Chapter 267 Is it expensive to buy Hebei for 100,000 yuan?

"Go ahead of wisdom?" Su Dingfang squeezed out a very reluctant smile: "Dare you ask how the general can win wisdom?"

"Capture the thief and serve the king first!" Liu Heita smiled confidently and said: "As long as Chen Ying is killed, the Tang army will be defeated without attacking this road. Among the generals, Li Shentong, the long-distance running general, has the highest position and the oldest qualification, so it is very easy to deal with him!"

Su Dingfang felt a little incredible when he heard this. As the commander of the first army, Chen Ying must have defended layer by layer. Even during the march, his vanguard winged boat was several miles away from his flagship. If the soldiers hiding deep in the reed marsh were not moved, they would naturally not be able to find it. But once they moved, they would definitely be discovered by the Tang army's scouts. At that time, they would definitely encounter a overwhelming attack from the Tang army.

There is nothing wrong with capturing the thief and capturing the king, but it is really difficult to achieve it.

Liu Heita saw Su Dingfang's doubts and explained with a smile: "calculate the itinerary, Chen Ying's army must have arrived in Bumingzhou today. They need to camp. Looking at the hundreds of miles around Jize, the only place where Chen Ying's army can camp is Shahewan. The water is deep and so many ships can be stopped. There is also that it is closer to Mingzhou, less than sixty miles. At the speed of Chen Ying's army, he sets out early the next morning and arrives at the city of Mingzhou at noon!"

"But, how can we capture and kill Chen Ying?" Su Dingfang said: "Chen Ying has more than 10,000 cavalry under his command, and they will put a radius of hundreds of miles into the guard circle..."

Before Su Dingfang could finish his words, Liu Heita interrupted Su Dingfang and said, "Chen Ying likes to recruit civilians to build a camp. At that time, you will bring people to disguise themselves as the people in Shahewan and sneak into Chen Ying's camp!"

Su Dingfang said: "As long as I can accept Chen Ying within a hundred steps, Dingfang is absolutely sure to kill him!"

Liu Heita said: "I have already found out clearly. Chen Ying will stay on that steamer at night. The entire fleet is just a big ship. You will take your people and dive in from the water!"

Su Dingfang smiled bitterly and said, "General, you also know that if you let me ride a horse and raid, Dingfang is not afraid of anyone, but I can't dive!"

"Can't dive?" Liu Heita frowned, reached out and pulled out a reed, then pulled out the leaves, handed Su Dingfang a reed pole that was more than one foot long and said, "Use this!"

When there is no supply equipment or diving suit, when the water ghosts dive to attack the enemy, they usually use reeds to ventilate at the bottom of the water and quietly catch the enemy in the night.

However, Su Dingfang cried and picked up the reed pole.

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As Liu Heita expected, after Chen Ying learned that there was only a pier like Shahewan, the entire Jize, and the only sky-like pier was ordered to advance towards Shahewan. The old Shahe River was originally more than ten meters deep, but since the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty, due to the flood of the Shahe River, a huge wetland was formed here.

However, the river embankment on the north bank of Shahe River is well preserved. The entire Shahe River bay is like the Jizi Bay of the Yellow River, which can be used to form a half-moon shape and rely on most of the canal ships in the Banyue Bay. Leave the cavalry of the Cavalry to the north to guard the cavalry outside, and there is no need to worry about being sneak attacked by the Xia army.

When Chen Ying learned about such a good place, he ordered to camp in Shahewan.

When Chen Ying took the Wan'an steamer to Shahewan, he saw this place at a glance. First of all, the water depth here is the same as that of the Jize Waterway, with water nearly three meters deep, and even the steamers can pass through. What's more important is that it is too close to Mingzhou.

From Liyang, Zhangqiu, Xiangzhou, Huanshui, and Chen Ying can also ensure that the rear baggage is unobstructed.

Chen Ying found Li Shentong, the King of Huai'an, and asked him to use the Hebei Daotai Shangshi Zuo Pushe to procure the Tang Dynasty to recruit civilians and build a large camp in Shahewan.

Li Shentong looked at the simple Chen made by Chen Ying and said strangely: "General Chen wants to build a Yonggu military camp in Shahewan? Is this necessary?"

According to Chen Ying's plan, he needed to recruit 30,000 people, which took three months to build a military camp that could accommodate 50,000 troops. At the same time, he also needed to build a twenty-mile mooring pier that could moor thousands of ships of all sizes. Not only is this fortification time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the key is that in Li Shentong's view, there is no need at all.

Chen Ying pondered: "Does the King of Huai'an think it's not necessary at this time?"

Li Shentong nodded.

Even Feng Li and Wei Wenzhong felt that Chen Ying was useless. Because after the attack on Mingzhou, the Tang army would not station here, and it was even more impossible for such a large number of ships to dock in Shahewan.

Chen Ying said: "This place already belongs to Dou Jiande's Mingzhou area. The people here all want Dou Jiande. This is undeniable?"

Li Shentong: "Yes, even if I order the conscript as Zuo Pushe, the Minister of Xingtai, Hebei, I am afraid that the people nearby will not respond, and will eventually become a laughing stock in the world!"

