Chapter 381, the bottom of the profiteer's salary
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The small slash pass in Pinglu had already collapsed into a pile of loess under the violent explosive force of Qi Ce's martyrdom.
At that time, after Qi Fei passed, the pole allies with less than 1,000 people were left behind, and in his opinion, these 1,000 people only needed to delay the vigilance.
When this thousand almost abandoned the pole of wealth and nobility, saw this overwhelming number of officers and soldiers, the leader of the guard Xiaoxie Pass made a smart decision, that is, to quickly slap his ass and leave.
This pole leader was resentful, and when he was first assigned to guard against Lu Hanqiang's reinforcements, he thought he was abandoned. That's it, the front is the rich Pinglu, and if you attack it, you will be a rich man, but you will let yourself take a group of less than 1,000 guys, leaving less than five days of grain and grass to stay here to eat and drink the wind and dew, and there is no oil and water. But this is just a nonsense perfunctory, but not to mention the value of this first merit, is it an empty word, but with what you rewarded me, where did I take my brothers to grab more?
But complaining is complaining, the leader of the Great Alliance who kills people, and the head is rolling and does not match the character of his scholars and literati, everyone still endures and does not dare to speak out. Everyone complained and guarded here with envy.
Now, when they see more than 20,000 strong soldiers and strong horses, dazzling swords and guns, and neat and well-armed officers and soldiers, a sense of happiness rises in their hearts at this time.
I know my own affairs, now the Allied army is exhausted, a small diagonal pass is only 2,000 officers and soldiers, and as a result, the 40,000 Allied troops fought for five days, with no less than 5,000 casualties. At this time, more than 20,000 new forces have been in their ass, and it is difficult to be undefeated. Now his own big boss and big alliance leader are really dead.
At this time, the deputy asked with a pale face, "Chief, what should we do?" β
The leader pondered for a while, and an irrepressible ** in his heart was born leisurely, and then whispered: "I think we have completely failed this time, whether our big boss can go back is another matter, so we can't go to Pinglu, take the soft and quickly drill the mountain, we go back to the original cottage, the original cottage has a lot of big bosses, and there are five or six hundred brothers."
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The deputy was stunned, but he also knew that he couldn't do anything, but he still found his conscience and said: "Then don't we send a message to the big boss?" Isn't it unkind for us to run away like this? β
"This time Lu Hanqiang is ruthless, and everyone will definitely not be able to run, so let's go back to the original cottage, the cottage is you and mine, I will be the big boss, and you will be the second shopkeeper, how about it? If you are kind and let the big boss go back, you can cut off your and my heads for the crime of losing the pass, and you can choose one of the two shopkeepers and the head cut. "This boss used coercion and inducement at that time.
This multiple-choice question is very easy to answer, from a small minion to a second shopkeeper, what else to say, I wish the big boss would die under this Pinglu City, so the two of them didn't say a word, wrapped around the waist along the way to take the time to loot the soft, hello, and took everyone to lose the small diagonal pass to the cliffs on both sides and worked hard to climb, even to the front of the person who reported a letter.
Walking on the battlefield five days ago, there were still countless corpses discarded, fortunately, the weather had entered late autumn, most of the corpses did not decompose, groups of crows and wild dogs wandered among them, and wolves smelled blood, enjoying this rare and rich feast.
Lu Hanqiang did not have the time to arrange for people to bury the remains of those poles, he stood on top of the gate that was still standing, looked at the collapsed city wall, and searched carefully, hoping to find a complete body of his brothers, but he was disappointed, and the poles were angry at Qi Ce's decisive resistance, and completely tore apart the few remains of the martyrs after the explosion to vent their resentment.
"The body is not here, the heroic spirit is not far away, see me avenge you." Lu Hanqiang silently swore to the sky, then whipped the horse and passed through the pass.
Twenty-two thousand men and horses came out of the Zhongtiao Mountain Pass, which was already very close to Pinglu, but thirty or forty miles away, Lu Hanqiang ordered the army to stop and camp on the spot, here, the retreat of the Qi Fei coalition army had been blocked.
