Liu Changshi, the garrison of Taiyuan City, wandered back and forth in the courtyard, never making up his mind. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He is the defender of Taiyuan City, responsible for half of Taiyuan's city defense. Although this city defense is only a garrison, it is also a position that various Jin merchants compete for. Because the garrison can directly deal with the city defense matters, the big and small affairs in Taiyuan City have the right to speak, although the official is not big, it is a position with some power.

The Jin merchants in the city would give this garrison some benefits from time to time to facilitate their work in the city.

In Taiyuan, the influence of the eight Jin merchants is very great. Because the Jin merchants had to pass through the outpost camps to smuggle goods, in fact, the Jin merchants took care of the generals in Shanxi Town. The Jin merchants not only went on the offensive through money, but also extensively married generals from all over the world, and over the decades, the official and merchant families all became their own people.

Therefore, yesterday, the soldiers and horses of Shanxi Town poured out to fight against the Tiger Ben Army -- this year, the soldiers are in chaos, and whoever has the big fist is justified. If the united local generals of Shanxi defeated the Tiger Army, the Son of Heaven estimated that he would only be able to deal with the matter of copying the Jin merchants.

However, the soldiers and horses of Shanxi Town were defeated yesterday, and Li Zhi's Tiger Ben army surrounded Taiyuan City last night, which made Liu Changshi panic.

Last night, Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Taiyuan, found Liu Changshi and asked him to open the door and dedicate the city today.

Zhou Yuji said that the era of the Eight Great Jin Merchants has ended, and Shanxi will clean up the source in the future. A large number of military attaches who had defected to the Jin merchants were to be dismissed. Liu Changshi's personal future depends on whether Liu Changshi can abandon the darkness and surrender to Li Zhi's soldiers and horses this time to donate Taiyuan City.

Liu Changshi hesitated.

Liu Changshi's official position was not earned by himself. At the beginning, he was just a defensive officer of the guard, in order to become this garrison, he married the grandniece of Fan Yongdou of the Jiexiu Fan family, and he took refuge in the Fan family, the head of the eight Jin merchants, so he became this official.

Liu Changshi was hesitating there, but saw his wife Fan Youzhu dragging his concubine Xi'er out of the room! Fan Youzhu is very strong, it is common to insult Liu Changshi's concubine on weekdays, and at this time she began to torture Xi'er again.

The obese Fan Youzhu had a lot of strength, she dragged Xi'er's hair, and dragged the concubine on the ground to cry wolf and cry.

"I'll kill you vixen!"

However, at this time, it is different from the past, the Fan family is already a tree that wants to fall, and Fan Youzhu is no longer the woman of the Fan family that Liu Changshi fears. Liu Changshi only felt that his head was hot, and he strode forward.

"Fan Youzhu, you let go of my Xi'er!"

Fan Youzhu was stunned when he heard Liu Changshi call him by his name: "Liu Changshi, what do you call me?" ”

Liu Changshi scolded loudly: "Vixen! I tell you to let go of Xi'er! ”

Fan Youzhu pulled Xi'er's hair hard, and screamed in pain from the concubine of the Zhou family on the ground. Fan Youzhu roared loudly: "Liu Changshi, you used to call me Zhu'er, okay, now you see that Tianjin people have come to copy my Fan family, so you call me Fan Youzhu?" ”

Fan Youzhu's eyes widened, slapped Xi'er in the face, slapped Xi'er in the face, and scolded loudly: "You feel sorry for your vixen?" I'll hit her! I'll beat her to death! I'll let you sleep with her at night! ”

Seeing Fan Youzhu splashing, Liu Changshi only felt that his blood was surging up his head. He changed his old bag, rushed up and kicked Fan Youzhu in the stomach. The force of that kick was really a bit big, and Fan Youzhu was kicked out and rolled on the ground three times.

Fan Youzhu moaned on the ground for a long time before slowly getting up. However, it really hurt to be kicked, Fan Youzhu looked at Liu Changshi in disbelief, holding his stomach and not daring to speak.

