"Substitution?"

After hearing what Zhou Shixiang said, everyone was confused: Can this person be replaced?

Zhou Shixiang explained that in this battle, the Taiping Camp suffered too much casualties and the number of prisoners of the Green Camp was too large. If all the people were brought back, the food in the Taiping Camp would be tight. Moreover, with so many people dead at once, how could the relatives of the dead accept these Green Camp soldiers who killed their relatives? What if the trouble arises at that time, how should they deal with it?

It is better to bring back the troubles, than to make a deal with the Qing army of Deqing in exchange for the manpower that Taiping Camp urgently needs. After all, the main purpose of the war is to eliminate potential dangers, to obtain the materials that one side urgently needs. If the war is not only gained, how can the war last?

Without the addition of troops, if another such war is fought, the Taiping Camp can be declared collapse.

Zhou Shixiang had no intention of branding these green camp soldiers because they were too many people. Taiping Camp absorbed them, and the situation was that the guests were better than the master. At that time, would you listen to these green camp soldiers or to him?

So his plan was to exchange these prisoners and Deqing City for prisoners. The rebels' favorite human resources are prisoners in the cell, and death row prisoners are better. These people are natural confronters of the government. It is a hundred times better to store them than to store these green camp soldiers. At least there is no need to worry about the imbalance of the forces in the army in the future and the factional division is serious.

Of course, there is another reason not to absorb these prisoners, that is, most of these people are locals from Deqing, and they are soldiers from other provinces, so it is difficult for them to point their swords at Deqing City in the future. After all, their relatives are inside.

In order to get everyone to support their decision, Zhou Shixiang inevitably tactfully said that Taiping Camp should be a big bandit, so how can it be a big bandit? Everyone nodded frequently.

"One Tartars replaces another prisoner, Brother Zhou, this deal is not cost-effective, we have a big loss." The bald man had no objection to the replacement, but he thought it was not cost-effective to simply replace the prisoner with the Green Camp soldiers.

Ge Wu was thinking about this problem just now, but he didn't understand what was wrong for a moment. After hearing what the bald man said, he hurriedly echoed: "Yes, this method is not cost-effective. Those armored soldiers are no better than ordinary Green Camp soldiers. If one of them is replaced by ten prisoners, we all think it's a big loss."

Zhou Shixiang signaled them not to hurry and said, "Then exchange a few more people for him. If there are really not enough prisoners to exchange for us, then exchange food and silver. We are sellers, and there is no reason why sellers suffer losses in this world."

"You must have to ask for prisoners only. Some prisoners are useless and have to let them take out the money and food. The real money is really good. If you have money and food, you are afraid that you can't recruit soldiers?" Ge Liu, who was beaten up by Ge Wu, came over at some point, and was very active in giving advice.

Everyone said something, and I made suggestions, and it was really lively. When everyone was almost talking, Peng Dazhu poured a basin of cold water over and said, "The method is good, but what if the magistrate of Deqing refuses to change with us?"

Yes, if we don’t change, wouldn’t we be in vain?

Everyone was stunned, but Zhou Shixiang waved his hand confidently and said to them: "It's okay, the magistrate refuses to change, so we will find someone who is willing to change."

"Who?" everyone asked at the same time.

Zhou Shixiang raised his hand to the two soldiers and ordered them: "Bring the Green Camp Qianzhu here."

...........

"How much money do you think your life is worth?"

After hearing this question, Tang Sanshui couldn't help but kneel down on the ground with a "thump", and howled with tears: "Good man, please spare me, please spare me!" He thought Zhou Shixiang was going to kill him.

"I didn't say I wanted to kill you, get up and talk."

After Zhou Shixiang shouted again, Tang Sanshui stood up in horror, wondering what the thief scholar in front of him had an idea.

Zhou Shixiang ignored his confused gaze and said directly: "I am going to let you go, but I can't let you go for no reason, so you have to pay a pen to redeem your life."

"Let me go? Redeem your life and silver?"

Tang Sanshui became excited as if he had heard the sound of nature and shouted: "I'll come out, I'll come out!"

"Then how much money do you think you are worth?" Zhou Shi looked at Tang Sanshui with a expressionless face. The more afraid of death, the more willing the person is to cooperate and the more greedy he is to make money.

"this..."

Tang Sanshui was embarrassed and said less, which made him seem too worthless. If he said too much, he was afraid that he would not be able to take it out, and it would hurt him if he took it out. He secretly scolded the thief scholar in his heart. As expected, there is no reason in this world that kidnappers would bid for the meat ticket instead of quoting.

