Wei Bao entered the cottage accompanied by two guards and thousands of households, Li Chengnei and a group of Jinyi guards who had no official positions, as well as several of his own personal attendants.

"Two adults, let everyone stay outside." Wei Bao said: "I'll let people see if there are any willows first." ”

The two thousand households knew what Wei Bao meant, did they not want to see how much grain and gold and silver treasures Lao Linzi had saved?

Not to mention how much gold and silver treasure there is, just in the eye-catching stables in the cottage, you can see at a glance that there are more than 20 horses, which is enough to make people covetous.

However, before this trip, Wei Bao had already negotiated with Zu Guangyao, the prefect of Yongping Mansion, about how to distribute the property of the Lao Linzi Liuzi Gang, and the two thousand households had no choice but to agree.

Lin Wenbiao took Wei Bao's entourage to check around, made sure that there was no one, and came over to nod to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao said with a smile: "Then please trouble the two Thousand Household Lords to leave me a hundred people, and then divide the rest into twenty or thirty squads to search for Zhentian North in the direction of Funingwei, right?" Don't miss it, this is a great credit, I found Zhentian North, and I have an additional thank you. Let's get together in Funingwei and invite everyone to drink! ”

The two thousand households were ordered to listen to Wei Bao, so they reluctantly obeyed him. No one expected to be able to lay down the cottage of Zhentianbei at the beginning, and now they are too lazy to look at what is inside, and they are annoyed to look at it.

Wei Bao was still soft-hearted in the end, and took out two ingots of ten taels of Daguan silver from his arms, and handed them over to the hands of two thousand households, "This trip is hard!" Just a few broken horses, leave them for me to use for business. ”

Wei Bao usually puts a little cash with him, and this hand made the two originally 'very unhappy' thousand households suddenly become a lot calmer, smiled and thanked him, and naturally accepted the silver. Horses are useful, but they are of little use to these two thousand households, because they belong to materials and must be confiscated into the accounts, and the silver is different, and it can be directly put into their own hands.

Wei Bao got more than 20 horses, and he was overjoyed, these horses can also be worth more than 200 taels of silver outside the customs, and he feels that it is still okay to do business with the officials, as long as he understands the rules of their game.

After the more than 400 officers and soldiers of the guard station left, Wei Bao let the 100 officers and soldiers left for him continue to wait outside, and excitedly took Li Chengnei and a group of unofficial Jinyi guards, as well as a few of his own personal entourages to check the loot.

"Is everything there?" Wei Bao asked Lin Wenbiao excitedly as he walked.

Lin Wenbiao glanced at Li Chengnei.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "It's okay, it's all my own people here." ”

Li Chengnei was glanced at by Lin Wenbiao and said unhappily: "What? Are you still afraid that I will be jealous of your son's things? Even if it is Jinshan Yinshan, I am not red, Xiaobao and I are brothers! ”

Wei Bao smiled: "He didn't mean that, the people under my command are cautious, and the eldest brother doesn't have to worry too much." But the eldest brother and a few Jinyi Wei officials, you better wait outside, you know too much, and it's quite disturbing. ”

Li Chengnei scolded Wei Bao angrily and funny, he didn't expect Wei Bao to even make him so mysterious? "Can't even look at me? How many more things can there be in a willow cottage? ”

"Big brother, it's not that I can't see it, these are all my goods, and I was robbed here by the willows, I'm afraid that my eldest brother will see something that shouldn't be seen, and there will be more things in my stomach." Wei Bao was secretive.

Li Chengnei was ignorant, he didn't know what he shouldn't see, but he felt that Wei Bao should be kind, so he had to agree, and beckoned a few brocade guards to wait outside.

Lin Wenbiao took Wei Bao into the cave, and there were only a few personal attendants left behind Wei Bao.

This is the Juyi Hall of the Liuzi Gang in the North of the Old Linzi Earthquake, and it seems that all the Liuzi love to use such a name.

"Childe, here it is! Zhentianbei thought that he was hiding well, and every time he put something, he only used a few of his own cronies, in fact, the old people who have been in the mountains for a long time know that they are hiding here. Lin Wenbiao went up the steps and said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao also went up the steps, saw that the tiger skin seat in the north of the earth had been removed, it was a hidden secret passage, and asked, "It's all down there?" There won't be anyone, right? ”

"yes, there's a cellar down there, I've been to see it, no one." Lin Wenbiao said with a smile.

Wei Bao sighed, cautiously let a few relatives go down first, and then let Lin Wenbiao go down, and finally he dared to take the remaining few relatives to follow, like a devil commander in the tunnel war.

