Xu Yuansong took out an exchange ticket, then pointed to the corner of the exchange ticket and said to Xu Tai'an: "Big nephew, do you see it, it is written on it, the exchange date is, the day of the recovery of Jinan." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In other words, if we win, this real money can be exchanged, and if we lose, hehe, I'm sorry, this ticket will be invalid. As for whether they want us to win or lose, it's up to them. Anyway, if it were me, I would be looking forward to the day when I could bring the silver dollars on this piece of paper back to my home. ”

"If we all move home, then, fifth uncle, can we change our wives when we are rich, as the book says?"

Xu Yuansong pretended to be angry when he heard this, and slapped him on the head, and then pretended to be dissatisfied and scolded: "If you don't listen to you if you are told to study hard, it is called rich and easy to make a noble wife, but in the end, the protagonist of the story is a poor friend who cannot be forgotten, and the wife of the bad chaff does not go to court." After speaking, his tone changed, and he also said in his ear: "Big nephew, prepare the money, in two days, you may have to have another aunt." ”

Xu Tai'an suddenly came to his senses when he heard this, and hurriedly asked who it was, Xu Yuansong smiled and said: "You always see this person, it is your sister-in-law's sister." I won't hide this from you, and you know that my father-in-law has always claimed to be a scholarly family, but he didn't let me marry his two daughters together, saying that he was afraid of being embarrassed. Bah, why is this old immortal not afraid of being ashamed when he gets a child with a roommate? usually praises Tang Yao and Yu Shun, why don't you say that Da Shun married both Empress E and Sister Ying? Why don't you follow the example of the sages and marry both daughters to your uncle and me? These people who read are all old eagles who fall on pigs, and they only see others black, but they don't see themselves black! Later, Lao Tzu bit his heart and crossed it, and directly in the five-bay big flower hall in our house, he slept with your sister-in-law, and now that the children are there, the raw rice has become a pot, and the old father-in-law is finally relieved. However, he said that I would go to congratulate my mother-in-law on her birthday in two days, and after the birthday was over, I would talk about the question of who is older and who is younger among the two sisters. What do you want me to say? One side is big. After speaking, Xu Yuansong let out a laugh that all men understand.

When Xu Taian heard this, he hurriedly said, "Congratulations to the fifth uncle." Fifth Uncle rest assured, I will do a beautiful job this time and win glory for Fifth Uncle. In addition, fifth uncle, you said that if I made a great contribution this time, could I also marry a Tianzhu orchid or something as a concubine? You know, I've been thinking about Mrs. Li's personal soldiers for a long time, can you help me get my wish this time? ”

Xu Yuansong showed an embarrassed expression when he heard this, and said, "Eldest nephew, it's not that I don't help with this, but Mrs. Li's face is not very easy to talk to." But if you kid can successfully bring the army back to Dengzhou this time, I'll help you talk about it, but it's no problem. It's a big deal, let's go to Nanzhong and find Mr. Lin to buy seven or eight! In recent years, Lin Kun has shipped all kinds of female slaves from Europa and North Africa, Tianzhu and Arabia to the Central Plains, packaged and sold to officials and giants around the country, not only earning gold and silver, but also accumulating countless contacts for himself.

"Then Uncle Xie Wu." Before Xu Yuansong could say anything else, Xu Taian hurriedly thanked him.

said goodbye to Xu Yuansong, and along the way, Xu Tai'an successfully settled most of the rebel officers according to Xu Yuansong's explanation. Many people have a strong attitude at first, but when they see the letters from their relatives, they basically immediately ease their attitudes, and when they see the silver tickets, their attitudes begin to turn 180 degrees. Of course, there are also those who are stubborn to the end, Xu Tai'an doesn't talk nonsense with these people, and directly cavalry charges the cannonball, and by the way, he writes a letter to Dengzhou, telling Xu Yuansong that this person's family can be buried in peace.

The power of example is endless, seeing that obedience can keep the family safe and get exchange tickets, and disobedient family mass graves, most officers chose to cooperate. The left and right are not surrendering, but just making way for Xu Tai'an.

So, Xu Tai'an basically came to the front line unhindered, and met Fan Xiaozeng's retreating troops head-on. Knowing that the Taiwanese infantry regiment was still trapped, Xu Taian took the initiative to ask Ying for rescue, and Fan Xiaozeng agreed, but insisted that Zuo Wuwei's artillery accompany him. As a result, there was a rescue battle of the Taiwan Infantry Regiment.

