"Brothers, when I come back in a few days, I will come to you for a drink." Lei Wei laughed and waved his hand with a team of Ming army's border patrol soldiers, "Do you need me to get something for you from Qingtian?"

The Ming army patrolmen burst into laughter: "Boss Lei, is there a big deal in Qingzhou? You talk about face and ask us to drink. You kid come to us every time you calculate the time for our rest, but you have never paid you."

Lei Wei's face turned red and he said seriously: "Brothers, you don't know anything about this. I have been saving my wife's book before. Let me tell you, I have already built a house in Kaiping County City this time. From now on, brothers will go to the county city, and that will be your home."

"Boss Lei, you are amazing. The housing prices in Kaiping County have been growing rapidly in the past two years. Where can you buy a house? Okay, if you have the opportunity to go to the county town, you must go and drink you poor. By the way, is your wife still in trouble?"

"The women in our Ming Dynasty are so expensive, I really can't afford to find them. This time I went to Qingzhou, where would I be planning to kidnap a woman and be my wife? Brothers, do you want me to kidnap a few more? Prepare for you?" Boss Lei raised his eyebrows: "I tell you that as long as you give the woman's family ten taels of silver, you can find a woman and be my wife."

A group of patrolmen exclaimed.

"Damn, in the beginning of spring, my parents told me a marriage, but before they met, they had already paid hundreds of taels of silver. If I wanted to marry, I would have to pay at least five hundred taels of silver. My military salary was only more than a hundred taels of silver a year. Now there is no war and I can't get rewards. It depends on my parents to help me. If I had known that Qingzhou was so easy to find a wife, I would have gone there." The captain who led the team was sucking in the cold air.

"Come on, Captain Huo, it costs a lot to find a woman from Ming to enter, but the woman still brings land when she comes in. Besides, the dowry will not be less. I can't afford this money, so I can only settle for the second best. I heard that the women in Qin are the most hard-working. I am an orphan from every family, and I have no parents to help me, so I have to rely on myself!" Lei Wei said angrily: "Don't be good and behave well. Brothers, the boss is already waiting for me, and I can't delay their trip. When I come back, I will treat you, because this is my wedding banquet for my brother!"

A group of patrolmen laughed again: "Then you must come and drink. Boss Lei, I won't give you a red envelope!"

Boss Lei glared at him, "If you don't give a red envelope, you can only drink cold water. Let's go!"

"Boss Lei, be careful. There are many bandits in Qingzhou. After passing the border, we can't help you!"

"Don't worry, I can handle a small group of thieves." Boss Lei raised his hand, turned over and chased the convoy ahead.

Lei Wei, a veteran of Jusen Camp, was an orphan. After he retired, he had no place to go, so he stayed in Kaiping County. At this time, the trade between Ming and Qingzhou suddenly became popular. Lu Dao occupied Qingzhou and ignored the imperial orders. The court naturally cut off the supply to Qingzhou. Tens of thousands of troops could only seek food, which greatly promoted trade on the border.

Qingzhou is now short of everything. As long as the goods can be transported over, it can make money. Of course, the risk is also extremely great. In order to raise military expenses, Lu must have been shattered in Qingzhou and tried all the ways. He even sent troops to pretend to be horse thieves and bandits to rob the neighboring county. Of course, he dared not come or could not come to Kaiping County. Now, most of his food and other materials pass from Kaiping County. If he robs Kaiping County, he will not talk about the revenge of the Ming people. If he cut off this trade route, I am afraid that Qingzhou County will not last for a few days.

However, if Lu must not rob, it does not mean that these caravans will be safe. Qingzhou County, where people live in poverty, has many gangs of all sizes and gangs. If you are not careful, you will be caught in their own way. And those who are targeted by them will not only robbery, but also have to kill people to silence them. Faced with such a thing, even the Ming army can do nothing, because these people disappeared directly, and they will not see anyone in their lives, and they will not be able to find them if they want to get into trouble. Without real evidence, Qingzhou will naturally not recognize it.

It was in this environment that the caravans had a craze for hiring guards. At this moment, the first round of retirement of the Ming army officially began, and a large number of veterans retreated from the army. After these people fought for many years, they suddenly retreated, even though they had money and land, they were still not used to such a comfortable life. Therefore, this kind of guard with extremely high salaries became their first choice. Many big merchants with a way were waving Ming coins and waiting at the gate of the military camp. As soon as the retired soldiers left, they would block them and invite them to join.

People like Lei Wei who have served as grassroots officers in the army who have served as sentry officers and other grassroots officers are even more popular candidates.

