Under Luo Ansheng's order, the salt lords had no choice but to go to the salt bag and draw out the blades and birds, and at this time, the entourage of the beautiful young man became vigilant, and one of the round-faced girls kept staring at their movements.

"Sister, come with me." Luo Lihong wanted to reach out to pull this young man who was as plump as jade, but somehow, her hand retracted halfway.

The young man pursed his lips and smiled, "Don't be afraid. He made a gesture and said, "Signal." ”

Immediately, Luo Lihong and the others were stunned, and saw an entourage with an extra firearm in his hand, raised his hand to the sky, and shot three gunshots, and suddenly killed four times, "Bang Bang Bang", and the sound of the gun was deafening.

Countless soldiers in gray uniforms jumped up from the reeds and the grass, and the horns shook the sky and were extremely excited.

"Kill!" Shining bayonets were like a forest, and thousands of soldiers with bloody thorns rushed through the fields, and the momentum like thousands of horses galloping made the salt barons tremble in their legs.

The officers and men at the ferry were in disarray, about a few hundred sergeants, headless flies, some of them began to crouch down in a formation of three rounds to shoot the defense under the scolding of the Russian advisers, and some of the soldiers fled to the canopy boats, ready to slip away.

Who knew that at this time, in the silver-ribbon canal, a gunboat spewing black smoke slowly approached, and a huge solid bullet with the sound of the wind smashed into the canopy boat and on the ferry. A shell coincidentally hit the soldiers who were shooting in a dense formation, and immediately a group of people fell down, and the screams were endless.

The "Cheonan" is one of the two rudimentary-class training ships purchased and defected by the North, a wooden steam ship, 50 meters long, 9 meters wide, 150 horsepower, six guns, and a displacement of 400 tons.

Now it is used by Su Hongniang in the canal to deal with these canopy boats and sand boats, which is really invincible.

Needless to say, the beautiful young man is Su Hongniang, after landing in Tongzhou, he judged the situation and finally decided to control the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as the main supply line of the Pingyuan Army, which was also supported by Ye Zhao.

In the battle of Jianyang Dutou, Peng Xueqin's unsuspecting battalion of river patrols was defeated almost in a quarter of an hour, of course, the main force of the Northern Expedition of the Pingyuan Army contained Huai'an Zuo Zongtang's Wu Yi Army, and in addition to the Tian'an, the participation in this battle was only the guard battalion of the military headquarters and the reading power strengthening infantry battalion directly dispatched by the military department.

Luo Ansheng was dumbfounded, the "Southern Rebellion" destroyed the Xue Shuai's divine artillery, and had faintly heard that the Southern Rebel was brave and belligerent in the past, but he didn't expect it to be such a brave method.

Looking back at the brothers, these men had already thrown their swords and guns to the ground.

"Sister, ah, no, you, are you ......" Luo Lihong's small mouth couldn't close, and she looked at the matchmaker in surprise.

The female guard next to her said loudly with pride on her face: "My master is Su Niangniang, the deputy marshal of the Southern Dynasty and the commander of the Pingyuan East Route Army!" ”

Su Hongniang, where do these people in the salt gang know? The so-called Arhat Gang, in fact, has a lot to do with the Tiandihui branch of the Shanghai Xiaodao Society, which is called the Luohan Party, Luo Ansheng is a member of the Luohan Party, but Xu Yao, the leader of the Luohan Party, and the Tiandihui gathered in Shanghai to rebel, and Luo Ansheng did not lead his troops to participate.

"Grass people Luo Ansheng, you don't know Mount Tai with eyes, see Su Niangniang." Luo Ansheng hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and it was not easy to use the rules of the rivers and lakes, what kind of incision of the red stick three openings, but the courtesy of the people to see the officials.

Su Hongniang said: "You guys, don't sell salt, now the Pingyuan Army is the time to use people, you are first incorporated into the logistics team, how can you have something to eat, help out of the strength, you are also familiar with this area, you can help." ”

At this time, how dare Luo Ansheng say that he is unwilling? But no matter whether it is a last resort or something today, a few months later, Luo Ansheng will be glad that he has met today.

"Report, report Niangniang, I caught three Rakshasa ghosts!" Outside the woods, the big man who hurriedly entered was Xu Yao, who strengthened the camp management belt, and together with Liu Lichuan and Zhou Xiuying, after escaping from Shanghai, he defected to Su Hongniang.

