Chapter 500 Gathering of Troops, When the War Progresses

In the western suburbs of Suzaku City, 15,000 soldiers and horses from the first rebel division of Jialin Mansion arrived, this is not the first army to assemble outside Suzaku Dacheng, in the past two months, there have been rebel battalions composed of the army of southern Xinjiang nobles, and the rebel division has arrived.

After half a year of formation, training, these temporary patchwork, the formation of the aristocratic army has initially had combat effectiveness, but in terms of equipment, it is uneven, after all, the army is not a regular army, there is a unified supply, the soldiers and horses of the army are almost all armed by their respective nobles.

After the arrival of the first rebel division, while setting up camp, while sending people, although in essence this is a noble army, all logistics supplies are self-sufficient, but from the thousands of miles away Jialin Mansion to transfer grain and grass, during this time the consumption alone is not small, so the nobles are all out of gold and silver, ready to raise food on the spot.

Jingnan Mansion, living room, Pang Shiyuan came here in a hurry: "Huge man, please wait for a while, I have already asked the master to inform the master, and the master will be here in a while."

Pang Shiyuan nodded, picked up the tea that was sent, liáo dialed it a few times, blew a few sips, and evened out his breath, although the Pang family was dismissed from a lot of duties, but in this grain war, Pang Shiyuan became the vanguard officer who presided over this war without gunpowder, running up and down, busy and hard.

Huang Qingtian looked a little unscrupulous, he was only half asleep and was woken up, naturally he didn't have a face on his face, but when he saw Pang Shiyuan, he still said with a smile: "How is it, Brother Shiyuan, but there is any good news?"

Since that day Leng Zhuo publicly called out the board, the provocative thing came, the Huang family, Pang, Gong, and Shi led by the Huang family, of course, will not choose to stop the drums, everyone has come up, there is no reason not to fight, so the four families have made efforts, and they are also going all out to fight against the Leng and Chen families, don't you suppress the price of grain, then they will purchase on a large scale and buy your grain short, as long as the price of food finally rebounds, then they will not only not lose money, but will make a lot of money, and the Leng family, the initiator, will lose all their money.

Today is the third day of the open confrontation between the two sides, and the summer grain has begun to be harvested one after another, and this grain war has reached a critical period.

"This time, in addition to reporting the progress of the past two days to my uncle, there is another thing, that is, the rebel divisions that have been coming from southern Xinjiang have come to me one after another, and they want to purchase a batch of cheap grain from us to supply self-sufficiently."

"Oh" Huang Qingtian listened, frowned slightly, but he was thinking about it, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are almost fifty or sixty thousand nobles and soldiers from the south and north outside the city?"

"En, Jialin, Nanlin, and Xiyan have rebelled in the three prefectures one after another, and just today, a group of soldiers and horses from Jialin Mansion has arrived in the western suburbs, at least 15,000 people, and the grain and grass they bring is not much."

"Since this is the case, then let them go to the Golden Harvest Rice Store to buy, not only can they buy low-cost grain and grass, but also help us absorb a batch of grain and grass, this is not a double win"

"But in this case, will these people be pushed over there?" Pang Shiyuan was most worried about this, after all, the nobles of Southern Xinjiang were a large group of nobles, although they could not be helped in normal times, but at this time, it was a big help.

"Heh, what are you worried about, as long as you completely defeat that side this time, these people will know who is worth relying on, okay, this matter is settled, and how much grain and grass have been purchased by these ** people"

Pang Shiyuan heard this, but he had some momentum, and said: "In the past few days, through the arrangement, we have bought each other's grain on a large scale, with an average price of about two silver and twenty copper, and have placed orders of at least 10 million quintals, but the other party has eaten them all, and our people are currently receiving the grain in the other party's hands in an orderly manner."

"According to the estimation of the people we sent to investigate, the other party is running out of grain and grass in Dongluocang and successively transported, except for less than one million quintals of grain in Nanping, there are almost no reserves, and I am now asking people to continue to place orders, according to the date we set, once the other party does not have enough food within the specified period, then it will be the time for us to fight back."

"You are doing a good job, the other party must be counting on the harvest of summer grain now, depleting their grain and grass is one thing, and snatching summer grain is the most important thing"

"Bo Ye can rest assured, I have asked people to contact the local tyrants and landlords around the Suzaku Mansion, and let people spread the news that the front line is tight and the war may continue for a while, and the current price of food has fallen sharply, which is not good for them at all, so they have promised to keep the grain in their hands for a while."

"In addition, Brother Shi also started the collection of summer taxes, in previous years, silver was used instead of grain, this year we all use grain as a tax, and secretly do it, let those landowners give us grain and grass, so that the other party's summer grain in the Suzaku Mansion will be completely decided."

"What about the situation in the outer provinces?"

"It is certain that the summer harvest of Poyang Mansion and Xiaoxiang Mansion will be affected by this summer, and almost all of the food and clothing of the front-line army come from the locality, so there will hardly be surplus food in the two prefectures, and we also have a lot of influence on the side of Xiyan Mansion, and Governor Zhou is still a subordinate of the old marquis, so he will be consistent with us."

