The twentieth month of the thirteenth year of Liyang

With less than ten days to go before the New Year's Festival, the people of Qingyuan County are already preparing for the arrival of the new year.

Cleaning the courtyard, buying New Year's goods, killing pigs and buying cloth, and going to Chen to welcome the new year, there are more and more smiling faces on the street, and the whole county glows with a strong New Year's flavor.

Also, this year's grain harvest is quite abundant, and the imperial court has not fought a war, and everyone has been spared the pain of the death of their relatives in the army, plus the bandit Heifengling, who has been harming the local area for many years, has also been exterminated by the government, so there is no need to worry about going out and running into bandits in the future.

Compared with last year, many people feel that this year is an auspicious year, the days are going well, and the festival is also extraordinarily energetic.

The people in the city were happily preparing to welcome the New Year, but there was a faint tension and slaughter in the New Army camp not far from the west city gate.

From the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Yan Kui ordered that all the troops should be ready for battle, and any soldiers must stay in the camp and not go out without an order.

Many soldiers are privately rumoring that Lord Du Lieutenant is going to take them to do a vote before the New Year, but they don't know who to beat.

White Snake Valley or a glimmer of sky?

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"White Snake Valley."

In the conference hall, Yan Kui said the goal of this time categorically in front of the generals.

And the generals under it didn't look too surprised by this, now that the Black Wind Ridge has been wiped out, the enemies that are worthy of Yan Kui's such fanfare are the White Snake Valley and the First Line Heaven.

There are many front-line heavenly soldiers, and the terrain is really precipitous, relying on the current strength of the new army alone, nine out of nine can't take it, in comparison, the White Snake Valley, which ranks at the bottom of the three major bandits, is definitely easier to deal with.

Yan Kui moved his troops tightly to Nian Gen, he must have wanted to make some gains, and Yan Kui had close contacts with Teng County during this time, so it was no secret among the generals.

Therefore, guessing who Yan Kui's target is in advance is naturally not a difficult problem.

However, knowing the target is knowing the target, although She Gui in the White Snake Valley is not as good as the Xia family's father and son and Luo Biao, he has also fallen grass in Teng County for many years, and has more than 1,000 subordinates, and occupies the terrain of the White Snake Valley, which is by no means an easy person.

At present, the new army has just been established for less than two months, except for the old foundation of the militia group several hundred years ago, all the others are newly recruited "recruits", although the vast majority of the "recruits" are currently training at a rapid pace, but after all, the time for the formation of the army is too short, and the generals are very puzzled by Yan Kui's eagerness to move the army.

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Yan Kui also knew roughly what the generals were thinking, but he had confidence in the new army under him, more precisely, in those system soldiers.

Maybe in the eyes of others, the recruits of the new army are a group of rookies, but only Yan Kui, who is familiar with the inside story, knows that the rookies are just disguises, except for a small number of real raw melon eggs and seeds, the rest are all yellow turban elite soldiers killed on the spot.

Its combat effectiveness is even much higher than that of the old militia members he brought out.

The generals thought that it was a risk for Yan Kui to lead the newly established new army that was less than a month old to rashly attack the White Snake Valley, but they didn't know that Yan Kui had already made up his mind, but these reasons were really inconvenient to explain to everyone, so Yan Kui could only act arbitrarily.

With Yan Kui's prestige in the hearts of the generals, although he acted arbitrarily, everyone expressed their opposition, but when Yan Kui really gave the order, the generals still acted honestly in accordance with the military order.

Of course, all the generals are Yan Kui's henchmen after all, and rough orders are not conducive to the unity of the soldiers, so in order to reassure the hearts of the generals and improve the morale of the army, Yan Kui revealed to the generals the plan to move the troops this time.

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As mentioned earlier, the White Snake Valley is not small, and it occupies a favorable location, even if Yan Kui has a group of Yellow Turban elite soldiers, it will be difficult to achieve any great results under the strong attack, and if it is not good, it will lose the army.

Although Yan Kui is not a character who loves soldiers like a son, he also attaches more importance to the casualties of his own soldiers, the kind of hard-fought style of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 himself, although Yan Kui does not resist, but if it is not necessary, he does not want to use it.

If casualties can be avoided, why bother with human lives, so this time, Yan Kui's mobilization of troops against the White Snake Valley is still based on ingenuity and strangeness.

Speaking of which, I have to mention Jin San, when Jin San came to see Yan Kui, in addition to offering a snake yang vine planting land, he also kept saying that he had a strategy that could help Yan Kui exterminate the white snake bone.

It was precisely this strategy that allowed Yan Kui to finally stand on Jin San's side between Jin San and the Guo family.

