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Zhu Chongba at the end of the Ming Dynasty Volume 1 520, exchange for five million catties of grain

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    Cao Wenzhao smiled: "Actually, I don't think it matters whether they accept our food or not. It's not me who is hungry. What should I be afraid of? Just seeing them all weak from hunger makes my heart a little soft.  That¡¯s all, since you, the future chieftain of the Tujia people, don¡¯t care, then I don¡¯t care either.¡±

    Ma Xianglin's face changed slightly. Indeed, it is a good thing that the white-pole soldiers do not accept bribes from thieves, but being hungry is not necessarily a good thing.

    Cao Wenzhao added another sentence: "These five thousand white soldiers really don't know how to commend themselves. They have been following our Zhu Jun like followers, which is very annoying. I gave them food with good intentions, and they also put on a show.  They looked like they didn¡¯t want to see me, hehe, they were just looking for death. A few days ago, we were too lazy to pay attention to them. Now the main force of our army has arrived. There are more than 20,000 troops. Mianyang is surrounded by plains. The mountain warfare advantage of the white pole soldiers is no longer there.  Existence, it¡¯s really not that difficult to eat these five thousand people.¡±

    Ma Xianglin's face changed greatly. He knew that Cao Wenzhao was not talking nonsense. Although the white-armed soldiers were powerful, once they came to the plains, their advantage in mountain warfare was gone. The only one who could be proud of was that they fought to the death and were not afraid of sacrifice.  spirit, and Zhu Jun may not have lost to the white pole soldiers in terms of not being afraid of death.

    With considerable momentum, Zhu's army had a large number, relied on the plains, and had just replenished food and grass. The soldiers were well fed. Under this situation, they could easily bully the five thousand white soldiers.  The white-pole soldiers are still following Zhu Jun. This is really seeking death. They should flee immediately.  It is a pity that Ma Xianglin became a prisoner of Zhu Jun. Those Tujia soldiers who respected Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin as gods would not leave under any circumstances.

    This principle is similar to Yue Fei¡¯s Yue Family Army back then. If they saw that Yue Fei was in danger, would the Yue Family Army be willing to leave?  Even if you hit them with an axe, they won't be able to leave.  Not to mention the Yue Family Army, even Zhang Ling's two hundred servants refused to abandon their general and flee for their lives after Zhang Ling was injured.  Ma Xianglin also knew that the five thousand white soldiers under his command were unwilling to leave and walk alone.  In fact, these white-pole soldiers are not fools.  I saw the main force of the bandit army coming.  They must have felt the danger, but they still hung on behind Zhu Jun and refused to leave. They were indeed loyal to protect the Lord.

    " Even if Cao Wenzhao said that he was going to be killed, he would not even frown.  But he said he wanted to eat the five thousand white soldiers.  Ma Xianglin suddenly became nervous.

    The Tujia people are not a large ethnic minority.  Although the Baigan soldiers are famous all over the world, the total population of the Tujia people is only about 100,000, for such a small ethnic group.  Losing five thousand young men is really no small matter.  Seventeen years ago, in the Battle of Hunhe, the Baigan soldiers lost thousands of people, which greatly reduced the number of young adults in Shizhu Tujia Village. At that time, the Tujia social structure was still an ancient farming structure, and the loss of young adults  This meant losing a large number of laborers. In the following years, the Tujia's economy suffered a huge blow.  Many fertile fields were deserted, and countless orphans and widowed mothers struggled to survive. It was not until a few years later that a new group of young adults grew up, and the Tujia people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

    Although Ma Xianglin may not be very capable in governance, it does not mean that he does not understand this truth. He knows very well how many years of suffering the loss of these five thousand young Tujia people will have.  He hurriedly shouted: "Don't don't attack my soldiers!"

    Cao Wenzhao looked at Ma Xianglin with a hint of teasing in his eyes: "Why don't we take action? We are thieves and you are soldiers. You come to block my way and hang behind our buttocks like little tails. We have good intentions.  I gave you food with good intentions and made friends with you, but you got a lot of abuse Who can explain this?"

    Ma Xianglin was speechless.

    At this moment, the door of the small compartment where the three of them were drinking was pushed open, and a scholar hurriedly walked in. When Cao Wenzhao saw this person, he immediately stood up and clasped his fists and said: "It turns out to be Mr. Li Yan, come to see me."  Is there something wrong?"

