In Gansu Town, the Chamber of Commerce, which is dominated by three large merchants, was forced to stop its lucrative business because of the Fuguilou case, but for more than a year, they have received huge benefits under the monopoly, and they also have a decent title, so naturally they will not easily disperse the Chamber of Commerce.

There is no supply of Persian goods, but other traditional transactions have occupied half of the trade in the Chamber of Commerce's goods, and the pricing of bulk goods alone can make the merchants bleed, and the undercurrent of competition for the right to speak in the Chamber of Commerce is stirring from time to time.

Under the urging of the little eunuch sent by Zhang Zhong several times, Huang Changzu, who was unwilling to be squeezed out of his prestige in the Chamber of Commerce, had to bite the bullet and send Lao Wu, the guard, to Madao Stone Fort with his handwritten letter.

The news of Xiao Ye's appearance in Madao Stone Fort has been heard by the three major merchants.

Lao Wu and Xiao Ye have met many times, and they are also the contact between Huang Changzu and the Huang family's shop in Yuanshi Guantun, and naturally he is also familiar with the flag officials under Xiao Ye, if even he is suffocated in Madao Stone Fort, Huang Changzu is even more reluctant to take risks.

The anxious guard Lao Wu set out from Gansu Town and arrived at the horse road outside Shiguantun in mid-April.

On this winding horse road between Shiguantun and Madao Stone Fort, there are jade vines and grasses that cannot be seen on both sides, and Coptis trees more than half a person high are planted on both sides of the mountain road.

Around the ruins outside the canyon under the stone mountain, Lao Wu, who rode by, vaguely saw a few figures, hiding in the woods and barren grass, if he wasn't afraid of the vines and grasses, he wouldn't have found these figures at all.

About to enter the road, at the edge of the woods beside the road, several newly planted Coptis trees were built on the cleared ground; Not to mention that the imperial store was set up in Laoyangkou, the official store here was immediately waiting.

More than a dozen men dressed in black clothes and red hats dressed as government officials, standing and sitting, waist knives and spears at their feet, they are the errand officers from Gansu towns and counties.

To say that Gansu Town is powerless to control the Tartars on the grassland outside Qingfeng Valley, but for Ximen Xiaoye, who fled to Madao Stone Fort, that is, the so-called Aishan Thorn Tribe Hundred Households, there are many ways to deal with it, so it is handy.

As long as it is stuck here, and Qingfeng Valley is also his own people, unless Xiao Ye is willing to go around to the north to Tieshan Pass and the east to Chijin Mongolia to take risks, this horse road is the most trouble-free business road.

"Stop, stop," Seeing Lao Wu riding alone on a high-headed horse, running straight without pause, the head of the errand squad dropped the tea bowl in his hand and blocked the way with a protruding waist.

The county order sent them, it was to collect taxes, and if they couldn't pay back the taxes, they would be beaten with water and fire sticks.

In the past few days, they have stayed here during the day, and have gone to Shiguantun to sleep at night, leaving early and returning late, not eating well and resting, but they have not even seen a penny of taxes.

The two mills under the name of Huangdian took hundreds of prisoners yesterday, and if they want to come to Zhang Jianjun's income next month, at least 1,000 taels will be credited to the account, so their official store card is uncomfortable.

"Phew, huh," the reins were pulled, the healthy horse raised his head and neighed and slowed down, Lao Wu sat on the horse's back, looked down at the errand in front of him, frowned, "Everyone, what's in the way, brother, I have something important to do, I'm in a hurry,"

"Hehe, you have to show your tricks in a hurry, don't be ignorant," the team leader Zhao Wuliang twisted his neck, stretched out his thumb, and gestured at the notice behind him, "This old brother, the imperial grain and national tax are majestic, let's get off the horse first,"

Lao Wu's elder brother made Zhao Wu's conscience uneasy, if it weren't for the fact that the big man on the other side had good clothes and clothes, and his momentum was not the appearance of ordinary people, I am afraid that he would have greeted the brothers and went up to collect taxes on the horses.

