A group of Han soldiers surrounded the bonfire and looked towards the fire. Nie Chounu took out a few wrinkled pieces of paper from his arms. The pieces of paper had a good texture and would not be broken even if they were soaked in water. He could not read it. He just looked at the colorful patterns over and over again. Finally, he put the pieces in his arms and whispered: "Does this thing really get food?"

Several Han soldiers around were looking at each other. They were all going to the area around Chuanmen River to the north. They received a stack of fifteen pieces of paper on Tieshan Island. It is said that one piece on the shore could be exchanged for a bucket of food. All the soldiers of the Han army were suspicious. Nie Chounu sighed, and everyone's faces were shady and they spent the winter in the extreme north. If there was no food and grass, they would have to wait to die. Others talked about it for a long time, but Zhou Guangzong only smiled and said nothing, silenced, and used a wooden stick to tick up the firewood. Finally, someone found something wrong and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhou, is this piece of paper good? Why are you keeping your head silent?"

"What do I do with this mouth?" Zhou Guangzong smiled and said, "If you throw away all of these, it's best if I get a bargain."

The more he was so joking, the more humble the people were. Nie Chounu remembered that he had been to the north for business, patted his shoulder, and smiled and said, "Does this piece of paper work? Is it useful? Is it also a point of guidance for the old brothers?" The two of them escaped from the same village. Nie Chounu was older, and Zhou Guangzong usually accepted his care, so he didn't keep it indifferent. He smiled and said, "When I arrived in the north, this piece of paper works better than gold and silver. In the cold winter, as long as it can get enough food. Everyone should keep it tight, so don't be deceived by others for a small amount of money."

"Oh, that's how it is." The Han army suddenly realized.

Of course, some people also doubted: "It's so easy to work, is it true?"

"Why are there any fake?" Zhou Guangzong smiled and said, "Why don't we change it, and you can exchange it for ten pieces of silver, will you do it?" Then he stretched out his hand. "No, no, no," the man seemed to be stung by a scorpion, and put the paper on his chest with a precious and serious place.

Such things happened in every corner of Tieshan Island. In this world, except for the matters of men and women, rumors about money and grain will always spread the fastest, and their credibility is far better than those of the government's notice. In the camp in another corner, facing more than a dozen Han army officers, Wang Tongdeng said in a deep voice: "The Dongmu ticket must be sent to each soldier by the quarantine officer. This is the rule set by General Zhao, and no one can ignore it!"

All the officers gasped. Zhao De's rules were strict, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and it was almost rigid, and there were many great reasons behind it. Everyone knows that breaking his rules would be like causing trouble for himself.

The officers know much more about the use of this Dongmu ticket than the soldiers below. It is actually a kind of Jiaozi. People in the Song Dynasty often say that in the prosperous times, money can make ghosts push the mills. However, in the winter of Liaodong, grain can buy people's lives, and grain can make grinds push ghosts. The Dongmu ticket was issued mainly based on grain as a reserve. An ordinary ticket was worth a bucket of grain, and it was not a waste of money. In the north, there was not only the stockpiling of enough food, but also transporting it in large quantities. Without fear of others' concern, the only one in Xia State Camp was the only one in the Xia State Camp. At the beginning, the military soldiers and people were still skeptical about the credit of the Dongmu ticket. After a period of time, they began to actively exchange it for various items. With the arrival of winter, food became increasingly scarce.

The market conditions of this paper are even higher, and it is even stronger than gold and silver in the area of ​​the Chunmen River in Yalu River. Even the Jurchens used Dongmu tickets from somewhere to exchange for grain. Jin Changtai ordered only the bills to be recognized, and as long as the bills issued with grain as reserves were exchanged for grain. The firmness of the grain coupons indirectly supported the bills issued with minks, ginseng, pearls, gold, wood, etc. as reserves. Later, the Xia State Camp only needed a thick stack of Dongmu tickets to buy a tribe to do its own business. The exchange ratio between grain coupons, gold, wooden, pearls, and entries was not controlled yet. It would take time for the Xia State Camp to unify them into the kind of money used in the Xia State Camp.

Distributing food and wages in the army is one of the important authority. The officers draw some oil and water from it, or send more oil to their confidants and more ordinary soldiers, and they are used to it. The military officers directly sent the Dongmu ticket to the military soldiers, and the Han army officers had fewer opportunities to do it. After a moment of silence, some people still dissatisfied: "Why does Zhao De change the rules for paying wages in the army? We only listen to the general's mansion!" This resonated with some dissatisfied officers, and many people muttered in a low voice: "That's it!" "Why do you listen to someone with the surname Zhao?" They faintly became disrespectful to Zhao Xingde and Xia State Camp.

"Just this!" Wang Tongdeng's eyes seemed to be about to burst into flames. With a "bang", he threw a stack of Dongmu tickets on the table. "This is the ticket that General Zhao agreed to send. Of course, he has to follow his rules. If any camp does not want to collect it, please leave here, and I will not send it away."

