"Bad luck!"

On the way back to Qingyuan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Shao Tingda spit all the way, and kept babbling bad luck in his mouth.

The way to escort the people back to their hometowns was completely different from what these military households imagined, and the people didn't eat pot pulp to welcome the king, but avoided them.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Tao was on the same road with one hundred and ten Heyuan people by their side, there might not be any homeless people willing to let them escort them, but this had nothing to do with Shao Tingda's scolding and bad luck.

He felt that the reason for his bad luck was that he was in a hurry to travel at night, and at night the road was like a mass grave, and the coffins and broken mats of the corpses were laid out three miles away, leading him to scold and scold all the way.

When he set out on the expedition, more than 500 people went straight by boat, and on the return trip, counting Zhang Yongshou's subordinates, he was able to make up more than 300 people, and he hurried away with his head bored.

But Chen Mu's heart is hot.

Although he was unable to recruit soldiers as Bai Yuanjie said because he had no money to spare, when he said goodbye to Li Tao, the people of Heyuan who were rescued from the traitors gave them twenty ingots of silver to thank him for helping him recapture his bags.

Bai Yuanjie is much more than Chen Muguang, and he took ten ingots by himself in front of Zhang Yongshou.

As soon as Zhang Baihu stretched out his hand, Bai Deputy Qianhu pushed the wooden plate containing the remaining ten ingots of silver to Chen Mu, and slapped Zhang Baihu's hand back by the way, "It's none of your business, do you have a conscience to take this silver?" ”

The angry Zhang Baihu jumped straight, "It's none of your business!" ”

Bai Yuanjie rolled her eyes, "Chen Erlang is Bai's subordinate, what does it matter to you?" ”

These words choked Zhang Baihu, Zhang Yongshou looked at Chen Mu and looked at Bai Yuanjie's neck, and halfway through speaking, he turned his head and scolded the general flag behind him: "If you don't take it, you won't take it-what are you laughing at, look at people looking at you, it's all the general flag, and laugh!" ”

Zhang Yongshou was angry, and the general flag behind him was so frightened that his face turned white and he almost fell to the ground, who knew that Zhang Baihu scolded himself and laughed, waved his hand and said: "You two take it, Zhang can't look down on this little money." ”

"But you have to say it first, when Zhang Ye does Qingcheng Fu, don't care about everything, you have to have my share, otherwise, Zhang Ye won't give you an official job!"

Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu responded with a smile, this war is too big, their exploits are too much, Bai Yuanjie alone is not well connected, plus Zhang Yongshou is better, otherwise he can only let the court reward go.

After sending Zhang Yongshou away, Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu got together and asked in a low voice, "Oxen and carriage driving, all sold?" ”

Chen Mu nodded heavily, looked left and right, and then replied: "I asked Shiqi to sell it, and sold thirty-four ingots of silver along with those unclaimed silk cloths, satins, porcelain pots, calligraphy and paintings." ”

"It's sold well, those things are too conspicuous on the return trip, and the cattle and horses still cost forage, so I will buy some cattle and horses when I go back to Qingyuan."

Bai Yuanjie nodded, and said to Chen Mu: "You keep all the money, and when you become a deputy thousand, you have to go up and down, there are many places to spend money, don't tell others about this." ”

Chen Mu was surprised, and then the two of them pretended to be fine, and each led the troops on the road to return.

It's just that a few flag officers under Chen Mu couldn't help but reach into their arms along the way, and they didn't know what kind of illness they had and they had to keep scratching the itch!

Nothing to say all the way, back to Qingyuan.

It's nearly September, a battle has been fought for half a year, and when he goes home again, Shao Tingda's eldest son will call his father, and the stupid child will say this word, and everyone will call him father, which makes Shao Tingda, who has just returned home, angry enough.

The atmosphere in Qingcheng Qianhusuo is not good, or the atmosphere of the entire Qingyuanwei is very low, the funeral letter of the flag army that died in the battle has long been returned, the funeral should have been done, and the non-done ones have also cried, but no one complained about anything.

Shao Tingda said: "This is their life, and it is also our life, death is life, and life is life." ”

Each family selected Zhengding from Yu Ding to supplement the missing flag army position, and co-authored more than a dozen villagers who were willing to go to Qingyuan with Chen Mu.

