Chapter 8: Opium and Spoils of War
This loot is really a lot, and Qin Yaozu, who originally led the team to suppress the bandits, brought a lot of supplies.
Later, the county order of Licheng County asked the inspection department of Jinan to bet a large number of supplies over, which was a bit too much.
More than 400 people ate more than half a month of food, plus replacement guns, and replenished ammunition, which was really a pile of bosses, and dozens of catties of cigarettes alone, that is, opium.
Don't underestimate the role of opium, which was worth more than silver in those days.
Silver may depreciate, but tobacco soil is more resistant to decline than silver for a certain period of time, so many merchants and officials at that time did not bring silver when they went out, but tobacco soil.
Because you carry too much silver, it will be very heavy, and you will often be found by bandits and thieves on the way, but it doesn't matter if you bring smoke, after all, that thing is much lighter and not easy to be discovered.
And there is a better advantage of bringing tobacco soil, there is no tax on tobacco soil to pass any checkpoint in the country.
Don't believe it, opium is the only commodity in the Qing Dynasty that is taxed in the whole country.
To put it bluntly, after the opium is imported, after the customs pays a tax, there is no need to pay any taxes and fees, and this rule is written into the treaty with the British, and it is implemented quite vigorously in various places.
In the same period, other commodities in China had to pay local taxes when passing through different places, which simply means that geese have plucked their feathers.
But it's opium, and the shit-like Qingzhengfu is afraid of the British, and under the persecution of the British, they signed a contract to ensure the flow of opium, a harmful thing, throughout the country.
In fact, opium was not a harmful thing in the world at that time, and most of it was used as a drug, which will be discussed later.
Gao Hongsheng looked at it from a distance and almost cleaned up, at least the dead people in the camp had already been pulled out of the camp, so he pulled Hong Jincai and a Hongta Mountain with a filter hanging in his mouth, and came over to check what good things were there.
What a small bandit was fiddling with caught Gao Hongsheng's eye, it was an old-fashioned revolver.
That's right, it's an old-fashioned Alt revolver, just like the American western cowboys, the Alt revolver that can only fire a bullet with a hammer.
Robbed, how can modern youths who have not yet played with pistols let go of this recently modern self-defense weapon. He also tied a holster to his waistband of his trousers.
Turn on the hammer and exit the bullet. Put the big pistol into the holster, open the leather button, and pull out the gun like a cowboy, then use the hand to pull the hammer, gently pull the trigger, click, and the clear impact sound of the firing pin reminds Gao Hongsheng that this is a real guy.
The little minion didn't have any temper at all about Gao Hongsheng's banditry behavior, and he smirked and said, "Second brother, can you give me a piece of that pocket watch." ”
Look at this brain, whoever said that the ancients were stupid, they were really stupid, and they knew that the pistol couldn't be saved, so they just took the advantage and said it.
Hong Jincai scolded a little embarrassedly: "Huang Yuanchang, what do you want that thing for your pocket watch!" You can still understand how. ”
Yes, the three big masters of Eagle Frame Mountain are really embarrassed to say that a broken pocket watch actually requires Gao Hongsheng to teach for more than an hour to know how to use it, but now, except for the second master, the eldest and the third still can't recognize it, and Gao Hongsheng, who has no choice, has no choice but to draw a red line on the pocket watch to arrange synchronous actions.
The little minion named Huang Yuanchang carefully accompanied him and smiled: "The three masters, the whole cottage is just the four of you with that thing, it is estimated to be a good thing, hehe, I want to come to my daughter-in-law as an heirloom to pass on." ”
Gao Hongsheng laughed when he heard this, and scolded: "It's also a family heirloom, don't pass this broken thing down as a family heirloom, it's true that you took it to Fucheng to exchange for more than a hundred Yingyang that day." As he spoke, he threw the pocket watch he took out of his jacket pocket to Huang Yuanchang.
