Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

The group effortlessly killed the six bandits.

The four subordinates were somewhat excited.

Having handy weapons indeed made a big difference.

At Li Yuan's signal, Cui Ping bent down to carefully examine the origins of these bandits.

Cui Ping opened the bandit's clothes and found a snake-like tattoo on the leading bandit with a thick beard.

Everyone's eyes lit up.

Li Yuan and the others had seen the wanted posters of bandits posted in front of the city gate when they entered and exited the county town these past few times.

The guy with the snake tattoo was one of them.

Cui Ping opened the man's hair bun and carefully checked.

"That's right, Head Li! It's him."

"This guy's bandit name is Hidden Grass Snake. If I remember correctly, the government is offering a reward of twenty strings of coins."

"We're going to make a big profit this time."

The heads of the remaining five bandits could also be exchanged for a reward of five strings of coins from the government.

But they had to prove that he was indeed a bandit.

Li Yuan turned around and looked at the carriage hijacked by the bandits.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a wealthy and fat figure was sitting in the carriage, his expression frightened and trembling.

Obviously, he didn't know the identity of Li Yuan and the other four.

He was very uneasy in his heart. If these people were also bandits blocking the road, then his fate would not be good either.

Li Yuan quickly explained to him that the five of them were military households from Xihe Fort and showed his waist牌 (waist badge).

Knowing that they were military households and not bandits, the fat middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yuan didn't make things difficult for him, after all, he would need him to testify when handing over the bandits' heads.

Li Yuan clasped his fist at him and said.

"We are going to Qingyuan County. Do you want to go with us?"

This middle-aged man had been scared out of his wits by the bandits. Seeing that he could travel with Li Yuan and the others, he nodded quickly.

"Thank you for saving me, brave warriors. I also want to go to the county town, we can go together."

Li Yuan led his carriage over and went to Qingyuan County alongside the wealthy middle-aged man's carriage.

"I'm making you laugh."

"I am Qiao Huaishan, the owner of Qiao Family Cloth Shop in Qingyuan County."

Li Yuan nodded. It turned out that this person was a boss of a cloth shop. No wonder he was dressed so well.

"Then Shopkeeper Qiao, why are you still going out of the city when it's so unsafe on the road now?"

This Boss Qiao shook his head helplessly and said.

"This young man doesn't know."

"The price of cloth has soared recently, and I have no choice."

"I can only go out of the city to various villages to buy ramie cloth."

As he said that, he also showed the dozens of ramie cloths in his carriage.

"Oh, why is that?"

Li Yuan asked with some doubts.

After listening to Boss Qiao's explanation, Li Yuan realized the whole story.

It turned out that the Great Liang Dynasty only collected three kinds of things for taxation.

The first is copper coins, the second is grain, and the third is cloth.

Mainly various ramie cloths.

These three things actually have the attributes of currency and can offset taxes from each other.

That is to say, these three things can be handed over to the government as taxes.

This year is a famine year, grain is scarce, and all industries are declining.

Both copper coins and grain are very precious.

It is much more cost-effective to use cloth to pay taxes.

So now many people are hoarding cloth, especially ramie cloth, for tax payment.

Another reason is that the court was defeated in the war with the Northern Barbarians last year.

Da Liang needs to send a large amount of tribute to appease the Northern Barbarians, and this ramie cloth is the most important item among them.

So the government is now also collecting ramie cloth everywhere.

The people are hoarding ramie cloth for tax payment, and the government is also collecting ramie cloth to prepare for tribute.

Now in Qingyuan County, the price of a ramie cloth has doubled from 300 coins to 600 coins.

But even so, ramie cloth is still in short supply.

Boss Qiao's shop had already run out of ramie cloth reserves, and he had to go to various villages to find sources of goods for his business.

That's why he encountered robbers on the road.

After listening to Boss Qiao's words, Li Yuan's heart moved.

That's right, the textile industry can absorb a large number of women in any era.

I can also do this ramie cloth business.

The raw material of ramie cloth is ramie, which is grown in many places in Qingyuan County.

First, put the ramie into water to soak it, and then you can extract ramie fiber.

Then, the ramie fiber can be stretched into strands by a spinning wheel, which can be processed into ramie thread.

After that, a loom is used to weave the ramie thread into ramie cloth.

Li Yuan had seen the Chu sisters spinning ramie thread with a spinning wheel at home, but he had not seen a loom.

It seems that they can at least spin thread.

Spinning ramie cloth is indeed a way to make money.

And it can also solve the livelihood of a dozen or so orphaned girls in the village.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

As they chatted, they soon arrived in Qingyuan County.

After entering the city, Boss Qiao tried his best to invite Li Yuan and the others to his house as guests.

These five people had saved his life, and he was going to repay them well.

Li Yuan naturally did not refuse.

He only suggested going to the government first to hand over the corpses of the bandits.

Let's get the reward money first.

After arriving at the government office and explaining the situation, Li Yuan handed over his military household waist badge, and Boss Qiao also sent his name card.

Before long, the county sheriff in charge of arresting bandits came out from the government office.

At this time, in front of the government office, many people heard that someone had killed the bandits blocking the road to receive the reward, and many people were watching.

The county sheriff took the coroner and yamen runners to first verify the identity of the bandits.

It was indeed the fierce bandit Hidden Grass Snake wanted by the county government, and the identities of the other bandits were also verified one by one.

To Li Yuan's surprise, among the other four bandits, there was another wanted bandit leader.

After confirming that the identities were correct, the yamen publicly issued the reward money.

Five military households beheaded the fierce bandit [Hidden Grass Snake] and received a reward of twenty strings of coins, another bandit leader received a reward of fifteen strings of coins, and the remaining four bandits each received five strings of coins.

Li Yuan and the other four received a total of fifty-five strings of coins.

This made the people watching in front of the county yamen extremely envious.

After receiving the reward money.

Li Yuan originally wanted to divide it equally with his subordinates.

But the subordinates refused.

They understood in their hearts.

Hidden Grass Snake, who had the highest reward, was shot to death by Li Yuan with an arrow.

The sophisticated weapons in their hands were also bought by Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was also their squad leader.

So Li Yuan should take the big share.

In the end, the four subordinates each only took the reward for five heads.

The remaining thirty-five strings of coins were all given to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was helpless. Seeing that the four were sincere, he had to accept it first.

After the matters at the yamen were settled.

Shopkeeper Qiao invited Li Yuan and the other four to his house as guests.

Li Yuan was not polite and came to the Qiao family with several of his subordinates.

First, they paid a visit to the elders and women of the Qiao family.

When they heard that Li Yuan and the others had saved their master, they all stepped forward to thank them repeatedly.

This Shopkeeper Qiao even wanted to offer fifty strings of money as a thank you for saving his life.

However, Li Yuan waved his hand and refused.

"It's just a small matter, done casually, Shopkeeper Qiao doesn't need to worry about it."

This made Qiao Huaishan even more moved, and he wanted to befriend this military household squad leader even more.

"Then Young Man Li, if you have any requirements, as long as I, Qiao, can do it, I will definitely help."

Li Yuan really had a request, which was to visit the weaving workshop of the Qiao Family Cloth Shop.

This request surprised Boss Qiao, but it was easy.

His workshop was not far from here, just a hundred steps away.