A group of five people rode horses to the end of the Mandarin Duck Water, Xiao also found that this tributary has been flowing downward, and when it reaches the boundary of Ulzhou, it is again converging in the Yuanyang Water, and the location of this tributary is quite good, which is convenient for the reclamation of wasteland in spring. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xiao Yi couldn't stop nodding, "Okay!" Dayong, tomorrow you will bring people here and build a small pier in that place. The specific arrangements will be discussed with Mr. Liu and then I will inform you. Oh yes, and on the hillside before us, where the view is wide, and such a pier should be built, and your night team will look for this similar high ground near Yong'an Fort, and build a pier every mile. ”

Seeing Wang Dayong nodded, Xiao Yi continued: "In this way, it not only solves the problem that the people can't take care of it when they are outside the tuntian, but where there is a problem, the pier can immediately call the police, and then the tunbao can send troops to rescue or bring the people into the fort for temporary shelter. ”

Huang Yang nodded, "Well, we have also thought about the things that the people can't take care of when they go out to Tuntian, and we don't want the eldest brother to think about it long ago." Shi Gang laughed, "That's, who is Brother Xiao." Then he rode his horse, "Brothers, we haven't been out so happily for months, why don't you go back to the fort with a whip?" ”

Several people were good, and a group of five people screamed and let them run freely, extremely happy, and swept away the haze for days.

In the afternoon, Xiao Yi found Qi Lao and the three of them to discuss the construction of the pier, and after listening to Xiao Yi's narration, Qi Lao and the others understood that Xiao Yi wanted a small pier to investigate the situation, similar to the border arms road pier, but it was not the same.

But the fire pier is generally the upper layer of the people, the lower level of the garrison, the Ming Dynasty to build a fire pier at least a hundred taels of silver, Xiao Yi does not have so many silver taels at hand now, so it is to find Liu Lao and the three to discuss, Xiao Yi also participated. A new plan for the construction of piers was proposed.

Just for reconnaissance, the fire road pier in the Ming Dynasty was too large, and for the town guard, the fire road pier was too small, and the number of people was not enough to maintain the peace of the party.

So Xiao also decided to choose one of the two, Tunpu had its own army, and the pier platform was only used to transmit the enemy's information, which saved a lot of costs and strengthened the mobility of the pier.

These piers to be built, each set about eight feet high, the pier is round, surrounded by rammed earth and bricks. The inner diameter is one foot and three feet, divided into two layers, the lower layer is garrisoned, and the upper layer is used to light the beacon fire.

Such a small pier can only garrison two people at most. And the cost is very small, because they are built in open areas, the effect of the design is far greater than the cost is required.

However, the establishment of such a pier requires a skilled grasp of geography, which Xiao Yi had no experience in his previous life.

In the morning, Xiao Yi and Huang Yang surveyed the terrain within a radius of several miles of Mandarin Duck Water on Yong'an Fort Road along the way, and Xiao Yi made marks in some places where he felt that he could build piers.

On the second day, Xiao also went to Changning Town.

After arriving, he found that the small school that came out of Wang Changliang's door had never been seen before.

"This little colonel, why is he so face-to-face, is it a new recruit of the Wang Guan team?" Xiao Yi asked with a smile.

When the little colonel saw that it was Xiao Yi, he immediately bowed respectfully to Xiao Yi, this is the way, "Xiao Zongqi may not know that just yesterday, Lord Defense ordered Wang Changliang and Li Zhen to be removed from their positions. ”

Xiao Yi only then knew that this Changning Town had changed owners. After Liu Yiming returned to Peach Blossom Castle to defend the thousands of households, he began to liquidate the generals who fled without permission during the war, but in the end, there were many people who were liquidated, and even Liu Yiming could not punish them all, which would cause the boundary of Peach Blossom Fort to shake.

In the end, he had to deal with a group of generals who were the first to escape, and allowed others to make meritorious contributions.

Later, it was found out that Li You turned out to be the personal soldier of Liu Ce, the general soldier of Da'ankou, who was pressed to Beijing, and according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty at that time, Li Zhen was guilty of harboring, and Wang Changliang knew that he did not report the crime. In the end, it was decided that all three of them would be dismissed, and Yang Xiao, the former 100 households in Changning Town, would be tentatively appointed as the escrow team officer, and the team officer would not be set up for the time being.

"What about Li You? Caught or not? Xiao Yi hurriedly asked.

Xiao Xiao shook his head, "None of these three people have returned so far, and the defense lord is arresting them, how dare they come back." ”

Xiao Yi gave up his hand and glanced at the house of the management team, but he also had no intention of going in, and was about to leave. Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the room.

