At seven or eight o'clock in the morning, because the wind and snow did not completely stop, there were no pedestrians on the road, Chang Yu looked left and right a few times and saw a miscellaneous forest not far from the west side of the official road, so he asked Wu Mengming to take fifty brocade guards to hide in it and wait, and then took Cheng Ming and other more than 70 people to drive slowly towards Zhangyuan Village.

As soon as he arrived at the side of the village, he saw a few gray-faced people come out, and a brocade guard immediately greeted him and brought the two to Chang Yu, but it was the brocade guard spy who had been watching here.

"Lord Factory Governor, that is Fanjiabao" A spy said the big fort in front of him, in fact, they don't need to point out, although Zhangyuan Village is not small, but the surrounding area is an ordinary house, only this big fort, it can be vaguely seen that there are private soldiers walking on the castle wall, and then they heard the sound of the gong, thinking that they also found Chang Yu's team.

Seeing a few spies trembling and trembling with their teeth from the cold, Chang Yu moved his heart of compassion again, and touched his body for a long time and found more than ten scattered silver: "Take it to buy wine to warm your body."

The spy was overjoyed, and his colleagues had already informed Chang Yu's identity, so he immediately bowed his head at this time: "I have thanked the factory supervisor for my humble position."

Chang Yu waved his hand to let him leave, and then drove his horse towards the village fort.

Fanjiacun Fort is 600 meters long from east to west and 550 meters wide from north to south, almost a square, but in the southwest corner and extends to the south 50 meters of semicircle, it does look like the official hat type said by later generations.

The fort wall is built by rammed earth, about seven meters high, thirty-six battlements are built on it, the top is five meters wide, it can accommodate two carriages to stagger, there are two gatehouses in the north and south of the village fort, and the gatehouses are two.

At this time, Chang Yu immediately came to the gate of the South Fort, looked at the somewhat panicked soldiers above the village fort in front of him, and couldn't help but shake his head, with more than 100 people on his side, he wanted to take this village fort, dream!

"Who are you waiting for?" Chang Yu was about to speak, when a short-bearded man holding a steel knife above Baoqiang was already shouting, and there were fifty or sixty people holding bows and arrows on his side and aiming at Chang Yu and the others.

"With your name, go and call your master to greet you, if you are slack, the king's army will be ashes as soon as you arrive" Chang Yu looked at the man on the wall with an iron face and shouted loudly!

The air was silent all of a sudden! The ears of everyone on the wall only felt a roar, and the word King Chuang was rolling back and forth! Thieves!

In this troubled era, all the big families are clever in their ears and eyes, Li Zicheng was on the road yesterday, and the officials in the city surrendered to the city have already come, and when they are panicking how to deal with it, they don't think that people have come to the door in person, and people are really afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.

The short-bearded man in the city didn't say a word, turned around and ran down the fortress wall.

Chang Yu was patient, but the horses were running back and forth under the fortress wall, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the people on the wall had been put down, and his face was afraid, looking at the more than 100 people below surrounding the village fort.

With a whoosh, Chang Yu seemed to be impatient, and suddenly raised his crossbow and shot at the plaque of Fan's Mansion on the city gate.

Ding Ding Ding, Dong Dong Dong, as soon as he made a move, everyone around him also followed suit, and in an instant the plaque was shot like a hedgehog, and finally fell with a bang, and the faces of the family on the wall were even more afraid, but no one felt the sound.

Not long after, the black-faced short-bearded man returned, followed by several people, including a nearly seventy-year-old man, who was rarely imposing, but it was difficult to hide his panic at this time.

"What is the name of this general, but the subordinates of King Chuang?" The old man is Fan Ming, the contemporary head of the Fan family, and the middle-aged man in his forties behind him is his eldest son Fan Yongkui.

"This general is the king of Xiaochuan, and his father is the son of the king of Chuang, the general Bohou Li Guo, who came here to discuss something with Master Fan on the order of his father, whether Master Fan will open the door by himself, or will the general attack it" Chang Yu sneered.