    Li Yan didn't even look at Ma Xianglin and Zhang Ling. He just clasped his fists at Cao Wenzhao and said: "Chief Dacao, Brother Zhu Ba asked you to stop inking here and quickly go to assemble the army and prepare to surround and kill the white pole soldiers  ¡­¡±

    Cao Wenzhao hurriedly said: "Hey it's not convenient to talk about this here"

    Li Yan laughed and said, "Aren't they just Zhang Ling and Ma Xianglin here? Why not let them hear? They are just two prisoners."

    His arrogant attitude immediately aroused the anger of Ma Xianglin and Zhang Ling, but both of them were shackled on their hands and feet, and there was nothing they could do to the scholar except stare.

    Li Yan smiled arrogantly and said: "Brother Zhu Ba leads an army in the center, Generalissimo leads an army on the left, and Brother Wang Er leads an army on the right. Please ask the big grass leader to cut off the retreat of the white soldiers and move these five thousand white soldiers."  All the soldiers stayed here, Mo Ming escaped. Since they can't be our friends, we can't let them go back to help Qin Liangyu. "

    ? ?Wen Zhao said "Oh" and said, "Okay, I'll get ready right away." After saying that, he actually left the wine table and planned to walk outside.

    Ma Xianglin was really anxious now. He didn't care about the shackles on his hands and feet, jumped up from the ground, reached out and grabbed Cao Wenzhao's sleeves, and said loudly: "Wait!"

    Cao Wenzhao said: "What are you going to do?"

    Ma Xianglin said: "Don't attack the white-pole soldiers!"

    Cao Wenzhao snorted coldly: "If you tell us not to take action, we will not take action? Are you the eldest brother Zhu Ba?"

    Ma Xianglin couldn't care about so many things and shouted hurriedly: "Take me to see Zhu Bageneral." He originally just wanted to say that he would take me to see Zhu Ba, but then he changed his mind and thought that the situation was stronger than his own, so he had to endure the humiliation.  The word "general" was added after Zhu Ba.

    After a while, Li Yan and Cao Wenzhao brought Ma Xianglin to Zhu Yuanzhang. This was the first time Ma Xianglin saw Zhu Yuanzhang. He saw a man younger than himself sitting there, sitting as evenly as a mountain.  generally.  Ma Xianglin was a man who had crawled through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and his aura was naturally extraordinary. However, in front of this man, he also felt a faint sense of pressure, as if his murderous intent was heavier than his own.

    He couldn't help but feel a sudden shock in his heart. He felt that the man in front of him was more powerful than any bandit leader he had ever seen before, even more powerful than the grassroots leader with his face covered.

    Zhu Yuanzhang certainly knew why Ma Xianglin came to see him.  But he still asked in a deep voice: "What do you want from me?"

    Ma Xianglin said: "Don't do anything to my white-poled soldiers."

    As soon as he said this, Xu Renjie, Ma Xiaotian, Hong Niangzi and others who were watching in the hall laughed, as if they had heard something funny.  Xu Renjie said in a strange tone: "What qualifications do you have to say this to us? You are just a prisoner under the rank"

    Zhu Yuanzhang did not smile. He sat firmly on the front seat, but frowned slightly and said: "If you want me to not move them, you have to show some sincerity."

    Ma Xianglin¡¯s face turned ugly: ¡°Let me see Pemba, and I will order them to retreat to the stone pillar.¡±

    Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sneered: "After returning to Shizhu, eat and drink enough, and then come out to deal with me? Do you think I am a fool? My army didn't arrive a few days ago, but they refused to leave. Now my army is here.  . Even if you want them to leave, it¡¯s not that easy. What¡¯s more, will they listen to your orders? Even if you order them to leave, as long as you are in my hands, they may not be willing to go back to the stone pillar. Will they?  Come and fight me."

    Ma Xianglin thought about it.  This was true, and his expression changed drastically, and he couldn't find anything to say for a while.  He is just a fierce general, not a political strategist. He doesn't understand anything about civilian negotiations.  It's strange that he can think of words to respond at this time.

    He thought for a long time and finally figured out that they were deliberately tormenting him and trying to get something out of him. After thinking of this, Ma Xianglin had no choice but to say: "Tell me, what conditions do you want to put forward"

    Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak, but looked at Xu Renjie next to him.