Looking up at the notice posted on the wooden board under the tree, Lao Wu sneered, took off the iron waist card from his belt, waved it over, and said nothing.

The errand soldiers behind Zhao Wuliang had already faintly surrounded him, and before he had time to do it, the team leader was holding the inconspicuous waist card, and after taking a closer look, he bent down with a smile on his face in a blink of an eye, "Hey, the big water washed the Dragon King Miao, it turned out to be Wu Ye, the small one is not long-eyed, it should be beaten, it should be beaten,"

The descendants of the Huang family, he can't afford to provoke, it's best to hide away.

Stretching out his right hand, Zhao Wuliang gently slapped his face a few times, stepped forward with a smile, and handed over the sign, "You have something to do, how dare the little one get in the way, please,"

In the blink of an eye, the other errands were also slippery, and they knew that the cat during the period was greasy, not that they had met the subordinates of a large family, so they also piled up smiling faces, and scattered on the side of the road, with the iron ruler chain behind them.

"Well, you should guard it well," Lao Wu's face relaxed, he took the waist card and hung it, and from the leather bag next to the saddle, he took out the usual copper coin, threw it to Zhao Wuliang, and grabbed the horse's belly, and rushed out with a strong horse.

The Huang family mainly relies on business craftsmen to support a big family, and they also have to use silver money to supply the children of the officialdom. Hades is easy to see, but the little ghosts are difficult, and he can't say that he can use these inconspicuous errands that day.

"Hey, Master Wu, you go slowly," Zhao Wuliang shouted loudly with the heavy copper coin, not caring about the smoke and dust raised at all.

Next to the rickety wooden table, in the mottled wooden money box, there is finally an entry.

After walking on the horse road for more than an hour, Lao Wu saw that the six-pace-wide mountain road was cut off by a wall; When I looked at it, I knew that it was a low wall made of yellow stucco stones, more than half a man high.

Behind the low wall, there were a few military men, the earthy yellow clothes, let Lao Wu look at it and be happy, since he met the sergeant under Ximen Xixiaoye, there is a tartar on the opposite side, and there will be no accident.

In the past, Lao Wu occasionally saw this kind of clothes, and he was quite disdainful of the alternative clothes of the Persians, but now it seems that the Persians still take a look at Ximen Baihugao.

However, whether to say or not to say the case of Fuguilou in Gansu Town, Lao Wu is a little worried.

"Stop, who's coming?" I found Lao Wu's guard early, yes, it should be called a guard now, and it was Liu Xiaohou who led the team, and he looked at the wall a few times, and then asked a brother to go out to deal with it.

Behind the low wall, more than two dozen sturdy guards, with fire/guns on their backs and sleeves rolled up, under the leadership of the two chiefs, were sweating profusely digging stone pits beside the mountain road, which were usually useless and scattered; But once something happens, put in a jumping thunder, and it becomes a life-killing scythe without pulling on the string.

Because of the coptis trees on both sides of the road, the jade vine grass spread on the outside of the mountain road, and the thunderbolt that blocked the road became a sharp weapon to delay the enemy's breakthrough.

Seeing a soldier holding a fire/gun, jumping over the low wall, staring at himself, Lao Wu laughed, jumped off the war horse quickly, and walked over with a low posture, "It's me, Lao Wu of the Huang family, who came to deliver a letter to your family,"

The guard, who had already been instructed, put the fire/gun on his shoulder, and took a few steps forward to block the comer, "Okay, people and horses can't get by, you leave the letter, if you want to wait for a reply, just rest here,"

Lao Wu also heard that the third young master was prosperous in the gravel castle, cut off his robe and broke off relations with Ximen Xiao at night, and gave up that little incense, so he was helpless.

