Chapter 267 Is it expensive to buy Hebei with 100,000 yuan?

"Outwitted?" Su Dingfang squeezed out a very reluctant smile: "Dare to ask the general how to outwit?" ”

"Capture the thief first!" Liu Heimin smiled confidently: "As long as Chen Ying is killed, the Tang army will collapse without attacking, among the generals, Li Shentong's long-distance running general has the largest rank and the oldest qualifications, and it is very easy to deal with him!" ”

Su Dingfang felt a little incredible when he heard it, Chen Ying, as the commander of the first army, must defend layer by layer, even if he was on the march, his forward winged boat was several miles away from his flagship, if they were hiding in the depths of the reeds, they would naturally not be able to find it, but if they moved, they would definitely be discovered by the Tang army scouts, and at that time, they would definitely encounter the overwhelming attack of the Tang army.

There's nothing wrong with the strategy of capturing the thief and capturing the king, but it's so hard to implement.

Liu Heimin saw Su Dingfang's doubts, and explained with a smile: "Calculating the itinerary, Chen Ying's army must have arrived in Buzhou today, they need to camp, looking at the hundreds of miles around Jize, the only place that can be used for Chen Ying's army to camp is Shahe Bay, where the water is deep, so many boats can be stopped, and there is that it is closer to Zhaozhou, only less than sixty miles, at the speed of Chen Ying's army, it will set off early the next morning, and it will arrive at the city of Zhaozhou at noon!" ”

"But, how can we capture and kill Chen Ying?" Su Dingfang said: "Chen Ying has more than 10,000 cavalry under his command, and they will bring a radius of 100 miles into the warning circle......"

Without waiting for Su Dingfang to finish speaking, Liu Heimin interrupted Su Dingfang and said: "Chen Ying likes to recruit people to build a camp, and when the time comes, you will bring people to disguise themselves as the people of Shahewan and blend into Chen Ying's camp!" ”

Su Dingfang said: "As long as I can accept Chen Ying within a hundred steps, Dingfang is absolutely sure to kill him!" ”

Liu Heimin said: "General Ben has inquired clearly, Chen Ying will stay on that wheel at night, the whole fleet is just such a big ship, you will take your people and dive in from the waterway!" ”

Su Dingfang smiled bitterly: "General, you also know, let me ride a horse to raid, Dingfang is not afraid of anyone, but I can't dive!" ”

"Can't dive?" Liu Heimin frowned, stretched out his hand to pick up a reed, then pulled out the leaves, and handed a reed pole more than a foot long to Su Dingfang and said, "Use this!" ”

When there is no feeding equipment and diving suits, water spirits usually use reeds to ventilate underwater in the dark of night when diving to attack the enemy.

However, Su Dingfang cried and took the reed pole with a face.

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As Liu Heimin expected, Chen Ying only had to order the army to advance towards Shahewan after learning that there was only such a dark wharf in the entire Jize area. The old Shahe River was originally more than ten meters deep, but since the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty, due to the diversion of the Shahe River due to flooding, a huge wetland has been formed here.

However, the embankment on the north bank of the Shahe River is well preserved, and the entire Shahe Bay is like a few bays of the Yellow River, which can be used in the Half Moon type, and most of the ships rely on the Half Moon Bay. The cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Army was left on guard outside, and there was no need to worry about being attacked by the Xia army's troops.

When he learned of such a good place, Chen Ying ordered to camp in Shahewan.

When Chen Ying arrived at Shahewan on the Wan'an steamer, he saw this place at a glance. First of all, the water depth here is the same as that of the Jize waterway, nearly three zhang deep water, even the wheels and boats can pass unimpeded, and more importantly, it is too close to Zhaozhou.

From Liyang, Zhangqiu, Xiangzhou, and Huanshui, Chen Ying can also ensure that the back road is unimpeded.

Chen Ying found Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, and asked him to shoot the left servant of the Shangshu of Hebei Dao, and issued the Tang Dynasty to recruit the people and build the Shahewan camp.

Li Shentong looked at the simple strip Chen that Chen Ying had made, and said very strangely: "General Chen wants to build a permanent military village in Shahewan?" This isn't necessary, right? ”

According to Chen Ying's plan, he needed to recruit 30,000 people, spend three months, build a military camp that could accommodate 50,000 troops, and also build a 20-mile-long mooring dock that could berth thousands of large and small ships. This fortification is time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, the key is that in Li Shentong's view, it is not necessary at all.

Chen Ying groaned: "Does King Huai'an think that it is not necessary at this time? ”

Li Shentong nodded.

Even Feng Li and Wei Wenzhong felt that Chen Ying was doing this too much. Because after the battle of Zhaozhou, the Tang army would not be stationed here, and it was impossible for such a large number of ships to dock in Shahe Bay.

Chen Yingdao: "This place already belongs to Dou Jiande's Zhouzhou, and the people here are all interested in Dou Jiande, which is undeniable, right?" ”

Li Shen channel: "Yes, even if this king orders the conscription as the left servant of Hebei Xingtai Shangshu, I am afraid that the people nearby will not respond, and will only become the laughing stock of the world in the end!" ”

"There are pros and cons to everything, and we can take this thing into account, and in the long run, it's really necessary!" Chen Ying smiled slightly: "I didn't say that I would be conscripted for free, but that I would be conscripted for compensation, and the people who came to serve could get a hundred yuan a day, or three buckets of grain, or salt or other materials of the same price!" ”

Li Shentong wanted to say that Chen Ying was crazy, because Chen Ying's hands and feet were very big this time. 30,000 people for three months, if there are really so many people who come to apply, Chen Ying needs to pay 3,000 yuan a day, and three months is 100,000 yuan.

