Ma Xing raised his eyes to look at the knight who greeted him, his face was a little dazed at first, and then he was surprised, and did not forget to point to Li Guang beside him and introduced: "This heroic young man is the Yang Zhi case among the three direct cases of our Wannian Society. Ghost face, don't look at him as young and despiseful, let's Qin Chuan Benduo is righteous and brave, this Yang Zhi case is the leader in today's world, fraternity and righteousness, which makes many old people ashamed. ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward.

Li Guang didn't think of his own kind in his heart, but after a little hesitation, he still stepped forward to follow.

At this time, the group of knights had already dismounted and slowed down, and Ma Xing stepped forward and said with a smile: "I don't know that Yang Zhi's case is coming, and I can't welcome guests from afar, it's really rude." ”

The young man who was called Yang Zhi's case laughed when he heard this: "What a big driver, where did you get so much false courtesy." We didn't inform us in advance of our visit, if you are lazy in the village all day long just waiting to greet and send off, can you do serious business? ”

As he spoke, he turned around and pointed to the two young knights who were surrounded by him behind him and said, "Those two Lang Jun are the VIPs of our company, and they asked to visit a few veterans of the old war in the Western Xinjiang, and I immediately thought of you, which attracted people to meet." ”

Ma Xing raised his eyes and saw that the other party was also looking at him curiously, so he gestured slightly, and then said to the young Yang Zhixin nervously: "Ma Xing is just a lazy waste person in the countryside, vulgar and rude, how dare you rashly step forward to make a mistake, don't make fun of me in the straight case." ”

Yang Zhixin raised his hand and knocked on his shoulder and scolded with a smile: "It's really a person who is getting older and more treacherous, but I just want to inquire more about the details of your guests." I also tell you the truth, this is not something that you can know right now, so let's say it, our Qin Yongxing Society will obey the orders of the two Langjun. What is the identity of the distinguished guest, even it is difficult for me. ”

"The so-called old righteousness turned out to be just a plaything under the hands of the anointed sorghum!"

At this time, Li Guang snorted coldly on the side, he was still suspicious of this old clothes society, and seeing that the two obvious gentlemen were going to be treated as guests, the little recognition that had just risen in his heart disappeared.

"Don't talk nonsense with a ghost face!"

Ma Xing's face changed after hearing this, and then he apologized for the Yang Zhi case and said: "This Li Guimian is my old army robe, the story is unbearable, lonely and secluded in the mountains, just visited not long ago, I haven't yet learned all the kinds of righteousness in our old clothing society, and I ask Yang Zhi's case to forgive me." ”

After hearing this, the young man waved his hand: "Righteous blood is cold and cold, it is the fault of the world, and our old clothing society does not insist on any reputation." It's not rude for people to have misunderstandings. Do small things, save some wretched people. If there is any great wish, it is to repair the omissions of the Heavenly Dao and balance the surplus and shortage of humanity. The foot may be harmed by the world, the teeth are cold-blooded, and the world is wronged and misanthropic, but our old clothes society is chivalrous and not angry, righteous and not chaotic, and only says relief when entering the WTO, and does not ask about the origin. ”

"How good is the word, and how much can it be kept?"

"The world is always high and low, such as the length of the size. Therefore, the purpose of the clothing society is not to average the high and low, hoe the strong and help the weak. The weak can keep their vitality, which is the bottom line for people, and the strong are bold and enterprising, which is a future for people. The poor are disgusted with the rich, and the poor are disgusted with the rich, which is already contrary to righteousness. But there is a lot of work to pitch, and there will be inches, so taking hemp as a letter is to establish such a rule. ”

At this time, one of the two young knights had already stepped forward, smiling and patiently explaining to Li Guang: "The essence of the old clothing society lies in righteousness and mutual assistance, but it is not an indiscriminate almsgiving. The superior buys bones and invites talents. Therefore, the clothing society benefits all the people and seeks strong men. The former is tempting to be heavy, the latter is touching to benevolence and righteousness, and it is a law, and those who wish to take the bait. Such an answer, I don't know whether you are satisfied or not? ”

When the other party approached, Li Guang raised his eyes, first surprised by the handsome appearance, and after hearing this discussion, he lowered his head and groaned, and after a while he raised his arms and crossed his hands and said: "I dare not boast of a strong man, but I also feel benevolent and righteous." Therefore, if the clothing club really wants to help the poor, a certain person is also willing to donate himself to join the society! ”

"Although the company has a purpose, it only cares about people. Since you can, you don't need to ask outsiders, what the company can give you is just an innumerable way to help the needy and how to donate your strength. ”

Looking at this old soldier with hideous scars on his face, Li Tong sighed in his heart.

If he was planning to establish the Old Clothes Society before, there were still too many considerations and trade-offs in his heart, but in the past few years of living in seclusion in Guanzhong, as more and more government soldiers and military households have come into contact, there is more heartfelt sympathy for this group.

People say that the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, or open, or rich and strong, and the famous ministers and generals are as bright as the stars, but for these government soldiers and military households, it is nothing more than the destruction of the Juntian system and the collapse of the government and military system. They are the group that pays the most in this prosperous world, and is so transparent that it has almost no sense of existence.

In these people, Li Tong felt the most profound sense of disillusionment, and he was suspicious and vigilant about everything. The so-called credibility of the country is close to bankruptcy in their minds.

These government soldiers and military households are not destitute in the countryside, they are at least good families, military landlords, and a group of people with economic security and a great sense of honor.

They are not only the founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, but also the actual creators of the prestige of the empire, but this prestige has nothing to do with them. The imperial court no longer has money, food, and land to reward them, and all they can do is to award the already overflowing lords layer by layer, and this is still in the case of victory.

