After the sale of the spoils was finished, Su Shuang proposed at this time: "When the grass people just entered the city, they saw the tall legal platform outside the city, is this preparing to kill the captives and shock the world?" ”

Gong Jing said hatefully: "A group of yellow turban thieves, I don't know how to thank the emperor for his grace, and they have poisoned all parts of Qingzhou, and not killing them is not enough to deter those Xiaoxiao." ”

At this time, Su Shuang said with a regretful expression: "I see that there are more than 10,000 captives, all of them are young and strong, it is a pity to kill them like this, and they are all raised by their parents, and it is indeed against heaven and earth to kill more than 10,000 people." ”

Gong Jing said impatiently: "Mr. Su, I killed these 10,000 rebels in order to deter other Xiaoxiao with ulterior motives, so that they know the consequences of rebellion, the bodhisattva's heart, there must be a thunderbolt means to support, without thunderbolt means, where is the bodhisattva's heart?" For the group of thieves to intercede, Mr. Hugh will mention it again. At that time, it was a resolute face, and it was an expression of righteous words and upholding justice for the world.

Su Shuang shook his head with a smile: "The grass people are not interceding for those thieves, but I feel that it is a pity to kill them, old parents, you also know, I and my eldest brother Zhang Shiyuan, have been working hard for many years, and there are quite a few family-owned fields, and there is a shortage of manpower in the land, do you think this is the case?" Wouldn't it be more than one thing for me to buy these captives and make them slaves for my family, or to resell them? As soon as I heard that someone wanted to buy it, Gong Jing's eyes were bright at that time, and the expression of the original righteous words was immediately replaced with a compassionate look, as Xu Jie analyzed, this Gong Jing loves money very much, this battle, the cut off head is enough to report to the court for merit, the reason why you want to kill these captives, if you want to raise, it is a huge hidden danger, this group of people are all thieves, once they go back to the old business, and then a soldier to surround Qingzhou, then they will be guilty.

But Su Shuang is willing to pay for it, this is the best of both worlds, Su Shuang buys it, then he must shoulder the obligation to take care of them, if this group of people rebels again, then he Su Shuang is the first to run away, and it is reasonable to destroy the family, of course, even if they rebel again, it is also in Su Shuang's hometown and state, and it has nothing to do with himself.

Zou Jing is also very tempted by this idea, so that he does not have to bear the infamy of a butcher, and he can share half of the money in it, which is the best of both worlds. After thinking about it, Zou Jing spoke first: "This method is not bad, but what if these people visit again?" This is Zou Jing thinking that Su Shuang is Lu Peng's second brother, in case Su Shuang pokes out of the basket, Lu Peng will not escape the blame.

Lu Peng took a step forward and replied: "To deter lawlessness, we still have to do it, in our humble opinion, we might as well do this, let those captives identify each other as the leaders of the thieves, and then directly kill the leaders of these thieves, which not only deters Xiaoxiao, but also eliminates hidden dangers, wouldn't this be the best of both worlds?" ”

Zou Jing nodded: "This is a good way, the Yellow Turban Thieves are originally a group of rabble, there is no credibility at all, let them think that they are their original leaders, in order to survive, they will definitely do it, so that the leader is gone, this group of captives is even more scattered, if Mr. Su Shuang not only saved their lives, but also promised to give them a bowl of rice to eat, they will naturally be grateful to Mr. Dade, and they will no longer have to worry about any chaos in the future." ”

Zou Jing said this, in fact, he was explaining his attitude to Gong Jing in disguise - agreeing to sell the captives to Su Shuang. After all, you have your share in this victory, and you have the right to speak.

Gong Jing was already tempted by money, but he was worried that Zou Jing would oppose it, but now that Zou Jing said so, of course he nodded and agreed.

Then everyone began to bargain, and in the end Su Shuang bought all the captives at an absolutely low price of 2,000 yuan per captive.