Now Qi Fei has the Yellow River moat in the south, the main army in the back, and the strong city and flat land in the middle, which has completely entered the place of death.
"Lord Inspector, the governor of Shanxi has sent an official letter, ordering Lord Inspector-" Hua Shuliang of the Chinese army reported to Lu Hanqiang in a low voice.
Lu Hanqiang interrupted his report and said contemptuously: "The peach picker is here, and he must have reported this official document, so that this big victory against bandits will have a credit from the Shanxi officials, and he has a good calculation, but he Shanxi governor can't control me, his bullshit official team is invalid, and I don't listen, this time he dares to stretch out his hand, I will chop him unequivocally." β
Now Lu Hanqiang has a deep hatred for Shanxi officials, and when he says this, he already has an idea in his heart.
After all, you can't be too radical in other people's territory, and you must build a good relationship, otherwise your own ideas and ideas will not be realized.
It was precisely because of his own concession at that time that the resistance of the officials in Shanxi to himself became smaller, and then there was the base of Pinglu today, 100,000 silver to help Shanxi, so that he was almost done, at least it was close to completion, and saw that the homeless people who were hungry and cold began to have a stable income and a warm home, as for Chongzhen's comments on himself and the cabinet's impression, the current Lu Hanqiang doesn't care much anymore.
Now Lu Hanqiang's thoughts are also slowly changing, he came to this world, it has been four years, the idea just now is just to live, and then the idea is to live better, and then take the old lady and brother and sister, before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, boating on the sea, being a free guy, calling his building overturned, I am free, I am free to protect our family.
But now, as more and more friends and brothers have been, they have begun to live for a group of people around them, and live better, of course, Chongzhen is already included here.
But things are always frustrating, and it can be felt from Chongzhen's fewer and fewer letters now that the current Chongzhen Emperor has begun to alienate himself again, and it is according to a certain great sage that he is worried and afraid to go to the king's distance, and this is what it looks like now.
At the beginning, he handed over the Lone Ministers Party to Wang Shilang, who was eager for quick success and quick profit, or to do things for his family, but now it seems that it is wrong, he left the capital, and originally thought that Wang Shilang should inherit his own foundation and grow, at least he should maintain his own foundation, but now it seems that not only did he not make achievements, but let the Lone Chen Party weaken.
There will always be two parties in the court, this is the need of the emperor, but also the needs of the times, this is the need of five thousand years of unbreakable upside down, if one party is dominant, it is the misfortune of a country, fortunately, Chongzhen also saw this, so he did not chatter about the lonely party in the widow, and began to liquidate the lonely party.
But will these days be long? No, in the previous history, Chongzhen finally got mixed up and wanted Jinyiwei to take a minister, and the result was that Jinyiwei's commander personally, yes, personally supported the official who needed him to take it in front of Chongzhen and slowly went down the court.
What kind of sorrow is this, what kind of slap in the face? The monarch and the ministers have reached this point, is it Chongzhen's fault or the fault of one party?
The pole can coerce the people, but when a party begins to coerce the king, that kind of harm is a glorious stroke in the annals of history no matter what.
Looking at the endless wilderness in the south, Lu Hanqiang thought about his own calculations, through the guards he had rectified, two thousand brothers could block the pole allied forces for five days, then, through the flat land of his own favor, blocking the pole's exhausted attack, there should be no problem for ten days.
Now Lu Hanqiang has changed his mind again, because standing on the city wall razed to the ground in Xiaoxieguan, he knows deeply that when he attacks the pole violently, it is not only the pole that is killed or injured, but also his subordinate brothers.
In the face of the civil war, every casualty is actually the elite blood of the Ming Dynasty.
retains some vitality, in the face of national wars, in the face of foreign wars, what kind of outcome will it be?
"My lord, the official letter sent by the governor of Shanxi this time is not asking you to quickly destroy the pole in front of you." At this time, Hua Shuliang softly reminded Lu Hanqiang, who was distracted, and kept looking at the official document of the governor of Shanxi.