Luo Ansheng hurriedly lowered his head, he is a junior of the Luohan Party, although he has seen Xu Yao, but Xu Yao will not remember him if he thinks about it, he did not go to Shanghai to play in the past, and he always feels ashamed.

Without much effort, the soldiers of the Pingyuan Army pushed several Russians into the woods, and the Russians all looked ugly, unlike most of the armed immigrants who fought against the Pingyuan Army outside the Guan, these were professional soldiers who were captured by the Chinese, and they felt greatly humiliated.

One of them looked arrogant, and muttered a rakshasa word, he was unusually tall, obviously taller than the soldiers of the Pingyuan Army who pushed him, and his body was full of horizontal meat, like a big black bear, and the ground trembled when he walked, and he was afraid that he would have two or three hundred catties.

"Who is he? Say what? The matchmaker looked at the dejected Northern Dynasty interpreter.

The interpreter nodded his head, and his triangular eyes were full of flattery, "My lord, this Rakshasa devil is a general, named Peter Du Lodge, the guest of Xue Shuai, you caught it well, you caught it well." ”

There was a burst of laughter next to him, and Luo Ansheng was even more surprised, how could these officials who were powerful and prosperous in the north be so virtuous in front of the "southern rebellion"?

The matchmaker frowned slightly: "What general?" "I know that if this interpreter doesn't understand the Russian military rank, he is blowing nonsense, looking at his epaulettes, he is probably a colonel, but the official rank is not small, and it is not false to say that Peng Xueqin is the guest of honor. "What did he say?" he asked. ”

The interpreter laughed and said, "The Rakshasa devil farts around...... Oops" Before he finished speaking, he slapped Xu Yao in the mouth, and Xu Yao scolded even more: "Speak cleanly!" Don't talk nonsense, just say what you ask? ”

The interpreter covered his face, looked crying, did not dare to hide it anymore, and said: "He said that the Chinese are not useful, if his subordinates, only a hundred people, can beat you to the ground, and also said that he can defeat you ten generals by himself." "As he spoke, he scolded the Rakshasa devil in his heart, he was captured alive, and he blew a fart, which angered the military master of the Southern Dynasty, and cut off our heads in anger, aren't you tired to death?

After listening to the translation's words, Xu Yao was furious, and clenched his fists and said to the matchmaker: "Niangniang, let me teach him a lesson!" ”

Su Hongniang smiled slightly, and Nunu said, "Let him go." Then he said to the interpreter, "Tell him that there will be no need for ten great generals, but that I, a little woman, will compete with him, and if he wins, I will let him go." "The heart said that if Sava was there, the little girl had sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, but she didn't know how to hurt him.

Xu Yao was stunned, didn't dare to persuade, stood aside, slightly worried, Niangniang has rarely used force with people over the years, this Rakshasa ghost is tall and big, like a wild bull, but don't be careless, suffer a loss, even if you are touched by this wild cow, it is a great shame?

The interpreter muttered a few words to Peter, and Peter looked at the matchmaker arrogantly, his fierce brown eyes suddenly became hot, and he said something loudly.

The interpreter was obviously startled, and did not dare to translate, so Peter said, "If I capture you alive in the future, I will definitely marry you as a wife."

The matchmaker's face sank, and she knew that what the Rakshasa ghost said was not a good thing.

The female guard next to her handed over a few handkerchiefs, asking the lady to wrap her hands, so as not to stain the barbarian skin in the fight. The matchmaker waved her hand and said, "No!" ”

took two steps and beckoned to the black bear-like Russian [***] official: "Come on." ”

The Russian [***] official could see the matchmaker's contempt for him, and with a strange scream, he rushed towards the matchmaker, like a mountain of meat, and his power was incomparable.

More than a dozen steps, running at high speed, hanging the sound of the wind, and raising the big iron fist high, this is going to be hit by a punch, I am afraid that even a yak will have to be beaten up.

Seeing that this muscular Roshan rushed to the front of the matchmaker, and the sound of gasping air sounded all around, Luo Lihong exclaimed: "Be careful." ”

At this moment, I suddenly saw the matchmaker jumping up lightly, and her small official boots hit the chest of the bull officer, and time seemed to suddenly stop.

This is an illusion, because the illusion caused by the sudden stagnation of the high-speed movement of the incomparably powerful Russian [***] official gives people the feeling that time has stopped.

