When going north to the capital to escort the tax silver, the official road is naturally walked, and there will be local arrests and accommodations from the state capital along the way.

The general tax and silver will be collected in spring and autumn, some of which will be left in the local area for the purpose of maintaining government affairs, and the rest will be escorted into Beijing once a year.

However, this time, because of the cleanup of the Jiangnan Wulin sect, a lot of gains have been obtained, and the amount of tax silver to be escorted far exceeds that of previous years, and the three provinces in Jiangnan have gathered more than 20 million taels. There are many sects in the Jiangnan martial arts, the Japanese Kou, and the businessmen who are dependent on the martial arts sect in various places to run rampant, and they don't know how much wealth they have accumulated, in fact, Lan Zhongyue has arranged for people to escort the silver taels into Beijing twice, and this time the escort is only the third batch this year, but it is also the largest part of it, which is 13 million taels.

Therefore, the manpower of this escort is also twice as large as in previous years, there are 600 elites in the army, all of whom are elite pro-soldiers trained by Lan Zhongyue himself, as well as 20 second-rate masters and five first-class masters trained by Lan Zhongyue himself, led by Cangsong, the most powerful under him, and the other 300 footmen are also from the Jiangnan army, plus Shen Chengping personally accompanied by ten first-class catchers from the six doors of Jiangnan, which can be said to be powerful.

It's just that the so-called wealth is moving, I don't know when the amount of escort tax and silver was leaked out, I don't know how many people's eyes are swayed by this real benefit, plus at this time, the Jiangnan martial arts that is greatly injured is secretly fueling the fire, and many martial arts forces are eyeing this piece of fat, it can be said that this time the task is not simple, along the way, Shen Chengping will detect every day that there are spies who don't know what forces to observe the situation, and there are no less than ten spies caught every day.

Because of the strength of the guard lineup, the general Jianghu forces and bandits are not able to shake it at all, but even so, only half a month after leaving the Jiangnan territory, the convoy has already suffered seven attacks, large and small, on this night, the escort team encountered a large number of bandits attack, these bandits add up to more than 2,000 people, and it is also the largest number of attacks, Shen Chengping can tell that these bandits belong to different forces, and even have different accents.

"A rabble!" Even if the number of people on the opposite side was three times that of the escort team, Cang Song and his subordinate sergeants did not panic in the slightest, these bandits rushed over in a swarm, seemingly immense, but in the eyes of the real elite army, it was a plate of scattered sand, not any threat at all, the escort army that encountered a sudden attack did not panic in the slightest, and quickly formed a circle in a carriage, and the pikemen and crossbowmen were ready to be in place at a very fast speed.

"Put!" With a wave of Cangsong's hand, two hundred strong crossbowmen pulled the machine together, these strong crossbowmen are equipped with repeating crossbows, although the range is slightly inferior to the power of ordinary strong crossbows, but it can be fired continuously, and in an instant, I saw the sound of arrows flying out endlessly, and each of the two hundred strong crossbowmen quickly released seven arrows, only to hear the sound of screams endlessly, 1,400 arrows instantly made the other party's casualties exceed 400, it can be said that the two sides did not look at each other, and they have lost two percent of their manpower, The original indomitable momentum of the bandits on the opposite side was greatly frustrated, and even some people hesitated and did not dare to rush forward again.

Seeing the performance of these people, Shen Chengping also sneered in his heart, although the number of bandits in this group is large, it is not a trouble for the escort team, and there are no decent masters among these people, at most there are some first-class martial artists, they should be the leaders of these bandits, and they cannot threaten the escort team, now Shen Chengping is most worried about encountering a well-trained opponent, as an old opponent ignored by Zhu, Cao Huachun, the prince of Dongchang Factory, will definitely not let go of such an opportunity to hit Shen Chengping and obtain a fortune.

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As Shen Chengping expected, at this moment, on a small road a few miles away, hundreds of riders were waiting quietly on the side of the road, although there were many of them, they did not make any noise, all of them were gathered in groups, resting back to back.

In the crowd, several people stood with their heads held high, and their black robes looked even darker and more mysterious under the reflection of the moonlight.

"At the head of the third gear, those people in the green forest have already launched an attack, according to the information from the spies, I am afraid that the attack of those bandits now seems to be huge, but I am afraid that it will be in vain." The man next to him reported.

However, Xu Jin, who is the head of the third gear of the East Factory, is not surprised at all, in fact, half of the people who have attacked the convoy in the past half a month have been secretly encouraged by the East Factory, Xu Jin never thought that they would succeed, his purpose was to consume the strength of the escort team.

Most of the escort convoys are the elites of the Jiangnan Governor's Mansion, but these elites are also people, after half a month of continuous travel, but also to resist the robbers who appear from time to time, their physical strength has actually dropped to a very dangerous point, and the more than 2,000 bandits gathered this time are instigated by Xu Jin, in order to further consume the strength of the convoy guards.

"Hmph, these idiots, do you really think that you can fight against the elite of the imperial court?" Xu Jin sneered and continued to order: "Always pay attention to the movement over there, according to the plan, and launch an attack at dawn!" ”

As long as the tax and silver in Jiangnan can be successfully intercepted this time, the power of the East Factory will definitely be able to be quietly digested, and after a few years, the strength of the East Factory will be greatly strengthened, which is enough to truly confront the Dragon Guardian Villa.

In the past year or two, the strength of the Dragon Guardian Villa has swelled so much that Shen Chengping was transferred to the six gates of Jiangnan, originally thought that it was for him to pick up a hot potato, but he didn't expect Shen Chengping to destroy the Iron Hand Group as soon as he entered Jiangnan, and then cooperated with Lan Zhongyue, which greatly weakened the local forces of Jiangnan Wulin and integrated the six gates of Jiangnan, so that Cao Zhengchun, who was not dominant in the original power, was at a disadvantage compared to the Iron Courage Shenhou.

However, if there is a problem with the Jiangnan tax bank this time, Lan Zhongyue and Shen Chengping will inevitably be punished, and it will also be able to greatly deal a blow to the power of the Iron Courage Shenhou, the Dragon Guardian Villa has just gained a foothold in Jiangnan, if Lan Zhongyue and Shen Chengping have an accident at the same time at this time, this is definitely a great good news for Dongchang, and it is also worth Cao Zhengchun to take this risk.

In the world's No. 1 plot, Cao Zhengchun even wanted to blatantly open his eyes and tell nonsense in order to deal with the Dragon Protector Villa and arrest the county lord of Yunluo, which shows that he is by no means a good stubble who is loyal to the emperor, although the risk of robbing Jiangnan tax and silver is not small, but the benefits after success make Cao Zhengchun determined.