Yang Tiesheng and Zhang Yahu led the team to Nandianzi to control those copper cannons, and Song Biao took the other brothers of the horse gang all the way into Nandianzi, and when they arrived at the Nandian Inn, the shopkeeper stumbled and climbed with a few cooks to kowtow and beg for mercy, Song Biao also waved his hand, indicating that they were all in the past, and he didn't want to care.

It is very important to go to Niujiabao to take over the village, but there are some things in front of him that are also very important, many brothers are injured, Yang Sangui's level is limited, Song Biao first arranged the wounded in the inn, he and Yang Sangui cleaned everyone's wounds together, and he also did his best to ensure that everyone could survive as much as possible, and not leave this big team because of wound infections and other things.

Picked up so many military medical supplies, did some minor surgical operations, and had professional wound sutures.

Basically, Song Biao is still working, Yang Sangui helps, cleaning the wound, taking out the warhead, disinfecting, stopping bleeding, and suturing, the process seems simple, but it can increase the probability of survival for the injured brothers.

Before the advent of modern antibiotics, the number of soldiers dying in war from wound inflammation and infection was far greater than from direct surnames, and even several times as many as the latter.

This time, there were not many new wounded, only five people. But for the Song family's horse gang, which has a total of only forty-two people, it is embarrassing to add five new wounded.

When Song Biao dealt with the wounded, Yang Tiesheng and Zhao Tingzhu's vanguard came back from Niujiabaozi, the two of them were full of smiles on their faces, extremely happy, and they came back with Lao Jintou and Hu Dalin, just when the inn prepared a table of wine and food for Song Biao, Song Biao asked them to sit down and eat together.

Sitting down, Zhao Tingzhu couldn't help but smile happily: "Big boss, we really earned it this time, Liu Tongpao hoarded 40,000 loads of grain in the village and Nandian Tunzi, I really didn't expect Liu Tongpao to be so rich, no wonder he can make more than a dozen copper cannons." ”

Song Biao felt very strange in his heart, just tore open a pack of foreign cigarettes, he opened it and distributed it to everyone, Zhao Tingzhu and Yang Tiesheng did not smoke, but Lao Jintou and Hu Dalin did.

Song Biao and Hu Dalin asked, "Why did Niujiabaozi hoard so much rice?" ”

Hu Dalin said: "As soon as Liu Tongpao heard that Russia was going to war, he immediately hoarded grain, and he also lent him a sum of money, plus the harvest in the field, purchased from the county seat and Tonghua, and forcibly bought in the local area, totaling more than 40,000 quintals of grain. However, at that time, it was said that we would sell the purchased grain to Yue Jun, and also mortgage the ownership of our copper mine to Yue Ben's Yinhao, otherwise I would not have lent him 100,000 silver yuan. The cooperation between myself and Liu Tongcang is very early, half of our copper cannons are old goods bought from Yue himself, and the other half are his own imitation of large earthen cannons. In addition to hoarding grain to make money, Liu Tongpao also planned to recruit thousands more displaced people to reclaim wasteland in the Laoyinggou area. This is also his old trick, as long as there are displaced people, he will recruit a group of people to raise, and reclaim the wasteland in the spring of next year. ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "Liu Tongpao is interesting, but it's a pity that he made me a wedding dress." ”

Hu Dalin said: "Speaking of which, our Niujiabao not only has grain, but also copper, in the past, the private copper money made some money, the fort was built very solid, and it was halfway up the mountainside, Biao Ye has such a territory in the future, then you can rest assured." With Biao Ye's ability, as long as we leave a hundred people to guard the fort, no one can beat it, and there is a big copper mine and a small gold pit nearby. The fort is surrounded by mountains, there is only one exit in Nandian, and there are two thousand rings of land in Nandian, which is the land of our fort, and if you guard these two places, you will not die of hunger, poverty, and you will all belong to Biao Ye in the future. ”

Song Biao laughed coldly.

