After Liu Sheng captured Xu Bai and Ying Ming and took advantage of the chaos to return to Yujialing, the Fangla army in the mountains fell into a dilemma of no one to command.

Several generals of the Fang La army suspected the men and horses of Shangyujialing, and gathered nearly 2,000 people to attack, but of course, there was no way to take the strong camp defended by Liu Yuan.

Liu Chengdong didn't know that Xu Bai and Ying Ming were arrested by Liu Sheng, and only heard the news of the chaos of the Fang La army in the mountains. Seeing that there was an opportunity, he mobilized nearly 1,000 men to reinforce Yujialing, and then fought with a small force to press the line of control of the mountain to the west.

Cheng Guan is Li Xiang's confidant and the father of the eldest man of the family, and he is the best "breakthrough" in the minds of some people, and he has received special care. Thanks to Liu Chengdong, who took advantage of the sudden change in the battle situation in the mountains and the frequent deployment of troops, blocked the envoys who came to bring people, and allowed the officials to escape smoothly.

did not hesitate to take the risk of forcing Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang to rebel, but also took advantage of the impending decisive battle to win the two, and the people behind the command had their own thoughtful and profound considerations.

First of all, the corner battlefield where Liu Chengdong is located is too embarrassing, and it is easy to send someone to replace him. As long as the handover goes smoothly, it will not affect the decisive battle that is about to begin. This is also the reason why the people behind it paid a lot of price and insisted on leaving Liu Chengdong in the mountains and forests north of Deqing County.

Secondly, it is precisely because it is a decisive battle that it is more likely to kill Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang. As long as the wood is completed, Yu Yunwen, Han Shizhong and others can only give up Li Xiangweng and his son-in-law in order to "take into account the overall situation" and suppress the controversy and concentrate on the decisive battle.

After all, he is a commander who has commanded thousands of troops and has made great contributions repeatedly, and it is impossible for the people behind him to directly move Liu Chengdong. The plan of the person behind it is to get the exact evidence before he does it to Liu Chengdong.

At present, the children of Zhuang Nei are so angry that they are almost about to mutiny. The other soldiers received a lot of care from Li Xiang, and they were also very angry.

The morale of the army was unstable, and Liu Chengdong's troops lost the opportunity to send troops to occupy a large area of mountains and forests in vain, and all returned to the camp.

Suddenly saw Ding Shihang and handed over Xu Bai according to Li Xiang's top-secret order, Liu Sheng was stunned.

The civil officials, wealthy gentry, and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan bribed some military generals and acted against Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang, and the brothers Liu Yuan and Liu Sheng were clear.

The civil officials wanted to get rid of Li Xiang because Li Xiang's performance in epidemic prevention and disaster relief was too prominent, which made them feel embarrassed. The local forces strongly demanded that they of course go with the flow.

The rich gentry wanted to get rid of Li Xiang because Li Xiang hindered their plan to divide the huge cake. True, the decisive battle has not begun, they have already begun to distribute land, mines, tea plantations, workshops......

The wealthy merchants wanted to get rid of Li Xiang because Li Xiang had harmed their direct interests. They could have dominated the huge market in the war-torn land, and through hoarding, colluding with the government, bribing military generals, etc., they took more than 6 million yuan in profits, but they were all destroyed by Li Xiang's gang!

Getting rid of Liu Chengdong is a habitual process of cutting grass and roots.

As a reward for cooperating with the Jiangnan family, Lord Cai Quan of Bianjing, as well as Huang Liren, who retired to the house, will eat and wipe Mingyuezhuang clean.

The envoy didn't catch the officials, so he wanted to take away some people from Mingyuezhuang, and even wanted to take away Wang Xiaochen and other girls. The children of Zhuang Nei, who knew the secret, disappeared directly into the mountains and forests, and Wang Xiaochen and other girls were protected by wounded soldiers and Zhuang Nei children.