    Xu Renjie smiled and walked out.  He is a businessman, and he is good at bargaining and negotiating terms. When the drama is played here today, it is natural that arrangements have been made for him to take action.  I mean, this is asking him to come out and preside over the negotiations.  No longer beating around the bush, he said coldly: "Write a letter to you Qin Liangyu and say if you still want your son's life, leave Chengdu."

    Ma Xianglin snorted coldly and said: "My mother will not accept such threats. Even if you give me my head, my mother will never compromise with the thief."

    In fact, Xu Renjie also knew that threatening Qin Liangyu in this way would be useless. He just made a random price first, and then slowly added conditions after waiting for the other party's counter-offer. He then said: "If you don't have enough heads, add these five."  What about the Qianbai pole soldiers?"

    Ma Xianglin's face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal after the change: "In the Battle of Hunhe, thousands of my white-armed soldiers fought alone. Although they died in the battle, no one surrendered. Do you think that with these five thousand white-armed soldiers?  It would be too naive to use the threat of soldiers to make my mother abandon the defense of Chengdu. If you only offer such conditions, don't say anything else, just kill me."

    Xu Renjie nodded secretly. When discussing in advance how to offer conditions to the Baigan soldiers, Zhu Bage asserted that the Baigan soldiers would not give in so easily, and it was absolutely impossible to threaten to withdraw from Chengdu. At that time, Xu Renjie, Bai Shuzhu and others  People still don't quite believe it, but it turns out to be the case He couldn't help but secretly praise Brother Zhu's accurate vision.

    Since the tentative conditions cannot be negotiated, we can only come up with the real conditions set by Brother Zhu.

    Xu Renjie snorted and said: "Actually, a small broken city like Chengdu"Zhu Jun can take it easily. On this condition, I will spare you and the five thousand white soldiers. If you don't do it, we won't do it either" When he said this, he made a long sound, and then he hummed.  : "We will let you and these five thousand white soldiers go if we want to gain actual benefits.  "

    Ma Xianglin asked anxiously: "What's the benefit?"

    Xu Renjie said: "Five million catties of grain!"

    "Silk!" Ma Xianglin gasped after hearing this. After a few breaths, he said angrily: "You really didn't mean well when you caught me The lion opened his mouth to ask for so much.  Food, it¡¯s just¡­ so shameless.¡±

    You must know that Shizhu County, where the Tujia people are located, is a very barren place. Just like Guangyuan, the soil layer is extremely thin and the hills are rolling, making it very difficult to grow crops.  The Tujia people can only harvest about 120 kilograms of grain from one acre of land. A small village with 100 acres of land can only harvest 12,000 kilograms of grain in a year.

    ¡°The Tujia people have a total population of less than 100,000, distributed in three to four hundred villages. In other words, even if all the Tujia people work hard for a year, they may not be able to harvest 500 kilograms of grain.  They still had to make ends meet.  Grain must be exchanged for daily necessities such as cloth, salt, iron, etc. In other words, it will take at least five or six years for all Tujia people to tighten their belts and collect 5 million kilograms of grain.

    Zhu Jun asked for the five or six years of accumulation of the Tujia people as soon as he opened his mouth. Anyone who would do this would be scolded as despicable and shameless.

    Xu Renjie smiled: "If you are not willing to use food to ransom you, then let the Tujia people prepare to collect the corpses. Five thousand corpses are enough to collect."

    Ma Xianglin¡¯s face was very ugly. He knew the Tujia people very well. If Qin Liangyu was really allowed to lead the white-pole soldiers to withdraw from Chengdu, he would be forced to withdraw from Chengdu.  Even if they kill five thousand of them.  Qin Liangyu would not agree, but if he wanted 5 million kilograms of grain in exchange for Ma Xianglin and 5,000 white soldiers, Qin Liangyu might really agree.

    The key to this is that withdrawing from Chengdu is obviously an act of betraying the imperial court.  Qin Liangyu is loyal to the emperor and patriotic.  This kind of thing will never be allowed.  But there is no question of betrayal in exchange for grain.  At best, it can only be said to be a big loss.  As long as the big principles are correct, they can endure some losses.

    Ma Xianglin knew it, but he wanted to get some back.  He could only say bitterly: "Five million grains is really too much. Let's reduce it a little."

    "Hmph, no less!" How could Xu Renjie be bargained for so easily?

