Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 75 Chen Guangguo: I’ll pay more!
This is definitely a good thing for Li Yi, who wants to find a place to live and farm.

If this were the case, the Taiping Army would have to bear the military pressure from the Qing Army alone, just as it did in history.

But in Li Yi's opinion, since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to successfully break through the heavy encirclement of the Qing army in history.

Well, now even if there is a time traveler like me, the butterfly, it should not be a big problem.

Well, although Li Yi expressed gratitude for Feng Yunshan's attention and care, between his own interests and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a whole, he would still unswervingly choose to put himself first.

People are always like this. Most of the time, their own interests always come first.

Shaking off the mess in his head, Li Yi looked up and said.

"Of course I can, but I can't act in vain, right?"

"Tell me, what else can this County Magistrate Chen give me?"

Luo Youtian said while gritting his teeth.

"The county magistrate is willing to give you another five thousand taels of hard work in private..."

This time, when collecting the redemption fee from the major households in the county, Chen Guangguo made a lot of money privately.

But after satisfying his low-level interest in gold and silver, Chen Guangguo began to think about trying something more advanced.

For example, promotion, title, success and fame!

Then he began to think about spending money to buy a great victory.

In his opinion, since the enemy general had agreed to withdraw his troops in exchange for money, then pretending to be defeated and taking the money should not be a problem.

At worst, he can just charge more!
Li Yi grinned when he heard this.

"Tsk, your county magistrate is very rich!"

"Three years as a clean prefect, 100,000 silver coins. It seems that not only the prefect can make money, but the county magistrate is also no exception."

Luo Youtian looked slightly embarrassed when he heard this.

Chen Guangguo still knows where his money comes from.

After a while of clicking his tongue, Li Yi immediately spoke.

"But five thousand taels of silver is not enough."

"Ten thousand taels, please!"

"As long as your county magistrate can come up with 10,000 taels, I will cooperate with him in performing the whole play."

"We can give you some of the armor, weapons, flags, and even muskets and artillery used by our army. After all, winning a battle without any spoils of war is not very convincing."

"What do you think?"

The reason why Li Yi said this was mainly because he now had a batch of muskets and artillery that were about to be scrapped and needed to be dealt with in his army.

Well, all of them were captured from the Qing army. The quality is so poor that they are completely unusable.

Especially the cannons captured by Li Yisan when he attacked Xunzhou, they were really outdated.

Previously, when the artillery under Li Yi's unit was bombarding outside Teng County to intimidate Teng County, they deliberately reduced the amount of powder. As a result, the barrel of one of the cannons deformed during firing and almost exploded.

No matter what, Li Yi definitely didn't dare to use these old cannons anymore.

Then, Li Yi began to think about it. Since these things were going to be disposed of soon anyway, it would be better to recycle them and exchange them for more gold and silver from Teng County.

Well, Li Yi's golden finger is good in every way, the only drawback is that he is too greedy for money...

After hearing this, Luo Youtian became conflicted.

But finally he spoke.

"Please wait a moment, General. I still need to go back and ask the county lord for instructions on this matter..."

Li Yi nodded and agreed.

Soon, in less than an hour, Luo Youtian came to the Li family army camp again to ask to see Li Yi.

"General, my county lord has agreed to your request."

"However, the county magistrate only has 5,000 taels of silver in hand, and I would like to use other things to pay off the remaining 5,000 taels. I wonder if the general can accept it?" Although Chen Guangguo took some kickbacks in the collection of the ransom fee.

But this kickback must be shared among the county government officials, and Chen Guangguo cannot just take it all.

After everyone shared the profits, the total amount of silver left in his hands was only eight thousand taels!

It’s really not enough for the ten thousand taels that Li Yi asked for this time!

Unless Chen Guangguo is willing to pay to be an official...

Of course, this is impossible!

Li Yi became interested after hearing this. He wanted to see what tricks the Teng County Magistrate could come up with for him, so he immediately opened his mouth to ask.

"Tell me, what does your county lord want to use to pay off the debt?"

Luo Youtian took a deep breath and spoke as if he had made up his mind.

"people!"

"Your army must need manpower for the rebellion. There are a group of prisoners in Teng County Prison now, more than 200 people in total, all of whom are brave and willing to die."

"If the general is interested, the county lord can take the initiative to hand over these prisoners to the general."

"General, if you can subdue these prisoners and use them for your own benefit, your cause will be greatly enhanced!"

Well, Chen Guangguo is now self-taught and is ready to emulate the two emperors Huizong and Qinzong.

When the Jingkang Incident broke out, the Jin soldiers marched south to the Central Plains and besieged Kaifeng with heavy troops.

In order to force the Jin troops to withdraw and lift the siege of Kaifeng, the rulers and ministers of the Song Dynasty once considered spending money to redeem the city.

However, when the Jin soldiers asked for a price, the Song Dynasty could not afford it and could only use the beautiful women in Kaifeng City and noble ladies from the Song Dynasty royal family to pay off the debt.

Chen Guangguo thinks so now.

However, compared with the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty, Chen Guangguo still has some dignity.

Although he was in collusion with the bandits, he could not do anything like using the women in the city to pay off debts.

I just plan to make use of the prisoners in the cell.

In addition, Chen Guangguo was thinking about mixing some sand in these prisoners so as to send some spies among the bandits.

He will also be able to grasp the movements of the bandits later!
In this way, whether it is to guard against the bandits attacking Teng County again, or the imperial army's subsequent attack to suppress the bandits, he can deal with it properly.

Upon hearing this, Li Yi pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement.

"Of course I can use people to pay off my debts."

"But I don't want prisoners. I only want craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, doctors, teachers, anyone with a skill."

Li Yi knew that what Chen Guangguo fired was a sugar-coated bullet.

Knowing that Chen Guangguo might use the opportunity of using someone to pay off a debt, he sent spies to Li Yi.

But Li Yi doesn't care about this.

Now, the people under his command included members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, surrendered Qing troops, members of the Tiandihui, fellow villagers of the Li and Wang families, common people of Xunzhou, families of the Taiping Army who were captured and then rescued, and new soldiers recruited in Teng County...

The ingredients are messy and complicated!
It has long been infiltrated by various forces like a sieve.

Lice are not itchy when there are too many of them, and Li Yi doesn't care about having more spies sent by Chen Guangguo.

how to say?

In this world, people's hearts are never static.

Some people may be spies temporarily, but they will not always be spies.

As long as Li Yi can lead his troops from one victory to another, most of the spies will be gradually influenced in the process.

As for the remaining ones that cannot be persuaded, we can slowly clean them up later!

(End of this chapter)