Du Zishan thought for a while: "Now Zhongyuan Road can't go back, but Huainan Road can't stay either." Otherwise, Lin Fan would definitely not let us go, and would find a way to eat us all. For today's plan, the only way to do this is to go to Shandong Road! ”

Knowing that some people might not understand his thoughts, he explained to everyone: "The people of Shandong are fierce and martial. There, even ordinary people are an excellent source of soldiers. ”

"There is a good saying that Shandong has many ringing horses since ancient times. In troubled times, bandits large and small will appear in Shandong Province to confront the imperial court. This has been the case throughout the ages. ”

"In recent years, although there are many large and small mountains in Shandong Road, they are all small fights and little trouble, and there is nothing to achieve the climate. And this situation is also our opportunity. ”

He glanced at everyone: "We are defeated this time, but I still have you." As long as you're all around, then I'm not a loser. ”

"You are all people who have led troops, and with you, we can soon pull out another army of several thousand people, and even more in number. At that time, no matter who it is, they can't help us! ”

"It's just that this is the time to suffer you, and from now on, you will all follow me to the grass!"

Now that Du Zishan already had an idea in his heart and pointed out the next way out, everyone was relieved.

The adjutant general scolded with a smile: "Fuck it, I've been a thief, do you care if you want to be a bandit?" Just let us follow the general, and we'll go wherever you say! ”

"Fuck it. Since the general said to go to Shandong, then let's go to Shandong, and we will follow the general everywhere! And they all agreed.

Du Zishan was a little moved in his heart, and unconsciously wet the corners of his eyes.

He restrained his emotions and chuckled at everyone: "Then you should be ready to follow me to endure hardships, if anyone regrets it at that time, don't blame me for not reminding you today." Anyone complains in front of me in the future, I'm going to kick your ass! ”

"Hahaha!" Du Zishan's rare joke made everyone laugh together.

Not to mention that Du Zishan rushed to Shandong with his generals to seek a way out. At this time, Lin Fan's side was also very busy.

In this battle, the battalions in Shenzhou under Lin Fan's command suffered a lot of damage, and they urgently needed to replenish their manpower, otherwise it would have a great impact on their combat effectiveness.

After Li Qingshan returned to the camp, Lin Fan asked him to be in charge of the screening of the surrendered troops.

Under Li Qingshan's organization, the officers and soldiers began to register the soldiers in the battalion, and selected the most elite ones to be added to the battalions in Shenzhou to make up for the lack of personnel.

In particular, hundreds of war horses and nearly 400 cavalry were packed and collected by Lin Fan, and they were all included in his command.

And his behavior caused dissatisfaction among the Gwangju military and local government to a certain extent.

It's okay for the Gwangju soldiers to say here, after all, they are also temporarily under Lin Fan's control, and they don't have the confidence to dare Lin Fan to compete.

Besides, they have seen the strength of the various battalions in Shenzhou, and they also understand that in order to maintain their combat strength, the Shenzhou side must attach great importance to the replenishment of military resources.

Moreover, the generals of Gwangju were not so eager to replenish their troops in order to eat empty salaries. So after Lin Fan gave up some of his military merits to them, they let Shenzhou choose people first.

In fact, in the eyes of Zhang Qi and others, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the battalions in Shenzhou to pick out the elite first.

Elites tend to be arrogant, and that means tough. If those elites are incorporated into the battalions of Gwangju, in case they are deducted from their salaries in the future

The boss is dissatisfied and will make trouble, and Gwangju may not be able to live in the town.

In this case, it is better to let Shenzhou directly pick up those difficult ghosts. For the Gwangju side, it was a peace of mind.

They only need to add a little bit of bullying to make the army look like they can bluff people on the outside.

Compared with the Gwangju army, the Gwangju local government is not so easy to talk to.

When facing the local government, the first problem encountered was that Lin Fan's official position was not used. The governor of Gwangju and Tongzhi are both older than him, and his general judgment from other states cannot scare those local officials.

In addition, although this time it was a big victory, all battalions in Shenzhou had to endure the contempt and neglect of local civil officials.

The arrogance of the local civil officials towards the military attache made Chen Fangshu's good temper itch to the teeth.

If it weren't for Lin Fan's status as a meritorious person and a general judge, I'm afraid even he would have to suffer from this wretchedness.

However, Shenzhou is a guest army after all, and it has come to the rescue of Gwangju. Therefore, although the local government was prejudiced against them, their attitude was much better than that of the Gwangju soldiers.

The local government was most dissatisfied with Lin Fan, and still felt that he was too ugly.

Lin Fan not only had to take away all the cavalry and horses in the thief camp, but also asked people to allocate almost any weapons and food and grass used in the camp to his side.

Such a big piece of meat, Gwangju stared at it from top to bottom. Lin Fan didn't even say hello, he stuffed all the meat into his mouth, and didn't even leave them a mouthful of soup, how could they bear it.

