Chapter 711 Must be rebuilt as soon as possible
The Cui family mansion is a city.
A city that is stronger and richer than Boling County City.
Before Linghu Zhishu served as the governor of Boling County, the Cui family's mansion was the political and economic center of the entire Boling County.
Only in the past two years, the Linghu family has risen strongly and controlled the entire Central Plains, and the political center of Boling has been transferred to the county town, but the economic center is still undoubtedly the location of the Cui family's mansion.
The best local workshops, the best craftsmen, and the best industries in Boling are all concentrated in the Cui family mansion. The owner behind them has only one surname, and that is Cui.
Since the goods are not produced locally, they must rely on goods imported from other places. The first stop after arriving in Boling will inevitably be the Cui family mansion, and then they will be transported to various places from here.
Even for large amounts of goods going outside the customs, as long as they pass through Boling, you need to pay the Cui family a sum of money for the journey, otherwise, you will not be able to leave Boling.
It's called the mansion, but it's actually a city, and more than 100,000 people live within the confines of the Cui family's mansion.
But this winter, the Cui family mansion was shrouded in haze like the weather.
The snowflakes flying in the air with the wind and the flying white flags that can be seen everywhere constitute the main color of the entire Cui family mansion.
This time in previous years was when the Cui family mansion was at its most prosperous, with countless goods gathering here to make final preparations for the annual Spring Festival.
The sales in the twelfth lunar month can fully equal the work of the first half of the year. If you fail to seize the business opportunities in the twelfth lunar month, you will basically lose money this year.
But this year, there are no other emotions here except deathly silence and sadness.
The best-selling ones on the market are those white goods stores. Because there is too much demand, the original few white goods stores are completely unable to meet the demand, and the reservation orders have been queued up until after the holiday.
Five thousand armored men and countless young men were buried under Yangguan.
It's okay to be young and strong, but most of the homes of these five thousand armored men are within the Cui family's mansion. Even if his surname is not Cui, he is still inextricably linked to his surname.
"The Cui family's backbone has been broken!" Cui Shu sat cross-legged on the carpet. Under the refined solid wood floor was paved with fine white marble, and underneath was a fire dragon. The heat penetrated through the white marble floor and solid wood floor, but the temperature was It's just right.
The five people sitting cross-legged around Cui Shu naturally all have the surname Cui.
It's just that in the past, a dozen people with the same level of Cui could gather in this room at any time.
After Cui Shu returned from Dahe seriously injured, only seven or eight people came to visit him. After he returned from Huxiaoyuan, there were only two or three people left who were still running here regularly. This time, five people came back. The reason for this was that Cui Ming was seriously injured and couldn't get out of bed when he got home. His injuries seemed much more serious than Cui Shu's.
Cui Ming is young and old. Once he collapses, Cui Shu will be the only innate master left in the Cui family. Although Cui Ming once said that Cui Shu will fall in the future and it is impossible to maintain the innate realm. It hasn't fallen yet, it's still the thickest thigh in the Cui family.
So there were two more families gathering here.
Among the twelve rooms in the Cui family mansion, after Cui Shu became an innate master, except for the eldest room, all the others turned to Cui Shu, but now, less than half of them have.
Looking into the reason, it is natural that Cui Cheng, the eldest son of the Cui family, is doing well in Dongdu. Although he suffered several defeats in Nanyang, it was nothing serious. Now Cui Cheng is recruiting troops there and is preparing for the new year. Before that, he went south again to attack Xiangyang.
"The third and fifth bedrooms sent all their legitimate sons to Dongdu a few days ago, bringing with them a large amount of money and generals. They said they were invited by their uncle to go to Nanyang to make contributions! Damn it!" said the fourth bedroom of the Cui family. Cui Tu said bitterly: "Now the big house When Bian is short of manpower, five thousand armored men are gone. We must rebuild immediately, otherwise Li Guohua will eat us alive before Li Dachui comes, but at this time, they are pulling out the ladder!"
