In just one day's work, the chief secretary had an extra 300,000 taels of silver on his books, two-thirds of which was cash.

"Oh my God~~" The officials of the Shandong Political Department led by Zhang Bingwen were stunned, just a few stamped pieces of broken paper, 200,000 taels of silver were in hand? This Song Youliang is really good at turning stones into gold, not to mention the hard work of others, he can still make a lot of money, and a group of officials from the Shandong Political Department suddenly worshipped Song Youliang like a god.

"Are those businessmen stupid? Thirty taels of silver for a tree, so what do you fight for me? Zhang Bingwen asked puzzled

"Master Zhang doesn't know anything~ There are many elm trees in the elm forest, which are towering trees that can only be hugged by two or three people. A tree can make at least two stepping beds, and each pulling bed can be sold for at least sixty taels of silver. That is to say, if he cuts down a tree here and charges thirty taels, and adds labor and freight there, the profit will not be less than seventy or eighty taels. Can you not rush to it? ”

Sure enough, after a few days, the scale of the tree felling continued to grow, from a few thousand people at the beginning to tens of thousands two months later. Then, the people around Dongchang Province also organized to cut down elm trees and sell them to merchants. By mid-August, the tree-cutting team had grown to a huge number of 10,000 people.

At this time, Liang Min couldn't laugh anymore, under the supervision and protection of the officers and soldiers, the pieces of Yulin were cut down, leaving only bare tree stumps, although these tree stumps will sprout again in the spring, but at this rate, within two months, hundreds of miles of Yulin will be cut down.

Liang Min, Liu Shaowu and other leaders were in a hurry, and Zhang Qiqiang said calmly: "Don't be afraid, we still have tunnels, and we can deal with the officers and soldiers." ”

"Authentically?" Liu Shaowu said with a smile: "You go to the tunnel and take a look yourself, the five-foot-high and three-foot-wide tunnel is crowded with people." It's not just people, it's stuff. The villagers moved almost all their belongings in. Don't talk about war, you can't walk. As soon as I raised my left foot, I heard the sound of "clucking", and I almost stepped on a chicken that I don't know; With another step on his right foot, a wooden stick almost hit his head, and he looked at the hoe that he didn't know who had put it. In the tunnels, the old, the young, the men, the women, plus pigs, chickens, farm tools, kang cabinets, spinning wheels...... It's really impassable, and it's hard to move an inch. ”

"That~what should I do~!" Zhang Qi couldn't pretend anymore

Liang Min said: "Don't panic, it's not a way to sit back and wait, let's raid those who cut down trees tonight." I've inquired, those are ordinary people, hired by some businessmen, these people don't need to be beaten, let's scare and scare them! ”

"They are all protected by officers and soldiers!" Ren Qi said

"What are the officers and soldiers afraid of!! Are there still fewer officers and soldiers who have died at our hands? Liu Shaowu said

"Okay, then let's give it a go!!" Zhang Qi shook the handle of the knife in his hand vigorously

However, it turned out that Liang Min's idea was too naïve. In this era of war and chaos and rampant banditry, all the merchants with some strength will raise a group of family thugs, usually take care of the family and the courtyard, and sometimes use it as the guard of their own caravan. The slightly smaller businessmen joined forces and hired a dart master to protect them with a large amount of money. This time was no exception, the merchant knew that this batch of timber was going to be transported out under the nose of the thief, and although it was protected by officers and soldiers, he still came with a large number of guards and dart masters. The more one or two hundred, and the less twenty or thirty. These people eat blood and rice with knives, take people's money to eliminate disasters for others, and they are also fighting bravely when they encounter the Yuyuan army, and they are extremely fierce. After several surprise attacks, instead of scaring away the lumberjacks, the Yuyuan Army itself suffered a lot of losses in a few joint battles between the officers and soldiers, the dart division, and the nursing home.

"Wang Xiaosan, behead one level, reward five taels!"

"Kang Dahu, behead one level, reward five taels!"

"Kong Dashan, behead one level, reward five taels!"

The beheaded soldiers, each carrying a human head in their hands, stood in line at a square table to receive the silver bounty. Due to the recent large amount of income, the Feng Pavilion did not deduct it for the first time, but distributed the reward in full. It was also taken by Song Youliang to receive the roll call, without being forwarded by officers at all levels. Each soldier directly handed over the "head" in one hand and took the money in the other, and after receiving the bounty, he put a handprint on the roster.

At three o'clock in the morning, it was lunch time in a blink of an eye, and the soldiers of each battalion began to bury the pot and make rice. Gongfu began to take out Haiyangwei's own rice, noodles and meat, and helped with all his hands, cooking rice and stir-frying vegetables. The food quota of the Haiyang Guard. Each meal has pork, rabbit meat, dried tofu, chicken and duck eggs, vegetables, etc., as well as sun-dried alfalfa to make soup. Soon, the aroma of rice continued to come, and Lao Liu Tou cut the meat into slices and put it in the pot to fry, and the tempting aroma attracted the brother troops in the camp next door to come and watch. Several officers dressed as general flags also swallowed their saliva.

