Chapter 3, Sleepless Nights
On the one hand, let Li Yi register the people and start the team, which is divided into three hundred squads, each team has a thousand people, and a thousand people are in charge, these thousand people are all personal soldiers led by Zu Zhao, and it is also to secretly find out those bandits.
Yu Datou is a homeless person, very small, but the strength is very large, last month came to the big oyster bay, here to eat and drink is very comfortable, originally thought to take the family of the father and old to let them enjoy together, but did not expect to meet the mountain bandits here, yes the mountain bandits.
And he still knew the bandit, and that day the bandit leader rushed into their village and took a lot of girls, and killed them after ruining them.
I didn't expect to meet them here.
One night he also saw a very thin boy kill them, in order to snatch the kelp from his hand, after the killing, they took the kelp, handed it over to a merchant who was wearing silk outside, I heard that the kelp eaten by the homeless people has reached ten taels of silver a pound outside, and now the homeless people eat not kelp, but money, I heard that in many places kelp has become a luxury, because kelp can be seasoned, is a very good existence, Now it is the rich Central Plains, Shu and other middle ground kelp has begun to rise.
The big head of the fish was very afraid, he was afraid that the next time these mountain bandits would also find him and rob him of the food in his hands.
He finally saw Zu Zhao at noon, so he had the courage to kneel down with Zu Zhao, the little person has the characteristics of a small person, he knelt down to attract Zu Zhao's sympathy, and thought that he was because of family difficulties or something, picked up a quick broken silver and was going to stuff it to him, Yu Datou refused to break the silver in horror, but told Zu Zhao everything he saw, and Zu Zhao had a smile on his face.
After the identification of the big head of the fish, Zu Zhao saw a mountain bandit with a very ugly face, thinking of escaping, Zu Zhao asked people to catch it directly, beat him on the beach, and whipped it hard with a thin bamboo pole.
After interrogation, these eighteen mountain bandits learned that Lu Dao was related to Gongsun Mian, and these people were ordered by Gongsun Mian, in order to get kelp and make a fortune, and now the kelp outside has become sky-high. And Zu Zhao is only a ration here, and Zu Zhao also values the lives of the displaced people in front of him.
When the eighteen bandits were executed, they gathered all the homeless people and let them watch the eighteen bandits be beheaded, and then their bodies were thrown into the sea.
Then there is militarized management, Zu Zhao feels that the management of these homeless people can only be managed by militarized management from now on, otherwise sooner or later there will be chaos.
And the big head of the fish in front of him, in front of everyone's eyes, Zu Zhao made him a thousand-commander, this kid is also a smart and clever master, he is very good at dotting back and forth, and he came up with the idea of scooping up the small fish fry and putting them into the pond where he dug well.
Running every morning, working at noon and afternoon, but exercising various formations in the morning, all of them are the most basic formations of walking in unison, Zu Zhao wants discipline, those who do not abide by discipline are all in charge of the small black house, do not give food or drink, and feed the fish to death.
Although the formation was practiced in the morning, it did not affect the continued kelp fishing.
Zu Zhao found those burly but honest homeless people in these formations to be his own soldiers, and selected a total of 3,000 people, plus his original ghost cavalry, a total of 5,000 men and horses, and they were all elite soldiers.
At the same time, Zu Zhao also drew a new type of fishing net drawings, that is, the formation net of later generations, once the fish entered the formation net, there is absolutely no way to escape, and at the same time build a boat, build a sailboat, with the popularity of the formation net to hit more and more fish, at most a day can hit tens of thousands of catties of fish, and when Zu Zhao hung the net on the boat, the amount of fish doubled again, and the crab roe and prawns that could not be eaten began to be transported to Liaodong County, and almost every household in Liaodong County floated the fragrance of fish.
Unconsciously, a small fishing port was established, and the homeless people lived in earthen houses one after another according to Zu Zhao's design, with families living alone and families sharing a house.
