After reading honeycomb coal, Li Zhan went to see the coal furnace again, and like honeycomb coal, the coal furnace is also producing better and better.

Everything is thriving, so that Li Zhan feels very satisfied, recently the Cui family's industry has been squeezed by Li Zhan and can not survive, although the Cui family's gambling houses and restaurants also follow Li Zhan's Qingfeng Building and Qingfeng Casino to learn.

For example, the Cui family's gambling house made a lot of gambling equipment like Li Zhan's Qingfeng Casino, but it was only temporarily popular for a while, and the Cui family's gambling house became a place that some poorer people loved to go to.

Because Li Zhan's Qingfeng Casino has a chip of at least 100 Wen, the price is a bit expensive, and if you don't have money, you can only go to the Cui family's gambling house, but interesting people, if these people win money, they will definitely go to Li Zhan's Qingfeng Casino.

Li Zhan's Qingfeng Casino is a high-end place, while the Cui family's gambling house is reduced to a low-level place.

Like the casino, the restaurant is also like this, Li Zhan's Qingfeng Building is already the first floor of the famous Datang, but Li Zhan did not suppress other restaurants in Datang.

But everyone makes money, Li Zhan soon cooperated with Jiang Fenglou, the former first floor of the Tang Dynasty, trained several storytellers for Jiang Fenglou, and then moved Liang Zhu to Jiang Fenglou to perform.

Later, it also became a strategic partner with Jiang Fenglou, and the VIPs on both sides can be used.

Li Zhan's meaning of being a restaurant is not to defeat all other restaurants, Li Zhan's only enemy from beginning to end is the Cui family, so after Li Zhan's series of operations, Chang'an's restaurants have developed vigorously, except for the Cui family's restaurants.

This is also the reason why the Cui family began to become more and more resentful of Li Zhan.

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On an official road in Datang, a transport team of 100 people was walking quietly.

Datang's official road is very good, although it is not as good as Li Zhan's cement road, but Datang in the construction of the official road, the quality is still very guaranteed, there will be no traffic jams, and there are few traffic accidents, the road surface of this kind of road is generally paved with bluestone slabs or pebbles, and the road is very smooth. The main role of the official road is to transport grain, march, and deliver documents, and the official road in the Tang Dynasty is somewhat similar to the modern national road.

Of course, in addition to the official roads, there is also a kind of private road in Datang, most of which are roads built by local officials, and some of these roads are paved with stone slabs, and the poor ones are stepped on by people like the naturally formed roads, which is a kind of dirt road.

"Uncle Zuo... Where is it now? Li Jing'an asked with his little head out of the carriage.

"Oh... It's almost time to reach Qiming Mountain...! Uncle Zuo replied with a smile on his horse.

"Qi Ming Mountain...!" Li Jing'an reminded: "Uncle Zuo, there are bandits in Qi Mingshan, you remind everyone to be careful." ”

Uncle Zuo smiled and said, "Miss, don't worry... This is an official road, no matter how powerful the bandits in Qi Ming Mountain are, they don't dare to go to the official road to rob. ”

In fact, what Uncle Zuo said makes sense, because there are basically military patrols on the official road, and the official road is very mobile, so ordinary little thieves dare not come to the official road to rob.

Ordinary petty thieves go to private roads, after all, it is convenient to escape.

But today this matter is going to make an exception, because the things Li Jing'an and they transported are too valuable, the so-called people die for money, birds die for food, a million yuan, it is worth the risk.

Therefore, in a small forest about three miles in front of Li Xin'an's carriage caravan, nearly 500 bandits were ambushed, although these bandits were all clothed and unarmed, but these bandits lay silently in the woods.

You don't have to look to know that these bandits are different from ordinary bandits, they are militarily trained.

This is also where Zhu Jun is powerful, many people say how powerful the Tang army is, in fact, when it comes to the army's military front, the Great Sui is strong for an era, and the Tang Dynasty is only strong for a period.

In history, there were many elite troops, such as the iron cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, the Yulin Army of the Han Dynasty, the tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms, and the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty, each of which was famous.

However, the Great Sui has an elite army, although it is short-lived, but its combat effectiveness is not weaker than any strong force in history, but it is not known to future generations because it does not have too many achievements, this army is the Xiaoguo Army.

Let's talk about the origin of this army first, in order to expand his military strength, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty recruited a group of soldiers in addition to the government army to form a new army, (the government army is the people who serve in the military and belongs to the compulsory soldiers, while the new army is a profession and belongs to mercenaries) This group of new troops is the Xiaoguo army.

Xiaoguo is taken from the meaning of courage, this army is composed of Kansai people, and it is also said that this group of soldiers is composed of death row prisoners. They are all tall and strong, and they are strong in martial arts. Because they were Janissaries, they were well armed.

Each person is equipped with a horse, armed with a spear and a saber, wearing blood-colored bright light armor, wearing a red gold leopard helmet, and a blood eagle tattooed on his left arm, known as 100,000.

Their job was to guard Yang Guang's side and keep him safe. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Yang Guang was trapped in Yangzhou in the south, and the Wagang army was already approaching the eastern capital Luoyang. Yang Guang had no plans to return to the west and wanted to settle down in the south.

But most of the Xiaoguo army are from Guanxi, homesick and don't want to stay in Yangzhou. In order to calm the hearts of the army, Yang Guang gave them local women as wives. But it didn't work, under the planning of Yu Wenhuaji, the Xiaoguo army mutinied, and they killed Yang Guang. Then Yu Wenhua and returned home with the Xiaoguo army.

On the way home, you have to pass through Li Mi's territory, so it is inevitable to fight with Li Mi.

When Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo army passed through Luoyang, the grain and grass were almost gone, so they attacked Li Mi's Wagang army to grab grain.

As for Li Mi, he also played a trick, first saying that he promised to give Yu Wenhua and grain and grass, and after Yu Wenhua and the food were eaten, he turned his face and refused to admit it.

Then the two sides started a big battle at Tongshan.

As a result, the Xiaoguo Army, which wanted to go home, fought fiercely for a day with the Wagang Army, which was known as the strongest army in the world at that time. The Wagang army could barely support it, and Li Mi was also injured, if it weren't for Qin Shubao's timely rescue, Li Mi would have to become a prisoner.

Li Mi's Wagang army tried its best to resist the attack of the Xiaoguo army. But because there was no food, even if the Tongshan War was won, it would be useless.

Soon the Xiaoguo army was divided and went their separate ways.

Zhu Jun is a general of the Xiaoguo Army... So he used the method of the Xiaoguo Army to train his subordinates, although he could not achieve the effect of the Xiaoguo Army, but this bandit team that was trained by Zhu Jun was definitely not so simple.

"The King... There's still an hour... The big fish is about to arrive at our designated location. ”

A scout-like figure came to Zhu Jun's side to report.

After Zhu Jun heard the report, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said, "Okay... Inform the brothers to prepare, as soon as I give the order, the archers will immediately attack indiscriminately, and the opponent's living force will be killed and damaged to the greatest extent.

After three rounds of arrow rain, the whole army charged, kill me when I see someone, don't show mercy, by the way... You must not hurt the female relatives in the caravan, that is the Li family, the other party wants to borrow my knife to kill people, I don't want to be such a wrongdoer, we are going to Jiangnan to enjoy happiness, and we must not have a mortal enmity with the Li family of Longyou. ”

"That's right... It's still the king's thoughtfulness. ”

A sycophant slapped Zhu Jun with a smile.

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