Seeing that the drama county was in sight, Mi Zhu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The distance from Xiapi to Beihai is about 900 miles, and if you are fast, you can take a one-way trip in only three or four days.
However, it was not so easy to transport money and grain, and the grain team led by Mi Zhu left the north gate of Xiapi on May 23, all the way to the north, and could only walk about forty or fifty miles a day. 300,000 stone of grain, which is converted to 360,000 catties in the era before Liu Wei's crossing, is 18,000 tons when converted into tonnage.
If it is transported by heavy trucks, it will take 360 vehicles to fully fit according to the calculation of 50 tons per truck.
Mizhu's grain team all uses three-horse carts, and the weight of each horse is about two tons, which means that a horse-drawn cart can pull about six tons of grain.
Just 300,000 stone of grain, nearly 10,000 horses and more than 3,000 carriages were used.
The five baht coins raised by Mi Zhu are all standard copper coins, which are equivalent to the era before Liu Bian's crossing, a coin weighs about 5 grams, and the weight of 10,000 coins is 100 catties. 200,000 yuan a ton, a carriage can pull about 1.2 million yuan, and after removing the weight of the box, a troika can actually carry about 600,000 copper coins.
In this way, twenty-five million copper coins were loaded into forty or fifty carriages.
Of course, compared to the more than 3,000 grain wagons, the number of these coin trucks is not worth mentioning.
Such a large convoy walked on a rough road, and the speed was naturally slow, and forty or fifty miles a day was already the limit.
In addition, it is necessary to avoid the rain, if the grain is drenched by the rain, it will be moldy and rotten, and Mizhu will never allow this kind of thing to happen The team walked and stopped and stopped along the way, and it took nearly a month to come from Xiapi to Xi County.
From Xiapi to Beihai, along the way through the East China Sea, Langya, Juxian, Zhuxian and other places, although the whole line is controlled by Tao Qian's forces and Liu Wei's forces, but there are more than 100,000 yellow turbans in Peiguo, which is adjacent to the East China Sea, and the Yan Liang army entrenched in Taishan County may also be attacked by light horses, Mi Zhu naturally has to be extremely careful.
Not for anything else, just because there are 200,000 stone grains in this batch of money and grain, and 15 million yuan is Mi Zhu's own.
This is by no means a small amount, close to half of Xuzhou's annual financial revenue, even if Mi Zhu is as wealthy, he does not dare to be careless.
In case the money and grain are robbed, Tao Qian will not return a copper coin to the Mi family, not to mention a grain of grain, his image in Liu Bian's mind will inevitably plummet Therefore, Mi Zhu dispatched 5,000 private guests to escort the team, and Tao Qian did not dare to be careless, after all, this batch of grain was safely transported to Beihai in exchange for the vast Langya, and he also sent Zhang Min, a general, to lead 4,000 elite soldiers to escort along the way.
Coupled with nearly 10,000 coachmen and people, the journey can be described as mighty.
"Lord Mi, since I have arrived in Xi County, I will turn around and go back" Seeing that the city of drama was in sight, Zhang Min, who was red all the way, brought a few henchmen to resign.
Zhang Min had been a Yellow Turban rebel in his early years, so he was particularly afraid of the imperial court officials, and when he heard that the Son of Heaven had personally come out to greet him, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.
Mi Zhu thanked him: "It's okay, at present, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has occupied the entire territory of Peiguo, and is currently active at the border of Pengcheng."
Tao Yuanjun is in urgent need of troops, General Zhang will lead his troops back, after working hard all the way and returning to Xiapi, he will definitely be grateful."
"Mi-sama is polite" Zhang Min said goodbye and led 4,000 Xuzhou soldiers to return the same way.
While riding his horse and walking slowly, he said to his henchmen on the left and right: "If we had so much food and coins when we rebelled, now we can mix into a prince, this Mi family is really rich and rivals the country."
