Chapter 45: I hear thunder in winter, the war is about to start (1)
When he arrived at the camp of the Pou Nu Army, Zhang Ping'an handed Zhu Zhengshan a package before the tea was delivered. Zhu Zhengshan weighed it with his hand and his face looked a little bad. Zhang Ping'an smiled slightly: "It's not easy to bring silver, and the gold is not conspicuous!"
Zhu Zhengshan immediately showed a bright smile: "Brother! How are the governor's money prepared!"
Zhang Ping'an asked quietly: "How is my food? This time, the adults should not have much food for seven hundred trucks of things."
Zhu Zhengshan said seriously: "I brought three thousand stones of grain, one thousand pieces of cloth, three hundred stones of tea, and fifty pieces of this one." Zhu Zhengshan took out a piece of white veil from his arms while saying that.
Zhang Ping'an frowned and threw the thing on the table: "Mr. Zhu! This thing is useless to me!"
Zhu Zhengshan was a little unhappy, but looking at the gold, he could only explain patiently: "Brother, this is a good veil woven by Suzhou Prefecture. The grassland is strong and the sand is strong. If you wear this veil, the sand will not be blown into your eyes. Don't want it, you can exchange things with the Tartars! There are also those in charge of the government and those in other palaces that can be used!"
Zhang Ping'an said: "Mr. Zhu, let's just talk. This time you can only take away the heads of the people and the Mongolian Tartars. I can only give 10,000 silver!"
Zhu Zhengshan sighed: "Okay! In three days, 50,000 stones of grain, 1,000 stone of tea, 30,000 jin of iron and 10,000 jin of copper. How much silver do you prepare?"
Zhang Ping'an said calmly: "One hundred thousand taels of silver, another 200 taels of gold for the adults!"
"Fifteen thousand silver!"
Zhang Ping'an nodded in approval and bowed to Zhu Zhengshan: "If you have time, please come again!"
Zhu Zhengshan complained with a wry smile: "I am also running for the governor. The Chinese New Year is coming, and there are a lot of wives and children in the family. I have too many Shangguans, so life is really hard!"
"Mr. Zhu, I am a magnanimous official. Ping'an is troublesome and I cannot visit the mansion. I will just treat this little thing as a gift to my sister-in-law and the noble son for the New Year!" Zhang Ping'an said while taking out a small bag from his arms and opening it in front of Zhu Zhengshan. Zhu Zhengshan's eyes immediately doubled, and two cat's eye stones, the size of a thumb, flashed his eyes.
Zhang Ping'an asked Zhu Zhengshan, who had not responded for a long time, "Three days later, add another three thousand kilograms of * and five thousand kilograms of sulfur, no problem!"
Zhu Zhengshan ignored Zhang Ping'an and said to the gem: "No problem, you will give you another 100,000 taels of silver. I will give you 150,000 stones of grain, 20,000 pieces of cloth, and all sulfur. *Add three thousand kilograms. Is there any such gem?"
Zhang Ping'an took out a small box, wrapped the gems on the table, and handed them to Zhu Zhengshan. Then he poured the gems from the small box onto the table, and the gems on the table were covered with the eyes of Zhu Zhengshan. At this time, Zhang Ping'an said calmly: "What can these be replaced?"
Zhu Zhengshan became even more excited: "Do you want armor? Do you want artillery? Do you want swords?"
Zhang Ping'an said: "Everyone wants it! Just don't want the old junk in the arsenal!"
Zhang Ping'an grabbed a handful of gems from the table and wrapped them in cloth, and handed them to Zhu Zhengshan: "These are deposits, and I will give them all to you. I don't care who you give them. But I agreed, I don't want the bad guy!"
Zhu Zhengshan roared like a chicken blood: "Five thousand pairs of iron armor, twenty thousand sabers, and thirty thousand iron spearheads. The red barbarian cannons cannot be given, and ten general cannons. Three hundred thousand arrows! Do you still have them?"
