The actual controller of the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, the actual controller of the central part of the Qinling Mountains, and the proprietors of more than 70,000 Qinling mountain people and Qinling natives...... Li Yifu, a powerful man in the Great Zhou Dynasty who had both financial, manpower and military strength, spent a very happy late June.

The staff of the public high school who continued to carry out the reform to meet Li Yifu's plan were busy, but fortunately, they were supported by the new system of rest and salary increase, otherwise it is unknown how many people would have to take long leave.

The staff of Nanshanbao, Mingyueji, and Danjiangkou were very busy, and Fang Weiliang, Chengguan, and others who stayed in Jiangnan were even busier, and their lives were in danger at any time.

The industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan could not squeeze out foreign businessmen, so they used the best trick: co-optation and division.

In order to avoid greater losses, although the industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan gritted their teeth with hatred, they could only allow foreign merchants to take a share of the reconstruction of order in Jiangnan. Among the outsiders on Jingnan Road, the large merchants of Mingyueji, the Danjiangkou fleet, and the merchants of Xiangyang were all co-opted by the industrial and commercial forces in the south of the Yangtze River, and the merchants of Nanshanbao were isolated.

"Can't stop it?" Zhang Qingping, Zhang Yongnian, and Ding Shihang rarely sat together, and they asked the clerk in charge of commercial affairs together.

The clerk nodded. Although the eldest family is close to recovery, he still feels unfulfilled and wants to make more money from Jiangnan.

However, the change in the situation in Jiangnan is irreversible, and I only listen to the officials straightforwardly:

"The proprietor and the old village owner have returned with the children of Qinling. We have no right to speak, and those powerful businessmen on Jingnan Road have been co-opted again...... There is no way, it's time to follow the plan agreed upon by the proprietor and persuade the people of Nanshan Fort to return. ”

"As for those who are not greedy enough and have the idea of luck, and want to hit the tea gardens, paddy fields, lacquer gardens, courtyards, and houses along the Taihu Lake, we can only remind them again. In case you are miserable, or you are squeezed out of everything, you can only consider yourself unlucky! ”

Zhang Qingping and Ding Shihang exhaled. They knew that the public valued the rules the most, and would never compensate even a penny for those who did not obey the advice of the public school, so they decided to remind the acquaintances a few more times to let them withdraw obediently.

Zhang Yongnian frowned, arched his hand and asked: "Our people in Nanshan Fort will not bring back the things that can't be sold, how to deal with these things?" How should Yongle ask for more coarse salt, spirits, lime, and medicines, and what nonsense to heal women and children? ”

Of course, the officials knew that these people sitting on both sides of the cabin were actually responsible for inspecting and supervising themselves on behalf of the proprietor, after all, he was not a serious high-level public. He doesn't need to hide anything, he plans and makes his debut:

"It's very simple, let's kill two birds with one stone."

"Didn't Fang La's side agree to hand over a batch of master craftsmen, famous doctors, and rare books, but the price was extremely high? Let the people of Nanshan Fort and the small and medium-sized merchants of Mingyueji exchange their unsalable goods for those needed by the Yongle Puppet Dynasty and transfer them to us. ”

"We returned north with hard currencies such as coarse salt, cloth, and spirits on our faces, and secretly used these things to negotiate with the Yongle puppet dynasty. As for the price to negotiate, it depends on Fang Weiliang. ”

At the end of June and the beginning of July, Li Yifu inspected workshops, canals, earthen forts, new houses and houses during the day, and developed new postures with Liu Susu or Liu Xiaoci at night. In addition to enjoying the gentleness, the proprietor did not forget to personally cook and develop new dishes, so that the bereaved families of the Qinling mountain people and the lone woman would have more advantages in the food-related industry.

At the same time, Fang Weiliang, who was thousands of miles away, made appropriate concessions in the negotiations with Shen Shou and others of the Yongle puppet dynasty in accordance with the will of Bao Yifu, and the Yongle puppet dynasty also gave a step. The two sides immediately launched a small-scale but extremely high-value smuggling, Li Yifu wanted talent and knowledge, and Fang La wanted materials to rely on......

The line of sight turned to the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, which was also the bridgehead for the attack on the central part of the Qinling Mountains: the Kidnapping Pass.

A semi-permanent camp has been established at the Kidnapping Pass. Two of Li Yifu's protégés, Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan, are checking the training results of the Zhang crossbow team.

