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Compared with previous years, this year's winter in the south of the Yangtze River is undoubtedly a little colder, after a few goose feather snowfall, this day is even more cold day by day, the river wind blows, it is even more cold wind, the weather seems to be colder than the north.

In this biting cold wind, a group of Taiping troops escorted five or six hundred people in different clothes and walked in the direction of Wuchang, some of these people were strong and some were young, their clothes were either shabby or neat, but without exception, all of them looked left and right with panicked expressions, letting the winter rain fall on their trembling bodies.

"Where did the longhair bring you there?"

In the crowd, Xue Hailong, who was wearing a green shirt, looked at the Taiping army around him suspiciously, the shoes and pants of those Taiping soldiers were covered with mud and water, and the faces under the hat were as gloomy as the sky.

Looking at the fellow villagers around him, there were more than 100 people still wearing Lian Yong's uniform, and Lian Yong like this was caught by Long Hair before, which was going to kill his head, but now, Xue Hailong's heart was muttering, why didn't he kill much this time.

On the contrary, he tied everyone up with a rope, and looked at the direction as if he was heading towards Wuchang, could it be that he was going to attack the city and pull everyone to go to the cannon fodder?

Although Xue Hailong, who is a self-proclaimed scholar, of course knows that this siege of the city since ancient times is to plunder the people as soldiers, and to use the people as ants to attack the city, it can be said that once he reaches the city, he will almost die, although he knows the risk of the ants attacking the city, but now, the knife is in the hands of others, he naturally does not have the courage to resist, after all, he has seen too many deaths.

"******, hurry up!"

Perhaps it was this clammy and cold that made these Taiping soldiers angry, scolding in their mouths, and one of them even whipped the people with a whip.

Although he was wearing thick clothes in winter, the cowhide whip on his body still made the people who were drawn let out a howl of pain, and the others naturally walked faster, even those who were injured Lian Yong also walked in a hurry, for fear of annoying them, and what was waved was not a whip, but a knife.

Driven away by the long hair with a whip, Xue Hailong still dared to think about it, but when he was speeding up his pace, he thought in his heart, if he arrived in Wuchang, he would have to find a chance to escape, perhaps, the other people in the village did not know the appearance of Wuchang City, he had entered the school back then, and he was naturally no stranger to Wuchang, so he might be able to find a chance to escape.

Under the continuous winter rain, hundreds of people tied up by long ropes walked in the direction of Wuchang under the drive of leather whips.

The dark clouds of the long-term disk have been stranded in the sky over Wuchang, and they have been falling for two or three days in a row, and there is no sign of stopping. After a heavy snowfall stopped, Yang Xiuqing, standing under the corridor, looked at the snow in the courtyard in the rain, and the snow in the courtyard covered everything on the ground in the snow, only a few bamboos by the wall showed some branches and leaves.

"Nine thousand years old!"

Zhao Lishan let out a low voice, his waist was almost ninety degrees, and his speech was even more humble.

Yang Xiuqing turned her back to him and said softly.

"Did someone send it?"

"Just on the road, when you come, you will send it over."

Zhao Lishan hurriedly replied.

"Just send it......"

Suddenly, Yang Xiuqing turned around, and her expression was very calm.

"That's fine, it saves us a knife!"

Dongwang's words made Zhao Lishan hurriedly compliment.

"Nine thousand years old, you are also a merciful act of life, if not, according to the crime of colluding with those people to clear the demons, they should all be cut down. Resting here, it is also a cost of food, even if it is pulled out and cut, it will also hurt the knife, now it's good, one person can top two taels of silver, these dozens of people, can be replaced with a good foreign gun! ”

Zhao Lishan said this, but admired the shrewdness of the foreigner comprador, not only for money and silk goods, but also for people, what did this person want to do? According to his words, it was sold to foreign countries, and this person could still be sold to foreign countries, he had heard of it for the first time, but in any case, those who used to feel that they even felt hurt when they were cut can be turned into silver.

"You know, they'll be sold to the ocean and they'll be able to live in peace?"

Yang Xiuqing suddenly said loudly,

"Those foreign brothers bought them, how could they ......?"

After a pause, Yang Xiuqing waved his hand and commanded Zhao Lishan.

"Okay, you go to the dock, take care of the matter in front of you first, and as for the current batch of Dingkou, don't accept their money!"

