Renqiu County's limerick quickly spread within a large area through the mouth of the postmaster, which became a newly released official joke. However, this officialdom is not that officialdom, and Ni Yuanlu, who is also a person in the officialdom, has never heard of it at all. It can be said that the water of the well does not interfere with the river.

Ni Yuanlu actually has no intention of taking advantage of the public, she is just so noble that she is so noble that she can't take care of herself... In other words, some life cannot be taken care of.

When the official secretary came to ask him for food and accommodation, Ni Yuanlu was surprised at first. After asking the rules clearly, she generously gave a small ingot of five taels of ingots. This made the official secretary overjoyed and offered him as his ancestors in the next days.

As the chief financial officer of a country, Ni Yuanlu's money and grain management was not less than the unit of "10,000", but he really didn't know the purchasing power of the money among the people. The inn's food and accommodation only cost five cents of silver a day, and five taels were enough to live for three months.

Of course, Ni Yuanlu could not live here for three months, so the extra rewards were all taken by the inn. Although Zhu Cixuan attaches great importance to integrity and corruption has been untolerated by all generations, the rewards are not in this case.

Facing a wealthy man who rewards huge sums of money, it is no wonder that even if the official secretary is called, he will come and leave, and he will be happy.

"This is the sixth batch of troops in recent days, right?" Ni Yuanlu lived for two days and had already encountered six groups of horse soldiers heading north. She couldn't help but feel strange. He knew that there were still some "local" soldiers in Liaodong who were resisting the royal army. I thought they could not even defend Tianbao and Beijing, and it was only a matter of time to be wiped out.

So where did this team be transferred?

"They are all the people from the cavalry camp." The official secretary welcomed and saw Ni Yuanlu ask, and said vigorously: "Their iron armors are all two steel plates on the front and back of the chest. At the second time, they only have armor on the chest and tied with belts behind them. This is what happened to those who went north in the past two days."

"Where is the war going to happen again?" Ni Yuanlu said worriedly.

"I'm afraid I won't." The postmaster said: "The cavalry battalions are all in and out. How can they be dispatched in such a scattered manner? It is probably a normal deployment. It is so let the master know that once there is a war, even the small postmaster, Beizhi, will be moved."

"How did you move at this station?" Ni Yuanlu said even more surprised.

The postmaster smiled and said, "If there is a big battle, someone in the army will transfer food to buy food. Then stockpile it in villages, granaries, forts, and post stations along the way. These places have become food spots, and people nearby have to help prepare. When the army marched, it can be said that they would eat wherever they went, unlike before. There was insufficient supply in prefectures and counties along the way, so the soldiers would inevitably disturb the people."

"Will not disturb the people like this?"

"I have been here for nearly twenty years, and only the soldiers trained by the Crown Prince are truly undisturbing the people." The postmaster sighed: "People say that the Crown Prince is Taiweixingjun descended to the earth, and the Jade Emperor sent 100,000 heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals to help him. This seems to be true."

When Ni Yuanlu thought of Zhu Cilang, she felt nostalgic and worried. Instead, she felt that she was not a perfect person after leaving like this, but it was inevitable that she would do things against her will to stay in the court. What a dilemma!

Seeing that the master was used to pondering again, the official secretary bowed and stepped back slowly. His statement to the cavalry battalion was very good, but not entirely correct.

Although no major war occurred, these cavalry did carry out military missions.

The cavalry battalion is just like other battalions divided into combat soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, civilians, etc. What is more unique is that the combat soldiers are also divided into regular soldiers and private soldiers. The former is often aliased as "knight" in documents, while the latter only says "cavalry" or even "horse soldiers". The difference lies not in horsemanship and courage, but in the implementation of discipline.

After the intensive formation charge was positioned, the basic cavalry tactics were located. The knights of the Ming army were much worse than those of the Mongolians and the Jurchens in equestrianism, but their combat effectiveness was several times stronger. The secret lies in discipline. Therefore, even if there were three thousand Mongolian Tartars who were proficient in equestrianism, they were of very limited use for cavalry battalions. Except for the unique techniques of training horses, medical horses were mostly useless.

...

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the 19th year of Chongzhen, the Dragon Boat Festival is on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Zhou Yuji led 800 knights to Zhangjiakou, a mountain city outside the border, in two days.

This place was originally just a four-mile military fort. It was opened in the Wanli period and Mongolia, and Zhangjiakou became truly prosperous. It eventually created the early Xikou merchant gang. Eight major merchants became representatives, that is, the eight great masters who were named the Imperial Merchants by the Qing court.

If all Shanxi merchants are ungrateful wolves who are traitors who share the enemy's stolen country, this is a bit over. However, if you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and have not sold any banned goods outside the mouth, then no one can pick them clean. And just think about it briefly. Whether it is Mongolia outside the mouth or Shanxi inside the gate, it is not a place for commodity manufacturing, so how did the huge transaction volume be generated?

In fact, it was the purchase of plundered goods from the Mongolian Tatars and the Donglu who were in charge of low prices and sold grain and iron tools at high prices, so that the Tartars could invade and plunder again and then sell them to Shanxi merchants at low prices.

