Chapter 039: Robbing money is good for recruitment
Some people are born to be different. Some things are not reasonable in themselves.
Liu Xing is an alternative person in this time and space, and he has been an alternative person since he was a child. But the biggest reason why Liu Xing has become an alternative in this era is actually those unreasonable things.
It is precisely because of Liu Xing's otherness that no one would have thought that a disciple of a family and a student of a famous academy in the Great Song Dynasty would lead troops to raid the home of the five wealthy merchants in Taiyuan City, headed by Yao Ci's family, at such a moment.
After ordering all the people of the Yao family and the families of the other four wealthy merchants who were escorted to the door of the Yao family by their subordinates one after another, they were all tied into a large string with ropes, and Liu Xing inquired about the other four people, and felt that this era was unfair.
The unreasonable reason is that the total number of gold and silver ingots seized from the five wealthy merchants is actually three times more than the gold and silver that Liu Xing learned about in the hands of Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu in the Taiyuan Mansion, Shuai Si and the Governor's Mansion. It can be said that these gold and silver are enough to prove that the five wealthy merchants have already rivaled the city.
No wonder they would be so arrogant and could make Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu so jealous of the Yao family. With such strong financial resources, in today's era when most men in the Great Song Dynasty only go to the battlefield for money, they can gather a force of far more soldiers and horses than Zhang and Wang at any time.
If there are soldiers, there are grass kings, and if there is money, there are soldiers, of course Liu Xing understands this truth.
After listening to the summary report of several of his brothers, Liu Xing smiled indifferently and said viciously: "Zhang Xuanzhi and General Manager Wang don't have the courage to compare with the Yao family, and the master is not afraid of him." Go, let my brother burn the Yao family for me. ”
"Yes!"
Seeing with their own eyes that there were at least more than 200 dozen chests loaded with gold and silver on more than 40 carriages, the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion had a strange light in their eyes, and they admired Liu Xing's courage to the extreme at this time.
So as soon as Liu Xing's order came out, everyone took action. Just a moment later, a raging fire broke out in Yao Ci's house with a large garden in the front four and back three.
When the fire ignited, Liu walked in front of more than 700 private soldiers from the five wealthy merchants who had been caught. After glancing at them, he said in a loud voice: "Among you, are there any who are willing to follow the master out of the city together?" ”
The privates looked at each other in terror, but no one dared to answer.
"If you are willing to go out of the city with me and attack the golden dog, I promise to treat you as brothers from now on. Master, I want to leave this lonely city with the brothers of the Xuanfeng Battalion, and if I am willing to go together, I will stand up and go to Zhang Jun's envoy to register for a name. As long as you join my selection camp, your family members can receive a gold ingot. Liu Xing looked at the crowd in front of him coldly, and said his recruitment treatment.
Hearing the levy money for a gold ingot, there was a commotion among the private soldiers. However, what Liu Xing didn't expect was that there was just a commotion, but no one took the initiative to come out to Zhang Yang behind him to sign up.
Frowning and thinking about it slightly, Liu Xing immediately figured out what these people were hesitating. It's nothing more than two questions, one is what treatment to give after joining his own selection camp, and the second is that going out of the city to sneak attack the golden dog is equivalent to playing with his life. These people were supposed to be exchanging their lives for money, a group of mercenaries. For them, these two points are far more important than anything else.
Thinking about this, Liu Xing once again glanced at the crowd of private soldiers, and said in a loud voice: "Anyone who enters my command will be given five ingots of gold for the death of the battle, one enemy will be killed, and five taels of silver will be rewarded." Kill an enemy and reward a silver ingot. As long as the disabled brother did not die, he was given money and food every month according to the salary he received before he was disabled. For brothers who died in battle, their families can receive another ten years of money and food. ”
"I'm willing to go with Deputy Envoy Liu!"
"Liu Xianxian, please accept me!"
As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, there were bursts of shouts from the crowd that had calmed down. Amidst the shouts, dozens of private soldiers swarmed up and pounced in front of Zhang Yang.
Seeing the crowd rushing towards Zhang Yang, Liu Xing had a flash of inspiration, and thought that he needed a technical army, which would definitely be useful in the future. Because whether it is a field battle or a defensive battle, there are people in the army who know how to multiply the combat strength of their troops in attack and defense.
Thinking of this, Liu Xing immediately said loudly to Zhang Yang: "Zhang Heizi, ask clearly." If there are those who can do the craftsman, they are all listed separately. Whether it is a carpenter, plasterer, blacksmith or whatever, as long as there is a specialty, the money and food will be distributed by 20%. ”
"Oh! Okay, subordinates get it. Before Zhang Yang could answer, hundreds of people stood up from the crowd of private soldiers.
"I'll be a plasterer......"
