When Guo Tianxing arrived with a large group of cavalry, Cao Jiaji had been broken for a long time. The battlefield had been cleaned, and the bodies of both sides had been carried away for burial, and he saw groups of people who were crowded and elated, carrying the victories that had come to Cao's house with the plunder, and these people saw that this group of extremely powerful cavalry had taken refuge, but when they saw that the soldiers who had been maintaining order were saluting them, they cheered and rushed forward to meet them, followed by bursts of cheers. I know that this is the reinforcement road for the army.

Guo Tianxing frowned and asked Wu Taodao, who came in a hurry, with reproach; "Brother Wu Tao, why don't you wait for me to come and attack? How many brothers' lives does this cost? ”

Can't blame Tianxing's blame, Gu Zhao Xing's intelligence shows that the Cao family not only has about 3,000 village warriors, but also equipment and physical strength can be described as absolutely sophisticated, more than 1,000 Cao family soldiers, a total of 4,000 enemies, for Wu Tao, who only has 400 spearmen and 200 firearms soldiers, it is indeed too powerful, so when he came, King Chuang repeatedly emphasized that he should not hesitate to kill explosives and minimize the casualties of his brothers, but Wu Tao still did not wait for his cavalry to arrive before starting the battle, thinking that the casualties must be not small.

Wu Tao shook his head helplessly; "However, the losses of the cottage soldiers were not large, thirty-five were killed in the early days, and fifty-one more were killed later, and those fifty-one were all sacrificed in the Cao family's old mansion and fighting with those Cao family children who were still fighting as trapped beasts."

The war horses in the sky star asked suspiciously; "It is inevitable to capture Caojiaji, but why are the casualties so small?"

"In fact, there are a lot of casualties, but most of them are those villagers and people anyway, the general will know when he goes inside, and there is also the situation of exterminating the family again."

Guo Tianxing was taken aback and asked; "Why, when I came, didn't King Chuang repeatedly tell us that this time we must eliminate the first evil and not harm the women and children? Don't you want to live? That's a bit harsh.

Wu Tao could only stand down and explain to the commander; "Actually, I didn't do this, it was the result of the revenge of the angry people, who let the Cao family do too much, this is also to blame."

"Then you're ---, forget it." Originally, Guo Tianxing wanted to say, then you can't stop it? But it seems that there are 30,000 people coming in and out of the bustling crowd, not 50,000, but also 30,000, and it is really not something that Wu Tao's hundreds of soldiers can stop.

"Then tell me what happened before and after, why didn't you wait for the army to start the war, and how you used a few hundred men and horses to capture Cao Jiaji, which was defended by thousands of elite soldiers in Jiancheng Shenhao."

Wu Tao put the tragic situation of the place where he led the team. How to rescue the people as much as possible, how the local people helped with the army, and finally how the people's commotion had to be launched in advance, how the people later captured the Cao family's compound, how the people couldn't hold back their anger and extinguished the Cao family's family. Pull the reins at the end; "It's really as King Chuang said, whoever the people's hearts are towards will become a strong man who will win all battles."

He groaned and continued; "Since this is the case, then there is nothing to do here, the Tao is to thank the local people for giving us the Black Tiger Village anti-encirclement and suppression for a day is time, about the remains of the fallen brothers, according to the rules of King Chuang, they must all be brought back to the old camp Huluyu to be buried, but it is not sloppy, here according to the prior arrangement by Brother Wu, you preside over the major affairs, everything you will decide in one word, you don't have to ask King Chuang from time to time, I will not go to the Cao family compound, we will take a shortcut now to support King Chuang, I am really afraid that King Chuang has a good villain."

"Don't worry, the Grand Commander has enough to do here, I will do a good job of the follow-up here according to King Chuang's arrangement, and the Grand Commander can just go by himself."

"Good. Then it's decided, Brother Wu take care. "Without waiting for Wu Tao to speak, he turned his horse's head and commanded loudly to the soldiers behind him;" Brothers, Cao Jiaji has nothing to do with us, but King Chuang needs us, everyone hold on a little longer, and we will rush to help King Chuang. ”

Everyone agreed together, and under the stimulation of continuous victories, they did not feel tired, and whistled away.

Looking at the distant commander, Wu Tao was really relieved that he was able to take the Cao family set a day in advance, and saved his strength for the commander to give King Chuang a help. Now it's just me working hard, so that King Chuang doesn't have to worry about it here, and concentrates on dealing with that Zhang Yuan and Li Yuanhao.

The Cao family is not just a small clan like the Zhangjiabao Zhang family, this is a big family that has stood tall for more than 300 years, plus desperate looting, its family assets are more than ten times that of Zhangjiabao, so the richness of this seizure is unprecedented, and the silver alone is piled up.

At that time, the landlords were strong and prevalent in burying gold and silver, and the Cao family was no exception, in addition to the monthly silver money and expenses that were usually distributed to each branch of the family, there were no less than ten silver cellars that were excavated alone, including those silver cellars that had not been opened for many years, and even the iron doors of the cellar doors had been rusted to death, and they were blown up by everyone with small explosives.

When the door of the cellar is blown open, the smell of mildew can choke people to death, and the silver inside is beginning to turn black, thinking that this is a hundred years of things, the final statistics of silver alone are no less than 2.5 million taels, which is probably catching up with the treasury of the Ming court, and there may not even be so much of the Ming treasury, as for the copper coins, I don't know how much, even the rope that strings the money is rotten, and the copper coins under the copper coins have begun to rot and cannot identify the age of casting.

