Chapter 309: help
Chapter 309 Helping with all one's strength
Bai Qingzhi really wanted to walk away with the backbone, but when he thought of those Dingbei Army soldiers who threw their heads and blood in order to defend the border, but couldn't even eat a full meal, Bai Qingzhi's backbone suddenly turned into helplessness.
He asked people to send the three families to send the beggar’s scraps of money into the treasury, and then sent envoys to ask for help from other rebel forces farther from the northern border.
What he didn't know was that his rescue messenger was still on the way, and Xie Yuan had already started preparing various military supplies for him because of the news sent back by his informant.
Xie Yuan is a very far-sighted person. Although he has not succeeded in winning the world, he has always demanded himself with the standard of a wise king.
He has always regarded the Hu people as a serious problem, and therefore planted a large number of eyeliners on the territory of the three rebel forces in and around the northern border.
The eyeliner's urgent report came earlier than Bai Qingzhi's request for help. Without knowing that Bai Qingzhi also planned to ask him for help, he took the initiative to find Ye Anlan and offered to borrow a batch of military supplies from her to support the Dingbei Army.
"Go back and tell your master, Ye Shi sent out these supplies, and he doesn't need to return them." After handing the written reply to the messenger, Ye Anlan smiled and said to the young general in charge: "I don't need him to send troops to do it for you." Escort, it's just a trip to the north to deliver supplies, I, Ye, can still draw out some soldiers."
The ten-member messenger team was overjoyed. They all saluted Ye Anlan with fists in their hands, "Miss Ye is righteous!"
Ye Anlan waved at them, "Go. Be careful on the road."
The messengers flew on their horses, and bowed their hands to Ye Anlan again.
Ye Anlan had been watching them ride their horses out of her sight, and then led the crowd back to Mount Meng, and at the same time ordered the guards around her to go back to pass the message first.
No way, although she is the master of the Ye family, in some respects she can't be the family of the Ye family at all. To provide such a large amount of military supplies, she has to have someone go back to Mengyin to inform Pei Huaiyu, the chief financial officer.
As for her, her only function is that if there is something missing that Mrs. Ye can't make up, she will try to get it back and make up for it as soon as possible.
That's right, she is the lord who is responsible for solving all difficult and miscellaneous diseases_(:з」∠)_
The personal guard team responsible for delivering the letter hurried to Mengyin and handed the letter written by Ye Anlan to Pei Huaiyu.
They originally thought that Pei Huaiyu would go crazy because of her lord's prodigal behavior, but they didn't expect that Pei Huaiyu didn't feel upset at all this time.
After reading the letter written by Ye Anlan and the list of items that came with the letter, he immediately had Zhou Mingzhe, Pei Huaixiu and others invited over.
A group of literati worked hard with their account books and abacus. After spending half a day and a night, they finally calculated the maximum allowance that their family could afford.
Armor, weapons, cotton-padded clothes, cotton-padded shoes, etc., they must first reserve the parts that Ye Jiajun needs.
In addition to supplying food, salt, etc. to soldiers, orphans, and the Ye family’s official property, there is also an additional set aside for disaster relief.
Taking these all out, what's left is what they can support a given Northern Army.
Grain and salt are fine, these things Ye Anlan trades in new ones for old ones every year, and the scale of hoarding expands every year. Even if Xie Yuan's request is doubled, the remaining grain and salt on Ye Anlan's side can also survive. The fall harvest is over this year.
They have no shortage of cloth and cotton for making cotton-padded clothes. After all, most of the Ye family are women who have learned spinning and weaving skills and earn money to support their families by themselves. The cloth that goes out to sell is intercepted, and the quantity is not bad.
The more troublesome thing now is the cotton. There is not much old cotton left, and the new cotton has just started to be harvested, and it needs to be processed in the next step before it can be used to make cotton clothes.
Pei Huaiyu didn't know where to allocate the large amount of manpower needed to do this. After all, those are the cotton-padded clothes and shoes of more than 100,000 people. The cotton must be processed in a short time to make the cotton-padded clothes and shoes. Pei Huaiyu feels bald just thinking about it.
Armor and weapons can be chased away by the military inspectors, some of them are driven out, and the surplus part in their inventory is added together. Well, it’s still about 30% short_(:з」∠)_
Pei Huaiyu had no choice but to ask Ye Anlan to borrow a batch from other surrounding forces for emergency.
As for the other party’s refusal to borrow, it doesn’t matter if they don’t want to borrow it. If you pretend to be a horse bandit and grab it, you don’t have to pay it back.
Then there are horses, fodder, horseshoes, matching saddles and reins, etc. They have surplus horses, and the fodder can be evenly distributed.
It was the horseshoe, they could only make up about half of the amount Xie Yuan requested, and Pei Huaiyu still planned to throw the remaining half to Ye Anlan to raise money.
He wrote to Ye Anlan the calculation results here, and attached all the things that Ye Anlan needed to find a way with the letter.
Ye Anlan didn't reply to his letter, because there was the time for someone to deliver the letter, she could almost rush back directly.
Although it was inevitable to be exhausted after traveling all the way, in order to send things to the northern border as soon as possible, Ye Anlan immediately went to inform Pei Huaiyu of their own decision as soon as they returned to Mengyin.
She said to the same black-eyed and tired-faced people:
"Insufficient armor and weapons, Huaiyu, you allocate from the reserved part first, and ask the military supervisor to work overtime to make up for the gap on our side."
"As for the horseshoes, don't we have hidden clues to open blacksmith shops in other rebel territories? I have already sent a letter to them, and they will supply the missing parts to me one after another."
Pei Huaiyu was a little dissatisfied, "But if you lead the troops away, the defensive pressure on our side will inevitably increase. If there are gaps in armor and weapons, the soldiers will definitely suffer more casualties."
"Then let people take out all the thunderbolt bombs and gas bombs in Curry. Whoever dares to offend, just blow them all up for me!"
"We have cultivated a lot of poisonous weeds over the years. Except for the ones that have been made into gas bombs, I will grind all the remaining ones in the warehouse into powder or press them into pellets or cakes."
"The other thing is to mobilize the power of public opinion. Mingzhe, you are responsible for this matter. Remember, you must let the surrounding people, especially those in the north of the Xie family, know that we and the Xie family are going to use the territory of other rebel forces. , to deliver supplies to support the northern border."
"Let all the people under your hands move for me. I don't care what method you use, anyway, you have to complete the campaign for me within 20 days."
"Remember, let all the people in the world stand on your side. Any leader of the rebel army who dares to make trouble in this matter and does not cooperate will make him famous, lose the hearts of the people, and be nailed to the pillar of shame. It will leave him with a bad reputation for thousands of years, and by the way, he will lose his qualification to compete in the world forever."
(end of this chapter)