5 The spring of the vendors

(Today's chapter is presented, I have a cold, I have a runny nose, my head still hurts, I feel so uncomfortable, the efficiency of code words has been greatly reduced, and the weather has become cold recently. ）

Many people had a look of panic on their faces, because the big banner with the word 'Li' and the white dragon flag were too obvious.

The people around have obviously heard of Li Zixiao's White Snake Village during this time, and they know that the majestic team in front of them is actually a bandit, but why does it look more powerful and domineering than those court officials.

"Look, that white dragon banner, this must be the white dragon army of the White Snake Village!

These White Dragon Army are righteous bandits, they never attack us poor people, they fight those big families, and they also give porridge outside the mountains, and my mother-in-law even secretly takes her children to have two meals.

Hey, this winter has just passed, and there is not much grain stored at home, only the little seeds left, and they are not willing to eat, and they are about to spring ploughing, but how can they survive this time after spring ploughing! ”

"Who says it's not, the high price of grain in the grain store is scary to death now, those big men have raised the price of grain so high, how can we afford it!"

"I heard that thousands of officers and soldiers went to suppress the White Dragon Army some time ago, but not only did they not suppress the White Dragon Army.

On the contrary, he was beaten all over the ground by the White Dragon Army and fled, and even the township soldiers of the big men who went with him were arrested a lot! ”

"Looking at the white dragon army this time, it is obvious that there is going to be a big move, I don't know if it is going to those big Zhuangzi or to the county seat, in short, those big men are going to be in big trouble!"

A peddler also found the team led by Li Zixiao, so frightened that he hurriedly hid on the hillside, opened the grass and said to a few hawkers walking together, for fear that Li Zixiao would order someone to rob them.

However, there are also some bold small traders who are not afraid, and honestly stand on both sides of the road to make way for the team led by Li Zixiao.

And Li Zixiao glanced at these small traders and didn't say anything, but those small traders hurriedly bent down to salute Li Zixiao.

Most of these small traders who are not afraid of Li Zixiao are traders who have traded with Li Zixiao Cottage, and as the number of people in Li Zixiao Cottage increases, they need to eat, wear, and use daily necessities.

In addition to sending people out to buy some, Li Zixiao will often buy some from these small traders, the price is fair, and there will be no forced buying and selling, let alone forced robbery.

This is Li Zixiao's personal order, for these small traders, Li Zixiao is to encourage them to bring more goods that they are in urgent need of to trade with them.

These small traders are also ordinary people living at the bottom, doing some small business, subsidizing their families, and letting Li Zixiao rob these small traders, he is too lazy to do this kind of thing without the slightest benefit, and he wants to rob those big caravans!

Not to mention that these small traders don't have much oil and water on them, and they are not worth Li Zixiao's deal, which will ruin his reputation, but it is better to encourage trading with these small traders.

These small traders who travel from south to north can not only bring Li Zixiao a lot of urgently needed goods, but also bring him a lot of news from the outside world.

Before Li Zixiao established a trading route with those big merchants, he knew that he could count on these small traders to bring him much-needed goods.

And as the news that Li Zixiao is willing to trade with these small traders gradually spreads, many small traders are now bringing goods to the mountain pass outside the White Snake Village to trade with the White Snake Village.

To this end, Li Zixiao also set up a trading point outside the mountain pass, and Qian Guangyuan sent two subordinates who could settle accounts, with some auxiliary soldiers, to be responsible for trading with the small traders who came there.

Cash on delivery, Tong Su is not deceived, of course, your price should also be fair, you can let these traders make some money, and you can't let White Snake Village act as a big wrongdoer.

As long as these businessmen have profits to make, they don't care whether Li Zixiao is a bandit or not.

After tasting the sweetness of trading with White Snake Village for the first time, those small traders would come a second and third time, and each time the goods they carried would increase a lot.

Many small traders have gone from carrying them on their shoulders when they first came to directly renting carts for transportation, and they will get a list of goods they need to purchase from the White Snake Village.

Then, according to the list, they went to the surrounding major cities to purchase the goods they could get according to their own purchase channels, and then pulled them to the White Snake Village for trading.

At this time, there were two big cars parked on the side of the road, and there were a lot of things on them, but they couldn't be seen when they were covered with canvas, and an old man in his fifties with two men stood on both sides of the road, and when Li Zixiao rode over, he respectfully saluted Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao knew this old man, it seemed that his surname was Ma, and he had spoken to him, and he was one of the first few traders to trade with White Snake Village last winter.

