Why Li Qingyuan chose Taihang Mountain as a foothold is because Li Qingyuan feels that Taihang Mountain has more advantages than Shandong, although the saying of this golden horn and silver edge grass belly has been circulating in the rivers and lakes, but Li Qingyuan feels that even if there is a horn for him now, he can't take it.

Although the Qing army is as weak as shit, but eating too much shit can kill people at a glance, although Shandong is also good, but now and for a long time in the future is shit everywhere.

And in terms of terrain, Shandong is easy to be cut after being surrounded, because the Qing army can be blocked on all sides, although the Qing Dynasty is forbidden by sea, but the Qing army has a water division.

But Taihang Mountain is different, it is big enough, and the Loess Plateau in the west, there are large mountains and forests to the west or south, and it is chased in a hurry to wait for the Yellow River to freeze in winter, and even run to Sichuan in one breath.

Another advantage is that there are not many coal and iron mines in Taihang Mountain in Shandong, in this era, Xingtai, Handan, Jiaozuo, Anyang, Changzhi, Linfen and other large and small coal mines are all over the place, and there are many private small coal kilns and small iron factories.

And Shandong Li Qingyuan said that only Laiwu and Zibo have iron, and only with coal and iron can they make muskets, and now the Qing Dynasty rules the whole of China after all, and if you want to fight with a corner of the force, you can only climb the science and technology tree.

Li Qingyuan led the team to enter the Taihang Mountains from near the Purple Mountain and the Red Mountain on the north side of Handan, and after entering the mountain, the troops first repaired in the woods, and Li Qingyuan took Wu Sanniang to a nearby place called Mine Town to have a look.

Li Qingyuan deliberately shaved his hair for this, and now he has become a bald head, and the second girl sewed the braids with a melon skin hat, which is very fine, as long as the hat is not removed, ordinary people can't tell that the braids are fake.

It's just that Wu Sanniang looked at the puffy smile there, and Li Qingyuan, who was angry, rolled his eyes, if it weren't for the form, who would want to shave his head, as for the braids, hehe, Li Qingyuan thinks that as a person who is determined to resist the Qing Dynasty, what does it mean to grow braids?

When I came to the town, because it was a mining-based town, there were a lot of blacksmith shops and grizzled miners here, and I finally found a teahouse, which was also a large group of grizzled miners, but the two didn't mind.

The teahouse is a place used to chat and fart, brag and rest, especially in this small place of teahouse, where the coarse tea leaves are mixed with water, and the two pennies are full.

The two of them found a table and sat down, and then began to listen to the people in the teahouse and gather useful information, most of the miners here talked about the output of the mine, and how much the imperial court had increased.

Every year in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court would issue a similar production index to each mine, requiring these quantities of ore to be handed over at the government's price.

Often, the government's pricing is much lower than the market price, and the local officials and mine supervisors work together to overquote the quota, and the overcharged part is sold at the market price, so both the miners and the mine owners are very exploited.

However, this is not a problem that Li Qingyuan is concerned about now, now he is more concerned about finding a suitable place to stay, and finally waited for more than half an hour, and finally a paragraph of words attracted Li Qingyuan's attention.

"Hey! Have you heard? The only son of the Huang Papi family was tied up by Liu Santiao. ”

"It's not, I heard that Liu Sanjo wants a thousand taels of silver to ransom people, and tomorrow is the deadline, and Huang Paopi can be regarded as retribution this time!"

"Bullshit retribution, after suffering this loss, it is estimated that Huang Peel must have bullied those people in his mine even more, and in the end, it is not Dongshan who loses Xishan to make up for it, but it is still us who suffer."

"It's not like that, if you want me to say it's better for Huang Peel and his son to die on the mountain!"

"How could he die so easily? Haven't you heard people say, 'Good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years.'" ”

Li Qingyuan nodded at Wu Sanniang, paying attention to a few people, and when the group finished drinking tea and chatting, the two followed one, Li Qingyuan stepped forward and patted him and asked, "This fellow, hello, I want to ask you about something." ”

The man turned around and looked at Li Qingyuan a lot, and found that it was a plainly dressed offspring, and nodded: "What are you asking?" ”

"That's the case, one of my cousins was robbed by a person named Liu Santiao while doing business here, my uncle doesn't know whether he is alive or dead now, I want to ask you, where can I contact this Liu Santiao around here." Li Qingyuan pretended to be sad and said.

"Hey! What a wickedness! I can contact Liu Santiao, but he has been active in this area, you can find more people to inquire, maybe someone knows" The middle-aged man sighed first, and then he didn't want to do much, so he refused directly to Li Qingyuan.

"That uncle, can you tell me what kind of mountain bandit this Liu Santiao is? How many people are there? How do you usually behave? Li Qingyuan saw that he was leaving, and hurriedly pulled him and asked.

"What's going on? What can bandits do? Isn't that it? Killing people without blinking, this Liu Santiao is bad, Xing, I mean Xingxu, Xingxu, maybe your uncle is dead. "Middle-aged people don't really want to talk about it.

"So, can you tell me how many of them there are?" Li Qingyuan continued to ask.

"I don't know, I heard that there are seventy or eighty heroes, don't drag me!" The middle-aged man was reluctant to say more, so he broke free from Li Qingyuan and left.

Looking at the middle-aged man who was far away, the corners of Li Qingyuan's mouth curled, just as he thought, such a small group of bandits was his target.

Then the two inquired about the residence of Huang Papi, according to those people, Huang Papi will go up the mountain to ransom people tomorrow, and Li Qingyuan's task today is to find out the location of tomorrow's transaction.

This is not something that Li Qingyuan can do, Wu Sanniang has almost healed the injuries on her body after these days of cultivation, and this operation is a piece of cake for her.

Wu Sanniang came out in less than a stick of incense when she entered the courtyard, and Li Qingyuan asked, "Why are you so fast?" Did you hear about it? ”

"Well, they were discussing this matter in the living room, so it was easy to find out, and they traded in a valley in the west and five miles of Qibugou."

The two returned to the camp overnight, and the place of Qibugou was a canyon only seven steps wide, and the bandits chose this place for fear of bringing people behind the yellow pickpocket, and it was easy to see if there was anyone following a canyon.

There are only seventy or eighty people on the other side, so Li Qingyuan plans to select three hundred people with better skills to quickly solve the battle, after all, everyone has been sleeping in the open for seven or eight days, and they will solve each other tomorrow.

Even if it is a barren mountain and a wild mountain, it is not that you can settle down in a random place, there are local snakes everywhere, and they have their own spheres of influence, you are stationed in other people's spheres of influence, and as soon as the news comes out, the entire Taihang Mountain will know about it.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan chose to kill a small ground snake, hide here for a while, and after training and repairing, he slowly integrated into Taihang Mountain.