Then, the huge muscular man suddenly staggered back, kicked and kicked, the ground seemed to tremble, and then, facing straight to the sky, there was a loud "poof", and he fell into the loess, full of dust.

At this time, the matchmaker just landed very lightly.

All around, there was silence, everyone was stunned, and no one even applauded.

If the matchmaker knocks it down with a light and dexterous fight, maybe not many people will be surprised, but such a hard shock, but it really scares people, how many people who watch the battle have practiced for a few years, everyone knows, just the Russian hundreds of pounds of body, how terrible the impact is in high-speed running, but it was kicked back by the little woman who jumped up in place, and it was such a small official boots, kicked back, this visual impact is dumbfounded.

Look at the brute bull again, his mouth is full of foam, and he is already more in and less out.

Xu Yao smiled bitterly in his heart, Demon God Niangniang, this, there is someone in this world who dares to marry her, but it is the prince.

However, if Ye Zhao, who often bullies the matchmaker, sees this scene, he is afraid that he will break out in a cold sweat all over his body, and he will definitely restrain a lot in the future.

…… At this time, in the council hall, Ye Zhao looked at the excerpts of Harrich, Shenbao and others, and now the sailors returned to defense, and both of them were invited to cross the river and fight a decisive battle with Zeng Guofan and Miao Peilin.

Even Han Jinchun, the commander of the third town in Guangzhou, also made an excerpt, saying that he wanted to rotate defense with the second town, and proposed to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle to find an opportunity to annihilate the Russian fleet, and then transfer the elite of the third town to land on the coast of Zhili and open up a second battlefield.

Zhao Sanbao in Guizhou, because the Western Expeditionary Army was not dispatched into an army, and he did not go to war.

Looking at these excerpts, Ye Zhao just thought silently.

Outside, there was a sudden commotion, Ye Zhao frowned slightly, raised his head, and when His Royal Highness saw it, he hurriedly trotted out of the hall.

After a while, Zhao Xianqi, the second-class guard, came in with Bao Yi and kowtowed: "Your Highness, the minions should be damned, they disturbed Your Highness, and the minions will go to slap their mouths." ”

Ye Zhao asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhao Xianqi said: "It's the clerk of the secretary's room, she has to come to see His Highness, and she was blocked by the minions, but she doesn't understand the rules, saying that she has something important to ask to see His Highness, she is really bold, and Master Ma Dengma in the secretary's room has also arrived." ”

Ye Zhao said: "Is there something urgent?" ”

Zhao Xianqi said: "I heard Master Ma say that this bold official is the bandit Wang Niang, who is still under control, and in the secretary's room, he only does some copying work. ”

Ye Zhaoqi said: "Wang Niang? Ah ......" gradually remembered that there was a female official in the secretary's room, that is, Wang Niangyueji, who was now in the secretary's room, as if she had changed her name to Li Xiuyue, and she never forgot the meaning of being loyal to the king.

"Call her in." But I really forgot about her, and I don't know what I suddenly went crazy about.

"Wow!" Zhao Xianqi took the order and left.

After a while, the sound of clattering high heels, Zhao Xianqi led a beautiful female clerk in, the lilac uniform, inlaid with a single buckle with gold edges, and the narrow chest above the button was lined with lace black patterns, which looked exquisite, classical and modern, straight pants and wonderful black high heels set off the long legs, long hair fluttering, and the beautiful surname was incomparable.

"The people's daughter greets the prince!" Yueji's pretty face was a little stiff when she knelt down, and in her heart, there was an unspeakable sense of humiliation, the concubine of the dead country, to meet the enemy of the strong enemy, it was really better to drink wine and commit suicide, but today, she couldn't help but come.

If it weren't for this council hall, she would still not kneel, lead the laws of the Southern Dynasty, and the officials would not have to bow to the regent everywhere, but now, she could only bow down on her knees, and she wanted to cry when she was sad, so she could only say silently, the king, Yueji is sorry for you, Yueji endured humiliation and stealing her life, just to see you again, and now she can keep a little blood for the king, so why regret death?

Ye Zhao said: "Get up." Ye Zhao knows that for Yueji, who regards Li Xiucheng as a big hero and hero, there is no doubt that she is the villain, the executioner who suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the big white face who kills people without blinking, and a little woman, no matter how strong she is, deep in her heart, she is afraid of herself, right?