The fish that can't be eaten are dried into dried fish, kelp has begun to grow in the pond, and some small fish have also grown up in the dug tidal flats, and when it rains or winds are cloudy, they go to the pond to fish, and gradually these homeless people find that it is much better here than in their hometown.
Dried fish, kelp, abalone, oysters, and seashells, which could be put into the sea to live, were all traded by Zu Zhao on the grassland, and the horses and wool on the grassland were also sent to Liaodong County.
Horses are a necessary weapon of war, but what do you need wool for?
Many people are puzzled.
Zu Zhao didn't speak either.
In the afternoon, he commanded Gong Yihong to make the spinning wheel, and then he found a young girl among the homeless people to come and tinker with the spinning wheel, and the wool became silk thread under the spinning wheel, and then into a blanket, into a cloak, and into a warm inner armor.
The girl has a pair of small hands, will be skewered, playing, spinning, weaving, tools to play with the thief, natural ingenuity, if it is not for this girl's ingenuity, Zu Zhao can not be sure that in a very short period of time can be achieved in the wrong yarn, color matching, heald, florist skills have a breakthrough.
Later, there were more trade in the grassland, such as cloaks, brightly colored clothing, and beautiful blankets, which were even more popular with the herdsmen on the grassland, and it was very comfortable to spread a blanket in the tent. And change the blanket? With wool is enough.
Even Tuoba Liuyun, a brute, also let out words on the grassland, he wants as many blankets as he wants, and the cloak can be used as military supplies, and the cavalry wears it on the body to keep out the cold is a very good existence.
Situ Yan traded around with these things, and the rest of the large amount of silver in exchange for her profits was Zu Zhao's, and for a while, Zu Zhao got millions of taels of silver from the grassland alone, and almost all of this was exchanged for the white wolf with empty gloves.
Because of the money in his hand, Situ Yan bought a large number of iron ingots from Zu Zhao's hands, refined weapons, and at the same time began to hoard wool and buy wool everywhere, the fierce horse thieves who were originally in Liaodong County no longer had time to rob, because robbery is also robbery, but they now understand a truth, that is, the wool they robbed is ready-made money, and they don't have to worry about their heads hanging on the waistband of their pants as trophies tomorrow morning.
For a while, the chickens and dogs on the grassland jumped, and they all began to comb the wool, sort it out and send it to Liaodong County.
In the huge Oyster Bay harbor, among the rows of fishing villages, women are busy defending the line, men are busy with big fish, and children are squeaking and counting a few wool bales beside them, and they are very busy.
Looking at the increasingly prosperous Oyster Bay, Zu Zhao endured it for a long time and did not change it to Dalian Bay.
Zu Zhao still gave Da Oyster Bay to militarized management, not that he was willing to do this, but all the Weaver Niang's request Layue requested, because she had been threatened and held hostage one after another, and there was a great trend to target her, to think about taking her away, and took a fancy to her textile skills, but Layue understood that it was Zu Zhao who really understood wool weaving, and she was just ingenious, she was nothing without Da Oyster Bay, especially those exquisite textile machinery, which were extremely complicated, It's not something that ordinary people can design at all.
Those beautiful cloaks, beautiful blankets, and beautiful sweaters are all made of machinery, and the human power is extremely pale in front of these machines, and people outside think that they can get all the wool weaving techniques by taking her Layue away, which is a crude idea, and anyone can operate without this big oyster bay, because everything in big oyster bay is already on the right track!
Many of the people who wandered around Oyster Bay took a fancy to the fresh trade of wool weaving, because the beautiful blanket and the beautiful sweater showed an aristocratic atmosphere both on the floor and on the body, which surprised and shocked them.
And the infinite business opportunities make them all crazy like bloodthirsty, desperately trying to find a suitable gap for them in Oyster Bay.
Zu Zhao directly turned Oyster Bay into a military camp.
Anyone who enters Oyster Bay must require his warrant, and those who break into it will not be spared.
The weaver girl in Oyster Bay is not allowed to go out casually, and she must be protected by the army when she goes out! A free market was established in Oyster Bay, and the people of Oyster Bay were encouraged to grow vegetables and raise pigs, trade freely, and the income they earned was their own.