He lowered his head and thought for a long time, but raised his hand and shook his palm twice, carefully gritted his teeth and spit out a number, and said, "One hundred taels?"

"One hundred taels?"

Zhou Shixiang sneered, glanced at Shao Jiugong, and asked him: "Shao Qianfeng, you have worked in the Qing army. Tell Mr. Tang Qian, can he buy one hundred taels of silver?"

Shao Jiugong laughed: "If one hundred taels could buy one thousand yuan, Beizhi would have bought it long ago."

Zhou Shixiang nodded when he heard this, turned to look at Tang Sanshui and snorted, "You heard that, you don't take yourself seriously, right? If you really think so, then just pretend that I didn't say anything." After that, he raised his hand: "Take the person down."

"No, no, no..."

When Tang Sanshui saw Zhou Shixiang really wanted someone to take him down, he was afraid that the other party would turn against him and kill him. He was so anxious that he clasped his fists and wrote: "Hero, please offer a price. The smaller one must bear it, and the smaller one must bear it..."

"Do you want me to open?" Zhou Shixiang shook his head, grinned at the corner of his mouth, and spit out three words, "Two thousand taels."

"Two thousand taels?" Tang Sanshui was shocked, and was really scared by the number, and his head shook: "Too much, too much, little one doesn't have so much money on his hand!"

Zhou Shixiang looked at him with deep meaning and said lightly: "I know you don't have it, but you don't have it, others have it."

"Others have it?" Tang Sanshui was a little confused. He didn't know what Zhou Shixiang meant. He asked in a low voice: "What does the hero mean?"

"Well..."

Zhou Shixiang did not answer him, but turned his lips toward Deqing City.

.........

"One armored soldier exchanges for six prisoners, and no armored soldier exchanges for three. The other armored soldier exchanges for 200 kilograms of grain or fifty taels of silver. If the armored soldier is halfway, there is no need to bargain." Zhou Shixiang made the final decision and didn't want to bargain with Tang Sanshui anymore. If this is cut, it will be dark.

Seeing that Zhou Shixiang was already impatient, Tang Sanshui hurriedly stopped the bargaining thoughts, looked around and lowered his voice, "That little one?"

"Don't worry, the transaction has been completed. If you lose ten taels of silver for a person, it will be more than two thousand taels. If you count your own two thousand taels, Mr. Tang Qian, you have made a lot of money in this battle."

Zhou Shixiang was not ridiculing Tang Sanshui, but he still ridiculed him in the other party's ears. Fortunately, Tang Sanshui didn't mind. As long as his life was saved and he had money to make money, what if he asked someone to sarcastically, he wouldn't have a piece of meat or a hair would fall off!

"The body of the garrison?" Tang Sanshui finally did not forget Zhang Dade.

"You can take Zhang Dade's body back."

Zhou Shixiang paused and said generously: "You can take all the corpses of the Green Camp soldiers back, our army will not cut off its head."

"Thank you, General!"

Tang Sanshui quickly bowed and thanked him. If nothing else, he could bring back the body of the guard's corpse. In the eyes of others, he was Tang Sanshui's loyalty and could also make a sound from the general.

Seeing that Tang Sanshui was a little proud, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but remind him: "However, how can you let Lord Lu pay out the money depends on your ability of Mr. Tang Qian. If someone refuses to make a deal, then the deal will be ruined. Nothing we said will count."

Hearing this, Tang Sanshui slapped his chest and said carelessly: "Please rest assured, this general, Lu Gongming is a timid scholar, he is very timid and afraid. As long as I go and scare him, I will give him a honest silver. Besides, there are my subordinates in the city. Lu Gongming really dares to betray the heart. My brothers are not a good-looking lamp!"

Zhou Shixiang smiled slightly and said, "I hope this is the case." He signaled that Tang Sanshui could set off, but saw that Tang Sanshui hesitated for a while and finally asked boldly: "I wonder if the general can hand over the bodies of the dead of your army to me?"

"What do you want the body to do?"

This time it was Zhou Shixiang's turn to be puzzled, and then he understood what the plan was. He wanted to turn the defeat into a victory, and to get rich and at the same time he wanted to be promoted!

"no!"

Zhou Shixiang's face was extremely gloomy, and Tang Sanshui was so scared that he quickly apologized: "You are a little confused, you are a little confused, don't blame me..."

"Forget it."

Zhou Shixiang's face was slightly slower and he bowed: "Then I wish Mr. Qian a success!"

"According to General's auspicious words, he will definitely live up to his mission!"
Chapter completed!