Chapter 22: Xiapi (Fourth Update)
Then Zhou Cang led everyone to move out all the swords, guns and shields, grain, grass and money, and almost piled them up on the ground. In addition to these trophies, there were also one or two hundred old and weak women and children who followed the crowd out of the mountains and forests.
Zhou Cang explained: "Childe, these people were all nearby people before, and they were forcibly taken to the mountain by bandits, and there were no lives in their hands, so their subordinates took them down the mountain and asked Childe to deal with them!"
When these old and weak women and children heard this, they quickly knelt on the ground and begged: "Gongzi Kaig, we are all people who were forced to go up the mountain, and we did not help the bandits to do evil, and I asked Gongzi to spare our lives!"
Gao Cheng no longer wants to get the fate point, and he will not fight the idea of these old and weak women and children, he waved his hand and said: "Get up, Zhou Cang, these people were brought down by you, then they will be handed over to you, if you are willing to leave, you will have a thousand yuan each, bring some rations and dismiss, if you are willing to join the Gao family and become a slave, then bring them back to Guangling together!"
Zhou Cang's face suddenly eased, in his eyes, the children of the family are all high, and they don't treat ordinary people as human beings at all, but Gao Gongzi was born in a family, but he doesn't have such a character, and he is willing to give money and food to give these people a way to live!
"Gao Gongzi has a benevolent heart in his heart, and his strength is still so strong, he will definitely be a hero with extraordinary achievements in the future, and it is really worth serving him!" his sense of identity with Gao Cheng in his heart rose sharply. In the future, as long as there are no major changes, he will always work hard for Gao Cheng's subordinates.
Half of the two hundred old and weak women and children took money and food to their relatives and friends, and half of the homeless women and children were willing to take refuge in the Gao family and become slaves of the Gao family. In this troubled world, it is better to become a slave of a powerful family than to become a starving man on the side of the road, and although they have lost their freedom, they have been guaranteed to continue to live.
The three hundred people under Gao Cheng are all young and strong, after several months of training, they are full of vigor and blood, and it is difficult to vent their usual energy, and they can endure it in the short term, but it will definitely not work for a long time.
"Most of these women and children who happened to stay are women, and when they return to Guangling, they will give these women to their subordinates as wives, and with the ties of the family, there is no need to worry about these people leaving after getting the exercises!"
Gao Cheng calculated very clearly in his heart, and he thought of these when he saw those old and weak women and children.
After killing the bandits in this mountain forest, everyone continued to go in the direction of Xiapi, Xiapi is an important place in Xuzhou, prosperous business and trade, Xuzhou Thorn History stopped here all the year round, over time, everyone regarded Xiapi as Xuzhou's place of governance, and the real place of governance Pengcheng was not so high.
The closer to Xiapi, the fewer bandits and bandits on the road, Gao Cheng led his subordinates to kill three bandit cottages, and after getting hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods, he saw that there were caravans shuttling back and forth on the official road, and these caravans were guarded. Idle bandits are no match for the guards at all.
Only the mountains and wilderness far away from the city are the most rampant places for bandits, Gao Cheng led people to strangle a total of four cottages, and the money alone has a total of more than one million dollars, which is enough to last for a long time. So there wasn't much disappointment either.
encountered the caravan, Gao Cheng also sold the goods he got from the cottage, and the price of these unused goods was discounted by half, which gave him a lot of money.
After ten days, you can see a majestic city sitting on the ground in the distance, a wide moat surrounds the city and then flows to the east, this moat is connected to Surabaya, and the water surface is stirred up with layers of water vapor, if you look at it from a distance, you will find that the city is surrounded by clouds and mist, as if it is in the clouds.
"Gao Gongzi, the front is Xiapi City, I have to return to the head of the family to say goodbye first, I have sent someone to prepare the clothes and carriages and horses you bought in the city, you can go and get them whenever you want!"
There was also a caravan with Gao Cheng's subordinates, this middle-aged man was the caravan steward, after he saw Gao Cheng, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, he secretly paid attention to himself in his heart, and invited everyone to go forward with the caravan.
Gao Cheng said: "Thank you Mi steward for your help, if there is anything in the future, you can send someone to Guangling to find me, as long as I can help!"
The middle-aged man opposite was the housekeeper of Xuzhou Mi's family, and it was he who accepted his goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The goods that Gao Cheng got from the bandit camp were originally the stuff of some wealthy families in Xuzhou, and if they were discovered by these people, it would be a trouble, and the Mi family was willing to eat the goods, which was equivalent to taking the trouble over. That's a lot of favors.
This Mi steward is well-informed and has vicious eyes, and seems to feel Gao Cheng's strength, so he intends to make friends. As the saying goes, one more friend has one more way, and Gao Cheng naturally will not refuse the kindness of others.
Xuzhou Mi clan is one of the few wealthy businessmen in the world, with hundreds of millions of family wealth, and his hands and eyes are amazingly powerful in Xuzhou, if he can have some dealings with Mi clan, whether he is buying cultivation resources or other things, it will become very convenient.
With the help of the name of the Mi caravan, Gao Cheng and his nearly 400 men were not stopped by the officers and soldiers at the city gate, and came to the city without any twists and turns.
Speaking of which, after Gao Cheng came to this world, it was the first time he entered the city of the Han Dynasty, and on the avenue near the city gate, he could occasionally see soldiers patrolling the city, but these soldiers had a mediocre atmosphere, although they were wearing armor and holding iron spears in their hands, they did not have the slightest majesty and majesty.
"The murderous aura of these soldiers is not as good as the Yellow Turban soldiers, and they will be defeated as soon as they rush to the battlefield! It would not be good if the soldiers in the city of Xuzhou were like this, now that the chaos of the Three Kingdoms has just begun, the world will only be more chaotic in the future, if there is no strength, no matter how prosperous the city is, it will only be the prey of others!"
Gao Cheng thought in his heart and shook his head secretly, except for Gao Tai and Gao Ying, the people behind him had never been to such a prosperous city, there were many pedestrians on the streets, the shops on both sides gathered special goods from all over the north and south, and on the avenue in the center of the city, horse-drawn carriages passed by. The carriages were hung with the logos of the major families, and most of the people sitting in the carriages were the children or daughters of the families in the city.
"When did Xiapi City become a place where homeless people could also enter? What did the captain of the city gate do to eat? Don't stop these mud legs!"
At this time, Gao Cheng's ears moved, and he heard a voice in the distance, he turned his head to look, and found that there were two young men dressed as scholars talking on the side street, one of them was wearing brocade clothes, hanging jade pendants and swords around his waist, his breath was slightly frivolous, and he pointed to Gao Cheng and talked to everyone and his companions.
The man next to him was dressed in the same way, slightly thin but looking plump and handsome.
Gao Cheng and his nearly 400 men have been trekking outside for several months, and their clothes are about to turn into rags.
The slightly thin man's gaze fell on Gao Cheng and Zhou Cang, and his body shook, as if he was a little surprised. He and Gao Cheng's eyes met, and they suddenly realized that the person who could hear them from such a distance must also be a soul refining cultivator who had awakened his sense of hearing.
He smiled apologetically, turned around and pulled the brocade-clothed young man beside him, and persuaded: "Brother Duanhe, what is your identity, why do you have to get along with these people, isn't it just humiliating yourself?