"What else can there be? I don't believe that they don't want to pick this peach, because this peach is beneficial to our lonely party and not to Donglin, and after this war, there will be a batch of officialdom and official changes, I don't believe that Donglin is not tempted. Lu Hanqiang commented with a contemptuous smile.
Hua Shuliang shook his head helplessly, and then reported: "This official document requires you to immediately divide your troops and exterminate the Tiger Mouth Taiping Village. β
Lu Hanqiang staggered, barely stood firm, and couldn't help gritting his teeth and muttering: "Okay, you Fan Wendou, what a lot of energy, come in front to copy my back road, and then borrow my hand to open the grain road for you, really want to play me in the palm of your hand."
Okay, since we play let's play to the end, this rock-paper-scissors game will always have a simple result, when the time comes, see if I, Lu Hanqiang, is a good cat to play with, or a tiger that really bites.
"And it has been explained in the official document that the governor of Shanxi has not only published this official document in the Di newspaper, but has also played the emperor overnight."
"What did the emperor say?" Count you ruthless.
"For fugitive slaves, as the co-organizer of the post delivery firm, you have the responsibility of supervising and unfavorable, so I severely reprimanded your mistakes and sternly asked you to send troops to encircle and suppress."
"What about the Divine Decree?" Lu Hanqiang wailed weakly.
"Because your army is moving, it cannot be communicated, so the situation of the palace is clearly distributed to the various departments, therefore, the holy decree is equivalent to that you have received it."
"Ruthless, count you ruthless, the eight families of the Jin merchants, the Shanxi bureaucrats, this time you have completely dug a pit for me, so that I can't jump if I don't jump, this is forcing me on a desperate road." Lu Hanqiang gritted his teeth.
"In this case, we must carry out the emperor's holy decree, then say, we will send troops to fight our brother Jin Hengguang, this-" Hua Shuliang said bitterly.
This is a difficult problem, the businessmen of Shanxi have bought off the political envoys of Shanxi and the governor of Shanxi, which is to give themselves a salary from the bottom of the kettle and rescue Qi Fei.
And this is what the political envoys and governors of Shanxi are willing to see, first, they don't want to let themselves win a big victory in this crackdown on bandits, increase the prestige of the Lone Chen Party and themselves, and second, let themselves open up trade routes for them and continue to earn black-hearted silver, as long as their pockets are bulging, no matter how much he floods, this is the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty now, and it has reached the point where he doesn't even want a fig leaf for his own selfish interests.
Since people have moved out their top boss Chongzhen, they have to fight if they don't send troops, but this fratricidal thing can't be done, especially when the war with Qi Fei is about to start, where is there a reason to divide troops and let Qi Fei go? Come if you want, leave if you want, this is not a dinner invitation, are you a good person when I am Lu Hanqiang?
After thinking for a while, Lu Hanqiang's eyes turned to his heart, so he instructed Hua Shuliang: "Go, go to various guard stations, and pick a hundred sick and injured soldiers to come over." β
Hua Shuliang was confused by this military order, but since the superintendent had an order, it must be implemented, so he hurriedly went, and after a while, he brought a hundred wounded and sick soldiers to stand outside Lu Hanqiang's tent and wait for the military order.
Lu Han forced Shi Ran to walk out and said loudly to a hundred injured and sick brothers: "Now, Long Live has issued a holy decree, asking me to dispatch elite soldiers and strong generals to Shanxi Wutai to exterminate the pole Black Tiger Star, therefore, this superintendent will never dare to slack off on the holy decree, so he will transfer you, the elite soldiers and strong generals, to go to Wutai." β
What the? Let's go to Wutai to exterminate the Black Tiger Star? Or is it a strong soldier? A hundred wounded and sick soldiers themselves don't look like the mighty and strong ones that the Inspector said, besides, there are only 100 people, this is not to destroy the pole, this is to send them to death. Immediately, there was a buzz of frustration from below.