The north needed a powerful cavalry general to protect the village and reclamation, but Zhao Xingde left him in Kaizhou. Therefore, Wang Tongdeng did not get the opportunity to fight in Liaoyang and Suzhou. This time, the Han soldiers and civilians who were resettled north had to carry and distribute Dongmu tickets worth tens of thousands of yuan, and they had to be reliable. Jin Changtai ordered his general again. He was stolen and quarrels, and he kept Wang Tongdeng so much that he could smoke every day. He did not have any good face to those messy guys.

The Han army officers who were born in the wild really took this trick. When Wang Tongdeng got angry, no one immediately objected loudly, and he was humming in a low voice. Wang Tongdeng glared at his eyes and said in a deep voice: "There is another sentence, if someone wants to be unruly and do things, I advise him not to go to the north. Other places are the largest. In the north, General Zhao's rules are even greater than the sky." He said coldly, "Those who do not abide by the rules, I guarantee that you will never survive this winter!"

The officers looked at each other and were silent. In the end, no one said anything more. They honestly asked the military officer sent by Wang Tongdeng to personally issue Dongmu tickets to the soldiers. But on that night, someone found Wang Xuansu and cried with ignorance. Wang Xuansu reported to Han Ningshuang overnight.

"If you are a soldier, you will fight for whoever you eat." Wang Xuansu said with a grief. If the Han army had not suffered setbacks and had insufficient food and grass, they would not have asked the Xia State Camp to help supply food and grass. However, unexpectedly, the Xia State Camp not only replaced the food and grass with Dongmu tickets, but also sent officers to send them to the soldiers. It has become a common practice for false reporting of people in the army to eat empty wages. After this drama, the Xia State Camp not only won the morale of the army, but also knew the number and strength of each battalion, which was probably even clearer than the Han Army General's Mansion.

Han Ningshuang's eyes were slightly narrowed, and she was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "The commander of the army did not control the food and pay, which is indeed a customization of the Xia Dynasty. Military supplies above the Xia State Camp are transported by the logistics department, and the food and pay below the camp are controlled by the marching Sima. The lieutenant has a very high reputation in the camp, but is still subject to the military government, and the soldiers will not regard themselves as someone's private soldiers. This is the way to maintain long-term stability. In the future, we will do this, so as not to know that the soldiers only have a general but not a general." She paused and sighed, "Although there is a system that can be imitated, it can be used in a corner of Liaodong without any rules. General Zhao and Sima Jin are indeed rare talents."

Her feelings were not just because of paying wages, but because of the many arrangements of Xia State Camp in Liaodong.

Wang Xuansu nodded, and he repeatedly unfolded a Dongmu ticket and pondered: "The last general is worried that Xia State Camp will take this opportunity to gather the morale of the army and put the general's mansion in an empty space. Over time, these brothers who went to the north only knew that General Zhao was there, but not the general's mansion."

"Since the demise of the Bohai Kingdom, there are only some fishing and hunting barbarians in the north, which were originally unparalleled," Han Ningshuang said slowly. "General Zhao saw the initiative and put down his chess pieces there earlier and started to operate them, so he took the lead. They also had the continuous support of the Xia Kingdom, and it was extremely difficult to reverse the host and guest power in the north. General Zhao's original intention was not to divide the power of our Han army."

Speaking of this, her eyes fainted slightly. If Zhao Xingde wanted to control the Han army, there was the easiest and direct way, but this person was not even willing to do so, let alone deliberately undermining himself. Maintaining a reliable ally in Liaodong is the original intention of the Guardian Mansion. Maintaining a force that is completely obedient to the Xia Kingdom will pay far more than maintaining a local ally. But far away, it is difficult to control the general who commands the army and the civilians of Liaodong, and bear comprehensive responsibilities, is not in line with the interests of the Xia Kingdom. She can be sure of her big things, so naturally she will not care about the details.

The night was dark, and the people who were holding hope by the bonfire finally fell asleep one by one. Until the dawn was dawn, the ships anchored in the port carried teams of Han troops to various islands, and to the northern lands that the Liao army had not yet stepped on. The people who arrived early had formed camps of initial scale. Although crops could not be planted in winter, it was a good season for logging. Dongmuxing gave priority to cutting down the trees growing on fertile plains, and the land was thawed in spring.

The first crop of grain can be planted by clearing the woodland. The big trees that have just been cut down will cut off unnecessary branches to make firewood. The huge wood can be put on sledge boards and pulled them along the ice road to the yard by the river. In the cold winter, the natural dignified power will become the biggest helper here. Just wait for the river to thaw after spring, and then discharge the discharge downstream. Some of the best wood will be directly pulled to the shipyard of Yueyang Island, and more will be transported to the south smoothly.

Many lumberjacks and garrison soldiers moved from the south, and most of them like this business that makes money faster than farming. All winter in the camps, sweating everywhere, and in the quiet mountains and forests, the horns of falling trees sounded from time to time. The Han soldiers who had just arrived ashore were soon infected by this hopeful atmosphere.

A vendor wearing a dog-skin hat enthusiastically pulled a Han army and asked mysteriously: "Brother, do you have a Dongmu ticket? I'm going to exchange for a very good silver, and one tael of silver for twenty paper tickets. What's the point? I think you're good at face to make you take advantage of this."
Chapter completed!