The ancient city of Ryan had already changed the ruler's banner this morning, and now there was a yellow flag hanging at the door, and countless white flags were thrown on the ground for people to trample on him.

The red turban thieves who entered the city have already controlled every corner of the entire county, no, it should be the Red Turban Army! People have repeatedly warned themselves in their hearts that they should now call themselves the Red Turban Army, and never cause a big disaster because of a momentary pleasure.

Now these red turban soldiers with yellow flags and red turbans patrol the entire county town with a vigilant eye, and from time to time one or two unfortunate regimental leaders or green battalion officers are escorted to the county office, whether they are familiar with these unfortunate people or not, they dare not do anything but cast sympathetic glances.

The general of the Red Turban Army who entered the city is the famous Liu Jiehu, no, these Red Turban Army have been reiterated repeatedly, his commander is Liu Changliu Checkpoint, you talk nonsense again, be careful of getting into trouble.

Although all the soldiers under Liu Jian are fierce and vicious, the military discipline is very good, and Ruian City has passed so many times, their military discipline is definitely one of the best, but unfortunately it is too fierce.

Now the residents of Ruian County unconsciously compare this army with the Red Turban Army outside the city, it should be said that the discipline of the two armies is very good, but the Red Turban Army outside the city is more polite and gentle, and the Red Turban Army in the city is murderous at any time, ready to go out and kill at any time, and sure enough, it is right, Liu Jiehu is Liu Jiehu.

The entire county is under the military control of this Red Turban Army, it seems to be in order, Ruian City has never been so orderly, and even the Red Turban Army outside the city wanted to enter the city, but they were rejected by the Red Turban Army inside the city, and only some of the Red Turban Army outside the city were allowed to enter the city to purchase.

Soon, everyone knew that the Red Turban Army in the city was called the Dragon Gun Battalion, and the Shi Retirement Season in Shangtang Town, east of the city, was very mixed in this Dragon Spear Battalion, so they asked Shi Retirement Ji to intercede in front of Liu Checkpoint, and by the way, talked about the issue of labor and military expenses.

This Liu Changliu checkpoint, or the Liu Jiehu in the mouth of the Qing Army, to everyone's surprise, was actually a hairless young child with no hair on his mouth, only fifteen or sixteen years old, but it is said that this is an old long-haired bandit who followed the Tianwang Jintian regimental camp to start an incident, and has experienced countless battles.

The selected squires talked a few words with this Liu inspector, only to find that this half-grown child really has the style of a general, he speaks with a clear eye, and his eyes are also very poisonous, and he directly picked out and said: "I have already talked to Zhai Dashuai, our dragon spear battalion will only rest in the city for a few days, and in a few days Ruian City will be handed over to Zhai Dashuai, so you have to prepare two labor and military expenses, one for me and one for Zhai Dashuai!" ”

This Liu inspector is a good fortune: "You have raised 20,000 taels of city defense expenses for the Sun family in a few days, so you will do 3,000 taels of labor and military expenses for me, as for the big households in the city, I will naturally visit in person!" ”

This "home visit. Naturally, it means to come to the door in person to get it, the faces of several squires present changed slightly, but they felt that Liu Chang's disposal was reasonable, with such a prosperous place in Ruian County, it was naturally easy to raise three thousand taels of silver for labor and military expenses, and the principal could even have a few pennies in his pocket.

As for his personal visit to the first-class households in the city, it is natural to treat the ordinary people separately from these first-class households, and as long as the ordinary people have a light burden, they will not care how much silver these large households have been knocked out by the Liu Jiehu.

"Also, during the period when my dragon spear battalion is recuperating in the city, it needs to buy rice, grain, fish and shrimp, all of which are settled at the market price, and the three thousand taels of labor and military expenses are deducted."

Although this Liu Jiehu is famous, he is a person who knows things very well, and these squires immediately respectfully agreed.

In the afternoon, the shops in the city had reopened, and the residents were afraid and curious about these strong soldiers who were temporarily crossing the border, but after getting along, they also found that the dragon spear battalion was actually quite reasonable.

And Liu Chang personally visited more than a dozen first-class households and shops in the city, and politely proposed to borrow money from the labor army, although these big households were very painful, but Liu Jiehu's prestige was famous, who didn't know that Yueqing's Yang Shanren Mansion was killed by this thief, who dared to bet on the survival of the entire family.

What's more, Liu Chang's price is very suitable, although it makes them feel painful, but it is suitable for benefits, so that they will not hurt their muscles and bones, and there are discounts to talk about in the payment method, if you pay all with silver or silver yuan on the same day, you can directly make a five-fold discount, if it drags on for a day, it becomes a seven-fold discount, and there are other settlement methods for making money.

And Liu Chang is not just taking money and doing nothing, he is willing to issue a certificate, which is several times the actual amount of loans, and they can use this to deal with Zhai Zhenhan who entered the city later.

