New Empire at the End of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 40



Liu Ning scolded so much that he pointed a knife at Zhou Wentong and asked, "is my shot worth 3000 liang?"

Zhou Wentong said, "it\'s worth it! It\'s worth it! King, your shot is worth at least 3000 Liang."

Liu Ning was very proud. He directly put the knife on the fat man\'s head again and said, "what do you say?"

The fat man had to admit his bad luck and said, "I pledge! I pledge“

Liu Ning was very rampant, waving a knife and asked, "who else?"

After Liu Ning made such a move, he took the fat man as a model to catch and fight, and fined him heavily. Even if other people were unwilling, they finally pledged. In this way, 150000 liang of silver was raised, and the insufficient part was offset with silk, brocade and cloth. "

As for 50000 stone grain, he just said for a moment. They can\'t transport more than 100000 kilograms of grain, and it\'s easy for the other party to find it. Therefore, it doesn\'t matter if 50000 stone grain can\'t be raised, but only 20000 stone.

Liu Ning ordered them to provide an additional 20000 liang of silver, which became 170000. They only took the silver, but they didn\'t take the grain away. After the grain was collected, they packed it in sacks and threw it directly into the street and at the door of each household.

This is called robbing the rich to help the poor.

Twenty thousand tons of grain is nearly three hundred thousand kilograms (one kilogram sixteen Liang) , there are only a few hundred of them. How can they be transported away? Even if they are transported away, it will take several days and nights. When the other party finds out, the officers and soldiers will be in trouble if they find them. Therefore, they are called raising grain. They are really trying to hide people\'s eyes and ears. They throw all the grain to the people in the city, and then pat their ass and leave.

After these rich businessmen and gentry made pledges, they began to order their families to send money, grain and property to the county government.

Liu Ning collected horses and donkeys from the whole city and began to load the gold, silver and jewelry.

They loaded more than a dozen carts with more than 100000 silver belongings.

Jimo is a big city after all. There are many rich families in the city. Since they pledged, they quickly raised the money and sent it to the county government. After receiving the money, they began to put the hostages back.

Liu Zhongyong has been secretly presiding over his affairs. He asked Liu Ning to work on the surface. He just presided over everything in the dark. He was very happy to see that Liu Ning did a good job, and he was very happy to see that they got so much money and food so easily.

And he also understood that although Zhou Wentong was very strong, his relationship with local forces was completely broken after this incident.

In the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to gain a foothold in the local area. His relationship with the local people has been completely screwed up, and his most important thing now is to think about how to wipe his ass. don\'t let the court know that his county has been broken down and looted by robbers. If these are spread, he will not be an official, and he will be beheaded by the court.

So after Liu Zhongyong knows about it, Zhou Wentong will be very busy. It is estimated that he will have little time and resources to find the trouble of the Liu family.

Liu Bu\'s seemingly risky move has now achieved great success. Not only has he made a lot of money, he can recruit more troops and equip better things, but also they have severely cut off their potential enemies, making Zhou Wentong unable to find them trouble again.

To their great joy, when they searched the city, they saw that there were more than 3000 sets of mandarin duck battle jackets and more than 300 sets of Mingguang armour in the county government\'s inventory, which were ready to be sent to Dengzhou and transported to Liao town. As a result, they were cheaper. Liu Zhongyong impolitely ordered the soldiers to move these things back. In the future, everyone had more sets of battle armour to replace.

In this era of cold weapon warfare, wearing armor means a layer of life support, and whether the army has armor or not is one of the standards to measure the quality of the army.

They sent out for this vote, which can be said to be a complete victory, but Liu Zhongyong was not careless. They still maintained great vigilance. Their reconnaissance cavalry was sent thirty miles away to prevent the imperial court from receiving information and sending troops to attack them.

However, this is completely worrying. It is not a big thing that Jimo has been blocked for a day and a half. No news has been received outside. After they got money and food by quickly blackmailing these rich businessmen and gentry, they collected a large number of armor and weapons and left.

They had a few hundred soldiers, but after they attacked the county, took the county government and took control of Jimo City, Liu Bu personally led the remaining hundreds of soldiers to rush over, accompanied by dozens of carts responsible for transporting money, grain and armor.

With these things, their strength can be raised to a higher level. For example, before, they have been choosing from left to right, controlling the number of servants within 800, and dare not exceed 1000. Now they have such a large sum of money, armor and weapons, it is not a problem to recruit 1000 more people.