Handing the letter to the sergeant in front of him, Lao Wu looked at the little man solemnly and said in a low voice, "Tell you that the Huang family has no choice but to tell you that there are 100 households in the west gate, but you never want to break off the trade with the Persians,"

"Gansu Town, a while ago in Fuguilou, was slaughtered cleanly, the Persian Baudes and his guards, together with their families, maids and servants, none of them survived, the Huang family is tracking down the murderer, if there is any news, they will definitely inform immediately,"

Lao Wu's deep voice made the guard holding the letter widen his eyes, staring at Lao Wu's face in disbelief, "What about the guard?" ”

"Xiao Mao, come back, don't you talk too much," behind the low wall, Liu Xiaohou showed his head, and with a scold, he blocked the mouth of the guard Xiaomao.

Waving his hand to let Xiao Mao come back, Liu Xiaohou glanced at Lao Wu, as if he had just seen an acquaintance, "Shout, this is not the old Wu of the Huang family, how can I have time today to run to our wilderness,"

Loosening the reins of the horse, Lao Wu smiled and arched his hand, "Liu Qiguan, I haven't seen you for many days, but you are still so energetic, I will invite you to drink Fenjiu another day,"

"Don't, don't, I'm a small military household, I can't afford to drink the wine of your high-ranking family, and I can't afford to drink vinegar," Liu Xiaohou, who was yin and yang, glared at Xiao Mao fiercely, "Go, send the letter back, see if the hundred households have an explanation, don't be in a hurry,"

Xiao Mao has a cousin who was a guard in the Fugui Building, and he lost his temper just now, but now he shrunk his neck, muttered over the low wall, pulled over the war horse and jumped up, and went straight to the stone castle in the north.

Seeing that Liu Xiaohou was almost the same as before, Lao Wu knew that this errand was afraid that it would not be better, but Ximen Xiaoye did not offend the Huang family, but several relatives died, and the materials in the hundred households were taken away, and most of the military craftsmen went to the grassland, so it is strange that the sergeants below have no anger.

It's not the right time to cut off the robe and cut off the righteousness.

Xiao Mao rode a war horse, ran north for half an hour, passed through a busy construction site, hurried to the Madao Stone Fort, handed over the war horse to the guard at the gate of the fort, and rushed into the fort quickly.

With the yellow plaster accumulated in the stone fort of the horse road, the stone wall built by the craftsmen on the north side of the stone fort has now winded between the hill and the horse road, and is about to connect to the stone fort wall; At the top of the hill, the excavation of the foundation pit of the bunker has begun.

As long as the ground inside the stone wall is leveled and the military house is built in the form of steps, the speed will be greatly accelerated, and as long as the supply of yellow plaster is sufficient, Wang Dali is sure that before the winter comes, all the craftsmen will live in the military house with a fire kang.

Even, even the land temple and shops have already looked at the place, just on the mountainside due south, sitting north and facing south, it is the best location for feng shui.

Especially the courtyard where hundreds of households live, he and Li Xin'an chose to choose and go, and finally decided on the address, but now it is still a gentle slope and rocks.

As a sergeant in the original flag team, Xiao Mao, like everyone, drilled fire/guns and formations on time, and later had drills such as positional warfare, flag team attack, digging trenches, and vigilance and sneak attacks.

Compared with the past when spring ploughing and wheat harvest can take a long vacation and go home, now it is really busy that I can't go home, and I have to work with the Tartars on the grassland at any time, and Xiaomao can't adapt to it at first.

However, if he quit the flag team and went to the mill, not only would his monthly salary be halved, but there would be no battlefield captures, not to mention that his family had just been comfortable for less than two years, and even on his face it would be difficult for him to face his former companions.

After a long time, everyone resisted, and I didn't see that as long as the hundred households were in the fort, they had to take their guards and conduct fire/gun drills every day.

Unconsciously, the professional army has taken shape in Xiao Ye's hands, but everyone is not aware of the changes here.

