Three Kingdoms: The Reverse Son of the Guan Family, Dragon Blessing Jingxiang

In the autumn and winter of the 20th year of Jian'an, the dry season is coming.

At this special time, Jiangling City seems to be surrounded by a fog of confusion.

The "magical" ordnance that suddenly appeared suddenly cast a heavy layer of dark clouds over the sky in Jingzhou. The situation was changing and the undercurrent was surging.

But this morning, in the mist of morning light, in the thief Cao Yu's mansion... the shouts of the owner of the room, the Fourth Young Master Guan Lin, had already been heard.

——"Two hundred chariots, a thousand crossbows, a hundred wooden oxen and stray horses."

——"The price I can offer is 150,000 dendrobium of grain."

——"Is this price enough to be sincere?"

Guan Lin brazenly announced his price in front of Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi. He didn't seem to be hiding it at all, and he didn't care about anyone hearing it.

This is his character...

——No taboos

The government officials and civil servants here have long been accustomed to this.

On the other hand, the eyes of the various forces outside the door couldn't help but feel their hearts sinking when they heard this offer.

——One hundred and fifty thousand dendrobium, such a high price!

No wonder these eyes were surprised.

According to the records of the "Taibai Yin Jing", an army of 12,500 people consumes 90,000 shi (Dendrobium) per year, various non-staple foods within 147,500 shi (Dendrobium), salt Two thousand two hundred and fifty stones (dendrobium)…

Convert it.

Calculated according to this standard, if the consumption of horses is not taken into account, 150,000 dendrobium of food is enough to cover the expenses of an army of 10,000 people for ten months!

If you save a little bit, you can even cover your expenses for a year!

And Guan Lin's quotation was equivalent to using this expense to only buy... two thousand people's ordnance.

certainly…

Considering yesterday's side carriages, serial crossbows, wooden oxen and flowing horses, they were magnificent under the Victory Bridge.

Taking into account the fourth son Guan Lin's solemn vow yesterday, although the price of these 150,000 dendrobium grains is somewhat high, it is not surprising.

Mi Fang, on the other hand, was sitting in the prefect's mansion and relayed the news immediately with his eyes. When he heard the quotation of 150,000 dendrobium, others were stunned.

He is a man who loves money...

Although the money in Jiangling City's treasury may not be as loved as the private wealth of his Mi family, but... 150,000 dendrobium of grain is too high.

The fat on Mi Fang's chubby cheeks was trembling. While he complained about the rising prices, he murmured to himself: "Guan Lin? Isn't it just the 50,000 dendrobium of grain from my Mi family? He …When did he have 150,000 dendrobium? Where did these extra 100,000 dendrobium come from?”

Is it possible…

He...is he still doing other business? "

Once this idea appeared, it was difficult for Mi Fang not to think about it.

In addition, although he didn't have much contact with Guan Lin, this kid always gave him an unfathomable feeling that "the sea water is immeasurable".

He can also change from nine thousand to one hundred thousand, and from fifty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand, isn't that easy?

The more I think about it...

Mi Fang was thinking more and more.

——"Compared with this guy...why do you feel like you don't make much money by selling arms?" What's more, you put your head on your waist and worry about it every day? 』

People are afraid of comparing...

Compared with Guan Lin, Mi Fang felt... what the hell kind of life was he living?

Suddenly, reselling arms no longer feels good!

——"I have to ask this guy tomorrow how he makes money. If possible, let him take care of us!" 』

Over here, Mi Fang is already having wild thoughts.

Over there...

The thief Cao Pufu's quotations are still going on.

Seeing the silence of Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi, Guan Lin opened his mouth and said, "Tell me, how long will it take to deliver the goods?"

"Fourth Young Master is indeed full of sincerity. Of course...this batch of ordnance...are all ready-made...can be delivered at any time, and we have already transported them to Jingzhou in advance."

