Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 40 Grass bandits want to rob the road

It is precisely because of this that Wang Zaixing and his [-] subordinates are loyal to Zhao Yingluo!In their eyes, Zhao Yingluo is their bread and butter.As for the Song Dynasty and the official family far away in Lin'an, what does it have to do with them?
Chanzhou, Puzhou, Handan, Xingzhou... She wants to establish her own power in these important towns north of Kaifeng to lay the foundation for future events.

Jiang Laosi's recent work has made her more and more reassured. Therefore, she decided to order Jiang Laosi, Wang Zaixing and others to set off first to select a suitable place in Xingzhou to establish a grain transfer station.

He and his right-hand assistants Feng Jing, Chuntao and Lu Luo were preparing goods in Kaifeng. This time they went to Zhongshan, and they wanted to rob the gold medalist no matter what.

"Our most abundant grains currently are corn and wheat. If one truck pulls six shi, the current size of the vehicle can pull [-] shi, but we also need to pull other grains and vegetables..."

Feng Jing was pulling his abacus while calculating the supplies he needed to prepare for the trip north.

"Wheat and corn are cut in half! Let's bring more sweet potatoes, potatoes, peppers, etc., especially peppers! We need to bring more, because these crops are small in weight and have a high unit price."

High unit price?Feng Jing and the other three looked at each other a little bit. Currently, most of the pepper production is sent to Zui Furong for use as base and dipping sauce. The remaining peppers are less than five stones. Even if the market price is 500 taels per stone, they can only be sold for two thousand. 500 taels, it is better to use all the transport vehicles to transport as much corn and wheat as possible.

However, they were slaves after all and did not dare to say much. Just as Zhao Yingluo said, the five hundred carriages were loaded with half and half of wheat and corn.

The remaining five hundred wagons were loaded with freshly harvested potatoes and sweet potatoes, as well as a load of peppers.

In addition to the 1000 taels of transport vehicles, Zhao Yingluo specially invited Yue Fei here, hoping that he could lead an army disguised as ordinary servants and go all the way north to Zhongshan Mansion.

Earlier, Zhao Yingluo arranged for his sons Yue Yun and Yue Lei to study in a school in a small town in the north of the city, which solved his worries. He was worried that he would not be able to repay this favor.

After he asked Zongze for instructions, he readily agreed to her request!

And this time he went north, he also had his own plan. On the one hand, he could protect the princess, and on the other hand, he could take the opportunity to detect signs of activities of the Jin people, Hebei rebels and grass bandits along the route.

September [-]th is the frost season. In the north, "the grass and trees are shaking and the dew turns to frost."

Zhao Yingluo's trade army left the small town in the north of the city and headed north along the official road leading to Handan and Xingzhou.

One thousand and eighty carriages, a team of 3000 people, this scale is breathtaking.

After watching the large group of people watching Zhao Yingluo disappear at the corner of the official road, the three old men sighed with different expressions.

Lu Haowen's face was full of worry. Zhongshan Mansion is now the city of the Jin. Her Royal Highness the Princess just escaped from the clutches of the Jin more than a year ago. Now she has entered the tiger's den again. What should she do if she is caught by the Jin again?
Zongze was very calm this time, because this time Yue Fei led a thousand elite soldiers to protect him!Although Zhongshan Mansion is the territory of the Jin people, the regular garrison of Zhongshan Mansion is only a few thousand.

To put it bluntly, if you can properly protect your adopted daughter, it is not impossible to completely defeat the defenders of Zhongshan.

He himself also heard that his adopted daughter helped Yue Fei form a firecrackers team of about 500 people. It was rumored that this firecrackers team could take people by surprise and kill people invisible.

Although he hadn't seen it in person yet, Yue Fei described the power of this fire gun so miraculous that he believed it.

As for Li Gang, he is the most optimistic!I even believe that Zhao Yingluo must have made enough money to return when she went north this time!There was no other reason than her previous legendary stories that convinced Li Gang that she would continue to create miracles.

In terms of future generations, Zhao Yingluo is already his idol!

[Xingzhou] After the Jingkang Incident, the Jin people did not control Xingzhou, but handed control of Xingzhou to the Puppet Qi.

Although the Puppet Qi was a puppet of the Jin State and had a hostile relationship with the Song Dynasty, it did not restrict the three-way trade between the Puppet Qi, the Jin State and the Song Dynasty.

After the reopening of Zhongshan Prefecture, Xingzhou, as the city closest to Zhongshan Prefecture, became an important distribution center for southern merchants.After Jiang Laosi and Wang Zaixing arrived in Xingzhou, they followed Zhao Yingluo's instructions, entered the city in a low-key manner, and spent money to purchase a large-scale building near the south gate of Xingzhou City. This building accounted for about half of the total area of ​​Xingzhou City. one tenth.

After the purchase was completed, Jiang Laosi ordered his people to demolish the dilapidated and dilapidated buildings and rebuild them into warehouses of different sizes. The better buildings were used to house people and garrison troops.

Those shops facing the street are going to be further renovated to open the Dasong Bank Xingzhou branch and the Zui Furong Xingzhou chain store.

Of course, the best house among them, the former magistrate's mansion of Xingzhou, was left to Zhao Yingluo for rest.

Money can make a fool of himself, and it only took them more than ten days to accomplish all this. At this time, Zhao Yingluo's army had already crossed the Yellow River and was about to arrive at Handan City.

As the sun set, Zhao Yingluo in the carriage opened the curtains and looked at the looming Handan City in the distance, feeling a surge of emotions in her heart.

More than a year ago, she was still a prisoner of the Jin people. More than a year later, she has become an extremely wealthy tycoon!

More than 900 years later, her home was Handan City. Unexpectedly, she accidentally traveled to 900 years ago, and she was still in Handan City.

……

She was constantly immersed in thoughts of the past and the future, and a loud shout suddenly called her out of her thoughts.

"The enemy is attacking! Prepare to fight!"

Yue Fei gave an order, and the thousand elite soldiers he led and the thousand private soldiers trained by Zhao Yingluo took out long knives, long swords, bows and crossbows from the vehicles and formed a defensive formation.

Enemy attack?Who was so bold as to attack them openly at the foot of Handan City?
It’s impossible to not be nervous at all when encountering a battle for the first time!Although her carriage was surrounded by guards, she still nervously touched the gun on her waist.

After taking out the gun, her tension eased a lot, and she immediately turned her gaze to the direction of the enemy's attack. Under the setting sun, she saw grass bandits all over the mountains and plains, either on horseback or running towards the official road.

There is a big "Li" written on one of the scrolls!

plum?Could it be that this group of grass bandits was led by Li Gui?Yue Fei once mentioned to her that Li Gui, a group of grass bandits, specializes in robbing homes and villages and cities.

The imperial court had no intention of recruiting him to surrender.

Passive defense has never been Yue Fei's style of leading troops in battles, taking the initiative is the best defense!After seeing his side set up a defensive formation.

Yue Fei roared and commanded five hundred cavalry to rush towards the grass bandits a hundred feet away. He wanted to use the advantage of the cavalry to cut off the grass bandits!Use the fastest lethality to put pressure on the bandits and force them to give up the attack.

(End of this chapter)