The army of Tiger Prison Pass is decreasing day by day, the main force is basically concentrated in Wanxian County to rest, and then it will be drawn in the direction of Yongdu, and the army needs to arrive at their respective destinations before the first heavy snow falls, and complete the encirclement and blockade of Yongdu. Now the Tiger Prison has only one garrison camp left in addition to the Fire Death Camp to protect His Majesty the Emperor. This garrison battalion was transferred from the reorganization of the Qingzhou Army and also existed as a backup for the Hengduan Mountain Army.

Now the only thing that the Ming Dynasty is still fighting is the Hengduan Mountains, the Qi army has concentrated about 20,000 troops in the Hengduan Mountains to attack the fortresses controlled by the Ming army, in the case that the Ming army has already taken precautions, except for the initial launch of several fierce attacks by the Ming army after the head-on attack, it has been unstoppable. With the defeat of the Qin army by the Ming army, there were fewer such attacks. The Ming army had received information, and Guo Xiancheng returned to Chang'an after the Ming and Qin wars were over.

Guo Xiancheng's departure means that the war in the Hengduan Mountains is about to end.

The Ming Dynasty will usher in a rare period of peace.

Now the Tiger Prison is full of caravans of all kinds.

The Ming Dynasty has always been the delivery of the army's logistics materials to the delivery of various merchants, the court to these merchants to purchase military supplies, the purchase price includes freight, the winning bidders to obtain these orders must be within the specified time to transport the required items to the point of location, once overdue, they face not only a huge fine, but also will be punished by the court, more importantly, they lose their credit, will not get the court orders.

This kind of order of the imperial court is extremely profitable, but the risk is really not small. Of course, it will not be small merchants who can undertake this kind of order, basically every one of them is a well-known giant businessman in Daming.

In the past, the army fought to supply the combat needs of 100,000 troops, and at least tens of thousands of people needed to be supplied, and now after handing over all these to the merchants, it seems that the purchase price is much more expensive, but when it comes to the general ledger, it is a lot of savings.

Merchants are more calculating, and they are good at minimizing costs, which the government cannot do anyway.

In addition to these caravans, private merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty are now gathered here, for them, every new piece of Xinjiang in the Ming Dynasty, it means that they have a new hot and shining place, all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty, now a large number of people gathered in the Tiger Prison, the Ming Merchants have been doing business with the Tiger Prison for some years, here, has become a base of the Ming Merchants.

Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, the large gathering area formed over the years has been further expanded, and huge warehouses have risen from the ground, each of which is now full. Among them, some are official warehouses, and some are private warehouses.

In addition to the merchants, there are also some more men with fierce expressions and guns and knives on the streets of Tiger Prison now. These people are the guards of the caravan, and the most of them are the dart masters of the Tianwu Dart Line who are uniformly dressed and embroidered with the word Tianwu on the back of their chests.

Tianwu dart line, in just one year, has developed into the largest dart line in the Ming Dynasty, their price is the highest, idle small businessmen, simply can not afford to hire them, and only those big business houses will invite Tianwu dart line to send people, Tianwu dart line in the dart line, the most is the soldier who retired from the army, and then the good hands of the rivers and lakes, these people are grouped together, the combat effectiveness is amazing, and the idle bandits, do not dare to go straight to the front.

Of course, there are some small businesses that can't afford to hire Tianwu Dart Shop, so they can only think of other ways, fortunately, there are military veterans next year, and not every retired soldier will join Tianwu Dart Shop, and there are many people who are not used to being constrained anymore, and gather in groups to take over the work of these small businesses. They're cheap, and there's no shortage of work to do.

And now they are gathered together, of course, because of the imperial court about the suppression of bandits in the newly occupied territory.

The imperial court does not use the army, but is in charge of the Anti-Theft Administration, and these people can voluntarily join, file with the Anti-Theft Administration, and then receive the task, and then they can go to the destination with the officials who are about to leave and start working.

The Big Bowl Drunken House outside Tiger Prison is where these people gather. Since the news was released through the Anti-Theft Administration, it has been full of people, day and night.

Yu Hong walked into the big bowl with three companions, they had just returned from Jingxian, the blood stains on the armor on their bodies were Banban, three companions, two of them were wounded, as soon as they walked in, someone immediately greeted loudly.

"Boss Yu, come and sit here. What's going on? Looks like you've done it, huh?"

Yu Hong glanced up at the other party, and a smile appeared on his face: "Lu San, you are here too. I just escorted a batch of goods to Jing County, and I had a fight with a group of Qin troops."

"How? How's the catch?"

"Folded five brothers." Yu Hong's face was uncertain, and his tone was a little heavy. There were only ten of us and about thirty of them. Although a vicious battle was won, it was more than worth the loss."

