Seeing that there were more and more people around Wang Huan, Jiang Jianxun's face became more and more ugly, his complexion turned from blue to black, but he couldn't use force to get angry, and finally turned helplessly pale.

Wang Huan didn't keep staring at him, his eyes looked in the direction of the head of Fenzhou City, and he looked carefully.

Fenzhou City, once for Shanxi Bu political envoy Zhili Prefecture governance, Wanli years to promote to the government, jurisdiction of a state and seven counties, Lang Dazhou also, plus close to the province of Taiyuan, the territory of many rich businessmen and wealthy families, there are two feudal palaces located in the city, so the city is tall and solid, although not as spectacular as Taiyuan, Datong and other giants, but also extremely magnificent.

However, after many months of war, the city has shown a dilapidated trend, the three-storey wooden city tower has long been burned, leaving only some scorched beams and columns, many places on the city wall, the green bricks are peeling off, revealing the yellow rammed earth inside, and even many stone battlements are missing corners and edges.

Wang Huan shook his head, secretly sighing that the troubled times are hot and cold, Fenzhou is the base camp of the Jin merchants, there is a saying in the Ming Dynasty, called "Liaodong merchants, more than half of Shanxi, and Fenzhou is the majority." "It is said that the Houjin and the Ming merchants do business, mainly to deal with the Jin merchants, at first is to use some ginseng mink skin with the Ming people in exchange for some copper, iron, rice and salt, to the later gradually familiar, began to exchange expensive and extravagant objects, to the end, the Jin merchants smuggled a large number of valuable military materials such as gunpowder, firearms, weapons, etc., through the side wall smuggling or sea transportation, sold to the Houjin, in exchange for a large amount of silver, by the way, also ventilated the news, passed on some military information in the past, so later generations said that the Jin merchants are the fifth column of the Ming Dynasty, is hidden in the internal rats.

When they made money, I don't know if they thought about it, the silver in their hands was all plundered by Houjin from the Ming Dynasty, and the robbers just passed them over and handed them over.

Probably the rich families in the city have fled to Taiyuan.

Wang Huan thought to himself that these businessmen had a deep relationship with the Qing court, and they were afraid that as soon as the rebels were affected, they would definitely gather their wealth and leave at the beginning of the anti-Qing Dynasty in Shanxi.

When the time comes, you can't be cheap these guys, Taiyuan City is broken, and you have to search for their wealth as soon as possible.

After thinking for a while, Wang Huan retracted his thoughts and put his gaze back in front of him, but was surprised to find that there was no one left beside Jiang Jianxun on the other side, except for a few lonely soldiers, and a leader of the rebel army was no more.

Looking back, Han Zhaoxuan was salivating and giving a speech to a group of rebel leaders gathered around him, this person fought sparsely, but the civil official's kung fu was extremely good, and he told the scene of the destruction of Pingyang Mansion vividly, eloquently.

Although he didn't see it with his own eyes.

With his narration, the onlookers made a gasping sound from time to time, like a group of chirping mice, especially when they heard the Kuizhou firearms firing thousands of cannons and hundreds of "fire bombs" in a salvo, like the earth shaking the mountains to collapse the Pingyang city wall, the sound of "Woo Ya" reached a climax.

"You follow the cool wait, that's your blessing, see? Yu Yin and I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and we are not willing to be the pawns of the marquis. Han Zhaoxuan's saliva seemed to be so much that he couldn't finish spraying, and he kept splashing with his life, and he also lowered his voice mysteriously, and whispered to everyone: "Also, the emperor is a heavy marquis, and he wants to marry Princess Changping, the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, to him, everyone, have any of you ever been an imperial prince?" Didn't you? Hou Ye will be the royal prince in the future! There is no dragon son today, once there is a good one, the son of the Hou Ye may be ...... Do you understand? ”

This sentence was like an empowerment, poured on the heads of the leaders and made them suddenly realize, and they all looked at Wang Huan with eager eyes, if it weren't for the face of Jiang Jianxun who was present, someone must have gone up to slap the horse, and the flattering words were like a tide.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are worried, Wang Huan is enthusiastic and excited, and Jiang Jianxun is desolate and lonely.

Jiang Jianxun's face couldn't hold it, he had no intention or face to stay any longer, and it was impossible for him to hug Wang Huan's thighs like those leaders of the rebel army.

