Just when Shiguantunli began to prepare for the wedding of 100 households, in the Thousand Households of Gravel Fort, Huang Changzu, who was dressed in a white robe and jade belt, was a guest in Jiang Jie's study; Receiving guests, not only thousands of households Jiang Jie, but also Young Master Jiang Qinggui also sat beside him.

After privately trading the Tartar head with Huang Changzu, Jiang Jie also took the line of the Huang family, and handed over the Tartar heads and weapons in the Daowei Station twice, and the credit he earned could already allow him to take a step further; If there was a foil from the Huang family, Jiang Jie's wrinkled eyes would already be smiling.

No one wants to live in this bitter place, the more prosperous Wuguan Town, or Gansu Town, Jiang Qianhu has been looking forward to it for a long time.

"Hehe, Young Master Huang, you are running around on a saddle horse, it's really not easy," Jiang Jie sat on the carved wooden chair in the garden of the study, greeting from the tea table, and the cordiality in his words was not the treatment that Young Master Jiang had never had.

Huang Changzu, who was leaning on the wooden chair, nodded sympathetically, but he was not modest, the paper fan shook loudly, and the demeanor and temperature had nothing to do with it; "The bitter cold in the northwest, I saw it this time, Jiang Qianhu is guarding the pasture here, and it is even more tireless,"

The word Shoumu was used a little too much on Jiang Jie, but the sedan chair was carried, and Huang Changzu's words made Jiang Jie dare not even say it, but the attitude on his face was to recognize his hard work.

The two of them touted back and forth, and the old guard Wu who was standing behind the young master did not change his face, but it was the young master Jiang who was sitting with him on the side, the corners of his eyebrows twitched, and at the same time he learned a lot of experience.

It took a long time for the tea to come to an end.

Twisting up the dim sum in the small plate on the table, Huang Changzu put it in his mouth and chewed it, took a sip of fragrant tea, and asked casually, "Jiang Qianhu, I heard that Shiguantun has been built again, and it is the territory of the Tartars,"

"Yes, the Wei Institute is below, when today's Zi Shengde, good martial arts, I will also share the worries for the Son of Heaven under the rule of the Wei Institute, and the Shiguantun Hundred Households Office has been built," Gao arched his hands, Jiang Jie Lingran responded; However, the fleeting coldness in his eyes did not escape Huang Changzu's eyes.

"The place where Shiguantun is located, twenty years ago, but where my Ming officers and soldiers were stationed, but it was abandoned after a fierce battle, and now the guards want to inspire the might of our border army, and it is natural to reopen a hundred households," the righteous and awe-inspiring tone made Huang Changzu almost vomit out the tea he drank.

Others don't know, but in the information he got, the reconstruction money for the development of Shiguantun has also turned a lot down for this thousand households, but the bulk of it still falls on the guard.

"That Ximen Baihu, but he is not very old, and I don't know, if the Tartars come again next year, can they keep it," swallowing the tea hard, Huang Changzu coughed dryly, indifferent gossip, so that the old Wu behind him suddenly jumped up; The young master has always been strict with himself for the righteous brothers, and he seems to have once again understood the deep meaning of the period.

"That, the hundred households in Ximen are brave and brave, and they have merit in winning the head of the tartar, but the other hundred households also have heavy responsibilities and can't be replaced," Jiang Jie, who misunderstood Huang Changzu's meaning, explained with some trepidation.

"Haha, Jiang Qianhu misunderstood, my Huang family's poetry and books are heirlooms, and there are also clansmen who serve in the imperial court, so they will not interfere in the place," Huang Changzu smiled and shook his head, this seemingly stupid Qianhu is actually not easy to deal with, and if you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle.

The orthodox inheritance of the great family, but it must be clear that the small business activities are just trivial matters, which family can't live and eat, just rely on the treasure money of the court, the grain in the field, and the servants at home can't afford to support it.

"My Huang family's horse team passed through Shiguantun, and also had a transaction with Ximen Baihu, nothing more than buying and selling grain, nothing else," Putting aside the relationship with Xiao Ye, Huang Changzu's words made Jiang Jie's heart fall down safely.

Huang Changzu came to Gravel Fort this time, in addition to establishing a good relationship with Jiang Jie, the head snake, but also for Xiao Ye; Otherwise, he would not have sold a Tartar head for twenty taels to Jiang Jie easily.

