Not long after, the pig's head meat had been prepared and sent to the table of the Eight Immortals, and Qu Jie, the sentry commander of the personal soldiers, grabbed a few chopsticks in front of Liu Chang, and praised it repeatedly: "It's delicious!" Delicious! What a good pig's head! ”

Liu Chang glanced at him and said in his heart: "You are a good pig's head!" ”

However, the aroma of pork meat also attracted his gluttony, and he was not polite, and dropped the chopsticks directly.

The pork of this era is not a Ukrainian white pig or a Dutch pig, but a real native Wenzhou pig, a righteous little black pig, although the breed is backward, and the growth is long, the lean meat rate is low, but the quality of the meat is far better than these later advanced breeds.

You must know that these black pig breeds that were eliminated by the market in later generations, pork is really delicious, Liu Chang ate very fragrantly, and greeted Qu Zhenhan at the same time: "Qu Shuai, Zhang Luo has a day today, you can also taste a few bites!" ”

"Good!" Qu Zhenhan had already sat down, and he did not lose his true character as a little local tyrant: "If I didn't want to lead the whole army, I would personally kill these pigs, it's a pity!" ”

I don't know what he said "pity" is, next to Jin Peiquan has already opened his mouth and comes: "How does this make you a person who sits on the country, a noble person destined to sit in the south and the north, and such miscellaneous things are still left to us to do!" ”

Qu Zhenhan was blown up by him, and Qu Jie's chopsticks next to him fell faster: "Uncle Zhenhai, we followed you to kill officials and rebel, just with this meat tube full, the wine tube is enough, it's worth it!" Joyfully! Joyfully! ”

He didn't have much knowledge, but with the sentry commander who was mixed with Qu Zhenhan's fellow sect, Liu Chang didn't take him seriously, but just asked while eating meat: "By the way, Qu Shuai, has Sun Huzi's name letter been delivered?" ”

Qu Zhenhan opened a bottle of old wine and took a sip, he is now a person with status, so naturally he can't learn to eat meat and drink wine in a big bowl like a layman: "It's been sent, and he killed a foreign commission general who is very angry with the people, and he will be regarded as a gang member in the future, he is our person, and Liu Jian doesn't have to target him for everything." ”

Liu Chang responded, and asked again: "Very good, since this is the case, then it is a family!" ”

It's just that after he took a bite of fat, he asked again: "By the way, Qu Shuai, my newcomer, there is a sentence that should not be said, but it is related to the overall situation, don't vomit or be unhappy, may I ask Qu Shuai, where is my Red Turban Army going today?" ”

Qu Zhenhan is a person from the city government and knows some literature and ink, but let him talk about the truth, but he still owes some Huohou, so he beckoned to Jin Peiquan: "Let Jin County Commander tell me about the plan of my Red Turban Army!" This time, the willow inspection point from the sky helped me, and the whole Zhejiang is hopeful. ”

Jin Peiquan is Qu Zhenhan's mastermind, in the past, Qu Zhenhan's Zhang Zifang and Liu Bowen promised themselves, and even this time Qu Zhenhan started an incident, all the results of him threading the needle and leading the way, of course, there is a set of strategies: "Liu Checkpoint, Qu Shuai wait, I'll go and take the map and break it down in detail." ”

I don't know where he found a map with a lot of errors, and there are no contour lines, just dozens of large and small place names, so he told Liu Chang and Qu Zhenhan about the current situation.

Strictly speaking, the situation of the Red Turban Army is very poor, and so far it has only controlled a small half of Yueqing County, and the few people who originally responded from the periphery have not had time to respond, and Jin Peiquan's original strategy is now completely bankrupt.

But with Liu Chang's miracles, now he saw a few more lines of life, so he pointed out little by little on the map.

Qu Zhenhan and Jin Peiquan have been planning for a long time, and they, Ni Tingmo and others are all small local tyrants and squires in the Hongqiao area, and they have been planning this since the third year of Xianfeng.

At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept the south of the Yangtze River, and the two governments of Wen discussed the group practice, Qu Zhenhan took the opportunity to set up a group training bureau in Hongqiao, controlled the nearby group exercises, and the number of people reached more than 500 people, and privately connected with the local tyrants, built weapons, and prepared for the incident.

In the fourth year of Xianfeng, he sent Jin Peiquan to Nanjing, and obtained the appointment of the commander of the Eastern Hongjun Army from Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east.

It's just that there is a Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always used the ** policy to fool the people, and the whole society has formed an unprecedented regression, and even the level of rebellion has dropped too much in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

He pinned all his hopes on the Min Yong uprising recruited by the Wenzhou Mansion, hoping that this group of Min Yong would take the lead in capturing the Wenzhou Mansion, and then Yongjia and Nanxijiang would raise troops to respond, and finally the Red Turban Army would rise up and restore the two prefectures in one fell swoop.

It's just that this kind of planning is close to child's play, the first person in the Wenzhou capital city of Min Yong to make a report, a very small number of people should be captured by the Qing army immediately, and then Yongjia Nanxi, Taizhou and other places of the strategy failed one after another, leaving only the Red Turban Army headquarters in the Hongqiao area, they can only make a blow to Bolang, and forcibly attack Yueqing County.

In history, the Red Turban Army failed in only seven days of holding the city, but at this time, with the miracle brought by Liu Chang, the Red Turban Army not only raised a large amount of food and military supplies in Yueqing, but also subdued the people of Xixiang and recruited hundreds of recruits.

Therefore, Jin Peiquan seemed confident: "Now our army has everything in terms of food and salary, and Qu Shuai is benevolent and righteous in Wenjun, and the prestige of the army can be passed on everywhere, and Liu Checkpoint you can see ......"

