"Li Xiang is just a strong ear among the people, why do you think he is qualified to negotiate with my Yongle Dynasty on an equal footing?"

Fang Fei looked at Fang Weiliang, who had rinsed his mouth and tidied up his clothes, and said expressionlessly.

"Our village owner took over the impoverished Mingyue Village from the old village owner, and in less than a year, the villagers got rid of hunger. After Zhao'an, the owner of the village prepared to build the Mingyue Market to attract merchants from all over the world, and there were many workshops on both sides of the Han River, and the beneficiaries were ......"

"Stir up the wind and rain in Jiangnan and grab food from the hands of the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan. Just saying that I can ignore the blockade of the army and the inspection of officials in broad daylight, and send tens of thousands of catties of coarse salt to the Yongle Dynasty at one time, it is enough to prove the weight of my village owner. ”

Fang Weiliang spoke eloquently, focusing on the confrontation between Li Xiang and the Jiangnan gentry, and Li Xiang's ability to provide a large number of scarce materials for the Yongle Dynasty.

When he first came to Hangzhou City, Fang Weiliang was beaten to death and almost betrayed Li Xiang. But he gritted his teeth and persevered for a while, and the torture soon passed.

Although Fang Weiliang's whole body was in unbearable pain, his brain was even better. He didn't think that it was because of his hard bones that he survived, and he thought in his heart that Yongle Chao should not be able to refuse the salt and medicinal materials that the lord of the village could provide, and he was afraid that a mistake would kill him, so he showed mercy?

Only half right.

The main reason why Fang Weiliang was not severely tortured was that the guards of the owner of the village who followed him to Hangzhou City were severely tortured, but they did not say a word. Fang Fei and the others felt that Fang Weiliang's physique was too weak, and they were afraid that they would be killed at once, so they thought for a moment before letting Fang Weiliang pass the test in a fool's way.

It was dim near the main seat where Fang La was sitting, and he couldn't see his figure from a little distance.

In addition to arranging to defend the city in the past few days, Fang La also has to take into account the situation on other battlefields. Huang Ai, who was stationed in Deqing County, reported that Dusongguan was slaughtered, Xu Bai and Ying Ming were missing, and the mountains and forests were in chaos, which really scared Fang La.

Fortunately, Huang Ai's second urgent report was sent quickly, saying that there seemed to be something wrong with Liu Chengdong's department of the Great Zhou Army, which caused the army to have no fighting spirit and retreated hastily. Fortunately, there was a problem within the Great Zhou Army, otherwise there would definitely be a big change in the Anji Valley-Mountains-Deqing County Front!

Immediately afterwards, a mysterious person released a message through smuggling channels, saying that he wanted to send someone to meet Fang La in person to "discuss business".

The high-ranking civil and military of the Yongle Dynasty was so busy that smoke was rising above their heads, not wanting to pay attention to such absurd and arrogant requests. However, along with the secret letter, it was Xu Bai and Ying Ming's personal belongings......

The mysterious figure took out a big deal, and while sending someone over, he directly returned Xu Bai. In addition, tens of thousands of catties of salt and a large number of the hottest finished drugs on the black market were also given as meeting gifts.

Summarizing the information provided by the smugglers and the smugglers, combined with the battlefield situation, Yongle Chao guessed the identity of the mysterious person in less than half a day: Li Xiang!

Liu Chengdong, and his cheap son-in-law Li Xiang. These two are old opponents who are hated by the Yongle Dynasty, and in Hangzhou City, everyone knows and knows about it.

The other party is very trustworthy, and Fang La is also from a strong background, so naturally he can't be cowardly.

After the first offensive and defensive battle, Fang La, who exposed his hole cards in advance, broke through in his heart. The status of the materials that Li Xiang could provide in Fang La's heart skyrocketed, so Fang La, together with more than a dozen of his closest brothers, wanted to hear what Li Xiang meant.

An opponent who can fight is always respected.

Yongle was facing this side, Fang Fei, Shen Shou, Gao Yu, He Conglong and others were sitting in danger, waiting for Fang Weiliang to speak.

In front of him are the "big thief heads" under Fang La, any human head is enough to exchange for a serious official position from the Great Zhou court. While encouraging himself with the thinking of a businessman, Fang Weiliang swallowed his saliva to relieve his tension and talked about Li Xiang's proposal.

Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jade, these things are exchanged for table salt.

This point was not expected by Fang La and others. In fact, most of the people who secretly smuggled with the Yongle Dynasty did this.

Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times. When Yongle rushed forward, he snatched a large number of expensive gadgets, which are now suitable for exchanging scarce materials. The price proposed by Li Xiang is much more generous than that of some people who eat people and don't spit out bones.

Dozens of intact divine arm bows and crossbows, a set of iron parts of a five-sentry cannon and a seven-sentry cannon, a set of bed-bed crossbows, double-bow bed crossbows, and three-bow bed crossbows, as well as several other large ordnance patterns and key components.

Although Fang Fei ridiculed Li Xiang in his heart for his ambition, he did not refuse. There are not a few people who secretly ask for these things, and Li Xiang just asks for the parts to be in good condition, so he can take the scrapped things and put them together.

In exchange, Li Xiang's side will take out a large amount of medicinal materials.

Skilled craftsmen, especially those who make armor, large instruments, and firearms, are what Li Xiang values the most.

Fang Weiliang knew that the Yongle Dynasty would not exchange these people unless they were at the end of their rope. He just put forward the price code first, so that he could have a reference when it came time to trade.

Specially developed for the battlefield, the finished drug encapsulated with a bamboo tube has an average dosage of 70 people for a master. Powders and ointments for the treatment of traumatic and minor injuries are used for an average of 50 people for one master. Porous bandages are low-tech but very easy to use, an average of 100 meters for a master!

Fang La, like everyone else, heard Fang Weiliang's offer for the craftsman, and his heart twitched. Can you make money, you can fight, do some taboo things, and now you buy craftsmen at a high price?

Are the gentry and big officials on Jingnan Road blind? Such a big thief can't see it?!

Seeing that His Majesty was about to speak, Fang Fei and the others stopped whispering.

Fang La slapped the yellow rosewood handrail twice, laughed a few times, revealed his white teeth, and threatened Fang Weiliang:

"Li Xiang is so bold that he actually hid from his father-in-law and wanted to make such a deal with me. The official family of the Great Zhou Dynasty is in Li Xiang's heart, and even if he has a little status, he has no ......."

"In case the news here spreads, those people who want to kill Li Xiang will be overjoyed."

The space in the hall is small.

Even in the middle of the night, Fang Weiliang's forehead was dripping with sweat. He held back the hunger and thirst in his belly, tried his best to keep his mind clear, and said to Fang Lazuo:

"After all, the old village owner is the commander of the Great Zhou. After many years of hard work, some mundane things are naturally not good to bother. ”

"Gold and silver antiques are in Hangzhou City, and business is not done in vain. The owner of the village does not do it, and others do it. ”

"As for the leakage of the rumors and the risk of being captured by the government, the owner of the village has his own considerations. Holding Xu Bai and Ying Ming in his hands, he didn't change his merits, but made a deal with Yongle Chao, who would believe it? ”

"Under is the shopkeeper from the background, because of the greed for the money of the master's family lost the foundation of his life, fortunately the owner of the village took in and gave him generous treatment. Kindness is like a mountain, and even more wives and children are in the hands of the owner of the village, and everyone in the Yongle Dynasty is still exempt from taking out the secret from my mouth. ”

"The lower bones are soft, and I am afraid of pain, so I can't survive the heavy torture. can talk nonsense in the next seven and eight times, who can distinguish the true from the fake? If it falls into the hands of the government, I can't say that I want to take refuge in the Yongle Dynasty to get rich, so I beat a rake to slander the old master, so as to disturb the hearts of the Great Zhou Army. ”

"Take a thousand steps back, even if you sincerely surrender to the Yongle Dynasty, who will believe the confession of such a discredited person as me?"

Fang Fei, who boasted of being thick-skinned, was dwarfed in front of Fang Weiliang. Five hundred years ago, it was the one who was in the family, and he really dared to say it!

Fang Weiliang is shameless enough. But Fang Fei had to admit that what Fang Weiliang said was very reasonable......

"Take it down to a clean place, give some clean food, and take care of it."

He Conglong saw Fang La and waved his hand and said to several pro-army soldiers.

Fang Weiliang, who was so hungry that he couldn't support it, was almost dragged away by two armored pro-soldiers.

A few large sticks of wax illuminated the hall.

Fang La looked up at the exquisite ceiling, sighed after a long time, and said:

"Liu Chengdong took thousands of people and nailed them to my Yongle waist for several months. Li Xiang was even more amazing, and led hundreds of people to confuse Qilin'er and successfully rescued Liu Chengdong. The combat power of his subordinates is so strong that they can sneak attack Dusong Pass, which is difficult for 10,000 people to defeat! ”

"Li Xiang is really not an ordinary hero, there are rich people who have means, and they don't lose their hands. In Jiangnan, he fought against those rich gentry and giants, and he was able to get out of the way! ”

"This Weng and his son-in-law are leaving Jiangnan. You might as well trade a handful, coarse salt and medicinal herbs are deadly things! ”

Half an hour later, somewhere in the southeast corner of Hangzhou, a carrier pigeon flew out of the backyard of a large mansion.

