Li Wancai was anxious, and he couldn't care about Li Tingyu wanting to enjoy the scenery, and said in a loud voice: "Lord Tu doesn't know, in fact, this Hongze Lake is very uneasy, in recent years, there has been a stream of water thieves who have made trouble, harassed the people, robbed past merchants, and were bold, even the imperial court dared to rob and disturb, and the officials were not talented, and they had been working hard to exterminate them, but they were suffering from weak military strength, and they couldn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots for a while. If you run into this gang of thieves, you may have something to worry about, so please give the order to turn quickly! ”

Li Tingyu, who was pretending to be Tuhai, listened to Li Wancai's anxious words, but he didn't even move his eyebrows, stood on the bow of the boat and squinted at Li Wancai, and said without a hesitation: "Why is Lord Li so afraid of this Hongze Lake water thief?" Could it be that the water thieves are really more powerful than my Eight Banners elite soldiers? ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Wancai choked so much that he almost vomited blood, and he didn't know how to persuade him for a while, so he had to explain: "Lord Tu is too careful, the lower officials don't mean this, the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners are naturally invincible in the world, but this water thief ......"

Li Tingyu waved his hand and interrupted in a rough voice: "Master Li doesn't need to say much, this will be inside and outside the pass, crisscrossing the battlefield, how many heroes and fierce generals have been seen, countless thieves have been killed, and there are thousands of resentful ghosts under his command. ”

Li Wancai muttered a few times, and wanted to say more, but saw Li Tingyu's face, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with his attitude, the more he said anything, he stood there in a daze, only to feel that this Tuhai was a northerner, he had never seen a water battle array, he didn't know the horror of water thieves, and he was arrogant, but what should he do?

Countless thoughts turned in my heart, and finally I decisively thought: Since my words have been said, I can't blame me if you want to ask for trouble in Tuhai, if you can borrow the hands of the Qing soldiers to kill the water thieves, it is best if you can kill the water thieves, if you are killed by the water thieves, I'm sorry, I Li Wancai still has a good future, so I won't accompany you.

The idea is certain, Li Wancai immediately put on a smile again, and echoed: "Yes, yes, Lord Tu is a strong soldier, if the water thief dares to come to harass him, Lord Tu will definitely be able to kill him like a ruined Gula, and cause a disaster for the people of Hongze Lake." ”

Li Tingyu's face softened, and he laughed loudly: "Of course, hahaha, Lord Li, come and come, come and see that island, green trees, birds and beasts chirping, faintly inhabited by people, it seems to be very interesting, why don't we go up and hunt for some game and drink for fun?" ”

Li Wancai reluctantly twitched his cheeks and smiled, but it was more ugly than crying, and he arched his hand in a dumb voice: "Lord Tu Yaxing, the lower official should obey, but unfortunately the lower official still has urgent official duties, and he can no longer accompany the adult, it is better for the adult to go ashore to hunt, and the lower official will leave first, he will go to the adult army in the future, carry generous gifts, and then drink and talk with the adult!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and wanted to ask his relatives to leave with the boat, but as soon as he turned around, he saw a bald head.

Wang Huan stood behind Li Wancai with a smile and said, "Where is Lord Li?" My family said that they would invite Li to the island for a drink. ”

For this monk-like teenager, Li Wancai was very ignorant, just thinking that this was Li Tingyu's habit, and he liked to take a little monk by his side, so he forcibly suppressed the displeasure in his heart and said coldly: "This official has something important to do, and he has already explained it to Master Tu, so he has to take the first step." ”

"Oh? The scenery on Mudun Island is beautiful, it would be a pity if Lord Li didn't go to see it, it would be better to do this, please let the people go back first, what can be done first, Lord Li don't worry, and go to the island. ”

Wang Huan said with a hippie smile.

Li Wancai's expression suddenly changed greatly, his eyes glared angrily, and he shouted: "Bold! Who are you? Dare to speak to this official like this! ”

Wang Huan was still smiling, beckoned behind him, and shouted, "Send them off the boat!" Li Wancai's personal entourage on this boat, about ten people, at this time the unsuspecting east and west scattered one by one, only to see the white pole soldiers move in response, a hug up, without waiting for the relatives to react, has already drawn a knife to cut up, in the blink of an eye a scream screamed miserably, blood splashed, more than ten people were hacked to death, thrown into the lake, stained a piece of lake water.

Looking at the bloody scene in front of him, Li Wancai was completely stunned, this is on a Qing army ship, how could this happen?

Wang Huan's face did not change, and he looked at Li Wancai with a smile.

The smile was full of malice, obviously laughing, but Li Wancai felt that there were countless swords coming from that smiling face, and the knives were slashed in his heart, seeing that he was in a state of confusion, he even trembled his hands and feet, almost unsteady on his feet, hurriedly turned around, and shouted in his mouth: "Lord Tu, Lord Tu save me!" ”

As soon as he turned around, it was as if he was hitting his head against a wall, causing Li Wancai's tears and snot to flow turbulently, and before he could see what was going on, Li Tingyu stretched out his big hand, grabbed his collar, and lifted him up from himself.