"How effective are these bandits?" Hearing that Lu San, who had folded five and greeted him, dared to be solemn, he knew Yu Hong's methods, and the escort team led by Yu Hong was also a well-known team, and this time it was actually folded in half, which shows that this bowl of rice is not so delicious.

The people who ate this bowl of rice in a big bowl of drunkenness basically knew Yu Hong, and they all quieted down at the moment, pricking up their ears to listen to the conversation between the two.

"Brothers, you have to be careful, these routs are not in any way when they fight, but their personal combat effectiveness is really powerful, and they are extremely difficult to deal with. Now we are not in the army, and we don't have crossbow arrows, so we can only fight them with real skills. Casualties are inevitable." Yu Hong said: "But the harvest is not bad. All the things on these bandits belonged to us, and then captured a dozen of them, escorted them to the county government of Jingxian County, and sold them for ten taels of silver, plus the reward of the county government, this trip earned thousands of taels, but our brothers have already totaled it, and these silvers are given to the five brothers who died."

"Boss Yu, since these routs are so difficult to fight, what are you going to do next?" Lu San asked.

"Of course you have to do it." Yu Hong said: "The risk is big, and the harvest is more, I came here today, in fact, I want to find the brothers to sum up, we can't fight alone, the people gathered here are all small guards, and the largest number is only a dozen people, but the gangs in these places, as little as thirty or fifty people, more than hundreds, the combat effectiveness is really good, it is difficult to entangle, I am on this trip, I have suffered a loss from underestimating them."

"What does Boss Yu mean?"

"Tianwu Dart has signed a contract with the Anti-Theft Administration, they are outnumbered, much stronger than us, big head, it is ironclad that they will eat, but if we make such a small fight, I am afraid that in the end not only will we not be able to fall behind, but also suffer, so I am thinking, do we want to join forces to do it together. I'm here to find out what you're all about."

Lu San pondered for a moment and said: "Boss Yu is also reasonable, but we have more than a dozen teams here, large and small, if they join forces, who will have the final say, how will we divide the accounts in the future?"

"That's easy to say!" Yu Hong stood up, "Here are basically all retired from the army, each of them reported their military age in the army, as well as their positions, the one with the largest officer in the army is the leader, we still group according to the rules of the army, as for the account division, every flat place, the account will be divided equally, whether the people in the team are in the vanguard or as a response, or in charge of logistics, what do you think?"

"Boss Yu is right. The power of Tianwu Dart Xing is too great, if we don't join forces, it is estimated that we will not even have soup to drink. Now there are still a lot of teams like ours in the Tiger Prison, gather them all, we can at least get together a thousand people, and then we will negotiate with the Tianwu Dart Company and divide the territory with them, those places belong to them, and which places belong to us." In the crowd, a big man stood up and said loudly.

"That makes sense." Another person stood up, "Save us from wandering around like flies without a head, organizing together, so that we can distinguish our respective duties, probe, post-war, logistics, and orderly. What's more, when you get together, you can compete with Kaiwu Dart."

The big bowl of drunkenness suddenly became lively, everyone agreed with this proposal, the vast majority of the people here were retired from the army, and soon reached an agreement, each of them reported their positions in the army, but the squinting man called Guan Ning had the highest position, and he retired from the blue wolf battalion, and became a lieutenant. At the moment, he was the leader, followed by Yu Hong, and when he was in the army, he was a gang leader.

These people did what they said, and by the time it got dark, they had gathered more than a thousand guards outside the city, and in a short period of time, they had completed the formation outside the city.

That night, Qin Feng received this information. The one named Guan Ning, with Yu Hong, first went to the office of the Anti-Theft Administration in the Tiger Prison to sign the contract and file it, and they also took a new name, called Mingwei Dart Company.

After doing this thing, the two of them went non-stop to meet the leader of the Tianwu Dart Line in the Tiger Prison, after some negotiations, the two sides demarcated the area, and the Wu Dart Line gathered in the Tiger Prison is actually only more than 1,000 people, the two sides bargained for a long time, and finally demarcated the area, each doing its own thing, not interfering with each other.

Tang Zhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department who reported these to Qin Feng, was a little uneasy, whether it was the Tianwu Dart Company or the Mingwei Dart Company that had just been established, such a group was actually no different from an army.

"There's nothing to worry about." Qin Feng said with a smile: "These people have all retired from the army, I don't doubt their loyalty, and the Anti-Theft Administration will always have some ways to control, and the Eagle's Nest will not relax, so let them do it, it doesn't cost much, but they can get things done, that's enough." In the future, there will be places where they can be used."