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Chapter 629

Niu Fu got the promise he wanted, and Dong Zhuo also got the benefits he wanted. At the end of October, a 20,000 to 30,000 troops crossed the Yellow River and returned to Luoyang. Then, news came from Chang'an that Diao Chan was sick. Dong Zhuo was anxious and brought thousands of cavalry back to Chang'an overnight.

Fan Chou and Guo Si led 20,000 to 30,000 troops to move slowly behind. It was the cold winter day, and Da Ya sold the wine like a reward. Almost every soldier had a large bucket of strong liquor. I don’t know if it was drinking it himself or I wanted to return to Chang'an to earn a double price difference. Anyway, everyone spent countless money and lost half of the money.

A bucket of wine and drinks, it is impossible for me to return to Chang'an with my back. I have to be dragged by a carriage, but if the carriage drags the wine and drinks, I will not be able to transport food...

"Fan Chou, there are a total of 1.7 million stones of grain. After deducting the freight that should be paid, we should be considered an integer, and the actual transport to the Sanfu of Chang'an should be 1.4 million stones. Isn't that wrong?"

Dong Chong spoke with his legs crossed his arms, but no one thought much, but Dong Huang spoke a little unhappy.

"What do you mean by Dong Chong? My uncle said that the food must be transported to Chang'an as soon as possible!"

Dong Chong has not liked Dong Huang since he was a child, and his face shook his legs and feet twice.

"Second Young Master, let's ask, should we just send 1.4 million stones of grain to Chang'an, and we will end the matter?"

Dong Huang was just waiting for a cold face to nod, but Chen Gong beside him pulled him and frowned: "You won't transport grain from Hedong, or use the grain in Sanfu to replace the grain in Taicang? If so, isn't the 300,000 stone of grain paid more?"

Dong Huang, Fan Chou and others were all stunned, the next moment...

"no!"

Dong Huang stood up, and as soon as he raised his arm, Dong Chong looked gloomy.

"Speaking of the second young master, I respect you. Don't think I'll be afraid of you!"

Dong Chong put down his legs and looked at Chen Gong with a gloomy face.

"You are right. We just use Chang'an's grain, and Hedong County grain to replace 1.4 million stone of grain in Taicang. What are you going to do?"

"The freight costs of 300,000 yuan are too much? Taiyuan County has grain and Hanoi County has grain. You can use animal and carriage to pull it. One million and seven hundred thousand stones, and we won't make a single grain of grain for you!"

"Chen Gong, Chen Gongtai, how about it?"

Looking at the cold gaze, Chen Gong instantly felt like he saw Lu Bu being furious...

Jia Xu suddenly said, "It's better not to have any more twists and turns in this matter. The Grand Master wants Luoyang to transport grain, and only 1.4 million stones will be put into the warehouse."

Dong Chong gathered some momentum, hugged Jia Xu and smiled, "Jia is still sensible. One or two million stones of grain, and there are 100,000 vehicles used alone, which requires 100,000 donkeys, mules, ox and horses, and 100,000 people. Although the road from Hedong to Chang'an is much flat, it is far from the rugged road as Luoyang to Chang'an, even so, people eat horses and chew it, and 300,000 stones of grain are not nothing!"

"The Grand Tutor attacks Hanoi, Guo Si, you want to attack Hanoi. If we don't lend you food, you must transport grain from Chang'an! The 50,000 army attacks Hanoi for three months, and at least 200,000 stones of grain is needed. The consumption along the way is at least 100,000 stones of grain, but you only need to pull away 200,000 stones of grain directly from our Kuli. Are we talking to you?"

Dong Chong stood up coldly and snorted coldly: "If you want us to consume more food, do you really think we dare not consume it? Or do you think we can't afford it?"

"snort!"

"No matter how much food is consumed, it will be eaten into the stomachs of the people. It's amazing that we just treat it as giving benefits to the people, but we won't provide you with carriages and livestock at all!"

"Want to transport wine? Get it yourself!"

"snort!"

"The mountains will not turn around... You will come to Hanoi today to fight. If you come again in the future, remember to transport grain yourself. We will not even lend you a grain of grain!"

After saying that, Dong made a big move and Fan Chou was shocked.

"Didn't Wenhe say that? The Grand Master asked you to transport grain. If only 1.4 million stones of grain are put into the warehouse, we will care about how you transport it? Why are you angry when you say it?"

"Let's go... Brother invites you to drink..."

Guo Si suddenly stood up and said coldly: "I have taken advantage of the boss, but I am still fucking unsatisfied. No wonder Huwa is angry!"

"snort!"

Guo Si's original name is Guo Duo. He was originally a horse thief in Zhangye. Although he was short of wisdom, he was extremely brave and could complement each other. If the two were intimate, ordinary generals were no match for them at all.

But now, Dong Zhuo not only separated him from Li Jue, but also stood under Fan Chou, which made the Xiliang bandit extremely angry. He snorted coldly and then strode away from the hall.

Dong Chong ran away, Fan Chou, who was in charge of the army of 20,000 to 30,000, ran away, and Guo Si also left in the hall with only Dong Huang with a blushing face, Chen Gong with a frown, and Jia Xu with a low brow and silent expression...

"If the soldiers learned that they were transporting wine by themselves because of our reasons, the two or three thousand soldiers would definitely be angry, it would not be a good deed..." Jia Xu said softly.

"No! You must not let that bastard infuriate the soldiers!"