According to Xiao Ye's words and Xiao's third brother, there was no longer an arms deal with the Persians somewhere on the steppe, but then Xiao Ye left the steppe without telling him, which made him very angry.

If you don't suppress this third brother, you will come to give it a hand again, and it will be difficult for Ximen Xiaoye to handle it in the future. The obedient third brother is a good third brother.

The last time he transferred the Shiguantun firecracker, he didn't come forward, but the instructions behind it were inevitable, and now he came forward to see Jiang Jie, but also to make the business stable.

Through the intelligence information gathered, it is very likely that Xiao Ye traded with the Persians Han slaves robbed on the steppe, otherwise he would not have repeatedly troubled the Tartars; The latest information received yesterday is that a Ming army attacked the Tatar tribe on the shore of Tashuang Lake, taking away a group of Han Chinese.

Coupled with the pigeon letter from the Huang family's shop in Shiguantun, Huang Changzu was sure to confirm that Xiao Ye was hungry and did not choose to eat, he was looking for death, and he was trading with the Persians with the Han people he had snatched from the Tartars.

Once this matter is publicized and evidence is found, I believe that Xiao Ye will fall into prison headlong, and there will be no possibility of coming out.

This kind of information, he can analyze, others will definitely be able to think of it.

Although Huang Changzu didn't have much disgust with the human trafficking, he still looked down on it, although Xiao Ye snatched it from the grassland, which also made him quite disdainful.

But think about it, in the place of Shiguantun fierce battle, where even food has to be bought, Jiang Jie obviously doesn't care, Third Brother Xiao is indeed a last resort, and his courage is quite reckless.

"Although it is reckless, there are times when it can be used," Huang Changzu, who likes to keep his hands behind, thinks that he thinks a few steps more than others.

Right now, for the sake of the yellow plaster in his hands, Huang Changzu was reluctant to let Xiao Ye simply die. Unlike other merchants, Huang Changzu doesn't like to hold all the workshops in his hands, what he wants is just the result.

The Huang family's connections in the Ministry of Engineering in Beijing are raised in this way.

But compared with the other two righteous brothers, if Xiao Ye unfortunately dies in battle, he will not have too much sadness, at most he will care about the girl of the Yang family and give him food.

However, if Xiao Ye died at the hands of the Tartars, the Persians would have to find another business partner. Although Huang Changzu chatted with Jiang Jie quietly, the thoughts in his head never stopped.

After a long time, and then had a banquet that didn't fit well, Huang Changzu Shi Shiran said goodbye; Before parting, he inadvertently said a word.

"Oh, Jiang Qianhu, I heard that the day after tomorrow is the wedding wedding of Ximen Baihu, I don't have time to go, if you go, you have to drink a glass of wine, he led the troops out a few days ago, and grabbed some good things on the grassland, and there are more than a dozen war horses,"

What he wants is Xiao Ye to be uncomfortable, not to let Xiao Ye die, at the very least, those yellow plaster still need a lot of labor.

"Well, no order?" The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Jiang Jie stood at the gate of the Thousand Households, looking at the back of the Huang family's horse team suspiciously, muttering the meaning of these words in his mouth, his eyes flickering.

"Dad, the son of the Huang family must be unpleasant to see Ximen Xiao at night, otherwise he wouldn't have spoken like this," Young Master Jiang, who had been acting as a mute companion, leaned over mysteriously and said to Jiang Jie in a low voice.

"With a ready-made handle, the Simon boy is dying," the vicious Young Master Jiang, with a gloating expression, made Jiang Jie very disappointed, and he waved his hand helplessly and pushed his son aside.

"He's dead, you're going to guard Shiguantun? Or are you Lao Tzu and I'll go? Dropping down an annoying word in a huff, Jiang Jie walked back with his head bored, but his son's words made him think about it.

"It's okay not to let you die, it's okay to embarrass you, and finally die at the hands of the Tartars, count your Ximen family lucky," Jiang Jie smiled faintly as he looked at the dilapidated remnants of the plum in the flower garden.

