Ge Liu brought to welcome the front camp. The young and strong refugees who came to join the army one after another from the mountains around Luoding in the past few days. The number of people was more than 150. In addition, 100 residents in the city were recruited. They carried all the vehicles in Luoding City - 12 horse-drawn carts and 18 donkey carts. In addition, they were carrying a shoulder pole and two hemp ropes. The team met with the main force of the front camp in the Great Bay, which was more than 40 miles away from Luoding. Seeing the large carts full of food, the young and strong people brought by Ge Liu cheered.

Some soldiers from the front camp picked up the clothes they had taken off the Qing army with a spear to show off the young and strong men, and some kept pulling out the long swords they had just been fired so that the young and strong men could see more clearly. As for the captured green camp flags, they even put them in the carriage early. Seeing this scene, they remembered the appearance of the Qing army prisoners crying and asking for a belt when they set out from Xihedu. Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but smile.

Everything Taiping Camp did in Deqing was thorough. Not only did it strip away every piece of clothing on the captains, but even the clothes on the corpse were stripped off. As for the knife, gun, sword, and spear, there was no one left. It can be said that everything that could be used, even a cloth strap, was picked up by the soldiers.

Zhou Shixiang even bought a lot of supplies with silver and Tang Sanshui. There were ten iron pots, and a lot of salt and vegetable oil were bought. Although he knew that the price given by Tang Sanshui was unfair and exceeded the market price, Zhou Shixiang did not bargain, but bought them all with a smile. It was so refreshing that the people in the Green Camp could no longer do some business with him. Who wouldn't slaughter such a fool?

However, after several transactions, Zhou Shixiang already understood that Tang Sanshui, the Qiang General, was timid and afraid of death. He was actually very smart. However, this cleverness was not used to deal with the enemy, but to make a fortune. Tang Sanshui not only intimidated and defrauded a large sum of silver from the county government in the name of Ming army siege, but also used a knife to kill people and eat the big fugitives. He even made a different approach to plot against Taiping Camp. Originally, Zhou Shixiang calculated that if Tang Sanshui cooperated, he could earn 2,000 taels of silver, but now it seems that two thousand taels were just a fraction of the wealth that Tang Qian made during this "Ming Army" attack.

Those who are brave will starve to death; the bold will be the land will be as rich as the land!

Tang Sanshui is also a talented person. He knows how to invest, how to avoid risks, and how to increase profits. In the future, he is definitely a successful businessman. At least, he turns crises into wealth, grasps them firmly when encountering opportunities, and never lets go without letting go, but while admiring, he is naturally a little unwilling to accept it - he can feel comfortable watching others use their own power to make a fortune that is greater than himself?

But what can I do if I'm not willing to accept it?

Tang Sanshui retreated into Deqing City and would not come out even if he was beaten to death. The transactions and transactions were all his subordinates. With the current strength of Taiping Camp, there was no way to deal with him. Unless Deqing City had another Sanshui brother to cooperate with him, the Emperor Tiangao would let him be happy. At this moment, Tang Sanshui was standing at the top of Deqing City and scolding Zhou Shixiang for his eighteen generations. What Zhou Shixiang could do was besides scolding him back, but he just stared at him.

Being slaughtered is slaughtered. Compared with the harvest, some imbalance is nothing. For Taiping Camp, which is extremely scarce and does not have a complete logistics supply chain, obtaining resources from the enemy is the only way, and doing business with officials like Tang Sanshui within the Green Camp seems to be a means. Compared with the plunder of the people, the two are obviously more in line with the interests of Taiping Camp and are also a means that Zhou Shixiang prefers.

Just imagine, if there is no food or clothing, there will be enemies to sell them to the door automatically; if there is no knife or spear, there will be enemies to give them to us, this kind of picture is very wonderful in my mind.

Of course, if you want to have a wonderful picture, the premise must be that Taipingying has or fake possesses enough power to intimidate the enemy. Without this power, no matter how good the business partner is, he will turn against others.

What Zhou Shixiang had to do when he returned to Luo Ding was to truly condense this power into shape.

.........

The team was in the Dawan that night, and set off before dawn the next day. Peng Dazhu led his men to escort the carriage in front, Ge Wu and the wounded in the middle, Zhou Shixiang led four teams of soldiers to placate behind the back. Chen Mo's dead soldiers camp was guarded in the middle, and under the supervision of various thugs who looked like prisoners, he was reluctant to move forward.

Along the way, the messengers sent from Luoding City arrived almost every other hour, and then hurried back to Luoding with a lot of good news.

Three hours later, the team finally appeared in front of Luoding City Gate in the aftermath of the sunset.

"Here I'm back!"

Looking at the somewhat incomplete city wall, Zhou Shixiang felt very moved. He was uneasy when he set out a few days ago, but when he came back a few days later, he was so relaxed. However, his companions who had traveled side by side were no longer there, which was sad.

"Brother, we're home!"

Ge Wu, Peng Dazhu, Tuzi and others walked to Boss Hu's coffin together, knelt down and kowtowed a few times. Then the few of them changed into white cloth, unloaded the coffin from the carriage with all their strength, and then carried it to the city.

Dozens of soldiers grabbed the paper money sent by people from the city earlier and sang to the sky. As the paper money fell one after another, the atmosphere of the team immediately became heavier.

"Brother!"

Zhao Sihai knelt in front of the city gate and howled towards the slowly lifted coffin.

Mr. Song did not shout, but just stared at the coffin in a daze. His heart was so blocked that he became more and more sour. After a long time, he sighed.

Zhou Shixiang was originally unwilling to take Hu Quan's coffin into the city, but buried it directly outside the city with the corpses of the fallen soldiers. After all, this time he came back from Dasheng and gained a lot. He could take this opportunity to better show the power of Taiping Camp to the people.

But Duke Xiang of Song and others advocated that Boss Hu must be taken back to the city, and the soldiers who fell were also taken back to the city for their relatives to meet, and then arranged for burial. This order reversal made Zhou Shixiang worry that the impact on morale would dilute the joy of victory, but he was not easy to object. After all, this was agreed by all the old brothers in Daqiaoshan. If he, an "outsider", would have an impact on his position in the hearts of these people, so he agreed. He could only hope that the pensions for the families of the dead could dilute their dissatisfaction with Taipingying.
Chapter completed!