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7. Grain smuggling war

Liu Xuanzuo was unaware of this. During his days in Yanzhou City, he only knew that he drank and ate meat with the generals of the Xuanwu Army, Zuoya soldiers, and did not ask about anything else.

At the same time, the arrogant and bad habits of Xuanwu Army also left a very bad influence among the households in Weibei. It is not necessary to say that the sporadic robbery and rape of the local area are very violent. The soldiers were very aggressive when they were trading in the military market. They relied on the sword in their hands to buy low and sell high, and they shouted: "When we built a city in Neiyuan, Longzhou to resist Xifan, the local people fully supported them and would do whatever they wanted. Now that we have come to you, the people are particularly bad in character. Not only do they not take the initiative to reward the army, but they even ask for it and don't give it to me. It is an insult to my heroic team against the British!"

The Xuanwu Army was originally located in the cabin transportation hub of Bian and Song dynasties, and the court was treated particularly well. When Li Zhongchen came to be the governor, although this army could fight, it was already full of arrogance. After Liu Xuanzuo succeeded, this phenomenon became even worse.

So much so that when the people of Yanzhou City mentioned the Xuanwu army that passed by, they all made a song: "I would rather ask Xifan to burn and kill, but I don't want the Xuanwu army to come to the garrison!" Especially before Gao Yue took the camp, the small schools of Dingwu and Yining Army gathered together to serve as military camps to purchase grain and other items from the people, "The transactions are fair and peaceful, neither fighting nor rob, and they also raise prices and buy", which is a world of difference from the Xuanwu army.

In addition, the Dousan Shogun, who first crossed the river from Pujin to Hezhong Prefecture, was powerful and was full of important officials of the court. When the Fenghua Army governor Hun Yu came to pay a visit, Dousan knew that Hun Rijin was the emperor's most trusted veteran, so he hoped that he and the Fenghua Army would join the Shogunate Camp.

Hun Ye was flattered and agreed immediately, and then asked the secretary Lu Lun to quickly draft a memorial to the court, hoping that the emperor would approve it.

Then Dou Shen asked Hun Yu about the water and land passages and geographical situations of Hedong to Funing Village throughout the river. Hun Yu said everything, and then volunteered to be the pioneer of Dou Zhonglang with Li Ziliang of the Fengcheng Army.

"Liu Xuanzuo took Yanzhou Road, Hun Yu and Li Ziliang took Hedong Road, and the two routes went to Funing together, so that my situation would be more stable." Dou Shen was so happy that he couldn't help but be extremely Taoran.

Of course, Hun Yu also allocated 40,000 stones of grain to Dou Shen and the entire Duzhi Department, and 30,000 stones of grain to the Fengcheng Army.

Dou Shen immediately agreed, and at the same time, as Xuan Fu's ambassador to deal with the disposal, he sent a certificate to Li Jingluo, Zhenwu Army and Han Tan, the Tianjian Army, asking them to send troops from the north at the same time, "So quickly to Funing Village, if Gao Yue's army and horses dare to be disturbed, they will kill them without any hesitation."

According to Dou Shen's perception, as the prime minister and the disposal officer, just fly the hall certificate out, and the remaining generals will handle it for him.

Soon, Dou Shen's shogunate came to Taiyuan Prefecture. The staff and scholars were full of people, and they held wine and gathered together all day long, laughing and joking, which became a good story.

But what Dou Shen didn't know was that Gao Yue's movements during this period were much more efficient than him!

"Dou Shen's biggest mistake was that he misjudged the current political situation and believed that the three departments of the court and the grain transportation could block me. However, he did not know that Xingyuan and Fengxiang were backed by Jingyuan, Dongchuan, Xichuan and Shannan East Road, had already formed a stable self-employed body. In other words, without the support of the three departments of the court, it is hard to say that our Dingwu Army and Yining Army were fighting against Xifan. It is not a big problem to destroy the only Dangxiang alone." Gao Yue said to Quan Deyu so arrogantly.

Even the secretary of Xingyuan Zheng, Quan Deyu, could not believe this.

