Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 139 Slaves
Thanks to Soul Mi Lian, Linglong Shuhua, Liu Ba, and Martian male gods for their rewards, thank you.

Zhangqiu.

The county barracks and township regiments in all counties have returned one after another, Zhang Xutuo only left a few county barracks directly under the county city and still mopping up in the mountains.

His own military tent also withdrew to Zhangqiu County in the south of the mountain, and Luo Cheng returned with his Zhangqiu County Barracks and the auxiliary barracks composed of several township regiments.

Zhang Yichen personally led all the people in the city to greet them twenty miles outside the city. This time to suppress the bandits, it can be regarded as playing the prestige of the county soldiers and township regiments.Especially for Zhangqiu people, Luo Cheng became famous in the first battle.Duan Yancheng and other powerful landlords and wealthy families had no choice but to come to welcome them this time.

The scene was very lively, leading the sheep and picking the wine, very happy.

On that day, the county barracks and the township regiment were stationed directly outside the county seat, slaughtering pigs and sheep, giving wine and food.

Compared with the soldiers from the county city, the soldiers from the county in Zhangqiu were more joyful, because as soon as they arrived in Zhangqiu, Luo Cheng made Wang Ziming fulfill his previous promise.

Carts of copper coins, silk cloth and grain were brought from the county warehouse to the military camp.

Every county soldier, township battalion with a receipt slip can come to cash in the rewards they had previously stored in the army.

Zhangqiu Pioneer followed Luo Cheng in successive battles and captured a lot this time. Most of these were turned into rewards for the brothers. At that time, all the spoils were appraised and distributed to the brothers, and then registered and stored in the camp middle.Wang Ziming then contacted the merchants, sold the loot, got the money and food, and stored them in the Zhangqiu warehouse.

While the county soldiers from Licheng were still happy for the pigs and sheep sent by Zhangqiu's powerful households, Zhangqiu's county soldiers and village warriors were already queuing up to redeem the rewards.

There are dozens of rewards. For example, Zhao Gui, the scout team who made a pioneering contribution in the first battle, received 58 rewards. Holding a handful of notes, he ranked first reward.

Next to Wang Ziming, Zhou Dewei, brother-in-law of Luo Cheng, was in charge of reciting merits and rewards, and checking them one by one.

Every time you read an item, Wang Ziming will tick one, and then Zhao Gui will answer loudly below.

Adding up a sum of pens, it was a total of 58 thousand yuan in the end.

"A total of 58 yuan has been converted, Zhao Gui, are you cashing in all these deposit slips? Are you cashing in copper coins and silk, or do you want some grain and cloth?"

If you cash in silk, it is worth nine pieces of silk. For example, if you exchange ten pieces of money, you can only get one piece of money and ninety pieces of silk worth nine pieces of money.This is because the Sui Dynasty was short of money and copper, and the government also lacked copper coins, so the method of combining money and silk was adopted, and even merchants generally required more than ten pieces of silk for transactions.

Some local governments even forbid common people and merchants to hoard large amounts of copper coins.

"What is the price in exchange for grain and cloth?" Zhao Gui asked.

"There are methods of exchange here. Grain and cloth are all market prices, even better than the market price. The price is superior. This is what the captain ordered. My brothers, I can't let you suffer."

Preparing food and cloth for everyone is also considering that many people still have to buy food and cloth after receiving the reward, so Luo Cheng asked Wang Ziming to prepare in advance.Let him negotiate a good deal with those vendors, and he can get a better price, and the quality will not be bad, and the vendors dare not cheat them.

If the villagers were allowed to take the reward money to buy things, the vendors might take the opportunity to raise the prices, and the quality might not be so good.

"Then I want to buy some grain and some cloth. Is there a donkey? I want to buy a donkey for my wife. It will be convenient for traveling." Zhao Gui thought it would be convenient for his wife to return to her natal home, so she wanted to buy a donkey for her.

"It really does exist. We have a lot of things here besides food and cloth, but the quantity is not too much. There are mules, donkeys, cows, pigs, and sheep. The prices are clearly marked. You can get what you want. Deposit note to exchange."

These were specially kept from the spoils after Wang Ziming and Luo Cheng reported them.

He kept a lot of trophies, all of which were more practical things, ranging from cattle, mules and horses to an embroidery needle.

It's totally possible to open a grocery store.

After listening to his ideas, Luo Cheng was very supportive, and asked him to choose some good quality things that everyone could use, and prepared to sell them to the brothers.

This is equivalent to opening a small grocery store in the camp. The source of the items is the loot, but they have already been recorded, and then they are sold at affordable prices to the brothers in the camp. Everyone can exchange them with the bounty deposit slip.

Anyway, it’s what everyone needs, buy and sell directly in the camp, and sell it to the merchants without reducing the price, and the brothers buy it directly and avoid the middleman to make the price difference.

"Then I'm going to pick a strong donkey." Zhao Gui said with a smile.

"Okay, pick it later."

In front of several tables, there was a long queue, all of them came to exchange for bounties.

There are as many as Zhao Gui with more than 50 guan, and as few as those who serve as auxiliary soldiers, with hundreds of dollars.

No matter how much, it can be cashed directly.

You can also buy all kinds of materials you need directly, or you can cash them out and then go to buy what you need with money. As long as you are a brother in the camp, you can buy a lot of good quality materials at a lower price than outside.

Luo Cheng walked around the camp before heading into the city.

Zhang Yichen had a complicated expression when he saw him.

"Shicheng, do you know how unhappy your rejection makes me?"

As soon as they met, he patted Luo Cheng on the shoulder and said.

"Thank you for the county magistrate's love, but I'm only sixteen, and it's too early to start a family."

"I know, I know, I won't force you." Zhang Yichen said this, somewhat unhappy in his heart.He felt that Luo Cheng disliked Hong Xian as a righteous daughter, but he was reluctant to give Luo Cheng his first daughter.

"I heard that Jun Cheng has accepted you as his disciple, congratulations." Zhang Yichen congratulated with a smile on his face.

"It's the prefect's love."

"Shicheng, you've made a lot of face for us Zhangqiu this time."

Zhang Yichen shook off his unhappiness, took Luo Cheng's hand and walked side by side.

"The thieves and bandits you captured this time, I handed over to the county magistrate, and those who were going to be brought back to the county's government workshops as slaves. And the fugitives you captured were left behind by our county itself. These People are all reduced to slaves."

"Can't they be punished lightly? These people are just poor fugitives!"

"I think so too, but these people are not only running away, they have something to do with the treason case, but no one can save them. You know, I wanted to hide this matter as much as I could, But the magistrate refused, so the case of treason is settled, and these people will naturally have to be severely punished."

Zhangqiu City arrested more than 3000 fugitives in total, and they are all locked up in fugitive camps outside the city.

Their punishment was set, and they were all reduced to slavery.

"The county plans to sell them all, and the officials can buy them at a discount. Do you want to buy some? Let the officials choose first." Zhang Yichen gave Luo Cheng another good news.

Luo Cheng's heart skipped a beat.

(End of this chapter)