Chapter 5 Planning for Military Salaries

Go and tell the man, "If you want to drink good wine, come to the third floor!" I'm waiting for you again!

Li Wen turned around and went downstairs, and said to the very ugly man, Guest officer, our lord has an invitation on the third floor, and he has good wine there!

This person is happy! Finally able to have a good wine to taste, I slipped a cigarette to the office door on the third floor! I couldn't help but say in front of the door, it's the smell of this wine! Good wine, really good wine, haha smiled and entered the door.

And Li Zhe stood up in front of the table, looking at this person, with thick eyebrows and nose, black face and short hair, no difference, good wine is like life, a first-class adviser in history, Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan.

Li Zhe arched his hand and said: If you can smell the wine and enter my Hero Hall, you must be a hero among heroes. At this time, Pang Tong also smiled when he heard this, how can there be a hero without wine, the two of them laughed and sat down.

Li Zhe shouted to Li Wen at the door: Take these dishes down and replace them with new ones! After a few juniors entered the door and cleaned up, a few more juniors served eight dishes, Li Zhe gave Pang Tong a bowl of Jian Nanchun, Pang Tong smelled the aroma of wine, picked up the bowl and said to Li Zhe, this wine is really rare in the world, but yes, this wine is only in the sky, and it is rare to smell it in the world!!

Pang Tong asked what the name of this wine was, and Li Zhe said: This is Jian Nanchun!

Pang Tongyi listened and was stunned, this is Jian Nanchun, Lu Chang spent 3,000 gold to buy the fine wine, dedicated to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, Liu Biao tasted it and rewarded Lu Chang as Xiangyang Taishou. After that, Liu Biao drank other wine, and it was tasteless, looking for this wine everywhere, threatening to buy it for 5,000 gold, but still no one went to offer it. And this wine actually gave me a taste.

I can't help but think about it, this person is willing to use this wine for me to drink, I don't know why? Then he asked: Does the shopkeeper know how much gold this wine is worth?

As soon as Li Zhe heard this, he knew why Pang Tong asked, and said with a smile: As the saying goes, beauties accompany heroes, and of course fine wine must be drunk by heroes, so as not to spoil the wine, Li Zhe picked up the bowl and said to Pang Tong: Come, tonight you and I will not get drunk and not return, drink down!

And Pang Tong listened to what he said just now, as if he was saying that Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao was not worthy of drinking this wine, so he asked, did the shopkeeper mean that Liu Biao was not a hero?

As soon as Li Zhe heard it, he understood what he was asking, so he replied, although Liu Biao is the pastor of Jingzhou, although Jingxiang is rich under his governance, he is surrounded by enemies, and Liu Biao thinks that it is the year of the sixtieth year, and the mind of the person in the last years of the wind and candle will be weak, and the ambition will be short-sighted.

Pang Tongyi listened, this person cares about the world, knows the strategy, and the city is deep, it seems that he can make such a talented and bold friend without making this trip!

After three rounds of drinking, Pang Tong's face burned red, and Li Zhe said: You and I know each other, and my surname is Li Mingzhe, the word? Li Zhe thought about it, I have never had a word, it is good to think of one, and it can't be too vulgar, but also domineering.

Word: Yongqi. 26 years old

Pang Tongyi listened, and also spoke, under the surname Pang Mingtong, the word, Shiyuan, 21

When Li Zhe heard it, it was really him, Pang Shiyuan! With the strength of the wine, if Shiyuan does not give up, can you be a brother, I am a year older than you, how about I give birth to a brother?

Pang Tongyi thought, this person Yongqi, ambitious, and well aware of the strategy, and with the wine of a thousand gold to entertain people who have never lived with me, this person, corporal Lixian, the heart of the world is clearer is that there is a strategy and the city, although this person is a boss, it is because the world is peaceful, but if the world is chaotic, this person will ascend to heaven. Isn't that the kind of person I've been looking for when I've traveled all over the world?

Pang Tong was moved, knelt on the ground and saluted Li Zhe, and said, the eldest brother is on top, and the younger brother is bowed. Li Zhe looked at it, knelt on the ground, stretched out three fingers, swore to the sky, and said: I and Shiyuan are brothers here today, not to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day and month of the same year, after Li Zhe kowtowed, he stood up and helped Pang Tong Dao, brother please get up, Pang Tong looked at Li Zhe and shouted Big brother, and Li Zhe shouted and shouted, virtuous brother!

Li Zhe looked at Pang Tong and said, brother, let's drink, if you don't get drunk, you won't return! Come on, it******

Pang Tong and Li Zhe drank Jian Nanchun happily, Li Zhe asked, brother, you see what kind of situation will become in the future if the Yellow Turban is in turmoil today.

Pang Tong said with a smile, not optimistic, the Han Dynasty has been four hundred years since Liu Bang was founded, and each dynasty has a transformation process of prosperity and decline, and now Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty is physically unable to preside over the government, and Liu Wei and Liu Xie are both children, and they can't afford to carry this big Han country at all.

If Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty really dies, He Jin will definitely assist the government, and Yuan Shao of Hebei will definitely collude with He Jin to make a move, and He Jin will reconcile with Dong Zhuo of Xiliang, and if there is chaos, he will lead the Xiliang army to suppress it, so the world will be in chaos.

And Li Zhe said with a smile: Brother talent, it really makes me proud to be a brother, I think brother talent, you should also know that it won't be long before the world will be in chaos, and the princes will compete for power!

Pang Tongyi was stunned, his eyes looked at Li Zhe in surprise, how could my brother know, Li Zhe said with a smile, I don't know how the Mandate of Heaven reflects the world, and the reflection of the Mandate of Heaven is to be understood from the stars! (This is Meng Pangtong, the history in Li Zhe's mind told him) Pang Tong was completely impressed from this moment,

Pang Tong said, how well does the eldest brother know the stars? My brother also knows a little about celestial phenomena, and he can see that the world will be in chaos next year, but I can't tell how it is next year. Can you hear what Big Brother thinks!

Li Zhe smiled, drank a glass and said, next March, the world will be chaotic!

Pang Tong's eyes lit up, and he said to Li Zhe, big brother, shouldn't we plan it, Li Zhe said with a smile, brother, please speak up!

Pang Tong said very seriously, now we have to raise troops to buy time for ourselves to consolidate our power, and it is not too late at this moment, it has just entered winter, we have five months until March next year, if we make good use of it, these five months to train 2,000 soldiers and horses. When the world is in chaos, we can take Jiangxia as a foothold. Jiangxia is the warehouse of the entire Jingzhou, where there are countless grains, gold and silver!

When Li Zhe heard this, he said: If we take Jiangxia, we can't keep it! Jiangxia has Changsha in the south, Nanjun in the west, Xiangyang and Nanyang in the north, and we have troops from all sides, so we can only abandon the city and flee.

Pang Tongyi was stunned, and then relieved, Li Zhe said again, we will take Xiangyang as a foothold, although Cai Mao has a heavy army, he can fight on land, but he is just a mediocre talent.

Pang Tong listened to the reason, but there are also risks.

Pang Tong said Big brother, we don't have the right to raise soldiers now, and we can only recruit soldiers if we have an official position.

Li Zhe smiled, this is not difficult, we can raise soldiers without official positions, and I think we must raise at least 5,000 soldiers, Pang Tong asked, raising soldiers requires a lot of money and food materials, may I ask the eldest brother This requires a lot of gold,

Li Zhe smiled and said: A bottle of my Jian Nanchun is worth five thousand gold, how many soldiers can five thousand gold raise?

Pang calculated that the monthly salary of one person was two taels of silver, and 5,000 gold could support 25,000 soldiers for a month's salary, plus food, 5,000 gold was more than enough to support 15,000 soldiers.

Li Zhe smiled and said, brother, you miscalculated, we don't need to recruit soldiers, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is full of displaced people, we just need to contain them, and we don't need to pay food and salary in the early stage, that's good, but we have no place to settle the displaced people, Pang Tong said.

Li Zhe said, I have a farm outside Xiangyang City, where there are 800 acres of land, now I plan to build a house, it is estimated that now it has been renovated and 40 houses, all of which are up and down the attic, I will build 100 first, not enough to build. And Zhuangzi is surrounded by wasteland, and you can instruct farmers and workers to open up wasteland and farm, which should be regarded as cheap.

And the important thing is that it is more difficult to equip the soldiers, and the soldiers are equipped with helmets, armor, spears, and broadswords, which will cost a lot, so my brother decided that he wants to get some money from Liu Biao, and he also wants to get a homeless shelter, such a good thing of appearance charity, I think Liu Biao will also strongly support me!

Time is pressing, I will go to see Liu Biao early tomorrow morning and sell it 100 bottles of Jian Nanchun, which is 500,000 gold, enough for us to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses!

And Pang Tongyi listened, why do you have 100 bottles of Jian Nanchun, so many, he was very surprised, and Li Zhe smiled and said, Brother, don't worry, I have better wine,

Pang Tongyi was stunned, there is a better wine than Jian Nanchun, how good is that!

I couldn't help but look at it. The two of them drank the wine, and Pang Tong drank too much, Li Zhe was already used to it, and he didn't think it was a good thing, but Pang Tong felt that it was made in the world!

The next day, Li Zhe took Pang Tong downstairs, handed everyone over to the hall, and introduced Pang Tong to everyone, who is my brother and the second master. Then all the people saluted and shouted: I have seen the second master! Li Zhe handed over the restaurant to Pang Tong to deal with.

Li Zhe instructed Li Wen to let him follow him to the house where the wine was hidden, Li Zhe told Li Wen, saying: No one can know here, not even the second boss is allowed to know (Li Zhe is afraid that Pang Tong will drink it secretly if he knows it),

Li Zhe and Li Wen moved Jian Nanchun to the carriage, and the latter two got into the carriage and ran to the mansion of Mu Liu Biao in Jingzhou.