Xu Shu hurriedly walked into the lobby of the county government office and excitedly reported to Liu Cheng with his fists clasped: "My lord, we have made a fortune.
This time we will make a big fortune."
Liu Cheng was shocked after hearing this and asked: "How many have been seized?"
Xu Shu opened a paper-bound book and read what was written on it: "Ten thousand to twenty-two thousand stones of grain, three thousand loads of fodder, thirty thousand weapons, five thousand sets of armor, five thousand crossbows, and twenty arrows.
Ten thousand branches, seventy-three thousand catties of gold.
The gold of the Han Dynasty was measured in catties.
Unit, one kilogram is equivalent to 250 grams. 100 gold means 100 kilograms of gold.
It is often traded in gold cakes.
One gold cake is worth one gold and eight million six hundred thousand copper coins.
There are also other materials such as cloth, silk, and silk.
Cotton wool, kerosene, etc. are countless.”
Liu Cheng couldn't help but gasped after hearing this.
He opened his mouth wide and didn't speak for a long time.
Finally he came back to his senses and asked: "These bandits are so rich.
How many people must they rob to save so much money?"
" Jia Xu stroked his beard and shook his head and said: "My lord, if the bandits only rob ordinary people, it is impossible to accumulate so much money and food supplies.
This year, the people are starved of food and live in danger.
There is no extra money or food in their hands.
Ru Xu guessed right, the bandit army must have broken through the fortresses of many wealthy families, thereby obtaining so much money, food and materials."
This era is an era when aristocratic families are rampant.
Most of the land in the world is occupied by aristocratic families.
These people hide their population, do not pay taxes, and set up private armed forces.
Bandits are rampant in the late Han Dynasty.
In order to protect their lives and property, aristocratic families build forts wantonly. , set up an armed defense in Wubao, transfer all food, money and valuable materials into Wubao and hide them.
Wubao can be built either large or small, built with stones or made of rammed earth, with different defensive abilities.
The more powerful the powerful families build, the bigger and stronger the Wubao will be, and vice versa.
But no matter how much the fort is built and how strong it is, it is still not as good as the city walls.
They can resist the robbers and bandits, but they cannot stop the huge peasant army.
The peasant army can easily break through the fort by relying on their numerical advantage.
Obviously, the Baibo Army is a peasant army known for its numerical superiority.
Although this peasant army has only 100,000 combatable soldiers, there are hundreds of thousands of peasants following it.
Its destructive power It’s amazing how the small Wubao could withstand their locust-like offensive.
Xu Shu closed the book at this time and said: "Master Jia's guess is right.
My subordinates interrogated the prisoners with higher status.
They fought from Hedong to here and indeed captured dozens of people along the way."
Big and small Wubao, there are big families , there are also small aristocratic families, even several small aristocratic families in Linli County were killed by Yang Feng and his men a few days ago, and all the money, food and materials in their Wubao were robbed.
The Lord, after defeating the Huns, captured The statistics have also been calculated.
Please take a look at it, my lord."
Liu Cheng took the book handed over by Xu Shu, opened it and read it quickly, nodded and said: "Sure enough, the business without capital is the most profitable.
The Huns robbed even more than Yang Feng, and even Yang Feng could rob so much.
So Guo Da, Li Le, I'm afraid Han Xian, Hu Cai and the others are much more powerful than Yang Feng.
These people are really stupid.
They have so much money and food but don't know how to use it to reorganize their troops and strengthen their armaments.
The money is of no use if it is not spent.
It’s still a huge burden.”
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Jia Xu smiled and said: "My lord, you still have a broad vision."
At this time, a primary school student from outside the door came in and said with fists in his hands: "Lord, the food and wine are ready."
Liu Cheng immediately said to Xu Shu: "Yuan Zhi, go and notify Chen Dao, Wang Shuang, Zhang Liao, Yang Ru and others, and ask them to come over for dinner after arranging the matters at hand.
Bring Xu Huang here too, and call Zhao."
Rui sent people to inquire among the prisoners and interrogate some of the higher-ranking bandit leaders.
I want to know the details of Xu Huang among the bandits."
"promise" The others hadn't come yet, but Xu Huang, who was captured, was taken to the county government hall first.
Liu Cheng left Xu Huang aside and was quickly handling the backlog of military affairs in the past few days.
He also met with the only two remaining minor officials in Lin Lucheng County Yamen.
Both of them came from poor families and had relatively clean backgrounds.
Through After a conversation, Liu Cheng appointed them as county magistrates and bosses on the spot, and asked them to take care of the big people who no longer had their owners.
A piece of land was registered and distributed to landless farmers for cultivation, and they were exempted from tax for one year.
Many landless farmers who followed the bandit army were also left to settle here, so that the ownerless fields could be cultivated, and at the same time, from the Northern Army A village chief was transferred from the middle to serve as a county captain, commanding the county soldiers and assisting the county magistrate and the governor in governing the place.
"There is still a task for you," Liu Cheng said after appointing the two officials.
The new county magistrate and Lord Bo immediately bowed and cupped their hands and said: "Please give me the general's orders."
Liu Chengdao said: "The weather is cold now.
Many soldiers' feet are so cold that they have sores and pus.
Wearing straw sandals cannot keep out the cold.
I want to make a pair of cloth shoes and two pairs of thick socks for each of them.
You can organize all the free shoes in the county."
The labor force was fully engaged in making cloth shoes and socks.
Within ten days, Ben.
The general will see 30,000 pairs of cloth shoes and 60,000 pairs of socks.
