Chapter 230: Old Man Mogan
"As long as they are greedy, you can buy them with money for a while, and when you have brought so much silver, when will you not do it now?" I'll use his port, and I'll be done with the money! Besides, they wouldn't want Yanyun County to be occupied by Wanyan Pingqiu and them, they must hope that we useless Huaxia people would still ...... Hehehe! ”
"That's it, we are in dire need of food now, as long as they are willing to lease the port, whatever amount of silver they want! Looking back, the materials that Shi Mingtao transported can also be given to them for free, in short, old man, you can do it yourself, no matter what you do, I will support you. Xiao Chen said.
"Hehe, our silver is not blown by the wind, how can it be such a disaster, if they are fed at one time, then their appetite will not grow bigger and bigger? You don't have to worry about this, I naturally know it, old man. Chen Jisheng touched his beard and smiled.
"Alas...... It's a pity that our strength is too weak now, otherwise it would be best to give them a slap in the face and then a sweet date...... I'll go with the old man, and see that our two of us will be dizzy with these three-inch incorruptible tongues! Ye Baiqing said.
"If Bai Qing is willing to go, then I will be completely relieved." Xiao Chen was overjoyed.
"What do you call that? Feelings, I don't feel at ease with my old man? Chen Jisheng was angry again.
"I just don't worry about your old man's bones! You see that you are losing weight and are about to catch up with Xiao Ye, you are going to Ang, but don't work too hard, if you are tired and lie down, it will be a burden! Xiao Chen said.
"Even if the old man is tired to death, dig a pit and bury it, you don't need to worry about it!" Chen Jisheng said angrily.
"How can you die? What will I do with all my money if you die! "Xiao Chen and Chen Jisheng can quarrel anytime and anywhere.
"Father-in-law, the boss of the family has good intentions, he is worried about your body, look at your temper!" As a goddaughter, Liu Xiangqin knew that it was time to speak by herself.
"Am I so rare?" Chen Jisheng said.
"I'm not unfamiliar with you, you bad old man! Hurry up and go, you, the province is upset when they see you every day. Xiao Chen said.
"I only get upset when I see you every day, so I say today, why do you want to stay in the camp! If it weren't for Li Tanhua's timely departure, you would have lost your life! Chen Jisheng said loudly.
"I'm dying, I'm telling you! Okay, I'm too lazy to quarrel with you at night, I'll take this for you, it's useless for me to figure it out. Xiao Chen took out his governor's seal and handed it to Chen Jisheng.
"You should have taken it out a long time ago, what kind of treasure is a broken seal?" Chen Jisheng took it seriously, unceremoniously, and put it away directly.
With this, you can order the whole county on behalf of Governor Xiao Chen, act cheaply, and you don't have to seal any officials, Governor Qincha is a good person.
"Xiaosheng, who do you think is appropriate to follow the old man and Bai Qing over?" Xiao Chen looked at Zhuge Xiaosheng.
It must not only be given to Chen Jisheng 200 people, but at least 1,000 people.
In fact, he already has a candidate in mind, but he still needs to ask Zhuge Xiaosheng's opinion, because Zhuge Xiaosheng is now the chief general in the army.
"It's better to bother General Lin Yue, you go, and I can only rest assured if you go." Zhuge Xiaosheng thought the same as Xiao Chen.
Lin Yue is a talented general with both wisdom and bravery, and this important task can only be handed over to him.
He not only had to protect the safety of Chen Jisheng and Ye Baiqing, but also to gather the remnants of the defeated army, rearrange the defense of important cities in various states, maintain local law and order, keep the roads open, and continue to recruit and train new soldiers, and eliminate those bandits and bandits who were wandering around as much as possible......
A person who does not have a certain overall view cannot take on this important task, in fact, it is equivalent to handing over the entire rear to him.
"Obedience!" Lin Yue pondered for a moment and said, "But if you go here, you must have at least two thousand soldiers and horses to barely deal with it." ”
"Okay, I'll give you 2,000 people, in fact, 2,000 is too little, but at present, I really can't divide more troops, and the heavy cavalry and musket battalions can't give you, and the light cavalry can't either, so I can only bring the recruits who have just been recruited from Yanyun County...... However, you can pick some junior officers to take with you. ”
"Now Yanyunguan still has some hoarded grain and grass, you can bring them all, and I will give you as many mules and horses as you need, and give you twenty ballistas, as well as those craftsmen, you can also bring some of them, and you can also give you some horses, we are going to Niutou Mountain, mainly for defensive operations, and we don't need too many war horses."
