After a lapse of five days, the update is back, with a big update of 8,000 words! Everyone thinks it's better to be three......

In addition, thank you for the vote of the book friends in the sub-zero paragraph, but unfortunately I have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the game recently, and I really don't have the strength to add more...... Owes it to the first......

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The matter of "Yisi Ba Xi's army leaving the city late at night" had already been known by almost all the leading forces in the evening of the same day, but more specific details did not spread until the next morning.

This time, the Yisi Ba Xi army dispatched a total of 900 armor, including a hundred horse army, the commander of the army is the deputy commander of the Yi Si Ba Xi army, Amiriddin, among the accompanying officers, there are more Fuxin, Ma Hamou and other meritorious generals, with a total of no more than 5,000 soldiers of the Yi Si Ba Xi army, it can be regarded as a full capital, which can be called full sincerity. In the letter presented to Han Sha, it was also written quite politely, saying, "Since you live in my hometown, you dare not to fight, and you are willing to be the forerunner and swing this bandit's hole." ”

"Somebody is willing to take the lead, of course, that's great, but they don't live here for a day or two, right? What about before? What did you do? ”

When he heard the news that Yisi Ba Xi's army was dispatched on its own, Wang De was not angry because of this kind of merit-grabbing behavior, but just smiled and said this to the officers under his command.

Then, suddenly, his face changed, his eyes widened, and he ripped the clothes from his chest and roared at the officers and his own soldiers.

"Here, it's the scar that was pulled out when Lao Tzu was herding cattle for people!"

smiled cruelly, saying that he was the same as Xue Ranwei, he was not a son of a family, he only voted for the army for food rations, and then he went south and north, half desperate and half lucky, and I don't know how many heads he cut off before he survived to today's position and earned this net worth.

"What does Lao Tzu rely on? It's a thief! It's a military feat! It's the gold and silver that was stolen when the stockade was broken! ”

Gasping for breath, Wang De roared: "And now, these blue-eyed bastards, what are they doing? What do they want to do? ”

“…… They are trying to rob us of our military merits! You're going to rob us of our money! ”

Half an hour later, the Fengxiang archers, who had just entered the camp to rest last night, left the camp in array, and under the leadership of Xue Ranwei, the killing intent soared, and they left the city, and their morale was ...... Like a rainbow!

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"Worthy of a man with an old soldier......"

To be able to make an army that has just been fighting in the mountains for more than two months, breaking the stockade and making a fortune, turn into a pack of hungry dogs with red eyes again in a few words. Although Zhang Yuanhe is rarely convinced, he can't help but be impressed in the face of such a skill of controlling the army.

"In a moment, let's go too."

It was not a sudden decision, as early as last night, looking at the Yisi Ba Xi army in the distance, Zhang Yuankong was silent for a while, and then said that the next day, he would go to Qingxi Cave again.

"Doesn't it make sense, brother?"

As last night, Zhang Yuanhe once again raised objections, arguing that it was clear that all this was just a performance for their own needs.

"The Yisi Ba Xi army, or the Yi merchants behind them, hope to raze the so-called 'anti-trace' of Qingxi Cave as soon as possible, so as not to give Fengxiang archers an excuse to stay for a long time. The Fengxiang archers and Han Taishou standing behind them, and possibly the Shenxiao faction, need to find traces in Qingxi Cave to prove the correctness of Han Taishou's series of decisions...... After all, it's just a play, so why should we watch it? ”

"You still haven't figured it out, Yuanhe."

With a wry smile, Zhang Yuankong asked him, what is the reason for these two armies to go to Qingxi Cave?

"Destroy the anti-thieves of the Taiping Dao."

"Then, is there a thief in Qingxi Cave?"

"Of course not, senior brother, you ......"

The voice suddenly became smaller rapidly, Zhang Yuanhe, he finally understood what Zhang Yuankong wanted to express.

"But, brother."

After being silent for a while, Zhang Yuanhe finally couldn't help but open his mouth and asked Zhang Yuankong what he wanted to do when he went to Qingxi Cave?

