At noon that day, Yang Xi and others were having dinner and reported that someone was visiting.

Huang Zhong asked to bring people up left and right, but when Yang Xi looked at it, he was middle-aged in his thirties and dressed decently.

Huang Zhong hurriedly brought people over to see Yang Xi.

"Bao Gongzi, this is Qian Can, the vice president unit of the Wuhu Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, who has a commercial house in Wuhu, a garment factory with 500 sewing machines, and 2,000 underground employees."

As soon as Qian Can heard that this was Yang Xi, he hurriedly came over and hugged his fists to see it, and Yang Xi naturally returned the salute.

As long as they are members of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, they have participated in the training of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, which also includes language training.

"Mr. Qian has developed so fast, my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has only been open here for a year, and Mr. Qian has grown to a group of two or three thousand people, so he should have some family background here."

Qian Can replied while sitting down: "The president doesn't know, my family background in Danyang is not thick, and my ancestors only left dozens of acres of dry land, but only ten acres of fertile land. Later, when I happened to pass through Exian County, it coincided with the opening of Chenhe Port soon after the beginning of investment, and I joined the club and became an ordinary member. ”

Speaking of this, Qian Can deliberately got up and saluted again, which is really a sign of gratitude.

Yang Xi got up and helped him, and then asked Qian Can what news he brought.

Qian Can said: "Previously, because the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce had an agreement with Taishou, and did not charge any taxes from my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and the two were safe, and now the new county order not only wants us to donate money and materials, but also to pay additional taxes from tomorrow. ”

Yang Xi did not answer his question directly, but asked separately: "Since Mr. Qian is the representative, please tell me carefully about the situation of my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce in Wuhu City." ”

Qian Can said: "Now there are 36 members in Wuhu City, and there are only three vice president units, including Qian. However, these 36 member units have mastered a lot of merchants, and they can be regarded as a large force. ”

Yang Xi nodded after hearing this, this is the birth of a new class, in this small area, there is a force that can wrestle with the old landlord class.

But compared to the old landlords, these forces are still too weak, and what they have to do is to use force to escort this class, so that it can grow into a towering tree that can take charge of itself.

Nowadays, Danyang, Lujiang and even Yuan Shu's Jiujiang have merchants like Qian Can who are slowly growing, and they are the resolute supporters of their Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

They are a generation with a pioneering spirit.

After hearing Qian Can finish speaking, Yang Xi said: "That's it, I'll give you two tasks." ”

"Please make it clear to the president!"

"First, after you go back, form the Wuhu County Business Alliance of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and I will give you a letter of appointment in the name of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and you will be the leader of the alliance. Second, the first thing your business alliance does is to donate money and materials to each family, or hire people to set up a temporary Chenhe Chamber of Commerce Wuhu Temporary Guard, at least 500 people, and when I conquer Wuhu County, I will hand it over to your Chamber of Commerce Alliance to manage Wuhu County. ”

After Yang Xi finished speaking, Qian Can was shocked.

"What~what? Lay down Wuhu County? President, you want to send troops to capture Wuhu County? There are now thousands of soldiers and horses in the county. ”

Yang Xi said: "Don't worry, in Danyang, I said that which county I want to fight, which county I will go down." I have appointed Huang Zhong as the head of the Eastern Expeditionary Corps, and Qin Fang as the deputy commander, leading 6,000 troops, responsible for helping you ascend to the top. At that time, you will be self-reliant in internal affairs, and you will ask Commander Huang all about foreign military affairs. ”

After talking about the matter of Wuhu, Yang Xi turned his head and asked Huang Zhongdao: "Wuhu is so decided, other counties, what is the situation, as long as my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce is oppressed, within the scope of our ability, we must include it in the same way, and no one is allowed to reach out to us to ask for a baht." ”

"Childe, at present, there are many members of our Chamber of Commerce in the entire Danyang County, large and small counties, do you want to contact them all?"

"Take the map of Danyang."