While Shi Huolong answered, his eyes kept blinking, as if trying to dodge Guan Lin's gaze, "It's just... Fourth Young Master, can you give us some time to think about it, and allow us to report who the master is!"

It was said that he was reporting to the owner, but actually... he was asking for a price to compare with three others.

Guan Lin saw through it and said, "Okay, three days is all. Since you have shipped it to Jingzhou in advance, it won't be a delay. After considering it, we can trade at any time... Of course, this is the greatest sincerity I can show." !”

Guan Lin maintained his high-pitched voice as always.

This time...

Not only Guan Lin, but all the eyes outside the door knew that this batch of goods was actually in Jingzhou.

Of course, this is reasonable.

The arms business... often looks for precise customers.

This kind of transaction will change later, so... often before the price is negotiated, some arms dealers will quietly transport the arms to nearby areas, often hiding them in deep mountains and caves.

Once the transaction is confirmed, the money and goods are cleared... and there is nothing more to worry about.

If the negotiation breaks down, then quietly send them away in small batches. This is the safest way, and it is also an established rule in black market transactions.

Naturally, it didn't attract much attention.

"Thank you, Fourth Young Master..." Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi handed over to Guan Lin.

Guan Lin patted the two of them on the shoulders meaningfully, and said with a smile: "You two, take care of yourself, 150,000 dendrobium, after passing this village, there will be no more shops like this!"

Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi looked at each other...

They were both thinking...

In terms of acting skills, it has to be the Fourth Young Master Guan!

real…

It’s so true!

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A pair of clean black boots with white soles and embroidery stepped lightly on the fallen leaves.

Lu Xun walked to the courtyard with a heavy heart and looked at the gate with longing eyes... his heart was full of twists and turns, and he was very sad.

Life is like this, you have to pretend even if you have tears in your eyes.

At this moment, Lu Xun deeply realized...

Why don't you pretend to be cool? If you pretend to be cool, you will be struck by lightning.

Just now, when he heard Guan Lin's quotation for 150,000 hu of grain, he felt bad.

What...what's going on?

How can you quote 150,000 dendrobium?

This Guan Lin, does he know the price of arms?

You know, the price of a horse today ranges from 20,000 to 200,000 yuan. According to the price of one hu, which is equal to 500 yuan, this price can buy thousands of inferior horses.

It's enough to just assemble a low-end version of the cavalry team.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is, Lu Xun asked Sun Ru to quote "twice" You Tanzhi...

No matter how much Guan Lin paid, he paid twice as much...

So twice as much as 150,000 dendrobium... wouldn't it be 300,000 dendrobium?

This is too big a show!

Lu Xun had immediately asked his wife Sun Ru to see You Tanzhi. Although he knew that 150,000 yuan was a premium, the Lu Family Army... But he, Lu Xun, needed these weapons too much.

This is an opportunity for him to climb up step by step!

——250,000 dendrobium grains.

This is Lu Xun’s bottom line...

Sun Ru has already gone to talk... Now half an hour has passed, and the waiting people are getting more and more anxious. Lu Xun looks at the gate outside the courtyard with longing eyes, his eyes full of expectation.

finally…

Sun Ru is back.

She brought good news. She used 200,000 hu of grain to win...

"The money and goods will be delivered together in five days. The location is in a mountain at the intersection of Jingzhou and Jiaozhou."

Sun Ru's words made Lu Xun happy.

He picked up Sun Ru and spun her around in a circle.

——"If you have a wife like this, why worry about my Lu family not being prosperous or the failure of Jiangdong's great cause?"

Sun Ru is much calmer than Lu Xun. "Husband, don't be too busy being happy, you should think about how to transport so much food here?"

this…

Lu Xun's eyes were deep, he pondered for a moment, and then said with emotion: "If...if it's food, there's nothing we can do, but if it's gold, the Lu family still has a way to transport it."

yes…

As one of the four major families in Wu County, the Lu family has more than just soldiers, horses, and officials.

You know, his family's business is spread throughout Soochow.