Outside, there are Zhuang Nei's children shouting and scolding. Liu Sheng burned Li Xiang's secret letter, and when he saw that Ding Shihang and others were about to leave with Xu Bai in tow, he couldn't help but ask:

"The owner of the village is hiding next to Han Zhao's envoy, so he is naturally safe. It's just that why did you take Xu Bai away secretly, instead of taking Xu Bai and the others to protect themselves? ”

Xu Bai and Ying Ming, two heads are enough for Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang to tide over this difficulty. However, Li Xiang asked for absolute secrecy, and Liu Sheng did not understand.

Ding Shihang pulled down his mask and said with a wry smile:

"The master didn't elaborate, and I didn't dare to ask more, anyway, the master was really angry."

"The master has written back to the village and asked for two sets of wedding clothes. The two uncles must ensure that no more people know that Xu Bai and Ying Ming have fallen into the hands of their masters. ”

Hearing that Li Xiang was really angry, Liu Sheng, who knew some dark news, shuddered.

Liu Yuan heard that the owner agreed to let his daughter enter the door in a beautiful manner on the wedding day, and said excitedly:

"The old village owner didn't know the news, and it was a late-night surprise attack. Kill all the people who should be killed, the young people in the village are absolutely reliable trained by the owner, and keeping secrets is not a problem! ”

Ding Shihang pulled on his mask, made a junior salute, and led people to leave from the trail.

"Why arrest people indiscriminately! We waited for the soldiers to work hard and were injured more than a dozen times......"

"The Buddha's eyes look at each other, and they also bully people. We waited on the front line to kill the enemy, and we were commanded to make the adults sympathetic, but we couldn't stop those birds from having a beak! ”

"Brethren, we owe our wounds to the Girl. Chaos wants to bully these female dolls, if we are soft, we really have no face to see our ancestors. There is that traitor who doesn't do anything, do you promise to do it? ”

"No !!"

At night, the hut smelled musty and hot, mingling with the cries of cicadas, crickets, and frogs, and the hoarse shouts of soldiers.

The people who originally lived in Deqing County were transferred by the government to rush to transport baggage, repair bridges and roads, and dredge waterways because of their good physique. Xiong Chengwen, San Yanzi and Liao Shikai returned to Liu Chengdong and sat on the bamboo chair, their faces very ugly.

The three men clenched their fists, and their snorts were heavy, as if they were about to burst out at any time.

Liu Chengdong looked at the envoy, and a middle-aged man in a brocade robe standing on the right hand side of the envoy, spread his hands and said:

"It is said that the general's son-in-law instructed his subordinates to abuse and sell readers, and he really can't afford it. Without definite evidence, it is impossible for me to ask the children and girls of the villagers to go with you, and have the ability to take people away by themselves. ”

"The generals and colonels above the battalion commander are all in this room, the prisoners are also here, and the soldiers outside have not rushed in. The two of them can't have a clear conscience and say that they will coerce the soldiers, have bad intentions, and disobey military orders! ”

"In the large mountains and forests in the west, Fang La's army suddenly became a mess, which was a rare opportunity to march and save the country a lot of trouble. Now that the fighter plane has been delayed, the general and the prisoner will definitely report it truthfully......"

The envoy who was sent to do dirty work did not dare to answer. Liu Chengdong called the generals and civilian officials in the army over and listened, the sad and angry fighting man was outside, what did he dare to do?

Liao Shikai's idea for Liu Chengdong is really good: let everyone watch, and don't be afraid of any more plots. Let the soldiers stand guard outside the door, so that as long as they want to live, they can't force themselves to come.

The envoy turned his head and glanced at the middle-aged man in the brocade robe, as if he was asking for the opinion of the middle-aged man in the brocade robe.

The middle-aged man in the brocade robe had to admit that Liu Chengdong's response was very sophisticated and sleek. It is not advisable to take Liu Chengdong directly, his mission can be regarded as a failure, and he can only hope to catch Li Xiang. It's a pity that the eldest family was robbed, otherwise where would it be so troublesome.

The envoy righteously accused Liu Chengdong and walked away.