Huang Yuanchang hurriedly stretched out his hand to copy the pocket watch in his hand, and said carefully: "What, this thing actually costs more than a hundred eagles." ”
Gao Hongsheng smiled and said, "It's almost, not a hundred, at least more than eighty." ”
When Huang Yuanchang heard this, he was frightened and hurriedly handed over the pocket watch in his hand carefully and said, "Then I don't want it, it's too precious, I thought it was just a dozen eagles." ”
Gao Hongsheng waved his hand generously and said: "I'll give it to you, let you take it, if you can't do it, you can ask the second master." ”
Gao Hongsheng saw the second master coming over, so he directly pushed the matter to Zhou Yinghai, the second master.
As for the arrangement of the second master, he doesn't care, because he has now found better prey. Hurriedly pulled Hong Jincai, the third master, towards the pile of prisoners.
Qin Yaozu, who was wearing an official uniform in the captive pile, was Gao Hongsheng's next target.
Qin Yaozu, the county lieutenant of Licheng County, was swept to the ground by the shock wave in the first explosion, and in the rumbling explosion, he was buried unscathed by the marching tent.
When he broke free, he was directly forced into a prisoner by the bandits with a knife.
Now I'm putting my head down and thinking about what I should do.
Seeing Gao Hongsheng and the three masters walking towards him, his legs protruded, and his calm face, which was originally pretended, began to change his face.
I saw Gao Hongsheng pointing at himself and shouting, "That one is wearing an official uniform, you come out." ”
Just this simple sentence made Qin Yaozu's frightened face pale, his whole body trembled like chaff, and his legs collapsed to the ground as soon as he became weak.
With Gao Hongsheng's finger, the soldiers on both sides brushed like a watershed, and as soon as they gave way to both sides, they directly exposed Qin Yaozu who was paralyzed on the ground.
When Gao Hongsheng saw Qin Yaozu paralyzed on the ground, he was anxious at that time, and shouted at the two bandits who came to watch the captive: "Quick, pull him out for me, be careful!" Don't rip your clothes out, I'm useful. ”
The two bandits glanced at Hong Jincai, the third master, and saw that Hong Jincai nodded, and the two of them carried spears in one hand, and pulled the prisoners on both sides with the other hand, rushed into the crowd and set Qin Yaozu out.
Gao Hongsheng walked up to Qin Yaozu who was being held in two steps, and scolded: "I'm afraid of the gods!" If I don't kill you, I quickly took off my official uniform, be careful, if it is broken, Lao Tzu will cut you with a knife. ”
Qin Yaozu, who thought he was dead, was completely dizzy, and grabbed himself out of it, just for the official uniform on his body.
Is there any use in saying that they want official uniforms? Take it off. As long as you don't kill yourself, let alone the official uniform, it doesn't matter if you let yourself be naked. Hurriedly took off his official uniform carefully.
Gao Hongsheng's actions didn't even understand Hong Jincai, but he didn't stop him, he just asked cautiously: "Big brother, what do you want to do in official uniforms!" ”
Gao Hongsheng replied confidently: "Collect! How nice it is to collect such a nice thing. ”
Gao Hongsheng's answer completely confused Hong Jincai, collection, what is collection?
In fact, Gao Hongsheng's mind is something that Hong Jincai can understand.
Official uniforms! The official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty are still intact, isn't it, if this is brought to modern times, it can be sold for a lot of money!
It's all money! Why did you come here, you came to get rich.
Fighting the official army is to piggyback on their feet, and not to provoke themselves to eat too much before going against them.
How important it is to get rich, what is good in this era, there are no computers, no telephones, no televisions. Except for being able to marry a wife casually, what's good.
Even this point can't be compared with modern times, as long as you have money in modern times, how many lovers you want can't, who eats too much to be nostalgic for this era.
Carefully took off Qin Yaozu's official uniform, carefully wrapped it in a piece of cloth, made it into a small cloth roll, handed it to a small minion and told him to send the package back to the cottage first, and put it away carefully, then he squinted his eyes and looked at Qin Yaozu, who was about to turn into a naked pig, and said, "Come with us, I have something to ask you." Don't turn your mind around, if you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut you with a knife. ”
After finishing speaking, he pulled Hong Jincai and asked a minion to escort Qin Yaozu to a military tent in the middle of the camp, and even pulled the big boss over halfway.
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