The deal was agreed, and everyone went out of town together.

The officials and people outside the city have been waiting impatiently, and at this time, when they saw the Taishou and the captain come out, everyone was ready to be executed, and as a result, Gong Jing came to power and issued a compassionate speech to the officials and people, and finally announced: "God has the virtue of a good life, and my parents are not people who kill indiscriminately, but those who lead the troubles must not be tolerated, so my parents announced that they will resolutely suppress those who lead the trouble, and those who do not know the truth and are coerced and bewitched, in order to let these innocent people live, give them a reform, The opportunity to return to the arms of the Great Han again, it was decided to temporarily reduce them to slavery and sell them to Su Shuang. ”

So he announced on the spot that the captives should identify their leaders, and if they did not do so, they would all be killed.

The Yellow Turban Thieves were originally a group of rabble, and the people who joined later were all coerced by the Yellow Turban Thieves, and they had long been resentful of the Yellow Turban Thieves for breaking their homes and embarking themselves on the dark road of unknown life and death.

And the rest of the captives counted, there were as many as 10,000, they faced Su Shuang, knew that he saved their lives, and got Su Shuang's assurance, escorted them back to their manor, and never abused, they all knelt on the ground and wailed in gratitude, and they were dead set on Su Shuang.

After temporarily settling these prisoners, Zou Jing sent people to guard them first, and then returned to the Taishou Yamen to settle the follow-up matters.

10,000 captives, 2,000 yuan each, that is a full 20 million yuan, this is definitely a large amount, if all of them are paid with copper coins, it is really a small copper mountain, so everyone decided to give gold and silver to count.

This method was once again welcomed by Gong Jing and Zou Jing, and the value of gold was going to rise when gold was hidden in troubled times.

Therefore, according to the official license exchange price, the standard of exchanging one pound of gold for 10,000 yuan, 20 million yuan, is counted as 2,000 catties of gold. And these two thousand catties of gold, Zou Jing and Gong Jing can still get it on the black market and exchange it for 15,000 yuan, then they will earn a full thirty percent. That is, the two of them got 30 million dollars in this captive trade.

Of course, such a big thing can't be hidden, this time Gong Jing wants to take out a sum of money to share profits with his subordinates, but this also makes Gong Jing earn a lot of money, these days, Gong Jing has been grinning all day long and running to the city gate, looking forward to Su Shuang being able to collect the money as soon as possible and hand over the money.

Two thousand catties of gold is definitely not a small amount, even if Zhang Shiyuan and Su Shuangfu are on the one hand, it will be difficult to collect for a while, so Lu Peng quietly took out the gold and silver in Fang Shuai's cellar, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiyuan urgently allocated a loan, and then there was a shortage, and used the antique jade in the cellar to offset a part, and finally completed the transaction.

This time, Zou Jing made a lot of money in the first battle, and he also knew that he made so much money, in fact, he also got Lu Peng's guidance, and turned the war that was originally a war of countless casualties and losses into a money-making business, and his attitude towards Lu Peng was much better, after getting the 20 million money of slaves and grain and grass, he did not hesitate, and first gave Lu Peng 500,000 wife capital, but said okay, this money, his boss first saved it for him, or he should eat nonsense and lose it.

At that time, Lu Peng heard this heavy 500,000, and in a blink of an eye, it became a fluttering sentence, and the pain and depression at that time were unbearable, my wife Ben was kept by the boss, are you my father? Are you my father-in-law? Lu Peng wanted to go up impulsively, blaming and questioning loudly, but when he looked at Zou Jing's black face towards him, he could only pinch his nose and admit it.

After answering Lu Peng correctly, Zou Jing began to reward the generals, according to the size of the merit, the three brothers Liu Guanzhang and Lu Peng had the greatest merit, so each of them got 100,000 yuan, and so on, and finally even the small soldiers were rewarded with 100 yuan, and the whole army was thunderous and morale was high.