Li Kaiming's overall plan is to raise another 100,000 troops within three months, with the 2,000 soldiers of the old battalion as the elite, and he is not in a hurry to attack the state city in Jianzhou, but first attack a few county seats, obtain the county town materials and local box army equipment, train 20,000 or 30,000 elites within half a year, and then defeat the local forbidden army and the box army on the Fujian Road.

Li Kaiming's goal is to build a strong army of tens of thousands of elites and more than 100,000 peripheral soldiers and horses in Jianzhou, at least dormant for half a year to a year in Jianzhou, defeat the army that came to conquer the Fujian Road, and then conquer the capital city of Jianzhou, and then take Quzhou and Jianchang army and Shaowu army in a short period of time, and then go out to take Qianzhou, Fuzhou, and reach Hongzhou.

Hongzhou is the military and political center of Jiangnan West Road, Hongzhou, the entire Jiangnan West Road, Fujian half of the road, all in the bag, and then Jingzhou, Tanzhou, half of the south is convenient to fall into the palm of your hand.

In the southern Zhulu, the forbidden army has a maximum of 20 armies, and it is stationed in dozens of prefectures and hundreds of counties, as long as the troops are dispatched quickly and a large number of soldiers and horses are used to surround and kill a small number of forbidden troops, of course, it is impossible to be the opponent of the thieves who have swelled to more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, or even hundreds of thousands of people.

If Li Kaiming's plan goes well, two years later, the former Liukou will have a real foundation, with Hongzhou as the core, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jingzhou, and Tanzhou, all of which are within the scope of his rule, except for Jiangling, which has dozens of armies, I am afraid that it will not be able to take it for a while, and the southwest region will not be able to operate for a while, and the southeast wealth and grain production of the Great Wei will fall into the hands of Li Kaiming.

Within three to five years, training troops with financial resources from the southeast can obtain 200,000 elite soldiers and one million for the whole army, which is enough to resist the main force of the Great Wei Forbidden Army that has escaped from the northern battlefield, and can take advantage of the Yangtze River and a large number of lakes to fight a tug-of-war with the forbidden army in the south in Jingzhou and Hongzhou.

As long as the war lasted for a few years, the Great Wei was trapped by a strong enemy in the north and lost a lot of wealth in the southeast, so it was unable to carry out large-scale wars at all.

At that time, Li Kaiming planned to take advantage of the situation to go north when Donghu went south, and mix it up all day in one fell swoop.

Of course, all this will not be as easy as imagined, and there will be all kinds of difficulties and setbacks, such as at present, although there are nearly 2,000 people following Li Kaiming to lurk south, most of them are in the deep mountains from Fuzhou to Quzhou and Jianzhou, as well as Shao Wujun's deep mountains, shooting and hunting, picking wild fruits, and robbing mountain people for a living.

But when it was hidden, except for a small number of cottages that could accommodate horses and personnel, most of the places were barely able to make ends meet, and the mountain people were poor, and even if they robbed all the villages within a radius of thousands of miles, it was impossible to scrape together the military supplies they needed.

Once an incident arises, it will either return to the old state of thieves and loot everywhere, and if you want to establish a foundation, money and ordnance are the most difficult places. Even at the beginning of the uprising, many soldiers only had simple long bows and soft bows, no fine iron weapons, shields, armor, and military arrows made by Seiko, not to mention the forbidden army, even tens of thousands of troops to levy, which would cause Li Kaiming and his subordinates heavy losses.

"I've got a thousand people in my arms." Liu Maoqi added his lips and said: "Ask them to build some weapons, that is, we have no money and food now, so we can only coax with words, these turtle grandsons want to support their families, and I am afraid that they will not be able to do it for long." ”

The miners are a big powder keg, just a little bit, but these people are not organized and are unlikely to take the initiative to rebel.

Even if Liu Maoqi and others used obscure methods to lure many miners into the gang, the effect was not good, these people all have families, there is no money and food for them, most of them can not bear to work for a few days, and there are many people who go to Fuzhou or Quzhou to work for a short time.

What's more, the Nan'an Hou Mansion has been recruiting a steady stream of soldiers, and in recent days, at least more than 10,000 miners and their families have left Jianzhou and been transported to the Eastern Domain in batches.

Li Kaiming is quite vigilant against Nan'anhou, the current king of Zhongshan, and he doesn't dare to make a big move, mainly because he is on guard and vigilant against Xu Zixian's intervention.

