On the 18th day of the third lunar month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the overall city wall of Li Xiao's Chifeng Fort, including the north and south urn city, the city gate, the city tower, the artillery position, the female wall, the pheasant moat and the like, were finally all built with bricks, a total of more than 800,000 green bricks, more than 300,000 catties of lime, more than 2,800 stones of glutinous rice, plus the wells and streets that have been repaired in the fort, a total cost of about 19,000 taels. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Xiao is willing to spend money, and the materials are extremely sufficient. The whole built city wall of Chifeng Fort, it is square, the length of each side is more than 380 steps (about 500 meters), it is towering, neat and wide, the height of the city is 15 meters, the wall road is 6 meters wide, it is really beautiful and solid. Li Xiao is also proud in his heart, such a fine city wall is definitely the best in Shandong.

Li Xiao, who was happy in his heart, personally inscribed a plaque to Chifeng Fort, and when he looked at the huge bluestone tablet of "Chifeng Fort" Yang Wenxing, which was carefully embedded in the city gate by the stonemasons, the whole castle staff was jubilant.

It took more than two months of construction time, and Chifeng Fort finally became large-scale, and Li Xiao's whole army, by now, has a foothold in the real sense.

Li Xiao then ordered that all the straw houses outside the fort be moved into the fort. At present, the buildings in the fort will continue to be built according to the principle of building warehouses first, then building barracks, then repairing government offices, and finally building private houses.

The artillery pieces that were originally scattered on the ground were all placed on the head of the city and fixed, and the specific placement was as follows: on the north and south city walls, 3 Hongyi cannons, 2 Franc machines, and 2 tiger squat cannons were placed respectively. On the east and west city walls that did not open the city gates, there were 3 Franc machines and 3 tiger squat cannons.

The work was completed in two days due to the large number of people. Li Xiao then held a grand flowing water banquet in the fort, and all the people in the fort could eat and drink to their heart's content. In a joyful atmosphere, Li Xiao led a group of generals to pass by the table and toast to the personnel at each table.

Li Xiao also gave them half a day off and let them drink a meal together, of course, when these prisoners ate and drank, they were under the close supervision of that group of spearmen.

On the same day, Li Xiao was very drunk.

Li Xiao, who was drunk, didn't notice at all that since he staggered away from the seat and returned to the house, in a pair of gloomy eyes, two cold and cold gazes were staring at him silently from behind.

This person was Jiang Zun, who was the deputy sentry chief of the spearmen at the time.

Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that now, I was pulled by Li Xiao, and I actually came to the opposite point of Li Xiao.

Jiang Zun thought almost self-deprecatingly in his heart.

Jiang Zun is a native of Kaiyuan in Liaodong, and has been a tiger in the local industry, because of his height and strength, he is fierce and has a small reputation in the Kaiyuan area.

It is a special industry with the nature of the underworld that has emerged since the late Ming Dynasty, and the practitioners in it, called Lahu, are all characters who survive in the gap between black and white, and what they do is to take people's money and eliminate them for others. Disaster, to put it bluntly, is a group of thugs. Fights and brawls are trivial things, and it is not uncommon to do things that have been done without knives, such as extortion, pit and abduction, they are somewhat similar to the nursing home of the dart line, but there is no lower limit.

After Kaiyuan was captured by the Tartars, the thugs who fought were scattered, Jiang Zun fled to the homes of relatives and friends in Guangning with his family, who knew that only a few years later, Guangning was captured by Huang Taiji and the army, Jiang Zun had no choice but to flee south again with his family, and became one of the thousands of displaced people in Jinzhou.

In the cold winter of Jinzhou, Jiang Zun was lucky to meet Wang Yishou and Tian Wei, who came to select the displaced soldiers. Jiang Zun has a foundation in martial arts, and because of his hard training, he is quite eye-catching among a group of homeless soldiers, and was later singled out by Li Xiao to be the captain of the spearman B team.

From becoming the captain of the Spearman B Team to becoming the deputy sentry commander of the Spearmen not long ago, Jiang Zun was promoted step by step, and during that time, he was grateful from the bottom of his heart for Li Xiao's kindness.

It's just that in this world, the most volatile thing is the human heart.

Jiang Zun is very good at prostitution and gambling, and a man, even if he is involved in one of the vices, the money on his body is going to go fast. Jiang Zun is good at both things, and the silver money on his body is like flowing water.

At the earliest, when there was no return, there was no place for consumption around, and Jinzhou City was too far away to go, and Jiang Zun's bad habits were barely suppressed. And now outside this Chifeng Castle, with the prosperity of all kinds of commerce, restaurants, gambling houses, brothels have also opened, and Jiang Zun's long-suppressed desire has finally completely exploded.

