choke element

Chapter 663

Amidst the laughter, they heard the dense sound of hooves, and it was a large group of light cavalry sent by the Jinshan garrison to meet them.

The cavalry general who led the team was the one who had joked with Ge Qingshu earlier.He rode his horse and rushed in front of Ge Qingshu. After seeing that he was not missing any arms or legs, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Good guy, just now the scouts reported that the entire Mongolian tribe at the foot of Banshan was rioting. I thought you all If you are going to die, I have to collect the corpses for you this time!"

The two laughed and cursed at each other, and Ge Qingshu said: "The Mongol riots are real. Those Mongols knew the news that Genghis Khan was about to march westward, and planned to run back to the grassland overnight. But it's all right now."

"Those dogs really dare to mess around? How did you solve it?"

The cavalryman would glance back and forth at the group of people, his pupils constricted slightly: "I didn't see Shi Mo before... you and the Mongols fought? Shi Mo also died first?"

"Haha, he can't die!" Ge Qingshu didn't answer, just patted Lu Wusi on the back vigorously, and turned to the cavalry general: "Go on to Banshan, and support Shimo first." Support the scene."

"I stand up for him? This Khitan has rebelled!"

The cavalrymen all blew their beards and stared. They were not slow, and led their subordinates away in a hurry.

After returning to Jinshan, Ge Qingshu went into the city to report to Zhao Xuan, while the rest of the soldiers rested on the grass outside the city gate, waiting for the new government officials in the city to come and receive them from Lakshin Qianhu. Bring back gifts.

Some of them were sent to their residence by order of Lakshin Qianhu at the banquet last night, and some of them were put together by a few hundred households who were lucky enough to survive this morning.But the breed is very single, only sheep, bleating sheep of various colors.

These came from the hands of small tribes on the grasslands, and they didn't have any good things in the first place.

Since Ding Haijun settled them, he knew something about their family background.These small Mongolian people had few opportunities to follow the Mongolian army to fight and plunder southward, so they didn't have much gold, silver, copper or other products from the Han area.Therefore, what can be counted as property in the entire tribe is nothing more than some herds.

Generally speaking, at the level of a hundred households, most of them are old nobles on the grassland.This kind of person can have more than a hundred slaves, two to three hundred horses, and a flock of four to five thousand sheep in his family. If he lives in a place with lush water and grass in the south of the monastery for a long time, he will more or less raise a few cows.The head of the ten husbands or the ordinary Hara out are also herdsmen. At most, each family has four or five horses and fifty sheep.

Except for these herds, a tribe has no property to speak of. Even the food they store is mostly dried mutton that is on the verge of rot, or animal meat of unknown origin. At most, they can take out a can of cheese. Also mixed with wool and even dung pellets.

From a certain point of view, these grassland peoples are poorer than the savage tribes living in the interior of Northeast China.

Although the natural environment in the interior of Northeast China is harsh, the local produce is very rich, and most tribes also do a little farming in addition to fishing and hunting, so their income is relatively stable.

In the past few years, the business route in the northeast of Qun Mu has been operating more than a dozen bulk goods or luxury goods on a regular basis.

In addition to horses, special products such as mink fur, ginseng, beeswax, pine nuts, hounds, and sea dongqing are very popular in Dinghai's jurisdiction.These days, there are Jurchens who go south and are hired by the army to train dogs and release eagles.

Compared with them, the grassland people are a little bit embarrassed.The products they can provide are scarcer and more diverse, and the fragile ecology of the grasslands makes these products still in an unstable state.Not to mention that due to the war, the grasslands and the Central Plains cannot trade normally.

It is already a big deal for these tribes who defected to Dinghai to give hundreds of sheep.However, these hundreds of sheep were placed in the consumption of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire Jinshan Province, and they were nothing more than a few tooth sacrifices.

"This……"

Ge Qingshu sat opposite Zhao Xuan, frowning in thought.

Zhao Xuan looked at Ge Qingshu with a half-smile on his face as if he was taking an exam.

The soldiers and generals of the Ding Navy are generally very young. A commander like Zhao Xuan who commands an important military area is only 27 or [-], and Ge Qingshu, who is a general, is only in his early twenties.This makes the discussions in the military more like exchanges between people of the same age, without many complicated rules.

At this time, Ge Qingshu was full of thoughts, and he habitually crossed his legs, but no one thought it was impolite.

