To be honest, the people of Xuzhou have had a very hard time in recent years, especially compared with the people of Huai'an Mansion, it is quite bitter, Pizhou can also be said to be because of the canal diversion, but the wealth of the entire Huai'an Mansion is hundreds of years of inheritance, after all, although it is Jiangbei, but to some extent it can also be regarded as one of the components of Jiangnan, Lianyungang is in Huai'an Mansion, in the era of Song Qing, these places are counted in Jiangsu Province, which is considered a wealthy area.

Compared with these rich areas, Xuzhou is of course a poor place, and it is also a small place, which is also the reason why Song Qing's Bibo Pool will soon become popular in Xuzhou after it was opened, because this is not only a high-quality life experience and enjoyment, but also represents the dignity of the people in Xuzhou, a poor place.

Where the people are poor, the bandits will naturally follow the poverty, this is actually a continuous cycle of the concept incidentally, after all, bandits make a living from robbery, when you rob the place is all poor, even if you rob all his family, you can't grab many things, not to mention that these poor people are still practicing martial arts since childhood, you rob his pots and pans It's okay, but if you dare to snatch his Luhua chicken, you can't keep the family copying the guy and you desperately, so it is also quite hard to be a bandit in Xuzhou......

Of course, poverty will make people dissatisfied, but unlike those ordinary people, the bandits are even more dissatisfied with this, although the people are not living well, but they are still honest and responsible, even if they know some martial arts, but no one uses this skill to obtain anything, until Song Qing gradually rises, it gives many people the opportunity to obtain wealth by force. And the bandits have always gained wealth in this way, but they have not been able to live well because of the poverty of their own region, they are pinning their heads to their belts, working in the most dangerous way, and in the end they cannot get the amount of wealth they deserve, and their dissatisfaction is the strongest, far greater than that of the honest people.

And the main area that makes them dissatisfied is Huai'an Mansion, to be precise, the Jianghu people of Huai'an Mansion, and the Jianghu people of Xuzhou also have exchanges with the surrounding areas. The Fengyang Mansion in the south is not to mention, since the Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years, the place is more impoverished than Xuzhou, and there is nothing to do and always go to Xuzhou to ask for help from local counterparts, in the face of people who are poorer than themselves, the bandits in Xuzhou are very generous, of course, they will not have any opinions on them, on the contrary, they are quite sympathetic to that place.

The situation is similar in Henan to the west. The standard of living is not much better than that of Fengyang Mansion, not to mention that there is a prince who can toss the common people and officials in that place, and the people of Xuzhou are also very sympathetic to the living conditions of Henan people, and they will not have any opinions. As long as you don't come and harass them, you can take their jobs.

Shandong in the north is relatively wealthy, but it is actually similar to Xuzhou, and both sides are places of fierce people. No one is afraid of anyone, and the other party has nothing to covet from them, and there is not much difference in the economic strength of the two sides. Therefore, the mentality is also relatively balanced, at least there will be no mentality such as hatred due to jealousy.

The only problem is in the east, although the Huai'an Mansion in the east is worse than all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, but it can be regarded as a rare and wealthy place in the north of the Yangtze River or even the entire north, not only the sea boats on the side of the sea are diligent, but the trough boats on the canal are also making a lot of money, plus those smugglers are moving around, it is completely a scene of small Jiangnan, even if they are bandits in Huai'an, they are much more generous than the neighboring Xuzhou bandits, which makes the powerful Xuzhou bandits how to swallow that breath?

In the past, although angry, but because Huai'an Mansion is too big, the area is far more than Xuzhou, the number of bandits on the other side is also large, plus those who belong to the same Jianghu figures, the smuggling of salt dealers who are more ruthless, although Xuzhou is strong, but they do not dare to provoke the other party, the bandits of other people are hooked up with the government, you dare to go over to grab the job, not to mention whether you can beat the local counterparts and smuggler salt dealers, even if you are lucky to win, the other party also has officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress this trick, and then you have to honestly retreat.

