Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 171 Empty Alleys Sent to the South
Sure enough, the plan to beat Anren received an immediate and positive response from the funding committee. This is not because Zhao Tongzhi became a shareholder, but everyone is excited about the three goals of Anren's strategy proposed by Li Dan:
capture the Stone Harbor shipyard and all its craftsmen;
regain control of water and land transportation to the south;
and, after the capture of Anren, the establishment of an iron factory, a carriage factory, and a pencil factory.
Coupled with the shipyards mentioned above, there are four factories concentrated in this small place of Anren, and the annual revenue is expected to be no less than 60,000 taels!
Zhao Chongbi said that he wanted to buy shares is not a mouthful, he is optimistic about Li Dan's future and his plans.
Of course, he is an official and cannot directly come forward to join the shares, and the name he filled in is Wan Xiang'er, which is obviously a woman.
Li Dan had long found that the woman at this time did not seem to be as restrained, restrained, or even as extreme as she thought in her previous life.
A woman can own more or less private property, and the private property brought into her husband's family by way of dowry is calculated on a per household basis, but the ownership remains with the woman herself, and is not completely merged with her husband's property.
If a woman leaves her husband's house due to divorce or divorce, the former will take away all but the child support paid to the children who remain with the husband, and the latter will pay 30% to 1/2 of the husband's family as compensation.
A woman can not only go on a blind date and file for divorce on her own, but of course she can also choose to invest in some serious business to ensure that her assets continue to appreciate.
So there is nothing wrong with him funding in the name of this woman, and the committee does not restrict the gender of the funder.
Li Dan understood that this person was either his intimate friend, or his concubine or outer room, and everyone tacitly did not break it.
The small steamer ran really fast, and in the two days before and after, it had already made a round trip between Poyang and Yugan.
Wan Zhifu saw that Anren's current enemy only released 500 defenders, and this side dispatched 1,000 officers and regiments to attack, and felt that it was not a matter of holding a handle?
Moreover, he never let the government send more troops, and he made a fortune in nothing, so he replied and agreed immediately. also
Xu felt that it was not interesting enough, and at the same time sent a letter to the Southern Metropolitan Inspection Department, asking to cooperate with Zhao Tongzhi to find out the movements and number of enemies in Dongxiang, and report to Zhao Tongzhi at any time.
Then, with a stroke of the pen, he allocated a thousand taels from the seized money to serve as expenses such as pacification and relief after the recapture of Anren.
With the attitude of the mansion, Zhao Chongbi was relieved, although the letter he sent to Nanchang asking the capital to command the envoy to send troops to attract Yang's attention had not yet been answered, but he couldn't wait.
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, it was found that there were major murders, bloody cases, and six old bandits, and the team swore to be promoted.
However, this is just the official army, the regimental training has been based on Tan Zhongxuan and Yang Yi as the main generals, Song Qian joined the army, Wan Siyou (Zhong Siqi took over Mian Mountain) as the forward, and crossed the river by the white horse.
In addition, Han Jinguo (Han Si) and Liu En also led their district teams or township Yong to set off the day before yesterday, and after meeting with Song Xiaoniu and Xie Guiting (Crab King Five), they quietly ambushed outside the city.
He Wei, who was transferred to replace Song Xiaoniu, has already connected with the informants in and out of the city.
He learned that General An Ren's surname was that he was a good gambler and a good drinker, and he was often not in the yamen, but he was very familiar with the casinos.
In addition, there was a sentry of enemy troops in the logging yard of Taguling, and the informants in the captives had already colluded with about 20 people to prepare for the cooperation between the inside and the outside.
Inspired by this, Li Dan quietly asked Dong Hou to bring two hundred remnants of Huangxi to the Wansi regimental training forward team, intending to arrange a chance for them to take revenge.
On the eve of his departure, Li Dan wandered in his own courtyard. Aunt Qian asked Bei Xi to get a cloak for him, afraid that the autumn night would be too wet and cold.
Li Dan thanked him with a smile, then asked the needle to take a futon, put it on the stone pier and asked his aunt to sit down, and knelt down and bowed four times.
At that time, the people took the four bows as the highest etiquette, and it was limited to the five "Heavenly Monarchs and Teachers". Aunt Qian hurriedly helped him up, tears already welling up from her eyes.
