Chapter 44: Robbed
87_87379When leaving Tianjin Wei by boat, Li Dacheng glanced back, because the situation was unclear, looking back at Tianjin Wei, always made him feel extremely dangerous, the whole city lined by low houses outside the city was like a tiger lying among the sheep, and it devoured people!
The return boat is still a grain ship that has unloaded all the grain, the sea route has been broken and the canal has become the grain road of Tianjin Wei, Li Chengyou, who almost monopolizes the grain road, should have made a fortune these days, maybe there is no need to touch the silver in the Sun family's compound, and the silver taels needed by the big housekeeper can be enough.
Although there is chaos around Tianjin Wei, there is no decent force on the canal, and Cao Yong, who was gathered into a rope by Li Dacheng, is the leading force on land, and is even more leader on the canal.
Returning to the Duliu camp, I asked about the situation of Li Dahan's camp, and the entire camp has doubled in just two days, and the scale of more than 6,000 people has already suppressed Zhang Decheng's first regiment in the world.
"There are too many people, sift it through!"
"Brother Dacheng, how do you sieve it?"
Looking at Brother Dacheng, who had no expression on his face, Li Dahan's heart was a little worried, could he not have done well?
"Fight each other in pairs, the fierce ones who can fight stay, and let the rest go to Cangzhou Mansion to contribute, and those who don't want to contribute don't care about their lives and deaths, and push out the camp!"
"Brother Dacheng, most of the harvest in the past two days has come from Shandong, isn't that okay?"
"It may change recently, once things are not right, we will have to withdraw to Cangzhou Mansion, and Tianjin Wei will not be able to enter!
Honest duty naturally has to be helped, those who come out to make trouble can't help it! Leaving them behind will not listen to orders, rather than letting me do it, it is better to let them go out and fend for themselves.
Starting today, all the grain brought by the grain ships will be sent to Beijing and Tianjin to be sold, and the grain in the camp will be distributed to the surrounding villagers, so that there is enough food for one meal.
Can Makoto come over today? ”
Most of the Boxers in Zhili are supported by big families behind their backs, and most of the Boxers who travel all over the world will choose Li Dacheng's method to rob big families for a living, and most of those who can't get along are from other places, and most of them dare not steal and rob, and most of those who can come to the Yellow River Fist now are mostly Boxers composed of refugees.
With a livelihood, most people will leave, those who don't want to leave, most of them don't have any good intentions, and those who follow him Li Dacheng have a bloody road ahead, it's no wonder that Li Dacheng can be happy!
"I'll do it now, I should be in Cangzhou Mansion, and if I want to come over, I will have to do it in the middle of the night at the earliest."
Li Dacheng, who had a gloomy face, put a lot of pressure on Da Han, he had run the entire camp alone in the past two days, he was already a little lacking in confidence, compared with Brother Dacheng's practice in Cangzhou Mansion, and then look at the Boxers he received, Li Dahan was also a little frustrated in his heart, he didn't do a good job in what Brother Da Cheng explained!
"Hmmm! Let the person who went tell him to prepare 800,000 taels of silver. ”
"What? 800,000 taels! ”
The frustration was still in his heart, and Brother Dacheng shouted out a sky-high price of 800,000 yuan, not to mention silver, it was the price of 800,000 taels of silver, and he heard it for the first time.
"Eight hundred thousand, cash! There are a few people over there, Dahan, you have to be cautious in doing things, but sometimes you might as well be more generous, more than 800,000? Don't just stare at silver, there are some things that are more important than silver!
I passed a message to Chengyou, you will call the people from Li Zhuang later, I have something to say! ”
The wheel, leaving six old man Sun, ten ghost head knives, two of his own, forty-two left, twelve left for spare, the big and small Li Zhuang's brothers need more than twenty, and the old Cao brothers will be gone if they give a few more, more than 3,000 people, no, now it is more than 6,000 people, plus the thousands of brothers on the canal, it is only a beginning to really arm 800,000 taels.
Shi Nai has to do something like that, barely in an emergency, and it is still Lin Mington and Mauser who really need to use it, otherwise it will still have no combat effectiveness!
