stubborn thief

Chapter 147
On March [-]th of the third year of Chongzhen, the horses galloped through Xixiang, Yonghe County.

General Liu of Yan'an Mansion wanted to defeat the Fenzhou Guard Banner Army, recruit civilian husbands to bury the corpses, and at the same time search for the surviving civilians who were burned and killed by the Banner Army in Fanjiayu, Zaowang Mountain, and Chakou Mountain to identify the murderer.

Most of the common people only have the idea of ​​watching the excitement of the latter, but some people are more interested in burying the corpse.

The cavalry who sent the letter knew this well, and every time they passed the village, they would tell them loudly: "Bring your tools and go to General Liu to take care of the food, and apply for seven cents of silver and five catties of yellow noodles!"

The common people don't know who General Liu is, but they know Yinzi and Huangmian.

Hurrah, a young man with five taels of silver is recruited.

Chengyun scratched his head in the valley battlefield, very dissatisfied with the number, and complained to the left and right: "Second brother approved 100 taels, I guess I can get 50 taels, now I will come to five taels of silver, is it appropriate to spend such a small amount of money?"

The subordinates of the supply post were also very distressed: "Chief post, there have always been two catties of yellow noodles in Yan'an Mansion. How many people come with as many noodles, this is different from what we think!"

Someone next to him said, "Could it be that we don't have enough money?"

Chengyun waved his hands, crossed his hips and thought about it for a moment, pointing to the trembling people not far away and asked, "Where do they all come from?"

"There are 75 strong men, 24 from Anzishan, [-] from Sibuwan, and the rest from all over Xixiang. Some villages have one or two, and some villages have no one."

Chengyun nodded to indicate that he understood, and simply said: "First cook the porridge, and then let someone dig a hole. I will tell the general."

He knew what was going on.

It has nothing to do with more money or less money. If you insist on talking about money, it may even be that you have given too much money.

These days, the employment of labor is divided into two levels according to the technical content, one is a craftsman and the other is a husband.

The market price of work and food silver is three cents a day for husbands, and four cents to seven cents silver for craftsmen depending on the type of work, regardless of food and housing.

For a job like a husband who can do it with his hands, the salary level for porcelain burners is already very high.

Not to mention that food is precious nowadays, and five catties of yellow rice are actually worth more than one penny.

This was supposed to be a gathering of applicants, but only 75 people came.

And half of them came from Anzishan and Sibuwan.

Earlier on Yatou Mountain, the three men detained and tortured by thieves came from those two villages.

Since those two Zhuangzi will produce more than a dozen or even 20 people, it is not a matter of money and food.

is distrust.

It is said that wealth and wealth are sought in insurance, but there is a difference between insurance and insurance, and the ultimate goal is to live or even live better.

And you must first be sure that you have wealth before you can seek insurance.

A group of out-of-province thieves tricked grandpa into moving the corpse to dig a corpse pit, and then pushed grandpa into it, what should they do?
When the guest army came, it would range from petty theft to looting and robbers, let alone thieves from other provinces.

Leaving Yan'an Mansion, many things that have not been considered before have to be taken into consideration.

Filled with guilt, Chengyun told his second brother that he had only recruited 75 strong men. Liu Chengzong was not surprised, but instead smiled and said, "Why do you look like this? It's already very good. Have you found any survivors?"

In fact, even if the strong man came alone, Liu Chengzong didn't think it was bad.

Perhaps in Chengyun's view, it is very important for the people to see the banner soldiers who committed crimes through trial and execution.

But it doesn't matter to Yoo Seung-jong.

Cheng Yun shook his head and said, "They killed everyone, so there are no survivors."

Liu Chengzong squinted his eyes and looked into the valley, those unarmed flag army captives knelt on the ground in four phalanxes, and whispered to Cheng Yun: "If you send someone to look for them, those people must die, which is much more important than hiring civilians. "

"Must die?"

"Yes, they must die. If there are many people, they will die. If there are few people, these people will also die. Even if the people don't come, they deserve to die for what they did."

"But I've heard people say they're pretty good at it."

Liu Chengzong kept his voice down all the time, and he looked at the prisoners: "It doesn't matter whether you can fight or not. You have never been a soldier. With a knife in your hand, you don't want to run out and kill whoever you want, and sleep whoever you want to sleep." Who the hell, is there anyone in this world who doesn't want to do whatever they want?"

Liu Chengzong is a soldier, he knows what others think.

Everyone has a tyrannical dark side in their hearts, some are suppressed by reason, and some are suppressed by rules, especially for those who hold knives.

Restraining behavior is especially rare under conditions where arbitrary behavior is possible.

In fact, in his heart, it is not to kill those who can be convicted, but to find a way to kill those who cannot be convicted.

If you can't finish killing, let the rest of the people climb the fort wall.

If Mr. Huo can't be beaten to death, there are other masters, and if the master can't, there are princes.

Letting these people live is the greatest insult to the soldiers of the Lion Battalion, to those soldiers who have observed military discipline for a long time.

In fact, Liu Chengzong had no experience in executing so many people, and he struggled for a long time in his heart. In the end, he even wanted to find a reason for them to survive.