Zhang Ping'an took out another slightly larger box and poured it on the table: "As long as you dare to give it to me, I still have it! It depends on what you dare to exchange it!"
These things were obtained by Zhang Ping'an robbing the Mongolian Duoyan Tartars. The family possessions accumulated by Duoyan's tribe, as well as other Mongolian tribes, have gems for Duoyan's weapons. Now they have become Zhang Ping'an's spoils. In fact, Zhang Ping'an still has two boxes. Zhang Ping'an originally planned to pick up girls in the future, but this time he brought them all to exchange supplies. Another part is a group of second-generation officials who used their father's things to please the mirror, and even the people and things were snatched by Zhang Ping'an. It's not that Wu Tianxing didn't want to keep them, but there were veterans in his army who Zhang Ping'an treated himself. If Zhang Ping'an knew that he was corrupt, he would definitely not be able to protect the heads. So they all handed over.
Zhu Zhengshan said, "Inspecting the goods in three days! I will come back then!" After that, he rode out without looking back and rode away. Zhang Ping'an immediately chased him out and shouted to him, "Here I get some vegetable oil!" Zhu Zhengshan waved his hand and said he knew.
Zhang Ping'an immediately arranged people to go to Ponu City, and transferred Huang Wei's troops and a thousand new recruits to come. He also arranged people to notify Long Xiucai and Li Chen to stop building the city, and Wu Tianxing stopped sweeping. He immediately returned to defend Ponu City.
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Since Zhang Ping'an's slave army was all cavalry, Huang Wei's troops came very quickly. But Huang Wei did not see Zhang Ping'an in Taiping Fort. He heard that Zhang Ping'an was in the lime kiln and immediately went to the lime kiln to see Zhang Ping'an. Seeing Zhang Ping'an focused on watching the auxiliary soldiers covered with gauze on their heads grinding lime, and was about to step forward when he saw Lu Deyin wave to him. The old brothers all knew Zhang Ping'an's habits and knew that Zhang Ping'an was thinking. Sure enough, Zhang Ping'an grabbed the snow on the ground and roared towards the sky. Following the direction of the snowflakes, Zhang Ping'an saw Huang Wei. He was overjoyed: "You are here so fast! Let's go and chat!"
When I returned to the Taiping Castle camp, I saw a silver Taiping Castle five times larger than before. Huang Wei sighed: "It's so fast! It's built in just a few days!"
Zhang Ping'an said: "Everyone is here, I'll arrange it. I'll get the silver. You will go to the Shashikou and convey the content of our meeting to Hu Ming. Tomorrow, there will be a transaction. Zhang Tong's department is responsible for escorting the first batch of materials; Huang Zhi's department is responsible for escorting the second batch of materials; After Zhang Tong's department comes back, Huang Wei's department will transport the third batch of materials. The first batch of weapons and equip new recruits. Then, the grain will be transported. Only three teams of people will be placed at the Shashikou! All the troops will be concentrated in Taiping Castle! The work of the lime kiln must be increased. We will bring 5,000 sled trucks this time, which is not enough. I have sent an order to order Mr. Chen to make another 5,000."
Chen Poe asked Zhang Ping'an: "Does the military training stop?"
Zhang Ping'an thought for a while and said, "Stop! Shorten the time, practice formation, practice for one hour every day! Huang Wei's army rests for a day. By the way, I will use it to put the veil brought by Zhu Zhengshan!"
The next afternoon, Zhu Zhengshan came to Taiping Castle again. What surprised him was that after he left for a few days, Taiping Castle changed drastically. However, these were not what he wanted to care about. What he cared about was when Zhang Ping'an agreed to give him. When he saw Zhang Ping'an who was greeting him at the door, he couldn't wait to ask: "Is the silver ready?"
Zhang Ping'an nodded: "I'll take you to see!" Sure enough, the more than 100 sled cars by the door were filled with silver. For the sake of convenience of inspection, they were not packed.
