Just when Song Jiang led the main force to leave Suzhou, Fang Fei also realized Song Jiang's intentions, and he did not hesitate, and immediately divided his troops into two routes, ordering Liu Yan to lead 300 soldiers to guard the line of Wujiang in the south to prevent the fleet from retreating to Jiaxing, and he personally led 300 elite soldiers to rush to Wuxi. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time that Song Jiang and Fang La's army were heading north, the beheading on the dock square also reached a climax, and more than 200,000 people crowded more than a dozen nearby streets, although most of them could not see the execution scene, they could all feel the atmosphere of joy and encouragement, and they could also be regarded as witnessing the murder of the heinous Zhu father and son.

The wharf square was crowded with tens of thousands of people, everyone was in high mood, many people had tears in their eyes, bursting out of extremely hateful eyes, on the high execution platform, Zhu Mian's father Zhu Chong, his wife Wang, and nephew Zhu Ping were tied with their hands behind their backs, kneeling on the high platform, their mouths were also blocked, and Zhu Mian's head was also hanging on a wooden pole on the high platform, dripping with blood, and his face was particularly hideous.

The chief official who presided over the execution was Zhizhou Zhao Lin, who shouted loudly to the dense crowd under the stage: "The Son of Heaven only wanted to take the natural stone, and did not disturb the people's heart, but the evil official Zhu Mian deceived the upper and lower levels, and used the stone as an excuse to kill people and seize wealth, and fill his own pockets, his crime was extremely evil, which made the Son of Heaven angry, and specially ordered His Royal Highness King Jia to go south to Suzhou to arrest Zhu Mian into the capital for trial, the Son of Heaven originally wanted to execute Zhu Mian in the capital, in order to set an example of the world, but last night Zhu Mian had committed suicide in fear of crime, and His Royal Highness King Jiawang decided to execute Zhu Mian's family in Suzhou, and sacrificed innocent victims with blood. ”

Zhao Lin pointed to the head on the wooden pole and shouted: "Everyone knows, this is Zhu Mian's head!" ”

The crowd began to boil, and tens of thousands of people raised their arms and shouted, "Kill him, cut them with a thousand knives!" ”

From tens of thousands of people to more than 200,000 people chanting together, the momentum was extremely vast and magnificent, Zhu Chong was terrified, trembling all over, he glanced back at the big ship, and cast an extremely hateful gaze at Li Yanqing on the boat.

Li Yanqing obviously promised to ensure that he arrived in the capital safely, but he handed himself over in a blink of an eye, where does this person still have any integrity, and he will not let him go if he is a ghost, Zhu Chong has been an old fox for a lifetime, and was finally played to death by Li Yanqing, the little fox, he hated blood in his heart, and closed his eyes in despair.

"The hour has come, let's go!"

As Zhao Lin shouted, the executioner raised the beheading knife high, and hundreds of thousands of people roared together excitedly.......

On the big boat, Zhao Kai and Li Yanqing silently watched the prisoners being killed, but the feelings of the two were completely different, Zhao Kai was a little guilty, he obviously promised to escort them back to the capital safely, but in the end he had to hand them over, which is called untrustworthy!

Li Yanqing's heart is unusually calm, he doesn't have any guilt for his rebellion, if everything is promised, then he doesn't want to do anything, how many people in history have really done great things to keep their promises? For people like Zhu's father and son, who are extremely guilty of crimes, keeping their promises is aiding and abetting.

He glanced at Zhao Kai, and saw that his eyes were full of guilt, Li Yanqing was a little disappointed in his heart, Zhao Kai couldn't even see through this little thing, how could he become an iron-blooded monarch in the future?

"Why should Your Highness be sad for such a person?"

Zhao Kai sighed, "I'm not sad for them, it's just that I promised them ......."

Li Yanqing said lightly: "Your Highness promised them, but Zhu Mian wants to commit suicide in fear of sin, what can His Highness do?" ”

Zhao Kai glared at Li Yanqing with some dissatisfaction, and let himself feel guilty for breach of contract, wasn't it him Li Yanqing who did it?

At this time, he remembered something again, so he said to Li Yanqing: "I thought about it again yesterday and decided to accept your second plan, and I will immediately write to my father." ”

Li Yanqing's second plan is that Zhu Mian was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Suzhou people, and committed suicide in fear of crime in horror, as for Tang Qianzhi, the leader of the guards, in order to protect his property and the bandit Fang La, he fought fiercely, and unfortunately died in the hands of Fang La, and Zhu Mian committed suicide in fear of crime, and his father would no longer blame himself.

"Your Highness is wise!" Li Yanqing smiled and praised.

Zhao Kai sighed again, "Killing Zhu Mian's father and son has satisfied the wishes of the people of Suzhou, and we can go on the road again tomorrow." ”

"Your Highness, Song Jiang and Fang La have already laid a net in front of them, why do your Highness still cast themselves into the net?"

Zhao Kai was stunned, "Then what should I do?" ”

Li Yanqing whispered a few words to him, and Zhao Kai shook his head again and again, "This is not appropriate, it is better to return to Jiaxing directly!" ”

"Your Royal Highness, the risk of retreating to Jiaxing along the way is also very great, there are only more than 1,000 township soldiers in Suzhou, not the opponent of the bandits at all, we don't have a tiger talisman, Wang Ziwu does not dare to send troops across the border, if you wait for the imperial court's transfer order to come, I am afraid that Song Jiang and Fang La have already taken risks, Your Highness, I have repeatedly considered that people die for money, they will never give up easily, only by taking decisive measures, can they completely cut off their idea of robbing money."

"I think the situation is critical, so I should be able to transfer troops from Quan!"

