Chapter 113 Money can make ghosts run the mill
Li Jing just nodded with a cold face to see this servant general who suddenly appeared.
"I am asking for the military envoy to see you, please inform me!"
"Oh, it's really a coincidence. My general went to Gaoshan Fort early in the morning to inspect military affairs. It's all these dogs that didn't explain it clearly." The general looked like he was talking the same as he was.
Li Jing had already figured out that he must be in the yamen now. It was because of the incident just now that he didn't want to see himself. Well, if he didn't see him, he would have to salute his son Feng Zhang. He would save this if he didn't see him. But since he came, it wouldn't be possible to just go there in vain.
"Since the envoy of the military army is not here, I will come to see you again another day. However, there is one thing I still need to trouble you."
"Li Zhen will just say anything if you have anything to do. You will definitely help if you can."
Li Jing explained the situation when he had already brought the soldiers he recruited, and said that since the soldiers had arrived in the town, he now needed to come and collect the new soldiers' weapons and equipment, as well as food. Even the garrison soldiers had requirements for hoarding fields, and he also needed ox seeds and farm tools, etc.
The head of the head frowned the more he heard it, and said with a frown: "The things Li Zhenjiang said are not too much, but these things are really not something that I, a small servant, can do. Otherwise, you wait a moment, I will go to the other top peaks in the yamen to ask, and see what kind of constitution should be obtained and how?"
Li Jing estimated that he must have reported to Feng Zhang, and nodded immediately and said, "Okay, I'll have a hard time."
Not long after the general entered, he brought another person out. After introduction, it turned out that it was the Cangcai of Da Xie Fort. The Cangcai was very direct, only saying that the military equipment in the fort are relatively scarce. He also said that the military envoy had already explained that he tried his best to satisfy Shamen Town.
"Let's go, let's see how much more things are in the warehouse. If there are any Li Zhen, I will take them away."
After chatting with the Cangcao a few more words along the way, Li Jing was surprised to find that this Cangcao man who was in his fifties and had a hunched back was quite real. He had no official airs at all. Although he seemed a little cold on the surface, he had no intention of making things difficult for him. When he arrived at the warehouse, Cangcao led Li Jing to lead the armies first.
As soon as the warehouse door opened, Li Jing glanced at the weapons inside and almost turned around and left. Rather than the armory, it was a waste weapons recycling warehouse. The spearhead of the spear was rusty and the horizontal sword was full of gaps. As one hundred and two percent of the Tang army's equipment, there was no bow and arrow here, let alone crossbows, Modao, shields and other equipment. In addition, there was no auxiliary equipment at all.
After a count, there were 313 rusty spears and 237 rusty horizontal knives. This result made Li Jing almost laughed. Fortunately, he bought hundreds of sets of equipment from Song Wen in advance. Otherwise, with these hundreds of broken spears, how could he guard Shamen Town?
Looking at Li Jing's tiny face, the warehouse was also a little embarrassed and said, "If you have craftsmen, you can take some pig iron back and make it yourself."
Li Jing's eyes lit up: "Cat iron? How many?"
The clerk suddenly coughed heavily on the side. Cang Cao had already said to himself and went back. After pondering for a while, Cang Cao said slowly: "We have pig iron, but these pig irons are all purchased from the fort. If Li Zhen needs them, he has to spend money to buy them."
After Li Jing asked about the price carefully, he thought it was still cost-effective, so he proposed to buy more. Unexpectedly, the head whispered in Cang Cao's ear, and Cang Cao only agreed to sell Li Jing three thousand kilograms of pig iron, but no matter how much it is, he refused.
"We also need to get some tents, farm tools, oxen, seeds and other things." Li Jing made another request. Anyway, he is now trying to beat rabbits, and he can hold each other.
With the servant holding his head aside, Li Jing was indeed unable to get much. There were more than 500 twelve tents, twenty iron pots, one hundred old wooden barrels, seventy wooden basins, and more than two thousand rotten bowls, one hundred spoons, and fifty water tanks. In addition, ten stones of old corn, two carts of salted fish, and three hundred kilograms of oil. In terms of agricultural tools, I gave more of them, twenty oxen oxen, three hundred pairs of plows, three hundred pairs of rakes, five hundred hoes, shovels, thorns, and sickles. One hundred pairs of caravans were opened. Fifty water wheels, two hundred stone rollers, and one hundred wooden zones.
In the end, Li Jing saw that he couldn't squeeze out anything, so he was about to give up. After Li Jing took the money from the house, he immediately ran out to invite someone to help Li Jing transport the goods to the dock. After Jiang To leave, Li Jing took another ingot of 50 taels of pork waist silver to the warehouse, which was considered grateful.
