stubborn thief

Chapter 112 A Piece of Meat
How could Liu Chengzong let the duck with its mouth get lost.

Rent silver was robbed, a certainty.

Liu Chengzong made full preparations for this looting, ambush and fortification, but it turned out to be completely redundant.

The four sentries under his command rushed down from the hills, and the soldiers and peasants transporting the money either kowtowed or fled. No one tried their best to protect the rented money and mules of the palace.

It is very strange that there are more than 200 people, but there is no one who is loyal and brave.

The huge team of transport and lease banks then fell apart.

Afterwards, I found out that the news of the thieves in Yan'an Mansion spread too much. Ansai was not at peace. The banner army stationed in the palace could scare the thieves, but the closer the city was, the more scared people became.

On the night of August [-]th, when the Yunyin team was resting in Ansai City, people were still whispering to each other on the bunk, telling the story of Liu Ying robbing the big family in Fucheng.

Anyway, some people were trembling with fright, and some people forced themselves to be brave, so they didn't fall asleep for half the night.

At noon the next day, I saw a group of elite cavalry flying towards the mountain with the big banner of Liu character. They were more powerful than the Liu Ying they had heard, and they had no heart to resist.

The banner sent by Gao Yingxiang made a contribution.

Liu Chengzong was happy when he heard the captives who surrendered said this, and asked, "How did you embolden yourself the night before?"

Their virtue of direct surrender is not at all like emboldening themselves.

But the prisoner said: "We are all poor ghosts, and Liu Ying never kills poor ghosts."

This made everyone laugh.

Especially Liu Chengzong laughed hard.

This group of people usually receive the salary of the royal family, and they are proud of being the dogs of the clan. People who see him can recognize their own class.

Liu Chengzong just laughed, turned to Cao Yao and said, "Whoever has done such things as bullying men and women, seizing people's fields, building dams and breaking rivers, and those who are determined to do things for the palace, let them point it out."

"Okay!" Cao Yao nodded in response, and said along the way: "After the identification, kill the bad guys, or put the bad guys back, cut off the others' escape, and recruit them as auxiliary soldiers?"

Liu Chengzong's expression was okay when he heard the first half of the sentence, but turned his head and stared at the second half of the sentence: "Are you just raining on Song Jiang in time?"

Cao Yao raised his head and smiled, shook his head and said, "Actually, I don't think it doesn't matter whether you kill or let go... The good and evil of the little people are useless."

Liu Chengzong couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Thousands of starving people were starved of food outside the city, and a dazzling glazed pagoda was built forty miles away.

The village was barren and hungry, and corpses filled the pits everywhere, and a river dam blocked the fragrance of rotting grains in Wangzhuang.

This is a bizarre and absurd chaotic world. Cao Yao has been running around like a wild dog for ten years in this chaotic world, and he is easily disappointed in the world.

Whether it is good or evil, people will always die due to illness and hunger.

Perhaps in Cao Yaoyan's eyes, these people are small people, and he and Liu Chengzong are also small people.

Killing some people and letting some people go is of no benefit to the overall situation.

Even the big picture doesn't mean much to him.

As long as you can live, who cares about the overall situation.

"It doesn't matter." Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "It is human dignity to distinguish between good and evil and black and white."

Not only him, but also them under Liu Zida's banner, and even the dignity of those who are about to be identified.

Human beings have morality, animals do not, and only when we treat ourselves as human beings and treat others as human beings can we have dignity.

Identifying this, there is the Prisoner's Dilemma.

When there is no first person to identify, no one will identify, but when the first person appears, the situation is different.

"Hey you motherfucker, you have your part in that too, General, I want to lift him up!"

"Why is there him, why do you just talk about me!"

"You take my mother-in-law, fuck you!"

More than 200 people were in a mess during the identification, some shouted at each other, some beat each other.

The soldiers of the Mule Battalion who were onlookers looked at each other in blank dismay. It was hard to imagine that just a moment ago, this group of people was still lined up and heading south with rent money.

Cao Yao stepped forward to maintain order, fired a blunderbuss into the sky, beat the horse and cursed: "Don't fight indiscriminately, stand in line, everyone walks forward one by one, and other people can speak up if they have any questions."

He asked everyone to walk around in front of the queue, standing on the left if there was a problem, and standing on the right if there was no problem, and continued to participate in the next identification.

In the end, there were about a hundred people standing on the left and right sides.

Most of the problematic ones were servants working for the palace, while the normal ones were basically the newly recruited Ansai hungry people.

And among the problematic ones, there was another small group who used to bully the other servants.

Liu Chengzong once served as the magistrate of the county in the wilderness, and he is sentenced to punishment now.

Six of them were identified as heinous crimes by dozens of people, and were beheaded on the ground by Han Shiyou and Han Shiyou.

There are also quite a few people who actually did not make any serious mistakes, but were protected from punishment for trivial matters such as quarrels and fights.

Two other people made false accusations and were shot one by one by Cao Yao, killing them both.

