After telling Zhen Laoshi and others to focus on the improvement of water conservancy facilities, water intake equipment, and manure fertilizer, Li Yifu came to Houshan again.

First of all, there are several caves used by Old Man Zhang and Liu Zhihe.

Li Yifu, Zhang Wanli, Li Mengkong, Lei Cheng, Carpenter Cao and others put on several layers of masks, and within half an hour of entering the cave, they ran out one by one, holding on to the mountain wall and vomiting. It's horrible inside!

Then there are small stone houses in clusters.

It took nearly two months for Li Yifu's protégés, craftsmen with extremely high salaries, and craftsmen "recruited" from Jiangnan to work together to finally solve the problems of large-scale manufacturing of bearings, gears, and shafts with bronze materials.

Return to Nanshan Fort again.

There is nothing to say at night, it must be to enjoy the endless tenderness of a wife and a concubine. It's busy during the day.

Li Yifu went to the finished drug workshop that further refined the process and adopted the sampling inspection mechanism, adjusted the plan of the vacant land on the south bank of the Xiaohe River that had been leveled, and did not forget to check the progress of various changes in the Qinling armed forces and the Qinling Gongzhong.

The Qinling armed forces have largely completed their adjustments. The brave and combative soldiers had been singled out and formed into "armor and inner dings" to hide in a few key strongholds, and the rest were organized into "village soldiers", "archers" or "native troops". In the process of transferring positions and rewarding meritorious deeds, quartermaster deacons and judge advocate deacons quietly dispersed some of the real power at all levels of command, and did not cause a major backlash.

Qinling Public High School also further clarified the scope of rights and responsibilities of each room, each place and each hall, and once again emphasized the rules and procedures. The status of the public high school meeting was slightly reduced, and only the right to advise was retained, and all major matters could only be decided by the high-level officials of the public middle school and the proprietor.

After a series of changes, Li Yifu reduced his own workload while also strengthening the control of the Qinling armed forces and the Qinling Gongzhong.

Looking at the entire Great Zhou, we will be surprised to find that a semi-independent regime has appeared at the southeastern foot of the Qinling Mountains!

In the orderly busyness, the time soon came to the end of August.

Cheng Yuan and Fang Weiliang led the team back to the mountain pass where the mystery was hidden, and Li Yifu and dozens of henchmen greeted him in front of the mountain pass.

After meeting the proprietor, Cheng Servant and Fang Weiliang stepped forward and whispered to Li Yifu for a while. Li Yifu's eyes narrowed, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and asked Zhang Wanli and other high-level officials to come over and listen.

Fang Weiliang's contribution is not inferior to that of the middle-coordinated officials, but only a few people know, so the people of Qinling only know that Mr. Gongzhong, a member of the Chengguan, has made great contributions in Jiangnan:

The old and new mountain people have passed on the word of mouth, and they all say that because of the relationship between the officials, many families have made a fortune, and I don't know how many Qinling children have died. People who are constantly being urged to return early are most grateful......

The status on the surface is not the same. So the two discussed, mainly because the official said there, and Fang Weiliang added two sentences from time to time.

What Li Yifu attaches so much importance to is a fierce battle between the officials and them on their way back.

Cheng Clerk and others escorted the last batch of famous craftsmen, gold and silver calligraphy and paintings, and formed a fleet of seven ships to return home.

The load is limited, and the best sails are purchased with a lot of money, and the boats are all skillful, so the speed of the fleet is very fast. When they arrived near the confluence of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, they encountered the blockade of the Yangtze River by the government and had to stay on the lake, and were besieged by dozens of ships that night.

I don't know where the giant thieves and water bandits in Poyang Lake got the two Flying Tiger warships, which were flying like flying, and became the most feared ships for Zhang Qingping, who was not good at water warfare.

At that time, Ding Shihang and Zhang Yongnian had just completed their first transaction with "Yuan Donghai", and Zhang Manfan was rushing to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Fortunately, Zhang Qingping, a well-known landlubber, was self-aware, and did not play any formation, but directly ordered other ships to gather in a circle, and he himself took a boat with iron horns on his head to meet the attack.

Zhang Qingping asked the guys who operated the boat to just collide, and whoever wanted to rush in would crash into it. Not only that, after Zhang Qingping, who was facing the crisis, made a tragic and decisive move.

Zhang Qingping asked his subordinates to tie him to the mast and use himself as a fixed arrow platform!

The fighting, screaming and hundreds of torches of course interfered to a certain extent, and the undulating hull of the ship made Zhang Qingping's head drop by half.

But an archer is a sharpshooter, and under so many unfavorable conditions, Zhang Qingping insisted on using a soft bow and matching arrows that took two years to build, specifically shooting at the chest of the water bandit who had no armor.

When he was in a hurry, there were more than a dozen armor-clad insiders on Zhang Qingping's ship, and they didn't even have time to leave their last words, so they jumped into the attacking fireship and fought to the death, so that the fleet successfully survived the crisis.

After a fierce battle for most of the hour, even though Zhang Qingping was surrounded by several arrows and several crossbow arrows, he basically lost his combat power, but the water bandits failed to break through the small circle of less than ten ships. Stepping on crossbows, rockets and throwing spears became the best weapons in armor, and they were aroused by Zhang Qingping's courage and hatred, and they only relied on willpower to support, and they simply blocked the siege of several times the enemy.

The whole process of the engagement was not like a water battle, but more like a land battle.

It was the scattered sand of the water bandits that made the battle stalemate. If you change to a fleet of vans with average combat power, under the same conditions, Zhang Qingping will undoubtedly lose.

