A blacksmith must be strong himself. Zhou Shixiang was actually not sure whether he could beat Deqing's Qing army, but he could not show any hesitation and lack of confidence. Instead, he made a bold statement to strengthen Duke Xiang of Song and not let him be shaken at all. As for whether his words matched the identity of scholars, Zhou Shixiang was completely unaware of it. Even if he knew it, he would not have to hide it.

Ge Wu and others were patrolling the city with young men in the city, and Zhao Sihai was also leading people to search for the arrested fish of the Qing army. Zhou Shixiang was unable to summon them for a while, so he put down the money first and took Duke Xiang of Song to count the seized Qing army weapons.

On the way, Duke Xiang of Song asked Zhou Shixiang what the character "大" was. Zhou Shixiang whispered, and then he remembered that in addition to his names, the ancients usually had alias related to the meaning of their real name given to him by their parents or teachers, called "大". At the beginning, the ancients had the character "大", but to this day, they were mostly privileged by scholars. Usually, peddlers and barracks, but poor people did not have the privilege of taking the character "大", "大", "大" and "大" and so on.

The original owner of the body was a scholar, so he naturally had the word "大". After Zhou Shi became a scholar, his father asked the Xinhui teacher to give the word "大", which was called "大", which was in line with his name "大". However, Zhou Shixiang now doesn't want to use the word "大". After searching in his mind for a moment, he said to Song Xianggong: "I don't use the word "大" in the past. Now Zhou is burdened with family hatred and national hatred. From now on, he will use the word "大" as the word "大"!"

"Destroy Hu?"

Duke Xiang of Song was stunned and immediately linked Zhou Shixiang's name "Dehu" to Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, "Why did the Huns do their family before they were destroyed?" while admiring them, he kept praising them.

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Kong Guoliang's troops were the Green Camp soldiers of the Qing army. In nature, they belonged to the Qing Dynasty's stubborn troops. Most of them were adapted from the original Ming army. Therefore, the Qing court did not provide them with weapons and equipment, but only provided military pay and food and grass. Sometimes they even had to raise food and grass by themselves.

No one of Kong Guoliang's more than 400 Jiangxi soldiers were equipped with armor, and Kong Guoliang, the general manager, did not have one. From top to bottom, they were mainly zithered clothes. The big circle on the front chest and back was written with a big word "soldier", which was roughly the same as the bravery of the Qing army in later film and television dramas. The only difference is that these Jiangxi soldiers do not have long braids that can be wrapped around their necks, and they are all golden rat-tail braids that are only as long as slaps.

Zhou Shixiang originally thought that these Jiangxi Green Camp soldiers should have some muskets, but the weapons they found in the city were all knives, long spears and hook knives, and there were no muskets. After asking the prisoners, they learned that the Qing court had already banned the green camp soldiers from equipped with muskets. Except for the former "Sanshun King", which is the current King of Pingnan Shang Kexi, King Jingnan Geng Jimao, and King Dingnan Kong Youde (dead) had firearms, the rest of the troops were not equipped with firearms.

The purpose of this move is probably related to the fact that the Eight Banners practiced riding and shooting. Since the Song Dynasty, Han people who work as farming have not been good at riding and shooting. Manchu and Mongolian nomadic, riding and shooting were their basic means of survival. Therefore, in view of military advantages and population advantages over the Han people, the Qing court has banned the green camps from the sixth year of Shunzhi, so that the military advantages of the Manchu and Mongolian Han Banners over the Han people's green camps could be maintained, and the Green Camp soldiers composed of Han people were forced to fight south and north for them to be used as cannon fodder.

The counted swords, swords, guns, and spears were the same as those of the Qing soldiers. In addition, more than 30 shields were paid, but no long-range shooting weapons such as bows and arrows were sold. Seven horses were also paid. Except for Kong Guoliang's inferior Mongolian horse, the other six were slow horses used to pull carts, and the slaughter was not very useful. There were also more than a dozen donkey carts, mule carts, etc., but a few donkeys were burned to death last night, so they had been stolen by the people to eat meat.

After ordering Qingqiang to send his weapons to the prefect's yamen, Zhou Shixiang accompanied Song Xiang to inspect the resettlement of the victims.

A small official from the magistrate's yamen and two original local officials in Dongcheng and several other large households were organized together. Most of the victims had been resettled. If there were relatives in the city, they would go to their relatives' houses, and if there were no relatives, they would temporarily stay at the resettlement site under the East City Wall. There were dozens of tents, each of which could accommodate two to three families. The rest were also placed in some empty houses in the city that were originally unoccupied. Overall, it was quite appropriate.

In terms of food, Lu Changyuan and his friends thought that the victims were all part of the villagers, but they did not take it off and they raised some food and grass from wealthy families one after another. However, they could only serve two meals of porridge a day, so they could barely survive. It was difficult to eat enough, but it was difficult to eat well. Even so, this was good. You must know that before the fire, most of the people in Luoding City could live like this, and even during the Chinese New Year, they might not be able to eat a meal of meat.

Relying on wealthy families alone to support the support can only be a temporary measure. In Luoding City, only a population of more than 3,000, how many big families can have? If you really want to live in vain, no matter how many big families can, you can't stand it. If these victims can completely settle down, they have to have the power to feed themselves, otherwise it will be an unsolvable knot.