Once the action is bigger, it will be exposed in the early stage, even if the officials of Fujian Road are as incompetent as the rest of the roads, once they are discovered by the Zhongshan Palace, the more than 100 government troops near Gukou will be able to suppress Li Kaiming and others, and Li Kaiming has no doubt about this.

The current Li Kaiming and his subordinates are empty-handed, like a tiger with teeth extracted, with a majestic past, but they are sick beasts who are bullied.

"There's really no way to ......" Li Kaiming said to Liu Maoqi a little helplessly: "Find a few big households and quietly grab a vote." ”

"Medium." Liu Maoqi smiled and said: "I've wanted to do this for a long time, if you don't have money, you don't have soldiers, you don't have money, you don't have weapons, you don't have soldiers, you don't have guns, it's hard for us to think about things." What kind of Jianzhou General Regiment, there are many things to do in the dark and looting, and all big families are vigilant and careful, even if something really happens, they think that the people of the General Regiment did it. Those defenses of theirs are not farts in the eyes of our old brothers. ”

Li Kaiming grinned at this old fellow, Liu Maoqi was expressing dissatisfaction with the curve, and Li Kaiming patted the other party's broad and sturdy shoulder, which was a little apologetic.

This is indeed the case, Jianzhou has long been chaotic like a hornet's nest, mountain bandits, poles, thieves, soldiers and thieves, there are robbers and thieves everywhere, even if Li Kaiming and his gang rob a few big families, who can suspect the thieves? Besides, who in Jianzhou will come out to investigate the case and will investigate this matter as a major matter? This place, except for a few county towns and prefectures, has long been chaotic, and there is no order at all.

Before this, Li Kaiming was a little too cautious.

"Big boss, two cabinets." A small leader climbed up from the foot of the mountain, and while going up, he greeted Li Kaiming and Liu Maoqi.

Li Kaiming nodded, and Liu Maoqi scolded: "It's not that you call the big boss, the big shopkeeper, if you scream again, cut your tongue and drink." ”

"Yes, big shopkeeper, I was wrong."

The little leader stuck out his tongue and smiled, but he didn't dare to doubt Liu Maoqi's words. Li Kaiming is quite gentle and generous to his subordinates, but he will not spare him if he violates the military law, Liu Maoqi is even more irritable, there are really people who do not obey military orders, commit taboos, gouge out their eyes and cut their tongues, but the second cabinet has not done less, and Li Kaiming will not stop it.

A team of rogues, even if the leader has great ambitions and is unwilling to do the deeds of those remnants, but burning, killing and looting will inevitably happen, and there are also some cruel and murderous people in the team...... Otherwise, it is impossible to bring the team together.

Only when the rogues have a stable territory and collect taxes can they talk about the law of the state and the appearance of turning the thieves into an army, and Li Kaiming has his own ideas about these things.

Li Kaiming asked concisely and clearly, "What's the matter?" ”

"Luo Shorty is back." The little leader replied: "It's at the foot of the mountain, and I didn't dare to come up directly, saying that I would dare to come up only if the big proprietor and the big shopkeeper knew the end." ”

"How?"

"He accidentally walked the water ...... in Fuzhou"

"He confessed?" Li Kaiming immediately pressed the saber hanging from his right waist with his broad palm, and his eyes showed a sharp look.

Even so, he was not nervous, if the government sent a large group of people over, the rumors would have been gone long ago, and the miners here might have a good impression and trust of the King of Zhongshan, but they did not have a good impression of those officials in Fuzhou City.

If it weren't for the connivance of these officials and King Zhao's gang, Wang Yue's old man would be able to mess around like this, and everyone would have no food?

Even if a large group of men and horses were sent over, it would be really difficult to hunt for dozens of people in such a deep mountain full of mining caves, and no one showed nervousness on their faces, whether it was Li Kaiming or the leaders of the group of gangsters who surrounded them.

"Luo Xiaozi said that he didn't go to the water, and after being locked up, he was about to be released, and a noble man found him and said that he was willing to help us get started. His identity, as well as the identities of all of us, has already been revealed. Recently, someone has been staring at us, and they have already shown their traces. ”

Li Kaiming let go of his hand at this time, he thought for a moment, and said: "This is a strange matter, you go down and bring Luo Xiaozi up." Tell the people who came with him that either let Luo Shorty come up, or break up in two. ”

"Yes, proprietor."

