557 Caravans of refuge
"I said, "We say, please show mercy to the prime minister, don't kill us...... This is the master next to Mailer, we all call him Sour Xiucai, I remember that it seems to be surnamed Tian ......"
"It was him, he was the one who came up with the idea for Melle to send troops to sack the village, and it was he who said that the ransacking of the village would restore the morale of the army...... The prime minister spares his life, I am the one who takes care of the horse feed in the back camp, I really haven't killed anyone, I really can't kill anyone..."
The desperate two kowtowed like garlic and told the origin of these heads one by one.
When Luo Huo heard that this bastard was so dirty, he angrily stepped on his head in the dirt, and then spit on it, "Come on, go back to the village, chop up those corpses and feed them to the dogs..."
"Prime Minister, give me a few brothers from the torture hall, even if I chase Luo Huo to Beijing City, I will chop Melle to pieces..."
In Luo Huo's angry roar, Xiao Lotian finally knew what had happened after Mailer escaped.
After all, Mailer is a disciple of the Eight Banners, skilled in bowing and horses since childhood, and can run on horseback for a day and a night without going to the ground, and the biggest weakness of the new army is that there is no cavalry, perhaps from the beginning Xiao Letian has positioned his army well, it is a marine corps with super combat effectiveness.
In the future, Xiao Letian's sphere of influence was within the controllable range of battleships and artillery, and the new army did not engage in any grand strategic detours, and the new army only used warships to control the coast and ports in the big rivers.
Because these places are the concentration of China's wealth, the coastal areas along the river are destined to be Xiao Letian's sphere of influence.
Because of this, the cavalry training of the New Army has not been very strict, and this pursuit must have been dominated by Mellor. When the battlefield was getting farther and farther away, when the shouts of killing were gradually inaudible, Mailer and his party were finally relieved.
"General, there's a village ahead, let's hide and get something to eat, even if people can hold on, the war horses have to rest......" A guard said breathlessly.
Mailer looked at the war horse with white smoke coming out of his mouth and nose under his crotch, and knew that it was not okay not to rest, "You four go and investigate first to see if there is any danger......"
"Huh..."The four people's soldiers rushed into the village after beating their horses, and after a while, they roared, "The village is empty, and there is no one to ...... Wait, here's a couple of fish that slipped through the net......"
After a clanging noise, the guards shouted, "General, let's enter the village, it's safe......"
The village was very quiet, the people had long since fled, and the houses were cleaned up, not even a grain of rice was left.
Mailer's stomach is growling now, and he kicked it when he looked at the empty rice tank in front of him, only to hear a loud "Oops......" Mailer hit his big toe, and he jumped back and forth holding his foot in pain.
"General, where are you...... We've caught a caravan, and it's pretty hidden...... damn it," a roar came from the next compound, and Melle knew he had gone to the wrong yard.
After entering the courtyard next door, there was a body lying at the door, blood splattered half of the courtyard wall, and next to the corpse knelt four thin young men, one by one trembling like chaff, four tigers and wolves carrying knives were turning the goods.
"Look, dear...... White fox skin, bear skin, wolf skin, there are also dried mushrooms, yellow mutton jerky, agate jade...... It is worthy of a caravan of merchants from all over the world, and this business has been done outside the mouth?"
"Don't worry about these things that can't be eaten, first find food and horse feed, make do with a bite to eat, we still have to go on the road?" Speaking of this, Mailer pointed to the youngest young man who was only seventeen or eighteen, "Come here, master, I have something to ask you..."
The frightened little pale man knelt down, and Mailer picked the man's chin with a horsewhip, "What is your name? Why are you hiding here, and who are these goods for......?"
"I, I, I...... My name is Niuzi, and this is the goods of the Four Seas Merchants...... It's all the goods that foreigners ordered from our shopkeepers...... Unexpectedly, on the way back, I met a battle...... We have nowhere to go, so we have to hide here......"
At this time, a pro-soldier walked over from the back room, carrying a flower cloth wrapped in skin, "General, there are cooking cakes and some wine here, and the ready-made yellow mutton strips on the truck, let's eat a few bites...... There is horse feed in the back room, and it will be fed in a while..."
Mellor finished cooking bread and mutton strips, put them in his mouth and munched on them, "Cow, tell me how much silver these truckloads are worth, and what is the most valuable goods......
"Give me some water...... You honestly say, I'll spare your life, what do you think?"
"I said, I'll say it...... The total price of these five truckloads is 100,000 oceans, and the most valuable of them is a Xiuyan Jade Buddha, which was brought in by the caravan from outside the customs by all means, and the serious Xiuyan old jade ......"
"Oh..."The cooking cakes in Mailer's hands fell to the ground in shock, "What you said is true?Old jade produced in Xiuyan outside the Guanbei?" How can Mailer not be excited, as a Manchurian, he knows too well the treasure outside the Guanwai, ginseng, mink, Dongzhu, Haidongqing, Xiuyan and jade, which are the pride of the Manchurians.
Especially after the Manchurians entered the customs, they protected the land of Longxing outside the customs, and did not allow the private sector to develop it privately, artificially creating a shortage of markets.
