Steward Lin listened to Li Chongjiu’s words, and he accepted a team of more than 3,000 refugees, but I’m afraid he wouldn’t think so if Steward Lin learned that Li Chongjiu’s team of refugees was mostly old, weak, women and children.
When manager Lin was relieved to flatter, he went to supervise the goods of his caravan.
But Li Chongjiu said to Sun Erniang, "Aunt Wu, you should send people to those new vendors to collect the insurance money, and then let them all join this caravan, so I have a caravan of thousands of people."
Sun Erniang said, "Xiao Jiu, you have always been trustworthy in your work, but this is a caravan of thousands of people’s congresses. If anything goes wrong in the road, it will not be enough to lose everything for our Li escort agency. Would you be more careful?"
Li Chongjiu said with a smile, "Aunt Wu, you are right, but difficulties are also opportunities. If everyone can’t do it, we can do it. This is just a matter. This is also a means of marketing our escort agency."
What is marketing? Sun Erniang couldn’t help but ask Li Chongjiu that this time, it is also a speculation for himself to join the caravan. The more people join the escort agency, the more they can go out with their own escort agency title, and the title of the escort agency will be even louder in the future.
It’s a drag for 3,000 refugees, but it’s different for Li’s escort agency to base itself on Yanmen in the future.
The caravan bought a lot of grain and grass here, and it happened that the city rice merchant also had a cargo to transport, and Li Chongjiu of Mobei promised him to deliver it for him.
It’s not difficult for this rice merchant to hear that the other party is the leader of the Li family escort agency, and it’s not difficult to’ compensate’ the rice price for fifty pence and sell it to Li Chongjiu and the caravan.
However, after spending this money, it is equivalent to consuming the taps earned by Sun Erniang on this dart. However, Li Chongjiu is convinced that this money is absolutely valuable
After the rice was bought, Li Chongjiu asked the caravan to borrow three vats to cook rice and pour it into the river. The people didn’t send it, so they carried dry wood to enlarge the cylinder and lit it.
Everyone stared at the three vats and swallowed saliva. The people stood up and broke the bowl and looked forward to it.
This is their first meal after three days without food, and it is still better than delicious rice, not millet and wheat, but rice in the south.
When the water boiled, all the people were boiling. Several temporary chefs continued to stir the rice in the vat with their eyes, and constantly put in some wild vegetables, wild mushrooms and a little raw salt.
Seeing this, Li Chongjiu asked the caravan for a few strings of bacon and cut it into pieces and threw it into the vat.
At that time, the steaming smell in the vat seduced some people’s sense of taste, and Li Chongjiu couldn’t help but be moved by the greedy insects.
"Don’t rob! Don’t rob me! Everyone has a share. A woman with a child brings a bowl to the front. Everyone has a bowl. Everyone is not allowed to grab food for me. "
This porridge is very thick, and it is not the kind of clear soup. Li Chongjiu promised that everyone would be given a bowl of food before queuing.
A six-or seven-year-old child, regardless of the hot porridge, circled the bowl around his hand and took a sip from time to time.
"Mom, I have a piece of meat here." The child’s surprise voice cried and attracted everyone’s envy.
"Well, eat more" while my mother put a chopstick and wild vegetables in her bowl into her skinny bowl.
"This Tricholoma really smells good!"
Many people sigh when they hold their own hot porridge.
With a bowl of porridge to pad the stomach, the people are far from full, but they are more comfortable. When Li Chongjiu walks by, he says, "Thank you for the meal!"
"Thank you for your kindness!" This sound suddenly breaks out.
The refugees have been running around for more than ten days, eating porridge and having a rest for one night. When everyone is full of energy, they have a rest for one night, and everyone starts to walk the next day.
A caravan of 1,000 people plus a team of more than 3,000 refugees should be merged and gathered by Li Chongjiu for integration.
Li Chongjiu ordered Sun Erniang to lead the way with a hundred escort agency brothers carrying the escort flag and shouting the escort number; After the caravan followed by the caravan, it must be the most important protection. In the third queue, Li Chongjiu Tanzong led nearly 300 people, and at the end, there were 3,000 refugees.
Before leaving, Li Chongjiu ordered the refugees, men, women and children, to trap their hair and wear headscarves to hide their eyes and ears, and everyone made it look like a door. Everyone was holding a wooden stick and bamboo stick, and even if they looked closely at it for a while, they could not tell whether they were men, women or old, which made them confused.
Li Chongjiu also ordered not to speak when marching. At first glance, it looked like three thousand youths crossing the border. On this day, the refugees were full of food and started to walk with a spirit board. Suddenly, the speed of walking was greatly accelerated.
Li Chongjiu rode on his back and looked at it in a blink of an eye. At that time, all the roads were covered with linen and soap-colored headscarves, and his head was low. The loess was full of smoke and dust. If it was not detailed, he felt that there was a magnificent army momentum.
Li Chongjiu couldn’t help showing satisfaction. Steward Lin also stopped to look at Li Chongjiu and showed appreciation. Several leaders of the steward Lin came to see that Li Chongjiu was going to take three thousand elderly women and children with him, which affected the speed of travel.
However, a look at Li Chongjiu’s attempt to conjure up 3,000 "heroes" by this smoke screen turned out to be all in favor of Li Chongjiu.
When steward Lin waited for Li Chongjiu to ride a horse, he said, "It’s a good idea to have fewer escorts. I’ll ask caravan members to tie this linen soap towel together."
Hemp soap towel?
Li Chongjiu couldn’t help but think of the Yellow Scarf Army and the Red Eyebrow Army, both of which are peasant rebels with low status and no flag to identify them, so it’s more appropriate to come here and call them Cangtou Army.
In the historical records, Su Qin said that the king’s pawn warrior was 200,000 cangtou and 200,000 fought 200,000 followers and 100,000 disciples, and Chen Sheng probably had cangtou army, which must be the case with cangtou’s head tied with soap towel.
Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Manager Lin is so grateful." Manager Lin said with a smile, "It’s all mutual benefit and mutual assistance. It’s a thank-you word. If the Li brothers respect the appellation, they can." Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Good name."
Lin Dangfeng smiled and said, "I’m ashamed to say that when I was young, I also studied martial arts and wanted to throw myself into the field. However, if Nai’s family came down in the world, I must come to do business. If I have the opportunity in the future, I’d like to show my ambition."