The weather in northern Shaanxi is still so dry, and the dryness makes people panic. The crops in the fields were also yellow, and no green could be seen, which was obviously a year of famine, and a group of men armed with knives and guns drove a dozen cars, shouting back and forth on the country road.

Judging from the clothing of these people, it is obvious that they are not the battalion soldiers in the border fort, nor are they the officials in the county town. Judging from the bloody weapons in their hands, the weeping women in the car, and the pile of food and belongings that obviously did not come from the family, they should be another group of robbers who had returned from robbery in northern Shaanxi.

The convoy was followed by two dozen strong men with their hands tied behind their backs, all of them with some wounds on their bodies. Then a man suddenly broke free from the hemp rope in his hand, and then spread his legs and ran into the yellow crops.

Two robbers on horseback caught up with him in a few moments, and one of the left-handed horse thieves slashed with a saber. A blood flower and a scream became the last performance of this runaway man in the world.

The knife-wielding left-handed horse thief jumped off his horse and expertly cut off the fleeing man's head. Then he raised his head and said something to the other horse thief on the horse, who laughed out loud.

Suddenly, a rapid rain of arrows came over, and the two horse thieves, who were still laughing, were killed instantly. The rain of arrows also attacked the rest of the convoy, and the robbers, the captive women, and the able-bodied men were all thrown into confusion. The leader of the robbers roared and shouted, and several of the robbers finally regained some order under his reprimand and began to move closer to him.

But after a new round of arrows, the bandit leader was shot through the neck with a sharp arrow. The rest of the bandits began to shout at each other in panic, and the whole team was completely confused.

A group of men shouted and slaughtered out of the yellow crops, and the group, wielding their knives and guns, quickly struck the bandits who had fallen into the chaos.

The robbers had already been overwhelmed by the rain of arrows, and were no longer able to organize any decent resistance. They watched their accomplices around them being killed one by one like chopping melons and vegetables, and they knelt down and shouted for Rao to surrender. Several robbers on horseback were desperately whipping their mounts and trying to break out of the crowd.

Naturally, the superior attackers refused to let them go, and in the chaos the two horse thieves were dragged off their horses and then cut off their heads by the people who rushed up. In the end, several horse thieves who tried their best to rush out of the ground were also intercepted by several cavalrymen who suddenly appeared, and all of them were cut under their horses after a round of random slashing.

"Huzi took people out to meet your ninth uncle, and watched the official road to the north. If the official army is fierce, let your ninth uncle come back immediately. If they come with two dried shrimps, they will be left alone. During the time of guarding the first half of the incense, he directly withdrew to the stockade. The old car took someone to pick up Wan Kui, don't carry it hard with the dog in the sand. Let's run after we get this ticket, and then find a chance to clean up this dog day in the future. A lean man was constantly giving orders, and his angular face showed that he had a lot of experience. He had a black turban wrapped around his head and a pair of chain mail, making it clear that he was the leader of the group. The two groups of men and horses who heard the order answered him, and then quickly ran away in both directions.

"The big boss, the mule of this trailer was wounded by an arrow, and he couldn't get up from the ground. There was too much food on the cart for the brothers to carry. One of the minions noticed the situation and shouted at the leader.

"The third child pulled a few horses that he had grabbed and pulled one over to tow them for them. By the way, let's see if the mule can be saved, if not, let's eat it tonight. "The leader, who is constantly giving orders, seems very pleased with the possible extra meal tonight. So he excitedly shouted to a young man a dozen paces away who was calming a neighing horse.

The young man answered, and led the stabilized horse to the cart. After looking at the wounded mule, he replied to the leader, "Big brother, this mule is not saved, we have meat to eat tonight." ”

Hearing the young man's answer, the group of men with weapons cheered happily.

They then quickened up the finishing touches, some of them skillfully using their weapons to mend the dead bodies on the ground, while cutting off the heads of the vanquished. Some gathered weapons and arrows from the ground, while others fumbled around the corpses to collect the selected belongings.

