Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"Major Zhang, we have learned a lot from our visit to Bangor Township this time, and the Tibetans here are also very enthusiastic. We will definitely come back in two months."

In the township yamen compound, five Qinghai businessmen headed by Liu Ziliang are bidding farewell to Zhang Wenzhuo and other Bange township officials.

They have been here for more than ten days. Through the publicity of Duoji and other township officials, they have collected a lot of fur and other goods in the two fairs, and the gains have exceeded their estimates.

In addition, for the Tibetans, the harvest price he offered was at least [-]% higher than that of the local chieftains, but in reality it was more than [-]% lower than theirs in Qinghai.

The same is true of the goods they bring to sell.

Even after deducting the round-trip freight, they made a lot of money this trip.

However, it is not easy to earn this money—they are from Haidong, thousands of miles away from Bangor, and there are many dangerous mountains and rivers along the way, so the road is difficult to walk.

Fortunately, Qinghai and Uzang are now provinces under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tibetans and Mongols are naturalized, otherwise there will be bandits and bandits, making it more difficult to travel.

Zhang Wenzhuo said: "Shopkeeper Liu, I am very grateful that you can come to Bangor. But Bangor is not as peaceful as you see.

And you came to receive the goods this time, after all, you are robbing the business of the local leaders, I am afraid that some people will have malicious intentions.

In this way, I will let ten armed patrolmen disguise themselves as caravan men, follow you, and send you out of Damqukeer County, okay? "

"That's great!" Liu Ziliang said with a smile, "Although our caravan guys also work as guards, after all, we are only equipped with knives and bows, and have never experienced any big scenes. The combat effectiveness is far worse than that of armed patrolmen Already."

Daming now bans firearms and armor among the people in the country, but not cold weapons such as bows and arrows, knives and guns.

Provinces such as Uzang, Qinghai, and Anxi, which have not long been surrendered, still have some banditry.Even some people are usually civilians, but at certain times they will become thieves who seek wealth and murder.

Therefore, when merchants go to distant places to do business, they usually form caravans and bring along guard-type guys with certain force.

For example, this time Liu Ziliang and others brought more than 30 assistants, and almost everyone has some skills, even Liu Ziliang, the shopkeeper, is no exception.

But as he said, from combat literacy to equipment, it must be far inferior to armed patrols.

Therefore, he was really grateful to Zhang Wenzhuo for sending armed patrols to send him out of the county.

Originally, Zhang Wenzhuo was just in case, but he didn't expect that the caravan of Liu Ziliang and others encountered bandits in a canyon just a dozen miles away from Bange Township.

A fallen tree blocked the narrow mountain road that the caravan had passed before, and at the same time several large rocks fell behind the caravan, blocking their retreat.

Immediately, a group of people appeared on the mountainside and shouted to them.

"We ask for money without killing our lives, and leave money and goods wisely!"

Liu Ziliang was not frightened, he hid behind the mules and horses and said loudly: "You dare to rob the road in broad daylight, aren't you afraid of attracting officers and soldiers to clean up?"

"Hahaha!" The leader of the bandits seemed to laugh, "Of course we are afraid of the officers and soldiers, but that's only if they can find us.

Besides, we only borrowed your goods for use, and we didn't rebel. How could the officers and soldiers come to suppress us?

Well, stop talking, hurry up and leave the goods and money, don't force us to do it.Otherwise, it is possible to hurt someone, or even kill someone's life! "

Liu Ziliang asked in a low voice the armed patrol officer next to him, Gao Dahu, "Gao Shichang, what should we do now?"

Gao Dahu looked around and said, "I don't know how many people are on the other side, so we can't take the initiative to rush out.

In this way, your caravan should have warning smoke balls, right?Light one at the head, tail, and middle of the caravan. In this case, whether it is the garrison patrolling nearby or the armed patrol, they will come to support them when they see it.

Even if no one came to support them, these bandits didn't dare to gamble.At that time, they will either retreat, or risk coming to attack.

As long as they come to fight, they will expose the truth and give us a chance to eliminate them. "

Liu Ziliang nodded, and immediately followed Gao Dahu's instructions.

The so-called smoke ball is a warning object made of wolf dung as the main material.Apparently there was going to be a thick cloud of smoke that could be seen from afar.

Three streaks of thick smoke rise together, to the garrison and patrol police of the Ming Dynasty, it is a warning and a call for help.

This is not only known to the garrison and patrol police, but also to the businessmen who have been running the business all the year round and some thieves and bandits.

Sure enough, after three streaks of thick smoke rose, the bandits on the mountain ridge panicked.

"Damn, don't you be ashamed of your face? Brothers, let these fat pigs see how powerful we are!"

Following the words of the bandit leader, dozens of savage bandits emerged from the mountains on both sides, rushed to the foot of the mountain, and shot arrows at the caravan from a slightly higher place.

It's a pity that the caravan had already made defensive preparations. Except for a few mules and horses who were hit by arrows because the target was too big, the people were basically fine.

The bandits were impatient, seeing that a round of arrow rain was not effective, they rushed over here immediately.

Before the bandits approached, the caravan guys couldn't help but shoot their bows.As a result, there were only a few hits, and occasionally some were blocked by the bandits with homemade cowhide shields.

Soon, forty or fifty bandits rushed close.

At this moment, Gao Dahu stood up abruptly and said loudly, "Fire!"

Ten people fired a volley, and immediately seven bandits fell.

The rest of the bandits panicked immediately.

At this time, the caravan guys also seized the opportunity to shoot arrows again, and finally hit a few.

"Grandma, there are officers and soldiers in this group, retreat quickly!"

A bandit is a bandit, with a single round of musket fire, a dozen or so people were killed, and the rest were terrified.

But it's also understandable-there were four or fifty bandits originally, and they came here for money. Now that the idea is difficult, if they kill a dozen of them at once, won't the rest be scared?

The bandits wanted to retreat, but Gao Dahu had no intention of letting them go.

There were only thirty or so people left on the other side, and they had no firearms, and they lost their courage. This was a good opportunity to pursue and suppress them.

He immediately said to Liu Ziliang: "It's no accident, this group of gangsters is probably from our Bangor Township. Shopkeeper Liu leads the caravan to guard here first, and I will lead my brothers to hunt them down."

"Gao Shichang, be careful, don't fall into the gangster's tricks." Liu Ziliang asked with some worry.

Gao Dahu smiled and said, "Don't worry shopkeeper Liu, it's just a gang of gangsters, they can't be our opponents."

After finishing speaking, he took the remaining nine armed patrolmen to chase after him.

He didn't want to let go of such a good opportunity to make meritorious service.

This area is all mountainous, not suitable for riding horses, so the gangsters walked, as did Gao Dahu and others, and they were really bitten by them.

As armed patrolmen, Gao Dahu and others could not help but carry flintlock guns, knives and bows, and their archery skills are not bad.

After all, with a not-so-low salary, and a lot of training at ordinary times, the combat quality will naturally improve.

In this way, the gangsters were chased by Gao Dahu all the way, either killed on the spot, or injured and surrendered to beg for mercy, and even fled into Bangor Township at dark.

Seeing this, Gao Dahu sneered, and finally led his brothers to stop.

After they captured the prisoners, they only need to inquire about the details of this group of gangsters, and it will be a matter of time before they are wiped out.

Gao Dahu and others returned to the place where the caravan was in the dark, only to find that the caravan had already camped nearby on a leeward Banpo.

He communicated with Liu Ziliang, and only then did he know that after they left, a small team of patrolmen from the town rushed over and left after seeing that the caravan was fine.

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