Chapter 276

Cheng Shijie obviously underestimated these women, especially the women who could survive the army of rogues, when the news spread that the Han family was looking for workers in the women's camp, especially since in addition to the women who guaranteed to work, there was an extra pound of meat in addition to three meals a day.

Of course, these meats, in fact, are advent canned meat, said to be meat, in fact, there is not much real meat, Liaodong's canned food is similar to the canned food of later generations, a pound of meat plus ten pounds of starch, it is a conscience of canned food, some pounds of meat to add more than 30 pounds of starch, this kind of canned meat, and the taste of canned luncheon meat in later generations is almost the same, it is all technology and hard work.

"Mrs. Han needs someone to work for her, if she can weave or print and dye, the reward is to listen to canned meat every day, if someone is willing to work for Mrs. Han, then you can come to me and sign up."

After the Han family married Zhang Dazhuang, they became Zhang Han, but after Zhang Han's death, although Han's children were still surnamed Zhang, Han resumed his mother's surname.

Han called herself Mrs. Han, and in the eyes of the people, she was married to a man with the surname Han and became Mrs. Han, not surnamed Han.

Regardless, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that when you hear that canned meat may be very unfamiliar to ordinary rogues, but the problem is that the families of these old thieves, they have enjoyed canned meat, and they also know what canned meat is.

"My lord, can I work for Mrs. Han? I don't know how to weave, but I know how to print and dye, and our family used to run a dyeing shop! ”

"Yes!"

"I ask me to work for Mrs. Han, I will also work hard, I will also weave, and my family used to have an embroidery village."

"I can do it, I can do anything."

"Write down my name, my name is Zheng Yuanrong, I am Langzhong, my father is a famous doctor in Shaanxi, known as Zheng Yizhen, although I can't weave and don't print and dye, but I can learn ......"

Cheng Shijie obviously underestimated the allure of canned meat. The results of the statistics of these wandering women and children are surprising, not only doctors, teachers, painters, luthiers, singers, dancers, and arithmeticians.

Although Cheng Shijie knows the national quality level of the Ming Dynasty, let alone among women, even among men, the overall quality of these female camp rogues has exceeded the overall level of the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps seeing Cheng Shijie's doubts, Han explained: "Dashuai, don't look at them now, in the past, they were either from a scholarly family, or an official family, or they were also famous prostitutes in Qinglou, otherwise they would not be favored by the leaders of the rogues, ordinary rogues looking for wives, just look good, when they reach a certain level, they have to look at each other's abilities!" ”

Cheng Shijie understands that this is an ancient tradition, taking concubines and marrying wives. And these leaders who are from civilian backgrounds, their favorite is to find the wives and concubines of those official eunuchs as wives, just like Gao Jie, in all fairness, Xing's posture can only be regarded as average, with Gao Jie's identity, you can find countless women who are more beautiful than Xing.

But the problem is that Gao Jie fell in love with Li Zicheng's wife Xing instead of other women. The same problem is also true, in the family of the leader of the Liukou, except for a small number of wives before the rebellion, most of them are women from wealthy families.

Cheng Shijie looked at Han Shi and said, "You don't need so many talents who are proficient in arithmetic here, give these talents to Ben Shuai, right?" ”

"Okay, the Zhao family, the Yu family, the An family, the Wu family, the Li family, the Qian family, the Tian family, and the Yuan family are all handsome, especially these eight are young and have excellent appearances!"

Han covered his mouth and smiled, and Cheng Shijie suddenly felt a fever in his lower abdomen.

What a witch!

At the beginning, Han's hair was yellow and her complexion was extremely poor, as if she looked forty or fifty years old, but with the nutritional supplementation during this time, she went from being thin to a little round and jade.

"No, I want this!"

Cheng Shijie glanced at the origins and ages of the eight talents, the oldest is twenty-two years old, the youngest is seventeen years old, even if they are smart, how much experience they can have, the Jia family is different, the Jia family is older than the Han family, this year Chinese New Year's Eve is fifty-five years old, the eldest son is nineteen years old, for accounting accounts, they are the same as Chinese medicine, the older they are, the more experienced.

Jia is thirty-five years old, which is the golden age of a person's profession in later generations.

"Dashuai, why don't you take them all away and bring them to Liaodong, you can use them to set up a professional girls' school, they have teachers, painters, piano masters, musicians, and arithmetic masters who are proficient in arithmetic, which can completely cultivate more talents for Dashuai!"

