Chapter Seventy-Three: Food

In the past half month, the water bandits, the people, and the fish porridge have been accompanied by each other, which is very lively.

Several shipwrights also met in one place, took care of each other, and there was a Zhou Tai ship as an experiment, and the skills of several people rose sharply, all thanks to Lu Renjia's practice is the only criterion for testing the truth! ’。

In the south, there were many large woods, but it was easier to find wood than in the north, and with the help of the carpenters, a small dock was built.

Time flew to October, the accompanying grain had bottomed out, and the city was surrounded by all sides, and the county officials and county lieutenants inside couldn't help it: "Strong man, can you give us a bowl of fish porridge!" ”

When Lu Renjia saw the county magistrate and county lieutenant with yellow and thin faces, he was amused in his heart, and he laughed at himself, and his situation was almost true.

"Kaesong, come down and drink fish porridge!" Lu Renjia scolded with a smile.

The soldiers also shouted: "Kaejo! ”

"Kaesong!"

"Xu Yan, you go to take over Lincheng, and I'll urge Li Dan!" The food crisis is terrible, and Lu Renjia has to pay attention to it.

Lu Renjia summoned Gao Yu: "I asked you to send Jinyiwei to contact Danyang Li Dan, is there any news now?" ”

Gao Yu said excitedly: "Fortunately, the lord has already buried his back hand in Danyang, Li Dan can be regarded as extremely rich in Danyang, and he spent 10 million to buy food for the soldiers, and now he is transporting it here!" ”

Lu Renjia was happy, fortunately he arranged a back hand in Danyang, I didn't expect it to be so powerful, soap is too hot in this watery south, this is still the consequence of Li Dan cutting the original price in half, after Ji Jia was cleaned up, he became the first fan of soap, and this endless money was sent into Lu Renjia's pocket.

Li Dan took the money to exchange food for the Di family, but the Di family was very happy, afraid that Li Dan would regret it, and he also sent out the food team to help escort him.

Danyang is about 600 miles away from Lincheng, and there are many mountainous areas near Lincheng, the road is difficult, and the grain truck is very slow, so I am afraid that it will take half a month to go on like this.

Lu Renjia ordered, "Go east, and the people will settle down here, waiting for us to return west with food!" ”

"Lu Shuai, don't worry, we will do it properly for you in the rear!" At this time, the people still regarded Lu Renjia as the red sun, and they admired Lu Renjia's decision very much.

Under the leadership of Zhou Tai, Lu Renjia and Xu Yan led 10,000 elite soldiers to the east, and finally arrived near Jing County after two days.

"Owner, we haven't seen each other for almost half a year, I miss you so much!" Li Dan relied on Lu Renjia to get rid of his slave status, and relied on Lu Renjia's soap to get mixed in Danyang County.

"Good, good! Very good! Lu Renjia looked at the grain, full of joy, and was speechless with excitement.

"The owner, there are 50,000 stone of grain here, and Danyang's subordinates are still buying a large amount of grain, and they will continue to give it to the owner when the time comes!" Li Dan said.

Lu Renjia asked, "Didn't the Zhen family embarrass you?" ”

Li Dan shook his head and said viciously: "I said that I was buying military food for Tao Qian, and the Zhen family started to raise food without saying a word, but the price charged me eighty yuan for one stone, which is really hateful!" ”

"That's four million dollars, I heard that you plan to pay 10 million to buy food, and you don't have so much money to sell soap!" Lu Renjia asked suspiciously.

"Or the owner is smart, and he went south early to give us a glass statue, and the Di family was delighted, and I don't know why I spent another 20 million money to buy it, I wanted to let the next person bring it back to Shengshan Mountain, but the owner was in danger, and I took it out!" Li Dan's accent has a Jiangnan accent, and Lu Renjia hasn't tasted it for a while!

The continuous heavy rain invaded, and the river was covered with mist, and the army rarely found a place to hide from the rain.

"Count yourself faithful! This family's money is really good! Lu Renjia said.

"It's true, but the Di family has always promoted Buddhism, and many believers in Danyang worship the Di family, and the Di family doesn't pay taxes, so the wealth of the family, I don't think many Central Plains families can compare to it!" Li Dan saw the mistake of the Zhen family, and complained directly.

"Xu Yan, take 5,000 soldiers and pull them back to Lincheng in 25,000 stones! The rest of the soldiers and I are ready to take Jing County! Lu Renjia said energetically after using the food.

The grain in the south is not as sweet as in the north, but in this situation where there is no other way, they can only settle, many soldiers are dissatisfied, and when they hear that the lord is preparing to go to war, they dare not speak.

Jing County is backed by the Lujiang River and Huaishui, with sufficient water and grain, and the terrain is flat, but it is not as easy to defend as Lincheng.

After finishing the meal, Lu Renjia ordered the soldiers to rest in place and prepare for night battles, the Han army in Yuzhou already knew that Lu Renjia's army was good at night battles, so they were prepared, but there were few garrisons in the south, and now they couldn't think of Lu Renjia's eastward advance.

The southern counties are left and right, and there are many mountains and rivers, and people are attacking, so these soldiers defending the city are exhausted.

That night, the soldiers had several night battle experiences, and soon touched the head of Jing County, Dakai Jing County, in just two months, two cities in a row, which made Lu Renjia excited.

"Is the grain in Jing County the same as in Lincheng?" Lu Renjia asked.

Both left and right nodded.

Lu Renjia regretted for a while, and secretly said that after this great wilderness, there are natural disasters, "Pass the order, Jing County and Lincheng will not pay taxes, and rest with the people!" ”

"The lord is wise!"

"Okay, don't be a sycophant, Gao Yu come here, you let Jinyiwei pass the order, open the assessment in all the yellow scarves, the three places of Ye County, Lincheng, and Jing County, and the assessment content is the same as the last time in Rongshan Mountain, as long as you can write more than 100 words, you can be a gentleman, open the school widely, for a period of one month, you can solve the matter of Li Danqian!" Lu Renjia commanded.

After Li Dan got along with these Yellow Turban Army for a few days, he also followed and called the Taoist lord.

"Yes, my lord!" Gao Yu became more and more cunning, and Li Dan became more and more shrewd.

Lu Renjia said: "Half a year ago, a two-year study task was just established, and now a three-year study task is issued: students enter various colleges to study, open medical schools, and let the following civilian doctors serve as teachers; Start the college, let the veterans of the three major industries act as teachers; opened a production institute, with Zhang Niu and Zhou Laoliu as the yard, and other capable people with invention and intelligence entered as teachers after passing the selection; Open the Agricultural College, employing old farmers with rich planting experience as teachers; The military academy was opened, and the four generals were temporarily served, together with Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, as teachers. ”

Li Dan even incorporated the grain transportation team of the Zheng family and made them Jinyiwei, but if they didn't want to, they were sent to the labor reform department of the two counties.

The people of Lincheng got the grain, all of a sudden full of energy, have looked forward to the harvest of grain in the south, fortunately in September the weather is suitable, the original north of the crops, to the south actually rose gratifyingly, there is a trend of two crops.

For a time, the crowd was churning and rejoicing.

The good times did not last long, and a large number of soldiers and horses in the west were gathered, including many generals of Jiangxia County and Yuzhang County.

Black clouds covered the land of the two counties, and the west waited to report immediately, and Lu Renjia had to go to the mountain to Lincheng in order to prepare for the Han army to go west.