Volume 1 Chapter 193 Donation
As soon as the time turned to mid-February, the Xu family sent things over a few times after leaving Yuanxuan.
But they are all snacks and are not of much help to the soldiers.
After Yuan Xuan left, Xu Yunjin accelerated the progress of farming, so last month, the system was finally upgraded to level six.
Xu Yunjin decided to find a way to get the grain in the warehouse out and send it to the battlefield.
With the cooperation of everyone in the Xu family, Xu Yunjin finally vacated more than half of the grain in the warehouse.
She sent a letter to Yuan Xuan again, asking him to go to Dafang County to pick up Chen Sihuai and others who were going to deliver food.
Not only that, the Xu family has also bought a lot of land in the past two years, and Old Man Xu finally remembers that his hometown is still in the hands of the barbarians.
The children and grandchildren of the family are in the capital, and Yuan Xuan often writes to him, and the old man has also heard a lot about the battlefield in the north in the past few months.
Great Qi suffered a natural disaster only a few years ago, and the grain production was reduced, and Qi was virtuous and virtuous, and a lot of taxes were exempted.
Disaster relief is still often provided to the hard-hit areas, so the treasury has long been out of money, and the granaries are about to be empty.
Because the imperial court did not have much money and food, it fought for more than a year, and the border soldiers were also greatly injured.
What's more, on the other side, there is Nanyue staring at Daqi.
Some courtiers thought that they could temporarily stop fighting with the Northern Barbarians at this time, and recuperate for two years before fighting them.
But the military attache did not think so, and if they were not driven out of the territory of Daqi at this time, it would be even more difficult for them to take root in the future.
So recently, the main battle faction and the main peace faction in the DPRK and China have quarreled, Qi Ren is not a soft bun, he poisoned the old general, and now there are Yuan Xuan and two masters on the battlefield to help.
Qi Ren wanted to fight, but the money and food were really not enough, and fighting now would only cost the people and money, so he was so anxious recently that he was on fire in the winter.
Mr. Xu wanted his hometown to be recovered as soon as possible, and after thinking about it, he decided to donate tens of thousands of catties of grain from his family's fields.
Following.
The weather was just right, and Chen Sihuai led a team of people into the village.
The convoy stopped at the door of Xu's house, attracting a bunch of people to come and watch, and Xu Wu was taking a few of his subordinates to carry grain to the carriage and donkey cart.
With such a big battle of the Xu family, the people in the village couldn't ignore it, and everyone was very curious about what they wanted to do.
Xu Danian heard the movement and hurriedly ran to the door of Xu's house, and saw that Old Man Xu was directing the movement of grain, so he asked:
"Big brother, are you going to sell grain?"
"No, the war in the north is tight, and there is a shortage of food and materials, and our family doesn't have much ability, so we plan to donate the family's food stockpile, and we also spent money to buy some to add to it."
"Ho!"
As soon as Old Man Xu said this, the people in the village were shocked, so many cars came to pull it, looking at this posture, there must be at least nearly 300,000 catties of grain.
"Daqi is in trouble, our hometown is still in the hands of barbarians, how can I see those barbarians trampling on our former homeland.
At the beginning, it was a natural and man-made disaster, so we had to leave our homeland, but the south is very good, and I am thinking of our roots in my heart after all.
We can't go to the battlefield, but now that our family has money and ability, we want to do what we can for the soldiers who fought bravely on the battlefield."
Old Man Xu's words contained anger and grief, if it weren't for his old age, there would be a large family around him, otherwise he would have wanted to use a big knife to cut a few barbarians to glorify his ancestors.
"Big Brother is right, but the North is not only your hometown, but also the hometown of all of us.
As the village chief of Shuiluo Village, I am also a member of Nanyun County, and I also want to make some contributions to the soldiers."
Xu Danian was enthusiastically boiled by these words, and now everyone has savings in their hands, and they are reluctant to go to the battlefield with their children and grandchildren, so they use the money to pay for military service.
But whose children are not treasures, they are not well fed and clothed on the battlefield, and their heads are still hanging around their necks at any time, Xu Danian feels sad just thinking about it.
"Big brother, wait for me when your convoy will leave
Let Yonghe go to the town to buy grain.
Although our family does not have that much ability, we can still afford 20,000 catties of grain now."
Xu Danian's family is now the old couple at home with grandchildren, Xu Yongshan is the shopkeeper of the porcelain shop, and the monthly money is forty taels.
Xu Yunhui followed him to make a move, and the monthly salary was ten taels, as well as a sales commission.
Xu Yonghe also works as a small steward in the village workshop, and his monthly income has now risen to twenty taels, and the daughters-in-law of the two brothers are also in the tofu workshop.
So their family's monthly money adds up to more than 100 taels every month, not to mention other income, and now their family's life is unimaginable before.
"Uncle Xu, my family also donates."
"Grandpa Xu, and my family."
......
For a while, the villagers standing below all raised their hands enthusiastically, and Old Man Xu's eyes moistened when he looked at this scene.
"Okay, well, everyone has this heart, and it is not in vain that those soldiers are desperately trying to protect us, since everyone has this heart, then do what they can.
We can donate as much as we can, and if we don't have enough manpower, chariots and horses, we will look for it, and when the soldiers are fed and clothed, we will drive out those damned barbarians."
Old Man Xu saw the enthusiasm of the people in the village, and his face turned red with excitement, and he settled the matter with a wave of his big hand.
