In the realm of Yingtianfu, there may be people who don't know who the prefect is, but everyone knows Li Bashao. Although there is a few words in the name, Li Bashao is actually sixty-five years old. The villagers who had received his favor all called him Master Li Ba.

Li Bashao was born poor, self-made, went to sea to do business, and created a huge family business before the age of forty. After becoming rich, he did not forget his poor neighbors. As long as a poor person comes to his door, he will never leave empty-handed. During the famine years, he would open warehouses in more than a dozen villages of his own to release grain and provide relief to the victims.

Because he has done too many good deeds, he has become the focus of the government's monitoring. It is suspected that he is buying people's hearts and has bad intentions. prepared to raid Li Bashao's home.

Fortunately, there were people in Li Bashao's court, so they were not slaughtered as fat sheep.

When Zhao Gou came to Ying Tianfu, he rewarded Li Bashao with a plaque. On the plaque are four big characters written by Zhao Gou himself. "The House of Goodness." For this plaque, Li Bashao provided Zhao Gou with 30,000 taels of military salary.

With the arrival of Zhao Gou, the displaced people from all over the world gradually gathered in Yingtianfu. Li Bashao's Zhuangzi outside the city also began to be harassed and attacked by the homeless people. Li Bashao decisively let all his tenants move to the city to live. Anyway, there is no problem with a few thousand people living in a large manor within a radius of several miles.

Li Bashao believes that the city is safer than the outside. Because the city was stationed with an elite army to protect the emperor. But he didn't expect that after King Kang ascended the throne, the first thing he did was not to settle the displaced people, but to slap his ass and run to the Yangtze River. And also took away tens of thousands of troops that could fight the most. What was left for Ying Tian was only tens of thousands of lawless rebels.

As the rebels in the city became more and more arrogant, some small and medium-sized families in the city who lacked self-protection also took their own people to hide in the Li family manor.

Li Bashao did not refuse.

Faced with the doubts of his family, Li Bashao said lightly that there is great power in numbers. There were tens of thousands of soldiers in the city and hundreds of thousands of displaced people outside the city. The world is about to be in chaos. If you want to keep our Li family, you must unite the small and medium-sized families in the city. Your father and I have been to the sea, and after several lives and deaths at sea, I finally understand a truth. When a storm comes, only the whole ship can work together to survive the storm. Otherwise, the ship will be wrecked and people will die.

Li Bashao's manor is located in the east corner of Yingtianfu, covering an area of more than 20 acres. Maybe it shouldn't be called a manor, it's a small city at all. It's just that a moat is missing. Because the government did not allow private estates to build moats.

The tall courtyard wall is two zhang high, one meter thick, and it is all made of large pieces of bluestone mixed with glutinous rice pulp, which is extremely strong.

Even if you attack the courtyard wall, don't think about going directly to the compound. For there was a wide trench behind the wall, which was more than a foot deep, and the ditch was full of sharp spear heads. Don't try to survive if you fall in.

With such a defense, as a private manor, guarded by hundreds of families who are proficient in martial arts, it can be said to be impregnable.

Li Bashao himself thinks so. But on the morning when Yue Fei woke up, Li Bashao stood on the high wall of his house, looking at the three thousand soldiers surrounding the manor, and suddenly realized that he was too careless.

The guard strength of his manor is still a little weak, if he is not facing ordinary bandits and wanderers, but the siege of the three major families of Ying Tianfu, if they bring the entire force of Ying Tianfu, three thousand well-trained regiments.

Ying Tianfu's regimental training envoy was named Fang Tian, and the deputy regimental training envoy was named Chu He. These two people are the descendants of the two families of Fang Chu of the four great families. And Fang Tian's wife's name is Zhao Hua Niang. It is the daughter of the Zhao family's room. Through this relationship, the three great families of Fang, Zhao, and Chu controlled the absolute force of Ying Tianfu.

Ying Tianfu's four great families, Fang Li Zhao Chu, he was only second, but he didn't expect to dare to work Fang Zhao Chu's three families to besiege him, and the old man was proud enough.

Li Bashao stroked his white beard hanging down to his chest, and carefully looked at the people besieging him.

He wasn't looking at Fang Tian and Chu He, although those two boys were wearing bright armor and looked mighty and domineering, they were actually two straw bales.

He didn't look at the three family heads, but the man who looked more noble than the three family heads.

Fang Jueming, the head of the Fang family, Zhao Bancheng, the head of the Zhao family, and Chu Tianzheng, the head of the Chu family, any of them are characters who walk sideways in Ying Tianfu, and they have always been pot-bellied and look at people with white eyes. Everywhere you go, you are the absolute focus of the crowd.

Now the three of them are surrounding the tall man, like the stars holding the moon.

Look at the respectful attitude they had towards that man, and the flattery on their faces, even when they saw the emperor a few days ago.

Li Bashao began to look at this man carefully, guessing where this is sacred.

This man has a well-proportioned figure, thick bones, and a majestic expression. He looked at people with a very arrogant look, as if the people in front of him were like mustard in his eyes. His eyes are a pale turquoise blue.

