Chapter 101: A Family of Soldiers
Xu Heshan was a serious businessman, and his goods included cloth, coal, and tea. The total value of the www.biquge.info goods, and there are also people here who have specially estimated it, which is almost eight thousand taels of goods. The toll for two is 1,600 taels.
These goods are more sought-after in Liaodong, and they can almost double the income when they are transported from the capital. When another batch of goods is transported back from Liaodong, you can make another big profit. This time back and forth, it is not a problem to earn 20,000 taels of silver.
Of course, the cost of bringing so many goods is not small. For example, the workers who work, the bodyguards they hire, the money is not a small amount, and there are also the expenses of living in a hotel and eating.
It is naturally impossible to bring so much cash in the dart game, and in Xu Heshan's hands, there are some silver taels in turnover, but it is not enough for 1,600 taels.
Ri Potian said that it doesn't matter if the money is not enough, we can take the goods to top. In this way, Xu Heshan gritted his teeth and took out eight hundred taels of silver, plus one percent of the goods.
His goods, in addition to tea, coal and cloth, can be used by Wang Yu, and they are cheaper than them buying them in the market. Nonsense, this is simply for nothing.
After receiving other people's money and goods, Ri Potian said: "I haven't asked the boss for your surname." ”
"My surname is Xu." Xu Heshan said.
"It turned out to be Boss Xu, let me ask, where are you going to send this goods?" Ri Potian asked.
"Send it to Liaoyang." Xu Heshan said cautiously.
"Then I'll give you a flag."
Ri Potian said, making a gesture to the people behind him, and then someone walked over with a flag. This flag is black, with purple lines on it, and in the middle is a white letter, which reads - Liaoyang.
"Boss Xu, there must be our brothers along the way, you hang this flag to ensure that you go to Liaoyang unimpeded, and no one will rob you again. It doesn't matter if there is a bodyguard or not. When you arrive in Liaoyang, someone will collect the flag from you, and you can just give the flag to the person who came. Don't make any friction, otherwise, I guarantee that you won't be able to get out of the territory of Liaodong. If you don't charge the goods when you come back, then you can go casually, and we won't rob you, but if you bring the goods, then go to the Liaojia Inn in Yujiazhuang, the gate of Liaoyang. There is a special sale of flags, a flag is 10% of the price of the goods, buy a flag, and ensure that you come back is also a smooth way. When you get to me, you hand over the flag, and it's over. Ri said chicly.
"Thank you for the reminder, I understand." Xu Heshan hurriedly nodded and asked people to accept the flag.
Qi Zaiyuan, who was standing beside Xu Heshan, gritted his teeth, it doesn't matter if there is a bodyguard or not, then you still don't let us eat.
But now that the enemy is outnumbered, he doesn't dare to make a mistake, so he can only endure it.
"By the way, let me remind you of one more thing. You'd better not alarm the government in this matter, because once it does, it will have no effect on me, and I promise you'll die an ugly death. If you don't believe it, you can try, and then go further there is Ning Yuanwei, and you will turn around now at Shanhaiguan. You can sue as you like. Ri Potian said with a smile.
"Don't dare, don't dare, you have to be taken care of by the king's banner along the way." Xu Heshan said cautiously.
"It's okay if you don't dare, I'm just reminding you. Alright, let's go. Ri Potian waved his hand, which was considered a release.
"Thank you, thank you, ...... King"
Xu Heshan thanked him again and again, and let people leave with a flag.
He was really angry in his heart, and wanted to report to the official to suppress the bandits for revenge, but he had already reminded him that if he reported to the official, the consequences would be very serious.
After pondering for a while, he was not far from Ning Yuanwei in front.
Xu Heshan looked at Qi Zaiyuan and said, "Qi Darthead, you said this, should we report to the official and ask Ning Yuanwei's soldiers and horses to come and suppress the bandits." ”
Qi Zaiyuan's lungs exploded because of the words just now, and when he heard this, he immediately said: "Of course I have to report to the official!" His grandmother's, these bastards simply have no royal law. It's just a small group of bandits, and now that there is such a large-scale banditry, are all the generals and officials in Liaodong eating dry food? ”
"But that kid said just now that once the official is known to him, I'm afraid we will be miserable. In the border of Liaodong, there are already many bandits, and the official bandit family is not new. What if these bandits were in the same group as Ning Yuan's officers and soldiers? Xu Heshan was still a little worried.
Otherwise, people are big dealers, and everything has to be cautious. No matter how angry you are in your heart, you can't joke with your life.
"Ning Yuan's soldiers and horses should not be very reliable, otherwise let's go to Jinzhou to report to the official." Qi Zaiyuan also felt that it made sense, don't be an official and bandit here. After all, Ning Yuanwei was so close to Xiaotuan Mountain, there were such strong bandits, and no one was seen to suppress the bandits, he was too strange.
In fact, this can't blame Ning Yuanwei for not suppressing bandits. Because at the moment, Nurhachi has not yet called, and Ning Yuanwei has only maintained the previous structure. Under normal circumstances, there must be at least 5,000 people under the jurisdiction of a guard. But Ning Yuanwei is now able to count more than 1,000 people, that is, there are more than 5,000 people on the roster. Where have the people gone, they are naturally eaten up.
