The army in Hulao Pass is getting fewer and fewer day by day. The main force is basically concentrated in Wan County to rest and recuperate. Next, we will set out towards Yongdu. The army needs to arrive at their respective destinations before the first heavy snowfall, and complete the encirclement and blockade of Yongdu. Now, in addition to protecting the Emperor's Fire Death Camp, Hulao has only left a garrison battalion. This garrison battalion was reorganized from the Qingzhou Army and also serves as a support for the Hengduan Mountain Army.

The only thing Ming Dynasty is still fighting is the Hengduan Mountains. The Qi army concentrated about 20,000 troops to launch an attack on the fortress controlled by the Ming army in the Hengduan Mountains. With the Ming army being precautioned, except for the initial launch of several fierce attacks and being hit by the Ming army head-on attack, it has been calm and calm. With the Ming army defeated the Qin army, this kind of attack has been less. The Ming army has received information. After the Ming Qin war ended, Guo Xiancheng returned to Chang'an.

Guo Xiancheng's departure means that the war in Hengduan Mountains is about to end

The Ming Dynasty will usher in a rare period of peace

Now all kinds of caravans are filled with Huzhu.

The Ming Dynasty court has always contracted the transportation task of the army's logistics supplies to various merchants. The court purchased military supplies from these merchants, and the purchase price included freight. Merchants who won the bid to obtain these orders must transport the required items to the location of guidance within the specified time. Once the deadline is exceeded, they will not only face huge fines, but also punishment from the court. More importantly, if they lose their credit, they will no longer receive orders from the court.

The court's orders are extremely profitable, but the risks are really not small. Of course, the ones who can take on such orders will not be small merchants. Basically, every one is a famous giant merchant in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the court dared to put aside a big burden in this move. In the past, large-scale troops had to supply the combat needs of 100,000 troops, and at least tens of thousands of civilians were required to provide for tens of thousands of civilians. Now after handing all of these to merchants, the purchase price seemed to be much more expensive, but when counting the general account, it saved a lot of money.

Merchants are more proficient in calculations, they are good at reducing costs to the lowest level, and the government cannot do this anyway.

In addition to these caravans, private merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty are now gathering here. For them, every time the Ming Dynasty opens up a piece of Xinjiang, it means that they have a new hot and shiny place. Various commodities from the Ming Dynasty are now gathered in Hulao. Ming Shang and Hulao have been doing business for some years. This place has become a base for Ming Shang.

Outside Hulao Pass, the large gathering areas formed in recent years have been further expanded, and huge warehouses have risen from the ground. Each warehouse is now full of storage, some are official warehouses, while others are private warehouses.

In addition to merchants, there are also other men with strong expressions on the streets of Hulao now, such as men holding guns and knives, who are the guards of the caravan. The most of them are the escorts of the Tianwu Escorts, with uniform clothing and embroidered with the words Tianwu Escorts behind their chests.

In just one year, the Tianwu Escort Business developed into the largest Escort Business in the Ming Dynasty. Their prices were the highest. The easy small merchants could not afford to hire them at all. Only those big merchants would ask the Tianwu Escort Business to dispatch people. The most escorts in the Tianwu Escort Business were the soldiers who retreated from the army, and the best players in the martial arts world. These people were marshals and had amazing combat power. The easy bandits did not dare to yell at all.

Of course, there are some small businesses that cannot afford to hire Tianwu Escort Business, so they can only stop thinking about their own methods. Fortunately, soldiers will be discharged from the army next year, and not every retired military soldier will join Tianwu Escort Business. There are also many people who are not used to being restricted. They gather in groups of three or five to take on the work of these small businesses. They are cheap and they are not short of work.

And now they gathered together, of course, because of the imperial court's case on the newly occupied land of bandit suppression

The court does not use the army, but is the responsibility of the General Administration for the Anti-theft. Those of them can voluntarily join, file a record with the Anti-theft Administration, and then receive the task, and then go to the destination to start working together with the officials who are about to take office.

The big bowl of drunken house outside Hulao City is the gathering place for these people since this news was released through the General Administration of theft, here, no matter day and night, it is full of people.

Yu Hong walked into Dawanju, with three companions, who had just returned from Jingxian County, and the three companions had two of them with injuries on their bodies. As soon as they walked in, someone immediately greeted him loudly.

"Boss Yu, why are you here here to sit here? It seems like you've had a big fight?"

