Why is Pasto so happy? He is not only happy because he can catch local farmers as cannon fodder instead of them. In addition to this reason, he can also make money by catching local villagers in the local villages.

The so-called "making a fortune" actually means robbery. The city of Naples is the capital of the Kingdom of Naples, and the surrounding villages are naturally prosperous. Because in the villages around Naples, many farmers go to the city to work and do small businesses, and they have more spare money than farmers in other places.

Italy's economic prosperity far exceeded that of Germany at the same time. In this era, Germany's rural areas still dominated the serfdom. In the countryside, there were basically no self-cultivation farmers. In addition to the owners and serfs, the extra population often flocked to cities or docks to work.

The Italian region has had a strong commercial atmosphere since the early Middle Ages. Moreover, it is the birthplace of the Renaissance, with people having more open minds and more prosperous economic life. In the Kingdom of Naples, there were many self-cultivated farmers. Moreover, many Italian farmers often go to the city to do odd jobs or do small businesses under the premise of serving their own land. Therefore, robbing Italian villages, especially villages outside the capital Naples, have definitely more oil and water than robbing villages in the German region.

As an Italian, Pasto is also very clear about the economic situation of villages around Italian cities. Therefore, it is definitely a bad idea to go out to catch people this time...

By the way, Louis XII attacked the city of Naples this time because he was aiming to rule the Kingdom of Naples in the future. Therefore, he did not rob the local villages and towns before. After all, he wanted to leave a good impression on the locals.

Of course, compared to victory, good impressions and other things are secondary. Therefore, Louis XII allowed Pasto to capture Ding as cannon fodder...

Pasto and his men robbed twenty or thirty villages in one go and caught 4,000 local farmers. Of course, his and his men's pockets were also filled with financial resources.

After sending the 4,000 men captured to the camp, Pasto took his subordinates with his bulging waist bags and even carrying large and small bags to a small camp outside the camp. There was the camp of Genea merchants...

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It should be pointed out that because in this era, robbery is prevalent in the army. Therefore, every time a large army is dispatched, vendors will take the initiative to follow the army. On the one hand, they provide some daily necessities for the soldiers; on the other hand, they are also their main purpose - to sell stolen goods for the soldiers after the robbery...

The profit of selling stolen goods is very high. In addition to coins, many things stolen by mercenaries will not be carried with them because it is inconvenient.

Therefore, they usually find the stolen goods that the military merchants snatched at a low price. At this time, it is the feast of those military merchants. Often, an artifact will be furiously suppressed by military merchants, and will be recycled at most at half price, or even less than one-third of its own value...

As for those mercenaries who are unhappy? Sorry, there is no way to be unhappy. Because these vendors who can follow the army are all supported by generals. They have to spend a lot of money to pay for the stolen goods and pay a lot of money to respect the generals. Otherwise, it would be strange if the soldiers and gangsters don’t beat them to death...

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In fact, not only in the West, but also in ancient China. The most famous one is that when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it automatically followed the Qing army to burn, kill and loot the Shanxi merchants.

When the Qing Dynasty first rose, they often entered the pass and robbed. However, after robbing a large amount of gold and silver, they could not enter the pass and spent normal expenses. Therefore, at that time, some Shanxi merchants led by traitors such as Jiexiu Fan Yongdou became their targets for selling stolen goods.

After the Qing army officially entered the pass, it continued to burn, kill, looting and looting. Because the Qing Dynasty was a poor regime outside the pass and had no money to pay the soldiers. But the poor were more poor than poor, so the Qing court thought of a way - as long as you capture a place, you can burn, kill, looting and looting... In this way, the Qing court would not have to bear much food and salary, and could also stimulate the beastly nature of the soldiers through burn, kill, looting and looting, making them bloodthirsty and cruel...

However, they cannot carry the property they obtained after burning, killing, looting, right? Especially some large items of property, they cannot be carried away by themselves. After all, the Qing army could not keep moving forward.

So, at that time, a group appeared - Shanxi merchants following the army...

Of course, these merchants with the army were not all Shanxi merchants, but they were indeed mainly Shanxi merchants. They drove mules or pushed wheelbarrows and followed the Qing army south. The Qing army held a butcher knife in his hand to slaughter all over the country, and they were mainly responsible for repurchasing the stolen goods at a low price after the Qing army burned, killed and looted. Then, they wiped off the blood on the stolen goods, tried every means to sell the stolen goods, and made huge profits...

It is said that after the "Ten Days of Yangzhou", many Shanxi merchants with the army were overwhelmed. After all, Yangzhou was a metropolis at that time, and the Qing army burned, killed and looted many of them. Therefore, a group of Shanxi merchants with the army became more developed and even washed their hands in the local area. Later, they became salt merchants in Yangzhou...

The fact is that in the early Qing Dynasty, the salt merchants of Yangzhou were mainly Shanxi merchants. Because all the locals in Yangzhou were killed... Until the middle and late Kangxi Dynasty, Huizhou merchants, not far from Yangzhou, gradually poured into Yangzhou, which was restored and prosperous, and became the dominant part of Yangzhou salt merchants. After all, the world was peaceful, and Shanxi merchants who started with military sales of stolen goods had no advantage...

In later generations, every time Malin saw Shanxi merchants bragging on TV, he couldn't help but sneer—there were no big deals, and there were not many good people in the group of Shanxi merchants in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties... Because Malin himself was from Yangzhou...

However, their descendants tried hard to whitewash their ancestors, almost making Shanxi merchants a hero who made the country and the people. However, from ancient times to the present, how many businessmen have consciences? They can resist making money from the national crisis and are considered good people among the merchants... The disgusting level of these people is no less than that of Hong Chengchou, the descendant of the traitor, who turned Hong Chengchou's former residence into a patriotic education base...

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Of course, European mercenaries in this era were not good things like the Qing army. Robbery was common. Those merchants with the army also knew this, so they were happy to help sell stolen goods with the army.

In addition to helping the stolen vendors, the mercenaries would also follow a large group of female women who accompanied the army. These female women who accompanied the army would also help mercenaries cook when they were fine. When the mercenaries robbed a certain place, the business of these female women would come...

Mercenaries cannot save money. Except for some older mercenaries who support their families, most of them spend the stolen money on two things - wine and finding women to support women...

For example, after Pasto's men robbed twenty or thirty villages this time, not only the vendors whose main business was selling stolen goods were excited, but the women who followed the army were also excited. They began to hide in their tents to wash and dress up, and put inferior powder on their faces in an attempt to attract the rich mercenaries...
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