"Big brother...... You represent Longhu Mountain! ”

"I know."

Zhang Yuankong replied with a wry smile that he knew his identity, and he knew how capable he was.

"But you have to take a look...... There's always something you can do. ”

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On the way to Qingxi Cave again, I still took the carriage of the Wang family, and among the people who accompanied me, there was still Wang Shoujie.

"It's not okay if you don't go and see it."

Smiling helplessly, Wang Shoujie said, it doesn't matter what the bandits are, the problem is, the bandits are just like a comb, and the soldiers are like a grate!

"Our family's trading post, as well as the port, are all there...... Alas, I have to let my blood go out again. ”

Zhou Fuhai had already hurried to the horse, taking stock of the accounts and raising supplies, and Wang Shoujie followed, carrying a lot of money.

"In short, it's the labor army."

Optimistically, at best, this thing is not bad, if you can get on the line with the military, it is nothing.

"Fauber is here, it should be fine."

has a lot of trust in Zhou Fuhai's long-sleeved ability to dance, Wang Shoujie thinks, isn't it just Yiren? It's not like I haven't seen it.

"You see, even this card ...... Uh, big sister, didn't Fu Bo also communicate very smoothly later? ”

Wang Shoujie is referring to, of course, Carmen. Originally, he only planned to come with Zhang Yuanjin, but when Carmen heard that they were going to visit Cheonggye-dong again, she volunteered to come with her.

"Without me, do you really have the confidence to deal with those villagers?"

For this reason, after agreeing on the additional cost of the trip, Carmen happily got into the carriage. Probably because of this number "very satisfied", along the way, she has always behaved very friendly and easy to deal with, even jokes like Wang Shoujie, she just smiled and nodded, and it was only when she got off the bus to rest in the middle that Zhang Yuankong heard her low mockery.

"Who can you talk to? Does that also include those who are in the fields, on the looms? ”

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"Da Zhenren, this time, you really have to be careful."

Taking advantage of the opportunity to get off the bus to rest, Ma Daokong stood to Zhang Yuankong's side and whispered.

Like Carmen, Ma Daokong was not included in Zhang Yuankong's plan to bring Qingxi Cave, but it was he who persuaded the three Zhang brothers with great earnestness to earn this opportunity for himself.

"If it's still like that in Wuming City, the villain will tell the truth, as soon as he enters Wurong, he may have to find a chance to escape."

said very frankly that he had taken refuge in the three of them, but in order to escape the calamity that was close at hand, and if he wanted to say something loyal, he was afraid that the three of them would laugh off their big teeth first, and what they wanted to be a Taoist boy or something like that was all nonsense, and they couldn't be counted.

"However, the villain didn't expect that Lord Shixiang and they were still holding grudges about the things of the past."

In this case, he escaped from the three Zhang brothers and entered the underground world where the Sanyi Sect had been operating for hundreds of years, and Ma Daokong's greatest possibility was to be tied up with a few stones and sink into the sea.

"The villain really has no way to vote, but, as long as there is a little opportunity, the villain still doesn't want to go to sea with the ship and grow into a foreign person."

This time, he seriously wanted to take refuge in Longhu Mountain, but he didn't have the opportunity to prove that he was worthy of being taken in by the other party. When Zhang Yuanjin was assassinated a few days ago, Ma Daokong thought that the opportunity had finally come, but before he could fight hard, the battle was over.

"The villain didn't want to do anything evil, the villain just wanted to invite three real people to give the villain a chance to sell his life. If the three real people have inspected the goods and feel that the villain's life is worth it, they will ask the three real people to ...... Take the villain away from Wu Rong! ”

Holding the undetachable Pu knife between his wrists, Ma Daokong said sincerely, and finally moved Zhang Yuankong and said, "Then, you can come with me." ”

Along the way, Ma Daokong didn't speak, because Wang Shoujie always had a very disdainful attitude towards him, and he shrank himself silently in a corner, as if he didn't exist at all, and only now did he speak for the first time.

