"Sir, we are going to Datong this time because we are rich, so there is no need to be so careful." The person who spoke was a Jin Yiwei wearing a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist.
In the capital, although they, the Imperial Guards, are not as good as those adults, they still live a very comfortable life. They can eat and drink for free wherever they go. Some shops and roadside stalls without backstages have to pay them some filial piety on weekdays.
After leaving Beijing, with the clothes and badges they were wearing, no one dared to stop them from breaking into the county government office to arrest people.
"Put it on quickly if you are told to do so. There is so much nonsense."
Among the Jin Yiwei, there is a Bai Hu, who is also leading the team this time and has the highest rank.
Although the other Jin Yiwei showed reluctance on their faces, they still followed the instructions. Everyone changed into ordinary people's clothes, and the embroidered spring knives on their waists were also wrapped in rags.
The Jinyiwei Baihu said, "Guys, please don't find it troublesome. This time's errand is difficult to handle. When we get to the end of the field, our flying fish uniforms may not be effective. We might just be caught and thrown into the river to feed the fish."
"Sir, didn't we go to Datong to check the tiger-character flag? How dangerous can a local business be?" The person who spoke was a thin-faced Jin Yiwei.
The Jinyiwei Baihu said, "We have arrived in Yuzhou now, and we will arrive at Lingqiu soon. I won't hide it from you. You must have seen those four-wheeled carts along the way, as well as the bodyguards holding blunderbuss."
Several Jin Yiwei who had changed their clothes nodded.
Along the way, the thing they saw the most, apart from the sallow and skinny people, was undoubtedly these four-wheeled vehicles.
Four-wheeled carts passed through Yuzhou one after another, heading towards Tianjin Wei and the capital, and they also found out that many of these four-wheeled carts were going to Xuanfu and several border forts.
As soon as they saw these four-wheeled carts and the carts full of goods, they felt the wealth of Tiger Flag. For them, since they came to check a business in Lingqiu, it was naturally a good job.
If the proprietor of the Tiger-Character Flag knows the identity of their Jinyiwei and can carelessly flatter them, they should be able to get a lot for their filial piety. Otherwise, if they don't talk casually, the entire Tiger-Character Flag will be wiped out by the imperial court.
The Jinyiwei Baihu said, "I have made inquiries on the way here. There has never been a horse bandit along the way who dared to attack the Tiger Flag's convoy. You are also old people from the Jinyiwei, so you should understand what this means."
Several Jin Yiwei looked surprised.
As long as it is a convoy, it will be targeted by horse thieves and bandits from all over the country. Especially a convoy like Tiger Flag, which travels frequently, and it is impossible not to encounter bandits every time.
Even on their way from the capital, they encountered several small groups of bandits. When they saw the flying fish uniforms of their Jin Yiwei and the weapons in their hands, they knew they were not easy to provoke, so they took the initiative to retreat.
It is even more impossible for a convoy like Hu Ziqi to haul goods without encountering those horse thieves and bandits.
There are only two possibilities for bandits and horse thieves to avoid the tiger-character flag convoy. One is to be killed by the tiger-character flag's guards, and the second is that the bandits and horse bandits going everywhere in the tiger-character flag convoy are all tigers. People with the word flag may have some connections.
The Tiger-Character Flag convoy went to the capital and Tianjin Wei, and even went south to Henan, Shandong and other places. It is naturally impossible that the bandits in these places are related to the Tiger-Character Flag. Then the only possibility left is that these bandits will all be killed. .
The Jin Yiwei present are not the kind of people who just wait to die. They all have some brains, otherwise they would not send Jing to do things.
“You understand it, right?”
The Jin Yiwei Baihu saw that several Jin Yiwei under his command came to their senses, with a sneer on their lips.
Along the way, the Jin Yiwei under his command were all thinking about getting rich. It was as if they were paying all kinds of filial piety as soon as they arrived at Lingqiu. They never thought that they would encounter danger.
He didn't want to accept the mission to Datong this time, so he stayed in the capital. With the flying fish suit on his body, he could not live a wealthy life, but he also lived in wealth, with no shortage of food and clothing.
Normally when he goes out of Beijing, the well-oiled errands are not his turn, and they are snatched away early. This time, no one is fighting for them, and it falls directly on his head, which gives him a bad feeling.
The errand was handed down by the commander, and he could not be allowed to refuse. If he did not accept it and lost the job of Jin Yiwei, his end would not be too good, so he could only accept the job bravely.
Along the way out of Beijing, he learned a lot about the tiger-character flag, and observed the convoy and escorts of the tiger-character flag many times. He realized that the tiger-character flag was not simple. It was difficult to say whether it was bandit or not, but He is definitely a man-eating tiger in the area. If he and the few people he brought with him are not allowed to return to Beijing alive, it will be difficult.
The thin-faced Jin Yiwei was the first to speak, "Sir, I will listen to you as to what you want to do."
"Yes, we all listen to you, sir."
Several other Jin Yiwei also spoke one after another.
The Jinyiwei Baihu glanced at the Jinyiwei in front of them and said, "When we get to Lingqiu, don't think about getting rich. This trip is just a hard job. Our mission is to bring back everything we saw in Lingqiu. Others Don't care about or ask about anything, from now on, we are just refugees fleeing from famine until we return to Beijing."
"Don't worry, sir, we know how powerful we are." Slim-faced Jin Yiwei was the first to agree.
Several other Jin Yiwei also gave up the idea of getting rich. Compared with surviving, getting rich is not that important.
After changing his clothes, Jin Yiwei came out of the inn, mixed with the crowd on the street, left the city, mixed with some fleeing refugees, and walked towards Lingqiu.
There is a severe drought in the north, and grain production is decreasing in various places. There is not much spring grain harvest, and there is not much autumn grain harvest. Many people who cannot survive have no choice but to leave their hometown and come to Lingqiu to seek a way to survive.
As for why I only came to Lingqiu and not to other places.
Because there are people from the Tiger Flag everywhere preaching that Lingqiu's food production has not decreased, but has a bumper harvest, and there are still jobs in Lingqiu, so you will not go hungry when you arrive in Lingqiu.
In addition, some people who have been to Lingqiu know that Lingqiu is indeed rich, and many people who have no food to eat naturally go to Lingqiu to make a living.
Since Huzi Banner cooperated with the Li family, the amount of iron goods needed suddenly increased a lot, and the demand for workers also increased. The people of Lingqiu and Guangling alone could not meet the needs at all, and could only buy from all around. The county is recruiting more people.
The trade routes between the Tiger Character Banner and the grassland have also been opened. At the time when the Tiger Character Banner's soldiers are expanding, more soldiers need to be recruited, and more manpower is needed.
Even if the people who come to Lingqiu to make a living cannot stay for a long time, it can greatly alleviate the Tiger Character Banner's demand for manpower.
"These Jin Yiwei think they can avoid being discovered by us by changing their clothes. It's a joke. They don't know it yet, but we have already been targeting them."
In the crowd of refugees, the same refugee covered in patches was talking to someone next to him.
The man next to me warned, "Be careful, don't lose me."
"Don't worry, I've been with them all the way. The ordinary refugees are all sallow and thin, but there are only a few of them. They don't look like refugees at first glance. They are easy to recognize."
"Yang Tou said, no matter what these people do when they come to Lingqiu, we don't have to worry about it, as long as they don't lose them."
The few Jinyi guards from the capital did not know that they had long been targeted by people from the Tiger Character Banner's Foreign Intelligence Bureau.
