Soon after Li Yanqing broke through the blockade, he came to Zengtou City, a large town between Zhongdu County and Xucheng County, which belongs to Xucheng County. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Last year, a big war broke out here, the Zeng family, a wealthy family that controlled Zengtou City, was defeated and wiped out by the Liangshan army, although the Liangshan army withdrew from Zengtou City, but it has since become the sphere of influence of Liangshan, and has become one of the three towns controlled by the Liangshan army.

Li Yanqing entered Zengtou City at dusk, he and Luan Tingyu made an appointment to meet here, Li Yanqing didn't dare to be careless, this is different from Zhongdu County, Zhongdu County is at least the territory of the government, Liangshan is just a little bit of eyes and ears in the county, but this is completely Liangshan's territory, all the shops have the background of Liangshan, and even half of the children's children are in Liangshan.

If he is not careful, he will probably be planted here, Li Yanqing put his sword across the saddle, long-term running has made his hearing and eyesight more acute than half of the people, and his reaction is also very fast, he feels that there are people peeping at him behind every door and window, after all, riding such a strong horse in Zengtou City is a provocation to Liangshan itself.

"This way!"

Li Yanqing suddenly heard a familiar and low voice from the depths of an alley, he was overjoyed, immediately turned over and dismounted, led the horse to the alley, and walked to the bottom of the alley, only to see a door hidden, and Luan Tingyu's thin face was exposed in the crack of the door.

Li Yanqing led the horse into the courtyard, the house was not big, there was only a small courtyard and three adobe houses, Luan Tingyu closed the door and said with a smile: "I've been waiting for you to come over!" ”

"Senior brother knows I'm coming?"

Luan Tingyu nodded, "The news of your killing of Liu Gao has reached Zengtou City, and a pigeon letter was sent from the front, asking the Liangshan Sentinel here to intercept a black-faced man riding a white horse." ”

"But..... I didn't see the interceptor! ”

"The person in charge of receiving the pigeon letter has been killed by me, and this pigeon letter is in my possession, of course they don't know."

Li Yanqing suddenly realized that since Luan Tingyu knew so clearly, of course he solved it for himself.

Li Yanqing looked at the house again, he felt that the house was dilapidated, I was afraid that it would collapse after a while, how could Luan Tingyu live here?

Luan Tingyu moved the table and chairs out of the house, he understood Li Yanqing's doubts, and said with a smile: "I once lived here for a year, this is my house, I bought it for twenty yuan five years ago, and there is a forest behind it, if there is anything abnormal, you can evacuate immediately, you can rest assured!"

"How can Senior Brother live here for a year?"

"It's a long story, sit down and have a cup of tea!"

Li Yanqing sat down, Luan Tingyu poured him a bowl of tea, and said lightly: "Five years ago, I took Yang Jian's business and escorted him to Yunzhou, and then I accidentally fell ill, so I recuperated here for a year, and at the same time taught the martial arts of the children of the Zeng family, and later met the senior brother Lin Chong, and was invited by him to live in Liangshan for a few months. ”

"Senior brother has also been to Liangshan?" Li Yanqing asked curiously.

"Do you think it's weird?"

"It's a little strange, so why did the senior brother leave Liangshan, and Song Jiang was willing to let him go?"

"I went to Liangshan and Song Jiang has nothing to do with it, I live in Chaogai's big village, at that time they were negotiating a merger, everyone did not agree to merge with Song Jiang, but Chao Gai was overwhelmed by public opinion, and wanted to do big things, everyone had to reluctantly agree, but there were still a lot of people, I just left Liangshan shortly after the merger and returned to the capital."

"That's why Senior Brother knows Liangshan so well!"

"I am a bystander, unlike their authorities, I persuaded Lin Chong at the beginning, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, one day Chao Gai will die in the hands of Song Jiang, Lin Chong is the second person under Chao Gai, even if Song Jiang envelops him, but he will not give him any real power, Song Jiang I have long seen through that person, hypocrisy, fame and reputation, cronyism, ruthless to ordinary people, but a lot of tolerance to the government, nothing more than afraid of cutting off his own back road, Chao Gai still thinks he can do great things?"

"Senior brother has indeed seen it very thoroughly!"

Luan Tingyu took a sip of tea and said: "The Liangshan general you killed today is called Liu Gao, ranking thirty-fourth among the thirty-six generals of Liangshan, although his status is not high, but his brother Liu Tang is the second person under Chao Gai, second only to Lin Chong, and the Liu brothers are loyal to Chao Gai, Song Jiang may not care about Liu Gao, but Chao Gai will never give up, let's eat something and set off immediately!" ”

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In the night, Li Yanqing and Luan Tingyu stood on a small hill, looking at the team holding torches like a long dragon descending the mountain, Li Yanqing secretly admired Luan Tingyu's accurate judgment, hit the small one, and the old one will definitely jump up, this is the tradition of the Liangshan Righteous Army, if you don't do this, no one will be willing to die in the future.

