Liang Min, who is the leader of the Liangshan Liukou, looked up at the hovering drones, just like the king of Hades who is asking for his life, and all thoughts are gone.

Several small leaders caught Liang Min and asked him to take advantage of the chaos on the battlefield and immediately cross the river to flee for his life.

Liang Min has a bit of the temperament of Li Qingshan, the boss of Liangshan, and he doesn't agree to flee first anyway, leaving behind the Liangshan brothers who are waiting to be slaughtered by the river.

After arguing for a long time, the drone hovering above surprisingly did not continue to throw deadly incendiary bombs, but only circled back and forth above the heads of the crowd, and the sound of propellers seemed to be urging something.

Liang Min came back to his senses first, this was the Ming army surrendering, and the Ming army in front was not trying to kill them all, but urging them to surrender as soon as possible.

He hurriedly took off his coat, ordered several small leaders to tie short knives upside down on his body with thorns, and regardless of the dissuasion of several brothers in life and death, he rushed straight to the Ming army fortifications in front.

Liang Min walked less than five zhang in front of the Ming army's fortifications, and in the face of the Ming army's row of black pressed firearms, he knelt on the ground and shouted, "The culprit is only Liang Min, Liang is willing to let you wait for Ling Chi, divide the body, and just ask to let my Liangshan brothers go." ”

Two sergeants came out of the fortifications in unison, tied him up to death, and brought him in.

Fang Yuan, who was sitting on the chair of the Chinese army's tent, got up and approached, cut off the thorns on Liang Min's body, and laughed and said, "Leader Liang, you are too late!" ”

Liang Min didn't know Fang Yuan either, he just looked at this young general with a somewhat delicate face, and said fearlessly, "The sin is only in Liang Min, the other brothers are all good citizens who are forced by life, I just ask the military master to be kind and forgive them." ”

Fang Yuan smiled, took Liang Min's hand and sat directly on the chair prepared earlier, and asked Jing Jie to send a brocade robe and drape it on his body.

Liang Min didn't know what Fang Yuan was playing, and asked in amazement, "Master Jun, if you want to kill, you will kill, I, Liang Min, am definitely not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, why do you do these things to humiliate me." ”

Fang Yuan saw that the corners of his mouth were so cold that he brought him a cup of hot water and handed it to him, so he said slowly, "Liangshan is really a place where heroes come out, there is Song Jiang in the front, Li Qingshan and Liang Min in the back, all of them are heroes!" ”

Liang Min took a sip of hot water, his body warmed up slightly, and said ashamedly, "Master Jun, are you joking, we are just a group of rogues who are not self-sufficient and sent to the door to find death, where are we heroes?" ”

Fang Yuan said with a smile, "I have long heard that Li Qingshan in Shandong, although he robbed the transportation of the Grand Canal, but he was a heroic man who wanted to imitate the Liangshan Song River back then, counting on the imperial court to recruit peace and serve the country, but he was unexpectedly slandered by the traitor Zhou Yanru and lured to surrender, and Ling Chi was later in the capital. ”

Li Qingshan and other Liangshan Liukou once imitated Song Jiang, and before Zhou Yanru entered Beijing as the first assistant of the cabinet, he gave Zhou Yanru a grand reception, and asked Zhou Yanru to convey to the imperial court the idea of recruiting peace and serving the country.

How do you know that Zhou Yanru is one thing in person and one thing behind his back, when he was a guest in Liangshan, he promised Li Qingshan, but when he returned to the capital, he wantonly slandered him, instigated Chongzhen to lure Li Qingshan down, and escorted him to the capital, where Ling Chi was executed.

