On the first day of September, the Zhao family's fleet stopped at Huating County at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Li Hongjun changed boats in Huating County, and Song Jie continued to go north from Huating County to Rizhao County, Shandong.

At this time, the land of Huating County was in full bloom, and the cotton pickers were working hard. Song Jie was doubting in his heart whether this place would still be so prosperous next year. Large-scale forced land transfer will inevitably lead to various problems, but will the local people have the opportunity to work as hard as they do now?

This idea did not last long, and after arriving in Haizhou, Song Jie considered the issue of the lighthouse. There are lighthouses on the long coastline from Guangzhou to Haizhou, and Song Jie has been running the northern route in addition to school these years, and he doesn't know what the south of Quanzhou looks like. However, after the ships passed Haizhou, there was no lighthouse to guide them, so the fleet had to reduce its speed and sail cautiously north.

Fortunately, the sunshine is not too far, and the wind will reach the open sea of Rizhao in one day. The tonnage of Zhao Jiaren's ships is basically three or four hundred tons, which is a general-purpose type of military ships and merchant ships. This kind of tonnage can only be regarded as a little above the middle in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is a big ship in the north. Song Jie didn't dare to be too ostentatious, he changed his boat and went to Rizhao Port.

After approaching the shore, the sailors carried Song Jie and the landers ashore, and then boarded a small boat and rowed towards the big boat. Song Jie looked at the boat far away, and couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy and uneasiness in his heart. After sorting out the stabbing sword at his waist and suppressing this uneasiness, Song Jie led his four subordinates to the destination, which was located in the Grange on the edge of Rizhao County.

In front of the Zhuangzi Gate, there were many peasants carrying weapons to guard nearby, and the peasants looked at Song Jie and the five of them with unfriendly expressions, but the little leader of the village knew Song Jie, and he came up to say hello with a smile. Song Jie shook hands with him, and then stuffed a string of copper coins to the little leader.

The little leader smiled, "Mr. Song, the owner of my family happens to be in the village today, and I will go to Tongyu now." ”

Standing at the gate of the village and waiting, Song Jie looked at the city wall of Rizhao County from a distance, and felt that there were some things hanging on the city wall that looked weird. took out the monoculars and opened them to take a look, and Song Jie found that those should be human heads. But the distance is relatively far, and it is impossible to tell what the characteristics of the human head are.

Putting away the binoculars, Song Jie whispered to his subordinates: "Everyone is smart, now the north has just stabilized, but I'm afraid that the people will not stop so much." The guards who came were all selected, and everyone whispered in response, but they didn't show fear. Anyway, it's already on someone else's territory, so it's useless to be afraid or not.

After a while, a thin black man appeared at the entrance of the village with a few attendants, and the little leader of the gatekeeper ran to the door. The man was Li Manlin, and when he saw Song Jie, he stepped forward and took Song Jie's arm and said, "Brother Song, how did you think of coming to me." ”

"Brother Li, little brother wants to come and see what the price of soybeans here is this time." Song Jie replied briskly. There are soybeans for sale here in Rizhao, and Rizhao is on the seaside, so Song Jie naturally takes this place as the first choice.

"In the sun, go in and talk." Li Manlin didn't answer immediately, he invited Song Jie to Zhuangzi.

The two sat down in the living room, and Li Manlin asked, "I don't know how many soybeans Brother Song wants?" ”

"If the price is not high, then naturally there is as much as you want." Song Jie replied.

Hearing Song Jie say this, Li Manlin's interest greatly decreased, "If you want to buy soybeans, why don't you go to those places in the west to buy them." Our soybeans here are not necessarily cheap. ”

"Brother, the road is too far, plus the goods, that is the price of tofu into meat. Not cost-effective. Song Jie also said clearly.

"My beans here are too expensive, I'm afraid you won't like it." Li Manlin replied.

It can be seen that Li Manlin does not want to sell soybeans cheaply. Song Jie said it so clearly, he was still unmoved. Song Jie smiled: "Could it be that this year's harvest is not good?" But the elder brother refused to sell the beans. "The northern Han land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no shortage of land. Regarding Li Manlin's approach, Song Jie felt that there must be something in it.

"It's not that the harvest is bad." Li Manlin said very unhappily, "Since Li Pu's rebellion, we have been implicated. The Mongols took away the errand of collecting taxes from our Han army. If he refuses to hand over the soldiers in his hand, he will send the soldiers and horses to some kind of pro-army. I didn't want to spend so much work, so I went back to my hometown to farm. But I didn't expect to plant well! ”

In Song Jie's view, Mongolia is an enemy country. The internal contradictions of the enemy country can naturally be used very well, and he asked: "But I don't know what difficulties my brother encounters, can I help my younger brother?" ”

Song Jie rolled his eyes and said angrily, "How can you help?" It's hard to break the county seat and give the officials there ......"

Speaking of this, Song Jie closed his mouth violently. And Song Jie's face was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard anything. The two sat in silence in the room, and the air was filled with an atmosphere that made Li Manlin feel embarrassed. After being silent for a moment, Li Manlin gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "If my brother can do me a great favor, I will plant soybeans for you next year." ”

"Good! So he asked his brother to give him orders. He didn't ask so much, Song Jie replied very simply. Li Manlin's family has several thousand acres of land, and if he can plant two or three thousand acres of soybeans, he can greatly relieve the pressure on soybeans on Jeju Island.

