With Anji County as the center, the war in the Anji Valley has calmed down for the time being.

Li Xiang won the battle beautifully, but was forced to break through; Xu Bai's sneak attack on Anji County failed, and the whole army was almost wiped out; Commander Liang encountered the Fang La army, which could not advance or retreat, and should have realized his dream of counterattack, but was tragically killed by a small soldier.

No one achieved their goals, no one suffered blood losses, and Anji's battle situation was almost exactly the same as before the war. Only more than 3,000 lives were lost in just three hours, showing the cruelty of the corner area south of the Yangtze River.

Xiwang Temple is backed by Jinlong Mountain, facing the lake in the east, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the location is very unique. To the south, you can go directly to Anji County by waterway, and to the east to Huzhou City, where Han Zhao's envoy is located.

Li Xiang arrived at Xiwang Temple three days ago. Two days ago, Ding Shihang and his entourage also arrived here, and the two sides converged.

The thousands of troops that leaked in from the east, plus thousands of "thieves" and more than 10,000 hungry people, roamed among the towns and villages crisscrossed by streams and rivers.

It is not easy for the water town near Xiwangmiao to survive to this day, but it has not been spared after all.

Patches of clothing, small copper coins, houses that have been lived in for decades, ancestral halls that have been worshiped for hundreds of years, and farm tools that have been carefully cared for for many years...... Xiaomin's property is not much, and after being ravaged by Fang Lajun's hometown, it is now truly smooth and slippery.

The house with green bricks and tiles, the granary ready to make a fortune, the garden with fresh grass and trees, and the exquisite garden for the gathering of scholars...... The gentry class, especially the scholars who stood at the top of the times, whose proud lives were ruined, finally realized the feelings of the gentry who were beaten to the pain of their feet by Fang La.

The new offensive of the Yongle Dynasty angered almost everyone.

When he came to Xiwang Temple, he didn't rest for more than a day, and the Mingyue Zhuang Ding led by Li Xiang participated in the battle to defend Xiwang Temple under the pleading request of more than a dozen headhunters, squires, wealthy households, big security chiefs, and lieutenant chiefs.

The young and strong people who accompanied the army and the crying and crying homeless people did not put any pressure on the village soldiers, large families and officials who gathered in Xiwangmiao, but most of the men guarding the wall were shaking their hands and weak hearts. After the chaotic times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, after nearly two hundred years of Confucianism, not many people were able to kill people calmly.

Even if the killing is only for self-preservation.

Then the Fangla army of several hundred people came to a surprise attack, and was directly killed by one hundred and twenty Mingyue Zhuang Zhuang Ding and scattered and fled.

"Phew, coward!" A Zhuang Ding, who witnessed the death of his neighbor in battle, pursued two miles and spat at the galloping Fang Lajun. If it weren't for the sound of drums and trumpets to collect the troops, this fierce middle-aged man might not have been able to continue the pursuit for a long time.

Time comes to the moment.

"Well, that's good. After all, there are thousands of people on the other side, and it is the right thing to evacuate in time. After listening to Ding Shihang's detailed battle process, Li Xiang nodded with a smile, "You have grown a lot, if you were two years ago, your brain rushed up as soon as it was hot." ”

Ding Shihang looked like he was slashing and killing when he was fighting, but in front of the owner of the village, he was like a schoolboy, he scratched his head with his bandaged right hand, "After all, we are the protégés of the master, and we can't be too ashamed if we can't compare to the two brothers Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan." ”

On the way to Jiangnan, Ding Shihang and other young people followed Li Xiang and confirmed the knowledge of troop transfer and grain transportation that they learned in Zhuangnei. After arriving in Jiangnan, Ding Shihang and others learned more knowledge in the exchanges and discussions with Li Xiang, Yang Yingdong and others, as well as the new ideas put forward by the owner.

In a few actual battles, Ding Shihang and others have made great progress, and Ding Shihang himself finally got rid of his frizziness.

Fang Weiliang knocked on the door and window.

Li Xiang retracted his thoughts and looked at Ding Shihang's young people, "The owner of this village will not give another order." While you are recuperating from your injuries, you must urge all the chiefs and brand heads to write a summary of the battlefield, and then hand it over to the radar. ”

"Command!" Ding Shihang and the others beat their chests with their right fists and walked out of the room.

As soon as Fang Weiliang sat down, he heard the owner of the village ask with a smile: "This is just to repel the arrogant Fang Lajun, some people are not honest, what do they mean?" ”

In the context of the frantic march of the Yongle Dynasty, Xiwangmiao ensured its own safety with less than 500 township soldiers, officials and members of the regiment, and also harvested hundreds of heads of the Fangla army, which was particularly eye-catching.

A little red in the green bushes, of course, such a feats have huge rewards, and the rulers like this kind of righteous act of resisting the rebels and serving the emperor Zhou the most. The people rose up against the Fang La army, which further strengthened the orthodox nature of the Great Zhou Dynasty and fully exposed the anti-thief nature of the Yongle Dynasty.

The township soldiers of Mingyuezhuang naturally became an embarrassment for the local forces. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Fang La's army was defeated by the "township soldiers" led by Li Xiang, and the head of Fang La's army was also pursued by Li Xiang's men.

However, Li Xiang was still a celebrity in front of Han Zhao's envoy, and the scholars, county lieutenants, head catchers, and security chiefs who gathered in Xiwang Temple did not dare to press too much, so they had to work Fang Weiliang, and wanted to share more credit.