The little leader clenched his fists, turned and ran to the bottom of the hill.

Surrounded by shrubs, sparse woodland, not far away there is a mountain stream flowing downward, crystal clear, green everywhere, everyone was originally sitting or squatting, resting on the periphery of this humble camp, hearing the news that Luo Xiaozi was brought back, more than forty rogues leaders and old pawns scattered, untied the bow handle, put on the string, tried the hand, some people took out these weapons from the camp, there were more than a dozen people began to put armor or iron armor on their bodies, and some people were originally wearing cotton armor, At this time, it is a matter of convenience.

Li Kaiming looked around, and felt quite satisfied in his heart, these people were all old men who had followed him for many years, and basically they were at least low-level generals who had led hundreds or thousands of people.

The most important thing is that almost all of these people are Yanzhou people, which is also the place that Li Kaiming values the most, Yanzhou people, or people from the security army, these two places can be Li Kaiming's soldiers to serve as generals above the middle level, and low-level generals, but also for people from Qinfeng Road, people from Hedong, people from Guanzhong, or people from Henan Road, and people from Jinghu North Road, even if they are mixed with old battalion soldiers, at most they are small leaders with dozens of people, and it is quite difficult to get ahead in the army.

At the moment, these people were not too nervous, scattered in all directions, but their eyes became extremely sharp, they looked around, left and right, looking at the heavy mountains, observing if there were any suspicious figures appearing on the distant peaks or foothills. But everything is as usual, looking at the past, the green and verdant green mountains stretch endlessly, one mountain peak after another, high and low, undulating, like waves in the sea, wave after wave.

The scene in front of them, in fact, makes these men from the northwest very uncomfortable, everywhere is turquoise, people are almost trapped in the green sea, they are used to the summer is the scorching sun, everywhere desert-like bald mountains, there are no trees, there is not the slightest green, only yellow mountains one after another, dozens of miles away can see small ant-like figures, such a terrain, it is quite difficult to set up an ambush, it is simply impossible.

In the deep mountains of Fujian Road, there are dense forests and shrubs everywhere, and there are clean and smooth mountain rocks washed by water everywhere, where people use strong tenacity branches to weave rattan houses or rattan beds, and smoke mosquitoes with stuffy smoke every day, even then they are bitten and can't sleep, and there are leeches everywhere, fist-sized mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, and all kinds of wild beasts and birds at night. This kind of ecological environment is actually quite excellent, after all, there are mine potholes and blast furnaces everywhere, and it can maintain such an ecological environment because after all, human mining is not as good as the industrialization of later generations, but it is also a little difficult for these Northwest men to adapt.

But after all, these people are the elite of a hundred battles, tight inside and loose outside, except for looking around nervously, all preparations are also carried out in an orderly manner, and there is no overly nervous posture.

Li Kaiming was quite satisfied, and said in his heart: "After all, it is still the Yanzhou Township Party, and the leader of the old camp who has followed him for many years can rely on!" ”

There was a group of five or six personal soldiers, who were originally wearing armor, and at this time they were already standing around Li Kaiming with bows and bows, and they were standing faintly in a semicircle.

These pro-soldiers are not only from Yanzhou, but also all surnamed Li, all of whom are Li Kaiming's relatives, only with such an identity can he be his pro-soldiers, and the pro-soldiers are the head Li Fuyu, and they are Li Kaiming's nephews, who are more than 20 years old, fierce and brave, but they are a little too arrogant, and sometimes they don't even listen to Liu Maoqi's words.

In less than two quarters of an hour, everyone saw Luo Xiaozi striding up with the little leader, and when they were a few steps apart, Luo Xiaozi shouted: "The proprietor, I have lost the wind, and I am guilty." ”

Li Kaiming's face showed anger, and there was suspicion in his eyes, but he didn't say anything for a while, Liu Maoqi took a few steps forward, kicked Luo Xiaozi over, pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, put it on Luo Xiaozi's neck, and shouted: "The proprietor, kill this guy." ”

"Wait a minute." Li Kaiming said: "Luo Zhenbang, you will talk about the situation before and after in detail." ”

Luo Xiaozi sweated like rain, and he knew that his life was between five and five before he came up. If Li Kaiming finds out that he has been arrested, he sends someone to redeem him with money, or he escapes by himself, and his life can be saved.