"Da Zhenren, this time, you really have to be careful."

"You mean?"

His eyes flickered, and Ma Daokong hesitated for a moment before he said, "Da Zhenren, you know my experience...... Normally, the officers and soldiers suppressed ...... Suppressing bandits, out of ten heads, it would be really good to have two or three, and this time ......"

Sighing, Ma Daokong continued: "Back then, I saw the Yisi Ba Xi army charging into battle with my own eyes, those white-skinned barbarians, they are really bad stars, holding the wine bottle in one hand and the long knife in the other, they ...... I don't even care about my own life! ”

"What you mean, I see."

Smiling, Zhang Yuankong said: "Don't worry, I am also a person who cherishes my life." ”

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After that, there was nothing to say all the way, and after a short time, it was already on the way to the local ---, and from time to time Pegasus came to report the progress.

"There's still half a day."

With a very relieved smile, Zhou Fuhai told Wang Shoujie that he had communicated with the cavalry who arrived first, and also expressed the first batch of goodwill of the Wang family, and received good results.

"They promised that they would try to communicate with the Lord and avoid our trading posts and ports."

Of course, this is not without a price, Zhou Fuhai spent a batch of materials on behalf of the Wang family and promised more materials.

"You see, young master, if we really had to increase our profits before, then if we encounter this kind of thing again, our room for maneuver will be smaller, and we may even have to lose money for this business, so this is why good deeds must not be done in wages."

"Okay...... Anyway, Dad said, listen to you more. ”

Shrugged his shoulders helplessly, his tone didn't mean to be angry, Wang Shoujie turned his face and began to chat with Zhang Yuanjin.

In fact, Fauber just said it with his mouth, and his heart was like a mirror. Or because he spent the money on the counter, not his private, so he couldn't wipe his face. ”

When Zhou Fuhai walked away, Wang Shoujie said with a smile that he couldn't be more familiar with Zhou Fuhai's thoughts.

"If you want to save people, save one by one."

Explain that it is of course important to protect the trading post and port, but what is the essence? Isn't it to save as many of the surrounding villages and the mountain people who work here as possible?

"They came to kill thieves...... If you want to kill a thief, you must see the head. ”

With a look of unbearability flashing on his face, Wang Shoujie sighed and said, this is all fate.

"Want to open some...... On this kind of day, life is better than death, or it is also liberation. ”

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Standing next to him, silently listening to such discussions, Zhang Yuankong knew that what they said was right. In fact, this is exactly what I judged before.

Everyone knows that Taiping Road is not here, but no one can tell this point. And in order to confirm this, the first level is needed, evidence is needed, and heavy military exploits are needed.

…… Actually, why did you come here? Even Zhang Yuankong himself didn't know.

Of course he understands that what Zhang Yuanhe said is completely correct, and of course he knows that he is just wasting time by coming here. But he couldn't resist coming. Although, he knew that he couldn't do anything when he came, and he was destined to only watch the blood flow here.

Perhaps, subconsciously...... After all, he longed for something to happen, right?

Then, he heard, someone said, "Don't worry, there won't be a lot of deaths...... At least, it won't kill as many people as you imagined. ”

"What did you say?"

turned around suddenly, but could only look at the back of Carmen walking away in amazement, Zhang Yuankong stood stunned, and did not follow to ask.

Then, he laughed.

（…… I hope so! ）

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The next day, Zhang Yuankong found that Carmen's judgment was completely correct.

…… There was no killing, no blood flowing, not at all.

It seems that on the way here, a tacit understanding was formed, and after the Fengxiang archers and the Yisi Ba Xi army set up camp respectively, they each carved out their own areas in the surrounding mountains, and then began to divide the soldiers into small teams, a team of three or five people, and a team of seven or eight people, and scattered into the mountains and forests.

"They...... Is it arresting? ”

Completely unprepared to kill, these soldiers marched along the mountain road, and when they found a house, they roared and gathered around, announcing that they were all remnants of the Taiping Road, and that they deserved to die, and that there was one last chance to tie themselves up and gather in the place below, or else they would die immediately.

