At the time of the third watch, the fire of the official army camp in Taoyuan Town was still bright.

The officers and troops marched one after another, unabashedly marching southward, wanting to lay down the heart of the Yongle puppet dynasty in one fell swoop.

The soldier with weapons in his hand and rice grain and salt sauce on his back was worried in his heart, and he didn't understand why he besieged the more than a dozen important towns of Yongle rebels and did not attack it. Unexpectedly, you have to run for more than 100 miles, directly attacking Hangzhou City, which is heavily defended and has no shortage of food and grass?

Those knowledgeable soldiers understood that a decisive battle would definitely be staged under the city of Hangzhou. In case something goes wrong, the 200,000 troops of the national dynasty and hundreds of thousands of people are young and strong, and how much they can escape depends on the ability to anoint the soles of their feet.

With stress, it's best to vent in time.

The pressure on the military is not ordinary. The women and girls who were captured by the military men suffered very hard tonight.

Listening to the screams and pleading from the "laundry camp", there was a dead silence in the improvised camp built by businessmen who had gone deep into the battlefield next to the official camp. The few women in the camp hugged each other tightly, for fear that the soldiers in the official camp would go crazy and break into the merchants' camp and take them away and ravage them.

Chen Jiaxing turned sideways and stood in front of Fang Weiliang's tent and coughed a few times.

Fang Weiliang listened to the screams of the woman when she was molested, and the smug laughter of the military man when he tortured the woman, where could he sleep? At this time, he felt even more that it was a good thing to recruit more women and transport them back to Qinling to marry the mountain people. At least Qinling is under the control of Mingyue Village, and the owner of the village will not sit idly by and watch the woman being bullied.

The lamp was lit, and a figure in a robe appeared on the cloth of the tent. Looking at the movement of the figure, it seems to be pulling back the hair.

The Great Zhou people, regardless of men and women, all tied their hair, which is also one of the symbols of the descendants of Yan and Huang. The conditions were too limited, Fang Weiliang rinsed his mouth with the cooled tea, tied his hair simply, and let Chen Jiaxing come in to speak.

Chen Jiaxing bent down slightly, held the curtain with both hands, and flashed inside. He didn't care about wiping his sweat, panted slightly and said:

"Mr. Fang, the villain has brought a few brothers and has already brought the eldest man of the family."

"I want to see you now, do you think?"

Fang Weiliang quickly took a look at the incident committed by the eldest son of the official, because he was in a bad mood and was a little distracted.

Hearing Chen Jiaxing's question, Fang Weiliang took more than a dozen breaths before he reacted. He jerked his drooping head up and gesticulated:

"Let him come over, after all, it's the son of a clerk."

Like Fang Weiliang, the officials are not treated by the villagers, but they are very valued by the owners. Although Fang Weiliang's performance in Jiangnan is more brilliant, the officials are not much different.

At this time, the official was in Jiangnan, running errands beside the owner, and Fang Weiliang certainly had to take care of his sons and nephews.

Chen Jiaxing got out of the tent, whispered a few words in the ear of a slender young man, and returned to the tent with the teapot. Seeing that Fang Weiliang's face was yellow, and the bags under his eyes were so low, he said with a little flattery:

"Mr. Fang didn't rest? Are there mosquitoes, or are they too much work, or are they ......"

Fang Weiliang sighed and took the hot tea handed by Chen Jiaxing, "The mosquitoes have just risen, and the mosquito net given to me by the owner of the village, I am not afraid." ”

"? If I am not busy on any day, the owner of the village has never rested, and my little work is nothing. ”

"I just listened to the screams of those women, and I couldn't bear to listen to them, and I couldn't sleep. Seeing that you are so energetic, don't you have a touch in your heart? ”

Chen Jiaxing didn't want to leave a bad feeling for Fang Weiliang, a big man, and immediately explained with a wry smile:

"The tragedy that the villain's family has encountered is much worse than that of the woman in Jiangnan. The villain wanders from place to place, and fights to survive, and there are many evil things that he has seen and done, and there are many evil things that are worse than such things as molesting women......"

Fang Weiliang's hands trembled, thinking to himself, how did you survive until now?

Fortunately, the family Dalang had already approached, and Chen Jiaxing stopped talking in amusement.

The things that Dalang committed when he became a family are very simple to say, that is, he is not clever enough to be serious.

Whenever there were still free places on the ship, they began to recruit women in various places, and the family Dalang originally wanted to do the same. But he suddenly remembered that his father always scolded him for being stupid, and when he thought of his high spirits these days, he shook his wit.