"Nine thousand years old, you are too kind to the person surnamed Zhu!"

"You know what! Now compared to silver, we need these foreign guns more, with foreign guns, we can take the world, why worry about no silver at that time? What's more, don't you forget, he still has a boat behind, and on that ship, isn't there more than 20,000 foreign guns? Leave them here for now, understand? ”

Although Dongwang didn't say it explicitly, Zhao Lishan heard some other flavors from Dongwang's words, could it be ......

"Yes, nine thousand years old, the lowly position understands, then the lowly duty will retire first!"

In front of Yang Xiuqing, Zhao Lishan naturally seemed extremely humble and obedient, but when he went out, as an official in the palace of His Royal Highness the East King, although he couldn't talk about being above 10,000 people under one person, even if he was an ordinary brigade commander or a division commander, he was respectful, and he naturally walked with his head held high, all with a look of not putting others in his eyes.

"Master Zhao, let's go there!"

He bent down obediently and said as if flattering, while Zhao Lishan just spit out a sentence casually,

"Go to the docks!"

The wharf is naturally going to go, but going to the wharf is not for the "human market" to trade, but for another thing, to help the surnamed Zhu make such a big business, naturally to ask for some benefits.

On the wharf, the coolies who were caught from there at that time were stepping on the gangplank to carry heavy wooden boxes onto the ship, because the spring silk had not yet been listed, and the last time the inventory of Hankou and Hanyang was basically swept away, this time the Taiping army paid all the cash, which was checked by Li Ziyuan himself in the warehouse, and then transported to the ship.

The reason why it was so bold this time, filled with a ship full of silver, in addition to the "powerful" firepower of the "Express", a more important reason was that there were more than a dozen "henchmen" on this ship.

"Brother Zhu, this time, you are going to take a big advantage!"

Standing on the edge of the dock, watching boxes of silver money being carried onto the boat, Zhao Lishan's eyes lit up.

"A foreign gun is 100 taels, you came here with a foreign gun and a foreign cannon, but when you go back, you are loaded with a boatload of silver......

Although for the Taiping Army, all this silver was "requisitioned" along the way, and it was simply a business without capital, but it was really heart-wrenching to hand over so much silver to them, and what puzzled Zhao Lishan the most was probably why he didn't take the opportunity to eat his goods!

"That's not the blessing of your Zhao Tianguan!"

As he spoke, Zhu Yifeng took out the gift he had prepared long ago from his pocket and quietly stuffed a gold watch into Zhao Lishan's hand.

"Brother Zhu, ...... are you?"

Zhao Lishan, who took over the gold watch, looked surprised.

"Lord Tianguan, in the future, we will have to excel, and in the future, we will trouble you old!"

Stuffing the gold watch into the money bag at his waist, Zhao Lishan said without a trace.

"This time, I'm coming, nine thousand years old has another order."

Zhu Ziwen was stunned for a moment, could it be that there has been any change?

Coughing lightly, Zhao Lishan pointed to the coolie carrying the silver box and said.

"Nine thousand years old, you have traveled thousands of miles to help our army, and you have really taken a lot of risks, except that the gun has given you a high price, as for those Dingkou, this time, it will be given to you for nothing!"

"Ah......h

Zhu Yifeng hurriedly pretended to be grateful.

"Nine thousand years old benevolence and righteousness, how dare the little ones forget each other."

thanked him on his lips, but in his heart, Zhu Yifeng muttered - this Yang Xiuqing is inevitably too "kind"! Could it be that the bandits are really more trustworthy than the government, this is two million taels of silver, and they just let themselves take it...... Yu Guang stared at the silver box, this will make him regret it a little, this time, he seems to have taken a little risk!

"It's good to remember, in short, it's still the same sentence, as long as you sincerely buy guns and foreign goods for my heavenly kingdom, my heavenly kingdom will naturally not treat you badly, oh yes."

While speaking, Zhao Lishan observed the expression of "Zhu Mingzong".

"When will your other ship arrive? Are you going to wait here for him to go with you, or do you want to go first? ”

The other party's question made Zhu Yifeng's heart startled, why did he ask this question? Don't...... Looking up at the soldiers on this dock, it seems that there are really a lot more than usual, right...... They want to keep themselves here?