Chapter 596: Buying and Selling
Under the moon, Jin Da took a few minions to lie on a small hill, watching the Tartar soldiers on the official road below slowly pass by.
The thin man said to Jin Da worriedly, "Big boss, do you guess that Hou Ye has not received any news now?" Wei Laosi and they haven't come back yet, I'm afraid something is wrong, right?"
Jin Da patted the back of the thin man's head, lowered his voice and scolded, "Talk nonsense! Hurry up and shut the crow's mouth!"
"No, the big boss," the thin man rubbed the back of his head and said, "I'm just worried, otherwise Wei Laosi, why wouldn't they have come back? If Hou Ye Qin didn't get the news and was still fighting to move to Ancheng, wouldn't he be stabbed in the back by these Tartars? At that time, it would be all in vain for us to work hard for half a day! And if the Tartars defeat Hou Ye, they might turn around and seek revenge on us!"
Jin Da glared at the thin man fiercely, "Little bastard, you know what a fart! Wei Laosi didn't come back because they were afraid of running into a tartar! Look, this time our Jinfengzhai is going to make a great contribution! After this battle, our Jinfengzhai will change its name to the Jinfeng faction, and then beg the Hou Ye, oh no, beg the alliance leader to let us join the martial arts alliance, we will be a Jianghu sect in the future! And it is also a famous and decent family, and we will no longer do the work of robbing the rich and helping the poor!"
The thin man was happy at first, "Can we also call a sect?" But he immediately made a bitter face, "Even if the rivers and lakes admit that we are a sect, but we don't block the road and rob, oh no, that's called robbing the rich and helping the poor, if we don't rob the rich and help the poor, what will we eat?"
Jin Da smiled slightly and said, "Didn't you hear what the Tao said? Hou Ye has spoken, as long as he is meritorious in fighting Tartars, he can be rewarded." If you have made great contributions, you can get a canal wharf! We have made such a great contribution this time, not to mention the high, at least give us a small wharf? That year, there were 10,000 taels of silver in the account, which was not enough for our brothers to be decent?"
Jin Da inquired clearly, there are hundreds of large and small wharves on the canal, and there are nearly 10 million taels of income a year. There is no problem with the income of hundreds of thousands of taels a year at the big wharf, and there is at least 10,000 taels at the small wharf.
He was right, because the canals of this world are busier than the canals in history. Why? Because this is the world of martial arts, there are many door-to-door factions on land, and there are many green forests, and everywhere you have to collect "money to buy the road", and you will collect money when you go to the dock and get off the dock by water, and there are big gangs such as the Cao Gang on the water to ensure safety, and it is economical and safe to calculate it, so of course the merchants choose to take the waterway. As a result, the canal is several times busier than it was historically. Moreover, when you get a wharf, the income is not only the docking fee, the loading and unloading fee, but the merchant wants to eat when he docks, does he want to sleep, and even gambles to visit the kiln? These are all incomes! In the end, even if it is a small wharf, the annual income of 10,000 taels of silver is indeed no problem!
When the thin man heard this, his eyes straightened, "Ten thousand taels of silver?
Speaking of which, their bandits don't have much harvest all year round, and they don't dare to attack the county seat, so they can only collect some "road money" from passers-by. But after a long time, everyone knew that there was a group of bandits here, and when they passed by, they either invited a group of good men to come with them, or they simply took a detour, where was there any oil and water?
Kim laughed without saying a word, his eyes sparkling.
Said to himself, "I have to go to the Hou Ye to show my face in a while, and this credit will be properly ......."
As he spoke, he gently shook the bulky Guan Gong knife, the snowy blade was shining coldly under the moon, obviously it was newly sharpened by him!
Seven or eight miles southwest of Qian'an City, near the official road.
Not long after the martial arts alliance was ambushed, a long group of Tartar soldiers came over.