He has been trading with the White Snake Village several times in the winter, and it seems that he has made a lot of money, and now he has also changed his shotgun, and he no longer carries his flat burden, but has replaced it with two donkey carts.

In this way, he pulls more goods every time he comes, and of course he earns more, and he also recruits two guys, and now the old horse head suddenly feels that his life is rushing.

With the money he earned from trading with White Snake Village, he improved the situation at home, and the family of seven or eight people finally survived the cold winter last year.

Every time he watched his granddaughter eat half of the mixed bread, eat to her heart's content, and look happy, the old horse head was especially grateful to Li Zixiao.

"Hey, old horse head, here you go again, shouting, and changing shotguns, this time there are two big carts, okay, what good things will you bring us this time!"

During the march, Zhou Dazhu walked on the outside of the team, responsible for supervising the marching troops, he also knew this old horse head, and took the initiative to greet him when he walked to the side.

"Ha, it's General Zhou, this time Xiao Lao'er brought a lot of good wine to the heroes and heroes of the cottage, and when the big marshal takes you back triumphantly this time, you can celebrate with Xiao Lao'er's good wine."

The old horse's wrinkled old face was like tree bark, and he smiled like a chrysanthemum at this time, and said to Zhou Dazhu.

"Haha, okay, old horse, we'll wait to come back and drink your good wine." Zhou Dazhu laughed and left, following his team.

After Li Zixiao's army passed, the few small traders who hid on the hillside came down with their goods.

"Uncle, this White Dragon Army is really like you said, it won't attack us, I'm so big, it's the first time I've seen such bandits, are they really bandits?"

A young man carrying a load of goods came down from the hillside, walked up to the old horse's head, looked at the direction of Li Zixiao's team leaving, and said in disbelief.

"You stinky boy, look at your appearance, I have already told you that the soldiers under Li Dashuai are different from those vicious bandits in the past, they are righteous bandits."

, The old horse head kicked the young man fiercely, and said angrily.

This young man is also the nephew of the old horse head, and this time he also followed him to trade with the White Snake Village with the goods, and it was the first time he came, so he was inevitably a little cautious.

After all, these traders are fed up with those bandits robbing the road halfway, not all bandits want Li Zixiao to be like this, most of the bandits are all extremely vicious, robbing homes and houses, and slaughtering people often happens.

These small traders will also encounter bandits, and those who are lucky will only be robbed of their goods, and those who are unlucky will not be able to save their lives when they encounter those vicious bandits.

Therefore, businessmen in troubled times are actually making money with their lives, but the benefits are moving, and the transaction with White Snake Village is very profitable, and doing it once is enough to make their family's life nourishing.

Therefore, old traders like Lao Matou are willing to risk being wanted by the government and robbed by bandits halfway to trade with Li Zixiao's White Snake Village, because they have a family in their family that needs them to feed.

"Uncle, these bandits from the White Snake Village are going to fight that big family?"

This young man is not stupid, when he saw such a big movement of the White Dragon Army, according to the rumors he heard, these White Dragon Army bandits only beat those big landlords, and this time they must also go to those big old men.

"Looking at the road and direction that Li Dashuai took people this time, it is estimated that he went to Zhouzhuang, which is more than ten miles away, and that Zhou Laocai is not a good thing.

The year before last, the uncle once sold goods to Zhouzhuang and wanted to sell some needlework items, but was intercepted by the townsmen of Zhouzhuang.

They threatened the uncle with a knife, and they took away more than 30 yuan from the uncle, which caused the uncle's trip to be in vain, and also hurt our family's little Yuanyuan who didn't eat enough for several days.

Now that retribution is coming, with Li Dashuai and the righteous bandits and heroes of White Snake Village going over, this time I still see if they are still arrogant or not, hum! ”

The old horse head recalled the previous oppression by Zhou Zhuang, and now said with a little schadenfreude.

In fact, there are many small traders like Lao Matou who have become rich because of their trade with the White Snake Village.

It is the goods mentioned by these small traders that allow Li Zixiao's cottage to survive the materials, and this midwinter in the shortest term is also the initial stage of the development of the cottage.

However, with Li Zixiao's defeat of the first encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, a lot of materials were extorted from those big households, making them temporarily rich.