It turned out to be Li Laiheng, the king of Xiaochuang, Fan Ming was shocked, Li Zicheng has been a thief for more than ten years, and the reputation of his generals is not small, everyone in the court and the opposition knows that he has several righteous sons, among which Li Guo is the most famous, and Li Guo has an adopted son Li Laiheng, although he is young and brave, he is known as the king of Xiaochuang.

Fan Ming was shocked, carefully looked at the people below, unified in black, obviously not a miscellaneous card in the thief army, and saw that Chang Yu was young and majestic with a long knife in his hand, which was no different from the legend, and his heart was already seven or eight points, plus it was known that the army of thieves was in Jiexiu, and the two were a pair, and they all believed it.

The facts are so similar that he can't believe it, at this time the thief is actually only forty, his righteous son (nephew) Li Guo is only six years younger than him (one says the same age or six years older than Li Zicheng), and his adopted son Li Laiheng is only seventeen or eighteen, and Chang Yu is the same age at this time.

The army pressed the border, and the city surrendered, Fan Ming didn't have the courage to resist it with a village fort, if it was an ordinary bandit, he could still refuse, but he didn't dare to break the thief, and according to rumors, the thief was not too much for the general gentry, and he only needed to pay some money to avoid the disaster, not like to kill those officials or the royal family, plus the person in front of him had room between the words, it seems that spending money to avoid the disaster.

So Fan Ming immediately went down the wall and opened the fort gate, knelt on the side with his eldest son and a family, and welcomed Chang Yu inside.

As soon as Chang Yu's men and horses entered the fort, they immediately handed over the weapons in the hands of the family members, went up to the fort wall to occupy a favorable position, and immediately greeted the distance, and Wu Mengming immediately rushed over with the men and horses.

In a short period of time, Cheng Ming had already controlled the South Gate Tower and its wall, and at this time, Chang Yu was still riding a horse and walking proudly towards the north, and Fan Ming followed closely with the support of Fan Yongkui and his family.

There is a street in the village fort from south to north, another east street on the east side, and three streets on the west side from north to south, called West Street, Fan Street, and Longwang Street.

Zhangyuan Village not only has a surname of the Fan family, but the people who live in the fort are all surnamed Fan, but although they have the same surname, they are also different, for example, the east street is a distant branch, and the three streets on the west side are all close relatives, such as more than 20 large courtyards on Fan Street, all of which are the relatives of Fan Ming's family, etc., and the building in the middle such as the small Jinluan Palace is the real Fan family compound.

Walking along the way, there were panicked crowds on the street from time to time, and some people even held weapons, thinking that they were hurrying to hear the news of bandits, but they were frightened by the light in front of them, and the thieves swaggered in, and the head of the house was on their side, and scolded them to put down their weapons.

"Master Fan is aware of current affairs" Chang Yu couldn't help but sneer when he saw Fan Ming scolding his clansmen.

Fan Ming smiled bitterly, hugged his fist at Chang Yu and was silent, but he was begging in his heart, take the silver and leave quickly, just don't harm him, he was frightened when he thought of those female relatives in the castle, it was rumored that the thieves and the army raped the ** women and did all kinds of evil, but look at Chang Yu's subordinates, just to strictly guard against those families, but there are no other excessive actions, and a little relieved, thinking that after all, it is the main force of the thief army, and pay attention to the impact.

In the courtyard of the Fan family, above the main hall, Chang Yu sat upright, looking at the cup of hot tea in front of him but didn't drink it, just sneered, and Fan Ming's father and son standing next to him played drums in their hearts, didn't they think the tea was good?

Of course not, Chang Yu is waiting for the opportunity.

Soon the time came, Wu Mengming walked out of the lobby and came to Chang Yu's side and whispered: "The north and south are under control, and more than 100 families in the fort have been disarmed, damn, there are really a lot of people!" The guy is even complete, and he even has a musket."