I will ask Xu Shu to allocate the required materials and wages.
This is a political achievement for the two of you.
If you cannot complete the task, the general will not do it.
If I don’t kill you, please resign yourself, and I, the general, will find someone else to do this.”
The newly-appointed county magistrate and Lord Bo thought about it and said, this is a good thing.
It is the slack time for farming in winter and the weather is cold.
Most people stay at home and can't do much work when going out.
If they can stay at home and make money, , that’s perfect, but it’s not an easy workload to hand over 30,000 pairs of cloth shoes and 60,000 pairs of socks in ten days.
The two men thought about it silently in their hearts and felt that it was almost complete.
After looking at each other, they said at the same time: "Don't worry, general.
I will ensure that the task is completed."
"Very good" Liu Cheng nodded, picked up a pen and wrote a note on a piece of white paper and handed it to them and said: "Take this to Xu Shu.
After reading it, he will allocate the materials and wages."
The new county magistrate took the note and bowed out of the hall with his master.
At this time, Zhao Rui walked in, put a scroll on Liu Cheng's desk, whispered a few words in his ear, and then left.
The military affairs of a 30,000-man army are neither too much nor too little.
This includes the distribution of food and salary to the soldiers, the creation and replenishment of military equipment, the completion of daily training and special training tasks, combat plans and deployment, The construction and transportation of siege equipment, logistical supplies and transportation routes, the payment of pensions to soldiers killed in battle, the comfort and treatment of injured soldiers, etc.
Although specific things must be left to the people below, he still needs to make arrangements and check the implementation results.
There are many things that also require his decision and signature.
The current stall is not big yet, and he is still busy.
When the stall becomes bigger in the future, it will not be too late to appropriately delegate power to the people below.
When Liu Cheng finished handling military affairs, he saw Xu Huang still tied up and standing in the middle of the lobby.
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He opened the scroll of paper sent by Zhao Rui and looked at it.
What was written on it was an investigation of Xu Huang's actions among the bandits.
Before he finished reading the report, he waved to the soldiers around him and said, "Why are you still tied up?
Untie them."
Several soldiers immediately stepped forward to untie Xu Huang's rope.
After Liu Cheng read the investigation contents on the scroll, he stood up and walked from behind the desk to Xu Huang to look at him.
Xu Huang clasped his fists and bowed and said: "The sinner Xu Huang pays homage to the general."
"Oh, sinner, what's your crime?"
Liu Cheng approached Xu Huang and asked with his hands behind his back.
Xu Huang cupped his fists and said: "Follow the bandits to kill the officers and soldiers, attack the cities, and plunder the people."
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "Well, according to what you said, you are indeed a sinner.
For your crime, you should be beheaded in public.
Come on."
Xu Huang suddenly began to sweat on his forehead and back.
Several soldiers came in from outside the door with their swords in hand, picked him up and left.
Jia Xu hurriedly stood up to stop him and said: "Master, take your time, take your time, Xu Gongming is unparalleled in martial arts.
He was rich in strategy and had the talent of a general.
It would be a pity to kill him like this."
"It's a pity to have talent," Liu Cheng asked with a sneer.
"There are tens of millions of talented people in this world, but it's a pity.
Not all talented people have the opportunity to display their talents, and not all talented people can be famous throughout the ages.
More are those who want to be infamous for thousands of years and buried in the dust of history and want to display their talents.
Opportunities, if you want to be successful and famous, you must have great perseverance, great wisdom, great benevolence, and great courage.
You must have at least one of these to have the chance to become such a person.
He is half-hearted, weak-willed, wavering, right and wrong.
No matter how talented you are, you will never accomplish anything if you don’t distinguish between talents and are arrogant.”
Xu Huang's face turned pale and he wanted to defend himself, but he didn't know how to defend himself.
As a court official, surrendering the bandit army was a big mistake in itself.
If he had sacrificed his life for justice at that time, why would he be so ashamed now?
Jia Xu sighed, cupped his hands and said: "My lord's words are thought-provoking, but how can people not make mistakes?
We always give people a chance to reform.
I heard that Xu Gongming is not as good as others in the bandit army."
Bandit leaders usually kill innocent people and often stop them.
He is also fairly fair, and he often gives advice to the bandit leader Yang Feng.
This shows that he is not bad and has not joined the bandits.
Besides, it is not easy for God to create such a talent.
He also asked the general to give Xu Gongming one.
Let him get the chance to reform and make meritorious service."
Liu Cheng was silent for a long time, stared at Xu Huang, waved to the soldiers holding him, and asked: "Xu Huang, do you know your mistakes and regret it?"
Xu Huang quickly bowed down and said: "The villain knows his crime.
Please give the villain a chance to change his ways and make meritorious service."
Liu Chengdao: "What Wen He said is not unreasonable.
People are not afraid of making mistakes, but they are afraid of knowing that they are wrong but persisting in making mistakes and not repenting.
Since you have a heart of repentance, I will give you a chance to let you You deserve to be punished and let's see how you behave in the future.
Come on."
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The primary school officer on duty outside the door came in and said, clasping his fists: "General, what are your orders?"
Liu Cheng pointed at Xu Huang and said: "Take Xu Huang to the scout camp and hand him over to the captain of the scout camp.
Let him start as a small soldier and report his performance to the general every ten days."
"Nuo" the primary school agreed and said to Xu Huang: "Let's go" Xu Huang stood up and hugged Liu Cheng and Jia Xu: "Thank you so much, General, thank you so much, Mr.
Wenhe, I will take my leave."