However, Li Zixiao was not happy for long, in the past half a month since he repelled the officers and soldiers, he has expanded his power on a large scale, and he has recruited nearly 1,000 homeless recruits alone.

With the addition of this multi-mouthed, the cottage soldiers trained hard every day, and the amount of food was very large, so that the materials that they had just become rich in the cottage were consumed at a rate visible to the naked eye, and it was estimated that they would not last long.

What's more, Li Zixiao has no intention of stopping to expand his power at all, so he will need more resources to support him to expand his power in the future.

In addition to targeting those big households, Li Zixiao has also been secretly exploring trade routes.

Among them, he has secretly sent someone to contact Uncle Zhou, hoping to use Uncle Zhou's energy to establish a material procurement channel from Jinling.

However, Li Zixiao didn't want to alarm the Li family in Jinling.

Li Zixiao inherited this body's resentment towards the Li family, and did not have much affection for the Li family, did not want to be implicated in the Li family, and disdained to use the Li family's caravan to purchase materials for himself.

But as the Li family's housekeeper, Zhou Bozai has worked hard for the Li family to experience business for half his life, and the officials, businessmen and channels he knows are very rich in business resources.

If Uncle Zhou wants to help Li Zixiao establish a trade route to and from Jinling without alarming the Li family, it is actually not difficult, but it is not simple, and now Li Zixiao has been waiting for news from Uncle Zhou.

You must know that Li Zixiao has accumulated a lot of wealth in his hands through this winter's expedition, tens of thousands of taels of silver, more than 1,000 taels of gold, and a lot of silverware, jade, calligraphy and painting, which are also worth a lot of money.

Coupled with Li Zixiao's next action to sweep up those big families in Zhuangbao, he will inevitably get more property, Li Zixiao has no intention of being a miser, and he has kept these gold and silver in his hands.

In Li Zixiao's view, these yellow and white things are all things outside the body, especially in this troubled world, with so many yellow and white things around you, everyone will think about you, and even kill you.

He wants to use these things outside his body in exchange for more weapons, sophisticated armor, artillery, etc., recruit more homeless people, expand his power, hold his own territory, and crush the revenge of the next officers and soldiers.

No, Li Zixiao has already begun to follow his own plan step by step, and the first step of the Long March is to exterminate all the big households in Yongcheng County and prepare for today's spring ploughing.

Only by exterminating these big families can Li Zixiao have land to distribute to those people and displaced people.

In order to obtain a large amount of grain, seeds, and cattle from the families of those landlords and old wealthy, he can help the people in Yongcheng County successfully complete this year's spring ploughing.

These seeds planted in the spring today will be full of grain in the autumn, and they are also the source of food for their cottage in the future, so Li Zixiao can't help but care.

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The speed of the White Dragon Army's march was not comparable to that of the officers and soldiers and the villagers.

Under the strict discipline of the White Dragon Army, they marched very quickly, and after one morning, they walked nearly forty miles, catching up with those officers and soldiers and village warriors who had walked for a day or two.

The team of more than 1,000 people led by Li Zixiao, plus artillery trucks and axle trucks, pulled out a long queue of three or four miles on the main road, which was magnificent, at least much stronger than the officers and soldiers like Liu Jinbao before.

"The herald obeyed the order, everyone stopped advancing, rested on the spot, and ordered the man to bury the pot on the spot to cook, and leave when he was full!"

As soon as Li Zixiao gave an order, the White Dragon Army immediately stopped advancing, and a cavalry herald beside Li Zixiao immediately ran back and forth with a loud shout.

After the officers heard the order, they immediately issued an order, ordering all the soldiers of the White Dragon Army to disperse on both sides of the road and start to rest.

Soon the men set up iron pots on the spot, raised the fire to cook, and the smoke of the cooking stove rose, and the smell of rice soon wafted out.

The soldiers of the cottage who were marching in a hurry were also hungry at this time, but they still sat in an orderly position, and they would not act on their own until they heard the order.

Such a large-scale march is a big test for Li Zixiao and every soldier under the White Dragon Army, which is no more than a dozen people and a hundred or ten people acting in action, this is a large-scale operation of more than a thousand people.

Before, Li Zixiao had never brought so many men and horses to the expedition, in addition to the men and horses, they also had to carry a lot of supplies, which also tested Li Zixiao's ability to control the White Dragon Army.