Can't find it.

First of all, the responsibility of these people for massacring civilians has been informed by Wei Qianer's Tangqi to several post chiefs throughout the process, and through these several post chiefs, it has been spread in the lion camp.

Secondly, they are not a small team to plunder privately, but an organized and customary massacre led by a commander, a completely animalized force.

If they can get a second chance, can the soldiers of the Lion Battalion temporarily leave the team, go out to slaughter a village and grab some women and aunts to have a good time, and then run back and kowtow to admit their mistakes?
Even habitual offenders can be forgiven, why can't you forgive the old brother who accompanied you through life and death?
They are soldiers. If you say that Emperor Zhu Ming is not good and overthrow him, the brothers all agree, but there are not enough generals in the country to have more than 4000 brothers.

Tomorrow, we will fight another guard unit, and the brothers will form a phalanx and go to the officers and soldiers to eat guns in the face. I can’t see the good court that has been established. Those banner soldiers will work hard for you after they have finished their lives. Can’t your old brother?

Does that work?Okay, honestly, be a thief to the people; no, you general should be laid off first, and brothers find someone who can do it.

Chengyun is full of thoughts, and it has been too exciting since he created Reverse. Every day, he can have new questions and learn new knowledge.

Yang Yao came back with his left shoulder bare. He was injured a lot when he rushed into Chen Qianhu's formation.

Four arrows pierced the armor, all of which were armor-piercing cones. After piercing the armor, four small holes were made in the chest and abdomen.

The shoulder was also wounded by the spear, and the spearhead pierced through the gap in the chest armor, rubbing the shoulder armor and making a long cut on the left shoulder.

This club has just been given medicine by the medical craftsman of the logistics team, but he is very energetic and even rides a horse. He wandered over with a look of excitement: "General, the war profit has been counted. This group of people is too rich."

With 700 people, more than 4000 pieces of various armors and more than [-] weapons of various types were seized.

Liu Chengzong was taken aback by Yang Yao's report of the number. He didn't see so many armors during the war.

After careful questioning, I found out that it was a matter of statistics, and the armor parts were counted as one piece, because these people were not neatly dressed, and the red coats were also counted in it.

But even so, they do have a lot of armor. Everyone has a helmet and jacket, and the remaining armor can be close to a thousand.

There are more than 800 pairs of crotch armor and chain mail to protect the chest and back, and nearly a hundred collars for the full armor.

Weapons are richer. There are 130 spare short knives a foot long, [-] waist knives, thousands of shields and spears, more than [-] three-eyed firecrackers, and [-] bird guns.

Twelve light artillery pieces of less than one hundred catties, 94 shells, and 330 catties of gunpowder.

还有240四匹战驮马、69匹死马，牛、驴、骡等大牲口130四头、车34辆，草料粮草170石。

The value of the property is 270 taels of silver, and 660 bolts of silk brocade.

To be honest, Liu Chengzong thinks it's like Chinese New Year.

Yang Yao hung his left arm, waved his right hand in front of him, and said: "General, don't worry about anything else, let's divide the dead horse into two horses first. I sent the firemen to sharpen their knives, and they are ready to pick the lead." It's stewing."

All of a sudden, Liu Chengzong was brought back to the time when he was a soldier in Yuhebao, which made him laugh out loud.

He stretched out his hand and asked, "Why, did the other whistle chiefs see you as miserable and asked you to tell me?"

Yang Yao didn't show any embarrassment, he just raised his face and smiled.

Liu Chengzong said: "In this way, you send someone to inform the eight sentinel fire soldiers, first take two dead horses back at the heavy post, and hand in the horse hides. The soldiers can't rest for a few days, and they are ready to make dried meat."

"Haha, okay, I'll go right away!"

"and many more."

Liu Chengzong stopped Yang Yao and said: "The supply post should calculate the silver rewards to the sergeants after the battle. After the calculation, if the weapons and armor are not enough, the captain will lead them to the Yatou Mountain work post to buy according to the price."

"Do you still have to buy it?"

"Nonsense, there are good and bad weapons and armor, and what needs to be repaired must be repaired. If you don't buy it, how will you divide it? But it's okay, everyone will experience a sudden wealth soon."

Liu Chengzong turned his head to look in the direction of Huojiabao, Yang Yao understood instantly, laughed and rode away.

Looking at the back of his departure, Liu Chengzong felt that this was the best time for Lion Camp.

Without external influence, they had enough time to figure out how to distribute the loot and how to reward the soldiers. Even Liu Chengzong considered several times whether it was time to set the military salary for the soldiers.

But he dared not.

It doesn't matter if the military salary is calculated on a monthly basis. Once the military salary is fixed, it will naturally strengthen the cohesion of the troops, but when the military salary is not paid, the destructive power is also quite strong.

After all, the core force in his hands is more than 1000 frontier troops from the three sides of Shaanxi, and everyone has suffered enough from the lack of payment.

You will be owed wages in the imperial court, and you will still owe wages when you arrive at your lion camp.

On the third day of the siege of Huojiazhuang, the soldiers of the Lion Camp were extremely happy.

