What is the most difficult thing in the Julu Army's defense plan? Food and grass.

There are countless hungry people in the countryside. If there is enough food and grass, not only can we form an army by sitting on the ground, but as long as we take care of the food, we can recruit as many people as we want, and we can form an army of hundreds of thousands or millions of people sitting on the ground.

As an outsider, the Julu Army has no influence in the local area, so it cannot collect grain and grass through influence, so it can only rely on buying. The Julu Army has no money. The only thing that can buy grain in large quantities is paper money, and only a few carts were originally prepared.

Scrap the banknotes and burn them as firewood.

Paper money is not accepted in the countryside, and the problem lies mainly here.

Bohai County, Dongguang County, Dongguang Township, a certain village, foreign visitors came today. A group of empty vehicles stopped at the entrance of the village. There were many soldiers guarding the vehicles. They looked at the soldiers holding knives and guns as if they were strangers.

It looked so close that people passing by just dared to walk around.

At this time, a negotiation was reaching a stalemate at Li Da's house in the village.

Li Huai, a powerful man with a sinewy face and a beard, had a gloomy expression on his face. He slapped the banknotes in his hand onto the table and said unbearably, "You want to use this piece of shit to defraud me of food. Do you think I'm stupid?"

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The centurion of the Julu Army who was confronting him looked indifferent. He looked at the angry local tycoon and said calmly, "I said, I didn't take it for free, I bought it with money.

This piece of paper money is worth a hundred coins. Today, our army will use the paper money to buy your food. Not long after, someone will come back to cash it in full."

The powerful Li Huai refused to compromise at all. He picked up the paper money and handed it to the centurion. He said coldly, "Then please, military master, buy it elsewhere. I won't sell it here."

The centurion's expression turned cold, and he stared directly at the powerful man, "Here, I have received a military order, and I must buy food from you. If you are willing to sell it, you must sell it, and if you don't want to sell it, you must sell it."

The powerful Li Huai laughed angrily. He stood up and laughed loudly. His eyes turned cold. He stared at the centurion with gritted teeth and said, "If I don't give it to you, do you dare to rob it? I'm afraid, you

You’re here, you can’t go back!”

Faced with this naked threat, the centurion grinned. He glanced calmly at the arrogant hero, and then looked at Zhuang Ding outside the door who was holding a knife, gun and hoe. The centurion stood up leisurely.

He said calmly to the powerful Li Huai, "You asked me if I dared to rob him, but I asked you if I dared not to give him.

snort!

My military advisor has said that you are powerful and plundering people.

Our army has found out that you, Li Huai, have such a great reputation around this area! Last month, you bullied orphans and widowers into pushing people’s houses to occupy their fields. Last year, you took other people’s wives and daughters. Three years ago, you and people

You beat someone to death in a dispute over land, but you were not held accountable by the government because you used money.

For such a heinous crime, it won’t be enough to kill you ten times!”

The centurion sneered and looked at the wealthy man whose expression changed slightly with disdain. The centurion said sternly, "You have done so many evil deeds. I don't know how many people want to get rid of you!"

Bring out the food within two moments. If the food is not available, we will kill the evil and give to the poor to do justice for heaven!"

After the warning, the centurion walked out forcefully with the knife on his waist. The strong man blocked the way. "Get out!" the centurion roared. The villagers did not dare to stop them in the slightest, and could only let the centurion do what he wanted.

's departure.

The centurion came out of the village and returned to the convoy. The adjutant came up to him and asked, "How is it? Is the food coming?"

The centurion shook his head helplessly and cursed angrily, "Damn it, I've been talking to him for a long time, but he doesn't know what to do. Just leave it alone, wait for a while, if the food doesn't come out after a while, attack the village directly."

Turning to look at the soldiers behind him, the centurion shouted at the top of his lungs, "Brothers, form your formation!"

For these soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles, formation is a simple matter. The shield soldiers squat forward and lean against the shield to form a shield wall. The spearmen follow with their spears on the shoulders of the shield bearers.

On the ground, crossbowmen were drawing their bows and arrows on both sides. In the blink of an eye, a powerful battle formation was formed.

The Julu soldiers who came to buy food were all soldiers, all of them were soldiers, dozens of them.

The soldiers of the Julu Army set up a battle formation, not to bluff and force the powerful to submit. What the centurion said was to kill the powerful and powerful, kill the rich and give to the poor, and do justice for heaven. This is true. The powerful Julu Army in this village has initially found out.

, this guy has done a lot of bad things, if you really kill him, the people will still applaud him.

If you just kill a powerful man, how can you be hostile to the local people? If you kill this bastard powerful man, and then take some of his wealth and food and distribute it to the people, and the people can't thank him enough, how can they be hostile to the Julu Army?

The centurion estimated the time, and it was almost two seconds. Gou Ri's tyranny was so indifferent, and he really planned to fight to the death.

The centurion's heart skipped a beat, and Zeng drew his sword out of its sheath, "Brothers..."

Halfway through the words and orders, I saw someone pulling a grain cart coming out of the village.

After all, the situation is that one is stronger than others. How can a small local tycoon be able to defeat an army that looks like wolves and tigers?

The food was finally purchased, and the centurion looked happy.

But then, the centurion discovered a problem. He found that the people who came to deliver food were crying, so he stopped them and asked them seriously. When he found out, it turned out that this powerful man wanted the whole village to donate food to send off the army.

What does it mean to send away? Did the Julu Army come to beg for food? Did the Julu Army come to rob people? They were obviously buying food from big households, so why did they become robbing the people of their food?

