Just under the night, half an hour before thousands of cavalry attacked the Yuan family warehouse, an uninvited guest came to the home of Zhang Miao, a county magistrate of Honghua County. He was over 20 years old, tall and burly, wearing a fifth-rank rank that only officials could wear.
Purple se robe, wearing a gauze hat, and standing at the door of Zhang Miao's house with hands on her back. Not far away, dozens of guards stood in front of a carriage.
"Sir, who is it? What's the price to find me?"
"It's hard to talk about here, let's talk in your mansion." The mysterious person came, which made Zhang Miao confused.
Zhang Miao didn't know the background of this person, but the purple goldfish bag worn by the other party made him dare not be negligent. He hurriedly invited someone to the mansion and sat down in the living room. Then Zhang Miao asked carefully: "May I, sir.
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"In the downtown of Fengzhou Yang Yuanqing!"
Zhang Miao was so shocked that he stood up and hurriedly gave a deep bow, "The official is rude, please forgive me!"
Zhang Miao was a little panicked. Yang Yuanqing actually came to his small county in person and came to find him, which made him utterly confused.
"Mr. Zhang, please sit down!"
Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "I just passed by Guixian, said a few words and left."
Zhang Miao said respectfully: "President Yang asked for instructions!"
"That's right, I received information that Bai Yuso's army is likely to attack Honghua County tonight. You are ready to defend yourself and don't open the city gate easily."
Zhang Miao was so scared that he was very close to Heshui County. There were heavy troops stationed in Heshui County. Bai Yusou bandits never dared to attack them. Why are they coming tonight?
"Secret official, thank you General Manager Yang for reminding me that Xiaguan Ma sent someone to the troops stationed in Heshui County for help."
Yang Yuanqing's face darkened and said unhappy: "No need! Close the city gates and Bai Yuso's army will naturally retreat."
"Yes, the official understands." Zhang Miao was surprised in his heart, not knowing where he offended Yang Yuanqing.
Yang Yuanqing asked him again: "What did I say to you just now?"
"General Manager Yang said that Bai Yuso's army is coming to attack Honghua County tonight, so I can close the city gate."
Yang Yuanqing nodded, stood up and said, "That's all, I'm leaving."
He got up and walked outside. Zhang Miao sent him out all the way, standing at the door, bowing and saluting, and keeping looking at Yang Yuanqing's carriage. More than a hundred personal soldiers guarded him away, and Zhang Miao wiped his forehead.
Sweat, breathing a sigh of relief.
In the carriage, 'Yang Yuanqing' took off his hat and complained to Li Jing: "Master asked me to pretend to be the general manager. When I go back, I have to be beaten with a hundred military sticks."
Li Jing smiled and said, "You are all about the same figure as Yuan Qing, and it is best to pretend to be him. If I pretend to be him, I will look too old. Don't worry, he won't know about this. If you know, I can explain it to you."
The person who pretended to be Yang Yuanqing was Su Lie. He scratched his head and smiled: "Is it useful to the county magistrate to pretend to be the chief officer?"
"I have inquired about this Zhang County Magistrate. I am timid and afraid of things. Manager Yang personally finds him, which is more effective than anything else."
The carriage rushed out of the city gate before the city gate was closed and rushed towards the snowy wilderness.
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County magistrate Zhang Miao sat in the room and was nervous. The order to close the city gate had been issued. But he didn't know when Bai Yuso's army would arrive. He didn't know what Yang Yuanqing would bring to him in person? The court knew it.
what to do?
He was restless, paced with his hands behind his back, and stood in front of the window and sighed. At this moment, a family member rushed over. "Master, something happened outside."
Zhang Miao was shocked and walked out of the mansion quickly, and saw a yamen runner standing at the door with a look of panic on his face.
"What happened?"
"Report to the county magistrate, the army came from outside the city and was looting the Yuan family warehouse. Go and have a look!"
Zhang Miao said nothing, ran away from the city wall in one breath, stood at the top of the city and looked into the distance. He could vaguely see that two miles away, countless cavalry had surrounded the Yuan family warehouse, and thousands of camels were carrying supplies.
Zhang Miao looked at it in a daze, with fear in his eyes. At this time, the county magistrate whispered beside him: "County magistrate, Bai Yusu's bandits never dare to come to Honghua County. Why did you come today? Could it be that?
them?"
Zhang Miao turned around, stared at the county magistrate viciously, and shouted sternly: "Who said no, this is the Bai Yusou bandit!"
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Ten days later, thousands of cavalry escorted a camel cavalry full of supplies back to Fengzhou. They swept away more than a dozen Yuanjia warehouses and obtained a large amount of strategic materials, raw materials for making bows and arrows, and more than twenty.
