Chapter 321 The Xu Family by the Yellow River
The news was inconvenient these days, but when the refugees besieged Xuzhou, Wang Youshan had already passed Qingjiangpu. The general Zhou Baolu pacified Pizhou. He also came to Pizhou. The father and son were in love. Wang Youshan was also worried about Wang Zhaojing's safety and rushed back quickly. He was no longer a few days later than General Zhou Chan.
Zhao Jin nodded with a smile. The reason why he laughed was because he found that Chen Huang was not sarcastic when he said this. This was really rare.
As he was talking, a horse rushed from the city gate and saw that it was Wang Zhaojing.
"My father will not arrive until dark. Brother's business is important, so I'll do this first."
They were all their brothers, and Zhao Jin did not go politely. He gathered together and called on everyone to continue moving forward. After only two steps, Wang Zhaojing rushed to the front and said, "Brother, there are so many refugees, and the Xu family is there. Is it too few to take Zhao's camp? Why not call all the team training places?"
The camp where the group trained the volunteers was extremely quiet, and there was not even a person keeping guard. From a distance, there were a few people leaning against the luggage of the cart. It seemed that the Hanjing famous wine tube had a great lethality.
Zhao Jin pondered for a moment and said, "You can't give benefits and you have to repay them. This is the time to win people's hearts. You can't lose the big picture because of small things."
Having said that, no one had any objections and started to set out towards the Yellow River.
"This time, there are too many things to do after the refugees siege in the city. The civil and military officials and celebrities in the city are probably going to gather together to discuss, and my father will also participate." Wang Zhaojing said while walking.
"The father of the prince is Qinggui, the first-class person in Xuzhou City, and has contacts with the capital center. This time, I'm afraid Mr. Wangshan will make the decision." Among the people, only Ru Huineng answered the words, he knew very well about this joint.
As the former censor of the Beijing official who retired at home, Wang Youshan must have close contact with the capital's Censorate and various yamen. Needless to say, the letters come from, the court will definitely know this time the refugees besieged Xuzhou. How to deal with it depends on the game between all parties. Tong Huaizu had to stay in Xuzhou for nine years, and he could not even be promoted. This backend relationship is limited, so if there is an impact on the capital, Wang Youshan is the only one in Xuzhou.
Wang Youshan's letter explanation will definitely be accepted by the censor Qingliu of the capital. He said it was OK, it would be better here. He said it was bad, and someone would definitely be in trouble.
Zhao Jin nodded, walked forward silently for a while, and suddenly said, "Are you still worried that you won't pay money in the yamen?"
Everyone was stunned and then burst into laughter. Wang Zhaojing said with a smile: "Brother, we brothers will also participate in this aftermath discussion."
"Who dares to make decisions without us participating?" Chen Huang said hard, and everyone nodded again.
Walk along the official road to the river from Xuzhou Prefecture City. It’s okay to walk ten miles around the city. If you walk a little further, you can see the corpses lodging by the roadside, and there is already a stinking smell.
"After the consequences, these should be burned as soon as possible, otherwise there will be trouble." Zhao Jin pointed and said.
"Now my brother has regarded Xuzhou as his own." Someone joked, everyone laughed, and Zhao Jin laughed too. The laughter was not ridiculed, but taken for granted.
When we arrived at the gathering place of refugees by the Yellow River, the sun was already rising very high, and the places where refugees gathered were busy. You can see from a distance that several large sheds had been built by the river, and many refugees were crowded there.
The refugees by the river were not panicked about the arrival of Zhao Jin's team. For them, they had reached this point, what could they do if they were bad?
"You can't be forced at this time. Once you use swords and guns, you will push the refugees to others." Zhao Jin set the tone.
The Zhaoziying Brigade was resting on the spot, while the relief team at Yunshan Temple moved forward, and began to build sheds to cook porridge on the edge of the refugees' gathering. Monks walked towards the refugees and kept praising the Buddha's name.
The Buddha was compassionate and could do it, but this concept has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. When he saw the monks coming, the refugees gathered, and the monks led the refugees to the greenhouse.
