Chapter 68 Capitation Sale
As soon as Lu Zhixian heard the news that Xishan Village was attacked by the rebels, he immediately became nervous, and hurriedly took a few errand officers out of the city gate, wanting to appease Li San and the others, but after coming out, he found that these Xishan Village family members who were guarding the box outside the city gate were one or two old gods, who should eat, sleep, and sentry, without any confusion, and no one showed a nervous or worried look.
But it was only that Li San, standing on the roof of a room at the edge of the Guanxiang at this moment, holding an unknown copper pipe, looking outside, and he didn't know what the copper pipe was for, and he could see something from there.
But he saw that Li San's expression seemed to be a little wrong, it couldn't be said to be worried, it couldn't be said to be nervous, he couldn't tell what the expression was, after thinking about it for a long time, he felt that this expression should be a depressed expression, he didn't know that Xishan Village was attacked by the rebels at this time, what was Li San depressed.
So he stood at the bottom of the room and asked Li San above.
Li San turned his head when he heard the sound, only to see Lu Zhixian below, the situation is a little funny at this time, he is usually an official from above, but at this time, he is tilting his neck, and he is cautiously asking Li San, who usually he usually feels indebted to him, Li San feels much better at this time.
Although there is no war merit today, but to be able to enjoy the pleasure of condescending and talking to the magistrate is also a good compensation, others do not have this kind of treatment, in ancient times, ordinary people in the eyes of officials, not at all people, soldiers in the eyes of officials, but also like slaves, small people sometimes may not be able to see the side of the official in their lives, even if they occasionally meet the car of the official on the road, they have to kneel on the side of the road and bow their heads.
Standing below like today, looking up at Li San's buttocks, the situation of opening his mouth to ask questions is absolutely rare, so Li San saw this situation, his mood was much better, he turned around triumphantly and jumped off the roof, and replied to Lu Zhixian with his fists: "It turns out that the county magistrate is here!" Just now, it was estimated that a rebel army ran to our Xishan Village, but the county magistrate doesn't have to worry, the little people and horses where the rebels went are not enough for our Xishan Village to see, and it is already okay at this time, and it is estimated that the rebels should be almost all killed by the brothers we left behind!
By the way, Lord Lu, you came here just in time today, and the little one just happened to have something to discuss with the magistrate! You see......"
Saying that, Li San glanced at the errand soldiers who followed Lu Zhixian, and Lu Zhixian immediately realized that Li San didn't want more people to know about this matter, so he waved his hand and said, "You guys retreat first!" This official and Li Zhuangshi chatted a few words! ”
When the messenger heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and retreated, Li San took Lu Zhixian to a small courtyard, and said to Lu Zhixian: "Lord Lu, you see that today we killed dozens of rebel generals, and the small one has been sent to cut it back, and it is piled up in the courtyard.
These heads can be inspected by adults today, and none of them are good and risky heads!
In addition, although Xiao Xiao is not very clear about the situation in Xishan Village at this time, he can roughly guess that he has killed a lot of rebels over there just now, and it is estimated that there must be a lot of heads!
Liu Yuanwai said, we, the grass people, just make some money and flowers, but it's useless to have more heads, and we don't ask for promotions, what kind of background do we have, and these heads are of little use except for some silver.
So today, Xiaomin has the courage to discuss with adults, if someone wants these heads, it's useless for us to keep them, so as long as whoever offers a high price, then the small one can make the decision on behalf of our lord and buy these heads, I don't know if the adults are interested? ”
At this time, Lu Zhixian was extremely shocked by what Li San said just now, the rebels went to Xishan Village, although he didn't know how many people went, but it was certain that the number of people would definitely not be too small, because Xishan Village was known as a murderer in the local area, and the village wall was tall and strong, if there were few people going, it would definitely not be of much use.
But Li San didn't seem to be worried at all, and actually said so lightly that Xishan Village must have wiped out all those rebels at this time.
He couldn't help but feel a huge shock in his heart, and he was a little dizzy, and he couldn't guess for a while, how strong the strength of this Liu Yuanwai was, and now he had filmed more than 200 fierce villagers to come to Muping County to assist in the defense, originally he thought that there were not many village soldiers left in Xishan Village, but according to Li San's words, it seems that the strength of the remaining guards over there should still be very strong, and they don't take the rebels in their eyes at all.
Think about it, these township soldiers in Xishan Village have a large number of such sharp bird guns in their hands, if the rebels are careless, they will definitely suffer a big loss if they don't do well in the past, so Liu Yuanwai of Xishan Village seems to have hidden a lot of strength, and this Xishan Village must not be provoked in the future, otherwise it will definitely cause big trouble.
