Deng Maoqi squatted on the side and ate mutton steamed buns, his ears were full of the sound of sucking and eating, those were all soldiers recruited from all over the edge of Yansui Town like him, everyone was elated, and the whole camp was full of joy and full of New Year's atmosphere.

Speaking of which, the sources of these soldiers are quite mixed, some are military households in the guard, and some are recruits, but in these years, the imperial court cannot pay military salaries, and recruits have to farm their own fields to live, so the two are not much different. Everyone was wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets, the original bright colors were almost gone, the red hat hung behind the back, and under the feet was a pair of worn red jacket shoes, which looked similar to a group of people called Hanako.

"This Ansai County is really rich and evil!" A tall, thin man with a sallow face next to him said in a deep voice, he had a gloomy face, and he looked like the kind of character who was extremely difficult to mess with.

Deng Maoqi is not familiar with him, he only knows that others call him Brother Li, although he is from a thousand households, but he is stationed in different forts. This person is tyrannical, it is best to fight fiercely, Deng Maoqi was a little jealous of him, lowered his head, just didn't hear it, and continued to deal with the steamed bun in front of him.

"That is, we came all the way from Yulin, the people in those counties died and fled, and the rest were all struggling for their lives, so I know that this is such a rich law!" A person next to him echoed, holding a bowl of noisy noodles in his hand.

"I asked the rice wine seller just now, this Ansai has the most vendors, and all of them are so rich!" Another man leaned over and said.

A few more people talked about the various rumors they had heard about how Ansai was rich, and they were gossiping, and Brother Li's face was cloudy.

"Well, this is just a big battle. Now there must be a lot of thieves and spies out there who have slipped through the net, do you have the courage to go out with Lao Tzu tonight to catch the spies? Brother Li said seriously, with a hint of banter on the corner of his mouth.

The other people were stunned for a moment, and immediately came to their senses, and echoed in unison, Deng Maoqi was shocked in his heart, and realized what they were talking about, the officials and soldiers wanted to kill the good and take the merits, and often falsely accused the people of being thieves, it seems that this Brother Li and the others saw that Ansai was rich, and they were going to sneak out of the camp at night. You don't know what you're doing.

Deng Maoqi is timid and afraid. Seeing that Brother Li didn't notice him, he quietly stood up, turned his head and walked away, and vaguely heard someone behind him calling his name "Lao Qi". He pretended not to hear. With his head down, he quickened his pace.

"You know how to rob. Grab a JB and do so many pickled things, sooner or later you will be taken away by God. When he couldn't see Brother Li's shadow, Deng Maoqi stopped. He scolded in a low voice. Since he arrived in Ansai, he felt that this place was different from other places, and he had a faint feeling that Brother Li and they would not be so smooth this time.

His hunch proved to be justified, and early the next morning, Deng Maoqi and everyone saw the bloody heads of Brother Li and several others hanging outside the camp gate, and a notice with the governor's seal was posted next to it. It turned out that Brother Li and they really went out of the camp last night to find the "fat sheep", and a family was poisoned by them, they killed the man not to mention, but also ruined the woman, the woman shouted loudly before she died, alarming the neighbors, and finally they were surrounded by the people who rushed to hear the news with nails, rakes and sticks. In the anger of the people, the sticks fell together, and several people were beaten to death! When the governor heard about it, he ordered the corpses of several people to be displayed to the public, and the officials of several people were also eaten and hanged, and even the commander of Yulinwei was beaten with twenty military sticks!

"Fortunately, I wasn't pulled by him yesterday, otherwise I would have had my head hanging on it today." Deng Maoqi was overjoyed.

Because of such a vicious case, under the strong request of Wu Wei and Li County, Yang He strictly ordered the governor Biaoying to strengthen inspections to prevent similar incidents from happening again. On the other hand, most people were satisfied with the treatment provided by Ansai, and they had nothing else to think about after eating and drinking, and Wu Wei's biggest concern about public security was actually resolved.

Regarding the issue of the distribution of loot, which everyone is most concerned about, some eyebrows have also been sorted out in the past few days. After a few days of inventory, all the trophies were classified into a list, including more than 10,000 taels of gold, more than 20 taels of silver, more than 1,000 pieces of gold and silver utensils, more than 20,000 pieces of silk, more than 30,000 pieces of various weapons and armor, and more than 1,000 pieces of various antique utensils. Rao is so, after preliminary estimates, the total value of these belongings is still no less than 600,000 taels!

In addition, thousands of large livestock are also a lot of wealth, if compared to the truth, this alone is worth more than 10 thousand taels of silver! As for the thousands of women who were rescued, according to the previous rules of the official army, they also belonged to the category of war booty, and whoever grabbed it belonged to whoever, whether they were wives and concubines, or they could be sold, they were tantamount to cattle and horses. However, this time the situation is special, there is a governor sitting here, and everyone knows that this stubble is not mentioned.

