Chapter 134: Qingzhou Soldiers and Horses
After the soldiers and horses of Liangshan fought Qingfeng Town, Qingzhou also got the news.
Murong Yanda has been transferred to Jiangnan after serving three years, and this fat shortage was made up by Cai Jing's henchman Xu Wenchang, Cai Jing covered the sky with one hand in the court, but he loved to accumulate money, Xu Wenchang in order to tie up Cai Jing, after he took office, he was more ruthless than Murong Yanda.
Xu Wenchang heard that the soldiers and horses of Liangshan actually came to Qingzhou, and he also beat Qingfeng Town, and hurriedly asked Qin Ming, the chief manager of the soldiers and horses, to come.
Qin Ming was invited by Murong Yanda to guard Qingzhou, and the civil officials served for three years and the military generals served for five years, so Qin Ming was still an official in Qingzhou.
Not long after, Qin Ming also came.
Hearing that Liangshan's soldiers and horses had beaten Qingfeng Town, Qin Ming was also stunned.
The shadow of the name tree of man.
In recent years, Qin Ming has rectified the soldiers and horses, making Qingzhou a rare ground in the world without grass, and he is also quite high-spirited, and when he heard where the thieves were in the past, he immediately sent troops to arrest them, but he heard that this time it was the famous Liangshan soldiers and horses, and he didn't dare to send troops indiscriminately.
After thinking about it, Qin Ming said: "Liangshan has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is not like ordinary grass cowards. I think the top priority is to find out the number of soldiers and horses in Liangshan and their intentions first, and then make a safe decision. ”
Xu Wenchang nodded and said, "What Chief Manager Qin said is true, but the Chief Manager must also be careful not to attack Liangshan suddenly and hit the city." ”
Qin Ming arched his hand and said: "Don't worry, the soldiers and horses in Qingzhou are no better than the forbidden army in other places, and it is difficult for the Liangshan thieves to attack Qingzhou." ”
Xu Wenchang was still not at ease, and told Qin Ming a few more times before letting Qin Ming go down to make arrangements.
Within two days, Qin Ming had found out about Liangshan's troops and their intentions.
It's not that Peach Blossom Mountain is not well prepared. But the news has already spread in Qingzhou.
Whenever the soldiers and horses of Liangshan went to the heavens, the people would ask them to stay, although they could not be exempted from paying taxes. But they can kill all the corrupt officials and gentry who oppress them.
Yang Zhi and the others also knew that if they didn't say that they were going to stay for a long time, the people would not dare to take the risk of redressing their grievances, otherwise they would leave for the Heavenly Way, and they would have to stay.
What's more, Yang Zhi and the others still have to recruit troops, so wherever they go, they openly declare that they will take root in Qingzhou.
The number of soldiers and horses was leaked out by some minions.
Yang Zhi didn't take it seriously, two thousand five hundred Liangshan soldiers and horses were enough to crush tens of thousands or even more forbidden troops. He was not afraid of leaking military aircraft.
The names of Yang Linggong's descendants, the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi, the tiger idiot Luda, and the tiger Wu Song also let the people of Qingzhou know the power of this Liangshan soldier and horse.
After Qin Ming learned that Liangshan only had 2,500 soldiers and horses, and was preparing to stay in Qingzhou, he came to inform Xu Wenchang.
Xu Wenchang heard that Liangshan's soldiers and horses were ready to be stationed. also frowned and said, "The Liangshan thieves wantonly killed officials and people, but they were not allowed. If the governor is unable to expel them, I will go to the court. Please ask the imperial court to send troops to exterminate this Liangshan bandits. ”
Qin Ming thought about it when he came. At the moment, he said: "In the past few years since I arrived, I have been training the forbidden army in the city, although I dare not say that I am an elite soldier in a hundred battles, but I am also proficient in training. I want to bring 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight with the Liangshan bandits for a while, and if I can't repel them, it's not too late to ask the court for reinforcements. After all, there are only 2,500 thieves in Liangshan, and there are 5,000 soldiers and horses in our city. It is inevitable that people will be criticized. ”
Xu Wenchang nodded and said, "That's what you said, but the defense of the city must also be done well." Otherwise, when the thieves break through the city, it will be a great sin. ”
Qin Ming said: "I will let the Huangdu guard the city, and I will never let the Liangshan thieves take advantage of it." ”
When Xu Wenchang heard Qin Ming say this, he was relieved.
