Chapter 182: Expanding the army in situ

How many of the more than 6.7 million spirit stones are there?

It's hard to describe.

It's many, many, many.

This amount does not refer to the value of these spirit stones, but to their quantity.

With so many spirit stones, piled together, not to mention like a small mountain, it was also filled with nearly seventy large boxes.

And so many spirit stones actually appeared in Jiang Hongfei's field of vision when Jiang Hongfei returned to his residence alone.

There is no need to ask, Jiang Hongfei can guess that these spirit stones must have been obtained by Shi Xiu, and most of the source is the five million spirit stones that Liang Zhongshu wanted to dedicate to Zhao Ji.

As for the extra 1.7 million spirit stones, most of them were Liang Zhongshu's personal property.

In fact, the reason why Jiang Hongfei sent Shi Xiu to interrogate Liang Zhongshu was because he had the idea of taking this spirit stone for his own use.

Be.

Back then, Jiang Hongfei stole more than 20 million spirit stones, spirit weapons and other treasures from Zhao Ji.

Every time Shuibo Liangshan goes to Tianxingdao, Jiang Hongfei can share two percent of the harvest.

These made Jiang Hongfei very rich for a while.

But the problem is that Jiang Hongfei, who has to rely on resources to cultivate to a large extent, consumes his spiritual money too quickly.

- If Jiang Hongfei hadn't obtained the "Su Nu Sutra" from the Nine Heavens Xuannu, so that Jiang Hongfei could make up for it from women through Shuang Xiu, then Jiang Hongfei's spirit stones would have been consumed faster.

In addition, Jiang Hongfei is used to being lavish on weekdays.

This made Jiang Hongfei's spirit stone have bottomed out, and he will soon be unable to guarantee the extremely luxurious cultivation method before.

There is no way, although Jiang Hongfei doesn't want to be greedy for the hard-earned money of the Mo brothers, but the situation is pressing, Jiang Hongfei can only arrange for his absolute cronies and extremely clever Shi Xiu to interrogate Liang Zhongshu to see if Shi Xiu can understand what he means.

Facts have proved that Jiang Hongfei did not choose the wrong person.

But suddenly seeing so many boxes full of spirit stones appear in his residence, Jiang Hongfei's heart was a little tired.

After thinking about it, Jiang Hongfei did not enter the house directly, but shouted at Ruan Xiaoqi, who had "Brother, praise me" written all over his face: "Xiaoqi." ”

When Ruan Xiaoqi heard this, he immediately trotted over.

Jiang Hongfei looked at the boxes full of spirit stones and asked Ruan Xiaoqi quietly, "Do you know about this?" ”

Hearing this, Ruan Xiaoqi lowered his voice and said, "How can you not know?" If I don't know what is in such a big box, how can I teach them to appear in my brother's room? ”

Ruan Xiaoqi took the initiative to tell him again: "These sixty-seven boxes, before Shi Xiu sent them, I personally checked them one by one, otherwise I could cooperate with Shi Xiu to transfer all the guards away, and teach Shi Xiu to send these boxes to my brother's room unknowingly?" After arriving at the ground, I checked them one by one, and confirmed that there were only spirit stones inside, no one else, and no one, so I opened the box and waited for my brother to come back to check, otherwise how would I dare to teach my brother to approach here alone? ”

Hearing Ruan Xiaoqi say this, the greasy taste in Jiang Hongfei's heart was swept away.

Then, Jiang Hongfei asked with a smile: "You don't look so careful on weekdays, do you?" ”

Seeing through by Jiang Hongfei, Ruan Xiaoqi scratched his head with a smile and said, "It was taught by Shi Xiu." ”

Jiang Hongfei guessed that it was Shi Xiu who taught Ruan Xiaoqi.

Ruan Xiaoqi is definitely one of Jiang Hongfei's most loyal younger brothers.

But the careless Ruan Xiaoqi will most likely not pay attention to such details, while Shi Xiu is different, it can be said that whatever Jiang Hongfei gives Shi Xiu, Shi Xiu can do well, and he can do it without leakage.

Jiang Hongfei's ultimate identity for Shi Xiuding is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he is destined to have great power.

Throughout the Jinyi Wei dynasties, they have commanded envoys: some people are diligent, willing to be the emperor's minions, willing to do any dirty work for the emperor, and even be the emperor's scapegoat; Some people participate in the political struggle of the imperial court, form parties for personal gain, have their own ideas, and rank among the three dukes; Some people have a gloomy personality, full of trickery, arrogant and domineering, privately raise outlaws, secretly create swords and guns, intend to rebel, and choose beauties for the emperor, but they include the stunning beauties in their own mansions and give the rest to the emperor.

Jinyi Weidu commanded this position is really too important, it can be said that if he wants to be a demon, he can be a demon, if he wants to be a Buddha, he can become a Buddha, if he wants to murder the emperor, the emperor will be in danger.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei did not have any suspicion of Shi Xiu, but was wary of Shi Xiu's position.

And the Jinyi guard can't be left out, otherwise the emperor may become blind and deaf, and let the courtiers be empty.