Han Shi reacted: "Is Da Shuai going to leave now?" ”

"yes, let's go!"

Cheng Shijie actually didn't think about beating Zhang Xianzhong to death at one time, if Zhang Xianzhong could be easily killed by him, then Zhang Xianzhong would definitely not be able to create these big reputations.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the army under Zhang Xianzhong is not strong, he has also been defeated by Qin Liangyu, and he has also been defeated by Zuo Liangyu, if it wasn't for Sun Kewang to save him, Zuo Liangyu would have killed Zhang Xianzhong, but the problem is that people have been living well. Regardless of the ability to defeat, Zhang Xianzhong's ability to escape is not bad.

However, the problem is that what Cheng Shijie doesn't know is that Sun Kewang is not reconciled, Zhao Wencai is not reconciled, and Meng En is not reconciled.

After Sun Kewang was recognized by Zhang Xianzhong, he learned from the pain, reloaded, and prepared to set off again.

"Dashuai!"

"Hopefully, how's the injury?"

"The lowly position is no longer in the way, please give the lowly position another chance!"

The same thing, from different perspectives, will get different answers. What Cheng Shijie needs is a blank piece of paper, because white paper is easy to paint.

But what Sun Kewang needs is military merit, and there is also a parting with Zhang Xianzhong, and a parting with the past. Since taking refuge in Cheng Shijie, Sun Kewang began to participate in the training of the Ning Navy.

In the process of training, Sun Kewang, a former rogue, was assimilated by the Ning Navy, and he, like countless Ning Navy officers, had a blind admiration for Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie is a genius in the world, he is amazing, he can make steel, farm, engage in water conservancy, and train soldiers, oh my God, is there anything he can't?

Cheng Shijie is now the Duke of Haiguo of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Liaodong, and the general of the conquest, his future is definitely more than this, in this increasingly chaotic world, it is a good time for Cheng Shijie to make contributions to his career. Follow Cheng Shijie to fight on the battlefield, make meritorious contributions, and shine on the lintel.

Of course, they can also be promoted and make a fortune with Cheng Shijie, just after this battle, the Ning Navy Cavalry Division and the Guards Division, at least a few thousand new landlords.

If you don't catch Zhang Xianzhong, you will be sorry for Cheng Shijie's expectations of him.

"How many people do you want?"

"It takes a thousand to be lowly!"

"Ben Shuai will give you 1,000 people, give you 3,000 people's equipment, and give you another hundred blank farewells!"

Although Cheng Shijie wanted to use Zhang Xianzhong to purge the gentry, the problem was that Zhang Xianzhong's destructive power was too great, and there was almost no grass where he and his army passed.

Cheng Shijie now has enough strength, and he is not afraid that the gentry will not cooperate, and those with knives will be afraid of holding pens? It's a joke, in fact, there aren't many people who really have backbone among the gentry.

Under the butcher's knife of the Manchus, did they not cooperate? Actually, I also cooperate.

If they don't cooperate, then fight them to cooperate.

Sun Kewang received Cheng Shijie's order and returned to the Liukou camp again.

As time passed, these rogues actually knew what they would face in the future, more than ten or twenty-five years of labor reform, which was too desperate. They don't die, but they want to be free.

However, there are only two ways for them to go, either to go to Luzon and hack to death the indigenous Luzon natives, one leader will be sentenced to five years in prison, and even the old thief who is sentenced to twenty-five years of labor reform will only need the head of five indigenous men.

But the problem is that now they are just going to Luzon in batches, especially the landlubbers in Shaanxi, training every day, making them miserable, if they want to stay in the Central Plains, they can only make meritorious contributions, and seizing Zhang Xianzhong is the best opportunity and the only opportunity.

As Sun Kewang went to the camp to recruit death squads, tens of thousands of people signed up, and Sun Kewang selected more than 1,000 people from them, most of these people are strong and experienced old thieves, each of whom is either fifteen years or twenty-five years of labor reform, and those who are less than ten years old are not eligible to participate.

In this way, Sun Kewang ignored his injuries and did not heal, and took more than a thousand old thieves into the mountain with half a month's worth of dry food.

As the saying goes, eat a trench, grow a wisdom, Sun Kewang knew that he could not deceive Zhang Xianzhong, he did not seek to attack Zhang Xianzhong openly, but took a sneak attack, beat the stick, and secretly set fire to his grain and grass.

