Chapter 561: Plunder

In the past two years, there are fewer and fewer merchants who go south through Tielingwei, and the income of Tielingwei is not as rich as before, in fact, except for winter, the goods enter the sea through the Tumen River, and then take the sea route to Huazhou to live in the Ming Dynasty, the cost is much less than that of land transportation.

Huazhou's Qian Zhuang and Ticket Number have been doing this, opening up sea routes and diverting dependence on the road of Tielingwei.

When the generals and soldiers of Tielingwei started, they still had the idea of not killing this hen that laid golden eggs, and as the usual taxes and fees became less and less, the anger became bigger and bigger, thinking that in order to come to this Tielingwei to make a fortune, they spent a lot of benefits to come over, but they couldn't get back the capital when they came here, what is this thing.

However, the merchants who come and go are not good characters, after all, the north outside the Guanhai is a place without royal law, and anyone who has the courage to do business, one is to bring enough bodyguards and guards, and the other is to have enough background, if you want to rob it, it is still a big trouble.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army can only take the fees given by these merchants, as if they are rewarded, but it has always been the merchants of Guannei and Liaozhen who go north and south, although there are merchants among the displaced people outside the Guan, but the range of activities will not exceed the side wall, as if there are some scruples.

The bold made a fortune, the timid starved to death, and the meticulous work and spies of Liaozhen went three hundred miles beyond the border wall, and did not see any formed army and military force, but only knew that some of the guards and private soldiers in each manor were said to have passed from the military households of Liaozhen in the past. These things were already known to Tieling Wei and several nearby guards, from the commanders to the ordinary soldiers below.

This shows that there is nothing to be afraid of in the places where the displaced people live, and the merchants among the displaced people often come to the place near the border wall with a large amount of goods, and trade with the merchants in the customs there, if they are robbed in the past, this oil and water will be big, anyway, the recent rumors are not legends, is the imperial court going to do something to the homeless? When the time comes, there will be no benefits now, as for the person opposite, it is said that he is also a former Liaozhen military household, and the current Tielingwei has been rotated many times, and there is no incense at all.

Perhaps for the convenience of trading and reducing the journey, the place where the goods of the displaced people outside the border wall were stored was getting closer and closer to the side wall, all kinds of mountain goods and native products, as well as a large number of furs, and even pearls from the Northland, and legend has it that there was some coarse gold, which could not be smelted and finely handled, and was also within the scope of the trade.

In April of the 22nd year of Jiajing, a hundred households in Tielingwei lost more than 200 taels of gambling money, and their eyes were red-eyed, and they finally couldn't hold it back, and called their subordinate soldiers and horses together in the middle of the night, saying that they wanted to take everyone to make a fortune.

Hearing that to make a fortune, everyone came to this bitter cold Tielingwei for what, is to make a fortune, more than 100 soldiers are well aware, where to make a fortune, the hundred households did not make a sound, with the soldiers is over the side wall, according to the businessmen who came back yesterday, twenty miles away from the side wall, there is a large warehouse, there are more than 100 people there to take care of, and there are a few homeless merchants who have not returned after the transaction, which shows that there are not only physical objects, but also gold and silver, oil and water.

The hundred households with energetic subordinates are all riding horses, Liaozhen many horses, this robbery, many soldiers are now borrowing horses from familiar people, as well as borrowing mules and donkeys, rumbling over, originally from the decision to start the loot to start the action, that is, a matter of one or two hours, naturally not to talk about how fully prepared, the soldiers are nervous and excited on the one hand, and the momentum is inevitably bigger.

When I arrived at the place of the warehouse, it was already dark, and the people in the warehouse were already lighting fires, and I didn't know if the soldier didn't pay attention to his whereabouts and was discovered by the people in the warehouse, but the next action made the prepared Tielingwei soldiers really unexpected, and a group of people seemed to be frightened out of the warehouse, crowding out of the warehouse and scattering towards the north.

In the hands of the homeless merchants, there was never a shortage of horses, in fact, there was also a part of the horse trade with the Kannai trade, at this time it happened to be a tool for escaping, and I saw those homeless merchants and their entourage, as well as the people guarding the warehouse, running fast on horses, and disappearing into the darkness in a blink of an eye.

Tielingwei's hundred households were scolded with hatred right away, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to hurry up and not delay the plan to make a fortune, and a group of people played a speed far better than that of combat and drills, and quickly arrived at the warehouse.

Sure enough, it was already empty, and the hundred households and their officers and soldiers pounced on them like flies that saw blood, and they looked around, but they couldn't hear anyone talking or making a sound, and they were all silently moving everywhere, and after a while, huge cheers erupted in this warehouse.

