The Tea Horse Trade Road, all the way through the Qingjiang River into the Yunling Mountains, all the way along the Lishui into the Wuling Mountain.

Lishui originates from Cuishi Ridge, after Cuishi Ridge is a hundred miles of Qingfeng Long Gorge, through Qingfeng Gorge zigzag to the southeast, out of Wuling Mountain is Wulingyi, Zhangzhou capital of Nanmin County.

Wulingyi is next to the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, the Southern Fujian family will block Baiyi in Wuling Mountain, and there are many disputes with Baiyi in Wulingyi, for decades, plus Wulingyi is more hilly and less flat, the people are scarce, and the power of the family is not strong.

To the east of Wulingyi is Zhangtaiyi, which is near the sea, and the Puji bandits will invade there every month, where ten households and nine emptiness, and the people's livelihood is withered.

Longyanyi is located in the southeast of Wulingyi, which is close to Quanzhou Prefecture and is an important town in northern Southern Fujian, where the Zongzheng family stationed heavy troops.

Xu Boying and Ziyangqiu and their entourage visited Nanmin to discuss the reopening of the tea and horse trade route, and the king of Nanmin personally led the crowd to Longyanyi to greet them. In the eyes of the world, this is a great courtesy given to Xu Boying and his entourage, who visited on behalf of Xu Ruyu, in memory of Xu Xing's great kindness to Nanmin 27 years ago.

Zi Yangqiu accompanied him to pay respects, even if Baiyi had not really declared his attachment to Xu Ruyu to the outside world, the world could understand the fact that Baiyi and the Qingyan Army coexisted on the outside and could not be separated. More than 50 years ago, millions of Miao people moved to Yunling to join the Yue family, and the Yue family dominated Nanning. Although Baiyi's strength cannot be compared with Sanmiao, it should not be underestimated.

The king of Nanmin County greeted him from afar, not so much as courtesy to Xu Boying and his party, but to be deeply wary of the Qingyan Army that was about to rise in the southeast.

After Xu Boying met with Zongzheng Xunda, he never had the opportunity to contact other families alone.

When Longyan stopped for three days and was about to go to Quanzhou, news of a large-scale invasion of bandits came from Zhangtai.

Zongzheng Xunda immediately decided to go to expel the pirates in person.

Xu Boying, Zi Yangqiu, and Nanmin County Wei Zongzheng Ji Wang and Yugaocheng of Longyan Prefecture were present, holding wine glasses and stopping at their mouths and looking at each other, I don't know why Zongzheng Xunda decided to go in person at this time.

The troops of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou Longquanyi successively gathered in Longyan, and after Zongzheng Xunda led the troops to leave, Xu Boying and his party were accompanied by Zongzheng Jiwang to Quanzhou.

This road stopped and stopped, and the news of Zongzheng Xunda's defeat of the pirates in Zhangtai also came frequently.

Xu Boying said in surprise: "Gongliang Youqin has just suffered a big loss in Fuzhou, how could it hit Southern Fujian on a large scale during the typhoon season?" ”

Qingliu said beside him: "Zongzheng Xunda is just bluffing. Even if there is an invasion of more than 1,000 pirates, there is no need to gather all the troops near Longyan to support the scene. ”

This time Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu came to Southern Fujian, neither of them was very skillful, Shao Haitang transferred fifty good players from the Qingjiang Cavalry Camp, and Qingliu led the escort of Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu. In addition to the 50 elite guards, there are more than 100 entourages, and if the affairs of the tea and horse trade road go smoothly, most of the entourages will stay in Nanmin to be responsible for liaison.

Xu Boying said hesitantly: "Zhangtai's food has always been in short supply, these more than 15,000 elite soldiers, plus thousands of mules and horses, and the people who accompany the army, the grain needs to be supplied from Quanzhou, and each consumption of nearly 1,000 quintals of grain, why bother?" Even if Zongzheng Xunda didn't know about military affairs, didn't his subordinates have any advice? ”

Zi Yangqiu frowned lightly and said: "Zongzheng Xunda will drain the troops in this area and go to Zhangtai to catch the wind and catch shadows, so that the defense of this area is extremely weak, and if there are no bandits in the vicinity to covet it, if there are two thousand bandits from the vicinity of the countryside to infiltrate Longquan, it will have great destructive power." ”

Xu Boying was stunned and said: "After Longquan is the sphere of influence of the Zongzheng family, if there are really bandits who land in the vicinity of the countryside and flow in the direction of Longquan, it means that Zongzheng Xunda and Gongliang Youqin have a tacit understanding and deliberately give up this gap." Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, and only after a while did he say: "If there are really pirates who have landed from the near village, is the behavior of Zongzheng Xunda too blatant?" ”

Zi Yangqiu said coldly: "Conniving at the landing and robbery of bandits and cracking down on dissident forces in the realm is exactly the consistent style of his Zongzheng family. The business travel of Southern Fujian was blocked, but the Zongzheng family often stationed goods that were not produced in Southern Fujian and sold to Yunling and Wuling Mountain. ”

When approaching Longquan, the news of the Puji bandits landing from the nearby countryside really came.

The garrisons in this area were all taken to Zhangtai by Zongzheng Xunda, and the pirates unscrupulously divided into small groups and flowed inland.

Xu Boying and his entourage turned into the official road to Longquan from the northwest, and watched the displaced people who had taken refuge continue to merge into the official road from the east and southeast, pouring into Longquan City.

Xu Boying looked at the panicked homeless people around him, and stopped people to ask about the bandits in the countryside, but no one could say clearly.

