Feng Wenlan didn't go to the household department today, and stayed in the Feng family's mansion and waited for his eldest son Feng Yi to bring Feng Yi and Kong Xirong back.

Kong Xirong is Feng Wenlan's nephew, and he is led by Feng Yi in everything, so it is inconvenient for him to reprimand him harshly, but he stares at the eyes of his third son Feng Yi, and he can't wait to eat it alive.

"The Han family's father and son are ambitious, how many hearts do you have for others to play?" Feng Wenlan reprimanded, "Do you think I'm not angry enough with you, or didn't I tell you from the beginning?" ”

"You didn't say to stay away from Han Qian before, who can be sure that the third prince will not succeed?" Feng Yi muttered quietly.

"What did you say?" Feng Wenlan was so angry that his forehead was bruised, and the rattan cane that he held in his hand that had not played a role for a long time slapped Feng Yi's head and face, "Do you still think that Han Qian stuffed you with a money-grabbing Ling Shi, what kind of bullshit is a good errand?" ”

Feng Yi was pumped and screamed, scurrying all over the house, and did not forget to ask for help from the outhouse: "I'm going to be killed, I'm going to be killed, my mother will save me." ”

"Catch this little beast, I'll kill this little beast today!" Feng Wenlan instructed several family soldiers and decided to teach Feng Yi a lesson today, so as not to cause a big disaster.

"Anyway, Yi'er is not the only seedling of the Feng family, if you want to die, you can kill it, I don't have a few years to live, even if I am angry to death today, I deserve it, who called Yi'er is my protection from childhood to adulthood, what is wrong with him, I also have to carry it for him!" At this time, there was a heart-rending cry from the outhouse, "Don't stop me, let me be killed and pulled down!" ”

Feng Wenlan raised the rattan cane high, and there was no way to pull it down ruthlessly, and finally threw the rattan cane aside with hatred, and ordered left and right: "Drag this son out and lock him up—send someone to the third prince and say that this son of a son is seriously ill and needs to recuperate for a few months." ”

When the soldiers pushed Feng Yi out, there was another sound of crying and crying from the outhouse, and Feng Wenlan was impetuous.

At this time, a rather beautiful middle-aged woman walked in, saw Kong Xirong still sitting there, glared at him, and said, "Don't get out of here quickly." ”

Kong Xirong didn't dare to tell Chunniang and other things truthfully, he was scolded by his mother, and walked out obediently.

"Big brother, according to me, you should also learn from Han Daoxun and find an opportunity to go out as soon as possible," the middle-aged beautiful woman said, "Your Majesty is not worried about the Xu family, but you can't move the Xu family, if you delay, maybe there will be chaos in the court one day, and it may be chaos." The Feng family is now in Jinling City, big and small, and they are too passive, and I can't sleep well at night. If the eldest brother can go out of the place, no matter which family is powerful in the future, the Feng family should be more useful in his eyes, and the people who stay in the city can also be safer. ”

"What my aunt said is very true, but I am afraid that if I act rashly now, I will provoke the suspicion of Anning Palace." Feng Yi said.

At the beginning, Anning Palace made a hindrance and selected Feng Yi, Kong Xirong, Han Qian and others to accompany the three princes to study.

And from the fact that Emperor Tianyou has continuously weakened the power of the patriarch and important ministers in the past few years, Feng Wenlan guessed that Emperor Tianyou could not tolerate the situation that his cousin Xu Mingzhen mastered the heavy army to support the crown prince Yang Yuanwu after his death.

Feng Wenlan and Kong Zhou are both in the court, even if they have the heart to throw themselves into the Anning Palace, they don't dare to reveal the slightest clue, otherwise they will become the first target of Emperor Tianyou, but they are not like the state and county officials who choose more freely.

Therefore, for the Feng family, the best choice is not to make a choice, Feng Wenlan has always deliberately told Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to be by the side of the three princes, just eat, drink and have fun, but no one thought that Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son dug such a big pit and stirred up a pool of stagnant water so turbid?

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong haven't done anything for more than a year, so they have a close relationship with Han Qian, but just like that, they can't wash their innocence.

And with the experience of Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son, he tried to find a way to get out of the place at this time, what would the Anning Palace think?

Feng Wenlan was extremely distressed, and at this time, another family member ran in to report: "The Han Mansion sent someone over, saying that there were 800 quintals of tea and asked our government to receive it; also said that he had agreed with the eldest prince to offset the principal of the four million coins that the third prince and the young master served as the money catcher. ”

"Does this shaft have to be dragged into this mud pit by our Feng family together, so that it can't be willing?" Feng Wenlan scolded angrily.

Feng Yu's face was also gloomy.

He agreed to contract the errand of the Longque Army to catch money for Feng Yi and Chen Xirong, just thinking that he would post one or two million dollars to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion every year, and the money and goods they privately honored the Anning Palace and the prince every year were far more than that, even if they were finally spread out and settled, it would not be much of a stain.

Feng Wenlan asked Feng Yi to take people to Lanting Lane to intercept Feng Yi and Chen Xirong, and Feng Yi publicly agreed to Han Qian's conditions, which also had the intention of proving his innocence.

However, the frequent exchange of bulk goods and personnel is the most unclear and unclear relationship.