"I'm a carpenter......
"I'm from a blacksmith......"
The second group of private soldiers who stood up reported their skills when they rushed in front of Zhang Yang.
Looking at them, Liu Xing secretly said in his heart: This is really rich to make ghosts grind, and rich to recruit soldiers! Hehe, it turns out that there is a dragon and a crouching tiger in these private soldiers! It seems that as long as I rush out for the master, the golden dog wants to fight with the master in the future, and I have enough technical strength to play a lot of tricks with them that they have never seen before!
"Conductor, it's all lit."
Just when Liu Xing was secretly thinking about how to use new tricks to fight the Jin soldiers after breaking through, Sun Yujiang walked out of Yao's Mansion with people and walked quickly to Liu Xing's side.
Glancing at him sideways, Liu Xing said: "We set fire here, this is the closest to the West Gate, and it won't take much time for Fourth Brother Zeng to bring troops to fight the fire." Deputy Commander Sun, you and Brother Wan take your brothers to the surrounding houses to hide first. As long as I see Fourth Brother Zeng, no matter what he does, I have to restrain him. ”
"Huh?" Shocked when he heard this, Sun Yujiang said, "Let me arrest Fourth Brother Zeng?" I can't beat him, can I? ”
With a wicked smile, Liu Xing said: "You can't beat him head-on, you can't get him by sneaking up?" ”
After hearing this, Sun Yujiang's face also had a wicked smile, and he said sinisterly: "Oh, oh, I understand. Hehe, you can only withdraw it, not take it by force. After arresting Fourth Brother Zeng, the West Gate naturally opened. The conductor is really clever, admire, admire! ”
"Fuck off, get done!" Seeing his appearance, and finally didn't forget to pat his ass, Liu Xing angrily kicked him on the ass......
When Sun Yujiang, Wan Yafei and Liu Xing hid all the people and horses in the surrounding houses. Zeng Weijie and the Ximen guards ran to the gate of Yao's mansion, which had been burned to the ground, with about two battalions and thousands of foot soldiers, with panicked expressions. As soon as he arrived, Yao Min and Yao Qi also rushed to the door of Yao Ci's mansion with hundreds of people.
"What kind of fire! What a bold man! Before the horse could stop, Yao Min looked at the mansion surrounded by flames and roared angrily.
When Zeng Weijie heard this, he urged him to step forward and said, "Deputy Envoy Yao, my subordinates will immediately lead troops when they see the fire." It's not too late for us to find out who set the fire, and now the first thing should be to put out the fire and see how many of Mr. Yao Ci and the people in the house are still alive. ”
Nodding slightly, Yao Min said, "Just according to what you said, quickly call someone to put out the fire." ”
As he spoke, Yao Min's gaze swept around.
Liu Xing, who was hiding in the shadows, saw Yao Min looking around with a dark face, and sneered in a low voice, "Yao Lao'er, it was the master who set the fire, what can you do?" ”
As soon as these words fell, Liu Xing quickly turned his head and issued an order: "Sun Yujiang and Zhang Yang, you two will be responsible for capturing the fourth brother later." Wan Yafei, you are responsible for catching that Yao period. Ye Tianlong, Gu Jiang, the two of you are responsible for keeping an eye on the five hundred recruits that have just been recruited. ”
"Yes!"
After several people answered in a low voice, Liu Xing jumped up violently and jumped out of the house into the street. His feet landed on the ground and he immediately took out the Vientiane box. After pulling out two small burdens from inside, he jumped into the air again, shaking hard and throwing out a green smoke screen from the baggage.
The morning breeze was light, the green mist was filled, and it flew quickly with the wind to the position where Yao Min, Yao Qi and Zeng Weijie were located. As soon as he saw the green smoke screen, Yao Min looked back anxiously.
When he saw Liu Xing standing a few steps away and sneering, Yao Min shouted, "Liu Xing, could it be that you put this fire?" ”
The sneer on his face remained unchanged, Liu Xing stood up straight, pinched his waist with both hands and said to him with a sneer: "What's the matter, can't you?" Yao Min, don't think that if you are the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, you can cover up Yao Ci's crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. Xiao Ye is now the judge of the Hedong Road Constitutional Division, and he is doing a business trip to raid and destroy his family in accordance with the law, do you have any opinions? ”
"Liu Xing, you ......"
Yao Min was furious when he heard this, and just as he pulled out the war knife on his waist and wanted to rush towards Liu Xing, a few wisps of green smoke flew in front of him and a few wisps of green smoke entered his nose. As soon as the green smoke entered his nose, Yao Min suddenly felt numb all over his body. The sound of "dang long" sounded, and the war knife in his hand fell to the ground, and then with a "bang" he rolled over from his horse and fell to the ground.