Chapter 488: Fighting is about money
Captain Qian held the wine glass that had been refilled by Gong Fanxing, and couldn't drink it for a long time, only looking at the liquid swaying in the cup.
"Alas, it's just that our strength is still too weak, compared with Beixin's millions of troops, our current less than 50,000 soldiers and horses is really ...... Alas! If we are strong and strong, how can our brothers be afraid of those damn Beixin people, but we have no ability, and we can't recover the mountains and rivers of our northern Guizhou on a large scale......
These words caused everyone to think deeply again, and some people became excited, and spoke incoherently with an open look, "My lord, you can take us out to do it!" ”。
"General, we are not weak now, it is better to go out, and it is a city to be able to recapture a city!"
Hehe, when it comes to recovering and seizing the city, where is it so simple?
It is easy to take it, but it is too difficult to hold on to it after recapture.
Xiao Wenye had not thought about the matter of recovering the rivers and mountains of the northern region of Great Guizhou, and he had long wanted to take a bigger step, not just stop at the activities along the Beiling Mountain Range, and after killing and destroying the enemy's small forces, he turned his head and ran away.
He also thinks day and night, how much he hopes that he has the ability to gradually regain the lost territory, occupy the next place, and protect the people to recuperate, but unfortunately due to the helplessness of reality, they have not tried to attack and occupy the city, but in the end they have to give up because of various problems such as manpower.
Since then, their battle plan has been to go out of the valley in batches to seize supplies, and at the same time, small-scale guerrilla warfare, they are all to kill the enemy and turn around and run, and they do not dare to stay outside for more at all, after all, they have few people, and there are no reinforcements, and they must not let the enemy who has ruled the north make dumplings.
After a long time, six years, except for the scouts and the eyes of the subordinates who watched the settled city outside, there was really nothing else to gain.
Looking at the excited uncles, looking at the contemplative father with a dark face, Xiao Yulou, who was in charge of the affairs of the valley, had to interrupt everyone.
"Uncles, nephews understand your feelings, but it's not that simple.
Let's fight with 50,000 horses, how can we fight head-on with the enemies who are all over Beixin today?
And what we fight is silver, and our gourd valley and other villages want to survive, and it is also silver that is burned.
Salt is eaten for silver;
Wound medicine for silver;
is the sacrificed soldiers, and the pension still needs silver;
Not to mention, the food that everyone eats in their mouths still needs silver;
Everyone dresses and eats, opens their mouths to eat and drink, the grain produced in the valley is now barely enough for everyone to eat, and the weaving cloth can barely supply the military uniforms of the soldiers, but in order to make the soldiers and the people eat and clothe themselves, we have to think of some food and cloth every time we go out, and many times if we are empty-handed, we have to buy and transport it in with money.
Everywhere has to be spent in silver, father, uncles and uncles, the silver money accumulated in our arsenal is not saved now......
Without silver, even if we are ambitious, even if Beixin is not strong, even if we have more ambitions, we will not be able to fight this battle......."
It's not that he Xiao Yulou wants to sweep everyone's interest, it's really the war that burns silver!
That's how a penny stumps a hero.
The uncles are belligerent, they want revenge, they want to recover, he can understand, but he has to pour cold water on everyone, let everyone calm down, and let everyone see the current crisis in Hulu Valley.
Having said so much, he actually hasn't said the most important thing, that is, the weapons in their hands should be replaced, after so many years of use, high-intensity and dense out of the valley to fight with the enemy, not to mention the loss of arrows, just say that the Mo knife in everyone's hand is dull......
There are also protective armor, and galloping horses, all of which are old and urgently need to be replaced, but unfortunately, they are still silver.
Don't look at the amount of silver they harvested at the beginning, don't look at how much they gain every time they go out of the mountain, but compared to the speed of loss, it is really a drop in the bucket.
It can be said that if it weren't for himself and his servants planning carefully every day and racking their brains, they would have been unable to make ends meet......
The heavy topic made everyone present feel heavy, Xiao Yuqi sat by the kang near the window in the house, listened to her ears, and thought carefully in her heart.
Her father and the uncles around her father, and even their own eldest brother, what are they thinking in their hearts, how do they want to recover the north, avenge those soldiers who died in vain, and avenge the innocent people, and how they think day and night that they want to set foot on the beasts in the north, and stand in front of the emperor of Nanqian and ask them, does Nanqian still remember these bloody soldiers and innocent people who have been abandoned in the north......
However, all these expectations and hopes have to be supported by endless money.
My eldest brother has a very good saying, fighting a war is about money.
If it weren't for that, why would those damn Beixin people invade? Isn't it all for profit?
For the dreams of her fathers, and for the poor heroes in her encyclopedia, even if they are dead, they are still trapped in the task and can't get out, Xiao Yuqi feels that she has to do something.
Isn't it just a lack of silver? She can earn it!
This thought faintly rose in her heart, Xiao Yuqi's action of pulling the food in the bowl was a little faster, and at the two tables outside, she didn't continue to listen to the conversation between her father, her uncle and her brothers, and she only thought about her own affairs.
She has a lot of money and food, since the year when she started to cultivate the gourd valley, and her father returned the money and grain he had contributed back that year, even if she has cultivated the land of the sinkhole since then, she has harvested a lot of grain, fruits and vegetables every year, and she has not thought about saying that she wants to take it out for everyone to use.
It's a pity, I don't know what my father and mother think, saying that the valley is already running, they can't always point to themselves, since the fight, their whole world has only been in and out.
The good things produced, except for the good things she rowed in and out of the boat for her family to eat, the other harvests of each season every year were all sealed in Daquan and never touched.
She's still sad about that.
The three brothers can always take turns to follow their father out to grow knowledge, but they are tightly controlled by their mother, and all kinds of homework for reading and literacy are her daily compulsory courses, and she has never been able to go out since she entered the mountain.
Where is this escapism, it is simply a prison sentence!
Every time he thought of this, Xiao Yuqi's heart was full of depression, and the strength to chew meat in his mouth couldn't help but increase by three points.
Daddy, mother, and eldest brother, they resolutely don't use their own things, and the whole thing is piled up, and now there are difficulties in the valley, so what if she takes everything out and turns it into money, and turns it into materials urgently needed in other valleys, and transports them back in the open?