But the facts educated Quan Deyu:

Gao Yue's two brothers went to Dachangyuan, Qingzhou, and paid the 200,000 guan off the remaining money to the merchants, which moved the merchants. They immediately expressed their determination to firmly support Qi Hou (not to lose the guardian god Qi Hou): If these 200,000 guan is not done, we will use it as foot-strength money, and use Xingyuan and Fengxiang's remaining money and grain to pass Yima Pass, follow the passage between the white leopard, horse training and Ding'an that Qi Hou had built before, and continue to send it to Funing through Yanzhou City!

The merchants did what they said, and soon they gathered at the Xingyuan Prefecture Office. Here, Liu Deshi and Wei Ping heard that Qi Hou was about to run out of food on the front line, which was ok! Hurry up and took the military academies to the military subsidy, dictionary, and Yanquantity in Tianhan Building, a total of 77 granaries, and then went to the Chiyaguan Patrol Transportation Depot. Then they also checked the book collection and finally got the data:

In the past few years, Xingyuan Prefecture first launched the fields and returned to the business, then started to weave cotton, sell slaves, tea, wine, and lend money (using Huguo Temple as a medium). The military warehouses had 2.44 million guan of money and silk that could be mobilized! Several granaries in Chiya Pass, Shanheyan, Huangnihe, and Yuehe Valley, and the remaining "water and drought" grains, in addition to the part that Gao Yue took away before, there were also more than 400,000 shi!

At first, even Liu Deshi couldn't believe this number.

He held the stacked books and looked at Wei Ping, and the lines clearly said, "Qi Hou may be more generous, low-key, and low-key than the emperor."

"I originally wanted to send a boat to Shandong East Road and Jingnan to buy grain, but now it seems that it is not necessary."

Soon, Wei Pinghe hired 3,000 strong men and 500 s of squats to send 100,000 squares of grain to Sanquan, Lizhou with a vehicle.

There, a large number of ships sent by Wei Gao came along the Jialing River. Wei Lianshuai expressed extreme concern about Gao Yue's current situation. "If Liu Xuanzuo's Xuanwu army dared to have any difficulties with Yisong, I should lead 10,000 Fengyi soldiers to serve as Yisong's support. I am most afraid that Dou Shen and Liu Xuanzuo will be unreasonable and falsely accused of loyal and kindness. If they are unreasonable, I will talk to them together with Yisong and talk to them until they are reasonable."

When Sanquanyuan was loaded with ships in Xichuan and transported to Fengzhou, and then passed Yima Pass to Qingzhou and Yanzhou, Wang Shao, deputy envoy of Northwest Yingtian, was also actively operating. He first took out Fengxiang's light goods like money and silk, mobilized a large number of livestock from Qiangtun and Mafang, and then transported all the remaining grains to Qingzhou.

The two governors of the Shence Army, Liu Haibin and Xing Junya, remained silent about the grain transport team passing through the border and ignored them.

Then Lu Weiming from Gyeongju also had the same attitude.

Therefore, Gao Yue first sent a group of fine military academies in the camp to let Cai Fengyuan dress up as ordinary Hedong merchants, and then went to Qingjian City to the south, using this place as a base to buy Baoda, Jingsai, Fenghua, and Fengcheng Army's grain from Dou Shen, who had been chanting poems and singing for several days in Taiyuan Prefecture, was unaware of it. At least nearly 20,000 stones of corn, rice and wheat in this tenth, "smuggled" into the camp of the Dingwu Army.

There are also 200,000 stones on the way to Xingyuan and Fengxiang.

In fact, Gao Yue has already left this batch of grain for Tongwancheng's battlefield, not Funing.

"How could a bureaucrat like Dou Shen, who came out of Dali Temple and the Censorate, know about the black methods of the border town army?" Gao Yue sneered.

In addition, Wu Xianfu also took the initiative to send secret envoys to tell Gao Yue that Liu Xuanzuo and Xuanwu's army were almost at Tuyanchuan.

"It's coming just right." Gao Yue was full of confidence.
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