Xu Qianli gritted his teeth, glared at Wang Huan angrily, and the sharp pain in his ears tore his nerves for a while, always reminding him that the young man in front of him was a stunned man who was not afraid of heaven and earth, or a bold fool, and he dared to humiliate himself, a character who had to tremble when he stomped on the ground in Chongqing City, with hundreds of local people under his hands, didn't he know how much turmoil Zeng Ying would set off if he knew what happened to him.

Wang Huan looked calm, he didn't seem to take everything that happened seriously at all, and his tone was flat when he spoke, as if he had cut off his ears and avenged Chen Ergou's whipping.

"What do you want to do here?" Wang Huan continued to ask, holding his fingernails with the short knife in his hand.

Xu Qianli has recovered from his anger and fear, and the person who can be the big shopkeeper in a large workshop like the Silver Workshop, which specializes in royal imperial artifacts, always has two or two skills, and has seen a lot of the world, at this moment, he endured the pain, gasped and said angrily: "I was sent by General Soldier Zeng, and I made a special trip to see Qin Liangyu, what kind of identity are you under her account, can you afford to offend General Soldier Zeng?" I advise you to loosen my ties as soon as possible, and go to Chongqing to plead guilty with your hands and feet, lest General Zeng be angry and set foot on the small city of Shizhu Projectile. ”

Wang Huan listened, turned the knife, and slaughtered Xu Qianli's right ear like lightning, Xu Qianli's right head was cold, and the right ear fell to the ground bloody.

Xu Qianli was stunned for a moment, and then immediately howled loudly like a pig, and the cry was full of pain.

Wang Huan sighed: "You didn't understand the question I asked, what are you doing with these ears?" ”

After a pause, he said, "Your tongue is not good at speaking, so you might as well stop it!" ”

His eyes wandered, aiming at Xu Qianli's mouth, the knife lost his right hand with his left hand, and his right hand again with his left hand, which scared Xu Qianli so much that he didn't dare to scream, and responded one after another: "Don't, don't, I understand, I understand, I can speak, I can speak!" ”

He was really scared this time, if he pretended again, he was afraid that all the parts on his body would be thrown here today, and the young man in front of him was a Hades.

Wang Huan raised his chin at him and said lightly: "Then let's say it." ”

Xu Qianli licked his lips, glanced at the bloody short knife in Wang Huan's hand with palpitations, and replied with a trembling voice: "General Zeng recently heard that the stone pillar has found a silver mine, the output is very rich, a day can smelt thousands of taels of silver, the heart is very happy, if you can use the mineral income as a military need, you will be able to recruit countless warriors, millions of troops, then I will be restored, just around the corner, because I am the big shopkeeper of the silver workshop, I have always been proficient in the silver mine, so I sent me to the stone pillar to see if the silver mine is really true, That's why I'm bringing people here. ”

Wang Huan raised his eyebrows, Xu Qianli said, he had already guessed seventy-seven-eighty-eight, the stone pillar was barren, and there were never many people in the direction of Chongqing Dacheng, and there would suddenly be a silverware shopkeeper, Sima Zhao's heart was known to passers-by, and it must have come to the silver mine, which is not difficult to guess.

He asked again: "Since you are here to spy on me, why do you want to whip my customs officials?" ”

Xu Qianli was stunned, official? Flog? I was an official just now? That's a native in sackcloth, how can there be such a poor and sour official!

Xu Qianli hesitated, and wanted to say that the person looked like an official, but as soon as he saw the short knife in Wang Huan's hand, he dangled around his skin, and the pain in his ears was unbearable, and his courage suddenly became cowardly, and he whispered in a muffled voice: "That lord stopped us and wanted to check our identity, I was anxious, and for a while the lard blinded my heart, and hit the adult, please forgive Lord Wang." ”

Wang Huan nodded and said, "Since you know that you are wrong, it is also very good, so let's go to the city wall construction site for a year of labor reform, and after a year, let's see your performance." ”

He wiped the short knife on Xu Qianli's satin clothes, inserted it back into his waist, clapped his hands and stood up.

Xu Qianli was stunned, labor reform? What is Laogai?

At this time, from the direction of Wanshou City, a group of people hurriedly came, holding a repeating crossbow, holding a spear, the leader was Ma Xintian, his school field was far away, so he came at this time, as soon as he came, he saw the blood stains and traces of the fight all over the ground, he was taken aback, looked around, and found that Wang Huan had nothing to do, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly bowed down in front of Wang Huan, and blamed himself in his mouth: "The end will be late, please forgive the Counselor!" ”

Wang Huan affectionately helped him up and said calmly: "It's okay, it's just a few flies, it's been solved." ”

In Wang Huan's eyes, Xu Qianli and his ilk are just a few flies, but the dog behind the flies is what he should pay attention to.

Wang Huan asked Ma Xintian to take a group of people who had lost half of their ears and Xu Qianli, who had lost both ears, to work on the construction site to atone for their sins, and he hurried back to Wanshou City.

Most of the buildings in the city are still just a prototype, Wang Huan concentrated manpower, first built a stone as a wall, and the hall with wood as a pillar came out, as a place for meetings, in the middle of the hall, there was a huge table, with mud and sand piled up for the mountain, cinnabar fine sprinkled for the river, made a simple sand table, the size and scale of the Wanshou Valley is limited, compared to the graffiti-like map of this era, it is much more intuitive.

