Taihu Lake, known as Zhenze, Guqu, Wuhu and Kaze in ancient times, is one of the five major freshwater lakes in China.

It is the Yangtze River in the north, the sea in the east, the Tianmu Mountains in the southwest, there are many people in the lakes around, there are forty or fifty rivers in and out, the land in the basin is fertile, the products are abundant, and it is the treasure land of the world since ancient times.

Especially after the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, the Taihu Lake basin became a political and economic center, and the population soared.

In order to develop agriculture and increase grain production, large areas of rivers, lakes and beaches, and even entire lakes have been reclaimed, and mountains and forests have been destroyed, resulting in soil erosion and shallow silting of rivers and lakes.

Floods and droughts have occurred from time to time since human activities worsened the environmental changes, with floods occurring on average every five or six years, droughts every ten years, and occasional tidal waves.

After each disaster, many people who have lost their livelihood will be born, some of them will become displaced people, and they may return to rebuild their homes after the relief, but some of them will become bandits, and they will hide on the islands in the lake.

At present, on Jiaoshan Island in the northwest of the lake, there is a group of more than 600 water bandits, the leader is named Jiang Manhai, and he is ashamed to call himself the "Five Tiger Heavenly King".

The shape of Jiaoshan Island is a bit like a big-headed and small-billed duck, which can also be said to look like a lightning symbol, and the water village is built in the middle of the island where the duck's neck is.

In a wooden house in the village, Ding Zhigao and his father Ding Shouweng were talking.

"Da Lang, will the traitor really leave Lin'an for a woman?"

"Dad, this can only be very possible, that day in the fifth floor, the son noticed that the traitor king looked at Wanwan with the wrong eyes, and then the half-word also proved that he really liked Wanwan?"

"If you want to say that God is pitiful, let you inadvertently break this secret, otherwise our family's big revenge may not be avenged for the rest of my life, now I hope that God will open his eyes again, so that the traitorous king is really dizzy and leaves Lin'an!"

It turned out that Ding Zhigao, as the grandson of Ding Daquan, had also been in Taixue before, and he was in the same house as Liu Weizhen, but the two gentlemen looked at each other incorrectly, and no one was convinced, and he had a good relationship with Wang Hanxuan.

Almost two months ago, the Ding family waited for Ding Daquan's first seven days to pass, and then planned to leave Lin'an and return to Zhenjiang's hometown with Ding Daquan's coffin.

Before leaving, Ding Zhigao invited Wang Hanmu and a few people to get together, and during the chat, he couldn't help but ridicule Liu Weizhen, and Wang Hanmu said that his daughter-in-law who had not passed through the door had the same name as the person who loved King Yan.

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Ding Zhigao is very sensitive to things related to the enemy, and secretly remembers it in his heart, and when he goes home and talks to his father Ding Shouweng, both father and son feel that this matter may not be a coincidence, and may be able to dig out some secrets.

So through Ding Daquan's relationship before his death, he inquired in many ways, and finally confirmed that Wanwan was Ruochu, after all, several young ladies from officials' families were present at that time, and this matter was not a secret in a small area.

At first, they wanted to use this incident to smear King Yan, stink the reputation of this great enemy, and also provoke the Liu family's hatred for King Yan by the way.

"The story that King Yan and his subordinates' wives have to tell"......

But considering the consequences of being found out by King Yan, the Ding family father and son were still afraid, so they could only give up unwillingly, hide this matter in their hearts, and leave Lin'an gloomily.

It's just that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the unlucky people will generally be more unlucky.

When the Ding family returned to Zhenjiang and passed through Taihu Lake, they were robbed by the Five Tiger Heavenly Kings, Jiang Manhai saw that the Ding family's father and son were scholars, and knew their identities, so he forced them to join the gang.

This Jiang Manhai was originally a native of Zhenze Town, Wujiang County, more than ten years ago, because of the enmity with the Liu family in the same town, had to escape into the Taihu Lake and fell into the grass for the Kou, and soon pulled up a team of nearly 1,000 people, in the east of the lake activities, relying on the plundering of passing merchant ships, and lived at ease.