To really organize an army, Li Dacheng lacks too many things now, and it's a headache to think about it!
"Hey!"
Seeing that Brother Dacheng was in a bad mood, Li Dahan responded, and hurried to handle the things arranged by Brother Dacheng.
The time was not long, Lao Cao Cao Baofu trotted all the way to Li Dacheng's camp, and after taking a few breaths, he looked at Li Dacheng with a gloomy face, and he stopped talking a little.
"If you have something to say, I don't eat people!"
"Senior brother, can the method of beating each other in pairs be done?"
Training has always been Cao Baofu's task, Cao Yong's training method he has no reservations, now whether it is the Yellow River Boxing or the newly created Cao Boxing, are training according to Cao Yong's method, although they may not be able to train elite soldiers, but Cao Baofu believes that these people are now enough to fight the Boxers.
"Lao Cao, what we want to face is foreign devils, fighting these unpopular people is just a piggybacking thing, Tianjin Wei has already had news that foreign devils are coming.
The dry knife head licking blood in the field is a little bit fierce, and if you catch it, these will be a death, and the fiercer ones may still have a glimmer of life after they go up, so be it!
The disciples of the Yellow River Boxing, you can also sift it again, those who can't succeed, let them follow the boat to make a living!
Those of us who go up may not be able to survive to survive, and your fist over there has to be clung to it, don't hurt anyone! ”
There are still many variables in the transaction with the big butler, the chaos in Tianjin Wei, the upcoming foreign devils, and the Wuwei army in the city, so that Li Dacheng has to make a decision to choose the elite as much as possible.
Yu Peihe and others can only be regarded as vassals of the Wuwei Army, they are already trained soldiers, and they are also invincible against them, there are more than 10,000 Wuwei troops in Tianjin, those people are not the top of the matter, how much role can the miscellaneous army have?
Now, those who can be repatriated must be repatriated, and those who cannot be repatriated will stay, and do his best to save some lives, these Li Dacheng can still do it, and no matter how late it is, there will be no such time, so he can only grab his eyebrows and mustaches, and push them up if he is a person.
"Senior brother, there is something I said, don't be upset, just us people are doing it with foreign devils, I will look at it!"
This matter involves the life of the family, although there is a contract with Li Dacheng to sell his life, but who will die if he can not die? It's better to die than to live!
"Let's do this first, this is the worst outcome, maybe we don't have to die!"
How big is the water of these words, only Li Dacheng knows it, no need to die? Cao Baofu These people are a wall of flesh in his hands, he is afraid that he will fight, and there are not many people who can survive!
"Oh...... I can rest assured, and the senior brother can also rest assured, Caoquan and Yellow River Boxing have been screened up and down for the past two days, and I don't want to fight one! ”
"Go ahead!"
After explaining this, Li Dacheng was also a little tired, lying in the camp tent and squinting for a while, Li Dahan took the people of Li Zhuang and entered the tent again.
"This is a revolver, one for each person, take a look for yourself first!"
Robbed more than 20 people in Li Zhuang and taught them how to use it, and one person gave them a hundred rounds of ammunition, even if this matter is over, it is impossible to expect them to be able to fight accurately and well in a few days, and now it can be used at close range, this thing is just a confidence.
Sent them away, Li Dacheng continued to sleep, in the second half of the night, Li Cheng came to Duliu, the proceeds of the recent sale of grain, all left in the camp of Duliu, he wanted to take back the silver here, and if it was too much, it would be sent to the Sun family's compound or Weishan.
"Uncle, 800,000 is not a small amount! Tianjin Wei is so messy, in case it ......"
Hearing that Uncle Dacheng asked for 800,000 yuan, Li Chengyou was also a little picky and searched, 800,000 yuan is more than half of the family property, and anyone who takes out so much at once will also feel distressed.
"Can you make up five days?"
Now not to mention foreign countries, even domestic wars, are basically hot weaponization, although cold weapons can kill people, but the team without firearms faces the regular army, only the part of the slaughter, silver Beijing and Tianjin have, as long as you can firmly hold the gun, how much silver is not how much?
