Ten days passed in a flash. The Tianyan banquet Pavilion of Xiuyan mansion was still filled with familiar figures in the familiar private rooms. These were still big grain merchants such as Wang Yao and Zhang Yiwen.
However, today, on the surface, this group of grain merchants are far less happy and excited than when they first heard the news of disorderly thieves.
Han Jianzhou and Zhang Shun, two talented people who were originally appreciated by them, have rebelled for nearly 20 days. What have they done? It is said that both of them have selected 1000 elite youths, each of whom is selected from five or six thousand youths. They not only dare to fight and kill, but also are tall. All of them have complete armor, knives and guns, and are developing towards regular soldiers.
The two goods did not intersect with the troops of Anguang and Pinghui counties. Once the teams of counties and townships set out, they just looked out for the wind. When the large troops retreated into counties and townships, they continued to flee and only attacked the granaries of the landlords and rich in the villages.
Without these two, the grain of the rural landlords would only rot in the warehouse, which would not help the refugee groups in the drought, and all the refugee families in the three counties would only rush to the city to escape the famine.
Without Han and Zhang, their young regiments of tens of thousands of people, their parents, wives and children, would only flee to the city and be harvested as slaves and maidservants by big landlords such as Zhang Yiwen and Wang Yao.
And now? There were no refugees in angung and Pinghui counties. They were either absorbed by Han and Zhang, or they were absorbed into the army by the powerful landlords in the two counties.
Han and Zhang are attracting fire outside. The landlords in the two counties dare not dare. The young people under their opponents are too poor. They must not only feed the young people, but also let their families eat well. Otherwise, the treatment is not as good as the two thieves? Who wouldn't sneak out for a thief.
Dayuan township has become a very profound comparative target.
Before that, the three gentry in Dayuan Township didn't treat thousands of young people well. Just eat well. Don't think about it. Your family can barely make do without starving. When you die of rogue thieves, you will be rewarded with a few money and two silver. As for that silver, you can eat for a few days. Can you survive the drought? Who knows, no one cares.
Now it's no good. The preferential treatment of Han Zhang's two thieves to the migrant groups has long been known. As long as they follow them, the soldiers have meat more than three times a day. Other young men like civilian men can also be full twice a day without meat. Even their families have distributed a lot of food and continue to eat until the end of the famine.
The landlords and gentry in those two counties can't help it. If they don't improve the treatment of their subordinates, their young men will run out to join the thieves. Then, the ranks of rogue thieves continue to expand and their numbers continue to decrease. What will happen?
The ancient family in Dayuan township is the end!
Because Han and Zhang thieves, civilian families in the two counties, have really had a good disaster year. Who comes to Fucheng to wait for porridge and sell himself?
Even those villages and towns directly under the jurisdiction of Fucheng have heard that they have abandoned the goal of Fucheng and turned to the two counties.
As for Shangxi county? What's more, a strong man with a military career has pulled up 10000 troops and horses and has been training.
The only thing that reassured Wang Yao, Zhang Yiwen and other big landlords and gentry was that there were several strong and powerful people at the county level in Shangxi's militia. There were some of them at the middle level. There was no fear that the 10000 militia would become a weapon for a single person after their training.
If it really becomes a weapon for a single person, or Wei Wenguang, who has many years of military career and many years of experience in running private salt? That would be a cancer on the cholera side.
The atmosphere of the whole box became very depressed and even angry. After a full cup of tea, Zhang Yiwen coughed, "Wang Yao, you are the leader of our grain merchant this time, shouldn't you do something?"
"If we go on like this, we can't. although we have absorbed a group of slaves among the small handicraftsmen in Fucheng by relying on the grain price of 80 Wen and a kilo, the number is far from enough. We haven't eaten as much as Tang and Shen."
"If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that when the ink men come back, our great event will come to an end. When the ink men come back, Han and Zhang thieves are expected to be Zhaoan into a powerful force."
"Their men and horses will also be properly placed. We have nothing to do."
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With Zhang Yiwen's words, many grain merchants were moved one after another. They were not afraid of war. They fought outside and watched the excitement in the city. Finally, they sat down with the gift of a fisherman. How beautiful?
It happened that there was almost no war outside. Even in the first war in Dayuan Township, there was no smell of Bingfeng. It was just a sneak attack by Han Jianzhou, and there were only a hundred deaths and injuries.
Wang Yao has a headache. Those two guys are so special and talented. How can they develop things like this?
After rubbing his temples, he said, "why don't we send troops to fight? Although there are a thousand Pro corps and thousands of auxiliary soldiers and civilian men over there, there is still no deterrent without guns and guns."
"As long as there are no guns, even if they are training, we can do it in one battle."
It is said that more than a dozen merchant ships in the Xiao family circle in the state of Lu can stage the roar of a hundred guns. Tang, Shen and Liu are also the younger brothers in the Xiao family circle.
It's not difficult for 10000 private soldiers to gather up 100 bronze guns and thousands of fire rope guns.
This is the gap and confidence!
He is a top family such as the Xiao family, and still has no confidence to express any views on the three counties.
They gathered thousands of people, dozens of artillery, cattle and horses pulling carts, a thousand firemen and a thousand cavalry. It's not difficult to defeat two thieves, Han and Zhang.
Just collapse. After collapse, tens of thousands of young people are all anti thief names, and their families are naturally anti thieves. These more than 10000 families are enough for them to eat fat intestines.
As soon as these words came out, many people were moved. Before they could make a statement, they thought of an urgent knock on the door. Wang Yao said a sound and found that it was the housekeeper of the palace who came in? All the grain merchants turned pale.
"Master, something big happened. In Yongye Town, angung County, hundreds of town soldiers contacted Han thieves in private, cooperated inside and outside, and laid down Yongye town at once. The matter of Dayuan township was staged in Yongye town again."
Wang Yao was stunned, and other grain merchants were similar.
The housekeeper smiled bitterly, "it is estimated that their practice in Dayuan township has made the bottom villains look forward to the sweetness. They not only want to eat enough and spend the drought safely, but also want to restore their freedom and get rid of all usury."
Everyone is greedy. Even after Dayuan Township, the treatment of gentry and private soldiers in the two counties has been much higher than that in the normal drought period. Who doesn't want to catch the opportunity and get rid of it?
A few days ago, Han Jianzhou's team left Yongye town. The squire over there was relieved and relaxed a lot. How could it be that hundreds of people betrayed the team of more than 1000 people? Han Jianzhou still attacked at night. When he won Yongye town in World War I, only a thousand Pro Corps came out.