Chapter 129: The Cai family's overtures
Cai Mao was actually a little depressed, after all, she had just negotiated with the branch family in Caizhou Qiankou before, and passed her daughter to the name of the main family Cai Wei, but she didn't expect Huang Chengyan of the Huang family to be one step faster......
In this way, he has an extra sister for no reason, and he still can't get married, and he has to spend money to raise it, although there may be other opportunities in the future, but he has no chance with Fei Qian. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
With the status of the Cai family, it is absolutely impossible for the daughter of the head of the family to be the concubine of a person who supports the family, after all, Fei Qian's current official position is placed there, and the Cai family will not be so embarrassed.
But thinking about it, it's a little unwilling, what a good opportunity......
Just when Cai Mao was sorry, his soldiers came to report, saying that they were not driving Fei Qian Fei Ziyuan with 40,000 arrows to hand over the order!
"So fast?!" Cai Maoba pulled his finger and counted, and it took more than ten days, which is 40,000 arrows?
Fei Qian didn't expect it to be completed so quickly, but the craftsmen of the Huang family did play a key role in this time.
With sufficient experience, many times some problems on the site are solved automatically and spontaneously, and there is no need to report to Fei Qian and then adjust, which saves a lot of time, and after using the water saw, a large number of manpower in the sawing link is saved and allocated to other links, which virtually accelerates the overall process.
Therefore, if you only rely on the Xiangyang ordnance craftsmen, the workload that would have taken at least more than a month will be completed in just more than ten days under the collective efforts of the Huang family's craftsmen.
Fei Qian said that he didn't want to carry forward any style, so he made more arrows for no reason, so after reaching the total amount, he came to Cai Mao's camp outside the city with freshly baked arrows.
Cai Mao's camp is located in the west of Xiangyang City, north of the Han River, and is set up by the water behind the mountain, which is very majestic.
The Xiangyang camp was originally located here, but there was no general to preside over it, and now Cai Mao has settled in, and the entire camp has been revised to a considerable extent, and now at least in Fei Qian's view, it is already a "heroic camp", which is not easy to attack.
The so-called male camp refers to those that have no flaws, are easy to defend but difficult to attack, and vice versa, are "female camps".
The north side of the camp is mountainous, and some of the trees near the camp have been cut down, leaving only the stumps, which have become natural horse piles, and the south side is the Han River, with a water gate, and a few building ships and some Mengchong, which cannot be taken down without considerable naval forces;
The east side is not too far from the city wall of Xiangyang, and if there are troops to attack, it will inevitably be attacked from two sides; The west is the only good way to attack, but there is a silt tidal flat formed by the perennial erosion of the Han River......
And Cai Mao also introduced the Han water, there are two circles of ditches around the camp, the first circle is wide and deep, the bottom of the ditch is also inserted with sharpened wooden stakes, the second circle of trenches is filled with Han water, after the two layers of trenches is the dense antlers nailed to the ground, behind the antlers is the wooden wall of about three meters high, pasted with river mud for fire prevention, there are also breastworks and pheasant moats on the wooden wall, and in the place where the breast wall and the berm are connected, there are sharpened wooden piles obliquely outward......
Such a well-guarded battalion would make anyone with troops lose the desire to attack forcibly......
Sure enough, just like Pang Tong said, there is a legend of the soldier family in the Cai family's family study, and it should not only be an ordinary military book, but also a few profound strategies.
Fei Qian was looking at the camp set up by Cai Mao, and when the knowledge in the "Liutao" he studied corroborated each other, the door of the camp was wide open, and Cai Mao came out of it, laughing and saying: "Don't drive here, you will miss the welcome, forgive your sins!" ”
This is also the treatment that only came after Fei Qian married Huang Yueying, otherwise Cai Mao would definitely sit in the camp and let Fei Qian go to see him by himself......
Fei Qian also smiled and bowed to Cai Mao, saying that he didn't dare.
Cai Mao laughed, stretched out his hand to help Fei Qian not let him salute, and asked the accompanying soldiers to pull the arrows closer to the camp, and invited Fei Qian to sit in the camp and serve tea.
Since there is no way to get married, it is also necessary to make friends and show goodwill. Cai Mao, the head of the Cai family, had explained to Cai Mao before, so Cai Mao was very polite to Fei Qian.
After the two sides entered Cai Mao's big tent, Fei Qian glanced at it a few times, and saw that the items in the big tent were all very delicate things, and he guessed in his heart that Cai Mao had brought them from Cai's house......
Sure enough, after a while, a soldier served the boiled tea. Cai Mao asked Fei Qian for tea and said: "This is a treasure at home, don't drive it, you might as well taste one or two." ”
Fei Qianqian slandered no wonder Cai Mao still belongs to the second-rate military generals in the end, although he has a family to learn military books, but he also brought this kind of family style to the barracks, which is really ......
Of course, slander is slander, and the surface still has to be in place, Fei Qian said with a smile: "Qian is a vulgar person, how can you say something......"
"Ziyuan is too humble, please use, please use ......" Cai Mao asked Fei Qian to use tea, while thinking in his heart - the current situation seems that if he gives money, not only is it tacky, but Fei Qian is not lacking; If it is given to some singers, it is estimated that they will not accept it soon after they are newly married; So if you calculate it, it is indeed only according to what Cai Wei, the head of the Cai family, said, and there is only one that Fei Qian has not yet......
At this time, the sergeant outside the account came to report that the number of arrows had been counted, and there were more than 42,000 in total, and the full amount was correct.
Cai Mao naturally didn't have any trouble, so he drew a charge on the official document handed over by the soldiers, and then handed it over to Fei Qian. In this way, as long as Fei Qian takes this "receipt form" to find the assassin Shifu Zhizhong and hand it over to the archive, this arrow-making errand will be completed.
Fei Qian naturally thanked Cai Mao, but Cai Mao waved his hand, as if he said casually: "Why does Ziyuan need to be so polite. This one...... A few days ago, Mao drew archers, but unexpectedly, the clerks in the army made mistakes in their busyness, and there were more than 100 people...... Alas, this group of silverfish, this is so difficult to deal with......"
Would you still have such a low-level mistake as a scribe in your army? No kidding, isn't it all over if the extra people are sent back?
Fei Qian pondered for a while, and immediately realized that this was the Cai family using this to show favor to himself - wasn't there a hundred more people? Sending it back to the original army is also a gift, and giving it to yourself as a private soldier is also a gift, this Cai family is really bold, but this also shows that the Cai family's control over this battalion may be stronger than I thought before......
Ancient private soldiers, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, until the Han Dynasty, the same, all the major families have private soldiers, but some more and some less.
Cai Mao deliberately said this in front of Fei Qian, and the meaning was obvious, that is, to use the convenience of his position to give Fei Qian a little sweetness, after all, the archer is also a technical class, and it is difficult to produce results quickly without training methods......
If you accept this private soldier, it means that you and the Cai family must communicate with each other within a certain range, and advance and retreat together, if you don't accept it, you may need to train an archer alone and take a certain amount of extra time and energy......
Moreover, the private soldier is indeed a weak item for the Pang family and the Huang family, and the "gift" of the Cai family is indeed extremely accurate......
What to do?
To accept or not to collect?