Chapter 0024 - Great Harvest (Ask for points, ask for votes, ask for collection.)
Li Pengfei was pleasantly surprised by the unexpected acquisition of two senior generals, but this was not the only reason for him to be happy. Another thing that surprised him was the capture of the Yellow Turban Army camp.
After resting for two days in Tuyin City, Cheng Pu, who was in charge of logistics management, came to report that the capture of this battle had been counted.
After Cheng Pu joined Li Pengfei, he was sent by him to be responsible for managing the logistics of the army. This is also a helpless choice, there are no talents in his camp at the moment, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not this piece of material at all, if he takes care of it himself, he will be able to do it so-so, but as the main general, how can he be entangled in such chores?
Cheng Pu had been an official in Youbeiping County, and he had been in business, and he was the most competent person in his army for this thing.
Sure enough, Cheng Pu was still very expected, and it only took two days to get things done.
Cheng Yuanzhi went all the way north from the Jizhou cavalry to attack Youzhou, burning, killing and plundering, and I don't know how much wealth he harvested. A small part of this wealth was left by him in Yuyang City, and most of it was carried with the army, all of which were in the camp of the Yellow Turban Army that was conquered by Li Pengfei.
In the end, according to Cheng Pu's report, the wealth found from the Yellow Turban Army camp alone exceeded 20 million.
In addition, there are a lot of gold, silver and jade in the spoils of war, as well as antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are all obtained by Cheng Yuanzhi after he broke through the big and small cities all the way and looted those rich and powerful. Cheng Pu also made statistics, according to today's market conditions, the value of these properties must be more than 10,000.
Of course, the troubled times are coming, and the value of these antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other items may depreciate a lot. But Li Pengfei had no plan to sell these antiques, calligraphy and paintings for money.
There is still a part of the harvest left in the Yellow Turban Army camp, that is, the whole 100,000 Hu of grain, which is the military food of Cheng Yuanzhi's 80,000 army. In the Han Dynasty, one stone was about 30 kilograms of grain in later generations, and this 100,000 grains was 3 million kilograms, that is, 3,000 tons.
With so much food, it can feed a lot of people.
As a matter of fact, Li Pengfei's most important harvest is the 100,000 grains.
In these troubled times, with food, there is everything.
Of course, along with these trophies, there are also a large number of military merit points. With the money and property he directly received, Li Pengfei received 12,000 military merit points. And 100,000 pieces of grain are worth about 31 million yuan, which is more than 3,100 yuan in military merit. A total of more than 15,000 military merit points led by a few things.
In this battle alone, Li Pengfei may have received nearly 30,000 military merit points.
After counting the harvest of the Yellow Turban Army camp, Li Pengfei couldn't help but look forward to Zhao Yun's harvest in Yuyang City.
He knew very well that the money and food that Cheng Yuanzhi carried with the army was definitely only a small part, and more wealth should be left in Yuyang City, which was his old nest.
After counting the harvest of this battle, Li Pengfei took the newly acquired second general, as well as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two righteous brothers, led 3,000 cavalry, escorted more than 50,000 prisoners of the Yellow Turban Army, and embarked on the road back to Quanzhou.
Because there were more than 50,000 Yellow Turban soldiers with the army, these were all infantry, and they couldn't get up fast if they wanted to, and they could only march 50 miles at most every day. From Tuyin City to Quanzhou City, it was a three-hundred-and-fifty-mile road and a full seven days.
By the time Li Pengfei led his army back to Quanzhou City, it was already late April.
And Zhao Yun has really been back in Quanzhou for a long time.
According to Li Pengfei's first plan, Zhao Yun led the army to open Yuyang City, and the 10,000 defenders in the city could not resist Zhao Yun's attack at all because they were not led by a general, and it can be said that the entire army was annihilated, 1,000 were killed in battle, more than 8,000 were captured, and less than 1,000 people escaped from Yuyang City.
After conquering Yuyang City, according to Li Pengfei's original instructions, Zhao Yun did not stay long, but immediately collected all the wealth of the Yellow Turban Army in the city, and transferred this wealth back to Quanzhou as soon as possible.
Because of the participation of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, this strong operation went very smoothly. In just two days, all the belongings of the Yellow Turban Army in Yuyang City were transported back to Quanzhou.
