If you weren't fighting the Tartar cavalry right now, I might have led my brothers to wipe out this gang of bandits."
Gao Heng said somewhat awkwardly, "Master Sun, the three of us brothers don't want to be bandits either, but... it's hard to put it into words!"
Seeing that Gao Heng was unwilling to say more, Sun Hao did not ask any further questions. He then asked Taishi Ci to discuss with Gao Heng how to distribute the spoils. After all, Gao Heng and his men had also killed a lot of Tartar cavalry.
After negotiation between the two sides, of the ninety-eight captured war horses, except for ten left for the Gao brothers, the remaining eighty-eight horses all belonged to Sun Hao.
Of the 37 dead and injured war horses, Sun Hao took five to improve everyone's food, and the rest were left to the Gao brothers and the bandits under their command.
All the food and horse feed carried by the war horses, as well as the gold and silver found on the Tartar corpses, all belonged to Sun Hao. The total amount of gold and silver was equivalent to about 200 strings of cash.
Although the nomadic peoples on the grassland mostly bartered, they were influenced by the Liang State and also used gold beans and silver beans made of gold or silver as currency for transactions.
Therefore, the Bai Qiang cavalrymen had more or less gold beans and silver beans on their bodies.
In addition to gold and silver, the main currency used by Liang State was copper coins, each weighing one qian, and 1,000 copper coins equaled one guan.
In Liang State, gold and silver were made into gold cakes or silver cakes. According to the exchange rate that had never changed in Liang State for more than 300 years, one tael of silver cake could be exchanged for one string of coins, and one tael of gold cake could be exchanged for 10 strings of coins.
Before the drought, 200 strings of cash were enough to buy more than 200 acres of fertile farmland in Heigou Town where Sun Hao lived.
This made Sun Hao feel a little emotional. It turned out to be robbery... No, killing Tartars made money quickly!
Since Sun Hao and his men had no use for the seized weapons, armor, and clothes, almost all of them went to the Gao brothers.
Sun Hao simply replaced the fish-scale armor on Ubaji's body, as well as Ubaji's high-quality white wax spear, a bow and arrow, a short scimitar, and a broad-bladed sword with a jewel-inlaid handle, with his own body.
The heads of the other eighty-five Tatar cavalrymen were all taken away by Taishi Ci.
The government and border troops in the north of Liang State have been offering a reward for the heads of the Tartars from various ethnic groups on the grassland. If these eighty-five Tartar heads were brought to Ganyang City, they would be enough to sell for hundreds of strings of cash.
There was a lot of coarse salt in the food and fodder that the bandits had previously transported. Taishi Ci, Pang De and others asked for some coarse salt and began to smear the heads of the Tartars with coarse salt one by one to prevent them from rotting along the way.
Although Sun Hao felt very uncomfortable watching such a scene, he forced himself not to leave. He knew that there were some things that he could not avoid in the future and he had to learn to adapt to them.
When Gao Heng saw Taishi Ci, Pang De and others dealing with the Tartar heads, he immediately offered to send over an empty carriage to transport the Tartar heads.
After the Gao brothers left with the 300 or so bandits they had gathered, Wen Chou whispered to Yan Liang, "The three Gao brothers are all skilled in martial arts and have rather outspoken personalities. It's a shame they've become bandits."
Yan Liang shook his head. "Everyone has their own aspirations. I hope we won't become enemies next time we meet."
Neither Yan Liang nor Wen Chou expected that they would meet the three brothers of the Gao family again so soon.
Early the next morning, before Sun Hao and his companions left their temporary campsite by the river, the three Gao brothers, covered in blood, came galloping towards them on their war horses.
When Sun Hao saw the three people covered in blood, before he could say anything, the three of them knelt down in front of him.
Gao Heng, the eldest of the three brothers, said to Sun Hao in a sad voice, "Young Master Sun, our family has fallen into the hands of a group of bandits.
The three of us brothers really have no other choice but to come to you for help.
As long as you can rescue our family, the three of us brothers will be willing to work like slaves for the rest of our lives to repay your kindness!"
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