As soon as the officers and soldiers left, there was still a feeling of victory in the cottage.

When the officers and soldiers were not sent away, they were arranged by Gao Hongsheng one by one, giving people a smiling face, and pretending to be elated.

But as soon as the officers and soldiers walked away, they all turned their faces off one by one, and they all looked at Gao Hongsheng silently.

Hell if I can be happy, I finally lost a few brothers and defeated the official army, and a lot of good things were captured, but in the end, I lost a lot of silver and went out, and I won the battle?

It's easy to say that the loss is small, but it is to give all the money that can be made up in the cottage to others, who can be happy when you say this.

Looking at the disillusioned people around him, Gao Hongsheng shouted generously; "Isn't it just a bit of silver? I'll make it up for you, and I'll tie you up with that little money, it's really worthless. ”

Zhou Yinghai, the second master, immediately quit, jumping to his feet and shouting: "That bit of silver, do you know how much?" More than 3,000 taels! It took two years to make up it in the cottage, and you just gave it away. ”

Gao Hongsheng looked at Zhou Yinghai, who was jumping on his feet, and said with a smile: "It's only more than three thousand taels, I thought it was somewhere, go to someone, bring my backpack, open your eyes, that little money is also called money." After speaking, he pulled Feng Laosi and Hong Jincai beside him and walked to the middle of the camp.

When he arrived in the middle of the camp, he looked at the more than 100 people of all ages, young and old, who had gathered around him, and whispered to Feng Laosi: "Big boss, tell your brothers about what we just discussed." ”

Feng Laosi looked at Gao Hongsheng's white and pure face, thought for a while, and said, "I'm afraid I won't understand, come on." ”

Gao Hongsheng didn't say anything, but looked at Hong Jincai with his eyes, Hong Jincai smiled shyly and said: "It's better for you to come, we may not be clear, you don't care about the second child, he just hasn't turned the corner, and he's scared." ”

Feng Laosi heard Hong Jincai say this, and nodded at Gao Hongsheng and said, "Say it, I'll tell him about the second child later." ”

Seeing that Feng Laosi really called himself, Gao Hongsheng nodded and said, "Second brother, I'll leave it to you two, I'll tell everyone." After speaking, he turned to look at the crowd gathered over: "You may think that it is too much of a loss to give those officers and soldiers a silver tael, right?" ”

"Isn't it! It's good not to ask them for ransom, and give them back the silver, what kind of rule is this? ”

"It's good to let them go, but also to accompany the smiling face and give silver, how can there be such a good thing in the world."

"If we are not convinced, why should we give them silver?"

“……，”

The gossip voice flew over, and there was a greater and greater trend, if it weren't for Hong Jincai's shout, it was estimated that Gao Hongsheng would have been drowned by the spitting stars.

After everyone was shouted by Hong Jincai to be quiet, Gao Hongsheng said in as calm a tone as possible: "No way, we can't keep fighting with the government, it's destroyed today, what if the government sends more people tomorrow, what the day after tomorrow?" ”

Oh, yes! The government was defeated today, and the government will send more people next time, and next time it won't be more people.

Seeing that there was no silence below, Gao Hongsheng stopped, and when everyone had almost digested it, he said: "Give them some silver, plug their mouths, and in the future, for the sake of face this time, it is enough to give us more or less some face, and I also gave us a mixed background, which is to protect the road group training, so that we will be confident when we go to rob the road in the future." As for that bit of silver, we still have to pay off, that one, you bring me that backpack, and I will open everyone's eyes. ”

A little minion ran over with Gao Hongsheng's backpack, Gao Hongsheng took it easily, looked around and shouted, "Go find a table and come over." ”

The bandits on the side went out a few, and brought out a big and low case from a military tent, which seemed to be used as a caseboard, Gao Hongsheng was not so particular, and asked someone to find a white cloth to spread on it, and then took something out of the backpack.

One pack, two packs, three packs, six packs. Gao Hongsheng took out the white cloth bags one by one, and placed them on the low case smoothly.