Cang Cao unexpectedly accepted Li Jing's silver, "General Li Zhen is so polite." The general of the silver was taken away. Cang Cao chuckled and said, "General Li Zhen is young and energetic, and he has Cui Sima and King Zhao as his backers. He has no future, but why did he come to this great fortress? Li Zhen general knows that the envoy of the military and horse envoys and Cui Sima have never been incompatible. When he heard about the previous incident of the Han family, General Li Zhen also interfered with it?"
Li Jing smiled and said nothing.
Cangcao said earnestly, "Brother, I think you are not bad, so I will say a few real words. In fact, General Feng is in the fort today, and the previous few doorkeepers made a deliberate embarrassment from him. There are also weapons and farm tools in the fort, but there is no general Feng's words. Who dares to pull them to you? As soon as I came, I completely got into a quarrel with the Feng army envoy. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in the future. I think it's better to transfer it as soon as possible."
"Thank you for your reminder, but since I, Li Jing, is here, how could I leave like this? I will never leave without making a look in Shamen Town. Please take more care of me in the future."
Cang Cao sighed, as if he was sighing at Li Jing's disobedience. "If you need weapons, I have no choice. But if you need farm tools, oxen, and seeds, I have a suggestion."
"Please say it!"
"You don't have to ask General Feng for these things. You can go directly to the head of Feng Zheng who was just now. He is a fellow clan of Feng Zheng and is highly valued by Feng Zheng. Feng Zheng opened a residence on the dock in the name of his wife and brother-in-law. He can be said that he can get all kinds of goods. If you need anything, you can't find him directly, you will definitely not be wrong."
Li Jing said with some surprise: "But since that man is the clan brother of the envoy, how could he help me?"
Cang Cao shook his head: "This is wrong. Who will not be able to fight money these days? That Feng Jiangtou is the best money owner. As long as you are willing to spend money, I guarantee that he will not dare to resell it to you except for weapons, and he will do whatever you want."
"Oh, thank you, brother."
After a while, Feng Jiangtou had already led a large group of dockporters. Li Jing watched him busy and shouted from both sides. He could really make the devil push the mill with money. But just fifty taels of silver, Feng Jiangtou was already so enthusiastic. I guess what Cang Cao said was really true.
When he was collecting the things, although they looked like they were all rags, they were really transported to the dock, but they were a lot of them, especially twenty cows tied there, which was even more lively. Li Jing couldn't take away so many things, so he simply took out another 100 taels of silver to Feng Jiangtou, asking him to transfer a large ship to send these things directly to Shamen Town. Feng Jiangtou got the silver, and saw that Li Jing was immediately kissing him than the master. He immediately went to transfer the ship and assigned someone to load the things.
Li Jing and the other two sat on their own boat and chatted leisurely. When they thought of spending some money, they ordered Feng Jiangtou like a cow. The few people couldn't help but smiled very happily. Although they gave Feng Jiangtou 150 taels of silver, the busyness in the whole province was in the province. And with this contact, it would probably be much more convenient if they really wanted to buy something from him in the future.
Seeing the porters on the dock bringing all the things they brought on the boat, Liu Shouqian smiled and said to Li Jing: "When I came here, I thought this trip would be a waste of time, but I didn't expect that this can get so many things back when I begged for a rabbit. It's really worth it!"
Li Shugen smiled and said, "The most exciting thing is the general's few strokes of the eyeless dog, which is so comfortable. I really didn't see it at the beginning, and I thought the general was going to give me the money for the dog."
"That's right, he was covered in blood. A servant dared to treat the general like this. He was so arrogant. If he didn't hit him a few times, he didn't know how powerful he was."
Liu Shouqian said: "General, you did something, so you were not worried that Feng Zhang would take the opportunity to talk about it? What if the Feng surnamed did not come forward and sent a group of soldiers to besiege us?"
Li Jing said happily: "I just called Feng Zhang. If I don't hit those few times, do you think that Feng Jiangtou came out so by chance? It was just a few watchdogs. Feng Zhang wouldn't really do anything to us. But in the future, we have to be careful in the future. We are in Shamen Town, and he is in the Great Xie Fort, and we have to be neighbors for a long time in the future, and some of them will play."
Everyone laughed, and the generals would be of the same kind as soldiers. Zhang Chengzong and the others followed Li Jing and had already become familiar with Li Jing's temperament. They had known that Li Jing was a person with a clear distinction between gratitude and grudge. If the other party bullies him, he would definitely return one foot. Since Li Jing dared to come to Shamen Town at the beginning, it already shows that Li Jing was not afraid of the current challenges at all.
For Li Jing, his relationship with Feng Zhang is nothing. As long as he has food and trains his troops well, what can Feng Zhang do? What is Feng Zhang afraid of? Don’t forget that Feng Yanqing and Feng Liang’s uncle and nephew were even more arrogant at the beginning, but in the end he died at Li Jing’s hands.
"Let's go, the boat is driving, let's follow. Shamen Town, we're here!"
"Shamen Town, we are here!" Wang Shi shouted loudly at the blue sea and blue sky with excitement.
Chapter completed!