"This child, who is not a young man, what do you do with such a great gift?" As he spoke, he raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"My aunt is like a mother, and I dare not forget the kindness of raising her. can
Before the child had time to take Huan's knees, he had to go south to fight again, and his filial piety was very great, and the child's heart was uneasy!" After Li Dan finished speaking, he bowed down and apologized.
Aunt Qian sighed, pulled him up and sat down, and said, "If you can become a talent, you should pay the country, inherit the king, and the people.
Walking outside is different from staying at home, and leading troops is even different from traveling alone. Brother Dan must remember the word cautious, there are always a thousand victories, and it is difficult to compare with a defeat.
Every day these days, the heroes who follow you come to kowtow outside the house, do you know why?"
"Please teach my mother."
"They honor me because of you. You were able to bring them back alive, won the battle, earned money, promoted officials, and led the team, because they believed in you, loved you, and supported you, so they came to kowtow to me.
But if you make mistakes, if you are stubborn, if you throw away their lives, do you think there will be such a thing?"
Li Dan got up and prostrated on the ground: "My son has been taught, he must keep in mind the word prudence, not vain, not arrogant, not paranoid, and always think of the family and country, the people's hearts, and the safety of the soldiers!"
"Now you have authority in your hands, and you can live with a word, and kill with a word. Brother Dan, let me tell you, only kill those who should be killed, don't use your own pleasure as a sharp blade, then you will not save people but harm others. Do you understand?"
She said a word, and Li Dan kowtowed once, and repeated it until she was satisfied. Finally, Aunt Qian asked him to get up and sit down again, and sighed deeply. Li Dan didn't understand why she sighed again, and asked, "Is there anything else that my mother can't rest assured?"
Aunt Qian said, "I originally wanted to take advantage of this big victory and ask Mrs. Lao to make two more trips to completely settle the matter between you and the eldest girl of the Xu family, but who knows that I still didn't have time to finish it before you left, but it is a pity!"
It turned out that the six wedding ceremonies of Nali, Mingming, Najib, and Nazheng (that is, formal engagement) had all been completed, and the groom was about to go out when he was about to ask for an auspicious day, and both families were a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, the bride is generous and reasonable, Li Dan feels that this is also a standard virtuous helper in his previous life!
"I see that you will go to Xu's house early tomorrow morning to say goodbye, to show that my family attaches great importance to this marriage, and don't let the girl worry in vain." Aunt Qian said.
"What the mother said is that the child will go to the Xu Mansion before the school swears tomorrow morning."
"Yes, that's the way it should be." Aunt Qian nodded with satisfaction: "Alas, it's a pity that Yang Baihu can't be by your side this time, it's more reassuring to have him."
Hearing her mutter, Li Dan glanced at the needles.
I saw that the needle's eyes were slightly closed, and there was no expression on her face, and I didn't know if she heard it or not. Bei Xi pulled Aunt An and bit her ear, as if she was talking about something else.
"Uh, Lord Yang...... There's a reason why he didn't go this time." Li Dan explained softly:
"If we all leave, the finless porpoises in the lake don't know if they will be ready to move, and it is Fan Taizun who proposed that the general should be left behind.
Besides, I don't know when his promotion will come down, and it is beneficial to keep him guarding the city, so if he is transferred to another position, he can just use the excuse of defending the city as an excuse to shirk it."
"I know, it's just talking." Aunt Qian's face was slightly hot, so she turned around and said, "Anyway, don't work too hard for you to rest early tonight, and you have to travel far tomorrow."
Li Dan laughed: "It's okay, auntie, don't worry, this time I'm just going to Anren, and it's not like last time I crossed the state and crossed the prefecture." The child was only in the next county, and he was not too far away. Take a horse-drawn carriage on the road, set off in the afternoon, and arrive in the afternoon."
"Is your carriage so good?"
"Auntie, wait a minute, after Anren's battle is over, I will take you to live in Zhuangzi, and then there will be a new carriage, which is more comfortable than Fan Taizun's!"
Aunt Qian glared at him in disgust: "Then you won't trespass? I don't sit! I don't have to let people see it, pointing and poking and saying that we don't know how to converge."
Li Dan laughed and told her that there were more than 60 orders for the county, "Everyone sits, I honor my mother for one, which one can have something to say?" Aunt Qian was full of joy, and then she went into the house to rest with the support of the needle.
