Not to mention that once the soldiers are trained, a large amount of weapons will be consumed, and it is best to have a lot of oil and salt at every meal, so that the soldiers can have the strength and can really practice the effect. Moreover, the daily consumption of the current blacksmith workshop is not a small amount.

In the end, everywhere you have to use money and eat food. And the money in Dong Ce's hand has almost been used, what will happen after it is used up?

He can use the family's money to subsidize it, but the problem is that it is not easy to save the family business! Mother and Red Sleeves also have to eat and wear, and Dong Ce tries to give them the best, how can he be short of money? Besides, even if you smash your own family foundation into it, how many days is enough?

And Dong Ce also knows very well that it will not be easy to ask for it from Liu Ruozai again. Speaking of conscience, it is not easy for Lord Liu, as a civil official and a noble civil servant from Hanlin to do this.

People must not get an inch into the foot, and they must look forward to Shu. In vain, it annoys people.

Dong Ce's heart is crossed, so he has to grab it!

Now that the direction has been set, the next step is to find the target - who to rob?

In the land of northern Shanxi, this target is easy to find.

The military households are poor like beggars, and the farmers are poor like military households, continuous natural disasters, the toss of the imperial court in the past few years, so that the entire land of Sanjin is almost a devastation.

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But there is a kind of person who is rich! Not only rich, but very rich, very rich, the kind that is so rich!

That's the gentry.

The gentry of the Ming Dynasty were often local clans with hundreds of years of inheritance, basically from the beginning of the founding of the country, they had considerable power, and after hundreds of years of inheritance, they had completely become local clans, and they had a huge amount of land and wealth in their hands. Moreover, the landlords of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of other dynasties, saying that they were landlords, in fact, they did not completely count on the land to live.

The Ming Dynasty can almost be said to be the worst dynasty in the feudal dynasties for the construction of grassroots political power, during the Qin and Han dynasties, there were still pavilion chiefs and other settings in the countryside, and in the Ming Dynasty, the county level was already the lowest level. Further down the county, it is already in a state of anarchy.

The Ming Dynasty has Jinyiwei, there is the East Factory, the West Factory, and the Zhengde period also set up a period of time in the inner factory, it seems that the spies are everywhere, the Ti ride is not as good as the dog, the world's major events can be known no matter how big or small the emperor is, in fact, this is completely nonsense, it is all like goods, scaring people.

The weakness of control over the grassroots level has greatly weakened the government's ability to mobilize - even less than one-third of that of the Two Song Dynasty, and if it could reach the level of the Two Song Dynasty, there would be no problem with the Jiannu and the rebel army. At the same time, due to the weak control of the people, the commerce of the Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous, the circulation of private capital was very fast, and its economic development level was very high.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was a common phenomenon that land was the fundamental and most basic guarantee for the gentry and landlords, and the opening of shops and commerce was the main source. For example, the two capitals in the north and south, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Guangzhou, which are the most economically prosperous, and even the prosperous cities on the banks of the Grand Canal like Linqing, most of the shops in them belong to this part of the people.

Looking at the world, there are no exceptions, even this Jinbei is inevitable.

Because they have a natural advantage in doing business -- they have capital, they have access to roads, they have fame and fame but they don't have to pay taxes or only pay very little taxes, and at the same time they have a status in the local area.

In the whole world, the business can be made big, all of which are people who are hard enough in the background and have a good enough relationship with the government.

Over the centuries, its wealth has reached an astonishing level.

Most of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was concentrated in their hands.

Even in a remote and impoverished place like northern Shanxi, these gentry and landlords are all fat and oily. For example, the eight imperial merchants, which one does not have a net worth of more than hundreds of thousands of silver?

is like the Su family, which is only a small family in the countryside compared to the wealthy family, and it has been passed down for several generations, and it can't be beaten without tens of thousands of taels in the family.

This is simply a sea of gold and silver, and Dong Ce, who has seen it for a long time, is very greedy.

But he's not crazy yet. These gentry families, it is absolutely impossible to rob openly. The relationship behind each of them is huge and complex, and any one of them can pull out a bunch of officials behind him, to put it bluntly, they are the foundation of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty. And those high-ranking officials and central courts are just the outstanding ones produced among them.

This is one.

If Dong Ce dares to touch them, it will be against all the officials in the whole world, and it will become the same as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong!

Dong Ce worked hard to climb to this position, but it was not to attract the army of the imperial court to exterminate him. Others don't say it, now Liu Ruozai said a word, even if the tens of thousands of troops in Hebei Province are flooded with a sea of people, it is enough to completely crush his small force into powder!

Then I have to come to the yin.

