Fu Song

Chapter 100 Fast Lane

"Ma Chao, the last general, I have seen Xiao Xianxing!" One of the generals saw Xiao Teng who was coming out, but he did not hesitate at all, clasped his fists and bowed, and gave a respectful salute.

Xiao Cheng didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly returned the salute.

"I can't sleep at night in Xiazheng, I'm so worried that I can't sleep! Ma Zheng will bring you here, this is a help in the snow, and it solves my urgent need!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "With Ma Zheng will you Now, I can rest assured to sleep!"

"The elites of the Guangrui Army are good at fighting, we are just here to play a side drum." Ma Chao also smiled, his eyes swept over the half-dead Weiming Heda tied to the top of the Shentang Fortress, thinking that I can't see that you have What a worry.

"It's getting colder now, and the brothers have traveled all the way to this poor mountain and bad waters to garrison for us. Brothers, I'm really sorry." Xiao Cheng held Ma Chao's hand affectionately, and said, "It's good that Ma Zheng treats you like this. ? Every day, I give my brothers a subsidy of [-] wen, although it is not much, it is also a little thought."

Ma Chao's eyes lit up, and the look at Xiao Cheng became more and more different.

Sure enough, he is the son of the wealthy prime minister's family, and his shot is extraordinary.

Twenty wen per person a day, isn't that much?a lot!
For five hundred people, the subsidy for one day is ten thousand dollars.If you stay here for a month, it will be [-] calibers, and for two months, it will be [-] calibers.This is net income after all other expenses.

As a general, after passing a hand in the middle and returning to Yan'an Mansion, he can openly set up a small yard.

"What's so funny?" he laughed.

"If the brothers don't come here, they will be roasting and drinking wine in the warm barracks of Yan'an Mansion. If you come here, it will be a lot harder, and you will be ready to fight at any time. Brother, if I don't make up for it, what will happen? Are you sorry?" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "General Ma, is your brother's camp ready?"

"Okay, okay, it's less than two miles away from Shentang Fort in a straight line, just watching and helping each other." Ma Chao said with a smile.

"What's wrong, just come to us to move." Xiao Cheng waved his hand arrogantly.

"If there is something missing, you must be welcome." Ma Chao nodded again and again.

"General Ma, when you passed through Dingbian City, didn't you see Miao Shou Miao's control?" Xiao Cheng asked tentatively.

Ma Xing's action of sending troops directly to the Dingbian City Shentang Fort was really a bit of a humiliation to Miao Shou.

"Of course I went to Dingbian City to meet with Miao Tongzhi. He looked very unhappy and scolded Xiao Xianxing severely!" Ma Chao laughed.

"He doesn't have any opinion on Ma Zheng bringing you here?" Xiao Cheng asked with a smile.

"What can he think?" Ma Chao said: "The appeasement sent a letter to him, saying that it was Luo Xianggong of Bianliang, who was very worried about his son's safety in Shentangbao. Please take care of the appeasement. Isn't there no way? The face of the East Mansion's Prime Minister is always sold, so I will send my brother to be a bodyguard!"

"High, it's really high!" Xiao Cheng gave Ma Chao a thumbs up. Ma Xing's hand really didn't show a trace of fireworks, making Miao Shou unable to grasp the handle.

As soon as Ma Chao brought these [-] soldiers and horses over, Xiao Cheng was worried about the lack of troops, but he immediately solved it.

And the follow-up effect of paying wages to those old and weak people finally gradually appeared. When these old and weak women and children who had been conscripted as corvée and would never return to the barren mountain with a high probability of burying their bones in the barren hills actually found that not only here When I had enough to eat, the work was not heavy, and when the money was paid, I finally couldn't sit still.

After a few days, someone asked the foreman to take time off.

The foreman who had been prepared for a long time agreed without hesitation, and even generously borrowed a small donkey from the other party and asked him to go and return quickly.

Sure enough, go and return quickly, but not just one person, but dozens of people came back.

This time, it was finally young and strong.

As soon as the news spread, more and more people came to Shentangbao to find work, and even some party members in Hengshan also came here, relying on labor to obtain an income.

The abundant manpower brought about the rapid progress of the field work.

When the first snow fell, the preliminary reinforcement of the fort had been fully completed, and the next step was to rebuild the fortress with the current fortress as the core. Do it step by step.

The six brick cellars were burning bricks and tiles day and night, and the bricks and tiles burned out quickly turned into brick houses.

When the first snow fell, the Guang Rui Army basically lived in the Shentang Fort and the newly built tile-roofed houses, and the civilians who came to make money were given a top of the military tent, although it was more The tile-roofed house is not allowed to keep warm, but it is better than the grass hut that I used to live in.

Still living in a thatched hut, a prisoner of those Wei Mingbu.

And the market that Xiao Cheng built from the very beginning began to prosper day by day after Luo Gang entered with a caravan carrying a large amount of goods.