All the loot was liquidated, and it was almost 7 or 800,000 taels of silver! What kind of concept is this, there are more than 30,000 registered soldiers in the entire Yansui Town, and the rated military salary is 120,000 taels a year, in fact, because of the phenomenon of eating empty quotas, it is generally good to give four folds, that is, almost 50,000 taels, and this is still owed for more than ten months! Even if the other two towns are added, the total amount of military salaries owed over the years is less than 200,000 taels!

This is the reason why Wu Wei hinted that a qiē was distributed by the governor in the first place, and the benefits in it were too great, and Wu Wei couldn't eat it alone! In fact, for Wu Wei, although there is a lot of gold and silver, it is really not as valuable as those antique jade, these gold and silver are only worth about 200 million yuan in modern times, and the value of these thousands of antique jade must be far more than this number, maybe one of the objects in it may be worth hundreds of millions! As the saying goes, antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times, in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, these antique jade are not easy to realize, which is far less than real money and silver.

Of course, it is by no means Wu Wei's style to hand them over, except for the gold, silver, silk, weapons and armor that have been reported, Wu Wei has intercepted half of the livestock, and all the gold and silver utensils have been intercepted, and the list of property has become more than 50 thousand taels. Even so, when Wu Wei secretly met Yang He with the shrunken list, he still stunned the Governor!

In the end, when Yang He convened the generals and publicly discussed the rewards for meritorious deeds, the value of all the property became 400,000 taels, and Yang He himself intercepted more than 10 thousand taels! He is now in urgent need of money, which is undoubtedly a great help for him to return to Beijing and enter the cabinet. As for the generals from Du Wenhuan to the next, nominally all this money was used to make up for the arrears of military salaries over the years, but in fact, the money was distributed to everyone, and it was up to them to distribute it. In this way, everyone is happy and has no objections.

The bulk of the distribution of benefits has been completed, and the first-level merit that is vital to everyone's future has become the focus of attention again. This time Yang He mobilized several armies to suppress the Kou, Emperor Chongzhen also attached great importance to it, not only allocated 100,000 taels of silver, but also personally formulated the reward, each kill a thief The reward of silver reached 10 taels, which is twice as much as usual, and the famous thief chief like the "two kings" is a reward ranging from 100 taels to 1,000 taels. Unlike the battlefield capture, the first-level merit is also related to the promotion of the generals, so everyone is also very concerned. In addition to the "two kings" and Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang's four heads, the other more than 3,000 levels were all taken out and distributed, anyway, their own results were too appalling, with less than 3,000 troops beheaded 3,000, it is estimated that no one believes it, even if it is reported, it will be dismissed as a rumor.

All the generals originally regarded this extermination of thieves as a daunting path, and all those who were put on the stall to go out with the governor were all sad and unlucky, and they couldn't imagine that the world was impermanent, and the fortune and misfortune depended on each other, and the loss-making business that was determined to have turned into fame and fortune, so that everyone was happy! Even Zhang Yingchang, a Ningxia staff general who was defeated on the battlefield, also got a lot of luck, and he expected to be transferred to one level, and the problem of advancing to the deputy general was not big, and he suddenly laughed so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth.

Yang He has been inspecting and visiting various places in Ansai for a few days, and he was very shocked to see the situation, when other places in northern Shaanxi are mourning, Ansai is a harmonious atmosphere of economic prosperity and political clarity, and there are many people who praise Wu Wei everywhere he goes, and then think of the powerful Ansai camp and hot air balloons, 10,000 enemies and other strange and clever weapons, this Wu Wei is really Yunwen Yunwu, it is unlimited! He has been in the center for a long time, and he is most clear about the situation of the Ming Dynasty over the years, and those who can make a little contribution to the current situation are regarded as brilliant talents, and such characters as Wu Wei are even more unheard of, and they can't help but love Wu Wei.

Yang He is sixty years old this year, which is the best age to enter the cabinet, and he has served as the center and the locality, and his qualifications and merits are enough. He knows very well that in order to sit firmly in the position of the center and even advance to the position of first assistant, he must gather a group of local powerful people to run for it, just like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang promoted by Zhang Juzheng. The Wu Wei in front of him is young and old, and he is outstanding, and he is really a good candidate. In addition, he owes Wu Wei a big favor this time, and he must repay Wu Wei for his affection.

But after thinking about it, Wu Wei's identity as a Liaodong Xiucai is really a hard injury, and when he sat with Wu Wei to answer each other, he also knocked on the side many times, and concluded that Wu Wei's craftsmanship is not very good, and it seems that the title of Liaodong Xiucai is a bit dry and suspicious. In this way, the road of the imperial examination will not work.

Yang He couldn't help but think of Sun Yuanhua, who was promoted to cast cannons, he was not a jinshi, relying on the help of Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan to cast cannons successively, and now he is also an official to the Ministry of War, a well-known department-level cadre. What he didn't know was that in history, Sun Yuanhua even eventually became the official of the right capital of Yushi and the governor of Denglai.

However, even Sun Yuanhua has a fame after all, otherwise let Wu Wei donate a prisoner first? Yang He thought helplessly.

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