There are thousands of ash poles such as ten thousand tills, as well as a large number of tents, flags, gongs and drums, and some grain cloths.
It is not rare for Fengzhou to make items such as grain, cloth and tents, but the raw materials for making bows and arrows and more than 200,000 white wax poles are undoubtedly a timely help for Fengzhou. Fengzhou has already smelted good iron, just waiting.
These raw materials have begun to create weapons and armor.
Du Ruhui was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to Dali City to report to Yang Yuanqing.
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At this time, Yang Yuanqing and Wuyuan County Magistrate Cui Junsu inspected Pu Taoyuan in Dali City. A few days ago, the military government and county government joint meeting. After some discussion, the two sides reached an agreement to turn 10,000 hectares south of Dali City.
Pu Taoyuan reduced it by half and replaced it with grain planting, which would give you 5,000 hectares of good arable land.
"The land reduced this time is all official land, and the farmers' personal Pu Tao orchards are basically not moved. If they are willing to change to grow grain, they can only do whatever they want."
In front of the endless snow-covered Pu Tao rack, dozens of people rode horses to inspect Pu Tao Garden. Cui Junsu was telling Yang Yuanqing about the specific plan of "garden-changing fields".
"This land change involves the resettlement of more than 2,000 ppor peach workers. I have contacted some private ppor peach orchard owners. These more than 2,000 people can be basically settled. I plan to escape from the refugees who fled from various counties in Guanbei.
We selected 5,000 households and rented them for one household to 100 acres. The land here is fertile and the water source is sufficient, and there are basically no disasters. In a year, these 5,000 hectares of land can provide at least 400,000 stones of official grain for use as strategic reserves.
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Yang Yuanqing nodded. He knew that one acre of land could produce about two stones and five dou of wheat. The official took eight dou as the land rent. Compared with the official land in the Central Plains to collect 50% of the rent, this rent is indeed not high.
"This can be left to the scholars who took the imperial examination this year to exercise their abilities."
"Don't worry, manager! I will arrange this."
Cui Junsu couldn't help but sigh softly, "It's a pity that the 5,000-hectare Pujiao orchard is going to cut the yield of Italian Pujiao wine by half."
"Pomegranate wine is just a product of the prosperous times. For troubled times, growing grain is the most important thing. When the prosperous times come back in the future, we will restore the production of Italian pineapple wine. Besides, the rarest things are expensive. If the output decreases, the price will also be priced.
If it rises, you won’t make less money.”
Yang Yuanqing comforted Cui Junsu, and Cui Junsu smiled bitterly. "I know too, but I feel a little regretful and a little disappointed."
Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder, turned his horse's head and headed towards Dali City. He had just walked out of Pu Tao Garden. A cavalry rushed to him, "Report to the general manager, a team of cavalry arrived in the Turks, about 500 people, waiting for the general manager in Dali City.
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Yang Yuanqing was stunned. Heavy snow covered the grassland. How could the Turks come? Could it be that they were following the example of riding camels across the snowfield?
He immediately urged his horse to run towards Dali City. Outside Dali City, he saw five hundred Turkic soldiers riding camels. Without Yang Yuanqing's permission, the defenders did not allow them to enter the city.
Five hundred Turkic cavalry protected a man in his thirties, wearing a muddy hat, an expensive black fox fur robe, a bow and a sword. He was so excited that he saw Yang Yuanqing from afar. He laughed and shouted.
Get up, "Brother Yuanqing. I didn't expect that I would come!"
The person who came was actually the Northern Turkic Ye Huwutu. Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed and greeted him with a smile. The two of them turned over and dismounted and hugged each other intimately.
Wutu looked at him, punched him and said, "I heard you have rebelled too?"
"How could it be?"
Yang Yuanqing pointed to the Sui Dynasty flag on the top of the city and smiled: "It is still the Sui Dynasty red flag. When will I rebel?"
"I think so. If you rebel, the Sui Dynasty will be over."
Wutu looked at Dali City again and nodded and praised: "It is worthy of being a sturdy city and Gu Fortress. It is reasonable that Xueyantuo cannot capture it."
Yang Yuanqing hugged his shoulder and smiled, "Not to talk about this, go to the city to roast the fire, and drink a few bowls of hot soup."
"Then I will accept your hospitality."
Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and said, "Open the city!"
The city gate rumbled open, and five hundred Turkic camel cavalry lined up into Dali City. Yang Yuanqing ordered officials to arrange for the Turkic cavalry to have a meal and rest. He led Wutu to the county government office and sat down in the county government office's convention hall.
Drinking a cup of hot tea, Wutu said to him: "The reason I chose to come to see you at this time is because only in winter, Shibi Khan will not attack me. We have fought three major wars in the past few years, each with
Win or lose, but in the autumn of this year, we were defeated and more than 30,000 people died in battle.”
