Chapter 32 Dead wood cannot be carved (1)
Just at this moment, a sailor came to report on the bow of the ship, and the lanterns of the ship opened the road ahead, and the fleet was expected to reach the boundary of the Zhou State Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong) in another two hours.
Lin Feng sighed in his heart, knowing that his "leisure vacation" had officially ended, he immediately began to arrange what happened after leaving the boat. Xiang Youjianyan officially said goodbye, comforted Zhou Ehuang, Yaya and others, and Feng Jingyun, Lin Renzhao brought a set of equipment to the seaside, and quietly sneaked onto the embankment.
There was a small fishing village on the north side of their site. Lin Feng ordered Feng Jingyun to sneak into the village and quietly pick up several sets of farm clothes. He put down dozens of cents in the yard. The three of them quickly changed before dawn and rushed to the west.
In the next two days, the three of them traveled day and night, quickly crossing Mushui and Yishui one after another, and arrived at the east gate of Xiaqiu City, Gunzhou on the morning of May 16th.
Yanzhou is a real historical city. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the books of various schools of thought gave the Jiuzhou during the Yu period a formal title. Yanzhou was one of them. When Emperor Wu of Han conferred the title of the governor of the fourteen states in the world, Yanzhou officially became an administrative division.
After that, after several dynasties and historical changes, Yanzhou successively became a county, prefecture, and prefecture, and was a political, economic, cultural and military center. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Liang, Tang, Jin and Han all established the Qinyi Jiedushi in Yanzhou, belonging to Henan Road, governing Xiaqiu, leading Rencheng, Pinglu, Xiqiu, Qufu, Zou, Sishui and other 8 counties.
Xiaqiu Ancient City is only five meters high, and its overall "age" is not small. From time to time, it can be seen that shed and indented destruction bricks can be seen. There are a few soldiers patrolling the city heads, and several Houzhou soldiers at the gates are levying to collect money from the city.
Lin Feng deliberately did not prepare any documents for passing the customs during this trip, so he walked up straight, took out more than a dozen Nantang copper coins and stuffed them into the hands of the soldiers guarding the city. The soldiers guarding the city glanced at the copper coins, put them directly into their arms, waved their hands and let them go, without even looking at the wind and Lin and the others behind Lin Feng.
Lin Feng shook his head gently and walked into Xiaqiu City, which has been the capital of Lu County and Yanzhou since the Sui Dynasty.
After entering the city, Lin Feng directly asked where the Yanzhou military camp was. The three of them rushed to the outside of the military camp in the southeast of the city, found an inn to stay in, and then rushed to a nearby breakfast shop and started to have a quiet meal.
During the entire breakfast period, the military camp also had Hou Zhou officers coming out for dinner, but Lin Feng leaned over and listened, but he heard the unnutritious nonsense that these officers were bored and depressed in the military camp.
After hearing the soldiers' words, Lin Feng frowned and ordered Feng Jingyun to split into two groups to learn about the defenses of the Yanzhou city wall. At noon, they met at a nearby restaurant and took the order.
Lin Feng tidied his clothes and leisurely wandered around the nearby streets to understand the prices, and bought some gadgets for Zhou Ehuang and the others.
It was soon at noon. Lin Feng walked back to the restaurant he had made an appointment, found a private room on the second floor where he could see the door of the military camp, and waited quietly.
Not long after, Feng Jingyun, who was covered in sweat, finally arrived. The three of them met briefly and found that the defense here was very average. The soldiers were all listless and crowded in the nearby Liangyin to take a laziness. Feng Jingyun also made excuses to go up to the city wall and found that the entire city wall was empty, with no defensive supplies on it, and no reserve supplies were found inside the city wall.
At this moment, two Zhou army commanders led three out of the military camp and walked towards the restaurant. Five people walked through the first floor lobby and went directly to a compartment not far from Lin Feng and the others on the second floor. They shouted loudly, "Select the wine and serve the food as usual." The two fellows who followed along nodded and bowed, brewed the tea and went down hurriedly.
Lin Feng immediately looked at Feng Jingyun, Lin Renzhao winked, and the three of them started to move the dishes on their table to the compartment next to the five officers, listening carefully to their chat.
Soon, the dishes and wine were served, and the three of them deliberately flattered them, coaxing the two commanders into louder and louder voices.
After listening for a long time, Lin Feng was embarrassed and immediately picked up his good daughter Hong on the table, brought two tea bowls and walked to the private room next door, and said loudly: "Five generals, I'll say goodbye to you."
"What are you doing?" One of the Du asked impatiently, waved his hand to signal Lin Feng to walk away quickly. A captain saw the red wine jar of his daughter in Lin Feng's hand. Suddenly his eyes lit up and asked in a deep voice: "What's wrong with you?"
