Chapter 158: Buying rice silk tea and recruiting soldiers

"Chief instructor, the brothers below have long guessed that you will think so, the person has already arrived, and it is below." After Li Haipeng finished speaking, he just wanted to turn around, but paused, "Is there anything else you want to order?" ”

Li Haipeng felt that Ye Tan still had something to say, so he added.

"Wait, forget it. I'll go down and meet these people. ”

In the past, I always saw the information of these people in history books or on the Internet, but Ye Tan felt that it was more real to look face-to-face.

After getting off the Puhai, Ye Tan's eyes wandered back and forth on the bodies of more than twenty officials. These more than 20 people, looking at the huge Puhai, the whole person was still shocked, and did not come back to his senses.

After some identification, Ye Tan slowly recognized several people. Their appearance is somewhat different from the information on the Internet.

That Zhang Guoliang, in the future generations, will be frightened by the rout in the battle to support Dan * Yang City next year, and finally drowned when he crossed the river on horseback.

In the end, Ye Tan's gaze stayed on Wu Xi's body. This guy has a terrible historical evaluation in later generations. (Now the solar calendar belongs to 1859) four years later (1863 in the second year of Tongzhi) during the great famine in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also wantonly looted the people's fat people's ointment. With such a person, Ye Tan really doesn't want to show mercy to his subordinates.

Seeing that Ye Tan was young, Wu Xi expected that Ye Tan was just a young man with a fox and a fake tiger, and he had no consciousness as a prisoner. He glared at Ye Tan fiercely, "What are you looking at?!" ”

"Wu Xi, I heard that you are very greedy. I'm wondering if I'm going to sink you to the Pujiang River. ”

Ye Tan's words were like a breeze, but in Wu Xi's heart, it caused a shocking thunderstorm.

He never expected that a person who had nothing to do with him would actually target him. Moreover, Wu Xi didn't think that Ye Tan was joking.

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one. Don't look at Ye Tan's age, his face is kind and immature, but it faintly makes everyone feel inexplicably dangerous. More than 20 people were invariably weak in their hearts, for fear of being targeted by Ye Tan. If you don't get it, you will really be sunk to the Pujiang River to feed the fish. Therefore, one by one, they subconsciously distanced themselves from Wu Xi. For fear of being caught in Wu Xi's bad luck.

Wu Xi wiped his sweat, tried to squeeze out a smile, and said curtly. "The boy laughed."

"Huh."

Ye Tan sneered and squeezed out a snort from his throat. At the same time, his gaze fell on Yu Bin's body. This guy, with his younger brother Yu Kui, colluded with Wu Xi and joined forces with each other.

Yu Bin saw the tyrannical killing intent under the calm from Ye Tan's indifferent eyes. His body slammed to the ground, and the cold suddenly surged from the soles of his feet all over his body.

"Li Haipeng, escort them to the Hai*guan building and let them stay inside. If you run away, shoot and kill! ”

Ye Tan shouted at the Puhai and got on the boat by himself.

Half an hour later, Songjiang Mansion, Taicang Mansion, Baoshan, Puhai, Qingpu and other places, news came out one after another that the Tiger Army was recruiting 1 million workers, regardless of men and women, as long as they meet the age requirements, they can be hired, and the monthly salary is 3 taels of silver, which is just enough to buy one and a half stones of rice (59.2 kilograms per stone, and the price of Puhai is 3 taels of silver and one stone of rice), which is enough to feed a family.

They also posted notices on a large scale to purchase raw silk, tea and rice in large quantities, as much as they wanted. It made the traders who wanted to get rich red-eyed. Therefore, the canal from the Pujiang River to the Taipu River quickly became busy.

The buckets, abacus, carpenters, blacksmiths and other masters in the tooth shop suddenly became sought-after goods.

For this reason, in addition to the seized more than 6.5 million taels of silver, and 1.09 million taels of gold. Ye Tan also took out 30 tons of gold himself as a procurement fund.

"Brother, sitting on the boat all day, Sister Hongluan, Sister Qingluan, and Sister Lan Meili all feel so suffocated. Why don't you leave the road and the separation zone to us? ”

Ye Qingqing's eyes were spinning, playing a little clever, holding her red cheeks with both hands, pretending to be innocent and cute, looking at Ye Tan with a blank look and said.

