Traveler Major League

Chapter 10 Looting Inventory and Military Discussion

The whole day passed in chaos in the city.

When the time of peace passed, the wealthy gentry who had lost their rights suddenly realized that their usual status, privileges and power, once they entered a period of chaos, would basically not bring them anything in front of these unscrupulous people. Relying on them can even bring about counterproductive effects, because the money and food they own will be coveted or robbed by others.

The ones living the best at this time are the powerful local tyrants with many clan members. If their own military power is concentrated, they can even surpass the rabble of the second brother. The family is united and has money to maintain.

The most miserable ones are those rich merchants with thin population and rich wealth. If virtue is not worthy, there will be disasters. The clerks rarely give their lives to protect the owner.

But in the evening, all the chaos gradually calmed down under the restraint of a few Anmin notices from the second brother.

The gates of the city were blocked, and all pedestrians were prohibited from entering and leaving. The streets were patrolled by armed rebels to maintain order. Any unreasonable running around and robbery would be arrested, and those who resisted would be directly executed.

It's not that difficult to sneak attack and seize a small county town without heavy guards, but this kind of sneak attack is not to leave after grabbing. Liu Ze looked at the actions of the second brother to completely occupy and digest this small town!

Chengcheng is located in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Basin in Shaanxi Province. It belongs to Tongzhou, Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. It has three townships: Taiping Township in the southeast, Ganquan Township in the northeast, and Wangguan Township in the northwest.

It is only more than two hundred miles away from Xi'an City, and only more than 40 miles away from the nearest Heyang County, and there is no danger around it.

This is really not a good place to use as a base, and it is better to retreat to the mountains as soon as possible. Liu Ze broke his fingers and came to this conclusion, but these are not up to Liu Ze to decide. For my own safety, I still need to suggest to my second brother that it is best to evacuate this place as soon as possible. If not, I should find a chance to leave this place so as not to lose my life.

Not long after, Brother Yu sent someone to ask Yu Chou and Liu Ze to also go to the county government hall to attend the military meeting.

Everyone took stock of today's results and announced new tasks.

Of course, the main goal was to kill the county magistrate dog official. This was accomplished without too much effort when he first entered the city. Even because of the sudden incident, the entire Liufang scribes were quickly wiped out.

Secondly, to fulfill the promise, the county treasury and several large grain stores in the whole city were guarded by Brother Yu.

There are only nearly 2000 shi of grain in the granary, and about [-] taels of gold, silver and copper coins. However, this does not include the inventory in the rich households’ homes in the grain store. It is expected to be more than these.

In addition, the whole city has been notified to start opening warehouses to release grain tomorrow morning. The major powerful families have already sent people to notify the amount of grain, gold and silver that need to be donated to the rebels. Small and wealthy merchants also have arrangements, usually a few rounds first The blackmailer asked him to take it out on his own initiative, and when the blackmail reached the point where he could no longer give money and food, he ransacked and slaughtered.

This poisonous plan was proposed by brother Yu Ting, and it was extremely targeted. Liu Ze, who heard about it, was as cold as ice, and his impression of brother Yu was completely changed. He is no longer that gentle scholar, but an insight into human nature. The horror exists!
The third is to take inventory of ordnance. According to the previous rough statistics, there are really not many ordnance supplies. After all, this is not a military and political dangerous place. There are only nine war horses, nearly a hundred horses, mules, and donkeys, seventy carts, and sixty knives for other weapons. There are more than 50 javelins, hundreds of spears, eight pairs of sacks, twenty bows, seven hundred arrows, twenty-two round shields, twenty firearms and blunderbusses, and five hundred catties of gunpowder. It is very surprising that the gunpowder here turned out to be granular gunpowder!It's just that after Liu Ze's combustion test, he found that there are many impurities in it, and its power is not optimistic.

Other miscellaneous gongs, trumpets, suonas, drums, snare drums, fifes, clappers, shovels, arms racks, etc., are pitifully few, not even as much as the ambushes captured yesterday.

The only gratifying thing is that there are 36 collars of cloth face armor, which is really a good thing. If the horse pawns had these armors yesterday, the outcome is unknown. The cloth face armor here is actually a kind of iron armor. However, the armor is built in with the cloth facing outwards. It looks like a commoner garment on the outside. In fact, there are nails on the inside. The cloth on the outside only serves to keep warm and fix it. This kind of armor was very popular until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Correspondingly, there is the issue of recruiting and reorganizing the team. This is also the second brother's most important thing, and it is related to wealth and future development.

The second brother was still sitting in the main seat, looking around at the excited people below and said: "Although we were lucky enough to capture the county today, there are not a few people in the city who took the opportunity to loot and burn. method, so tomorrow I plan to divide our people into good teams, and then recruit the hungry people to join the army, and we will be called the Rebel Army in the future, how about it?"

Everyone agreed, and the second brother said again: "There is also a way to recruit soldiers. Those rogues on the street must remember not to recruit randomly. I think the Ming army will definitely come to encircle us after a while. Recruitment must be carried out as soon as possible! Our old brothers must lead the team, after all, we are the most reliable." Then he turned to Yu Ting and said, "I heard that your second brother killed the enemy with his hands today. He is extremely brave and is praised by the old brothers. , I’m going to let him come out to lead the troops too, as the head of the post to lead a hundred recruits, young, practice!”