Instead, Zhang Xianzhong was embarrassed.

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to fight back, but Sun Kewang immediately retreated and ambushed Zhang Xianzhong with Zhao Wencai and Meng En's troops of the Ning Navy, which made Zhang Xianzhong dare not fight, and he couldn't run away, which was very uncomfortable.

Susong County, south of Dabie Mountain, was originally a bandit den. In the head of the house called Peng Monk, later by chance, Peng Monk they robbed a group of merchants from Liaodong, this group of businessmen were tied to Sangong Village after they were tied, this group of businessmen found that the place where they were, is actually a natural phosphate ore vein.

This is a vein about 23 kilometers long, which belongs to the largest phosphate rock in China, and belongs to the same proterozoic cosmic sedimentary metamorphic phosphate rock as the Hubei Maimangling phosphate mine and the Jiangsu Haizhou phosphate mine.

The group of merchants told Monk Peng to ask for food with a cornucopia, and Monk Peng knew that the place where they were was actually a mine, so he traded phosphate rock with the merchants of Liaodong, and if there was a way, who would want to be a bandit? In this way, the phosphate rock here was mined, transported to the bottom of the mountain, and then loaded onto ships, which could be transported to Liaodong, and they could exchange phosphate rock for grain in Liaodong.

With the development of mining, the better it gets, Monk Peng has grown from more than 1,000 people to more than 4,000 people, but the problem is that when they are in full swing, Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants of his command to the territory of Susong, and he did not dare to fight in the county seat, for fear of alarming the Ning Navy, as long as he drilled the ravine.

He entered Sangong Village and found that this cottage was too rich, with more than 18,000 catties of salt stored alone, as well as a large number of air-dried mountain goods, and more than 50,000 stones of grain.

You must know that a county town may not be able to grab more than 50,000 stones of grain at this time when it is not green, which is enough to see the huge profits of mining.

Zi Jinxing, who was tall, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes but cruel eyes, looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "King, we have made a fortune this time!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the neatly placed silver ingots in the silver vault in the cottage, and most of the silver was still silver coins issued by the Bank of Liaodong, which was more than 100,000 taels of silver. In addition to silver, there are also a large number of cloths, knives, guns and bows and crossbows, if it weren't for the poor vigilance of these miners, they would not have been served by Zhang Xianzhong.

"It's a pity, the bandit leader who ran away, otherwise, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I really want to set up camp here!"

Zhang Xianzhong knows that a cottage with more than 4,000 people, can exist for so many years, there must be a backer, maybe they will find their backer when they run away, especially when they find too many Liaodong products here, whether it is standard knives and guns, or fine wine, or even canned food.

"King, my brothers are suffocating during this time, why don't you let your brothers relax and relax?"

"Pay attention to vigilance, the leader of the gang ran away, he must be going to move the rescuers, we can't stay here for too long!"

"King, don't worry, I promise that there will be no delays!"

Immediately, the Three Bows Village resounded with terrible screams, as well as the unbridled laughter of the rogues.

Zhang Xianzhong, as the leader of the bandits, was naturally sent by the people below more than a dozen beauties, of course, the families of these cottage miners are not like the daughters of big families in Jiangnan Water Township, all of them are five big and three thick, or they are thin and have a lot of firewood.

More than a dozen women sent to Zhang Xianzhong were disheveled and looked sluggish, except for a girl in a yellow skirt, a beautiful woman with dark skin but an ambitious one.

However, before Zhang Xianzhong could make a move on this beauty, the girl knew that she could not be spared, so she ran into one of Zhang Xianzhong's guards, who had a spear in his hand.

"Flutter ......"

The sharp spear penetrated the girl's chest without delay, and the girl opened her mouth, but a mouthful of blood gushed out, and she said vaguely: "You must not die well!" ”

The girl died of exhaustion.

The guard of Zhang Xianzhong was frightened: "King, no matter how small it is, she bumped into it by herself!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the girl whose eyes were still wide and dead, and sighed long: "Beauty, why are you suffering, isn't it good to follow this king to enjoy happiness?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong picked up a knife, cut off the girl's head, reached out and grabbed the hair of the head, then put the head on the plate, took the handkerchief, and gently wiped the blood on the head.

This scene made the guards around him tremble.

About sixty miles away from Sangong Village, this was once a grass market, but at this time it had been looted by the rogues under Zhang Xianzhong. The large bazaar had been reduced to rubble, and dozens of corpses had been burned to charcoal.