In order to make his future worry-free, and even more so to satisfy Shangguan, he has already embarked on this road, so he has to kick away the big and small stones on the road one by one, otherwise, he will be kicked away; Walking on the green brick road, the cold wind was blowing, Jiang Jie's body was cold, and he shivered involuntarily.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month, the sky was slightly bright, and a team of men and horses carried three mule carts full of supplies and hurriedly marched in the direction of Shiguantun.

In the team, Sun Dezhang, who was riding a tall horse, and two hundred households in armor, Luo Yufei and Xie Jingan also rode healthy horses, and took two hundred walking sergeants to escort supplies to Shiguantun again.

The fire guns and war horses knocked from the Ximen boy in Shiguantun last time have made Sun Zhenfuguan happy for several days, and when he returned to the gravel fort, although he also divided a part, but the silver taels that he finally got in hand let him get a heavy two hundred taels of silver; I don't know if I'll be able to knock out more things this time.

Every time I think of Xiao Ye, a small hundred households, Sun Dezhang is stroking his beard and secretly happy, after all, he is a young man, compared with his own officialdom old official, it is too much worse, and the city government still hasn't cultivated it.

Hmph, when I was an official, the little doll was still breastfeeding.

At this time, Shiguantun was already jubilant and lively, except for a small flag that went out to guard and patrol, everyone else wore the cleanest clothes, and men, women and children crowded outside the hundred households.

On the side of the mill barracks, a ox brought from the coal pit was declared dead, and fell to the ground with a sharp knife through the throat, and with a wail; A few military households who operated the knife carefully picked up a basin full of blood, began to peel the skin and remove the meat, and the pile of picks went into the water.

Xiaoqi Huang Hanxiang took two sergeants to the mill and took away the blood-filled casing.

Huang Hanxiang, who was full of unhappiness, secretly sighed that he was unlucky, and entered the military house with a clay basin; Last night, the five small flags were drawn, and his luck was so bad that he had to make a backhand for 100 households.

"Damn, I hope those guys in Gravel Castle won't come, otherwise we will lose a lot today, and we will pretend to be dead if we can't eat the meat," muttered in fragments, Huang Hanxiang beckoned to his nine brothers, and stuffed the casing into his arms with a bitter face.

After today, they are going to leave Shiguantun and go to Bailonghu to garrison, doubling their salaries, except for Huang Hanxiang, who is a little reluctant to come here, the other sergeants are already ready to move.

When they arrived at Bailong Lake, they were flag officials, and this errand for the next level was ordered by Baihu personally, and there was nothing other small flags could do.

Xiao Ye's hundred households and Yang Tianshou's small courtyard are separated by a wall, and they can't even ride a horse and carry a sedan chair.

Despite this, early in the morning, Xiao Ye still put on a bright red auspicious dress, wore a winged high feather hat, a pair of cowhide soft boots on his feet, and held a jade belt around his waist.

Along the rough door panel, Uncle Kun stuffed seven or eight red envelopes wrapped with copper plates, Xiao Ye walked into the main room with a red face amid the laughter of several little ladies, and saw Yang Tianshou who was happy.

Bowing down, Yang Tianshou sat on the chair, looked at the sticker handed by Uncle Kun carefully, and put it in his arms, "Son-in-law, I think my Yang family is the only daughter, she is not very disciplined on weekdays, and her temperament is a little stubborn, you will have to take more responsibility in the future, husband and wife,"

"Father-in-law rest assured, the son-in-law does not dare to treat him lightly," after the ceremony, under the fiddling of a Xi Po, Xiao Ye pulled up a red ribbon, and the other end was pulled out of the inner room, and the head was covered with red silk cloth.

The distance between the two families was too close, Mei'er didn't feel the pain of parting, and Xiao Ye also tried her best to reduce the long-winded etiquette; After all, half of his mind was still down the mountain.

However, the process of accepting Cai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, invitation, and personal welcome, known as the Six Rites, was still very face-saving to Yang Tianshou in the operation of the craftsmen headed by Wang Dali, and it was the final personal welcome that was simpler.

This time, Wang Dali, who was full of red light, acted as the elder of the Xiao family, making the envious eyes of those craftsmen red.

Envy is envy, on the side of the mill military house, on the open ground, ten large wooden tables have been set up, and today's wedding banquet is about to be open for food.