Lin Wenbiao saw that Gongzi was so afraid of death, and secretly laughed, but he didn't look down on Wei Bao, because Wei Bao had a 'mysterious' and 'unique secret weapon' kung fu, which made everyone admire it.

After a straight road, there is an empty cellar.

The people who entered the cellar one by one all made a wow, and Wei Bao, who was in a hurry, walked a few steps quickly and also entered the cellar, and suddenly couldn't help but let out a wow.

The first thing that caught people's attention was that the bags of grain were stacked neatly, there were hundreds of bags, Wei Bao estimated that there were tens of thousands of catties of grain, and he was about to catch up with his big warship, but this era is all coarse grain. Coarse grains are also grains, and they are better than nothing. This grain alone can be worth the ticket price, and the total amount of silver I promised to the officers and soldiers of the guard station is 900 taels, not to mention that there are thousands of stone of grain here!

The price of rice in a normal year in the Ming Dynasty is about one stone and one tael, one stone = 156 catties, and one tael = 100 points. Now is a year of calamity, and it is the north, and there is often no silver to buy grain, so the price of grain is extremely high, at least ten times more than usual, and these grains alone are worth four or five thousand taels of silver, which is still coarse grain, and if it is rice, it will be even more valuable.

In addition, there were several large boxes placed on the ground, each as high as Wei Bao's waist, and they looked big and heavy at first glance, thick solid wood.

Wei Bao counted it with his eyes, there were nine large boxes in total!

Lin Wenbiao said to Wei Bao: "Son, I haven't seen these boxes. In my opinion, it's better for Childe to look at it alone. ”

Wei Bao understood what Lin Wenbiao meant, and asked, "It's all here?" Have you found it all out? Are there any other places to hide things in the Megatron North? ”

"No, there was a rumor that I wanted to clean up the cottage the year before last, and I moved it once, and I hid things in this one place." Lin Wenbiao replied.

Wei Bao nodded, "Since I can only watch it alone, you guys turn your back first." ”

Lin Wenbiao agreed, and retreated to the entrance of the straight road with a group of Wei Bao's followers, standing facing the outside.

Wei Bao screamed, only then was he sure that Lin Wenbiao hadn't seen it, especially if every box was locked!

Lin Wenbiao heard Wei Bao's call, and hurriedly turned around, "What's the matter with Childe?" ”

"Locked!" Wei Bao was angry and funny, and patted the box, "What do you think about locked?" ”

Lin Wenbiao slapped his head at this time, "Do you want to find something to smash open?" The key should only be owned by the master of the Earthquake Peking University. ”

Although he left the cottage, a group of people who came out of the old forest cottage would still be used to calling the master of the Earthquake Shaking University, and Wei Bao didn't care.

Wei Bao shook his hand and said: "Forget it, don't open it, move it back, it doesn't matter what he is, it's just a bunch of bricks, we want it too." ”

Wei Bao smiled happily after speaking, like a gambler playing stud, the front of the cards is very good, the last one to spell the flush what a big card, reluctant to open. And it's a bit good to lock it, and when you get to Fu Ningwei, you have to go through a checkpoint to see if you don't need to open it to check, anyway, there are people from Jinyiwei who follow.

Lin Wenbiao nodded and said: "There are horses in the stables outside, so it's right to put on the cart and quickly transport everything back to Jinshan, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

Wei Bao snorted and told his followers to hurry up. Anyway, the box was also locked, so I simply called the officers and soldiers outside to come in and move it.

In addition to Wei Bao, Li Chengnei and a few Jinyi guards, the rest of the hundreds of people were carried through, less than two incense sticks were done, loaded into a set of carriages, and parked at the gate of the cottage for a full twenty, because each car was too heavy, two horses had to be pulled in parallel, the horses of the cottage were used up, and a few horses of the officers and soldiers were borrowed to pull the goods.

"What's in these boxes?" Li Chengnei asked Wei Bao curiously.

Wei Bao smiled: "It's all a tool for work, dead and heavy." ”

Li Chengnei sighed and said strangely: "The equipment used for work? For arable land? Still locked? ”

Wei Bao sweated, and he was most afraid of breaking the casserole and asking to the end, and responded super quickly: "Only when people lock it will think it's a good thing, they will rob it, they don't rob it, how can I find someone to kill these bandits?" I did it on purpose. ”

Li Chengnei sighed as if he didn't understand.