Lin Feng put two tea bowls on the table, quickly filled his daughter Hong, and then bowed and said, "I'm disturbing all the generals. My younger brother was originally a defender of Jinzhou. I just heard the five generals talking about it next door, so I came here to consult about the situation of the Jinzhou war." As he said, Lin Feng brought two bowls of wine to the tables of the two commanders.
"Jinzhou Army, what a pity." An older commander sighed, picked up the wine bowl without hesitation and took a big sip, sighing.
"What do you mean by this? Please give me some advice." Lin Feng bowed politely again, quickly filled the captain's wine, then turned around and shouted, "Waiter, serve two more plates of beef and serve two good dishes."
The older captain was a little embarrassed and reached out to ask Lin Feng to sit down and talk.
"I tell you, don't tell outsiders. According to our envoys, Jinzhou City has been attacked several times, and nearly 20,000 people have been killed or injured. The emperor is getting angry and is preparing to take Wang Yan, who has lost Jinzhou City and cannot take back Jinzhou City, back to the capital to question. Your brother is afraid that there will be a lot of danger." The commander sighed and drank the wine bowl in front of him.
Lin Feng looked sad and touched them two bowls in a row, and told the waiter to bring two more pots of wine, as if he was drinking to drown his sorrow.
Seeing that several Yanzhou troops were almost drunk, Lin Feng sighed with grief and anger: "I can't figure it out. The emperor comes from the Tianxiong Army. It is the world's most powerful army that fights against the Khitan cavalry. Why can't he win a Jinzhou city?"
The older captain was already a little dizzy and pointed at Lin Feng and said, "What can I do not understand? The most powerful person in Zhou State is the Tianxiong Army, Zhangwu, Fengxiang and other few border military troops. The Northern Han rebelled again. I heard that they had launched some evil tricks to kill the enemy and exchange land in Jinzhou. The soldiers of the Northern Han were all crazy and fought for their lives. I am afraid that anyone would not be able to get it."
"It's not necessarily true. I heard from my uncle that there were several military governors who wrote a letter to the emperor, asking them to send themselves to Jinzhou to kill the enemy. Our envoys are also interested in stepping up the training of troops. It's time for everyone to live a hard life." The younger captain said with his tongue.
"What do you know? Don't talk nonsense. Come on, come on, and we have to go back to the camp." The older captain pulled the young captain and brought the bowl to greet Lin Feng.
Lin Feng knew that he couldn't get anything else, so he took out a string of Nan Tang copper coins and shouted loudly: "Waiter, check out."
The young captain immediately stood up, took out half a string of black copper coins from his arms, and rushed to say, "I'll get it, I was treating you today."
A waiter walked in, ordered it quickly, and calculated the total: "There are eight dishes in total, four pots of wine, two hundred and sixty-one pennies, and you are 250 pennies."
"Here." The young commander immediately threw the copper coins in his hand over. The waiter took the money and his face changed immediately. He seemed to have a hot teapot. He shook his hand and said anxiously: "June, we won't collect your money."
"Why, my money is not money, I see people as low as you see." The captain was immediately annoyed and cursed at the table.
Lin Feng took the money string from Xiao Er, and immediately felt that the half string of money was much lighter than expected. He handed his string of Nan Tang Tongbao to Xiao Er and smiled and said, "Let me get it. I should have made this meal. I have traveled all over the country and have no shortage of these two small money."
The captain caught a glimpse of the Nan Tang currency string that Lin Feng took, and became even more annoyed. He pointed at the waiter and cursed: "Dog things, why should Xiao Tang collect all the money, but not my Dazhou national money."
The waiter cried and bowed repeatedly, explaining anxiously: "Mr. Jun, please be more considerate of the villain. You are taking the fake money that the Prime Minister himself cast. Everyone on the street is unhappy to take over. Our shopkeeper said, who dares to collect the money and who is responsible for making up for the poor money? The villain really dares not accept it."
"Damn it, how could the money cast by the Prime Minister's Mansion be fake? Believe it or not, I will tie you, the guy who spreads rumors, into the military camp now." The commander became even more angry and put the money in his hand on the table.
"June, please be considerate and considerate. The villain kowtowed to you." The waiter was so scared that he kowtowed on the ground and kept kowtowing.
The older captain sighed lightly, picked up the money from the table, stuffed it into the arms of the rosy captain, and greeted the three captains and pulled him away without even calling him.
Lin Feng watched the five Yanzhou troops who were drunk and left, and his face turned cold. He could not have imagined that this trip did not involve any military information. Instead, he learned about the strange incident of Yanzhou Jiedushi Mu Rongyanchao minting fake money to deceive his generals, and ordered: "Let's go back and change clothes, and go to visit the Yanzhou Jiedushi openly."
Chapter completed!