Zhu Zhengshan was very satisfied: "Brother is indeed a trustworthy person! I don't have many soldiers this time, only one thousand governors' personal soldiers! The others are civilians!"
Zhang Ping'an had already received news from the scout, so he generously asked the silver car to set off.
In the open space five miles outside Taiping Castle, all kinds of grains were piled up like mountains. It turned out that Zhu Zhengshan and the others had already placed their things in the Qing Fort. After receiving Zhang Ping'an's deposit, tens of thousands of civilians adopted the method of transporting them in stages. In just three days, the supplies Zhang Ping'an wanted were delivered to Taiping Castle.
Zhang Ping'an waved to Chen Pie: "Inspecting goods!"
Zhang Ping'an specially prepared a 700-person inspection army and began to inspect all supplies. In less than an hour, the inspection was over.
Chen Poe saw Zhu Zhengshan counting silver, so he whispered to Zhang Ping'an: "Weapons are all good things, 10,000 pairs of iron armor, 30,000 pairs of cotton armor, 60,000 iron spearheads, 20,000 knives, 300,000 arrows, and 1,700 Milu guns. There are really no one they dare not sell. Cannons are still made this year. There are 30,000 soybeans, 50,000 rice, 70,000 white flour, and 20,000 grains. The number of cotton and cloth is correct. The number of iron and copper is correct. The number of * and sulfur is correct. There are ten jars of vegetable oil and 1,000 silks of silk that you want."
After hearing Chen Poe's words, Zhang Ping'an walked to Zhu Zhengshan, handed a small box to Zhu Zhengshan, and handed him a small bag and said, "Sir Zhu, you can check the gems as well. I also want to ask your help!"
Zhu Zhengshan first opened the box, looked at it and felt it was almost the same, and then pinched the small bag handed over by Zhang Ping'an. Then he said with a full face: "Brother! You said!"
Zhang Ping'an whispered with him: "I want to borrow some of these civilians and help me transport the supplies to Ponu City! I will pay the meal and money!"
Zhu Zhengshan thought for a while and said, "I can only lend you one month. I'll find someone to carry other food! It's the Chinese New Year, and other foods can only be discussed after the Chinese New Year! I'll leave first!"
Zhu Zhengshan took his personal soldiers and took the money away. The civilians were panicked. They chose five men who dared to speak and found Zhang Ping'an.
These five men kowtowed regardless of Chen Pie. Chen Pie is a cautious person. When he sees this attitude, he knows that they have recognized the wrong person. He waved his hands repeatedly: "You have recognized the wrong person!"
So he pointed his hand at Zhang Ping'an: "He is our great commander!"
At first, these people didn't believe it, but when they saw Chen Teng holding the knife handle in his hand and standing behind the child, they knew that he had really recognized the wrong person. So they knelt in front of Zhang Ping'an and kowtowed and begged: "Master! Just be fine, let us go back! We all have old and young people at home. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so we can't do without us at home!"
Zhang Ping'an first asked his personal soldiers to help these people up and discussed with them in a peaceful voice: "Don't worry, uncles, in fact, we were the same as you before. My name is Zhang Ping'an, and my family is in Taipingbao. In the 47th year of Wanli, after Taipingbao was captured by the Jurchen Tartars, he was captured by the Jurchen Tartars and became slaves. If you don't want to help, I will not make things difficult for you. If you help me, I will give you money, two taels of silver per person. Three meals a day, and two meals are guaranteed to have meat. If you want food, I will give you one tael of silver and one stone of food when you leave! It's too late today. Even if you want to leave today, you can't leave. Dinner is ready for you. Everyone will leave tomorrow, and I will never stop you! Everyone will go to dinner first, and you will have something to finish your meal, okay?"
When these people went back to tell everyone, someone knew Zhang Ping'an and was actually Wang Ermu's relative. So they came to ask Zhang Ping'an about Wang Ermu's situation. Zhang Ping'an was extremely happy and immediately took him to the handsome tent for dinner.
Chapter completed!