Fortunately, all along, what Shi Xiu has done has made Jiang Hongfei very satisfied, and it also made Jiang Hongfei feel that it was not wrong to let Shi Xiu serve as the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

But even so, Jiang Hongfei still couldn't completely let go of this position.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Jiang Hongfei decided to create another intelligence agency if he has the right opportunity, so that the hotel intelligence network, Jinyiwei and that intelligence agency can complement each other, and the key can be to monitor and compete with each other, so as not to be dominated by one family and form a threat.

Jiang Hongfei asked Ruan Xiaoqi with a straight face: "Since you know about this, why do you want to help Shi Xiu send these things to me?" ”

In the face of Jiang Hongfei's scare, Ruan Xiaoqi did not panic at all, he said bluntly:

"My brother's reward has not been as good as before, and it must be that there is not much spiritual money in his hand, which is not conducive to my brother's popularity, after all, there are many good people in this world, and my brother is a person who wants to do great things, how can he teach a little spiritual money to be restrained? Therefore, although Shi Xiu made an argument on this matter, I agreed. When the rules for dividing money were set, I said that my brother gave himself too little, how can this be done, the emperor must have private wealth to reward his subordinates, otherwise how to drive those profit-seeking villains......"

Ruan Xiaoqi said a lot, in the final analysis, he felt that Jiang Hongfei could not live without money, otherwise it would not be conducive to Jiang Hongfei's rule.

Jiang Hongfei estimated that it must be that because he didn't reward the people below much during this time, someone said something and let Ruan Xiaoqi hear it.

Therefore, Ruan Xiaoqi supported Shi Xiu to make money for himself and maintain his dignity as the boss.

Seeing Ruan Xiaoqi thinking about himself like this, Jiang Hongfei's heart warmed, and then he took Ruan Xiaoqi into the house, put away all the more than 6.7 million spirit stones, and said, "...... down."

Jiang Hongfei wanted to say: "Don't take it as an example. ”

But when he thought of his huge expenses, Jiang Hongfei could only temporarily change his words: "Pay attention next time." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi scratched his head and asked, "What should you pay attention to?" ”

"Uh......"

Jiang Hongfei could only say perfunctorily: "Pay attention to learning more from Shi Xiu, it is the last guarantee for my life safety, and I have to improve my safety awareness." ”

I don't want to, Jiang Hongfei said casually, but Ruan Xiaoqi remembered it, he thought: "Yes, my brother's identity is no longer as good as before, and some people see that my water is prosperous in Liangshan, and they have bad intentions, and they want to harm my brother, I really have to be careful to ......defend myself in the future."

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These millions of spirit stones are easy to take away, but the harvest of the Daimyo's Mansion is not so easy to take them all.

Fortunately!

Jiang Hongfei calculated the time accurately and hijacked the Zhao and Song Dynasty's 1,000 meters and 2,000 stone ships (Cao Yun Ship) to transport autumn grain.

The transportation here in the Daimyo Mansion is very developed, and you can directly reach Shuibo Liangshan by water, and even directly reach Qingzhou.

Of course, if you want to bring back all the harvest of the Daimyo's Mansion, the heroes of Liangshan can't all count on these ships, and the ships that dock Liangshan are all transferred to participate in the transportation except for the necessary for defense.

In addition, the ships here in the Daimyofu, whether they are tsunatsu ships, seat ships (official passenger ships), war ships, and horse ships (troop carriers), as long as they are ships, all of them are "borrowed" by the heroes of Liangshan.

Wang Lun and other officials in Liangshan hired people at a high price, loaded ships day and night, filled batches and walked in batches, racing against time.

Jiang Hongfei's shipment order was to transport soldiers and armor first, strategic materials second, grain again, raw silk, silk and other cloths, and other ......

- Spirit stones, spiritual weapons, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other belongings, Jiang Hongfei used Qiankun bracelets and Qiankun bags to carry, which is safe and convenient, as for the spiritual money, try to spend it in the Daimyo's mansion.

At the same time, the public trial presided over by Pei Xuan is also in full swing.

Because Jiang Hongfei opened an opening for the dignitaries, wealthy gentry, and ministers and doctors of the Daimyo Mansion City, it is said that there should not be too many people on the public trial stage.

But the fact is otherwise, there are still many people who have sacrificed their lives and money and have not left.

The reason why these people don't leave is mainly because of three lucks:

The first fluke is that the law does not blame the public, and there are more than 1,500 high-ranking officials, nobles, wealthy gentry, and ministers and doctors in the city of the Daimyo's mansion, and they don't believe that Jiang Hongfei will really attack so many households.

The second fluke is that the Daimyo's Mansion is one of the four capitals of the Zhao Song Dynasty, the heart of Hebei, which has been captured, and it is impossible for the Zhao Song Dynasty not to send a large army to the rescue, they think, Jiang Hongfei is just to grab the treasury casually, and then grab a few of the richest people's homes, they will evacuate, and it will not be their turn.

