Jiangyan is a big town, there are more than a dozen tea shops alone, there are three bad workshops for winemaking, four large and small oil mills, the most is the kiln factory, it is said that the history of firing bricks and tiles can be traced back to the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Tang King Li Shimin sent Wei Chigong to Hailing (Taizhou) at that time to build a mansion. So much so that several villages are named after kilns, such as Quanjia kiln, Fanjia kiln, Zhujia kiln, Zhangjia kiln and Xue family kiln, etc.

Naturally, there is a kiln without a site for making bricks, and the kiln on the side of the river in Zhenxi has become a school field for the township Yongying camp.

Han Xiufeng stayed on the school field for a long time, and found that Zhang Guangcheng and Li Changjing would rather be lacking than indiscriminate in recruiting young people, and the more than 100 young people recruited were all potters!

The potters are very hard, in the local language, they are "a flat shoulder open (leaning), full of debts", "the brick cover rings, teary eyes", "the brick cover is lost, there is no rice to put in the pot", and "the six sons are more than to pick the kiln, there is no second pair of pants", "do the potter, the fire is poor, there is nowhere to live, squatting in the brick hall" and so on.

In winter, the kiln is not burned, and many potters often find ships to load some green goods in order to make a living, and transport them to Diaojiapu and even Taizhou City to sell, and exchange for some potatoes and carrots to come back to satisfy their hunger. Some boats arrived at Diaojiapu, the river froze, the boat could not go, the goods could not be sold, people lived outside to suffer, and wives and children ran to the mouth of the river every day to look. Once the river and pond water were flooded, the brickyards were flooded, and the potters could not live, so they had to take their children out to ask for food.

In short, they are just as hard as the young men who carry salt on the Taiba, the only difference is that they are all locals. However, in the eyes of Zhang Guangcheng and Li Changjing, these potters were far inferior to the decent-looking Hai'an, Qutang, and Baimi three regiments, and they actually proposed that more than 100 potters be incorporated into the three regiments.

Han Xiufeng weighed it, and simply even the young and strong people in the salt field sent by Han Chen were disorganized and organized into five regiments: Hai'an, Jiaoxi, Qutang, Baimi, and Jiangyan, and Chu Chenggui, Jiang Huai, Wang Ruhai and other Soap Li archers of the Hai'an Inspection Division, and Chen Hu, Chen Biao and other splashers who had investigated illicit salt in the first month of the year, became the commanders of these five regiments, and the supervisors and deputy supervisors of each regiment let Zhang Guangcheng and Li Changjing's family members serve as them.

Although this arrangement was in Zhang Guangcheng's hands, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Han, what should Brother Wang and Brother Yu do with them?" ”

"Yes, Brother Han, although there are fewer people in the three regiments of Hai'an, Qutang and Baimi, they are all capable, and it is really unreasonable to give us all those capable." Li Changjing also felt embarrassed.

What Han Xiufeng wants is a villager who can fight hard with the bandits, not these slippery people who can only barely deal with the private tyrants, and said with a smile while walking towards the Li Cai Tang: "The two of you can rest assured, Wang Qianli, Yu Qinghuai, Li Zhiyong and Ambassador Han's cousin Tang Guozheng are very reasonable, they will not be unhappy, let alone complain." ”

"Leave all the Xiangyong to us, what are you going to do?" Zhang Guangcheng asked meaningfully.

"I'm not afraid of the jokes of the two, I'm really not good at leading soldiers to fight, and I'm handy at summoning young people to train the villagers." Han Xiufeng stopped and stared at the two of them: "You and I both know that the bandits either don't come to attack, as long as they come to attack, the soldiers and horses must be indispensable, and the more than 400 villagers who are practicing on the brick field alone must not be able to stop it." The more the merrier, and the same is true for us. ”

"Brother Han, are you going to make up some more?"

"Exactly," Han Xiufeng nodded, and said helplessly: "It's not easy to recruit locally, so I plan to go first and go to Jiangdu to recruit young people on the spot earlier." Then you and I are not very familiar with Jiangdu, so I don't know the bottom of my heart if I don't go to see it sooner. ”

"It's nothing to go and see, it's just that it's Jiangdu, not Taizhou, so you go like this, can the local gentry have the same money and strength as the gentry here?"

"I don't care about it so much, I can only know if I go and see it first."

"How do you tell him when you ask?"

"Don't worry about Old Ghost Xu, I'll report to him when I pass by Taizhou, and he will definitely agree."