The rest of the men tied up the robbers who had surrendered, pushed them into the gang of strong men who were tied together, and then whipped the women who were still crying in the car, and then drove the convoy in a different direction. In the end, only corpses and blood were left behind. A piece of artemisia grass on the side of the road seemed to be rejuvenated after being watered with blood, and its red branches and leaves swayed in the wind, as if to bid farewell to the marching convoy.

Half an hour later, dozens of angry horse thieves appeared on the village road, and the first horse thief brandished his saber and cursed at the blood and corpses all over the ground.

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On the Jinding Mountain, one hundred and twenty miles west of Baoan County, there is a fairly complete village. The young man who had just been called "the third child" by the leader was facing the whetstone at this time, constantly sharpening the waist knife in his hand.

Not far away, the leader was speaking to the captured men and robbers, and from time to time some of them were dragged out and tied to a nearby stake, and those who were tied up were crying or invective. After tying up the people, the rest of the people were pulled out in turn to take the knives handed by the people in the stockade.

At the urging of the cottage minions, some people stabbed the people on the stakes, and some people trembled and did not dare to step forward. But after being beaten and scolded by the minions on the side, they finally roared and stabbed the man tied up on the stake several times. In the end, in the laughter of the surrounding minions, the ceremony of voting for the name finally ended smoothly.

"The third child" still has a little fantasy when he looks at this scene, hoping that this is just filming. He was just an ordinary office worker in the 21st century, and his hobby was reading some history books, and nothing else was special. I got drunk on the night of the company's annual annual party celebration, and when I woke up, I came into this world inexplicably and became a baby.

After the early incomprehension, surprise, excitement, fear, helplessness and confusion, he could only silently accept the reality, and everything in his previous life could only be buried deep in his heart. His current name is Zhang Mengcheng, and he is the third male of the Zhang brothers.

The Zhang family was originally just an ordinary family, and the whole family was from Ningsai and lived at the junction of Ningsai and Baoan County. Zhang's father is a sincere farmer, and he worked diligently for more than ten years before he went to Baoan County to open up some wasteland, and he thought that this life would be like this.

But he didn't expect that there would be unforeseen circumstances, Zhang's father had a conflict with the villagers when Zhang Mengcheng was eight years old, and died of injuries the next day. Zhang's mother was left to run the house diligently and thriftily, and pulled three sons for Zhang's father.

The following days are still not peaceful, and the eldest son Zhang Mengjin is not an honest country man. On the day of Zhang's father's death, he rushed out with a kitchen knife despite the shouts of his family. When he came back, the blood on Zhang Mengjin's body and the few human heads he was carrying in his hands shocked his mother and relatives who were preparing for Zhang's father's funeral at home.

Although it was originally the Zhang family who died first, Zhang Mengjin's revenge was too ruthless, and he finally got into a lawsuit. After that, Zhang's mother sold her property and finally fished out Zhang Mengjin. After Zhang Mengjin came out of prison, he looked at the empty home, and chose to join the army without saying a word.

Zhang Mengjin had only been a soldier for two years, and he felt that there was no way out of this day. After that, with some brothers and friends who knew each other, he ran into the job of selling illicit salt, and finally made a fortune with the help of the skills he had practiced in the army and his own ruthlessness. After that, he not only redeemed all of Zhang's father's estate, but also expanded the family business a lot with his efforts.

Zhang Mengjin is not an honest person, coupled with the reputation he cultivated in the days of selling smuggled salt. Therefore, he usually argues with people in the township, and the things that should be argued about will not be polite at all, and many people in the township hate and fear him. Fortunately, Zhang Mengjin is usually righteous and has many friends. When the Zhang family had a dispute with others, there were many outlaws to take care of it, and the Zhang family never suffered a loss.

Although Zhang Mengcheng is from the perspective of modern people, this kind of underworld nature is really unsettling. But he also understands that as the pillar of the Zhang family, the eldest brother Zhang Mengjin must adhere to this way of doing things.

The Zhang family was originally from Ningsai Camp, but in fact they came to Baoan County to eat, which means that the Zhang family is a foreigner with no foundation. In daily life, if Zhang Mengjin, as the head of the family, is not ruthless, he will only be bullied to death by the locals like Zhang's father.

