mtl008 Chapter 557 Selfishness
Chapter 557 Selfishness
Chapter 557 Selfishness
All the way from Chang'an to Jiuquan, all caravans will stay here for ten days and a half months to recuperate and replenish supplies.
After leaving Yumen in the west, there are no old people, only the long yellow sand and the endless Gobi Desert.
In a place like Jiuquan, it is almost impossible to find fodder to support 4000 people and more than 8000 livestock for more than a month.
The officers and soldiers here in Jiuquan County, the food and grass consumed by the government did not come from Jiuquan itself, but from Ganzhou, which "opened farmland, made the most of the benefits of water and land, harvested rice in abundance, and accumulated dozens of dendrobiums per pile, and accumulated military rations for decades" ( Zhangye).
However, a large amount of grain in Ganzhou is not produced by the people themselves, but from the farmland, the farmland of the Silla people.
Naturally, the grain from the fields can only be used by the military and not sold to merchants.
Ever since the Great Tang wiped out the Liaodong Three Kingdoms, a large number of Silla people have moved here. The black-toothed Changzhi who Yunchu is familiar with stayed in Ganzhou as the deputy general of Zhechong Prefecture in Ganzhou, but he was going to visit in Yunchu When he was there, he went to the Horseshoe Temple to worship Buddha, not in Ganzhou.
Fortunately, Ganzhou also had the industry of his good friend Ma Gui, so he got the grain and fodder from Zhangye to support Jiuquan.
Ma Gui is no longer that little postman. Now, as Ganzhou Biejia, although he can't cover the sky in Ganzhou, at least he has the right to say what he says in the old post station.
The news that Huoshaoyun had food in his hand was provided by Ma Gui to Yunchu.
Hei Chi Chang Zhi is trying to distance himself from Yun Chu. After any smart person has cooperated with Yun Chu, he will choose to stay away.
Only those fools would continue to deal with Yunchu because of the benefits Yunchu gave him.
Really smart people understand the truth that benefits and risks are equal, and only those who earn a certain amount of controllable benefits can go the long way.
Heizhi Changzhi was undoubtedly a smart person, so when Yunchu's team arrived in Ganzhou, he went to the Horseshoe Temple to worship Buddha.
Sha Zha Xiangru is also very smart. When Yunchu arrived in Jiuquan, he went to the Royal Shandan Racecourse to select horses for the government soldiers, and he missed it again.
As for whether to avoid Yunchu, Yunchu didn't care too much, the help between people is mutual, if people don't want it, that's their choice, and I can't force it.
As expected of Avanti in the red willow forest, with the help of a group of old bandits, he quickly found the traces of the field mice.
After listening to the old bandit's report, Yunchu was very sure that this group of voles must have come from the west of Taihang Mountain, and even if not, their leader must have been, otherwise they would not have created a pit yard.
Pit yards are very popular in Jinzhong, where the loess layer is very thick. After digging two or three feet down, there is still a dry loess layer underneath, and then the houses are excavated horizontally, and a very nice yard appears.
Although such a yard may be flooded by rainwater, the place where this kind of house can be built will not receive much rainwater in a year, and the thick loess layer is like a sponge, which will absorb the little rainwater to dryness. clean.
Now that the place was found, Yunchu planned to take a large group of people to carry the grain directly. He felt that he was good friends with Xu Jingye, so you don't have to be polite.
In fact, there is no evidence to prove that this Huoshaoyun has any clues to Xu Jingye, but Yunchu determined that this group of people should be Xu Jingye's subordinates. Over the past few years, with the support of the British government, Hexi All the big and small forces in the corridor should be subdued by Xu Jingye.
This bastard is very likely to be the head of the underworld in the Hexi Corridor today.
Speaking of it, the Tuyuhun people are still too poor, and because of the high terrain, they only benefit from cattle and sheep, but people can't just eat cattle and sheep without eating a little grain.
If he wants to grow food, he still needs to enter the Hexi Corridor, which is rich in water and grass, to feed a group of men as big as him.
This time the attack was led by Liang Ying, and it was also the first time that this young man was truly the chief officer.
Although Yun Chu followed, he didn't say a word. Liang Ying was used to this. Junhou didn't say anything now. After returning, he would point out what was inappropriate, and he would even beat and scold him.
For this reason, Rourou once asked Yunchu why he was so violent towards Liang Ying when he was not so simple and rude when teaching others before.
Yun Chu didn't answer, Liang Ying knew it herself.
That's how his grandfather dealt with Junhou back then. He also heard that Junhou had followed the emperor's order to teach his grandpa to read.
His grandfather likes to kill people, he likes strong wine, he likes to spoil beauties, he likes to gamble, he likes to beat others, and as for reading... This has never been in his grandpa's life plan... Junhou is going to teach grandpa to read...then it should be How bad it was.
Therefore, Liang Ying had no objection to being treated violently by the lord, because this was what the Liang family owed the lord.
Avanti got a donkey with a white mouth and a black body. He happily rode on the donkey upside down, calling loudly to the subjects in the red willow forest as he walked.