At that moment, Qin Ming went to order troops and prepared to go on the expedition.
When Murong Yanda was in office, he vigorously supported Qin Ming in rectifying his troops and horses to guard against thieves.
There is peace in the country, and there are no thieves, which is also a political achievement.
Therefore, after Xu Wenchang took office, he also supported Qin Ming to train soldiers and horses to exterminate the rebels in the territory.
However, the stubborn diseases of the forbidden army for decades could not be cured in three years by Qin Ming, and the Qingzhou forbidden army still had some problems of empty salaries and indiligent training.
The most difficult thing to change is that the Qingzhou Forbidden Army has not gone through a big fight, the soldiers are used to the peace, and the arrest of ordinary thieves is quite active, but when they hear that they are going to fight with the soldiers and horses of Liangshan, they are a little afraid.
Liangshan soldiers and horses defeated the imperial army several times, who was willing to fight with Liangshan soldiers and horses.
The order was passed the day before, and when the troops were ordered the next day, many officers and men in the battalion were suddenly "sick" and "injured" and unable to go into battle.
Back then, when they fought Qingfeng Mountain, these forbidden soldiers staged a scene of self-harm, Qin Ming naturally knew these tricks, but he didn't expect that after a few years of training, these forbidden soldiers still couldn't get on the stage.
Straight to Qin Ming, who has a temperament like fire, he is like thunder.
However, the law does not blame the public, and he is also afraid of provoking a mutiny, so that Liangshan soldiers and horses can take the opportunity to seize the city, so he can only explain the situation to Xu Wenchang again.
Xu Wenchang heard that the forbidden army in the city was so afraid of the Liangshan bandits, and he was also so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and repeatedly asked the Liangshan bandits to attack the city, the forbidden army would not abandon the city and flee. After getting Qin Ming's affirmative reply, Xu Wenchang felt a little relieved and reported the matter of Qingzhou to the imperial court.
Qingzhou did not send troops, but Yang Zhi and others did not rest, and cleaned up all the villages and towns in Qingzhou.
A few days later, the navy also followed the seashore to Jishui.
Liangshan had already bought more than a dozen sea ships, and Ruan Xiaoer and others found a bay in Qingzhou and set up camp and began to familiarize themselves with life at sea.
Song Jiang and Hua Rong waited in Taohua Mountain for a few days, and when they saw that Qingzhou did not send troops, they and Kong Liang came to Liangshan with 600,000 pieces of gold and silver.
Yang Zhi and others harvested more than 200,000 pieces of gold and silver, in his mind, in the future, the cottage will sell spirits by sea, even if the big families in Qingzhou are hiding in the city, they can't get a lot of gold and silver, the cottage can also let the navy allocate some gold and silver, and there will be no shortage of military salaries, so Yang Zhi sent most of the gold and silver back to Liangshan.
Although they don't know the money and grain situation in Liangshan, but the cottage wants to sell spirits, it must be tight, and they hand over this amount of gold and silver.
In fact, Liangshan's money and grain are not so nervous for the time being, they hit Gaotang Prefecture and Zengtou City again, and cleaned up Lingzhou and nearby villages and towns, and there are more than one million yuan of money and grain in the cottage treasury.
If there is no major war, more than one million yuan can support the cottage for two years, but if there is a big war, the pension and reward will be a big expense.
Shi Jin and others decided to sell burnt knife wine to the Liao State, in addition to opening up financial resources, and more importantly, breaking the imperial court's blockade of Liangshan's war horses.
There are more than 7,000 war horses in Liangshan, and there is indeed no shortage of horses, but once the war starts, the loss of war horses is also very serious, and the imperial court strictly prohibits horse trafficking to Liangshan to sell horses, and if there is no channel to supplement the war horses, the Liangshan horse army will also fall into a situation of lack of horses. (To be continued......)