After the meeting, Fan Xiaozeng held a celebration party, because Xu Tai'an brought some supplies, so the supply of the entire army has also improved. After three rounds of drinking, Fan Xiaozeng began to inquire about the current situation in Denglai. Xu Tai'an said with a little bit of wine: "Staff Officer Fan, you can rest assured, Denglai is as stable as Mount Tai." After the previous expansion of the army, my fifth uncle already has more than 10,000 horses. Together with the temporary recruitment of some vigilante groups, there are more than 40,000 people in total. My fifth uncle personally led 6,000 men and horses to be stationed in Dengzhou, and the remaining militia group had 5,000 trustworthy men and horses stationed in Dengzhou, and the rest were scattered to defend Denglai, build fortifications and collect materials. Although there have been more than 100 rebellions among the gentry these days, they have all been suppressed. In addition, the watch team was also organized and began to train the new regiment. In a few months, our army will have to double. “

Knowing that Dengzhou was still in the hands of the Nanyue Army and the defense was stable, Fan Xiaozeng was a lot relieved, but he was still worried: "Tai'an, according to what you said, there are still many militia groups in Dengzhou, and these people are also the private soldiers of the official gentry, can they be trusted?" Xu Tai'an smiled and said: "Staff Officer Fan, don't worry, these people and my fifth uncle are really relatives, and I can't write two Xu." And they have a lot of business dealings with Long Sheng over the years, how can they not get along with money, right? ”

Fan Xiaozeng nodded, but he was very uneasy in his heart, because in the past, how could Zhang Linghu and Wu Fengxian not receive the benefits of the Nanyue Army and show great loyalty? However, now is not the time to deal with these matters, everything will have to wait for the two armies to meet. Fan Xiaozeng secretly made a plan, when he arrived in Dengzhou, he must break up the establishment and reorganize the new corps, and he must not let the incident in Jinan repeat itself.

After a night, the Nanyue Army, which had recuperated enough, still slowly retreated according to the plan, and Cao Zhenyan still came to make trouble very conscientiously. However, because of the material replenishment, the combat effectiveness of the Nanyue Army has been significantly improved, and after several small battles, Cao Zhenyan did not make any money, leaving only a corpse to walk away. Gradually, Dengzhou is getting closer and closer, and the mentality of the Nanyue Army from top to bottom is becoming more and more relaxed. However, on this day, suddenly the Nanyue Army encountered a large number of refugees head-on, judging from the clothing supplies, these people's lives are not bad, but they help the old and the young, their eyes are full of horror, and they are still unaware of the head-on collision with the army.

This matter therefore attracted Fan Xiaozeng's attention, to say that it is normal to produce refugees because of the war, but isn't Dengzhou in the hands of Xu Yuansong? Isn't there a garrison of the Nanyue Army and a watchdog? How could such a wave of refugees occur? After sending people to inquire, a shocking news came, there was a rebellion of the gentry in Denglai, Dengzhou had been occupied by the rebels, and other garrison militia groups were fighting fiercely with the watch team, fighting everywhere. Not to mention, the rebellious official gentry and militia also carried out a counteroffensive and calculated backwards, threatening that anyone who supported the New Deal at the beginning would owe money and repay their lives.

These fleeing people were all those who supported the new policy at the beginning, and they were afraid of being implicated, so they fled all the way and wanted to take refuge in Yimeng Mountain, where Wuxing was stationed. Because, it is now the only area in Shandong that is controlled by the Southern Guangdong Army. Hearing the news, Fan Xiaozeng didn't come up in a breath and fainted on the spot.

These days, there have been great changes, the coach is a coach who likes to pretend to be forced, and his wife is a stubborn lady, and now the only hope for Dengzhou is lost again. You must know that Dengzhou is not only a territory wealth army, but also a warehouse and a channel, which is the lifeline of these tens of thousands of horses! A large amount of gunpowder, cloth and grain were hoarded in the warehouses in Dengzhou, and these materials were the hope of the counteroffensive of the Nanyue Army. The port and wharf of Dengzhou is the connecting channel between these tens of thousands of horses and the south of the Yangtze River, with the two Guangzhous, and with the headquarters of Nanzhong, and it is also the lifeline of these tens of thousands of horses. Now that there is no hope, the passage is cut off, and the lifeline is in the hands of others, Fan Xiaozeng's spirit collapsed directly, so all kinds of emotions broke out together and fell to the ground directly.

