Couriers can't be killed
Chongzhen three years, at the end of May, Xuanfu, Zhangjiabao Pass.
A team of musicians kept playing, playing and singing, and the two sides were tense, ready for a big battle at any time.
On one side is the sergeant guarding the customs, and on the other side is the family member who escorts the merchant's goods.
"What do you mean by that? Deduct ninety percent of our goods, why don't you grab them? Steward Fan scolded in a loud voice.
"Hey, Manager Fan's words are wrong, how can we rob it, let's lay out the facts, be reasonable, and come here." The staff guarding the gate clapped their hands, and two stunning women in cheongsams took the membership contract signed by Steward Fan.
"Turn to page three." Said the staff.
One of the two women, donning a silk glove, gently flipped through the contract.
"The Chamber of Commerce, the big man members, loyal and patriotic, every time they go out of the customs to do business, they voluntarily donate ninety percent of the goods, in order to fund the military salary, in black and white, clearly, and there are signatures and drawings of all the adults on it."
The staff member pointed to a line on the membership contract and read it aloud.
"Fart, you're a pit man, you... You are robbing. "Manager Fan, when I saw this contract, I was big.
He had already forgotten about this contract, and he signed this contract in a daze and paid 100,000 taels of silver, which in itself made him very angry.
Now he finds a bigger hole in the contract, a kind of anger that has fallen into the scam.
"Damn, cut off people's wealth, such as killing your parents, don't deceive people too much." Steward Fan was so angry that he trembled.
"Oh, then bullying you, what's wrong?" The staff had already been instructed, and the superiors had specially told them to stop the ninety percent of the goods.
He has confidence, so naturally he is not in charge.
"The military leader, the military leader of Zhangjiabao, you have collected so much silver from us, and now you don't make any efforts, do you want to be punished by the Nine Clans?" Fan Guan shouted at the walls of Zhangjiabao, wanting to shout out the general he had bought to defend the city.
"You mean him?"
At this moment, a person stood out from the head of the city, and the personal guard next to him, holding the head of a person with a single gun, was the former head of Zhangjiabao.
It was the leader of the guards, Luo Cong, who raised the head with a single gun, so the identity of the person who came was revealed.
Zhenbei Bo, Wang Zezhi.
As soon as Steward Fan saw Wang Zezhi, his heart was full of sighs.
When he saw the bloody head of the military leader, his heart sank to the bottom of the lake.
Since they fought against Wang Zezhi, they had never won, and he naturally knew that Wang Zezhi was powerful.
"No, no, I don't know him."
Fan Guan was covered with fine cold sweat on his neck afterwards, and quickly denied it.
"Oh, that's good, this person is treasonous, the evidence is conclusive, he has been ambushed, and if you don't know him, it's fine."
After Wang Zezhi finished speaking, he retreated.
Steward Fan craned his neck to look at the city, and could only see the banner flying in the wind.
He didn't believe that Wang Zezhi would only bring one person to come, and even their head of the family would bring more than a dozen thugs to defend himself when he went out, and he didn't believe that such a big figure as Zhenbeibo would not bring troops to defend himself.
Steward Fan glanced at the family members behind him, his eyes rolling.
Compared with ninety percent of the goods, how to choose, he soon made a decision.
"Give me..."
Before Steward Fan finished speaking, a pipe with a rod and a rod of Lu Mi immediately appeared at the battlement of the Zhangjiabao city wall.
Steward Fan swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.
"Unload all the goods for Lao Tzu, and unload ninety percent of the goods for each family." Knowing that he was invincible, Steward Fan immediately changed his words and beckoned his subordinates to unload the goods.
If it's okay for him to unload his own goods alone, the key is that he commands his subordinates to unload other people's goods.
"Presumptuous, this is my Cao family's goods, Lao Tzu, who of you dares to move?" Seeing this, the steward of the Cao family immediately beckoned his own people to protect the goods.
"Don't forget, your Cao family is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, so if you know each other, hurry up and unload the goods." Steward Fan twisted his head at the pipe on the city wall.
Steward Cao just glanced at it, and then ordered the people to unload the goods.
"You're both crazy, aren't you? You're crazy, we're not crazy, we're gone, I'm gone. ”
The steward didn't want to lose ninety percent of the goods in vain, so he shouted and walked back with his own goods and his family.
In his opinion, their Kang family was far away from the pass, and the soldiers guarding the pass were too late to chase after them.
Steward Fan watched Steward Kang leave with the goods, and he was angry, anxious and jealous.
Their Fan family went out of the customs this time, bringing a lot of grain, salt, and tea, which are all commodities urgently needed by Huang Taiji.
This time it's okay, they lost ninety percent before they arrived in Jinguo.
The steward ran away with the goods, and they saved ninety percent of the goods, which is not a small amount.
After unloading ninety percent of the goods, Steward Fan planned to return to report the news.
But Wang Zezhi won't let him leave like this.
"The members of the Chamber of Commerce can enjoy the free escort of the steel armor heavy horse."
The staff shouted, and there were bursts of roaring on both sides of the road.
It was the sound of the hooves of a horse riding in steel armor.
Steward Fan was dazzled by the reflection of the steel armor, and he stretched out his hand to cover it.
After the blocking, he saw the neat steel armor heavy horse, and Steward Fan shuddered, so he could only be obediently escorted to the gate.
As long as ninety percent of the goods were unloaded, the big men would all enjoy the custody of a steel armor heavy horse.
They were personally sent out of the pass by the steel armored heavy cavalry, and then the gate of Zhangjiabao was closed and they rested for a while.
The bigwigs who were forced out of the customs panicked, just like that, they didn't know how to explain to Huang Taiji.
They were afraid that Huang Taiji would kill them in a fit of rage.
"No, let's go." Steward Fan suddenly thought of a terrible thing, his face changed greatly, and he ran away with his family.
Steward Cao behind him also remembered this incident, and ran away.
The other members looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
"Why are they in such a hurry?"
"What are Steward Fan and Steward Cao running?"
"Yes." One of the bigwigs remembered something, patted his head and was about to run away.
"Hey, tell me why you ran."
"Let go of me, what have you hidden in the goods, don't you know yourself? Let go, I don't want to die here. ”
After this person finished speaking, the faces of the other bigwigs changed drastically.
At this moment, the sound of guns sounded on the head of Zhangjiabao.
"Smack!"
Obviously they didn't hit anyone, but they ran away like crazy.
Because their hearts are weak.
"Sure enough, as the adults expected, they ran faster than the rabbits, why didn't the adults kill them."
At the head of the city, Luo Cong looked at the bigwigs who fled in a hurry, and complimented Wang Zezhi.
"If you kill them, there will be no one to deliver the courier, and now that the show has just begun, how can you kill the courier."
"My lord, there is a powder keg hidden in the grain."
The sergeant inspecting the cargo vigorously pulled out a small barrel of gunpowder from a bag of grain and reported loudly.
"My lord, something is wrong with the cotton cloth, it seems to be drenched with salt water, well, the cotton cloth is salty."
A sergeant picked up a piece of cotton cloth with white marks and licked it, sticking out his tongue with saltiness.
These guys are really good at finding a way, Wang Zezhi doesn't allow them to bring forbidden objects out of the customs, so they try their best to get through the customs in a fool's way.
Subsequently, sergeants continued to search for forbidden objects that had been hidden in various ways.
This scene opened Luo Cong's eyes, no wonder the adults would come to Zhangjiabao today with the steel armor heavy cavalry and the fire gun battalion.