When Yang Zhen heard the old cannon say this, and kept talking about his difficulties, he suddenly realized that behind his words, he actually wanted to talk about the division of labor after the army.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhen immediately nodded to him and was about to ask him frankly how much he wanted to gain. Just as he started to speak, Zu Keyong, who was listening on the side, had already spoken first.

Just listen to Zu Keyong saying coldly to the old cannon: "The Zhangjiakou caravan is colluding with the enemy, and we intercept and kill them. It is a great act of justice! The caravan carrying goods is useless, and taking them can also be said to be a big profit! Seven

All of you, Fengshan, join hands with us to send troops. It can be said that we have both great justice and great benefits. Why are you hesitant?

"Furthermore, I heard that throughout the ages, anyone who does big things should have a big plan! When he is about to do something like this, he still looks forward and backward, and before doing something, he still worries about the gains and losses. How can it be a true man?

What to do?!"

When Zu Keyong said these words, the old cannon was stunned for a moment. He generally understood and knew that the deputy who came from an ancestral family in front of him was not very satisfied with his performance just now.

However, he, a mountain king who was born in a defeated army, no longer cares about the right and wrong, and the pattern of the situation. He has a small army of two thousand people to support, how can he not negotiate the division before sending out troops?

!

Whether it was the commander in chief or the deputy general in front of him, in his eyes, they were all unattainable big shots. He, a small cannon in the frontier army, did not dare to argue or refute.

But now, it has been almost ten years since his old cannon leader has been a bandit in the Qifeng Mountain area, and it has been six or seven years since he took the position of the head of the family. He has a large group of people to support, and he can no longer care about that.

"Lieutenant Zu, what are you talking about?! I, the old cannon, don't know a lot of Chinese characters. I have never thought about doing anything big, and I have never thought about being a real man!"

The old Pao Tou's face, which had a dark Chinese character, turned black and red in an instant under the setting sun. He stared at Zu Keyong with his eyes round and said angrily:

"Over the years, many people have come to me to talk nonsense and ask me to send troops to do things for the court. But who is responsible for the life and death of these people under me? Who has given me a cent of pay?

Who has given me a stone of food?!"

The old cannon head was tall and had a loud voice. By the end of his words, he was already furious and his voice was very frightening.

However, Zu Keyong was used to seeing this kind of scene and was not moved at all. Seeing him like this, he still looked at him expressionlessly and said coldly:

"In that case, I, Zuke Yonggao, have taken a fancy to you! So this time, if I ask you to send troops, how much pay do you want, and how many stones of food do you want?!"

When Old Pao Tou heard what Zu Keyong said, he first took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, then looked at Yang Zhen who was standing aside just sizing him up without saying a word, and finally said:

"Let's see, it's you who got the news and arranged the matter. You think highly of me and invited me, so I can't take advantage of you!

"Let's divide it according to the number of people. You can count eight hundred men and horses now. I will send out another five hundred men from Qifeng Mountain. After the job is completed, I won't ask for more. Gold, silver, cloth, salt, grain, horses and mules will all be divided into 30%.

,how?"

After the old cannon said this, he stared at Yang Zhen with bright eyes. He had already made an offer, and the price he offered had been carefully weighed.

He himself was born in the army and knew the virtues of the army. This time he would not be able to cooperate with the imperial army if he asked for more, so it was absolutely impossible to think of a 50-50 split.

In addition, there are 800 people on the other side, and it is said that there is a team of more than 1,000 people who did not arrive as scheduled.

If this larger force had not arrived at the designated place to meet as scheduled, then there would be nothing wrong with him. So, thinking of this, he took the initiative to remove another 10%.

At the same time, the Qingshanhao and Caoshangfei teams in the Qingluan Ridge area have already joined the group before him, and they will definitely be divided in the end. They don't have many people, so let's count them as 15%.

In this way, Lao Pao Tou took the initiative to remove another half percent in his heart. He thought that he was being righteous enough by leaving like this, so he felt very comfortable saying it at this time.

However, what surprised the old cannon leader was that Yang Zhen, the young commander-in-chief from Songshan City, had no reaction at all and was not moved at all. He neither opposed nor approved.

Yang Zhen first looked at the old cannon and said his asking price, as if it was a matter of course. Then he turned to look at Zu Keyong, still without saying a word.

In fact, Yang Zhen's plan to intercept and kill the caravan coming out of Zhangjiakou this time was just to kill two birds with one stone. One was to intercept a batch of supplies, and the other was to cut off the Tatar trade channel.

As for contacting the team of horse thieves in the Nurul Tiger Mountain area, it was just a matter of convenience, and it was the icing on the cake.