This is not to say that the Manchus have economic acumen, they are actually protecting Guanwai and leaving them a step back, and in the future, the Han people will really have another Zhu Yuanzhang, and they can still go back to Guanwai to live their own lives if they can't beat them.
In Xiao Letian's memory, Xiuyan County's Xiuyu is not expensive, the output of this kind of jade is still very high, and you can buy a piece for a few thousand yuan, which is in very good condition. However, during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, Xiuyan jade was a beautiful jade that could be as famous as Hetian jade, and everyone liked it, and the people naturally followed suit.
Mailer grabbed the young man's wrist and asked sharply, "Is it really Xiuyan Jade, what kind of Jade Buddha, how tall and how big?"
"It hurts, it hurts...... General, your hands are lighter...... It's definitely Xiu Yanyu, and our shopkeeper relied on the relationship of countless people to get it...... It's a foot and a half high, and it's very ......green and warm all over."
Mailer can be regarded as a god back now, the one-and-a-half-foot-high Xiuyan Jade Buddha is in such good condition, if it is put in Beijing City, it will be at least 50,000 taels. Coupled with the floating wealth in his own family, he can also make up more than 100,000 integers.
"This Jade Buddha Lao Tzu is coming, this is Lao Tzu's life talisman... As long as there is money, the death penalty can become a living sin, and the living crime can become innocent...... Hahaha, this is really a bodhisattva blessing..."
Tian Xiucai hurriedly stepped forward and patted his ass, "My lord is so blessed, with the silver to open the way, I still have a new army bottom fine fold, these two are definitely your life charms... Congratulations, congratulations, ......"
Mailer's face finally turned a little red, he grabbed the collar of the cow and said fiercely, "Invite the Jade Buddha to me...... You give me a little care, if you touch a little bit of jade scum, Lao Tzu will kill you with a thousand knives......"
Just when Niu Er was about to untie the rope of the truck, the three guys behind suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Niuzi, you can't give it to them, if you lose the Jade Buddha, we will be killed by the shopkeeper, woo woo woo...... "The cowardly guy kowtowed while crying.
The irascible pro-soldiers went up and kicked randomly, "What are you crying for, and if you make a disturbance again, you will be hacked to death immediately...... A bunch of..."
Niu Zi's eyes were red now, and his eyes were full of tears, and he carefully untied the innermost cart, and he pretended not to hear the cry behind him.
In the middle of a pile of top-quality fox and wolf skins, there was a very simple hardwood box, which was indeed more than a foot and a half high and half a foot thick, and the outside of the box was tightly wrapped in sheepskin.
When this box appeared, Mailer and all the people around him showed greed, and the one-and-a-half-foot-tall Xiuyan Jade Buddha was about to arrive, which was a good treasure.
"Open, be careful...... Don't break my heart, baby......" Mellor's eyes widened as big as brass bells.
At this time, Niu Zi's face suddenly changed, and his fierce expression was not at all like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, "Do you want it......?"
Niu Zi roared and shook off the sheepskin, and overturned the wooden box with a handful, and after the box fell to the ground, he looked at it, where was the jade Buddha inside, and all of them were bamboo grenades made in the Special Administrative Region, which was the oldest batch of models in Xiao Letian's grenade curry.
Niu Zi grabbed a grenade and threw it at the brother behind him, and then grabbed two bamboo pipe grenades in his hand and rushed towards Mailer.
"If you want the Jade Buddha, go to the West Heaven and watch it with me...... Damn dog Tartar, I'm going to avenge my father..."The wax seal in front of the bamboo pipe slammed on the hardwood handle of the cart, revealing the yellow phosphorus igniter layer inside.
"General be careful...... We have been tricked, and it was this little cub's father who was hacked to death at the door... He's going to take revenge...... "The guards around Mailer are all children of his family for several lifetimes, and this loyalty is indeed not fake at all, and he grabbed Mailer and threw him out of the courtyard wall."
"Help me, adults save the little ones......" Tian Xiucai had seen this kind of spontaneously combusting grenade, once it exploded, there would be no living creatures within five steps, he lay on the ground and crawled and fled.
When the guards saw that the yellow phosphorus layer was smoking, they didn't dare to entangle it when they knew that time was pressing, so they turned around and fled. At this time, the cow had already pounced like a mad tiger, and his arms were tightly clasped around one thigh.
"To die together...... Avenge my father..."
"Little bastard, let it go......" The pro-soldier smashed his iron fist on the back of the cow, and the corners of the cow's mouth were bloody when the two fists went down, but he still held his thighs and didn't let go.
The other three men also went crazy, they had all seen the tragedy in the surrounding villages these days, and the hatred in the hearts of these Tartar soldiers could not be extinguished by the sea and the river.
"Do you want us to die, then die together......" The three guys also crushed the grenade wax seal, the yellow phosphorus coating began to smoke, and the three rushed up, one hugged a personal soldier, and locked his hands tightly.
"Let's die together...... All together..."
"Crazy, you're all crazy......"
There were only six guards left around Mailer, and now four of them were trapped at once, and the remaining two turned their heads and ran away without righteousness, and they couldn't even care about the acid Xiucai on the ground.
"Prime Minister...... Revenge, ......" The words ended here, only to hear a few huge explosions in the courtyard, and all the roars disappeared without a trace.
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