Before going out to collect grain, the military advisor specifically told everyone that they should only buy food from big households and not burden the common people. The military advisor specifically told everyone how hateful powerful people are. Powerful people are accustomed to amassing wealth in the name of begging for thieves. Often,

On the surface, the common people will get as much as the big families give out. The result is that in the end, all they use is the common people's food. He waits for the big families to show off and does not give out any food. He also embezzles unknown people in the name of asking for thieves.

How much people's wealth.

Thinking of this, the centurion became angry. The centurion thought angrily, damn, if I come here, I will help you plunder the people.

The centurion couldn't bear it, so he took his soldiers to kick open the door of the powerful family. The centurion said to all the villagers who were watching, "Our army only buys food from big families, not from ordinary people.

Whoever hands over the food will take it back!"

Obviously, the food belongs to the people, but the Julu Army did nothing. The centurion just returned the food that the people had just loaded into the carts to the people. The Julu Army did not pay anything, but the people were extremely grateful.

The common people became spectators. They squatted in front of the big family's house and watched with interest as the officers and soldiers carried out bags of food from the big family.

If the Julu Army does not state that it only asks for food from the big families, and shares the food with everyone in the village, then both the big families and the common people in the village will become victims of interests and will unanimously report to the outside world.

When he took the initiative to make it clear that he would only take food from the big households, the common people would not suffer any harm, and they would be freed from the conflict between the Julu Army and the big households.

In the Julu Army's combat manual, it is clearly written that whenever they visit a place, they must first explain to the local people that all military rations will be raised by the Julu Army themselves. Self-financing means that although there is no assistance from the government and the countryside,

The more important point is that there is no resistance in the countryside. As an outsider, it is difficult for the Julu Army to get help. Since help is hard to come by, it is a wiser choice to seek to eliminate resistance on the contrary.

The soldiers moved more than 130 bags of grain from the home of the powerful Li Huai.

The powerful Li Huai and the people in the village misunderstood from the beginning. They thought that the Julu Army was coming to attack the autumn wind, so they wanted to send the officers and soldiers away early as usual.

What the powerful Li Huai and the people did not expect was that after the officers and soldiers moved the grain away, they specially sent someone to invite Li Huai, saying that they wanted to weigh the grain, and asked Li Huai to come and watch.

Li Huai was so angry that he thought it was unethical to just take away the food and humiliate people again and again.

Li Huai was forced to go to the scene to see the situation.

At the entrance of the village, a pile of grain was piled on the spot. Seeing this pile of grain, the powerful Li Huai felt a heartache.

Seeing the rightful owner coming, the centurion bowed politely to Li Huai, and then told everyone, "Welcome!"

The soldiers placed the bucket, untied the grain bags, and poured the grain into the bucket.

The powerful Li Huai was in a very bad mood as he watched his grain flow. His face gradually became gloomy.

Until this time, the powerful Li Huai still felt that the army was humiliating him.

When the grain was weighed, the centurion took a pencil to write it down. After a long time, the grain was weighed.

After checking it several times and confirming that it was correct, the centurion checked the grain bag again.

After calculating the balance between the grain and the money in the grain bag, the centurion picked up a bag of banknotes and counted the piles.

Walking in front of the powerful Li Huai, the centurion said, "We have weighed your grain. Thirty-eight shi, seven dou and five liters of wheat, twelve shi and seven dou of soybeans, four shi and two dou of sorghum, what is the price of your grain?

After the investigation has been carried out, if the average price is 10% higher, the total will cost you 278,400 yuan, plus 132 sacks, each sack will cost you 50 yuan, a total of 132.

Six thousand six hundred dollars.

The price of grain plus sacks comes to a total of two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars."

"This piece of paper is worth a hundred yuan, two hundred and eighty-five thousand, that is, two thousand eight hundred and fifty pieces. Can you count it?"

The powerful Li Huai was indifferent and looked cold.

The centurion handed over the money, but the other party didn't accept it, so the centurion simply threw the money on the ground.

After placing the money, the centurion saluted the mighty Li Huai with his fists raised, "Then take your leave and see you later!"

When the hateful officers and soldiers walked away, the powerful Li Huai lowered his head and looked at the ground. At this time, his anger calmed down. After taking a closer look, he discovered that there was something special about this so-called paper money.

Li Huai leaned over and picked up a stack of paper money and looked through it for a few times. The paper money was made of paper, which was very strange. The paper money was delicate and thick, and the color was clean. It looked very unusual.

There are various pictures on the front and back of the paper money. Among the pictures, three large vermilion characters "One Hundred Money" stand out. The font of these three characters is very complicated. The font is not written in one stroke, but the gestures are as messy as a spider web.

The grid structure looks very unclear.

Li Huai picked up a piece of paper money and frowned at the sun. Inadvertently, he looked at the sun and saw the problem.

Under the sunlight, there are vaguely transparent characters hidden in the coins.

Surprised, Li Huai touched it with his hand and found nothing. He tore the banknote into two layers but could not find the transparent words inside.

When Li Huai picked up his banknotes and looked at them again, he found that there were so many banknotes, each one was exactly the same, and each one was extremely delicate. Li Huai hesitated in his heart, could this thing really be used as money?

Thinking again, the officers and soldiers went to great lengths to weigh the grain, and before leaving, they also counted the money for the sacks. If they were really in trouble, there would be no need to do all this tedious work.

Putting all these things together, the behavior of this group of officers and soldiers was strange, and they were different from the usual border officials who asked for food.

Could it be that he can really exchange money... The powerful Li Huai looked at the village entrance road where no one had been seen for a long time. He could no longer make up his mind.

One of the advantages of banknotes, or to be precise, one of the advantages of Julu banknotes emerged. When Li Mengxi designed banknotes, he considered that banknotes were too cheap. Coupled with acceptance issues, banknotes were
To be continued...