"That's right."

Looking at the stunned Zhou Fuhai and the others with mockery, Carmen smiled and said: "I often hear that the shopkeeper of Zhou Da has no last resort, this time...... But he miscalculated! ”

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Finding a place to communicate alone, Zhang Yuankong finally took out what he knew from Carmen's mouth.

"Yisi Ba Xi Jun is so easy to be provoked, they have been eyeing here for a long time."

Strictly speaking, it was not the Yisi Pa Xi army that was eyeing this place, but some other people, some of whom had been planning for a long time, and finally seized today's opportunity, so they couldn't wait to take out the gold and silver, and let the Yi Siba Xi army rush here to capture the people of the mountain people.

"It's the same over there...... Wang De and Xue Ranwei, I don't believe they didn't collect money. Including the officers below, everyone must have a share. ”

"These merchants are really bold......

Halfway through speaking, Zhang Yuanjin immediately stopped, and finally didn't wait for Carmen to turn the "mocking look" into "mocking speech".

"Is it the Lin family?" Zhang Yuankong asked.

"Yes, and more than that."

Answering briskly, Carmen told Zhang Yuankong and Zhang Yuanjin that when they saw the army leaving the city last night, they also went to their own world to inquire, and as far as they heard in the underground world, Lin, Liu, and Chen, the three most powerful local merchants, jointly offered a considerable price.

"Three taels of silver for a person, of course, is to live, women and children also want it, but the price has to be halved."

"What are they going to buy people for?"

Smiling, Carmen said, "Of course...... Let them work. ”

Wurong is one of the most important port cities in Daxia, but for a long time, the wealth here mainly comes from the consumption of wealthy merchants, several bulk exports, silk and tea from Yuanbei, pottery from Tangdong, Wurong local production, only some very low-grade tea, can not be sold at a good price.

In Yuan Nan, where there are eight mountains, one water and one field, the production of land determines not how much property a family can accumulate, but how many men the family can feed, as for the status of the clan and the accumulation of property, it is necessary to rely on these men to run and work hard, and several local families are all like this, unlike those families in Yuan Bei, who can accumulate huge profits every year by relying only on thousands of acres of fertile land under their names.

For a long time, relying on the unique position of controlling the port, the Lin Liu family has also earned amazing wealth, but this does not satisfy them, how can they start from the upstream and swallow all the benefits, it has been their dream for many generations.

"But it's not easy."

Smiling sarcastically, Carmen introduced the two of them to the history of the struggle of the local merchants in Wurong in the past hundreds of years, burning porcelain, but they couldn't dig up the best clay and grow tea, but they just cultivated the best tea seeds, one failure after another.

"In recent decades, their efforts have been directed towards weaving."

Cutting mulberry leaves, buying looms, and cultivating silkworm seeds were not difficult tasks, and soon they were able to produce decent cloth and silk of acceptable quality.

"But it's a pity that they were still beaten to the point of bleeding by the cloth from Yuan Bei."

The problem is not in the quality, but in the price, even if the freight is added to the trek, the locally produced cloth still can't compete with these distant visitors.

"Because, manpower, it's too expensive."

As I said just now, the production of the mountains in southern Yuan can not compare to the land of fish and rice in northern Yuan, a farmer around Guada cultivates a year's harvest, and the farmers of Wurong may need a year and a half or even two years to accumulate, and the price of goods pushed up by the merchants has magnified this gap, the same price, in Yuanbei can buy three stones of grain, in the vicinity of Wurong, but may not even be able to buy a stone.

"Work requires people. And people have to eat food."

In terms of population density, the surrounding areas of Wurong and Yuanbei can be said to be heaven and earth, and the Linliu families can easily set up a workshop that includes more than 100 acres of mulberry gardens and dozens of looms, but they are not able to establish a scale of tens of thousands of acres of mulberry forests connected and thousands of looms like Yuan Bei. Because, the price of raising a weaver in Wurong is more than twice that of Guadu, and no matter how hard the Lin Liu family racks their brains, they can't fill this gap.