Therefore, Zhang Mengcheng could only try his best to support, thinking about whether there were any loopholes in the Zhang family's actions every time. At the same time, he used his own knowledge to plan the industry of Zhangjia Villa and the surrounding water conservancy construction. Let the Zhang family's industry always be stronger than others, and make the Zhang family's family business more popular.

Zhang Mengguang, the second son of the Zhang family, is very majestic and mighty, and it seems that he is not an idle owner. When the Zhang family's family business was not yet fully up, he went to Yansui Town to join the army behind his family's back. With a fairly good martial arts and courage, and relying on the nostalgia of the same Ningsai people, Zhang Mengguang became a family member under Du Wenhuan, the former Ningxia general soldier. After a few years, although I didn't get any official status, I finally earned some silver.

A few years ago, Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier, resigned from his post and returned to his hometown in the Rebellion of Luxury. Zhang Mengguang, who came back together, finally collected his heart and returned to Zhang's house. After he married an aunt with the money he had saved over the years, he also followed his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin to visit friends everywhere and started a private salt business.

Seeing that the two sons in the family are restless guys, and the remaining younger sons, Zhang's mother doesn't want him to live that kind of worrying life. In addition, the two elder brothers Zhang Mengjin and Zhang Mengguang also understand that this kind of life cannot last for a long time. Therefore, they all expect their third brother to come back after the exam, so that they can support the Zhang family in the future, so that the Zhang family can truly become a local gentry and tyrant.

So after the Zhang family's family situation gradually improved, Zhang Mengcheng was finally rushed by his family to study when he was eleven years old, relying on several years of hard study and the Zhang brothers. Zhang Mengcheng quickly obtained the qualification of a child, and at the age of fifteen, he was admitted to Xiucai, shocking the villagers of Shili and Eight Villages.

After hearing the news, Zhang's mother was sick because of years of hard work, and she survived for another half a year before she died. Originally, relying on the hard work of several brothers over the years, it was quite promising to run the Zhang family into a local tyrant.

I don't know if there is no restraint from the old lady, and the Zhang brothers have no one to discipline them. Or really responded to that sentence, and always had to pay it back when he came out. The Zhang family later got into trouble with the passing Yushi Li Yingcheng, and originally hoped to try to have the halo of the protagonist who crossed the person, to hug Li Yingzhi's thigh and then soar Zhang Mengcheng. He found very tragically that some of the things that his eldest brother and second brother did were turned out by Li Yingqi as a typical example. In the end, Zhang Mengcheng's talent and fame were of course removed by the government, and the two elder brothers were inevitably wanted by the government.

Fortunately, before the soldiers who raided the house arrived at Zhang's house, the two Zhang brothers who received the news took Zhang Mengcheng and a group of relatives and friends who were "running business" together to escape from Zhang's villa. That's it, in the first year of Chongzhen. Zhang Mengcheng successfully transferred from the rank of talent on the imperial examination route of thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge to become a local bandit, a very promising profession. Since then, he has started to do not cultivate good results on weekdays, but only kill people and set fires, and his current working experience is less than a year.

"It's April of the second year of Chongzhen, and there is a famine in northern Shaanxi. took advantage of this time to become bigger little by little, and then threw himself into the arms of Yang He, the appeasement faction of the imperial court, and immediately dumped Yang He after his identity was whitewashed, and then found a way to hug the thigh of the successor governor Hong Chengchou, and worked hard to get a future. After that, when the Eight Banners entered the customs, they honestly shaved their heads and surrendered. In this way, there should still be a lot of hope for keeping the family rich. But the question is, when did the court's appeasement action start? ”

Zhang Mengcheng is outlining the plans in his mind, which are all relatively safe speculative choices. As for the big warlord who fantasizes about becoming a separatist party, then there will be a reverse push of the Eight Banners. This kind of difficult thing, Zhang Mengcheng really didn't dare to think about it at all.

