Chapter 42: The Return of the Plunder
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The tenth day of December in the first year of Great Qin II. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Xianyang, the capital of Great Qin.
Weishui Road, starting from Xianyang, along the north bank of Weishui Canyon westward, until Longxi County Zhilintao.
From north to south, the homeland of Lao Qin was divided into Jiuyuan County, Shang County, Beidi County, Longxi County, Neishi County, Hanzhong County, Ba County, and Shu County, a total of eight counties. However, in terms of road construction, Naeshi-gun is the location of the imperial capital of Gyeonggi, so it is also the starting point and destination of all avenues.
Therefore, the official road of Neishi County is the main road that connects the counties of Guanzhong and Lao Qin, and also leads to the world, but it does not include the two highest levels of Chi Road and Straight Road, a total of 12, and Weishui Road is one of these 12 official roads.
As early as more than ten days ago, the news of the pacification of South Vietnam had begun to spread in Xianyang, and spread at an unexpected speed, until today, not only the counties in Guanzhong have known that Zhao Tuo killed himself and that Ziying went to sea to escape from Daqin, but even Shandong and other places have also spread all over the world.
The fast communication channels between the Dragon Guard Mansion and the Black Ice Platform have begun to show his great power.
Needless to say, the excitement of the people of Guanzhong Lao Qin is self-explanatory. Large-scale tax cuts and labor service and pensions for the fallen Qin soldiers were put in place one after another, and the atmosphere and appearance of the people in Guanzhong have been completely new to this day, and everyone is looking forward to a better life in the future.
From the beginning of Shangfang's mandatory implementation of gold and copper coins to now, it has been a few months, and the Daqin money began to be widely circulated in the counties of Guanzhong, and has become the mainstream currency in the hands of the people of the eight counties of Guanzhong. Shandong and other places far away from Guanzhong also began to circulate Daqin money. Begin to replace the chaotic currency that was originally circulating in the market.
The real unification of the currency greatly promoted the commercial activities of the counties in Guanzhong. Weishui Road is an official road connecting Longxi in Daqinbian County. There are many traveling merchants like carp crossing the river, and there is an endless stream.
It's just that today, the traveling merchants who were originally walking on the Weishui Road in a hurry are obviously a little boiling.
A long carriage drove from the west of Weishui Road towards Xianyang. Behind the carriage were people tied together one by one with ropes. Led by the carriage, he staggered and followed the carriage.
These people tied behind the carriage included men and women, as well as old and weak children, but most of them were tall and tall, and it could be seen at a glance that there was a very obvious difference from the Qin people.
Many traveling merchants who often traveled between Longxi and Jiuyuan and Xianyang could see at a glance that there were Qiang people and Yueshi people who were tied behind the carriage. There are even some Huns who are obviously Huns dressed as Huns.
It's just that now these barbarian tribes that used to crisscross the grasslands and often harass the border of Great Qin are now tied together and become lambs to the slaughter. There are nearly 40,000 or 50,000 people.
A Qin knight wearing leather armor, although his face was covered with traces left by the wind and sand, and even many people were injured, but everyone had an irrepressible smile on their faces, happily urging the war horses under their crotches to run back and forth in the long line.
The real striking thing is behind this long slip of people. Countless horses guarded by a large group of knights. These horses are different from the war horses in the many horse farms in Daqin, and it is obvious that they cannot be the horses produced in the Daqin horse farms.
Looking at the Daqin Youshang Gate who followed more and more people all the way but never dared to come forward to talk, Long Eighteen urged the war horse under his crotch to catch up with Jing Yun in front of him and said in a low voice: "Brother Jing, the five big people have arrived, and they will stay in the post house in front of them at this moment." ”
These people and horses are the harvest of Jing Yun and others who crossed the border of Longxi three months ago and entered the territory of the Qiang and Yue clans to plunder.
Nearly four months. Jing Yun led the first batch of Great Qin rangers who went out to plunder, and finally returned to Great Qin and returned to Xianyang.
It's just that before leaving Xianyang, there were nearly 4,000 plundering teams, and less than half of them could come back with them at this time. The gains are huge, and the losses are equally huge. But it is conceivable that it is the dead people. Even those who are alive can derive unimaginable wealth from this raid.
Because Jing Yun and these Great Qin raiders got more than just tens of thousands of people and countless horses from the Qiang and Yue tribes. There are also countless cow and sheep skins, pearls, gemstones, and gold.
Of course, these gold gems and cattle and sheep skins and furs are not visible to these traveling merchants.
Two thousand people guarded tens of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of war horses traveled thousands of miles, which was obviously impossible.
Robbery is a high-risk job, both in the pre-Qin and future generations. Especially when you go deep into enemy territory to rob, it's a job with your head hanging on your belt. Therefore, before Hu Hai left Xianyang, he had already ordered the Longwei Mansion to greet the Longxi army, and once Jingyun and they came back from robbery and suffered too much loss, the Longxi army could help and escort the wealth of these nobles who nominally belonged to the Guanzhong family to Xianyang.
Of course, the Longxi army could not wear the armor of the Qin army.
