Chapter 129 The Cai family’s overtures


    Cai Mao was actually a little depressed. After all, he had just negotiated with the branch family in Qiankou, Caizhou, and adopted his daughter into the name of Cai Xi, the head of the family. However, he did not expect that Huang Chengyan from the Huang family would be a step ahead...


    In this way, I have an extra sister for no reason. She still cannot get married and has to spend money to support her. Although there may be other opportunities in the future, she has no chance to meet Fei Qian.


    ?Given the status of the Cai family, it is absolutely impossible for the daughter of the head of the family to be a concubine of a member of the branch family. After all, Fei Qian''s current official position is that of an individual, and the Cai family will not lose its status like this.


    ?But when I think about it, I feel a little reluctant. What a great opportunity...


    ?Just when Cai Mao was feeling regretful, his soldiers came to report that Fei Ziyuan, who was driving Fei Qian, came with 40,000 arrows to deliver the order!


    "So fast?!" Cai Maobala counted with his fingers. Only about ten days had passed, so it turned out to be 40,000 arrows?


    ?Fei Qian did not expect it to be completed so quickly, but the craftsmen of the Huang family did play a key role in this time.


    With sufficient experience, craftsmen often solve some problems on site automatically and spontaneously. There is no need to report them to Feiqian before making adjustments. This saves a lot of time, and after using the water saw, a large number of original The manpower in the sawing process is saved and allocated to other links, which invisibly speeds up the overall process.


    Therefore, if we only relied on the Xiangyang ordnance craftsmen, the workload that originally took at least more than a month was completed in just over ten days with the collective efforts of the Huang family craftsmen.


    Fei Qian said that he did not want to promote any style, so he made more arrows for no reason. After reaching the total amount, he took the freshly baked arrows to Cai Mao''s camp outside the city to give orders.


    ??? Cai Mao''s camp was set up in the west of Xiangyang City, north of the Han River, with mountains on its back and water on its back. It was very majestic.


    The Xiangyang camp was originally located here before, but without a general to preside over it, it was in name only. Now that Cai Mao has settled in, he has made considerable changes to the entire camp. Now, at least in Fei Qian''s view, it is already a "grand camp". Difficult to capture.


    ?The so-called male camp refers to one that has no flaws, is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the opposite is called a "female camp".


    To the north of Daying is a mountainous area. Some of the trees near Daying have been cut down, leaving only tree stumps that have become natural horse piles. To the south is Han River, which has water gates, several buildings, and some Mengchong. It would be impossible to win without considerable naval force;


    The east side is not too far from the Xiangyang City Wall. If there are troops to attack, they will be attacked from two sides. The west side is the only better way to attack, but there is a siltation beach formed by the Han River''s perennial erosion. …


    Moreover, Cai Mao also introduced the Han River. There were two circles of trenches around the camp. The first circle was wide and deep, with sharpened wooden stakes inserted at the bottom of the trench. The second circle of trenches was filled with Han Water. On two levels, After the trench, there are densely packed deer antlers nailed to the ground. After the antlers, there is a wooden wall about three meters high, which is covered with river mud for fire protection. There are also parapets and battlements on the wooden wall. Where the embankments meet, sharpened wooden stakes are arranged diagonally outward...


    ?Such a heavily defended camp will make anyone leading troops instantly lose the desire to attack by force...


    ?Sure enough, as Pang Tong said, it is true that there are military strategists in the Cai family''s family studies, and it should not only be ordinary military books, but also some profound strategies.


    Fei Qian was looking at the camp set up by Cai Mao, and when he was corroborating the knowledge he had learned in the "Six Tao", the camp door opened wide, and Cai Hao came out to welcome him. He laughed and said, "Don''t drive." Come here, please forgive me if I miss you from afar!”


    This is the treatment that Fei Qian received after he married Huang Yueying. Otherwise, Cai Mao would definitely sit in the camp and let Fei Qian go and see him...


    Fei Qian also smiled and bowed his hands to Cai Mao, saying he didn''t dare. Cai Hao laughed heartily, and while holding out his hand to support Fei Qian to prevent him from saluting, he asked the accompanying soldiers to pull the arrows brought closer to the camp, and invited Fei Qian to come into the camp and have tea.


    Since there is no way to get married, it is better to make friends and show friendship. The head of the Cai family, Cai Xi, had explained to Cai Hao before, so Cai Hao was very polite to Fei Qian.


    When the two parties entered Cai Mao''s tent, Fei Qian took a few glances and saw that the items in the tent were all very exquisite. He guessed that Cai Hao had brought them from the Cai family...


    Sure enough, after a while, soldiers served the cooked tea. Cai Mao asked Fei Qian for a tea ceremony: "This is a treasure at home. You might as well taste it if you are traveling."


    Fei Qian slandered that no wonder Cai Mao was still a second-rate military general in the end. Although he had a family that learned military skills, he also brought this aristocratic style into the military camp. This is really...


    ??Of course, the internal slander is the internal slander, but the appearance must be in place. Fei Qian said with a smile: "Qian is a vulgar person, how can I say something about it..."


    "Zi Yuan is too self-effacing, please use it, please use it..." Cai Mao asked Fei Qian for tea while thinking in his mind - the current situation seems that if you give money, not only is it tacky, but Fei Qian is not lacking; If offered to some singers, they would probably not accept it if they were newly married soon; then after all calculations, it is true that according to what the head of the Cai family, Cai Xi, said, the only thing Fei Qian doesn''t have yet is...


    At this time, the sergeant outside the account came to report that the number of arrows had been counted, and there were more than 42,000 arrows in total, which was sufficient.


    Naturally, Cai Mao would not make things difficult, so he signed the official document handed over by the soldier and handed it over to Fei Qian. In this way, as long as Fei Qian takes this "signature receipt" to the governor''s office and turns it in for archives, the arrow-making job will be completed.


    Fei Qian naturally thanked Cai Mao, but Cai Mao waved his hand and said casually: "Zi Yuan, why are you so polite? This... Mao was pulling out the archers a few days ago, but unexpectedly, the military scribe made a mistake in his busy schedule, and there were hundreds more... Alas, these silverfish are so difficult to deal with..."


    ??Do your military scribes still make such low-level mistakes? Don''t be kidding, besides, wouldn''t it be over if the extra people were sent back?


    Fei Qian thought about it for a while and immediately realized that the Cai family was using this to show their favor - weren''t there an extra hundred people? It is also a gift to send back to the original army, and it is also a gift to be used as a private soldier by yourself. The Cai family is really bold, but this also shows that the Cai family may have more control over this camp than I thought before. To be strong is to...


    Private soldiers in ancient times have been a tradition since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until the Qin Dynasty. It is the same up to the present Han Dynasty. All major families have private soldiers, but some are more and some are less.


    Cai Mao specifically said this in front of Fei Qian, and his meaning was very obvious. He was using his position to give Fei Qian a little sweetness. After all, archers are also a technical unit. Without training methods, it is difficult to achieve results quickly. If you can follow a large army Training together is naturally more effective than training alone from scratch...


    ??If you accept this private soldier, it means that you and the Cai family must communicate with each other within a certain range and advance and retreat together. If you don''t accept it, you may have to spend a certain amount of time and energy to train another archer alone...


    Besides, private soldiers are indeed an item that the Pang family and the Huang family are weak in. The Cai family''s "gift" is indeed very accurate...


    what to do?


    To accept it or not to accept it?


    Private soldiers were very famous in the Han Dynasty. Several famous arms were first developed from personal private soldiers... The author, please recommend and vote for favorites...


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    (End of this chapter)