Speaking of this, Wu Tu's expression became extremely serious. He took off the bow on his back and placed it in front of Yang Yuanqing, "You have a look at this bow first!"
Yang Yuanqing took the bow and took a look. He had been immersed in the bow for many years. At first glance, he knew it was a Badou cavalry bow with good workmanship. At first glance, it was no different from the bows of the Sui army cavalry, but after careful reading, it was still
Different, the bow of the Sui army mainly uses silk as bowstrings, while this bow is made of cow tendon. Yang Yuanqing frowned, "This is not the bow of the Sui army!"
"It's true that's not, this is a bow made by Shibi Khan and others."
Yang Yuanqing was shocked. He knew that the Turkic bows were made in a crude way, with only thirty or forty steps. How could they make such a powerful bow?
"Frankly speaking, this is the Sui Dynasty who taught them. You, the Sui Dynasty, had a large number of refugees fled to the Turks. There were many craftsmen among them. It was these craftsmen who taught Shibi Khan how to make bows. They took them two years to build
I had a lot of bows, but this fall, we were defeated."
Wutu sighed, "Due to the disadvantage of bows and arrows, we are in crisis now. I have to ask you for help. I hope you can sell me five thousand bows and I will buy them at a high price."
Yang Yuanqing knew very well that the fundamental reason why Shibi Khan had never gone south to attack him was that Wutu restrained him in the north. If Wutu's troops were defeated, Shibi Khan would have no worries and would have to go south in large numbers.
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More importantly, the technology of bow making has been introduced to the Turks. The Turks do not lack raw materials, but only technology. It can be foreseen that the Turks' bows and arrows will inevitably make rapid progress. It is impossible to resist the ban. Selling bows to Wutu will not help the alien race.
This is more of a strategic choice, and he needs Utu to restrain Shibi Khan for himself.
Seeing Yang Yuanqing pondering, Wutu thought he was unwilling, so he said, "Actually, I don't want to make things difficult for you, because I also got more than a hundred bow craftsmen in the Sui Dynasty. I thought I could make the same bow immediately, but they told me,
It will take at least two years to make a bow, which means I will have to have the same bow as Duji in two years, but by then, my tribe may be killed by him. Time is too late, so I can only ask for it.
You, but I will never let you suffer."
Wutu took a knife from his waist and placed it on the table, "This is a treasure blade made by the Xiagas people with Kashar iron. The soldiers are extremely sharp and they are also treasures in the Turks. I brought five thousand this time, using
How about changing a Kasar sword to another Sui bow?”
Yang Yuanqing picked up the knife and slowly pulled it out. He saw a cold light and sharp blade. It was worthy of being made of meteorite iron. In fact, there were also excess bows and arrows in Fengzhou. The militia had 30,000 bows, so it would be okay to sell them to Wutu for 5,000 pieces.
Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly and said, "I can agree, but I have an additional condition."
Wutu was overjoyed, "What are the conditions you said!"
"I hope Fengzhou will form an alliance with your Northern Turks. Once Shibi Khan attacks Fengzhou, your army must come and support me."
Wutu took out an arrow, broke it into two pieces, knelt on one knee, and said to the heavens: "I, Alte Wutu, here I swear to Tenger that if Fengzhou is in trouble, my army will definitely come to help, no matter when
, never regret it!”
"Okay! Then we'll make a decision."
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After the two talked about the important matter, Wutu took out another letter and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "This is Anulli's letter to Asdu. Since Asdu has decided to go with you, we agree, I just hope you don't let it go.
She, then she should be your wife."
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Don't worry! I have regarded her as my wife, and she will always follow me."
Wutu sighed again and said, "There is another thing I want to remind you, this time Shibi Khan defeated us, our vitality was severely damaged. In a short period of time, my tribe was unable to fight with him again, you provided five thousand
We can only protect ourselves by taking the bow. In this way, Shibi Khan may have the strength to consider the Great Sui Dynasty. In the past one or two years, he may have planned to plan for the Great Sui Dynasty."
Having said this, Wutu hurriedly said: "But there is no problem in Fengzhou. I will send patrols to monitor the movements here. If he wants to plan for Fengzhou, I will immediately send 30,000 troops to support you, but don't do it in the Sui Dynasty.
I can’t help it.”
Yang Yuanqing pondered for a while and asked again: "How many troops does Shibi Khan have now?"
"He now controls the Thousand Tribes, with more than 500,000 armored soldiers and is powerful. I only have more than 100,000 soldiers left, and I am far from his opponent. In the future, we can only join forces with the Western Turks to compete with him."
Yang Yuanqing made a decision in his heart that he must march into the Hetao area of Yulin County as soon as possible and establish fortifications to defend against the Turks.