In fact, Chen Ying is not crazy. It is not for nothing that he did this, but to win the hearts and minds of the people. Although the so-called people's will is a very mysterious thing, the short-sightedness and ignorance of ordinary people are well known. Just like later generations, because of an incident one day, a campaign to boycott Korean products was launched, but it was a pity that it ended up making a big joke. Because of people's price reductions and promotions, one day the shopping mall was full of cars, and the turnover increased instead of falling.

It is everyone's nature to be greedy for cheapness, and it is really difficult to withstand the temptation of the country's righteousness and people's will in the face of tangible interests. When the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, Qing officials sent pennants to the Eight-Nation Coalition to praise the Allied Forces' actions in Beijing, and the flag read "Zhu Xiaohuafeng" (wishing him longevity, blessings, and many men). Of course, when the Eight-Nation Coalition landed in Tianjin, it was the Chinese people who were responsible for transporting baggage, weapons and ammunition, and building bridges and paving roads along the way. (This is not made up by Lao Cheng, there are historical materials to check.) ）

In fact, there are two main reasons for this phenomenon, the first is that the Chinese people were extremely disappointed with the imperial court at that time, and they had the psychology of subverting the Qing Dynasty. The second reason is ridiculous, because when the Eight-Nation Coalition hired Chinese people, they paid for it, and it was more than the market price.

Ordinary Chinese people are great and certainly lovely. Except for the time when I lost the hearts of the people like the Qing Dynasty, it is still very rare for other dynasties to be abandoned by their own people like this.

Chen Ying actually wants to use 100,000 yuan to buy the hearts of Hebei people.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Shentong suddenly understood Chen Ying's intentions: "General, is this going to be a cash-for-work?" ”

Chen Ying didn't answer Li Shentong's words, but asked with a smile: "King Huai'an, do you feel expensive to buy Hebei for 100,000 yuan?" ”

It was only at this time that the generals suddenly realized.

"100,000 yuan to buy Hebei, of course it's not expensive!" Li Shentong said with a smile: "Don't say 100,000 guan, even if it's 1 million guan, it's cheap!" ”

Li Shentong temporarily transferred dozens of clerks and officials from Chen Yingjun, and quickly drafted more than 100 letters of proclamation and distributed them to various places. Of course, the people near Shahewan were the first to get the news. In troubled times, manpower and human life are also cheap, working in Zhaozhou, only 200 yuan a month, equivalent to two liters of rice a day, mixed with some rice bran and wild vegetables, can barely maintain the family from starving to death.

However, Chen Ying's salary was as much as fifteen times the labor price in the city, and after working for a day, he could get three buckets of grain, which was about 30 catties. This wage is only slightly more expensive than Chang'an, but this can already be compared to the small officials in Zhaozhou.

Even from the petty officials of the ninth grade, the Yulu in hand can't get three buckets.

At first, Li Shentong was worried that the people of Hebei would not respond to Chen Ying's call, but as soon as more than a dozen booths to recruit people were opened, dozens of people came to inquire, and when they learned of such a high price, more than 500 people were recruited in Shahewan in just one hour.

However, when recruiting, Chen Ying played a cautious eye, and the recruiters either had brothers or families. When it was dark, the men who had been working for more than an hour received an order to leave their work, and each of them stopped working and went home at the rate of thirty yuan or a bucket of grain.

When it was time to hold the lamp, these recruitment sites had already been crowded with people who had come to apply for jobs after hearing the news, and Chen Ying had people inform the recruited scribes, and even sent more than a thousand soldiers to maintain order.

However, these people were not frightened when they saw the Tang soldiers, but lined up very seriously. Chen Ying's method was successful, Li Shentong wrote an urgent report to Chang'an overnight, and Li Shentong did not hesitate to praise Chen Ying's third religion in the good news.

However, it was precisely because Chen Ying recruited the people after a little screening, which made Su Dingfang and his more than 300 elites successfully mixed into the people's camp, and they, the people of Hebei, were adding bricks and tiles to the cause of the Tang Dynasty's conquest of Hebei.

There is no moon in the sky, but the starlight is bright, Su Dingfang looked down along the embankment of Shahe Bay, at this time the people who rushed to hear the news, dragged their families with their mouths, and set up a grass shed on the river embankment, this kind of messy grass shed extends from the river embankment to the water's edge of Jize, densely packed under the starry night, it looks like ten thousand wild graves as desolate.

Su Dingfang really couldn't figure it out, why did the people under Dou Jiande's command work for the Tang Dynasty as if they were reincarnated?

In the middle of the night, it should have been silent, but Su Dingfang encountered several patrolling Tang soldiers, it seems that Chen Ying has strengthened his vigilance, and it is not easy to take down Chen Ying.

However, Su Dingfang also knew that he was ready to shoot and had to send it.