Liang Min gritted his teeth with hatred for Zhou Yanru, clenched his fists and said, "Zhou Yanru, this treacherous and unscrupulous old man, old horseman, I don't share the sky with him in Liangshan, and I can't wait to pick his skin and drink his blood." ”

Fang Yuan Zhengrong said, "I also can't wait to put Zhou Yanru, an old horseman, to death, it seems that I and the brothers of Liangshan are like-minded." ”

Liang Min looked at him in amazement and said, "Master Jun, who are you?" ”

Fang Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Liangshan wants to recruit peace in the imperial court, I am willing to recruit you, follow me in the future!" ”

Liang Min looked Fang Yuan up and down and said, "Master Jun, dare to ask the surname Gao?" ”

Fang Yuan reported to him the door, "Fang Yuan." ”

Liang Min suddenly said, "It turned out that Lord Fang was killing the Manchu Tartars in Yanzhou Mansion!" ”

Only then did Fang Yuan know that his reputation for killing fifty Manchu Tartars had already spread among the people of Shandong, "Leader Liang, are you willing to submit to our Fang Yuan?" ”

With Li Qingshan's experience, not only Liang Min, but also the entire Liangshan Liukou, he still had lingering palpitations about returning to the imperial court, and hurriedly refused, "Lord Fang, this, we and the imperial court are already like fire and water, we don't want to be officials of this court, or be a rogue with a high sky and a wide sea, and be free." ”

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "It's Zhou Yanru, an old horseman, who is like fire and water with you!" We could have promised you that one day, we would give Zhou Yanru, the old horseman, to your Liangshan brothers, kill him alive, and avenge Leader Li. If you really don't want to become an official in the court, I will make an alliance with you! ”

Although Liang Min was grateful for Fang Yuan's promise, he was still stunned and said, "Alliance? Shouldn't officers and soldiers and rogues be incompatible? ”

Fang Yuan said again, "Yes, the alliance, the people of Liangshan started by robbing and transporting, and now you still go back to your old job." ”

Liang Min was stunned and asked, "Or is it robbery?" ”

Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "Robbery, that is to cut off the financial route of the imperial court, absolutely unacceptable." But...... It is feasible to rob the merchant ships of the wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and the harvest is abundant, but there is no risk of being wiped out. ”

Liang Min seemed to understand and asked, "What kind of merchant ship of a rich merchant?" ”

Fang Yuan said unhurriedly, "Leader Liang, who is the rich Jiangnan businessman who bought you to snipe at our Yuan?" ”

Liang Min was embarrassed and said, "We Liangshan heroes are righteous and can't betray our employers." ”

Fang Yuan sneered and said, "Leader Liang, do you really think they are employers? They are digging a pit for you Liangshan, and they want to sit back and watch us fight to lose both sides and reap the benefits of the fishermen. Otherwise, with their well-informed, why don't they tell you about our original name? Why didn't I tell you that the merchant ships of the canal were sitting the princes of the current emperor? If Leader Liang really killed the prince by mistake, what kind of crime is it, I don't need to say more! ”

Liang Min trembled suddenly, and finally realized that this time he was fooled by the group of wealthy businessmen of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and completely concealed the origin of Fang Yuan's group. Otherwise, with Liang Min's caution, he would not have come to attack the anti-Qing hero Fang Yuan and the prince of Chongzhen.

He slapped the table and said sharply, "Weng Gongjin of the Dongting Merchant Gang, you deceived me so hard!" Pity my thousands of brothers, just like that, they have become unjustly killed! ”

Fang Yuan secretly thought, it turned out that it was the Dongting Merchant Gang who was making trouble behind his back, and the name of this Dongting Merchant Gang, he had checked when he was doing his homework before, was the big merchant gang in Suzhou, and even in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, which were as famous as the Hui merchants.

The Dongting Merchant Gang was dominated by wealthy merchant families in the south of the Yangtze River such as the Xi family and the Weng family, and almost monopolized the textile, paper, mining, and salt industries in the entire Nanjing area. The goods of the Chamber of Commerce are exported to the whole country and even overseas, monopolizing the economic lifeline industry in Jiangnan, which is exactly what Fang Yuan wants to focus on rectifying in this trip.

Now the leader of the Dongting Merchant Gang is Weng Xiang, the head of the Weng family of Changshu.

"It seems that when I go to Jiangnan this time, the first person I have to deal with is Weng Xiang of this Weng family."