Lu Hanqiang ignored them, looked up at the sky, and then continued: "The military situation is urgent, and the urging from above is urgent, so I ask you to travel under the stars, and you must be in the um-" After thinking for a while, he said very seriously: "It must arrive within three months and no more than half a year at the latest, and if it is less than half a year, all of them will be beheaded." β
A hundred injuries immediately dizzy, how far away is Wutai here? Five hundred miles, if you march normally, it will be about ten days, three months to half a year? Is this still a military emergency? If you are quick with your hands and feet, you will even give birth to a child when you go home.
Hua Shuliang's eyes lit up, and he deeply admired the Inspector's decision. "This lai's trick is a lai." Since the adults have said this, they also need to behave, so they said loudly to the hundred wounded and sick soldiers who were still confused: "Remember, our military law is harsh, and all the officers and soldiers must strictly follow the military order. β
At this time, there was someone who understood, and a hundred households strode forward and immediately promised loudly: "Master Supervisor, my subordinates will resolutely rush to Wutai in half a year, and they will not delay a little time." β
Lu Hanqiang nodded with satisfaction, then picked up a big flag and stuffed it directly into the hands of the first hundred households: "Then who, do you know the Black Tiger Star?" β
"The last general is one of the three hundred personal soldiers, and he has been appreciated and rewarded by the superintendent to a hundred households, so he has met the thief of the Black Tiger Star."
"Okay, you're the general of this bandit, remember, come back alive."
"Yes, Overseer."
"Remember, go out to see the sky first, hit the tip in the middle of the night, have a disease to treat, don't sleep at noon, collapse in the afternoon, so sleep well at noon."
"Yes, Inspector, I will not let our army be dragged down by a long run, and I will never leave anyone behind." This hundred households hurriedly stopped the instructions of the meat and hemp supervisor who was comparable to the old lady.
"By the way, this time you sent troops to Wutai, which is not under the management of our Southern Fourth Prefecture Governor, so I can't give you grain, grass and military salary."
"ThisβMaster Overseer, you can't let me, a mighty master, ask for food." This hundred households were blinded at that time.
"According to the regulations of our dynasty, when foreign troops march, the states and counties along the way must supply military food and salaries, so you have to take the palace report of the governor of Shanxi and the emperor's holy decree along the way, and ask for salary from the states and counties along the way." As he spoke, he stuffed the official newspaper he had just looked at into his hand without hesitation. "Look, the chicken feathers and arrows are all there, of course your waist will be strong, you won't be out of breath, and you can be justified in asking for things. How nice is that. β
The eyes of these hundred households lit up at that time, they had done this by themselves, and when they were in Beijing, they did not blackmail the local people, and this matter was familiar.
At this time, a soldier asked weakly: "What if they don't give it?" β
Lu Hanqiang scolded, "You stupid, the holy decree and the governor's Shang Fang sword are in your hands, he won't give it, the gun in your hand is not a burning stick, hit him a ****." β
Hua Shuliang coughed and came out again: "This time the troops must be sent out, the momentum must be big, so that the officials and people of Shanxi know, remember, the states and counties along the way do not give 10,000 troops of grain and grass to fight, of course, give and fight, must make the momentum big, so that the states and counties along the way will be miserable, and then you have to complain, you are a soldier of the four southern provinces, but you go to help you soft eggs fight, who do you fight if you don't fight out of anger?" β
"That's right, that's right, you have grievances, grievances are still ruthless, tsk, look, you are a dog catching rats for cats, why aren't you resentful?"
Everyone understands this, and at that time, they were all complaining and resentful.
"Okay, if you have too much money and food to collect, you will deposit it in the trading bank, and your reward will be calculated according to 30%, and the task will be cashed on the spot after the task is completed."
A hundred people immediately let out bursts of cheers, really according to this method, then everyone will immediately have a lot of money?
"Okay, the military situation is urgent, immediately raise the banner and set off."
"Yes, take care, Inspector, we're on our way." So a hundred soldiers rushed to the west with red eyes and a big bend, yes, Wutai was in the east, but these guys rushed directly to the west, and now the states and counties along the way can be regarded as bad luck.
Play with me? See if I don't play you to death. Lu Hanqiang gritted his teeth and said.
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