There are not many heavy goods such as grain, all of them are fine furs, pearls and ginseng and other valuables, and even a few bags of golden sand, and they have made a fortune, everyone thinks so in their hearts, this place is not so much a warehouse, in fact, it is just a rough shed, and valuable things are placed in the houses where people live, presumably with these fine goods, ready to trade with the merchants from the Guannai, but they were made a bargain by this hundred households and their subordinates.

This fortune is too easy, the other party even prepared the cart, there is an unloaded cart on the side of the stable, these officers and soldiers of the Tieling Guard also know that the night is long and dreamy, and there is no need for hundreds of households to order, someone has already rushed over to put the cart on, and then some people don't care about the hard work of the long journey, put the things that have been checked on the car, resist the urge to set fire again, and a group of people hummed a little song and embarked on the return journey.

There are also a few people who are vigilant in their hearts, especially telling the hundred households that they should hurry as soon as possible, lest the homeless people call helpers to chase after them, and they are afraid that these things will be left behind, but the hundred households did not listen at all, and said quite arrogantly:

"These homeless people are chased like lost dogs in the pass, and when they come here, they are pigs and sheep, weak goods who are slaughtered by others, and they are afraid of what he will do, and they will hurry slowly, and the rich days I am waiting for are coming!"

The result is extremely surprising, there is really no one who dares to chase, so let the more than 100 Ming army swagger back to Tielingwei, that night to divide the things down, the next day, there are always people who are not strict, the harvest of this hundred households suddenly caused a sensation in the entire Tielingwei.

Looking at the gorgeous furs, high-quality pearls and ginseng, everyone is hungry and greedy, and some people say that there are still a few bags of golden gold in the hands of the hundred households, which is a full weight of more than ten catties. And it is said that the fierce and tenacious homeless people are so cowardly, so that the Ming army, which is smaller than their own number, robbed the property, and did not dare to gather manpower to retaliate, it turned out to be so easy to get rich.

After the third day, there was not even a single protester on the side wall, and I heard the small traders who used to do business say that the displaced people who had lost their goods beat their chests and cried, and some people hanged themselves, that is, no one came to trouble the Ming army, and it is said that some people said, we are rootless people, and we can't even win a lawsuit, what can I do in the future, this kind of cowardly and incompetent performance has stirred up the minds of Tielingwei and even several surrounding guards. But all this is said to be the news from the small traders who went to the opposite side to do business, that is, they can go deep into each other's estates.

In the vicinity of Tielingwei, there were originally merchants who came from inside to live temporarily, and they were also going to go outside the border wall to do trade, and there were many inns and restaurants in Tielingwei that were doing business with these people, and these merchants were sensitive, and when they heard that the officers and soldiers of Tielingwei had looted their property, they thought that many goods must not be held in their hands, they must be sold, and these Qiu Ba will know what price is in the market.

These businessmen did not go to the customs outside, directly went to these people to buy, these officers and soldiers saw that there was cash into the account, they were very happy, a little talk about the price is to sell out, even so, the people who went out that night, hundreds of households and cronies also made a fortune, the soldiers under their hands are also a small fortune to make, the businessmen are even more earning pockets are about to pop out, after these things are purchased, the customs is to increase the price of several times dozens of times, most of the businessmen are short-sighted, at a glance there is such a good cheap can be earned, It was a good thing for everyone to encourage the rest of the officers and soldiers to go out of the border wall and plunder, so as not to trade with the more and more shrewd outcast merchants.

The news of the looting of the homeless people and their fortune quickly spread throughout Liao Town, and all the guards were sensational, and they had heard of the wealth outside the side wall, but they didn't expect it to be a fat sheep that could be slaughtered, and they wanted to hurry over and cut it.

All senior officers with status are going to Liao Town's general soldier Li Gufeng to ask, asking if it is now to start to start to do things outside the side wall, what I didn't expect is that after Li Gufeng heard the news, he angrily overturned the table, it turned out that in April, Baoding's five thousand soldiers and horses fought with the rebels in Dezhou, and were crushed by the opponent's horse team, and then the whole army collapsed, and the soldiers and horses of Jizhen shrank in the Tongzhou area, and they had already suffered several defeats in a row, and the imperial court was already preparing to transfer the soldiers and horses of Liao Town to the south, Who would have thought that the people of Tielingwei would make such trouble, so that the soldiers of Liao Zhen would have the heart to fight.

The soldiers who went to arrest the 100 households of the Tieling Guard pounced on it, saying that the 100 households left Tieling within a few days after they got rich, saying that they had gone to the south to enjoy happiness......

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