On the day when they had a rare break from attacking Chucai, many soldiers were called out by their superiors early in the morning, boarded their carriages and horses, and headed to Guangli Bridge in the west of the city. Because the first batch of military households moving from Shandong to Zhongdu Road will arrive today.
The land and villages where these families were placed were selected from the abandoned farms around Zhongdu after the war. The prisoners had already prepared them and opened water canals. These soldiers came forward to take over. Let's make do with the autumn harvest first and run the family well. By next year, even if it takes root in Zhong.
However, it is normal that it is difficult to leave one's homeland. Although Guo Ning can enforce it, it is not necessary at the moment. Therefore, the Marshal's Office offered preferential conditions such as giving away cattle and distributing iron farm tools.
Even so, the number of the first batch of military households who responded was not large, and most of them were soldiers who had made contributions in the war in Zhongdu. These meritorious soldiers were generally rewarded and promoted after the war. In this era when human life was as cheap as grass, the benefits provided by Ding Haijun were enough to make them forget the danger of fighting and the tragic deaths of their companions in large numbers.
Relatively speaking, they don't pay much attention to their own fields or even where to settle down. Instead, they have a faint desire to continue fighting and making meritorious deeds in the future.
At the end of the afternoon, these soldiers had already arrived at Guangli Bridge. Because they were not in the military camp, everyone was a little lazy, waiting on the bridge and looking up.
After sitting for a while, a fleet of boats passed by under the bridge. When the leader of the boat saw this group of fierce men sitting or standing, he subconsciously shrank his head and held the long pole in his hand tighter.
The military discipline of the Ding Navy is very strict, and the soldiers do not bully the common people. But after all, they were the victors. They were the ones who followed the commander to defeat the powerful enemy and took control of the city. They were inevitably a little arrogant. Seeing this cowardly look, many soldiers immediately burst into laughter. Some even poked their heads under the bridge with a playful smile and shouted: "Old man, do you need all the money to buy a sheep?"
Zhang Peng did not mess around with his companions. He counted the sheep loaded on a ship as quickly as possible, then counted the number of ships in a long queue with thick ropes, and then sighed with some frustration.
After this battle, Ding Haijun continued to report his merits and promoted many soldiers.
Zhang Peng had the merit of tenaciously daring to fight and cooperating to kill Mongolian army officers. However, he had little experience in the army, so he was temporarily transferred to Guo Ning's headquarters. In addition to his daily military life, he has to attend a course at the camp military school every three days. Only by passing the assessment can he become a general.
Guo Ning opened a military school in the Xijunhe camp, and the content he taught was so complete that Du Shisheng was convinced at first sight. But the prerequisite for this kind of knowledge to be spread on a large scale is that in addition to Guo Ning, there are a large number of teachers with the same cognitive level.
To this day, the Dinghai Navy cannot recruit these people, so the scale of the military academy continues to expand, but the depth of the content taught inevitably declines. For example, in the camp military academy for grassroots officers, the course content is only about literacy and numeracy, and take-away narration. Just some stories from the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Zhang Peng was young and had a sharp mind. He had learned multiplication in military school, so when he saw the fleet, he planned to show off his skills. Unfortunately, there were more than ten sheep on each ship, and the number of ships was also more than ten. The formula he memorized could not cope with this, so he had to give up now.
His boss, Lao Liu, laughed and said: "What's so valuable about this? The day before yesterday, Zhao Jieshuai sent people to Zhongdu to seize more than 300 horses, as well as more than 2,000 donkeys and mules, with the largest number of sheep. There are more than 20,000 head. This fleet can carry at most 3,000 head."
Since Genghis Khan returned to the north, Juyongguan returned to the control of the Jin Kingdom, and Jinshan and Huairou in the north were also recovered. The land in this area is suitable for farming and grazing, and there are several small Wanggu tribes active. As soon as Zhao Jue's troops arrived, these small tribes either fled north or surrendered immediately.
Zhao Jue collected the seized items and transported them back to Zhongdu one after another.
The Marshal's Mansion was able to restart trade with the Southern Dynasties this month under the guise of the Koreans. Therefore, these livestock were sent directly to Zhigu Village and transferred southward by sea.
Among the materials traded between the Marshal's Mansion and the Southern Dynasty, horses were the most profitable, while cattle were imported in the opposite direction. Now that I can sell some extra sheep, it will be a small help.
The news of the success of the Goryeo fleet reached Zhongdu a few days ago. It will still be more than a month before the fleet arrives. The price of grain in Zhongdu has already dropped in response, and even pigs and sheep have become cheaper. Nowadays, the price of a big sheep is about 4 guan, and in the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, a pound of mutton could be sold for 900 guan.
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Therefore, the profits from selling sheep just offset the shortage of money caused by purchasing grain. No wonder the marshal transported it out in a hurry.
When Lao Liu thought of this, his eyes looked particularly soft when he looked at the sheep on the boat, and he drooled.