"So the Suzaku Mansion and Xiyan Mansion don't need to worry too much, everything is in our control, the only thing to worry about is Dongchang, Guangling, Shanglin Sanfu, the Nanwu County of Shanglin Mansion is the hometown of Leng Zhuo's wife, the Lu family is a wealthy family in the local area, and the influence is very strong, so Shanglin Mansion may be robbed of a lot of food by the other party, and judging from the news of our trial, the situation is not optimistic"

"The Leng family exchanged the trade volume of the Jinhe River for the benefit of Jiā, and the local tyrants and landlords in the three places sold summer grain to them, and our power was not enough influence over there, so it was difficult to control the situation, and now it seems that the only thing the Leng family can count on at this moment is the summer grain transported from here."

"However, transporting grain and grass from here to Suzaku Dacheng will take as little as five or six days, and as long as ten and a half months at most, as long as we maintain the current situation, the other party will soon fall into a situation where there is no food to pay, as long as we bite within three days of the deadline, hehe"

Huang Qingtian nodded and said, "You did a good job, but don't be careless."

"Uncle, rest assured, I have sent someone to monitor it comprehensively, and any wind and grass will be conveyed, this time, it will definitely be called the Leng family, and the Chen family will not steal the rice."

The Jiang family's business, I have to say that there are too many places in this huge Vermilion Bird City that are not yet known, for example, the Jiang family's business where Leng Zhuo lives is also an old mansion with a lot of years, and this old mansion has become Leng Zhuo's place to stay in the Vermilion Bird City.

In the compound, under the shade of the grape forest, Leng Zhuo was lying on the chaise longue, and Liang Hongy-shook the fan for Leng Zhuo on the side, although with Leng Zhuo's current strength, it is very simple to cool down, but it is a pleasure to be fanned like this and blow the wind.

"Master Hou, General Ma is here with General Lin, General Shi and General Han"

"Oh" Leng Zhuo sat up and asked the steward to summon people, not long after, Ma Chao, Lin Chong, Shi Wansui and Han Baohu rushed in, Leng Zhuo looked at Lin Chong and the three of them, and said: "Sit down, yes, yes, it has only been more than a month to reach the Earth Spirit Realm, it seems that this closure has been effective."

"It's all thanks to the Dan given by the young master, but Gui Lao said, although we have reached the realm, we still need to experience to be able to control it freely, so the three of us have calculated it, and we will come to the young master to listen to the instructions and see if we can do what we can do."

"You came just in time, now is the time to employ people, the three of you choose one of the newly recruited baggage camps, and get familiar with them for the time being, by the way, why are the three of you coming?"

From March to June, Leng Zhuo summoned four times in succession, summoning nine generals, even if the last two summons were still in retreat, what about the three people who were summoned before these three?

Lin Chong stepped forward and said: "Hui Lord, Niu Gao, and Yang Zaixing left the Weeping Blood Castle half a month ago, I heard that it seems that they went out to practice with the Yang family Shilang, Wulang, Liulang, and Qilang, and wanted to conflict the realm with battle."

"Oh, did they say where they went?" Leng Zhuo frowned slightly, although the simple use of Dan to break through the realm has some impact on future promotion, but the impact is not so great, not to mention that they don't necessarily need the strength of the world's unparalleled, the biggest ability of a famous general is to command thousands of troops, lies in their strategy, overall situation, control, of course, their own strength is naturally better.

"It seems that I heard that I went to Xiaoxiang Psychic Academy, but I don't know the specifics."

"Oh, what about that Di Qing?"

"He seems to be going out alone, and he is also planning to find his way out of the realm, as for where to go, he didn't say"

Leng Zhuo sighed, but he didn't ask, after all, even if these generals leave, they will come back, and each military general has his own way, so there is no need to stay around.

"I know, I'll let Ma Chao take you to Nanping, and let the two military advisors arrange your position" Leng Zhuo waved his hand, and the four generals saluted Leng Zhuo and said goodbye.

The four of them hadn't been gone for long, but Liu Bowen, who was sitting in the Golden Harvest Rice Shop, came in a hurry and said to Leng Zhuo: "Young master, something seems to have gone wrong."

As soon as Leng Zhuo lay down, he sat up again: "Oh, what's going on, take a sip of tea first and then speak slowly." Leng Zhuo said and handed over a cup of herbal tea.

Liu Bowen served the tea, but it was nothing more than a Confucian demeanor, he drank it and took a breath, and then said: "Just now, a few people wearing the emblems of the noble family came to our rice shop, saying that they wanted to purchase a batch of military rations, the amount added up to almost 100,000 quintals, and the other party wanted it very urgently, and asked us to reduce the price."

"Oh, did you ask where they came from?" Leng Zhuo asked.

"Well, the other party is the first and second rebel divisions from Jialin Mansion, and there is also a brigade, almost more than 30,000 people, I also asked people to inquire, these people have been to the official office to ask for grain and grass before, but I heard that we have cheap grain to sell here, so I came here."

"Hehe, some people say that eighty percent is the instruction of the people on the Huang family's side, and some people help them absorb the grain from our side, they are naturally eager to do it, 100,000 quintals, say no more, say less and no less"

"What the young master means"

"Eat it, as for the price, you look at what their base price is, these nobles are also worth wooing, if we establish a relationship, can we also contract their logistics supplies in the future" Leng Zhuo has a big plan, the Huang family pushed people over like this, Leng Zhuo naturally smiled.

"But the grain and grass we have stored in Dongluocang have been exhausted, and the remaining grain and grass in our hands are still a little laborious to support the existing orders?"

"Don't worry, a batch of grain and grass will arrive tomorrow, which is enough to alleviate it," Leng Zhuo said without worrying at all. f@。