"Yes, yes, we couldn't even fill our stomachs when we followed the great sage and good teacher, let alone the military salary, how could I have seen so much food and coins" A henchman on the left also suffered from pink eye.
A henchman on the right also echoed stupidly: "If it weren't for the fact that there were so many customers of the Mi family, Lao Tzu really wanted to rob the money and grain, and take the brothers to find a mountain to hide, eat and drink spicy food, and don't worry about it for at least ten years and eight years."
After listening to the discussion of the left and right henchmen, Zhang Min's face was like frost, and he urged the horse forward without saying a word, and no one could guess what he was thinking at the moment.
The generals led the team to the southwest, gradually moving away.
Seeing such a vast grain truck appear under the city of Xixian County, hundreds of thousands of homeless refugees cheered one after another, and the cries of "Long live the Son of Heaven" rose and fell in the wilderness, like a tsunami in the mountains, and the thin and dry faces showed a long-lost smile.
Before coming to Xi County, the refugees' food was provided by the escort team: two meals a day, a bowl of corn for each meal, a nest head, and drinking water scooped from the rivers and mountain springs on the roadside.
It's not that the escort soldiers withhold their food, it's really difficult to supply, and the soldiers are just barely enough to eat every day, so naturally there is no condition for the people to eat openly.
But for these homeless refugees, the food conditions are enough to make them happy, because when they used to travel with the Yellow Turbans, they could only eat one meal a day, and even when they were fighting, they could not eat a single meal.
And when it came time to fight, the Yellow Turbans were strong and strong, regardless of whether they were well fed or not, and always drove them to the front as cannon fodder in every battle.
After a long time, the people found out that although the court was hateful, these rebellious Yellow Turban rebels were even more hateful, but it was a pity that they were powerless to resist, so they could only be slaughtered by others, and life and death were up to heaven Occasionally, this kind of diet is okay for a day or two, but after a long time, they can't eat like this every day, resulting in hundreds of thousands of refugees in serious physical condition.
Those with a slightly better physique can still persevere, but those with a slightly worse physique are infected with the wind chill and fall on the side of the road, basically unable to get up.
After a long period of starvation, a large number of people will starve to death or die of disease every day, and the extremely hungry people will begin to dig grass roots, dig tree bark, and pick leaves to satisfy their hunger.
Everywhere we went, the green wilderness turned yellow, the trees were stripped away, and the branches and leaves withered, as if the end of the world was apocalyptic.
All this changed after coming to Drama County Although there was a shortage of food in the city, Liu Wei still treated the refugees with an attitude of loving the people like children, and ordered that three meals be distributed to the victims every day according to the capitation, and each meal included pickles, seasonal vegetables, and even shredded meat.
This made the people outside the city all have tears in their eyes, and the taste of eating every day is endless, and the words that float the most in the sky are "Your Majesty is merciful, long live my emperor, the great Han rivers and mountains, and the eternal stability of a thousand autumns".
The physical strength of these refugees was already in a state of overdraft, so Wang Meng did not arrange any fortifications for them for the time being, and tried to provide tents for them to recuperate in the wilderness, waiting for Mi Zhu's food to arrive, and then make the next step And now, the money and food that hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting for have finally been delivered to the city, which means that the vast majority of people can live better Watching one grain truck after another be transported into the city of Xixian County, the bare-backed people sweated profusely carrying bags of grain into the granary and piling them up.
Soon, the granaries that I saw were about to bottom out suddenly filled up, until finally they were piled up, and the granaries became full of grain.
"Mr.
Zizhong's great kindness, I and hundreds of thousands of refugees remember it from the bottom of my heart" Liu Wei was happy and thanked Mi Zhu for his efforts.
Mi Zhu hurriedly returned the salute to the ground: "This is a matter for the courtiers, how dare you be a great gift to Your Majesty, wouldn't it be a villain?"
Tao Qian's borrowing of grain from Mi Zhu and Chen Qi had long been rumored in Xuzhou, and Liu Wei also obtained information from the scouts.