Otherwise, Yan Kui wants the Guo family's Snake Yang Valley, and he can find a way to get it slowly, there is no need to connive at Jin San to destroy his full door.

Otherwise, the Guo family will destroy the door, although Yan Kui does not seem to have a hand in this matter, but if it really happens, Yan Kui, as a vested profiteer, will not be able to escape from the involvement so easily, and even because he is involved in this kind of bad nature of the door destruction case, the trouble is even greater.

It's not that the information provided by Jin San is too valuable, enough for Yan Kui to support Jin San with ease, and even at the expense of "sacrificing" the Guo family.

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Speaking of which, there are still some things that are worth intriguing after the destruction of the Guo family in Tengxian County.

It stands to reason that with Yan Kui's cautious character, the Guo family destroyed the door, although he hid back to Qingyuan in order to avoid suspicion, but he didn't ask about it at all, isn't he afraid that Jin San will mess things up.

In fact, although Yan Kui looks like he is out of the way on the surface, in private, he has been secretly manipulating as half of the masterminds behind the scenes.

For example, why did Shang Decai, the county lieutenant who had been excluded for half a year, take the position so easily in this matter, and solved Liu Liang smoothly after taking the position.

If Shang Decai really has such a great ability, why has he been suppressed by Liu Liang before.

Also, Shang Decai is also a county lieutenant, even if he cooperates with Jin San for the sake of the upper position, why is he still kind to Jin San after taking the position, and he also actively helps Jin San clean up the affairs of the Guo family.

Snake Yang Valley is such an important treasure land, saying that if it is sold to Jin San at a low price, it will be sold to Jin San, this Shang County Lieutenant is inevitably too "affectionate and righteous".

All this, it's scary to think about it!

Even, if someone deliberately observes the people around Yan Kui, they will find that for a period of time after the incident of the Guo family in Teng County, Yan Kui's confidant Xu Yu has never appeared in Qingyuan.

At the same time, according to an insider who did not want to be named, someone had found this Xu talent in Teng County.

Tsk, the tragedy of the annihilation.

No matter how powerful Jin San is, he is a local snake, how much power he can cover the Guo family's case, it is not Yan Kui's power behind his back.

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Of course, although he paid a lot of price, the fruits of Yan Kui's victory were still very rich, not to mention the two snake vine planting sites comparable to gold mines, what Yan Kui valued the most was the information provided by Jin San about the White Snake Valley.

Jin San didn't say anything big, the information and strategies he provided really could allow Yan Kui to wipe out the White Snake Valley in one fell swoop.

The specific situation of the intelligence strategy provided by Jin San is like this, it turns out that Jin San and She Gui, the big boss of the White Snake Valley, are cousins and nephews, and Jin Shan's cousin is She Gui's mother.

Speaking of which, I want to focus on mentioning the person She Gui, the big boss of the White Snake Valley, compared with the arrogant and domineering Luo Biao, She Gui is very low-key, to what extent is it low-key, it is said that She Gui has never been out of the valley since he occupied the White Snake Valley.

Except for the bandits inside the White Snake Valley, outsiders rarely saw this She Da master of Zhenteng County with their own eyes, and only knew that this She Gui was accompanied by a white snake.

Legend has it that the white snake of She Gui is a thousand-year-old spirit snake, which can become big and small, and can control ten thousand snakes.

Regardless of whether the spirit snake is true or not, but there are indeed many poisonous snakes in the White Snake Valley, when the officials and soldiers suppressed the bandits before, they suffered a lot of poisonous snake losses, and later developed a special medicinal smoke to repel snakes, and finally broke the poisonous snake array in the White Snake Valley.

Since Yan Kui prepared to target the White Snake Valley, he specially sent someone to Fucheng to get the recipe for snake repellent medicinal smoke, in order to prevent the White Snake Valley from releasing poisonous snakes.

However, although the official army broke the poisonous snake array, the news that the White Snake Valley had a spirit snake to help it still spread, and She Gui himself also got the nickname of Spirit Snake Langjun, which added a bit of weirdness to the already mysterious She Da master.

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Although Yan Kui didn't believe in any thousand-year-old spirit snakes, he was still quite afraid of some strange magic, so he had specifically asked Jin San about this matter.

After he combined the news that Jin San knew, Yan Kui found that She Gui did have some skills.

First of all, I'm afraid that few people in the entire Teng County know that She Gui is a native of Teng County, and he is not surnamed She, but surnamed Yu, and She is the surname that She Gui changed after falling into the grass.

Because of this, few people in Teng County have doubted the relationship between Jin San and She Gui, and even if they do, they have thought that the two are relatives, but they just thought that the two had a cooperative transaction.