"Whoosh!"

The arrows broke through the air, and the carrier pigeon was shot into a hedgehog.

The mansion was surrounded, and Fang La's army, who were all in armor, quickly broke the resistance and blocked those who wanted to escape in the tunnels.

Fang La's two sons looked at the tall and fierce man with a meaty face and a little fat, and mocked:

"Sure enough, I found a big fish. The twelve gods of Jiangnan are one less god. ”

"Is it because you only care about spending time and drinking, you have been defeated repeatedly, you have lost your military power, and now you are going to betray my father?!"

The tall and fierce man was firmly tied by a rope, and while struggling, he forcibly explained:

"I'm not doing it for my own self-interest. How many soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty did Li Xiang and his son-in-law kill me, how can they make a deal with them?! ”

"Isn't Li Xiang someone powerful? Spreading the news and forcing him to rebel will increase my chances of winning the Yongle Dynasty! ”

After half a stick of incense.

Fang La's two sons gritted their teeth and looked at the two secret letters in their hands, their eyes wanting to breathe fire.

The two secret letters are the best evidence that the tall and fierce man secretly took refuge with several gentry. It can be seen from between the lines that the tall and fierce man actually passed on the deployment in Hangzhou, especially the information about which city gates were blocked, so that the Great Zhou army specialized in attacking the city gates that were not blocked. Fortunately, it was a sudden arrest, otherwise these two letters would have been burned.

"Torture, you must ask the truth!"

In the city of Hangzhou, cracks appeared in people's hearts.

In the second half of the night, Fang Weiliang, who was full of food and drink, was received by Fang La alone, and went to the back garden with a full burp.

On 20 May, the Great Zhou army finally transported most of the ordnance to the city of Hangzhou under the condition of ensuring the safety of the road.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yu vowed to once again suppress the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Fang La army, completely squeeze out all the cards of the Fang La army, and mobilize 41,000 troops to attack the city.

Nearly 7,000 Fangla army captives were threatened by swords, guns, bows and crossbows, acting as siege shields and torturing the hearts of the soldiers at the head of the city.

Fang La's hole cards were left for use at the height of the fighting, and he was forced to reveal all of them on the second day of the official battle.

The first stupid and bold multi-person crossbows, similar to the big yellow crossbows of the Han Dynasty, were put into use, allowing the Jin Gui Dangzhang Crossbow and the Divine Arm Bow to be rotated.

More bed-to-bed crossbows, double-bowed bed crossbows, and three-bow bed crossbows were arranged in enemy platforms, arrow towers, and gate towers. Along with this, more firearms such as gunpowder jars, bamboo tube gunpowder, gunpowder rattan balls, and tribulus fireballs began to wield.

A large number of improvised trebuchets, three-sentry guns, and five-sentry guns lined up on the inside of the city walls, throwing stones and bricks out of the city. While tens of thousands of young men and women of the Yongle Dynasty brought a large number of casualties to the Great Zhou army, it also delayed the attack of the Great Zhou army's foot soldiers, and also destroyed dozens of ladders, cave house cars, and nest cars......

In the afternoon, Li Xiang glanced back at the city of Hangzhou, where the bloody battle began, and went to Jiankang with more than 600 people. All the straight archers accompanied him and returned to the Jingnan Road to join the battle.

Li Xiang has cultivated straight archers with all his might, and the average pulling force is about eighty catties.

Standing under the city, the straight archers shot at the city wall that was more than ten meters long, losing the characteristic of falling from the sky, leaving little power and no great use. Because it is a battle in formation, it is also very easy to be taken advantage of by trebuchets.

Someone wanted to keep Li Xiang's subordinates in Jiangnan so that they could handle it in the future, but they were blocked back by Han Shizhong. Only then was the straight archers able to accompany them and return to Jingnan Road.

Li Xiang received Fang Weiliang's first reply. He was sure that Fang La had the intention to make a private deal, but he couldn't see Fang La's attitude towards Li Xiang's other proposal.

"The ocean has a lot of opportunities and wealth."

"I hope you can leave Da Zhou and open up a new space, instead of running into the mountains and being killed like Fang La in another time and space."