He pointed out the situation of the enemy in Yueqing County on a not very accurate map, and now the Red Turban Army can grasp roughly the area from Qu Zhenhan's hometown Hongqiao to Yueqing County, and it is Qu Zhenhan's younger brother Qu Zhenshan who remains in Hongqiao, but the Red Turban Army cannot control the entire Dongxiang.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty took great pains to prevent the Han people from rebelling, and the deployment situation in this small Yueqing County fully embodied the principle of "controlling the big and the small."

The garrison of Yueqing is the Yueqing Association, under the jurisdiction of two battalions, one battalion in the county seat, one battalion in Panshi Town, but in the north of the Yueqing Association defense area and stationed in the Dajing battalion, this Dajing battalion is directly under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou Town, not subject to the control of the Yueqing Association, and the stations of these three battalions are scattered throughout the county.

Now the Red Turban Army ostensibly took Yueqing County, killed Deputy General Yao, and crossed the Yueqing Association, but in fact, don't say that the Dajing Battalion, which is not controlled by the Yueqing Association, is the Panshi Battalion under the Yueqing Association, and even the green battalion of the county town has a large number of troops scattered in the flood land outside the county seat, and has not suffered losses.

In other words, the main force of the green battalion in Yueqing County still exists, and only more than 200 green battalion soldiers stationed in the county town are forced to surrender to the situation, but Jin Peiquan is very optimistic: "Next, we will go north, first sweep away the rock camp, open up the sea route, we have already had contact with the Tiandi Hui Yue boat on the sea, and we can unite as one, and then march to Taiping County, Taizhou, Huangyan and Yuhuan have our people, and we can sweep the whole Taiwan ...... at that time."

He thought that his plan was very clever, but he didn't expect Liu Chang to shake his head, and Qu Zhenhan over there had already become nervous first: "Liu Checkpoint, is there anything missing in the strategy of the Jin County Order?" ”

Liu Chang immediately said: "Iron striking still needs its own hardness, now we have food and salary, military supplies are worry-free, benevolence and righteousness are in the two ways of warmth, why borrow the strength of others, and how much strength does the Cantonese boat have?" ”

The Cantonese boat is the Guangdong pirates who have been harassing the sea surface of Wenzhou for many years, they have some relationship with heaven and earth, although the strength is not strong, but they come and go on the water, this past few decades, the Wenzhou green battalion soldiers are almost all defeated by the wind when they encounter them, and they dare not fight at all.

Wen Daodao Tai Qinglian is Daoguang 28 years of occasional small victories, in order to be rewarded with Hua Ling, but most of the time the green battalion soldiers are simply vulnerable, do not dare to protect the coastal people, last year there was a group of Guangdong pirates across the ocean, and even kidnapped many officers and soldiers of the green battalion.

The Green Battalion soldiers wanted to take revenge afterwards, but they heard that there were even British pirates invited from Hong Kong among the pirates, and their firearms were very good, so they immediately dismissed their intention to retaliate and paid instead to ransom the kidnapped officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion.

This is the reason why Qu Zhenhan and these local tyrants are completely disappointed in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but now these Guangdong pirates are objects that can be used, Qu Zhenhan and Jin Peiquan originally thought that the alliance with the Cantonese boat was like a tiger with wings, but they didn't expect that now Liu Chang poured such a basin of cold water down, Jin Peiquan immediately said: "Anyway, Ge Sanye is a big man on the sea, at least he can raise more than a dozen ships and five hundred people!" ”

It's just that he doesn't believe it himself, although Ge Sanye is a top-notch figure in the Cantonese boat, but he only has seven or eight boats and two hundred people, and he will definitely not be able to pull out five hundred people.

"Even if it's five hundred, how can they leave half of them at sea, and what they can really use for me is only half a battalion of people!" Liu Chang had already drunk a bowl of sake very proudly: "It's just a half-camp person, as long as I go to Xixiang with Jie Sentinel and come back, let alone a half-camp person, even a battalion of people can be gathered!" ”

He continued endlessly: "To develop in Taizhou, this is the next policy!" Taizhou certainly has the heroes and heroes we have contacted in the past, but this time the incident leaked, how much strength is left, none of us has the bottom, as long as we enter the Taiping, we will immediately be attacked by the entire Ningshaotai Qing army! ”

Taiping County is the Wenling County of the later generations, belonging to Ningshao Taidao Taizhou Mansion, and Yueqing County belongs to Wenzhou Mansion of Wenzhou Province, he analyzed the benefits of this in detail: "We do not enter Taizhou, then the Qing demon in Taizhou will not turn around to deal with it, don't look at it is only dozens of miles apart, but one belongs to Wen Dao, one belongs to Ningshao Taidao, old and dead do not come and go, Taizhou Mansion is absolutely unwilling to take millet for Wenzhou Mansion in the fire, even if it reacts, it will take a month." ”

Liu Chang said very reasonably, Qu Zhenhan had already put down his wine glass and listened to it stupidly, and said after a while: "Then we won't go to Taizhou, we are still based in Yueqing!" ”

"This is the middle policy, not the best policy!" Liu Chang was unceremoniously: "If you want to achieve immortal hegemony, you must first take the best strategy!" ”

In fact, he didn't know what the best strategy was, but no matter what suggestions Qu Zhenhan put forward, he would say that it was just the middle policy.

Qu Zhenhan really fell into his trap, he stood up, and said respectfully: "I take the best strategy and do it, and I hope that Liu Jian can teach me to achieve a great cause!" ”