Two hours later, Duan Tianming led his team out of the completely quiet "village" and walked towards Gongchang City.
Compared with the previous team, there were more than a dozen carriages behind them.
I have to say that as a member of the caravan, my family is really wealthy.
Although as a military household, the house should not be too exaggerated and must look like a military household in a field.
But inside that low adobe house, there was a different paradise.
Some people actually have red carpets inside, and some people even have translucent colored glass on the narrow windows of their adobe houses.
These things, even in the capital, are considered top luxuries.
Moreover, these are part of the caravan.
If the caravan's lair is taken away, who knows how many carriages will be needed to pull things.
Thinking of the wealth contained in the caravan's lair, Duan Tianming's eyes almost narrowed to a slit.
You ambushed Dongchang and killed eight of our Dongchang's army horses. It's not too much to use your wealth to compensate.
Unknowingly, the team had entered Gongchang City Gate.
Let the captains of the Shenji Service go to Gong Changwei's barracks to rest on their own. Duan Tianming asked the remaining captains to drive the carriage to the Gongchang Mansion Official Post Courtyard.
Under the shade of the trees in the yard, Xiao Chen and prison warden Du Shaoqin sat opposite each other on the table.
There was a basin of unknown meat on the table, and it was so fragrant that it made people drool.
The most rare thing is that there is a plate of green vegetables.
A jar of old soju was placed between the two of them, with the mud seal still unopened.
"Who are you two? I'm working outside, but you should just sit at home and drink and eat meat." Duan Tianming walked through the door, saw the things on the table, and came over with a loud shout.
"We have been waiting for you. Look, the wine jar hasn't even been opened yet." Du Shaoqin, the prison warden, said with a smile.
"That's pretty much it." Duan Tianming chuckled, "It's amazing, I actually have vegetables to eat today. Where did they come from?"
"The drought has almost been alleviated. In this city, people are already carrying burdens and starting to sell vegetables. Is the matter settled?"
Xiao Chen pulled the chair next to him back and pushed it towards Duan Tianming.
"It's done. I've killed all the bugs in the village." Duan Tianming held the back of the chair with his hand, "Don't rush to sit down now. Look, how many things I brought back."
While he was talking, the carriage slowly entered the yard.
"One, two, three..." Du Shaoqin counted the carriages.
"What is it? The belongings of the military households in the caravan?" Xiao Chen couldn't help but ask.
Duan Tianming nodded: "These caravan people have so many good things at home. There are so many porcelains and silks. Even their tables, chairs and benches are all very exquisite. Look at our Datong
Shop, it is simply incomparable to others. I pulled them all back."
"Do you have any banknotes?" Du Shaoqin's eyes shone brightly.
"This, it really doesn't exist."
"After working for a long time, I don't even have a banknote. What's the use of bringing these tables, chairs and benches back? And those silks, silks, and porcelain, you can just leave them in the government office." Du Shaoqin said dissatisfied.
"Look, look at how angry you are for a little family." Duan Tianming shook his head, "I don't have any banknotes, but I have a lot of real money. These people from the caravan like to keep their money at home and watch it.
It's comfortable and can be shown off. Banknotes are not practical for them." Duan Tianming chuckled, showing his white front teeth.
Xiao Chen shook his neck, raised his hands and stretched his muscles again.
"Is there anything good?"
"What good things? What good things are you talking about? These real gold, silver, jade and jewelry are not good things, right?" Duan Tianming asked.
Xiao Chen grinned and said, "I ransacked Wang Kuan's house and Dingxihou's house. I really don't have any interest in these gold, silver and jewelry. The good things I'm talking about are the kind that are very special."
Stuff. Like a sword or something."
"I haven't noticed this yet. However, someone laid a carpet at home. It looked good to me, so I removed it and pulled it back. By the way, you wouldn't have thought that someone actually installed glazed glass on the windows of that adobe house.
They all have such luxurious things. I wanted to take them apart, but I couldn’t do it for a long time.”
