The gate of the Wen family slammed shut in front of Xu Shiliu.

After a long time, Xu Shiliu realized that the housekeeper was of high character, which was obviously disgusted with the lack of money he gave!

At that moment, this young dock fort almost drew his sword to attack the gate of the Wen family.

It is a pity that in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, his knife was left on the ship and not brought.

Anger filled Xu Shiliu's brain, he was in Juzhou, he was the descendant of the strongest family in a county, not only could he kill and take away the livelihood of Wubao, even the owner of Wubao of other families had to look at the face of the Xu family and let him score three points.

In addition, Xu Shiliu is indeed a reading seed, and when the people around him let him and spoil him, he naturally developed his arrogant and domineering character.

If it weren't for Xu Shiyang's performance in the past year being too dazzling, he would have looked down on this brother.

He never thought that he had just arrived in this Jiangnan, and he would be so humiliated by a mere housekeeper!

The rich man who had just bribed the housekeeper with a hundred taels of silver bent down and picked up a copper coin from the ground and gently placed it in Xu Shiliu's hand.

"Little brother, the seventh rank official in front of the prime minister, don't be angry, this kind of thing, after experiencing more, you will understand."

Xu Shiliu held the copper coin in his hand tightly, lowered his eyes, and said in a deep voice like a wounded beast:

"We fought bloodily in Jiangbei, resisting the raids of the Tartars again and again, and we had to use every penny on the blade."

"The family asked me to come this time, originally hoping that the kid would report the situation in Jiangbei to Wen Xianggong and ask him to find a way to preside over the Northern Expedition and relieve Li Min and hang upside down, but it didn't come to ......."

"Little brother is from Jiangbei?" The rich man whispered, "No wonder ....... ”

No wonder he only took out a handful of copper coins and wanted to ask the prime minister's butler to pass it on to him.

It would be strange if it wasn't thrown out.

Xu Shiliu shook his head, pointed to the gate of the Wen family and said loudly: "The princes of Jiangnan are not enough! Rats too! I, Xu Shiliu, disdain to be in the company of this fang! ”

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves, turned around and left, leaving only the rich man and a small official and squire who were waiting for the Wen family to meet with the surprised eyes.

……

After one night, the Dingyuan battalion defeated an army of tens of thousands of displaced people at the cost of one dead and five wounded.

There were thousands of people who died that night, but the vast majority were actually trampled to death by the homeless people themselves, and less than 300 people were really killed by the soldiers of the Dingyuan battalion, Xu Shiyang captured about 1,000 prisoners on the spot, and the rest all fled.

Returning to Wubao and making a slight settlement for the prisoners, Xu Shiyang sent out all the people who could be sent out, just to catch a few more homeless people and come back.

In another month or two, the Tartars should come, and this time, Xu Shiyang should not need these homeless people.

But after the Tartars, even if he could win the battle, some places west of Fort 153 would certainly be ruined, and there would be many abandoned forts and fields waiting for him to recover.

The proportion of out-of-work personnel in the fifteen-tun system is already outrageously high, and when the time comes, Xu Shiyang's labor gap will be amazing, and other docks in his family can't be counted on, so Xu Shiyang must take this opportunity to gather more people and consolidate his foundation.

Not only to grasp the present, but also to think about the future, Xu Shiyang felt that he was really tired of living.

But no matter how tiring the work is, you have to do it, which involves Xu Shiyang's own future and the issue of his life.

The men and women of the fifteen-tun system went into battle and captured about two thousand prisoners in the field. Xu Shiyang immediately screened them, and hundreds of women and teenagers were formed into a team of ten, and all of them were handed over to Xu Muhe to be taken to Fulai Mountain for placement.

The vast majority of the remaining adult males were temporarily assigned to the other castle lords of the Xu family.

Xu Shiyang made it clear that after the defeat of the Tartars this time, he would settle the grain consumed by the displaced people with each tun, but all the temporarily allocated population had to be returned to him.

This is also a way to do it, these people's combat effectiveness in the face of the Tartars is very suspicious, if they are organized into the 15th Tun Army, it will be funny to bomb the camp for him after seeing the Tartars.

However, these people are not completely useless now, at least it is okay to let them go to work in the fields.

At the beginning of September, all the fields in the 15-tun system were harvested, which was much faster than in previous years, and the displaced captives made a lot of efforts in it.

With the new food and saving a lot of time, Xu Shiyang decided to make the best use of his old militia and the young and strong homeless people to strengthen the fortifications of Fort 153.

He ordered all the trees to be cut down within five miles of the perimeter, and to find a way to light a fire in the farther places.

Then, three meters in front of Fort 153, another breastwork was built.

The breastwork is only one and a half meters high, and with the overhang, it almost covers an adult strong man, and a trench was dug in front of it, three meters wide and more than one meter deep.

The trench and the breastwork, which is two and a half meters high, and the Tartars attack the breastwork from the bottom of the ditch upwards, and they have to climb it, which is also an obstacle for them.

Behind the breastwork, Xu Shiyang deployed most of the soldiers of the Dingyuan battalion, where they could use wooden cannons and muskets to shoot at the enemy, if the breastwork could not be held, Xu Shiyang did not have to worry, behind them was the rammed earth wall of 153, everyone turned and retreated, and then defended.

At the end of September, Xu Shiliu returned from Jiangnan, and this time he brought back more than 1,500 stone of grain, of which three-fifths belonged to Xu Shiyang, and the rest was purchased by Xu Shiliu with his own money.

Xu Shiliu brought 1,200 stones to the fifteenth tun, which was much more than the part that Xu Shiyang deserved, which made the latter very surprised.

The explanation given by Xu Jiagoro is that he ate Wen Xianggong's closed-door soup in Jiangnan, which hurt his self-esteem very much, and he hyped up in Jiangnan that the Xu family was about to face an attack by tens of thousands of Tartars, but no one believed it at all.

Xu Shiliu thinks that this is because his reputation is not big enough, he hopes that this time he will cooperate with Xu Shiyang sincerely, and beat the Tartar hard, it is best to cut off a few hundred heads, and then he can throw these Tartar heads to Wen Xianggong's housekeeper to see if in the eyes of the Wen family, whether a few hundred Tartar heads are worth or a few hundred taels of silver.

This stubborn child made Xu Shiyang cry and laugh.

Before Xu Shiliu went to Jiangnan, Xu Muhe gave him some gold and silver, which was not for him to buy military rations, but to let him have some surplus wealth and make some money up and down.

But he didn't think about it, Xu Shiliu didn't pay attention to this set at all, and after the Wen housekeeper threw him out, he directly turned around and exchanged all the gold and silver that his father gave him as a gift for grain and salt, and transported them all back to Juzhou.

"Brother, it's better to rely on others than on yourself! The Wen family doesn't look down on us at all now! Xu Shiliu said indignantly: "We have to make a name for ourselves first!" ”

"yes, you have to make a name for yourself first." Xu Shiyang replied helplessly: "But you are still a little younger, if they drive you out, you write directly on the gate of the Wen family: 'Civil officials are greedy for money, military generals are afraid of death, and the Great Zhou Dynasty is so southward', the effect must be very good." ”

Xu Shiyang patted his younger brother on the shoulder and said:

"In the future, you have to learn how to pretend to be better."