"When are we going, and where are we going to go?" Zhang Guangcheng asked in a low voice.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Li, we can't be like the Green Battalion, in my opinion, it is best for the two of you to practice in Jiangyan for a few more days, and it is best to wait for the bandits to kill Yizheng before setting off. After arriving in Jiangdu, he went to Wanfuqiao to camp according to Xu Laogui's instructions, and guarded according to the river. ”

"What if you can't hold it?" Li Changjing asked eagerly.

Han Xiufeng groaned: "The Liaojiagou River is so wide, and Old Ghost Xu promised to give us the dozen or so small cannons in the city, and I will leave you six lifting guns and eighteen bird guns, which should be easy to deal with a hundred and ten bandits." If the camp is more solid, digging more trenches in the camp, especially by the river, and planting more flags on the riverbank, the bandits should not dare to attack easily. ”

"And the boat!" Zhang Guangcheng drew inferences and said: "How can bandits cross the river without boats, as soon as we arrive in Liaojiagou, we will destroy all the bridges, and we will divide our troops to collect the large and small boats on both sides of the river, so that the bandits will not be able to cross the river for a while!" ”

"This is the best, but Liaojiagou is so long, starting from Shaobo Lake in the north and reaching Sanjiangkou in the south, the river is wide in the north and narrow in the south, if I am a bandit, it is not good to see that the river in the area of Wanfu Bridge is too wide, and I will definitely go around to the south to attack." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "The area around the Fairy Temple is not only narrow, but also rich in people, and there is no need to worry about grain and grass when you come to attack Taizhou from the Fairy Temple, so the area around the Fairy Temple cannot be unfortified." ”

"We have only gathered a few hundred people, and it is very difficult to defend Wanfu Bridge alone, how can we divide our troops again?" Zhang Guangcheng said with a bitter face.

"So I have to hurry over," Han Xiufeng touched the corners of his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Brother Zhang, Yangzhou is not all greedy for life and afraid of death, you know Governor Yan Zhang Yiguo, he has also trained hundreds of village warriors." I'll see if I can get in touch after I go over, and if I can get in touch, I will ask him to retreat to the Fairy Temple and guard Liaojiagou with us. ”

"That's a good idea, by the way, when are you going to leave?"

"Let's go now."

"Wang Qianli, Yu Qinghuai, they are going with you?"

"Well, without their help, I wouldn't be able to train Xiangyong alone."

Han Xiufeng arched his hand, and was about to say goodbye to the two, when the big head ran over with Xu Ying's family Huzi and a servant.

"The little one has seen Master Han." Huzi didn't want to be beaten like Master Hu, so when he saw Han Xiufeng, he knelt down and saluted.

"Get up and speak."

"Master Xie Han." Huzi hurriedly got up, took out two official documents and a letter from his arms, and said respectfully: "Master Han, this is the household license of your donation to the state of the same state, this is the official document of the governor Cao ordering you to act as the agent of the state of Taizhou, this is the letter from my master of the family to you." ”

"Acting so soon?" Han Xiufeng took the official document and asked.

"My lord almost went to Yangzhou for this matter," Huzi took a large letter bag from the hand of the servant, and said cautiously: "Other people's donation licenses have also been brought, and my lord is worried that you will not be able to buy a top and official uniform for a while, so he specially sent someone to buy two clothes for you, and I don't know if you are wearing them or not." ”

"I've bothered your master." Han Xiufeng handed the donor official's license and the official document of the acting state to the big head, and opened Xu Ying's letter in front of everyone.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I almost laugh when I see it.

Xu Ying thought that he was Qi Suzao's protégé, and he actually used the method of agitation.

What made him even more ridiculous was that Huzi actually said cautiously: "Master Han, Lord Qi was martyred, and my lord is also sad and indignant, my lord said that Lord Qi is not only a loyal minister but also a capable minister, but he was born at the wrong time to meet a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and said that now the only one who can help Lord Qi avenge his hatred is Master Han!" ”

Han Xiufeng didn't care about how Qi Suzao, who had never met, died, but he was very concerned about what kind of bandits Han Xiufeng was, after all, he had always heard but never seen them in the past two days, and he didn't know anything about bandits.

Thinking of this, Han Xiufeng put down the letter and asked coldly: "Your master said in the letter that someone escaped from Jiangning, and he also watched Lord Qi die at the hands of thieves, can you help me find the person who escaped?" ”

Huzi thought that Han Xiufeng wanted to avenge Qi Suzao, and hurriedly said: "The little one will definitely not be found, but since my master can find out this news, he will definitely be able to help Master Han find the person who brought out the news of Lord Qi's martyrdom." ”

"It's good to find it, I'll go to Taizhou with you, I want to see this person with my own eyes, and I want to hear him with my own ears!"

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PS: My head doesn't hurt so much at night, and I'll give you a chapter, thank you for your concern.

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