In the main hall of the hundred households, after Yang Tianshou and Wang Dali received three bows from the small couple, Xiao Ye had just sent Mei'er into the cave room, and when she came to the courtyard, she didn't stand firm, and Wang Hu hurriedly ran in; Today, however, he led the team to guard at the foot of the mountain.

"Lord Baihu, someone from the Gravel Castle is here, it's still the same Sun Zhen Fuguan, and there are two Baihu leading the team," his mouth came to Xiao Ye's ear, and Wang Hu said loudly; In this noisy courtyard, if he didn't amplify the sound, he was really afraid that Baihu wouldn't be able to hear clearly.

His voice immediately cleared the yard, and everyone looked at Xiao Ye suspiciously, but Xiao Ye's silent expression still made everyone's hearts lighten; Perhaps, someone came to congratulate him.

"Since the guests are here, it's better to invite them into the tun," Yang Tianshou, who was standing beside Xiao Ye, waved his hand absently and urged; Wang Hu looked at Baihu sideways, and saw Xiao Ye nodding reluctantly, so he answered and ran out quickly.

Today's day is good, the sun is warm, the ground has long been cleaned next to the mill on the west side of the mountain top wall, ten wooden tables lined up in a row, placed in a sheltered place behind the stone wall, the men in the military house stove are still sweating profusely stir-fry vegetables and stew, put the big pot of fragrant meat into a tile pot, lacquer plate, a jar of ale wine has also been moved out.

Now in Shiguantun, most of the families still use wooden bowls, wooden lacquer plates, only 100 households and two merchants, willing to spend money with ceramic plates, bowls, that thing is afraid of falling fragile, the military craftsmen who are used to picking up, are reluctant to take out money to buy.

Huang Deshan, who had retreated from the Hundred Households Office earlier, was sitting at a wooden table, drinking tea and chatting with Tian Fangjun, waiting for the wedding banquet to begin, but he saw Xiao Ye at the gate of the Tun Wall from a distance, dressed in red, and hurriedly descended the mountain with people.

"Hey, can't it be a guest coming down from the mountain?" Drinking the bitter strong tea, Tian Fangjun muttered in a low voice; The children scurrying around, the military families sitting around the table, but they didn't see the crowd on the trail downhill.

"Probably not, it's freezing this day, if it weren't for God's face today, it would still be cloudy yesterday," Huang Deshan, who was snoring and smoking a hookah, didn't even pick his eyelids, and replied vaguely, and then, his face froze.

Wouldn't it be his own young master who jumped three times without anything, Huang Deshan, who was nervous, was the same as Tian Fangjun, his eyes began to drift to the side of the mountain road, and he was pulling the topic casually in his mouth.

If it weren't for the sergeant at the intersection of the path down the hill, a cordon would have been raised, and they would have run over.

At the foot of the stone mountain, Xiao Ye greeted Sun Zhenfu, who had already arrived, but this time, Sun Zhenfu was not even interested in going up the mountain; Behind him, two hundred heavily armed sergeants, under the gesture of the hundred households, had already faintly set up an attack formation fifty paces away.

Xiao Ye, who pretended to be smiling, didn't expect that on today's big day, the first thing he saw when he went down the mountain was Sun Zhenfu's frosty cold face, and then looked at the sergeants not far away, and suddenly felt angry in his heart.

"Sun Zhen Fuguan, Xiao Ye is late to go down the mountain, please forgive your sins, please go up the mountain..." According to the etiquette system in the army, on formal occasions, he must salute when he sees the magistrate, and the other sergeants must kneel and bow, but according to custom, he is the groom official today and can bow his hand.

His words were simply interrupted.

"Hey, Ximen Baihu, your Shiguantun threshold is too high, my Sun doesn't dare to climb high, today I was ordered by thousands of households to routinely escort supplies to Tunli," Sitting on the horse, Sun Pi snorted with a smile, and looked at Xiao Ye condescendingly.

Although he took some of the benefits of Shiguantun last time, but thinking about the risks inside, Sun is a burst of sweat, but today he has made up his mind, and he will do things at the bottom of the mountain, and he will not go up the mountain if he dies.

The two hundred sergeants who came this time were not only half carrying three-eyed firearms, but also a hundred spearmen and shield soldiers, and if they forcibly attacked this small stone mountain, it should not be a big problem.