In fact, if the crime is less serious, it will not be a big deal to ask for mercy, but false accusations are different. False accusations are not only deceiving people, but also wanting to use them behind the deception.

This is courting death.

Not to mention the remaining people, their physical fitness is just enough to see. After all, Wang Zhuang has helped them screen the hungry people, and those who are not in good health will not be sent out to do this job.

Each of the five post chiefs led a team to choose among the crowd, and the ones who caught the eye were drawn into the team and assigned to the soldiers as auxiliary soldiers.

It took nearly an hour before and after, and another hundred people were added to the team.

Liu Chengzong didn't bother with the recruitment of auxiliary soldiers, he was busy inquiring about the situation in Wangzhuang, and inspecting to harvest the war profits.

The most conspicuous ones are the four wooden boxes, each weighing more than [-] kilograms, and the things inside are all the same.

Each box has three layers, the top layer contains 300 taels of gold, and the lower two layers each contain [-] taels of silver.

A total of 400 taels of gold and 400 taels of silver are worth 600 taels of silver.

Then there are crops, soda noodles, salt bricks, pepper, fine cotton cloth, tanned leather, cattle and sheep horns and the like.

There were too many types of goods, so Liu Chengzong didn't look at them one by one, but compared them with Wang Zhuang's invoice to confirm that there was nothing missing.

In addition, there are 24 large horses of good quality, 45 four-wheeled carts, [-] fat sheep, and more than [-] pack mules and horses.

The food he wanted the most was not in it, only the seven-day dry food that everyone carried with them, but there was a lot of horse grass.

After some inquiries, Liu Chengzong found out that the Wangzhuang this time was not the Qin Fan, but the Qing Fan's ranch.

The first destination they want to transport is Ganquan, from Ganquan to Kunzhou, from Kunzhou to Qingyang, and from Qingyang to Ningxia Weizhou.

"You are quite courageous, you who are in charge of Wangzhuang have never thought of being full of thieves?"

The banner army who had been recruited as an auxiliary soldier was still very afraid of Liu Chengzong, nodded and said: "I thought about it, we don't want to go on this business trip, but the palace is urgent, and the manager also said that the boundary of Ganquan is peaceful, and urged me to wait. Get on the road quickly."

Liu Chengzong had too many questions: "Will it be peaceful when you arrive at Ganquan? It's a beautiful idea. There are a lot of goods here. Since you don't want to go on the road, why don't you divide it up and leave it alone?"

"Don't dare. When you go to Ganquan, there will be Wangzhuang over there to pick you up, and then to Qingyang, there will be a team from Hanwang's Mansion. As winter approaches, they will all deliver goods to Wangfu."

The auxiliary soldier explained the reason for the peace in Ganquan, and smiled wryly: "There is no food here, and I work for Wang Zhuang. At least I won't die of starvation. Isn't that falling grass... Isn't that a piece of meat from the king's hands?"

a piece of meat?

Liu Chengzong reacted for a moment before he figured it out, which means cannon fodder for his life. He smiled and said: "I am Liu Chengzong, if you follow me, you will be full... Tell me carefully, is Wang Zhuang really worth it? How many people's fields have been acquired, how can we get so much money?"

After all, he ordered the team to return to Dawang Mountain.

On the way, this "piece of meat" told Liu Chengzong the situation in Wangzhuang in detail.

There is quite a lot of land under the name of Wangzhuang, but not too much. Calculated on the basis of 540 acres, it is [-] hectares of good land on both sides of the Xingzi River.

But it is not as single-produced as the earlier Qinwang Zhuangzi.

There are not only fields, but also pastures, mountain pastures, pastures, and river beaches, where horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, livestock, and various minerals are produced, leeks, grains, fruits, vegetables, and fodder are grown. fishing.

This is very powerful, even in the Yuhebao guarding the Wuding River, there was nothing in the river two years ago.

There was no other reason for their desperation. In the 18th year of Wanli, the imperial court set a number for the clan Lumi in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi.

Officials hate the clan very much. They are not willing to send Lumi to the palace in Taiping years. Now that the military pay and rations of the three sides cannot be paid, it can be regarded as a reason. Who cares about your clan Lumi.

The imperial court did not send lumi to the palace, so the palace could only urge the village stewards in various places to send money over there as soon as possible.

After transporting things back to Dawang Mountain, Liu Chengzong and the five chief postmen gathered for a discussion, mainly to inform the two chief postmen Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu of the principle of distributing the spoils.

Then according to the rules, [-]% of the team headquarters, [-]% of soldiers, and [-]% of officers.

The military honor book was given to the carrier who was good at arithmetic.

Not long after, several post chiefs were discussing the matter of looting Wangzhuang, and Chengyun came to the door.

"So fast? You are amazing!"

Liu Chengzong looked happy, but when he walked out the door, he saw Chengyun was a little embarrassed, he pulled him aside and said, "Brother, it's not me, you guys, you don't have as much money as a soldier, is that reasonable?"