It is the main barracks in Jingshi, in terms of the strictness of managing the sergeants, compared with Xiao Ye, the practice of three exercises in ten years, and the low salary, which makes the soldiers not interested at all, it is already good to be able to stay in the barracks, and there are many people who sneak away to make a living in other camps.

In this Madao Stone Fort, where water is extremely scarce, Wang Dali's craftsman logistics team has organized the families of the guards, and the guards of each team of 100 people have started paid laundry and sewing; As soon as the wages were paid, the guards paid them very happily.

With the advent of soap, the soap powder that everyone has used for many years has gradually been abandoned.

Yes, the sergeant of the former flag team is now the household guard of the hundred households, except for the mandarin duck jacket on his body has been replaced by a sturdy and durable earthy yellow uniform, nothing else can be seen.

Especially the guards of the hundred households, the military kettle hanging diagonally on the cow belt, and the ear-covering iron helmet on their heads, made the leaders of the family guards led by Wang Meng red.

Zhang Zhong occupied Xiao Ye's two mills, and after the arrival of many prisoners, the speed and efficiency of supplying stones and ingredients were more than double that of Wang Dali and Ma Gui's management.

In addition, the two workshop areas are simply day and night in turn, and people stop grinding, which directly makes Xiao Ye, who has been busy for a few days, smile directly when he sees the picture in front of him.

This seems to be a win-win situation, Xiao Ye was asleep, and a word suddenly popped up in his mind, and he didn't understand what it meant.

The flat round military kettle contains more than three catties of water, and the spout has an iron screw cap, and a holster can be hung on the belt; The domed iron helmet that can protect the ears and head is urgently needed by the guards on the battlefield, and it is no wonder that he is not happy when it appears in the military catalog at this moment.

He hadn't used the machining center for more than ten days, and several good things appeared in it one after another, and he had to let the craftsmen below experiment with the usefulness before he could figure it out.

Military kettles and iron helmets, good is good, the only regret is that these iron guys have to be painted with a layer of black paint or other colors of paint, otherwise it will be like those iron boxes, which will rust after a long time.

Needless to say, Cui Hongyuan and the two of them went back and forth in the cave, and in the iron box they brought back, hundreds of sets of kettles and iron helmets were directly equipped with Xiao Ye's personal guards.

After a great comparison of firearms, physical strength, and endurance, more than 50 people happily joined the guards, and there are now 75 armed sergeants in the guards.

Only when he entered the pro-guard team could he be called a sergeant, and the high threshold made all the military households smack their tongues, and the knife and Sun Xiaoming would rather be less and not indiscriminate, as always, followed the attitude of the hundred households.

The personal guards, all equipped with rifles, plus the armament of revolvers/guns, earth-shattering thunder, crossbows, and hunting knives, wearing iron helmets and carrying water bottles, and a field uniform, have been armed to the teeth; If it weren't for the big killing weapon in Wang Meng's hand, the knife would have been facing the sky.

The most important thing is that the personal salary of each guard is compared with the flag officer, that is, the current chief, and the other guards are not red-eyed?

When Xiao Mao found the knife, Xiao Yezheng took a few craftsmen and personal guards to put seven or eight large iron boxes on the roof of the military house next to the house, and two unfolded umbrellas were also on it, and the water outlet was facing the open box.

These iron boxes, whose lids were removed, were painted with a layer of black lacquer by craftsmen, and the upper and lower parts of the trunks were connected with precious iron pipes; The four iron boxes closest to the edge of the roof, with a hollow cut in the lower part, diagonally downward, were attached a small section of bamboo tube, which was plugged with cork.

With the demonstration of the solar stove, Xiao Ye was interested, so he wanted to get a simple shower room under the fort wall next to the room, and pull up the tent as a roof, so that the guards of each team could take a bath once every two days, which was much more refreshing than sitting in a wooden barrel.

There are not many soaps now, and each household only distributes one piece every two months, but that head is full of weight, and it is half a brick in your hand, which is enough.