Out of the corner of his eye, he swept down the sergeants who were eyeing him, as well as the two hundred households who were obviously not good-looking, Xiao Ye's heart suddenly chilled, and a cold sweat appeared on his back.

"Then, let's ask Sun Zhenfu to deliver the materials," since you don't buy your own smiling face, you don't need to put a hot face on your cold cheeks anymore, Xiao Ye said in a deep voice.

Behind him, the guards had already pulled out the stragglers, and the firearms were shouldered in their hands; These guards, who had lived and died with hundreds of households, looked at Sun Zhenfu's eyes and gradually became indifferent.

In the meadow in the distance, Wang Hu's small flag was also quietly surrounding, and the fire of the black hole stretched out the withered yellow grass stalks; If Xiao Ye dared to pull out the revolver/gun on his waist, then the first round of fire gun attacks would be Wang Hu and the ten of them.

With the addition of ten personal guards, they will not necessarily suffer in a fight. Besides, there are other small flags on the mountain, ready to support.

Seeing Xiao Ye standing there neither humble nor arrogant, Sun Zhenfu was suddenly furious, and was about to open his mouth to scold, Luo Yufei, who was next to him, pulled his official robe vaguely, "Lord Sun, it's cold, let's hurry up and read out the military order of the thousand households,"

With the eyes of the hundred households, Sun Zhenfu looked around, and he couldn't see the muzzle of the fire gun that loomed a hundred steps away, but the uneasiness in his heart was the yin fire that made him burst.

This Ximen Xiao Ye, so arrogant, isn't he afraid of Wang Fa. Backhanded, Sun Yin blushed and took out the documents of the Thousand Households.

"Shiguantun West Gate 100 households, 1000 households Jiang order: Shiguantun 100 households sent troops to the grassland for no reason, attacked the neighboring countries, and specially ordered to hand over the forbidden sergeants and bring them back to the gravel fort for custody," with a sneer on his face, Sun read out the military order of the Qianhu Institute aloud.

After reading the document in his hand, he threw it away, and the document covered with the big seal of the thousand households was thrown by him at Xiao Ye's feet.

As long as Xiao Ye honestly handed over a few sergeants, even if it was a small flag, he could go back to hand over the errand, of course, if Shi Guantun didn't give the benefits for a long time, then it would be difficult to know whether the handed over sergeants would live or die.

Jiang Jie's plan this time is to let Xiao Ye and his military households deviate from morality, and when they completely understand Young Master Huang's plan, there will be more powerful tricks. Anyway, as long as Shiguantun is under the jurisdiction of the Gravel Castle, he will get rid of a hundred households, and move his fingers.

"Wow," At this moment, not only the guards were all dumbfounded, but the military households who followed down and watched the excitement behind them also made a noise in shock.

Only the Wang Hu team, who was on guard in the distance, still did not have any abnormality, half-kneeling on the grass, holding the fire gun steadily, and staring at Xiao Ye's right hand with their eyes.

The sentry squad did not have the orders of a hundred households, and those who leaked the formation of the body at will, the wooden stick in their hands had already taught them a lesson, and it also made these sergeants only have the orders of a hundred households in their eyes.

The order of Sun Zhenfuguan was heard in his ears, which had already shocked Xiao Ye's mind with a bang, and his eyes kept wandering on the paperwork on the ground, standing on the spot. Unexpectedly, my father-in-law's speculation really appeared in front of me.

Shouldn't Tartars be beaten? Allow them to rob our Daming? Staring at the paperwork at his feet, Xiao Ye couldn't relax for a while.

"Do you dare to make a noise? Hmph, the officers who sing and make trouble winch their tongues, and those who violate the military orders are killed on the spot," Sun Zhenfu's eyelids jumped, and he yelled and scolded the noisy military households, and simply suppressed the noise of these people.

I have to say that the military law of the Ming Dynasty is still very deterrent in the eyes of military households.

"Tsk, Ximen Baihu, have you figured it out, if you think about it, you will hand over those sergeants who disobeyed the order, Qianhu didn't blame you, it's already a great blessing," Sun Dezhang, who was neither yin nor yang, said unhurriedly, although he was a little anxious in his heart.