Even a casual little credit can benefit those people a lot.

Fang Weiliang drank with the local local snakes until midnight, and only rested for less than an hour, and then began to sort out the information so as to deal with the inquiries of the owner.

"The owner of the village is wise, and he has expected the faces of these people in the morning." Fang Weiliang had thick dark circles under his eyes, and the bags under his eyes almost hung down to his nostrils, looking very happy. He said with a strong spirit: "I want to make more achievements." These people are too shameless, they actually put their military exploits on the juniors who did not participate in the war, and the warriors who are desperately working on the earthen wall are not chilling? ”

Li Xiang raised his eyebrows. Fang Weiliang, who was cunning and miserly, was actually full of a sense of justice, which surprised him very much.

"Brother Fang has been in the business for nearly twenty years, and he shouldn't know what those people are doing. Those people are not so shameless, and the warriors who have been deprived of their exploits will not necessarily be chilled. "There are only a few people who dare to intervene when the owner of the village is deliberating, and Old Man Zhang is one of them.

Old man Zhang took the radar, didn't ask to see him, didn't knock on the door frame, and strode in directly, a bit of a posture of relying on the old and selling the old.

Li Xiang was not angry at all. Liu Zhihe, Zhang Laotou, Zhen Laoshi and other Zhuang people who have outstanding contributions, special talents, and old qualifications, he has always treated them leniently. After all, these people don't seek power, and they are the kind of people he values the most.

Fang Weiliang saw that Old Man Zhang's actions were so rude, and the owner of the village also warmly greeted the tea, and his understanding of some people in the village deepened in his heart. The owner of the village naturally made the act of "Corporal Lixian", and this demeanor also made him admire it very much.

"It turned out to be Brother Zhang, dare to ask why Brother Zhang said this?" Fang Weiliang's position in the village was not yet stable, so he didn't dare to hold it up in front of Old Man Zhang, so he asked politely.

Old man Zhang, who was full of blood, drank a few sips of hot tea, calmed down a few breaths, looked at Fang Weiliang's black eyes, and elaborated on his experience, "There is no foundation for fighting desperately at the wall, and when the merits of this battle are subdivided, the benefits they get are limited. ”

"Since a hundred years ago, the Great Zhou Dynasty has been rumored that good iron does not hit nails, and good men are not soldiers. The rich households, the lizheng, the chief of the security, the scribes, and the famous lords are different, after all, they know a lot of people in the official government. ”

"It is inevitable to go further by relying on the court's reward, maybe there will be a few more in-stream officials, of course they have to work the owner. As for those desperate killers? Give the credit to the big families, they will earn a lot more than the court's reward, and they don't have to offend the big masters, they may be very happy. ”

Jiang is still old and spicy, and Old Man Zhang broke the reality with one sentence, and he deserves to be from a scholar's family.

The Great Zhou Dynasty took the imperial examination as the foundation of the dynasty, but there were also a small number of favored officials, self-recommended officials, and recommended officials. Those who have meritorious service have a special advantage when competing for a small number of non-imperial examination official positions.

For a moment no one spoke. Although Li Xiang is the owner of the village, he is a young man with ideals after all, and he is not used to such things, but he is helpless. Radar, who is not yet twenty years old, is not angry in his chest, but he doesn't dare to say much, he is not an old qualification like Old Man Zhang, and he does not dare to be presumptuous in front of the owner.

The world is not worth it.

Fang Weiliang broke the silence, and he thanked Old Man Zhang seriously, "I've been taught." Then he made a shallow bow to Li Xiang, "Confined to the previous knowledge, if you don't understand the specific situation, you will make comments in vain, and you will lose your words." ”

Only rested for an hour and a half every day, and the old man Zhang, who was so busy that he was crazy, held his eyelids and nodded politely.

The owner of the village began to think about a question: Is there the same problem in Mingyue Village, now is not the time to buy and sell war exploits!

No clue. Hearing Fang Weiliang's apology, the owner waved his hand to sit down, and sighed, "It's not just you, but the owner of the village doesn't know these either." In the future, we must learn a lesson, and when we go to a new place and see a new situation, we must not be afraid of trouble, but we must visit more often, inquire clearly about the details and the interests of many parties, and then talk about other things. ”

"On the issue of war exploits, the opinion of the owner of this village is that let's make a step forward, only keep the basic merits of participating in the war, and all the others will be transferred."

"But those people can't be allowed to take advantage. The owner of the village decided to take the Xiwang Temple as the rear. The establishment of workshops, the recruitment of craftsmen, the construction of warehouses and other matters all require the cooperation of local forces, so that those people can exchange land and labor. Of course, it's okay to work together to make a fortune......"

In order to quickly advance the next step, Li Xiang decided to take the opportunity of reporting his military exploits to win over the big families near the Xiwang Temple and reduce some troubles and conflicts that he might encounter in the future.

After carefully thinking about the owner's thinking in Jiangnan, Fang Weiliang was simply amazed by Li Xiang's improvisation and shooting of the case.

After basically determining the bottom line of the owner, Fang Weiliang went back to the room to rest, ready to show his skills in the negotiation process at night. Don't let the dozen or so families who want to share the war exploits be painful and beautiful, and they can't stop, how can they show his ability?

After Fang Weiliang retired, the owner turned his head to look at Old Man Zhang, but found that the old man had fallen asleep......