Zhuge Xiaosheng had already planned everything for him.
"Thank you, General." Lin Yue said that there were no other problems.
In fact, Wu Luolan has not officially withdrawn the army yet, but Xiao Chen and the others have already begun to plan and arrange the next actions in advance, which is the awesomeness of their team.
At noon the next day, Wu Luolan arrived as promised, and she only brought two people, one was the general Qiu Muling, and the other was a hunchbacked old man with white hair, shabby clothes, wrinkled face, and a sad expression.
The old man also carried a mottled broken piano on his back, and looked like a slave.
The disparity in the identities of the two people brought by Wu Luolan made Xiao Chen and the others feel quite strange.
"This is General Qiu Muling, and this is my old man Mafu Mogan." Wu Luolan introduced Xiao Chen.
I don't know what she's bringing a groom for?
Xiao Chen had already prepared a sumptuous banquet, and since Qiu Muling was here, Zhuge Xiaosheng would naturally have to attend, which was called specification parity.
Then there is the old man Chen Jisheng, the Zhishen monk Li Tanhua, Ye Baiqing, and the general Lin Yue as accompaniment, this is the highest level of formal meeting, and no one else participated.
The old man squatted on the ground outside the tent of the Chinese army, guarding three horses, and took out a black cake that looked like dried vegetables and grains from his bosom and gnawed it with difficulty.
"Grandpa, it's too cold outside, and your dry food is too dry, right? I see you can't bite anymore, so throw it away, and I'll take you into the tent for a hot meal." "Duan Ling'er, this little girl, is kind-hearted.
"No, I have to guard the horses." Old Man Mo Gan smiled at Duan Ling'er to express his gratitude, but he also sat still and didn't move.
"Hey, who's that, Xiao Ye! Let's just talk about you! You go to the room and get me some boiled mutton, and if you have bacon, you can get some more big meat buns, and get some boiling water, and I'll eat with this old man here!" Duan Ling'er also sat in front of the old man, and she didn't feel dirty when the ground was full of dry grass.
It is said that there are only two people who can instruct Xiao Ye like this, one is Xiao Chen, and the other is her.
Xiao Ye took the food, sat down with his ass, and ate with the two of them.
Although the old man Mo Gan was very old, the amount of food was not small, but he just ate silently, did not speak, and did not raise his head.
His eating appearance is very gentle, but he has never stopped, and he chews very slowly and carefully, and he has to suck the oil in the bun on his hands, and Bai Sensen, who has gnawed a piece of sheep bone, will not put it down until there is no meat left.
Maybe only the older know how to cherish food, right?
Chapter 231: The Spirit of the Lark
"Grandpa, what kind of piano are you?" Duan Ling'er was curious about his broken piano.
"Matouqin." Mogan Road.
"Ah, can you still play it if it's so broken? We have a lot of skilled craftsmen here, so why don't I ask them to help you fix them? Duan Ling'er said.
"People are old, and the piano is naturally old, no matter how you fix it, you can't get a new one!" Mo Gan's casual words also implied a lot of life truths.
"Your Chinese language is really good, but you look like a Xian Yanren." Duan Ling'er is a little talker.
"I was originally a Xian man, but when I was young, I lived in Jiangnan in your Huaxia for a few years, and it was very beautiful, but it was not as bleak and desolate as the north."
Old man Mo Gan is actually not good at words, but in the face of such a well-behaved and lovely little girl as Duan Ling'er, he has more words.
"Jiangnan is so good, why do you want to come back?" Duan Ling'er said.
"Jiangnan is very good, but the north is my hometown, floating water, leaves fall back to the roots, this old bone will be buried in the grassland after all." Old man Mogan talks and behaves, but he doesn't look like a groom.
"But you're so old, why do you have to come out and fight with them and suffer?" Duan Ling'er really has a lot of questions.
"Life in the world, no matter where you are, is suffering, and what difference does it make when you are?" Mogan Road.
"Huh? Grandpa, what you said is so profound, I don't even understand it. Duan Ling'er said in her heart, old man, can you have a good chat?
It's like my neurotic boss.
"You'll understand when you're old." The wrinkles on Old Man Mogan's face unfolded slightly, and he looked as if he was smiling.
"Alas...... Actually, I'm stupid, I'm just afraid that when I'm so old like you, I'm still just as confused. Duan Ling'er sighed, and suddenly said, "Huh? Why didn't I see you yesterday? ”
Her thinking jumps that it is useless to have any rules, and she can say whatever she wants.
