Chapter Seventy-Five: War Money
"Zhujiazhuang is broken like this?"
Watching the suspension bridge in Zhujiazhuang slowly put down, Luda was quite uncomfortable with a punch.
Shi Jin said with a smile: "Hundreds of thousands of dollars are not white-haired, and a few of the people in the village are willing to work hard for their family and us." ”
Ruda shook his head and said, "Since I left Kansai, I haven't killed him once." The people do not fight with us, and the officers and soldiers are not in any help. If the soldiers and horses in Guanxi were also the same as those in Shandong, the Western Xia people would have destroyed the Great Song Dynasty long ago. ”
Shi Jin also said: "The Western Army is the only soldier left in the Great Song Dynasty." ”
As he spoke, the drawbridge had been lowered.
Zhu Chaofeng walked out alone.
Yang Lin said: "It's Zhu Chaofeng, my brother will wait for me to go up and ask where Zhu Hu is?" ”
Shi Jin nodded, and said to Yang Chun on the side: "You lead your troops to patrol the Zhuang Sentinel, and take advantage of the chaos to kill without forgiveness." ”
"Yes."
Yang Chun answered, and took his subordinates to the village.
Yang Lin beat his horse and walked up to Zhu Chaofeng and shouted, "What about Zhu Hu? ”
Zhu Chaofeng dared to shake the majesty of being an official again, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The good man forgives the sin, the son of the evil still doesn't know the crime, and he escaped on horseback." ”
Yang Lin glared at Zhu Chaofeng, turned his horse back, and reported: "Zhu Hu's guy may have escaped through the back door." ”
Shi Jin said with a smile: "The back door is guarded by Brother Zhu Gui, and he can't escape." Let's go into the village. ”
After Zhu Chaofeng saw Yang Lin turn his horse back, he stood there a little helplessly, and when he saw the leader of Liangshan leading the troops over, he hurriedly saluted.
Shi Jin reined in his horse and looked at this official who had been a governor of the state, his face was full of fear and flattery at this time, how could he still have the majesty of the princes of a county.
Zhu Chaofeng bent down and bowed his head, not daring to look at the lord of Liangshan.
The last time he was so humble was when he met the official family in the Jinluan Palace in high school, and after entering the official career, he knew that the Great Song Dynasty was really an official family and a scholar, and he didn't have to be so in awe of the official family when he was born in Jinshi. Even if there is a big sin, there is an ancestral family law, and the official family cannot kill him, but can only exile him, so his courage is getting bigger and bigger.
Every time you go to a place, you have to scrape several layers of ground.
When he returned home two years ago, he only thought that he could leave a mountain of gold for his children and grandchildren.
I didn't expect that there were people in this world who did the right thing for heaven.
Isn't this a dog meddling with a mouse?
Like today, what heaven, what Tao.
Although he felt that he was wronged, he didn't dare to show it on his face.
Shi Jin glanced at Zhu Chaofeng a few times, and said: "You are a person who understands current affairs, I will give you a decent way to die, and take us to your mansion." ”
"Thank you, heroes, please come in."
Zhu Chao thanked Shi Jin, and then led everyone into the village in front of the side.
He doesn't beg the Liangshan heroes to let him go now, he only asks these Liangshan heroes not to embarrass his grandson, and not to break the queen of the Zhu family.
As for those female dependents who usually bully people, whether they were scolded by the cane or taken to Liangshan to be prostitutes, he couldn't control much.
Fortunately, his grandchildren are young, and at most they are naughty and mischievous, and they have never done anything wrong.
According to Liangshan's rules, they are not guilty.
Zhujiazhuang is only more than 100 miles away from Liangshan, and the people in the village have heard about Liangshan doing the way for the sky, so there is no chaos in the village, and the Zhuang Ding who escaped from the village wall also fled home, and no one dared to take the opportunity to make trouble.
As soon as everyone entered the village, Yang Zhi caught up from behind.
When Luda saw Yang Zhi coming up, he asked, "Did my brother catch that guy?" ”
Yang Zhi said with a smile: "I caught it, let the tanma escort back to the camp." ”
Everyone laughed and came to Zhu Chaofeng's house.