Seventeen years of life have been spent in this world, and many memories of past lives have become quite blurry. Even if you were a history buff before the time travel, and you read a lot of books, who would know that you would encounter this kind of thing.

We don't have the ability to memorize all the history books, how can we be omniscient. So except for just crossing over, Zhang Mengcheng's mood calmed down. Except for some information that he tried to recall and write down, and some vague information that he recalled from time to time in his mind later, Zhang Mengcheng did not have much detailed information about this era. And after 17 years of assimilation, Zhang Mengcheng has now basically become a standard native of the late Ming Dynasty.

"Uncle Fifteen, Uncle Eighth has something to look for you." A young man who looked a few years older than Zhang Mengcheng walked over quickly and called out to Zhang Mengcheng respectfully. He was as tall as Zhang Mengcheng, but a scar on his face made him exude a strong evil aura.

This person is the "Huzi" just now, his real name is Zhang Zhaoen, and he is the son of the brother of the Zhang brothers. In fact, he is only one year older than Zhang Mengcheng, because his family life was very hard when he was young, and Zhang Mengcheng lived the life of a scholar for a while, so his face looks a few years older than Zhang Mengcheng.

Although Zhang Zhaoen usually has a bad temper, as a nephew, he has special respect for Zhang Mengcheng, who looks a few years younger than him. First, Zhang Mengcheng was originally his clan uncle, so he couldn't be disrespectful in the patriarchal law. The second is that Zhang Mengcheng has been mature since he was a child, and many of the words he said have been confirmed later, and he is indeed a capable person. In addition, Zhang Mengcheng used to be a famous young talent in Shili Eight Villages, so Zhang Zhaoen naturally did not dare to be disrespectful to him.

Another point is that the Zhang brothers' current identity as Tukou was originally caused by Zhang Zhaoen's problem. Zhang Zhaoen's family was poor when he was young, and after his father died of illness, Zhang Zhaoen's mother's body and bones were getting worse day by day. The hard life has made Zhang Zhaoen develop a fierce and ruthless temperament since he was a child. Although Zhang Zhaoen dared to fight, his lack of brains only exacerbated the misery of family life, and he barely survived thanks to the help of other Zhang clansmen.

After the Zhang brothers made a fortune, the rest of the Zhang clan were rewarded. Before Zhang Zhaoen's mother died, she dragged her sick body to intercede with Zhang's mother and Zhang Mengjin, and entrusted Zhang Zhaoen to the Zhang brothers. After that, Zhang Zhaoen followed Zhang Mengjin and others to start a business of selling smuggled salt.

If this is nothing, Zhang Zhaoen is also quite ruthless, and if Zhang Mengjin and others are mixed on the road, it should be easy to mix. But Zhang Zhaoen still went home in trouble, and after he received a share of the money, he bragged and drank with several of his bad friends.

Zhang Zhaoen, who was quite eyeless, actually clashed with the servant of Li Yingqi's house, and beat the man severely. This incident was the fuse of the Zhang family's grass incident, and Zhang Zhaoen was also beaten half to death by Zhang Mengcheng's two brothers who were almost mad because of this incident. After the Zhang brothers fell into the grass, this reckless nephew who finally had a little bit of intelligence, naturally followed.

"Did your eighth uncle say anything, the other leaders are not there." Zhang Mengcheng lowered his head and responded, and after seeing that his waist knife had been almost sharpened, he put the knife into the scabbard, got up and walked towards the thatched house of his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin with Zhang Zhaoen.

"It seems that I received news that Sha Lilu was cheated by someone else, and it is not clear what it is." Zhang Zhaoen, who was accompanying him, replied as he walked: "Uncle Nine is also back, and the others and Uncle Zhao are all there." ”

It seemed that something big had happened, and I couldn't help but think that the two of them walked into a thatched hut in the cottage. As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Mengcheng saw his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin, who was talking with a group of brothers.

After Zhang Mengjin saw his third brother come in and sit down, he said directly to the third brother: "Meng Cheng, I just received the news that the old nest in Shali was taken by a group of people. It's not the official army who did it, so I'll let Lao Zhou tell you in detail. ”