    The two bickered for a while. Facing Xu Renjie, a veteran in shopping malls and an old businessman who often bargained with others, Ma Xianglin had no means at all. After a while, he was told that the harsh conditions of five million grains were enough to make him dizzy.  He also agreed verbally. Of course, it was useless even if he agreed. Qin Liangyu had to agree.  But he also knew that his mother would not object to what he had promised as long as his principles were sound.  After all, Ma Xianglin is the orthodox heir of the Shizhu Tujia family. Qin Liangyu became the chieftain because Ma Xianglin was still young when Ma Qiancheng died. Although she has never given up her position to Ma Xianglin due to differences in ability, Qin Liangyu has become the chieftain in recent years.  As she got older, it was no longer appropriate to occupy the position of chieftain, and she began to slowly transfer power to Ma Xianglin.

    Ma Xianglin agreed to this condition not for himself, but for the sake of the five thousand white-pole soldiers. The moment he agreed to this matter, his heart couldn't help but bleed. In the next five or six years, the Tujia people will be afraid  If you work hard in vain, all the income will have to be given to Zhu Ba

    At this time, Xu Renjie suddenly spoke again: "Ma Xianglin, although you promised to use five million jins of grain to redeem you, but with the grain output of your Tujia people, we have to wait to get these five million taels of grain."  Not much time?"

    Ma Xianglin didn¡¯t hide it, and hummed: ¡°It will take about five years, or six years.¡±

    When Xu Renjie heard this, he was immediately dissatisfied: "Oh, it will take five or six years? How can we wait so long? Besides, we have to raise you for these five or six years. Whose food and drink you have?"  ?¡±

    "It's okay if he didn't say that. When he said that, Ma Xianglin immediately thought of a question. According to this, it will take five or six years for Zhu Ba to put me back?  I have been imprisoned by the bandits for five or six years. Isn't this a life of torture?

    Xu Renjie shouted: "Isn't there any way for you to get five million kilograms of grain as soon as possible?"

    Ma Xianglin said in confusion: "Do you think five million kilograms of grain are five million kilograms of rocks? Just get them if you ask It's convenient if you want rocks. I'll find a hill and have someone dig them out for you  "

    At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been sitting still, finally spoke. He said in a deep voice: "We don't have time to wait for five or six years. This condition will not be discussed. Wang Er, Generalissimo, Da Cao, you lead your troops out and take those five  Thousands of people were killed by me."

    "Yes!" Several leaders responded at the same time.

    Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang¡¯s murderous words, Ma Xianglin suddenly became anxious again.

    At this time, Xu Renjie, Wang Er, and Cao Wenzhao all walked out. Ma Xianglin knew that they were going to mobilize troops to kill the white pole soldiers. He was panicked, but he didn't know what to do.  Suddenly, the scholar Li Yangong standing next to him spoke, and he said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu Ba I have a way for them to produce five million kilograms of grain in one year and give it to us.  "

    "Oh? Within a year?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face still maintained a murderous look, and he hummed: "If it is only one year, I can barely wait."

    Ma Xianglin was also surprised. Even if the Tujia people don¡¯t eat or drink, they can¡¯t produce five million kilograms of food a year?  What does this person mean?

    Just listen to Mr. Li Yan say: "The grain grown by the Tujia people now has a yield of about 120 kilograms per mu, and the corn used by our Zhu Jun has a yield per mu of exactly five or six times that of them If the Tujia people are allowed to  If they all grow corn, wouldn't they be able to grow five or six times the amount of food in one year? So, if you think about it this waythe food that they can produce in five or six years can be produced in one year if they plant corn instead."

    "Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face softened slightly: "This plan is acceptablebutthe Tujia people don't know how to grow corn at all, so your plan can only be thought of and cannot be realized."

    Before Li Yan could speak, Ma Xianglin quickly shouted: "Reality! Complete reality! We can just switch to growing corn You send a few people to teach us how to grow corn, and all of us Tujia people will switch to corn immediately, and we will hand it over in one year."  Five million taels of food, please don¡¯t kill my people"

    Hearing his roar, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Yan couldn't help but look at each other. They both saw a subtle smile in each other's eyes. They were both thinking: Ma Xianglin is indeed a naughty kid who is easy to deceive.  He would fall for such an obvious strategy.

    The Tujia people¡¯s impenetrable barrier has finally been torn apart a little bit here, and with this starting point, if we use more force in the future, we can dig this hole bigger and bigger.  (To be continued. Mobile phone users please read here.)
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