Chapter 70: Returning Home in Glory

The thieves left and the building collapsed.

After a great battle, at least fifteen percent of the buildings in Zhihai Stockade were turned into broken walls.

It was just a battle between two Ding and Bing grade cultivators that caused such tragic consequences.

Although Zhang Gui and Guan Xihui were not ordinary people, it can be seen that the "great power belongs to oneself" in this world is terrifying!

Watching the pirate fleet go far away.

Zhang Gui sat on a pile of bricks, silently using Qi and counting silver notes.

Just now, Guan Xihui boarded the main ship and casually took out a stack of one hundred five-hundred-tael silver notes.

Making Zhang Gui re-evaluate the gold content of the black and white trade on the high seas.

Sighing that poor people really can't completely let go of their imagination.

At this time, his body was unprecedentedly healthy due to his transcendent promotion, but he felt exhausted after a life-and-death battle.

He rested for a long time before he recovered.

He went out of the stockade, carried the silver plates he had hidden in the mountains back to the military stockade.

And started looking for people.

When the trouble started, Zhang Gui discovered that there was no one in the barracks and civilian houses of Zhihai Stockade.

Obviously, the thousands of ragtag soldiers and military families in Zhihai had hidden in advance.

And no matter how big the military stockade was, the only place to hide so many people was the underground hidden soldier cave.

After turning around, Zhang Gui indeed found a secret tunnel entrance in the kitchen.

The entrance was covered by a mountain of firewood.

Zhang Gui stood outside and roared, "Guan Xihui and the others are gone, everyone come up."

After a quarter of an hour, people began to poke their heads out one after another.

Among them, many soldiers wearing old mandarin duck jackets were holding fat goats in their arms, leading

pigs.

Zhang Gui saw this and said with a fake smile:

"Good, the pirates came, you sneaked into the hidden soldier cave, didn't think of an ambush, but brought the New Year goods they gave away.

Really enough promise."

Li Yunbo happened to crawl out tremblingly, bowing to Zhang Gui and begging:

"Governor, don't be angry.

It's really because the thieves are powerful, and the soldiers in our stockade are short of money and food, and haven't practiced for a long time, so it's not easy to ambush.

As for the rice, flour, cattle, and sheep sent by the thief Guan, we are all keeping them for you, sir."

The soldiers and relatives around, whether on the ground or underground, heard this, their faces became gloomy, but they were helpless.

Zhang Gui laughed:

"Old Li, I was just joking because I saw everyone was nervous.

With the bird-like appearance of our military stockade, let alone an ambush, even sparrows can't hatch.

But as the new Governor of Zhihai Stockade, I am very capable, and I knocked fifty thousand taels of silver notes from Guan Xihui's hands, plus five thousand taels of silver plates.

In a while, we will first distribute the festival silver to celebrate the New Year.

The rest is the startup capital for our Zhihai Stockade, and I will manage it well.

I guarantee that everyone will live a good life in the future.

Let's go to the military stockade yamen to discuss it first,"

Li Yunbo was confused, but the situation was stronger than people, so he could only put on a smiling face and follow Zhang Gui to the Zhihai Stockade Yamen.

Out of the kitchen door, the broken walls in the distance, and the crisscrossing cracks and pits on the ground were clearly visible.

Li Yunbo's eyes widened, and looking at Zhang Gui, he was terrified to the point of being unable to suppress it!

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, experts watch the doorway.

A nobody from an ordinary family would be shocked to see such a scene,

But they wouldn't know how rare a teenager who could cause such destruction at the age of sixteen was.

And how terrifying he might become in the future!

But Li Yunxiao, who was born in the direct line of the Muxiangchuan Li Family and was once a "talent with pale green fate, called a commandery talent," knew it well.

However, a person is strong without desire.

The two came to the stockade yamen, and Old Li had already calmed down.

The two sat down in primary and secondary order.

Li Yunbo took the lead and said:

"In the past, half of the money Governor Tao got from Blackwood Town belonged to himself.

The rest was distributed to us.

I was the deputy Governor and got the most, ranging from seven hundred to one thousand a year.

In the past, when the children in the family were still there, half was used to subsidize the family, and half was used in the stockade.

Later, when they were gone, it was all used in the stockade to seek peace of mind.

So I am not a selfless good person.

It's just that I'm old and have no worries, seeking a good reward in the afterlife."

Zhang Gui waved his hand: "You are already a very good person to be able to do this.

But that Governor Tao is really not a good person.

Taking the benefit of twenty thousand taels of silver, he ate ten thousand himself but only gave you one thousand.

Even if there is a difference in rank, it shouldn't be ten times that much, right."

"It's the money from his connections, which according to the old market price, has to be divided by thirty or forty percent.

In addition, if something happens, he is the one who eats the biggest pot, so Governor Tao is actually thick enough."

"Old Li, you are the thick one.

Alright, let's not talk about these idle words.

In a while, you go and gather all the officers and soldiers of the stockade together with the military families.

We will distribute the money on the spot.

Five taels for squad leaders, two taels for regular soldiers, one tael for minor soldiers.

Then recruit soldiers from the military families, and supplement the money when they become soldiers.

After recruiting soldiers, reorganize them on the spot.

Then recruit my personal guards from the soldiers who have family burdens.

Only fifty people, led by me personally.

Divided into five teams to be on duty and enforce the law in the stockade.

In addition, brick and tile craftsmen, blacksmiths, shipbuilders, and their apprentices are all treasures of our military stockade.

They cannot be counted as civilian households.

Master craftsmen are paid as squad leaders, and apprentices as minor soldiers.

Let's just do this for now.

After the New Year, we will make detailed plans."

What do you think?"

"As long as the Governor is willing to spend this silver.

Then what else is there to say.

However, based on your foundation, your future is limitless.

This mere few thousand taels of silver should really not be in your eyes."

Li Yunbo smiled admiringly, got up and left the stockade yamen, and began to act according to orders...

The next day, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the crow wind whistled.

Near the East Inner Sea.

A warship that was quite old, but with the hull and deck polished to a shine, came riding the wind and waves.

It docked at a large empty berth in the Youyu Ward fishing port of Pingyang Town.

A warship that can dock in a civilian fishing port naturally has to be counted as small.

But compared to the fishing boats of ordinary people, it was already a behemoth.

Attracting all eyes on the shore.

On the Lantern Festival, merchants closed their shops early after noon as usual.

Zhang Gui, who walked out of the cabin, looked into the distance and found that his mother was indeed resting.

His heart relaxed, he coughed lightly and said:

"Fire Head, arriving at Pingyang Town is my territory.

Let's go and buy things for the festival first.

Zhao Baiwei, loading and unloading goods will trouble you brothers.

It's all to let the stockade eat and drink well, and send off the New Year lively, so I can only trouble you."

As soon as the voice fell, about fifty tall and strong men wearing mandarin duck jackets and iron helmets with ear covers lined up on the warship.

Led by a middle-aged burly man with a square mouth and a big face wearing fish-skin armor, they bowed in unison, "How dare we talk about any hardship in front of the Governor.

Respectfully follow the military order."

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