"That's right!" Cui Peng from the sixth room said: "Second brother, today I received a document from Li Guohua, asking us to raise 100,000 shi of grain, 1,000 sheep, 1,000 pigs, and chickens and ducks within ten days. One hundred loads each of fish, meat, salt and other dry goods were sent to the county for delivery. Hey, the document said that if the payment cannot be made on time, then If you want to act in accordance with military law, you will fall out as fast as reading a book!" "This is testing us!" Cui Shu said: "Let's see if we still have the guts and capital to fight with them. Sixth brother, I want to give you something. Because we can’t fall out with them yet, but we definitely can’t give up.”
"How much will you give?"
"Thirty percent!" Cui Shu said: "Tell them, just tell them that my Cui family is going to rebuild the Armored Man soon, and I am very nervous about money and food. Then tell him that after my father takes a short rest, he will go and explain this matter to him in person!"
"My father is like this now. How can he get better in a short time?" Cui Peng said: "In less than a year and a half, the injury will never be healed. If you are not careful, I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."
"After my father came back, he didn't go to the county town but went directly back home. He just didn't want Li Guohua to see through the truth! Buy us time!" Cui Shu said: "So we must use the shortest possible time to rebuild the Armored Army!"
"Even if a new army is reorganized, how can its combat effectiveness be compared with the past?"
"This time, don't hide it anymore. Fill in all your sons, nephews, and generals!" Cui Shu said.
"Ah?" Several people in the room looked hesitant.
"If you don't want to and want your family to go to Dongdu with these capital, I won't stop you!" Cui Shu said: "The eldest brother is also a Cui family. It's okay to go to Dongdu to start a new business, but Boling's hometown , but I can’t keep it, so I have to take advantage of Li Guohua!”
"That's not possible!" Cui Tu of the fourth room shook his head repeatedly: "If we really want to leave Boling, we will really be bullied by dogs. Is the boss really so happy in Dongdu? Hey, I see. Otherwise. Second brother, even if we spend all our money, we are still far behind the five thousand armored men in the past, and there is no father to hold the battle..."
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"I'm still here!" Cui Shu said coldly: "As long as I am still in the innate realm for one day, I will naturally be able to protect you. No matter what, we have to keep this family fortune. If Li Guohua wants to swallow us, he must first Ask me if I agree!”
Several people in the room nodded silently.
"As long as everyone works together and rebuilds the armored men as quickly as possible, Li Guohua will not dare to act rashly. He wants to hold Boling, and he can't do it without us." Cui Shu said: "Lao Liu, open the public treasury, he was killed earlier. The pensions for the armored men will be distributed in small amounts! In addition, a sum of money will be given to the newly recruited armored men, and the Anjia money of each household will be distributed first! ”
"Second brother, this will cost you millions of taels at once! Do you want to ask your father?"
"Do you still need to worry about such a trivial matter? I still have some power!" Cui Shu said coldly.
Cui Peng hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.
"During this period, everyone is focusing on rebuilding the Armored Army!" Cui Shu said: "If we build it sooner, we will have more confidence! Go, the more critical the moment, the more we need to unite as one. The Cui family has never encountered a more critical situation than today, and they have survived it all. The same is true this time. "
The people in the room agreed loudly, stood up and walked out.
"Second brother, are you injured?" A man walked to the door and suddenly turned around and asked.
"Don't worry, I have found a way to control the injury!" Cui Shu said with a smile: "It won't take long for me to recover from the injury. My father looked down on Li Dachui too much and underestimated me. Li Dachui relies on The trick hurt me, but after all, he is just innate, not a fugue."
"That's great!" The person who asked the question finally relaxed.
Watching everyone leave, Cui Shu walked to the bookshelf in the room, took out a small box from it, opened it, looked at the dusty pill inside, and remained silent for a long time.
(End of chapter)