If you don't want to go back, then you have to be prepared to kill officials and rebel, occupying the mountain as the king and killing officials to rebel are two different concepts, the former at most from time to time to come to the team of officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress you, seeing that you are a hard bone is not easy to gnaw, it is estimated that you will give up, will not really get along with you, if you are more sensible, you will drill the camp, the two sides can also achieve peace and quiet, and even some generals specialize in raising bandits, in order to maintain the necessity of their own force, such as the current Song Qing......

But if you really fight blatantly with the officers and soldiers, especially if you cross the border to fight, then the nature is completely different, the officers and soldiers promise to exterminate you, one wave does not work two waves, two waves do not work three waves, anyway, it is basically a situation of not dying, if you are a large group of bandits, the court is really unable to fight, and it is not good to get you the name of a general Zhao'an, but the bandits here in Xuzhou are all small locks, don't expect this kind of treatment at all, the final result is a death, or die on the battlefield, or be caught by the court, After living in prison for a few days, I will finally give you a sentence to ask and behead, and the punishment will be punished, and if you don't get it, there will be the treatment of the county chronicles for the people to scold.

It's just that all of this doesn't exist now, because now the biggest force in Xuzhou, and Song Qing, the biggest military leader of the imperial court in Xuzhou, stands on their side clearly, of course, it can also be said that they are giving a hand to General Song, but no matter which way it is said, Song Qing will take them to attack Huai'an Mansion, those who can only watch and drool from afar, but can't come forward to eat even half a mouthful of fat, as long as this time goes well, it will become a delicacy in their mouths.

In this situation, the bandits in Xuzhou don't know how many years they have been waiting, and some of the older ones are in tears when they receive the news on the way to come, and they have to say to the young people with tears from time to time: "You are still young, this is a good time to catch up, how many years have we waited, and it is finally time to rob Huai'an Mansion!" ”

The team of nearly 2,000 people gathered, the scene is not huge, of course, there has been such a scene in Pizhou before. That was when Hu Jie was recruiting 4,000 soldiers and horses to train his troops, but those soldiers and horses who were temporarily recruited and had not had time to train were not as good as this gathering, and now they temporarily occupy the campus of Pizhou Wei University, waiting to listen to Song Qing and Song Qing's speech, except for the elite cavalry of the 1,000 dog battalions, the rest are carefully selected bandits from various villages in Xuzhou. Anyway, Hu Jie was quite envious, because his soldiers and horses not only couldn't beat the people in the dog camp, but even those bandits probably couldn't beat them.

Of course, it was not only the dog battalion and bandits who sent troops this time, but he also sent 800 people to follow the soldiers to pick up the bargains, of which 100 were seed soldiers, and now they have become petty officers, and the remaining 700 are all doing quite well in the recent exercises, and they have all got this rare opportunity to go out. It is said that in order to compete for this errand, there was almost a fight in the camp, and many people were selected through a martial arts competition, and finally entered this revenge robbery group of about 3,000 people.

In addition to the locals of Xuzhou. No one knows how powerful Song Qing is better than Pizhou Wei's soldiers and horses, after all, the two sides have fought each other, and Pizhou soldiers were beaten crazy by Song Qing, not only Pizhou Wei's side. Even the people in the city now know that this demon god-like figure is now robbed, and now that this big man is leading the team to rob, they have no reason not to be excited.

All eyes on it. Song Qing stood on the high platform again, but this speech was different from before, there was no kind of hope for the future, or the arrogance of planning to save something, but the kind of murderous and even full of resentment, for which Song Qing even did not hesitate to sacrifice his name as the long-term undefeated god of war, pointing to the scars on his body and said: "I saw it, Lao Tzu went to Nanjing this time, and was almost killed by those local thieves, and I am not afraid to tell everyone that there is a big man surnamed Yang over there who is embarrassed with me, and this time I have beaten Nanjing City, It was chased and killed, but I brought more than 20 people around me, but the other party dispatched more than 2,000 numbers, all the way from the north of Nanjing City, and drove me to Yangzhou, if it weren't for the timely rescue of my brothers, maybe this trip would have been explained outside, Song has always paid attention to the present world, and he can't wait for ten years, since God appreciates his face, let me go to Pizhou again, and summoned you brothers, then I will take revenge now, Huai'an Mansion is the first stop, and the surname Yang has a lot of business here, as long as it is beaten, The big guys can get it, followed by Yangzhou and Zhenjiang, and the most reluctant will go to Nanjing, so that the surname Yang knows who Lao Tzu is! ”