But the shortage of grain is related to the stability of the army and the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people, even if this batch of grain was squeezed by Tao Qian from Mi Zhu, Liu Wei could only accept it.
"Mr.
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Zizhong, don't worry, most of this batch of grain is yours, as long as the situation in Qingzhou improves, I will definitely return it" Liu Wei comforted Mi Zhu with a sincere face.
Mi Zhu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Hehe, Your Majesty is serious, it's just money and grain, why worry about it, besides, Tao Qian borrowed it from Zhu, and it has nothing to do with Your Majesty If Tao Qian doesn't pay me back, I just send a guest to the fields on the outskirts of Xiapi to collect taxes, and it only takes a year and a half to get it back."
After a pause, Mi Zhu said with a sad face: "It's just that last time, the villain lost his words after drinking and talked about the marriage of his sister, so that the rumors spread in Xuzhou."
One by one, they told His Majesty that Nashe Mei wanted to enter the palace, so that no one dared to come to the door to propose marriage, this matter is tricky" Mi Zhu's words have already come to this, and Liu Wei knows that he can't shirk anymore.
Although Mi Zhu had a political purpose to curry favor with himself, he had already done his best, and if it weren't for his great help, Liu Wei would have either given up hundreds of thousands of people, or he would have given up the Qingzhou territory, resulting in the loss of his previous achievements.
It was Mi Zhu's timely mediation and financing that allowed Liu Wei to come out of the predicament, and people only had such a small request, if he didn't agree to it, it really couldn't be said What's more, Mrs.
Mi recorded in the history books is white-skinned and beautiful, and she is loyal, although she is not as famous as Diao Chan and Er Qiao, but she is also a leading woman in this era.
Since Mi Zhu wants to send it into his bed, if he pushes it again, isn't it an emperor who just accepts a concubine, why worry too much, if he doesn't have such energy, how can he talk about dominating the world Thinking of this, Liu Wei suddenly understood his concerns.
What I am worried about in my heart is that there will be some angry young people scolding their stallions and the like in the future, but if you think about it carefully, it has been two years since I came to this world, and I am also the emperor of my word, and there are only three or four women who have been touched, if this is still slandered, it can only be said that they are not the same kind of creatures, and they are just normal men "Che Lao Tzu will consider what you think of the angry young keyboard warrior, if you were to replace my role, maybe there would be a group of wives and concubines a long time ago, and I don't believe that the king will not be early from now on, who dares to say that he will insist on monogamy, and even live an ascetic life."
After making up his mind, Liu Wei solemnly promised Mi Zhu: "Mr.
Zizhong's name of benevolence and righteousness has spread all over Xuzhou, which shows that Ling Mei must be a kind-hearted woman."
Now that the rumors have risen, how can I prevaricate and turn back, so I asked Wang Tingshi to prepare a six-book dowry and appoint a minister to Xuzhou to send it down."
"This matter will be entrusted to the minister, and Mi Zizhong's gift will be regarded as a dowry" Wang Meng joked beside him, easing the atmosphere.
When Mi Zhu heard this, he immediately smiled. can get the promise of the Son of Heaven, the 200,000 stone grain, 15 million copper coins, even if you can't get it back, it's worth it Again long to the ground: "Oh, if this is the case, it is really the luck of the three lives of the sister, and the villain is here on behalf of the whole Mi clan to thank the Holy Grace Hammer, and the Mi clan is willing to do its best to help His Majesty sweep Xuzhou and set the world."
The monarch said that he was happy, and Liu Wei ordered to buy a wine banquet in the Assassin's Mansion to entertain Mi Zhu, and once again invited the heavyweight civil and military forces around the county to accompany him.
This time it was not only Wang Meng, Xu Shu and other civil officials who went to the banquet, but also Wei Yan, Lu Wenlong, Gao Lan, Wen Yang, Wei Jiang, and Hua Rong, who had already improved his injuries, all came out of the ranks, which was considered to have given Uncle Mi Guo enough face.
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