After Yu Ting nodded in agreement, he looked around at the others and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say?"

The black dog hurriedly said: "We will set up a recruiting flag at the grain storage place tomorrow morning, and come to be our soldiers. How about giving each one a hundred catties of millet as a settling allowance?"

"No! There are too many, and now we don't have enough food. Even if we use it all to recruit people, we can only recruit a few thousand people!" Brother Yu waved his hands helplessly and shook his head, and continued: "If we recruit people, we still need more food." Yang, our rebel army doesn't have any armor to protect us, and our combat effectiveness is too different from that of the official army, so we must rely on more people!"

Everyone fell silent.

"Then what do you think we should do? They can't give us their lives, and we just forcefully conscript them without giving anything? What about their family?" A person suddenly asked, this is the little leader who was captured and surrendered before.

Since the reign of Apocalypse, there have been many natural disasters, and there has been no good life for a few years. Now there is a shortage of food everywhere. In the past, the price of rice was only one tael per shi, but now there is no market for it. to the full number.

"Tomorrow, when recruiting troops, we will first publicize that as long as you join our rebel army, we will provide them with food, regardless of their age! The strong will eat dry food, and the old and weak will eat thin food! If there are not enough people who volunteer to sign up, then we can only recruit them by force in the future. Already!"

The second brother made the final plan with a blank face.

Liu Ze stood behind Yu Ting at this time, sighed slightly, he didn't know what to do, maybe he could just move around like the rogues in history, looking for food everywhere, looting, looting, looting, and looting. The normal order was disrupted, so that everyone had to rebel. When enough people died, the Little Ice Age passed before they could settle down.

"And the brothers who died in the siege today, let's bury them generously! Their families will follow us in the future, and we will raise them as our own parents! Each family will give another [-] catties of millet, no! Twenty catties! When the time comes Brother Yu Ting, you must personally send it to each family."

"Your Majesty!" Brother Yu stood up and cupped his hands towards the second brother: "Now we have to be rewarded if we are alive, what does the second brother think we can do?"

The second elder brother looked around, looked at the cheered people and said: "Well, everyone has worked hard! This time, everyone will reward fifteen catties of miscellaneous grains, and the wives, concubines, slaves and maidservants of those dog officials will be distributed to everyone to enjoy!"

"Hahaha! That's great! We mud-legged young ladies can enjoy the official family's eldest lady!" Amidst the roar of laughter, the fate of these ladies who were still superior before was hastily decided in this way.

Seeing this, Liu Ze also twitched his face, and smiled empathetically.Although I don't agree with these things in my heart, I really can't help them. I can only pretend to be ignorant and agree with them with a smile!In order to avoid talking about it and adding to the trouble, Liu Ze shook his fist.

I can't change their decision. If I spoil their interest, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect myself. Their justice and moral standards are not acceptable to modern people like me!

The current world is like this, and it can only be pushed forward by this torrent.

I must change, must have my own power to change all this!Liu Ze made up his mind again.

After the military discussion, Liu Ze was a little disappointed, because just now everyone in the lobby received rewards, either gold and silver, or the right to lead the army, but Liu Ze only received [-] catties of white rice, and the future arrangements will still be managed by Brother Yu Accounts, there is no one under his hand, or alone.

On the way to leave, Yu Shou pulled Liu Ze aside and said, "Brother Liu, thank you for saving your life today! During the discussion just now, I saw that your face was not good. Is it because the second brother's reward is unfair without you?"

Liu Ze quickly said: "No, it's just that I saw too much blood today, which made my stomach sick!"

"Really? Even after I recruit troops tomorrow, I can lead a team of rebels. From then on, I will be a small boss! Brother Liu, you also gave a lot of suggestions to capture this county, and you saved my life today, killing a stupid Thief! Are you willing to take twenty catties of rice now?"

"Brother! I'm really not reconciled. The second brother has his own reasons for doing this, and I have no second thoughts!" Liu Ze broke out in a cold sweat and waved his hands repeatedly.

"Since you call me brother, and saved my life today, I will really treat you as my brother!" Yu Chou took Liu Ze's hand and said softly, "My elder brother asked me to spy on you before, do you know why? "

"Surveillance?" Liu Ze was taken aback by this, which he had never expected before, so he unconsciously tensed up after hearing this.

"Because you have a weird accent, no calluses on your hands, neat and intact teeth, and white and tender skin. You don't come from a poor background like me. In addition, you have no reverence for the imperial court. You don't change your face when you say that you attacked the county town to kill officials and rebel. So." Yu Shou stared at Liu Ze's increasingly pale face, paused and said, "Second Brother, they won't believe you! But Brother Liu, you don't have to worry, I will ask my eldest brother to keep you safe, but Don't think about anything else!"

Liu Ze frowned, his thoughts turned back and forth, and he pulled Yu Chou over and over again and said, "If I want to lead troops to the villages and towns to collect money and food for my second brother, brother, would you be willing to help me talk about it in front of my second brother?"

(End of this chapter)