Zhou Huai'an dreamed again, still in the Black Continent.

This time it's at the foot of the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro, on the shores of a large lake with endless blue waters; As part of the medical team, he was watching how the indigenous Chaga tribe was taming a hyena colony with rods, hooks and chains.

In the middle of the night, Zhou Huai'an was suddenly awakened from the unfamiliar bed, and saw a hurried announcement outside the door.

"Guantou, there is no situation in the village under the mountain."

Immediately, Zhou Huai'an, who was hurriedly dressed neatly, was on the terrace of the mansion and saw that the village below shrouded in the black night had been illuminated by continuous firelight.

"Is this a drain?"

Someone on the side asked suspiciously.

"I'm afraid something has changed."

Zhou Huai'an relied on his strengthened eyesight to judge, because he could see the figure of the man chasing and slashing in the firelight.

"Hold the camp and be ready to support the situation under the mountain at any time."

"At the same time, beware of any of them echoing the chaos."

Although there are only more than 200 Zhao family servants left in this mansion that can accommodate more than 1,000 people, and they are still confined in a few warehouses, they can't help but feel the movement under the mountain and think of something to do.

After a while, Zhou Huai'an's order became:

"Only half of the people are on duty, and the remaining half continue to sleep."

"Prepare yourself for the day."

As a result, when the sky had turned white, their preparation had no chance of being useful, and the crowd of guards in the barn was honest, and there was no movement except for the crying of fright; On the contrary, the friendly general stationed at the foot of the mountain came to the door with a dozen soldiers who could not hide their fatigue, and openly said that they would borrow some manpower to use it.

"It's just some thieves doing trouble"

As for Zhou Huai'an's inquiry, the other party, who was full of fireworks and blood, said lightly

"I've cleaned up that night...

"It's just that I have to borrow some hands and utensils to clean it up."

carefully observed the disapproving and faintly impatient expression on the other party's face, as well as the faint color and fierce emotion of the eye contact between the dozen or so soldiers behind him; Zhou Huai'an suddenly understood something, so he stopped saying nothing but did not shirk the other party's request, but just explained something to Gu Qisheng, the leader of the general team who led the team down the mountain to help.

After some noisy concoction, there are at least more than 400 young men recruited in this Zhao family village, most of whom are poor men who have been bullied by the owner family for a long time and cannot get ahead, and there are few tired poor men; or it was bankrupt by means of exploitation, and it became a tenant and a slave subordinate to the Zhao family; There is also a small part, which is completely a foreigner who has been taken into slavery by Zhaojiazhai for a period of time in recent years;

Most of them took advantage of this opportunity to get out of the Lord's control and get out of the hands of the Lord's house, and by the way to get a good bite to eat, or to ask for a less bad way out.

In addition, there were dozens of craftsmen coerced by coercion and inducement, ranging from coopers, coathersmiths to coppersmiths, and even casters who could make simple weapons, most of whom were private personnel who served the Zhao family; And this proportion is placed in this big village in the countryside, which can be regarded as a rare bumper harvest.

According to the pre-agreed sharing and disposal plan, Zhou Huai'an only collected the grain, cloth and other items and young adults in the Zhao family's village, and in addition to the hidden harvest in the Zhao family's mansion, the remaining goods and territory in the village were handed over to these friendly troops for disposal.

Subsequently, according to Zhou Huai'an's explanation, the leader of the general team privately used the allocated copper coins and cloth to buy some trophies and military armor from these friendly soldiers, including more than 100 well-maintained bows and 8,000 standard feather arrows.

Then this work seems to have made a problem, but before leaving the next day, this Zhu Beijiang, who seemed to be aware of this, took the initiative to bring someone to the door to make a posture of asking the teacher and shouted roughly

"Monk Xu, what you can do is not authentic"

"You have to give me a reason and a reason."

"Why did Zhu Bei say this."

Zhou Huai'an pretended to be surprised and denied it.

"You make people buy and sell with my men."

His face was expressionless

"But you haven't asked me, why is this contemptible?"

"How could it be?"

Zhou Huai'an felt that this was even more unacceptable.

"This must be the dictate of the underneath."

"Since there are no words, then I will definitely restrain and deal with them well."

"It's still a matter of what...

Who knew that Zhu Bei would be even more dissatisfied with the heavy hand.

"That's not what I wanted."

"Then please don't give me advice."

Zhou Huai'an was a little puzzled and vigilant, could it be that this guy wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail and extort benefits, it would not be so simple.

"You scholars just don't want to be happy, so I'll just ask a word,"

He was a little troubled and dissatisfied

"This business has not been done...

"Hah...

Zhou Huai'an understood at this moment, and he couldn't help but be a little unbelievable.

"Here's what I said."

"If my son does it, I can't do it."

He continued to disgruntle.

"How many things can be exchanged for that piecemeal deal with them."

"Well, since it's not going to have that in mind."

Zhou Huai'an was a little unexpectedly surprised, did you lie if you didn't smile before.

"Then I'd like to hear about it."

"Do you know that we don't have a lot of fights with official dogs?"

Zhu Beijiang said softly with a slightly gentle face.

"The brethren also have some surplus to accumulate."

"I haven't had time to hand it over to the military government yet, in exchange for some rewards or something"

Zhou Huai'an completely understood this, the other party meant that there was no need for such troublesome private contact, just exchange what he wanted, and he still had a batch of things in his hand that he might be interested in. It's just that when the top and bottom are generally not very satisfied with the reward given by the military government, they are willing to deal with it at a suitable price to the angry wind camp.

So, in the ensuing bargaining, which was still amicable, at the price of two and a half loads of loose copper coins and a hundred pieces of thick silk cloth, six hundred stone of white rice, and three hundred and fifty bags of fine noodles, he obtained more than 100 pieces of old armor, more than 500 leather helmets, and 23 official styles;

It's just that after completing the business, the other party patted his chest and said that if he wanted more in the future, he would have to wait for a while in the local area, and go to Changle County to find someone to send it over.

This kind of refreshing and neat commercialization behavior and the spirit of the follow-up "contract" also made Zhou Huai'an a little speechless, and couldn't help but think of an Internet joke about the "Osaka Division". Could it be that the peasant rebel army of this era is such a utilitarian and philistinized virtue, and this is still the old rebel army army that is fighting against the official army at the front.

However, he immediately thought of the suggestion and idea he had given to Wang Pan before, but it was also based on the thinking of modern people. It's just that he politely thanked him for the follow-up transactions or left them for the future, after all, after a short period of rest and expansion, it was the right thing to hurry up and join Wang Pan's main formation.

This time, the harvest in Zhaojiazhai has far exceeded expectations, so the attack and plundering of the remaining few Tutuan army strongholds have become dispensable, and can be handed over to these friendly forces to deal with.

However, the next outpost that was parading outside the village brought back an unexpected news.

(End of chapter)