After Min Yuanqi was reborn, he didn't take much of a boat, he sat cross-legged on the wooden bow of the boat, looking at the scratched and damaged places on the bow, and his mood gradually calmed down.

I remember that when he was a teenager, that is, about five years after the Apocalypse, he went to Beijing with his father Min Qianli, starting from Huai'an, to Suqian, Xuzhou, and then to Dezhou, Linqing, and all the way to Tongzhou.

At that time, Min Yuanqi seemed to have said something sympathetic, but Min Qianli did not speak.

When I arrived on the way back, I happened to encounter the rebellion of Liu Liu and Liu Qi, and the rebellion was quickly suppressed by the officers and soldiers, but there were still many dead and wounded, and the people were displaced, and it was miserable.

At that time, Min Qianli said: It is better to be a peaceful dog than to leave a chaotic person. You see the hard work of pulling fiber, what is it, it is good to have a bite to eat, if there is a war and war, human life is not human life, even a dog in the peaceful years is not as good.

At that time, Min Yuanqi was ignorant, and he was still a child who didn't understand anything, but at this moment, he had fully understood what his father meant.

The current situation was taken by Min Yuanqi himself, and even carefully designed, but when he was wearing heavy armor and holding his Qi knife horizontally on his knees, ready to go into battle to fight and fight with his life, why wasn't he extremely nervous?

Just sitting cross-legged, Min Yuanqi felt that his physical fitness was declining rapidly, and it was still very cold on the river at night, and the cold was pressing, but Min Yuanqi kept sweating on his back, and even he felt that his lining was about to be wet with sweat.

The last fight happened suddenly, the other party was almost empty-handed, Min Yuanqi is an official protector, those green-skinned gangsters dare not openly kill officials, not to mention that assaulting and beating officials is a felony...... It is because of these Min Yuanqi that he has no scruples, and he hurts people, which is really happy.

Tonight is different, the night attack and killing, the two sides completely tear their faces, Yang Shida and his gang will not have scruples, even if Min Yuanqi is wearing iron armor, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be injured, or even killed.

But Min Yuanqi thought about it again and again, but he had no intention of retreating. In this life, he is a thorough martial artist, and he loves to dance with guns and sticks since he was a child, which is considered an outlier among the military attaché children of Dahewei, and he is also bent on finding a future in the camp before he grows up...... Such a precedent is not without precedents, most of the generals in the north, most of the generals are from military families in the north, Wanquanwei, Datongwei, Shanxi Wei, Liaodong Zhuwei......

As a result, Min Yuanqi of later generations crossed over, and the former only had memories left, but many ways of thinking and past experiences also had a profound impact on Min Yuanqi in later generations...... Although Min Yuanqi in later generations is just an ordinary person, he was born an orphan since he was a child, and he has survived many setbacks and hardships, and he has run out of a good future.

At this moment, even if he was trembling, he was also afraid, and he was as nervous as his partners around him, but Min Yuanqi had no intention of retreating, not at all!

……

Near midnight, the river house where Yang Shida is located is still quite lively.

The building complex on the embankment near the river is very large, with a total of three or four sets of courtyards and fifty or sixty houses, which was originally a patrol inspection department yamen in Guannan, and later the salt department also worked here, and then there were local officials working here, so originally a set of courtyards was built into several sets of courtyards, and even the gate was built several times.

This is the junction of Guannan and Shanyang and to Qingjiangpu and Huai'an, people from Sixiang and Bali mention the water pass and know that it is here, to the end of Wanli Patrol Division abandoned, and then come down to lift the salt class is also useless, to the middle of Chongzhen, Yang Shida, the standard of the smuggling salt dealer, because of the corruption of the local order in the world, donated a miscellaneous official position from the seven products, turned into a dynasty official who checked the smuggled salt, and the river house was occupied by Yang Shida and his group, Over the years, the power of Kung Fu Yang Shida has also become bigger and bigger, and of course there are more and more people who are harming.

Min Yuanjin, Liang Shifa, Wang Sanyi and more than a dozen banner soldiers were all locked up in one place, and the big house with three bays would not be too crowded if dozens of people were closed.

This was originally the place where Yang Shida and his gang did black work, in the northernmost side of the river house near the river, the river embankment is very shaking, the house is built of stone and bricks, it is estimated that it is still a building in the year of Chenghua, the prosperous scene, the house is built very solid, in addition to killing from the main gate, it is impossible to dig a hole and jump out of the window to escape.

Yang Shida and his gang occupy an area to collect money, which is actually a disguised tax card. The industrial and commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty is in vain, and the customs tariff is not good, the tea tax is only tens of thousands of taels a year, and the salt tax is already the highest income tax, which is more than 200,000 taels a year...... This number continued to decline during the Chongzhen period, in fact, it was related to the decline in the control of the imperial court, and it was also related to the pressure of the gentry and businessmen, so it was not fair for later generations to hand over all the black cauldrons to the Donglin Party to carry, and the Donglin Party itself did not have so much strength and power.

There are many boats that come in and out of Shuiguan every day, salt boats, grain boats, small fishing boats, various small boats that transport people, etc., in addition to the boats that transport troops, as long as the ships that pass by, Yang Shida and his gang will collect money.