Liu Chengzong frowned slightly, held the account book in his hand, and understood it at a glance.

The two shares of war profit for soldiers are more than 1000 taels, while those for officers are 560 taels.

According to the rules, the head of the post gets ten shares, the captain gets five shares, and the chief of staff gets one share; while soldiers get five shares at most according to their merits.

If the division continues in this way, those with fewer soldiers will get one tael, and those with more soldiers will get five taels.

According to the rank of the military officers, the chief received only one tael, the captain received nine taels, and the post chief received 18 taels.

Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "This is because there is a lack of auxiliary soldiers in the battalion. My idea is that auxiliary soldiers do not divide their war profits. They need soldiers to support them. If a very long team has made meritorious service, they can be rewarded with silver, and this is the point. That's all right...you're all set?"

It's time to recruit auxiliary soldiers.

In fact, he was very envious of Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, those talents of all kinds, some were hunting horse grass, some were picking fruit, or like Guo Tianxing's auxiliary soldiers, they could walk horses and keep watch.

In his camp, these things are done by soldiers.

Now that there are more mules and horses, even if they are stationed in the camp, the daily handymen can fill up the soldiers' time.

It's okay for a short time, but in the long run, it will affect the combat effectiveness sooner or later.

Liu Chengzong led Chengyun into the cave dwelling for discussion, and Cao Yao was the first to come up with a playful smile: "How about it, how much money can I get for this trip?"

"The whistle chief is 18 taels, and the captain is [-] taels."

The five whistle chiefs, Cao Yao, Yang Yao, and Wang Wenxiu have all been leaders themselves, and they don't pay much attention to money.

Cao Yao smacked his lips and said with a smile to Yang Yao: "18 taels, it's okay, I didn't do anything this trip, I got the money for working in the frontier army for half a year."

On the contrary, Gao Xian and Feng Ru had different reactions, the money was a huge sum of money to them.

As for Wei Qian'er, who was in charge of the Tang cavalry team, he was already dumbfounded by the number. He leaned against the dirt wall and wrung his fingers for a while, then asked blankly, "General, can you divide me into nine taels?"

Liu Chengzong nodded.

Wei Qian'er stretched out three fingers, with an extremely complicated expression on his face: "Three years, I worked in the post station for three years, and the salary was ten taels and eight."

Liu Chengzong didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only pat him on the shoulder and said: "It's okay to put away that stinky mouth, and learn from a few sentry commanders to lead soldiers, and I will let you be the sentry commander if you have the ability."

"How the hell do you charge this?"

Captain Tangqi scratched his dirty hair scarf, and said to himself, he gave himself a soft mouth after the words had been spoken, his eyes were firm and he stood at attention and said: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely please the whistle chiefs!"

After that, he leaned closer and whispered: "We don't need money here, can I send the money home?"

Not needing money is the biggest reason why the whistle chiefs are not very interested in silver.

Surrounded in the camp and living on the mountain all day long, the silver has basically lost its meaning of existence.

In fact, this is also the reason why Liu Chengzong made the rules to distribute all the war profits except money and food to soldiers and officers. When there are more people in the camp later, it will be a small market to station anywhere.

Soldiers in the team can use reward silver and war profit to buy and sell independently, which can restrain their minds.

He had been a soldier, so he knew too well the impact of being in the camp all day long on the mentality of the soldiers. Even if the soldiers liked to study martial arts, they only practiced for four hours a day.

Such as drinking, such as gambling.

If you don't have these two habits, you will easily desert when you are bored. Instead of running out to do some bad things that harm the common people, you have to find something with other soldiers in the camp.

Anyway, there must be no good results.

There is a small market, and the camp depends on its exchange of needs. Soldiers either set up stalls or go shopping when they are bored. It is also an entertainment item for the peasant army.

Wei Qian'er's words attracted the attention of several whistle chiefs. He envied that the whistle chiefs had a lot of money, and the whistle chiefs envied that he had a family, and there were people who could give money.

It was Cao Yao who was particularly indebted, and leaned back cross-legged on the kang: "Come on, take it, look at me, my mother-in-law is on the other side of the mountain, and I will send it to you when I get the money."

Wei Qian'er stared, and opened his mouth to scold the street. Thinking of what Liu Chengzong said just now, he closed his mouth and let out a long breath: "Chief Cao is right, I will bring my family back when I turn around."

The nose was not a nose and a mouth, it made Liu Chengzong laugh, he raised his hand and said: "You are right, brothers postmen had better bring their family members here, and it is also a matter for those who have family members to give money, but not now."

He sat on the kang and said: "The good things are yet to come. There are good horses in King Qing's village, fields that can be irrigated without disaster, mountain kilns and iron mines, and it's not like Yan'an Mansion, which is located in an important place, surrounded by mountains. It’s also good for Tibetans, and it’s a good place to house your family... let’s go there tomorrow!”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)