Chapter 63: War Horses and Salt
Fighting a war requires supplies.
Whether it is North Disilon, the imperial court, or the rebels, they all need supplies.
Among them, the rebels have the most difficult access to supplies.
As a material, there are a lot, such as weapons, food, war horses, and of course, salt.
It can be said that the importance of table salt is no weaker than that of the first three.
In a life-and-death battle like a war, without salt intake, you are a soft-footed shrimp, and you can only be slaughtered on the battlefield.
Qingzhou, Cangwu County, the two factions are having a meeting.
On one side, a man led by him had a sallow face, holding a folding fan in his hand, dressed as a son, and behind him, there stood a bearded guest.
On the one hand, the clothes are a little shabby, but judging from the momentum, it is a person who has fought on the battlefield, and there is still a smell of blood on his body.
"I won't say my name or anything, it's impossible for you to know my true identity anyway, I'm here to talk about business today, so I'll get straight to the point." Childe Brother Road.
Zheng Haoyi looked at Brother Gongzi carefully.
I was curious about what kind of character the other party would be in advance, but after seeing it, I was disappointed, and the whole person was overindulgent.
It's such a person, and it makes people shake their heads when they see it.
However, thinking about the importance of the matter, it is still polite on the surface.
He is the adjutant of the seven righteous divisions of the Prosperity Army and the Ziwei Army, and the things that need to be discussed by himself will naturally not be trivial.
The other party is not verbose, it is exactly what you want, and it is important to talk about business.
"Did you bring something?" Zheng Haoyi was nervous, and asked cautiously.
A pack of white lens was placed on the table.
Zheng Haoyi was immediately attracted to the eye.
Brother Childe made a gesture of please.
Zheng Haoyi took something just now, dipped it with his fingers, and put it in his mouth to taste it.
That's right, it's salt, it's refined salt.
As rebels, they are indispensable to salt, and they are also short of salt.
Compared with weapons, food, and horses, what they lacked most was salt.
If you want food, you can grab it.
The weapons and horses are gone, so you can make it simple.
But salt doesn't.
The imperial court has strict control over salt, and it is even more heavily guarded, and every time it has to go through a life-and-death battle to grab that little bit of salt.
And at this time, someone told himself that he could provide himself with salt.
This is a big deal, so that his adjutant has to make a trip himself.
Now, salt is in front of you, and it's still refined salt.
Zheng Haoyi's Adam's apple was moving violently, and after a long time, "I don't know how much salt you can provide." ”
Brother Gongzi smiled and said in an arrogant tone: "I will have as much as you want, provided that you can afford it."
How much to want, how much.
Who did he think he was?
If there is really a supply of salt all the time, I am afraid that it will not happen.
However, no matter how much we say, we have to return to a real problem.
"How are you going to sell it?"
Zheng Haoyi was ready for the other party's lion to open his mouth.
After all, salt is really important.
On the battlefield, salt is life.
As long as you can buy salt, it's worth the price.
Brother Gongzi shook his head, "I don't sell this salt." ”
Zheng Haoyi was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened, and he slapped the table, "You're playing with me." ”
is worthy of a rebel, just looking like a child can stop crying.
Brother Gongzi was not affected in the slightest, and said leisurely: "I don't sell it, my plan is to change." ”
"Change?" Zheng Haoyi didn't understand, and wondered: "What do you want to change, jewelry and jewelry?" Or is it antique calligraphy and painting? ”
As a rebel, they have plundered many of these things, and these things are indeed valuable, and they have been sold to some dignitaries.
"How can these vulgar things be what I want, I have great ambitions, I want to form a cavalry, and I will sweep him if anyone is unhappy...... Some people don't have the ability, just because they have a hat on their heads, they have to let him know who is really in charge. ”
Zheng Haoyi hesitated for a while, "Cavalry, do you want to ......?"
"That's right, I want war horses, how many war horses do you have, how much salt I will exchange, and how much I will exchange." Brother Childe's eyes were full of fanaticism.
I want a war horse.
Really speaking, in this world, in addition to Beidi Xirong, in addition to the imperial court, there are the most war horses in the hands of the prosperous army.
They are active in Guanzhou, Yuezhou.
North Di Xirong fought, and the imperial court fought.
It is true that some war horses have been captured.
Compared with jewelry and jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, war horses are even more difficult to find.
Just raising a war horse costs a lot of money.
Moreover, it's not that you can buy a war horse if you have the money.
If it weren't for the prosperity army, it would be a rebel army.
If it weren't for the perennial war between North Dixijon and the imperial court, there would be no way to get a war horse.
Does the war horse matter, of course it does.
A good cavalry is invincible.
For war horses, the prosperous army is very valuable.
Every war horse is obtained by fighting for one life after another.
What the other party wants to change is actually a war horse.
If this was some other deal, Zheng Haoyi would refuse without thinking about it.
Tradable is salt.
Salt is just as important.
Zheng Haoyi had a look of embarrassment on his face, and he wanted to ask if he could change it to something else.
