Breaking his promise and killing people, Zhou Shixiang thought to himself that he couldn't do it, but Boss Hu's worry was not unreasonable, once these Qing prisoners knew their details, I am afraid that there was no guarantee that they would surrender willingly, if there was chaos, it would inevitably be another fight, which would only increase the variables. After thinking about it, there was no good way to solve this matter for the time being, so I relied on Boss Hu to lock people up first.

Seeing that the "Ming Army" tied it with a rope, Shao Jiugong and them were also very cooperative, and they had no intention of resisting, and they knew that this was a common practice. In this way, after being counted, including the chief Shao Jiugong, a total of sixty-three Qing army prisoners, the rest were either burned to death by fire or died in the battle to seize the gate, and I don't know how many are still in the city.

Just in case, Boss Hu asked Ge Wu to bring a few people to block the West Gate, and then personally led people to escort the prisoners to the Zhizhou Yamen. Zhou Shixiang invited himself to lead someone to search the remaining Qing army in the city, and the performance of killing Kong Guoliang has allowed him to establish prestige among the people in Daqiao Mountain, and also made everyone completely recognize his ability.

Hu Lao Da didn't say a word and asked Peng Dazhu to bring six people to follow Zhou Shixiang, just then he led people to guard the West Gate, for which his subordinates also killed and injured more than ten people, and now the people who can move are only twenty, and they have to take care of those prisoners, the manpower can be said to be too tight, and it is really righteous enough to give Zhou Shixiang seven people. Zhou Shixiang asked for another prisoner of the Qing army, so that when he found the Qing army, he asked him to help shout and surrender.

After leading people to look around the city, except for a dozen Qing soldiers who escaped after shouting, they learned that they were willing to surrender without worrying about their lives, and did not find any trace of the rest of the Qing army, but found a lot of discarded swords and uniforms on the street.

As long as the Qing army does not hold a group, Zhou Shixiang does not worry, and there are no worries about the number of unorganized people.

The wind had weakened a lot, and as the wind weakened, so did the fire, but the smoke was so thick that it was impossible to see far, and the air was filled with the smell of choking smoke and burning corpses.

Zhou Shixiang saw that some of the people had spontaneously organized to extinguish the fire, and saw that there were many fires in the city, and the efficiency of the people who spontaneously organized to fight the fire was too low, so he took Peng Dazhu and they escorted the dozen Qing army prisoners to the Zhizhou Yamen, and wanted to ask Hu Boss to organize people to mobilize the people of the whole city to participate in extinguishing the fire, otherwise let the fire burn, after dawn, I am afraid that most of this Luoding City will be in ruins.

The purpose of Zhou Shixiang's change of mind not to go to Guangxi to join the army was to be able to seize Luoding City by the bandits of Daqiao Mountain, so as to gain the approval of the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and organize troops and horses to oppose the Qing Dynasty under the condition of having his own territory, rather than sending people under the fence. The key to this plan lies in Luoding, if Luoding City is in ruins, then this plan will lose its meaning. At least, Zhou Shixiang could no longer rely on Luo Ding to obtain manpower and money resources

When he arrived at the Zhizhou Yamen, Hu Boss had just imprisoned Shao Jiugong and other prisoners, and was about to send someone to inform Song Xianggong and Ge Liu at the east gate that they had come to rendezvous.

Hu Laoda was originally from a poor family, if it wasn't for the Manchurians who encircled his family's land and wanted to make his family a slave, he would not have fled south with his old mother and brothers, so although he fell into the grass for Kou, he still sympathized with the poor in his bones and couldn't see the people suffering. Zhou Shixiang said that he wanted to put out the fire, so he naturally had no opinion.

Unexpectedly, Boss Hu had no opinion, but Ge Wu's gang was not happy, shouting that they were here to kill people and set fire to the city with their heads to make a fortune, and now they finally defeated the Qing army and controlled the situation in the city, how could this be a reason not to take advantage of the fire to rob but to help extinguish the fire!

Ge Wu shouted, and the others immediately followed suit, and one by one they couldn't wait to go out and grab a handful.

It's really a dog can't change eating!

Zhou Shixiang secretly scolded these bandits for being really muddy and couldn't support the shelf, forced down the anger in his heart, and said to them: "Everyone is carrying their heads to the city to make a fortune, I understand this, and I don't stop everyone, but I want to ask everyone, do you want to rob the big or the small?" ”

"I came to Luoding just to do the big ticket, and yesterday there was a saying that I grabbed the big one and grabbed the small one?" Ge Wu wondered, is there any size of robbery?

