Chapter 50: The Hundred Households of the Water Division

Shi Yufeng's entourage exited the cabin, and He Tengxiao muttered in his heart: What the hell is Shi Yufeng doing, making it mysterious.

Not long after he withdrew, he brought in two sailor-looking men. The two sailors, He Tengxiao, noticed the two sailors when he boarded the ship, and when he boarded the ship, it was the two sailors who directed the sailors on the ship to drop anchor and put the ladder.

The two sailors were in equal height, their collars open to reveal the well-defined muscles of their chests. The shoulders and arms were ribbed by the muscles. At first glance, you can see that he is a practitioner. One of the sailors also had a noticeable scar on his face, which was daunting. He Tengxiao guessed that these two people might have been born in Haikou, and were later recruited by the Shi family to be sailors.

After the two strong sailors walked into the cabin, they bowed slightly to Shi Yufeng, hugged their fists and sang a fat song.

Shi Yufeng said to them lightly: "This is He Qianhu." ”

Only then did the two of them clasp their fists and sing to He Tengxiao.

"The two of them are the hundred households of the Jinling Water Master." Shi Yufeng introduced He Tengxiao.

"The hundred households of the Jinling Water Division?" He Tengxiao was a little puzzled.

The Jinling Sailor is the most elite sailor in the empire, although the military discipline of the Great Zhao Dynasty is lax and the sailor is erosive, but Shi Yufeng will not be able to poach people from the Jinling Sailor, right?

"Yes." Shi Yufeng nodded, and carefully explained the origin of the two of them to He Tengxiao.

Last year, before the Chinese New Year, the central center allocated a part of the silver taels from the state treasury and internal funds to supplement the salaries of the town troops in various places. Since the Jinling Naval Division is responsible for defending the southeastern sea frontier, the Jinling Naval Division will also be taken into account in this supplementary salary in addition to the towns and towns of each border.

Due to this supplement, Song Yuren's internal money was paid a lot of silver taels, which was unprecedented among the emperors of Da Zhao. Both foreign ministers and internal ministers hyped this, praising Song Yuren's benevolence and virtue, which is a wise monarch through the ages. As a result, the news of the compensation spread to the ears of the Jinling sailors.

But Da Zhao's town army, whether it is a land division or a water division, has rotted to the roots. The amount of money that the imperial court gave to the Jinling sailors was 15,000 taels of silver, but after layers of exploitation, the silver in the hands of the low-level soldiers was less than 3,000 taels. It can be seen the severity of its drifting.

Although Nanzhi Jinling is said to be a rich township, due to the abnormal drought weather in the Jianghuai region last year, the grain harvest in the Nanzhili area failed. Most of the sailors of the Jinling Navy Division were counting on the imperial court's supplementary pay this time to tide over the difficulties.

In the end, this supplement was distributed to each Jinling sailor, and the silver was less than three yuan of silver, and the price of Jinling City was expensive, and this less than three yuan of silver was just a drop in the bucket for them. As a result, the sailors of the Jinling Navy Division mutinied and made a fuss, and this was the boiling case of the Jinling Navy Division's salary that was made a lot of noise before last year.

One of these two sailors is called Ke Dinghai and the other is Wan Ming, and in this trouble, they led their sailors to make the most trouble. The collusion between the officials and the army in Jinling not only did not punish the officials and officers who embezzled the salary this time, but sent troops to suppress the mutinous sailors in order to quell the incident. Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed into the detention with the sailors under their hands, killed the officials in the government office, and then absconded from the people.

Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming originally planned to vote for the water robbers around Jinling, but in the previous battles of the imperial court to exterminate the water bandits, the teams under Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming performed the hardest. None of the eighteen villages around Jinling City were willing to take them in, and there were five or six villages that even wanted to kill them.

Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming were cornered, and finally found Shi Yufeng. The rivers and lakes along the Yangtze River are rampant, and if the fleet doing business in the Yangtze River area does not have the escort of its own water warriors, the fleet will be robbed by the water bandits.

Shi Yufeng was young and ignorant when he first started doing business, and he was ignorant of the world, and once led a fleet from Jinling City to transport Jiangyin City. Shi Yufeng felt that the waterway from Jinling City to Jiangyin City would not go wrong in just about two hundred miles, so he took the risk of setting sail. When he was about to arrive in Jiangyin City, a group of water robbers suddenly appeared to rob Shi Yufeng's fleet, and fortunately, he happened to meet Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming's sailors who went out on patrol and killed the water invaders.

A few years ago, Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming rescued Shi Yufeng, and Shi Yufeng was gracious. Now that the two of them are in trouble, out of morality, Shi Yufeng naturally wants to think of ways to rescue them.

"I originally planned to place them in my caravan as my family's water warriors, but in Jinling City, the water division was making a lot of noise, and the government wanted them very tightly. More than 150 people, all of whom are hiding in my family's water Yong, the goal is too big, and the matter will be revealed sooner or later. Shi Yufeng said to He Tengxiao, "I hope you can take them in, this place is far away from Jinling City, and it is relatively safe." ”

Of course, Teng Xiao was happy to take in these sailors, and the fact that these sailors were able to rescue Shi Yufeng's fleet showed that they were not the same as the officers and soldiers who were like bandits in their rotten roots. Moreover, it is difficult to recruit excellent sailors in the northern region, and these people are all serious sailors. These ships are more suitable for them to drive, and they also save them the trouble of training. It's a win-win.

Seeing that He Tengxiao didn't agree immediately, Shi Yufeng squeezed his eyes at Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming.

Ke Dinghai and Wan Ming both knelt down on one knee and gave He Tengxiao a very standard Zhao military salute: "The lives of one hundred and fifty-six brothers will be sold to the Thousand Households from now on, and I hope that the Thousand Households will take us in." ”

He Tengxiao's face was as calm as water, which was unpredictable, as if he was weighing whether to take them in.

"It's not that we have committed a capital crime, and He Qianhu doesn't dare to take in our brothers." Ke Dinghai said loudly without mince words.

"Hahaha." He Tengxiao smiled wryly, knowing that Ke Dinghai was provoking him, "You don't need to provoke me, Da Zhao has been difficult to provoke the four major families of Liaodong since ancient times, don't say that you are committing a capital crime, even if you commit the big crime of rebellion and killing the nine clans, I, He Tengxiao, dare to take you in." ”

"Then why is He Qianhu's mother-in-law and mother-in-law, take it in or not, give our brothers a good word!" Wan Ming was upright and asked He Tengxiao directly. The scar on Wan Ming's face was very large, and the scar seemed to be cracking when he spoke.

He Tengxiao looked at Wan Ming with a smile: "I, He Tengxiao, am not afraid of taking in capital criminals, but only of taking in waste." ”

Ke Dinghai said with a smile: "He Qianhu means that our brothers are all pustus waste, and Lord Qianhu is unwilling to take us in?" ”

He Tengxiao said a little dry mouth, the tea on the table was almost cold, He Tengxiao short-term tea cup, drank the tea in the tea cup, moistened his lips, and said to them in an accentuated tone: "Is it a waste, you don't count, I only count it, stay here for use first, receive two taels of silver every month, one less point and come to me directly, as for whether you can stay, it depends on your ability!" ”

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