Fan Xiaozeng woke up and saw that the people in the staff were sitting around him and waiting, but he didn't have time to be moved, but scolded angrily: "What do you think I'm doing? What about the specifics? What about the new battle plan? What about the material personnel preparation plan? ”

"My lord, the forward spies have inquired about the situation in Dengzhou, do you want to hear first?"

Time back to seven days ago, in the morning, Xu Yuansong finished washing under the service of his wife, and then came to the living room hand in hand with his wife. In the living room, Xu Yuansong's future wife and current sister-in-law are waiting for them. Seeing them coming, he hurriedly went up and greeted him warmly: "Sister, brother-in-law, you are here." I've got all the gifts ready, a coral for my father, a sapphire ring for my mother, and some clothes and medicines for other relatives. ”

Speaking of which, as a woman, Mrs. Xu was naturally full of displeasure with her sister rolling the sheets with her husband, but since it was already a fact, she had to grit her teeth and pretend to be generous: "Sister, this is not right for you, it's time to change your words, he will not be your brother-in-law in the future, but your husband." As the saying goes, the new person is always better than the old person, although I am a sister in the future, but I still need you to take care of it. ”

Listening to her sister's words with a gun and a stick, her sister was speechless for a while, but Xu Yuansong helped to solve the siege: "Okay, you should have a big look when you are a sister, don't always bully your sister." Besides, you've read a lot of books, what kind of martyr's literature, women's training and the like don't always say that you can memorize it backwards, why is it that when you need to learn how to do it in books, you can't do it? Could it be that those books are written specifically for the next generation, and you readers only need to write one of them? ”

Mrs. Xu was speechless for a moment. She is a family of poetry and books, and she has been taught by her father since she was a child, reading books such as the Fourth Book of Women and the Biography of Lienu. If you put it now, she is also a senior lecturer who can go to colleges and universities to teach women's morality. However, her father forgot, according to the ancients: "A woman is virtuous if she is not talented." From this point of view, his daughter is a person who lacks virtue, and this lecturer who can teach women in Durban is a person who lacks virtue.

Therefore, the current situation is that if you don't accept it, you have to accept it, so Mrs. Xu had to change her words and say: "Husband, my sister and I will naturally take care of the house in the future, but you also have to listen to me." Usually, you open your mouth and close your mouth Nanzhong Fadu, you are for the public, and you are carrying out the orders of Liang Guogong, I don't say anything about you. However, today is my mother's birthday, and my father doesn't like to hear this, so don't contradict him today, he likes to say whatever he wants. After today, if my father says it again, then it would be good for you to act impartially. ”

Xu Yuansong said disdainfully: "You, you are really the same as my father-in-law, and I saw this little money in front of me." Is our family short of money? Isn't my money enough for you to spend? Besides, if you want to make money and find Long, invest in fishing boats, cargo ships or sell the skins of the Sauron people, get a boat, load cotton cloth iron pot shochu or something to go north to Heilongjiang, and casually get a boat of good fur bear paws, tiger bones and deer antler velvet back, that is all a daily gold business. How much money can you save by tax evasion? How much more money can you get for more rent? It's better to have other businesses in and out. I'm really not bragging, don't look at my father-in-law now that I don't go well, and when he listens to my earnings in the future, he should worship me as a saint. ”

Mrs. Xu was naturally very happy, and she hurriedly said: "I'll tell my father tomorrow, I didn't mean you, there is no boy in our family, and my father's money is not your money?" As a family, we should take care of each other. ”

"Our family? Stop! You don't know, the big girl in our old man's room, why can't I see that what is called Xia for more than a year? There is a lot of gossip in my ears, our old man, the sword is not old, and it hits in one shot! What's the matter, I heard that I have added a brother-in-law, and now he is raising it outside, ready to enter the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors at the right time?! ”

Mrs. Xu, who Xu Yuansong said, was silent, looking at the atmosphere a little embarrassed, and her sister relieved the siege and said: "Husband, sister, it's okay, it's not early, let's go early, so as to save the seven aunts and eight aunts to pick and choose." In addition, husband, the front-line army and Admiral Zhang's sailors are coming soon, do you want the officials and gentlemen in the city to prepare well and make some colorful programs to make the army and sailors happy?"