Yang Xi ordered people to take the map of Danyang, only to see more than ten counties on the map, each county location is marked next to the vice president, the number of members, Wuhu's three vice presidents and thirty-six members are the most, the least, there is also a vice president and more than a dozen members.

Yang Xi pointed his finger at Wuhu County, went all the way down to the southwest, and pointed to Chungu, Wanling, Jing County, Lingyang, Di County, Xuancheng County, and She County.

These eight places will be taken within half a month, and the business alliance of each county, in accordance with the rules of my Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, will manage its own internal affairs and recruit five hundred troops to defend the city, and I will send personnel to participate in the management at that time, which is an expedient measure.

So they all took their places and began to act, Huang Zhong led 3,000 people, went straight to Wuhu overnight, and thousands of defenders were vulnerable under Huang Zhong's strong crossbow.

The point is that they are all county soldiers, and the peasants came to serve, not the regular army, where do they have the courage to resist.

Yang Xi's instructions to Huang Zhong were to sneak attack first, and if the sneak attack failed, it would not be too late to start killing.

Huang Zhong followed Yang Xi's method of climbing the wall in the middle of the night, successfully took Wuhu that night, ordered Qian Can to organize it overnight, took over the management the next day, dismissed the original defenders of more than 1,000 people, let them out of the city, and returned to their respective townships.

The defenders were overjoyed to hear that they would no longer be required to serve in the military.

Huang Zhong attacked all the way and captured eight counties without much effort.

only attacked and exposed in Jing County, and then greeted with a crossbow arrow, shooting more than 100 people, and he was also cut by the other party, and more than 10 soldiers were injured.

Liu Miao received the news and hurriedly discussed countermeasures.

General Liu Mi said: "My lord, please recover Wuhu and other counties with 3,000 soldiers and horses at the end of the general, and take advantage of Yang Xi's unstable foothold to drive him out of Danyang." ”

The general Rong Rong said: "The last general thinks that he cannot be underestimated, it is said that Yang Xi is not Jiangxia Xiaoer, although its main force is in Lujiang and Jiangxia, but it is said that there are five or six thousand soldiers and horses in Qinghe Port. ”

Liu Miao was thoughtful.

"This Qinghe Port is said to have 6,000 soldiers, and now Huang Zhong is leading 3,000 Western Expeditions. Order you to lead 3,000 troops to take Wuhu, and when Huang Zhong returns to Hong Kong, block his back road. ”

"The last general will obey the order!"

"Rongrong!"

"The last general!"

"Order you to lead 5,000 troops, directly attack the Qinfang Department of Qinghe Port, kill Qin Fang, collect his soldiers, and recruit all the thousands of laborers of Qinghe Port into the army."

"The last general commands!"

In fact, Zhang Yingtun's soldiers Niu Zhu were closer to Wuhu, but Liu Miao did not dare to transfer Zhang Ying, which was the main way to prevent Wu Jing from crossing the river and attacking Danyang.

Liu Miao had no choice but to transfer troops from Danyang and transfer the only 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yang Xi.

Yang Xi was waiting for Liu Xuan's action at the moment, and suddenly the news of the special agent battalion came back that Liu Xuan dispatched 8,000 soldiers and horses to attack Wuhu urgently, and according to the current marching speed, it can be reached tomorrow.

Yang Xi shook his head, impossible, attacking Wuhu is of no use to Liu Xuan, as long as his troops are in Qinghe Port, Wuhu can be taken at any time.

"Humph! Am I playing with the sound of the east? I wrote these thirty-six strategies, Liu Xuan, but I'll just make a plan. ”

"Qin Fang listened to the order and ordered you to lead the 3,000 troops of the department, go out of the city immediately, and ambush Liu Xuanjun outside Wuhu."

"The last general commands! But Childe, if I lead my troops to ambush, you will not have a single soldier here? ”

"Just go!"

Yang Xi smiled: "I have my own strange soldiers!" ”