On both sides of the Qinling Mountains and the Han River, where is there just a shortage of women!

There are more and more caravans, firms, and workshops, and there is a huge shortage of stewards, clerks, and accounts, but how can people who can read and write be everywhere like peasant households?

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and he directly put the plan into action. Others were bribing and soliciting women, but he drove the boat around in high spirits, pulled several boatloads of scholars, and was about to return to the Yangtze River.

In broad daylight, the eldest man of the family actually let the scholars with their hands tied behind their backs and the strips of cloth in their mouths wander around on the board of the boat, which is simply digging the ancestral grave of the scholar class.

The scales of the scholarly class were touched. Tie up Tongsheng, Xiucai, and even the pillars of the dynasty with small leather strips, is it tired and crooked to want to rebel? !

The one who controls the world of the Great Zhou is ostensibly the imperial power, but in fact he is a scholar. Poor scholars, children, talents, people, and scholars, this is the growth process of scholars and doctors who flaunt themselves, storytellers praise them, and promote the small people to see them.

It was a great crime for the eldest family to treat the scholars as prisoners of war, prostitutes, and prisoners.

Less than half a day after being discovered, the eldest man of the family was beaten to death by the swarming priests, capital heads and section levels, and was directly dragged away.

Fortunately, Li Xiang's painstaking efforts to create a network of interests played a role. The front-line warriors who didn't want to see Li Xiang suffer a big loss revealed the movements of the prison car of Cheng Jia Dalang and others.

When they came to the village in Jiangnan, as long as they were nearby, they sent good hands. Coupled with the cooperation of Chen Jiaxing, a group of traffickers who regard human life as a mustard, they directly set up an ambush on the route of the prison car traveling overnight, and intercepted the family man and others.

Grab people first, and then there is room for maneuver.

The family was obviously tortured, the bandages on his chest were soaked in blood, and his limbs were fixed with wooden planks. Lying on a stretcher, blood kept gushing out of his mouth.

Fang Weiliang was also startled when he just saw the appearance of the married man. At this time, he held the right hand of the Chengjia Dalang, and leaned over to listen to the intermittent words of the Chengjia Dalang:

"Someone...... For the owner, for us, Mingyue Village...... Come on. ”

"It's not just that, it's official...... Also, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe, ho ho ho...... Ask me about the situation. ”

"I, not stupid, know the hidden ...... There is a village in the village, a spy! ”

The eldest family man fainted in pain.

Fang Weiliang looked as usual, and asked the two young men who were in charge of treating the injuries and applying medicine to come in and carry them away for treatment.

The curtain obscured the figures, and the light wind stopped. Fang Weiliang was the only one left in the tent, and he stumbled and almost fell.

The family and his party were passively punished, what do those people want to know? Who told those people? There are people in the village who eat inside and outside? Who the hell is it?

I thought it was just that the eldest man of the family was not careful and too arrogant, so he was caught by the government and threw more money. Now it seems that the doorway inside is very deep!

Fang Weiliang's body collapsed, but his brain regained clarity. He replaced "tying up readers" with "abusing and scolding and selling readers" to rethink the whole thing, and finally pieced together the prototype of a conspiracy, and also had some speculation about the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Hey, it's for the owner!"

Fang Weiliang broke out in a cold sweat, called Chen Jiaxing in, kept his voice to a minimum, and commanded briefly:

"Coupled with the credit for rescuing the eldest man of the family, the public middle school will definitely stamp the household registration in your hand."

"Go on your own trip, take the token and the best brother, and send a secret letter to the owner. You go down first and pick someone, and then you'll set off in a moment. ”

"If you do this well, I promise that the owner of the village will allow your family to settle down in the village."

Chen Jiaxing trembled with excitement. He knew that there was a situation, so he didn't ask too much, and left quickly to pick someone.

Settling down in Mingyuezhuang means that once the situation changes, the family can flee to the Qinling Mountains for refuge, which is different from settling down on the edge of the Han River. It is also Chen Jiaxing and his group whose reputation is too stinky, and the family can't settle down in the village casually.

Fang Weiliang took more than a dozen deep breaths, put on a relaxed and friendly smile, and invited Wu Xiaoling's family, Carpenter's family, Zhang Wanli's family, Tang Guohao's family, Mingyueji's Wang family, Zhao Bo's family, Na Shusen's family, Zhang Tianlei's family, and Qian Jin'an's housekeeper's account room to the tent.

