Cao Zhenyan gently pinched the horse's belly with his legs, urging the war horse to move forward, he came from Liaoyang, this opportunity was actually hard to get. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I have been to Songshukou twice a year ago, and it will take four or five days to come back, if it weren't for Cao Shixuan's relationship and face to face very well, I'm afraid a Han Baoyi would not have the ability to go back and forth for so long and such a long distance.

The Jurchen defense room is very thoughtful, and the preparations of each official village will receive a sweat edict every few days, which is nothing more than telling them to be cautious and not to be taken advantage of by Dongjiang spies. Riding alone for hundreds of miles to the Taizi River, which is close to the territory of Dongjiang Town, the ordinary coat doesn't even think about it.

Fortunately, the fourteenth elder brother also has an official village by the Taizi River, and Cao Zhenyan always asks for an errand to go to the official village here, and then comes to Li Mingli's side after finishing the matter.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is the deep brotherhood between Cao Zhenyan and Li Mingli...... Of course, this is also a fact, several times after experiencing bloody battles on the battlefield, the friendship established in the blood and fire is a real life-saving friendship, plus a few years of getting along, it is not a brother, and the friendship is a little closer than a brother.

This time, Cao Zhenyan took over the work of inspecting the official village, and he had to supervise the villages to prepare the public grain handed over earlier, as well as various materials, including vegetables and various fruits, as well as animal skins, animal meat, fish, ginseng, Dongzhu, dried fruits, although the fourteenth elder brother has not opened the mansion alone, and still lives with the old Khan, but there are already fifteen Niu Lu allocated by the old Khan, and all the official village production under the Niu Lu is collected by the fourteenth elder brother, of course, part of the public middle school must be handed over, and the rest is owned by the fourteenth elder brother.

At present, Houjin's system is like this, the major Baylor and the small Baylor, each brother has its own Niu Lu, but the number is different, the more Niu Lu, the more Dingkou you have, the more Guanzhuang, and of course the more income. With these goods, the masters rewarded the slaves, obtained the loyalty and support of the slaves, and the cattle under each banner were divided into three kinds, one was the own cattle that were distributed to the names of the nobles, and all the proceeds, including the lives of the slaves, were under the control of the owner, and the other was the cattle in the world, which only had the jurisdiction of the generations, and had no ownership, and the other was the cattle in the public, which belonged to the whole banner and was not hereditary or hereditary.

Although the fourteenth elder brother is a little elder brother, he is quite attentive and attaches great importance to his own industry, Jurchen children mature early, and they can go hunting at the age of five or six...... The four major Baylors all have a large number of Niu Lu, relying on the wealth obtained by various means to support a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals, and at the same time strengthen their position in the Eight Banners, it can be said that the current pattern is that the Great Khan and the Four Baylors rule together, and the old Khan has to get the support of the Great Baylor in many things, such as the killing of the Han people this time, it is obvious that Dai Shan and Amin first stood up to support the old Khan, and even this matter is Dai Shan's proposition, the fourteenth elder brother has no idea about these big policies, and he is not too interested, But when it comes to accumulating wealth and expanding his power and influence, this little brother is precocious and precocious...... It is precisely because of this that Cao Zhenyan has the opportunity to go out often, and with the orders personally issued by his elder brother, the garrisons along the way dare not be embarrassed.

On the side of the road, a Bashiku in dark armor and several armored soldiers were guarded with bows and arrows, and they were ordered to check for any suspicious characters passing by, and after Cao Zhenyan fell into their eyes, this Bashiku immediately rushed over with someone.

Cao Zhenyan also saw it, and he immediately took the horse without making any superfluous movements.

A soldier rode over and shouted, "Which of your oxen are you from, where are you going, and what is the matter?" ”

Cao Zhenyan replied in fluent Jianzhou Jurchen dialect: "I am the Baoyi in the Fourteenth Elder Brother's Mansion, and I was ordered to see the dozen or so official villages south of the Prince River. ”

Soldier A looked back, but Bashiku nodded.

A soldier said: "We were recorded by Suna's master, Niu, and it is not disrespectful to the fourteenth elder brother's master, but we are going to come and see your token." ”

Cao Zhenyan has long held the token in his hand, and the verification has been very strict recently, he has been checked many times since he came out of Liaoyang, and he has long been familiar with this set of processes.

"Okay, you can go."

Soldier A took the token and showed it to Bashiku, and after confirming the authenticity, he didn't say much to Cao Zhenyan, and immediately waved his hand to let him go.

Cao Zhenyan is the coat around the fourteenth elder brother, ordinary lower-level officers and soldiers don't dare to offend him, everyone looks at him, this coat has a strong physique, a healthy complexion, and the robe on his body is also half-new, the royal blue arrow robe is cut to fit very well, and the knife, bow and arrow, and arrow bag are all available, it is obvious that it is the image of the coat serving by the side of a big man.

When passing by the group of armor soldiers, all the armor soldiers looked at Cao Zhenyan coldly, and the Bashiku led by him was wearing an iron helmet, and his slender eyes were full of cold light.

