In terms of supplies, there is no need to worry. They all travel lightly. Generally, it is enough to bring three to five days' worth of supplies. If necessary, they can be purchased locally. After all, they are all small teams. As long as they find a larger town, county or prefecture nearby, they can Sufficient supplies can be purchased.
If that doesn't work, several parties can still cooperate - during the next maneuver, when you meet other teams, ask each other for supplies. If there is not enough, the two parties will exchange places. In this way, they will slowly exchange back to Ding'an Mansion. The third prince over there must have transported supplies from the mainland. The supplies came.
Of course, sometimes there is no need to exchange back to Ding'an Mansion. The third prince will send caravans to various places to replenish supplies.
On the one hand, these caravans are used to replenish supplies for these people, and on the other hand, they are indeed used to trade in the desert.
After all, although the third prince has a steady stream of material and financial support from the mainland, it is naturally best if he can develop some ways to make money on his own.
But now, with private armed escorts, there is no fear that the caravan will be robbed by barbarians or thieves. The risks of doing business have been greatly reduced, and the profits have also skyrocketed. This business can naturally be done.
In addition, going there to trade has two functions, one is to actually trade, and the other is to collect some information on the movements of barbarians.
Because there are supplies, and then private armed forces are deployed in this way, no matter how large the area of Shazhou is, the road can be cleaned without picking up debris. As a result, it is now famous. Caravans from all over the country go to the desert to do business, and they all pass here and not other places. .
Of course, the main reason is that Shazhou is safer, while risks in other places have increased.
But when the Hu people went to Mozhou and Huangzhou, there were local Hu people activities in the two places, and now there are more outsiders. Needless to say, the number of Hu people has increased and it has become even more unsafe, so many people, because Hearing that Shazhou was safe, he moved his family to Shazhou, causing the population of Shazhou to slowly increase.
Then came the caravans, which slowly passed through Shazhou, making Shazhou more and more prosperous.
On the contrary, there are now too many barbarians of all kinds in Mozhou and Huangzhou, and countless counties and prefectures have been destroyed - mainly because there are too many barbarians and thieves, and there are not enough villages and towns to deal with them, so only We can besiege county and prefectural cities.
Seeing that the prefectures and counties in Mozhou and Huangzhou were in urgent need, the governors and generals who guarded the gates began to ask the central government for money and supplies, saying that they wanted to recruit more soldiers to protect the counties and prefectures everywhere.
They were not afraid that the emperor would blame them. They also knew that in the end, the emperor was cleaning up the family of his original wife, General Zhang, and the civil servants who had previously supported the third prince. At this time, they were far away from the border and outside the power struggle. Officials, because this matter requires money, the emperor will not be surprised. Even if he is angry, he does not dare to do anything to them now. Besides, they are not wrong, the border is indeed tight.
Besides, don't do it now. When the emperor has gained a firm foothold, he won't dare to say that he can't withstand the attack from the barbarians. When the emperor has his hands free, don't cut yourself.
Or maybe the barbarians won’t come over by then, and they won’t have an excuse to ask for money or supplies.
So it is best to ask for money and supplies now.
Sure enough, the fourth prince felt very bad after seeing these memorials asking for money and supplies, because there was not much money in the treasury - mainly because there was never much money in the treasury. Then after he came to power, in order to win over some of his own people, he gave Many places have allocated funds, but the money is even more insufficient.
However, now is the time for him to deal with people everywhere, and it is indeed difficult to ignore these people. After all, they are not on the side of King Ru, right? You can't attack everyone. In the end, no one will support you.
So in the end, as a last resort, I took some more money from the meager treasury and sent some to the two states.
In the end, needless to say, all the money went to the officials and generals of the two states, and not a penny was spent on military training.
As for the people who will be killed by barbarians... they don't bother to care. Anyway, people are killed every month or even every day every year, so they can't control it.
What should the barbarians be afraid of if they attack the city? They won't take it anyway, they will just grab the things and leave. Just wait until they leave.
——It must be said that the third prince almost burst out of anger after collecting such attitudes from officials and generals in Mozhou and Huangzhou. Fortunately, he came to the border to know these things. Otherwise, in the middle of Beijing, thousands of miles away, where would he be? Know this.
If he succeeds in taking power, he must replace these people. Letting these people stay at the border will be more harmful than letting those who are mediocre but not greedy for money stay at the border. After all, people who are mediocre but not greedy for money will be more harmful. , at least it can save him some money, unlike these people, who are not only mediocre, but also greedy, which is simply irritating.
The third prince couldn't just watch those people die tragically, so he could only arrange private armed forces as much as possible, expand business to Mozhou and Huangzhou, and try his best to protect the people.
Not to mention that the forces on the third prince's side were becoming more and more powerful, so was Linlong's side.
At the same time, the situation of the original mother's family became worse and worse.
Soon, the fourth prince found a crime and took away the military power of Mr. Zhang and his sons. However, for the sake of their meritorious services, they were not dealt with for the time being, and they were only allowed to stay at home - which meant that I You have to thank me for not killing you.
At this time, Linlang secretly took them to the border.
Of course, before leaving, she asked Mrs. Zhang to write a letter saying that she wanted to return to her hometown for retirement.
After all, he left without saying a word, so the fourth prince wouldn't feel weird.
The fourth prince agreed. Anyway, in the whole world, there is no royal land. Even if he returns to his hometown, if he wants to deal with their family in the future, it is just a matter of words. How can he run to the horizon?
But just like the third prince, someone was sent to monitor them.
What the fourth prince didn't know was that Linlang used the same plan as the third prince to deal with the people being monitored, squeezing them to death, and then having people send false reports every once in a while as the emperor requested. Just the emperor.
As for people, they naturally got to the border.
When they met the third prince, Mrs. Zhang and others, they were all a little embarrassed.
Although there is nothing wrong with fighting for the world and everyone being their own master, since you have helped the fourth prince, don't take any chances and expect the third prince to look good on you.
Unexpectedly, the third prince could put aside his past grudges and saw them coming. He was very enthusiastic and said that he happened to have too many men and not enough generals. When they came, they would have someone to help them lead the troops, which would be a great help to them.
Is it okay to let Mrs. Zhang and others do this regardless of past grudges?
At that moment, when Old Mrs. Zhang was bursting with tears of gratitude, he couldn't help but thank you: "I dare not obey His Highness's kindness, but I haven't been in charge of the border army for many years, so I don't know if I can still help Your Highness."