With 50,000 people in Oyster Bay, self-sufficiency is enough.
Zu Zhao himself promulgated these things, which would make the people of Da Oyster Bay dissatisfied, but he didn't expect them to be very satisfied.
These homeless people in Da Oyster Bay seem to have a never-before-seen hatred for the outside world, because in the outside world they are just begging for food, and here they are their own masters, and some fishermen have found a textile girl as a wife, and the couple have a stable income and live a life that they dare not think of outside.
What kind of world is out there?
The existence of not even having enough to eat.
Why do you want to go to the outside world?
Only those fools go to the outside world to ask for food, where there are delicious fish, delicious prawns, delicious rice, and every month of the moon from Lord Zuzhao, that is silver, white flowers!
They are tired of the world outside, and they love the life here.
Zu Zhao now has to inspect Da Oyster Bay every night, and this place in Liaodong County is the place where he has risen to Longxing, but what is more important to them is that he wants to open up the shipping line.
Open up the sea to take Luzon, which is a two-season planting existence.
Moreover, at this time, there is an inexhaustible supply of silver mines in the Dongying country, and if the Dongying country is occupied, then another military base can be established for itself.
However, for the time being, he is just thinking, and the most important thing is that he wants to build up his own superior army now.
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Gongsun Mian has been to Liaodong County no less than ten times, he feels that he has been stunned, because as long as Zu Zhao does something, he will be red eyes like crazy staring, the kind of treasure knife refined by Zu Zhao, sharpen iron like clay, cut all the broken jade, Zu Zhao's iron ingots are sold very well in the country's major military regions, and his Gongsun family also sells iron ingots, but the quality of the iron ingots makes the blacksmith complain, because they can't use their iron ingots to make good weapons, people are more dead than people, and goods are still better than goods made by Zu Zhao, the major military regions are no longer suitable for their family to play.
Gongsun Mian once made Gongsun Du angry, thinking that it was Gongsun Mian's small belly and chicken intestines that provoked Zu Zhao, because Zu Zhao can only be a friend, not an enemy, once he becomes an enemy, this person is too terrible, you don't know his means at all.
But when Gongsun Mian saw the beautiful wool weaving, he was stunned, because he had never seen this kind of thing, and if he hadn't seen it, he thought that he didn't know how to do this kind of thing, let alone where the thing originated? How to deal with not knowing anything?
The only thing he knows is that this kind of beautiful blanket sells crazy, almost every nobleman in Tokyo City has a valuable blanket at home as a home decoration, and the blanket can resist the wind and cold at night, and that kind of sweater is sold crazy in the capital, because the sweater is worn on the girl to keep warm, the most important thing is that the girl's lines can be completely outlined, which can not only keep warm, but also show off their beauty, so that many young ladies are crazy, The main thing is to be able to make a man tie his heart to his body.
There is also that kind of cloak, that kind of colorful cloak, which was robbed as soon as it appeared on the market in Tokyo City, and the route designed by Zu Zhao started with good looks and beauty.
The first to be promoted in the Qinglou.
When the Qinglong woman walked in the winter night wearing a cloak, it undoubtedly became a landscape, but more people saw the style of the cloak, so it was slowly promoted.
For a time, it was popular among the aristocratic royal families of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and everyone was proud to wear woolen underwear.
A steady stream of silver gathered in Zu Zhao's hands.
From the first 100,000 taels of silver, to the current 1 million taels of silver a month. Such a huge amount made Zu Zhao dare not believe it, because he carefully counted, and now the annual income of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty treasury is only a few million taels of silver, which means that the annual income of his Liaodong County is the same as the annual income of the Eastern Han Dynasty, or even exceeded.
Cai Yan, as Zu Zhao's accountant, often uses his slender little hands to calculate a pen's income in the middle of the night, and every time he feels like he is dreaming.