That night, the mother and son went back to the house
, Li Dan hugged the weeping Bei Xi for a while to comfort her, and then she served to cover the quilt and fall asleep deeply.
The next day, when he got up to wash up and eat breakfast, Li Dan put it on with the help of Pei Xi. As soon as he put on his cyan uniform, Mao Zai came and went into the house to help him put it on.
Because he was going to the school to participate in the oath today, Li Dan chose a pair of red brocade trimmed cooked leather armor specially customized for himself.
On the front hung the silver-plated heart guards that Bei Xi wiped and wiped last night, and tied a concentric knot in the back of the heart with a vermilion stumbling armor.
Under the gold-plated treasure lion belt (see note 1) is a belly (that is, to defend the waist, but without armor) painstakingly made under the aunt's lamp, with a cowhide bottom, royal blue silk edges, and a swastud brocade with a cloud pattern on the surface.
Under his feet is a pair of cloud-headed hexagram leather boots, which are also customized according to Li Dan's own design.
Both forearms are wrapped in cooked cowhide arm guards that are also inlaid with armor plates, and fastened with five rows of horizontal buckles.
On the head is a leather jacket of cooked cowhide inlaid with armor, and it is connected with raw leather neck.
Li Dan looked down and saw that the skirt armor, the pi kun (crotch guard), the hoof tail (hip guard) and the edge of the cloak were decorated with two-inch long drooping leather strips as he said, and he was very satisfied when he stretched it.
This was the first time he used his power, and it took him a month to make it out by asking the military craftsmen in the Gubu Guard Station.
Although the leather armor is lighter than the iron armor, it weighs more than a dozen pounds when he wears a full set, but fortunately, he has a lot of strength, which is nothing.
Hung up the waist knife and came out to say goodbye to his aunt, but when he went out, he saw that the alley was full of people, and when he came out, he bowed down and said, "Congratulations to the inspection, I wish the lord a victory and success!"
Li Dan got on the horse, led by Mao Zaidi, followed by the two Shi guards, and walked out while returning the salute, only to find that there were people on both sides of the street outside.
Li Dan was taken aback, quickly took off his leather helmet and hung it on the saddle bridge, leaned over and thanked him loudly. They walked slowly like this, all the way to the gate of the Xu Mansion.
The Xu family had already heard the news, and the three brothers came out together to wait outside the door. Li Dan rolled the saddle and dismounted, stepped forward to greet them, and apologized for not being able to complete the salute when he went out again.
Xu Tong's son Xu Hu stepped forward and hugged Li Dan's skirt, and wanted to tell him a secret in a milky voice. "Yo, what do you have to tell me?" Li Dan likes this little guy who is only five years old very much.
"The eldest sister asked me to tell you that it was inconvenient for her to come out, so she saw you off behind the door." Xu Hu said in a low voice.
Li Dan looked up and rubbed his little brain: "Good brother, when I come back, I will sharpen a bamboo bow for you, okay?" The little one was so happy that he ran back to his father.
Li Dan then put on his helmet and saluted solemnly towards the gate. Xu Bu naturally understood why he did this, and stepped forward with a smile and returned the salute very dignifiedly.
Li Dan arched his hand and said, "When Dan returns victoriously, he will have a good time!" After speaking, he turned over on the horse amid the cheers and cheers of the Xu family, turned the horse's head, and went towards the school field in the south of the city.
Yu Gan's school field is in the southwest corner of the city, on the west side of the East Mountain Goat's Horn Peak, and there is an open space from here to nearly 400 steps under the city wall.
During the siege, Gu Da and Yang Yi, who were the reserves, and the defense troops of the two city walls, a total of 1,600 or 700 people, were stationed here, crowding it to the brim.
At present, there are only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the parade, and they can barely turn around. As soon as Li Dan saw it, he whispered to Yang Dayi beside him, "This is also too crowded. There's not enough space!"
Yang Lianfeng laughed: "No one thought that one day Yu Gan would come in so many soldiers, and the civilian officials naturally think every day that these soldiers can see as few as possible, where would they think if you are enough?"