"Idiot, didn't you just receive a bounty?" Kang Dahu took out the silver ingots weighing five taels from his waist pocket, cut off a corner with a knife, checked it in his hand, and shouted to the old Liu Tou who was cooking: "Brother, sell me a few pieces of meat, okay?" ”

Lao Liu wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and replied with a smile: "No, our generals have a lot of rules, if I sell meat to you privately, then my old man can't keep this errand." ”

"Don't be so rigid!" Kang Dahu said with a smile: "We just gave out a reward, there is no kiln or tavern in these ten miles and eight places, and there is nowhere to spend the money!" ”

The other soldiers who had just received their salaries also coaxed: "Yes, yes, brother, you can sell us a few pieces of meat, no one knows anyway~~!" ”

Lao Liu Tou smiled, grabbed a piece of meat on the board, and threw it over, "I will definitely not be able to sell you." This piece of meat is my share, please eat it! Just make a friend! ”

Kang Dahu caught the meat, weighed it, at least a pound of weight, couldn't help but sigh, and said: "How rich the generals are, the old man can get a pound of meat." As he spoke, he looked at the multigrain porridge cooked on the bonfire in his camp, "Compared with others, we eat pig food!" ”

After that, Kang Dahu untied a gourd from his waist, "Hey, brother, then~~"

Lao Liu Tou also caught the gourd, opened the stopper and sniffed it, "Yo, burn the knife~~ This is more than a meat glutton~!" Lao Liu Tou took a sip with a smile and let out a comfortable "Ah~~~~~~!" ”

In the Chinese army tent in Feng Pavilion, Feng Pavilion and Song Youliang were also talking about wine and changing glasses. Song Youliang picked up a transparent glass bottle, poured a red liquid into a goblet, and handed it to Feng Guan

"This thing is the same as blood water~~ Can you drink it?" Feng Guan hesitated

"It's called wine, and it's made from grapes by Westerners. It's different from my Daming's rice wine, why don't you try it~" Song Youliang picked up a cup himself

"Taste?" Feng Guan carefully brought the rim of the cup to his mouth and took a sip, "Huh? Sure enough, it has a different flavor. ”

"Try this again~~" Song Youliang took out another glass bottle, and this time only poured a shallow layer into the goblet

Feng Guan smiled: "What? Brother Song can't trust my drinking? ”

"No, no, this wine is brewed in a country called Russia in the north, called vodka~ The wine is very strong~" Song Youliang poured the cup of wine into the brazier, and with a coax, the flames were high

Feng Guan laughed even more, "It's not that I Feng still don't drink the spirits~" After saying that, he took the wine bottle and poured half a glass into the goblet, and then snatched Song Youliang's cup and poured half a glass into it

"Too much, too much~~" Song Youliang hurriedly begged for mercy

"Not much, not much~~" Feng Guan raised the cup and was about to send it to his mouth, when suddenly a small soldier hurriedly broke into the big tent without being informed, "Lord Feng, I was arrested~~ Lord Feng, I was arrested~~"

Feng Guan was furious, and went up to slap him in the face, "Fart, when was I caught?" ”

The beaten little soldier covered his cheeks and said in a mournful voice: "The little prince of the Dewang family was arrested~~~"

"Who caught you?" Feng Guan asked

"I was caught by the Yuyuan thief~~"

"What?"

With a bang, the goblet in Feng Guan's hand shattered

When the embarrassed Dewang Mansion flattered Liu De in the big tent, Song Youliang was also startled, "Father-in-law Liu, what's the matter?" ”

Liu De said with a sad face: "Recently, the thieves in Yuyuan have made a lot of trouble, and the little prince is afraid that something will happen to the manor in Fan County, so he took a group of guards to Fan County to transfer property, and he knew that he was halfway through, and he didn't know where a gang of thieves came out of the ground, so he arrested the little prince~!" ”

"Hi~~~" Feng Guan shouted: "I said Gonggong Liu, what are you people from King De's Mansion doing here?" ”

Liu De said anxiously: "Commander Feng, how can you say that our little prince was kidnapped by thieves in your realm, can you have anything to do with it?" Let's discuss how to rescue the little prince~~! ”

Feng Guan said angrily: "You~~ You still deducted the basin on my head?" ”

"Isn't it?" Liu De regained his composure and said: "It's all because you are unfavorable to suppress the bandits, so that the bandits are rampant, so you kidnapped the little prince~"

"I'm not good at banditry?" Feng Guan didn't buy it, "My "Da Ming Law" stipulates that even if the clan goes out of the city, it must be reported to the political envoy for the record, you go out this time, have you reported it?" No ICP filing? ”

"You~~" Liu De was speechless for a while

"Stop arguing~" Song Youliang shouted: "What's the use of bickering? It's still the right thing to do to discuss how to rescue them. Dare to ask Grandpa Liu, which little prince was taken captive? ”

Liu De replied: "It's the little prince who was also present when my prince invited Lord Song to drink~~"

"She?" Song Youliang's eyes widened, and he secretly said in his heart What kind of excitement did this little county lord come to join in, "Father-in-law must have kidnapped the little prince from Yuyuan thief?" ”

"What they said~"

"When was you taken captive?"

"Half an hour ago~~~"

"Where were you taken captive?"

"Near Baiyi Pavilion in Fan County~~"

"White Pavilion?" Feng Guan's finger quickly swiped over the map, "It's close to the Menglou River~ You can take a shortcut into the elm forest along the Menglou River." ”

"What way?"

"Fish mouth fork~"

Feng Guan touched his chin and said, "Are those thieves riding horses?" ”

Liu De shook his head, "No horses~!" ”

"That's okay, it will take an hour to walk from Baiyi Pavilion to Yuzuicha, let's ride a fast horse, it only takes half an hour to arrive!" Feng Guan took off the Yanling knife from the weapon rack on the side and pinned it to his waist, "Gonggong Liu, you also pull it together~~"

"Me?" Liu De was stunned