Shanxi merchants sold these almost unsubstantiated goods to the mainland, even in the Jianghuai area, thus making huge profits.

During the Huangtai-Ji period, every time he invaded Mongolia, he would not invade Zhangjiakou. In addition to the stolen goods that could be removed, the source of information was also very important. In order to make the Tartars more efficiently plunder, the eight major merchants in Zhangjiakou would do their best to investigate the forces and generals of the defenders in various places and inform them of the Tartars.

If buying low and selling high is the nature of a businessman, then the act of actively selling intelligence is undoubtedly a serious crime of treason. Moreover, according to the criminal law of later generations, such acts of planning to sell stolen goods in advance and afterwards are also a criminal accomplice.

After the Qing army entered the pass, the Qing court not only granted the Eight Great Masters as Imperial Merchants, but also granted 500 acres of land in Zhangjiakou, allowing them to gather their tribes here. According to the customs of the people at that time, since the whole family moved to Zhangjiakou, they would have to bring their main property together. For these re-sellers, the most important property was real money and silver.

Zhu Cixuan had traveled to Zhangjiakou in his previous life and visited the silver cellar left by Shanxi merchants. It was a place where the underground was hollowed out. Piles of silver did not enter the circulation link, but were buried deep underground. It sounded very touching, and once he sat in Zhu Cixuan's seat, he would be very depressed.

China was never a silver producer. Before Wanli, the market was mainly circulating money, and earlier there were treasure banknotes. It was not until Spain transported a large amount of silver back from South America and the improvement of the Japanese silver refining level that the Ming Dynasty had enough silver as a circulating currency.

And the silver sent from all over the world was eventually buried underground without seeing the light of day, which would have caused the economy to have a side effect!

Zhu Cilang could not think of these things at that time. At that time, he was immersed in the joy of success, enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the border with the mentality of a secular successful person, and savoring a different kind of delicious food. He only converted the silver to how much RMB it equals in his mind, and never thought about the significance of this to a dynasty and a civilization.

Now I don't want to.

...

"General, the horse siege caught a gap between the Tartars on the road!" The horse siege rushed to Zhou Yuji to report the report.

"Since it's a spy, can you interrogate it?" Zhou Yuji sat on the horse without surprise.

Before the horse was spoken, the "spy" who was ten steps away shouted loudly: "General! We are not spies in the Tartars! We are obedient people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Shun people? Shun people are rushing at night? They are traitors or robbers!" Zhou Yuji stepped forward and said coldly.

He followed his personal guards, but one of the horses was half behind him and was dressed as a general. He smiled and said, "You have to go on a night's journey if you still have to pay bribes."

"Yes, yes! What the general said is that we bribes!" the man shouted loudly.

The general said just now, "But do you bribe us General Xiao?"

"It's exactly!" the man said hurriedly: "It's what I gave to General Xiao."

Zhou Yuji laughed loudly, and pointed at the man with a horse whip and said, "You don't even know what my surname is, and you dare to say you have bribed!"

The guards, cavalry, and horse probing were also burst into laughter.

The man was so scared that he fell to his knees, thinking that he had become a spy if he was not a spy.

"Can you click to see what he brings clearly?" Zhou Yuji asked.

Someone soon replied: "General, there are six double horses and big chariots, each of which is filled with snowflakes and silver in large wooden boxes! I'm afraid there are not tens of thousands of taels!"

Zhou Yuji asked someone to use a torch to burn the "spy"'s face: "How much money, you can say it yourself."

"Three thousand...six hundred..."

"Fuck!" Zhou Yuji angrily scolded: "Six big trucks transport 3,600 taels of silver. Do you think I am a fool!"

"It's jin..." The man trembled and almost cried: "It's 3,600 jin...57,600 jin. General! I'm really not a spy. I'm transported these silver back to my hometown in Shanxi for the master."

"I see you are lying all the time, so you are definitely not a good person." Zhou Yuji said coldly: "I will torture me until I tell the truth."

Immediately, a group of soldiers in front of him, knocked the man to the ground with thick sticks, and even his entourage, coachman, and guards all fell down, and burst into tears.

Zhou Yuji was so heartless that he just watched the military stick hit him with one stick, and he didn't say anything. The wailing sound gradually became lighter. Zhou Yuji walked out of the horse behind him, wearing a big hat with a wide brim, covering his entire face, and whispered: "The general is a powerful general on the battlefield. Let's leave this matter of torture and torture to us."

"No." The general who spoke before refused, simply said: "It is normal for this man to send money home. He is just talking about bribery. It is obvious that he has a ghost in his heart."

The man said helplessly: "Chief Staff Huang, there are all discerning people here, so Chen Xiang will definitely not do anything illegal to excuse him."

"Huh? Mr. Chen's words seem to have a deep meaning." Zhou Yuji felt confused.

Chen Xiang was helpless, who made his identity too sensitive? With three hundred years of catching up on the wind and shadows, since he entered the camp, who has not seen him? How could he have trust? (To be continued...)
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