Chapter 122 Shandong Commune 3
[122] Shandong Commune (3)
Yao Fan said calmly, "My men are all infantry, and my detection ability is not good. I need cavalry as a reconnaissance horse to help me scout the movement of the Qing army. The white horse will come and go like the wind, which is the best choice in my heart."
Bai Xiaoqi nodded and said, "Since the Nian army was besieged and defeated by the Huai army, our white horse will be greatly damaged and will no longer have the strength to fight against the Qing army, but our Jianghu people have clear grudges. As long as En is open, I will never frown."
Yao Fan looked at the heroic spirit of Bai Xiaoqi and praised: "Mrss-in-law Bai is really a heroine! But please believe me, Yao Fan. I will never use you as cannon fodder, and I don't want you to rush into battle. I really just need to explore the horse.
And I pay a high price. A cavalry horse gives 50 taels of silver a month, but I don't care about food, grass and horses. You need to buy your own. As for the weapons, all the knives and arrows, birds, guns, guns and guns and * I seized in the Qingdao entrance garrison camp can be given to you by the White Horse Club. Don't take the text!"
Bai Xiaoqi couldn't close his mouth in surprise: "50 taels of silver! Why did you give so much? Now a liang of silver is 170 yuan. Although the price of grain has risen to 130 yuan per catty, 50 taels of silver is enough to buy 650 catties!"
Yao Fan laughed and said, "It turns out that Mrs. Bai's arithmetic is so good, 650 catties, which is enough to feed 20 people in this disaster year."
"There are more than 20! Mixed with wild vegetables and sweet potatoes, the porridge tastes delicious! If sweet potatoes are mixed with rice and make porridge, they won't spit sour water because they eat too much sweet potatoes. This is enough to feed 50 people. Bai Xiaoqi was very frank. As the leader of a robber who came out of a mountain bandit's nest like Stone Village, she knew the weight of 650 pounds.
"Yao Dong's family, do you really only need to explore the horse?" Bai Xiaoqi asked.
"Sister Bai, you have lived in Yaojiazhuang for so long. What do you think of me in Yaojiazhuang? Have you ever seen anyone who doesn't have enough to eat? Yao Fan asked back.
"Yaojiazhuang is a paradise. Everyone has work to eat. To be honest, I eat better than I did in the stockade here. Although I am the owner of the white horse, I have never eaten such white rice and such white steamed buns! And the stove cooks dry food every day. I often think that this is why landlords can't eat like this every day! This is probably the emperor's life, isn't it?" Bai Xiaoqi praised.
"Sister-in-law, this is not the emperor's life, this is the people should live! I, Yao Fan, rebelled so that my compatriots of all ethnic groups in China can live this kind of life in Yaojiazhuang!"
Bai Xiaoqi's eyes shine and said: "One mu of paddy field grows rice in the morning and evening. According to the fertility of the field, the yield per mu is about 100 catties to 250 catties. Even if the mu is 150 catties, 300 catties can be harvested in the morning and evening of the year. 70% of the fine rice can be polished according to threshing, that is, 200 catties of good refined rice, and there should be 5 With mu of land, you can get 1,000 catties of such rice, and one person can spread more than 300 catties. I haven't counted the emperor's grain and donation. But even so, Yaojiazhuang's food is much better than this! Well-in-law, if you can let the world live such a good life, will you still worry that the heroes of the world will not come to join?"
Yao Fan said, "The Qing government was mediocre and incompetent and stripped the people, which made the poor people in the world never turn over. I rebelled and divided the fields of those landowners who did not work to the people and let the cultivators have their own fields.
Landlords do not work, but eat people's fat and people's ointment like rice worms. Such a society must be completely overthrown!"
Bai Xiaoqi stood up and said proudly, "Don't worry about opening your mouth. How much do you want to explore the horse?"
Yao Fan said, "If you want 50, don't give them to me. They are still under the leadership of the White Horse Club, and you are responsible for all the deployment arrangements. You ask them to spread out for me and explore along the way to my Jiaozhou. They will neither rob nor kill officers and soldiers. They just ask me the movement of the army. Once they find that there is a Qing army gathering, they will immediately find out the general direction, quantity and equipment of the enemy's movement, and Pegasus will report it to me.
In this way, once the Qing army tries to attack me, I can also prepare in advance to attack the Qing army head-on.
Bai Xiaoqi frowned slightly: "Dear Lord, can you really defeat a large stock of Qing demons?"
Yao Fan's voice sounded extremely credible: "The elite soldiers trained by Yao Fan are against the best army of foreigners, and they can also kill them like cutting melons and vegetables! How does Mrs. Bai think the Qing army compares with the foreign army?
Bai Xiaoqi listened to Yao Fan's boast, and his eyes suddenly became brilliant: "Since the benefactor said so, Bai Xiaoqi of course believes in the benefactor! Don't worry, I will ask Jiaxiang to go back to Stone Village to report the news today! From now on, the white horse will immediately ride out and listen to the military situation on all roads for the benefactor.
"I will give you 5,000 taels of silver now as funds for the first two months! Time is from now on!" Yao Fan spent money without ambiguity. At present, he has no better way to win over the white horse club.
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He Wannian has been very busy. In order to withdraw the staff of Yuchun's business in other places, he sealed it with the road guide in Sun Maowen's government, forged Wei Guofu's certificate letter with the seal of the garrison camp, and gave it to his confidant day and night to Shanghai, Jinan and Tianjin. Departure, informing the local merchants to return to Qingdao immediately. He Wannian did not dare to say that it was a rebellion in the letter. He only said that the general number was short of silver and had to hold an annual dividend meeting, limiting all those who travel day and night with silver tickets to return. Those who could not arrive in Qingdao on time would be severely punished and fined their monthly salary.
At this time, He Wannian realized why Yao Fan repeatedly checked and controlled the hoarding of goods and book funds in other places during this period. It turned out that he had already planned to make trouble. But even so, He Wannian calculated that the goods of these three sub-signs were worth more than 100,000 taels of silver!
Compared with silver, He Wannian felt more distressed about his brother He Wanyou, so he specially wrote a letter and asked He Wanyou to rush back to his hometown. In his letter, he hinted that if he could not return, there would be a disaster of killing himself. "If the matter of Qingdao is leaked, my He family will be worried about his life. My brother is in Jinan, the first to bear the brunt and there will be killed. Woe to the body. He Wannian said this at the end of the letter.
He Wannian's level of pretending to be a ghost is really higher than Yao Fan. In order to hide his eyes and ears, he actually hung more than a dozen white cloths on the city and wrote a notice claiming that plague had occurred in Qingdao, and the speed of transmission was amazing. The state government has ordered four doors to prevent the spread of the plague, hoping that merchants would avoid entering quickly. Leave quickly.
He Wannian and Li Hainiu negotiated a plan to bury the people killed at the time of the incident outside the gate, and then built up the new earth tomb and inserted white flags. The bamboo pole held high and filial piety fluttered on the new earth mound, as scary as death. People and others saw the city gate closed, and the new tomb was more horrible. He took the road and didn't dare to stay. Even if there are local relatives in Jiaozhou in Qingdao, they dare not go to the city when they see this scene.
I heard that there was a plague in the city. Where did the new travelers on the port dock dare to enter the city? They just sold goods on the dock and purchased the Yao family goods they needed from Yaojiazhuang's office on the dock.
Yao Fan was afraid that these floating population would be delayed here, so he ordered Wannian to buy all their goods so that they could leave by boat as soon as possible.