Dong Huang left, and there was no threat of angering Dong Chong. He believed that as long as his uncle asked to borrow food, Luoyang would not be able to borrow money. But if he angered the soldiers and without the support of the soldiers, he would never have thought of becoming the imperial chief.

One by one, there were only Chen Gong, Jia Xu, and two top strategists in the hall. What's strange is that neither of them spoke, but just stared at the empty chair and stool in front of them...

"Dong Xining is indeed the number one hero in the world, but it is difficult to achieve great things. The Han Dynasty for four hundred years has not fallen so easily."

Chen Gong spoke lightly, Jia Xu was silent for more than ten breaths...

"The four hundred years old tree will naturally not fall down easily, but this big tree... is sick and withered, but there is still a group of people who keep cutting down the rhizomes of the big tree."

"oh?"

Chen Gong smiled.

"A group of people, did Wenhe refer to the Grand Tutor, Dong Xining, or Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu brothers?"

Jia Xu slapped his robe with his palm, got up and walked towards the open door.

"Who is the one who is snatched?"

"Maybe you and I are one of them?"

Jia Xu walked towards the door, Chen Gong frowned and stood up to follow him.

"Maybe."

...

A Han soldier consumes 21 stones of grain a year, and 300,000 stones of grain is enough for 10,000 soldiers to eat in a year. It looks quite a lot, but if one transports millions of grain hundreds of miles, this amount of grain is really not enough.

Nothing is important. What is important is that each soldier bought a large barrel of wine and asked the soldiers to transport the wine themselves. If they were not given a carriage, the soldiers immediately dared to rebel and chop Dong Huang, Fan Chou and others to death. The Han soldiers at this time were not the Han soldiers in the first year of Zhongping.

Dong Chong had enough confidence to force Dong Huang to bow his head. At this time, Dong Zhuo and Dong Hu were separated. Although they did not break up openly, they would have no master-servant relationship. At most, it was a cooperation. Dong Chong was not afraid of Dong Zhuo's dissatisfaction.

If you are not afraid of Dong Zhuo's anger, how can you care about Dong Huang's dissatisfaction?

The carriages and animals needed to transport soldiers were considered hired by soldiers, and the money they should pay was not less. For soldiers who had made a fortune, this little money was nothing.

The 20,000 to 30,000 troops returned to Chang'an at the same time, which was under great pressure on the cities along the way and needed to return in batches, so that the people along the way could free up more houses and avoid soldiers being exposed to the cold wilderness.

Daya was not very relieved about the Han soldiers today. Not only did she order the county towns along the way to prepare houses to hide from cold, but she also made the four cavalry camps in the front, back, left and right to inspect illegally, for fear that the 20,000 to 30,000 Han soldiers would cause something to happen. But she was obviously a little worried. From general Fan Chou, Guo Si to soldiers, they didn't dare to cause trouble on the territory of "Dong Shuai".

People who don’t understand Dong Hu’s temperament look polite to everyone when they see him laughing and laughing all day long, but if they see his cold-bloodedness, no one dares to really anger him.

The arrangements along the way were made, with houses to avoid the cold, food and drink, and the soldiers were very honest, and no changes occurred. After Dong Zhuo returned to Beijing, the tense nerves in Jizhou and Yanzhou also relaxed, and Hanoi County... As Daya guessed, without tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, even though snowflakes were floating in the sky and dripping water turned into ice, many people still began to flee, and the direction of the escape was Jizhou and Yanzhou.

Niu Fu, Li Jue, and Lu Bu naturally would not let the people who supported them escape. They led their troops to catch people in the wild. As long as they were caught, they would be their private slaves. They also imitated Dong Hu and branded their words on their foreheads, as if the people who were branded words would not escape. But they didn't think about it. Not everyone could come on their foreheads. Of course, Daya ignored these things. When Dong Zhuo left Hanoi, the chamber of commerce under his name opened shops in various counties in Hanoi and began to provide porridge to relieve the people who had lost their food.

At first, no one dared to go to the porridge shed, only some half-grown beggars were timid. Until the beggars drank porridge for several days, the people began to come to drink porridge one after another.

From sunrise to sunset, I don’t borrow grain from the “Dong” grain farm.

At the beginning, the porridge managers were smiling and said nothing, just the enthusiasm of the "members and fellow villagers". After more than half a month, they started to borrow food and eat steamed buns with the people, and praised the kindness of the "Tiger Baby King" and how they only collected 10% of the rent.

The managers with good tempers are frayed and want the people to borrow grain and eat steamed buns when drinking porridge, but the people just don’t borrow grain, just stretch out a huge wooden bowl.

All counties are without exception. Yao Shan, Yang Yi and other veterans were so angry that they cursed. If they continue to donate porridge like this, how long will it take to get the porridge? They are so angry that they have to remove all the porridge sheds.

The veterans and young generals all believed that it was because of "not eating for nothing, not eating for nothing", and they all agreed to remove the porridge shed and continue to starve the people who had no food at home. Only when they were hungry would they borrow food and rent land.

Dong Buyi has been in charge of ten years since its establishment. In the past ten years, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, the grasslands, plateaus, Hedong County, Hanzhong County, and Henan Yin. The territory controlled by him is several times larger than the entire Central Plains, but Da Ya and the others have never encountered the current situation.

No matter how you drink porridge, you don’t have to eat it for free. Although borrowing grains has increased some interest on the basis of “borrowing one and paying one”, the interest is not much. If you borrow ten stones of grain, you only need to pay one stone of grain in a year. It is impossible for a second in the world to give such low interest, so why don’t you borrow grain?
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