Therefore, the Gwangju government, which had not been seen during the war, sent people to the camp with a swagger as soon as the war was over. In the name of it: receiving troops and counting supplies.

According to the old practice of this dynasty, the local government has this power. But what the Gwangju local government did this time was a little unauthentic.

Because after the first confrontation between the official army and Du Zishan, Lin Fan had already sent Zhang Qi to escort many prisoners of war to the Gwangju local government.

The same is true of the tranquil ones, who also handed over the 2,000 surrendered troops they had obtained from the ambush of the thief army reinforcements in the first battle.

Of course, this was due to the inconvenience of the battalion in managing so many surrendered troops.

But in a certain way, letting the local government take care of the surrendered troops is also equivalent to allowing the local government to participate in this war, which can be said to be a military merit given by Lin Fanbai to the local government.

Not only do you not have to take the risk to go into battle to kill the enemy, but you can also get a lot of military merit in vain. Naturally, those civil officials in Gwangju City will not refuse, and they will accept it with peace of mind.

But now that the war is over, the local government is not satisfied with the benefits it has obtained, and wants to get another piece of the pie from Lin Fan.

Although the officials sent by Gwangju City were not as arrogant as they were to Zhang Qi, they were inevitably embarrassed at every turn.

Regarding this point, Li Qingshan, the scribes in the army, have the best experience.

In the process of counting the various materials, the local officials always found various reasons to reject the results of the scribes' inventory again and again. Either the list here doesn't match, or there is a problem with the account books there, and it needs to be reorganized.

And most of these are trivial things, which have nothing to do with the overall situation.

What's more, many of the problems in this are normal wear and tear, and they are not even problems.

But the local officials just held on, and their mouths were full of "national events,

How can it be child's play", forcing Li Qingshan and them to go back and re-investigate and sort out.

But these trivial matters are not big, but they are extremely troublesome to deal with. Many times, Li Qingshan and the others have to push back the problems that have been solved, not to mention the painstaking efforts, and the work is even more useless.

After several times like this, after the newly handed list was rejected again, Li Qingshan's head exploded with anger.

He took the list and account books that had been returned, and went to the commander's tent to find Lin Fan.

Li Qingshan said angrily: "My lord, they are too much!" Not to mention such nitpicking, time-consuming and laborious, the key is to delay everyone's time in vain, aren't you a toss for them? The scribes are complaining now, and if you don't think about it, I won't be able to hold it back! ”

Lin Fan looked up at Li Qingshan, who was rubbing his eyebrows, and saw that his face was full of sorrow, and it seemed that he was tossed lightly.

With a chuckle, Lin Fan said, "Show me those things in your arms?" ”

Li Qingshan was a little unsure, but when he saw that Lin Fan wanted it, he still handed him the thing, and said at the same time: "It's not that we don't want to work, but we have checked it several times, and there is no major problem in it, but there may be some slight discrepancies in a small place." If this is checked again, then everyone won't want to sleep tonight! ”。

Taking over these list account books, Lin Fan just opened and flipped a few pages at random, and then saw him pick up the brush on the side and erase a few lines on the account books.

Then he closed the account book again, and casually threw it back to Li Qingshan: "Okay, you can give this to them again!" ”

"That's it?" Seeing that Lin Fan had done it so quickly, this made Li Qingshan mutter.

It's not that he doesn't believe Lin Fan, it's that his own adults are too understated.

Flipping through the account book, Li Qingshan found the page that Lin Fan had changed just now. When he saw the content that had been erased by Lin Fan, he was shocked and surprised: "This is!" ”

He had checked everything in this account book several times, and he clearly remembered what was written here.

"After investigation, a total of 13,770 taels of silver were found from the thief's camp, as well as 7 million yuan of Dayun Bao banknotes, and 3,500 stones of grain and grass."

Li Qingshan also knew very well the source of these money and food, most of them were looted by the thieves and used as military salaries and rations.

In fact, in addition to these, there were originally more than 20,000 taels of silver tickets in the camp, but Du Zishan took them all away when he left. In this way, Li Qingshan has no chance to see those silver tickets, so they can't count them.

As for the seven million treasure notes, it looks quite scary in terms of quantity. However, in the three hundred years since the founding of the country, after years of reprinting, the treasure banknotes have been issued excessively, and the actual value of the treasure banknotes has long been less than one thousandth of the amount printed on them.

Moreover, although the treasure banknote was issued by the imperial court, the depreciation was too great, and most of the shops on the market did not recognize it, and only accepted copper coins and silver. Unless the government or the powerful rely on power to buy and sell, you will not be able to spend any amount of treasure money in your hand.

This is not only the case for the people, but also for the imperial court. The imperial court strictly ordered the local government to not allow the people to use treasure money to offset the tax collection, and only accept cash.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the reason why the imperial court issued treasure money was just to collect the wealth of the world.

Therefore, these treasures recorded in the account can only be said to be more than much, less than a lot, and the calculation is better than nothing. It is estimated that because of this, Du Zishan was too lazy to take it away and kept these treasure notes.