He has a salary of 8 taels per month, which is almost half a year's income of an ordinary family, but such a rich monthly money, due to Jiang Zun's prostitution and gambling, almost by the middle of the month, it has been all spent. In order to make ends meet, Jiang Zun had to borrow money from those businessmen to survive.

More than a month ago, the Yuhua Restaurant that Jiang Zun frequented was purchased by a new shopkeeper named Cui Yu, Jiang Zun found that the new shopkeeper was quite enthusiastic about himself, and even took the initiative to lend himself silver, which made Jiang Zun very grateful.

At first, Jiang Zun was still vigilant, but later with the deepening of the relationship, Jiang Zun relaxed his vigilance, after all, it felt too good for someone to borrow money to spend. Until one day, that Cui Yu changed his old face, forced him to pay back the money, and told him that if he didn't pay it back, he would report it to Li Xiao.

Of course, Jiang Zun knew that if Cui Yuzhen reported it, then what was waiting for him would be ruined, and he would even be expelled from the fort by Li Xiao.

Jiang Zun realized that he had actually fallen into this person's trap a long time ago.

At this point, Cui Yu finally revealed his true colors, it turned out that he was a special work placed here by Li Huajing, and his purpose was to rebel against Li Xiaojun's middle and senior generals like Jiang Zun.

At this time, many generals had been secretly co-opted by Cui Yu in this way, and Jiang Zun, the deputy sentry chief of the spearmen, was the highest-ranking general of Li Xiaojun who was attracted by Cui Yu.

Cui Yu told Jiang Zun that the only way out now was to cooperate with him and design to eradicate Li Xiao.

Cui Yu swore to him that as long as he could take these rebel generals and successfully eradicate Li Xiao, then this Chifeng Fort would be taken over by him, and all of Li Xiao's soldiers and wealth in the army would be transferred to him.

Under coercion and temptation, Jiang Zun was finally tempted.

If people don't do it, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!

Rather be a chicken head than a cow queen!

No matter how kind Li Xiaozong is to himself, it is impossible for him to give up Chifeng Fort and his army to himself, and now, this deputy sentry commander of the spearmen is far from satisfying Jiang Zun's inflated appetite.

Li Xiao, don't blame me Jiang Zun for being ruthless, it's just that if Lao Tzu wants to climb, he has to borrow your head!

Under Cui Yu's constant urging, Jiang Zun finally decided to do it as soon as possible.

After the banquet was dispersed that day, Jiang Zun secretly summoned those rebel generals in his own room and plotted how to eradicate Li Xiao.

The dim beating lights reflected the unpredictable faces, and the whole scene was very depressing.

The participants, from left to right, were Hou Dao, deputy head of the water division, Chen Xing, captain of the third spear team, Dai Qingshao, deputy captain of the second shield team, Fan Zhi, the first captain of the fifth spear team, and Feng Shi, deputy head of the water division.

Jiang Zun slowly looked around at the crowd, a cruel smile crossed his face, and he said in a low voice: "Everyone, this post has made an appointment with that Cui Yu, see that tomorrow, he will make a move on that Li Xiao and take the life of this dog." ”

After Jiang Zun finished speaking, there was silence in the room, and everyone's heavy breathing could be heard.

Several people had mixed expressions on their faces, their throats shaking, but in the end they didn't say anything.

Suddenly there was a baby's cry in the inner room, Jiang Zun turned his head irritably, but it was his own woman Fang, who just listened to Jiang Zun's words, and unconsciously shook his hand, so that the child's head in his hand slammed on the door panel, making the child cry.

"Slut, you can't even take a child, what's the use of you!" Jiang Zun scolded angrily.

Fang Shi frowned and retreated to the inner room, and she said timidly to Jiang Zun as she retreated: "Dad, you have to do this, but you are not having a bad conscience. ”

Jiang Zun glanced at her and sneered: "Conscience? Conscience is worth a few taels of silver! When Lao Tzu was working in Kaiyuan that day, he didn't do anything bad, and he never took his conscience seriously! Don't worry, the other side has already agreed with the husband, after the matter is completed, this Chifeng Fort will be decided by me Jiang Zun and a few people here, and we will all be responsible for taking over the soldiers. In addition, I can also be promoted to deputy thousand households, temporary general, if I make new contributions in the future, it is not difficult to be a thousand generals and guards. ”

After Jiang Zun finished speaking, he laughed out loud unconsciously. A few people next to him also laughed with him.

