Huizhou Mansion

The city, which had been peaceful for a hundred years, was in a panic at this time, the streets that were crowded on weekdays became empty, only a few thieves passed by from time to time, and most of the people hid in their homes, watching in horror through the cracks in groups of rogues roaring by, and they could even hear the screams and pleadings of people from time to time.

Li Zicheng walked slowly on the street with dozens of personal soldiers under the support of a group of leaders, inspecting this rich city, his eyes were full of smugness, he couldn't remember how many cities he had captured, but he remembered very clearly that this was the richest one he had won.

The mood of taking the city was so joyful that the mood that had been suppressed during this time because of the death of his nephew Li Guo became much better.

He smiled and asked Li Laiheng behind him: "Laiheng, how many good things have we collected in the past two days?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Laiheng's face showed an excited smile: "King Chuang, it's really right for us to come to Jiangnan." In the past two days, we have found more than 500,000 taels of gold alone, and as much as 15,680,000 taels of silver, not to mention jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, we have made a fortune. ”

"What about the grain, how much did we get?" Li Zicheng followed up and asked, the food problem is the top priority these days, and no matter how much gold, silver and jewelry they have, they can't eat as food.

"That's more." At the mention of this, Li Laiheng's eyebrows almost flew up, "King Chuang, don't you know, yesterday in the past two days, I found 150,000 stone of food, enough for our rebels to eat for more than half a year." This is just a search of the grain from those grain stores, if the rich households who are not benevolent and those people are also searched, our righteous army will have a year's food. ”

"There are so many?"

Li Zicheng's eyes widened in surprise.

Li Laiheng, who was in a good mood, said with a smile: "What is this, I heard that Suzhou Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion are richer than here, as long as we can take it, it will be enough for us to eat for a lifetime." ”

Li Zicheng took a deep breath, held back the excitement in his heart and sighed: "In the past, we patronized Shaanxi and Shanxi, but I didn't expect that Jiangnan was so rich. ”

"Hahaha...... It's not too late to come now, just this circumnavigated state capital is so rich. Now that Brother Liu Zongmin is still on Ning Guofu's side, I don't know how many good things he can get, so he must not be less than us, right? ”

While the two were talking, a team of people hurriedly came over in front of them, led by Li Yan.

I saw Li Yan walk up to them and salute, "I've seen King Chuang." ”

Li Zicheng raised his hand with a smile: "Your brother doesn't have to be polite, Brother Li, where are you going?" ”

Li Yan said: "The students came here this time to discuss some things with King Chuang. ”

Looking at Li Yan's serious face, Li Zicheng had a bad premonition in his heart, he couldn't help but glance at Li Laiheng, and actually saw the emotions in his heart at this time from the other party's eyes.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng was not the one who entered Beijing City in another time and space and was ready to call himself a lonely widow, he could still listen to other people's opinions, I saw him say with a smile: "You are my military, just say what you have to say." ”

Li Yan Zhengse said: "King Chuang, I don't know if you remember the strategy we set when we came out of Anqing Mansion. ”

"Of course I do."

"Since you remember, let's get ready, let's start recruiting."

"Recruitment?"

Li Zicheng was a little confused, the word "recruitment" was too unfamiliar to him.

Li Laiheng on the side was also confused, and after a while, he stammered and asked: "Military advisor, if I heard correctly, is the recruitment of soldiers like the imperial court, so that they can fight for us, and we still have to pay them every month?" ”

"Of course it's going to be paid."

Li Yan looked at Li Laiheng with strange eyes.

"Isn't it natural for a soldier to eat food and pay a salary, just like you help others work, you also have to be paid, right?"

"But...... But what are we, we are streams...... No, we are rebels, why do we pay people? ”

Li Laiheng is in a hurry, Lao Tzu is a rogue, he has always grabbed wherever he goes. And there are rules for how much you have to hand over every time you grab something, and how much you can keep, and the more you grab, the more your pockets will bulge.

But now, Li Yan actually said that he wanted to recruit soldiers and pay the soldiers, didn't this cut off his brother's wealth?

Li Zicheng is also unhappy in his heart, now he is the head of tens of thousands of rogues, if he wants to pay everyone, where will he get so much silver...... Hey...... No, he has silver now, but he is not willing to give this silver to those mud legs for nothing.

After a long time, Li Zichengcai frowned and said, "Military advisor, have you thought about it?" After all, our righteous army is a start-up, and there are still many places where we need to use silver, although we have made some silver these days, but once we spend all this silver, what will we use to raise soldiers when we run out of silver in the future?

Will those soldiers who have become accustomed to leading the army's salary make a fuss, just like the imperial court caused a mutiny because of the lack of pay, and then a bad and seemingly good situation will be eroded. ”

"Yes, Strategist." Li Laiheng also said on the side: "Our righteous army recruitment is different from those of the court of Wen Zou Zou, but there is no unwillingness to recruit any soldiers we want to recruit, and there is no need to give money at all, so why do you bother to do this?" ”

"Am I doing more?"

Li Yan was almost angry, the reason why no one is unwilling to recruit troops is because the unwilling people have been killed by you, right?

However, Li Yan also had to admit that Li Zicheng's words also had a certain amount of truth.

Of course, they have robbed a sum of money now, but it is still unknown how long this money will last, and once it is a habit to pay the soldiers, then it is necessary to ensure that the soldiers are paid every month, otherwise the consequences will ...... Just look at the mutinies that have occurred in the imperial court every period of time over the years, and you can know the consequences.

Thinking of this, Li Yan fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he raised his head and said, "King Chuang, Brother Laiheng, I know what you are worried about." Once it becomes a common practice to pay the soldiers, it is indeed a big burden for our rebels, but it is also a hurdle that we must overcome, only in this way can we change from a rogue to a force that can compete with the imperial court.

However, I also know that the income of our rebels is still very unstable, and it is a bit abrupt to pay all the brothers at once. Let's do it, let's draw up a charter first, and wait until we take Suzhou and Hangzhou before implementing it. ”

"Well...... Okay, let's talk about it when the time comes......" Hearing this, Li Zicheng finally reluctantly agreed.