How could the Lu family not get involved in Jiaozhou's business after the scholars turned vassal three years ago?

The junction between Jiaozhou and Jingzhou is Jiaozhi. As the seat of Jiaozhou, it is not difficult to allocate a large amount of gold and silver from here, but it just takes time.

"Five days...five days?"

Lu Xun murmured...

Sun Ru also pursed her lips. It seemed that she also realized...even if it wasn't food, it was...not easy to gather so much gold and silver of equal value in such a short time!

"Although the time is a bit tight,... ma'am, please promise them that there will be no problem on my side!"

Finally, after repeated calculations, Lu Xun said with great certainty.

Sun Ru looked into Lu Xun's eyes...

This was the first time she saw the light in her husband's eyes!

——'Bo Yan is really eager to see through these weapons! 』

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Jingzhou, Xiangyang City.

Finally, Cao Ren waited eagerly for support from Xiangfan.

This is the "immediate combat force" sent by the eldest brother Cao Cao, namely the five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Ren's younger brother Cao Chun!

At the city gate, Xiangfan's soldiers lined up to greet him, playing music, and the people gathered around to watch.

No wonder Cao Chun and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry received such courtesy.

The record of this legendary legion is too powerful.

——Fighted Wuhuan and captured the leader;

——Behead Yuan Tan and defeat Zhang Fei;

——Invade Xiliang and defeat Ma Chao...

——When Liu Bei led his people across the river, he defeated his 100,000 soldiers and civilians, severely injuring their vitality.

They even kidnapped Liu Bei's two daughters!

As the saying goes, "Cao Chun marched from Jingzhou, pursued Liu Bei at Changban, captured his two daughters' baggage, and collected his scattered soldiers."

There are also unofficial miscellaneous records that Cao Chun not only kidnapped his two daughters, but even...married them.

What can I say...Cao Chun is a handsome guy. Liu Bei's two daughters fell in love with Cao Chun after they were captured, and they were both married by Cao Chun.

It’s so bloody!

There are also unofficial records that this was a kind of revenge because Zhang Fei kidnapped Xia Houyuan's niece and married him as his wife, so Cao Chun married Liu Bei's two daughters.

This is a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is unpleasant.

Of course, these bloody plots are the imagination of novelists from all dynasties and generations.

Even more exaggeratedly, it is said that Cao Chun's death was due to Liu Bei's two daughters. It is said that Liu Bei's two daughters pretended to marry Cao Chun, and then through a series of operations, Cao Chun was killed.

So here’s the problem?

How to operate?

How to kill him?

——Drain it, right?

Of course, these are all fabrications!

Writing novels is not about studying history, but about having fun.

There is really no need to be so serious about many things.

anyway…

In Cao Wei, a 5,000-strong tiger and leopard cavalry regiment led by Cao Chun was once dubbed the legend of "invincible and invincible" because of its fierce performance!

It is no exaggeration to say that this Tiger and Leopard Cavalry... is Cao Cao's Dinghai Shenzhen!

Now, the army has entered the city. Cao Chung is sitting high on his horse. Among the hundreds of officials in front of him, he sees his brother Cao Ren.

Cao Ren smiled and said, "Is Zihe here?"

But he saw that Cao Chun did not stand up, but maintained a domineering arrogance, and his tone was not modest.

"Brother, it has been hard work guarding Xiangfan these years, but why did Zhou Yu and Guan Yu have to retreat steadily, and even Nanjun was lost!"

"The Prime Minister always said that my brother is good at attacking, and he is the first-class expert among the Cao Wei clan's descendants. But in the past few years, my brother has lost this ability, right? He has learned the ability to shrink, haha, defend Xiangfan , let Guan Yunchang make mistakes?"

this…

Cao Chun's words were quite rude.

Of course, he was always rude to Cao Ren.

To elaborate on this matter would be a long story.

Although Cao Chun and Cao Ren are half-brothers, but... just like in every big family, the relationship between the eldest son and the youngest son is so subtle that they "want to kill each other"...

