Chapter 143: Armed Parade
Chen Xianling's hand holding the gift list suddenly trembled.
When Chen Xian just waved his army to bombard the gate of the county seat, but he was openly under the banner of his Yiyuan Chen Xian, and as soon as the cannon was bombarded, he sent someone to give gifts, what does this mean?
Chen County, who was frightened in his heart, wanted not to see the guests, but he didn't dare, and finally summoned the Li family's shopkeeper who gave the gift.
The shopkeeper Li is a middle-aged man in his thirties, this person was originally a small steward of the Li family's caravan, this time Chen Xian asked someone to come to the county to deliver a letter, and he also needed someone who was familiar with the county environment, so he could only recruit from the caravan steward of the Li family and the Yang family.
The shopkeeper Li was seriously injured and gritted his teeth to take on the task.
Seeing the county master, the shopkeeper Li knelt down and kowtowed very sensibly, and said some compliments, which made Chen County's heart relax a lot, and he asked: "Do you Li Yuan give such a heavy gift, what do you want?" ”
Shopkeeper Li said: "So that the county lord knows that what we Li Yuanwai asks for is only hope that the master can allow the reopening of Yiyuan's trade route." ”
As soon as he heard Chen Xian's request, the county magistrate's psychology suddenly became active, if Chen Xian only wanted to open a trade route, it meant that the other party did not want to rebel.
If you really want to rebel, you will have to rob it a long time ago, who still does what Rausch business.
Since the other party didn't want to rebel, then his head would naturally be saved.
However, Chen County's order is still a little difficult, because of this blockade of trade routes, although he is the person who gave the order, the actual executor is not him, but the Huo family and other Laiwu big households, these people will not listen to him a bare county order.
To tell the truth, the words of Chen County's order still have some effect in this county, and when he leaves the county, few of those heroes pay attention to him.
Bai Shijie asked him to order the blockade of the Yiyuan trade route, in fact, it was just to give those powerful people a righteous name, to deter those small and medium-sized merchants, and at the same time to make Chen Xian a little jealous.
Chen Xianling hesitated for a moment, and said to Shopkeeper Li: "It is not difficult to withdraw the order to block the Yiyuan trade route, but the Huo family and those big families will not obey the order, and this official can't control it." ”
Shopkeeper Li said: "It's okay, my old man Chen said, he will take his artillery to put a pass in front of the Zhuangzi of every big family, those big families listen to the artillery battle, a happy, will definitely not embarrass us, Master Chen, you only need to send someone tomorrow in this order to send my old man's letter to these grandfather's house, my family will be grateful to you." ”
After speaking, Shopkeeper Li took out a stack of envelopes and a piece of stationery with his name written on it.
Master Chen saw that according to the order on this paper, these old man's Zhuangzi happened to circle around the county seat, and he understood what Chen Xian meant after thinking about it.
I'm afraid that this old man Chen is going to collapse all the gates of the powerful Zhuangzi who are against him like the east gate of the county seat!
Thinking of this, the county master couldn't help but gasp, this person is so fierce and domineering!
Chen Xian is indeed as the county magistrate thought, after he left the county seat, he went straight to the north Zhuangzi of the Huo family, directly opened the door of this Zhuangzi, and stayed in the old house of the Huo family in the Zhuangzi for one night, and the next morning, he used the oxen and carriage of the Huo family to pull the grain and goods collected from the Huo family's warehouse, and left in the morning sun.
Next, Chen Xian came to an armed march around the county seat, and along the way, he used artillery to knock down seven or eight gates of Zhuangzi, but he didn't go in, and left after the fight.
His behavior stabbed the hornet's nest at once, these heroes can survive and grow in the troubled times, but there is no good stubble
Chen Xian walked down all the way, and his details were almost tracked and peeped by the horseback generals of various Zhuangzi, and there were not many cavalry in his hands after all.
Knowing that Chen Xian's subordinates had a total of only 3,000 infantry, and the cavalry was only more than 100, these heroes immediately felt insulted, in this era of cavalry, foot soldiers have always been looked down upon, Chen Xian's 3,000 foot soldiers are actually not much, these heroes he offended, if the various Zhuang Ding are put together, maybe they can make up an army of tens of thousands, and 3,000 infantry is nothing.
What's more important is that Chen Xian has too few cavalry in his hands, and these powerful horsemen in Laiwu may be able to make up a horse team of 2,000 people.
The Huo family alone has three or four hundred horseback generals.
Thinking that they had seen through Chen Xian's reality and the fact that the Huo family master took the lead, the Laiwu heroes who had suffered a loss quickly reached an agreement, and they couldn't just let go of Chen Er.
As a result, seven or eight Zhuangzi from near the county seat, nearly two thousand horses, began to assemble towards Liujiazhuang, which had been patronized by Chen Xian.
The richest and most powerful people in Laiwu County are concentrated around the county, because the copper and iron mining and smelting in Laiwu in this era are centered on Laiwu County.
In Laiwu County, the most magnificent yamen is not the county yamen, but the Laiwu supervisor, this yamen specializes in managing the copper and iron smelting in Laiwu, which is much more oil and water than the county ya.
Around Laiwu County, there are more than 10 large Zhuangzi with thousands of Zhuang Ding and hundreds of generals, and Chen Xian patronized eight of them this time, if it wasn't for the distance, Chen Xian's family didn't want to let go.
This group of wealthy and powerful households, who are based on farmland and smelting copper and iron as a means of accumulating wealth, are far more powerful than those who rely solely on agriculture.
On the afternoon of Chen Xian's armed march, Huo Yi personally led more than 200 of his generals to Liujiazhuang.
By the afternoon of the next day, more than 1,700 people from 13 powerful families had gathered in Liujiazhuang.
Among the thirteen powerful families, Huo Yi brought the most generals, more than 260 people, and the strength was also the strongest, and the more than 260 generals of the Huo family were all wearing armor, and there were even more than 50 empty horses carrying bundled vests.
Now that Jin Guo has shown his twilight spirit, his control over the countryside, except for his own Meng'an Moke villages and towns, is basically equal to nothing, otherwise Huo Yi will not dare to take out his vest openly even if he is bold.
Huo Yi personally came to the scene as the leader of Laiwu Haoqiang, far higher than the general commander of the various dealers present, plus he was the only person who had led soldiers on the scene, so he naturally became the leader of this huge horse team without any objection.
Although Huo Yi has military experience and even fought in battles, he can be a commander at most, and he still has half of the vacancies under his command, and he only brings more than 500 infantry, which is far from being comparable to leading nearly 2,000 iron cavalry today.
Therefore, Huo Yi, who has always shown himself with his heavy and majestic demeanor, also seemed a little excited today, speaking in a loud voice, chattering, and foaming at the mouth......