Chapter 169: To each according to his needs
"As the king said, I will definitely present your majesty when we have the opportunity." Liang Xiao interrupted Wang Xing's words, unwilling to listen to him flickering any further.
Wang Xing also knew each other very well, and since Liang Xiao had agreed to forward their opinions to the Son of Heaven, he would no longer be verbose.
Although he only agreed to an empty word, Liang Xiao was unceremonious. It is easy to say that their opinions are presented to the Son of Heaven, but they are a big favor. Don't look at them calling for wind and rain in Wu County, they seem to be a strong party, but it is not so easy to see the Son of Heaven, and they may not have a chance in their lifetime.
He helped them with this, so naturally he had to ask for some benefits, otherwise he would not lose money. It is not easy for the officials to go on a business trip, and they have to get some benefits.
Liang Xiao vaguely revealed what he meant. Wang Xing immediately understood, and promised to prepare a generous gift for the Lang officials when they left. Liang Xiao nodded with satisfaction. "There's one more thing to trouble Wang Jun."
"Liang Jun, please speak."
"Arrange for a craftsman to make a pair of shoes and stirrups for each of our horses. If there is leather or wood work in it, ask them to trim the saddle for us. I can provide you with drawings of all kinds of utensils. ”
Wang Xing and Wu Qianqiu exchanged a look. Wu Qianqiu gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement. Liang Xiao and the others have more than a dozen horses, which is a lot of money. Especially iron, the Wu family's iron was all bought from Xuzhou at a high price, if it wasn't for the fear of being attacked by Minyue, he wouldn't have let Liang Xiao and others enter Fuboli.
Li Jiao tugged at Liang Xiao's sleeve. "Ah Xiao, what are the shoes and stirrups you are talking about? Our saddle is so good, why mend it? ”
Liang Xiao said in a low voice: "You want to do anything other than riding and shooting." Can you still have the ability to fight in close quarters on horseback? ”
Li Jiao was stunned: "What did you say?" ”
Liang Xiao patted Li Jiao's shoulder. "I came up with a solution. Maybe you can let the brothers have a halberd charge. The ability to kill opponents at close range. ”
Li Jiao sneered and dismissed. "How is this possible, it is not easy to mount and shoot, and charging with a halberd is not something that ordinary people can do. If you really want to be like you said, everyone can charge with a halberd, then wouldn't we all become the overlords of Chu, as long as there are 8,000 soldiers who can run rampant in the world. ”
Liang Xiao's heart moved.
He has always been reluctant to be too shocking and be sent to drink talisman water as a demon. Therefore, in addition to the specious one-pendulum periodic law, he hardly advanced the science and technology of the world, and tried his best to make himself look like an ordinary Han Dynasty teenager. Of course, he can do stirrups, saddles and other necessary artifacts for crossing, but under the guidance of this kind of thinking, he has always refused to do it, because he is afraid that the explanation will not be clear and arouse people's suspicions.
He decided to do it now because he found that without these things, he wanted to improve his riding skills in the short term. It is almost impossible to reach the same level as Li Jiao and others. The siege of Fupoli was lifted. The battle in Wu County is not over yet, and he doesn't want to fall off his horse and die because of his poor riding skills, ending his life of traversing. For the sake of a small life, I can't care so much.
Of course, how to explain that nature is free of loopholes has become a headache for him.
Li Jiao's words reminded him that the Han people may not be as sensitive as him, and that they may be more receptive to new things than he imagined. What's more, he has a very good excuse - ancient books.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a ban on books by Qin Shi Huang, and then a large number of ancient books were destroyed in a war that lasted for many years.
Who knows what the wooden kite that flies in the sky for three days does not fall?
Compared to this wooden kite, stirrups and saddles are considered hair.
Who can tell why Xiang Yu, who grew up in Wu and was the main force of Jiangdong's disciples, suddenly had 30,000 cavalry?
After knowing that Huan Chu, Zhong Liqi and others might be Xiang Yu's old ministry like Zheng at that time, he suspected that the art of war dictated to him by Huan Yuan was related to Xiang Yu. Later, after a conversation with Liu Ling, he learned that this art of war was not complete, and a large part of it was missing, and even Huan Yuan himself did not know. If one or two of these broken art of war inspired him to invent these things, wouldn't it be normal?
I was too careful, a little too cautious.
Liang Xiao smiled, his eyebrows raised slightly: "Or...... Gambling on the host? ”
Seeing Liang Xiao like this, Li Jiao immediately felt weak. Last time, he lost a green horse in his most confident archery, and he is still distressed. Gambling with Liang Xiao again, I don't know what I will lose.
"Then forget it, I'm afraid you can't afford to lose." After Li Jiao finished speaking, without waiting for Liang Xiao to answer, he turned his head and left.
The Lang officials laughed, two Lang officials stepped forward and dragged Li Jiao, and joked with him, several people laughed, you stabbed me, I scratched you, people in their twenties and almost thirty years old are not in shape like underage children, and Liang Xiao is really drunk.
Liang Xiao and Wang Xing walked to the side, found two blacksmiths, and drew a sketch on the ground to explain their intentions. Whether it was stirrups or shoes, it was not complicated, and as soon as he said it, the blacksmith understood, and there was not even a hint of surprise. Perhaps, in their opinion, these things are very common in the Central Plains.
