He Bai smiled: "It seems that you are not stupid." But since you have surrendered to me, I will not want to kill you again, lest others say that I have surrendered brutally. In this way, give you 10 million money, and you will be a rich man in Jinyang City. It can be regarded as the benefit of surrendering to you, and you will no longer be held accountable for being a thief. But if you have the heart to repeat again, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

Li Leng escaped his life, and immediately kowtowed to thank him again and again with great joy, and withdrew from the tent.

He Bai turned his head to look at Lu Ping again, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are very smart and know what you can and cannot do." But it's because you're so smart that it's hard for me to trust you. ”

Lu Ping shivered all over, and said with a forced smile: "The villain is originally a poor scholar in the countryside, and he knows the way of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, but the thief is coming, and he has to be coerced into it. Because he knew some planning things, and because he was a villager of Li Le, he was appointed as the leader of the baggage battalion. The villain has never done anything too vicious, including killing Li Le, and Li Leng also came to me to discuss, and I hope that Du Wei will be aware of it. ”

He Bai nodded and said, "Okay, after I investigate, when you do have no bad deeds, you will temporarily serve under my command to see the after-effects." ”

Lu Ping was overjoyed, kowtowed again and again, and said, "Captain Yudu, the villain was once in charge of the thieves' baggage. Li Le's thieves plundered a county in Hedong and three counties in Taiyuan, with a total of 100,000 stones, more than 500 million yuan, and nearly 10,000 horses of cloth. Now all of them are in the camp, and I hope that the lieutenant will check it. ”

Seeing that there were rebellions all over the country, the people had no place to live and cultivate. Food is getting scarce, and money is mostly useless. Only the cloth can be worn to keep warm, so the value remains the same. At this time, more than 30,000 thieves were collected, and there was no food, and resettlement was also a big problem.

He Bai said unhappily: "Why is it that most of them are money, and there is no food?" ”

Lu Ping smiled and said: "Li Le thief thinks that money and cloth are relatively light, and enough food is enough, so he robbed more money. ”

He Bai waved his hand and said, "I won't check it out, just stay in the camp, and wait for Taiyuan Taishou to come tomorrow, and then you will hand him over." ”

Lu Ping was shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Didn't the lieutenant intercept some money from it?" ”

He Bai shook his head and said, "This money is robbed of the people, but it must be used to settle the thieves and the victims. The official is not short of money, and he will do much to intercept it. ”

After hearing this, Lu Ping admired He Bai's charity, but he did not agree with He Bai's treatment plan, so he stepped forward and said, "Captain, please listen to Lu Ping's words." ”

"Oh? What? ”

Lu Pingyu said: "How poor the people in the world are, if you say that there is some food at home, but there is basically no money. Therefore, most of this money is only owned by the county treasury and the rich and noble, and it can be said that it has nothing to do with the people. In addition, the officials of various counties and counties are now extremely greedy, and there is no bottom line at all when it comes to scraping. If Lord Du Wei handed over these money and food to Taishou Anmin, he was afraid that he would not leave a single one of them, and they would all fill his own pockets. Therefore, the charity of the Commander is actually not half beneficial to the thieves and the victims. ”

He Bai was silent, the corruption and decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty began because Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty bought officials and sold his lords. If there is no such thing as buying and selling officials, you will not arbitrarily appoint officials in the world. How can there be officials who spend money to buy jobs, in order to recover the capital, and wantonly scrape from the people, and how can there be rebellions such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Lu Ping said again: "The county magistrate's order and the county guard, the assassination history, or because of the affairs of the people, there is still some income every year. However, as a military officer, in addition to deducting the food of the soldiers under his command, the only thing he captured was during the war. Lu Pingguan is a powerful man, and he will never be willing to be trapped in the position of captain. But if you want to climb the high-ranking officials, you can't go without money. The villain is a captain's plan, and it is better to intercept some of them. ”

He Bai thought deeply, if it was when the government was clear, he might be able to be a clean official. But seeing that the world is in chaos, money is indispensable in order to reunify. Especially in the future, when there is no territory, each infantry recruited and equipped with full equipment will cost about 20,000 yuan. A cavalryman costs about 70,000 or 80,000 yuan. In the case of heavy cavalry, it is several times more expensive.

With only 150 million dollars of his fortune now, he can only summon 2,000 cavalry or 7,000 foot soldiers at best. There are also many heavy supplies for the army, and He Bai has not counted them, otherwise the money spent will only be more. And it's only a few thousand troops, which is not enough to see in the discussion of Dong Zhuhou a year and a half later. Seemingly......

He Bai immediately said: "Intercept 200 million money." Lu Ping, this matter is all up to you. ”

Lu Ping knelt down with great joy and responded, "Thank you for the trust of the lord, Lu Ping received the order." ”

After Taiyuan Taishou came to the thief camp on the second day, He Bai led the army back to the military camp in Jinyang City to continue training. This battle can be said to be a great achievement of the martial arts and blood horsemen, and the five thousand Taiyuan County recruits are just a start.

