Chapter 55 Laizhou City Recruiting Troops
At this time, Qin Bai had already led Qin Gao back to Laizhou City because he knew that what he urgently needed was not recruiting people now, but recruiting soldiers and recruiting people who could beat them with just pulling them up. As for Tang Dong, it can be said that he was doing a show, and he was paralyzed to Dagoya and Tiesheng.
Outside Laizhou City, there are refugees with thousands of households and tens of thousands of people living in this era. In fact, this is a common phenomenon in this era. Many big cities have been unable to live in the city due to business prosperity and many job opportunities, resulting in large areas of residential areas outside the city. For example, Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, etc. Even Beijing has built a new outer city in the Nancheng City due to the expansion of the city, turning a large area outside the city into an inside city.
But there is a little difference here. Other cities are basically prosperous in business, while Laizhou City is not a commercial center. Therefore, there are fewer job opportunities and the lives of refugees are more difficult.
In this era, whenever there are famines and wars, the people will basically flee to the nearby cities. First, it is safer, and second, there will always be governments or large households to provide disaster relief, so there is a greater chance of survival.
However, as long as the famine and war pass, the refugees outside the city will generally disperse. Moreover, every few years, it will happen once every ten years. Even if the refugees settle outside the city, or are robbed by the rebels, or for the sake of urban safety, the government demolished the houses and property of the refugees outside the city, so the mobility is relatively high, and it is difficult to form a fixed settlement area.
However, Laizhou City is different. There are many high-ranking soldiers, especially miners and large families. It is easy to pull out a city-defense force with strong combat power. In addition, blacksmith shops are everywhere, and there are not even shortage of weapons, so few enemies attack. For example: In another time and space, Kong Youde rebelled tens of thousands of troops, defeating several large armies of the court and occupying most of Shandong. However, even when he encountered Laizhou City, he still caught blindly and could not defeat him by life or death. He even tricked the governors in the city out of killing him, and was still helpless in the face of the leaderless Laizhou City.
Therefore, the group of refugees outside Laizhou City is relatively stable, and there are more and more people. But on the other hand, there are fewer job opportunities in the city? And over time, many people have abandoned their farming skills and are not even able to work as tenant farmers. In addition, the discrimination against these refugees by the city people, which should be easy to understand. Especially with few job opportunities, they are afraid that refugees will steal the jobs of the people in the city. Therefore, among these refugees, there are very few people who can stand out, most of them live at the bottom, and many young people wander around the streets every day and do nothing.
Interestingly, due to the lack of information and the lack of knowledge and the fear of leaving familiar places, many refugees in Laizhou City didn't even know Jingjiazhuang more than 30 miles away. Even if they occasionally knew something, they were all scared by those... in fact, it was not considered a rumor, and they almost dared to go to such a very dark place.
So, when Niu Sanye found Qiu Bo, he was indeed looking for the right direction. Qiu Bo also easily found some people for Niu Sanye. No matter whether the means were forced or cheated, the difficulty was not very high anyway.
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At this time, Heizi was standing in front of the two brothers. He was talking to Qin Bai: "Blank Second Brother, Zhenwei's Tie Master is gone, and the here is deserted. Fear... Bald Head Bo did not dare to come, and the other groups of people did not dare to stretch out their hands. Although those shops were still open, they were just relying on the brothers in the gang to set up their business. The business was much lighter, and some brothers were already ready to leave, and there were still several people who were going to do it alone. Even if no one was convinced, they were all secretly recruiting people. But I still heard that Bald Head Bo was not idle, and he was also contacting him privately, preparing to go over and open again."
"Hmph." Qin Bai smiled contemptuously.
Heizi looked at Qin Bai a few times and said quickly, "Brother Bai, oh, I should call you Master Bai. Actually, I have wanted to inform you for a long time, so I don't know where to find you. At that time, Master Tie said that you have made a name in Jingjiazhuang and took Yingzi, Dongzi and the others over to enjoy your life. Now I have driven away the bald head wave, so the courageous victory should be yours."
"It's good that you know." Qin Bai ordered, "The three shops and other businesses on the territory are more than 100 taels a month. Please give them a few words, and then go to the yard and tell the monks, Xiaowu and the others. I will ship them to drink at noon and discuss how to divide the territory of Yongsheng."
"Ah?" Heizi was shocked, "Bai Erye, monk, Xiaowu and the others are not our Yongsheng, so why should we call them?"
"I will always be in Jingjiazhuang in the future and will not come back often. I will have to find a few trustworthy managers in the territory here. I don't care whether I was Yongsheng's brother or not, I just want my own people." As I spoke, Qin Bai threw a small penthouse of copper coins to Heizi, "This is for you. You go find it, the more the better. I will pick a few from it. I will take you to Jingjiazhuang well. I will never treat you badly. I will arrange a good job for you!"
"Hey! Thank you, the second master of Bai," Heizi ran away happily.
Qin Bai then went to Yunlai Inn, the inn that was originally worked by Tang Dong's family. He found the shopkeeper and left two taels of silver to book a private room, asking them to prepare a banquet at noon. Then he started to find a few goals he had planned.
"Brizzards, let's talk a few words." At the entrance of the city gate, Qin Bai found the brittles with more than a dozen younger brothers, and they were all squatting and bragging lazily.
When Jimao was twelve years old, his widow's mother ran away with a wild man, and then joined another gang outside the city and stayed there until now. Jimao was unlucky. She drew lots two years ago and went to Jinan to build the city wall for half a year. When she came back, she found out that the elder brother of the gang he was with was killed by his enemies, and the territory of the elder brother was also divided by the others in the gang. So she could only take her own people everywhere and barely make a living.
"Bai Er?" Zhimao was a little surprised, "I heard you have raised the flag in Jingjiazhuang? Are you a big shot?"
"What's this?" Qin Bai squatted beside Jimao, lit a cigarette, and said lightly, "It's just that he killed a head of Jingjiazhuang, snatched his territory, and asked his friends to help drive away Baldhead Bo."
The brittle hair pulled her head back and stared at Qin Bai's face. After a while, she said: "I thought they were bragging after drinking, but I didn't expect it to be true. Congratulations! It's famous, I'll call you Mr. Bai in the future."
"If you don't talk nonsense, I'm short of people. Are you interested in doing things with me? You can fight, and there are many brothers. If we can win, you will be the one I will win in the future. I will give you a piece of land, and you and your brothers have a place to find food."
Chapter completed!