But it was brought out by outsiders, and he lost his style and exposed his bottom, Li Kaiming, an old friend in the past few years, will not take care of it at all, these rogue leaders are all ruthless people, although Li Kaiming's ambition is not small, but he slaughtered villages and destroyed towns, regardless of old and young, men and women, and it is not unheard of killing tens of thousands of people.

"The big proprietor, his subordinates could have gotten out, and it wasn't the water seller who wanted to save his life, I hope the big proprietor will see it." Luo Zhenbang knew that Li Kaiming was magnificent, but he was actually quite suspicious, and he once killed a heavy general because of a little suspicion, in addition to Liu Maoqi and the Li clan, there were also a few heavy generals who followed him from the beginning of the incident, and even if the rest of the generals were in a high position, Li Kaiming could not be trusted.

Luo Zhenbang's life was at stake, and he said very quickly: "The subordinates acted carelessly, and they were targeted by the people of the Criminal Division, and they were arrested, and they bit their mouths without saying anything, and they dotted up and down, and they had already moved to the mansion, and then they were taken out, and the subordinates insisted that they were the physiognomy masters who traveled the world, but this person smiled and told the names of his subordinates, as well as the names of the proprietors and the big treasurer. It is said that he once saw our drawings in the Jingshi Criminal Division, and when he was in Gukou and Nan'an, as well as Fuzhou, our group of people had already been seen by others, and someone has been staring at us since then......"

"They're from the government?" Li Kaiming said calmly: "Why don't you start to arrest it?" ”

"It's from Zhao Wangfu." Luo Zhenbang said: "It's also a coincidence that he recognized us, and since then he has been sending people to keep an eye on us, but he didn't report it to King Zhao and the government to know, and he has been shadowing us......"

Li Kaiming also believed more than ninety percent, from Jingbei to Fujian Road, it has always been very smooth, because the imperial court is staring at the rogues in Henan and Hedong, and it does not care too much about Li Kaiming's defeat and flight to the south. The world has always been in the Central Plains, and the so-called chasing the Central Plains is its reason. Those who flee to the south are psychologically unambitious and will not cause serious trouble.

Because it was too smooth, when they arrived at Fujian Road, Li Kaiming and the others did not disperse their disguises, and a single person covered up a little, and it didn't matter if there were photo graphics, they swaggered under the picture, and the box army guarding the city gate was too lazy to take a look. And when a group of people gather together, as long as they are caring people, it is not difficult to recognize them at a glance.

Li Kaiming said calmly: "It's still that we're too careless." ”

Liu Maoqi kicked Luo Zhenbang lightly, and scolded with a smile: "Dog cowardice, if you weren't from Yanzhou, and you have always been able to get some ghost ideas, now your head has fallen to the ground." ”

"I know, I know."

"Get out!"

"Yes, yes."

Luo Zhenbang stood up with a roll, causing Liu Maoqi and a group of generals around him to laugh, Li Kaiming also smiled, and now Luo Zhenbang knew that his life was saved.

"What is this person's identity, what is his intention, did he say it?"

"That's right." Luo Zhenbang said: "He wants to cooperate with us, so he is also a confidant of King Zhao, and now the momentum of King Zhongshan is too strong, threatening King Zhao's status." King Zhao controlled a part of the forbidden army and the Xiang army, and if the place was suddenly in turmoil, the officials of the Fujian Road of the Zhao Dynasty would go to the imperial court and ask the two governments to grant Zhao Wang Jianjie the power to open the mansion and hand over the Fujian Road to King Zhao to take charge......"

"Oh, it's true!" Li Kaiming smiled coldly and said, "Under the threat of King Zhongshan, this is a good way, and it is also the only way out for King Zhao." ”

Liu Maoqi also agreed: "This little maid is really gloomy and ruthless, with wrists, and very tight." ”

Li Kaiming nodded slightly, a palace staff like Li Gu is not comparable to ordinary officials. Ordinary officials, even if they recognized Li Kaiming and others, had already secretly reported to exchange their credits. is an ordinary palace staff, and it is a great achievement to report to King Zhao in this matter.

Li Gu concealed this matter, and as a line to operate, if it is really successful, King Zhao opened the mansion successfully, this merit should not be taken lightly, at least to pay a serious official position to Li Gu, this Li Gu, not the path of the imperial examination, is likely to be the same as Zhu Zi, indeed can not be regarded as an idle person.