As for other things, they are piled up and don't know how many, and there are countless mules, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., if Wu Tao and others are asked to register carefully, it will take ten days and a half to complete.

The most gratifying thing was the ten bronze cannons that were captured, which made Wu Tao and the deputy captain of the firearms battalion ecstatic. This is something that can't be sold even if you have money, so the firearms battalion is even more powerful.

Wu Tao and the others wondered, why is the Cao family so rich, why is it still so greedy? Don't they know the truth of the government's coercion and the people's rebellion? Is the greedy ** so unstoppable, until it is destroyed by greed.

Regardless of this, Wu Tao beat his horse and inspected the defense of all important places, so as not to be robbed by the hungry people, as for the original Cao family's other houses and branches, they can only be relocated, among which there are also fights and brawls for snatching a piece of property, but they were immediately stopped by the soldiers of the Black Tiger Army, and they also killed more than a dozen traitors who took advantage of the fire to rob, but fortunately, everyone can still keep some duties, and then Wu Tao formed the township warriors who survived anyway into a township warrior team to strengthen the patrol of Cao Jiaji, All security is fine. People from a radius of 100 miles rushed to grab some foreign land. In this way, more than 100,000 people slowly gathered, and the tax points set up by the Cao family along the way had already fled or been smashed by the angry people, and the official palace was even more closed at this time, trembling and not daring to make any moves, and they all hid at home and begged the gods and Buddhas not to let the mob enter the city.

Later, the people didn't get anything, but they didn't disappoint everyone, the righteous army of the king of heaven sent a message, let everyone not go home first, the righteous army to open a warehouse to release grain, so that everyone can spend this damn winter and spring, this news is like a burst of spring thunder roaring in the hearts of all the people, the sound makes them dizzy one by one, and the gratitude to the king sent by heaven is only to constantly kneel down and kowtow to the direction where the king of the black tiger village lives, hoping that the king of heaven will live a long life and be a hundred years old.

In fact, when he came, Lu Shi discussed with everyone, thinking that the Cao family is a three-hundred-year-old clan after all, and the seizure must be expensive, and now the grain reserves of his own cottage are quite rich, so it is feasible to open a warehouse and release grain, and besides, the Cao family has been exploited by the Cao family for a hundred miles, and they have begun to change their children and eat miserably, and put some food to save everyone's life, but also to preserve some strength for their own sphere of influence, after all, the people are the foundation of development. Lu Shi also proposed for the first time that if the seized silver money is enough, don't be stingy, and also distribute it according to the capitation, so that the people can buy some oil and salt department store medicinal materials from the merchants, first, our target is the Cao family and can not harm other merchants and small landlords, those department stores and medicinal materials and other things cannot be confiscated or purchased to distribute equally, so that what is needed will not be obtained, and what is not needed will be useless. Second, it can also be through the people's purchase of the rapid revitalization of the market, so that the hundred-year-old set rejuvenated, but also for the Black Tiger Village to take over the Caojiaji tax in disguise to lay a good foundation, blindly relying on the seizure is not able to survive for a long time, only continuous hematopoiesis is the way to long-term stability, the collection of fixed taxes for merchants to alleviate the burden and pressure of farmers has direct benefits, for the commercial tax everyone has no concept, originally, the Ming Dynasty almost does not charge commercial tax, as long as the commercial tax is mentioned, those masters will say that the court can not speak of profit, You can't compete with the small people for profit or anything, is it really these masters who are high? Actually, no, these masters are more greedy than anyone else, it's just that almost every family of these masters has commercial shops to buy and sell, or directly operate or fake the hands of the family or hand over to the door to manage, and the collection of business taxes is not to compete with the small people but to compete with their masters, do you say that he can not use the Spring and Autumn Period to confront the emperor? And in order to envelop these masters and doctors, the emperor can only watch the wealth like flowing water accumulate more and more, not the treasury of the imperial court, but the cellar of those powerful families.

Is it really better to be a merchant without a business tax? No, it's better to have businessmen with backgrounds, and those who run small businesses often can't afford anything else. There are no commercial taxes, but there are donations, and if you don't have all kinds of donations, you will go bankrupt, that is, your ability is outstanding. All Lu Shi decided to exempt all merchants in Caojiaji from all taxes, and adopt a uniform one-time tax, that is, a low tax of four percent, and only collect one tax on this batch of goods operated by one person within the influence of Heihuzhai. This is not the same as those who pay taxes. This can promote the development of commerce more, tax down, then prices will naturally come down, the people can buy urgently needed goods with the least money, and it is also more able to attract businessmen to transport materials into the Black Tiger Village's sphere of influence, and it can also let the Black Tiger Village buy more and better goods without worrying about the lack of materials. In this way, the reciprocating cycle of Black Tiger Village will definitely be able to continue to grow, and this place will slowly recover and develop. Natural disasters are not terrible, what is terrible is only **, as long as the fundamental point of ** is solved, then natural disasters must have a way to overcome. Lu Shi's clouds and fog made everyone unable to find the south, east, west, and northwest, but everyone was firm that everything that was said by the military advisor was right. Besides, the commercial tax is just a little bit, and it is not in the eyes of everyone now, and the current Black Tiger Village is a big business.