In the early morning of the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, "Ahh Rizhao Zhixian Qian sneezed loudly. Rubbing his nose, Qian Zhixian stood up and tidied up his clothes, it was already autumn at this time. Even if the sun is shining, the air is already cooler. Qian Zhixian felt that he needed to dress warmer.

Rubbing his nose again, Qian Zhixian said to the family: "Prepare the horse." ”

The family hurriedly prepared horses for his own county. This is a retired military horse with a slightly lame leg. The horse was quite a miracle horse before, so it was not killed because of a leg injury. Jia Ding thought while cleaning up, the magistrate had already said to the above magistrate that he would ask his good horse to be bred in estrus, and if it could be successful, the pony born would definitely be a valuable horse.

After cleaning up, Qian Zhixian got on the horse and led the family and eight messengers out of the east gate. His destination today was a nearby village. There was an old widow who had been widowed for many years. Now those Hanchen in the Mongolian court are reading Cheng Zhu Lixue, talking about 'starving to death is a small matter, and losing a temper is a big thing', according to Cheng Zhu Lixue's point of view, this kind of widow from the beginning to the end needs to be greatly commended. Qian Zhixian is to show morality this time.

When he went out of the city gate, the magistrate looked up at the hanging heads, and felt some emotion in his heart. After Li Pu's rebellion, many soldiers scattered in the countryside began to do mischief. The court ordered that anyone who was so suspicious could be killed. Rizhao strictly implemented the policies of the imperial court, and social order was quickly restored.

With these experiences, Qian Zhixian now agrees with the Three Principles and Five Constants in Science. The king is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife. If the subordinate is not obedient properly, he must deal with it decisively, so that order can be restored.

The group walked on the road, and on both sides of the road were quite tall artemisia grass and inexplicable plants, looking chaotic. In the past, before the county order rectified Li Manlin, who had a relationship with Li Pu, the land here was all owned by Li Manlin, so there were often people to prepare it. Since he seized Li Manlin's land and sold it to other landlords, no one has taken care of it here.

Walking to a place where artemisia grass is particularly dense, Qian Zhixian felt that something hit his chest violently, and when he felt a sharp pain in his body, he also heard a sound that seemed to be amplifying a cannon battle, and out of the corner of his eye, he also saw a lot of white smoke coming out of the dense artemisia grass. For this completely incomprehensible thing, Qian Zhixian's mind was in a mess. Just as he was falling from his horse, he saw the artemisia grass stirring and several people rushed out of it.

Because his head hit the ground first, Qian Zhixian fell and fainted under the huge impact. The servants who had not fainted saw more than a dozen people rushing out of Artemisia, each with a slender sword in his hand. The posture of holding the sword was very strange, and the two uninjured officers were about to swing their spears, and they were surrounded. The officer swung his spear against the enemy in front of him, but was stabbed in the neck from behind by the enemy who went around his back. The tip of the sword was cut by more than ten centimeters, and the sharp blade was outward, cutting the artery in the soldier's neck.

"Big brothers......" The wounded officer covered his wounds, his face full of horror as he tried to put an end to the atrocities of the attackers. The attackers did not speak, but they came up and stabbed the officers to death with their hands.

Qian Zhixian may be a lucky person, when Song Jie pressed his sword against his chest, Zhixian was still in a state of fainting. The tip of the bladed sword pierced the heart, and the prefectural order went from fainting to death. In the process, he did not feel fear, let alone pain.

After wiping the blood on the tip of the sword on the corpse of the magistrate, Song Jie watched his subordinates finally pull the somewhat frightened horse, and he couldn't help but praise: "The horse is good!" ”

Whether a horse is good or not is the same as a person, just looking at the spirit and spirit are different. In addition to being tall, with four slender legs and muscles that made people feel strong and powerful, this horse had a smart air on its body, and although it was frightened, it did not fall into madness. Song Jie felt that the harvest was very good, and after praising it, he said: "Take the horse away, you can send it to Jeju Island." ”

Ten people, including the magistrate of Rizhao County, were killed not far outside the county seat, and the murderer ran away without a trace, and this news alarmed the entire county when it arrived. The county town only opened one gate during the day, and at night the four gates were closed, and there were people guarding the city all night. After confirming that Song Jie's assassination was successful, Li Manlin was in high spirits and radiant.

If Li Manlin went to kill Zhixian by himself, if he didn't succeed, he would be the disaster of extermination. Even if you succeed, you are only afraid of being scared, for fear of leaking the news. Now the murderous Song Jie has taken people away, because he was extremely neat when he did it, and he covered his face, and no one saw Song Jie's appearance at all. This matter was only done by Song Jie, no matter how he investigated, he couldn't find Li Manlin.

As for Song Jie himself, Li Manlin is even less worried. What Song Jie needs is beans, and Li Manlin's family has no shortage of land. Plant 3,000 acres of beans, as long as they can be sold, it will make a lot of money.

killed the magistrate, and got out of the evil anger in his chest. I found a deal again, and I was able to make a small fortune. Now Li Manlin is thinking about it, and Song Jie said that he would come back after a few months when the limelight subsided. At that time, can you ask Song Jie to exterminate the landlords who occupied a lot of Li Manlin's land? If he could get his land back, Li Manlin would feel that there would be no other regrets.