The people in the village in the courtyard have all fled back to their homes, and only some people who have nowhere to go are waiting anxiously for the arrival of the heroes of Liangshan in the front yard.
Shi Jin and several leaders entered the Zhuangzi and saw many subordinates standing in the courtyard, so they asked these people to go to the threshing floor in the village first, and at the same time asked the people in the village to go to the threshing floor.
Zhu Chaofeng invited Shi Jin, Luda, Yang Lin, Shi Yong, and Li Zhong into the front hall.
Shi Jin was also not polite, and sat in the main seat in the middle, and Luda, Yang Zhi, Yang Lin, Shi Yong, and Li Zhong sat in the guest seats on both sides.
Everyone sat down, Shi Jin looked at Zhu Chaofeng standing in the hall, and said, "How much food do you have at home?" ”
Zhu Chaofeng did not hesitate, and said: "12,000 taels of gold, 160,000 taels of silver, and some scattered silver coins are less than 10,000 yuan, and the grain is more than 100,000 stones." ”
Luda glared at Zhu Chaofeng and said, "How much?" ”
Zhu Chaofeng looked at Luda with raised eyebrows, and hurriedly accompanied him and said carefully: "It's really only these, the leader can let people search, if I still hide the silver, I won't have to die." ”
Ruda shouted, "You dog officer, who will have more money than you?" ”
Grass Kou who didn't know anything!
Only then did Zhu Chaofeng know that Luda was surprised that he had a lot of silver, and he slandered in his heart, but he said respectfully on his face: "There are a lot of millions of people in Tokyo and Jiangnan, and I am not very rich. And my family was a big family earlier, and not all of them were greedy for me. ”
Yang Zhi once went to Jiangnan to escort Hua Shigang, and nodded when he heard this: "What he said is right, Jiangnan is more rich." In the early years, a Jiangnan child went to Tokyo to play, in order to show off his wealth, he once invited all the drinkers to eat a night in Fanlou, spending tens of thousands of yuan, which shows that Jiangnan is rich. ”
Ruda smacked his tongue and said, "Is there really such a loser?" ”
Yang Zhi said with a smile: "Everyone in Tokyo knows about this matter, if you go and ask Lin Jiaotou, he said that he doesn't know more extravagant people." ”
Luda shook his head and said: "The Sprinkle family asks those losers what they do, if you want to talk about luxury, there must be no one more extravagant than Da Lang." ”
Yang Lin said with a smile: "What Brother Luda said is that if you want to talk about generosity, you have to say brother." ”
When Shi Jin heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "I take it from the people and use it for the people, it's not worth mentioning." ”
After speaking, he said to Zhu Chaofeng: "What are you doing with accumulating 100,000 stone grain?" ”
In the Water Margin, Song Jiang seized 500,000 stone grain after breaking Zhujiazhuang.
In this era, there was a shortage of oil and water, and a strong man could eat two liters of rice a day, which was only more than seven stones a year, and 100,000 stones were enough for more than 10,000 strong men to eat for a year.
Everyone also looked at Zhu Chaofeng curiously, it is not uncommon for a big grain merchant to have 100,000 stones of grain in stock, but it is rare for him to save so much grain in a large rural household.
Zhu Chaofeng said with some embarrassment: "I heard the news that Tong Guan is going to use troops against Western Xia again, and this time the time to use troops may be very long, so I bought some grain and grass." ”
It turned out to be war money.
This Zhu Chaofeng has some vision.
As soon as the war begins, the price of grain and grass will inevitably rise.
The war horses of the Song Dynasty mainly came from the tea and horse market in the west, and as soon as the war with the Western Xia started, the tea and horse market may also be greatly affected, and the price of war horses may increase more than grain.
But now that the war money is cheaper for him, Shi Jin said excitedly: "How many war horses did you buy in the village?" ”
"More than seven hundred."
Yang Zhi heard these many war horses, and said in surprise: "Now my horse army has fallen." ”