Although Liu Chang's looting was cruel, it was obviously very efficient, and on the same day, ninety percent of the big families tried to secretly send the labor army's money into the barracks, and then confessed to Liu Chang and took away Liu Chang's certificate, Liu Chang even assured them: "When we have conquered the country, you can come to me with this certificate!" ”

"Check, let's open Ruian County first, and we took eight thousand taels from the big household alone!" Zhai Jie has already calculated the number: "Just for these eight thousand taels of silver, it is worth grabbing the limelight of Uncle Zhenhai once." ”

"I'm giving him face!" Liu Chang was in a very happy mood: "If it weren't for giving him face, I would have been able to scrape out 60,000 taels!" But Camp Commander Zhai, this time we didn't get the most money to fight big households, but a few corrupt officials in Ruian County! ”

After entering the city this time, Zhang Zhixian and the acting deputy general of the Ruian Association were all killed in the chaos, but their houses and families were there, and Shi Huiji was the most familiar with the situation in Ruian, so he immediately copied the homes of the magistrate, the county Cheng, the deputy general, and the capital secretary.

The harvest was beyond Liu Chang's estimate, Zhang Zhixian's family alone copied out more than 10,000 taels worth of property, silver, gold, silver yuan, money everything, the county Cheng, Dianshi and other officials The harvest was not small, and the homes of several generals in the green camp were also gold and silver, and a total of 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver were obtained.

Such a big harvest made Liu Chang have to sigh at the bad degree of the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, "Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver" is true.

Of course, this is related to the atmosphere of the Qing Dynasty officialdom, there are Qing generation of bad rules have always been repeatedly banned, officials take office, the first thing is to borrow a sum of money, to find Shanxi businessmen and Guangdong businessmen to borrow a large amount of money, before they dare to take office, otherwise when they arrive at the territory, they will pay tribute to the boss's ice and charcoal, worship at four o'clock, and the expenses between colleagues, so that the expenses of receiving fellow villagers in the same year and even those roundabouts to fight the autumn breeze, as well as other various expenses, can not be taken out, and they are immediately regarded as officialdom outliers, and their political life is over.

During the Daoguang period, someone served as the grain station in Shaanxi, and the first thing was to borrow 16,000 taels of silver in the capital, but the borrowed money naturally needed to repay the debt, and the daily expenses were large, so the officials scraped the ground vigorously on the one hand, and held a large amount of cash in their hands on the other.

The situation in Wenzhou is becoming more and more serious, and in other places bribery can also be used to use bank tickets, but in addition to Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang, the money bank ticket number is not developed, and everyone is used to trading in the upper hand with silver taels, silver yuan and money.

The magistrate and the green camp guard are outsiders and may go to work at any time, so they neither dare to buy shares in real silver, nor dare to buy industries, but they are all hoarded in their hands.

Now that he has such a large sum of money, Liu Chang is bold: "When this time the rest is done, let's go back to Panshi Village, practice for ten days and a half months, and then do it!" ”

Of course, he was referring to the matter of going north, but Huo Jie suggested: "Check, this matter is not urgent, we have to wait for the arrival of Earl de Mons's foreign guns and cannons, I was worried that he would bring too many foreign guns and foreign cannons next time, and we couldn't afford to pay the price, but when we opened Ruian City, we can afford more foreign guns and foreign cannons." ”

Huo Qiu continued: "I'm worried that he has brought too few foreign guns, and there are only less than 200 guns like this time, which is not enough!" And whether he can buy foreign cannons is a big question! ”

After seeing the power of Ge Wuye's foreign artillery, he was very moved: "Our mountain splitting cannons, it's okay to bombard the Qing Demon Infantry in the field, but if you want to attack the city, even if you replace it with medicine, it's almost a waste." ”

Sun Huzi echoed and said: "Our rock whistle is also an old qualification, but now there is only a platoon of flintlock pistols, when will it be on par with the dragon lance whistle!" ”

As soon as he said this, Zhai Jie was also anxious: "Now the dragon gun post is divided into a platoon to give the dragon gun a second post, and I only have two platoons of firing guns left, check, since I have money!" It's just to find a way to buy more foreign guns and cannons. ”

As soon as he said this, Liu Chang said one thing: "I want to buy more, but I can't be like Zhai Zhenhan to be the big boss, this time I inquired, how much did he pay for this batch of flintlock pistols?" ”

"How much?"

Liu Chang laughed: "He first asked Liu Gongrui to buy sixteen strokes, but Liu Gongrui spent seventy silver yuan on one stroke, seventy silver yuan!" ”

The officers let out a cry of admiration: "Seventy? ”

"Seventy silver yuan? We can buy three flintlock pistols! ”

"I've compared it with my own eyes, and their flintlock pistols are definitely not as good as ours!"

Liu Chang laughed even more: "But the price of Liu Gongrui's dog head is actually quite real, Zhai Zhenhan is too expensive, and he found his relatives to go to Zhang Luo for seven strokes, and the result is ......."

He stretched out a finger, and everyone now praised: "One hundred silver yuan a stroke?" How many kickbacks this has received! ”

"I didn't expect Liu Gongrui's dog head to be quite real!"

"No wonder they secretly want to dig into our wall and let our brothers drag their guns over."

A group of officers were happily talking about this matter, and Yun Tianzong, a platoon commander of the Nanxi post over there, walked in: "Check, it's a little troublesome!" ”

The monthly pass list has fallen to the last place, and I urgently ask for everyone's support, every monthly pass is so important to me (to be continued)