In the middle and front of the team, there were more than a dozen Bayala elites, guarding one of them. This man was Zilharang, the commander of the Left Wing Army. During last year's Southern Expedition, he partnered with Yue Tuo, and after Yue Tuo was killed by Qin Shuhuai, he partnered with Dolgon.
In terms of age, qualifications, and military exploits, in fact, he is above Dolgon, but Dolgon is Nurhachi's own son and Huang Taiji's younger brother, and he is only Nurhachi's nephew, it is because of this relationship that after Yue Tuo's death, Huang Taiji let Dolgon replace Yue Tuo, not him.
Of course he was not convinced, but he did not blame Huang Taiji at all. He and Huang Taiji grew up together, so their relationship was extremely deep, to what extent? Historically, his father and brother had rebelled, but after Huang Taiji was pacified, he did not condemn him at all, but instead comforted him.
He knew that Huang Taiji did this only because he balanced the relationship between the various forces, so he did not lose heart, and was determined to cover Dolgon with greater military achievements. He is convinced that one day he will become a prince and become a ****.
And bringing these 15,000 elite soldiers to Qian'an was proposed by himself. He had received news that Qin Shuhuai had arrived in Yongping, so he thought that Qin Shuhuai would definitely attack Yongping first and then move to Qian'an. Therefore, it became a good opportunity for him to break away from Dorgon and make military exploits alone.
Qian'an is a key point of transportation, and when the Santun camp has been captured, send some more soldiers to guard Qian'an, so as to consume Qin Shuhuai's troops, and at the same time prevent him from saving Zunhua, which is understandable. So Dorgon agreed.
But neither Dolgon nor Zilharang expected that Qin Shuhuai would bypass Yongping and go straight to Qian'an!
Of course, they couldn't have imagined it, because Qin Shuhuai also came to Qian'an because of a misjudgment, and if it weren't for the sudden appearance of an inexplicable Jinfeng Village, which intercepted and killed Qian'an's horse sentinels on various major roads, they would have been able to get the news.
Sometimes history is made up of coincidences. There are countless examples of this.
In any case, the fifteen-thousand-strong army slowly walked into the ambush circle. Because he didn't expect Qin Shuhuai to have arrived in Qian'an, all the troops walked unhurriedly and defenselessly.
In the sky, a flare suddenly rose, and the white light was very dazzling in the darkness. Then came the second, the third!
The night sky is lit up as bright as day!
Then, the arrows burst through the sky like locusts! Thunderbolts roared down like rain!
Qin Shuhuai's business is open!
"Whoosh!"
"Boom, boom!"
The explosion was like thunder, the smoke was everywhere, the air was filled with yellow smoke, and the pungent smell choked people!
Before the two sides could engage in battle, a large number of Tartar soldiers had already turned on their backs, some were injured by the explosion and fell to the ground wailing, some were shot in the neck and struggled desperately, and some were lying on the ground without saying a word, which was dead.
Then, the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded, and the coalition soldiers swept from both sides of the official road like waves, roaring and killing the Tartars!
Zilharang was shocked, he never thought that he would be ambushed here, and he couldn't figure out how the Ming army arrived here without knowing it!
However, although he was flustered, he still showed the quality of General Houjin, and immediately shouted to his subordinates, "Array!
The well-trained Tartars immediately began to mount their defenses, and they rushed down the roadbed to increase the depth, while the shields rushed to the front rows on both sides to withstand the onslaught of the enemy!
At the same time, fifteen hundred Tartar archers began to wield their might, and they shot arrows wildly at the coalition forces. Because the martial arts alliance army was also dense when it rushed over, it also suffered heavy casualties for a while!
However, the Tartar archers were soon suppressed by the allied archers. There are many allied archers, there are 3,000 people, and most of them are served by good hands with excellent arm strength, generally archers can open 70 catties of bows, and coalition archers can open at least 120 catties of bows, and the killing is powerful and strengthened. Among them, there are still a large number of them, the sect already has the martial art of archery, and they have practiced it since they were children, and all the quasi-heads are much higher than ordinary archers!