"Of course, there are big and small robberies!"

In order to let these men hear clearly, Zhou Shixiang deliberately raised his voice, and continued: "There is fire everywhere in the city right now, you will rob it, that is, to rob the small ones, because the fire broke out suddenly, and the people were busy fleeing for their lives, how many valuable items can be brought out of the house?" Which one has money and which one does not, and you can tell the difference? If you really want to hide it, can you find it? I'm afraid that before you find it, this Luoding City will be burned by the fire, and when the time comes, I'm sure that what you can grab is not as good as being burned by the fire! To put it bluntly, this is to pick up sesame seeds and throw watermelons, because of the small and lose the big, isn't it the truth of grabbing the small! ”

"It sounds like that, but," Ge Wu seemed to understand, "then how can you rob the big one?" ”

"Let me ask you, what is the richest thing in this world?" Zhou Shixiang tried his best to change his story in order to convince the gang to do what he wanted.

Ge Wu didn't want to think about it and said: "Of course we do business, we like to rob these people the most, and they are very rich!" ”

"Is there no other way to get rich in this world except to buy and sell?"

"There must be that, and the landlord's family must have money, but it doesn't seem to be as much as the one who does business."

Zhou Shixiang saw that Ge Wu didn't follow his train of thought, so he had to ask him directly: "Then let me ask you, do these people want to tax the government?" ”

Ge Wu nodded and said: "That's definitely what you want, the businessman is afraid of the card, this way down the card, most of the money falls into the hands of the government, and those who have a lot of land at home must also pay taxes, but if there are people in the government and the family has fame, it is not much." ”

"Why does the government want these people to pay money and grain?"

"If you don't pay it, it will be a war against food and donations, and then the officers and soldiers will come to fight."

"In this way, isn't what the government is doing is a robbery? If we rob the people, but the people don't give it, don't we also want to shout and kill? Therefore, this government is the most profitable business in the world, whether it is a merchant or a landowner, all of them have to pay money to the government, in this case, why can't we be this government to rob him of a big one? As long as we become the government, the people in Luoding City will have to pay us food and taxes! In this way, everyone is just sitting and collecting money, isn't this faster than taking a knife to grab it? Besides, let's grab it ourselves, how much can we rob, and how much can we take? ”

"It's still a thoughtful scholar, this fucking robbery has a way, isn't that the reason, isn't that the government doing the same business as us!" Ge Wu finally understood what Zhou Shixiang meant, and rubbed his hands excitedly. "Since we want to be an official government and want to grab a big one, we can't watch this fire burn anymore, you must know that the fire is all our things! All the valuable things in this people's house are burned, what will they give to us? ”

"Brother Zhou, don't say it, I Ge Wu understands! Didn't say it, brothers, listen to you, let's go put out the fire! ”

"Yes, go put out the fire, you can't call all the good things on fire!"

suddenly became active again, Boss Hu was also impressed by Zhou Shixiang's reasoning on the side, and the robbery became the official mansion, he Hu Quan is the boss of the official mansion, a veritable general, tsk, the future is bright

"Everyone go to put out the fire now, and when the fire is extinguished, the brothers will come to the government, and as soon as the morning dawns, everyone will go down separately to count how many people are in the city, and all those who have money and those who have no money will be counted, and then a charter will come out, and whoever dares not to pay at that time, we will go and beat them."

"Good!"

The men responded in unison. Ge Wu pulled his legs and was about to go to put out the fire, but after taking two steps, he turned around and looked embarrassed: "This city is so big, I'm afraid we can't rely on our manpower alone." ”

Zhou Shixiang was just about to say that it was not for them to directly participate in the firefighting, but to organize those panicked people to participate, even if they were forced with knives!

Just as he was about to speak, Zhao Sihai rushed over panting again, and when he saw Zhou Shiyan for the first time, he hurriedly shouted: "Xiucai, Mr. Song has organized hundreds of young people to help the people in the city put out the fire, he asked me to inform you, there are some scoundrels in the city who are taking advantage of the fire to rob, and there are also some Qing soldiers who are fishing in the muddy waters, and I want Brother Hu to quickly lead people to clean them up, otherwise the situation is too chaotic and it is not easy to clean up." ”

"Mom, I haven't started to grab it, they have grabbed it!" As soon as he heard that someone was robbing outside, Ge Wu's face darkened, and he rushed out with a knife, "Brothers, go with Lao Tzu to catch those bastards who are sledding and trading!" ”