Cheng Clerk, Wu Xiaoling, Carpenter Cao, and Zhang Wanli, the four firms originally acted together, so they sent people over by the way to report and inquire about some situations. Speaking of which, the big man of the family was able to be snatched out smoothly, thanks to the good hands sent by Wu Shu and Zhang.

Tang Guohao's workshop did not run through the waterway, so he had to follow the above four with a cheeky skin, learn to improve, and make a fortune in business.

The three brothers of the Wang family in Mingyueji were anxious to increase their income, and they also sent people to follow.

The boats of Uncle Zhao and Na Shusen, the two private leaders, are even more amazing, who dares not to help them?

Zhang Tianlei has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with Mingyuezhuang, and Qian Jin'an, a wealthy businessman in Sichuan, recently caught up with Li Xiang. One of these two is not bad, has a wide relationship, has a hard body, and the other is not bad for money, but they are good partners to work with.

Fang Weiliang, as a representative secretly sent by Li Xiang, first followed the routine to see if the fortunes of each family were smooth and whether there were any difficulties.

The matter was urgent, and Fang Weiliang quickly and cleverly shifted the topic to specific issues.

"In the past ten days, I don't know how to do it, and some negotiated businesses would rather lose money than perform the contract. The goods are piled up, and it is inevitable to be reprimanded by the proprietor. ”

The middle-aged steward of the Wu family's firm, that is, Wu Xiaoling's firm, complained.

"Who's to say it isn't. Not only did they break the contract, but as soon as the situation in the west of Taihu Lake was stable, the officials of the yamen began to target the ships and merchants of my Mingyuezhuang, and they were sad many times in May. ”

The housekeeper of Zhang Wanli's family frowned, and his hands were burned by the tea. Zhang Wanli is now the first person in the public middle school, and he is afraid that he will not be able to explain it after he goes back.

"Unreasonable! I don't want to think about how much effort and sweat we have made to settle down west of Taihu Lake so quickly, and the officials and troops can attack in advance. ”

Among the three brothers of the Wang family in Mingyueji, the steward hired by Wang Er was arrogant, and he opened his mouth to talk about how much he had done for Da Zhou, which caused everyone to shake their heads secretly.

The steward of the business under Qian Jin'an's name was about to complain, but he recalled Qian Jin'an's instructions to "follow Mingyuezhuang in everything", and changed his words when he said it:

"I feel that I should report the news since the end of May to Ling Zhuangtou, uh...... Slip of the tongue, don't blame it. Would you like to ask the owner to come up with an idea? ”

The title of the owner has been weak in the Yanhuang land for many years, and Li Xiang himself feels very awkward.

When there is a gate valve, there is a village owner, a village owner, and a castle owner, representing a more thorough personal dependence relationship. And it was only used in a few places in the early days of the previous dynasty, and even more in a few hundred years.

Many people just heard Li Xiang's title of heroic, and they didn't feel domineering or Li Xiang's bad intentions, but they only felt very embarrassed, awkward, and very dramatic.

The Great Zhou is a state of etiquette, and it is customary to call others their official positions, epigraphs or nicknames.

The problem is here, Li Xiang is just a rich wild man with no official position, and he worshipped a famous Confucian as a teacher but did not get the table word. The nickname is used by scholars and doctors who have made a name for themselves in poetry, scriptures, and writings, and it has nothing to do with Li Xiang, and it has nothing to do with it.

Fortunately, Zhuang Min is witty and sensible, and it is estimated that he is also troublesome, so he directly calls Li Xiang the owner. With the development of Mingyuezhuang, this title gradually spread......

Fang Weiliang didn't care about the Qian family's steward's slip of the tongue, but just quickly wrote down the various difficulties that Mingyuezhuang had suffered in the past half a decade.

After two incense sticks, only Fang Weiliang was left in the tent, and there were more than a dozen teacups with residual warmth. Fang Weiliang quickly summarized the big and small conflicts that occurred, attached his own opinions, and then sealed the letter.

Chen Jiaxing took the letter, wrapped it in oiled paper and oilcloth, and put it in the breast pocket of his middle coat.

Without asking a word, Chen Jiaxing clenched his fists and left, setting off southward in a low-key manner.

"It should be in time. The owner is working the front line, and those amazing people in Jiangnan won't go too far, right? ”

Fang Weiliang looked at the night sky of Qiming and muttered nervously.