Chapter 133: A Fruitful Harvest
In Zeng Rong's extremely remorseful and frightened eyes, Lin Chong waved his hand and asked people to escort him down, and sent someone to inform the people in the villages near Zengtou City that tomorrow morning, Zeng Lang would be publicly executed.
Immediately, Lin Chong looked at the leaders of Zengtou City who were kneeling on the ground below, trembling, and said coldly: "Lao Tzu is to create a rebellion against the Zhao and Song courts, and swear to kill all the blood traces of the alien races who dare to invade the rivers and mountains of my Han family.
You are all Jurchens who have done a lot of evil, and it is said that I should have killed all of you, even your family and children, and cut down the grass and roots.
But I'm giving you a chance now, if you're willing to die, you can stand up immediately, and Lao Tzu will fulfill you!
If you are willing to serve Lao Tzu, you will lie on the ground for me, and I can also consider sparing your life. Life or death, make a choice now! ”
These people looked at each other, silently making eye contact, and after a while, under Lin Chong's calm and waveless gaze, nearly ninety percent of them fell to the ground at once, their entire arms and palms, and their chins were on the ground, and their buttocks were raised high.
"I want to serve my master!"
Lin Chong nodded, and opened his mouth to make them all stand up, but he couldn't help but curse in his heart, it was really a Yidi beast.
This is the characteristic of the steppe peoples, who are accustomed to following the strong.
Although the rise of giving birth to a girl really gave birth to a sense of identity and pride, to be honest, people at this time, including Han people, did not have much concept of nationality and country, and what they valued more was actually themselves and their families.
The grassland peoples, who follow the law of the jungle, are even more prominent.
Just like after the old lion king of the grassland is defeated by the new lion king, all the other lions will surrender to the new lion king, and even let the new lion king bite their cubs to death. For the steppe people, when the old leader is defeated, they will habitually submit to the new strong man.
This is the case with the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms in history, and the rise and expansion of each foreign regime is quite amazing!
The Jurchens after that, the same is true of the Mongols!
In short, everything is for survival, and surrender is commonplace for them, and there is no shame in the slightest.
"In that case, then you take up your knife and kill these people who are willing to accompany them to death, along with their families, young and old, and leave no one behind!
Also, go to the prisoner camp and ask if anyone is willing to die with Zeng Lang, and they will all be killed, and the whole family will not be left. ”
As soon as the words fell, these people immediately took the knife handed by Sergeant Liangshan with great joy, escorted those who were unwilling to kneel to the outside of the small square to behead their heads, and then went to an empty stable where the prisoners of Zengtou City were temporarily held under the supervision of a battalion of Liangshan infantry soldiers.
"Brother of the military master, these people even killed their own people, do you really want to take them in?"
"Of course I know that those who are not of our race will have different hearts."
Lin Chong looked at the puzzled eyes of several people and explained: "But I also believe that my Liangshan Army is strong and my assimilation ability is strong, except for a few innate wolf ambitions, most people can still be transformed."
Originally, I didn't want to spend time transforming these Jurchens, who told us that the cavalry and archery level of our Liangshan cavalry was really too far behind them?
And it's not that it's just that they are simply co-opted, and they have to be screened and tested. The first is screening, tomorrow's public trial conference, those who have done evil will still be dragged out and killed.
The rest have gone through three months of closed labor reform and ideological education, and only those who pass the examination can become servant soldiers of our Liangshan Army, and their treatment in all aspects is lower than that of the regular Liangshan Army.
Then through meritorious service and at least two years or more of fighting for the Liangshan Army, then you can officially join the Liangshan Army. We'll go back and discuss these specific rules together. ”
Everyone nodded, thinking that it was about the same.
At this moment, Gao Yu and Jiang Jing ran to Lin Chong with smiles on their faces: "Brother Warlord, we have made a big profit this time!" ”
Lin Chong's eyes lit up and asked, "How much?" ”
Both of them were scholars, and they hurriedly ran over, both gasping for breath at this time, and when they heard Lin Qi's question, Gao Yu immediately said with great joy: "After a rough calculation, the entire Zengtou City, more than 3,000 households, including the Zeng family's mansion, not counting war horses and other livestock, add up to at least four million yuan, and they are all mainly gold and silver!" ”
"Four million! Oh my God! ”
Du Bai, Lu Zhishen, as well as Xu Guanzhong, Sun An, Tang Bin and others who had just joined the team, couldn't help but let out a cry almost, completely stunned.
Don't say that they are Lin Chong, when they heard this number, they were also secretly amazed in their hearts, this Zengtou City is really not ordinary rich!
But if you think about it, it is clear that Zengtou City has been settled here for 50 years and has been raising horses for the Great Song Dynasty.
And because they are all expatriates of the Liao State, they naturally have the ability to smuggle a large number of fine war horses from the Liao State; Moreover, because there were too many officials in the Great Song Dynasty, lazy and abusive politics became a common practice, and horse politics was slack, raising horses could actually raise stallions to death (recorded in Song history. Another: In the impression of many people, it is said that after the Song Dynasty lost Yanyun, it lost a good horse breeding base, resulting in a serious shortage of horses, which is quite one-sided. You might as well think about it, didn't these countries of Qi, Wei and Chu during the Warring States Period also have the land of Yanyun, and they were also the country of ten thousand times, and there was never a shortage of war horses? The war horses raised are terrible.
Therefore, there are the best stallions in the Great Song Dynasty in Zengtou City, and the ability of these people to raise horses and train horses far exceeds that of the Song people, and the quality of the war horses raised is naturally far better than the war horses of the Great Song Dynasty State-owned Horse Farm.
The horses in Zengtou City are good, and the price is high.
Relying on providing excellent war horses for the Great Song Dynasty military, coupled with the fact that Zengtou City raised horses, he did not give up continuing to do smuggling business across the sea, and it is not surprising that in 50 years, he accumulated 4 million pieces of property.
Gao Yu nodded excitedly, patted his chest and gasped for breath, and motioned for Jiang Jing to continue.
Jiang Jing hurriedly bowed to Lin Chong and the others, and said in a trembling tone: "This does not include one hundred and twenty stallions, more than two thousand horses, more than three thousand foals, more than 10,000 cattle, sheep, mules, donkeys and other livestock, and grain, horse feed, saddle harness, not to mention it.
Coupled with the more than 3,200 war horses we have captured today, we have really made a big profit this time! ”
Before Jiang Jing finished speaking, he heard the sound of swallowing saliva all around, and the Liangshan Army had not had such a bumper harvest since it became an army.
With four million pieces of gold and silver, plus so many fine war horses, stallions, foals and other good things that money can't buy, this harvest can far exceed the last time Dulonggang Zhujiazhuang was laid.
At that moment, all the Liangshan Army sergeants present began to secretly calculate how much they could get this time; And Du Yan, Bian Xiang and other cavalry generals were staring at the captured horses from the cavalry of Zengtou City.
These war horses are almost as good as the three hundred and sixty good horses that Zhang Shilang brought from Liao, and they are better than the three hundred good horses that Lin Chong originally selected from the Mu Huogang Tiansi Prison; Compared with other ordinary war horses in the Liangshan Army, it is simply better than the sky.
It seems that this group of Jurchens kept the best war horses for themselves every time, and sold the poor ones to the Great Song Forbidden Army, selecting the best of the best, and gradually accumulated more than 4,000 good horses.
Now it has all become the trophies of the Liangshan army.