Hengqi picked up the steel knife in his hand and shouted: Since the brothers, the official family refuses to give us a way to live, then let's fight with them to kill one and earn one

The bandits raised their steel knives and shouted "Kill" in their mouths, and rushed towards the Shaoxing Army and the Ningbo Army

Yuan Ji said in a panic: This must be a misunderstanding, I'll go and negotiate with them

After speaking, Yuan Ji shouted loudly, "Stop, this is a misunderstanding", and ran towards Niu Yongnian and Gongsun Leopard

Hengqi looked at Li Yang and whispered: As soon as you take advantage of the chaos, you will take my sister to escape, as long as she can survive, I will be at ease

After explaining to Li Yang, Heng Qi led the bandits to rush towards the official army, and Heng Yan was about to rush forward with a spear

Li Yang grabbed Hengyan and whispered: Madam, don't be impulsive, hurry up and follow me

Heng Yan spat at Li Yang's face: Get out - if it weren't for you, how did our Maple Village become like this, even if I had to die today, I would have to die with these brothers

With a fierce force, Li Yang was thrown away

Seeing the bandits rushing over, the bows and arrows of the Shaoxing army and the Ningbo army quickly stepped forward and released arrows "whoosh-whoosh" arrows on the bodies of the bandits

Yuan Ji came to Niu Yongnian: General Niu, please give the order to stop the brothers, this bandit in Maple Ridge has all surrendered

Niu Yongnian sneered: Why don't I know about the surrender

Yuan Ji said respectfully: My lord, they have just surrendered, and I was about to take them out of the village to meet your lords, but I didn't expect you to bring people to rush in as soon as the gate of the village opened

Niu Yongnian pulled his face: The bandits surrendered to your Taizhou, but not to our Shaoxing and Ningbo, and the military order I received when I led the troops to the expedition was to exterminate this group of bandits

Yuan Ji said softly: But the generals have surrendered after all, please give the order to let the brothers stop quickly

Niu Yongnian: "Hmph: That's your Taizhou business, what does it have to do with me."

Yuan Ji was just about to speak when Niu Yongnian pushed him away: Don't delay me here

Gongsun Leopard waved the hammer and shouted: "Brothers, don't leave me to kill."

Not long after the battle with the official army, the bandits were killed more than 1,000 people, and suddenly a loud shout of killing came from the village, "Brothers, rush in for me - kill" The bandits and the official army were attracted by the sudden shouting and killing in the battle, and stopped for a moment, Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui and others led nearly 2,000 soldiers to rush in

Gao Yuan looked around with a steel knife and shouted: Brothers, leave them alone, hurry up and find the patriarch

Yuan Kui waved his hand: Come and follow me over there

Li Yang kept waving and shouting: Plateau-Yuankui, I'm here

When Gao Yuan, Yuan Kui and others heard this, they immediately led the soldiers to run over, and they were relieved to see that Li Yang and Yuan Ji were safe and sound

Li Yang asked curiously: Why did you rush in with your troops

Gao Yuan whispered: Not long after you and Yuanji entered the maple village, a few of us always felt a little unsteady in our hearts, and we discussed it and gathered the brothers to prepare to meet you outside, but I didn't expect the Shaoxing army and the Ningbo army to kill as soon as the gate of the village was opened, and we rushed in with the brothers as soon as we thought that you were still in the cottage

Yuan Kui looked around: Everyone is relieved to see that you are safe and sound, it is too dangerous here, let's get out

Li Yang said: We can't leave now, you hurry up and let the brothers prepare for war and prepare to save people with me

Li Long asked with some curiosity: Young master, who are we trying to save?

