Chapter 195: Consolidating Taihang Mountain (2)
Someone came with two guns, not someone else. It was in Dongping Mansion that he lost the competition with Wu Song, and Dong Ping, the double robber who ran away in a negative mood.
It turned out that Dong Ping ran away in a negative mood for a while, and he didn't think about where to go. It's just that he believed in the reins and walked aimlessly for a few hours.
It was late at night, and people were sleepy. I had to dismount and let the horses graze freely on the side of the road. He fell asleep in the grass beside the run, and the next day a pang of hunger came to him, and he got up to find his mount, got back on his horse, and went north along the avenue.
Both of his parents are dead and he is homeless. Relying on his martial arts and the recommendation of a senior, he finally found a birth in Dongping Mansion.
Now that he has run away in a negative mood, he has no face to return to Dongping Mansion. So where do you go to settle down?
He thought about it, and finally remembered that there was a relative and friend in the Dong family who was in charge of the capital under the Hebei Road system, so he decided to go to that relative and friend.
After arriving there, it happened that the head of the Dingzhou soldiers and horses died of illness, and his uncle knew that he had a good martial arts, and he was originally born as an officer. recommended him to his boss to be the commander of the soldiers and horses. Dingzhou is located on the border of the Liao and Song Dynasties, and has more soldiers and horses than Dongping Mansion, and the military rank of his military attache is one level higher than the original.
After the incident in Dongping Mansion, he seemed to have grown up a few years old, and knew that he would no longer be able to act rashly in the future, this is the border pass, and there will be wars in the future, as long as he has made military merits, he can be promoted.
Therefore, after he came here, he trained people every day. Under his supervision, the officers and men in Dingzhou had a new atmosphere......
Because Dong Ping wants to climb up, he always works hard to complete the affairs assigned by his boss and strives to do it well.
Ten days ago, after he and Taishou received a notice at the same time to set up a card to check the grain, according to his meaning, they would lead troops to guard the official road and strictly inspect it.
But Taishou resolutely disagreed, emphasizing: "If the water is clear, there will be no fish, too strict, no caravan passing through Dingzhou, not only will it cause a shortage of materials in Dingzhou, but you will also not receive a penny of benefits." In this way, you can't even pay a penny for your brother's hard work, why do you want everyone to work so hard to follow you out? ”
The two have the same rank, but Taishou is a civil official, the Great Song Dynasty uses literature to control the military, Dong Ping does not dare to confront Taishou in person, so he has to think of another way.
On the one hand, he sent people to secretly monitor the checkpoint, and on the other hand, he sent people to report the situation in Dingzhou to the envoys. On this day, as soon as he received an order from the Ministry of Preparation, he received a report from his subordinates that Taishou had released a huge convoy of thousands of vehicles to the north.
Therefore, he immediately ordered his troops and horses and galloped all the way.
Jiang Taishou saw that Dong Ping was arriving with people, so he didn't leave immediately.
After Dong Ping got off the horse, he bowed his hand to Taishou and said, "My lord, there is an order to go to the peak." Let the lowly lead the troops to strictly guard the checkpoint, this is an order, please look at it. ”
Jiang Wenbo said: "Since it is an order from the top, this official will abide by it, and from tomorrow, General Dong will lead the troops to guard the card." ”
"But why didn't the adults stop the chariot and horses that had just passed?"
"Take a closer look? Do you know whose caravan it is? It was the Eighth Prince's family. This official doesn't want to touch that moldy head, I don't believe you can lead the troops to try it. ”
At this moment when the two were talking, five hundred cavalry had already arrived.
Dong Ping saw that such an opportunity to make meritorious contributions was missed like this, and he was really unwilling. But when he heard that it was the caravan of the Eighth Prince's family, he really didn't have the courage to tear his face to force him to stay. Just watching the caravan drive north with a sky full of dust......
After the Jiangnan fleet arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, Lu Junyi took people to greet him at the wharf, and after welcoming Qian Xiaobo and others ashore, he told everyone that Dingzhou and other places in the north were set up and grain was not allowed to go north.
As soon as everyone summed up, they had to go to the northwest and Shanxi in batches of the carriage carrying grain, and someone stopped the car to check it, saying that it was grain for the Taiyuan Zhongjia army. At the same time, the flying pigeon passed the book and asked Xiao Zhongshuai to send troops to answer on the way.