Fang's face was still full of uneasiness, and she muttered, "I'm just afraid of that Li Qianhu。。。。。。。 ”

"I'm afraid of a fart! Since ancient times, you have been rich and dangerous, you know what a woman knows, just feel at ease at home with a baby, I am outside, I will listen to you, don't talk too much. Although Li Xiao is strong in martial arts, he is not a three-headed, six-armed iron cast, and he really talks about the means of killing, but I am afraid that he is not as good as me. ”

Fang was speechless, and retreated into the inner room with the crying child.

Hou Dao interjected: "Jiang Tou, then you can say it quickly, what should we do next." ”

Jiang Zun smiled: "Don't be anxious, Mr. Hou, this post knows that you have been arrested by Li Xiao twice, and you are eager for revenge, and listen to me." ”

Everyone chuckled, and a trace of ruthlessness flashed on Hou Dao's face, and he said hatefully: "Lao Tzu is also a prisoner of Tai Sui, and he has only fallen into the hands of this Li Xiao twice. Damn, when he is the deputy head of the sailor, he is tightly restrained every day, how can Lao Tzu be happy when he sails on the sea to smuggle and plunder that day! That Li Xiao was not at ease with me, and he brought that Chen monkey to be the head of the water master, suppressing and detaining me everywhere, and Lao Tzu had already held back his anger. Now that he has this opportunity, Hou will definitely cut off Li Xiao's head with his own hands! ”

After Hou Dao finished speaking, everyone complained one after another, and said their dissatisfaction with Li Xiao in the past.

Jiang Zun saw that everyone had already expressed their positions, and he was very satisfied, so he lowered his voice and said to everyone: "Everyone, the plan of this post is that tomorrow in the name of my family's Bao'er celebrating the first birthday, this post will hold a banquet in the Yuhua Restaurant outside the fort, and invite that Li Xiao to come to eat and drink, and everyone will also come to accompany you." I have already agreed with that Cui Yu to poison Li Xiao's wine in advance and kill him! ”

"What if he notices something wrong and refuses to drink?" Spearman captain Chen Xing asked.

"Hmph, if he finds that he doesn't drink, in the next room, there are already thirty sword and axe men arranged by Cui Yu lurking in it. I took the cup as a number, and they all killed together, and everyone and I immediately started to kill Li Xiao during the banquet! ”

"Oh, if you kill Li Xiao, what should you do next?" Dai Qingshao, the deputy captain of the second shield team, then asked.

Next, Cui Yu will light up a large cluster of black smoke on the roof of the Yuhua Restaurant, and use this as a signal that General Zheng Longfang, who is ambushed a mile away from Chifeng Castle, and the three thousand elite horse infantry selected by his subordinates, will quickly rush to Chifeng Fort. At this time, Li Xiao was dead, and the dragons of Chifeng Fort were leaderless, so it was a big chaos, so we led the army of General Zheng and took advantage of the chaos to seize the fort in one fell swoop. ”

"Not bad! Jiang Tou arranged quite carefully, and when General Zheng seized the fort, such as Tian Wei and Wang Yishou's Li Xiao were loyal, except for letting us slaughter, there was no power to return to heaven. Fan Zhi, the captain of the 5th spearman team, looked happy.

It was agreed that everyone looked at each other, and they all felt that each other seemed familiar and strange.

"Jiang Tou, your plan is very good, but I am a little unhappy in my heart. I always think of Master Li's kindness and promotion to us, this kindness has not been repaid, but now we want to treat him like this, I am really a little panicked in my heart. ”

The one who said this was Feng Shi, the deputy commander of the water division who had not intervened.

"I feel that from you, too." The captain of the spearmen, Chen Xing's face was tense.

"Jiang Tou, is it really appropriate for us to do this?" Dai Qingshao, the deputy captain of the shield soldiers, looked hesitant.

"Bang!"

Jiang Zun slammed his fist on the table, startling everyone.

"Hesitation! Up to now, we are all grasshoppers on a rope, life and death, honor and disgrace are only between the line, is there a way back? Today's incident, if it is reported, we will all be guilty of capital crimes, how can we not fight hard! ”

Jiang Zun's face was hideous, and his eyes were extremely fierce.

"Jiang Tou is right, so far, we can only strive forward, Li Xiao, this person, anyway, has a good heart, even if he takes his own head, and then gives our brothers a good future." Hou Dao sneered on the side.

"Excellent! Then now everyone go back and get ready, tomorrow at noon, when Li Xiao's head hits the ground, it will be the time for us to be rich and prosperous! Jiang Zun's fist slammed on the table again, and the word was finalized.