After all, there may not be a few households in a county, if She Gui's surname is true, it is easy for people to find out their heels, so the people of Teng County think that She Gui is a foreigner, but they don't know that he has changed his name and surname.

She ......... No, the ancestors of the Yu family have been catching snakes for a living, and Jin San caught snakes back then, which was the door brought in by the Yu family, and because of this, the two families had an incense relationship.

Yu Gui before the decline of the grass was the most powerful snake catcher among the mountain people in Teng County, and he not only caught snakes, but also raised snakes, controlled snakes, and refined snake venom.

Jin San, who had become the boss of the green forest at that time, also recruited this quite capable nephew, but Yu Gui was arrogant and didn't like the days of fighting and killing in the green forest, so he politely refused him.

Jin San failed to solicit him several times, and he was angry in his heart, so he stopped paying attention to him, and within a few months, Yu Gui had an accident.

It turned out that someone had bought a poisonous snake with strong snake venom from him, and at that time, the buyer kept saying that he bought the poisonous snake to make medicinal wine, and Yu Gui didn't take it seriously, so he sold the snake to him.

But I didn't want to, this buyer turned out to be the brother-in-law of Bo, the lord of Surabaya County, because he was found by his sister and brother-in-law because he was close to a maid in his brother-in-law's family, beaten and scolded, and then sold the maid he liked, this brother-in-law has hated his sister and brother-in-law since then, and bought poisonous snakes to take revenge.

However, because of the implementation, there was a mistake, which caused his sister and brother-in-law to be fine, but the brother-in-law's mother was poisoned by the snake and died.

Now it's all right.

The revenge of killing his mother is not shared, the lord of Surabaya County divorced his wife without saying a word, and then sent this brother-in-law to prison, and after all kinds of torture, he was still angry, so he transferred his anger to Yu Gui, who sold snakes.

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It stands to reason that Yu Gui was indeed wronged in this matter, and someone killed someone with a knife, and the bitter master not only complained about the murderer, but also complained about the vendor who sold the knife to the murderer, isn't it unreasonable.

But whether the master Bo is reasonable or not, his mother is dead, someone has to give her the old man a funeral, in his heart, if Yu Gui doesn't sell poisonous snakes, will his mother still die.

Whether it's messing around or being unkind, this lord Bo quickly used the power in his hand to collude with the officials in Tengxian County to arrest Yu Gui, the reason is very simple, that is, to ask Yu Gui about the poisonous snake.

However, it depends on his luck how long it will take, how to ask, and how many breaths Yu Gui will have after asking.

Yu Gui is not stupid, and he will not break into the reputation of the snake king of Tengxian County, he heard that the official messenger was going to arrest him, so he immediately hid his family, and then took a few poisonous snakes that he had carefully cultivated to put down all the poisonous snakes that wanted to catch him.

After killing the official messenger, Yu Gui had no other way out, Jin San could barely cover him, but Yu Gui didn't believe in this cousin's character very much, so, after thinking about it, he simply took his relatives and changed his name and surname.

At that time, there were no overlord-level bandits in Teng County, and although Shegui, who had just fallen into the grass, had mediocre martial arts, he quickly established a name among the bandits by virtue of his ability to control snakes, and a group of minions slowly gathered around him.

Later, by chance, She Gui got a white snake with a white body as white as jade in the mountains, this snake is quite spiritual, and can secrete a special smell that attracts a group of snakes.

also took advantage of the snake-attracting characteristics of this white snake, and then cooperated with his own snake control kung fu, according to some habits of the snake, cleverly made several "Ten Thousand Snake Dynasty" big plays.

There was even another time when She Gui used a group of snakes to give a group of hostile bandits a large number of snakeflies alive, which greatly shocked the bandits in Tengxian County, and no one dared to be an enemy of She Gui again.

She Gui also seized these opportunities, quickly expanded his strength, and occupied a dangerous valley in Chongshan in Tengxian County, named White Snake Valley, and later slowly became one of the three major bandits in Chongshan, sonic boom Tong'an.

As for what the spirit snake said, it was completely She Gui pretending to be a ghost, deliberately raising his prestige and increasing his mystery.

That is, of course, Jin San has also been a snake catcher and knows some of She Gui's snake control routines, so he can see the flaws in it, otherwise it is estimated that Jin San will also be fooled by She Gui.

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Not to mention She Gui's snake control routine of pretending to be a ghost, let's turn back to the text.

After She Gui became the overlord of the bandits in Teng County, he had thousands of minions, although he looked at the number of people, but the money and food that thousands had to bear was not a small number, especially the people of Teng County were poor, She Gui couldn't grab any good things even if he grabbed them, and his life was very embarrassing.