"Monkey, look at the situation here!"

Sun Kewang had the support of Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun this time, especially Zhao Wencai, who handed over more than 160 captured horses to Sun Kewang, so that Sun Kewang and the others moved more than twice as fast.

The monkey stretched out his hand to probe on a burning stake, tested the temperature, grabbed a pile of horse manure, pinched it open and observed, for a long time, he looked at Sun Kewang and said: "Commander Sun, it's them, not ordinary bandits, looking at this method, it must be the guys in the old camp who did it!" ”

"In which direction did they go and for how long?"

"The footprints are too messy, judging from the traces of the footprints, these people are carrying heavy things on their backs and walking in the southeast direction, but something is not quite right!"

"What's wrong?"

"Commander Sun, think about it carefully, how big is this grass market? There are only two or three hundred households in the sky, and two or three hundred households are all poor ghosts, how many things are worth grabbing? ”

"Are they playing with fiction and reality, true and false?"

Sun Kewang looked in the northwest direction, looked at only a few footprints and said, "Did they flee in this direction?" ”

"I judge, nine times out of ten, it's in this direction!"

"Fight, chase!"

Sun Kewang and the monkey's information is asymmetrical, if Zhang Xianzhong really flees to the southeast, he will crash into Zhao Wencai's department, even if he catches up, he can't outrun the four-legged cavalry. If Zhang Xianzhong enters the mountain, his great luck will come.

The monkey led the way in front, chasing this small army, which seemed to be only two or three hundred men, and in less than thirty miles, there were more footprints on the road.

"Commander Sun, they caught up, coming from the ridge on the left and right!"

"Hmm!"

Sun Kewang looked at the dense jungle and said: "The mountains here are high and dense, the mountains are rugged, and it is not a problem to hide thousands of troops and horses......"

He stopped suddenly, frowned, and pricked up his ears to listen.

The monkey who was munching on the flatbread was startled, his cheeks bulged high, and asked vaguely, "What's the matter, Commander Sun?" ”

"There is a situation!"

Sun Kewang said: "Someone is coming, hurry up and hide!" ”

At this time, there was a noisy sound of people in the distance, and it was obvious that someone was walking along the mountain road in this direction, and there were quite a few of them, and the thieves did not dare to slack off, and hid behind trees and stones.

The old thieves who had been equipped by the Ning Navy skillfully took out the formation-breaking crossbow, loaded the sharp crossbow arrows into the arrow slot, and pointed at the road. After a while, the footsteps became clearer and clearer, and these footsteps seemed a little messy.

Sure enough, within half a pillar of incense, there were about 200 young men in tattered clothes on the mountain road, and at the front of the team, there was a simple stretcher, on which there was a man covered in blood, who did not know whether he was alive or dead.

"Let's go, let's go!"

"The second master, the group of thieves didn't chase after them, let's ......"

"We must rush to the county seat immediately, otherwise, our family members will be finished!"

At this moment, Sun Kewang had already recognized that the accent of these people was not Shaanxi, and it seemed that they were not Zhang Xianzhong's people, listening to them, it seemed that they had met Zhang Xianzhong.

He pulled out his revolver and shot it at the sky.

"Bang!"

This group of young people was frightened, some of them were even more frightened and ran around, and some of them were weak under their feet and fell to the ground, and the whole scene was very chaotic.

Sun Kewang appeared in the middle of the road and looked at the crowd: "Which of you is in charge, come out and speak!" ”

Not long after, the second master came out resignedly, the second master is a fallen showman, known as Sun Xiucai, in fact he is an unlucky egg, even more than ten years of the exam even did not get into the child's examination, until three years ago, the stupid son of their county Zhang Cai, Zhang Rui, who did not know a few big words, was admitted to Xiucai, which made Sun Xiucai explode all of a sudden, he took an inkstone and an inkstone to the head of the county teacher.

Although the county edict is a positive eight products, equivalent to the director of the county education and culture bureau in later generations, it is also an official of the imperial court, Sun Xiucai beat him, but it is not like later generations who will be imprisoned for a few years at most, in the Ming Dynasty, this is the following crime, to be killed.

Sun Xiucai fled to the mountains, just as Monk Peng began to do ore business with Liaodong, although this Sun Xiucai is old, he doesn't even dare to kill chickens, but the problem is that he is literate and can settle accounts, so he has become the second master of Sangong Village.

