But in the era when thieves were rampant, any big gentry family was indispensable to the family Ding nursing home, like Meng Guiming, who raised three or four hundred nursing homes and townspeople, which was considered a small number among the large gentry households.

Qinshui Zhang Daojun is just a Jinyi guard who was degraded to Yanmen Pass, but his family raised thousands of soldiers to protect the courtyard, when the Liukou attacked Qinshui, he had brought 300 elite soldiers and Douzhuang Township to force back thousands of Liukou.

After the governor of Gansu Mei Zhihuan was dismissed and returned to his hometown, he trained tens of thousands of Shen Zhuang troops in Macheng, Huguang, and beat the bandits in Huguang to make the thieves in Huguang fart and urine, and the imperial court always wanted to incorporate the Shen Zhuang army but could not, until Mei Zhihuan died of illness, and the tens of thousands of Shen Zhuang troops were finally scattered and dispersed.

As one of the eight major Jin merchants, Fan Yongdou trafficked countless goods such as grain, ironware, and cloth every year.

There are naturally a lot of people in his family's nursing home.

It's just that Qin Chuan didn't expect so many people to come, there were five or six hundred people, is Fan Yongdou going to fight with him endlessly?

It's just 5,000 stone grain and 7,000 taels of silver, so there's no need for this.

If the battle is so big, aren't you afraid of attracting the attention of the government?

You must know that Taiyuan is only one hundred and sixty miles away from Lou Fu, and Song Quanyin has tens of thousands of heavy troops stationed in that place.

Fan Yongdou was not afraid that Song Tongyin would lead the troops to kill him, destroy him for the crime of rebellion, and then go to Zhangjiakou and Jiexiu to raid his home?

miscalculated, and knew that he would send someone to Taiyuan to inform Song Tongyin, so he said that Fan Yongdou was going to pull the flag and rebel.

Now, he has privately amassed his own soldiers and attacked the villagers' village for no reason, which can be counted as a rebellion.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan did not hesitate to call two Xiangyong recruited from the mine, and asked them to climb up the back mountain from behind Zhuangzi, run to the mine to get two horses by themselves, and hurry to Taiyuan to report the news.

It is said that Lou Fu has another stream of rogues, about five or six hundred people, who are besieging Mengjiazhuang.

The reason why he didn't send the old bandits of Jiujishan was because Mengjiazhuang was facing a life-and-death crisis, and he had to concentrate the most elite forces under his command to defend Mengjiazhuang.

The other party only has five or six hundred nursing homes, and he also has three hundred newly trained villagers, and there are hundreds of newly accepted homeless people in Zhuangzi, which is enough for Fan Yongdou to drink a pot.

After the hundreds of people of the Fan family arrived a hundred steps away from Zhuangzi, they stopped, and Fan Yongdou and Fan Sanpao rode their horses and walked a few steps forward, looking at the gatehouse fixedly.

Qin Chuan also looked at them quietly.

A hundred steps, the bird can barely hit that far, but at such a long distance, not to mention whether it can hit or not, even if it hits, the soft lead is estimated to not be able to hit the opponent's clothes.

It's better to save some gunpowder and lead.

"Upstairs, Mr. Qin?"

The two sides were looking at each other, Fan Yongdou was the first to speak, and arched his hand towards the gatehouse, his voice and demeanor were very polite.

Qin Chuan also smiled and said, "Master Fan has good eyesight, Qin admires it." ”

"Hahaha, Mr. Qin is polite."

Fan Yongdou laughed heartily a few times, then stroked his beard, and said, "Mr. Qin, the little old man came from afar for the batch of money and grain that the Fan family temporarily stored in Mengjiazhuang, and I heard that everything is in Mr. Qin's hands." ”

"Little old man is brave, I hope that Mr. Qin can return the number, the Fan family will be grateful, and will remember Mr. Qin's great kindness for generations, in the future, when Mr. Qin walks in the western part of Jin or other borders, he only needs to report the name of the Fan family, and he will be able to let Mr. Qin unimpeded, and if he encounters any tricky things, the Fan family will also help him."

"Haha, Master Fan is refreshing."

Qin Chuan also laughed heartily twice and said, "Master Fan, I'm afraid this trip will let you go in vain." ”

"Mr. Qin, what do you mean by this?" Fan Yongdou was not angry, but asked puzzled.