Fang Yuan silently wrote down a note for this Weng Xiang in the small notebook in his heart, and said, "Leader Liang, in the future, you and I will form an alliance, I will be responsible for providing information, you will be responsible for robbery, and the profits will be robbed. ”

Liang Min said hesitantly, "What if the government in Nanjing is alarmed and troops are sent to exterminate it?" ”

Fang Yuan sneered and said, "We were originally the governors of the four prefectures in Nanjing, and without our original order, the Nanjing government would not dare to transfer a single soldier to the north." What's more, with the power of Leader Liang, as long as we don't make a move, will we be afraid of those soft-footed crabs in the arms of the mother in the Nanjing Guard? ”

Liang Min's eyes lit up, Fang Yuan's offer was too tempting, not only was he willing to let them live, but he also proposed a cooperation condition that was irresistible to him.

Not to mention that there is Fang Yuan, the governor of the four prefectures, as the backstage, no one in the officialdom dares to pursue it at all, just thinking that the gang of girls and soldiers in the Jiangnan Guard, how could they be put in his eyes? !

Liang Min stood up and said, "Lord Fang, can you allow me to go back and discuss with the brothers?" ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Of course, if you figure it out, you can come to me at any time, you can go!" ”

Liang Min bowed deeply and thanked him, and just after taking a few steps, Fang Yuan's voice sounded behind him, "Please also bother Leader Liang to clean up the battlefield and remove the bodies of the brothers who died in battle." ”

Liang Min answered and strode out of the military tent.

Jing Jie looked at his departing back and said, "Boss, why didn't you take in these rogues and form an alliance with them?" ”

Fang Yuan looked sideways at him and said, "Third brother, when is the Hongyi cannon the most powerful?" ”

Jing Jie was stunned and said, "When it was launched? ”

Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "It's when the cannon hasn't been fired yet, and the deterrent is the greatest. These Liangshan refugees are the murderous knives in our original hands. As long as they are circulating in Shandong, they can deter Nanjing at any time. If they are co-opted, then what is the deterrent? ”

Jing Jie suddenly said, "It turns out that the boss uses them to eradicate dissidents, but if the rich businessmen in Jiangnan who do not obey the discipline, the boss is inconvenient to make a move, so he will be handed over to Liangshan to slaughter." ”

Fang Yuan laughed and said, "Third child, smart, a little bit is thorough." Now that Huguang, Jiangxi, and Anhui have long been at war, and the trade routes are almost blocked, as long as these people in Liangshan are active in Shandong, they can control the goods transported by the wealthy merchants of Jiangnan to the north. Whoever I want to ship it will be able to do it. ”

Jing Jie asked hesitantly, "If you let them go, what if they don't come back?" ”

"In cooperation with us, there is an umbrella and money to be made; If we do not cooperate with us, there is a danger of destruction at any time. As long as they have a normal mind, they should know how to choose. ”

Fang Yuan said, stretched his waist, and yawned, "Third brother, I'm tired, rest for a while, and the aftermath of the battlefield will be handed over to you." ”

Three days later, Fang Yuan supervised the Liangshan Liukou to clean up the battlefield, and then ordered to continue the southward journey.

After Liang Min consulted with the leaders of Liangshan, he decided to support Fang Yuan's proposal, and the two sides formed an alliance, with Fang Yuan acting as the protective umbrella of the rogue, providing the merchant ships of the wealthy merchants in Jiangnan who needed to be robbed, and the money they robbed, which were divided equally between the two sides.

Liang Min and the other rogues agreed with Fang Yuan on the place and code to deliver the news in the provincial capitals of Shandong, and then led the liukou to withdraw.

With the surrender of the Liangshan Liukou, all the stumbling blocks blocking Fang Yuan's entry into the south of the Yangtze River have been removed, Fang Yuan rented twenty large merchant ships at the canal pass of Yanzhou Mansion, and all the sergeants boarded the ship along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and arrived at the destination ten days later, the seat of Yangzhou Mansion - Jiangdu City.

The fleet slowly sailed into the largest wharf in Jiangdu - Shao Bo Wharf.

After too many twists and turns, Fang Yuan finally arrived at the coveted Nanjing, and the four mansions in Nanjing were the most perfect base in his plan.

Fang Yuan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at Jiangducheng, the first city of Yangzhou Mansion, and couldn't help but say proudly, "Jiangnan, our Fang Yuan has finally arrived!" ”