When the Ming soldiers retired, the emperor allowed them to bring their armor, weapons, etc. home, so they hired these personnel as guards, and even weapons were not required to prepare for them. The weapons that can be purchased on the market were equipped with the Ming standard equipment in the hands of these soldiers, which were completely different levels.

Lei Wei is now the leader of a grain merchant in Kaiping County. He would go to Qingzhou County every month to sell grain there. Grain merchants are the most profitable in Qingzhou now. The price can be increased several times from Kaiping County to Qingzhou. As far as Lei Wei knows, the grain he serves can only be considered medium-sized, and transporting two or three thousand stones of grain to Qingzhou every month. The biggest one is that it has an official background, and the grain is only sold to Lu Ding, which is tens of thousands of stones every month. Such grain merchants naturally do not need people like them to protect, because they are absolutely safe in the territory of Ming Dynasty, and once they enter Qingzhou, the safety is under the responsibility of Lu Ding's army.

After the Lei Guard retired, he walked this path. After a year, more than a dozen escort missions were almost safe. A small number of bandits almost avoided them whenever they saw dozens of fully armed escort guards. It was no problem to deal with hundreds of robbers holding simple weapons.

The Lei Guard was not a cavalryman, but the boss gave them all the best war horses. These war horses were made from Qingzhou and were specialties from Qingzhou. The reason why Lu must still buy a lot of food from Kaiping County is because he had war horses to exchange. Now the Lei Guard fell in love with the feeling of riding on horses. Those so-called robbers were actually mostly hungry Qin people. When they faced them, they rushed forward with war horses, and they would scatter, and there was no need to commit more murder. Sometimes Lei Guard felt that they were really pitiful.

Being a Ming person is really a happy thing! Sometimes he feels that he is quite lucky and has caught up with the good times. He was once a member of the Front Vietnamese Border Army. At that time, the General was still Chen Ci, the father of the current General Chen Zhihua. He also had a war with His Majesty the Emperor's army, but after losing, he became a member of the Taiping Army. Later, when the Ming Dynasty was established, he became a Ming person.

At that time, he had no feelings about the change of the banner. He was just a soldier and just feed his stomach. But after becoming a Ming person, he felt the change. First of all, the military pay was greatly increased, and the military pay he received every month was something he had never dared to think about before.

With money, there are naturally other thoughts.

Seeing that life is getting better and better, Lei Wei is truly emerging to defend this country. After several years of hard work, the Ming Dynasty has finally gained a foothold. He is over 35 years old. When he learned that he was about to be retired, he cried sadly.

Looking back on the past, Lei Wei couldn't help feeling a little sad. Although he was no longer a Ming Dynasty person, he was still a Ming Dynasty person! The general said that allowing them to go home with their weapons is to let them remember that they will always be one of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. When the country needs it, with a call, they will come back to the army enthusiastically.

Lei Wei tightened the ring-headed knife around his waist and said to himself, of course I want to come back.

Looking at the desolate and dilapidated scene of Qingzhou County, Lei Guards only shook their heads. Qingzhou has never been war-torn. Their conditions are much better than Kaiping County. When the Qin army retreated, it caused great harm to Kaiping County. When Lei Guards recovered Kaiping County with the army, they were all over the ground, and the situation was really terrible.

But two years have passed, Kaiping County stubbornly climbed out of the ruins, and a new town was established, and a large number of immigrants entered Kaiping County, injecting new vitality into it. Roads were built, and ditches were carried out with gurgling water, irrigating countless farmlands. Countless officials, facing the scorching sun, faced the cold wind, rolled up their sleeves, rolled up their trousers, and carried out the lifting and reconstruction work with the people. Lei Guard had seen the scene of the general and his personal guards carrying hoes to clear the land and farm.

With his united heart, Kaiping County restored its vitality at a speed that ordinary people could not imagine. In this process, the wise decision of His Majesty of the Emperor naturally played the most important guiding role. I heard that those officials were graduated from the Capital University opened by His Majesty himself, and they were completely different from those officials in the past. They provided counterpart support and helped in teams. In order to help Kaiping County restore, the court brought out many policies that he had never heard of, and many new terms were poured into his ears unconsciously. It seemed that the counterpart assistance to Kaiping County was Yongping County. The county magistrate was a very good person and gave Kaiping County a lot of money.

"Boss, something is wrong!" Lei Wei was thinking about it. A guard ran to him on a horse: "Someone was spying around us, and he left as soon as he rushed, but not long after, he came again. It was the same group of people. It was very different from the past, I was afraid he was trying to make up our minds."

After hearing this, Lei Wei suddenly became alert, put away his mind, and said, "Send a few brothers out to touch the bottom. If you dare to make a decision, there will definitely be no shortage of people."

"Okay, I'll go and stumble on the bottom myself."
Chapter completed!