Chapter 176 The most terrifying enemy is one's own people
In troubled times, human life is the least valuable existence, while food is the most expensive.
If Yan Fei asked for a strong man, Niu Jinxing said that he could understand it. But if the old man and the children wanted it, what else could he do if he was not a second-hand man? Could it be that he could not finish eating with too much food?
Niu Jinxing suddenly remembered Zhu Jie in the late Sui Dynasty, and his whole body trembled. Could it be that Yan Fei likes to eat human flesh like Zhu Jie?!
"How is my proposal? Is it okay?" Yan Fei's voice sounded with an impatient look, making Niu Jinxing come back from his imagination and asked carefully, "I wonder how the Grand Governor wants to change it?"
"You don't believe me in business for the first time, and I don't believe you either." Yan Fei thought about it and gave a suggestion. "Let me do this, I still have a batch of soldiers, armor, flags, etc., about 20,000 pieces of leather armor and some iron armor. There are also tens of thousands of swords, guns, swords and halberds. As for those flags, drums and gongs, I will give you all for free. For 200,000 people, at least half of them are family-owned."
Niu Jinxing quickly calculated in his heart, and after a moment, he looked up at Yan Fei and began to increase his investment, "Grandmaster, I wonder if he can sell firearms to us?"
The battle of Qianlixia left a profound impression on the rebel army. Yan Fei's dense firearm attack like a splash of water made the rebel army's courage and wished that his parents would give them more legs. No matter how strong your martial arts are, no matter how strong your armor is in front of those invincible firearms, it will be of no use.
The rebel army has not fought with the court's firearm army, but can go to the court's firearm army like a joke and there is no threat at all.
Not only is the quality of the firearm extremely poor, but often the enemy is blown up and killed himself first. Even if the fire is successfully opened, the power is far less powerful than the thunderous roar.
The rebel army always looked down on the firearms and weapons of the court. It was not until Yan Fei re-educated himself with firearms in the Battle of Qianlixia that he truly realized how terrible this weapon was.
There is one advantage for the weak side, that is, the president will remember after being beaten. So Niu Jinxing tried to find out whether he could obtain a batch of firearms from Yan Fei.
"No problem." Yan Fei waved his hand and said that he could "one gun with thirty lead bullets and the corresponding launching medicine to exchange for three people. As for how many there are, I'll ask someone to count them."
In Yan Fei's opinion, of course there is no problem. The inferior muskets made by craftsmen like slaves under the imperial work department that could explode at any time filled the warehouse. The piles of inferior lead bullets that vary in size and even cannot be loaded into the barrel are everywhere. The proportions are not correct and the moisture is more dangerous in the warehouse.
Yan Fei had long wanted to deal with this batch of junk, and he would certainly not refuse the person who collected junk.
Although Niu Jinxing is a scholar, he would not know the twists and turns in it. Nowadays, there are no Ming things for sale in the Bookstore, so he doesn't know how bad the firearms in the court are.
Niu Jinxing, who was ecstatic, subconsciously thought Yan Fei was fooling him. After receiving Yan Fei's confirmed response, he couldn't wait to return to the King of Chuang to report this matter. After all, this kind of thing was not something he, the envoy, could only rely on Li Zicheng nodding.
"The transmission of horse riding is too slow. Just send someone to follow my hot air balloon." Yan Fei was not afraid of the hot air balloon being stolen at all. How could you go to heaven without gasoline? He was also planning to send a contact team to Chang'an City with the radio station, so that the messenger would run back and forth to waste everyone's time.
By the same token, Yan Fei was not worried that the radio station would be snatched away by the trespassers. Not to mention that there are no spare parts and batteries, just talk about what else can the radio station do in this era besides sending and receiving with Yan Fei? It has no other use.
When Niu Jinxing said goodbye, Yan Fei stopped him and said something that made him frightened, "Li Zicheng's energy is exhausted, and he can be destroyed at any time if I want. This big ship full of holes and water leaks will sink. You should think carefully about whether to drown with the ship or find a way to get ashore."
Yan Fei's voice was a little low, like the temptation of a devil. "It should be okay to be a county magistrate with your ability. If you can make contributions to my work, I can consider giving you a better future. Think about it carefully. If you miss this village, you will not have this store."
The internal collapse strategy is of course the hearts of the people. Niu Jinxing is a man who is willing to come or accept it. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t want to. What Yan Fei has to do is to put pressure on them and continually lure them, so as to completely collapse and disintegrate the organization.
Hearing Yan Fei's words, Niu Jinxing who returned to the inn toss and turns and couldn't sleep. Of course, he could see Yan Fei's strength and the decline of the crusade army. It was because he could see that he was frightened and didn't know what to do.
In fact, the battle of Qianlixia attacked the Chuang Army far beyond imagination. The most elite core troops almost finished the battle, and completely defeated the morale of the Chuang Army to a point of collapse.
The entire rebel army was filled with a devastating aura of despair after a devastating defeat. If Li Zicheng had not been forced to suppress it with great prestige, perhaps the organization that broke the bandits' transformation would have collapsed and collapsed.
Now Yan Fei gave Niu Jinxing a chance to jump ship to escape, so of course he couldn't choose to stay up late and suffer from insomnia.
