Chapter 142

Hearing this, the Squad Leader immediately let go of the roast chicken in his hand, wiped it messily on his body, reached out, and said: "My name is Cao Jin, thank you for the hospitality, Noble Person."

Jiang Jinshi's smile froze on his face. Looking at the other party's greasy hand, he hesitated for only a moment before reaching out and shaking hands with the other party.

"I am Jiang Jinshi!"

"I wonder what business you want to do with me?" Cao Jin had a greedy look, which, combined with his current appearance, looked a bit ridiculous.

Jiang Jinshi said with a smile: "I want to buy your position as Squad Leader with silver. I wonder what you think?"

"This deal is a bit inappropriate!" Cao Jin responded with a serious face.

"Where is it inappropriate?" Jiang Jinshi was still smiling, but his hand hidden under the table was clenched into a fist, ready to take action against the other party at any time.

Xiao Chunqiu quietly sat back a bit, ready to leave the battlefield at any time.

Cao Jin shook his head: "If this position could be sold, I would have sold it long ago. Why wait until today? The transfer order is not up to me either."

"Then don't bother yourself, you just take the silver and leave."

"Good! As long as it's one hundred taels, I will leave Licheng immediately and never come back in this life." Cao Jin's eyes lit up, quite a bit like he had taken advantage.

Jiang Jinshi's clenched fist loosened, and after hesitating for a moment, he took out a silver note of one hundred taels and handed it to the other party.

"This is a silver note from the Da Qian Bank. You can go to the bank to exchange for silver anywhere within the Da Qian Dynasty."

Cao Jin carefully took the silver note, and after carefully identifying it was correct, he smiled: "Noble Person is straightforward, this silver note is no problem, I will go home immediately to pack my things and leave."

Jiang Jinshi didn't speak again, just nodded.

Seeing this situation, Cao Jin also got up and left without any hesitation.

After the person left, Xiao Chunqiu asked puzzledly: "This is different from what was agreed at the beginning! What if he goes back now and brings people here? Wouldn't you be in danger?"

"He won't!" Jiang Jinshi revealed a somewhat intriguing smile. This person was smarter than he imagined.

Under that wretched appearance hid a delicate heart. He had only been in the room for a short time and could see who was in charge between himself and Xiao Chunqiu.

After he said let's talk while eating, Xiao Chunqiu didn't speak, and he never looked at Xiao Chunqiu again. Even when he left just now, he didn't greet Xiao Chunqiu.

There is one more point! Do ordinary people see silver notes?

He really didn't have one hundred taels of cash on him, and he could have asked people from several families to send it, but he deliberately took the silver note to test the other party. He didn't expect the other party to really know how to identify it.

One hundred taels of silver is not much. As long as he can steadily take down Licheng and have no casualties on his side, it is a cost-effective deal.

As for this person, Jiang Jinshi didn't take it to heart. Since the other party was sensible, then this one hundred taels was what he deserved to earn.

Cao Jin walked out of the restaurant and immediately ran home without stopping. His expression was not as relaxed as before, but extremely heavy.

"I didn't expect Yangguangzhai to have thoughts about Licheng. It looks like County Magistrate Xiao has already formed a united front with the other party. I must hurry and take my family and run!"

He had heard how miserably the Squad Leader of the neighboring Jiangcheng died. He not only didn't die but also got one hundred taels of silver. If he didn't run now, when would he?

Cao Jin had a natural talent, which was that he never forgot a person's face.

Perhaps even Xiao Chunqiu himself had forgotten that at that time, he thought Lan Hama died at the hands of Yangguangzhai, so he got Jiang Jinshi's portrait from the Tang family and prepared to take action against him to avenge Lan Hama.

And Cao Jin only saw Jiang Jinshi's portrait once at that time. Seeing it today, he recognized him.

In order to appear natural, he deliberately pretended to be a starving ghost and then used greasy hands to shake hands with the other party, just to dispel the other party's suspicion.

It was not easy to escape from the hands of that fierce bandit. The one hundred taels of silver he mentioned was just to corroborate his greedy performance and reduce the other party's murderous intent.

It was just that he didn't expect the other party not to bargain and just gave him the silver note so easily.

Now what he was afraid of was that he had the life to take this money but not the life to spend it, so he had to hurry home and take his parents away from this place of right and wrong.

Without the Squad Leader taking the lead, the remaining soldiers were a plate of loose sand. Xiao Chunqiu directly ordered everyone to disband on the spot.

For the sake of safety, Jiang Jinshi mobilized two hundred people from Jiangcheng to guard Licheng to prevent these soldiers from making trouble.

With this mobilization, Jiang Jinshi discovered that his manpower was seriously insufficient.

Shixian Mountain undoubtedly needed people to guard and look after, and Lianhuan Shan also needed people to temporarily hold the base camp. After all, the salt factory was still on Lianhuan Shan and hadn't been moved down, not to mention everyone's family members.

At this time, he had to divide his troops into two to guard Jiangcheng and Licheng, and daily training and city guarding matters were divided into day and night shifts.

So taking down Licheng had already exhausted Jiang Jinshi's troops. Although he really wanted to take down Qingcheng, he could only discuss it later.

Such scattered personnel made Jiang Jinshi feel a sense of crisis. He always felt that his steps were too big. If something really happened, he wouldn't be able to support it in time.

During this period, Jiang Jinshi also discovered an interesting thing. Some people who came from Jiangcheng to Licheng hadn't been stable for two days when they found that Yangguangzhai had come again, and they could only continue to pack their bags and leave without stopping.

Now Jiang Jinshi was very relieved to hand over Jiangcheng to Feng Chunsheng and the team leaders, while he sat in Licheng himself, assisted by Xiao Chunqiu.

Jiang Jinshi didn't worry much and just copied the set from Jiangcheng to Licheng, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

It was just that Xiao Chunqiu was very worried and took the initiative to point out a fatal shortcoming of the Yangguangzhai mountain bandits.

Xiao Chunqiu had seen the team leaders of Yangguangzhai. Their martial arts were very strong, and it could be said that they were full of aggressiveness, but they had no armor.

On the battlefield, soldiers with armor and soldiers without armor were not on the same level at all.

Without armor, even someone as strong as Jiang Jinshi couldn't withstand being attacked from all sides.

You must know that in the laws of Da Qian, there was still room for maneuver for privately making weapons or bows and arrows, but privately hiding armor was a major crime of treason, and the nine clans would basically be executed.

This was the importance of armor!

It could be said that when Xiao Chunqiu pointed out this shortcoming, he had already concluded in his heart that there would inevitably be a battle between Jiang Jinshi and the governor or the Prince of Zhenbei, sooner or later.

If it weren't for Xiao Chunqiu's reminder, Jiang Jinshi really wouldn't have thought of it for a while. He himself had a piece of inner armor sent by the system, but the brothers under his command didn't have any!

If they really fought with regular troops, he and others would definitely suffer a big loss.

So Jiang Jinshi slowed down other matters and focused on making armor.

This thing belonged to the type that couldn't be bought with money and could only be made by thinking of ways.

So Jiang Jinshi immediately spread the news to the two cities, hiring blacksmiths with monthly pay higher than the market price.

Of course, the blacksmith's task was not to make armor, but to make weapons and bows and arrows.

As for armor, Jiang Jinshi had an idea. He didn't know if it would work to make it with paper?