"The old man's surname is Sun Ming'an, the word is Xia, he is the head of the mine of Sangong Mountain, dare to ask the surname of the strong man!"

"A certain family surname is Sun, and the name is expected!"

Sun Kewang asked, "Master Sun, what's going on with you?" ”

"Don't hide the strong man, we are all Anqing Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, Huangzhou Mansion and other places fled the people, in the Sangong Mountain area to set up a shack, with wild beasts as a companion, to the bark and grass roots for food, hard time, later, Liaodong over a large number of phosphate mines, we Sangong Mountain just have phosphate mines, so a group of powerful young people organized, mined ore and transported it to Liaodong to sell, in exchange for a few money to buy some grain to make a living, although the life is difficult, but there is always a hope."

Sun Xiucai was so anxious that he wiped his tears: "Just today, this group of beasts, in the name of begging, came to our Sangongshan mining area, our big boss saw that they were pitiful, and was willing to reward them with a mouthful of food, but later, they came a lot of people, and they killed them with a knife!" Pity those villagers, before they know what happened, they are already in a different place, and a few children who are slow runners are caught by them, and they are used to falling to death on stones! ”

Speaking of this, Sun Xiucai cried: "We just want to dig some mines for a few dollars, and we have never done anything illegal, why should they kill us!" Poor my mother-in-law couldn't get out of bed because she had a body, and hid in the shack, and they burned her to death, animals, all animals! ”

Sun Kewang was silent, and the old thieves around him were also silent.

Sun Xiucai's accusation, murder and arson, all of them have done it, and all the old thieves looked at Sun Kewang and signaled Sun Kewang to kill people and kill them.

Sun Kewang said: "How far is your cottage from here?" ”

Sun Xiucai became vigilant, he found that Sun Kewang was almost as far away from the group of heavenly thieves who were killed, what should I do?

Looking at the doubts and indignation of Sun Xiucai and the others, Sun Kewang said: "Master Sun, you don't have to be afraid, below is the commander of the Ning Navy Guards!" ”

"Are you really Cheng Dashuai's people?"

Sun Xiucai almost heard Cheng Shijie's name from the population of Liaodong, and heard that the cocoon was coming.

Sun Kewang looked proud: "Is there anyone in this world who dares to pretend to be us?" ”

"But you ......"

Sun Xiucai pointed to the clothes on Sun Kewang's body: "Your clothes? ”

"We're making up scouting!"

Sun Kewang looked at Sun Xiucai and said, "How many thieves are there?" ”

"There are tens of thousands!"

"Tens of thousands!"

Sun Kewang hesitated, he could doubt Zhang Xianzhong's character, but he couldn't question his ability to fight, tens of thousands of old battalion people, not to mention that they only had a thousand people, even if there were five thousand people, they were not sure to deal with it.

To deal with Zhang Xianzhong, Ning Haijun also needs to come forward.

"Qin Zhuang"

"In!"

"You go to the cavalry to inform General Zhao and General Meng, and let them come over for a big meal!"

"Yes!"

As Qin Zhuang and a team of old thieves left, Sun Kewang looked at Sun Xiucai and said, "Let's go after that gang of thieves, do you dare to lead the way?" ”

In the crowd, a thin voice came: "Dare! ”

"Five girls!"

The five girls said stubbornly: "They arrested my sister, I must rescue my sister!" ”

The young men looked at the five girls, and their hearts were a little heavy, a big girl with yellow flowers, in the hands of their group of beasts, could she still fall into the air?

Sun Kewang looked at someone leading the way, and he said excitedly: "How many roads do you have in the cottage?" Can it be opened to the outside? ”

"There are three paths!"

The five girls pointed to the road in front of them: "This is one, which can lead to the county seat, another can lead to the wharf, and one is in the back mountain, which is a path!" ”

"Monkey, you have fast legs and feet, take a team of people to the back mountain!"

"Are there any brothers willing to lead the way?"

Sun Kewang wants to go crazy with credit, and now he touches Zhang Xianzhong's tail, and he will no longer act recklessly, although they have few people, but the problem is that they still have grenades and mines in their hands.

Although there are not many of them, it is completely enough to trap Zhang Xianzhong.

"Brothers, the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune is right in front of you, see if you can seize it!"

Sun Kewang said excitedly: "Follow the handsome and make contributions!" Today! ”

(End of chapter)