Chapter 707 Fund Raising
Li Xuemei considers the problem more pragmatically.
“Will there be enough food to recruit more troops?”
Salaries and money can be temporarily exempted, but food cannot be owed.
Yan Laoer: "It's not enough. It's really expensive to raise soldiers. Not counting the equipment and horses. Just feeding them is a lot of effort."
“Fortunately, we left all the food for the people coming from the south, otherwise I would have to take them up the mountain to dig up the land.”
“We still have to think of something from the south.” Li Xuemei frowned and said, “Buy more grain.”
"That's the truth." Yan Laoer nodded and said, "Your Majesty is preparing for war. When the fight breaks out, no matter how many people there are, we will find the grain transport convoy in Xizhou and rob them!"
Once he heard this, Yan Yuke became excited.
"That's right, we can feed war with war. With a spy as good as Jiuxiao, we can find food in Xizhou and pinch it with both hands." She made a grabbing gesture, pinched her chubby little fingers together, and smiled. brilliant.
Li Xuemei:…
She said she would go south to buy grain. The two men agreed, but they were probably only thinking about how to get grain back from Xizhou.
Yan Laoer asked his daughter: "Where is that man?"
“It’s coming, it’s coming, we can leave tomorrow or the day after.” Yan Yu said with a smile, “The time is up to us. If you can’t get away, dad, I’ll take the others and leave first, so you can leave the day after tomorrow.”
“Tell me, who are you taking?” Yan Laoer was very curious about his daughter’s list of escorting grain merchants.
"Hahaha! The internal selection of our Boy Scouts is fair and just, based on standing on the bamboo raft without fainting. Hehe, this team not only has the strength of the new generation, the old and strong Grandpa Song and Grandpa Hu are the leaders, but also criminals How many officials have joined us enthusiastically, Dad, are you surprised or surprised?!"
Mr. Yan pointed at her with both hands and was speechless.
"You, how did you choose all these? Why did you bring the prison officer with you? You..." You are so courageous!
“I raised funds in the village!” Yan Yu’s words were shocking.
Not only Yan Laoer was stunned, Li Xuemei also looked over in surprise with her eyes widened.
“Let me explain first, I consulted my teacher and my uncle about this before I decided to raise funds with the villagers to buy grain. This money is earmarked just for the purpose of buying grain.”
Yan Yu spoke quickly: "Well, this is the plan I wrote under the guidance of the teacher, and this, the uncle wrote me a reply, and also attached a private message to Mr. Gu Feng. I read it, and the uncle helped me rent a boat. La! As for Gu Feng’s big ship, I’ll go over and give him the money directly. I won’t default on him, I have the money!”
She raised her little face and looked proud.
"Dad, you can think about whether you want to send a few people to follow you. I think you can actually raise funds internally. The uncles in the militia all have two in their pockets. If you add up a little, you can buy a lot of food. Well, on the way back and forth, you can also learn some boating skills. It’s great, since you have so many skills and you don’t have to worry about it.”
"I don't choose those prisoners casually. If they are from the south and can speak the dialect, let's go discuss the grain business. What if someone bullies me? This time, I want to go to Jiangdu Prefecture and Huzhou Prefecture. The local People are the best, and secondly, they must have skills. Those who can read charts, identify directions on the sea, and understand the rules on the ship are preferred. I asked carefully. It depends on which dock you dock. It would be better if there is someone familiar with the city shipping department. ."
"Don't worry." Yan Yu shook his head, and then chuckled: "So I have to keep their family members, and they will be paired with my boy scouts. No, they should be called book boys, the ones who can hold a knife and shoot arrows. If they try, they will die!" Li Xuemei reacted quickly, pursed her lips and smiled.
Yan Laoer was stunned for a while before he understood what the last two words meant.
"Jiuxiao is not here. You have been communicating with your uncle a lot. When did it happen?" he asked in confusion.
"Just today, Jiuxiao just happened to catch the carrier pigeon and come back to read the letter to me. After reading the letter, I released the pigeon, thinking that it would be very fast for Jiuxiao to fly back and forth a few times without me having to run there. As for this idea , I thought about it for several days, isn’t my hands and feet busy while hoeing and my mind is idle, so I just thought about it!”
The carrier pigeons were released on the ship, and the cats and cats sent signals simultaneously. Jiuxiao was sure to catch the pigeons as soon as he caught them. That is to say, his claws were inconvenient and he couldn't restore the original shape after taking out the small note and put it back, so he had to use the stupidest method to catch the pigeons and bring them back.
The first time he came back like this, Yan Yu was shocked!
The pigeon was so frightened that it stopped eating. Yan Yu was cruel and directly stuffed some spicy meat strips into it.
Happiness will be real immediately Hey!
When he was released again, he could see that he was running for his life, and his wings were beating so fast.
It didn’t turn, it went all the way west.
Yan Yu feels that Jiuxiao has done a very good job. For both the enemy and us, information is king. Limited by the size of the note, the carrier pigeon carries the message back and forth. The amount of information is very small. But fortunately, the prince of Qi is a person with a strong desire for control. Good Guy, he was never idle on the vast sea, communicating with this and that, including but not limited to his father, King Qi, his loyal subordinate who stayed in Xizhou, and his close good brother Ding Jiao!
Let’s focus on Ding Jiao. It was this guy who organized the incident of bombing the mountain to ambush the King of England. If the rock collapsed again on time, they would all be dead.
He is a ruthless man with a fierce fighting spirit. He wishes that his good brother, Prince Qi, would arrive soon, so he would immediately lead his troops to Guanzhou!
Yes, this Ding Jiao supports attacking the strong enemy first, that is, Guanzhou.
The King of Qi himself wanted to fight all the way to the capital.
The prince of Qi is not yet clear. Both of them want to persuade him, and they seem to care about the prince's opinion.
Ding Jiao conveyed a lot of news about Guanzhou.
Several troops on the roadside are stationed, Guanzhou sends troops to Leshan to suppress bandits, Gu Feng's newly painted borders are fortified, rewards from the capital have arrived, and so on.
It can be seen that spies from Xizhou were very active in Guanzhou.
Occasionally, there were also a few mentions about the court's movement of troops to the north, but they were mentioned too little, and Yan Yu could not judge the traveling route and speed of the friendly troops.
More information collection is needed.
"You have collected money in the village, why should I bother you?" Yan Laoer said to himself that most of the men in the village are honest men. They pay whatever money they earn to their families. There are a few who hide the money secretly. , he asked this group of people, isn't it in vain?
"What I have collected here is money to buy food. Dad, you can collect money to buy medicine! Once this battle starts, there will definitely be a shortage of medicine for wounds. If we have medicine in hand, we will be able to fight against the Xizhou Army. Have confidence." Yan Yu said seriously.
Li Xuemei nodded slowly: "Dabao is right."
"Dad, I've picked up all the prisoners several times, and none of them are proficient in medical skills. You'd better convince my aunt to bring them to my uncle." Yan Yu pointed to her backyard, in the direction of her aunt's house.
I originally wrote it yesterday, but I didn’t seem satisfied with it. I looked at it again today and found that it really needs major revision, so I speeded up the progress~