"Look, Master Li, what are you anxious about, since you're here, you can do it to the end, do me another favor!" Li Tingyu smiled and said to Li Wancai's face.

Li Wancai was not tall, only as close to Li Tingyu's chest, and was picked up, dancing like a chicken, and exclaimed: "Ah! Master Tu, Master Tu, what's wrong with the lower official? Why do you treat subordinates like this? I am a Caoyun official appointed by the imperial court, are you not afraid of the imperial court's condemnation? ”

Li Tingyu threw Li Wancai away, threw it on the deck, and said, "The imperial court? Which court? Qing court or Ming court? ”

Several white-pole soldiers came up, tied their hands and feet, tied Li Wancai into a zongzi, then took off one of his socks, stuffed it into his mouth, and threw it into the cabin to watch and take care of him.

Li Tingyu was still there and laughed loudly: "This dog official, he is really a Tartar when he is still Lao Tzu, and he has to pretend to die until he is dying, it's so disgusting!" ”

Wang Huan took a step forward, stood on the bow of the boat, looked at the approaching Mudun Island, and said in a deep voice: "With him, we are more sure to enter the Huai River, and next, it depends on whether the water thieves dare to come." However, our two plans, the risky one actually succeeded so smoothly, and the second set of plans to spend money to buy a boat was not used, and I don't know if the water thieves will come as promised. ”

Li Tingyu snorted coldly: "I'm afraid I don't dare to come, these thieves, they have always bullied the soft and afraid of the hard, and when they saw the money, when our people went to look for them a few days ago, they just said that there were big families who wanted to buy a boat to pass by, and they didn't explain our identity. ”

Wang Huan looked at him and said with a wry smile: "Master Li, don't say that, if they don't show up, it will embarrass me." ”

Li Tingyu said: "Embarrassed? Why is it so difficult? Now that we have a boat, we can just drive the boat away, it's better if the water thieves don't come, we don't need to buy a boat from them now, we just save money. ”

Killing people on this ship is a signal, and the rest of the other Cao ships also began to kill the people of the Cao Yun Yamen who accompanied the ship, coercing the sailors, forcing them to continue to drive the ship, those sailors are ordinary people, who have been conscripted to drive the official ship, where have they seen this kind of murder scene, trembling and begging for mercy, and obeying the order very obediently. So these twenty boats were all under the control of the white pole soldiers.

Wang Huan looked at the corpse thrown into the water and explained to Li Tingyu: "Lord Li, what are you going to do with these two million taels of gold and silver?" Do you take them back to SC? ”

Li Tingyu was stunned for a moment, and said casually: "Of course, such a large sum of silver, brought back to the general army of Qin, whether it is used as military salary or for people's livelihood, is a great good." ”

Wang Huan sighed: "There are thousands of mountains and rivers on this road, and it's okay to say on the Huai River, but from Xinyang to Xiangyang to Yichang, how can we get lucky?" The Qing army and Li Zicheng were fighting in full swing and chaotic on the HB realm, and carrying a huge amount of wealth was tantamount to inviting a tiger and a wolf. Moreover, more than 500 of us, without a cart of livestock, it is impossible for us to carry such a large weight of gold and silver on the road under any circumstances. ”

Li Tingyu was stunned again, and habitually asked: "Senator, find a way to come up with ideas, isn't it your responsibility?" ”

Wang Huan raised his head and said in a deep voice: "There is one idea, that is, it is difficult for some strong people, I don't know if the adults are willing to adopt it." ”

Li Tingyu saw that Wang Huan said solemnly, his face became serious, and he said solemnly: "Senator, let's talk about it first." ”

"Carrying this large piece of possessions on the road is like carrying a huge burden, and it is not fast at all. I thought, since I can't bring it, I'll just put it here. ”

"Huh? Don't want it? Li Tingyu had a painful expression on his face.

Wuhuan frowned and said, "Money or life, which is more important?" ”

"It's all important!" Li Tingyu shouted as if someone was trying to rob his wife: "Senator, you must have the best of both worlds, don't you?" ”

Wuhuan helplessly spread his hands: "How can there be so many best of both worlds, putting money here, it's not that you don't want it, but invest in the future?" ”

"Investment?" Li Tingyu was at a loss: "Do business? ”

"No, it's a metaphor, which means that we should invest this money in a place that is beneficial to us in the future, so that we will not have to carry such a heavy load on the road, and we will not have to carry it to the pain, nor will we lose this huge amount of hard-won possessions in vain." Wang Huan carefully explained that the word investment was still a new word in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a certain range of circulation in the place where capital sprouted in the south.

Li Tingyu understood as soon as he heard it, Wang Huan was going to spend the money, although it seemed a little out of shape compared to the original intention of transporting the money back to SC as military salary, but after thinking about it, this was the best way at the moment. Anyone understands that with such a huge team of silver cars on the road, the risk can be described as extremely huge, not to mention reducing the speed of the march, five hundred white pole soldiers are like a dart game, holding a batch of darts that require at least five thousand people to escort, everyone has four big words printed on their heads, "Come and rob me" four big words, any grass head king in the troubled times will come to try his luck, so that, let alone go back to SC, everyone is afraid that they will not even be able to get out of this Hongze Lake.