"But now, they seem to have finally found it."

Looking at Carmen's seemingly smiling appearance, Zhang Yuankong and Zhang Yuanjin both felt a slight chill on their backs.

"Slave labor? But ......"

Questioning, Zhang Yuankong said that although he had never stepped on a loom, he also knew that this was a technical job, a slave labor, and he was really capable?

"First, the loom is far less technical than you think, children can do it, and women can do it."

Confused, as if thinking of something, Carmen was silent for a moment before continuing.

"Second, according to what I heard, the Lin Liu family wanted these people, and they didn't plan to let them get on the loom."

Mulberry gardens also require a lot of manpower, such as transportation, construction, ...... All require labor. As a matter of fact...... Wu Rong's biggest disadvantage is labor, if the cost of this piece can be greatly reduced, there will be a lot of money to be made in the local production of fabrics.

"So, we have to find a way to lower the artificial click."

It was impossible to recruit workers locally at a profitable labor price, so at the suggestion of some Yi merchants, they began to experiment with slave labor.

"At first, slave labor was purchased from overseas through the channels of Yi merchants."

Thousands of miles to the sea in the southeast direction, there are islands and star cloth, the big ones are almost like the land of Daxia Banzhou, there are also crowds of people gathered on it, and the merchants hire stronger tribes among them, distribute armor, let them capture those weak tribes, the old and weak are slaughtered, and the men and women in the prime of life are transported to Wurong.

"But these people, there are a lot of problems."

It is recognized as "lazy", "gluttonous" and "stupid" by the locals, and then the language barrier, although it is very cheap to buy or use, it has never been able to achieve the ideal production efficiency.

So, they finally started to think about ...... An additional group of slave laborers could be selected. A group of hard-working, intelligent, hard-working, and linguistic slave laborers, is that probably the case? ”

Smiling, Carmen summed it up.

"So...... This is also what Han Taishou thought of from the beginning. ”

Forcibly bringing in guest soldiers, although this greatly increased their right to speak, but it also inevitably triggered a backlash from local forces, so Han Sha's claim was actually killing multiple birds with one stone, and while allowing himself to attract troops into the army, it also gave the local Yixia giants a legal opportunity to plunder.

"I don't think he's going to reach out here...... He didn't want money. ”

Looking at Zhang Yuanjin, looking very depressed, Zhang Yuankong sighed and said, Han Sha, after all, is still a person who does great things.

"In any case, it's better than being killed to perform military exploits."

Unable to explain himself like this, Zhang Yuankong shook his head, turned around, and prepared to leave. But I heard Carmen sneering behind me: "Of course you are lucky, your merchants have only come here, and the peasants are not willing to come to work, so they will take them as slaves...... Lucky enough! ”

"In my hometown, the merchants have been able to get farmers to come into the workshop voluntarily!"

"Well, how?"

In his opinion, this kind of life is far from enough to attract farmers with land to leave the land--- even if they are just tenants living on other people's land, it is not enough, just like what is happening in Wurong now.

"Of course ......"

Laughing loudly, but no smile could be heard in it, Carmen said, "Of course, the sheep are out...... Cannibalism! ”

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"Sheep...... Cannibalism? ”

Confused, but there was no more explanation from Carmen, Zhang Yuankong and Zhang Yuanjin returned to their residence, but they couldn't discuss an answer, and finally, they fell asleep in confusion.

When they got up the next morning, there were already thousands of assembled mountain people--- it was obvious that this night, neither the Yisi Ba Xi army nor the Fengxiang archers had rested--- they were designated to gather in a clearing, and the two officers were lecturing.

"You peace bitches......"

Breaking and scolding, the officers told these mountain people that they were all remnants of the Taiping Dao, and that they deserved to die, and they should be tied up and cut down.

"But you're lucky, the old man came out to buy your life...... Lord Han also agreed, and let you do three years of hard labor to atone for your sins. ”

With a swing of the whip, there was a sharp explosion in the air, and with his roar, fires began to appear in the mountains, where the mountaineers once lived.

