Tu Guobao received the prisoners of Biaoying who were released by the Ming army.
"its not right."
Generals Cao Hu and Zou Xixiang of the Chinese Army frowned and said, "Sir, the number is wrong."
"Less?" Tu Guobao asked, "Just less."
"It's not less, it's more."
In the battle at Qionglong Mountain, Tu Guobao abandoned Biao Camp and fled. Biao Camp was completely annihilated and became a mere governor. Recently, he successfully recaptured Suzhou City and sent his nephew to take over Li Litai's tribe. However, he also knew that those
It is the Eight Banners. Even if it is accepted, it will only be temporarily subordinate to him.
So he secretly petitioned Duke Yan, hoping to redeem his Biao camp from the Ming army.
The Ming army was also very happy and sent Chen Qianfu to take full charge of the matter.
After some haggling, Chen Qianfu offered a price of twenty taels a piece, packed up the Biao camp and returned it to Tu Guobao, which could be redeemed with money and food, etc. He handed it back today, but Cao Hu waited a little longer, which was wrong.
The Biao camp originally had a total of 1,500 people. In the battle at Qionglong Mountain, hundreds of people died, and the number of prisoners was only in their early 1,000s. But now, the number sent by Chen Qianfu was not the same. It was not less, but more.
Far more than one thousand and five.
"It doesn't matter if there are more. Those guys just want to make more money from us." Tu Guobao was helpless.
"Futai, if not a few more people, there are three thousand people."
"What?"
Tu Guobao almost jumped up. This Chen Qianfu seemed to be easy to talk to. Why was he so ruthless? He took thousands of prisoners from Biao camp and returned three thousand?
Twenty taels per person, three thousand people are equivalent to 60,000 taels of silver. Is this selling pigs to him?
"I told him that the number was wrong, but Chen Qianfu said that they had screened them and they were all from Suzhou Biaoying."
"Mark his mother..." Tu Guobao couldn't help but swear. He really used their place as a treasury and thought of ways to squeeze money from them, but he had already been squeezed out. Suzhou had just been recovered.
He immediately raided hundreds of wealthy households and accused them of collaborating with the enemy. But in fact, he also knew that those who were truly transparent had already withdrew with the Ming army, and those in the city now were actually middle households.
They did not actively support the Qing Dynasty, because these people were called traitors by the Ming army and had been purged after they conquered Suzhou. And most of those who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty left with the Ming army.
The rest are all people who protect themselves wisely, but Tu Guobao can't care about it. Now he is short of money and owes a large sum of money, so he can only think of ways to collect it.
The treasury was emptied by the Ming army, and there was no food or money left at all. The fake officials and officials in the government office were suppressed and purged by the Ming army. Now he is guarding an empty city, with no soldiers and no officials, and he owes him a fortune.
Butt debt.
Returning to Fubiao is also a top priority, otherwise any bandit and robber can take Suzhou away.
But Zhu Wu, Chen Qianfu and the others went too far.
Tu Guobao went to Chen Qianfu angrily, but Chen Qianfu said, for the sake of long-term cooperation, we specially brought back all the standard camps for you, and also gave you some green camps that were previously captured in Songjiang and other places, to supplement your
Strength, we don't want you, the governor, to fall again.
I hope you can pay me back on time.
Such words made Tu Guobao unable to refute.
Then Chen Qianfu advised again, "60,000 taels of silver is not much. I heard that you have taken over the rest of Li Shutai's army. There are so many people and horses. You can just get some horses and armor from them. We have set a high discount price."
of.
Tu Guobao then went to see the three thousand people.
After a careful count, he discovered that 3,000 people were correct, but his real old army of Fubiao only had a few hundred people, and they were all relatively old, weak, or even disabled. The real elites were missing, and even his servants were gone.
No.
When asked, Chen Qianfu said that those people had died in the Qionglong Mountain battle. It was because the rest of Fubiao's troops were weak that they specially selected so many people from other prisoners to supplement him for his sake.
But those guys, Tu Guobao looked around, saw that they were not elite young men.
After a little interrogation, it turned out that some people were originally recruited from the green camp of Taihu water bandits, some were originally recruited by mountain bandits, and some were even mountain bandits and water bandits who were captured by the Ming army. There were also some from the green camp of Songjiang and other places, anyway.
They are diverse and come from different sources.
On July day, these guys were all barefoot and shirtless, just a pair of shorts.
It is better to say that it is three thousand people than to be a group of hungry people. Anyway, they work every day in the Ming army, and they don't have enough to eat all day long. They are all hungry and weak.
Tu Guobao really wants to send all three thousand people back.
But after thinking about it, I finally swallowed my anger.
Bolo has entered the territory of Suzhou and is coming soon. His top priority now is how to explain clearly to Bolo and how to clear himself of the crime of losing Suzhou.
If Fu Biao is still there, there will be one less crime to be charged.
"Bring these guys back, find a way to get them uniforms first, and then equip them with knives, guns, etc."
"Choose a few hundred decent ones from them and serve as your servants. Get some armor and put them on. When you see Bo Luo, you will have to show your face."
Cao Hu and others were also helpless, but they should deal with the emergency first.
When he turned around and wanted to leave, Chen Qianfu came over again and stopped Tu Guobao.
"Bolo will arrive in Suzhou City soon. We have also prepared a gift for Tufutai to meet him. To ensure your satisfaction, it only costs 40,000 taels of silver."
Tu Guobao was helpless, "I really don't have any money now. I can't afford it. I can't afford it."
"You should read something first before talking."
When Tu Guobao saw such a gift, he was so shocked that he was speechless.
"this!"
"This gift will definitely satisfy Bolo, right?"
"Can,"
"It's not expensive, I'll charge you 40,000 taels of silver. Then you can tell Bolo that you spent 100,000, and maybe you can still make some money."
Tu Guobao looked at Li Shutai's head wrapped in mercury and cursed in his heart.
This man was killed by his nephew Yang Guohai, and he brought his head back and gave it to the Ming army. Now the Ming army has the nerve to sell him for 40,000 taels of silver?
"Tufutai, think about it, who is Li Shutai? The Minister of Justice and Maile Zhangjing, an important official in the Xiezhen Suzhou. Although he is from the Eight Banners and Han Army, who is his father? Li Yongfang, the prince-in-law.
Ah, the Li family is the top Han family dignitary on the Tatar side, isn't his head worth a hundred and eighty thousand?"
Tu Guobao has seen shameless people, but never such shameless ones.
In the end, it was reduced to just one sentence, "I really don't have any money left."
"If you owe it, please pay it back slowly. We are cooperating for a long time anyway, so there is no rush."
Tu Guobao held it in very hard and really wanted to scold his mother.
"In this way, let's join in to help." Chen Qianfu said with a smile, "Isn't Bolo coming? We will fight two battles with the new standard battalion of Tufutai to give you two more good news without any extra payment.
How's that? That's interesting!"
Facing such a considerate partner, what else could Tu Guobao say? He could only acquiesce without saying a word.