This made Chen Junye achieve his wish, recruit all the villagers as family members, and then count Qi Zhengyan and Long Junxiong, the family is worth twenty, and temporarily live in the general banner yamen next to Anyuan Station.

They are the first batch of off-duty warriors under Chen Mu's subordinates, but what is the treatment of this 'off-the-job', Chen Mu has not yet drafted, and secretly thinks about how to cost-effective, which can not only maintain its combat power higher than that of his subordinates' guards, but also within the range that he can afford.

Chen Muzheng was planning the treatment of the family soldiers, as well as the plan to recruit five other supporting people, such as cooks, servants, and grooms, Qi Zhengyan stepped in and said in a low voice: "Master Chen, the flag officials are here." ”

The title made Chen Muleng pause for a moment, and then he realized that Qi Zhengyan was calling him, and he was surprised that his ability to accept the change in his identity was quite strong, and he nodded and said, "Invite them in." ”

As soon as the wooden door of the general flag yamen was closed, five small flag officials stepped forward to salute Chen Mu, and after the salute, only Xiao Hachiro sat on the stool without knowing the so-called two little short legs, and saw that the remaining four general flags were still standing, and hurriedly stood up.

Halfway through the stand, I saw Chen Mu smile and said, "Sit down, it's none of your business." ”

Shao Tingda carried a small cloth bag and threw it on the table.

Bang Dang!

"Brother Mu, when have I seen so much money, this silver makes me panic with it, and I'm afraid of losing it all the way!" Shao Tingda, who put down the cloth bag, was relieved, "You order, ten ingots of silver are not missing." ”

With Shao Tingda taking the lead, Fu Yuan, Shi Qi, and Lou Qimai also took out the silver ingots that they were carrying and stuffing on their bodies, and placed them on the table.

Although everyone looked at the silver with different expressions, without exception, none of them fled with the silver.

In Chen Mu's view, this is the most critical place.

Thirty-four ingots of silver, all of which are ten taels of ingots, counting the ten ingots that Chen Mu and Bai Yuanjie shared in person, it is a full four hundred and forty miles.

The harvest of this battle is far more than Chen Mu imagined, and now, the time has come to share the spoils.

Chen Mu got up, walked to the front of the case and discharged five silver ingots of ten taels, first threw one to Wei Balang, who was sitting aside, and then said to a few people: "Thanks to your combat life, the reward of the imperial court has not yet come, one person will go back to subsidize the family for ten taels, the debts owed should be repaid, and the parents who are alive should be honored and honored." ”

A silver ingot is not much, but a few small flags did not show a superfluous expression, this money is a windfall for them, what they are really looking forward to is the reward of the imperial court, now they just want to see how Chen Mu distributes this silver.

"Beishan, Xinjiang Town, the battle exploits are messed up." After that, Chen Mu discharged five more ingots and said: "The living have their own court rewards, and the fallen banner army, one or two per person, you will send it to the brothers and their families for Chen." ”

Fu Yuan was the first to reach out and take the silver, hold it in his hand, and then looked at Chen Mu hesitantly and asked, "General Banner, six people were killed under the lowly flag, and the remaining four taels?" ”

The most greedy for money among several flag officials is Fu Yuan, but the most sensible and discerning is also Fu Yuan, Chen Mu is waiting for someone to ask about this, because none of his banners are all killed.

He smiled: "If you have more, you should be rewarded by Chen, and keep the flowers yourself!" ”

In the blink of an eye, a hundred taels of silver were spilled, but Chen Mu was very happy, counted out four ingots and put them on the corner of the table against his side, and said to a few people: "These forty taels, I asked Li Juren to take the lead, and introduce a student who can't make a living if he doesn't get lifted. ”

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Note: Bundle is a gift from the student to the teacher. Ten taels or twenty taels are enough for the teacher's bundle, and thirty to one hundred taels for the scribe's bundle.

In addition to the restraints, the 'festival respect' that can be more or less during the New Year's holidays, the 'bride money' of one or two taels when entering the school, and the provision of meals are all sources of income for ancient teachers.