"That's right, General Zhao's regimental training was only five hundred people at the beginning, so it is enough to say that this scale is enough to use so many places." Li Dan nodded: "But we are not enough! After the battle, you have to find a bigger venue, otherwise there will be no place to train!" Look at the book
The horn sounded, and Zhao Tongzhi and Fan Xianzun arrived. As usual, the two of them were the first to deliver enthusiastic and motivating speeches.
After the county was respected, Zhao Chongbi, as the commander, summoned Zhu Baihu, Jiao Baihu and Li Dan, and gave the three of them an order from the government to recover Anren.
And then there will be
The six hapless bandits pushed out to open the flag. The three armies cheered and their morale was greatly boosted. Then Zhao Chongbi announced that each sergeant would be rewarded with two coins of silver, and the brigade would go out of Desheng Gate to the camp outside the city for dinner, and the whole team would go out after lunch!
Taking advantage of the fact that the official army was drawn out and Fan County set up wine to see off Zhao Tongzhi, Li Dan went to the tower of Desheng Gate to convene a meeting with everyone.
He pinched two vegetable steamed buns in one hand and announced the meeting with a large bowl of tea in the other.
first designated Yang Dayi's identity as the left-behind commander, and then assigned Master Ba as the chief of affairs to negotiate with the committee, arrange the production of winter clothes for the Tsing Yi team, and count the more than 1,000 newly surrendered troops.
Li Biao is the deputy secretary of the department, in charge of livestock, grain, and grass procurement.
He will purchase from Nankang, Fuliang, Poyang and other places through the Xu family, and Wang Jintang and Wang Jinsheng brothers from Wannian and Leping, and establish three grain and straw storage stations in Santang, Leijiawan and Yujiadu, and also buy 40 hectares of grass slopes and 20 hectares of tidal flats in Mabeizui to establish livestock breeding farms.
Then he announced that he had recommended to Zhao Tongzhi that his brother Li Zhu would act as the chief bookkeeper of Anren County, and arranged three things for Anren:
First, Chen Gang's carriage and horse shop is preparing to open a new branch in Huangbu, and Han An is already in the process of offering shares, and Chen Sanwen is responsible for ensuring that Yu Gan's carriage factory will build 30 new Jingwu eight-year-old three-type carriages within a month.
Second: to expand the scale of Mianshan Cement Plant, Han An is responsible for coordinating the delivery of 20,000 catties of cement to Anren within seven days.
Third: Order Tang Kai to transfer the fourteen catapults in Yujiazhai to Anren, and need to produce sixteen more. Yujiazhai specialized in the production of weapons, and the construction of ships was changed to Shigang.
Everyone was stunned when they heard it, you look at me, I look at you. Han An stroked his beard and said slowly, "You don't think that everything will be fine if we capture Anren, and the father and son of the Yang family are willing to swallow this breath, right?"
"What do you mean...... sir, this battle still has to be fought?" Gu Da asked tentatively.
"What do you say?" Han An smiled: "If he leaves Fuzhou and turns around to deal with us, the old man won't be surprised."
"Ho, I don't care!" Gu Da patted him on the crotch: "If you come, beat him to see who is afraid of whom!"
"yes, beat him!" Yang Yi and others also shouted.
"Brother Zhou, if you continue like this, you may have to fight Fuzhou!" Liu Hongsheng said.
Li Dan grinned. However, he is still only a clerk in Raozhou, how can he find a truth to enter Fuzhou, this really needs to use his brains.
The rules of this dynasty are that the use of troops across state governments is the power of the capital to command the envoys, so Zhao Chongbi said that he wanted to send a letter to Nanchang for this reason.
But morale is available, and that's what makes him happy. Now that one battle after another, Li Dan is a little secretly worried, far away from Yu Gan, can the team still maintain such morale, and can it still have such a fighting spirit?
Is it really okay to stretch the supply line? He didn't seem to be completely accustomed to the combat in the era of cold weapons.
But when he got off the castle tower and stepped on his horse and galloped away in the direction of the ferry, he had no worries.
What we have to do now is to move forward, forward, first sweep away the enemy of Anren, reopen the line of Yingtan, Guixi, and Geyang, re-establish contact with Sun She and Shanda, and open up trade routes, which is more urgent and priority than any scrutiny and concern!
"Note 1: It is the belt, because it is imitated from the Taixi barbarians from the south, so it is called the brute belt, and the belt is a metal lion orally, which has both decorative and protective functions."