Zhou Quan had heard before that because of the large-scale recruitment of workers, the craftsmen in the mining and metallurgy were quite dissatisfied.

In Zhou Quan's view, the coal and iron industrial complex he plans to build in Xuzhou is not enough even for 40,000 or even 100,000 workers. But in the hearts of the workers of the 36th Metallurgical Corporation, the people who have been recruited more are here to rob them of their jobs.

In the past, there were more than 4,000 workers in the 36th metallurgy, and in addition to the smelters who were rich and the stewards at all levels were quite wealthy, ordinary workers, and even ordinary craftsmen, could only barely make ends meet. Now there are a lot of outsiders, and if they want to share this already tense pot of gruel with them, they naturally don't do it.

Shi Fengren has been active in Li Guojian for a long time, so he asked him for the news and came up with such a poisonous plan.

If it is really done by him, not to mention everything, even if it is just more than 1,000 workers to surround the governor's yamen, plus people with ulterior motives to stir up trouble, mix in the crowd and stab them casually, and then call it "the official messenger has killed someone", what follows is probably a terrible anger.

The miners of the 36th Metallurgical Sector are not as honest and obedient as the farmers in the fields, and these poor people who have no property will burst out with extremely terrifying power.

"They also said that they were here to hold a weekly meeting...... This week, it's the governor and the yamani! Nacinda shouted again.

Shi Fengren's face changed suddenly, only the people in their cottage knew about the Zhou Conference, and he didn't leak it himself, it must have been taken out by the Xin family brothers in someone else's mouth.

As soon as this matter was revealed, his relationship with Zhou Quan changed from a public enemy to a private enemy.

In Shi Fengren's opinion, the public enemy, after all, is because of the contradictions caused by the affairs of the official family, and there is still the possibility of resolution, Zhou Quan may not do anything to him. But if it becomes a private enemy, it is completely different, the public enemy can be resolved, and the private enemy is undying.

"Catch the weekly assembly? It's a good name...... Let me think about it, I have no grudges with you in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, what are you doing to hold a weekly meeting? In addition, Cao Cao, the second thief in Haizhou, also came to Xuzhou, could it be that he also came to participate in the weekly meeting? I think there is a force that gathers you scum from all over the world these days...... Let me think again, who is this force? ”

Shi Fengren didn't say anything more this time, the horror in his eyes had already proved Zhou Quan's conjecture.

It's just that Zhou Quan couldn't understand for a while, who had such a great ability to bring all the thieves together, just to deal with his father and son.

"In this situation, don't you think it's useful?" Seeing that he was silent, Zhou Quan smiled and asked.

Ji Chun next to him rolled up his sleeves with excitement on his face: "In the ya, it has been handed over to the villain, the villain is in the Xuzhou Mansion, but there is no prisoner who can't cure the confession, the villain is this avenue!" ”

Wang Qinian, who had just come over next to him, lit up: "Is that really the case?" Can you teach me? ”

"No problem!" Ji Chun saw that he could get to Zhou Quan's side, this person should be a close confidant of the Yanei, so he intended to make friends, and he readily agreed.

Zhou Quan looked at Shi Fengren, and when he saw that he still refused to speak, he waved his hand at the moment: "Take it away, you two dispose of it, I only need to confess." ”

Ji Chun is going to lock people up when he comes up, and Shi Fengren over there can't hold it anymore, in this case, sooner or later, he will have to confess, and he will have to eat less flesh and skin if he recruits a little early.

"I said, I said, it's the Taihang thief Lu Jinyi, he has long had a relationship with the owner of my village, and he has been staring at Zhou ...... Master Zhou and Zhou Yanei, this time we were summoned to hold this weekly meeting, which means that Master Zhou and Yanei have the secret recipe of snow sugar, cement and bicycles in their hands, if they can succeed, he only needs the life of the master and Yanei, and the secret recipes are handed over to us! ”

Zhou Quan heard this, and raised his eyebrows: "It turned out to be him!" ”

The name Lu Jinyi has not been heard for a long time.

After the conflict with the Jia family, Zhou Dong and Zhou Fu also checked this person, and knew that he was a small hero in the Taihang Mountains, who was martial by nature, and liked to make friends with the Quartet.

Zhou Tong was quite disdainful of this, thinking that it was just a wandering outlaw, so he went to look for it once and didn't find it, so he ignored it.

But they never thought that they ignored Lu Jinyi, but Lu Jinyi had been paying attention to them all the time!

In the vicinity of Jingshi, the security is heavily guarded, and there is no problem for Lu Jinyi to send a few people to blend in, but it is absolutely impossible to do things with great fanfare. Therefore, he can only wait and see, but the father and son of the Zhou family abandoned Beijing and came to Xuzhou, for Lu Jinyi, the opportunity has come!

With his subordinates alone, he was not sure, so he took out possible loot such as snow candy as bait, and lured Lashanzhai and Haizhou thieves over. This matter is definitely not decided overnight, Lu Jinyi must have been planning for a long time, and there are resourceful people around him who plan for him.

That's why Snow Candy and the like are used as bait to summon gangsters from all directions.

Needless to say, one of the most sought-after luxury goods in the Great Song Dynasty today, as well as bicycles, brings Zhou Quan an annual income of nearly 20,000 yuan, which is the key to supporting his current expansion.

Then there is cement, which the imperial court is preparing to monopolize, and Lu Jinyi is also eyeing it.

"It's so bold, those civil officials in the court have to use all kinds of means and make all kinds of compromises to divide these interests, and he is good, he directly wants to capture us...... Joke, if our father and son really fell into his hands, would he still give up these benefits? Zhou Quan sneered twice.