The people in the village all went home, and before noon, they discussed the process, and each family paid for it and handed it over to Xu Yonghe to buy grain.
On the same day, the grain shop in Yongding County was ransacked, and it also attracted Jiang Baiyu's attention, thinking that someone wanted to hoard grain and make trouble.
As a result, after sending someone to inquire that it was the people from Shuiluo Village who wanted to donate food to the soldiers on the battlefield in the north, Jiang Baiyu also went to Shuiluo Village in person.
Chen Sihuai's bodyguard took the path of the Zhao family this time, and Zhao Ting knew that the Xu family was going to send food.
But I didn't know that the Xu family was going to send so much, and I didn't know that Shuiluo Village had raised nearly 1,000 taels of silver to buy food with the strength of the whole village.
By the time Zhao Ting knew about this, the team delivering the grain had already set off, and Zhao Ting was grateful for the righteousness of the people of Shuiluo Village, and not only sent people and horses to escort the team transporting the grain.
He also wrote with Jiang Baiyu to ask for credit for the people of Shuiluo Village, and the saint saw that the people spontaneously supported the border war, and Longyan was happy, and he was also determined to recover the city that Daqi fell into the hands of the Northern Barbarians.
In addition, the Shengshang special gift Shuiluo Village was renamed Wanhao Village, and he also personally made the Zhongyi archway for Wanhao Village.
This memorial arch is also in the grain transported to Dafang County on that day at the entrance of the village renamed Wanhao Village, the memorial arch standing high is engraved with four big words - the village of loyalty.
Let the people who walked out of Wanhao Village be very proud, and the pride on their faces and eyes is hard to ignore, and for a time Wanhao Village has become the most famous village in Jiujiang Prefecture and even in the whole of Daqi.
And the barracks at this time.
"General Yuan Xiao is back with food! General Yuan Xiao is back with food!"
A small soldier in silver armor ran all over the barracks, informing him of the good news.
The soldiers who heard the news ran out of the barracks one after another, and the old general Xiang also personally went to the gate of the camp to greet the food that came from afar.
A sound of horses' hooves sounded from far and near, and I saw the young man who was beating his head dressed in black, compared with this season full of spring, the young man seemed to be less vigorous and lively.
"Old general, Yuan Xuan lived up to expectations, and brought back a total of more than 400,000 catties of grain this time, most of which was donated by the Xu family, and part of it was bought by the villagers of Shuiluo Village."
The young man is Yuan Xuan, who has been in the barracks for more than half a year, and he is still a little immature compared to before.
The current Yuan Xuan has experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and the aura of slaughter in his body makes him look like a young general who has experienced a hundred battles and killed countless enemies.
Even the old general Xiang had to sigh that the Yuan family was born handsome, and they were brave and resourceful at a young age, which the old general couldn't envy.
Tsk, as the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, why didn't the stupid grandson learn a little bit of Yuan Xuan's intelligence!
Xiang Zhiwu: Master, I'm not stupid!
"Okay, good, this Xu family and the people in their village are really benevolent
, no wonder he can win the favor of the Holy Lord, the Grand Master, and the Old Man Yao."
The old general stepped forward and patted Yuan Xuan on the shoulder and said, and then asked the young men who were already happy to fly to unload all the food and put it in the grain and grass room.
Although Yuan Xuan didn't like to talk and looked cold, he had a good relationship with the small soldiers in the barracks.
As soon as he spoke to the old general, everyone surrounded Yuan Xuan and asked him to talk about the Xu family and Shuiluo Village.
Old Man Zhuang and Old Man Hua had already rushed to the first carriage, which was something that the Xu family specially sent to Yuan Xuan.
Most of them were for food, and Han Qian and Ren Nian also ran to the carriage half a step behind the two, and their master must have prepared it for them.
"Old Han, your eldest grandson went to Jiujiang to study medicine is the most correct choice he has ever made."
Seeing this scene, General Xiang couldn't help but say to the Han military doctor beside him, the young man who did not change his face in the face of the hideous wound on weekdays was happily taking the burden with his name written on his face at this moment.
The smile on the young man's face was too bright, not adulterated at all, and Doctor Han couldn't help but smile when he saw it and said:
"Lord Wenle is a wonderful person, if you have the opportunity to get to know each other one day."
Because of the grain donation, the Xu family played a good leading role, and the people in Shuiluo Village benefited from it, and some businessmen and gentry also smelled the benefits.
Therefore, in the next two months, people continued to donate food and materials to the border with great fanfare, and millions of grain were collected in just a few months.
Qi Ren also gave these people rewards unsparingly, and for a while, there was a wave of comparison among the people, and everyone was comparing who got the better reward.
Of course, these people do not include the Han family.
Because the supply of medicinal materials for the entire battlefield in the north can be said to be provided by the Han family, using the best price, the kind that the Han family did not make any money at all.
This is also the confidence of the saints, and the most important thing in fighting a war is that in addition to money, food, soldiers and horses, it is medicinal materials.
The Han family has a wider cultivation area of medicinal herbs than the medicine gate, and has been responsible for providing medicinal materials to the army and the royal family for many years.
The soldiers at the border pass have food, clothing, and usefulness, and they also shoulder the expectations of the people, and their morale is at a high time.
Therefore, the old general ordered the truce to end, in the midsummer of the sixteenth year of Yongle.
The army of Daqi launched a fierce attack on the northern barbarians, threatening to drive these invaders out of the land of Daqi.