Liu Changshi scolded loudly: "Fan Youzhu, let me tell you, the eight Jin merchants are over, your Fan family is over, and in the future, Shanxi people will only know the emperor, not the eight Jin merchants." In the past, you rode on my head as a prestige, and you tortured my two concubines to death, and I will slowly settle this account with you! ”

Fan Youzhu suddenly became scared when she heard Liu Changshi's words.

"You're going to divorce me?"

Liu Changshi said a little hideously: "Divorced you? You're beautiful! ”

"I'm telling you, if you dare to play tricks today, I'll beat you to death when I come back!"

Hearing Liu Changshi's words, Fan Youzhu's body trembled, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.

Liu Changshi snorted coldly, walked out of the gate of Liu's house without saying a word, and went to the city tower to open the city gate.

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In the county seat of Jiexiu County, Fan Yongdou, whose beard was white, knelt on the bluestone ground of the Fan family's compound, his face colorless.

Unexpectedly, the county seat of Jiexiu County, which was defended by 5,000 township soldiers, did not hold it for a day in front of the Huben army, and was captured by Li Laosi in only a few hours. The Fan family has been operating in Jiexiu for nearly a New Year, and the deep-walled compound has been repaired. However, the Fan family's mansion was as fragile as if it was made of tofu in front of those Tianjin soldiers armed with grenades.

Li Zhi's troops began to attack Jiexiu County in the morning, and by the afternoon they had already entered the Fan family's mansion and arrested all the hundreds of people in the Fan family.

Li Zhi's raid on the eight Jin merchants this time was almost equivalent to attacking a province in Shanxi. Fan Yongdou originally thought that the eight major Jin merchants had been operating in Xuan, Da, and Shanxi for a hundred years, and they had almost become one with officials from all over the country, and they could mobilize soldiers and horses from all walks of life, at least they could drag him for half a year and a year with Li Zhi in Tianjin.

As long as Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are dragged into the quagmire of Shanxi, Li Zhi will inevitably retreat in the end. Li Zhi had offended the gentry in various places over the years, and if the soldiers and horses of Tianjin were trapped in Shanxi, the local armies of the Ming Dynasty in other places would attack Li Zhi, and even the Manchus might take the opportunity to attack Tianjin, which had weak defenses -- now that the Liaoxi Corridor was in the hands of the Manchus, it was easier for the Manchus to enter the customs from the mountainous area west of Shanhaiguan than before.

However, Fan Yongdou didn't expect Li Zhi's soldiers and horses to be so elite. The general Li Laosi only brought 5,000 people to Jiexiu, but the city was like destroying the withering and decaying. At this time, Fan Yongdou was pressed to the ground and knelt by Li Zhi's soldiers, and he realized that the real trend had gone.

Li Laosi was wearing a striking division commander's uniform, standing at the door of the Fan family's compound with his back hand, looking at the hundreds of people of the Fan family with an indifferent face.

The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army searched in the Fan family's compound for an hour, and an officer ran to Li Laosi: "Division commander, only more than 300,000 taels of goods have been found. ”

Li Laosi frowned when he heard this, he walked straight to Fan Yongdou, kicked down with his leather boots, and kicked this old traitor into a.

"The old thief of the Fan family! Where is the money you make in your dealings with the Tartars hidden? ”

Fan Yongdou was kicked by Li Laosi and was a little out of breath, and his stomach groaned a few times.

Seeing that Fan Yongdou still didn't speak, Li Laosi frowned and said, "Fan Yongdou, the head on your neck will definitely not be saved." However, whether the other men of the Fan family can survive depends on your cooperation. We began to demolish the Fan family's mansion and dig up the silver. If you find out a tael of silver for us to conceal the report, your nephew will not be able to keep it! ”

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou's face suddenly turned pale.

"Sandwich the wall... There are silver bricks in the wall..."