The two brothers of the Zhong family have received the news of Zhao Chongyang's establishment of a country overseas, although the two have not clearly stated their allegiance to Zhao Chongyang, but for Zhao Chongyang and his subordinates, as long as they can do it, they will respond to their requests.
The 100,000 stone grain was too conspicuous, but under the banner of the Taiyuan Zhongjia Army, the new daimyo did not dare to forcibly send someone to detain the grain on the ship.
It was divided into ten batches before the grain was transported. Lu Junyi said to Qian Xiaobo: "Fortunately, Shandong's 50,000 stone grains passed through Dingzhou safely, and we had to detour more than 2,000 miles from Shanxi to arrive in Yangjiaping after a month and a half. ”
Qian Xiaobo said: "Our follow-up grain in Jiangnan can be transported to Xinyang by ship, and the grain from Xinyang in Huaixi can be transported to Shanxi. This would save hundreds of miles. ”
Regarding Qian Xiaobo's proposal, Lu Junyi agreed. They had no idea that their Dasheng King had arrived in Nanjing at this time. With Zhao Chongyang, the king of Dasheng, all the problems of grain transportation can be solved through the system......
Dai Zong used the magic of divine action, and in half a month, he took Zhao Chongyang, the king of Dasheng, from Da Nang to the headquarters of Nanjing Wantong Chamber of Commerce.
Zhao Chongyang stayed here for two hours, and learned that now the Song Dynasty has launched a blockade on Taihang Mountain, some time ago it was a food embargo, and during this time, refugees were only allowed to enter and not go out, in order to be afraid that when Taihang Mountain was not enough food, Yang Huaiyu and others drove the refugees out of Taishan District.
After listening to the situation report of Wang Zhennan and others, Zhao Chongyang smiled in his heart: Lao Tzu transported more than one million stones of grain to Taihang Mountain, you will increase the number of refugees to one million, and we will not have a food shortage.
That night, the 400,000 stone grain stored in the Nanjing warehouse was cleared and all loaded into the system warehouse. In order to save physical strength and restore their spirits, the two took a boat north to Yangzhou.
There are still 500,000 stone grain in Yangzhou, and after Zhao Chongyang arrived, he didn't alarm others, but only asked Yuan Shuming to find the general person in charge here, said hello, and let them leave, saying that no one can disturb when casting spells and transporting grain.
In accordance with this method, Zhao Chongyang successively took away 200,000 stone of grain from Huaixi and 350,000 stone from Shandong, plus the fifteen stone of grain transported by horse-drawn carriage on the previous two occasions, and at the beginning of winter, when Zhao Chongyang and Dai Zong arrived in Yangjia Dazhai, the grain to support Taihang Mountain from all over the country had reached 16 stone, which was more than enough to solve the famine.
Therefore, from the beginning of the winter month, the boiling liquor industry in the counties of Taihang Mountain began to recover again, and with the arrival of the New Year, the output of liquor increased slightly.
Zhao Chongyang's identity is very sensitive, and after arriving in Taihang Mountain, it is only disclosed to the upper-level core personnel. To the outside world, he is always called Zhao Gongzi or Shaohui, mainly to prevent the spies of Jin Liao and the Song Dynasty from being aware of it, and he has quietly returned to the Central Plains.
A month later, Wu Song and others arrived with the team and the three princesses, Pang Qiuxia, Fang Baihua, and Duan Qiaoqiao. Shi Qian handed over the intelligence work in Tokyo to Yan Qing and Shi En, and also arrived at the headquarters of Taihang Mountain with a thousand intelligence officers with Li Yun.
After the arrival of the lunar month, maybe the weather is getting colder, maybe the refugees from all over the surrounding places have run out, and the refugees have stopped pouring into the Taihang Mountain, with preliminary statistics, the refugees in the Taihang Mountain have reached 1.2 million on the tenth day of the lunar month.
With the addition of the indigenous residents, the total number of military and civilians in the entire area controlled by the Yang Jiajun has reached 1.5 million, and the number of counties under its control has increased from the original 10 counties to 16 counties.
It's just that after the arrival of winter, a large number of refugees poured into the Taihang Mountains, although it did not cause food famine, but the houses were overcrowded, and the military camps were also tightened as much as possible, and half of them were taken out to house the tens of thousands of refugees who finally arrived.