Listening to the ridicule and abuse of the soldiers behind him, the middle-aged man in the brocade robe smiled gloomily: Do you think that the gentry in Jiangnan have such energy? Offending so many people and wanting to get out of the whole body, dreaming!

In order to make money to make up for the shortfall, but mainly to save people, Li Xiang could only take advantage of the temporary collapse of the Jiangnan power network to work hard to open up the market.

Li Xiang cooperated with front-line warriors, local large households, and dental brokers, and also "abducted" a large number of businessmen to go south, creating a new situation.

Yu Yunwen, a powerful minister of the national court, borrowed the momentum created by Li Xiang to completely mess up the Jiangnan market, allowing outsiders to obtain a lot of benefits.

The dynasty benefited, but there were more people who hated Li Xiang.

In order to ease the relationship with the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan and protect Li Xiang by the way, Yu Yunwen made some compromises, such as acquiescing in others to suppress Liu Chengdong. To some extent, Liu Chengdong fell victim to the exchange of interests.

Jiangnan industrial and commercial forces can't put Yu Yunwen how. They wanted to teach outsiders a bloody lesson and look for a breakthrough to change the situation, so they naturally aimed at the "initiator", that is, Li Xiangweng and his son-in-law.

So a very well-known shopkeeper in Jiangnan accepted a high-priced offer from a married man. He gave an idea to the eldest man of the family, saying that it would definitely make a lot of money to transport the literate and hyphenated people back to Mingyueji.

The shopkeeper took a part-time job as a "fine worker", instigated the porter and the crew to tie up the scholar, and sent the eldest man into the hands of the official who had been waiting on the shore for a long time.

The above is far from enough, and the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan have also joined forces. These people's energy is too strong, and they use preferential cooperation to attract the big merchants of Mingyueji to defect, coerce and lure the fleet at the mouth of the Danjiang River to alienate Li Xiang, and try to minimize the target.

After the periphery was cleared, the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan finally showed their fangs.

At the same time, some people arrested Li Xiang, and some people came to Liu Chengdong. As long as Li Xiang, the officials and some young people are arrested, all kinds of secrets of Mingyuezhuang are involved, and all kinds of crimes are prepared, Li Xiang can be directly killed.

The plan is simple and practical, and it is very vicious.

As for how much Li Xiang paid to save more lives, and how much blood Liu Chengdong shed to kill the enemy on the front line, the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan didn't care at all, and maybe they would laugh at it in their hearts.

Think that if you have dedicated ten measures to prevent the epidemic and saved countless people, it will not be easy to move you? Naive!

No reason is needed. Whoever offends the children of the saints deserves to die!

I don't know how much money there is, I don't know how much land there is, and I don't know how much energy the Jiangnan industrial and commercial forces are not God after all, and there will always be times when they miss.

Li Xiang received warnings from Han Shizhong and Zhang Tianlei, and directly came to "abscond in fear of crime". Da Zhou's various cats are greasy and dirty, Li Xiang knows a little bit, he doesn't want to "die of a violent illness".

didn't catch Li Xiang, didn't catch the officials, and didn't catch the young people in Mingyuezhuang.

Just because there is no evidence doesn't mean those people have failed. The second step of the plan was launched, and they planned to use their huge influence and financial resources to forcibly make Yu Yunwen and Han Shizhong bow their heads.

On the night of May 18, on the south bank of the Qiantang River.

There were several civil officials sitting in front of Yu Yunwen. A light wind crosses, and the hat wings shake gently.

"It's really painstaking, and even the official has taken advantage of it." Yu Yunwen put down a few documents, of course, there were all kinds of non-existent crimes of Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong, as well as the shocking secrets that Mingyuezhuang might have, "I thought that Liu Chengdong was pressed to the corner and could no longer make great contributions, and Wang Gong would ......be satisfied."

"It's a trick, it's a good trick!"