Brother Gongzi raised his hand and interrupted him, "I only change the war horse, and the rest is not to be discussed, I advise you to think clearly, the same value of war horses and salt, which one has a greater effect on you, do you really raise war horses?" How many of you don't have enough to eat and need salt to save your life? ”
Zhao Haoyi's mouth opened, but he couldn't speak.
It was said in his heart.
War horses belong to high-end materials, and war horses are the strongest when they form a scale.
A single cavalry and a squad of cavalry are two concepts.
The Changsheng Army is not a regular army, there is no special training, and it uses war horses as a means of transportation.
Salt is different.
The prosperous army will uncover the uprising, but it can't survive, so it has to rebel.
Not starving to death is your most urgent and fundamental need.
Brother Gongzi didn't give much time, took the salt back from the table, and said: "I'm very busy, change it or not, give a reply, of course, I don't think you have too much time to think about it, bring the salt back early, maybe you can kill fewer people." ”
Seeing the salt being taken out, for a moment, Zhao Haoyi wanted to rob it and kidnapped Brother Gongzi.
But he didn't dare.
It's because of the bearded guest.
The man stood behind Brother Gongzi from the beginning, doing nothing and showing nothing.
But Zhao Haoyi knew that if he dared to do something out of the ordinary, he would definitely regret it.
There is no reason.
That's the intuition you develop on the battlefield.
can become an adjutant, Zhao Haoyi has the ability to make decisions.
Comparing war horses and salt, he can analyze the pros and cons.
"We agreed, and we exchanged the war horse for salt, but we can only represent the Ziwei Army, the other six divisions, and we need to ask their opinions before we can give you an answer."
The next thing is the specific plan for the war horse to exchange salt, which is to let both parties have a satisfactory price.
This is followed by the finalization of where to trade and the steps involved in the transaction.
After everyone was happy.
Zheng Haoyi: "Can you really take out so much salt?" ”
Brother Gongzi smiled arrogantly: "Since the business is done, I might as well reveal a little information to you, I handle the salt in Cangwu County, as long as this is the case." ”
I made a left-handed flip-right-hand and right-handed flip-left-handed motion.
"I'll be able to make a batch of salt, and I'm not afraid of being caught."
"You're really good." Zheng Haoyi said.
"How can this be considered big, after I have formed the cavalry, Cangwu County should change the sky, then it can be regarded as a big skill, by the way, do you need knives and armor, I can also provide it."
Zheng Haoyi narrowed his eyes, "I'll talk about this when I have a chance." ”
"Okay, I'll talk about it when I have a chance." As he spoke, Brother Gongzi left with the bearded guest, and he could be seen from a distance that he had joined a group of people.
The men were clad in clothes, but knives and armor could be seen underneath the clothes.
They can see that they are from a formal background.
Until after Brother Gongzi disappeared.
Zheng Haoyi said to himself: "In Cangwu County, how to make salt is most likely to be the county guard, but he just said that Cangwu County is going to change the sky, and the county guard is the biggest official, whose sky does he want to change?" ”
"There is another possibility, there is a Cheng family army in Cangwu County, and the salt production and sale in Cangwu County are all managed by the Cheng family army, and it is not impossible to keep it guarded and steal."
"It is rumored that the Zhongcheng family army and the county guard are not very good at dealing with each other."
"He also said that some people are incompetent, and they just point fingers because they have a hat on their heads, and they have to let him know who is really in charge."
"If it's really Cheng Jiajun, it's clear that he wants to replace the county guard."
"In Cangwu County, Cheng Jiajun can be said to cover the sky with one hand, if there are any more war horses......"
"You can wear knives and armor, and you can sell them with knives and armor...... It can only be someone from the military department, and the biggest military force in Cangwu County is the Cheng family army......"
Zheng Haoyi slapped his palms in the dark, and a spy came.
"Did you see their appearances, such as their knives and armor?"
"Tell the chief, they look just like those soldiers, the knives and armor on their bodies, I see the Cheng family's army, eight or nine are not far from ten, it is the Cheng family's army."
Everything points to Cheng Jiajun.
Isn't that too obvious.
But what if the other party is not afraid of exposure.
Come to think of it, it seems to be true.
The production and sale of salt is under its own jurisdiction, and it has an economic lifeline.
Needless to say, force is the best proof of this.
There's the economy, there's force, there's nothing to be afraid of.
The point is a little bit worse.
The bad thing is that there is no anti-heart.
If someone else thinks about this question, maybe they will think about it.
can make Zheng Haoyi think about this question, he was originally a rebel, if you ask him if he has any antipathy, you still need to ask.
In Zheng Haoyi's heart, Brother Gongzi has already drawn an equal sign with Cheng Jiajun.
It seems that everyone in the world is the same, and they all want to be opposed.
It's just that the county guard of Cangwu County is too bad, and he has such a big tiger by his side.
But that's a good thing.
If the world is in chaos, it will be the prosperous army that will benefit.
They are all rebels, of course, they will think about overthrowing the one above and sitting on the position above ten thousand people.