direction of the enemy's movement, quantity, and equipment, and Pegasus will report to me.

In this way, if the Qing army tries to attack me, I can also prepare in advance and attack the Qing army head-on. ”

Bai Xiaoqi frowned slightly: "Engong, can you really defeat a large number of Qing demons?" ”

Yao Fan's voice sounded very believable: "The elite soldiers trained by my Yao Fan are the best army against foreigners, and they can also kill like chopping melons and vegetables!" Sister-in-law Bai thinks the Qing army compares with the foreign army? ”

Bai Xiaoqi listened to Yao Fan's boast, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Since Engong said so, of course Bai Xiaoqi believes Engong!" Don't worry, I will ask Jiaxiang to go back to Shizhai today to report the news! From now on, the White Horse will immediately reconnoiter and ride out to spy on the military situation on various roads for Eun Gong. ”

"I'll give you 5oooo taels of silver right now for the first two months! The time starts now! Yao Fan spent the money unequivocally, and at the moment he had no better way to entrap the White Horse Club than silver.

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He Wannian was already very busy, in order to withdraw the guys of the Yuchun firm in the field, he used the road guide in Sun Maowen's yamen to stamp the big seal, and forged Wei Guofu's certificate letter and stamped the seal of the garrison camp, and handed it to his henchmen to go to Shanghai, Jinan, Tianjin, the three places where the branch was established, and notified the local business to immediately return to Qingdao with the money, He Wannian did not dare to say in the letter that it was a rebellion, only said that the general number lacked silver, and wanted to hold a dividend annual meeting, and limited all the semicolons to bring silver tickets to rush back. Those who fail to arrive in Qingdao on time will be demoted and severely punished, and their monthly salaries will be confiscated.

Only then did He Wannian realize why Yao Fan had repeatedly and strictly investigated and controlled the hoarding and book funds of foreign branches during this time, it turned out that he had already planned to start an incident. But even so, He Wannian calculated that the goods of these three semicolons were worth more than 100,000 taels of silver!

Compared with silver, He Wannian felt more sorry for his younger brother He Wanyou, so he specially repaired a book, asking He Wanyou to rush back to his hometown immediately, he hinted in the letter that He Wanyou, if he delayed no return, there would definitely be a disaster of death, "If the matter of Qingdao is leaked, my He family will have to worry about his life, and my brother is in Jinan, when he is in the brunt, there will be a disaster of death." He Wannian came to such a sentence at the end of the letter.

He Wannian's level of pretending to be a god and ghost is really higher than Yao Fan's, in order to hide people's eyes, he actually hung a dozen white cloths on the head of the city, and wrote a notice claiming that there was a plague in Qingdao City, and the spread was amazing.

He Wannian and Li Hainiu discussed and agreed to bury the people who were killed during the incident outside the city gate, and then set up a new mound and planted white flags, and the bamboo poles carried the filial piety high and fluttered on the new mound, which was as scary as the god of death. Even those who have relatives in Jiaozhou who are in Qingdao do not dare to enter the city when they see this scene.

Hearing that there was a plague in the city, the new travelers and merchants on the port wharf dared to enter the city, but only hastily sold goods on the wharf and purchased the Yao family goods they needed from Yaojiazhuang's office on the wharf.

Yao Fan was afraid that these migrants would be delayed here, so he ordered He Wannian to buy all their goods so that they could leave by boat as soon as possible. 9

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