The relationship between Cao Chun and Cao Ren is not that harmonious.

Looking further back, in the generation of Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, the Cao family produced three remarkable figures.

In addition to Cao Song who became Da Honglu, Da Sinong, and Taiwei, Cao Chi served as a servant, and Cao Ding served as the prefect of Wu County and the minister...

Among them, the father of Cao Ren and Cao Chun is Cao Chi.

In Cao Chi's lineage, Cao Ren is the eldest son, and Cao Chun is the legitimate son...

According to the rules, Cao Chun is the one who inherits the family. As the saying goes - "Chun inherited his father's business, is rich, has hundreds of servants and guests."

But Cao Ren was worse.

——"The young man is good at hunting with bows and horses. Later, heroes came together, and Ren Yiyin married the young man. He got more than a thousand people and traveled between Huai and Si."

This means that as a concubine, Cao Ren had nothing and was not well-liked by others in the family. When the heroes gathered together, he led a group of people and went out to wander around...

Needless to say, he really made his mark, and his personal bravery and general strategy have made great progress.

He became the most adept general in the Cao Wei clan.

But individuals are individuals, and the ancient battlefield focused on regimental combat.

Compared with Cao Ren's bravery and military strategy, Cao Chun's "family property" was more important to the early Cao Cao!

When Cao Chun defected to Cao Cao, he was "bringing capital into the group", so Cao Cao assigned the most elite soldiers to him.

Cao Chun was not short of money, so...these soldiers were equipped with the best weapons, armor, and horses.

Over and over again, this was the prototype of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Among them, Tiger Cavalry is a "heavy armored cavalry", and the equipment on his body is full of the smell of money.

The Leopard Cavalry is a "light armored cavalry", similar to Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yi Cong, mainly riding and shooting...

Although the Leopard Cavalry is not as expensive as the Tiger Cavalry, compared with other cavalry, the price is still not measurable.

After all, as the legitimate son and the orthodox descendant of Cao Chi's lineage, when facing Cao Ren, the concubine, the "arrogance" in his bones arose spontaneously.

You wouldn't be so polite when talking to him.

"Zihe, you must never underestimate your enemy!" Cao Ren was not angry.

It seems that he knows this younger brother's temperament and is used to it.

He immediately advised: "This Guan Yu, even though he is the eldest brother, he once praised Xun Lingjun, saying that he 'is the person that the eldest brother always loves, and he can be compared with Fengxian'... At first, my brother was okay, but in recent years he has been competing against him. , Brother, I feel heavy pressure everywhere! It’s already good if you can hold on, how can you dare to attack the enemy lightly? "

"Ha ha ha ha…"

As soon as Cao Ren's words came out, Cao Chun laughed heartily, "Unexpectedly, these years have smoothed out my brother's temper a lot and made him discouraged a lot."

"But it doesn't matter. The dry season is coming. I, Cao Chun, have brought the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry again. I will definitely take back all that Cao Wei lost in Jingxiang. Brother, please prepare food and grass, and wait and see!"

this…

There was a hint of deep worry between Cao Ren's brows.

He didn't know either... Should we say that Cao Chun was a newborn calf and not afraid of tigers?

Or...are you underestimating Guan Yunchang?

Cao Ren shook his head and wanted to persuade...

But Cao Chun had already driven his horse away, and the army continued to enter the city.

At this moment, every knight on the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry raised their heads high.

The way they looked at the soldiers in the city was just like the way a superior looked at a person below him.

——Intensely arrogant!

But at this moment, someone walked quickly to Cao Ren and whispered in his ear: "An urgent message came back from the eyes of Jiangling City... It is said that Jingzhou wants to purchase a military uniform, which is the nemesis of the cavalry. It is extremely urgent!"

Cao Ren was startled when he heard this.

He squinted and looked at Cao Chun's back again...

Immediately... he quickly turned around and headed to another place under the guidance of the reporting soldier.

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