A cold glint flashed in Xu Gai's eyes: "Brother Wang, Mr. Song, I can't hide it, Xu is not a native of Qilu, but the old man of Nan Chen, who has a hatred for destroying the country with the Sui Dynasty, and has been plotting to restore the country." At that time, Xu and his colleagues raised troops in the south of the Yangtze River, but unfortunately they fell short, and they were incognito for many years, but they didn't expect to meet Wang Shichong, who had led the troops to quell the rebellion in Daxing, and thought that they would definitely die, but they didn't expect this guy to rebel at that time, not only did not arrest me, but also sent me to Heze County, Qi County, and gave me a large amount of money every year, asking me to establish this Xujiazhuang here, make friends with heroes, and shelter outlaws, so as to wait for the world to change! ”

Song Jingang laughed: "No wonder Lord Xu Zhuang is so dismissive of that Wang Shichong, it turns out that he used to have enmity with him, not kindness." However, after all, this Wang Shichong has given you so many years of funding, and he did not put a Zhang Jin to grab land by his side like he did to Dou Jiande, it is said that the owner of Xu Zhuang should not hate him so much. ”

Xu Gai sneered: "When Xu raised troops in Jiangnan, he had a careful plan, and in October, almost all of the entire Jiangnan except for the two cities of Jiankang and Suzhou fell into the hands of the remnants of the Chen Dynasty, but this Wang Shichong was scheming, and gave Yang Su, the commander of the Sui army at that time, a lot of poisonous schemes, so that the rebels from all walks of life were suspicious of each other, missed the fighter, and finally gave the Sui army a chance to break through, and tens of thousands of my brothers also died in Huangquan. ”

"And Wang Shichong was afraid that I would be too powerful after I returned to Jiangnan, and it would be difficult to control it, so he forcibly confined me to this Qi County, which is called funding, but in fact it is controlled by Zhan. If it weren't for the fact that I've avoided his surveillance in every possible way over the years. Secretly develop your own power. I'm afraid that he will have become his puppet a long time ago. In the final analysis, Wang Shichong and I are just using each other, and the word kindness is never talked about. ”

Wang Xu took a long breath of relief and said, "Master Xu, after saying so much, what do you want us to do?" Today, you also called Dou Jiande, and you have already revealed in your words just now that you want to break away from Wang Shichong and stand on your own. I'm afraid that the person surnamed Dou will tell Wang Shichong these words, and you will also face the possibility of turning your face with him in the future. ”

Xu Gai shook his head confidently: "I know Wang Shichong very well, now at this time he doesn't dare to openly turn his face with me, I have become a climate here, even Brother Wang knows that I am a famous number one person on the green forest road in Shandong, Wang Shichong relies on sneaking assassination or forcible attack, it is impossible to capture my Zhuangzi, at most it is absolutely my financial assistance, hum, I Xu Gai has already found a way to make a fortune over the years." Nor did he count on the money of the king. ”

Wang Xuba nodded: "Lord Xu Zhuang has good means, but you are independent of Wang Shichong." What do you want to draw? Do you also want to wait for the troubled times to come, and then rise up? ”

Xu Gai smiled slightly: "Now the chaos in the world has appeared, Yang Guang in order to dig the Grand Canal, in Hebei and Shandong, has lost the hearts of the world, now many ordinary people in Hebei and Shandong, unbearable hard labor, have fled into the mountains and forests, become bandits, if it is not for the thieves swarm, you will not come back from the Turks with confidence." ”

Wang Xuba smiled slightly: "Yes, it is too late for the government to search for those who fled everywhere, how can we care about those good people who have not openly gone up the mountain to become bandits." And the canal has been dug up, and we should be able to recuperate in Youzhou, Hebei Province in the past few years, just to recover the lost territory. ”

Xu Gai shook his head: "Brother Wang is too optimistic, Yang Guang will not let you Hebei, especially the area around Zhuo County, Youzhou, be peaceful." ”

Wang Xuba's face changed: "What does Lord Xu Zhuang mean by this, the canal has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, could it be that Yang Guang can still play any tricks?" ”

Xu Gai said: "Brother Wang is not in the court, and he still doesn't know much about the general trend of the world, Mr. Song, what do you think?" ”

Song Jingang frowned, and nodded thoughtfully: "Actually, I've always wondered why the emperor would go to such great lengths to dig a canal in Hebei, and he had to complete it within a year." It is said that such a huge amount of work, divided into five or six years, will not kill so many people, making the people of Hebei miserable. And the canal is mainly for large-scale transportation, generally for war preparations, to transport grain, troops, ordnance and use, the end point of the canal is Zhuojun, is close to the Turks and Goguryeo frontier, now the Turks have surrendered to the Great Sui, is it possible to start a war with Goguryeo? ”

Xu Gai laughed: "Mr. Song's words, yes, Wang Shichong has also mentioned this point to us again and again, Yang Guang in order to arrange military merits for those Hu generals who were born in Guanlong, so that they can get the title of the shadow, must change the all-out war of annihilation of Goguryeo, dig canals, and transport materials and manpower from Jiangnan to Zhuo County, Hebei, precisely to prepare for this war." ”

Song Jingang gasped: "I just fought Tuyuhun this year, mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, I heard that the decades of grain in the Guanzhong area have been eaten up, plus the envoys from the Western Regions countries will be entertained for free, the Longyou area of Guanzhong is already miserable, and Hebei has reached the brink of turmoil for the matter of digging a canal, in this case, if you don't recuperate for a few years, you have to start a war against Goguryeo immediately?" Is this emperor's brain in the water! ”

Xu Gai smiled slightly: "The reign of the faint monarch will only suffer the people of the world, he is pampered, how can he know the suffering of the people?!" But that's okay, he will only make the world messy by himself, this is the opportunity for us heroes, the troubled times are coming, if you don't prepare early, you will only give the future king to step on the throne, and then you will regret it. Wang Shichong saw this point, so he did not hesitate to betray Dou Jiande, and also arranged his own people in Hebei, just to take advantage of the special situation in Hebei to take the lead! ”

Wang Xuba and Song Jingang glanced at each other, and Wang Xuba nodded: "Mr. Xu, I already know what you mean, you came to us to ask us to do something, just say it!" ”

Xu Gai clapped his hands, the door outside "squeaked" opened, the strong wind blew the lamps and candles swaying, twenty strong families, each in a group of two, carrying a large iron box, moved in, opened the box, only to see that it was full of strings of copper coins, roughly estimated, a box is enough for 500,000 yuan, just these ten boxes, there are at least five million money, enough for Wang Xuba's Lishan Fei income for several years. (To be continued......)