Li Wuchang smiled faintly and said, "I didn't expect Mr. Xue to be a good observer, maybe as you think!"

After talking casually, he continued: "But since Mr. Xue is here in person today, it shows that Yun Taishou is still very concerned about the two thousand captives, and he doesn't want them all to die, which makes Lu very pleased."

Of course, this is not Lu Someone's kindness...... After all, this is also a lot of money for Lu!

Mr. Xue also said just now that everyone has a little brother to raise, right?"

The group now has a lot of wealth.

Although Erzhuzizhuang has been sacked by Lu Xuandong, there is a batch of gold and silver treasures hidden in a dark corner of Nanshan and escaped a catastrophe.

In Hongnong, he robbed a batch of the Zhang family, and the wealth was looted by the Zhang family in the west of Hongnong under the banner of Zhang Xiu.

At the beginning of the incident, Li Wuchang sent people to rob the farms of major families in Yongzhou several times, and they also received a lot of money.

Helped Zhu Changlong capture Hongnong City and got another batch.

Attacking Fangling City, buying a batch of mountain kings from all walks of life, and compensating the people for a batch afterwards, but taking a lot of grain, medicinal materials and other materials from the major warehouses in Fangling City, it is not a loss.

In addition, since joining the army, he has fought many battles and captured some valuable things on the battlefield.

Although there is a lot of property, there are also many people under him.

Fifteen thousand soldiers, thousands of civilians who followed from Feng Yi and Hongnong, and the families of the soldiers, plus civilians from the northern part of Fangling and the remaining residents of Fangling City.

Tens of thousands.

There is an opportunity to make money, and of course you can't let it go.

Xue Peng listened to Li Wuchang's word "entry", and was a little disapproving.

Before he came to Fangling City, he had a good discussion with Yun Taishou about what Li Wuchang's purpose was in doing this.

Li Wuchang definitely doesn't just want to make money.

On the issue of the capture of Fangling City, even if Li Wuchang did not go to negotiate with Qiu Yue in the southeast of Fangling, he should also negotiate with Jia Song, the assassin of Liangzhou, and it would not be the turn of Badong Taishou.

Li Wuchang may want to attack Padang County, so he deliberately threw a difficult problem to Yun Taishou first, and then made a big fuss.

Two thousand one hundred captives, which is not a small number.

Before, He Hou, the Taishou of the Northland, was because he didn't take into account the 500 soldiers captured by Li Wuchang, so he was attacked by many people in the court, and his head was full of bags, and he almost didn't keep his position as the Taishou of the Northland.

Xue Peng occasionally remembered a sentence from an inscription written by Li Wuchang a long time ago.

"Insiders are insiders, outsiders are outsiders!"

Most people in the court didn't care about what Li Wuchang did to those captives, what they cared about was whether they could find a way to stab He Hou, and then let their own people take the position of Beidi Taishou.

If something goes wrong with this captivity, something similar must have happened.

When Badong Taishou received the letter, he scolded him, thinking that Li Wuchang was completely a-stirring stick, making a mess of Feng Yi and Hongnong in Yongzhou, and now he is coming to plague Fangling, Yiling, and Badong.

Although angry, this potato had to be taken.

"A captive of twenty taels of gold, dare to ask the owner of the Lu Zhuang, is this price a bit outrageous?" Xue Peng asked after being silent for a long time.

A few years ago, a snow disaster broke out, causing serious banditry, plus the Khitan invasion of Jizhou, a large number of soldiers would die every day, and the imperial court's pension for soldiers killed in battle was only twelve taels of silver.

After the imperial court eased up, this number increased.

The living are worth more than the dead.

But it was less than twenty taels of gold, and two thousand and one hundred captives would be more than forty thousand taels of gold.

According to the current market price of gold, it is 500,000 taels of silver.

"Hmm!"

Li Wuchang nodded and said, "It's indeed a bit high!"

Xue Peng was stunned, and said in his heart, "Your natural expression makes me a little overwhelmed!"

Li Wuchang continued: "I heard that Badong Yun Taishou is quite rich. ”

Xue Peng: "......"

Li Wuchang, you...... What a fucking point!

I saw that you were quite serious just now, why did you suddenly become a hooligan?

Even if you're really a hooligan, why don't you cover it up a little?

Xue Peng shook his head and said slowly: "In my opinion, Master Lu Zhuang should sincerely want to kill those captives, but there is a lack of a reason!"

Deliberately setting the price so high, doesn't this make it clear that we want to talk about collapse?

It's not that 500,000 taels of silver can't be obtained, the key is that this precedent cannot be opened.

Li Wuchang said: "Mr. Xue, don't be angry, Lu was a businessman before, and the so-called sky-high price should be repaid on the spot! As long as you really want to redeem those captives, the price is negotiable." ”

Xue Peng said: "Xue is more and more sure that Lord Lu Zhuang must have ideas about Badong, if he only needs money, he can go to negotiate with Yiling Taishou, Yiling is much richer than Badong." ”

Li Wuchang said: "Lu has ideas not only about Padang, but also about the counties around Fangling...... As for why I talked to Padang Taishou, it was because I was supposed to choose whoever the little rooster clicked, and the result was Padang Taishou. ”

Xue Peng: "......"

"I don't know what it means?"

Li Wuchang laughed, then stretched out the index finger of his right hand, and nodded at Wei Xin, Zhao Xun, and Jiang Minglun, and clicked one by one, "Small, male, chicken, point, to, who, me, just, choose, who...... You get it, don't you?"

"Poof......" Han Dazhi couldn't help laughing.

Wei Xin and others are all in Guaner.

Xue Peng and the guards behind him were confused.

Li Wuchang coughed lightly and said, "I'm sorry, liven up the atmosphere!" Mr. Xue, I'll just say it directly, the price can be reduced, and the other conditions are according to the description in the letter.

You talk about sending gold, silver, or supplies to Fangling City, and then bring the people back.

I don't care if I leave Fangling City.

Today is the fourth day, and you think about it. ”

Xue Peng settled down for a moment, and said: "Master Lu, since the price can be discussed, everything else is easy to say, but can we delay it for a few days? Because we plan to ransom people with materials, it will take time to transport!"

Li Wuchang didn't answer directly, but asked, "Mr. Xue belongs to the kind of person who has a lot of face in Padang?"

Xue Peng didn't know why Li Wuchang asked like this, and said, "It's not very face-saving, it's just that I've been messing around for a long time, and I just know a few more people!"

"I see!"

Li Wuchang nodded and continued: "Then has Mr. Xue ever tried to break his word in front of many people?"

Xue Peng was silent.

Li Wuchang's face suddenly became serious, and he said, "I said in front of so many people that I would give you five days, and Mr. Xue said that he would change it at this time, isn't it a little inappropriate?"

Or is it that someone Lu is not worth mentioning in the eyes of Mr. Xue and Yun Taishou?

Isn't five days enough? That only means that you are not sincere in redeeming those captives at all!"

After saying that, he exhaled and muttered to himself: "It seems that it is time for the recruits to exercise their courage again!"

"Lord Lu Zhuang is angry!" Xue Peng hurriedly spoke.