It is naturally the best way to ignore it, but Zhou Shixiang couldn't make up this heart. He also wanted to rely on these more than 3,000 people to create a new situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty and abandoning everyone. Whoever dares to believe him in the future, and who is willing to follow him?

It was not possible to solve the problem for the time being, so Zhou Shixiang put it aside first. Until the evening, he ordered people to call Ge Wu, Zhao Sihai and other core figures to the prefect's office.

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"What, use the money to recruit soldiers?!"

When he heard that Zhou Shixiang was going to use the silver to recruit soldiers, Ge Wu and others were unhappy. They started to quarrel and said a lot of strange things.

"This silver was exchanged for the brothers with their heads, why should I take it out!"

"Recruiting soldiers is a good thing. We don't object, but you can't use our money to recruit soldiers!"

"You said that being an official can make a fortune. My brothers believed it and tried their best to help maintain it during the day. I just waited to settle down and make another fortune. But now I can't keep my word again. If you keep doing this, brothers can't listen to you anymore."

"Everyone thinks that the amount of money is too little, so you must not take out that amount of money!"

"Brother Zhou, do you think our group of people can really do a great career?"

“…”

Zhou Shixiang listened quietly, Duke Xiang of Song looked worried, and Boss Hu also frowned. When Zhou Shixiang told him in advance that he would pay the money, he knew that there would definitely be trouble. As expected, none of the men under his command agreed.

After everyone was finished quarreling, Zhou Shixiang walked to Ge Wu, who was so angry that he was blushed, and asked him: "If we don't use this money to recruit soldiers, what will Brother Ge do?"

"Of course, I'm going to split up, what else can I do?" Ge Wuyi looked as if he was taken for granted, and Ge Liu kept nodding.

"It's a good thing to divide it. Everyone can afford it. It's not in vain to come to Luoding City with their heads. It's more than 4,000 taels. Well, everyone can get dozens of taels. If you blackmail it in the city, you'll make a fortune no matter how you try." Speaking of this, Zhou Shixiang changed his mind and said, "But if we break Luoding City, the noise is so big. Do you think the Qing army can let us go?"

"What do you mean?"

"In the past, we were making small fuss in the mountains, so the Qing army naturally did not take us seriously, but now we are fighting under the banner of the Yongli court, which is very different from the bandits who robbed families. In the eyes of the Qing army, we are no longer bandits, but Ming army! Let's ask, the Qing army can watch us wash Luoding City and then return to the village to continue to be the mountain king!"

"this..."

Ge Wu's face changed drastically, and the rest of the people looked bad. Yes, they were just busy making money, but they didn't expect how to deal with the aftermath and destroy Luoding City. Then the Tartars could let us go?

Zhou Shixiang threatened again: "The Qing army is really determined to suppress us, but I am afraid that by then everyone will not only not be able to save money, but also not even their lives!"

"According to what you said, not only can we not take this money, but we also have to leave honestly?" Ge Wu was a little scared and a little unwilling to accept the consequences.

Zhou Shixiang shook his head slightly: "I'm not saying that I'm taking it all out. I mean to only take half of it. When we recruit soldiers, we will naturally not be afraid of the Qing army coming to fight when there are too many people. What's this called..."

"The power of self-protection." Duke Xiang of Song cooperated with him in a timely manner.

"Yes, the power to protect us!" Zhou Shixiang said loudly, "With the power to protect us, we not only have money, but also protect our troops. In this way, the Qing army will not dare to attack us easily. When our strength is greater, we are not afraid that the Qing army will come to attack us, but we will attack the Qing army! If we can take Luo Ding, we can take Deqing, Qingqing, and even Guangzhou City, it will not be impossible to fight to Beijing City in the future!"

"Brother Zhou, you are so sarcastic, aren't you?"

The prospects depicted by Zhou Shixiang made Ge Wu and the others stunned. Who could believe it? Even Boss Hu opened his mouth wide and couldn't believe it. However, Duke Xiang of Song had bright eyes and was full of spirit.

Zhou Shixiang waved his hand: "It's up to people! As long as we all want to work together, what's wrong in this world? When we said we wanted to fight Luo Ding, everyone didn't believe it? But what now?"

Ge Wu didn't know whether he was frightened by Zhou Shixiang's big words or was really moved, so he hesitated: "That's what you said, but you're too lingering. Not to mention Guangzhou, we can't even fight Deqing."

Zhou Shixiang swung his raised hand down, drew a long arc and said, "You haven't tried it, how can you know you can't beat it?"

"I..." Ge Wu said with a dry mouth, unable to say a word.

"In the future, every time we break through a land, we will take out some money we robbed, and we will give the rest to everyone. The more troops and the stronger we are, the more places we can capture, and the more places we occupy, the more money we will get! At that time, it will not be a big snatch and make a fortune, but a real wealth and honor, and a wife and son! This is called sustainable development! So don't just look at the little money in front of us, and you have to look back. You are getting less now, but more and more in the future!"

Everyone was speechless after hearing this. After a while, Zhao Sihai said, "Scholar, when will we be truly prosperous and prosperous? Are we not afraid of the Tartars coming to fight?"

"When?" Zhou Shixiang looked confident, "When the Tartars in the world are afraid of us, everyone will naturally be at ease and enjoy the glory and wealth!"
Chapter completed!