Qin Chuan smiled: "First, this batch of grain is in my hands, it is my thing, the agreement between Master Fan and the Meng family has nothing to do with me, you can ask Master Meng to go." ”

"Second, Master Fan has been trading with the Tartars and Jiannu all the year round, and this batch of grain must also be sold to them, the Tartars and Jiannu have been entering the customs all the year round to plunder the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they also want to use the gold and silver they have stolen to buy the grain of the people of the Ming Dynasty, how can there be such a good thing in the world?"

Hearing his words, Fan Yongdou was still not angry, and only smiled kindly: "What Mr. Qin said is extremely true, it's just that since ancient times, businessmen have pursued profits, and trading has been accessible all over the world, and the little old man just wants to do business to earn money, and he is really ashamed to be as deep as Mr. Qin, but ......"

"Master Fan." Qin Chuan interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "I heard that you Jin merchants all worship Second Master Guan, right?" ”

"Exactly, Guan Erye is the god of martial arts, riding alone for thousands of miles, passing five passes and killing six generals, our businessmen pray for Guan Erye's protection and safety every time they walk."

"Hehe, Guan Erye is loyal to the liver and courage, and the righteousness is thin and cloudy, and you profit-seeking businessmen ignore the national difficulties, ignore the dire situation of the people of Limin, and when the Central Plains is starving all over the wilderness, you sell the food that the people urgently need the most, and the pig iron that can be used to make armor to foreign enemies, what is the difference between rebellious and collaborating with the enemy? Even those of you who are disloyal and unrighteous are also worthy of the protection of Second Master Guan? Scold. ”

"Let me tell you this, as long as I, Qin Chuan, are here, you traitors, don't think about living in peace, and don't even think about taking back the money and food."

Upon hearing this, Fan Yongdou frowned, and his face was a little ugly.

After a moment of silence, Fan Yongdou arched his hand towards Qin Chuan again, and said indifferently: "Since this is the case, then you and I can only meet each other, and please Mr. Qin do it himself." ”

"Hahaha......"

Qin Chuan raised his head and laughed, and said, "Okay, I want to take a look, Master Fan, who was Jingru by Jiannu, has a few catties and taels." ”

Fan Yongdou glanced at Qin Chuan expressionlessly, then turned the horse's head and rode back.

Fan Sanpao beside him said angrily: "The surname Qin, when the Zhuangzi Day is broken, you don't cry and call your mother to kneel and beg for mercy, when the time comes, I will definitely skin you and cramp and break your body into ten thousand pieces!" ”

After speaking, Fan Sanpao also retreated.

Next, instead of killing Mengjiazhuang, the five or six hundred people of the Fan family retreated one after another, until they retreated to the mountain beam in the distance.

"Do you want to play Fan Sanpao that set again? Fan Yongdou can't be so stupid, right? How many people dare to spend so much? ”

Looking at their distant backs, Qin Chuan frowned and muttered to himself.

He could see that Fan Yongdou was not so stupid, pulling hundreds of people from Zhangjiakou was not to spend so much with him, that guy must have a backhand.

What is it?

About half an hour later, Qin Chuan's doubts were solved.

Fan Yongdou's back hand is the centaurs, there are thousands of men and horses, mighty and mighty, coming from the north.

As soon as he saw that team, Qin Chuan sighed in his heart, this is not very good.

He was confident to resist Fan Yongdou's five or six hundred men and horses, but he could not stop the fifteen hundred men and horses.

If Fan Yongdou had five or six hundred Ding Nursing Homes, Thaksin would have hired some ruffians or small bandits to come out with a team of 1,500 people.

However, if Fan Yongdou dared to pull 1,500 people from Zhangjiakou here, he would never believe it.

The Fan family is just a mere businessman, neither a court member nor a frontier general, and the private accumulation of soldiers has already committed the taboo of the imperial court, and if these soldiers are blatantly pulled out thousands of miles away, they will have been wiped out by the imperial army long ago.

What's more, Fan Yongdou brought so many people here, what should he do with his warehouse in Zhangjiakou? There must be a lot of money and food hidden in it, and if he doesn't put heavy troops to guard it, he dares to come out?

It can be seen that the new 1,000 centaurs should not be his people.

More than a thousand men marched with great fanfare, and no one dared to do this except the rogues and the army.

It seems that this group of men and horses is the army from the north, and it is the army of the guard.