Cao Zheng, the leader of the Cao Gang, finally arrived, but he looked very miserable, his mouth was swollen, and his eyes were blue. Moreover, there were only a dozen people around Cao Zheng, who did not bring a boat, and walked with a limp.

Seeing Cao Zheng like this, Li Guo lost his anger, "What's the matter?" What about the ship? ”

Cao Zheng's tears swirled in his eye sockets, "Beaten!" ”

In fact, at that time, the Cao Gang was also a small gang, that is, in the cracks of the government, helping to transport some food, a gang formed because of the prevention of being bullied, and it was nonsense to say how powerful it was. Moreover, the Cao Gang's sphere of influence is also in the distance from Nanjing to Beijing, and there is no other place at all, even if it is the distance between Beijing, it is not easy to nod and beg for a living.

Just like this time, Cao Zheng was beaten in the area of Dongting Lake. Dongting Lake was originally infested with water thieves, and in the past two years, a water bandit nicknamed the river dragon has emerged, but he also has some ability, and he has gathered thousands of water thieves to occupy Dongting Lake, and he is rampant and domineering. Passing ships were either detained or looted. The Ming army did not pay attention to the sailors in the first place, and there was nothing they could do about turning over the river dragon.

Cao Zheng was very unlucky, received a call from Li Guo, and came to meet Li Guo with dozens of boats, still east of Guilin, upstream of the Xiang River. But when the boat arrived at Dongting Lake, it broke down and met the man who turned the river dragon.

The people who turned over the river dragon didn't say a word, and directly took down Cao Zheng and his gang with even people and boats.

Cao Zheng also explained, "Bosses, I have a business trip, please make it convenient." ”

"Fuck your fucking fuck mom! It's useless here. Seeing that you are all sailors, I will not kill you, but I can join the gang. A minion said.

"Bosses. I'm going to Guangxi to pick up General Li Guo and have something important. Otherwise, if we leave the money to buy the road, will you let us go? Cao Zheng pleaded.

The minion nodded, "Oh, there's silver, say it earlier, take it out!" ”

Cao Zheng hurriedly took out the silver, full of thought that he would spend money to eliminate the disaster. These people will let themselves go. Unexpectedly, these people took the silver and forced Cao Zheng and others to join the gang.

Cao Zheng also reasoned with others, "Bosses, this is wrong with you!" There is a way in all walks of life. Isn't that pushing us to a dead end? ”

"Smack!" A big mouth fanned over, and Cao Zheng was cold-eyed.

"How do you hit someone?" Cao Zheng's anger also surged, and he stiffened his mouth a few words, and was beaten by a fat meal.

Outcome. As soon as the two sides are fighting, Cao Zheng's strength is weak, and there are many powerful people, Cao Zheng takes a look, run! Fortunately, Cao Zheng escaped from the shore, but the boat was gone, and there were only a dozen people.

"His grandmother's!" Li scolded angrily! "Dogday's bunch of water thieves. It's on Lao Tzu's head! him! ”

To beat these people or not? Beat! These people must be knocked out, because this involves the problem of inland river transportation in the future. Li Guo's original plan to control the inland waters with the help of the Cao Gang failed, so. Li Guo decided to take control himself.

However, the number of people fighting is too small now, and Li Guo only brought 300 people to transport the glass this time, and he didn't want to fight at all. Therefore, Li Guo urgently ordered Liu Tichun, who was stationed in the area of Guangdong and Macao. Send his subordinate Zheng Mill over.

Since Zheng Miao, the prince of the Later Dynasty, saved Li Guo's life, Li Guo has regarded Zheng Mi as his own. Therefore, the original 10,000 Houli soldiers stationed in Guangdong led by Zheng Mo had already been dismantled and integrated into Li Guo's troops.

This time, Li Guo ordered Zheng Mo to lead 10,000 of the 20,000 people in Guangdong, and the proportion of Houli soldiers was no longer much. The soldiers were armed with firearms and were very strong.

Li Guo ordered Zheng Mi to rush to Yongzhou in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River to join Li Guo.

After waiting for more than 20 days, Zheng Mo finally arrived with people.

Li Guo called Zheng Mi and Cao Zheng to him.

"Zheng Miao, I have now decided to set up an inland river army, based on the 10,000 people you brought, and you will lead it." Li Guo commanded.

Zheng Mo knelt down to receive the order.

Then, Li Guo turned to Cao Zheng. "Cao Zheng, you have also seen it now, now there is no quiet everywhere, and the waterways are not peaceful, and the life of your Cao Gang is getting worse and worse. I'm going to clean up the river now, would you like to come? When Zheng Miao's deputy? At least not gassed. ”

Cao Zheng looked at Li Guo's strong people, thought about it, and knelt down to kowtow to Li Guo, "Okay, I'm willing." ”

Li Guo pulled up the two of them, "Okay, let's slaughter all these bastard water thieves in the waters of Dongting Lake first!" ”

Zheng Mo looked at Cao Zheng, Cao Zheng looked at Zheng Miao, and the two of them asked Li Guo together, "Master Hu, we dare to work hard, but there is no boat!" ”

Li Guo scolded, "You two stupid people, won't you rob it?" In the future, you will use the name of the Cao Gang as a cover, and all the boats you see on the river, no matter whether they are big or small, as long as they submit to the Cao Gang, they will be fine, otherwise, they will take their boats! ”

"Yes!" The two of them agreed together.

"Now, let's go first, and you will follow!" Li Guo instructed carefully.

So, Li Guo took Nie Xin, Luo Hu, Liu Rushi, and Talina's two daughters, as well as his own three hundred guards, and Zheng Mi and Cao Zheng then went around looking for a boat.

Li Guo took seventy or eighty boats of different sizes first, and used them himself. One of the largest ships was used as his own ship, and the rest of the ships were used to load glass, and the glass had to be transported to Nanjing, waiting for Liang Yongdong, who was stationed in Nanjing, to sell it.

Li Guo went around proclaiming that he was a Li official, dressed himself up as a super-rich man, and advertised that he had brought boatloads of gold and silver treasures and was ready to go to Nanjing to have fun.

Suddenly, there were many small groups of water thieves who wanted to try their luck, and the people who asked Li Guo to go up were a row of guns and killed them directly.

In this way, after Hengyang and Changsha, I have arrived in Xiangyin, which is the waters of Dongting Lake.

In Xiangyin, Li Guo made a big splash again, boasting that he was rich, and he actually recruited the prefect of Xiangyin. The prefect of Xiangyin still wanted to fight the autumn wind, so he came to Li Guo's boat three times.

Li Guo retreated left and right, and as soon as he waved his identity, the prefect was startled and hurried to give a salute. The prefect of Xiangyin admired Li Guo very much in his heart.

"Dude, I'm afraid your official position is no longer guaranteed!" Li Guo said.

"What's going on? Would you like to ask General Li for advice? The prefect of Xiangyin was a little puzzled.

"I heard a secret letter, saying that someone accused you of not arresting the water thieves in Dongting Lake and raising tigers!" Li Guo frightened.

"General Li, who said this? Besides, how can I, a small prefect, have the ability to suppress bandits? Besides, it's not my job! The prefect of Xiangyin was taken aback.

"I'll just ask you if you want to make meritorious service, right?" Li asked.

The prefect of Xiangyin nodded.

"Good! You just do what I say, the credit is given to you, and the loss is mine. Li Guo spoke.

The prefect of Xiangyin listened to it, "Nod, okay!" That's it! But how can I thank you? ”

Li Guo waved his hand, "Our brother is like a friend when I see each other, thank you!" Just do what I say! (To be continued)