"Mr. Xiao stays!" A hearty voice came into his ears, and Xiao Yi looked at it.

I saw a person, dressed in a cyan robe, looking like a weak scholar, Xiao Yi wondered, could it be that there was also a scholar in Changning Town?

There is another person beside him, this person is wearing a hundred household official uniforms, different from other hundred household officials with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, this person Xiao Yi is no different from a little white face at first glance, but he has a good face in a military uniform.

The hundred households said to Xiao Yi, "In Xia Yang Xiao, temporarily manage the team." I've heard of Mr. Xiao's name for a long time, so why don't you come here to talk about it? ”

The person who looked like a weak scholar also paused, "The small businessman Lin Pingran, the general banner came here just in time, and he usually has something to discuss with Xiao Zongqi." I was going to visit tomorrow, but I didn't want to meet here today. ”

Xiao Yi's heart suddenly became interested, Lin Pingran? Isn't that Peach Blossom Castle businessman, how did he come here? Thinking of this, Xiao Yi had a really bad impression of these black-hearted businessmen, and sneered in his heart at the moment.

It's okay, anyway, sooner or later in the future, we will have to meet with these businessmen, so it's better to go in and see what they have to say, and then it's not too late to go.

He smiled and said, "Okay, since both of you have this invitation, then Xiao Yi will go in and drink with the two of you!" After speaking, he glanced at Lin Pingran, and he wanted to know if this Lin Pingran would drink.

After hearing this, both of them laughed, and the three of them entered the division and sat down. Yang Xiao personally poured wine for Xiao Yi and Lin Pingran, Xiao Yi glanced at the bowl on the table, and said with a smile, "It's not fun to drink like this, it's better for you and me to have one altar, that's happy." After a pause, he glanced at Lin Pingran, "Mr. Lin doesn't look like he can drink, just wait for me and Yang Baihu to finish drinking." ”

Lin Pingran didn't seem to see the sarcasm in Xiao Yi's eyes, he was still smiling, but he nodded slowly.

Xiao Yi glanced at Lin Pingran, for some reason Xiao Yi was very disgusted with his face, and snorted coldly and raised the wine jar to drink.

Yang Xiao also saw Xiao Yi's hostility towards Lin Pingran, but he still laughed, revealing yellow teeth that did not match his white face, and without hesitation, he picked up a jar and drank with Xiao Yi.

Lin Pingran sat there and watched the two of them drink, Xiao Yi wanted to smash it to the ground after drinking a jar, but after thinking about it, he still put it on the table, and saw that Lin Pingran was still like that, smiling, but smiling without showing his teeth, looking like he was underwhelmed.

Without waiting for Xiao Yi to speak, Lin Pingran smiled and said, "I'm here to continue to discuss the sale with Xiao Zongqi. ”

Selling people?

He actually forgot about such things these days, Xiao Yi was shocked in his heart, but his face still did not change. wiped his mouth, and said unsatisfactorily, "Selling people? Who to sell? How did I not know? ”

Yang Xiao looked at Xiao Yi and said in surprise, "Xiao Zongqi doesn't know? I contacted Mr. Lin on the orders of Wang Changliang. ”

Lin Pingran said lightly, "Mr. Xiao doesn't have to hide it, it's all his own people here." ”

After hearing this, Xiao Yi also understood, and changed his previous appearance of pretending to be deaf and dumb and did not understand, and his face gradually turned cold, "Lin Pingran, what do you want to say?" ”

Lin Pingran said lightly, "I have also heard of the deeds of the general banner killing the horse drawer and the bloody battle against the Tartars. Now that Wang Changliang and the three of them have fled, it is only a matter of time before the general flag is raised and the officer of the team is raised. ”

Xiao Yi glanced at Yang Xiao, "Isn't the team Yang Xiao, what does it have to do with me?" ”

Lin Pingran didn't explain, but he got up directly and said lightly, "I'm here just to inform the general flag that I bought everyone for thirty taels each, and these are silver taels." "Say goodbye and leave.

Xiao Yi was confused, what did Lin Pingran mean. Originally, he thought that Lin Pingran wanted to threaten by selling people, but he bought all the horse thieves at a high price.

In this way, wouldn't Lin Pingran lose money? Not only did he lose the means to blackmail himself, but he also lost some silver. Will these businessmen still make loss-making trades?

Xiao Yi's eyes were full of gloom, it seemed that this person had to be guarded against.