Wei Bao smiled, "Got it?" ”

The main purpose of him looking for Li Chengnei to accompany him was to ask Li Chengnei to help him bring these things stolen from the old forest cottage back to Jinshan, so as to avoid Fu Ningwei's investigation. If there were no Fu Ningwei's people to follow, carrying a large amount of gold and silver, I am afraid that there would be trouble.

No matter what these boxes contained, Wei Bao had already made up for gold and silver by himself anyway.

The crowd did not bother to rest, ate dry food as they walked, and continued on their way.

Today seems to be very cold, there is no snow, but the north wind is unusually cold.

Wei Bao clenched his neck tightly and crouched on the horse's back, fortunately there were bear skins inside and out, and the cold was just a cold face.

Li Chengnei was very interested, knowing that Wei Bao's matter was half completed, and now he would see if he could catch the bandit leader, so he was very relaxed, and kept telling Wei Bao about the scenery along the way.

Everyone traveled for more than two hours and rushed to Funingwei.

Check the large box that Wei Bao is carrying.

"It's all farm tools! Besides, there are no keys. Wei Bao said coldly, and looked at Li Chengnei after speaking.

Li Chengnei understood, when he was on the way, Wei Bao had already told him that these things passed through Funingwei, and he would not let the people of the guard check it.

"What? Know this? Li Chengnei took out the waist card from his waist and lit up.

The person in charge of the checkpoint is also a hundred households, but he doesn't know how far this hundred households are compared to the hundred households of Jinyiwei, and he smiled bitterly: "My lord, this is a dead rule set by the imperial court." We dare not look at it. ”

Wei Bao said impatiently: "These things were snatched from me by the Liuzi Gang of the Earthquake North, when they were snatched away, why didn't you say the rules of the court, and the court couldn't protect us ordinary people?" You Qianhu has just received a hundred taels of silver from me, and I will ask him if he has such a rule. ”

Seeing that Wei Bao was so difficult, the hundred households at the level frowned and said, "Then I'll let people tell Lord Qianhu that I really can't be such a big master." ”

"Don't tell you a thousand households! Go directly to the prefect of Zu Guangyao! Knowing that there are thousands of officers and soldiers dispatched in such a big formation today, who gave the money? Do you know I'm Webo? "Wei Bao is really afraid of provoking the thousands of households below, one more person will have more rights and wrongs, and if one more person is going to be ripped, and if it is really opened to gold and silver, this bamboo bar will be bigger. He was looking for the 'business' that Zu Guangyao was talking about in Yongping Mansion, not looking for thousands of households underneath.

When the hundred households heard that it was Wei Bao, they couldn't help but be surprised, Wei Bao is now very famous in Yongping Mansion, especially the errand people, who are much more well-informed than the common people, most of them have heard of Wei Bao, and know that Wei Bao, as a small citizen, dares to compete with the Wu family. This time, Wei Bao used silver to exterminate the Shocking Beiliuzi Gang with the support of the Wu family.

"Don't open your eyes, do you?" Li Chengnei also said angrily: "Lao Tzu, this brocade guard hundred households, is not good in your little Funing Wei? ”

"No, no, don't be angry, my lord is also on business, so I have no choice but to do it." Funingwei checkpoint Baihu lowered his airway in a low voice.

Wei Bao saw that it was almost over, and secretly took out a 10-tael-foot weight of large-grained silver, and handed it to the hundred households, "It's all a trivial matter, do you have to make trouble to the prefect?" I'm too lazy to delay work, do you know what my relationship with Master Zu is? Brotherhood! This batch of goods was originally my goods, and I told my ancestors that I would ship them away after I got them! ”

Baihu's hand shrank for a moment, but he couldn't help but take the silver, and hurriedly put it in his sleeve pocket, "Since it is the order of Lord Zu, go over, Master Wei forgive me for being rude just now." ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "That's right, they're all friends!" I'll have a treat at Funingwei later, and let's have a few drinks together. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Wei." Baihu smiled.

"By the way, what about Liao Xiaoqi? Liao Chunbao. Wei Bao asked.

"Oh, Liao Chunbao doesn't seem to be worthy today, Wei Gongzi can find him in a thousand households." Baihu replied.

Wei Bao smiled: "No, let's go." ”

He asked Liao Chunbao, just to show that he had many acquaintances in Funingwei, and he didn't mean to go to Liao Chunbao. He first met Liao Chunbao in Funingwei before, and then met Liao Chunbao's cousin Liao Boming in Lulongcheng, Yongping Mansion, Liao Boming is a fellow acquaintance of Yongping Mansion, and he feels that Liao Chunbao and Liao Boming are also a bit fateful. In fact, the officialdom of Liaoxi and Liaodong are all locals, and the more you know a few, the more you will know, this is the characteristic of Daming officialdom, and it is not only Liaoxi and Liaodong, the officialdom of each place has a strong regionality. The same is true for shopping malls.