The first batch of looted nobles in the Longxi Army to transport the looted wealth in Guanzhong could not be free. The grain and war horses are all related to the supply of the nobles of the middle family, after all, the war horses dedicated to the Qin army are marked with special marks, and a discerning person can see it at a glance. And after the transportation is completed, the nobles of the Guanzhong family will also give the Longxi army a considerable remuneration. As for the horses ridden by the soldiers of Longxi, after arriving in Xianyang, they will naturally return to Longxi with the soldiers of Longxi who returned to Longxi.
The remuneration received by the Longxi Army was naturally charged to the state treasury. It was used to improve the equipment and life of the Longxi Border Army.
Hu Hai is equivalent to saying that he is a white wolf with empty gloves, but there is no way, who makes the whole Great Qin the biggest?
Even so, the nobles of the Guanzhong family were still grateful to the emperor for such intimate service. After all, if these tens of thousands of men and horses stay in Longxi for one more day, they will spend countless grains and grass to feed them. This is not a matter of the imperial court, let alone a matter of Hu Hai.
And if there are people and horses running away on the road, they will also lose a lot. After all, every ranger who died outside the gate, they must be given a pension that is enough for the relatives of those rangers to spend the rest of their lives.
The eight dead soldiers who followed Jing Yun out of the pass and plundered in the Longwei Mansion also killed three in battle. And the relatives of these three people will also receive double pensions from the court and the nobles of Guanzhong.
Hearing Long Eighteen's words, Jing Yun's body, who was slightly distracted, was shocked, and then slowly relaxed, and said with a smile to Long Eighteen: "Please also ask Brother Long to go first and inform Commander Win, just say that everything is ready." ”
With Jing Yun's somewhat abnormal look, Long Eighteen didn't think about it, but thought that Jing Yun was a little nervous when he heard that the commander of the Long Wei Mansion was a little nervous, and saluted Jing Yun with a fist, and then rode his horse and galloped away.
Looking at Long Eighteen who was riding away, Jing Yun breathed a long sigh of relief, and his expression was a little lonely.
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The Weishui Road Post House is the last post house in the territory of Weishui, and it is also the last post house in Xianyang. At the moment, there is a lot of traffic outside the post house. Dozens of important figures of the old Qin family nobles in Guanzhong, including Fan, Su, and Fang, gathered and looked forward to it.
The looting of the raiding team will be passed on to each family through the channels of the Dragon Guard Mansion every day. This use was naturally agreed by the emperor after careful consideration for the sake of the Su family's face, but using the communication channels of the Longwei Mansion, it was naturally inevitable that the Longwei Mansion would have to be paid again.
Everyone knows that this robbery of their own families is going to be released, but they don't know how to send it. Tens of thousands of slaves, tens of thousands of horses, and countless jewels, cows, sheepskins, and furs, what a great fortune that must be?
The old Qin family in Guanzhong is now full of gratitude to the Second Emperor of Great Qin who is still in South Vietnam. Once upon a time, they could raise their eyebrows like they do today in the face of the countless emerging nobles around them?
This time to welcome the return of Jing Yun and the others, except for the heads of the three families of Fan, Su, and Fang, who did not come in person, the heads of the other dozens of old Qin families in Guanzhong all gathered. However, even if the heads of the three families of Fan, Su, and Fang did not come in person, the people who came were all the number two people in the clan, which shows the importance attached to this matter.
There are tens of thousands of people gathered around the post house, and basically every nobleman in the Guanzhong family has someone to come. Even the nobles of the family who didn't have the opportunity to participate in the first raid also wanted to see how much they could loot in this raid, right?
Of course, the most of them are the guards brought by the old Qin family, because when they arrive in Xianyang and Longxi, the army will return home, so it is naturally impossible to help them watch these trophies all the time. And the garrison army in Xianyang will definitely not be able to help them anymore.
In front of the post house, there is a special place.
It is the least crowded place in front of the inn today. For there was only one carriage and four knights, and the carriage was faithful, and there was no one in the area the size of a square five zhang, or rather, no one dared to stand in the clearing, and they preferred to crowd it with many people.
That's the wagon to win five!
Jing Yun's convoy slowly appeared. There was a commotion at the noble door of the family that had been waiting for a long time.
The carriage at the front of the line slowly stopped on the side of the road. Motorists were driven off.
As soon as the drivers came down, more than a hundred black-clothed Longwei Mansion dead soldiers suddenly came out of nowhere on the side of the road, jumped into the carriage and walked along the other side of the road.
As the carriage was driven away, the carriage of Winning Five, which had been parked in front of the post house, also slowly turned around and left. Long Eighteen, who was standing on the side of the carriage, bowed his hand to Jing Yun Yaoyao, and then followed after winning the five horses and left.
Win Five has never appeared in front of people, let alone spoke.
However, the nobles of the family around the inn seem to be not strange at all. What's more, their eyes had all fallen on the long, headless population and the neighing horses in the distance.
No one cared what was in the carriage that Jing Yun brought back, because there was only one person represented by the Longwei Mansion, and that was the Emperor. Therefore, many people take it for granted that this must be the filial piety of the Su, Fan, and Fang families to the emperor.
Only Jing Yun knew that there were no jewels and leather goods in the carriage at all.
Rather, people!