Kill people with soft knives, slowly peel off your sergeants, and then let you lose the hearts of the people in the tun, after the spring when the Tartars come, no matter how you have a thousand skills, you can't resist the Mongolian Tartars' horn bow scimitar; Regarding Jiang Qianhu's desperate plan, Sun Zhenfuguan was already convinced.

Especially, the benefits of coming this time, Qianhu didn't want it at all, otherwise his grandson wouldn't want to come at all.

"Sun Zhenfuguan, I have a total of more than 100 sergeants in Shiguantun, half of them are craftsmen, there is a real shortage of guards, those sergeants who have violated the ban, can they be gracious and let them make meritorious service to the court," he raised his head with difficulty, Xiao Ye pleaded bitterly, his legs and stomach were also trembling suddenly; For the sake of personal grudges, he really didn't want to go that step.

The pure teachings of my father-in-law for many days are still in my ears, but Xiao Ye cannot give up those brothers who were born and died with him.

"Guilty of meritorious service? Hehe, Ximen Baihu said that he laughed, this word is not something that you can say as a small Baihu," Sun Zhenfuguan raised his head and smiled, and when he lowered his head, his face was already full of hideousness, "I have a Ming military rule, I think you also know, it is absolutely forbidden to disobey,"

With his loud shout, the guards behind Xiao Ye burst into their arms and pulled the bolt with a click; This move suddenly made Sun Dezhang's horse step back two steps, and his face turned pale, even the two majestic Baihu, who also shrank their necks, their clothes and armor rattled, and they jumped off the war horse without thinking.

The two hundred sergeants from the Gravel Fort, under Luo Yufei's gesture, shouted in unison, the tip of the spear raised the shield and landed on the ground, and the fire rope coiled around the neck was also caught in his hand.

Fortunately, the guards behind Xiao Ye did not have the order of the hundred households, the guns were pointed at the ground, and the projectiles were not loaded, so Sun Zhenfu swallowed the military order to take Xiao Ye alive.

"Ximen Xiaoye, why are you doing this, do you want to disobey military orders?" Sun shouted loudly, which made Xiao Ye's mind sober up; "No, the lower officials don't dare," raising his right hand and waving it slightly, Xiao Ye asked the guards to step back.

Taking a step forward, Xiao Ye bent down and picked up the paperwork, looked at it again, and carefully put it into his arms.

"Master Sun, I think that my Ximen family has been a military household for generations, how can I offend the military order, is there someone who instigated thousands of households, and I am wronged in Shiguantun," Xiao Ye, who still had hope in his heart, forcibly defended himself.

His words also made the military households behind him shout loudly about the wrongs.

"Wronged?" Sun Zhenfu flicked his horsewhip impatiently, pointed to the northern grassland, and showed a large sneer on his face, "Not to mention that the Qianhu Institute already has a human witness, even after the beginning of spring, the Tartars will also send envoys, will you confess your guilt at that time?" ”

Just when Xiao Ye's face changed, a team of small flags hurriedly ran from the mountain trail, led by Huang Hanxiang; Parting the military households in front, Huang Hanxiang strode forward, crossed the hundred households who bowed their heads and were silent, and knelt down on one knee in front of Sun Dezhang's horse.

"Lord Zhenfuguan, the villain is Huang Hanxiang of Shiguantun Xiaoqi, who went out to the grassland a few days ago, and did not do the business of Ximen Baihu, it was the villain who acted recklessly, not only damaged the brothers, but also involved hundreds of households to be responsible," Huang Hanxiang raised his head and arched his hand, "The villain is one person who does things and one person is willing to be punished by military law,"

"Hula" The nine sergeants behind him knelt on the ground in unison, "Lord Pacification Officer, the villain is willing to be punished by military law,"

For a while, the military households in Shiguantun were so shocked that they gasped, and the family members of some sergeants fell to the ground in despair; This military punishment can be big or small, but the thousand households in the gravel fort are ruthless and will not let go of this great opportunity at all.

Only Xiao Ye, when he raised his head again, the hesitation in his eyes was swept away, and there was irrepressible resentment in his quiet eyes.