Yueji got up slowly, raised her head, and looked at the throne fearlessly, and when she saw Huang Chengcheng's dazzling golden light, the handsome-looking young man, Yueji was slightly stunned, she had only seen the back of this thief from afar, but she didn't want to be so handsome, but it was just that people can't look good, and where can you see the great evildoers?

I vaguely felt that Ye Zhao was a little familiar, but for a while I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

Ye Zhao had only met her once, and she had a sticky beard, so she naturally couldn't recognize it.

"What is the matter with you asking to see this king?" Ye Zhao asked lightly, and said a few words to the servant beside him, and the servant walked out quickly.

Yueji said crisply and loudly: "The people's daughter begged the king for mercy and spared Li Xuefu's surname, he is just a child, the prince has always ruled the world with benevolence and kindness, and the pseudo-young king can forgive his capital crimes, let alone after Li Xiucheng?" "The sound is crisp and melodious. Yueji also just heard that the Southern Dynasty had captured Brother Li's only son, and even heard that she seemed to be going to kill him to provoke Li Xiucheng, so that he led his troops to take revenge and threw himself into the net.

Yueji was flustered when she heard this, and she didn't sleep soundly all night, so she decided to give up her life to die, and she also wanted to protect Brother Li's bloodline.

This murderer has always been hypocritical, and Tsukihime is smart and provoked by his own words.

Ye Zhao laughed, and at this time, Bao Yi ran back and presented a few pages of documents, which were the information of Yueji that Ye Zhao had just asked him to get.

Ye Zhao glanced at it a few times, now Yueji is in the control period, accompanied by female soldiers in the upper and lower offices, living in No. 11 Lantern Hutong, a separate courtyard, and also guarded by female soldiers, in fact, she is under house arrest.

And Yueji's parents were also brought to Jinling to live with him, his father Xiucai was born, and he hated the bandits, and he wanted to escape from the "occupied area" several times back then, if it wasn't for Li Xiucheng's care, I am afraid that he would have been cut off his head.

Now his father entered an office to write letters on behalf of others, because the Southern Dynasty had a large floating population and a lot of information transmission, and the writing industry of this generation was industrialized. Next to the post office, there are almost always one or two offices.

In short, in the southern country, it is difficult for a scholar to go hungry.

Yueji's old father was extremely dissatisfied with Yueji's often revealing thoughts of being close to heaven, and Yueji didn't dare to mention Li Xiucheng in front of her father, so as not to be scolded.

In the old master's heart, he hated Li Xiucheng, a good family, because he was stained with him, he became a bandit, but fortunately, the regent Shengming only controlled the "loyal princess", the old couple is still a good citizen, they can do whatever they want, and there are even officials who come to ask him to persuade his daughter, which really makes the old master grateful.

The next step Yueji continued: "If the prince believes in the people's daughter, the people's daughter is willing to live with Li Xuefu, and she is also willing to write a letter to Li Xiucheng to persuade him to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. ”

Ye Zhao smiled dumbly and said, "Is the loyal king a person who listens to people's persuasion?" Don't say that you and Li Xuefu, even if his whole clan is tied here and cuts you off, he won't blink his eyes. ”

Yueji was speechless, to be honest, although this thief's words were harsh, what he said was right, Brother Li is this kind of person.

Ye Zhao said again: "Unless the mountains and rivers are exhausted, don't think about it if you want him to surrender." ”

Yueji was stunned and said, "Since the prince also knows that it is useless to kill Xuefu, then why bother to kill again?" ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "You, don't use fancy words to fool me, but Li Xuefu can move in with you, but one thing, if you educate him all day long about those God-taught things, and then kill his surname, don't complain." ”

Yueji's heart jumped, and she couldn't figure out what this thief meant, so she handed over Xuefu to herself so easily? What did he have in mind?

"Alright, there you go." Ye Zhao waved his hand.

After Li Xuefu was arrested in Jinling, it was really difficult to deal with him, think about it, after arresting Li Xiucheng's concubine and arresting his son, there is always a time when it can be useful, and now it is not in a hurry.

Yueji took two steps, suddenly turned around, stared at Ye Zhao with pretty eyes, and said: "Lord, the concubine invites you to drink, thank you for your extrajudicial kindness, I wonder if the concubine has this blessing?" ”

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "I can't talk about extrajudicial kindness, if you want to say that this Li Xuefu is just born to the wrong person, there is no need to invite me to drink." "These women, each with strange ideas, though she will not have a chance to assassinate herself, but who knows what she will do? Guess their thoughts are too tiring, it's better to have less contact.