It is impossible to ask these people to help kill the enemy. If these people are called to clean up the battlefield, they will run very fast one by one.
Yunchu used to think that the pit yard should be in a hidden place, and when he saw the pit yard, even he, who was well-informed, couldn't stop talking at the large-scale pit yard in front of him.
I also understand why the old thieves I sent out to watch smoke and check people couldn't find this place.
It is really because these people in the pit yard used the red willow forest as a cover. Because the wind here is at the mouth of the horn, the wind has been blowing towards the red willow forest, and the smoke that appeared in the pit yard naturally entered In the Red Willow Forest, those old thieves who looked at the smoke and inspected people had the illusion that the smoke here was caused by these beggars in the Red Willow Forest.
Sometimes, strategies and plans don't need to be too profound, as long as they are effective, they are the best arrangements.
When Liang Ying led five hundred old thieves, bandits, and thieves out of the red willow forest and started to march towards the pit yard, a very old-looking Mr. Dong Hong climbed up from the first pit yard with great difficulty. He cupped his hands at Yunchu and said, "This old servant has seen the Lord."
When Yunchu saw this fat old guy, the corners of his mouth twitched and he said, "Butler Li, why are you here? Didn't it mean that you have returned to your hometown in Shandong for the elderly?"
Butler Li said with a smile: "It's the old slave's fault that the Marquis of Labor is worried. He wanted to go home when he was old, but he didn't expect the concubine to give birth to three children for the old man in one go. No, I had to go back to my old job." , to earn some food money for the milk babies."
Yunchu said to Liang Ying: "Leave the first pit yard alone, and start searching the rest of the pit yards, leaving none behind."
Butler Li's smiling face immediately changed, and he quickly said to Yunchu: "This is all Yinggong's property, won't Marquis Yun not even give Yinggong face?"
Yun Chu smiled faintly and said: "The team is about to leave Yumen Pass, and the food and grass on hand are not enough, so I have to do this. After I return to Chang'an, I will just ask Yinggong for my sin."
Butler Li's face became gloomy. Seeing that some people under Liang Ying's leadership should start to enter the pit yard and confront the people in the yard, he cupped his fists at Yunchu again and said, "Master Jingye is nearby."
Yun Chu lazily said: "Then let him come out, I want to ask him what he means by burning Yun, is he going to burn Yun to death?"
Yun Chu didn't give the order to stop, and there was the sound of swords colliding in the courtyard of the pit.
Yun Chu raised his hand and flicked a finger and said, "Don't fight hand-to-hand, throw Leihuobo, we brought out so many Leihuobo this time, we didn't keep the cubs."
Li Ji's old housekeeper was also a person who had seen big scenes, so he thought Yun Chu wouldn't dare!
With a burst of intense roar, thick smoke rose from a pit yard.
Yun Chu then popped out a second finger, this time throwing in a kerosene bomb, which rose from the pit courtyard with the blazing fire.
Just when Yunchu was about to pop out the third finger, Steward Li stepped forward and hugged Yunchu's hand and said, "I will prepare the food that the Lord wants, this old servant."
Yun Chu looked at Li Guanjia and said, "I've always heard that you are a well-rounded person, why don't you appear to be clever this time?
It's because you know that the things hidden here are the things that the nobles in Chang'an plan to use when they are staking their land in the Western Regions, right?
Do you think that I might dare to offend Duke Ying, but I dare not offend all the nobles no matter what?
That's where you got your guts to refuse me, isn't it?It's because you have the guts to test my bottom line for others, right? "
After listening to Yun Chu's words, Steward Li's face turned pale, his obese body slowly knelt on the ground and said, "For Yinggong's sake, please spare my life."
Yun Chu sneered and said: "It's late, you forgot one thing, this is not Chang'an, but a place close to the Western Regions.
Everyone here is living a bloody life. People here are not so keen on power, because they are confident that they are the source of power.
Therefore, in this desert, only being strong is the real strength. "
As soon as the words fell, Liang Ying swung a knife and chopped off Steward Li's head, and then said to Yunchu, "Your Majesty, don't you leave one?"
Yun Chu sneered and said, "Naturally no one will stay, they always want to win from the starting line, it's so easy there."
After speaking, he looked at Liang Ying and said, "After you have done this, if you want to become one with them in the future, I'm afraid there will be no chance."
Liang Ying said with a smile: "Just like Junhou said, you are really strong when you are strong."
Yun Chu watched countless people rushing from the red willow grove into the huge pit yards, and listened attentively to the sound of fighting taking place inside.
He said to Liang Ying, "You don't have the shortcomings of your ancestor."
Liang Yingdao: "One generation is always better than one generation."
Yun Chu stretched his waist and said, "Then let's start from here."
After Liang Ying saluted, he took his own soldiers along the narrow road on the left to a brand new pit yard.
After a while, the sound of fighting came from inside.
Yun Chu sighed and said, "It's really selfish. At this moment, they are still fighting on their own."
See you tomorrow, the temperature has dropped to minus [-] degrees, and my shoulders are starting to feel sore. I will spend the winter in a warm place next year.
(End of this chapter)