Chapter 1 The first year of Jingkang
Who am I, where am I? Am I crazy?
Time travelers just woke up and basically didn't believe in their own experiences. How could I be a materialist?
The Li family caravan in Zhangqiu, Qizhou, ran 500 miles away to buy iron.
Are you crazy?
Sixty miles south of Zhangqiu is the steel city. There are so many iron ores, isn’t the iron you dig out to practice?
Can't you hit a hoe or can't you make nails?
More than 200 people, more than 200 kilometers, people eat horses and eat so much?
But in the Song Dynasty, it was no surprise that salt and iron were sold exclusively. Stealing private salt was more concealed and not easy to be caught. If you open a mine and smelify iron privately, you would not have enough brains to cut.
The largest iron ore in the north is in Cizhou, and the largest smelting field is in Cizhou.
Cizhou is the northern center of the Song Dynasty steel smelting.
Whether it is Qizhou or Shandong, iron deficiency can be bought in Cizhou.
Both salt and iron are sold in the Qizhou Prefecture, and the Li family assisted them from the side. The Li family in the Zhangqiu is not only the largest grain merchant in the Qizhou Prefecture, but also the largest iron merchant.
"Erlang, Cizhou was occupied by Jin soldiers, and Zhanggui Xing and Wei Dutou of the Xiang army were also arrested into the city. Is it a good fortune?"
Jin soldiers, Cizhou, Li Jing was a little confused from the carriage.
In this era, caravans went shopping far away and were cautious, not to mention that behind this trip, the collusion between officials and businessmen.
Half of the horse team is the Qizhou Xiangjun, and half of the Li family members.
Didn’t they send out a fore outpost to attack the front station, why were the leaders of both sides still being taken over by the Jin people?
“What year is this year?”
"What year, the first year of Jingkang!"
From my memory, I learned that it was the first year of Jingkang, but Li Jing didn’t believe it very much?
Jingkang was the reign of Emperor Qinzong of Song. The Jin soldiers were at the city, and Emperor Huizong of Song abdicated in the throne in danger.
Now it is the autumn of the first year of Jingkang.
Taiyuan has been captured, is the guardian Wang Jue the death penalty?
The shame of Jingkang, the destruction of Bian Jing, and the two emperors Huiqin were looted, which was the beginning of next year.
Now, the Jin soldiers have entered the Song Dynasty. If there is no one in the world, they will definitely be left behind in Cizhou. The vanguard may have already gone south to attack Bianjing, and they are still outside Cizhou City.
Li Jing suddenly had the idea of going home.
Not leaving yet, are you waiting to give away the head?
All crazy.
But when it came to my mouth, it suddenly changed.
The scene of his father Li Yuan and Qizhou Du Zhizhou seeing him off in person appeared in his mind.
Qizhou is already seriously short of iron. If the iron cannot be transported back, it will affect the minor incidents of spring plowing in the coming year. Everyone in the horse gang may be guilty. The magistrate is angry and will also implicate his father.
"You can't wait for things when buying iron. Let's go quickly, go south and go away, and bypass Cizhou. We head towards the iron mine to the west!"
Cizhou produces coal, iron, mines and smelting plants all under the Taihang Mountains west of the city.
Starting from Qizhou, listening to the horse gang bragging all the way and telling the scenery of Cizhou. Li Jing can almost confirm that Cizhou is nothing more than a huge iron and metal trading center.
"Aren't Erlang afraid? He dares to go west, but he is a golden dog who kills without blinking? Even the border troops can't stand it."
The one who spoke was Ai Zheng from the Xiang Army, named Chen, who was in the Northern Song Dynasty. Five people and one five, twenty-five people in a team. The hundred officials of the five teams were not called centurion, but Dutou.
The captain of a team of twenty-five people is not called the captain or the mate. It is called Ai Zheng, or Ai Si.
He was surprised that in Zhangqiu people hate ghosts and are nicknamed "Unfamiliar with them", Li Erlang would have such a decision to live to death.
The Xiang army of the Song Dynasty said it was an organized local army, but it had never been formally trained. Its function was to assist the yamen as thugs. Its quality was far worse than that of later policemen. If it was a little more powerful, it would not have been broken through the borders of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin army advanced straight into it.
But the Qizhou army is different. When Wei Dutou set off, Chen Renjun chose the soldiers who had seen blood in the uprising of Song Jiang.
Even everyone selected by his father for the horse team, except Li Erlang, was also brother who had encountered bandits on the way and could not retreat.
"I missed the errand of Du Zhizhou in Qizhou. Are you responsible for it or my Li family?"
