Chapter 22 Everything has a reason

At this time, there was a scene of joy in the territory of the barbarians 50 miles away from the town. Looking at the looted food and livestock, as well as the people of the state of Song who were guarded, all the barbarians with scattered hair and full of wild people were laughing wildly, holding the newly roasted cattle and sheep in their hands. Meat, biting in a big mouth, so unhappy.

In the middle of these barbarians is a tall, leopard-headed and fing tall man, who is now the king of the barbarians, Mu Jerry. Like other barbarians, he chewed the delicious (river crab) juice while laughing: "Haha, these Song people are really so vulnerable, just like what Li Bie said. It seems that we have been too stupid to hold back in this forest over the years!" With that, he picked up the big black jar beside him and poured a big mouthful of wine into his big mouth.

Among the barbarians with scattered hair, several well-dressed men looked particularly eye-catching. Although they are among the barbarians, they still wear the clothes of scholars and have some books between their eyebrows. Only the cunning and flattery in their eyes make people see their different side from the readers.

Among this, a 34-year-old scholar seemed to be the leader of these people. He smiled and arched his hand to Mu Jieli: "In fact, this is not all our credit. If there is no king and your reputation in the clan, you can mobilize tens of thousands of troops and noble soldiers to fight bravely, and it will not be like this time. Easily take down Song's border town and hit the chasing Song army head-on!"

"Well said, come on, let's do this bowl first." The barbarians around laughed and picked up the jar in their hands and touched the wine bowls in the hands of several scholars. Those scholars did not dare to neglect, quickly straightened the wine bowl, and then poured down the sour and bad wine.

"Actually, before this time, I couldn't believe that Song Jun was so incompetent that he was almost defeated with one blow! Twenty years ago, we were defeated so miserably that more than 30,000 warriors died at the hands of Song people, which made us dare not talk about the war lightly over the years. After drinking a jar of wine, Mu Lijie couldn't help expressing his thoughts.

"In order to make our people live a better life, I had to buy grain from the Song people with gold and silver, and I heard that they made a lot of money in terms of price..." While talking, Mu Lijie thought of the sadness of the life in the clan over the years.

It turns out that although the barbarians are backward, they have more mineral resources because they are in the mountains. Among them, many mines such as gold, silver and jade were discovered by them. In addition to shooting and hunting in the woods, the barbarians mined gold and silver in these mines, and then took these raw stones to Songjing to sell.

Because it is located in the southwest of the Song Dynasty, the people live a tight life, and the food is only enough to eat at home, so the barbarians even have gold and silver in their hands and can't buy enough for the needs of the whole family, which makes the barbarians a headache. After more than ten years, the barbarians who went to Song finally came together with some people who sold military food in the army. Since then, the barbarians have had some guarantees on food. After two and two years ago, the barbarians had an intersection with Ye Hao, who was the governor in Yunzhou, and then the two sides immediately hit together and began a fixed trade.

Relying on his identity and being a backer in the court, Ye Hao began to deduct the army's rations, and then sold these grains to the barbarians to earn huge profits from them. Most of the gold and silver in the mine that was found by Wang Junqing on that day were exchanged for grain from the barbarians. Otherwise, the ability of the mine would not be enough to produce such a huge amount of gold and silver unconsciously.

The reason why Ye Hao did not explain this after the incident is that he knew that the charge of selling grain to barbarians was much more serious than privately retaining gold and silver. At that time, Liu Mo and others did not delve into this too much, which made the truth of the matter cover up.

However, the barbarians did not gain anything on this matter, but suffered a lot of losses. Ye Hao made an excuse that the other party's gold and silver were only ores, and they wanted them for themselves, so he greatly raised the price of grain and sold grain to barbarians at a price more than ten times higher than normal grain prices, thus seeking great wealth for himself.

In fact, the grain of Yunzhou Yiwei alone is not enough for Ye Hao to obtain such a huge amount of gold and silver. Under his operation, not only Yunzhou, but also individual generals from other two states in the southwest stole some from the military grain and sold it to Ye Hao at a high price, thus making them a lot of money. In this way, under the encroachment of these big eels, the rations of tens of thousands of troops in the three southwestern states have been deducted, but they are not as powerful as Yunzhou. This has damaged the combat strength of the Southwest Army, which can be said to be a complete loss of public and private interests.