After Li Yifu and Liu Chengdong led their troops back, Qinling Shanyong, who was officially renamed as Township Soldiers, Archers and Tujun, was finally equipped with the first batch of 170 stepping crossbows, with a pulling force of more than 50 kilograms. The move marks the biggest breakthrough of the year for the crossbow.

Compared with the straight bow squad, which requires a very high command level, the tactics of the stepping crossbow squad are undoubtedly much simpler. Get closer, shoot the fuck!

I saw ten swordmen and shieldmen and ten spearmen shouting trumpets and approaching the foot of the mountain. With a sharp whistle, the twenty people in front bowed their heads.

Under cover, the ten crossbowmen close to the scarecrow stood and placed their crossbow arrows. Then lay the vertical crossbow flat and pull the trigger......

There was a scream. Except for the two who missed the target, the remaining eight iron crossbow bolts successfully broke the plank behind the scarecrow!

Qin Zhong, who had a cold and handsome face, picked up the conical barb crossbow arrow, carefully measured it for a while, and said two shortcomings, "This thing can't be reused, it's very deformed." ”

"And there is only one kind of crossbow arrow, which is weak in killing and armor-piercing, and it is blind to Jingui's stepping crossbow."

Yang Jianchuan has been calm and peaceful since he was a child, and was teased as a "little old man" by the elders in the mountains. Only in the presence of intimate playmates will he show his innocent and active side.

Yang Jianchuan touched the thick crossbow body, felt the knotting material of the crossbow, and nodded:

"Yes, it's time to write back to Nanshan Fort and ask them to speed up the production of a few crossbow arrows."

"If you want to completely control the central part of the Qinling Mountains, and let Gongzhong send people here to control the mountain people and the native people, you must first suppress the few troops that are ready to move."

"A crescent shovel crossbow bolt that can cut ropes and branches must be there. The opponents in the Qinling Mountains have almost no armor, and cheap crossbow arrows that can be reused are essential, as long as they can kill and injure those who are not wearing armor. In the Qinling Mountains, it is easy to fight with those who are good at drilling ravines, or stepping on the crossbow! ”

There are too many restrictions on the straight bow method. In the face of the resistance of the time, time and time, shuttling guerrillas, Qinling Shan Yong, who lacked archers, could only rely on stepping on the crossbow to suppress the opponent's inferior bow and arrow.

Qin Zhong reluctantly observed the bronze crossbow machine for a while. He knew that the people of Four-Eyed and Radar had worked very hard, and it didn't mean anything if they couldn't make a steel crossbow machine for a while.

However, as long as the steel crossbow machine cannot be produced in large quantities, the tension crossbow that requires a large amount of copper cannot be equipped on a large scale.

The crossbow squad with a clear division of labor and flexible tactics was disbanded. Yang Jianchuan suddenly talked about his father, that is, Yang Yingdong, only to see him shake his head and complain:

"My dad is really ...... Since I was a child, I was taught to be sensible and steady. Who knew that he himself began to jump away, and he also collided with the proprietor in Jiangnan. ”

Qin Zhong naturally heard about Yang Yingdong's matter. He didn't care, put his arm around Yang Jianchuan's shoulders and said, "The proprietor is not to blame, it's the greatest luck, just remind your uncle to pay attention in the future." ”

"Uncle Yang is not easy, since my aunt left...... He pulled you up, and finally married the continuation string, and it is normal for his temperament to jump out. ”

"What should be done with that murderous loud voice."

The loud voice who couldn't come out of the nightmare did a few killings in Qinling, and it wasn't until Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan took over the defense of the Kidnapping Pass that they were detained.

The big voice has a good relationship with the three guys, the big cow and others, and there are even more people who have a bad relationship with these three families. The four-eyed guy is even more of a big-voiced sister-in-law...... Many people pleaded openly and secretly for the loud voice, and Qin Zhong and the others could only throw the problem to Li Yifu, the proprietor.

Li Yifu wanted to give an explanation to the newly naturalized mountain people, but he couldn't let too many old mountain people chill their hearts, so he threw the problem to the judgment court.

Li Mengkong and others were dumbfounded, and they smashed the thin public middle school regulations, and found that the loud voice belonged to the edge ball. So the news came out from the judgment court, so that the people who wanted to save the life of the loud voice either "made up for the merits", or paid a thousand yuan to compensate for their personal interests.

Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan chatted for a while, mainly after the proprietor got married, the people near Nanshan Fort rushed to get married, so that there were a lot of jokes and misunderstandings. Then the new quartermaster deacon and the marshal deacon were welcomed.