In Xiao Ye's indignant gaze, Sun Dezhang smiled, stepped forward, his eyes rolled slightly, "Huang Hanxiang, well, it's the eldest son of Huang Stonemason, yes, he has courage, but it's a pity that he followed the wrong person,"

His words did not cause Huang Hanxiang's reaction, nor did it arouse any doubts of the military households, in front of Sun Dezhang's eyes, Huang Hanxiang and other ten sergeants untied the scimitar in their waists, took off the crossbow and put it on the ground, looking like they were resigned to their fate.

More than a dozen sergeants from the gravel fort, under Xie Jing'an's beckoning, were about to step forward to tie up the criminals with ropes, "Slow," Xiao Ye, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth dryly.

"Dare to ask Sun Zhenfu Guan, what crime will they be sentenced to when they go to the Gravel Fort?" Hoarse in his voice, Xiao Ye asked word by word, his eyes fixed on Sun Dezhang's face.

"This, it depends on Lord Jiang Qianhu, as well as their pleadings," Sun Dezhang's thin fingers pointed directly at Huang Hanxiang on the ground, "You can hang or detach,"

His words landed, the corners of Xiao Ye's mouth twitched twice, and he waved his hand to stop the dozen or so sergeants, "Then you don't need to be escorted back to the gravel fort, execute according to military law, and ask Sun Zhenfu to supervise the sentence,"

The undeniable decisiveness made Sun Dezhang and the two hundred households stunned, and before it was too late to say more, Xiao Ye waved his hand, Zuo Shi took the guards on their backs, and rushed up, pulling Huang Hanxiang and them to the wasteland twenty steps away.

Huang Hanxiang, who was appointed, and his subordinates, did not resist at all. Ten sergeants slipped away and were kicked to the ground.

"Stand back," Zuo Shi whispered, and the ten guards loosened the collar of the criminal, took two steps back, and with a bang, the guards took the fire guns from their shoulders; "Clear, load," and with a smooth click, the gun was reloaded.

"Sun Zhenfuguan, you can send someone to inspect the gun," Xiao Ye glanced at Sun Dezhang and said gloomily, "They are all men who dare to fight hard with the Tartars,"

"Hehe, Ximen Baihu is decisive and disciplined, it's okay, you can act cheaply in a hurry," Sun Dezhang, who was in charge of the military discipline of the Gravel Fort, sneered in his heart and praised loudly. Fortunately, he didn't laugh out loud, otherwise Xiao Ye, whose eyes had already begun to turn red, might have made some trouble.

Only when he nodded, Xiao Ye could move on to the next step.

Zuo Shi looked at his brother, who was a little haggard, and saw that he had gestured to himself, hesitated for a moment, and gave the command ruthlessly, "Raise the gun, aim,"; Looking at Xiao Ye again, seeing that he had already turned around, Zuo Shi glared at Sun Dezhang angrily, "Fire,"

"Peng, Peng, Peng," a series of loud roars sounded, not only making those soldiers cry again and again, but even Sun Dezhang felt a sudden shock in his heart; This Ximen Xiao Ye is really a ruthless man, even his own subordinates dare to kill ten, and he only has a total of fifty combatable soldiers.

The moment the smoke poured out, everyone on both sides saw ten kneeling sergeants lying on the ground by the sudden impact, and a striking hole in the short sheepskin jacket of the Tartar man on his back was dripping with blood.

With such a serious injury, even if the imperial doctor of the capital is like this, he is helpless. Even if the projectile with the bullet is removed, the impact of the fire/gun is enough to tear the sturdy sheepskin jacket at close range.

Xiao Ye, who had secretly experimented once, still couldn't help but tremble in the face of the row of brothers who had fallen, and the crown of his teeth creaked.

Sun Dezhang, who was dumbfounded, looked at Luo Yufei and Xie Jing'an, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and after saying a few words, he asked the sergeant to take the ten waist cards handed over by Zuo Shi, collected the scimitar and crossbow on the ground, and led the team to turn around and leave.

As for the extortion, Sun Dezhang can't remember it anymore. Mother, this boy from the Simon family, how can he be so ruthless, and he is not inferior to the adults of a thousand households.

After a while, there were only two cartloads of grain left on the opposite side of Xiao Ye, less than twenty stones of chaff and rough old grain, and the mules and horses pulling the carts were also taken away.