If Lu Jinyi was still in Beijing, he wouldn't be able to play such a trick, and it seems that there should be a newcomer by his side.

"Yanei, in this way, the thief change in Xuzhou was a temporary intention of the Haizhou thief after they were discovered, and they did not have sufficient manpower and preparation!" After Ji Chun understood the cause and effect, he immediately stared at Zhou Quan again and said, "Yanei, please let Ling Zun help the people of Pengcheng!" ”

Zhou Quan really had no way to catch this with a sense of justice, he nodded solemnly: "What you said is, don't worry, after I go back, I will ask my father to straighten out the people and horses, and after a little drill, I will be sent out to rescue Pengcheng!" ”

Although Ji Chun had an excessive sense of justice, he was not stupid, and he said suspiciously: "Really? ”

"It's true!"

Zhou Quan muttered secretly in his heart, arresting Shi Fengren, so that he has no worries, and then reorganize the army to fight, it will take at least three or five days. There are three or five days, and the situation in Pengcheng should be very clear, Xu Churen, this guy, if he is not cut down by the thieves, he will definitely escape from Pengcheng, and then the Zhou father and son will think of recovering Pengcheng, or even just to prevent the spread of the thieves, it is a great achievement of monopoly, and it has nothing to do with Xu Churen's idiot.

Zhou Fu and Zhou Quan have long wanted to drive this Xu Churen away. This kind of typical civil official, with a set of mouths, and he doesn't know what tricks he is playing behind his back, Zhou Fu and Zhou Quan would rather deal with gangsters like Lu Jinyi than be with Xu Churen, a literati who seems to be full of erudition but actually only pulls his legs.

When everyone returned to Diqiu Town, Zhou Quan already knew what he wanted to know, and he had no intention of interrogating Shi Fengren, so this guy was sent to the governor's yamen. Ji Chun and Wang Qinian were escorts, these two had quite something to say, judging from their expressions, Zhou Quan couldn't help but mourn for Shi Fengren for a moment.

The first thing he did when he came back was to comment on the attack, Zhou Quan himself was not good at the method of using soldiers, at most he could only come up with some strategies, and he dared to charge in person at a critical time. Zhou Fu didn't let him learn the art of war, so he could only sum up lessons in such skirmishes.

And not only the young men who had gone to war, but also the younger ones who had not participated in the war, also gathered together, and each of them moved a small bench and sat in the shade of the tree in the courtyard.

It was the first time Duan Tong had participated in such a summary, so he was very curious.

First of all, several teams participating in the war are telling their own team's battle experience, according to Zhou Quan's arrangement, every ten people are a team, so there are three teams participating in the battle this time. After they finished speaking, it was Li Bao's brigade that was summing up, Li Bao didn't have the three squads to say, but he also had his skills, such as every time an order was issued, why it was issued, and how to grasp the timing of the release...... He only spoke about these specific situations, and although his tongue was a little clumsy, he was able to get the people to hear them.

After they finished speaking, it was followed by the discussion of each team itself, everyone talked and laughed, Duan Tong and other people who did not participate in the battle were also mixed in, listening to them boasting and ridiculing, and honestly telling what they felt at the time, everyone was both excited and interesting, and the slightest fear and horror of the battle disappeared in this relaxed conversation.

Even Duan Tong couldn't help but have a desire in his heart: if he was there at the time, what would he do.

After talking about their own strengths, everyone talked about the enemy's response.

"The thieves were also dazed, and they didn't throw stones, otherwise we would have won, and we would have injured a few more people."

"Even if it is useless to throw stones, we all have wooden shields, and if he throws stones, it will be nothing more than a third column of abandoning spears and shields."

"The main thing is that the thieves are not well armed, and there are no bows and arrows, and if there are bows and arrows, we will suffer heavy casualties."

"If the thieves have bows and arrows, we will naturally have bows and arrows, the head of the Wuyang Sect, and Da Lang are all good at bows and arrows, if the thieves really have them, they would have greeted them from above!"

Listening to everyone's gossip, Duan Tong also wanted to speak several times, but he was not familiar with it after all, and he couldn't think of anything to say for a while.

However, after this kind of detachment discussion, it was Zhou Quan's summary.

In another life, Zhou Quan hated concluding speeches very much, because those who summarized always had to say the same thing four or five times, dragging mud and water. Now that it was his turn to make the summary, he realized that sometimes repetition is a helpless move, and if he does not repeat, he will not be able to show the importance of certain things.

For example, in the early days of the battle, everyone lined up and strictly followed discipline, so there was nothing wrong with the security issue, but when it came time to pursue, the formation was disrupted, and there were those who were eager to make meritorious contributions, those who were cautious, and those who were confused in their minds, so many problems arose.

"Today is our real first battle, the last time to meet my battle, the gangsters have no will to fight, a touch of the collapse, this time the gangsters are extremely fierce, there are several Lashan bandits, has reached the end of the road, but still stubborn, if it is not for the weekdays we are diligent in the exercise, and a little luck, I am afraid that someone has been unlucky."

"As far as I can see, these problems, one relies on more practice on weekdays to practice the fastest response, and the other is to deduce more, all kinds of possible situations, we have to deduce, and be prepared during the exercise, so that when things come to an end, we will not be at a loss!" At the end, Zhou Quan made such a request to everyone.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Ye Chu running in, with a wrong expression on his face, and after coming in, he glanced at Zhou Quan first, and then reported: "Pengcheng has been lost, there are thousands of thieves, and they are coming to Di Qiu by boat!" ”