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Late autumn.

Night.

Luo Cheng walked on the city wall of Zhangqiu County, which had only been built for thirty years, but the city wall was already very dilapidated. The dust was so dusty that you couldn't even see the color of the rammed earth.

The two-zhang high city wall is not very high.

Moreover, the city wall is very thin, there is no urn city and no corner tower, not even the sheep and horse wall in front of the city wall, only a dry trench, and because it has not been dredged for a long time, there are many sections of silting shallow and narrow.

There is also a section of the city wall that has several collapsed openings, but it is blocked with stones and wooden blocks, and then a bamboo fence is made to block it.

It is said that this collapsed place was rampant with soldiers and thieves in the early years when the world was not unified, and it was destroyed by soldiers and thieves. Speaking of which, Zhangqiu County is located at the foot of Changbai Mountain, so when there is chaos, the deep mountains are the source of turmoil, and when the chaos arises, Zhangqiu County will bear the brunt.

On the city wall, the county soldiers and township soldiers took over the shift, standing in twos and threes on duty at night.

Although the responsibility of guarding the county town belonged to Governor Jia Runpu and his county soldiers, Luo Cheng was still not very worried about them. There are 500 people in the county and county corps, but these people are really not as good as his 200 township soldiers.

In the final analysis, these county soldiers are actually just a group of people temporarily transferred from the countryside, and their being county soldiers is a kind of errand service. Everyone took turns to serve for a month, with neither wages nor wages, and even the rations for the month that came to the rotation had to be brought from home to the regiment, and then they ate a big pot of rice.

The personnel are also uneven, there are old men with gray heads, and there are fourteen or fifteen-year-old boys, even if there are a few young and strong, they are all relatively thin, and there are few who really know how to fight.

Not even a few times for training, let alone weapons and equipment.

Such a group of people does not have much hope for them.

It's not that Lao Jia doesn't want to give preferential treatment to his own group of people, but there is no food on the five hundred people, and Lao Jia has to raise it himself, but the county can't come up with much money to supply, so in the end, although this group of people and horses was levied, it was really just a show.

I practiced every day, and then I mixed up my days, and waited for the end of the month to go home.

"These people can't do it."

After only patrolling a section of the city wall, Luo Cheng couldn't help but shake his head at the fourth child, "Look at them, they don't stand, they don't sit, they are on duty to keep vigil, but they are squatting and chatting together, and there are sleeping and snoring, what is the use of this?" ”

The fourth child said, "Actually, we can't blame them for this, our township brothers have three meals a day, enough porridge in the morning and evening, and two steamed cakes, and pickles are also sufficient, while they only have two meals a day, and one meal is porridge, and there are no steamed cakes at all." Even some pickles were brought by their respective families, and there was no salt. ”

"During the day, I will practice in the morning, I will dig a trench in the morning, I will repair the city wall in the afternoon, and in the evening, I will have to watch the night. People are not beaten with iron, where can they eat. ”

The fourth brother leaned over and said, "In the past few days, many brothers from the county soldiers have come to me and asked me if they want to join our township regiment." They all say that we are well treated, at least we have enough to eat. Moreover, our township regiment also has the errand of the yamen, as well as food. They are all hard-working, they are not afraid of expending effort, training is tired, and they are afraid that the strength under the light is not beneficial. ”

Luo Cheng was also a little helpless.

"The situation of our township regiment is a little special, we are also working on the third shift of the yamen, otherwise we will not have food. Besides, we also relied on our own money for the yamen's errands. This time, we worked hard to clean up the old third class of officials and get a lot of money, although most of it had to be handed over to the public, but there was money in the treasury, and we could only get some of it, otherwise, we would be like Lao Jia, and we wouldn't be able to change the money. ”

"In addition, there are many gangsters in the county, who have strength and are young, and they also want to join us."

There is no shortage of this kind of person, all kinds of backgrounds, but these people are lazy and disobedient to discipline, and Luo Cheng is unwilling to ask for such a person. Most of his current 200 township regiment boys are peasant children, and they are more honest and responsible, giving everyone a full meal, and then providing a piece of money and food, and everyone happily follows him.

He shook his head and said, "It's getting colder and colder, and it's especially hard to be on duty at night. The cow that was killed, the skeleton of the cow is still there, I just ordered to make some bone stew, although there is not much meat on the bones, but stew for more time, the bone broth is the thickest and most fragrant, sprinkle a little salt and put some green onions, drink a little when you are on duty, you can be a lot more energetic. ”

"That's good, it's a bit cold this night, so drink some hot soup to warm up." The fourth child rubbed his hands and smiled, "Xiao Wu, I heard that those butchers were very profitable to do this cattle and meat business before, but now we have arrested people, and no one has done this stall business, and the big families who want to eat beef in Zhangqiu and nearby counties have a headache." ”

Luo Cheng turned his head to look at the fourth child, "What do you think?" ”

"I mean, this kind of thing is actually on the table, and everyone knows it. Now that a gang has been arrested, a gang will definitely emerge again after a while, this is a profitable business, and it will not be broken. Instead of cheapening others, let's do it ourselves. I've calculated, this business is actually really good, we can also make it bigger, and then supply this county to nine counties, it is estimated that it is not enough to kill a cow a day, make it bigger, and there will definitely be 100 yuan a month. ”

"Don't even think about it." Luo Cheng shook his head.

"Why?" Luo Si was dissatisfied, "If you don't want to do it, I'll do it myself." ”

"You dare!"

Luo Cheng glared at the fourth child, "If you want to do something serious, don't always want to crooked the door, we just came now, and I don't know how many pairs of eyes are secretly staring at us, are you trying to hand a knife to others?" ”

"Okay, I'll have someone send beef bone soup later, you patrol a few more times, this guard still has to rely on our own brothers in the township regiment, and the county soldiers are unreliable."

"On this cold and frosty day, is it possible that there are really bandits who don't open their eyes and dare to come?"

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what happens, be careful to sail the ship for 10,000 years, if there is a loss, I only ask you, don't blame me for not talking about brotherhood."

"Don't worry, I'm here, come one to kill one, come two and I'll cut a pair." The fourth patted his chest and said.

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At night, in a private house in the south of the city.

In the closed room, only a dim oil lamp was lit.

"How? I'm right, this Zhangqiu City is full of loopholes, but now the surnamed Luo is pursuing the deficit everywhere and forcing people to fill it, and now the treasury is full of money and grain. ”

Another person said, "The county town is strictly inspected during the day, and there are people on duty at night, so I'm afraid it's not easy to do it." ”

"What's not easy, the defenders of the city are all freshly recruited mud legs, and they can't eat enough every day, what's the use. Just do it, and we'll do it for you. ”

"Hit the county seat, the money, grain, cloth and silk in this warehouse are available to you, I don't want anything, I only have one request, kill Zhang Yichen's dog official, and Luo Cheng's dog leg!"