"It's good that my sister is grown up and can help my brother. However," Speaking of this, Ye Tan looked at Li Haipeng, "Li Haipeng, the safety of several of them will be entrusted to you." If they're missing a hair, I'll settle accounts with you!" ”

Li Haipeng was shocked, and stood solemnly, "Yes!" Chief Instructor! Guaranteed to complete the mission! ”

Ye Tan spread out the map and pointed to Taicang Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, as well as Xuepu (the area of Jing*Huaxin Village), "Qingqing, Hongluan, Qingluan, Lan Meili, your task is to build a 20,000-square-meter warehouse in Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Mansion, mainly used to store grain, raw silk and tea. Then they mobilized the local people to double down on rice planting, pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks. At the same time, textile factories were opened, and a large number of iron ore, coal, timber were purchased... Construction of thermal power stations... In the past, you also had to strengthen the military training of the recruits, and at the same time consolidate the defenses, and you also had to pay attention to the counterattack of the Qing troops, as well as the attacks of the long-haired and gang-ruffians. I will give you 1,200 veterans, and another 20,000 recruits will be placed under your jurisdiction and assigned to the area of Chengjiawan and Tiesha. At the same time, we should do a good job in recruiting those 500,000 troops as soon as possible and achieve results in training. ”

However, it is said that in the countryside of Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Mansion, a large number of soldiers in strange costumes are holding white huahua silver, playing the banner of recruiting soldiers and workers. When I heard that I could get a salary of 3 taels of silver a month, and I could also advance 1 tael of silver, many skeptical people finally couldn't sit still and instantly crowded the registration office. Five or six long dragons, at least 500 meters away.

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"Hold it, old man! I don't know how to deal with the old scum, and Ni is familiar with it. When did you get sharp?! ”

In a back room in Puhai South City, more than a dozen young knife sharpeners tried their best to suppress the fear in their hearts, and one of them finally couldn't stand it, and his voice burst out.

"Smack!" With a bang, the young man who had just spoken violently was slapped on the back of his head by the person who was standing.

"And shrimp boys, talk loudly, be deaf? Do you want to kill everyone together?! ”

The slightly older young man glared at the shrimp boy fiercely and scolded.

"A baa guy comes to coffee, and his marksmanship is so sharp. Speaking both in my vernacular and Hakka, as if I am a brother. It's really sharp, Lin Qin is not even doing it, as soon as they make a move, they will scare the crow shop, and even bury a ghost. ”

Seeing that someone opened his mouth, the others couldn't help it, and said.

"Brother Mao, it seems that there are a few pairs of roads, and my ground knife cutting club is not going to be transferred?"

Finally someone got to the point.

"It's okay, wait until midnight."

Brother Mao's expression changed, and he finally made up his mind and said.

More than a dozen people nodded in unison. But in my heart, I was worried about the black shadows flying through the sky.

Since the uprising of the Knife Cutting Society began in 1853, the leaders Liu Lichuan and Zhou Licun were brutally suppressed and besieged by the foreign coalition army, and they were killed in battle. In addition to some of them fled back to Jinling, some of them fled to Nanyang under the leadership of Chen Yalin. Therefore, Brother Cat and these people have actually become stragglers.

Suddenly, a little boy of eleven or twelve years old, although slender, but his eyes were extremely smart, and he knew at a glance that he was a ghost child. He stumbled in, sweating profusely, his little face was a little pale, and he said anxiously: "Brother Mao, all the officers and soldiers have been arrested." Listen to the escort's accent, as if it were someone from your place. Listening to them, it seems that they will be sent to Zhujiajiao, Xinbang, Dingshan Lake, Qiandeng, Dongbang, and Yushan to repair roads and repair isolation belts. ”

The same scene appeared in many hidden back rooms. The entire Puhai was so frightened that almost every house was closed, and even the atmosphere did not dare to breathe.

Not long after, another ten-year-old boy ran in with a panicked expression, but said excitedly: "Brother Mao, we have posted a lot of notices, we Puhai want to recruit 50,000 workers, regardless of gender, as long as the age meets the conditions, they will be hired." ”

Hearing this, He's shrimp boy's eyes lit up, and a strange light flashed, "Brother Mao, our opportunity has come." You don't have to move and you can find a place to eat. ”

Talking to the shrimp boy, everyone supports him. Everyone looked at Brother Cat nervously, hoping that he would nod his head in agreement.