"Everything has advantages and disadvantages. We can take this matter from a long-term perspective, which is really necessary!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "I didn't say that I would be recruited for free, but I would be recruited for free. People who come to serve can get 100 coins, three dou of grain, or the same price of salt or other materials!"

Li Shentong really wanted to say that Chen Ying was crazy because Chen Ying was very treacherous this time. Three thousand civil servants came to apply for the recruitment for three months. If so many civil servants really came to pay 3,000 guan a day, and three months would be 100,000 guan a day.

In fact, Chen Ying was not crazy. He did this, but to compete for the people's hearts. Although the so-called people's hearts are a very mysterious thing, the short-sightedness and ignorance of ordinary people are well-known. Just like in later generations, because of an incident one day, a campaign to boycott Korean goods was launched, but it was a pity that it eventually made a big joke. Because people lowered prices and promoted promotions, one day, the shopping malls were like flowing water and horses, and their turnover increased instead of falling.

It is the nature of everyone. What kind of righteousness and people's hearts are really hard to withstand the temptation in the face of real interests. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, Qing officials sent banners to the Eight-Nation Alliance to commend the coalition's actions in Beijing. The flag read "Wishing Xiaohuafeng" (wishing him for his birthday, wishing him for his blessings, and wishing him for many men). Of course, when the Eight-Nation Alliance landed in Tianjin, they were responsible for transporting supplies, weapons and ammunition, and building bridges and roads along the way, all the Chinese people. (This is not fabricated by Lao Cheng, and historical materials can be found.)

In fact, there are two main reasons for this phenomenon. First, the Chinese people were extremely disappointed with the court and had the mentality of subverting the Qing Dynasty. The second reason is ridiculous, because the Eight-Nation Alliance gave rewards when hiring Chinese people, and it was rewards that exceeded the market price.

Ordinary Chinese people are great and of course lovely. Except for the time when the Qing Dynasty lost people's hearts, it is very rare for other dynasties to be abandoned by their own people.

Chen Ying actually wanted to use 100,000 yuan to buy the hearts of Hebei people.

After thinking about it, Li Shentong suddenly understood Chen Ying’s intention: “Is the general going to work for relief?”

Chen Ying did not answer Li Shentong's words, but asked with a smile: "King Huai'an, do you think it's expensive if you buy Hebei with 100,000 yuan?"

Only then did the generals suddenly realize it.

"Of course it's not expensive if you buy Hebei with 100,000 yuan!" Li Shentong smiled and said, "Not to mention 100,000 yuan, even if it's 1 million yuan, it's cheap!"

Li Shentong temporarily transferred dozens of clerks and clerks from Chen Yingjun, and quickly drafted more than 100 letters of letters and distributed them to various places. Of course, the people near Shahewan got the news first. In troubled times, human power was cheap and life was also cheap. Working in Mingzhou only had 200 coins a month, equivalent to two liters of rice a day, mixed with rice bran and wild vegetables, barely able to keep the family from starving to death.

However, Chen Ying gave a wage of fifteen times the price of employment in Mingzhou City. After working for a day, he could get three dou of grain, which was about 30 kilograms. The wage was just a little more expensive than Chang'an, but this was already comparable to that of the little officials in Mingzhou.

Even a small official of the ninth rank can't get three dou of salary for the salary he earned.

Li Shentong was worried that the people of Hebei would not respond to Chen Ying's call at first, but as many as dozens of stalls for recruiting civil servants had just been opened, dozens of people came to inquire. When he learned of such a high wage, more than 500 civil servants were recruited in Shahewan within just one hour.

However, when recruiting, Chen Ying was cautious. The recruiting people either had brothers or families. When it was dark, the civilians who had been working for more than an hour received an order to leave work. Each of them stopped working at the standard of thirty coins or a bucket of grain.

When it was time to take the lights, these recruitment work sites were already crowded by the people who came to the news. Chen Ying asked someone to notify the recruiting clerks and even sent more than a thousand soldiers to maintain the order.

However, these people were not panicked when they saw the Tang soldiers, but lined up very seriously. Chen Ying won the battle with this method, and Li Shentong wrote an urgent report overnight to Chang'an. In the good news, Li Shentong was not stingy with praise and praised Chen Ying's third religion.

However, it was precisely because Chen Ying had a little identification that Su Dingfang and his more than 300 elite troops also successfully intervened in the civil servant camp. These Hebei people were adding bricks and tiles to the cause of the Tang Dynasty conquering Hebei.

There was no moon in the sky, but the stars were bright. Su Dingfang looked down along the river embankment of Shahewan. At this time, the people who heard the news came, took their families and built a straw shed on the river embankment. This messy straw shed extended from the river embankment to the waterside of Jize. It was densely packed under the starry night, and looked as desolate as thousands of wild graves.

Su Dingfang really couldn't understand why the people under Dou Jiande served for the Tang Dynasty like they were reincarnated?

It was late at night and it should have been silent, but Su Dingfang met several teams of Tang soldiers patrolling. It seemed that Chen Ying was more vigilant and it was not easy to take Chen Ying down.
Chapter completed!