The third fluke is that no one thinks that they are wicked people, and even many people think that they are great good people, everything they have done before is reasonable, and they do not believe it, and they will be convicted when they go to the public trial.

Of course, the choice of more high-ranking officials, wealthy gentry, and ministers and doctors is to let those who have a bad reputation leave the daimyo's mansion and leave those who have a good reputation on weekdays to take care of their homes.

In the face of such a situation, according to Jiang Hongfei's supreme instructions, Pei Xuan directly forcibly stipulated: If there are more than three people in the family (including the stewards and their relatives), they will be directly sentenced to raiding the house, and the remaining men will continue to go to the public trial platform to accept the public trial, and if ninety percent of a family member (including the stewards and their relatives) can come down from the public trial platform, the heroes of Liangshan will not commit any offense against their families.

Note: A man who can step down from the bench can take three women, and the rest of the women will be redistributed.

Due to the tight time and heavy tasks, Pei Xuan opened 50 public trial tables at one time, and conducted public trials at the same time.

Wang Lun, Pei Xuan and others also set up a hundred teams to raid homes.

It is worth mentioning that due to the lack of manpower in Shuibo Liangshan, Jiang Hongfei ordered Wang Lun and others to recruit people directly in the Daimyo's Mansion.

Shuibo Liangshan has a wide range of people.

There are all kinds of literati.

There are Qi Refiners.

There is a spiritual root talent and a Qi Refiner seedling.

There are also all kinds of craftsmen and boatmen.

In short, as long as it is a talent, Shuibo Liangshan is all recruited, and the salary is good.

Also, because when the Daimyofu Castle was broken, there were still forty or fifty thousand defenders in the city, and they were equipped with armor and bows and crossbows.

Letting the original defenders of these daimyo's mansions keep these armor and bows and crossbows is a threat to the heroes of Liangshan, not to mention it, but also a waste.

Therefore, in accordance with Jiang Hongfei's instructions, Wang Lun opened 100 repurchase points, purchased these armor and bows and crossbows at a price 30% higher than the market price, and sent people to vigorously publicize that Shuibo Liangshan only bought them for seven days, and after seven days, a general survey of the whole city was conducted.

After many inquiries, Jiang Hongfei has mastered that many Song troops nearby are preparing for war, and it is not ruled out that some of them, or even all of them, will come to the rescue of the Daimyofu City.

Wang Taishou and other high-ranking officials of the original Daimyo Mansion also confessed that after receiving the news of Li Cheng's defeat, Liang Zhongshu wrote to the nearby state capitals and asked them to send a large army to come to their aid.

For the time being, I don't consider the Song army in the distance, but only talk about the Song army that can be reached in a short time in the near distance:

Xiangzhou stationed ten commanded forbidden troops, including two cavalry commanders and eight infantry commanders;

Cizhou stationed nine commands of the forbidden army, including three commanders of the cavalry and six commanders of the infantry army;

Enzhou was stationed in the forbidden army of seventeen commands, of which four were cavalry commanders and thirteen infantry commanders;

Bozhou was stationed with five commanded forbidden troops, all of which were infantry formations;

Twenty commands of the forbidden army were stationed in Yizhou, including five commanders of the cavalry and fifteen commanders of the infantry army.

That is to say, the more than 10,000 combatable men and horses in Shuibo Liangshan are very likely to soon face the attack of 14 commanded cavalry and 47 commanded infantry troops, with a total of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses.

The key is that if it drags on for a while, it is possible that the Zhao and Song courts will still send troops from other regions of Hebei, from the Gyeonggi region, or even from the Western Army to rescue the Daimyo's mansion.

In addition, it is very likely that the Zhao and Song courts will besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, attack Shuibo Liangshan, and force Jiang Hongfei to retreat.

Of course, it is impossible for all parties to go out of their nests, otherwise the place they are defending will become empty, and they may not be taken advantage of by Tian Hu, who has been vigorously developing and growing recently.

But even so, the more than 10,000 combatants in Shuibo Liangshan will inevitably be overstretched.

Moreover, after all, Shuibo Liangshan is one of the four capitals of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, the heart of Hebei, and the Liang Zhongshu left behind in Beijing is the son-in-law of Cai Jing, the minister of power.

In this way, with the existing strength of Shuibo Liangshan, there must be no guarantee to deal with such an urgent situation.

So Jiang Hongfei ordered: expand the army in situ!

Jiang Hongfei asked people to post the treatment of the Liangshan Army that was much higher than that of the forbidden army, and it showed that all of them were real, and there was no situation of deducting military salaries at all.

The key is that if you can directly become a Qi Refiner of the Liangshan Army, you can get a settling-in fee of 20 yuan if you enlist in the army; Even if you haven't awakened to become a qi refiner, as long as your spiritual root talent is okay, and you have the possibility of awakening your spiritual power to become a qi refiner by relying on hard work, you can also join the Liangshan Auxiliary Army, and you can get a settling-in fee of five yuan if you enlist in the army.

Moreover, the new tenants are willing to bring their family members, and Shuibo Liangshan will divide the land, live and livelihood for their families......

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(End of chapter)