Although the barbarians are more realistic, they are not stupid. They know that they have suffered a great loss in the trade between the two sides, but because food is the most scarce resource in their own clan, they have no choice but to put up with this. Some people have also thought that since there is a lot of grain in the Song army, why not send people to grab it directly? But the shadow of failure 20 years ago still enveloped the hearts of the barbarians. They deeply thought that they were not the enemy of the Song army, so they did not dare to make trouble easily.

At this time, some scholars who fled from Song to the barbarians played a timely role in promoting the barbarians to use the army of Song. These people were either persecuted by the government or the powerful and fled to the barbarians, or made a case locally, went away from the other side in order not to be caught by the government, and finally came to the barbarians. No matter what kind of person is, they are full of hatred for the State of Song, especially the government of the State of Song, and they will naturally want to revenge on the State of Song with the help of the barbarians.

And because they are from Song, and many of them are originally in the southwest, they also have a general understanding of the situation of the Southwest Army. In this way, under their deliberate demeaning, Song Jun's status in the eyes of the barbarians has fallen again and again, and many barbarians have begun to move after believing it.

At this time, the food in the barbarians will run out again, and it is almost impossible to pass this winter. Therefore, Mujeli, as the king of the clan, sent his cronies to Yunzhou to find Ye Hao again, trying to buy some more food from him. The person sent to buy grain this time was the thin man who appeared in Yunzhou City that day. In addition to buying grain, he also came to Yunzhou City to spy on intelligence. Mu Jerry also began to be a little moved by the persuasion of the people around him, but because he was still afraid of Song Jun, so he wanted to listen to it clearly before deciding not to send troops.

This barbarian spy named Mu Taiduo did not buy the food they needed this time, because Ye Hao has fallen. Over the years, the barbarians have been buying enough food through him, and they can't find other substitutes for a while, which makes the barbarians panic and don't know how to survive this winter.

However, Mu Taiduo's second task was well completed. He had heard a lot of Song people's own comments about the army from those pubs, so that the barbarians had an understanding - the Song army was indeed not as terrible as expected, and now the barbarian elite soldiers can completely fight with them!

With this understanding, the barbarians will naturally not hesitate, because they are now facing the crisis of food shortage. Only by grabbing enough food from the hands of the Song people can I survive this unusually cold winter. After preparation, the barbarians sent 30,000 troops to launch a sudden attack on the Song army's border.

At this time, Li Bei, a scholar of Song, who devoted himself to the barbarians, stood up. He provided Mu Jerry with a plan with his understanding of the northwest terrain and his familiarity with the layout of various parts of the Song army. First, he raided the Manbao in Songdibian Town with fewer troops, killed all the sergeants, robbed the things, and then lured the Song army to chase them.

But an ambush was set up halfway, annihilating all the 2,000 cavalry from Dingxi City. This battle can be said to have greatly improved the morale of the barbarians, making them more convinced that they could fight against the Song people and finally win the battle. At the same time, they also obtained many better weapons, armor and horses than their own, which enhanced their confidence.

On this festive night banquet, after everyone was full of wine and food, Mu Jerry suddenly stood up and shouted, "Warriors of our clan, it's time to repay the blood debts that the Song people owed us 20 years ago! We just killed more than 2,000 of them this time and took away enough food for a month, which is far from enough! At present, the Song army is simply a group of vulnerable rabbles. If we want to get more, we need to kill and occupy the whole southwest of the State of Song. At that time, all ethnic groups can really survive! Do you have the confidence to take down the whole southwest of Song?

At this time, those barbarians already have some drunkenness and have seen Song Jun's incompetence. Naturally, there will be no timid people. Everyone shouted one after another: "Yes! We will fight to the State of Song, occupy all the land that can produce food, capture the Song people as our slaves, and let them cultivate for us!" The crowing penetrated the dense woods and went straight to the sky...

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What the hell today. I went out and fell on a big horse on the flat road. My hand was injured. It's really miserable!! Now the palm of the left hand is scratched, and it's hard to type. This time, I'm really crying for collection and asking for tickets. Let's give some sympathy in the case of passers-by such a cup.%>_