ps: Still asking for collections, a little bit, just a little bit of yours. What this brings to this book is 'life'!

There is never only light and no darkness in this world.

Fode sent a small force to attack Wuyang when the Qing army was fighting against the Chen army, and at the same time released the news to spread throughout Ruzhou, stirring up the local squires and tyrants to rebel against the Chen army. It's a kind of darkness.

And Chen Jiajun sent Chen Guang and Chen Liang to operate the secret intelligence system, which is also a kind of darkness. For example, the current Zhoujiakou.

Chen Liang, who is known as Lu Ming, estimated the time after receiving the news from the flying pigeon of the intelligence system named Secret Camp, and the inn and warehouse of the SF Express firm were closed in the morning of that day, and only six or seven of the more than 20 people up and down the entire SF firm were still left to see the goods, and the rest of the people all disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, on the counter of Chen Yihe's firm in Zhoujiakou, a letter was delivered to the shopkeeper Zhang Yunhe.

The letter was not signed, but Zhang Yunhe recognized it at a glance as the handwriting of the shopkeeper of SF Express's firm Lu. The letter didn't say much, but said that there was a big epidemic that was going to sweep through Zhoujiakou recently, and Chen Yihe's business was better to close its doors. And the epidemic is sweeping, the danger is incomparable, if Zhang Yunhe can trust him, just plant a red flag outside his business name, and draw a yellow five-pointed star on it.

Zhang Yunhe's face changed, this SF firm is from the south, and it was in the late spring of this year that it established itself in Zhoujiakou, and it was in the medicinal herb business. This is not unusual, Zhoujiakou as an important commercial town in the southeast of Henan - the intersection of the Shahe, Yinghe and Jialu rivers, the capital of Caoyun, the water and land thoroughfare, and the important hub of commodity circulation in the east of Henan connecting Beijing and Tianjin and the south of the Yangtze River. It is an important tea distribution town on the tea road from Kyakhta to Moscow and Petersburg in the mainland, and it is close to Yuzhou, one of the four traditional Chinese medicine capitals.

But it is rare for a firm name that has only recently established itself in Zhoujiakou to make Zhang Yunhe, Chen Yihe, the big shopkeeper of Zhoujiakou, a time-honored business in Chenzhou Mansion, remember his name.

Why can Zhang Yunhe remember the SF trade name? It is not because the types of medicinal materials sought by this wealthy SF Express firm are all ordinary goods of the popular type, and the medicinal material business is not only high-end goods such as ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum that make money, but there are many businesses that take the ordinary goods of the public type. What really made Zhang Yunhe's memory of SF Express fresh was Lu Minglu's greedy attitude towards sulfur and saltpeter.

No matter how much sulfur and saltpeter you ship, SF Express will swallow it for you when you open your mouth.

As the head snake of Chenzhou Mansion and the time-honored name of Chenzhou Mansion, Chen Yihe had a good relationship with SF Firm for a while because of sulfur and saltpeter, and Lu Ming bought more than 1,000 taels of silver sulfur from Zhang Yunhe. Although Lu Ming also bargained and was picky about quality during the transaction, Lu Ming ate all the goods and only lowered the price, instead of picking and choosing. In addition, SF also reached an agreement with Chen Yihe to set a bilateral sulfur sales agreement at a price that made Chen Yihe quite profitable, and soon after, it set a saltpeter sales agreement at a relatively generous price.

Up to today, SF Express has taken away tens of thousands of catties of sulfur and saltpeter from Chen Yi and Zhoujiakou stores, and more than 3,000 taels of silver. [I can't find the exact price of sulfur] and I have never seen SF Express sell it to the outside world, but I can only see them continuously transporting medicinal materials away in a steady stream. Those sulfur and saltpeter were also mixed in the sequence of medicinal materials, and one piece went out of Zhoujiakou.