If you can successfully contact a group of horse thieves to join, there will naturally be many benefits. First of all, your own strength will be stronger, and it will be easier to intercept the Zhangjiakou Shanyou caravan.

Secondly, you can also form a good relationship with these horse thieves, which will not only prevent them from taking refuge with the Manchu Tatars in the future, but also give yourself an arm that stretches to the west.

However, if he can't contact the horse thieves who are willing to join the gang, it doesn't actually matter. He will still do what he needs to do without any delay.

The most important thing is that he always believed that Yang Shen, with his brave team recruited from the Xuanfu, would never disappear on the Saibei grassland for no reason. On the contrary, they must be following the large caravan in Zhangjiakou.

Somewhere nearby.

Once he leads his team to launch an attack on the Zhangjiakou caravan, they will show up, sooner or later.

Therefore, although Yang Zhen is a little worried that he has fewer people and that he will not be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, he can accept it if it really comes to this step.

Because of this, he actually didn't take it too seriously whether Lao Pao Tou's men would participate or not, and whether they would join the group or not.

At this time, he heard the asking price of the old cannon, and felt a little unhappy. For him, 30% was a bit high.

I have a large group of people in Songshan City who still want to rely on this batch of unknown supplies to survive the coming long cold winter. How could they just stupidly give 30% of them to the old cannon head of Qifeng Mountain?

Centaur?!

But I'm afraid it won't work if I don't show up at all. Now that I have come to Qifeng Mountain and met the old Pao Tou, I can't fall out again because of this.

Therefore, he could not express his position for the time being, and could only look at Zu Keyong, hoping that Zu Keyong would continue to be tough and cooperate with him, and one would be a good person and the other a bad person.

Sure enough, I don't know whether Zu Keyong understood Yang Zhen's intention, or whether he didn't agree with it in the first place. After hearing the old Pao Tou's asking price, he saw that Yang Zhen didn't speak, so he sneered and said to the Old Pao Tou:

"You really dare to open your mouth like a lion! You haven't done anything yet, and if you open your mouth, you will get 30% of the victory! You might as well take it all! We traveled all the way from Songshan City to the border, just to run errands for you as a helper

?!"

"Lieutenant General Zu, you can't say that! We have joined the gang, it is cooperation, not who is doing errands for whom! You officers and soldiers account for the majority, I have nothing to say, I will provide 500 people, and I will ask for 30%, which is not counted.

many!"

The loud argument between Lao Baotou and Zu Keyong soon attracted the attention of others. Xu Changyong, Li Lu, Zhang Chen, Qingshan Hao, Cao Shangfei and others who had already arranged the campsite all heard the news.

The news came.

Xu Changyong, Li Lu, and Zhang Chen came closer. As soon as they figured out what was going on, they immediately expressed their opposition. Xu Changyong even more noisily said that he would rather leave Qifeng Mountain now than let the old cannon head take up 30% of it.

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Because they are the ones who know the inside story best. When they heard from Jie Lizhu that the large caravan coming out of Zhangjiakou this time included hundreds of carts and thousands of mules, horses and camels, they knew that this was an unprecedentedly big fish.

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If they work hard and end up letting such an old cannon head who can be used or disposed of takes up 30%, how can they be willing to do it?!

Therefore, after they arrived, they changed their previous liveliness and intimacy with the old Pao Tou and his subordinates, and behaved even more indignant and annoyed than Zu Keyong.

At the same time, Qingshan Hao, who had always been aloof from Yang Zhen's subordinates and whose attitude was not clear, also began to tentatively make his own demands to Yang Zhen.

Seeing that the matter had come to this, Yang Zhen knew that it was definitely not an option to drag this matter out undecided, so he thought to himself that he might as well take this opportunity to settle it.

Yang Zhen looked at Lao Pao Tou one by one. The green hills are good and the grass is flying. He knew in his heart that among the three people, Lao Pao Tou was the most difficult to deal with because he had the most troops, and the easiest one to deal with was Fei Shangcao because

He has the fewest horses.

Moreover, on the way to Qifeng Mountain, Li Ma had already made acquaintance with Yang Zhen and conveyed Cao Shangfei's intention to join Yang Zhen like Li Ma.

Therefore, as long as the problem of dividing the old cannon head is solved, other people's problems, such as the problem of Qingshan Hao caught in it, will be easily solved.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhen suddenly raised his right hand expressionlessly. Seeing this, everyone who was arguing quickly became quiet, and they all stared at Yang Zhen.

At this time, Yang Zhen looked at the old cannon head, stretched out two fingers at him, and then said: "Twenty percent! If the men and horses of Qifeng Mountain are willing to join the gang, they can get all the gold, silver, cloth, salt, grain, horses and mules afterwards.

20% of them were seized!
Chapter completed!