Calculate the income every day, remove some of the necessary expenses for the officials, and then spend some on the green-skinned wanderers under his command, and the rest is Yang Shida's own income.

The daily income is more than hundreds of taels, and the less is one hundred and eighty taels, which is still quite an enviable income even in the inflationary Chongzhen years. With this Shuiguan, Yang Shida has fed more than 100 green skins and established his own foundation, so that his achievements do not seem to be much worse than that of his brother Yang Shililai......

Every evening after dark, there will be a cook who comes with wine and food, and then uses several large iron pots to make food and drink in full swing to prepare the wine and food of Yang Shida and his gang.

In this era, there is a lack of certain entertainment, even if you run to a lively city like Huai'an Fucheng, it is nothing more than more restaurants, and there are some green buildings and other places to play, which can call halls, listen to music, and watch plays, but those elegant places may not welcome these scoundrels, and these scoundrels don't like to go to those places very much, and those half-closed earthen kilns and secret prostitutes are their favorite places to go.

Drinking, playing, gambling money in the river house, making trouble until midnight every day before sleeping, this has become the daily activity of Yang Shida and his gang, because it is too boring, and I know that I caught a group of banner troops of Yunti Pass, and even arrested a hundred households, after the river was sealed after dark, many scoundrels ran over in groups of three or five to relieve boredom with Wang Sanyi and Min Yuanjin and others for fun.

This is bitter Min Yuanjin and Liang Shifa, every once in a while there will be a few green skins coming over, drunk and drunk, they don't dare to do it directly to Wang Sanyi, Liang Shifa and Min Yuanjin were beaten and kicked in turn, these people are ruthless, and they have no mercy for people, and after a long time, they beat Liang Shifa and Min Yuanjin and others with blue noses and swollen faces, and they look no longer human.

Guan Er's face was cold, his nose was still crooked, there was no bone crushing surgery these years, and the broken nose seriously affected his image and breathing, Guan Er's most hated thing was of course Min Yuanqi, and he would not spare Min Yuanjin and Liang Shifa and others in front of him.

"Isn't it very horizontal for you to try 100 households?" Guan Er slapped the two little flag officers in front of him with a bow left and right, the two little flags had bruised faces, and blood flowed down from the cracked skin and nose, Guan Er suspected that his hands were stained with blood, and motioned for a few green skins to come up and fight again, he sneered and said: "I injured Lao Tzu that day, and injured several of our subordinates, where are the others now?" Aren't you thieves and armies pushed out and called dogs? Even if someone says peace this time, don't think that you two can leave in peace, don't let you lose your hands and feet and lose your lives, Guan Er's name will be written backwards. ”

Min Yuanjin and Liang Shifa both lowered their heads and were silent, and then a green skin came in and said with a smile: "Second brother, the eldest brother asked you to go to the upper room to drink, these two thieves cut off their hands and feet and threw them into the river in the second half of the night, why sulk with them." ”

Guan Er nodded with a sneer, turned back to Qingpi and said, "Do these hundred household officials have orders?" ”

"It's a six-rank official, no matter how chaotic it is now, it's hard to move his hands, but it can't be easily released, wait for a big official over there to send someone to talk about it, the eldest brother said, in the future, the salt ships on the side of the Yunti Pass will be added by one percent, and if you don't agree, you won't let go."

"That's it."

Guan Er smiled with satisfaction and said to Wang Sanyi: "I heard that there is a good little lady in the hundred households? Either promise me to be a concubine, and if you become my father-in-law, you don't have to suffer, and now please go to the upper room to greet me with good wine and food. ”

Many green skins laughed wildly when they heard this, their faces were full of the pleasure of acting wantonly, in this place, the officials did not dare to care about them, the soldiers of the guard were despised by them, and the foreign guest soldiers would not pay attention to the of local security, this place had lost order and became a paradise for them to do whatever they wanted.

"The daughters of the hundred household officials are also worthy of our second brother as concubines!"

"Second brother is tired of playing crookedly, how about giving it to us?"

"You still have fewer fucking bad little girls, and you dare to worry about Lao Tzu who hasn't started?"

A group of green skins followed Guan Er and walked out while laughing.

When several banner soldiers saw the green skins go out, they immediately began to cry.

Wang Sanyi's hundred households are still going to be imprisoned and humiliated, and the two small flags are going to be chopped off and thrown into the river to drown, what will happen to them?

Liang Shifa's face was like ashes, and his body couldn't help shaking, he still had a wife and parents at home, Min Yuanqi, a hundred households, was still digging salt ponds to dry salt, seeing that the days were ahead, after so many years of suffering, life had just appeared a little hope, and he was going to die so silently in this airtight river house secret room?

Min Yuanjin has been dripping blood from his nose, his face is also dripping blood, and his chest and placket are wet with blood, he looked at Liang Shifa and whispered: "Brother Liang, don't be afraid, adults will definitely come to save us." ”

"I believe in you, too." Liang Shifa gritted his teeth and said: "Others are afraid of Yang Shida and Guan Er, but adults will not be afraid of them." ”

Having said that, Liang Shifa is obviously still lacking in confidence.