When Li Bashao saw the man's eyes, he suddenly snorted and asked loudly at the man on the horse, "Your Excellency is a Jurchen?" ”

Before the man could answer, Fang Jueming had already begun to shout in a pretentious manner, "Old man Li, this is Mr. Jin from Dajin, why don't you come and kneel down to greet him!" Mr. Jin is a great nobleman, deign to come to your house, open the door quickly. Otherwise, we will kill it, and the chickens and dogs will not be left. ”

Mr. Jin waved his hand and stopped Fang Jueming's saliva. "I heard that Mr. Li has traveled all over the world and has seen a wide range of things, which is really extraordinary. Mr. Li is a generation of masters, don't you know that the current affairs are handsome. Although there are more than 10,000 people in your family, they are all rabble. I can't stop my thunderous blow at all. Why not drop early? ”

Li Bashao laughed. "We are a rabble, and you are not a rabble. Fang Tianchuhe, those two bastards, can bully men and women as traitors. It is really difficult for them to let them command the war. ”

Fang Tianchuhe saw that Li Bashao despised himself, and couldn't help but hate his teeth itching, and said in his heart that Li Lao's thing makes your mouth hard. I'll make you cry later.

What embarrassed the two was that Mr. Jin actually agreed with Li Bashao's words.

"The old gentleman is right. But don't forget that it's not them now, it's me commanding the battle. In my hands, any rabble will become a strong army. ”

Mr. Jin deliberately paused, as if to make Li Bashao admit his ability to command the army, and then continued, "Mr. Li, the victory or defeat is decided, why not surrender early." As long as you are willing to reduce the money, I will protect your family from dying. ”

Li Bashao pointed to the young man behind him. "Can you spare my whole family from dying, can you spare their whole family from dying?"

Mr. Jin frowned and said unhappily, "Has Mr. Li ever seen a sickle that doesn't mow the grass?" ”

Li Bashao stroked his long beard and looked up to the sky and smiled. "I, Li Bashao, left home and wandered all over the world. Fought pirates, killed giant fish. After several lives and deaths, he has never accepted his fate. ”

Speaking of this, his voice suddenly turned sad and indignant, "I Li Bashao have three sons, the eldest son Li Zheng, two years ago Kaifeng Qinwang, died under Kaifeng City. The second son, Li Xiong, died on the south bank of the Yellow River in the spring of this year. The young son Li Chun died early. The old man has a daughter left under his knees. But there are no regrets. Do you know why? ”

Without waiting for Mr. Jin to answer, Li Bashao continued to say sadly, "Because I have seen through the nature of your gold thieves. You are a swarm of locusts, broken and murderous. Come on! Since you regard us Song people as grass mustard, I want to see how sharp your scythe is. ”

Mr. Jin laughed a few times, and then waved his hand. "Attack! Before the sun sets, I will leave this chicken dog of the first good house of Yingtianfu unkept. ”

Fang Tianchuhe pointed to the high wall of the Li family and told his regimental training leaders that as long as the Li Mansion was breached, the things inside would be moved by them. Most of these small leaders were also brothers of the three distant families, and their eyes were red with excitement at that time. He immediately ordered his subordinates to move ladders and climb the wall.

The young and strong Li family and the families from various small and medium-sized families have already been waiting behind the high wall. As soon as the two sides met, they immediately turned red-eyed. Blood splattered.

Although the training of the regiment in the Song Dynasty was negligent in training, and there was little experience in battle formations, the combat strength was not worth mentioning. But it also has to be divided into whom. and the Jurchens, naturally they are local chickens and dogs, and they are vulnerable. Fighting with the young and strong family of the Li family, the combat power obviously prevailed.

It's just because the Li family's family is more desperate, so the battle situation is stalemate for a while.

Mr. Kim is well versed in the battle formation. In the first day of the first day, he did not send the warriors of the Jin Kingdom that he brought. Instead, let Fang Zhao and Chu attack first. After all, there were only more than 100 warriors he brought to the Central Plains this time. He won't let them die easily.

There were so many Song people, just let the Jurchens kill them, and they couldn't kill them all. They must be allowed to kill themselves.

watched the two parties fight for an hour, calculating that the young man of the Li family was tired. With a wave of Mr. Jin's hand, ten Dajin warriors, wearing heavy armor and holding heavy axes, didn't even use ladders, and directly stepped on the corpses of dead people and killed the walls of the Li family.

The warriors of a hundred battles were really brave, and the attack of just ten people had an effect that hundreds of regimental exercises did not have. Soon, a piece of no-man's land was cleared on the wall, and Fang Zhao and Chu's three family group exercises saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of them, and quickly let the family warriors lead the other group exercises to kill them.

These already exhausted group exercises saw that the Li family was about to fall, and they suddenly came back to their spirits. Xin said that so many small landlords ran to Li's house to take refuge, as long as they could attack it, the money they grabbed would be enough for themselves to eat and drink for a few years.

Contrary to the sudden defeat of the three regimental exercises, the Li family's family members immediately became scrambling when they saw that the wall was occupied by the enemy. After all, they are only young and strong, and at most they have been in regimental training for a few days, and they can't be compared with those who have fought a hundred battles.

Only Li Bashao was not in a hurry, he stroked his half-foot-long beard leisurely with his hand, and seemed to not care about the incoming enemy at all. Li Bashao's composure quickly gave the family confidence, and they continued to rush to the wall and fight with the invading enemy.

However, the ten golden warriors, whether it is their fighting skills or their tacit understanding, are not comparable to these young men. They soon killed more than a dozen young people, once again tilting the balance of victory in favor of the Fang family.

Li Bashao suddenly shouted, "Guo Jin." Li Heng. ”

Two strong men in heavy armor flashed out from behind Li Bashao. "What does the lord command?"

Li Bashao ordered lightly, "Rush up and kill those ten golden dogs." ”

Guo Jin and Li Heng responded in unison, "Yes, master." ”