When he was secretly surprised, he didn't expect Li San to bring up such a thing, and when Lu Zhixian heard it, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The Ming Dynasty has always relied on killing the heads of enemy soldiers to count, and after the fact, it is also necessary to count the merits according to the actual number of heads cut off before they can be rewarded, this is a control strategy set up by the Ming Dynasty in order to control the generals when they are fighting outside, talking nonsense and falsely reporting their military achievements, but this strategy also leads to a lot of drawbacks.
First, when officers and men go out to fight, sometimes they are afraid of the enemy like tigers and do not dare to fight with them, but afterwards they are afraid that they will be investigated by the higher-ups, so in order to cope with their errands, they indiscriminately kill innocent people and take the risk of merit.
In addition, even when the officers and soldiers are engaged in a war with the enemy, once they kill or wound the enemy, many soldiers will not listen to orders and run to snatch the enemy's head in order to grab the head of the enemy and receive merit afterwards, so that this situation is also very common.
In addition, if several different subordinate officers and armies are fighting together, in order to compete for merit on the battlefield, you often compete for each other to cut off people's heads, not to mention the delay of fighters, and even the final infighting is not uncommon.
Therefore, in this era, for many generals, the head is quite a sought-after thing, especially the head of the enemy army, which makes these people rush to it, which represents their military exploits, with these heads, they can make their progress to the top, at least there is no problem in maintaining their current status.
Now that Li San wants to sell the rebel head, this is undoubtedly quite tempting for Lu Zhixian, because now he is guarding the north gate, and he also needs a head to prove his merits.
And these heads, Li San obviously doesn't value them, because he is a civilian, in addition to taking some rewards from the head of the people, it is a little difficult to win a background, it is obvious that Li San and Liu are different, and they don't value the matter of Bo's background, so they want to take these rebel heads in exchange for some silver.
Now on the side of Ninghai Prefecture, in order to resist the rebel siege and boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, Zhao Zhizhou has publicly offered a reward the day before yesterday, and posted a notice in the city, announcing that anyone who cuts off a rebel's head can get a reward of five taels of silver, and if it is a rebel general's head, he can be rewarded with ten taels of silver.
This bounty is not too high to say high, but it is not too low, and it is still quite tempting for civilians and creeps.
This morning, the rebels tentatively attacked the north gate, and were killed by Li San's people, these dozens of heads, but quite a good harvest, even if they were exchanged for silver, at least two or three hundred taels of silver.
But Li San, this guy, doesn't seem to be satisfied with just using these heads, one in exchange for five taels of silver, he actually wants to sell these heads in exchange for more silver.
Now that the government has publicly rewarded them, if someone wants these heads, then they must pay more silver, although the price is a bit expensive, but Lu Zhixian believes that there must still be people who want these heads.
Spending some money to buy heads, although it is necessary to break the bank, but it is obviously much safer than killing good people and risking their merits, and it is obviously much safer to be exposed afterwards, and it is still quite worthwhile.
Therefore, it is estimated that there are really a lot of people who want heads, and the other gates, the rebels have not attacked the city wall at present, so even if they shoot a few rebels, the corpses are all outside the city, and the defenders do not dare to go down and cut off people's heads.
So far, as far as he knows, no one has gotten the heads of the rebels, and if this battle is completed and the city is defended, then the people who do not have the heads at hand will suffer a lot in hindsight.
Fortunately, because of the township soldiers in Xishan Village at this time, there is no shortage of heads, and according to what Li San just said, it seems that he is very sure that there should be many rebel leaders in Xishan Village, and he can't eat so many heads, he doesn't need too many, dozens of heads are enough for him, at most one or two hundred, it is enough.
But if there are enough rebel leaders in Xishan Village, then he will definitely not be able to eat it himself, then he might as well let his colleagues share the profits, at least these people will definitely admit his affection afterwards.
Although this kind of thing is not a fair and honest thing, if you say it to let people know, you may be manipulated by others, but at this time, not too many people care about this matter.
So after Lu Zhixian pondered for a while, he looked at no one around, coughed dryly, and asked in a low voice: "I don't know how much silver Li Zhuangshi wants to sell for a human head?" ”
(Found a mistake, in the morning chapter, Lu Zhixian was written, and the clerical error was written as Li Wenyuan, it should be Lu Wenyuan, in addition, today's daughter lost water in the afternoon, came back late, and updated a little late!) Everyone's forgiving! And thank you for the tips from book friends 256958 friends! )