"I'll tell you, it's a good fate, it's really a good fate!"

Describe their prospects to the mountain people, although they have no money, but the old men will take care of the food and give them a place to live. It's not a lifetime, as long as you work honestly for three years, even if you are cleared of your sins, you can start all over again.

Listening to the temptation of the threat, most of the mountain people just stood blank and expressionless, and the few people had some commotion when they saw their houses burning, but soon they were crushed by the soldiers around them with sticks and whips.

"Take away, take this group away!"

Ten cavalrymen were to be counted, and a total of 1,093 men were to be transported back to the city, while the rest were to continue deep into the mountains and forests for searching.

"10,000 people...... This time, at least 10,000 people must be caught, otherwise, Lao Tzu will break your legs! ”

In the meantime, Zhou Fuhai didn't rest, he kept smiling and trying to communicate with these officers, as for Zhang Yuankong, he didn't have any interest in such things, just stood silently to the side, looking at the mountain people who began to move slowly in a daze.

Then, he heard someone walk up to him and crouch down.

"Squat down," he heard, Carmen's voice serious.

"Squat down, don't stand tall. Squat down if you really want to get to know them. ”

…… Then, Zhang Yuankong suddenly laughed, and with a smile, he squatted down.

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That night, until he returned to the room, Zhang Yuankong was still smiling.

…… Because, today, for the first time, he established communication with these mountain people, and for the first time, through his own language, he saw the expressions of these mountain people other than "numbness".

"Senior brother, what did you say?"

It is hard to believe this, in Zhang Yuanjin's view, what Zhou Fuhai said is not unreasonable: under the devastation of life, haven't these mountain people already withered like walking corpses? In addition to continuing to "live" under the guidance of inertia, will there be other things in their heads?

"Yes, I'm telling you, yes, as long as you really crouch down and really make them believe in you, you're going to see a lot more."

excitedly talked about his communication today, and in the end, Zhang Yuankong simply pulled Zhang Yuanjin and slipped out of the room.

"I'm telling you, you just have to learn how to understand, how to know what they're thinking, how they're saying."

Tiptoeing to the place where the mountain people were being guarded, Zhang Yuankong told Zhang Yuanjin that they would stay outside and listen for a while and listen to these people.

"I'll tell you what these words represent...... That's something you can't hear. ”

Saying this ostentatiously, both of them quietly lay in the grass, using their ears and ears, listening to those subtle voices.

Then they heard something like this.

"It's all your fault...... At the beginning, Brother Yan said, the government has issued a notice, or go to the people of Shantou Taiping Road first, you have to listen, what about now...... It's better to go. ”

"You know!"

The old man scolded in such a stupid voice, explaining why his decision was the most correct, but Zhang Yuankong and Zhang Yuanjin were no longer interested in listening, and when they looked at each other, they felt a terrifying chill flowing on themselves at the same time.

(Cheonggye-dong...... Here, there are indeed people from Taiping Dao! ）

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Say a few more words today, a book I've been chasing, and I'm done today. So I highly recommend it.

The title of the book, called the Three Laws of the Mage, is a free chapter and has never been put on the shelves. The author laughs at the lion and plays the sword, and it is said that he is an MM, Taiwanese. The problem with the book is that the characters have a light novel flavor, or a Japanese comic flavor, everyone seems very thin and vague except for their most distinctive characteristics, and the plot likes to be promoted in a more extreme and exaggerated way...... In short, it's like a comic book written in words. The advantages are that the text and story are above the level--- of course, they are not particularly high.

What I like most about this book, how to say it, this is probably the author of the other side of the river that I have seen with three views that is most in line with my taste, between the lines, there is a kind of stubbornness, and a kind of anxiety, in my opinion, this stubbornness and anxiety, there is a name...... It's called responsibility.

In short, friends who lack books, friends who have leisure, take a look at this book, don't look at the stolen post, just go to the book station to read it, anyway, the whole book is free, give more encouragement to such authors, everyone.