Wei Bao and Li Chengnei led people to bring goods through the checkpoint, and did not enter Funingwei, but went directly to Jinshan.

"Didn't you say that you want to invite the leaders of those officers and soldiers to dinner?" Li Chengnei asked.

"Go back to Jinshan first, this batch of goods will be sent back to rest assured, and there is no hurry to treat you." Wei Bao laughed.

Li Chengnei nodded, "They don't accept cash, they don't eat, and they won't leave, so I don't know if they caught that Shaking Heaven." ”

Wei Bao said: "I was in a hurry to pass the customs just now, and I forgot to ask." Then he called Lin Wenbiao, who had just left the Guancheng of Funingwei, and asked Lin Wenbiao to go back and ask.

Lin Wenbiao agreed to ride away, and soon came back, and said happily: "Caught it, Zhentian Peking University is in charge, Chang Wuye is in charge, and more than 30 people have been caught, and none of them have run." ”

"Are the officers and soldiers okay?" Wei Baoqi said, I didn't expect these willows to be caught? In his opinion, there will always be a few slips through the net, right?

A total of more than 1,100 officers and soldiers did contribute, and a situation of encirclement was formed under the overwhelming number of people, these were all things that Wei Bao expected, but Wei Bao didn't think that he could catch them all.

Zhentianbei and Chang Wuye saw that there were too many officers and soldiers, and if they wanted to rush out, they would definitely have to kill a lot of people, so Zhentianbei simply surrendered! This is something Wei Bao didn't expect at first.

After listening to Lin Wenbiao, Wei Bao nodded and said, "So that's the case." ”

"I didn't expect the big boss to surrender." Lin Wenbiao also said.

"Don't care about so much for now, they will bully the common people and businessmen!" Wei Bao urged the horsewhip, "Let's go back to Jinshan first!" It's always a good thing to catch Zhentianbei and Chang Wuye! ”

Everyone in the convoy and a few Jinyi guards who had no official positions led by Li Chengnei agreed and followed Wei Bao.

"Childe, you must not let go of Zhentianbei, Fifth Master Chang is fine." Lin Wenbiao reminded: "If Zhentianbei does not die, he will definitely find Gongzi to take revenge, and the cottage is the brainchild of Zhentianbei." ”

Wei Bao nodded, he had already figured out that the hatred between him and Zhentianbei could not be resolved, "As long as the Wu family doesn't come to ask for people, judging from the current attitude of the Wu family, they shouldn't come directly to ask for people." ”

Lin Wenbiao nodded and said: "Well, it's quite strange, it stands to reason that with such a big movement, it is impossible for the Wu family not to know the rumor, and if they know the rumor, they will definitely inform Zhentianbei." ”

Wei Bao then told Lin Wenbiao what Zu Chuncai told him, "The Wu family agrees to exterminate the Earthquake Heaven, otherwise Zu Guangyao will not help me transfer troops, these officers of the guard are all local families, and they are all related to the Wu family." ”

Lin Wenbiao sighed, and only then did he know that this was the case.

The guard system of the Ming Dynasty is to set up a guard garrison in military important places throughout the country, in the guard army, a guard is 5,600 people, and there are thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags and small flags and other units in order, each guard is subordinate to the five military governors' office, and is also subordinate to the military department.

The source of the army is the hereditary military household, and each household sends one person to serve as a soldier in the Zhengding Zhiwei Station, and the soldiers take turns guarding the garrison and the tuntian, and the income from the tuntian is used to supply the needs of the army and generals. Its goal is to raise soldiers without consuming the country's financial resources, but after Ming Xuanzong, due to social stability and relative peace, the officers of the guard began to occupy the military land and exploit the soldiers, and the living standards and social status of the soldiers became lower and lower, and the deserters gradually increased, so the armament was gradually abolished.

The recruitment system of the Ming Dynasty began in the orthodox period, and unlike the Weisu Army, the recruitment of soldiers was not hereditary, although it was a soldier, but it belonged to the people. Upon completion of the period of service, he shall be discharged from the army.

In the beginning, the recruits did not have a formal establishment like the Guards, and they were often expanded or downsized as needed.

The recruitment of soldiers is completely a combat unit, unlike the guards who need to transfer some soldiers to work in the tuntian, the food supply of the recruited soldiers, the military salary comes completely from the direct expenditure of the state finance, and does not come from the tuntian, and the salary is also higher than that of the guards and the people.