The imperial court already had no land to give, but there were more and more military tasks to suppress and conquer Fuyuan, although the Long March athletes had begun to be recruited since the Gaozong period, but the most effective and organized people were this group of people. Therefore, every time there is a major conquest, these people still need to be consumed.

Li Tongxing's purpose of creating the Old Clothes Society is not simple, but as he said, he is more willing to inspire strong men with benevolence and righteousness. As long as someone actually benefits from this, it doesn't matter whether the heart is true or not.

On the way, I happened to meet Ma Xing, who was going to visit today, and the group returned to the grange here again, and Li Tong was also blunt about his intentions: "A few days ago, I happened to meet a member of the Hu merchants of Kangguo in Xijing City, who was a merchant in Heyuan, and was captured by the Tubo bee thieves, and stayed there for more than a few months. According to what he said, there are more than 1,000 slave tents in this realm, and they belong to the other branch of the Ka clan, and hundreds of Tang people are imprisoned ......"

Although Ma Xing and the others didn't know the specific identity of the Lang Jun in front of them, they were a little dumbfounded for a while when they heard him talk about this kind of scheme. They may be chivalrous and righteous, but what they think and plan is only what they see around them, but this Lang Jun actually intends to go as far as the enemy territory on the border, and he wants to gather Haoyi and directly enter the Tubo Hu tent to rescue the people who have fallen into it!

"Xiaomin is not cowardly, and he also has hatred with thieves, but he can enter the country and drive him away, and he will never work hard!"

When Ma Xing said this, he raised his palm with a broken finger, and laughed at himself with a bleak face: "In the old year, if you lost the thief realm, if you don't have to hold the reins for grazing, you will be afraid that the remaining fingers will not be able to stay." Now that my body is old and crippled, I am not afraid to travel far, but I am afraid that I will not be able to bear the weight. ”

"Ma Lao is wrong, I want to use your old years to train a group of heroic warriors. Bloody and brave, should be cherished, within the reach of manpower, kill the enemy and go to danger, it is advisable to drive the young strong! If there is a brave and healthy force that can travel freely in the western Xinjiang, it will not only be able to collect the robes and righteousness left behind in the slave realm in the old years, take care of the past goods and travel, but also allow my old clothing society to increase huge profits and help calmly. ”

Li Tong explained with a smile.

Therefore, the development trend of the clothing society is gratifying, between the two capitals alone donated hemp into the society of more than 100,000 ordinary members, all over the country donated into the mail, with technical strength to serve more than 20,000 people, on this basis selected out of the heroic and dare to fight is as many as 2,000.

As a direct consequence of the scale, the costs are staggering. Every year in winter and summer, the cost of this alone amounts to tens of millions of dollars. In addition, the cost of raising and transshipment in various places will be doubled, and this is only between the two capitals. If the scale is expanded, it will not only multiply.

And with the Wuzhou Revolution, the people of Guanzhong began to move to Heluo in large numbers, and they also had to open Zhouji's porridge houses along the way between the two capitals, even if it was only a meager supply, but they couldn't bear the large amount, and they were simply burning money every day.

This is a hard expense that must not be reduced, without these, the purpose of the clothing club is impossible. Although most of the people who received relief were the elderly, weak, women and children, these people benefited from the fact that they constituted the cohesion of the upper echelons of the Former Clothing Society.

Although workshops in various places have entered the processing of paper and cloth, there is still a huge shortage of qualified craftsmen, and most of them are operating at a loss, accumulating a large amount of hemp.

Since last year, nearly half of Li Tong's national tax has been filled in this bottomless pit, not because he is reluctant to invest, but if this proportion is expanded, no matter how clean the money laundering is, it will become very dangerous.

At present, the only entry item that can be called a huge profit is the trade route from Qinling to Hanzhong, where more than 1,000 heroic and righteous warriors are active in guarding the trade route between the mountains and collecting tolls.

But this protection fee is only aimed at some small businessmen, and the real big high-rollers in Shuzhong do not need to rely on this kind of protection, they themselves have the protection of the township and righteousness.

The development of this financial route has also entered a bottleneck period, in addition to meeting the daily supply consumption of these thousands of daring soldiers, the surplus is no longer as profitable as it was at the beginning. If you want to make a breakthrough again, you can either contact and develop local heroes in Shuzhong and do business on your own, or simply turn into a bee thief and block the road and plunder.

The former method requires a way and time, and the latter Li Tong doesn't consider it at all, those daring warriors have lofty beliefs and moral senses, if they really let them turn into bee thieves, their own organization will collapse directly.

In order to make up for the huge deficit, Li Tong originally used the soap box perfume invented by his family to take him to the two capitals to dump, but it was only a drop in the bucket. Therefore, it is still difficult for the clothing society to maintain its current scale, and if it seeks to develop again, it will not be able to continue.

At this time, he finally saw a turning point, and Tang Xiujing, his old in-law in Xizhou, finally wrote to the imperial court to ask for the restoration of the four towns.

Therefore, Li Tong planned to organize an expeditionary team to take advantage of the military strength of the two countries to gather in the Western Regions to engage in some robbery, grab a wave of unsuspecting Tibetan slave owners near the source of the river, and by the way, expand the smuggling channels on the Hexi trade road, and divide a little war dividend.

And in the future, the Tang army, it should be said that the Zhou army, will be stationed in Anxi, taking advantage of the fact that there is no local forces pouring in, and preemptively arranging a few strongholds, he will have a place in the future Western commerce, which is better than cheapening those Tuqiang tribes along the way.