These things have routines. The monks who used to preach the Buddha's name and command people were all kind-hearted and very eloquent, and they were trustworthy at first glance.
When we arrived at the shed, some refugees had already knelt down and cried bitterly, not sure whether they were grief or repentance.
Perhaps the image of the monks is reassuring, or perhaps they are deceived by the incense sect. The one they are talking about every day is Maitreya, which is also considered a Buddhist leftist path, and is close to it. As soon as the stall in Yunshan Temple was established, a large group of refugees came over.
Not long after this place was lively, more than a hundred strong men holding weapons came to this side in a fierce manner. Generally, rural groups were brave and strong. Only elites had swords, axes and weapons, and the rest were wooden sticks or spears. The reason was very simple, it was cheap and free of iron. However, these more than a hundred people had simple swords in their hands, which looked extraordinary.
It happened that a monk had no time to walk away and stood in front of them. He was pushed to the ground by the man in charge and fell directly.
While speaking, they had already arrived at the front of the porridge shed. These strong men looked at the young monk holding sticks, with disdain on their faces. The leader raised his hands and looked at the way he wanted to give an order. Although he couldn't hear any order clearly, everyone could guess that it was just the meaning of smashing.
However, the strong man stopped halfway through his movements. The hundreds of steps behind the shed were where Zhaoziying was located. It was covered by the shed. It might not be able to see clearly from far away, but when you approach, you can see it.
"Master Jin, ask who is here and whether to sign up for them?" A young monk came over to ask.
Yunshan Temple was extremely afraid of Zhao Jin. Without Zhao Jin's permission, they didn't even dare to report their names, even though at this time, reporting Zhao Jin could protect themselves.
"Say Zhao's name camp here," Zhao Jin said, and the monk quickly agreed, turned around and ran back again
Perhaps the name "Zhao Ying" played a role. The Han Dynasty looked at Zhao Jin for a few times, then turned around and left. More than a hundred powerful men also left.
"They are tactful and thought they were going to fight." Dong Bingfeng said in wonder.
The scope of activities of the Xu family in Jingshan has always been on the north bank of the Yellow River. They have never dealt with Zhao Jin's Zhaoziying, so naturally they don't know how powerful Zhaoziying is. The Xu family in Jingshan is the top tyrant in Xuzhou. In this case, they must try the depth. Unexpectedly, the other party actually knows how to advance and retreat.
Not long after, the spies who had been wandering inside and outside the refugee gathering place also reported that the people from the Xu family were tearing down their sheds and moving all the equipment to the boat. They were about to leave now. Now the refugees in the brigade are rushing towards Yunshan Temple.
Zhao Jin and his friends looked at each other. Is his family so powerful? He scared the other party so easily. Ruhui, who was sitting on the stool, stood up and looked forward, turned to say solemnly: "Master, my subordinates think that if they persuaded one group, they would take one group back and settle them in various manors in Yunshan Temple first. If the refugees stayed for too long, they were afraid of other chaos, so I would go to the front and inform Yunshan Temple first."
Seeing Zhao Jin nodding, Ruhui casually said: "The people from the Xu family came by and walked quickly, which is really strange.
"Infantrymen are on standby. If order is needed, listen to Mr. Cao's dispatch to help. The rest of the people who can get on the horse will be on the horse. Let's go to the river to take a look." Zhao Jin ordered that it would be better to see it than to guess like this.
Everyone agreed, and the friends and servants who could ride horses also had more than thirty riders, who bypassed the crowded refugees and ran towards the other party's porridge shed.
The refugees now have no madness under the city that day. They are just crowded in front of the porridge greenhouse, waiting for the monks' arrangements. When Zhao Jin and the others rode by horses, the refugees were dodging away in awe, and they didn't even dare to look up and look up.
"Xiaoyong, you have to arrange a vicious look around. Will the group of people who rushed up that day be mixed with these refugees? These are sheep and those are wolf." Zhao Jin said immediately, Liu Yong agreed, everyone looked at the surging crowds around him with a solemn expression.
I went around and arrived at the destination. The sheds there had been almost dismantled, and the stoves and other things were brought into the car and transported to the Yellow River Ferry.