"Okay, today's day is full, and you can take a warm bath in the afternoon," looking at the trickle of water from a water umbrella, along a long wooden trough, slowly flowing into the iron box, Xiao Ye grinned at the craftsmen, "Find an oilcloth to fence the bottom, which one is willing to let others see the bath,"

His words made everyone laugh, the speed of the work in their hands became faster and faster, and the family members who could only wipe their bodies with wet towels every day were really uncomfortable; Now there is hope, even if you catch lots and line up, there is a hope, if you give the opportunity to your mother-in-law, when you get to the kang at night, it's not your own cool.

However, there are only four people in a bath, and there are only eight people in the iron box, and it is impossible to say that there can only be eight people in the bath every day.

"This, Lord Baihu, should we find some more iron boxes and expand the bathing place here?" Wang Dali, like the craftsmen, as soon as Xiao Yechu pointed out, he immediately understood the key inside, and he was simply overjoyed.

If nothing else, even his wife Zhao has been muttering for several days, and now there are not enough wooden barrels for bathing in the stone castle, and the pure water does not dare to be supplied openly.

"Okay, as long as everyone does their daily work well, the iron box and water umbrella will find a way," Xiao Ye thought about it and agreed without hesitation; If you want everyone to follow you, you have to let them see the hope of a better life, if you just sweat every day, for a long time, then who can stand it.

It's been almost half a month since he came to Madao Stone Fort, in addition to leading the troops to drill, he is thinking about the map with Xin Weilin, studying the defensive terrain, where can he think of the trivial matter of taking a bath.

However, summer is coming, and the big thing of these hundreds of people taking a bath has really become a big problem if it is not solved.

"Knife, go to Wang Meng, ask him to find some iron boxes, and tell him that the official will take one of him now, and compensate him for two, the more the better," the knife commanded, and ran away in a hurry.

"Uncle Wang, you can understand this thing at a glance, it's your logistics team's business to come down," Xiao Ye grabbed Wang Dali and threw this matter to him, "The water umbrella you need, this official asked Ma Gui to add five more to you tomorrow,"

As he was talking, he saw the knife going and returning, followed by Liu Xiaohou's subordinate Xiao Mao, who looked quite ugly.

Xiao Ye's brain is quite good, his own personal guards, family guards, and even Aman's Tartar cavalry, he can basically call out the name, Xiao Mao He naturally recognizes it.

"Lord Baihu, there is a messenger from Ma Dao," and from afar, the knife called out, but when he saw Baihu's unkind look, he hurriedly closed his mouth and pushed Xiao Mao out.

"Sentry Officer Liu Xiaohou, sent Xiao Mao over," After speaking, the knife left Xiao Mao stunned, and ran away.

This kid, isn't he usually quite calm, but in a blink of an eye, he became rough like this, and scolded secretly in his heart, Xiao Ye waved his hand, "Xiao Mao, come here, come closer and talk,"

"Hey, I've seen a hundred households," Xiao Mao, who shook his head, hurriedly tightened the gun belt on his shoulder, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, and handed over the letter, "Report to the hundred households, the Huang family sent Lao Wu to come, let Brother Hou block the card, this is the letter brought by Lao Wu,"

"Get up and speak," Xiao Ye took the letter, didn't rush to open it, but looked at Xiao Mao in front of him, "What's wrong, someone bullied you?" ”

The little hair with red eyes was asked by Baihu, and he suddenly couldn't help it, lowered his head, and tears rolled down, if it weren't for the military discipline, it is estimated that he would cry out as soon as he heard it.

"Lord Baihu, yes, it's Fuguilou, something happened to Fuguilou, my cousin them, they," Xiao Mao, who was sobbing incessantly, said intermittently, which made Xiao Ye suddenly surprised; No wonder, no wonder Bowers didn't even contact him like this.

Tear open the envelope and take out the letter raft, it is a letter from Huang Changzu, Xiao Ye has read it at a glance, and he didn't see the news of Fuguilou inside, but the letter used most of the space to describe the meaning of the prison army Master Zhang; The Persians were not allowed to sell their goods to other places, but had to pass through the mouth of the old sheep, otherwise they would send a large army to suppress them.

