After the Minggang secret whistle was arranged, Xu Chuan put down his snack slightly.

It wasn't until late at night, when the robbers didn't attack again, that he relented and went home to sleep.

Early the next morning, Xu Chuan came to the barracks early, and there were still a group of prisoners to deal with.

In yesterday's battle, not all of the bandits who were hit by the rubble were dead, but about three or four hundred people were still alive, and these people were tied hand and foot, and they were left in the open space where the houses had not yet been built.

On the side, there are guards carrying knives constantly patrolling, if any of the bandits are a little unusual, they will be greeted with a fat beating.

The town guards were the most affected by the bandits, and the hostility towards the bandits was also the greatest, hundreds of people died at the hands of the bandits every year, and it can be said that almost everyone had a former brother killed.

If it weren't for Xu Chuan's previous order, I'm afraid that none of these bandits who survived by luck under the trebuchet would survive, and they would all be beaten to death.

In addition to the bandits, there were dozens of horses that were also brought back, but the horses were treated much better than the bandits, not only did some people bandage their wounds and apply medicine, but also some people went to cut the grass and came back to feed.

Most of the guards looked at these horses and drooled, who doesn't want to have a horse of their own in these days?

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"Nephew Chuan, what are you going to do with these bandits?"

Xu Chuan returned to the barracks, and on the side, Ji Liang had already followed, this five big and three rough men had been subdued by Xu Chuan after a lossless battle.

"Let them work for us to atone for our sins!"

Xu Chuan gritted his teeth and said, as soon as he thought of the dead eyes of the old man in his neighborhood, he felt a wave of anger in his heart.

Ji Liang scratched his head and asked with some puzzlement, "Isn't this a waste of food?" If you want to work, we can protect the town. ”

Xu Chuan: "The town guards need to be trained, and they can do this kind of work when they are in ruins, but after they stabilize, they need to be continuously trained to increase their combat effectiveness." ”

"And the prisoners don't need training, they can work for us, in addition, the prisoners don't need a salary, that is, a military salary, and the free labor force just eats and doesn't starve to death."

While speaking, Xu Chuan came to the front of the captive, and the patrolling town guards greeted him with a smile when they saw him coming, and at the same time made a way out of the way.

The captive bandits who were tied up all looked up when they saw the movement.

After the defeat was captured, all the bandits were extremely worried, and the defeat in the battle in these years was basically a dead end, and the result may be even worse than the people who died on the spot, and the abuse of prisoners is not an uncommon thing in this year.

Standing in front of these captives, Xu Chuan spoke: "You must be very worried about your fate, and you will wonder when you will be killed, but I want to tell you that this is all your own doing. ”

"Huangkou Xiaoer, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, if Lao Tzu frowns and blinks his eyes, he is not a good man."

In the crowd, the boss of this nest of thieves stared at Xu Chuan through gritted teeth and scolded fiercely.

"Just you? Or a hero? Will a hero go to be a bandit and rob the people? Phew! Xu Chuan sneered and scolded: "But since you are looking for death, then I will send you on the road." Uncle Ji, send him on his way. ”

Hearing this, Ji Liang, who was standing beside him, stepped forward and dragged him out, and directly chopped off his neck with a clean knife in front of all the thieves.

Looking at the blood gushing out, Xu Chuan's face turned pale, if he hadn't pinched his thigh hard, he only felt that he would have to vomit it out at the beginning.

On the side, Ji Liang saw that Xu Chuan's face was wrong, and immediately asked people to drag the body away.

The body was dragged away, and it took a while for Xu Chuan to recover, but his stomach was still turned upside down, and he might vomit at any time.

Holding back his vomit, Xu Chuan straightened up, beckoned Ji Liang over, and said, "Forget it, I won't talk about it, Uncle Ji, you can help arrange these bandits, and let them build barracks houses for our town guards." ”

"By the way, the leading brother of those bandits was all killed, on the one hand, it is convenient for Liwei to control and prevent these bandits from getting out of control, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as worshipping those ancestors who died before."

After speaking, he turned his head and lay on the side and vomited, not to mention all the breakfast he had just eaten, and even vomited out the overnight meal.

Before the crossing, he was just an ordinary office worker who had just graduated, where had he ever seen such an exciting scene.

Yesterday, he didn't go forward to check on the bandits in detail, and he didn't handle the corpse or anything himself, but today's knife came down in front of him, and the blood gushing out three or four meters was instantly deeply engraved into his mind.

This really can't be blamed for his lack of strong quality in his heart, in modern society, any ordinary person has to vomit out.

Lying on the side and vomiting the contents of his stomach clean, Xu Chuan supported his waist and gasped heavily, Ji Liang walked over after making arrangements, patted his back, and comforted: "It's okay to get used to it, it's nothing." ”

As he spoke, he took something out of his pocket and handed it over, saying, "Smoke a little, just smoke it." ”

Xu Chuan stretched out his hand and took it, it was something wrapped in paper, and the smell made him feel a little familiar.

"Is this smoke?"

Xu Chuan looked at the things in his hand, sniffed them again, and asked with some surprise, what Ji Liang handed him was very similar to modern cigarettes.

"Smoke? What's that? ”

Ji Liang frowned and asked, "Do you mean this thing?" This thing is called 'Ba Ku Ye', you can eat it, eat more diarrhea, eat less can be refreshing, but the smoke that comes out after igniting has a better refreshing effect, only a little bitter, a little spicy throat. ”

As he spoke, he took out the fire fold from his body, and after blowing it, he swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, and smoked it, Ji Liang recalled:

"When I first went into battle, I watched my comrades being disemboweled, their heads cut off, but there was nothing I could do ......"

Xu Chuan ignored Ji Liang's chattering memories, he looked at the things in his hand over and over again, and tore some grass blades from it and put them in his mouth, and finally confirmed that what was contained in this roll of paper was the tobacco of later generations.

However, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be no such thing as tobacco in ancient times, and it seemed that tobacco was only introduced through trade during the Ming Dynasty, and the ancients did not smoke before.

Shaking his head, Xu Chuan wanted to go overboard, and also lit the cigarette in his hand, and after taking a puff, he sprayed out, choking and coughing.

He is also an old smoker, he learned to smoke with his roommates in college, and he stayed up late at work to rely on cigarettes.

But he couldn't get used to smoking this thing in his hand, it was harder than any kind of cigarette he had smoked, and the strength and irritation were stronger than the strong smoke of Double Happiness and Baisha, not to mention, he also teased his lips and cut his throat.

After taking two puffs, Xu Chuan couldn't smoke anymore and extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

"Uncle Ji, where did this thing come from?"

Xu Chuan asked, he thought of a better way to make money, more profitable than selling salt, and much safer.

"Just grow it at home, dry it and roll it up." Ji Liang replied.

"Except for the three of us, are there people who smoke this thing in other places?" Xu Chuan asked: "In addition, we don't care how many people in the area have planted this thing." ”

"It's a lot, it's a lot, this thing has a refreshing effect, and many people in the three major countries smoke it."

Ji Liang replied, and continued: "We don't care about the area, most of them have a kind of bakut at the door of the house, and my family has planted a lot, and I can collect dozens of catties of bakuten leaves in a year, and a small part of them are pumped by themselves, and most of them are sold to passing caravans, and they can also be sold for a few taels of silver, but unfortunately the silver has been robbed by the bandits." ”

"That's great!"

Xu Chuan clapped his hands excitedly and stood up directly.

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