Liu Bu is very happy to see that he has made so much money. As long as they successfully transport these things back to Fushan Tibetan army Valley, they can recruit more soldiers and they can have a foothold in Shandong.

Liu Ning and Zhou Wentong continued to control them while arranging the transportation of these goods to prevent them from escaping and asking for help outside.

But it\'s superfluous. These people don\'t have the courage to escape. The robbers have cavalry. Even if they escape, they can\'t escape the pursuit of the giant peak thief cavalry. How can two feet run over a four legged horse? Besides, there are no soldiers in other places nearby except Aoshan guard, but where are the garbage soldiers in the guard station the opponents of these giant peak thieves, So he didn\'t even think about going out and looking for help. He just wanted to send away these plague gods, and then calmly clean up the mess for himself, so that he could live day by day.

While controlling the city, Liu Ning secretly transported some materials outside. After they transported the materials outside the city, Liu Bu picked them up outside and transported them back to Fushan.

Of course, they are so suspicious that they seem to run in the direction of Laoshan, but in fact, they just turn back to Fushan.

They raised enough money and food in one day and took another day to transport these things. After almost handling them, Liu Ning quickly withdrew from Jimo City, no longer controlled the city and disappeared secretly at night.

Zhou Wentong almost died of anger. Why do you say so? Originally, he was full of good cards, the order of a county and guarding the shepherd. What a prestige, but now he is so robbed by others, and he is afraid of death. He even cooperates with robbers to ask everyone to raise money. Once this matter is spread, he will be dead. So now Zhou Wentong\'s biggest headache is not to chase and kill giant thieves, nor to find trouble with the Liu family, It\'s how to clean up the shit here. There are a lot of gentry here. People have something to do here. If they report to Beijing, he will be dead.

Zhou Wentong was originally a student supervisor. He finally donated such an official for a year or two. If he was allowed to return to his previous life, he would rather die than do anything. In order to ensure his current life, he was willing to do anything, but it was a robbery. The people and gentry in the city complained about him.

Since Zhou Wentong became an official here, he has no political achievements to speak of. He has always been concerned about making money, taking bribes and bending the law, and doing all kinds of evil. As long as he can get money, he does it. Moreover, he has a plan, gets a lot of money, then donates a magistrate, and then continues to make money in the south.

Now that he\'s involved in this business, his relationship with the local people has completely deteriorated. If the other party goes to Beijing and pulls him in, he\'ll be dead.

Liu Bu realized that the other party might fall into this dilemma, so he dared to attack a county directly.

If the robbers looted the county, it must be an uproar in the world, but Liu Bu won\'t announce it himself. He will wait for Zhou Wentong to announce it himself. Zhou Wentong himself can\'t announce such a thing, because once it is announced, it will be difficult for him to get rid of the crime of collusion with the bandits.

He was charged with this crime. No one could protect him. There was no other way but to take it out and behead it to calm the people\'s anger.

So he knew that Zhou Wentong would try his best to suppress the matter, pretend that there was nothing wrong, and tell others that there was no such thing as the giant peak thief. Of course, if he could not suppress it, it was none of his Liu Bu\'s business whether he could control the situation or not, and Liu Bu would not care about him.

Liu Bu was very concerned that they successfully got back 170000 pieces of silver and several large vehicles of equipment, especially this kind of armor and bright light armor, which can not be bought with money. With this batch of armor, they can make their army equipment go up to another level. It is just because they get back this batch of things, It\'s not a big problem to double the recruitment of their servants.

After extremely strict training, Liu Jiading had high quality, vigorous skills and came and went like the wind. After getting the money, they retreated quickly, ran out all the way, quickly walked out of dozens of miles away, returned to Fushan without saying a word, and returned to Tibetan Valley with a low profile.

When they counted their hands, they found that the battle was perfect. Except for more than a dozen soldiers who were injured, none died. It can be said to be a complete victory.

When Liu Fuqi saw them get back so many gold, silver, treasures and armor, he couldn\'t close his mouth. Getting back so much money was a huge victory. The greater victory was their local opponent Zhou Wentong, who let them peel off a layer of skin, seriously injured their vitality, and became a dead dog. He couldn\'t embarrass them any more.

What good things in the world are comparable to those that both strengthen themselves and attack the enemy?