The original news said that after the refugees retreated to the riverside, they found that the ships transporting them across the river were burned, and the other ships disappeared without a trace, but now there are more than a dozen large ships on the ferry, and several of them are already full of refugees.
Seeing Zhao Jin and the others coming, some people came to ask who they were. Zhao Jin and the others also reported their identities directly, and those people immediately became busy with themselves.
"You are also from the circle, and we are from the circle. You are here first, and then, are we just watching it?" Zhao Jin called out a man and asked.
Of course, the man had no good attitude towards Zhao Jin and the others. He wanted to bow his head and ignore him, but when he saw Zhao Jin wearing armor and riding a horse, he felt a suppressed momentum. After he hesitating, he said: "My eldest lady gave an order. If Zhao Ziying doesn't come, he won't leave. Zhao Ziying comes, leave immediately."
"Your eldest lady?" Zhao Jin was stunned. Hearing these words, it was a woman who was the one who was in charge. He was a woman who was superior to the woman and was inferior to him these days. The male lead was the outside and the female lead was the inside. It was really strange that a young lady spoke in such a big family matter.
Seeing his companions standing in front of the horse, more than a dozen people gathered over there, and more people ran towards him. Many people on Zhao Jin picked up weapons, but Zhao Jin didn't care about this and asked with a smile: "Is your eldest lady the eldest lady of the Xu family in Jingshan?"
"In addition to this, who else can be called a lady?" someone in front of Ma said bluntly.
This is really strange. Zhao Jin became more and more curious. Before he could ask again, Liu Yong interrupted behind him and said, "Is Xu Dajiao?"
"You also called this name." As soon as the name was released, someone shouted immediately.
Zhao Jin was fully armed with more than thirty cavalry, condescending to the top, while most of the Xu family gathered here had no weapons, but at this time they were not afraid at all, and were full of anger and excited.
"Xu Dajiao?" Zhao Jin looked back in surprise. He had a vague impression of the name, but he didn't care much.
Seeing his attention, Liu Yong hurriedly said: "Miss Xu Zhenzhen, the eldest daughter of the Xu family in Jingshan, has such a nickname because she has no foot binding and has been in charge of Xu family affairs outside."
Zhao Jin smiled and shook his head. It was still very strange. He had heard of the name of Xu Benrong, the head of the Xu family in Jingshan, and knew that this person was very sensible and not ostentatious in his work. Some people should have mentioned Xu Zhenzhen when they mentioned the Xu family in Jingshan, but he did not pay attention.
In this era, men are the ones who are in charge of the family, and the other party is a young girl, and he is not old. It is easy to cause misunderstandings if you care too much.
"What are you still rushing there? Come on the boat..." someone shouted in the distance.
Hearing this shout, the strong men who glared at Zhao Jin and the others turned away. This was not the end. They looked back angrily while walking, as if they wanted to remember what Zhao Jin looked like.
"A bunch of barbarians from the north, I don't know what's crazy," Shi Manqiang, behind Zhao Jin, said roughly.
In Xuzhou, the south of the Yellow River is much richer than the north, so people in the south have always looked down on the north. This kind of bad habit is everywhere in the world, and Xuzhou itself is not the only one.
"It's just a river, no good or bad. I don't want to hear this in the future." Zhao Jin said with a stern expression. Shi Manqiang didn't expect Zhao Jin to be so serious. He shrank his head in fear. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Zhao Jin glanced at the people around him and said in a slowed down, "Our brothers from Zhaoying came from all over Xuzhou. If they look down on the place, the city looks down on the outside of the city, and there are conflicts in normal times, how can they go forward and retreat side by side on the battlefield? How can they leave their backs to their companions with confidence? We are all one and all one, do you understand?"
At this time, Shi Manqiang also came back to his senses, with a look of shame on his face, and said solemnly: "Brother, I'm confused, I will never again next time."
Zhao Jin nodded and turned back again. The men of the Xu family in Jingshan had already arrived at the ferry and were getting on the boat one after another.
