Beiyang new warlord

Before the soldiers and horses moved, the food and grass went first. The talent from the Chu country found that he had a pile of coins and no food! And the surplus food of several nearby countries was bought by the Qi country. How could they fight well when they were hungry? The state of Chu was defeated like water, and a large number of refugees fled to the state of Qi, so they had to admit Duke Huan of Qi's hegemony.

This time Mao Jue is also playing economic warfare, and last time he fought to the place where soldiers and horses of Edo City looted to Asakusa Bridge, and found dozens of huge granaries there, but in other places, the samurai were desperate Resistance, such a strategic place, seeing the Dongjiang army coming to rob, several warrior teams were actually watching the fun, out of curiosity, Mao Jue ordered to arrest a crying warehouse dealer who was going blind, and asked him to know about them It's called Zacha, and it's like a vampire lying on the head of a samurai as a rice bug.

They control the trend of food prices, determine how much the rice-based samurai can earn each year, and also lend usury to the samurai, with an annual interest rate as high as a quarter. I don’t know how many samurai have been bankrupted by them, and their shops have been robbed. No wonder the samurai were willing to lend a helping hand.

This Mao Jue has learned how to behave! If the warriors don’t attack, he reciprocates, ordering the debt status ledger to be burned in front of the warriors. It really pleases people’s hearts, and this time, he also took advantage of these annoying people. on.

70 shi of grain, all the Kuroda family quietly sold into the territory of the Maori family. Although the commodity economy has developed, each vassal state still hinders the circulation of commodities. In addition, the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate is actually a negative impact on the commodity economy. One kind of retrogression, 70 shi rice cannot flow out of the Maori family quickly, occupying a large amount of funds of the poor and rice merchants, and the price of rice will naturally fall to the bottom.

He was already poor, and he couldn't even get one-third of the previous year's salary, and he had to find a way to repay the usury. The samurai of Xie Li's family could be imagined to be angry, as the old saying goes, barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes Those who have a permanent property have perseverance! Anyway, they are bankrupt, and if they win, the Maori family will become the new shogunate family. Everyone will naturally get promoted and get rich, and they will have new territories. Even if they lose, it doesn’t matter. One life.

With just such a few ships of food, a big vassal in the shogunate had to obediently serve Mao Jue as cannon fodder. In the banner of the world, he is out.

It's just that Mao Jue is obviously not as good-minded as Guan Zhong was back then. It is estimated that all the 70 shi of grain will be requisitioned by the Maori family as military rations. Although Yuan Chonghuan's strategic goal has been achieved, he has really lost a lot. In Delena's speechless smile, the majestic General Dongjiang was still howling.

"70 shi of rice!"

"Okay, my general, that kid Song Xiance is coming back soon, didn't the court allocate a sum of military salary to Dongjiang? You've earned it!"

"Imperial court, heh"

It's okay not to mention it, but when it comes to this, Mao Jue rolled his eyes again and waved his hand in disdain.

"That amount of food is not enough to support the boy scouts! This time, don't come here with any eunuchs, and it would be good if I had to pay for it."

While talking, Mao Jue had already walked to the end of the newly built wall of the village. When he got down, he didn't know whether he was flattering or there was such a project. The first few personal instructors blew their whistles and shouted.

"Whose food do you eat?"

"General Mao of Dongjiang!"

"Whose clothes are you wearing!"

"General Mao of Dongjiang!"

"In the future, who will you carry the gun for? Who will you fight for?"

"General Mao of Dongjiang!"

Loud and clear voices yelled from these children, and each sentence was more powerful. Although they disbanded for dinner after shouting, watching these boys scrambling for the braised pork in the cauldron, it was the first time that Mao Jue was worshiped so personally. It was erratic, and the heads seemed to be raised in the aisle.

"These guys!"

But seeing this scene, Adelaine's expression was not quite right, she was emotional, envious, melancholy, and hopeful. She turned her head and looked at it for a few minutes, and then she suddenly burst out with a bright glow. With a smile, he hurriedly followed Mao Jue's footsteps.

"My lord, wait for my concubine!"

Chapter 2 Seventy. Arrival of the Headquarters

On the other side of the sea, the flames of war that had been subdued for more than ten years ignited once again, and the smell of gunpowder on the opposite side of the Dongjiang River became more and more intense.

"Let's go together, one two one! One two one! Stand still, turn left and right!"

In the loud slogan, the two lines of pro-corps strode to the edge of the port, and immediately looked left and right, and suddenly compared the flintlock guns to their shoulders, as uniform as a person, wearing brand-new soap-colored armor Trembling violently, all the visitors on the boat who watched from inside the pass felt their hearts thump.

"This is Dongjiang?"

Although he became Mao Jue's father-in-law, it was the first time for Yu Dacheng, governor of Dongjiang and Denglai, to come here. Not only was the shock of the guards on the wharf, but also what made him unable to take his eyes off, was the area full of buildings. In Tieshan Port, busy ships of all sizes are piled up on the trestle bridges that go deep into the sea, and people can still be seen walking towards the shore carrying boxes of catches.

Looking further in, due to lack of space, many original one-story houses were demolished and built into two-story buildings, and some were even built into three-story buildings. Anyway, there are many mines in Dongjiang, and the caves opened are all coal mines and iron mines. Hit, a piece of steel bar, and hard big green bricks are built inside, so it can't fall down even when the typhoon comes.