"It's good! However, there is no need to rush it, and it is too late to prepare after the father-in-law's birthday banquet. ”

Xu Yuansong and his wife happily dressed up to congratulate their old father-in-law on his birthday, but they responded to that sentence, "Pigs and sheep are looking for a slaughtering house, step by step to find a way to die!" ”

When I arrived at my father-in-law's house, the treatment of the pet guest was naturally different. After meeting his father-in-law and giving a generous birthday gift, he was invited to rest in the backyard flower hall by Zhikeyan.

Before the cup of tea was finished, suddenly there was a commotion outside, and Xu Yuansong was waiting for his soldiers to go out to see what was going on, when a gong sounded, like a rain of locust arrows shooting in from the door and window of the flower hall. A moment later, Xu Yuansong, his wife and the accompanying maid and his son-in-law, and his own soldiers all fell to the ground with arrows.

Here, the birthday banquet became a killing field, and over there, the private militias raised by the officials and gentry from all over the country came out of all the hidden corners and quickly took control of all the key points in Dengzhou.

It was later learned that it turned out that Xu Yuansong's father-in-law, through his own path in the same year, had already got into a relationship with Hong Jingluo, and Hong Jingluo generously rewarded a group of official gentry led by Xu Yuansong's father-in-law, ranging from official positions below the governor of Denglai. Even Xu Yuansong, the cheap brother-in-law who had not yet taken off his open crotch pants and was born to his father-in-law and the big girl in the room, was also praised by the imperial court as a meritorious person, and he had a five-grade official envoy.

What is even more "moving" is that Xu Yuansong's father-in-law, after taking office, was the regent of the Beijing Division and the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and asked to erect two memorial arches for the two daughters who were killed by him in righteousness, in recognition of their meritorious achievements.

The Qing Dynasty in Beijing readily agreed, and issued an edict to encourage the construction of the memorial arch of merit, and it was rare to praise the merits of the two martyrs in the words of the four and six flowers, but did not mention that they and their husbands died at the hands of their fathers.

These situations in Dengzhou were sorted out by the staff officers of the General Staff Office, and they were told to Fan Xiaozeng one by one.

"My fifth uncle was plotted by his father-in-law?!" Xu Tai'an, who rushed to hear the news, had not come in yet, and the crying was already shocking.

"Tai'an, the news is true. Not only Uncle Ling, but also his two wives, and the accompanying personal soldiers were killed together. Nowadays, near Dengzhou, thieves are rampant, except for a few fortresses such as Yantai Mountain that are still holding on, the rest of the places have all fallen into the hands of thieves. ”

However, in the eyes of the officials and gentry who have already submitted to the Qing Dynasty, several fortresses that are still holding on, Fan Xiaozeng's army of tens of thousands of horses, are not worth mentioning in front of the Qing Heavenly Soldiers. As soon as Lord Abatai's army arrives in Dengzhou, they will be disintegrated.

"Let's defend this sea mouth, these southern barbarians, there is the sea in front of them, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, if you don't surrender, you have to jump into the sea!" As a result, the officials and gentry took up the official positions of the Qing Dynasty in full swing, and ordered their family servants to go to Sixiang to seize the Tuntian Grange of the Southern Yue Army. On the other hand, it is to track down the whereabouts of the customs duties of Dengzhou Customs.

"Xiong Rulin, the superintendent of Dengzhou Customs, is at odds with the eldest prince on weekdays, slapping the table and scolding each other, and participating in the eldest prince with each other. However, by this time, the old man's bones were revealed. It's hard! These anti-water dog things locked up the old man, and all kinds of rhetoric demanded that the old man bear hand over the customs tariff account book and more than 2 million silver dollars in the second half of the year. But the old man just said, 'When there is chaos in the city, I don't know where to go!' ’”

"Good old man!" At this time, everyone completely forgot the scene when Xiong Rulin blew his beard and stared at Li Huayu to quarrel, and only remembered the hard bones of this old man.

"My lord, there is one more thing, we only care about the rebels fighting against the water in Dengzhou, forgetting that the fleet of Lord Zhang Xiaohu, the commander of the left wing fleet of the sailors, has already set off from Tamluo Island, Chongming and other places to the north!"

Fan Xiaozeng immediately jumped up from the bed!

"This old guy is here?! The order went down, and the whole army reorganized its troops and horses and marched to Dengzhou! Tell everyone the news! The three-headed tiger, although a few years older, is still sharp and tight! Don't forget, his old man has taught the character of the eldest lady! Water warfare and land warfare are all possible! Dealing with this group of thieves in Dengzhou, it is a matter of being caught! ”