Chapter 17 Return to the old business
Yanbei is a person who is good at carrying responsibilities. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he walked out of Youzhou and finally returned to Youzhou.
He carried too much in between.
Even if Yanbei never believes in fate, looking back on the past, he will feel that some things may be predestined. He didn't understand anything until he was twenty years old, and he couldn't change those things, but if he was given another chance, starting from when the name Yanbei entered people's eyes, and when he returned to Fanyang County and handed the hoe to the servant, how would his story be rewritten?
Will he not be obsessed with revenge? If he knew that he had to carry so much now, maybe he would really give up revenge.
But what about after giving up? When Erzhang rebelled, when Pershing soldiers entered Zhuo County, what would he do? Maybe he died in the confrontation with Pershing, or maybe he was caught in the trap and became a rebel, and he went down the old path again.
But he didn't believe that there was a certain number in this world.
So tell Lu Yi that it's not enough. In the past, he didn't have a choice about his life path, but now he feels that there are many choices in life, but it is very difficult to make a decision...... So he has to keep walking, maybe if he moves forward, he will see a new world.
Maybe one day, he will be able to make all the choices he wants.
For some reason, the Anci Wang clan did not release pursuers to chase them. This ensured that Yanbei could rush to Yongnu after a night's gallop, and saw the camp with the Yanzi flag fluttering outside Yongnu City from a distance, and the familiar face of Frustration Standing under the gate to greet them...... This was a relief to him.
"The general has finally returned safely."
"If you don't come back, will you lead your army west? Hahaha! Yan Bei smiled and beckoned back, his own cavalry moved the box, Yan Bei reached out on the box that was opened by the short body on horseback, grabbed the top wooden box in his hand, and threw it in his arms and smiled: "I got it for you, open it and take a look, you must like it!" ”
Frustrated professor face puzzled, between the opening of the three layers of blue ribbon spread inside, the exquisite ribbon placed on a silver turtle button small seal, with the official script engraved Liaodong Taishou four characters, there is still a carved space behind, frustrated professor puzzled, asked: "This...... Liaodong Taishou? ”
"I got it from the state capital, and it used to be too guarded by the sun. Yan invited Liaodong Taishou for you, Liu Gong has sent an envoy from Quanzhou to Luoyang by sea, and now Gong and you are the acting Taishou of Liaodong County, I crossed out the name of Yangzhong, just wait for the imperial court letter to arrive, you are the real Taishou. Two thousand stone silver seal green ribbon, how, there is endless joy in my heart? ”
There was no smile on his face, he only frowned and arched his hand: "General, let's take this...... Liaodong Taishou was led by the general, how did Koji cross the line? ”
"Okay, don't you know that little skill in my hand? It's that I led the Liaodong Taishou, and it still depends on you to govern a county. Rather than having me in the way...... It's better to do it just for you. Yan Bei pulled the reins and paced the horse around the circle with a smile, and praised with a smile: "Yes, when I go back to Liaodong, I will find someone for you to be the top of the virtuous crown, when I led the army to besiege Handan, I took your Wanhu county order, and now I will return you with two thousand stones, you can take it with peace of mind and continue to educate the people!" ”
Hearing Yan Bei revisit the old incident of the attack on Handan, he was dumbfounded, but he also had the idea of joking, carefully re-placed the silver seal of the turtle button in the box, and chuckled: "The general is reasonable!" In this case, you can take it with peace of mind! ”
"Take and take, it's not easy to do it, it's all bad." Yanbei beckoned the cavalry to enter the camp to rest, jumped off the horse, and then led the mount and Fu Zhu side by side to walk to the village: "This time, Liu Gong invited five two thousand stones and twelve thousand stones for Liaodong, and then went back with him, and it was inevitable that the soldiers and generals who had made meritorious contributions in battle would be rewarded, and there would be at least hundreds of official positions of rank and hundred stones...... If the state government doesn't give us money, Liaodong will have to rely on us to toss it in the future. ”
Taishou and the four lieutenants are all 2,000 stones, plus the two captains, the other divisions, and the military horses, as well as the county commanders, the county governors, not to mention the cost of raising soldiers, the annual expenses of the officials alone exceed 30,000 stones, which is a real amount of money and food.
"So much? The state capital does not give money...... Do you really not give it at all? Frustrated, he had thought that it would be much more difficult to govern Liaodong than Handan in the past, but he never thought that the state government would not give expenses, "General, these ranks alone are the cost of raising troops for five thousand years, this, this, it is impossible to raise Liaodong alone!" ”
Frustrated, he rubbed his side forehead with his palm, and now he was a little suspicious that Yan Bei saw that the official's eyes were opened, and he directly opened his mouth in the state capital to cause the state capital to come up with such an idea...... This is a vendetta, right? How much grudge did it take to starve them to death?