Picked up a white cloth bag casually, and slowly opened it in the eyes of everyone's inquiry, revealing fifty small cloth bags wrapped in cloth, and when a small cloth bag was opened, there was a silver glittering pocket watch.

Gao Hongsheng slowly opened the small cloth bags, and then spread the pocket watches inside into a large square one by one.

There are fifty pocket watches in one large cloth bag, and six large bags are three hundred pocket watches. Three hundred pocket watches were used, and Gao Hongsheng was less than 10,000 yuan. But in this era, a pocket watch is at least fifty eagles, and three hundred is more than fifteen thousand eagles, but it is much more than three thousand taels of silver.

Looking at the group of dumbfounded bandits, Gao Hongsheng said slowly: "This is still what I brought with me, we still have a boatload of things still floating on the sea, can we settle the mortal enmity with the government?" Are we short of silver? ”

Zhou Yinghai, the second master, walked to the side of the low case tremblingly, reached out and picked up a pocket watch, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then slowly put it on the case and shouted: "It's true, it's true, we have money, we have money, we don't have to go out to rob it, woo, the brothers have something to eat." After saying that, he squatted on the ground and cried.

One person cried, ten people cried, and then more than 100 people squatted on the ground and cried, which made Gao Hongsheng cry.

What are you crying about! Shouldn't you be happy? Turning his head to look at Feng Laosi, who was full of tears beside him, he asked, "Big boss, don't cry yet, tell me what's going on." ”

Feng Laosi, the big boss, stretched out his hand and touched the tears on his face and said: "I thank you for the brothers who died in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, we people didn't rob it for ourselves, but for the families of those dead brothers. Most of the looting we came out to loot had to be sent to them, otherwise there would be no way to live. ”

"But as much as we can grab, there are already seven or eight villages that can't survive and throw themselves into the sea. We can't help it! Too much, too much. Otherwise, we wouldn't have robbed the official's house, and we wouldn't have caused this disaster, there is no way to force it. ”

Gao Hongsheng was stupid, but he also understood, and understood why it was said in the literature that after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, many widows of martyrs threw themselves into the sea en masse and died, and why so many widows chose to throw themselves into the sea en masse.

How many orphans of the martyrs of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War died, there is no detailed record in historical documents.

Many years later, many tombstones that died at the same time were found in many villages near the sea, and most of the dead time was concentrated in the year after the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War.

Then there may be more people who die later. For the deaths of these little people, people have a choice of forgetting.

There is no record, there is nothing, they chose to die in battle for this country, but the little pension that only symbolizes xing was also embezzled, and these orphans can only sadly choose to follow and throw themselves into the sea.

In this era, no income is equivalent to a death sentence, you can't find a job, there is no factory to work for you, no store to hire you as a salesperson, no one to hire you as a nanny.

Many of the sailors in the navy are looking for fishermen, and the fishermen are even more miserable, these women can't get on the boat, and their families don't have land, and they really can't live without money.

At that time, there were no seafood processing factories, fishing nets were woven by each family, and fishing in the sea was all the masters of the family.

When their men died, it would be better to say that they could use the pension to buy some land or buy a boat, and rent the boat out to eat, but after the pension was hacked, they only starved to death.

Don't think about your relatives, they are all poor and can't open the pot, no one is rich, it's good to be able to eat well, and there is no way to take care of them at all.

So there is the matter of these widows throwing themselves into the sea en masse, and this is what the Qing State did to treat the widows who shed blood and sacrificed for the country.

This is also the main reason why many officers and soldiers were defeated with one blow in the last days of the Great Qing Dynasty.

An army without a pension would be hell if it could win the war.

The Red Army is so difficult, and give a military family treatment.

Things have developed so far, Gao Hongsheng doesn't know what to do.

Gao Hongsheng doesn't know what to do now, these bandits are crying. I cried out to the poor.

You say that if you cry, what should I do, and can I still take all the money from the sale?

Unlucky! Just pay the protection money.

Who Made, who said that the bandits are stupid, look at the cry a few times and put themselves in.