"Recently, a hundred boats of rice can be transported from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a boat of 300 stones can buy 1,000 taels, which is 100,000! The salt money over there in Shanxi can almost arrive, 200,000! There are 170,000 more, making a total of 470,000.
The two major salt lords in northern Henan, the silver in their hands still has to take time to turnover, and it would be good to give twenty or thirty thousand within five days!
It takes almost five days to take it from the Sun family's compound, and the three times in front of it are not necessarily accurate, and it takes five days to gather 800,000 cash, which is not very easy to do!
If the three sums of silver don't come within five days, the silver in the Sun family's compound will not be enough! It can only be taken from the side of Weishan, and it takes at least ten days to come and go. ”
Eight hundred thousand taels of silver in five days is a heart-wrenching amount for Li Dacheng's current plate, and sometimes it is possible to buy and sell this thing, once the three sums of silver are delayed, five days is simply not enough to gather 800,000 taels of silver.
"What about the silver ticket? Exchanged for the silver ticket of Rishengchang, 700,000 taels, can it be done in five days? ”
"I ask the Shanxi side, they make the ticket number, 500,000 should be no problem!"
"Try your best! The food that has entered the city in the past few days has been exchanged for the silver ticket of Rishengchang! ”
"Uncle, why do you want so much silver?"
"Buy a gun!"
"Buying a gun? Are we going to rebel? ”
"Stay alive!"
"Got it! I'll go to Shanxi and give Uncle Zhun Xin'er for three days! ”
"Take this with you, and be safer on the road."
gave Li Cheng a runner and taught him how to use it, Li Dacheng didn't let him rest, and followed the boat overnight.
At this time, it is also quite risky to exchange cash for silver tickets, who knows if Rishengchang will fall? In case the foreign devils enter Tianjin Wei first, not to mention the silver ticket, the silver will be greatly depreciated, and the grain is more expensive than silver and gold in the war.
Li Dacheng, who was holding his breath, spent the next few days, in addition to practicing knives, he instructed those who could use guns to use guns.
Unlike swords and sticks that are easy to use, the wheel with sound and smoke makes Li Dahan and others who used it for the first time very frightened, only Cao Baofu is the one who does not throw the wheel on the ground after the first shot, and the eyes of others look at the wheel are similar to watching demons and monsters, if you want to overcome this level, what you need is continuous live shooting, fortunately, the location of the camp is remote, and there should be no problem with more practice.
After teaching it roughly, the rest is Cao Baofu's livelihood, familiar with the runner, can use it quickly, is Li Dacheng's requirement, as for the accuracy, let's talk about it later!
The rest of the time, Li Dacheng used to hone his killing skills, first practice the big knife, after getting tired, practice poking feet, leg cramps, sitting and practicing guns, and the cycle of three days passed quickly.
"Uncle, it's not good! The silver we sold grain was seized by the Boxers in Tianjin! ”
Li Dacheng, who was practicing knives early in the morning, couldn't help frowning when he heard his eldest nephew's shouting, money is a right and wrong! Where there is money, there will always be chaos.
"How much?"
"More than 20,000!"
"Not much! How much do you have prepared over there? ”
20,000 taels of silver is not a big deal for Li Dacheng, but now the real big deal is the transaction with the big housekeeper, because 20,000 taels is a big deal if the fundraising is delayed!
"Shanxi gave a 700,000 Rishengchang bill, and the Beijing-Tianjin ticket number can be used after a month!"
"Money order?"
"Hmmm! We must deliver 700,000 taels of silver within a month, and the price given by Shanxi is high, and it can be delivered in 20 days! ”
"Is it credible?"
"They are Shanxi's ticket numbers, they won't have a bad reputation because of 700,000, right?"
"It doesn't matter! If you have a bad reputation, it's not something that 700,000 can solve!
Tell me about the 20,000 taels of silver, are there any dead people? Do you know where those people are staying? ”
If the businessman dares to hack him Li Dacheng's 700,000 yuan, Li Dacheng will have to let them take out 7 million or more!
The silver traded with the big butler is there, and there should be a saying for the robbed silver, his Li Dacheng's silver is so easy to rob?