Irritably, he crumpled the letter paper into a ball and threw it on the ground casually, Xiao Ye grabbed Xiao Mao, "Cry, cry a fart, can the dead cry alive?" Let's go, go meet Lao Wu,"

With two personal guards and Xiao Mao who hurriedly followed, Xiao Ye hurriedly walked towards the fort gate.

Wang Dali heard Xiao Ye's low scolding, although he didn't know the reason, he also knew that there must be trouble, he sighed in his heart, turned his face and saw a group of craftsmen, who were also eavesdropping with their ears pricked up, and were directly angry, "Hurry up and work, do you want to take a bath tonight?" ”

The construction and enlargement of the stone fort, the construction of new military houses, the production of plaster in the mill, and the construction of the blacksmith's shop were all matters of urgency, and he was now too busy to find time to make this bathing place, but he had to hurry.

If it weren't for Li Xin'an and them staring at the construction site, I'm afraid he wouldn't have time to repair the bath room at all.

But this iron box, which is painted with a layer of black paint on the outside, can be filled with water to let the sun bask for a day, and then it can produce hot water? Wang Dali didn't believe it, he must see with his own eyes tonight, the province was blind to these boxes.

Xin Weilin, who was watching the bustle from a distance, sat in a newly made wheelchair, and saw Xiao Ye leaving in a hurry, so he shook his chin, and the guard behind him hurriedly ran over and picked up the raft and envelope on the ground.

Unfolding the crumpled letter raft, Xin Lilin glanced at it, and a smile appeared on his cautious face, this is in a hurry, it is really money that can make ghosts jump into the river, not to mention those business officials.

"Let's go, let's go back, the women of the house are in a hurry to wait this time, go and tell them that they can take a bath at night," with Xin Lilin's words, the housekeeper pushed the wooden wheelchair and walked towards the military house to the south.

Xin Lilin's family, the two old people, mother-in-law and children, were finally taken to the stone castle, and they met a few days ago, if it weren't for Xiao Ye's troubles, he would have been able to reunite with his family early.

The fast horse rushed to the southernmost checkpoint, and Xiao Ye crossed the low stone wall and met Lao Wu; Hearing the bad news with his own ears, Xiao Ye's nerves, which had been numb, were stabbed again.

He didn't care about Baodes's death, what he cared about was that the eleven sergeants of the banner team, including the heralds carefully selected by Wang Ziliang, these people would be the backbone of the future who could serve as the chief, so they disappeared silently.

After standing for a long time, Xiao Ye stretched out his hands and rubbed his face vigorously to make himself as sober as possible; Lao Wu, who was standing opposite, secretly lowered his right hand.

On the belt around his waist, there was a soft short sword, as long as he could draw the sword, he could cut Xiao Ye, who was two steps away, in the blink of an eye, and cut his throat with a wave of his hand.

Lao Wu had already heard of the protective clothing on Xiao Ye's body, so if he wanted to kill Xiao Ye, he could only find a way to go to the head area.

However, Liu Xiaohou, who followed Xiao Ye closely, made Lao Wu hesitate and didn't dare to move, this scout-born flag officer, with his slippery eyes, even if Lao Wu had a relationship with him for a while, he was staring at this Huang family's guard.

Liu Xiaohou didn't give Lao Wu face, although there were two guards next to him, but they obviously couldn't compare with Daozi and Sun Xiaoming, so he stood on both sides with a big grin, and didn't see Lao Wu's flashing gaze at all.

But Liu Xiaohou, who had experienced Tartar whipping and torture on the grassland, was quite sensitive to the breath of danger, and the revolver in his hand was short/gun, and the machine spring was opened early, and the muzzle of the gun was faintly aimed at Lao Wu.

As long as Lao Wu made the slightest move, he would not hesitate to shoot, even if it was an acquaintance who had just called him a brother.