Several big and small leaders of Dongting Lake gritted their teeth with hatred, but they couldn't muster their hands to fight to the death.

As soon as the initial madness passed, the unprotected minions saw that the madman who tied himself to the pillar killed and injured more than 40 people in a row, what fighting spirit could he have?

It was useless to stress again and again that the fleet in front of him carried a large amount of gold and silver treasure. It's also the big and small boss and the boss to grab things, and the minions who have subsided don't do the business at a loss, and the most important thing is to save their lives!

Nearly an hour and a half later, the Qinling fleet, which had almost run out of weapons, finally waited for the long-overdue Nankang army fleet. The water bandits in Poyang Lake had no choice but to retreat, and the Nankang army fleet chased ten miles before returning. Cheng Zhi and Fang Weiliang hid armor in their clothes, and strictly ordered the fleet to tighten its formation, and exchanged 800 pieces of gold and silver for the commander of the Nankang army to withdraw his troops.

"Well done. If you two let your guard down at that time, you are likely to be murdered and robbed by that commander. The officials and troops everywhere are calling back, and the Yangtze River is busy all over the Yangtze River, and it is the last chance for the ruthless people to get off the phone. Those people in Jiangnan...... Hehe, it's really ghostly, and the energy is so great! Li Yifu commented with a sneer.

More than twenty people formed a small circle, and it looked like a blind stream meeting. They are all smart people, and the matter is probably quickly pieced together, it is nothing more than the Jiangnan family who has formed a big bond with the proprietor, and instructs a large number of water bandits to attack the great and bright Qinling fleet. The officers and military fleets arrived so late, and obviously had bad intentions, at least they got a lot of inside information.

Zhang Qingping, who was still in Jingzhou City at the moment, mentioned that he shot and injured the leg of a middle-aged man in a brocade robe. The middle-aged man in the brocade robe with a rich face was too incompatible with several other leaders, and Zhang Qingping suspected that it was a liaison sent by some people in Jiangnan, but unfortunately he couldn't get it back.

Zhang Wanli suddenly slapped his forehead, looked at Cheng Jianghai and said, "At the beginning of the month, several big businesses in Jiangnan settled in Mingyueji. As soon as he made a move, he took down the small half of the wooden building left in Wang San's hand, and also inquired openly and secretly about the news of our Nanshan Fort, especially the proprietor, how did it come about? ”

Cheng Jianghai actually wanted to talk about it all the time, but he didn't get the opportunity and was preempted by Zhang Wanli. Instead of being annoyed, he gave a detailed account of the situation.

Li Yifu sighed thoughtfully, nodded and said:

"Those who come are not good, and those who are good do not come."

"The energy of those people must be clear to you, the Huang family is not comparable at all! Since they have killed us at our doorstep, we have to be careful with a hundred things. Don't let Qinling enter the wolf! ”

"The public school has set aside a few people to let those stubborn newcomers dig up the information that they have paid a lot of money for. People who have shops in Xunyang City and Mingyueji should pay attention to inquiring about information, keep secrets, and prevent the other party from infiltrating Qinling. Over there in Mingyueji, it is possible to send someone to break into those businesses......"

After some deliberation, Li Yifu returned to Nanshan Fort with a few hundred people.

Including Zhang Qingping, who had not returned from his wounds, the armor and Neiding, the "village archers" and ordinary sailors who were killed and wounded in the fierce water battle were all given double pensions and rewards according to different ranks.

As the children of the new mountain people charged into battle and fought and shed blood together with the children of the old mountain people in Jiangnan, especially the two Cheng Officials and Fang Weiliang returned to Qinling and sat firmly in the position of Mr. Gongzhong, the new mountain people completely gained a firm foothold in the public middle school and fought against the old mountain people. It has been proven that the best way to achieve equal status is to pay together, regardless of casualties.

Since Liu Chengdong broke the main force of the six kings and the seven kings, at the strong request of Liu Chengdong and Weng and his son-in-law, the general of Jingnan Road, who had caught the "prisoners against the people", pulled most of the prisoners to the mouth of the Danjiang River, instead of directly beheading them.

As Li Yifu expected, the owners of the workshop and the mine kiln immediately reacted when they saw that the people of Nanshan Fort had "bought" a large number of prisoners from generals at all levels, and they were specially used for the most painful, tiring and dangerous work.

By the beginning of August, nearly 100,000 young and strong captives had been forced to sign long-term contracts with brutal conditions, and were dragged away by the gentry merchants of Jingnan Road, Jinghu North Road, and even Sichuan Road, running for different destinies. Nearly seventy percent of the laborers remained along the Han River.

What a cheap and easy to use hard labor! The shopkeepers tasted the sweetness and began to ask for more.

They used various means to seek to the generals and schools at all levels in Suizhou City. Soon, a commander of Nanyang Prefecture rushed to the mountain to fight the remnants of Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi to get more prisoners, but was ambushed by Wang Liuwang Qi, who was about to starve to death, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

Wang Liu, Wang Qi, got some money, food, knives and guns, and regained some vitality.

Liu Chengdong was really speechless to some officials, gentry, generals and merchants. He wrote a letter urging his son-in-law to hurry to Suizhou City if he wanted to get credit!

When the army returned to various places on Jingnan Road, and the money and grain were also distributed, Liu Chengdong could only lead the army into the mountains. At that time, there were more monks and less porridge, and the two sons-in-law who had already made great achievements could only stand aside and watch others take the military exploits that they had captured......