It’s not a big deal if the shopkeeper is caught. There are many people on both legs in Qizhou.
The key is business.
The people of Qizhou were waiting for iron, but they missed the tolerance. Whether it was the Li family or the Xiang army, they were in a desperate situation.
Chen Ai was looking at Li Jing up and down. This boy was burly. He heard that he was rampant in Qizhou and was a good player to cause trouble when fighting. Although his face was a bit dark, he was actually a little demeanor in his conversation. Now that the convoy is headless and in chaos, he is actually calm and composed.
It also feels a bit ridiculous.
The convoy of more than 200 people is now a seventeen-year-old boy who has decided to take over. Isn’t this chaos going to travel between life and death?
"I heard that Chen Aizheng was the head of the imperial guards before? He has also served as a border army?"
After decades of experience in later generations, when he recalled the journey of the convoy, he could conclude that the core figure of the wing army was the Ai Zheng named Chen Renjun in front of him.
"Erlang, don't laugh at me!"
Damn, who has the heart to laugh at you? This is the damn Jingkang year. It doesn’t matter if the two Huiqin sects fall into the hands of the Jin people. It has nothing to do with Bian Jing in the hands of the Jin people. But after Bian Jing fell into the hands of the Jin people, the entire Qinling Mountains and Huai River will fall into the hands of the Jin people.
Including his hometown of Qizhou.
What are the Jin people? They are wolf cubs born from the Black Water Grassland in Beishan. They can do nothing except plunder, slaughter, and rely on cavalry to collide and insult Song Erlang.
In the near future, the elders of my hometown will be ravaged under the iron hooves.
Even my most admired aunt would take all the gold and stone calligraphy and paintings to cross the river.
Don’t talk too far, it’s just that at the moment, you can’t control the horse team and have bad luck to meet the Golden Dog. There are more than 200 people in a row of loose sand, and more than 200 sheep.
Let it be slaughtered.
How many can Li Jing, who is full of brute force, have he fought?
He knew very well that this pair is the highest prestige in the current team.
Only by reaching an agreement with him can you control the entire horse team.
The chaotic times are like a torrent, and more than 200-person brigade merchants and horses are like a small boat in the storm of waves as the army of more than 100,000 Jin soldiers heading south.
A person who is not careful and can even be crushed to pieces, but he is still indifferent.
In order to fight for his life, Li Jing took his best efforts. Even if he did not hesitate to be famous and imitated Liu Huangshu to sleep with him, he had to control the army of more than 200 people.
"Does Chen Ao think I just decided to be frivolous and hope to bypass Cizhou at night?"
Chen Renjun was stunned. The situation in front of him was turbid. Even his complicated life experience, he did not dare to assert that he would advance or retreat.
However, the plan is very good around Cizhou at night.
At least before the Qizhou Xiangjun set out, he helped Dutou carefully select the strong ones, and even eliminated night blindness.
This move also informed the Li family that the Li family's horse team had all the elite and were good at taking action.
"Erlang has a beautiful breast, and his ideas are extremely short!"
"Chen Aizheng, please arrange to bypass Cizhou tonight. After the matter is completed, I will take the head of the Li family horse team. You will call each Aizheng over here. Let's discuss the next step of planning!"
"good!"
Li Jing devoted his entire life to the military industry of the Republic in his previous life.
At most, thousands of people were managed.
He is too clear that management is a communication process.
The horse team and the wing army seemed to be in a mess, but in fact they were carefully selected by the governors of Qizhou and the Li family. It is rare to be a running-in army.
If a mixed team wants to be truly united, at least you need to be aware of what you are doing.
But Chen Renjun was relieved when he left.
Tianyou Horse Gang, Tianyou himself, who would have thought that the Li family drove Li Erlang, who was disgusted by people in Zhangqiu and caused trouble, and was so calm and moderate in the chaos and the horse team was without a leader.
For the sake of two hundred people's life and death, there were some suggestions that could not be said.
Although the horse gang is currently hidden by the woods, it is a place that is flat.
The Jin army occupying Cizhou will not stay in the city obediently.
In the eyes of the Song people, the "Grass Valley" that was robbed by soldiers was cruel and disgusting, contrary to human nature, and unforgivable.
The Jin people and Liao people enjoyed it, and they never tired of it.
Everyone in the Jin Dynasty was soldiers.
There is no preparation in the wilderness, let alone encountering the elite Jin people, Tiefutu and Gunzima, even the temporary organization of Zhongxiao, Zhongyi, Changsheng and other miscellaneous logistics and supplies troops, they are not something that the horse team can deal with.
Chapter completed!