It is precisely because of Liu Xiaohou's eyeing that Lao Wu didn't find a good opportunity to start until he finished speaking, he was a family guard, not a dead soldier, and when he couldn't be sure of his retreat, he couldn't do it with the means of dying.

However, the dead man who is facing life, will Xiao Ye come so close to meet? jokes, Lao Wu himself didn't believe it.

Seeing that Lao Wu had finished speaking, Liu Xiaohou took two steps forward and separated the hundred households and Lao Wu, "Okay, my hundred households have to think about it, if you want to stay here and wait for a reply, just retreat back and retreat to your horse, and it will be cooler to squat under the tree,"

Unceremoniously pushed Lao Wu away, Liu Xiaohou turned around and glared at the two sturdy guards, "Stupid, don't help hundreds of households over," these two guys, when they go back, they must find knives, don't get hit by more than a dozen military sticks, I really think that Lao Tzu is the first in the world.

Xiao Ye, who didn't know that he had escaped a catastrophe, was stunned for a moment, pushed away the guard's hand, turned around and walked towards the stone wall; He had to go back to the stone castle and discuss with Xin Weilin before deciding whether to send someone to take revenge.

But who to take revenge, Xiao Ye, who was galloping on horseback, couldn't think of the target for a while.

Lao Wu wanted to leave, so he gave Liu Xiaohou the list of transactions written by the third young master, and his task was basically completed; However, the iron helmet on the head of the guards beside Xiao Ye made him secretly laugh for a long time.

However, a few fires/guns sticking out of the stone wall made him dispel the idea of leaving, according to Liu Xiaohou's words, without the permission of a hundred households, this is not a place to come and leave if you want to.

Xin Weilin, who had just returned to his temporary home, didn't say a few words to his family when a personal guard came to look for him, and he had to be pushed to Wang Meng's military house.

The families of the hundred families also came to the stone fort, and in the military house next door to their house, everyone was too busy to be at home, so there was nothing to complain about.

Until it was getting dark, the guards from the stone castle brought a message from a hundred households to Lao Wu; Lao Wu, who had been waiting restlessly, although he did not complete the assassination explained by the third young master, he was secretly relieved to get the good news.

"If you have the chance, you will do it, if you don't have the opportunity to find a chance next time," muttering Huang Changzu's secret order, Lao Wu rode on a healthy horse, lit a torch, and slowly walked on the undulating and winding mountain road.

"Ximen Baihu has an order, the Persian goods will arrive in the middle of next month, you and other merchants can trade here, with grain, green salt, cloth, etc., and no gold, silver and copper coins will be collected," Ata, who had a small pigtail, with a flat forehead, with impatience, threw a piece of straw paper to Lao Wu, and turned around and left.

Thinking of the appearance of the Atana Tartar, Lao Wu was full of resentment in his heart, where did you come from the Tartar to become friends with a small hundred households, the status of my big family merchant is not as tough as his Ximen Xiao Ye, he is really a coyote on the grassland, and he has never seen the world.

However, to get the good news that he can continue to trade, Lao Wu is still a lot more comfortable, no one dislikes making more money, and it is the nature of the business to be jealous.

As for the official shop and the imperial store, no caravan can avoid collecting taxes on the road, and the Huang family can naturally earn it back from the cost, and the small merchants and traders who have no money and no power are waiting to drink cold soup in Gansu Town.

The establishment of the tax card of the official store and the royal store has played a role in fueling the monopoly of trade by large merchants and big landlords, which is also the reason why the family, the landlord and even the government at all levels are happy to see it come into play, competing with the people for profit? Joke, the scholar class represents the people of the world, and Bai Ding is not among them.

Madao Stone Fort, in the temporary hundred households, Xiao Ye kept spinning in circles in the military house, waving his fists and roaring loudly, and his hoarse and irritable voice was even the knife and Sun Xiaoming standing outside, and he could also shrink his neck.