No matter where the outposts stationed their camps, the firemen were too busy to touch the ground. The post chief Cao was especially busy that afternoon. He invited a hundred and ten helpers from the outposts, and they did a lot of work.

Other Qishao camps only built a few earthen stoves, but his camp had fifteen stoves, five of which were stewed with horse meat soup, and the remaining ten were used to bake pancakes.

Cao Yao finally had the opportunity to show off his culinary skills. He instructed the Pao Sentinel to cook more than 4000 horse meat fires, which attracted other sentry soldiers to be pushed to Pao Shao by Pao Ze to learn this skill from Beizhili .

Postmaster Cao hasn't been so excited for a long time. He talked about everything from my tribute to the horse government's decline, and then from the horse government's decline to the mass slaughter of horses bought back from the market.

Fat subordinates who made money from the court by dismantling war horses, horse officials, horse dealers in the capital, veterinarians of Taipu Temple, horse inspectors, and even officials of Taipu Temple, officials of the Ministry of War, the homes of influential figures in the capital, and General of Yingliao Town.

He said: "Donkey meat can be made, but why can't horse meat be made? People in this world are greedy for the court. Do you think we are greedy? But if you become an official, the fuck will you be greedy? There can be no court."

Liu Chengzong ate the horse meat on fire, looked at the horse sausages prepared by the sentry firemen, and finally looked at the impassioned Cao Yao, shook his head and smiled.

They always want to find a path suitable for this era and this country. There may be collisions of various trends of thought and attempts of various systems.

He knew that Cao Yao's decent statement was suitable for a small country with few people. In fact, it was not advisable for an outlaw who occupied the mountain to be king, but he didn't mind Cao Yao thinking about it.

In fact, in another memory, this land has tried almost all the systems of the entire earth in a short period of time after more than 200 years.

People must first know what is wrong before they can find the right, and then they can follow the right path firmly and tenaciously.

At least for now, his whistle chief, his soldiers consisting of frontier soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers consisting of a small number of frontier soldiers and a large number of hungry people, all know that Daming's method will not work, so they will firmly follow him.

On the fourth day of the siege of Huojiabao, the villagers who came to dig pits and bury the bodies the day before brought back scraps of silver and food, and they brought more people back. This time, nearly 300 people were employed, and the work efficiency was greatly improved.

However, the work process was a bit weird. After digging enough earth to bury the corpse, the civilian husband was extremely resistant to continuing to dig the pit.

They thought the pits were meant to bury them.

Fortunately, after two days of identification, the captives who were divided into four teams already had 46 treacherous and evil people. Liu Chengzong gathered the people, escorted the prisoners of the fourth team to the pit, and held them in front of the remaining three teams. , Read the charges in turn.

The recruited civilian husbands were dumbfounded when they heard their crimes alone, and some even trembled unconsciously.

After all, among the people assigned to the fourth team, only one had a bad temper and often killed people after quarreling. The people killed by him included a jujube seller in Fucheng of Fenzhou and a passing woman whose bracelet was robbed by him in Dongxiang. , There is also a turtle who has been scolded by a brothel.

The others were all guilty of exterminating the house, beheading people's hands and feet, and robbing the woman to sleep, waking up, locking the door and setting fire to it.

Realizing what happened to them next, the prisoners in the fourth team struggled violently and even yelled at them, but they were already tied up with ropes and escorted by sergeants, so they were powerless to fight back.

Liu Chengzong gave them a chance. If they could identify five guilty people from among the innocent, they would be exempted from the death penalty for the time being.

After a short period of chaos, the new fifth team had seventeen criminal soldiers, and the fourth team had 85 more villains.

Ten ten came, and the reading was completed in turn, and then the spearmen carried out the execution.

Those in the front are still struggling, those in the back continue to read, and there are still people who need to continue to identify.

Some of the peasants had seen the execution by the government, but they had never seen such an execution. All of them were so frightened that their legs went weak, but a small man who was not able to work well turned his head and ran up the mountain.

Wei Qian'er's Tang Qi hurriedly chased after him, but before he climbed the mountain, the little man came back again, carrying a blue cloth package on his back, with a waist knife and bow and arrow hanging on his waist, and ran back panting.

He was quite stupid when he ran, and he was obviously not good at martial arts, so that the servants who drew their swords and bows didn't have the idea of ​​shooting him.

As he got closer, he was so frightened that he trembled all over his body, his silver teeth were gritted and he was about to bleed and move forward.

When he walked up to Liu Chengzong, the gesture of saluting was very awkward, as if he wanted to make a blessing, and then he bowed down.

"General, I want to join the army."

This round and smooth voice is clearly that of a little aunt.

Liu Chengzong's eyebrows twisted into a weird shape, one eye was big and the other was small. After looking at it carefully for a moment, he admired her courage in his heart, so he asked: "Miss, did your adults raise you as a man?"

The little girl in men's attire was not embarrassed by being seen through, and shook her head slightly: "Please also ask the general to let me join the army, I am the job you are looking for..."

She raised her head high, with unbearable tears in her eyes, she paused every word: "Fan Jiayu, Fan Sanlang."

　Good morning!Happy birthday to the great motherland mother!Happy holidays everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)