Li Yanqing sighed, "If you can transfer troops from Quan, why doesn't the Son of Heaven simply give the Tiger Talisman to His Highness?" When I left Bianjing, I told His Highness that if His Highness can not do anything involving the army, he will try not to do it, and use my method to keep his wealth without mobilizing the army, why not do it? ”

Zhao Kai bowed his head and was silent, he knew that Li Yanqing was right, his father's suspicion was extremely heavy, no matter what reason he had, as long as he mobilized the army, and it was in violation of the regulations, his father would never laugh at it, and his father would obviously leave a hand for him if he didn't give him the tiger talisman, why should he touch this taboo again?

"Okay!"

Zhao Kai's heart was in a state of confusion, and he was still worried about how to explain to his father, he agreed to Li Yanqing's plan without thinking about it, "Then let's do it tonight, and I would like to ask Li Shaojun to have a good talk with Zhao Zhizhou again, and let him arrange some manpower." ”

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As the night deepened, more than 200,000 people had already returned to their homes, Fengqiao and the wharf returned to their former calm, and the fleet began to start slowly, and Dai Zong, who was monitoring the fleet on the shore, immediately sent a pigeon letter to Song Jiang, asking him to prepare for interception in advance.

But to Dai Zong's surprise, the fleet did not go to Wuxi, after walking three miles, but sailed into the Shantangdang, which is a depression lake covering an area of hundreds of hectares, its biggest feature is the depth of the water, in the deepest part of the lake up to two zhang, and the shallowest place is more than one zhang.

Dai Zong secretly shouted that it was not good, he had vaguely guessed the other party's attempt, and hurriedly sent someone to inform Song Jiang that the situation had changed.

More than 1,000 villagers and hundreds of government officials blocked both sides of the mountain pond and prevented the people from approaching, and at the same time used official boats to intercept the water swing in and out of the two ends, and did not allow local civilian boats to enter.

At this time, a big ship that sailed into the center of the lake began to tilt and sink sideways, with the method of side sinking, the biggest advantage is that when the water is deep enough, the ship will be upside down at the bottom of the lake after sinking, and then want to salvage the big boxes on the ship, the amount of work is quite huge, not to mention that Zhu Mian's boxes are all iron boxes, and the small people want to secretly come to get some benefits and have no way to start.

This is undoubtedly an extremely ruthless move, unless Fang La's army captures Suzhou and mobilizes tens of thousands of people to dredge the mountain pond, it will be impossible to carry out the more than 380 large iron boxes in the ship.

Of course, among the various schemes, the shipwreck plan is far from being the best policy, or even a lower one, after all, it takes a lot of manpower to dig out the box.

In fact, Li Yanqing thought of at least several other methods.

For example, they announced that they would escort Zhu Mian to Jiaxing to be beheaded, and it is believed that tens of thousands of people will still act as their escorts for free and escort them south.

For example, they can completely unload the box and transport it to the city for protection, unless Song Jiang's hundreds of people want to attack Gusu City.

Another example is to drive into Taihu Lake, Taihu Lake is 36,000 hectares, sparkling and vast, where do they go to find their traces in Song Jiang?

Li Yanqing didn't want to use these plans that could be called the middle strategy, and he did everything possible to persuade King Jia to accept the shipwreck plan because he had a deeper idea, and these fortunes were transported back to Beijing, and they were also squandered by Zhao Ji's pleasures, if he stayed in Suzhou, Zhao Ji had a large amount of Zhu Mian's real estate as the foundation, and he might not be in a hurry to use this batch of property, when the war was tense in the future, this batch of property would play a role where it was really needed.

Of course, if Zhao Ji has to be impatient to dig up his wealth and squander it, then Li Yanqing has no choice, and he can only do his best to do this kind of thing.

Just after the sinking of fifty large ships, Li Yanqing and Zhao Kai left Suzhou under the escort of the guards, Li Yanqing deduced that Song Jiang must be hurrying along the canal to Suzhou, so he did the opposite, bypassing Song Jiang and others, and crossed the Yangtze River north through Changshu County in the northeast, and returned to Bianjing in a roundabout way.

Song Jiang rushed back to Suzhou at dawn, he stood in a reed bush on the north bank of Shantangdang, staring at the empty lake in amazement, fifty big ships have all sunk to the bottom of the lake, which really made Song Jiang's heart full of loss, he was bound to get this wealth, but now he can't even drink a mouthful of soup, and he has spent so much money in vain.

The three Ruan brothers had already gone into the water to investigate the situation, Song Jiang could only wait anxiously on the shore, about half an hour later, Ruan Xiaowu jumped out of the water, Song Jiang asked anxiously: "How is it, is there a way to fish it up?" ”

Ruan Xiaowu shook his head, "Big brother, the boats are all upside down under the water, and the entrance to the cabin is still locked by chains, and it is estimated that there is more than one hatch, and we can't enter at all." ”

"Can you chisel the walls of the ship?" Next to him, Wu Yong asked.

Ruan Xiaowu smiled bitterly, "These fifty big ships are all thousand-stone sea ships, the walls of the ships are very strong, there are still two layers inside and outside, and it is estimated that there are ballast stones inside, the difficulty is not ordinary, send more than a hundred water ghosts to come, get a month or two, maybe you can break one or two ships, but ..... This is not Liangshanbo! ”

At this time, everyone's eyes looked at Song Jiang, Song Jiang's face was so bitter that he could wring out water, and after a while, he had to sigh and say: "Our identity has been exposed, it is not safe to stay in Jiangnan for a long time, go back!" ”

Everyone was interested, and their blood was ruthlessly extinguished by cold water, and they were listless one by one, so they had to follow their eldest brother Song Jiang to leave Suzhou and return to Liangshanbo.