The men in the Xu family probably didn't look hungry, and they all looked pretty good. Although the clothes on their bodies were all the most ordinary and cheap coarse cloth and patches, they were all pretty neat and organized. Some people asked orders and some obeyed them, which could be roughly orderly.
Zhao Jin immediately let out a long breath, pointed to the boat on the river and said, "The Xu family is not simple. Not to mention their actions since the refugees entered Xuzhou, it depends on the performance of the strong men below them. They are not much worse than our Zhao camp. It is really extraordinary."
"I guess that's all that can be sent out, most of the people still have to do their jobs." Chen Huang said.
Zhao Jin nodded slowly, and he still didn't say anything. The strength of the Xu family in Jingshan was not only reflected in these strong men who recruited refugees.
The powerful clan whose main business of farming is not scary. If he wants to run a group training, he must draw the strong labor force from the farmers. One more group training will lead to one less strong farmer. The equipment and daily expenses of this strong clan require more farmer labor to provide, so such a powerful clan cannot maintain too many standing armed forces, and the temporary brave fighting power is also very average.
The Xu family is different. The Xu family is engaged in coal and iron. The income of coal and iron is much greater than that of farming, and can provide more permanent forces. There are more important reasons. Coal and iron smelting requires young and strong people. In mining and iron smelting operations, these young and strong laborers cooperate and cooperate. Over time, they will naturally have organization and discipline. Not to mention that they produce iron and iron, which is easy to arm. Such a quality of Ting and Zhuang can be trained when needed, and their combat effectiveness will never be bad.
However, Zhao Jin could also think that having this foundation may not necessarily lead to such strength, and not everyone will consider issues like themselves.
"Brother, although the Xu family is big, they are still relatively restrained in their work. Although the Minister of the Court is his backer, I have never heard of any arrogant and domineering activities in their family. I just do their coal and iron business with peace of mind." Wang Zhaojing said.
After Zhao Jin evaluated Xuzhou, he looked solemn. Everyone thought he was worried about the Xu family, so Wang Zhaojing spoke out to explain a few words first.
"Oh, there is also a minister, this is really." Zhao Jin had heard about the minister before, but he had no impression of it. When he mentioned it again today, he immediately gave the Xu family a higher evaluation.
But after halfway through, Zhao Jin's eyes widened and stared at the front. The few people next to him were shocked and thought something was wrong.
"What is that?" Zhao Jin pointed to a person in front and said. At the ferry on the boat, there were more than a dozen men in the Xu family holding weapons on guard. Zhao Jin pointed to the person who was the one who was most reliant on the outside.
Everyone was a little confused, and Zhao Jin said anxiously: "What is that person holding in his hand?"
After saying this, Zhao Jin stirrups bumped into his mount, shook the reins, and drove the horse to run there. His friends were stunned. After being stunned, they quickly rode the horse and followed.
When the Xu family at the other side of the ferry saw dozens of horses running here, they immediately stood nervous and warned. The boat on the shore shouted loudly. The boat that had just left the shore was walking back again. Many people jumped off the boat and rushed to the water to the shore.
Halfway through the run, Zhao Jin realized something was wrong, and immediately waved and shouted: "I am Zhao Jin, don't get me wrong, I have no malice, I have no malice."
Zhao Jin was very loud and waved his hands empty-handed there. When the Xu family heard the name "Zhao Jin", they saw him waved his hands empty-handed and remained alert, but they lost the tension of fighting at any time.
When there were more than ten steps away from the edge of the Xu family's team, Zhao Jin stopped and immediately said straight to the point: "What is this brother holding in his hand? Can you show it to Zhao?"
After saying this, Zhao Jin turned around and waved, indicating that his friends and cavalry would stop. The distance was too close, which really made people nervous.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the person Zhao Jin pointed at. The man was thinner than ordinary people. He was at a loss at this time and didn't know what was going on.
Several Xu family members who were in a good manner had already come down from the boat. After asking what happened, a middle-aged man in his forties walked up to Zhao Jin and pointed at the man, stretched out his hand to signal. Seeing Zhao Jin nodding, the middle-aged man looked full of confusion, but he took the equipment in the man's hand, and walked towards Zhao Jin.
Chapter completed!