The first time she received a hundred thousand taels of silver, she couldn't sleep all night, she had seen money, but she had never seen so much money, when Zu Zhao said that his current money could already have a fight with the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, she was almost frightened, and now she understood why Zu Zhao would not let his father Cai Yong not go to Tokyo City, because this young man did not put the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty in his eyes at all! Or that the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty is nothing compared to him!
Cai Wenji looked at the young man in front of her and didn't know why she had such an idea, but once this thought took root in her heart, she could no longer shake it.
Yes, that mediocre emperor is really not as good as the boy in front of him, almost everyone in all places in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had to starve to death, the weather was cold, earthquakes, droughts and floods were nowhere to go, and there were almost no living people, but this young man governed his Liaodong County extremely prosperous, yes, the homeless people here have no dishes on their faces, no more panic, and some are happy ruddy faces.
The entire world is still in turmoil, but here is a piece of happiness.
This is Cai Wenji's description of Liaodong County at this moment.
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When Situ Yan came to Zu Zhao again, he said something that surprised Zu Zhao: "My two younger brothers were killed by Tuoba Liuyun, a brute, they just crossed the border to buy wool, but they were discovered by Tuoba Liuyun's tribe, and in the end they did not escape the fate of being killed, Tuoba Liuyun let out a word, no one can sell the wool again, otherwise let them die!" ”
Zu Zhao was shocked, there was no wool, wool weaving and other things, it was rootless water to play out sooner or later, he still underestimated Tuoba Liuyun's mixed calf, and he actually came to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary.
"What should I do?" Situ Yan stared at the young man in front of him, this young man was obviously only sixteen or seventeen years old, but it gave her an unprecedented confidence, as long as he made a move, Tuoba Liuyun would die after all, there was no place to bury, this was the confidence that this young man gave her.
"Kill him, you will become the queen of the Xianbei clan, that's it, and your grassland will be your world in the future!" Zu Zhao spoke lightly.
"But it's very difficult, because he has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and they are all cavalry!"
Situ Yan was embarrassed. She only has 10,000 cavalry in her hands now, and it is a combination of horse thieves from all sides, and in terms of combat effectiveness, she is simply a group of scum.
"This kind of thing, you don't need many people, just kill Tuoba Liuyun, the brute, and then your Xianbei clan will fall into infighting, many people want to compete for the position of the future of the royal family, at this time you can let them have civil strife, and you will make a fortune yourself! Until you have the strength and financial resources to take the position of the royal throne, then launch it! ”
Zu Zhao smiled and spoke.
"I wonder how I can do it? Assassinate Tuoba Liuyun? He is surrounded by warriors of the Xianbei clan! Situ Yan was worried about speaking.
"I'll do this thing, you just need to take me into the grassland and sneak into the area of Tuoba Liuyun, and I will be able to make Tuoba Liuyun completely perish!"
Zu Zhao said in a deep voice, the current Situ Yan is still too light, and Tuoba Liuyun has always been his mortal enemy, this guy is staring at the fat of Liaodong County all the time, Liaodong County wants to think about long-term stability, Tuoba Liuyun must be killed, whether Situ Yan can be the royal family of the Xianbei clan, this depends on whether Situ Yan has that kind of talent.
It's just that it doesn't matter if the other party can't do it, if he can kill a Tuoba Liuyun, he can also kill a Situ Liuyun, or any Xianbei nobleman, because he is Zu Zhao.
When I came to the sand table and looked at the target, the headquarters of Tuoba Liuyun was on the grassland three thousand miles away.
And what he has to do is to run three thousand miles and kill Tuoba Liuyun.
This difficulty is not small, at least the current Youqi has not yet achieved such a war, but Zu Zhao is very confident, especially with the Mo knife in hand, there is nothing that cannot be done.
A three-thousand-mile run requires one person and two horses to ride in turn, so that a long-distance run can only be guaranteed, but in the transaction with Situ Yan, Liaodong County has nearly 10,000 war horses, and it is not a problem to maintain this number of raids.
This time, there was no support from food and grass, and what the two thousand Phantom Riders had to do was to use local materials and kill the tribe of Tuoba Liuyun to maintain their own logistical supply.