The county government can naturally afford these officials' salaries alone, but with the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Yanbei's hands, it is different, and he said with a bitter face: "I have calculated that raising soldiers alone requires ninety-nine hectares of land, and it is the general's ninety-nine hectares, that is, nine thousand nine hundred acres of land are planted with corn, so as to ensure that the general's soldiers can have food all year round, which cannot meet a disaster year, but it is also necessary to store grain to prepare for a disaster year, at least one hundred hundred hectares of one hundred hectares, if you add the needs of the officials, it will cost two hundred hectares." ”
Yan Bei was stunned, his eyes rolled upwards to think, he used to have two hundred acres of fertile land, that is, two hectares. That's already out of sight, how big is two hundred hectares?
But he didn't feel that it was difficult, tilted his head to look at Fu Zhu and said, "Two hundred hectares, it shouldn't be that difficult, right?" Liaodong is so big that you have to kill more than a dozen horses to ride a horse in a circle, and there are hundreds of hectares of land on the outskirts of Xiangping alone...... No, isn't it? ”
"General, this is not two hundred acres, but two hundred acres!" Frustrated with his hands open, he lowered his voice a little frantically: "The land outside Xiangping is not only hundreds of hectares, there are thousands of tilts from Xiangping to Liaoshui, but those lands feed thousands of people in Xiangping City...... What we want is borderless land, General, you only have the dozens of hectares of land that the Gongsun clan once had, do you still want to kill a few more big clans to grab the land? ”
Yan Bei thought for a while, as if it was really not enough, but he turned his arm to point farther away and asked, "To the south, in such a big place, there is always some borderless land, right?" ”
"What is planted on a thousand hills? The general has gone to the ground, and he has also fought with people in the south, can he farm in that kind of old forest? Or do you want the iron ore mine to grow grain? ”
"Okay, don't worry, the public and you, the food and money will be handed over to Yan, and you will take care of the education of the people and govern the county, okay?" Yan Bei plans not to argue with Fu Zhu about these things first, "I can always get money, even if the food in Liaodong is not enough, let's buy the head office with the state government, if you can't buy it, I will take the cavalry team to rob it, don't worry about these things, by the way, I still have an idea in my heart to plan with you, let's go, let's talk first." ”
Yanbei didn't know that in another era without him, the land of Liaodong ushered in a magical hero, the Liaodong Taishou named Gongsun Du killed hundreds of powerful families in Liaodong in various names at the beginning of his tenure, although everyone was in danger, but annexed a large amount of land overnight, and later relied on the small place of Liaodong to feed tens of thousands of male soldiers for three generations.
It's just that Yanbei won't do it in this way.
As he thought he was, he never felt like a murderer. He would kill, but that seemed to him to be a last resort after there was nothing else he could do.
Words, goods, stratagems, swords, and swords are only means, and they are only for the purpose of achieving the end.
If the same goal can be achieved without a sword, then he will not use a sword.
It is based on Lao Tzu's words: soldiers, murder weapons, saints have to use them.
He is not Li Er, but he also feels that he is Lao Tzu.
Pulling the dazed frustration into the tent, Gao Ran and Lu Yi were already kneeling inside, waiting for them to come in. The four leaders of this army of five thousand soldiers and horses in the real sense are all in the tent, and Yan Bei sat in the middle and said to Fu Zhu: "Gonghe, in fact, I think that although the money and food problem you said is not easy to solve, I can still do my part in this matter, and Ah Xiu will take my map." ”
Gao Ran heard the promise, and soon rolled in from outside the tent with thick stacks of sheepskins.
Yanbei had a simple map, drawn on a few sewn sheepskins, and led the soldiers wherever he went, and his tattered books and Jane were all his personal belongings, so he was originally ridiculed by the Yellow Turban brothers around him who only knew how to make a lot of money.
Yanbei spread out the sheepskin map on the ground in the tent, and the map marked with the roads of various cities in Youzhou was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, and the terrain of the entire Youzhou was unobstructed, and the two places of Zhuo County and Liaodong were the most finely drawn, and every mountain and even every pavilion township in Zhuo County were clearly marked; Liaodong is even more excessive, several sections of the city wall are painted crookedly, and the places leading to Goguryeo, Wuhuan and the outside of the Saiwai are even painted with villains that the frustrated professor can't understand.
Frustrated and sat on the side of the map, pointed to the little people on the map and asked, "General...... So, what is it? ”
"Hehe, the dead end of the defenders' patrols, the smugglers who are good at this will leave the outside of the fortress from these places, you have to look carefully, these places will be inspected in the future!" Yan Bei frowned with a straight look, but the cunning between his eyebrows betrayed his true thoughts, this look of wanting to cover up is simply insulting the wisdom of the three of them, who doesn't know that your General Yan used to start a business by snatching war horses outside the plug and selling them to the Central Plains?
"It doesn't matter, what we're going to talk about today is these places." Yan Bei did not have the slightest embarrassment, and successively pointed to Yuyang County, Shanggu County, Xianbei, Wuhuan Domain, Goguryeo, and Lelang County, and said: "The money and food we are worried about will come from these places. ”
Yan Bei had a focused smile on his face, which was a confident appearance that he was familiar with. After the smugglers who once relied on the Yellow Turban remnants mastered a county and thousands of soldiers and horses, he once again mentioned the foundation of his former existence, although it was not a war, but it made him feel his blood boiling.
Killing people has never been his skill, businessmen are.
This is a few years of dust...... The thrill of getting back to your old job!