In the Jiajing period, the cavalry, infantry and chariot soldiers began to have a formal establishment - the battalion and sentry system.

Generally, five people are a team, two teams are a team, three teams are teams, three teams are sentinels, five posts are general, and five general are battalions. Each battalion has 3,000 soldiers. This is the battalion and sentry establishment of the Ming Army in the south, there are slight changes in the north, but it is roughly the same, Qi Jiguang's Jizhen Army establishment, twelve people are a team, three teams are flags, three flags are bureaus, four bureaus are divisions, two divisions are departments, three departments are battalions, and the number is also about 3,000 people. This was the main form of army formation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the division of labor between the guard army and the battalion sentry army also began to be divided, and the guard army was mainly responsible for garrisoning, law and order, training recruits and tuntian.

The battalion sentry army is mainly responsible for mobile operations.

Therefore, the guard army became a regular soldier, and the battalion post was a mobile surprise soldier.

In the Wanli era, in order to fit this division of labor, if the guard army wanted to participate in the war, it must be incorporated into the battalion post system, and at the same time, the officers of the guard post were only responsible for the training and daily management of soldiers, not responsible for commanding operations, and the battalion post officers were not only responsible for the training of soldiers, but also responsible for command.

The establishment of the guards officers assigned to the battalion post also had to comply with the establishment of the battalion post, so the main combat units in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were the battalion sentry army.

Whether it is recruitment, conscription, or the system of guards, there is no distinction between superior and inferior, advanced and backward, but different management measures should be adopted in response to different situations. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the advantage of the system is that when the productive forces are destroyed and the social output is weak, the system can effectively save military expenditures, ensure the self-sufficiency of the army, and reduce the burden on the people. However, the defect is that, on the one hand, in addition to fighting, the garrison army also has to assign some soldiers to engage in the task of tuntian to ensure the supply of military food, so the garrison army is divided into the defender and the tun army, of which the defender is the combat force, and the tun army is responsible for the group.

On the other hand, because the guard army is hereditary, once the peace period is long, the army is prone to mixing old and young, and the combat effectiveness is easy to decline.

If the officers encroached on the tuntians supplied by the state to the army, the soldiers would become the personal serfs of the military commanders, resulting in fewer defenders and less combat.

The design of the guard system is similar to that of the Tang Dynasty's government and soldiers. It is used as a system to maintain a large demand for armament when social production is not restored.

The advantage of recruiting soldiers is that the recruits can have more choices, and they do not necessarily have to recruit from the military households.

The source of recruitment is mostly from the civilian register, which can be replenished quickly after the loss.

In addition, the recruitment does not need to be engaged in the task of tuntian like the Weisho army, so the recruitment can be regarded as a full-time soldier, which determines that the recruitment can mobilize more combat soldiers than the Weisuo army under the same amount, and at the same time, the salary is higher, which can make the soldiers more motivated to fight.

However, while the advantages are obvious, the disadvantages are also obvious, due to the separation from production, then the food, military salaries need to be directly responsible for the state finance, therefore, compared with the guard army, the maintenance cost of the battalion sentinel army, which is mainly recruited, is higher. In the event of a deficit or bankruptcy in the country's finances, it is difficult to guarantee the salaries of conscripts. In addition, compared to the Guards, they are also unstable, because they are from the civilian nationality, so they do not have the military status of the Guards, so when they are not needed, they can be dismissed at any time, and stability cannot be guaranteed.

What is more critical is that whether the recruits can be used or not depends entirely on the recruiters and the generals in charge, if the training is satisfied, they can become the backbone force, if the training is poor, the combat effectiveness is very low.

Due to the irregular source of soldiers, the recruited soldiers are also uneven. If the selection of those responsible for recruitment is poor, the proportion of low-quality soldiers recruited will also increase, so that the army is more likely to mutiny and collapse.

In Wei Bao's view, the Weisuo Army has a fixed establishment, and the recruitment of soldiers without a fixed establishment is a temporary worker, so it must be that the Weisuo Army must have a sense of superiority.

As for who is more combative? Wei Bao thinks it's still the Wei Army! At least the guards are all generations of military households, either civilian households, or relying on the military to eat, more or less have a little concept, and they will work hard. Most of the conscriptions were temporary recruitment, how effective were the peasants? Relying on temporary training is obviously very unreliable.

When Wei Bao and his party returned to Jinshanli, it was mid-afternoon, the warm sun was in the sky, Wei Bao looked at Jinshan composed of scattered houses, and suddenly had a feeling that he had not been seen for a long time.