Of course, this degree has to be grasped accurately, for example, a small leader like Yang Hu, it is meaningless to kill a hundred, the key is to control the generals above the level, they have seats in the Juyi Hall and belong to the board of directors of Liangshan, a large company.

As long as one of them is killed, in order to appease the other directors, whether it is Song Jiang, the chairman or Chao Gai, the vice chairman, they have to take action.

Li Yanqing stared for a moment and said to Luan Tingyu: "They must go to Sucheng County, and we will act separately." ”

Luan Tingyu hesitated and said, "Actually, Chao Gai is a good person!" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head lightly, "Senior brother, the arrow has been wound, and it has to be sent!" ”

"Alright! I went first. ”

Luan Tingyu had no choice but to turn the horse's head and go down the hill along another path.

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Xucheng is the state of Yunzhou, and it is also the permanent residence of the Xicheng Institute founded by Yang Jian, although the scope of Yang Jian's exploitation of the people's wealth has been expanded to Jingdong Road and Hebei East Road, but the long-term residence of Xicheng has never been moved.

Of course, there is another purpose for setting up Xicheng in Yunzhou, that is, to suppress the Liangshan army, although Yang Jian could not destroy the Liangshan army for a while, but the 20,000 forbidden troops stationed in Yunzhou still effectively prevented the expansion of the Liangshan bandits.

Among the four eunuchs in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Jian ranked second, second only to Liang Shicheng in power, but he had great power at the local level, and his authority even exceeded the Holy Decree in Jingdong and Hebei East Road.

Yang Jian is about 60 years old this year, tall and tall, slightly fat, with a pair of pig bubble eyes, his biggest hobby is to drink tea, especially like to play tea, he himself is not only a master of tea, but also specially raised four Mei Ji who are good at ordering tea and dividing tea, and make tea for him at any time.

There is a famous spring at the foot of Liangshan, called Pearl Spring, it is especially sweet to make tea with it, in order to prevent Liangshan bandits from harassing this famous spring, Yang Jian also reached a tacit agreement with Song Jiang, he acquiesced in Song Jiang's control of Zengtou City, in exchange for Song Jiang not to harass this famous spring, every morning, noon and evening, there will be special people to go to Pearl Spring to draw water and come back to make tea.

Yang Jian spends most of his time in the garden of his mansion, which covers an area of 200 acres and is located in the southeast of Xucheng County, which is an extremely exquisite and elegant garden, with rockery and lakes, green water, and various pavilions and pavilions.

At this time, in the inner hall, Yang Jian drank tea while discussing with his confidant Du Gongcai about preparing the birth gang for the Son of Heaven, the birthday of the Son of Heaven is the tenth day of October, on that day, all the state capitals in the world have to send the birthday gang to the capital, and Yang Jian is of course no exception.

In the past two years, he has collected a lot of precious jade, and he is ready to take out some of it to dedicate to the Son of Heaven, but it seems that the jade is too little, so he discussed with Du Gongcai to add something else.

"The official family likes flowers and trees and strange stones, I think I can make a fuss in this regard, things are fine but not more, Taifu got the Dai stone last year, I think it is a very good birthday gift, no one in the world can compare!"

Last autumn, someone found a strange stone weighing a thousand catties at the foot of Mount Tai, the appearance is exactly the same as Mount Tai, the local governor dedicated it to Yang Jian, so that Yang Jian couldn't put it down, and named it Dai Shi.

This is Yang Jian's most cherished item, and he is really a little reluctant to dedicate it to the Son of Heaven.

Du Gongcai cautiously reminded: "Now is the critical moment to determine the head of Ouchi, what is a stone?" ”

A sentence reminded Yang Jian, the earliest internal manager was Liang Shicheng, and later he took over, seven years ago, he went out to found the Xicheng Institute, the position of the internal manager has been vacant, the palace is responsible for the affairs of the two deputy chiefs, at the beginning of the year, the palace came out of the news to reappoint the internal director, undoubtedly made Yang Jian nervous.

Whether Liang Shicheng's henchman Li Yan is appointed, or his henchman Zhao Zhang, this is a matter of life and death related to who can control the power in the palace between him and Liang Shicheng in the end, he and Liang Shicheng have been fighting for 20 years, and it is finally time to decide the victory.

Yang Jian nodded, "You're right, compared to the power in the palace, this Dai Stone is really nothing." ”

At this moment, a guard rushed to the hall to report: "Qi Yu Taifu, there is urgent news from the dock warehouse, the Liangshan army is about to attack the warehouse!" ”

Yang Jian was stunned for a moment.