He patted Zhang Peng on the shoulder: "I heard that the marshal also detained hundreds of sheep. He is going to give extra meals to the soldiers stationed in Zhongdu tonight! We have fifty brothers here, including family records, there must be three hundred people. ...You can always get two or three sheep, right? A big sheep produces twenty kilograms of meat, and the sheep's head, brains, and lungs are also delicious. The bones are used to make soup, and as for the sheep's hooves...how to make sheep's hooves?"
Zhang Peng immediately replied: "Sheep's hooves need to be roasted to taste delicious. First remove the dirt and boil them; then use a knife to make dense cuts, and apply onions, leeks and sauce; wait until they are delicious. , put it on the fire and roast it, and the mutton fat will sizzle out! By the way, there is also the mutton tail, which is also delicious when grilled..."
Lao Liu is greedy, and Zhang Peng likes cooking. The two are a natural good partner. But both of them were born in poverty in Shandong. They occasionally ate meat and fish in their lives, which was stewed or boiled. At this time, Zhang Peng was talking about roasting sheep's hooves. Lao Liu had never seen him cook it seriously, so he was inevitably a little worried.
"Can you really bake delicious food? Don't you know how to bake?"
Zhang Peng shouted: "My mother taught me this method! When she was young, she worked as a cook for Jurchen officials. Her skills are very good and she can't go wrong!"
After shouting, he suddenly felt worried: "Why hasn't my mother arrived yet? Didn't I say that I could meet her at noon?"
"Look up and see, where is the sun? Why are you in such a hurry! My wife and little baby are here too! Our mistress is also coming with the motorcade. Marshal Guo went to greet her early in the morning. You can leave One hundred, one thousand hearts!”
Before he finished speaking, a Qingqi with a small flag on his back appeared on the west side of the road. The more than ten horses were not walking very fast. Sometimes the horses came to the roadside to chew some tender grass, but they did not stop them. They were obviously in a relaxed mood. In the queue, there were knights dressed as marshal's attendants accompanying them, riding their horses and chatting happily.
The soldiers on the bridge stopped talking. They all stood up, and some of them had trembling hands and feet. They seemed to suddenly recall the hardships and hardships of fighting in the army, thinking of many of their companions who went north together half a year ago and were killed on the battlefield, and thinking of the tenderness and blessings of their families before departure.
When the knights waved to them, Zhang Peng found himself walking forward involuntarily. He walked faster and faster, and at some point he changed from walking to trotting, and from trotting to running wildly. Hearing his violent breathing, he felt a little ashamed. He hurriedly looked around and found that his companions were all running.
These people suddenly started running, startling the sentries and attendants.
A familiar attendant laughed and cursed a few words, calling for others to rein in their horses and make way for them. Watching them swarm past, running towards the approaching motorcade.
With Li Ting's drastic actions in Hebei, the road from Shandong to Zhongdu has been completely opened, but there are inevitably some areas that are not stable enough along the way. Therefore, the size of the convoy is very large, and there are many escorts accompanying it. The vehicles themselves are not ordinary cargo vehicles, but double-shaft carts with square roofs or domes that can shield the dust.
Several of the vehicles were pulled by two horses, with people on foot or riding mules and horses on both sides of the vehicle to look after them.
When the soldiers approached the motorcade, half of the children couldn't hold back their temper, jumped off the roof of the car, and ran towards their father or brother; some old men tremblingly got out of the car, watching their sons kowtow and put their foreheads on their heads. Slammed hard into the dirt.
When the convoy was full of joy, in the largest carriage, Lu Han turned sideways and curled up next to Guo Ning like a cat. She and Guo Ning were childhood sweethearts, and they became closer after their marriage. She liked leaning in Guo Ning's arms like this, looking up at her husband's strong chest and chin.
Guo Ning carefully reached out and put his arms around Lu Han's obviously bulging belly, watching a strand of hair on his wife's face, which was blown up and down by the thin breath. Hearing the soldiers shouting joyfully outside, he felt particularly peaceful.
The two were cordial for a while, and Guo Ning asked softly: "Do you want to go out and meet the soldiers? They will be there in a moment."
After all, Lu Han is pregnant, has low energy, and gets sleepy easily. But since Guo Ning said it, she nodded.
Guo Ning bent down and carefully helped her out of the carriage of the cart.
Lu Han couldn't help but laugh: "How can it be so valuable?"
At this time, many soldiers gathered around the convoy, all divided into small groups, talking happily to their families. When Guo Ning and his wife stood outside the cart together, everyone turned to look at them.
Guo Ning held his head high and laughed heartily, while Lu Han's cheeks turned red and he held his belly with one hand. There were many soldiers in front of her, whom she had seen before, and she could still call them by their names. Because of this, the situation at this moment made her particularly shy.
The next moment, hundreds of soldiers cheered.