Yu Hong looked up at the other party, and a smile appeared on his face: "Lu San, you are here too. I just escorted a batch of goods to Jingxian and had a fight with a group of Qin defeated soldiers."

"How to harvest"

"Five brothers were broken." Yu Hong's face was unhesitant and his tone was a little heavy. "We only have ten of us, and the other party won about thirty in a fierce battle, but it was not worth the loss."

"How powerful are these bandits?" After hearing five, Lu San's voice said hello and dared to be serious. He knew Yu Hong's methods. The guard team led by Yu Hong was also a well-known team. This time it was half-dealed, which shows that this bowl of rice was not that delicious.

Those who eat this bowl of rice drunk are basically aware of Yu Hong, and they are quiet at this moment, pricking up their ears to listen to the conversation between the two.

"Brothers, you have to be careful. These defeated soldiers have no rules in fighting, but their personal combat power is really powerful. It is extremely difficult to deal with it. Now we are not in the army. We don't have crossbows and arrows, so we can only fight them with real skills and suffer casualties," Yu Hong said: "But the harvest is not bad, all the things on these bandits belong to us. Then they captured more than a dozen prisoners and escorted them to the Jingxian County Government Office. One ten taels of silver was sold. With the reward of the county government office, we made several thousand taels of silver this time, but our brothers have already calculated the money. All these silvers were given to five brothers who died."

"Boss Yu, since these defeated soldiers are so difficult to fight, what are you going to do next?" Lu San asked.

"Of course I have to do it," Yu Hong said: "There are great risks and a lot of gains. Today I came here, and I actually wanted to find my brothers to make a total of them. We can't fight alone. The gatherings here are all small guards, and the largest number is only a dozen people. However, the bandits in these places have at least thirty or fifty people, and the most are hundreds. The combat effectiveness is really good, and it is very difficult to deal with. This trip, I just underestimated their losses."

"Boss Yu means"

"Tianwu Escort Business has signed a contract with the General Administration of the Thief. They are numerous and powerful, and they are much stronger than us. Big heads must be the ones they want to eat. But if we make such a small fight, we are afraid that we will not only not lose anything in the end, but will also suffer losses. So I think whether we should join forces to work together today is what everyone wants to do."

Lu San pondered for a moment and said, "Boss Yu's words make sense, but if we join forces, who has the final say and how to divide the accounts in the future."

"This is easy to say!" Yu Hong stood up, "There are basically people who retreated from the army, and they report their military service and positions in the army. The one with the largest officer in the army is the leader. We are still grouped according to the rules in the army. As for the division of accounts, each place is divided equally. Regardless of whether the people in the team serve as pioneers, supporters, or responsible for logistics, what do you think?"

"Boss Yu is right, the power of the Tianwu Escort Business is too great. If we don't unite, we probably won't even have any soup to drink. Now there are still many teams like ours in Hulao. If we gather them all, we can at least gather a thousand people. Then we will negotiate with the Tianwu Escort Business and divide the territory with them. Those places belong to them and which places belong to us." Among the crowd, a huge man stood up and said loudly.

"This makes sense." Another person stood up, "Save us to sway like headless flies, and organize together, so that we can distinguish our respective responsibilities, inquire, post-war, logistics, orderly and orderly, and more importantly, we can gather together to compete with the military escort business."

The big bowl suddenly became lively in the drunken state, and everyone agreed with this proposal. Most of the people here retreated from the army and soon reached an agreement to report their positions in the army. However, the vast majority of them were called Guan Ning, who had the highest position, retired from the Canglang Camp. When he became the deputy lieutenant, he was the leader, and Yu Hong was the second in the army.

These people did it as soon as they said it was dark, and more than a thousand guards had gathered outside the city. In a short time, they had completed the marshalling outside the city. These people were doing a lot of activities outside the city, which scared the garrison camp and immediately became alert.

That night, Qin Feng received these information. The man named Guan Ning took Yu Hong and first went to the office of the General Administration of the Thief to sign a contract and file a record. They also gave a brand new name called Mingwei Escort Service

After completing this matter, the two of them went to see the leader of the Tianwu Escort Business in Huzhu. After some negotiations, the two conveniently defined the area. In fact, there were only more than a thousand people who gathered in Huzhu. After bargaining for a while, they finally defined the area, and did their own things and did not interfere with each other.

Tang Zhong, the Minister of Justice who reported these to Qin Feng, was a little worried. Whether it was the Tianwu Escort Business or the newly established Mingwei Escort Business, such a grouping is actually no different from an army.
Chapter completed!