Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 724 Two people on the grain cart

   Li Xin, who was still hurting the bandit children along the way, didn't know that he had been targeted by a few people named Yuwen in the north. At this time, the Marquis of Jing'an was still very happy.

He first took hundreds of people, took off his armor, and walked in front of hundreds of carts of grain in civilian clothes, and he didn't take the official road. In this way, those bandits who were begging for food in the green forest would naturally With red eyes, he cried out and robbed the hundreds of carts of food.

   Grain is a serious hard currency. It is the most important thing in any era. There is no one. Hundreds of carts of grain are enough for a stockade of bandits to eat for a year, and no one will not be tempted.

   Don't doubt whether the bandit profession exists or not.

In later generations, the activities of the green forest ringing horses have disappeared. After all, no matter how deep they hide, they can’t stop the siege of the government and the yamen. The cost of crime is too high, and everyone can basically have enough to eat. .

   But this era is very different.

  In this era, there are really people who can’t get enough to eat, and there are still a lot of people.

   And at this time, as long as you find a steep mountain top, pull a number of 100 people, have a knife and a bow, the local government really can't do anything about you, and as for a large-scale army, they are not willing to deal with these thieves.

This is a real occupation. People in this era basically dare not go on the road alone. It is good to walk on the official road. After all, the official road is not easy to escape. Wealth kills.

Li Xin has been "fishing for law enforcement" for four or five days, and three waves of robbers hit his gun. After the embargo, everyone looked pale.

Most of the three waves of bandits were killed by Li Xin, or handed over to the local government, but the young people in the bandits, young people in their twenties and twenties, were all kept by him and incorporated into his team. , ready to take them to the Zhenbei Army to join the army.

Among the descendants of the summers, unless those people are born very bad, no one will willingly go up the mountains and fall to the grass in the Taiping era. Most of them are not enough to eat, or they have been orphans since childhood. There is no need to kill these people. Giving them a way out is much better than killing them with a knife.

   However, Li Xin's routine, after three or four times, will not work.

   They have now reached the territory of Jizhou. After coming down three times, the robbers in the whole Jizhou knew that a group of officers and soldiers were pretending to be "fat sheep". Since then, no matter how narrow the road they walked, no one dared to move their minds.

  The team moved forward slowly.

   Li Xin, dressed in black, lay lazily on the roof of a grain truck, holding a new spring dog's tail grass in his mouth, without the slightest image of an important court official.

   "Hou Ye~"

A young man with a flexible body also climbed to the top of the grain cart in three or two times, crouched beside Li Xin, and said with a smile, "Master Hou, no one has robbed us for more than ten days, these bandits are too timid. already."

   This young man is naturally Zhao Fang, who has lived in Jing'an Hou's mansion for five years.

   Now, he has unknowingly changed the name of Li Xin.

Li Xin has always been a very careful person. He naturally noticed the change in Zhao Fang's title, but he pretended to be okay and said with a smile: "There are no stupid people in this world, Jizhou Green Forest will definitely communicate with each other and eat. After a few losses, it is impossible to be fooled again.”

   said, Li Xin glanced at Zhao Fang.

   "Is there any problem with the more than 100 young people handing over to you?"

The young people who were "captured" from the bandit gang were all included in the team by Li Xin, but they had no leader, so Li Xin arranged Zhao Fang as their boss and let this young man take care of them These little bandits.

   Among these little thieves, the oldest is only 21 or 22 years old, and the youngest is only 12 or 13 years old. Most of them are 15 or 16 years old.

   Zhao Fang smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, Lord Hou, after ten days, they have already recognized me as the boss."

  Li Xin squinted his eyes and said lightly, "This is your ability, very good."

   "Remember, these people will be your team in the future. After reaching Jimen Pass, I will seal you a captain. These young men are your soldiers."

   "If you bring them to do meritorious deeds, you will be able to climb up."

   said, Li Xin glanced at Zhao Fang and said lightly: "But you are also very talented in reading, and you can also take the exam. If you don't want to join the army, I won't stop you."

   Zhao Fang looked serious.

   He stood up from the grain cart and saluted Li Xin deeply.

   "Master Hou, I am willing to join the army."

   Li Xin was still lying down and gave him a light look.

"why?"

   "Because you are a military attache, Lord Hou."

Zhao Fang's voice was calm, and he said, "I have been studying since I was a child. In the future, I will study the preferences of the examiner. It may not be difficult to get a jinshi, but even if I get a jinshi, I still have to go up and down in the official circle. Even if everything goes well, when I stand in the court When he was high up in the hall, his beard was gray."

   "Besides, the rules of Dajin are different from those of Northern Zhou. Dajin doesn't have a decent family of officials. My father is a prime minister, and my son may not even be able to win the election. If I become a civil servant, I won't be able to become a family..."

   Zhao Fang could see clearly.

The Great Jin is different from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Those aristocratic families in the Northern Zhou Dynasty can be officials by virtue of their clan, and some can even achieve the fourth and third princes, and the fifth and third princes. After the emperor, without fame, he could not become an official.

On the contrary, the military attachés of the Great Jin are full of generals. The best example is the Ye family. Today's young master Ye Mao has just turned 30, but once Ye Ming dies, he can immediately rank Chen Guogong and is qualified to become any An army general.

   The young man bowed his head and said, "So, I want to join the army like Lord Marquis. If I become a civil official, I will have no one to rely on. After joining the army, there will still be Lord Marquis to rely on."

   Li Xin was still lying lazily, but he glanced at the young man with admiration.

   "You are indeed very smart."

   "But the military officer's road seems to be a one-step journey to the sky, but there is no shortcut to take. If you want to climb up, you have to make credit. Without credit, no one can help you."

   Zhao Fang had a smile on his face.

   "As long as Lord Hou gives me the opportunity to make meritorious deeds."

  Li Xin closed his eyes, didn't say anything, just asked lightly: "Have you figured it out?"

   "I figured it out."

   This young man from the Li family in Zhao County stood on the high grain cart and knelt down before Li Xin.

   "Master Hou, I admit that I had some thoughts of taking advantage of the young lady, but I have thought about it carefully these days. Even if I don't have this idea, I also like the young lady."

   "In the past few years, I will always follow behind you, grow up a little more, and when I return to the capital, I will strive for the little lady to marry me."

   He kowtowed to Li Xin.

   "Little Miss said, you won't stop her from marrying anyone."

"so be it."

   Li Xin opened his eyes and glanced at Zhao Fang lightly.

   "The heart is separated from the belly, and I can't see what you think in your heart, but no matter what your thoughts are, if Xiao Xiao agrees with you, you must treat her well."

   "Otherwise, I will kill you."

   (end of this chapter)