Xu Boying stood at the front of the car with a deep frown, holding a canopy and looking to the southeast, except for the vast twilight and crowded crowds, but he found nothing about the enemy. Xu Boying is proficient in government affairs, but he is not as skilled as Zi Yangqiu in military affairs, and he looked at Zi Yangqiu for consultation.

"Let's see what the county lieutenant of the Zongzheng family has to say." After that, Ziyangqiu pulled Xu Boying to find Zongzheng Ji Wang, the leader of the team.

Zongzheng Ji looked at his face with a gloomy face, and he didn't seem to pretend to be.

Zi Yangqiu said: "General Zongzheng, the Puji bandits are menacing, if they are detoured back to Longquan, then they can only wait until the king of the county returns to save them." ”

Zongzheng Ji Wang couldn't clearly say that this attack would avoid the Zongzheng family's sphere of influence, so he had to nod and admit that Zi Yangqiu's analysis was reasonable.

Zi Yangqiu said again: "As far as I know, the grain in Longquan was taken away by the county king with the army, at this time, there was a shortage of food in Longquan City, but thousands of homeless people poured into the city, if we also entered Longquan City, it would undoubtedly be in danger." ”

"Ah, sir, mean to take a detour to Quanzhou?"

Zi Yangqiu nodded and said, "Exactly, the wilderness path bypasses Longquan City, as long as you send scouts, you don't have to be careful about encountering the pirates who come ashore." ”

Zong Zheng Ji Wang was indecided, and passing through Longquan City was the route set by Zong Zheng Xunda himself, so that it was convenient to control and monitor the movements of Xu Boying and his party along the way, but he couldn't find a reason to refuse him. Seeing that he was hesitant, Xu Boying said: "There is no need to borrow troops from Longquan, the strength of my guards is acceptable, and they will be under the unified command of the general." ”

Zongzheng Ji Wang had already noticed Qingliu and the others, and he was surprised in his heart by the Jianrui of the Qingyan Warriors, and the guards of the county king were nothing more than that. thought: Under his nose, Xu Boying can't make any tricks. So he nodded in agreement, led more than 300 people to avoid the official road leading to Longquan, and found a wild road to the southeast.

Qingliu and a guard acted as scouts on the left flank, and the other scouts were all played by the warriors of Southern Fujian. Although Xu Boying and others were protected by the Southern Fujian soldiers in every battle, there were also several times when they were rushed into the battle by fierce and stubborn rogues, and naturally the personnel would be scattered.

Bypassing Longquan City, except for the fifty guards led by Qingliu, the other more than 100 people who came to Qingjiang were reduced to only more than 120 people.

When Zongzheng Ji Wang faintly felt that something was wrong, the situation was irreparable, and more than 80 people from Qingjiang sneaked into various parts of Southern Fujian under his nose.

Xu Boying looked at Zong Zheng Ji Wang's face as if he was crying and mourning, and said: "Along the way, I have encountered the enemy more than ten times, Xiao Zhanfan 19 times, and the general has tried his best to maintain the safety of our people, which moved Boying. ”

Zi Yangqiu said beside him: "More than 100 people came to visit Southern Fujian with us, and now only half of them can reach their destination safely, and the rest are buried in a foreign land, and now they have escaped from the bandit area, we want to ask the general to send someone to the town in front to buy some paper money, and we are ready to worship here." ”

"It's good to die, it's good to die." Zongzheng Ji Wang muttered to himself, suddenly found that he was speechless, and couldn't help but be a little at a loss, and after a while, he hesitated and said: "Seventy warriors died for the bandits in Southern Fujian, although the bodies can't be found, when I come back to Quanzhou, I will also ask the king of the county to repair a tomb for them, do you think this is okay?" ”

Xu Boying and Zi Yangqiu glanced at each other, thinking: Zongzheng Ji Wang really had no courage to take responsibility, and was forced to lie to Zongzheng Xunda with him, as long as Zongzheng Jiwang also insisted that the more than 80 people who had been scattered and infiltrated into various parts of Southern Fujian had been "killed", Zongzheng Xunda would not be suspicious.

Nanmin is located in the southeast corner, separated by Wuling Mountain, Yunling Mountain, and Puji Island, which have been unusually closed for decades, and it is extremely difficult for the eyes of foreign forces to enter the territory of Nanfu. The Zongzheng family set up a long blockade line in Wulingyi, so that the Baiyi clan in Wuling Mountain could not infiltrate into the southern Fujian area, and it was even more difficult for other forces to enter southern Fujian to carry out activities.

Xu Boying and his entourage entered the field of vision of the Zongzheng family when they entered the territory of Southern Fujian, and they could not disperse the accompanying intelligence informants to various parts of Southern Fujian, and they could not contact those forces that resisted the Zongzheng family.

After the opening of the business road, it will be more convenient to insert the eyeline, but the opening of the business road is a long time later, and it will not solve the urgent need.

By fighting fiercely with small groups of gangsters and dispersing the entourage in batches, Zongzheng Ji Wang did not dare to take responsibility for dereliction of duty, as long as he echoed the statement of "killed in battle".

Bypassing Longquan City, coming to the back of Longquan and continuing to Quanzhou, this is already the sphere of influence of the Zongzheng family, and there is no sign of invasion by bandits.

There were many people begging on both sides of the official road, most of them wanted to avoid the famine in Quanzhou City, but they were trapped on the road at this time.

Looking at their blank and dull eyes, Xu Boying sighed secretly in his heart: All the way are people who avoid famineland and bandits, where can they get food? There is a heart to help, but Zongzheng Ji Wang is present, but it is not good to take the lead.

"Get out of the way." Zong Zheng Ji Dao raised his foot and kicked away a teenager who came over to beg for food.

The boy was thin, and he kicked the kick a foot away, rolling down to a depression on the side of the road.

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