"Liu Li? The people in this caravan are really good at enjoying themselves." Du Shaoqin looked excited, "Take me there and I will remove the glass and take it back and install it on the windows of my house."
Duan Tianming chuckled and said a little embarrassedly: "No more. I took it apart for a long time, so I picked up a stone and smashed the glass."
"You, you are really a loser." Du Shaoqin glared at him fiercely.
While talking, all the carriages pulling things were driven into the yard, no more, no less, thirteen in total.
"There's a lot of stuff." Xiao Chen said a little surprised.
"How much is this?" Duan Tianming raised his head proudly, "This is what ordinary military households in the Five Hundred Cavalry Gang have."
"What do you want to say?" Xiao Chen looked at Duan Tianming's virtue and asked with a smile.
"When we were ambushed in the Qinling Valley, we lost eight military horses, eight in total." Duan Tianming gestured in the air with great distress.
"Then what?" Xiao Chen asked again.
"Then, things in Gongchang have stabilized recently. Shouldn't we also completely settle this old debt with the caravan?"
"Dare to ambush the imperial envoys, that is treason. Kill them all and confiscate all their property." Duan Tianming said.
Looking at Duan Tianming, Xiao Chen shook his head: "Are you going just for the wealth of the caravan?"
"How is it possible? The caravan dares to ambush Dongchang. When has Dongchang suffered such a loss? If this spreads out, wouldn't dogs and cats dare to ambush Dongchang at will in the future? If we don't kill them all
Behead him, where will I put Dongchang's face?"
Duan Tianming said angrily as his chest heaved.
Du Shaoqin on the side also had a serious face: "Captain Duan is right, they will die if they ambush the Dongchang."
Xiao Chen raised his left hand and tapped the letter on the table: "The factory official said that a large number of Japanese pirates appeared along the coast of Zhejiang, and they were playing hide and seek with the imperial guards. The Minister of War recommended to the imperial court that we, Dongchang, go and attack the enemy.
The leader of the Japanese pirates has been captured. Before things here are completely finished, things elsewhere have already been arranged."
"Fortunately, we killed all Dingxihou's clansmen in advance. Otherwise, the emperor requested that Dingxihou be executed on the spot, and we would have to rush to find his nine clans."
"What do you mean, this horse has stopped moving for us? This breath, just swallow it like this, don't mention it?"
Duan Tianming was startled.
What's wrong with Xiao Chen today? This is not his usual style.
Xiao Chen shook his head: "It is necessary to move them. However, your approach is too petty."
"What do you mean, just kill a few people for a while and then take their property and confiscate it?"
"How many people should be killed? To ambush the imperial envoy is to go against the imperial court, it is rebellion, and it is a major crime to punish the nine tribes. How can killing a few people be enough? What I mean is to control all the members of the caravan, and then search for the three tribes according to their household registration
That’s it, kill them all when you’re done.”
Looking at the carriages in the yard, Xiao Chen said slowly.
"Three tribes? There must be two to three thousand people in this caravan. If we kill the three tribes, wouldn't we have to kill tens of thousands of people?"
Du Shaoqin on the side couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Although as the prison warden of Dongchang, his profession is to extract confessions through torture, he is also a very cruel person.
But more than 10,000 people were killed at once. Apart from the war, the number of people implicated in Liang Guogong's case that year exceeded tens of thousands.
Is Xiao Chen preparing to cause another major case of eternity?
"If we don't move, we'll just treat the eight army horses as lost and don't cause trouble to other people's caravans. If we want to move, we'll completely subvert the entire caravan. Dongchang has never been treated like this since he started handling the case. There are fewer people killed.
Where in the world is there a place for Dongchang?"
Xiao Chen said slowly.
"When are we going to do it?"
"After the matter in Gongchang Mansion is completely settled, we will stop by to organize a caravan on our way back."
Duan Tianming nodded, but couldn't help feeling a little panicked.
Did you organize a caravan along the way?
That's nearly 10,000 people including the three tribes.