There is no way, the military salary of the imperial court was originally insufficient, and it was scraped down layer by layer, and when it came to the guard, how to raise more than 5,000 people. In addition, the commander of the guard post has to make a fortune, and it is good to be able to make do with more than 1,000 people. Even if you let him go to the bandits now, he may not be able to beat it. Asking for reinforcements from your superiors is not good to say. A guard can't even suppress a bandit on a mountain, so it's okay for you to take a piece of tofu and kill it.
Of course, these are secondary, the important thing is that Wang Yu is pulling the mountain here, can he not express it to the local generals. Heguang makes his own money, and the local government has no sweetness at all, can that person not be blushing.
This kind of thing, Wang Yu has Wang Yu's approach, everyone makes money, and the surrounding generals have to give some sweetness no matter how they say it. Senior generals, then he doesn't have to take care of it, the general army of Liaodong and the commanders of Liaodong give him face, and they will have feelings for each other.
The family of soldiers and bandits, as Xu Heshan said, is too normal in the territory of Liaodong.
Considering Ning Yuanwei's unreliability, Xu Heshan decided not to go to Ning Yuanwei to complain and continue to hurry.
Walking forward can be twenty miles, take a break and have lunch in between, and expect to be able to arrive at the end of the evening.
As he was walking, he saw that there were suddenly more than a dozen people in front of him who couldn't run in embarrassment, looking like that, the tiger was chasing almost the same, and his face was full of fear.
Xu Heshan wondered and asked loudly, "What's the matter with you, what are you running?" ”
"Hibiki Horse has killed someone!" "Hibiki Horse has killed someone!" ……
Some people answered, while others simply ran away.
As soon as he heard that there was a ringing horse killing, Xu Heshan was startled, and Qi Zaiyuan immediately ordered to prepare for battle.
Because he didn't know how many people there were in Xiangma, Qi jumped off the horse and robbed the man when he was waiting for a man to come over.
"What are you doing?" The man shouted eagerly.
"Don't worry, this brother, we have so many people here, and you will be safe when you see us." Qi Zaiyuan said.
"We still have more than 200 people in the caravan, and we have almost been killed." The man shouted.
"I'm four or five hundred people here. Don't be nervous, how many people are there in Xiangma? Qi Zaiyuan asked gently.
"I can't see clearly, I come directly, and there are people on horseback, and I kill people when I see them." The man said in horror.
When he said this, he seemed to recall the bloody scene just now.
The men in the back also ran over, but they were all stopped by the dart master of the dart board.
"Didn't your caravan buy flags?" Qi Zaiyuan asked.
"We bought flags yesterday when we passed through Xiaotuan Mountain, and they said that we could keep the ......road peaceful," the man gasped.
"Then why was he robbed and killed by Hibiki?" Qi Zaiyuan asked curiously.
In his opinion, it must be the bandits who are not trustworthy.
However, this doesn't seem to make sense, if you really want to destroy them, you can do it in Xiaotuan Mountain, and you can't let them go so far. The only possibility is that these two ringing horses are not in the same group.
At this moment, the man gasped again and said: "The ringing horse of Xiaotuanshan once told us that we are not allowed to report to the official, otherwise, it will make our death ugly." Our host didn't believe it, and when he entered Ning Yuanwei in the evening, he went to command the envoy to report to the official. I don't know exactly what's going on, but today I told our owner that we didn't catch the ringing horse. We set off before noon, and when we walked to the front, we ran into a ringing horse, and the ringing horse didn't say a word, but killed people directly. ”
"Huh?" ……
Hearing this, Qi Zaiyuan and Xu Heshan both exclaimed.
The two of them couldn't help but secretly call luck in their hearts at this moment, this is still a family of soldiers and bandits, if they enter Ning Yuanwei, it is estimated that they will have to follow in the footsteps of these people tomorrow.
However, Xu Heshan was still more cautious, he looked at Qi Zaiyuan and said, "Qi Darthead, can you send someone to ride a horse to the front to take a look." ”
Qi Zaiyuan naturally understood what Xu Heshan meant, he lost people at the foot of Xiaotuan Mountain before, if he didn't even dare to explore the road now, then don't mix in this line of work in the future.
He immediately sent a dart master and rode to the front to explore the road and check the situation. See if what these men say is true.
Xu Heshan and Qi waited in the distant place, and after a while, more than twenty men came over, just like the previous ones, extremely embarrassed, obviously exhausted. Xu Heshan gave them water to drink and let them rest and rest.
After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, the dart master who had just ridden away finally returned. The dart master's face was filled with fear, and he seemed to be very afraid.
"What's going on?" Qi Zaiyuan asked loudly.
"Vice President Darthead, there are indeed a large number of ringing horses in front, how many people there are, I don't dare to approach, and I can't see clearly, anyway, there are a lot of people. They were cleaning up the corpses on the road, and they should be their people......" At the end, the dart master pointed to the tired men.