He glanced at Han Zhaoxuan with a resentful gaze, and then indifferently arched his hand to Wang Huan, and said coldly: "Since Hou Ye has his own opinions, it is inconvenient for the last general to say it again, but Fenyang was laid by the last general, and I ask Hou Ye not to be embarrassed." ”

Wang Huan glanced at him, his eyelids narrowed slightly, he didn't speak, just waved his hand lightly, signaling him to go.

Jiang Jianxun gritted his teeth, how many times had he gritted his teeth today, and then he turned the horse's head and went straight into the city without looking back.

Li Dingguo reined in not far behind, and when he saw Jiang Jianxun going away, he stepped up and approached Wang Huan and asked softly, "Do you want to ......?" With one hand, he made a downward chopping motion.

Wang Huan shook his head, looked at Jiang Jianxun's back and said slowly: "No need, this son is not a heinous criminal, what he did was just to maintain the authority of the Jiang family in Shanxi, in exchange for you, you would not hesitate to offend the powerful for the sake of the interests of Ben Hou." ”

These words were said by Jiang Jianxun, but Li Dingguo listened to the blood in his blood, and his heart was full of warmth, so he quickly lowered his head so as not to lose his temper in front of Wang Huan.

Wang Huan didn't notice it, and continued to take care of himself: "If he wants Fenzhou, just give it to him, without him getting in the way, it's still quieter and more comfortable." ”

Li Dingguo responded, Wang Huan turned around, pointed in the other direction and said, "Go and separate those two, aren't you tired after fighting for so long?" ”

Li Dingguo followed the sound and laughed, it turned out that Yu Yin and Monk Hou were still fighting on the side, and they didn't even notice that Jiang Jianxun had pulled out his horse and left. So with a wave of his hand, he led more than a dozen sergeants with big shoulders and round waists, and ran towards the two.

Wang Huan smiled slightly at the many leaders of the rebel army who had gathered with Han Zhaoxuan, and bowed his hands, so shocked that the group of people jumped off their horses and bent over, lest they lose their manners.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know your names yet, but I don't know where you are based, so how about you come with us?" Wang Huan smiled and asked politely.

"This should be." Han Zhaoxuan was the first to speak, and then said to everyone as if he was commanding a little brother: "Come on, everyone." ”

These people are all heroes, of course, they are not very satisfied with Han Zhaoxuan's style like a senior brother, but no one objected, but they all patted the team and reported their names and origins to Wang Huan.

"Xiaguan Yongjeju Li Qi Mian, I have seen Hou Ye! With 5,000 soldiers, I am willing to follow Lord Hou and go to the national disaster together! ”

"Xiaguan Shilou sealed Ru Eun, I have seen the Hou Ye! led two thousand troops, and was willing to follow Lord Hou! ”

"The last general, Hu Guoding, Luzhou, has seen Hou Ye, led 30,000 people, and is willing to fight with Hou Ye!"

"The last generals, Chen Du and Zhang Douguang of Zezhou, led 20,000 people, and they have seen Master Hou!"

……

It seems that the Taihe Palace is in a row and goes to the court, dozens of leaders of the rebel army, standing in front of Wang Huan in a regular manner, reporting their names and reporting their own territorial military strength, the number of these people's subordinates is not accurate, in order to show their strength, they are often exaggerated, and even if it is a real number, its main force is also an unregulated civilian army, so Wang Huan is very clear, although the number reported by these people is an astronomical number, it is still not enough to see.

However, Wang Huan was still smiling, and when everyone stepped forward to speak, he wrote them down one by one, and then said aloud to one of them: "Wang Chunming, I want to lead the leaders of the army to Jiaocheng, can you do the friendship of the landlord to prepare a camp for my army and arrange a festival?" ”

The leader called Wang Chunming was suddenly a little caught off guard, under the gaze of everyone, his face turned red, and he was slightly frightened, no wonder, Jiaocheng is just a small county town, the people are not more than 10,000, and the soldiers are less than 1,000, but Wang Huan called out his name among the many big heroes, of course, which made him happy and cramped.

"Yes, yes, of course you can, Master Hou, the small county is shining!" Wang Chunming felt as if he had grown taller in an instant, and responded with his neck held high.

Jiaocheng, belonging to Taiyuan Mansion, away from Taiyuan Mansion City, but one hundred and ten miles, the middle is vast and empty, no mountains and no water, no natural danger obstacles, within one day, can be soldiers to Taiyuan City.

(End of chapter)