Zhang Yunhe even used his brain to understand that something was wrong with SF Express. Thinking of the Lu thieves who are not far away - Chen Jiajun is mostly called Lu mountain thieves in Chenzhou, the reason is obvious, Zhang Yunhe reported the matter to the proprietor behind him at the end of April, and the answer given by the proprietor was 'Ansheng does business'.

Zhang Yunhe is not a fool, he can guess the owner's thoughts if he thinks about it. They can't afford this kind of thing, so even if you report to the government and ask the government to arrest all the people in SF Express? Can you catch their big backers? As long as the Lu thief is still jumping for a day - not very sure, assuming - Chen Yihe's business and business can still be done? Is the life of his big boss and his family alive?

With the bravery and strength shown by the Lu bandits, they sent someone to burn all of Chen Yihe's semicolons, what could Chen Yihe do with it? Lu Mountain thieves sent people to infiltrate the capital city of Chenzhou, broke into Chen Yihe's owner's house and slashed and killed, do you Chen Yihe's boss have to suffer the same? They can't afford to fight with the Lu thieves!

Zhang Yunhe could only choose to turn a blind eye to the SF firm, but today he actually received this letter. "The pandemic? swept Zhoujiakou, could Chen Jiajun still be able to rush into Zhoujiakou? Zhang Yunhe looked at the letter paper in disbelief, where did Guide Town and Yunyang Town and thousands of militia groups go? Can't beat the Lu thieves, can't you stop the Lu thieves?

Yuncheng is 100 miles away from Zhoujiakou.

Where did Zhang Yunhe dare to 'disagree', he immediately called a confidant and asked him to go to Zhoujiakou to pass the judgment yamen - to be the commander of Chenzhou Mansion and inquire about the battle situation in Yuncheng. As a businessman with his duty, Zhang Yunhe is like a great enemy at this moment.

The men soon paid off, and the Henan political envoy Lord Fode had already led his troops to retreat along the Shahe River to Xihua. The Chen family's troops stopped the Shahe River, and the thief leader was busy sending troops to sweep Wuyang and clean up Yuncheng.

The general judgment yamen did not receive an urgent report from Lu Shan's eastward advance, but can this prove that Zhang Yunhe is unfounded and Lu Ming is scaring him? No. Not only could not, but on the contrary, it also made Zhang Yunhe's cold hair stand upside down at this moment.

Don't just look at the judgment Yamen did not receive an urgent report, you also have to see that Fode retreated to Xihua along the Shahe River with the officers and soldiers, which means that the officers and soldiers gave way to the road east of Yuncheng, as long as the Lu thieves are willing, they can kill directly to Zhoujiakou from the east!

If Zhang Yunhe is not mistaken, just three days ago, the Chenzhou Mansion was sentenced to go to the army to pay for the **** of the army with a batch of newly raised money and grain from Zhoujiakou. At that time, the lord swore to everyone that Zhoujiakou was as safe as Mount Tai. Even if the official army can't drive the Lu thieves out of Xuzhou for a while, they can still enter Chenzhou.

The words were still in his ears, and Na Fode led the team to Xihua and put Zhoujiakou under the teeth of the Lu thieves.

If Fode stood in front of Zhang Yunhe at this time, Zhang Yunhe would definitely slap Fode twice, and then ask him: Dignified Zhoujiakou, a government general judgment station, is it not as good as a Xihua County?

Zhang Yunhe was also confused, forgetting the soldiers and horses of Guide Town that had passed from Zhoujiakou before, and the large and small artillery carried on the ship.

It is impossible for Fode's retreating troops to lose all twenty or thirty pieces of artillery, he must bring these things, and they must be completely taken to the next place where the army is stationed, otherwise the Chen family army has attacked, and he will not sit on wax again? The power of the flying thunder cannon was too great, and the rolling package-like shells, more than ten or twenty catties of gunpowder and a few catties of iron sand and broken iron, could kill and injure people in the surrounding area for three or five zhang miles with one shot.

Therefore, the Qing soldiers could only retreat to Xihua by water.

The ass decides the head. It's a very vulgar sentence, but it's very philosophical.