"Follow the adults to take revenge, no matter what his surname is Yang or Niu, as long as he dares to embarrass the adults, we will kill his whole family!"

The people of the dog camp first clamoured, Song Qing was a god in their eyes, and now their god was chased and killed all the way, and he fled back in embarrassment, revenge is a matter of course, and at the same time they also have a kind of contempt, more than 2,000 people are helpless Song Qing more than 20 people, to what extent does the other party have to waste firewood? This kind of rabble, they have no difficulty in killing the past, especially the more than 300 people who have fought in the north of Yangzhou, and they have a deep understanding of the enemy's combat power, and they have already told others, everyone knows that there is no enemy with comparable combat effectiveness in Ludao, and some are just a group of pigs and sheep waiting for them to slaughter, and revenge is just an easy matter.

At the end of the speech, there was no pause at all, three thousand men and horses immediately divided into several teams, heading towards the direction of Suqian, along the way began to search for bandit dens everywhere, these information Hu Jie has mastered all, although Hu Commander has always been mixed with Pizhou, but he is also relatively familiar with the situation around the place, after all, in this place, you always have to deal with people from all over the place, and Huai'an Mansion is a well-known fish and dragon mixed, if you are not careful, you may provoke the big guys, you must be careful to do it.

It's just that those big guys who couldn't be provoked in the past are the targets of their search today, the people from Xuzhou are okay, those who used to be in Pizhouwei are all high-spirited, specifically searching for the lists that often appear when chatting in the past, and the number one in their list is Zhang Tang, the number one bandit in Suqian.

When he first heard the name Zhang Tang, Song Qing's mind was the famous court lieutenant of the Han Dynasty, but Zhang Tang in Suqian was not an official, but a special person who sat on the ground to collect money, even faster than those horse bandits who came and went, because the entire Suqian business was basically monopolized by him alone, and all the characters in the rivers and lakes who could compete with him in the past were gradually killed by him, except for those horse bandits who appeared from time to time, no one could provoke him, and the horse bandits naturally knew that this was a big man. also won't come to grab food from him, but only survive in some surrounding areas, and the rest of the land that mainly comes from oil and water is all monopolized by Zhang Tang.

Zhang Tang's backstage is the Yang steward in Nanjing City, it is precisely because of the Yang steward that he can collude with the local government, the initial role is only to prevent the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, he can always get the news before the accident, but then it is more than that, because after the officers and soldiers are familiar with him, they will not deal with him at all, but the two sides cooperate to make a fortune, and even directly join forces to rob those ordinary caravans, Zhang Tang's business is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it develops to sit on the ground and share the account.

The so-called sitting on the ground to divide the account is very easy to understand, everyone who has passed from his territory must take the initiative to hand over a part of the silver, otherwise not only the caravan can not be saved, but even the life may have to be taken here, and it has formed an unwritten rule in the local area, and even developed to the point that the government and the people are very clear, that is, no one cares.

Zhang Tang has also successfully become Zhang Laohu, everyone has to call the tiger master, including those officials in the yamen, and they must also be called like this, otherwise the official skin on their bodies may not be able to keep them, and even the local county lord must have a good relationship with him, otherwise he will only be afraid of a lot of constraints in office.

While enjoying this convenience, Zhang Tang also has to take out a large part of his income and hand it over to the Nanjing Yang family who come to collect the accounts every three months, he is smart enough to know where his status today comes from, so he never dares to delay in this, and the number is only a lot more, which is considered to make Yang Steward more satisfied. (To be continued......)