When dealing with a thief army without a strong bow and crossbow, the martial blood horse can be said to be a big kill. However, in the future melee of the princes, most of the Han troops had strong bows and crossbows, and the range was very long. The proud achievements of the Wudou Blood Cavalry at this time were only afraid that they would not succeed, just like the Mongol army that met the Song army, they fought for half a century before they defeated the Song Dynasty with the help of the traitors of the Song army.

It seems that in the future, the cavalry units should be changed to a combination of light and heavy attacks, mainly for long-distance volleys and charges to break the formation. The main combat arms are still mainly infantry, which are relatively cheap. You must know that the infantry has been the main arm in the world for thousands of years.

In view of the great exploits of the martial arts and blood horsemen, He Bai paid them to form a family, marry a bride, and purchased an estate, changed it to the name of the Han people, and settled in Taiyuan County.

From the 5,000 thieves who surrendered, hundreds of elites were selected, and three auxiliaries were assigned to each of the martial blood riders. The number of Martial Blood Horsemen suddenly rose to 1,080 people.

He also selected 300 good horses with a height of six feet at the shoulders and could fight in vests from the 5,000 captured chaotic war horses, and matched them with the white horse righteous riders who had been unknown all along, preparing to expand the white horse righteous cavalry team.

In the future, the martial arts and blood cavalry will be the main force of light cavalry and rangers, and the white horse righteous cavalry will be the main cavalry of medium and far and near. When there is a high-quality horse with a height of seven feet at the shoulder, then form an iron-armored heavy horse, or a kidnapping horse, which is specially used to charge into battle.

It's just that the seven-foot-tall war horses are basically the common treasure horses of the generals, and if you want to collect thousands of treasure horses, I am afraid that the whole north will be beaten down at that time, which seems to be not very applicable. In the end, I can only think about it immediately at six feet, and ask someone to study whether it can be done.

The destruction of Li Le's thieves frightened Han Xian's thieves, who were attacking Jingling County. Han Xian couldn't help but retreat to the land of a hundred miles, and after thinking about it, he retreated to Wu County to watch the movement. It's just that He Bai was busy training the 5,000 infantry, and looking for the Shanxi mother-in-law for the martial arts and blood horsemen, and he didn't have time to pay attention to them, and the battle in Taiyuan was so peaceful.

On this day, Taiyuan Taishou sneakily came, and He Bai felt inexplicable. I only listened to Taiyuan Taishou for a long time, and then said: "He Duwei, Li Le's thief department is thanks to He Duwei's great display of might, and it was only then that it was exterminated, but the 300 million money and goods left behind are not easy to arrange." ”

As soon as He Bai heard this, he knew that this Taishou had bad intentions, so he asked, "I don't know what Lord Taishou has to say." ”

Taishou said with a smile: "The official took 70 million yuan and sent people to Changshan, Zhongshan and other countries in Jizhou to buy 200,000 stone of grain, and then spare 60 million yuan to prepare for the people, but he still left 170,000 yuan to be idle." This official intends to add five to you and me, how about dividing it privately? ”

He Bai couldn't help but gasp, if it weren't for his own plans for the future, he secretly hid 200 million money, but I was afraid that this Taishou would be able to swallow it without hesitation. It seems that this greed really knows no bounds.

He Bai had no intention of blaming Taishou's greed, but said, "You can watch it." ”

Taishou immediately laughed happily and said, "This official really didn't misunderstand He Duwei, He Duwei is really a member of my generation." Hahaha, yes, we will go down and distribute the profits of the subordinates of the civil and military sides......"

After Taishou left, Lu Ping came to tell again, and said: "Lord, the villain has selected three hundred blacksmiths and carpenters from among the thieves, and has formed a battalion of craftsmen to develop vests for the lord, and he needs to take some money, about three million yuan, and I want to ask the lord to allocate it." ”

He Bai snorted coldly and said, "You are right, you really left the seizure to them, but I am afraid that there will be no one left, and they will all fill their own pockets." Go to the Taishou and take back ninety-five million dollars, and the money will be withdrawn from it. Another person was sent to investigate whether the matter of Anmin could be implemented. If not, let's collect some prestige in Taiyuan County. ”

Lu Ping was stunned and hurriedly left. However, this Taiyuan Taishou is not really greedy to the extreme, and he is quite dedicated to the matter of Anmin, and He Bai is also completely at ease in training the army.

However, for the Han Siamese thieves who stayed in Wu County, the Martial Blood Cavalry was divided into three batches and went to Wu County to attack them without interruption. The Han Siamese thieves were frightened, and finally withdrew from Taiyuan County and went to Hedong to find Guo Tai, Yang Feng, and Hu Cai, who had invaded Shangdang, and other thieves.

In Da'an, Taiyuan County, He Bai also had a lot of time to train his troops, but although he had soldiers and horses, he couldn't pick out a few good future leaders who could general. The commanders and chiefs at the grass-roots level can also be appointed with outstanding soldiers, but the teams, tuns, and qu need to be led by good future leaders with experience in leading troops and war experience. Especially the middle-level generals, He Bai's army is extremely lacking.

However, He Bai was also regarded as the captain of a county at this time, and he had the qualifications to recruit the sons of the good families in the county to enlist as soldiers and generals. So He Bai opened the conscription order of the lieutenant and ordered people to recruit warriors as generals.