Jiang Manhai is also a bit of a brain, and he acts in a more measured manner, and generally does not do anything to kill everything, and after the stopped ship pays a certain toll, it will be released, and it will not attract too much attention from the government.

The government also organized armed encirclement and suppression several times, but it was just empty money and food, and the hair was not caught, and then it gradually disappeared, anyway, it was not a big disaster.

But five years ago, after Liu Xiuli took over the command of the Anji Prefecture Metropolitan Division, he began to encircle and suppress frequently, but he never achieved much success, and then changed to Zhao'an, but unfortunately Jiang Manhai had something with the Liu family

Hatred, how could you agree.

He didn't agree, but his second boss Fang Tang was bought by Liu Xiuli, so three years ago there was a fire merger, Jiang Manhai finally had to flee with dozens of henchmen, and handed over the foundation.

Losing his old nest, Jiang Manhai could only go to the west of Taihu Lake to mix, and slowly gathered up a team again, especially last year's flood, which swelled his team to four or five hundred people.

However, because there were more and more teams of water robbers in Taihu Lake, the number of merchant ships gradually decreased, and the life of the river was sad again, and sometimes they could only venture to the Yangtze River to forage for food, so they began to plan to find another way out.

After the Ding family's father and son joined in, they naturally needed these two big scholars to come up with advice, and after several sums, an unreliable plan was born.

Kidnap the King of Yan, then cross the sea to the north to join the Mongols!

If this happens, you can still blame the Liu family, it is simply killing two birds with one stone, and it is extremely perfect.

The problem now is that King Yan will leave Lin'an, it is purely the speculation of the Ding family and his son, who have been waiting for more than a month, and there is no sign at all, so the Ding family and his son are anxious.

Just when the two fathers and sons were at a loss, praying for God to open their eyes, a rush of footsteps came.

"Pigeons... Pigeon...... The pigeons are back! A middle-aged man, holding a gray pigeon in his hand, was excited.

Ding Zhigao rushed forward with an arrow, snatched the gray pigeon, untied the small cylinder on its feet, removed the wax seal, and took out a paper roll to unfold it to take a closer look.

"Hahaha...... Father! I guessed it, I guessed it! The traitorous king is really here! ”

"Really!?"

Ding Shouweng took the paper roll, and after a quick browsing, he was overjoyed, "God really helps my Ding family to take revenge!" Let's go, quickly report this matter to the king! ”

In the Juyi Hall, Jiang Manhai was receiving a guest.

This guest is well-dressed and looks out of place in the water village, and the key is that he is as short as a child.

Jiang Manhai is obviously a rough person, he doesn't know a few big characters, but he likes to pretend to be very elegant, and he speaks in a tone of voice, "Brother Kusano, you haven't been to the cold house for a while, but you have made a fortune, so you look down on it?" ”

Kusano shallow habitually bowed slightly, smiling all over his face, and his tone was a little weird, "The king of heaven said that he laughed, we are old friends, why not look down on it, it is really mundane, and I can't spare time." ”

"Hehe, you have the Liu family as a new friend, and the old friend doesn't matter."

"The contemptible person is a businessman, and he is in business, but please rest assured, no matter how many goods you have here, the contemptible people will buy them all, and the price is still the same, and they will definitely not treat old friends badly."

Jiang Manhai actually complained, and what he valued was the transaction, "Haha, Brother Kusano, then this transaction, I hope that you will mainly pay with gold and silver, which is really insufficient, and then use copper ingots to make up for it, what do you think?" ”

This request is actually in line with the meaning of Caoye's shallowness, because all the copper ingots he brought this time must be traded with the Liu family.

The two discussed the details for a while and finalized the cooperation.

"Well, as before, in ten days, trade at sea!"

153. Taihu Lake Water Kou