Quartermasters and military judges have been there for a long time, almost as soon as Li Yifu took control of real power. For a long time, the small scope of activity and the imperfection of the rules led to the idleness of the quartermaster and the military judge, or to become the average commander.

The situation is different, and now the conditions are initially in place. Li Yifu wants to strengthen his control over the Qinling armed forces, and also to appease the Qinling mountain people and the Qinling natives, both need the quartermaster deacon and the military deacon to control the real power.

It's early July.

Just when Li Yifu was sitting on a strong Dali horse, he staggered towards the Kidnapping Pass. On the battlefield on the south bank of the Qiantang River thousands of miles away, Liu Guangshi and Wang Shixin, who had made a breakthrough, were rapidly marching north, and Yu Yunwen and Zhang Tianlei, who had firmly held the camp on the south bank of the Qiantang River and contained the forces of the Yongle Dynasty, were undergoing the final ordeal.

"Where did you get a bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates, splashing skin and plucking birds, and you still don't put down the swords in your hands?!"

A deputy of the Western Army, who had scars and burns on his face, showed his chest and glared at Chen Jiaxing and his group viciously.

This is a camp for wounded soldiers of the Great Zhou Army near Songjiang City. At this time, the wool rain was sprinkled unhurriedly, and the cries of women and maidens begging for mercy were mixed with the lewd laughter of the soldiers of the Great Zhou army.

Although Chen Jiaxing's subordinates looked strange, to put it simply, they were ugly, but none of them were intimidated, and they took out strange-shaped weapons one after another to confront dozens of officers and soldiers. Among them was a big, one-eyed guy who couldn't wait to burst the rest of his eyeballs.

"Okay, brother Liao, let that Chen Jiaxing come in."

Not far away was a small country landlord's house that had collapsed in half, and from there came the voice of a middle-aged man. It sounds hoarse, but it gives people a sense of stability.

The deputy head shook his head boringly, put down the two-handed knife, raised his chin and said, "You can only go in five, you can't bring a knife!" ”

Chen Jiaxing put on his trademark flattering face, clenched his fists slightly towards the deputy capital, and walked towards the small mansion with crooked mouths, a pair of twin brothers with bad brains, and a bookkeeper in a dirty cloth robe......

"I said, brother, are we really going to let them go?" The terrifying face of the deputy head is even more hideous in the evening sunset. He wiped his knife with a dry cloth and asked the head of the door.

Dutou's surname is Cai, and the deputy Dutou comes from the same army, and the two have been in the Western Army for more than ten years. With a broken rib on his left side, he touched the Jiaozi in the oilcloth bag around his waist, nodded and said:

"Don't always think that if you are a businessman, you have to pay us extra filial piety. We have been going through many years in the north and south, haven't you seen that we rack our brains to extort, and some people don't get more from doing things according to the rules? ”

"Some women who are against the people in Yongle are just selling to this gang and can be caught again, and long-term business is the most important. Throw face aside, bring more Jiaozi back is the right business, let's break the ground in the northwest......"

"And haven't you heard that on the Yangtze River, all the merchants who are protected by the Li Tianwang in the southeast of the Qinling Mountains are all very tough?"

In order to make his wife and children live better in Nanshan Fort, Chen Jiaxing risked the danger to run around the camps of the Great Zhou army behind the battlefield, and sometimes broke into the tug-of-war between the two sides.

Of course, Chen Jiaxing didn't know about Li Yifu's plan, but he only knew that the more women who sent Nanshan Fort in the year of childbirth, the greater his credit. So he gave full play to his "professionalism" and bought the "thief and rebel" woman who was destroyed by the Great Zhou Army at a low price.

The Jiangnan woman who became a military prostitute is not only cheap, but even more rare is that she does not need to be appeased. They wish they could get as far away from hell as possible.

"Big brother, big brother. Just now, a little lady said to me, thank you. ”

With a crooked mouth and half of his crooked rotten teeth, he ran to Chen Jiaxing's side excitedly and said.

The brothers on either side of Chen Jiaxing smiled debauchedly. These heinous thieves in the eyes of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty either slapped their heads crookedly, or pushed their crooked backs, and instigated crooked mouths to deal with the remnants of the flowers.

"We're human traffickers, and we bought them just to sell them to another place, and we actually say thank you? It's a surprise. Chen Jiaxing began to doubt life.

"yes, big, big brother. I feel like I've done it, and I've done a good thing. It's weird, weird......"

The laughter sounded, but Chen Jiaxing frowned in annoyance.