Wang Xing then found carpenters and leathermen, and Liang Xiao explained to them the usefulness of the Takahashi saddle, and these craftsmen understood Liang Xiao's meaning without much effort, and they all promised, and turned to prepare.
Everything was arranged, Wang Xing looked at no one around, and quietly said to Liang Xiao: "I have already sent someone to find Lord Huainan Weng, whether I can find it, I don't dare to say yet." However, when Lord Huainan Weng travels, I'm afraid he won't be able to bring many people, so with them, can he intercept Minyue's fleet?
"Of course not. Therefore, it also needs a heroic player like Wu Jun to work together to take revenge on blood hatred. ”
"What does Liang Jun mean is to let the people of Wu County organize spontaneously?"
Liang Xiao smiled. He said intentionally or unintentionally: "When Minyue came, it was the end of summer, and there was still a lot of water in Songjiang, but now it is early winter, and the water is already a lot shallow. They returned with a full load, and the draft was deeper, and if there were any more stakes, stones, chains, and the like, it would not have been so easy for them to escape with a boat full of loot. When they are trapped in the river, they can't take care of the end and the end, and then they won't fight with us? ”
Wang Xing suddenly realized, made a look of admiration, and raised his thumb. "Liang Jun is clever."
Liang Xiao smiled knowingly: "It's still Wang Jun who is good at planning, I'm just helping you improve it." I think Lord Yan will also approve of this plan. After all, he didn't want to delay it for too long, and he also wanted to teach the thief a lesson. ”
Wang Xing laughed.
Liang Xiao also smiled, but scolded Wang Xing's eighteenth generation ancestor in his heart. This scholar is so bad that he wanted to take advantage of him from the beginning. If he hadn't been vigilant and had a straight intestine like Li Jiao and others, he would have been sold to the point that he wouldn't even have any bones left.
Two days later, stirrups and other things were almost ready, and Li Shuyun also rushed to Fuboli with Yan Suke's order.
Yan Zhu was already in a hurry.
Knowing that Liang Xiao shot Jing Tian and captured the two brothers and sisters of Zhengfang and Zhenger, Yan Zhu was very satisfied. He waited for Liang Xiao to shoot Jing Zhao or Yu Shan and relieve the siege of Wu County. But he waited for a few days and never heard anything more. It wasn't until Wang Xing sent someone back that he knew that Liang Xiao and the others were resting in Fubo.
Yan Zhu ordered Liang Xiao and others to take quick action to shoot and kill a few more Minyue generals, shake the hearts of the Minyue army, and relieve the siege of Wuxian as soon as possible.
Liang Xiao was very uninterested in Yan Zhu.
To put it lightly, eat a lamp grass, you think it is so easy to shoot the enemy general. Jing Tian still knows that if he hides in the camp and doesn't come out, Jing Zhao and Yu Shan will run around like Zheng Er? Which general is not to call forward and hug when traveling, and no one should be close within a hundred steps. Do you think I'm holding a sniper or a missile? Lao Tzu took a bow with a range of no more than 100 paces, alas, and was surrounded by people before he could enter the range.
However, Liang Xiao didn't say anything, he knew that Yan Zhu was not interested in him now. Without Yan Zhu's consent, he exchanged the Zheng brothers and sisters for Li Jiao, and got Li Jiao's gratitude, but Yan Zhu and the Li family father and son formed a bond, and I don't know how to tear it in the future. With Li Guang's temper, how could he gently expose this matter, and the trouble of finding Yan Zhu was almost a sure thing.
It is estimated that Yan Zhu has the heart to kill him now. Of course, it's just a matter of thinking. With the current situation, before returning to Beijing, Yan Zhu had nothing to do with him, and after returning to Beijing...... I guess there's not much that can be done.
will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected, not to mention that Yan Zhu is not a king. Liang Xiao decided to follow his own path. He discussed with Li Jiao, Wei Qing and others and decided to attack again. Unlike last time, this time they did not have a specific task and were more relaxed.
Wang Xing walked with Liang Xiao and others and left Fuboli together. He wanted to go back to Wu County to ask Yan Zhu and Dou Taishou for instructions, and mobilize the wealthy families of Wu County to participate in the war. The overall economic development of Wu County is not as good as that of the Central Plains, but the strength of the wealthy families should not be underestimated, most of them are after the Six Kingdoms, operating in Wu for sixty or seventy years, and there are many servants and private soldiers at home, if they can be assembled, it is also a considerable force.
In fact, these heroes have long been assembled, but they are only officially authorized by the government, they dare not make a big show, and they lack unified scheduling, so they can only stick to their homes and have no unified action. Now that the time for a counterattack is coming, of course they want to join forces and fight hard to get back what the Minyue people have stolen.
In the case that the imperial court sent an envoy, Yan Zhu was the best authorized person, but unfortunately their relationship with Yan Zhu was not harmonious enough, and they were unwilling to bow to Yan Zhu. Wang Xing has gone around so many circles, just hoping that Liang Xiao and others will appear, make suggestions to Yan Zhu, and give them authorization.
And Liang Xiao also has this intention. He and Yan Zhu don't deal with each other very much, and they need to have a force outside the government to help them seize the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
The two of them take what they need, and naturally hit it off-
(To be continued......)