"What does he mean is to tell us to make trouble, and then stretch our necks for King Zhao to suppress?" Liu Maoqi smiled on his face and said, "That's what this guy means? ”

"Of course not." Luo Zhenbang said with a smile: "They will give up manpower, money, equipment, armor, let's make a big move, muddy the water of Fujian Road, as long as King Zhao opens the mansion, let's give up Fujian Road, Jingnan, Zhexi, Jiangxi, Jingbei, Liangguang, go with us to make trouble." ”

"They're going to send men to control some of the troops?"

Li Kaiming is a natural leader, and he sees things quite clearly, and he knows the crux of the problem as soon as he hears it.

"Yes." Luo Zhenbang said: "After the incident, we will definitely be able to absorb a large number of Ding Zhuang into our banner, and the number of ways we coerce people Ding, the people in the Zhao Wangfu know that they sent a part of the people, and we will divide tens of thousands of people to them, check and balance each other, and wait for the King of Zhao to send troops, and those tens of thousands of people will be used to fill the knife head and count it as a military merit." We can take most of the people away and leave Jianzhou, we don't have to meet with King Zhao's sword soldiers, and King Zhao will not seriously kill and chase after them. ”

Li Kaiming smiled and said, "In this way, they have quite confidence in the forbidden army. ”

Luo Zhenbang said: "That's the truth, outside the words, they feel that the tens of thousands of troops on Fujian Road, as well as more than 10,000 forbidden troops, are enough to deal with the people and horses we have pulled up temporarily, and they are not afraid that we will not leave." If we really don't leave, they will really fight. ”

Liu Maoqi said: "In this way, our advantage is that they give hands, weapons, armor, grain and grass, and money to pull up the banner for us." Their advantage is to touch the fish and mix the military merits, and help King Zhao get on the horse, isn't it? ”

"Yes, yes." Luo Zhenbang said: "As soon as he said this, I knew that he really wanted to cooperate with us, and if this matter is done, both sides will have great benefits." He has no reason to cheat us, even if he wants to, he doesn't have the ability. We are the most poor, and we also have money and armor and weapons in hand, can we lose? As soon as our money and weapons are in hand, the situation in Jianzhou is like this, can we endure it and not do it? In this situation, no one can deceive anyone, and no one can cheat anyone. ”

The people present are all old rivers and lakes, before the uprising, Liu Maoqi was the head of one party, and Li Kaiming was a famous awakening person in the four towns and eight miles, Luo Zhenbang said, Li Kaiming scolded in his heart, knowing that even if there is a trap in this matter, his own side must be trapped.

Liu Maoqi turned around and squeezed his eyes at Li Kaiming, and said, "This wishful thinking is not bad, Brother Li, how do you think we should take this job?" ”

"Yes, I will definitely take it." Li Kaiming was very excited in his heart, if the people of Zhao Wangfu were sleepy and sent pillows, he was in a hurry to pay money and weapons here, and planned to erect the flag first, gather thousands of people and tens of thousands of people and start attacking the county seat, get some money and grain, and then avoid plundering the wealth of the people, mainly for large households. The poorest people will rejoice, and the military will be abundant enough to raise their troops.

The disadvantage is that this does not lose the true character of the rogue and will make the scholars and doctors deviate from morality, and at least they will not cooperate with Li Kaiming.

Li Kaiming's goal in the south is to stop wandering, lay down a territory to make a good living, and sit back and watch the success or failure of the Great Wei. If he destroys the local foundation, it is not the result that Li Kaiming is happy to see.

If he can get a large amount of money, food, weapons and armor, Li Kaiming will be able to gather more than 100,000 people in just a few months, and Jianzhou is already a large powder keg, as long as there is a little spark, this big powder keg will explode violently.

Li Kaiming smiled at Liu Maoqi, his deputy seems to be rough, but in fact, he is also delicate in his heart.

The people of Zhao Wangfu, a good abacus, calculations are quite clear, this cooperation, on the surface, it seems that the people of the palace still hold the leading power, Li Kaiming and others in order to develop the situation, can only raise things first, and then withdraw, and then go to other roads to make trouble, and Fujian Road has nothing to do with it, and King Zhao can take advantage of this matter to successfully get the right to open the government, it is really good to calculate, easy to calculate.

It's just that Li Kaiming and Liu Maoqi, who are determined and resolute in the northwest and are not moved by external forces, can be controlled by others like this?

The two thieves looked at each other and laughed.