And just two hours after the last transport team of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce left Yuyang City, the army of the Yellow Turban Army once again approached Yuyang City.
It turned out that some of the Yellow Turban Army who escaped in Yuyang City fled back to Jixian County and told Zhang Bao the news of the fall of Yuyang City. Zhang Bao was worried that Cheng Yuanzhi in Youbeiping would be lost, so he hurriedly sent a general to lead an army of 50,000 to Yuyang, wanting to recapture the city.
Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army was menacing, Zhao Yun did not fall in love with the war, and very simply evacuated Yuyang, leaving an empty city for the Yellow Turban Army.
The Yellow Turban Army also sent a thousand cavalry with the army to pursue Zhao Yun, but where was the opponent of Zhao Yun's cavalry? After a fight, Zhao Yunbu killed three hundred Yellow Turban Army cavalry, and the remaining Yellow Turban Army cavalry was defeated and returned to Yuyang City, Zhao Yun did not chase after him, and set off to catch up with the transport team of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce and returned to Quanzhou.
And in the following time, Zhao Yun sent scouts to pay attention to the movements of the Yellow Turban Army in Yuyang and Guangyang, and stationed in Quanzhou, waiting for Li Pengfei to return.
After learning about the situation, Li Pengfei was very happy, because Zhao Yun's harvest in Yuyang City exceeded his imagination.
According to the personnel report of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, Zhao Yun got more than 10,000 yuan of money and grain in Yuyang City, in addition to the amount of gold, silver and jade, as well as antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which was five times that of what he got in the Yellow Turban Army camp, and then there was more than 300,000 Hu of grain.
On both sides combined, the money is almost 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 According to today's grain prices, the price of these 400,000 stone grains is as high as 20,000. Even, with the advent of troubled times and the intensification of natural disasters, the value of these grains will become higher and higher, and even money cannot buy them.
Just by destroying the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army under Cheng Yuanzhi, Li Pengfei's entire harvest was close to 100,000, which was all the profits he had made in the previous three years of business.
As Li Pengfei initially expected, after the war, he would have gained more than 100,000 military merit points.
Li Pengfei couldn't help but sigh a little emotionally, the best thing to do is really war money. If there was no such war, if he wanted to have this net worth, he would have to be in business for at least two or three years. But now, in just over half a month, he easily got it.
Li Pengfei also knows very well that there are not many opportunities to make a fortune in this way. You must know that these belongings are all the harvest of the Yellow Turban Army after they ransacked most of Youzhou and half of Jizhou.
Of course, this is only a small part of this part of the harvest, at most one-fifth to one-quarter of what it looks like, and more wealth is still in Zhang Bao's hands.
And apart from the war that quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion here, it is basically impossible to have such a chance in the future. After all, what he wants to do is to dominate the world. As the saying goes, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and if you want to win the hearts of the people, you must not have such a robbery.
Thinking of this, Li Pengfei also had to admire the Yellow Turban Army's ability to collect and scrape, which was almost comparable to the effect of washing the floor. At the same time, he also understood why the powerful lords of the Han Dynasty hated the Yellow Turban Army so much. It is the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and it is the real season of green and yellow, and with the current situation of the Han Dynasty, there is basically no surplus food and money in the homes of ordinary people. The Yellow Turban Army was able to grab so much money, and it was all scraped from the hands of those rich and powerful.
Taking people's money is like killing their parents, this is one of the biggest hatreds of people, not to mention that the Yellow Turban Army not only wants to kill those rich people, but also kills them, this is completely out of people's lives, and it is strange that those rich and powerful families do not fight with them.
If it's just an ordinary person, it's not a big deal. But these rich and powerful are different, they are rich and powerful, and they work hard, and the power is simply leveraged.
Don't you see, the Yellow Turban Rebellion that swept through the 28 counties of the seven states of the Han Dynasty was wiped out in just half a year?
Thinking through these truths, Li Pengfei also realized the terribleness of these powerful men and women in the Han Dynasty.
However, Li Pengfei knew better that according to his own plan, he would eventually go against these powerful gatekeepers. It's inevitable. Therefore, he had to think ahead of time.
Li Pengfei has not thought of a way to deal with this yet, and the only thing that is clear is that when he does not have enough pressure to crush these powerful gatekeepers, he must not force them to be ruthless, otherwise the fate of the Yellow Turban Army will be his own result.