Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 177 Returning from the Dead
Suzhou.

Tu Guobao received the prisoners of the standard camp released by the Ming army.

"its not right."

Generals Cao Hu and Zou Xixiang frowned, "My lord, the number is wrong."

"Less?" Tu Guobao asked, "Less less."

"It's not less, it's more."

During the battle on Qionglong Mountain, Tu Guobao abandoned the Biaoying camp and fled. The entire Biaoying camp was wiped out and became a bare-bones governor.Recently, he successfully recaptured Suzhou City, and sent his nephew to take over Li Shuitai's tribe, but he also knew that those were the Eight Banners, and even if they took over, they would only belong to him temporarily.

So he secretly asked Yan Wogong, hoping to redeem his standard battalion from the Ming army.

The Ming army was also very straightforward and sent Chen Qianfu to take full charge of the matter.

After some haggling, Chen Qianfu offered 20 taels a piece, and returned the standard battalion package to Tu Guobao, which can be offset with money and food, and returned today, but Cao Hu waited a little longer, which was wrong.

The standard battalion was originally [-] in total. In the battle of Qionglong Mountain, hundreds of people died, and the number of prisoners was only a thousand or so at most. But now the number sent by Chen Qianfu is not right, not less, but more.

Far more than fifteen thousand.

"It doesn't matter how many more, those guys just want to earn us more money." Tu Guobao said helplessly.

"Futai, not just a few more, there are 3000 people here."

"what?"

Tu Guobao almost jumped up, this Chen Qianfu looked easy to talk to, why did he act so hard?Thousands of Biaoying prisoners, return three thousand?

A 20 taels, 3000 people is 6 taels of silver, is this selling pigs to him?

"I told him the number was wrong, but Chen Qianfu said that they had screened them and they were all from Suzhou Standard Camp."

"Mark his old mother..." Tu Guobao couldn't help cursing, he really used them as a bank, and tried to extract money from them, but he was already squeezed out, Suzhou just recovered, He immediately searched hundreds of wealthy households, claiming that they were collaborating with the enemy.But in fact, he also knows that those who are truly transparent have already withdrawn with the Ming army, and those in the city are actually middle-class households.

They were not actively supporting the Qing, because these people were called traitors by the Ming army, and they had been cleaned up after the destruction of Suzhou.As for Zhongming, most of them left with the Ming army.

The rest are guys who are wise and safe, but Tu Guobao can't take care of it. Now he is short of money and owes a lot of money, so he can only try to collect it.

The government treasury was emptied by the Ming army, and there was no surplus food or money. The fake officials in the original yamen were suppressed and purged by the Ming army. Now he is guarding an empty city. Ass debt.

Returning to Fubiao is also a top priority, otherwise any bandit or robber will take Suzhou away.

But what Zhu Wu, Chen Qianfu and the others did was too much.

Tu Guobao aggressively went to find Chen Qianfu, but Chen Qianfu said that we also brought back all the standard camps for you for the sake of long-term cooperation, and also handed over some green camps captured in Songjiang and other places to you, which is also to supplement you Strength, we don't want your governor to fall again.

I also expect you to pay back the money on time.

Such a remark made Tu Guobao unable to refute.

Then Chen Qianfu persuaded, 6 taels of silver is not much. I heard that you have taken over the rest of Li Sutai’s army. There are so many horses. If you just get some horses and armor from them, we will charge a high discount price. of.

So Tu Guobao went to see the 3000 people.

After careful counting, I found that 3000 people are correct, but his real Fubiao old department only has a few hundred people, and they are all old, weak or even disabled. The real elites are gone, not even his servants. .

When asked, Chen Qianfu said that those people had all died in the battle at Qionglong Mountain, and because the rest of Fubiao's troops were weak, they thought of him and selected so many people from other captives to supplement.

But those guys, Tu Guobao looked left and right, and they were not elite young men.

After a little questioning, it turned out that some people were originally from the green camp recruited by the water bandits in Taihu Lake, some were originally recruited by bandits, and some were even bandits and water bandits captured by the Ming army. There were also some green camps in Songjiang and other places. There are many varieties and different sources.

On July day, these guys were all barefoot, shirtless, and just a pair of shorts.

It's three thousand bids, but it's better to say it's a group of hungry people. Anyway, they work in the Ming army every day, and they can't eat enough all day long. All of them are hungry and weak.

Tu Guobao really wanted to send all these 3000 people back.

But after thinking about it, he finally swallowed his anger.

Boluo has already entered the boundary of Suzhou and will be coming soon. His top priority now is how to explain clearly to Boluo and how to clear himself of the crime of losing Suzhou.

If Fubiao is still there, then there will be one less charge.

"Take all these guys back, find a way to get them uniforms first, and then equip them with knives and guns."

"Choose a decent few hundred out of them, and serve as your servants, get some armor to put on, and then see Boluo as a front."

Cao Hu and others were also helpless, but let's deal with emergencies first.

Turning around to leave, Chen Qianfu came over again and called Tu Guobao to stop him.

"Boluo is going to Suzhou City soon, and we have prepared a gift for Tufutai to meet him. You are satisfied, and it only costs 4 taels of silver."

Tu Guobao was helpless, "I really have no money now, and I can't afford it."

"You read something before you talk."

When Tu Guobao saw such a gift, he was shocked speechless.

"This!"

"This gift will definitely satisfy Boluo, right?"

"Can,"

"It's not expensive. I'll charge you 4 taels of silver. Then you can tell Boluo that you spent [-]. Maybe you can make some money."

Tu Guobao looked at Li Shutai's head wrapped in mercury, and scolded his mother in his heart.

This person was killed by his nephew Yang Guohai, and he brought back the head and gave it to the Ming army. Now the Ming army is so embarrassed to sell him for 4 taels of silver?
"Tufutai, think about it, who is Li Sutai? Minister of punishment and Mei Le Zhangjing, an important official in Xiezhen Suzhou, although he belongs to the Eight Banners Han Army, who is his father? Li Yongfang, forehead Ah, the Li family is the top Han family dignitary on the Tartar side, isn't his head worth one hundred and eighty thousand?"

Tu Guobao has seen shameless people before, but he has never seen such shameless people.

In the end, he only changed it into one sentence, "There is really no money."

"I owe you, let's pay it back slowly. Anyway, we are cooperating for a long time, so there is no rush."

Tu Guobao held back very hard, and really wanted to scold her.

"Well, let's make a point." Chen Qianfu said with a smile, "Isn't Boluo coming? We will fight two battles with the new standard battalion of Tufutai, and we will give you two more victories. No extra money will be charged. How? Interesting enough!"

Faced with such a considerate partner, what else could Tu Guobao say, he could only silently acquiesce.

(End of this chapter)