At first, Dangxiang tribes like Yeli and Xifeng who had dealt with Guangrui Army came to Shentangbao to trade, and gradually more and more tribes came to trade.

As Xiao Cheng said earlier, as long as you want, he can do it well.Even if it's steel, it's fine, but if you want steel, you can exchange it for a good war horse, and you don't need to talk about anything else.

The most traded items are food and various daily necessities.

Xiao Cheng earned both ends in this crushing farm.

Party members who enter the market to trade are to pay taxes to them.

And the object of their transaction is actually only one, and that is Xiao Cheng's caravan.

Although the market has only just begun, it is not possible to talk about daily gold, but the profit income can already meet the basic expenses of Shentangbao.

Pieces of land have been turned over, and seeing the ridges of fields mixed with loess and black ash makes people feel satisfied. When spring comes, these fields can be sown with hope.

Newly dug ditches come and go, and the abundant water resources can turn the pieces of land here into excellent irrigated land.It takes a year at most to turn this piece of raw land into a fertile and good field. At that time, let alone more than [-] people in the Guangrui Army, it can be doubled and affordable.

"Youngest Zhu, Chen Qiao, here are the plans for the next expansion of the Guangrui Army's barracks, family residences, and Shentang Fort!" Xiao Cheng spread out a circle of blueprints in front of the two young and strong leaders. "Just follow the plan."

Youngest Zhu, or Chen Qiao, is also a veteran in civil engineering. After looking at the plan, he immediately saw the details.

"Erlang, this plan seems to be a little bit inside!" Zhu Lao Yao asked, looking at the blueprint.

"You guessed it right. This time, I planned the entire barracks, residences and the shrine as a whole for defense. All residences, barracks, all made of stone and bricks, are usually used by everyone. Places, once the enemy strikes, these places are also the areas where we fight. And the core of all these is the Citadel.”

"Bricks are easy to say, just burn them, but the stones are a bit insufficient!" Chen Qiao said.

"It doesn't matter, I have already raised the price of stone materials in the market. I think there will be a lot of stone materials traded in the next Hengshan tribes. In addition, the hundreds of prisoners don't have to begrudge them, let them go to open the mountain. , go quarrying." Xiao Cheng waved his hand.

Chen Qiao nodded.

Xiao Erlang was very kind to the other Hengshan Fans, but he was extremely vicious to the Wei Ming tribe. Speaking of the hundreds of prisoners who were captured at the beginning, there are now dozens of them.

"Chongwen, Chongwen!" Luo Gang, who was in charge of the farm work, knocked on the door outside.

Xiao Cheng glanced at the two of them and said, "Hurry up the construction, do a good job, reward money, add meals. In a month and a half, the main force of the Guangrui Army will arrive. At that time, I hope they can directly live in the tall and sturdy buildings. Barracks, you can sleep on the hot kang."

"Jiro don't worry."

"Go!" He waved his hand and sent the two away, only to see Luo Gang walking in with an old man dressed as a party member.

"Chongwen, let me introduce you, this is Ren Duozhong, the patriarch of the Renduo tribe!" Luo Gang said.

"I've seen Xiao Xianxing!" Ren Duozhong clasped his fists with both hands, and performed a Central Plains etiquette to Xiao Cheng.

"Hi Patriarch Renduo!" Xiao Cheng was shocked. The Renduo clan was a big clan in the Hengshan party, and its strength was no less than that of the Weiming clan. Their patriarch was so bold and came directly to him? "I don't know if the patriarch is here today, what advice do you have?"

"Don't lie to Xiao Xianxing, the old man heard from the next person that there is a new market in Shentangbao, the tax is not high, and the transaction is fair, I really can't believe it, so I will come and see for myself. At first sight, Fang Zhi's words were true. After so many years, I finally saw a similar farm again."

Xiao Cheng laughed: "Old Patriarch Renduo, in the future this market will be bigger and bigger, and the goods inside will be more and more cheap, so cheap that you won't think about grabbing it with a knife, because using you It will be more cost-effective to exchange the goods in hand.”

Ren Duozhong's face froze slightly, this Xiao Cheng is indeed a sharp and unforgiving one.

"Xiao Xianxing was joking."

"It's really a joke, don't be surprised by Patriarch Renduo, please take a seat, please sit up, Li Xin, serve tea, serve tea to Patriarch Renduo!" Xiao Cheng shouted in a row.

When the tea was ready and served, the courtesy announcement between the two finally reached the point where there was nothing to say.

Xiao Cheng also said directly: "Old Patriarch Renduo, I don't know if you have come here for this trip today, do you have anything else to do? If not, there are still a lot of things to be busy with, I really can't accompany you to sit here any longer. already."

With a ding, Ren Duozhong closed the lid of the tea cup and said, "As entrusted by someone, there is indeed something I want to ask Xiao Xianxing to give the old man a face."

(End of this chapter)