After thinking about it for a while, he asked with everyone: "I just wonder, Liu Tongpao occupies such a good place, and the county yamen and daotai really don't even have a reaction?" ”

Hu Dalin said: "Send silver every year, not to mention that we have more than a dozen cannons in our hands, who dares to provoke us." Liu Tongpao is a big mountain lord on the road, and a big squire and a big landlord in the county yamen, he forcibly occupied 1,400 acres of land nearby, and the county government did not let out a single empty fart. In these years, as long as we have guns and cannons in our hands, and you have the ability to do this, no one will dare to provoke you. ”

Song Biao sighed, thinking to himself, the old society and the new society turned out to be the same.

Zhao Tingzhu sent Song Biao another booklet, registering some of the existing assets and materials of Niujiabao, 14 cannons are the most majestic, 8 earthen bronze cannons, 6 second-hand four-pounder field cannons bought from Yueben, and more than 60 rifles were handed over in the fort, most of which were old rifles of the Murata Type 18, and more than 20 boxes of 8mm ammunition of the Murata Type 22 were reserved, with more than 100,000 rounds.

Because a large amount of money is used to hoard grain, there are only more than 400 taels of gold and more than 7,000 silver yuan left at the bottom of the castle, but the 40,000 quintals of grain are worth 600,000 silver yuan even in previous years, and it is normal to triple or four times now.

Although Liu Tongpao can't be compared with Zhang Zuolin twenty years later, with a gap of 108,000 miles, among the bandits in the Northeast at this time, there are really few mountain masters who can have this net worth, and only Feng Linge, who has more than 3,000 brothers, can be regarded as a higher level, after all, with the help of the army, he robbed dozens of carriages of arms and materials from the Russian army.

Song Biao drank a glass of wine lightly, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that twenty-seven years of hard work came to naught, and Qingqing's surname was broken." We must take this as a warning, no matter how much money there is, it is not as good as more guns and more people than more people. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the rest of the brothers hugged their fists and said, "What the big boss has taught him a lesson!" ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, but this time he did make a lot of money, and Hunjiang was not far from Fengtianfu, he estimated in his heart that if Liu Tongpao didn't start earlier, sooner or later he would still be taken by Zhang Zuolin, or he would be eaten by Meng Enyuan, the later Jilin overseer, unless Liu Tongpao came to wash his hands early.

Thinking of this, he said to several brothers very carefully: "We are not short of silver, nor are we short of guns, nor are we short of food, but what we lack now is people." Tiezi, you want to find a way to recruit a group of local brothers in Hunjiang, and adopt the method of the Hunan army and himself in the establishment, twelve or three people to form a sentry, set up a sentry chief, set up a team above three sentry posts, and you have six sentry posts here. Pillars, you first recruit some experienced and strong young men from the stockade, and another group from the miners and locals, and also fill the six posts. ”

Yang Tiesheng and Zhao Tingzhu nodded one after another, and said, "Understand, don't worry." ”

Song Biao continued to say to Hu Dalin: "Second Master Hu, since you have followed me, as for your past, it doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. From now on, you are a captain like Zhuzi and Tie Sheng, you can choose some more suitable candidates from this village, set up a fourth team of six sentinels, and listen to me in everything in the future, don't have other worries. ”

Hu Dalin was overjoyed and said: "Thank you for the trust of the big boss, I, Hu Dalin, will only follow the big boss in the future." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and said to a few people: "Yahu's side is still the third team, and when he comes back from the village, I will make it clear to him, I plan to let Lao Jintou, Sangui, and Ergou form another team of five to be responsible for miscellaneous logistics." I'm sitting here today to say a word, I'm going to do great things, you follow me, it's best to dispel the idea of the bandit mountain master as soon as possible, I am always the biggest in this team, and you are all my brothers, and even more of your subordinates. If there is chaos today, as long as you all listen to me, our brothers will be united, and we will surely be able to achieve great things in the future. ”

Zhao Tingzhu and Yang Tiesheng immediately clasped their fists and said, "Big boss, we all listen to you." ”