Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 129 The Cai Family's Overture

  Cai Mao was actually a little depressed. After all, he had just negotiated with the Zhi family at the front of Caizhou, and adopted his daughter under the name of the main family Cai Xi, but he did not expect that Huang Chengyan of the Huang family was one step faster...

   In this way, I have an extra sister for no reason, and I still can't get married, and I have to spend money to support it. Although there may be other opportunities in the future, I have no chance with Fei Qian.

  Given the status of the Cai family, it is absolutely impossible for the daughter of the head of the family to be the concubine of a member of the family. After all, Fei Qian's current official position is just an individual, and the Cai family will not lose their status like this.

   But thinking about it, I feel a little unwilling, what a great opportunity...

  Just when Cai Mao was feeling sorry, his soldiers came to report, saying that Fei Ziyuan, Fei Qian, had come to deliver orders with 40,000 arrows!

   "So fast?!" Cai Maobala counted with his fingers, and it took about ten days, which is 40,000 arrows?

  Fei Qian didn't expect to finish the project so soon, but the craftsmen of the Huang family did play a key role in this time.

With sufficient experience, many times the craftsmen will automatically solve some problems on site, and there is no need to make adjustments after reporting to Feiqian. This saves a lot of time, and after using the water saw, a large number of original The manpower in the sawing link is saved and allocated to other links, which invisibly speeds up the overall process.

   Therefore, if only relying on Xiangyang ordnance craftsmen, it would have taken at least a month of work, but with the collective efforts of Huang's craftsmen, it was completed in just over ten days.

   Fei Qian said that he didn't want to promote any style, so he made more arrows for no reason. After reaching the total amount, he came to Cai Mao's camp outside the city to deliver orders with the freshly baked arrows.

  Cai Mao's camp was set up in the west of Xiangyang City, north of the Han River.

The Xiangyang camp was originally set up here before, but there was no general to preside over it, so it was useless. Now that Cai Mao has settled in, he has made considerable revisions to the entire camp. Now, at least in Fei Qian's view, it is already a "majestic camp". Not easy to attack.

  The so-called male camp refers to the one that has no flaws and is easy to defend but difficult to attack, while the opposite is the "female camp".

To the north of the camp is a mountainous area, and some trees near the camp have been cut down, leaving only tree stumps, which have become natural horse-riding posts. It cannot be taken down without considerable naval forces;

The east side is not too far from the city wall of Xiangyang. If there is a force to attack, it will inevitably be attacked from two sides; while the west side is the only good way to attack, but there is a silted tidal flat formed by the erosion of the Han River all the year round. …

Moreover, Cai Mao also introduced the Han River. There are two rounds of ditches around Daying. The first round is wide and deep. Behind the trench are dense antlers nailed to the ground. Behind the antlers is a wooden wall about three meters high, which is pasted with river mud for fire prevention. There are breast walls and battlements on the wooden wall. Where the dikes connect, there are sharpened wooden piles slanted outward...

   Such a heavily fortified camp will make anyone who leads troops lose the desire to attack by force...

   Sure enough, as Pang Tong said, there are military legends in the Cai family's family studies, which are true, and it should not only be an ordinary military book, but also have some advanced strategies.

Fei Qian was looking at the big camp set up by Cai Mao, and when he confirmed the knowledge in the "Six Secret Teachings" he had learned, the camp door opened wide, and Cai Mao came out from it, laughing, and said: "Don't drive!" Come here, welcome if you are far away, forgive your sins and forgive your sins!"

   This is the treatment only available after Fei Qian married Huang Yueying, otherwise Cai Mao would definitely sit in the big camp and let Fei Qian go to see him...

   Fei Qian also smiled, and bowed his hands to Cai Mao, saying that he didn't dare.

  Cai Hao laughed, stretched out his hand to support Fei Qian and refused to allow him to salute, and at the same time asked the accompanying soldiers to bring the arrows brought closer to the camp, and invited Fei Qian to sit down and serve tea.

  Since there is no way to get married, it is necessary to make friends. Cai Xi, the head of the Cai family, had explained to Cai Mao before, so Cai Mao was very polite to Fei Qian.

  After the two parties entered Cai Mao's big tent, Fei Qian took a few glances and saw that the items in the big tent were all very delicate things. He guessed in his heart that they were probably brought by Cai Hao from Cai's house...

   Sure enough, after a while, a soldier served the boiled tea soup. Cai Mao invited Fei Qian to tea: "This is a treasure at home, don't worry, you might as well have a taste or two."

  Fei secretly slandered, no wonder Cai Mao was a second-rate general in the end. Although he had a family who learned the art of war, he also brought this kind of aristocratic style into the barracks. This is really...

  Of course slander belongs to slander, the surface still needs to be in place, Fei Qian said with a smile: "Qian is a vulgar person, how can I say something..."

"Ziyuan is too self-effacing, please use it, please use it..." Cai Mao invited Feiqian to drink tea while thinking in his mind - from the current situation, if you give money, not only is it vulgar, but Feiqian is not lacking; If some singers are given, but their newlyweds may not accept it soon; then after all the calculations, it is true that only according to what the head of the Cai family Cai Xi said, the only thing that Fei Qian does not have at present is...

   At this time, the non-account sergeant came to report that the number of arrows had been counted, a total of more than 42,000, and the amount was correct.

   Naturally, Cai Hao would not make things difficult, so he marked the official document handed in by the soldiers, and handed it over to Fei Qian. In this way, as long as Fei Qian takes this "receipt" to the governor's office and submits it to the governor's office for filing, the arrow-making errand will be completed.

Fei Qian naturally thanked Cai Mao, but Cai Mao waved his hand and said casually, "Why is Ziyuan so polite. This... Mao was pulling out his archers a few days ago. Unexpectedly, the scribes in the army made mistakes, and there were a hundred more people... Alas, this group of silverfish, this is so hard to deal with..."

  Your military scribes still make such low-level mistakes? Don't be kidding, besides, wouldn't it be over if the extra people were sent back?

  Fei Qian pondered for a while, and immediately realized that the Cai family was using this to show favor to him—isn’t there a hundred more people? Sending it back to the original army is also a gift, and giving it to myself as a private soldier is also a gift. This Cai family is really bold, but this also shows that the Cai family may have more control over this camp than I imagined before. To be strong is...

  Private soldiers in ancient times had a tradition from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States to the Qin Dynasty, and it is the same until the Han Dynasty. All major families have private soldiers, but some have more and some have less.

Cai Mao purposely said this in front of Fei Qian, and the meaning is very obvious. It is to use the convenience of his position to give Fei Qian a little sweetness. After all, archers are also a technical unit, and it is difficult to achieve quick results without training methods. If you can follow the large army Training together is naturally more effective than training alone from scratch...

  If you accept this private soldier, it means that you and the Cai family must communicate with each other within a certain range and advance and retreat together. If you don’t accept it, you may need to spend a certain amount of time and energy to train an archer alone...

  Besides, the item of private soldiers is indeed one of the weaker items of the Pang family and the Huang family. The "gift" of the Cai family is indeed extremely accurate...

what to do?

   To accept or not to accept?

   Private soldiers were very famous in the Han Dynasty. Several well-known arms were developed by personal private soldiers at the beginning... The author asks for recommendation tickets for collection...

  (end of this chapter)