"Commander, I heard a while ago that Marshal Guo wanted to restore the overall situation behind Monan Mountain to what it was three years ago in Da'an, that is, he wanted to push the controlled area back to Jiehao. I heard in the military academy that along the Jiehao Two hundred military fortresses, with more than 20 soldiers and civilians stationed..."

Zhao Xuan nodded: "In addition, we will attract Han'er escapees from the grasslands to return, and it is at least 5 to [-] people will be added one after another."

"That's right!" Ge Qingshu patted his thigh: "With so many people, the daily expenses are like gold mountains and silver seas. Even if we can reclaim land on the spot, food, clothing and housing are all consumption. Although the territory of Marshal Guo It is getting bigger and bigger, and it may not be easy to maintain this situation. At this time, you are still thinking about making a fortune for the Mongols? This is not... this is not..."

The word nonsense was about to be uttered, but Ge Qingshu reacted in time and held it back into his mouth.

He stretched his neck to see Zhao Xuan's expression: "Commander, although I am not from northern Xinjiang, I also know that the Mongols are fierce and cunning, and their desires are hard to fill. It is extremely difficult to win them over with any wealth! You have to rely on the knife to be reliable!"

Zhao Xuan laughed: "You're right, but if the Mongols alone can't achieve this wealth, they have to be firmly tied to us in order to obtain it continuously?"

Ge Qingshu rolled his eyes: "Ahem, the commander told you not to make detours, this wealth is..."

"Come with me!" Zhao Xuan took Ge Qingshu out of the barracks, circled the inner city twice, and came to a newly built place.

This place was originally an empty space. Not long ago, according to the requirements of the Marshal's Mansion, dozens of parallel rows of large houses were newly built, and the river water was diverted from the outer city to flow through the open channel.Ge Qingshu thought it was a military camp, but Zhao Xuan went to his post this time, and he accompanied him with a large amount of supplies to supplement Jinshan City.These materials were stored here, so Ge ​​Qingshu thought it was a warehouse.

But at this moment, he followed Zhao Xuan into the room, only to see many craftsmen busy.

These craftsmen also came here with Zhao Xuan earlier, Ge Qingshu reckoned that they were probably blacksmiths or something.But now it seems...

Ge Qingshu hurried forward, only to realize that they were divided into four groups. One group was breaking up the wool and soaking it in clean water to scrub;

The tasks of the other two groups of craftsmen are more complicated: one group re-cards the wool, spreads it on the slate floor, pours warm water on it, and then covers it with slate, pressing it layer by layer; the other group twists the wool with wool , and then opened the equipment to weave.

"The felt produced on this side is good for making blankets and tents; the felt produced on the other side is slightly thinner, but it is suitable for cutting, and can be used to make clothes and robes."

Zhao Xuan smiled and said: "This time, the Marshal's Mansion sent tens of thousands of felt clothes, which are the old foundation in the treasury of the Zhongdu Mansion, for our emergency use. After two months, we will be able to produce local felt cloth , Felt clothes. This is a good product for keeping warm, and it can be sold in both the Northeast and the Central Plains. We only need to negotiate a price with the left and right department, and transport it to the central capital, and it can be directly exchanged for money and materials. Most of them are offset by the North Xinjiang’s consumption, and a small part is allocated, enough to make those Mongolian tribes throw themselves into the ground!”

Zhao Xuan was born as a merchant who traveled to northern Xinjiang, and he had some ideas about the wool business.Before he took office in Jinshan.Guo Ning also specifically instructed him to find as much financial resources as possible on the grasslands, and not follow the old path of the Great Jin Kingdom, turning the many military states behind the Monan Mountains into a bottomless pit that consumes the wealth of the navy's military resources.

In the past few days, he has personally watched the progress of the opening of the wool spinning factory. Up to now, he has confirmed that all the procedures have been smoothed out. He is very happy, so he brought Ge Qingshu to see it.Among them, naturally he also took office as a new official, and he had to take some measures to convince his subordinates.

But Zhao Xuan's complacent expression immediately turned into astonishment.

In front of his eyes, Ge Qingshu stood in front of the knitting and spinning equipment, looked at it, and praised: "So that's it. Is this the so-called double-twisted weaving? I heard that the felt made in this way is a bit too tight. , it’s not fluffy enough, so it’s a little bit poor at keeping warm, but fortunately, it’s very firm. If this kind of felt is placed in Zhongdu, might it not be worth twenty strings?”

The more Zhao Xuan listened to him, the wider his mouth opened.When Ge Qingshu began to comment on the characteristics of the woolen material, Zhao Xuan's mouth was opened enough to stuff a whole egg.

(End of this chapter)