"I'm going to let the horses go, it's getting colder and colder, and the horses are going to run out of food!" The old man Mo Gan didn't care, and he answered whatever he asked.
"Grandpa, why do you think our two families have to fight?" Duan Ling'er said, "Today you come to beat me, tomorrow I will beat you, fight back and forth, so many people died, but they all died in vain." ”
Duan Ling'er is a very contradictory girl, she is the daughter of Jiangmen, so she has always been fierce and not afraid of death, and she does not blink an eye when she kills.
But she is very kind in her heart, if you let her kill jackals, tigers and leopards, fierce enemies, she will never be soft, but if you want her to kill chickens and sheep, or old women and children, then she will say nothing and can't do anything.
Originally, she hadn't thought about these things, but she had been following the boss Chen Jisheng Zhuge for a few years, and she always listened to them talk about this, and she occasionally pondered it in her little heart.
It's as if Li Wanjiang seized the world of the Han Dynasty and killed so many people, including his own family, girl, I really hate him to the bone!
But before the Han Emperor and his parents and brothers had killed a lot of people, the world of the Han Dynasty was also taken from others.
In the end, it seems that nothing has changed except for the change of dynasty, but so many soldiers and civilians have died.
Now that my brother and boss are going to rebel again, no matter whether they succeed in the future or not, many people will definitely die......
The boss is a good person, and if he is an emperor, he must be a good emperor, and he will definitely be very good to the people, but what about in the future? Will his sons and grandsons still be good emperors?
At that time, there will be rebellion, and there will be a change of dynasty, everything will start again, the tragedy will end, the cycle will be endless, and it will never end.
This kind of question cannot be thought about, and when you think about it, you will be confused.
But the boss once said that if he became the emperor, he would pacify the whole world, including the Western Regions, including the Southern Xinjiang, including the East China Sea, including the North, in short, the ends of the earth.
In this way, all will become a family, and henceforth they will live in harmony and be like brothers, and there will be no more wars.
It feels magical...... Nerves.
In short, she couldn't figure out these things, and she didn't understand them very well.
Old Man Mo Gan couldn't answer her either.
But the eyes that looked at her were very strange, as if she didn't expect this yellow-haired girl to ask such in-depth words.
"Then old man, are you willing to fight? And did you fight a war when you were younger? Duan Ling'er stepped back and asked.
"No, don't you see that I'm a hunchback? But there are also those who can't join the army to fight, and we who are ordinary people, of course we don't want to fight. Old Man Mo Gan felt that Duan Ling'er's question was becoming more and more difficult to answer.
"Actually, I originally hated you people, but then I heard from Old Man Chen that we killed people from your tribe back then, and it seems that we also killed you quite badly, so now I don't hate you very much, but if there is a fight, I will still kill you!" Duan Linger said that her position has not changed.
But many of her previous ideas were imperceptibly changed by the boss Xiao Chen......
"What's your name, little girl?" Old Man Mo Gan was already impressed by Duan Ling'er.
"My name is Duan Ling'er, the spirit of the lark." Duan Ling'er said busily.
"Well, you really sound like a lark, you know? In the legend outside, larks are messengers of peace, and whenever their call rings in the grassland, everyone will put down their swords and guns......"
Old Man Mo Gan's cloudy eyes looked at the sky, and it seemed that a lark was quietly flying in the distance.
Xiao Chen and Wu Luolan's negotiations were very smooth, perhaps because they were disturbed by She's Etu yesterday, Wu Luolan and Qiu Muling were quite sorry for Xiao Chen, so they made great concessions when they negotiated the conditions.
Or rather, they have all seen the current situation.
But at present, they can only talk about the withdrawal of Xian Xiao and the handover after their retreat, and as for the future trade between the two markets, Uloran said that it is not yet certain.
Because now her father's attitude towards her is very ambiguous, I don't know what will happen when I go back, maybe she will be relieved of her military power directly and abolish her title of prince.
She could only try her best to convince her father, but presumably this kind of thing that was extremely beneficial to both parties, her father would agree.
Wu Luolan promised to return all the people who had been plundered to Xiao Chen, as well as more than half of the property and food, which was already very rare, and Xiao Chen and the others were basically satisfied, and did not put forward other conditions even more.
Out of consideration for the current complex situation, the two sides did not sign any written treaty, but only entered into a verbal contract.
Xian people attach great importance to contracts, and once they promise, they will never go back.
The next step is to discuss the details such as the time and place of the handover, and both parties feel that the sooner the better, and it is best to complete the handover today.
Because the big guys want to act quickly, no one wants to delay too much here.