Wang Huan stood in front of the sand table, frowned, changed the calm and calm expression in front of Ma Qianli just now, his face was full of sadness, and he fell into deep contemplation.

Outside the lobby, the sound of horse boots sounded, Ma Xintian and Zubian walked in side by side, Xu Goudan and Ma Wannian followed behind the two, as soon as they entered the door, they hugged their fists at Wang Huan and said: "Counselor, are you looking for us?" ”

Wang Huan beckoned at will, and the four of them came to the sand table, looking at the mountains and rivers above with a novel face, Ma Wannian also touched it curiously to see what it was made of.

Wang Huan pressed his hands on the table, raised his head and said in a deep voice to a few people: "Everyone, the red-eyed dog has come to the door, and someone is eyeing our silver mine with the intention of forcibly occupying it." ”

Ma Xintian's eyes narrowed, and he said solemnly: "My lord, are you talking about those silver merchants who came today?" ”

Zubian was guarding the smelter, and Ma Wannian was squatting in the silver mine, and he hadn't heard about Xu Qianli and his party, so he was surprised: "Dog? Bankers? ”

Wang Huan said the ins and outs of Xu Qianli and others coming to spy on the truth of the silver mine, and heard a few people break out in a cold sweat, and they were a little stunned, although everyone knew that the news of silver mining came out, and there were many people with red eyes, but the first one to come to the door was Zeng Ying, who was also the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, but it was a little unexpected to them.

"That Zeng Yinggui was the old department of the governor of Huguang He, and he was also a minister of the Ming Dynasty, how could he be so bold and reckless, and dare to fight the idea of the official mine!" Ma Xintian was the first to be angry.

Zubian is much calmer, not that he is steady, but he is from Liaodong, where the warlords have the most generals, and he has seen a lot of such things, so he is used to it, so he said: "What is this, in Liaodong back then, the same Ming officials and soldiers also robbed each other of each other's military salaries, it is very common to occupy a mine, who has more people and who is ruthless enough, who is the winner." ”

Ma Xintian couldn't help but be a little surprised and sluggish, he followed Qin Liangyu's side, he never communicated with the Ming army of other general soldiers, he looked down on others and others were unwilling to deal with him, but he didn't know much about all kinds of bad habits and disadvantages in the Ming army.

Zu Bian said: "Since he sent someone to spy on us, he must have this intention to swallow us, although we left his people behind and can hide it for a while, but there will definitely be a second wave of people coming, and I am afraid that it will not be just a businessman with a few guards when the time comes." ”

Wang Huan glanced at him and agreed: "Yes, it's not that the distinguished guests don't come to the door, so I invited the two of you to come just to discuss what to do." ”

Zu Bian looked at the sand table and smiled: "My lord is smart and strategic, and he still asks us what we do?" Please give it an order. ”

Wang Huan smiled bitterly: "How can you have so many ideas, that's why I asked you." ”

Zu Bian touched his head, looked at Wang Huan's face and said: "My lord, the soldiers are coming, the water is coming to cover the earth, just fuck it, what else to discuss." ”

This stout man looked excited, after escaping from Hongze Lake, he hadn't fought for a long time, guarding the smelter barbecue every day, so plain that it made people crazy, and someone came to the door to provoke, so that the fighting gene in his veins was active again.

Ma Wannian looked at the ancestral side who was eager to try, and couldn't help but say: "Brother Huan, hurry up and ask your grandmother for help, I heard that Zeng Ying's 100,000 troops with armor are monstrous, and they are very powerful." ”

Ma Xintian glared at him, and said in a deep voice: "Young Master Ma, you should be called Counselor Wang." Ma Wannian was seen by him as weak-hearted, and hurriedly admitted his mistake, he was Qin Liangyu's personal companion, with a rigorous personality, watching Ma Wannian grow up, teaching Ma Wannian on weekdays with knives, guns and sticks to give him a lot of hardship, where did he dare to be fierce under the prestige.

Wang Huan didn't care, and waved his hand: "Where are there so many soldiers, they will eat him poor, it's great that he has twenty or thirty thousand people, and no matter how much, he can't afford to raise that little territory." ”

Xu Goudan said: "That's why he wants to fight our silver mine." ”

Wang Huan nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, dog, how many people do we have now?" ”

Xu Goudan usually leads a group of scribes to be in charge of civil affairs, although he is young, he is better than having a flexible mind, and he is coarse in writing and ink, he can read words, and he can write and calculate, so he is fast, and the scribes sent by Qin Liangyu are very effective, and the system of protecting the armor of one armor and one guarantee is implemented very thoroughly, which saves Wang Huan a lot of effort.

Xu Goudan thought for a moment and blurted out: "As of last night, there were a total of 11,052 households, with a total population of 35,802 people, of which 8,491 were men over the age of 18, and the rest were all old and weak women and children. ”

Wang Huan was taken aback and said, "Why are there so many?" Wasn't it just 20,000 last month? ”

Xu Goudan smiled bitterly: "Yes, since this month, the number of displaced people has increased every day, and the shack area has expanded day by day. ”