The hot air balloon flew very fast. After coming to Chang'an, the deputy envoy sent before found Li Zicheng with Niu Jinxing's letter and placed the conditions proposed by Yan Fei in front of the rebel army.
There are still people in the area controlled by the Chuangjun. There are many old men and children who can't do work and can only consume food. Chuangjun is also very useless to scratch their heads. Now Yan Fei is willing to accept and exchange materials for them. They are happy and will certainly not refuse.
Even if someone feels something is wrong, they can't tell Yan Fei's design at all because of their knowledge.
The first exchange was soon launched. Yan Fei exchanged a large amount of scattered copper and iron that he could not use to exchange for more than 200,000 people. These people soon received various medical treatments and food supplies. After recovering their physical strength, they would be placed in various military camps. For these people, their nightmare was over.
With the first success, the next thing was much simpler. Yan Fei used silver, cloth and even various luxury goods, including glass, to exchange population for Li Zicheng on a large scale.
Only a small amount of the materials in this are food, because they are willing to exchange materials for people only when food is constantly short of food.
Although the crusade army did not know why Yan Fei did this, he tasted the sweetness under the temptation of a large amount of supplies, and then it became out of control.
As the exchanges deepened, many generals of the rebel army even contacted Yan Fei in private and used the population in their jurisdiction to exchange various luxury goods to maintain their depraved life, or exchange food to support their own army.
By the time Li Zicheng realized this situation, things were out of control.
"Aren't you the second boy of Zhang Xiucai's family?" In a dilapidated village outside Chang'an City, an old man who was looking for traces of field mice in the fields looked familiar when he saw a young young man walking towards his farm with a package. After careful identification, he found that it was the second boy of Zhang Xiucai's family who was sent away by his family some time ago. He shouted in surprise.
"Isn't this Uncle Wei?" Zhang Xiaoer, wearing a new dress, came to the old man with a smile and took out a few candies from his clothes and handed them over, "You old man is so happy recently?"
"Sweet?!" He threw a candy into his mouth. The sweet smell that he hadn't felt for many years made Old Man Wei tremble involuntarily. "You kid are so developed, you actually have candy to eat?!"
"This was sent by the Grand Commander." Zhang Xiaoer explained with a smile, "Didn't our family be sent for food? After getting there, they first distributed grain and then gave them the food and gave them the candy. After eating and drinking, they were sent to the military camp to distinguish the fields and farm tools."
"Then the Grand Governor is so kind?" Old Man Wei would not trust anyone after years of war. He did not believe in anyone. He did not believe that there would be such good things in the world.
"Is it possible for you to lie to you?" Zhang Xiaoer responded with a smile, "Except for building the house by yourself, all other things are sent by the Grand Superintendent."
"Why are you going back to do such a good thing?" Old Man Wei was still a little skeptical. After all, unless that great governor is crazy these days, who would do such a thing?
"Isn't this my mother asking me to come back to pick up my uncle and the others?" Zhang Xiaoer waved his hand and walked towards the village. "Of course I have to help my relatives when I have a good life."
Looking at Zhang Xiaoer's back as he walked away, Old Man Wei looked at the deserted fields around him. Then he stomped his feet and quickly chased after him.
Not long after, the whole village gathered together and listened to Zhang Xiaoer telling the new life the Grand Governor gave them.
"Look at this new clothes." Zhang Xiaoer patted his new clothes, and looked at the crowd of ragged clothes all around him, and involuntarily showed a look of pride. Then he thought of his mission and hurriedly shouted to the crowd, "The Grand Governor is the reincarnation of a saint, and he will send food and farm tools, and he will send sugar and tea, and you don't have any money! I'm here to pick up my uncle's family to enjoy the happiness. Everyone thinks about whether to wait here to starve to death or to live a new life in the Grand Governor!"
"I don't know what you are thinking. Anyway, I want to take my uncle and the others to divide the fields. All the field mice here have eaten up?" Wang Xiaoer shouted loudly. "Whether to stay here and wait to starve to death, or let the whole family survive depends on your own decision!"
Wang Xiaoer took his uncle's family away, and the rest of the village were stimulated, especially after eating the sweet candy distributed by Wang Xiaoer, they finally set off to escape to Yan Fei's controlled area.
This scene is not just performed in this village, but similar scenes are being staged almost everywhere in the area controlled by Li Zicheng.
Wang Xiaoer came with a task, but he was not wrong. Yan Fei did give everything except his wife. As for the task, he wanted to take as many people as possible to Yan Fei's side. Every time he pulled someone, he could get a reward of one stone of food. Many people actively participated in such a heavy reward.
As for the person who came up with this idea, Niu Jinxing, who finally decided to defect to Yan Fei.
Li Zicheng controlled a large area at this time, and it was vast and sparsely populated. In terms of communication and transportation in this era, it was completely impossible to fully control the people scattered everywhere. Li Zicheng did not have so many troops stationed everywhere.
As long as those who are about to starve to death know the benefits of Yan Fei's place, there must be a large number of people coming here through various means. Yan Fei doesn't even need to spend too much supplies to exchange.
So the most terrifying enemy is the people inside themselves. Because they know everything, the attack on weaknesses is fatal.
Chapter completed!