If the bandits robbed you, and I robbed the bandits again, it shouldn't be nothing, right? This is a righteous and bright seizure of stolen goods!

As for you coming to me afterwards and saying that this is your thing, sorry, I don't care about this, I just know that I seized it! If you want to recover the stolen goods, go find those bandits! With Dong Ce's methods, there are countless ways to block those bitter masters from speaking.

Dong Ce has been waiting here for a long time, and now, it is time to reap the fruits of victory.

"When you fight later, the three of you, each with your own team, don't leave without permission, show a bloody bravery, and rush to kill alone! You know, you are also an officer now, and you have to learn to lead your subordinates and bring out the combat effectiveness of everyone, understand? ”

When Dong Ce said this, he deliberately stared at Yelu Lihe.

"Got it!" The three of them should be, and Yelu Lihe also responded with a stupid sound, obviously with some itchy hands.

Dong Ce was still not at ease, and warned: "If you dare to disobey the official's order this time, the official will learn from the practice of Jiannu, and let you take the death row camp with you, and charge forward every time you fight, until you die!" ”

Yelu Lihe knew that Dong Ce was not joking, so he quickly straightened up and said with a straight face: "Subordinates obey orders!" ”

Dong Ce nodded, and then said to Shi Jin and Zhou Zhong on the side: "Later, the two of you will follow the official and watch it." By the way, I will do the matter of supervising the war. This is the first time we have pulled people out to fight, and there must be many shortcomings in them, and we should summarize them one by one. You also have to think about it more and look at it more, once you have any ideas, just stare at Bai Zhongqi and write it down. ”

"Yes!" The two knew that this was something that Dong Ce could cultivate, and they should all be.

At this time, it was five miles away from the ambush site of Dong Ce and others.

Dong Zhongxian rode on the horse, trotting forward, the horse speed was not fast, firstly, there was no need for this, and secondly, Dong Zhongxian knew that there would be no vicious battle later, but the horsepower had to be cherished.

He was a sentry sent by Dong Ce.

Although there are Liu Facheng and Qiu Ping, two traitors hidden in the upper echelons of Liuling Mountain, and they also know that the place they ambush is really the only way for the bandits to return from Liuling Mountain, Dong Ce has always been thoughtful and will never have any omissions, so he still sent out a sentry.

There are three ways to explore the outposts, namely the west, the north, and the east, and as for the south, they are not sent because they need to cross the river. It was a cold day, and the bandits were carrying a lot of grain and baggage, as well as a lot of large livestock, and they would definitely not cross the river.

Sending these three outposts actually covers a very large area, so that if there is any mistake and Qiu Ping and the others have no time to communicate, they can still rely on their mobility to catch up.

The three-way outposts sent out are all skilled in equestrianism and clever people, and in each way, there is an experienced old horse thief who is born. It can be regarded as one belt and one belt, and the road to the west is Dong Zhongxian and Dong Yiying.

Dong Zhongxian is in front, Dong Yiying is behind, the two of them are about fifty steps away from each other, and they are quite far away, in case the person in front is suddenly attacked, and the one behind will have time to run out.

There was a dirt slope in front, the slope was very gentle, and you could go up directly by riding a horse, but Dong Zhongxian slowed down.

He went up slowly, but suddenly his body stiffened, and he was quickly lowered by his body on the horse, and waved his hand backwards. Seeing this, Dong Yiying's heart sank, knowing that there was a situation ahead. His heart was suddenly excited, and his palms were sweating nervously, but at the same time, he was very excited.

It's the first time in my life!

Dong Zhongxian pulled the reins of the horse with one hand, slowly beat the horse, his legs between the horse's belly, the horse took two steps forward, and when he was about to reach the top of the slope, the horse's legs in front of him slowly bent, and the whole horse body was lying on the ground. And Dong Zhongxian didn't get off the horse at all during the whole process, and he was also sitting on the back of the horse at this time, just stretching his neck to look into the distance.

Dong Yiying looked envious, but he didn't have this kind of riding skills, he hit the horse to the front, he honestly turned over and dismounted, pulled the horse, bent over to the dirt slope and crawled over, half kneeling beside Dong Zhongxian.

Looking over the dirt slope, I saw a group of black-pressed men and horses advancing towards this side, and the distance was not very far.

The group was very large, with tall carts stacked with supplies, bandits on horses or mules or donkeys, and more on foot. They were very confused, there was no formation, there was no chance, and from this distance, Wuzi could hear the noise, scolding, and even screaming and crying coming from there.

When Dong Yiying saw this team of people, four words immediately surged in his heart: "Rabble!" "Is this the opponent we're going to face?" A touch of disdain flashed in Dong Yiying's eyes, and the confidence that had disappeared briefly just now immediately returned to his body.

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