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Chapter 11 Trading

When they set off again at dawn, no one in their mourning team rode horses. Six horses dragged more than a dozen fur felts tied together with hemp ropes, and they were on them to capture them. It took a long time before Chen Mu understood the Ming Dynasty's first-level skills... it was too fierce!

The Ming Dynasty used the head to judge military merits from beginning to end. From the army to the people, from the nine borders to the mainland, they killed thieves with their heads and recorded their merits with their ears. Not to mention the far-reaching Japanese pirates, the reward given by the imperial court during the Hongwu period was to rob a Japanese pirate ship in the near-shore and kill Japanese pirates who were killed and captured Japanese pirates at 50 taels, and the head of a Japanese pirate was also 50 taels, and the killing of Japanese pirates in the land was twenty taels. By the Jiajing period, no matter whether the land and land officials were fast, the military and civilians would be fast, as long as they could kill a real Japanese leader, they would be promoted to three levels, and they would not want to be promoted to one hundred and fifty taels of silver; the real Japanese were promoted to one level or fifty taels of silver; the Han people followed the thief for twenty taels.

As for encountering thieves in the ocean, some people can invite them to attack and indulge in ships, or chase and climb mountaineering, so that the thieves cannot approach the port; if the thieves are approaching the port, some people can bravely block them, so that the thieves cannot land; if the thieves have already landed, some people can charge and break the formation, seize their momentum, or chase them out of the country, or force them to get off the ship, so that the place will not be affected; if the thieves have few soldiers and capture and kill many, these are all amazing achievements!

Moreover, the government rewards silver is not constant, and it also pays attention to inflation. When there are too many thieves, it is easy to get the head, but the reward will be less; when there are too few thieves, it is difficult to get the head, so the reward will be more. Chen Mu and his team are thieves in the mainland this time, and they are the lowest reward type. The official price is 5 taels, so I don’t know how much they can actually get.

"But this level of merit is not that easy to get. Brother, don't you know. I heard from the old military households from the north that Jiubian Killing Liang is so powerful. Most of the Ming people who ran back from the side were killed by Jiubian Military households. They were also wearing fur coats!"

Shao Tingda killed two thieves at night. When Bai Yuanjie ordered the pursuit, the reckless worm still had the strength to chase him out and captured another thief by the forest. Although his shoulder was shot by a feather arrow, he was no longer seriously injured after handling it. He killed the thief last night, second only to Chen Mu. Now he walked in front with a rope that tied the thief and was very furious. He talked about military merits. "Even if the Ming people who escaped were wearing civilian clothes, they could cut their heads and put on fur coats. They said they were Beilu, and the Beijing City in Tianshun."

Killing good and making achievements is common in history, and it is not a strange thing for Chen Mu. This statement obviously cannot shock him. He slowly nodded and walked forward. However, when Shao Tingda mentioned Beijing, he became interested and asked: "What's wrong with Beijing?"

Tianshun was the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, almost a hundred years ago. Chen Mu looked at the big and thick rash worms with an intriguing look. Does his brother still have this knowledge?

"This has spread, but you don't know, brother." It's this look again, this look again! Last night, Bai Yuanjie looked at him like an idiot, and now Shao Tingda dares to look at him with this look. He raised his hand and slapped Shao Tingda on the back of his head with a hand wrapped in white linen. Chen Mu urged: "Tell me quickly!"

"Hey, hey, is it just Cao Qin's rebellion? The soldiers and horses in Beijing quelled the rebellion and killed all the beggars for the beheading leader reward. They scared the people in the city so that they did not dare to go out for several days. Tsk tsk." Shao Tingda shook his head with his lips pursed, but finally he put his huge head next to Chen Mu very much and asked in a low voice: "Brother Mu, do you think we have a chance... to kill?"

Chen Mu suddenly turned his head and stared at Shao Tingda with wide eyes. Damn it! What are the Ming people thinking?

The People's Liberation Army, who was used to the relationship between the military and the civilians and did not take the people's needle and thread as a program, suddenly threw him into this era when bandits passed like combs and soldiers passed like combs. He really couldn't accept it for a while.

As if he was looking at Chen Mu's eyes, Shao Tingda scratched his head and showed a distressed look and said, "Brother, don't look at me like this, it's too difficult for us to live in a military household!"

Shao Tingda's words reminded Chen Mu of the first day he had just arrived in the world. His big and thick brothers rubbed their hands and knocked on their door to borrow rice. He couldn't help but sigh, and said softly: "Okay, you'll capture one of the two heads. The credit is enough for you to get rich, so there is no need to kill the people."

When Shao Tingda heard this, he nodded and looked back at the captives pulled by the rope, grinning with his big mouth like a barbell laughing as if he was looking at silver.

Chen Mu could see that before yesterday, Shi Qi, the only one who was silent, had seen the blood killing person, but after last night, the rest of the people had seen life and death, and their spirits immediately became different.

It is easy to understand the Ming army’s killing of Liang and prosper, but it can be understood no matter how understanding it is, Chen Mu cannot accept it. He can’t control others, at least he can control his own people. Killing Liang and prosper? Don’t think about it!

In the book of the Later Han Dynasty, Lu Bu was compared to eagles, saying that hunger is used as a means, and when full is full, go away. But now, in Chen Mu's view, the Ming Dynasty's military households were no more than hungry eagles, and it would be better to have enemies. But there were countless guards like Qingyuan Wei in the world, which had no foreign enemies, and there were countless poor military households like Shao Tingda. The Ming Dynasty was calm on the surface, but who knew what was under the surging undercurrents?

In the fight last night, they captured three and twelve thieves, and had a great harvest. In comparison, the casualties were minimal. Four flag soldiers died under Zhang Yongshou, one of whom was killed by his companions in panic. He used to kill the center with a bird gun. Chen Mu's father originally included seven of them. Old Man Zheng was injured in the thigh during the battle, and now he was sitting in a carriage behind him. He lacked medical treatment and was probably called Mr. Zheng in the future. In addition to him, one of them was killed. Chen Guan, who left his weapons and fled after the battle. He approached the horse and was shot and killed by Bai Yuanjie.

The battle was almost one-sided, and Chen Mu didn't know what happened, so he became the first achievement in this battle. After the war, Bai Yuanjie said that he almost stopped all the bandits who rushed into the camp and kept praising his combat power. There was a lot of awe in the eyes of others looking at him, only he himself knew... It was really luck to kill the five thieves.

Camping at night, although he left the Hei Ridge, his experience of night battles made everyone more alert than before. Chen Mu was bored eating salty and hard dry food in his head and dreaming of the beauty of hiring a chef for a meal. Then he saw Zhang Yongshou coming over with a smile and said to Chen Mu: "Brother Chen, let me talk?"

Chen Mu was a little confused, carefully put the dry food back into his bag, nodded and stood up and walked away a few steps with Zhang Yongshou. Then he saw Zhang Yongshou laughing and said, "Brother Chen, you and I will fight side by side, so Zhang will not say those false words. Brother Chen now has eight heads on his body. I wonder if he is planning to use it to upgrade to the real teaching or to change the reward class?"

Eight? Chen Mu only had a little doubt and knew that Zhang Yongshou had killed his subordinates and counted them. He couldn't tell what Zhang Yongshou meant, and nodded and said, "I am poor in my family, so I want to exchange five heads for silver rewards, Zhang Xiaoqi?"
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