It's just that now Han Qian has asked people to directly send eight hundred quintals of tea, do they accept it, or don't they accept it?

And with the scheming and strategy of the Han family's father and son, they turned away 800 quintals of tea at this time, will they stop there?

"Whether it is the Chang Liquidation Order or the history of the money capture order set up by the previous dynasty, it is customary for the official to give the principal, but there is no way to accept it," Feng Yi frowned and said to his father, "And I took someone over to intercept Feng Yi early in the morning, and others can also see that they are going to stuff eight hundred quintals of tea this time, and we accept it, but it is also reluctant." ”

"Let's take it first!" Feng Wenlan said irritably, he didn't expect that at this time, he would have no way to take a shaft.

…………

…………

Fan Dahei led people to send 800 quintals of tea into Feng's mansion, and then took people out of the city and rushed to Taowuji to meet Han Qian.

At this time, the Xuzhou fleet carrying japonica rice, wheat, iron, homespun cloth and other materials had just docked in front of the wharf of the military government in Taowu, and more than 200 men were carrying bags of grain into the military government's warehouse in an orderly manner.

When Shen Lan first arrived in Taowuji, he only temporarily requisitioned the Zhang family's mansion located on the outside of the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard as a military office.

At this time, when you enter Taowuji, you can see a three- or four-hundred-step square earthen city standing at the foot of the southern foot of Baohua Mountain.

A stream that is not very wide, flows down next to the west wall of Tucheng and flows into Chishan Lake, which is five or six miles away.

Going up along the river, it is located in the col of the southern foot of Baohua Mountain, and it is also the real core of the planned cantonment military government.

On the ridge of the mountain around the courtyard, the size of the five outposts ranged from sixty or seventy steps to a hundred paces square, and the gap into the col was just right, and in fact, it formed a relatively complete defense system with the public land city.

Once encountering the enemy's situation, the outer Longque army soldiers and their dependents can withdraw into the Qiuhu Mountain Annex, which is actually three or four miles deep, and the subordinate grange, and block the enemy according to the Tucheng and the five mountain outposts.

In the tunzhai outside the military earthen city, the two-foot-thick rammed earth parapet wall is very thin, and it is only more than a zhang high, which can prevent thieves and thieves, but it is not enough to resist strong enemies.

Moreover, the 25 tunzhai villages are built along the lake, which are distributed in a long and narrow shape, and are easy to be directly interspersed by strong enemies from Chishan Lake.

Fan Dahei walked over and heard that Han Qian was discussing with the Third Prince, Changshi Shen Lan and others to catch up with the rammed earth wall on the periphery of the General's Mansion before the year, and the capital was covered with bricks.

Fan Dahei sweated in his heart.

Although the total length of the parapet walls of the five outposts is 1,500 or 600 paces, which is almost the same as the circumference of the military palace wall, the parapet wall of the outpost courtyard itself is built in a dangerous place, and one zhang high is enough.

The military city wall should not only be built two feet and five feet high, but also cover the inner and outer sides with city bricks, and the number of city bricks alone is five times; In addition, the consumption of glutinous rice lime slurry will also be more than five times.

Although they mined charcoal in the back mountain, burning charcoal to make bricks saves nearly half of the manpower compared to burning firewood, but it was already the limit to build five outposts and build an earthen city in four months; With less than three months left before the year, how could seven or eight hundred thousand city bricks be burned?

Seeing Han Qian stop talking to the third prince, Fan Dahei walked over to report that the tea had been sent to the Feng Mansion, but said with some concern: "The Feng family has accepted all the tea, but they haven't mentioned the settlement at all, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with the urgent need?" ”

The fleet has entered Taowuji, and even if the goods escorted by the four surnames arrive at the station, there is no way for them to delay for a few days, and they will have to settle the money.

Although the cantonment military government consumes sixty or seventy million dollars a year, but Shen Lan, Zhou Yuan and others have sad faces, Fan Dahei estimates that they will not be able to raise four or five million yuan in a short time.

"This is easy, the Feng family owes us money, they must not dare to rely on it, you first find out what goods are in the Feng family's warehouse in the past two days, Feng Zhang and their return trip, they also want to sell raw silk, cotton, silk cloth, paper inkstone and other products from Jinling, and when the time comes, go directly to the Feng family's warehouse to extract the corresponding amount of money and property," Han Qian said, "If they are not happy at that time, I will pull His Highness to go over to collect debts in person." ”

"Huh?" Fan Dahei was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that the young master would be the idea of bartering, so calculated, this time the ship Zuo Si could still intercept medicinal materials and other goods worth more than two million yuan.

"What's the matter?" Yang Yuanpu was talking to Shen Yang in front, and when he heard Han Qian mention him, he stopped and asked.

Han Qian stepped forward and said with a smile that he wanted him to collect debts, but when he turned his head and saw Fan Dahei standing behind, talking and laughing with Zhou Yuanyou, his brows frowned slightly, but he left Fan Dahei in Jinling to be in charge of the inspection room and the craftsman's workshop, and it was normal for him to have close contact with Zhou Yuan, so he didn't think much about it.

Yang Yuanpu was already very deeply influenced by Han Qian unconsciously, and he didn't think that Han Qian had anything to do with this kind of means, Shen Yang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly when he heard it.