Chapter 286: Sell supplies?
Ji Song returned to the rear army camp and drove Liu Laoer away who was approaching him. He entered the tent alone without seeing anyone.
"You think what's going on with the Marquis? He's like this just after he came back from Old Man Tang. Does he really dare to embarrass the Marquis?" Ji Song's soldiers were all old men who were at Zhuangzi.
It has been a tradition for the children of Guanzhong to serve as soldiers since the pre-Qin period. At that time, the martial arts in Jiangjiaao was very popular, and most men would basically join the army when they reached adulthood.
Therefore, when Ji Song reported his soldiers, except for a few veterans who came in from Pingyang, they were basically his own family members.
Seeing that his Marquis seemed to be bullied, it was okay, so he said that he was going to find Tang Jian to cause trouble.
"Why are you so anxious? Just take good care of me. If anyone dares to go out and cause trouble, I'll see if I don't kill him or not."
"How smart is the Marquis? Even he feels troubled. What's the use of you going? Don't cause trouble to the Marquis."
Although Liu Laoer is usually a little confused, he is still sober, otherwise it would not be his turn to be the deputy commander.
"Then let's forget it?" Some people still said unwillingly.
Liu Laoer became angry when he heard this and cursed: "What? Do you still want to kill Old Man Tang?"
As soon as they heard this, the others stopped talking. They all knew who Tang Jian was, so they could just think about it. If he really did it, it would cause big trouble for the Marquis.
Ji Song listened to the noise outside and ignored them.
With Liu Laoer watching, he felt relieved.
But when he thought about what happened just now, his head was as big as a bucket. The court had no money to care about me, so why did it come to force me?
Together with the disabled soldiers from other armies, there are nearly ten thousand people. If they want them to spend their old age peacefully, they will need at least nearly one million yuan, which is not a small sum.
Does perfume make money?But even including the profits from business and trade, it amounts to more than a million yuan every year. This is already the limit of this era.
The imperial court is not having a good time now. During the locust plague in Guanzhong last year, Li Shimin had already issued an order to exempt the affected areas from taxes. Natural and man-made disasters are happening all over the world. How can there be any surplus money?
The last time they entered the palace, they saw the queen wearing patches on her phoenix skirt. She was even more frugal on weekdays, even the prince and several princes and princesses were saving money when they could.
The queen is like this. It is conceivable that the treasury is probably running wild at this time.
But the problem still had to be solved. Thinking of this, he picked up a pen and paper and started writing.
After a while, he dried the ink and shouted outside: "Get me in here!"
"Hey, here we come!" Liu Laoer, who was eavesdropping outside, heard this and came in immediately. But when he saw the look in his own prince's eyes, he touched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment.
Just now, several people were worried that something would happen to Mr. Hou, so they eavesdropped outside. Unexpectedly, Mr. Hou found out.
"Next time when you eavesdrop, could you please take your legs back? Are you worried that I can't see you?" Ji Song said angrily.
"Next time, definitely next time!"
Ji Song really didn't want this idiot to talk anymore. Even if he didn't get angry to death, he would be stupid to death! He handed the letter in his hand to him and said solemnly: "Immediately send someone to deliver this letter to Lao Zheng and ask him to get the matter done. If you have any questions, please ask the princess."
"Remember, be fast!"
When had Liu Lao Er seen such a serious expression on his own?Although I don’t know what happened, I understand that this matter is definitely not trivial!
"promise!"
After cupping his fists and saluting, he immediately went out to make arrangements.
Ji Song thought for a moment and realized that he couldn't rely entirely on others. Thinking of the many cattle and sheep out there, it would be a pity to kill them. Only by using them can more resources be generated.
Then he didn't care about anything else, and stood up to go find Li Jing. If you want me to take the lead, you will have to bleed. It's not my fault if something went wrong, the emperor would take the blame and everyone would suffer together.
Li Jing's army camp is in the commander's tent.
"what?"
Li Jing looked at Ji Song with a headache. He really didn't expect this kid to be so bold and dare to fight those people to get attention!
"No, absolutely not!" Li Jing refused without thinking. These were reported to the police. If he dared to reach out on this, wouldn't he be impeached by the civil servants when he returned home? Ji Song was sitting there drinking tea. He had already anticipated Li Jing's reaction. With his cautious temperament, he really couldn't do this.
"How about we give it a try? If His Majesty takes the blame, we can carry it together." Chai Shao whispered.
Li Jing glared at him fiercely, and Chai Shaozhi retreated angrily.
Seeing the indifferent expressions of the people below, Li Jing wanted to scold but didn't know who to scold.
These guys are all so damaged. I want to let Ji Song take the lead. Anyway, Your Majesty won't really do anything to him when the time comes.
The worst case scenario is dismissal from office, but if he dares to do this, his reputation will be ruined.
In fact, Ji Song's method is very simple, that is, to set up a large market here to attract tribes on the grassland and merchants from the pass to trade.
Anyway, they now have countless cattle and sheep, and it is simply unrealistic to bring them all back to the pass.
Once millions of cattle and sheep enter the pass, they can turn it into a desert.
Therefore, how to deal with these cattle and sheep now is also a problem. According to the previous practice, they were all eaten.
However, this time there were too many, and it was a pity to eat them!
The problem now is that logically speaking, some of these should belong to the soldiers, and it is understandable that they should be distributed to them.
But it was too far away from Guanzhong. Thinking about driving back so many cattle and sheep made his scalp numb! The imperial court doesn't have any regulations now, and I really don't know how to deal with it.
Ji Song's method was also feasible, but thinking that he would be accused of using military supplies as a merchant made him feel uncomfortable.
He is the commander-in-chief of the march, and everyone takes it for granted that everything that happens here is his order.
If it was reported back to the pass, he thought with his buttocks and imagined that he would definitely become a joke to the Tang Dynasty. I would have to ruin my reputation in this matter.
There was another issue that had to worry him, and that was that in addition to the trophies of the soldiers, some of them belonged to the imperial court.
Thinking of those brave men in the household, if you knew that you had sold all these things, why would you still fight yourself? However, when I thought about the soldiers still wailing and waiting to die in the wounded barracks, I became entangled again.
"You go back first and let me think about it!"
Li Jing hesitated.
When Ji Song heard this, he immediately pulled Chai Shao, who was about to say something else, and walked out of the tent.
"and many more!"
Walking outside the tent, Chai Shao threw Ji Song away and asked in confusion: "What's going on? Are you leaving now?"
Ji Song helplessly held up his forehead and said, "Okay, my uncle, you don't know who Li Jing is? Now that he can talk about it, it's already good. What else do you want?"
Chai Shao was stunned for a moment, but thinking of Li Jing's style, he shook his head and asked, "Then what should we do now?"
"What to do? Of course, just do whatever you have to do!" Ji Song glanced in the direction of the tent and said nonchalantly.
(End of this chapter)