At this time, She Gui unexpectedly found that the White Snake Valley could grow snake yang vines, and was overjoyed, as a native of Teng County, three-year-old children also knew what snake yang vines represented, so She Gui ordered his subordinates to start planting snake yang vines.

Although the land suitable for planting snake vines in the White Snake Valley is far inferior to the Guo family's snake yang valley, and there are no talents under She Gui who can win the snake yang vine, and the quantity and quality of the snake yang vine planted are very average, but it can't stand the high price of the snake yang vine, and the supply exceeds the demand.

The Guo family was able to become the richest man in the county with a Snake Yang Valley, and the White Snake Valley in She Gui's hands was enough to feed the entire cottage, and even had a slight surplus.

It's all fate, Luo Biao is tired and tired of robbing the mountain every day, and the family capital he saves is not as good as She Gui, who grows snake yang vines at home every day.

What the hell is reasonable............

Of course, She Gui also has She Gui's difficulty, that is, the snake yang vine is not easy to sell.

It's not that no one buys it, this thing is in demand, but She Gui's identity is too sensitive and not suitable for large-scale shipments, and the channels on the official face of Teng County are monopolized by the Guo family, and She Gui has no way to sell goods at all.

Seeing that he was guarding a bunch of treasures but couldn't exchange them for money, She Gui was angry and anxious, and in this hurry, he remembered that his cousin Jin San was here.

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What kind of person is Jin San, the local green forest tycoon also runs a variety of gray businesses, and the channels for selling snake yang vines on the official side are monopolized by the Guo family, but in private, Jin San is a lost connoisseur.

Moreover, when others do business with She Gui, I am afraid that they will be afraid of the crime of gangsters, but in Jinsan, banditry is probably not a big crime, not to mention that the two families are still related, and they have a good idea of cooperation.

Thinking of this, She Gui sent someone to contact Jin San, Jin San didn't believe this cousin who suddenly appeared at first, and later under She Gui's continuous proof, the two successfully recognized their relatives, and then began an embarrassing career of cooperation.

Jin San provided She Gui with gold and silver, grain and grass, and smuggled weapons, and She Gui paid him the snake yang vine, of which Jin San "slightly" earned some price difference, and then charged some "Weibo" freight and risk money.

The uncle and nephew each took what they needed, the cooperation became closer and closer, and the relationship became better and better, and even once Jin San provoked a group of bandits in Teng County, She Gui took the initiative to help settle it, and She Gui had any difficulties, Jin San also helped him.

In this case, She Gui gradually became very trusting of Jin San's cousin, and even invited Jin San to the White Snake Valley several times, and did not hide some key arrangements from Jin San in the cottage.

Because of this, She Gui caused trouble for himself.........

What kind of person is Jin San, the famous old fox in the green forest, mean and unkind, and black and insidious is synonymous with him.

You can form an alliance and cooperate with such people, but you absolutely must not have a heart-to-heart relationship, still less can you talk to them and expose your own vital points.

This time, the imperial court was determined to suppress the bandits, and the army of Fucheng was eyeing the Chongshan bandits, and the discerning people were aware that the court was probably going to take the bandits seriously, and since then, Jin San began to think about his own back road.

Isn't it time to get out of the White Snake Valley............

After that, Yan Kui led the troops to exterminate the Black Wind Ridge, which strengthened Jin San's thoughts.

In addition, at that time, Jin San discovered a new snake vine planting site, which could completely put aside She Gui and produce and sell it by himself, so Jin San began to slowly lay out a strategy to get out.

For an old fox like Jin San, just cutting off relations with She Gui obviously can't satisfy him, and it's not enough insurance, so he plans to betray She Gui to "wear guilt and make meritorious service", so that he can not only perfectly wash away the crime of gangsters, but also get an official body.

As for whether betraying She Gui like this is against morality, people like Jin San obviously don't care about this.

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Jin San's original plan was to wait for the bandit army to come, and then he would "offer advice".

But he didn't expect that because of the new snake yang rattan planting land, he accidentally fought with the Guo family, and then involved Yan Kui, who came to Teng County to recruit soldiers.

Seeing that the Guo family and Yan Kui were getting closer and closer, Jin San didn't care about using She Gui as a qualification for promotion, and it was important to save his life first.

So, the information that Jin San had worked so hard to prepare was handed over to Yan Kui before he could wait for the bandit army, and at the same time, he also put in a planting area, which is typical of stealing chickens and rice.

This is also the reason why Jin San hates the Guo family so much, if there is no Guo family to stir up, his plan will not be successful, so Jin San let the Guo family die.

Others thought that he was venting the personal anger of the previous fight between the two sides, but in fact, Jin San was more angry because Guo Jiatian ruined all his plans.........