Xiao Ye, who was stunned in place, did not feel a trance until he heard the cries of the family members of the military households; Fortunately, Zuo Shi had already taken his guards and stepped forward to stop the noisy military households.

Outside the tun wall on the top of the mountain, the shopkeepers of the two shops, Tian and Huang, looked in amazement at a group of military households who were crying incessantly, and hurriedly carried ten bloodied sergeants into the tunli military house; Li Langzhong's clinic was busy for a while, and several pharmacists ran out quickly.

After a few inquiries, Huang Deshan and Tian Fangjun, who learned the truth under the mountain, stood stunned for a long time, and then entered their own shop with a gray face, not caring about any wedding banquet.

In the military dormitory, which had been under martial law by the guards, Huang Hanxiang was slapped on the ass by Baihu, and after a long breath, he got up, and the other nine sergeants also sat up one after another and took off their dirty bloody clothes.

"My mother, I almost killed Lao Tzu," Huang Hanxiang snorted, laboriously pulling out an iron plate from his back waist, looking at the shallow marks on it, and grinning with his teeth.

Xiao Ye sat on the chair next to him and snorted coldly unhappily, "You deserve it, you don't need to take off the knife and crossbow for acting, you have cheapened Sun Laogou for nothing,"

Zuo Shi heard the movement inside the outside room, walked in with a smile on the curtain, and began to give two taels of silver to each of the ten people, "Everyone, your waist card is gone, turn your face and go to return Bailong Lake, and then leave after dinner,"

"You guys go home and clean up, and set off after dark at night," After speaking, Xiao Ye got up and walked out of the clinic, the military households were all unstable, and they had to let these ten guys show up a little.

What happened under the stone mountain directly made Yang Tianshou drop the teacup, and Jiang Jie was disturbed by his daughter's marriage, not to mention that Xiao Ye also "lost" ten sergeants; What's more, the hearts of the people in Shiguantun are afraid that they can't be saved.

This time, Xiao Ye didn't tell anyone except his father-in-law, for fear that the sergeant, who had no sense of secrecy, would leak the inside story in a casual conversation with outsiders.

Shiguantun, which had been guarded by the sergeant, had no news from the Tian and Huang families, so they could only send men to keep an eye on it.

Shang Shetian, the chief of Jiming Village, originally brought a few old people to congratulate him, but he was frightened by this sudden scene, if Xiao Ye hadn't let him look at Huang Hanxiang, maybe the old and young of Jiming Village would have fled back to the deserted village overnight.

After taking off his auspicious clothes and comforting Mei'er and his little sister, Xiao Ye walked into the mill with his personal guards, not only consuming 9,000 catties of charcoal, but also pouring the black kernels he had just obtained, and more than 100 catties of rare kernels into the stone grinding eyes.

The only thing that pleased him today was the black pit that had been plucked from near the pit to make the pattern on the millstone sparkle one more time.

Due to the preferences of the hundred households in Ximen, the wedding gift given to him by the Tian and Huang families was 2,000 catties of iron, 1,000 catties of sulfur and saltpeter, and 500 catties of lead, which also made Xiao Ye put his eyes into grinding.

After pressing the button on the stone grinding disc four times in a row, Xiao Ye selected the shining pattern for a long time before taking out 15 rear-loading firearms, 1,800 projectiles, and 120 earth-shattering thunderbolts, which were handed over to Huang Hanxiang.

In the middle of the night, five mule and horse carts, under the strict supervision of the sergeant, quietly left Shiguantun, followed by a group of relatives behind the mule cart, and Ai Aidi was blocked at the intersection of the path down the mountain, watching the mule cart pulling the "corpse" down the mountain with a dumb eye.

Huang Deshan and Tian Fangjun, who were rewarded, sat in the account room and sighed softly, the fate of the forbidden sergeant is not safe even if he dies; I'm afraid that the hundred households of Ximen who have a good face will be buried in the distance.

As for the man who reported that he didn't see the coffin, the two shopkeepers completely ignored it, and there was a shortage of wood for the furniture on the mountain, and it was good to have a white cloth shroud. The two of them have seen a lot of scapegoats, and what they saw this time is not excessive, the only surprise is that Xiao Ye's ruthless methods are revealed for the first time.

This news must be transmitted back to the family as soon as possible.