Just now they listened to Liu Xiaohou's story, and they were suddenly shocked that their hands and feet were cold, and they pressed the two guards to the ground with a stick, and after beating, they threw them to work in the mill.

Fortunately, the old rules in the guards are not guilty of rebellion, and they generally will not be eliminated from the guards, otherwise they will be driven to the Galen tribe tonight, and they will be there first.

Is this a thing, the knives and the two of them have to know the hundred households, eat a trench and grow a wisdom, and the hundred households punish them with military sticks, I don't know how many.

But looking at the current situation, let's bother the hundred households tomorrow, Xiao Ye, who is angry, picks up the military stick of the guard, and he is not polite at all, he is more powerful than an ordinary sergeant.

"My brothers, Liu Liancheng and them, can die in the hands of the Tartars, they can die under my military stick, they must not die so inexplicably, and now the bones cannot be found,"

"Zhang Zhong, Huang Changzu, Wang Jia, Jinyiwei, it's them, they killed my eleven brothers," Xiao Ye, who had already shouted out his throat, if it weren't for Xin Weilin blocking him, this time he would have gathered the night owl guards and sent them to Gansu Town.

Xiao Ye, who was thunderous, although he vented his anger in front of Xin Lianlian, his mind was still clear, and he seemed to be firmly in the stone castle, but he was facing more and more enemies.

At the moment, the family guard under his command is integrating strength, and there are no large number of drills, whether it is to fight against the Tartars, or to friction with the Ming army, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 results, wait and see.

He couldn't bear this kind of injury at all.

Compared with Shiguantun, Madao Stone Fort is a bright and shaky dead place, with deep ravines and ravines, and there is no half of the ground.

can follow himself to the Madao Stone Fort, those craftsmen and sergeants are all confused, but this is still a marginal area, but once the psychological distance of everyone is crossed, the consequences are difficult to say.

The most important thing is that the stone mill that sank into the ground in Shiguantun is the reason why Xiao Ye has to guard the stone fort of Madao, here, unless the cave can continue to extend to the north, he is unwilling to go.

But that kind of sharp sapper shovel, there is no shadow in the military catalog, and when the next one appears, Xiao Ye doesn't know when, maybe it will be several years.

For several years, if you sit still, it is enough for those merchants and officials in Gansu Town to toss Xiao Ye to death hundreds of times.

"Bades, they are dead, to whom is it good and beneficial?" Xin Weilin completely ignored Xiao Ye's irritability, waved the paper fan in his hand, shook his head lightly and sighed.

"Merchants are profit-oriented, they will never do such stupid things, and the official family will not do anything that damages the family, Jinyiwei needless to say, he will not go out of sight and money,"

"So, it's a personal vendetta, which power will make the sergeants not even resist and be captured obediently, or is it lightning fast, they have no chance to resist?"

"Baodes is very profitable, and it is easy not to offend others, and the sergeant has military discipline, and he will not cause chaos to Fuguilou," Xin Weilin squinted his eyes and slowly analyzed, "In this way, the person who attacked him was probably not to slaughter Fuguilou, but,"

A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, Xin Weilin raised his eyes to look at Xiao Ye, "It's aimed at you in the hundred households, this time it's for a warning,"

The speculation and the final conclusion made Xiao Ye suddenly feel cold, and he stood stupidly on the spot, he couldn't imagine that in the end, it was because of himself that the people in the Fugui Building died.

"Brother Shi Dao, you sent someone to kill Lu Yidao last year, but he was injured and ran away, I felt at that time that this matter would not be good, I am afraid that he did it,"

"As for Jiang Jie, no matter how much money he spends, he can't invite such a killer, and his methods are vicious," slowly shaking the paper fan in his hand, the glint in Xin Lilin's eyes flashed a little strange.

Perhaps, it was Na Lu Yidao who was able to successfully commit the crime in Gansu Town, but where did he get the news, where did the money and goods that were robbed in the Fugui Building go.