The people sitting below were all local officials of the fifth and sixth grades, and they did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Lord Yu. Yu Yunwen sarcastically mocked the patriarch of the Wang clan in Jiangnan, but they had to pretend that they didn't hear it.

Yu Yunwen threw the paperwork into the brazier, threw a silver medal urgent report to the ground, and shouted:

"Li Xiang ran well. Don't you run, stay and wait for death?! ”

In a word, it is equivalent to exempting Li Xiang from the charge of abandoning his duties and absconding without a trace.

"Just because it hurt the interests and face of the people in Jiangnan, the gentry in Jiangnan disregarded the plans of the country and the dynasty and forcibly killed the general at this juncture? Fang La is still in Hangzhou City dozens of miles away, so it's good! ”

The implication is that don't talk about the plausible charges that are fabricated and framed. Open the sunroof directly and say something bright!

"I don't want to lose face at all! Hundreds of miles apart, do they all have clairvoyance and ears? In one day, several places started at the same time, and the criminal officer in Jiangnan was really scary! ”

In order to ensure that people can't escape, there is almost no interval from the arrest of Cheng Jia Lang to the arrest of Li Xiang and Cheng Officials. In this age of using human ships to deliver messages, it is simply ridiculous.

"Do you want to know why this official revealed the news and let Li Xiang escape to General Han? It was written in the urgent report that Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi of Jingnan Road had captured Zaoyang, and at this time they might have eroded half of Jingnan Road. The place where the dynasty is going to rush, in case there is a bad pool in the Xiangyang passage......"

The Nanyang Basin is located in the middle of the Great Zhou Dynasty and is a key place between the north and the south. If Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi become the climate, they will make a mess of the Nanyang Basin, that is, the Jingnan Road, and even go south along the Xiangyang Passage and sweep the Jinghu North Road, which is empty of troops, it will be another square La.

"Why is Jingnan Road empty, and is taken by Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi? From time to time, because the soldiers who can fight are fighting for the country in Jiangnan. At this time, if you want to kill Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong on Jingnan Road, do you want to force tens of thousands of warlike troops to mutiny? ! ”

Every creature feels for its kind.

The performance of Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong in Jiangnan is obvious to all, and Weng and his son-in-law have become the representatives of the townspeople who are the heads, flag heads, escort teams, and utility recognition of the soldiers and horses on the Jingnan Road.

Fellows who are rich and can fight, everyone likes them.

The two were really going to be killed, and the tens of thousands of troops drawn from Xiangyang, Nanyang and other places might not mutiny, but it was inevitable that they would clamore to go back to Jingnan Road to fight Wang Liu and Wang Qi.

Yu Yunwen's body shook, held the case table and stood firmly, and waved his hand to let several civil officials sit down. His eyes were moist, and his voice was dry:

"Back then, the Liao State was fierce, and the army reached Danzhou on the north bank of the Yellow River."

"The soldiers are in danger, Bianjing is in danger, and the people north of the Yellow River are slaughtered."

"Swords and guns are coming, the clan is not protected, and the gentry have almost no defectors. Cangzhou has become a white land, and the people, merchants and gentry would rather die than surrender! ”

"The people of the north more than a hundred years ago were still like this, but what about the gentry of the south of the Yangtze River today? How so, how so! ”

All the people present were scholars, and they felt very ashamed and could no longer speak.

Yu Yunwen waved the sleeves of his robe and let several officials take care of themselves. He covered his brows and stood for a long time before he looked up and sighed, and finally came out of his exhaustion.

"It's a pity. Although I don't know why Fang La's army is in chaos, it is indeed a good opportunity to capture a large area of mountains and forests northwest of Hangzhou, and Liu Chengdong is no wonder...... It will cause a lot of trouble in the future, and Jiangnan gentry and businessmen can really cause trouble! ”

"Mengxue who doesn't teach the Four Books and Five Classics? According to the township covenant to control the mountain people's public middle school? Still continue to subdue Qinling villages? It's not a big deal to specialize in tricks...... This disciple of Qingshi has a lot of secrets. ”