Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 195 Studying the Bird in the Cage (Please Subscribe!)

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Erlong Mountain, Juyi Hall.

Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Liu Tang and other small bosses are summing up last year's earnings.

Wu Yong unfolded a piece of rice paper about a foot long and wide, and said in a loud voice: "In the whole year of last year, we at Erlongshan did a total of 49 transactions, earning a total of 44 seven coins, clothes, luggage, etc. Nearly 220 shi, five or seven hundred pigs, cattle and sheep (you can eat as you go, you can’t count them), and 110 or [-] horses."

Liu Tang laughed loudly and said: "No wonder so many people like to fall into grass. I think I have worked so hard to rob Liang Zhongshu's birthday outline, and only got [-] gold and jewel shells, and I am angry. Now here, I am not afraid of the sky, I am not afraid of the earth, Not afraid of lawsuits, weighing and dividing gold and silver, wearing silk brocades in different ways, eating wine in urns, and eating meat in large pieces to have a good time, and even earn more gold and jewelry. It’s not like being poor for so many years.”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "There are so many harvests, thanks to the hard work of brothers Liu and Tang."

Liu Tangdao: "My elder brother is the leader of a village, how can he move lightly, and the military adviser is a frail scholar who can't fight. Naturally, this kind of work is done by me, a vulgar man."

Chao Gai sighed when he heard the words, and said: "Thinking of Erlongshan, I have three or two thousand minions, countless soldiers and food, but lack of some capable leaders. When I go out to do business, I can only play tricks on Brother Liu and Tang!"

Wu Yong took the opportunity to persuade Jian Jian again: "Brother, don't worry, as long as you can earn thirty or twenty heroes for your brother by taking care of it in a small way, at that time, even if our Erlong Mountain is not comparable to Liangshan Po Dazhai, it is definitely a green forest. If we are recruited by the imperial court in the future, we will all be able to make our wives and sons Guangzong Yaozu..."

Chao Gai said: "I know that the military commander is anxious to develop the stronghold, so he wants to lure those innocent people to go up the mountain, but the innocence of the bad people is not done by the good guys. As for the recruitment of security, don't mention it again. Now that the king is faint and the minister is sycophantic, we will wait for it. What can you do if you are recruited? Why don't you just be the king of the mountain in Erlong Mountain for the rest of your life, so you don't have to look at the smog and get angry."

Liu Tang met Chao Gai and said: "Brother is right, what can you do with that bird flying, I'll be waiting here on Erlong Mountain to eat meat and wine, so free and happy!"

Wu Yong regretted it in his heart: "I knew Chao Tianwang had no ambitions, and was so pedantic and ignorant. I might as well have gone to Liangshan with Gongsun Sheng and the others. It would be better than wasting this good time here!"

Liu Tang urged Wu Yong: "Military Master, tell me quickly, how much did we earn from selling salt last year, I think that is more than when I went down the mountain to cut trails."

Chao Gai also looked at Wu Yong expectantly!

Wu Yong withdrew his thoughts, suppressed his self-pity and showed a smile, and said, "A total of 86, 280."

"His!"

Liu Tang took a deep breath, then widened his eyes and said, "Hey, this thing is so profitable, no wonder so many people have sharpened their heads to do this business!"

Chao Gai was also very surprised, and said: "Brother Li Yan really gave me a great way to make money!"

Even Wu Yong said: "Yeah, the drought last year doubled the price of food. If it weren't for the support of this private salt business, it would be really difficult to support our cottage by only relying on brothers Liu and Tang to do business with caravans." Two or three thousand people."

Chao Gai said: "Brother Li Yan is really loyal, but unfortunately, when he fought the official army, our cottage had just been built, and we were too busy to take care of ourselves, so that we couldn't help him even an inch of help. To tell you the truth, I’ve always been brooding about this.”

Wu Yong said: "It's really a pity. If I can participate in that battle, I can also go to Jeju, Dongping, and Dongchang. By then, our Erlong Mountain's strength will at least double."

Chao Gai said: "Hey~ I went there after waiting, and the benefits I got must all belong to Brother Li Yan. I waited to help, not to make a fortune. How can I lose my loyalty."

Wu Yong shook his head secretly, more and more regretting that he didn't go to Shuibo Liangshan back then!
Chao Gai said: "The Shanzhai is so prosperous, I can't suffer from our brothers who have been through life and death, I decided to give out [-] guan coins and silver points to the Shanzhai brothers, and then slaughter ten cattle, fifty sheep, and twenty pigs for three days. .”

Chao Gai's order immediately won countless support, all the little bosses and many little minions all laughed and feasted!

Only Wu Yong was secretly hurt!

Judging from Chao Gai's various performances, he is a pure king of the mountain with no ambition at all.

Erlong Mountain, which Wu Yong once placed high hopes on, has also become one of the countless bandit dens in the world.

Learn about the bird in the cage, and touch the four corners with the hook.

A poor alleyman, holding a shadow and guarding an empty cottage.

There is no way to go out, and the thorn plug is applied in the middle.

Strategies are discarded or not, and the pieces are like fish in a dry pond.

At this moment, a young man came forward to report: "Report to the king, five or six hundred people have come down the mountain!"

Chao Gai sat up straight and asked, "Oh? Who are they, are they officers and soldiers?"

Xiao Luo said: "Some of them look like officers and soldiers, and some of them look like me and other people in the green forest. They bring their families with them, have more than a dozen carts, and three or two hundred good horses."

When he heard that there were three to two hundred good horses in that group, Chao Gai's eyes lit up!
Chao Gai always dreamed of having a majestic battalion of majestic horse troops. When he went to see Li Yan in the future, he could also show that Chao Tianwang was not much worse than Li Yan. Unfortunately, he spent a lot of effort and only managed to get more than 100 soldiers. horses, and more than half of them were bad horses, which made him feel that his battalion was nowhere in sight.

He never thought that someone would come to give him three or two hundred good horses today, how could Chao Gai not be happy about this?

Liu Tang immediately stood up and said, "I'll take that fine horse and present it to my brother. Let's also form a battalion of horses for him. It's majestic and majestic!"

Chao Gai said: "Let's go together, there are a lot of people in this group, we must not be careless and lose our horse camp in Erlong Mountain."

After counting the two thousand minions, Chao Gai and Liu Tang led the people down the mountain, leaving only Wu Yong to look after the house.

Coming down the mountain, they came to the main road that used to be used to do business. Under Liu Tang's command, a group of minions buried their stumbling ropes, and then lay in ambush in the forests on both sides, waiting for the group of people to arrive and kill them. Go out and beat them by surprise, then snatch the horse and rob it and go back to the mountain.

But wait for that group of people not to come, and wait for that group of people to not come.

Just when Chao Gai couldn't help but send someone to see what was going on, the group finally appeared.

Chao Gai and Liu Tang were overjoyed, the fish fell into the net, and the horse camp was in sight.

However, the leading carriage stopped quickly at the edge of the forest, and then a tree stick got out of the carriage first, and then a cripple also got out of the carriage.

The cripple stood up with his stick, and then shouted into the forest: "Where in the forest is Chao Tianwang or Brother Liu Tang, please come out and meet Song Jiang, an old friend from Yuncheng!"

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(End of this chapter)