The number of residents attached to this port has exceeded [-]. Although the population is still far below that of Yingtian, Suzhou, and Changshu, the prosperity is definitely comparable.Many businessmen from the south who came to do business were shocked at the first glance. It seems that the place changes every year, and there is no shortage of great success.

The rules of the Ming Dynasty, civil servants and supervisors, military generals work hard, even if it is a "hard job", the court has not let Mao Jue off, the commander-in-chief is his father-in-law, Denglai Road Governor Yu Dacheng, it is difficult for the court to do something good Well, Yu Dacheng didn't come empty-handed. He also brought more than 6000 soldiers from Shandong, military pay of 8 taels of silver, 12 shi of military rations, and a lot of entourages of this official and that official.

Looking at the bustling Dongjiang River, the leaders who followed here didn't know that it was useless, but received a lot of entertainment expenses, and their mouths grew in surprise. This also included the eunuch who made Mao Jue especially headache!

Cao Xi, one of Cao Huachun's adopted sons, was also dizzy from the sight.

The crying child also has no fucking milk to eat. Dongjiang is really like a stepmother. Every year Mao Jue reports to the court but is short of food, clamoring that if he doesn't pay, he will immediately mutiny.Although he didn't get involved in the distribution plan of the Ministry of War every year, and if he can pay them two months of salary for twelve months, it is considered Amitabha, but the name of Dongjiang's poverty is still spread in the capital.

To be honest, it was bad luck for Cao Xi to come to Dongjiang by drawing lots. No one wanted to come, but he never imagined that he would look like this. How do you look at it, this firearm and this armor have nothing to do with being poor, right?

Amidst the rattling sound, the wooden ladder was lowered from the side of the boat, followed behind Yu Dacheng, Cao Xi was still fantasizing about how much money he could make, but just as he got off the boat, he was greeted by a stiff face .

Almost expressionless, Mao Jue went up and bowed to Yu Dacheng.

"The last general pays homage to the governor!"

"Bold! You, a little lieutenant general, dare not kneel down when you see the governor of a town, is that the opposite?"

Before Yu Dacheng could speak, the guy bared his teeth and screamed.

The movement of Dongjiang has become a weather vane for the party struggle between the DPRK and China. In the past two months, the leaders of various camps have written to Mao Jue, and Mao Wenlong's autographed letters have gone to sea, but Dongjiang has not replied to any of them. After all, something went wrong with Zhengwo, the Wen Tiren party who came up with the idea, and Cao Huachun who was involved in it, couldn't get off the stage, and some of the embroidery streamers had bad mouths. I knew what to do?Just how it should be!

Under Cao Huachun's secret order, he came here to suppress Mao Jue. Seizing this opportunity, this eggless guy just wanted to give him a blow.

Unfortunately, he hit the iron plate.

Glancing at him blankly, Mao Jue suddenly raised his hand. In an instant, two rows of soldiers directly raised the flintlock guns, and then there was a burst of cracking gunshots, and even the bullets directly rubbed against the heads of the crowd. In the past, this end was still clamoring there, suddenly trembling with fright, the dead eunuch sat down on the ground.

Not only him, the governor Yu Dacheng, Jiang Li who joined the army, and Xu Congwen, several civil servants sat on the ground together, my good fellow, a group of people turned out to be all soft-footed shrimps.

He almost laughed out loud in his heart, but on the surface, Mao Jue stretched out his hand to grab Yu Dacheng's hand and forcefully pulled him up, still talking with a straight face.

"This is my highest standard welcome ceremony in Dongjiang. The etiquette of the barbarians makes adults laugh. The general has prepared a post in the city. Please follow the future."

From the beginning to the end, he didn't even look at Cao Xi, and just led the way in front of him. The eunuch was so angry that he gritted his teeth in the back, and even wanted to go back to the boat, but he hesitated there for a long time. Still cheeky, he followed the tail of the team and rubbed against it.

The four-wheeled carriage had already been prepared outside the port, and even the girl Yu Leer waited outside excitedly. When she saw Yu Dacheng, no matter how this father sold her to Dongjiang in the first place, she was so excited. The hand that supported him pulled him up. Although he was embarrassed when he came, those civil servants knew that Mao Jue was not trying to show his power to them, and no one pushed up without opening their eyes. Anyway, there are many carriages here, enough There are more than a dozen of them, and you have to walk there without worrying.

At the back of the crowd, Cao Xi naturally squeezed into the last carriage, followed by Jinyiwei, Lishi, and little eunuchs sent by the court. The public carriage was several meters long, with four rows of chairs and two tables. It's too crowded, but the eunuch is the most narrow-minded, got into the car, Cao Xi is still gnashing his teeth.

"This vulgar martial artist, a lowly lackey, dares to humiliate the men, let's see how the men will deal with him!"

"Grandfather, father-in-law"

He was furious there, but the tongue of the little eunuch under him couldn't help twitching, and he stretched out his hand tremblingly to point out, already full of anger, Cao Xi yelled angrily.

"what's up!"

"No, father-in-law, you, take a look!"

"What's the fuss? It's not like we men in Suzhou and Hangzhou haven't done business before. In this poor place, poor and border towns, there can be, can be."

Zhang looked out of the window, his eyes were also straightened.

In imitation of later generations, Mao Jue built a prototype landscape flower bed in the center of the street in the port area, but the flowers in the flower bed were not flowers, but all white heads, layered on top of each other, and I don’t know how high they fell. Look at that The quantity, if not tens of thousands, must be several thousand.