He also said: "If you can really look at the Southern Dynasty with your eyes and evaluate the Southern Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, then you are worthy of me." ”

If according to the rules and regulations that have always been followed, Ye Zhao can really be said to be benevolent and righteous to the Heavenly King's female officials, and this is also a matter of feeling.

It was the first time I heard that the people of the Southern Dynasty did not need to call the kingdom of heaven by words such as rebels and bandits, let alone that this person still exterminated the great thief of the kingdom of heaven. Tsukihime was stunned and retreated.

…… In the evening, Ye Zhao and Hua Ji accompanied Hua Ji's grandmother to Qingchun Garden.

Qingchun Garden is a private garden, which sets up magic shows, amusement palaces, Chinese and Western restaurants, photography, flower appreciation, sports competitions, theatrical performances, etc., if the Jinling Grand Theater, the Great World Club and other places are the new favorite of the young people of the new thought and new class, Qingchun Garden and other private garden-like gardens are the favorite of the old-fashioned gentry, and they have come into contact with new things, and they are very orthodox and have a very identity.

Today is Ye Zhao's son who accompanied Hua Ji and Shawa, but a few days ago, Shawa and her mother went to Shanghai to meet her brother, and they have not yet returned.

The Sino-Russian naval war, the Sava family seems to be active, for Sava and her family, Ye Zhao is not very trusted, although Sava Grandpa is not powerful, but to put it bluntly, at most it is a relationship of mutual use, but for Sava to help him, he still has to help.

Sava was not there, Ye Zhao and Hua Ji went to pick up their grandmother to watch the play in Qingchun Garden, Hua Ji naturally listened to what Ye Zhao said, but it could be seen that she was happy to death.

However, it is really unfortunate that the program performed in Qingchun Garden is a sports competition, which is played by Yang Luchan, a famous martial artist of the Southern Dynasties, against the British boxer Fige.

Yang Luchan is a native of Zhili, at the beginning of this year, he was invited by a friend, moved his family to Jinling, taught disciples, and many high-ranking officials and wealthy children went to learn boxing with him, so he became famous, and had a flower name, called "Yang Invincible".

In fact, this martial arts competition is just a boo, just a performance of surname, no one in the Southern Dynasties will be bitter and bitter enough to think that martial arts will defeat the British, and they are confident one by one.

Seeing that it was a martial arts competition, Ye Zhao was ready to retreat, but who knew that Grandma Hua Ji said, it's good to take a look.

In this way, half a silver dollar per person entered the market, and this half silver dollar included refreshments, food, and drinks, all of which were high-quality and worth the money.

Wearing a creamy gauze skirt, the delicate flower girl attracted countless eyes as soon as she entered the garden, she was petite and sweet, her clothes were even more fashionable and bold, shiny leather shoes, beautiful lace stockings wrapped around her soft ankles, and that small and sweet sense of surname, there was really a temptation.

Ye Zhao is not, when he hugged Hua Ji and kissed her, the whole person seemed to have fallen into honey.

The Yi girl's clothes are different from those of the Central Plains, and Hua Ji doesn't think there's anything wrong, not to mention that most of the people in the garden respect their identities, and at most they glance at a few times, but no one stares at them.

"Grandma, you drink tea." Ye Zhao personally poured tea for the old man.

When the old man heard this title and saw the regent's actions again, he was startled, waved his hand again and again, and said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, torture the old slave!" ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Today, you treat me as your grandson-in-law, accompany you to the play, you teach Hua Ji so well, you should enjoy Qingfu, right?" ”

Hua Ji said: "I, I'm not good ......, you, you're the best, Hua Ji, Hua Ji will be a little girl for you in the next life." She had just thought about these words before, but she had never dared to say them, let alone in front of her grandmother. can see that Brother Ye is so good to his grandmother, Hua Ji, I really think it's good to die for Brother Ye now, whatever Brother Ye tells him to do, he has to be obedient.

Ye Zhao smiled, "What a stupid child." Reaching out and rubbing her hair.

Grandma Hua Ji looked at Ye Zhao and Hua Ji, her eyes were very kind, this poor child, it is really blessed by God, so that he can have such a good home.

(To be continued)