Chang Yu smiled, waved Wu Mengming away, got up and walked to Fan Ming: "Long story short, 500,000, one less, or no, General Ben will make your Fan family have no grass."

"This ......" Fan Ming just wanted to say something, but suddenly he even flickered, fell headlong, and he fainted in anger.

"Dad" Fan Yongkui hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Fan Ming, and looked up at Chang Yu with a sad and angry face: "General......"

"Let's talk about it later" Chang Yu immediately interrupted him: "If you say a word, you will be slaughtered by the Fan family."

"I ......" Fan Yongkui then sighed heavily: "The general wants 500,000, whether there is a villain in the Fan family at this time is not sure, so he can only say that he has everything he has, if he really can't make it up, then he has to stretch out his head and let you cut it"

"Don't sell it miserably to General Ben, a stick of incense General Ben wants to see the silver loaded into the car, and kill a person every other moment when it is outdated" said and sat down to serve the tea and took a slight sip, the tea was good.

Fan Yongkui was helpless, took a long breath, and then asked someone to carry Fan Ming in, turned around and went to get the key to the silver vault, and loaded the car.

In ancient times, large households, especially those who did business, had private banks and silver vaults hidden in cellars. It was all trays of good silver, and it was easy to count and transport.

"My lord, do you think you can scrape together 500,000?" Fan Ming was busy over there, and Wu Mengming approached Chang Yu and asked in a low voice.

Chang Yu sneered slightly: "Eight or nine are not far from ten, the Fan family has been built for several generations, and it is worth tens of millions, and this bit of silver is still worth it."

Hehe, Wu Mengming rubbed his hands: "Then, how much can the lowly job draw this time?" ”

"Five thousand taels" Chang Yu smiled faintly: "Lao Wu, you know enough, although this time it is 500,000, but most of it is for the sake of silver, and the rest of the brothers are only one hundred taels, that is, our family is equal to you, and this matter is not a one-nose deal, and there will be more in the future."

Wu Mengming hurriedly shook his hand: "You can take as many lowly positions as you want, and you will follow the adults to eat and drink spicy food in the future" said and couldn't help but sigh: "I heard that there are many rich businessmen in Shanxi, especially in Qi County, if we take every family...... Hey, hey".

"There is a way to take it" Chang Yu stared at Wu Mengming with a serious face: "Fan Yongdou collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, he should have raided his family and exterminated the clan, whether our family took it openly or secretly, it was reasonable, and as for other families, unless they had credentials, they couldn't mess around."

"Yes, yes," Wu Mengming hurriedly replied: "It's just a matter of saying that he is lowly in his position."

Chang Yu was silent, reminiscing in his heart, as if he remembered that there was a big family in Jiexiu, that is, the Hou million Hou family, who later ranked the eight families of the Jin merchants in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with a net worth of seven or eight million, but this person lived in Jiexiu City, and more importantly, his family only made a fortune during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and now it is still a broken settlement!

But the first-ranked Kang family has already made a fortune at this time, and he is a big salt merchant, but it is a pity that he should have been plucked by Li Zicheng in Pingyang Mansion (Linfen), even if he didn't pull Chang Yu, it was impossible to pass, and the thief army was blocking the way.

"Big ...... General" Just when Chang Yu and Wu Mengming were chatting without a word in the hall, Chunxiang hurriedly ran in, and saw that there were still Fan Fu slaves in the courtyard who hurriedly changed their words.

Chang Yu suddenly felt bad, and wondered if the Fan family was going to make trouble.

It's just that it's more serious than that.

"The Jinyi guard scouts came to report that a group of men and horses came from the official road in the north, about 300 thieves, and half a hundred cavalry, and the momentum is coming here."

Chunxiang said in a low voice.

Chang Yu and Wu Mengming were shocked.

"How far is it?"

"More than ten miles, I'm afraid there are only ten miles at most at this time"

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