Cao Zhenyan has experienced the current scene many times, but each time it still makes him extremely uncomfortable.

When riding a horse on the official road near the river, he vaguely saw people with torches fishing for corpses by the river, and the corpses were fished out of the icy water.

There were old people, there were women, there were children......

Cao Zhenyan's heart seemed to be pricked by a knife and needle, last year, he was still a young man who was keen on merit and official positions who wanted to climb up in the Jurchen system, and he did not hesitate to go to the Thirteen Mountains to work his life for the sake of military achievements.

At this time, the feeling of seeing Hermes-Epitek being slaughtered was as sad as a needle and a bayonet. This massacre, even in Liaoyang City, was not avoided, a considerable number of poor people were escorted out and killed, only the rich Han families and the Bao Yi attached to the Jurchen nobles, as well as those Han officials and generals who had official positions after surrendering, and their relatives and subordinates barely survived.

"Why don't you throw the body in the river?" A soldier behind Cao Zhenyan asked lazily.

Another person replied, "After a while, it will stink when it's hot, and you won't be able to eat the fish in the river." ”

"I eat it all the way. When the wild beasts die in the river too much, will the fish stop eating? ”

"There's always something in the way."

"Nikan is like a beast in my eyes."

"How about cutting some brute meat and telling you to take it home?"

"My mother-in-law will kill me."

"Hahaha......"

Many of the armor soldiers burst into laughter.

Cao Zhenyan was very uncomfortable in his heart, but his body was as steady as a mountain, not moving at all, and he rode forward with standard movements.

The official road is very narrow, and it allows two wheelbarrows to go opposite each other, or can accommodate horses to climb the plough to pass, the road is uneven, and many of the fallen leaves last autumn were pressed into the ruts by the trolley, and they have been covered by ice and snow so far, the fallen leaves exude a burst of rotten smell, and the muddy smell of the river has been rushing into Cao Zhenyan's nose, the most obvious, is the smell of blood wafting from the other side of the river......

After walking a little farther away from the armor soldiers, Cao Zhenyan sped up his horse, and in any case, these people made him feel very uncomfortable. The weather is going to be dark, he hopes to rush to Li Mingli's house before dark, this time he came, he shouldered important instructions, ordered him to go to the Taizi River to wait to meet the people of the Military Intelligence Department, accept the latest instructions, after a few months of development, Cao Zhenyan has developed three direct lines along the periphery of Kuandian to Hetuala, and his line has developed more than ten official villages or banner-raising banners to line down, several people were killed in this massacre, and the rest are fortunate to have enough money to buy food, Luckily not among the people without food, they escaped the terrible massacre, and now that the peak of the slaughter has passed, the peak of the escape has passed, and the question of how to survive the spring famine is at the bottom...... Cao Zhenyan estimated that if he didn't want to find a way to help, his downline and downline might not be able to survive...... The price of grain in Liaoyang has long exceeded ten taels, and it has climbed straight to the terrifying record of twenty taels and one stone, maybe it may be higher than this record, this kind of grain price, even the Cao family also feels sad, this year people lack oil and water in their stomachs, unlike the people of later generations, they are full of oil and water, meat and eggs are sufficient, and the requirements for staple food are very low, many modern people have enough rice to fill their stomachs, and the strong men of this era are not uncommon to eat a catty or even two or three catties of staple food at a time, and a stone of grain is twenty taels of silver, It is enough for a strong man to eat for a month when he lets go of his belly, but many families of five or six people can't even afford to buy a stone of grain, so they can only buy one or two liters of miscellaneous grains at a time, with all kinds of things that are not eaten at all in good years.

Before the appearance of wild vegetables, at least tens of thousands of people had to starve to death in various parts of Liaodong.

This time he accepted a new command, and Cao Zhenyan also received a fund of 3,000 taels.

This amount of money is not a big expense for He Yusheng, and he took it out casually, which is a huge amount of money for Cao Zhenyan, not only a considerable amount, but also at his disposal, this kind of trust also made Cao Zhenyan quite moved.

When he came out this time, Cao Zhenyan wanted to send silver to a few of his direct subordinates, and as for the branch line, he would neither send silver nor contact him, let alone allow his direct subordinates to reveal his identity.

Cao Zhenyan had long considered that even if he was accidentally exposed for a while, the intelligence network established and trained by the Thirteen Mountains Military Intelligence Department could continue to exist, and how to contact these direct and branch subordinates was also handed over to the intelligence officers of the Thirteen Mountains to take back.

As for cooperating with the people of the Military Intelligence Division on Phi Dao and Kuandian's side, this is just a parallel relationship, and neither side will expose their bottom lines......

This time, there is another extremely important thing is that Cao Zhenyan wants to develop Li Mingli into a direct downline, and each downline is a single-line contact, but as far as Cao Zhenyan's selfishness is concerned, if he is exposed one day, he hopes that Li Mingli can take over all this he created.