Li Yang pulled out the steel knife: Of course, it is the thousands of bandits who have been surrendered in this maple village, and they can't let the Shaoxing army and the Ningbo army continue to kill like this

Li Hu grinned and said: By the way, save the second young grandmother

When everyone heard this, they laughed loudly, and Li Yang pulled his face: When is it, you still have the heart to joke with me

Gao Lin shouted: Prepare the shield wall

3. Hundred sword and shield bearers put their shields on their chests with their left hands to form a shield wall, shouting "Drink" and holding steel knives with their right hands and constantly striking the shields

Li Yang waved his hand, Gao Lin nodded and shouted: Attack

3 Hundred sword and shield men attacked in the center of the battle between the two sides, and with a sharp push of their shields, they separated the bandits and the officers, although a few of the bandits and the officers and soldiers tried to break the shield wall with their bodies, but they were all pushed back with force

Motohiro shouted: The pikemen come with me

Yuan Hong rushed into the shield wall with 300 pikemen, and with a "drink", he pointed his spears at the bandits and the officers and soldiers to form an iron wall of stabbing walls

Li Long rushed to the iron wall with 200 bows and arrows, and the lieutenant general aimed all the bows and arrows at the official army, and Da Niu and Er Niu led 1,000 village soldiers to surround and protect the bandits.

The sword and shield man constantly struck the shield with his steel knife, "Drink-drink", and forced the bandits and officers and soldiers back step by step

Niu Yongnian picked up the axe and shouted: "It's against the brothers, and I will kill all these rebels."

Li Yang shouted: Those who dare to step forward will be killed on the spot

Gao Yuan shouted at the top of his voice: What if the Shaoxing Army and the Ningbo Army come forward

Li Yang's eyes widened: Didn't you hear what I said, what I said was that those who dared to step forward would be killed on the spot, regardless of whether he was a bandit or an official soldier

This conversation between Gao Yuan and Li Yang is actually for Niu Yongnian and Gongsun Leopard.

Gongsun Leopard shouted, "presumptuous", and with both hands waving a hammer, he led people to rush up

Jiang Yu stretched out his hand and pulled out the long sword on his back: You just need to say a blink of an eye, and I can make this ass face and mother-in-law's face fall to the ground

Li Yang raised his hand: Jiang Yu's matter has not reached that serious yet

A cold wind blew Diane and rushed forward with a hundred ghost face teams carrying steel knives, the hideous masks and the murderous aura exuded by these people, so that everyone present couldn't help but have a cold war, and the people on both sides were about to fight

A voice came from afar, "Stop me"

Li Yang saw that it was Lord Sun and Lord Yuan who came, so he hurriedly greeted him, and wanted to report what happened here to the two adults, but before Li Yang could speak, Sun Yuanwu pulled his face and "retreated"

Li Yang was a little unwilling: My lord

Sun Yuanwu's eyes widened: I said retreat

Li Yang turned around and waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately put away their blades

Sun Yuanwu asked: General Niu - General Gongsun Fengshuzhai has now been surrendered, why do you still lead troops to encircle and suppress

Niu Yongnian put his hands together: The military order received by the last general is to exterminate the bandits in Maple Ridge, I hope that the adult can understand and not embarrass the general

Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and twisted his beard: In a few days, I will personally go to Lord Zhang, the prefect of Shaoxing, and explain the reason to Lord Min, the prefect of Ningbo, will not make you embarrassed, and trouble the two brothers who let their subordinates make way way

Niu Yongnian's face sank: My lord, the Taizhou army recruited the bandits and took the lead, but you can't just let us go back empty-handed

Gongsun Leopard stepped forward to help and said: Yes, if you go back like this, we won't be able to make a difference

Sun Yuanwu thought for a while: Then it's better to leave it to the two generals in Maple Village, and then let the two bring some bandits back to deal with it

Niu Yongnian and Gongsun Leopard looked at each other and nodded slightly: The last general will wait to thank you

Sun Yuanwu sighed lightly: I hope the two generals can treat these surrendered bandits well and don't embarrass them

Niu Yongnian said boldly: Don't worry, adults, that is, detain them for a few days and go through the motions

Sun Yuanwu nodded with satisfaction: Then this place will be handed over to the two, and the government should also take the soldiers back to Taizhou City

After the Shaoxing Army and the Ningbo Army looted the Maple Village, they each escorted more than 200 bandits back to hand over the errand, and Sun Yuanwu-Yuanbin led the Taizhou Army to escort 1,000 bandits to Taizhou City

On the way, Li Yang came to Hengqi's side: Uncle, you will be wronged for a few days, and when you come out, I will pick you up and set up a banquet for you in Alan Village

Hengqi's eyes closed: Okay

After returning to the Li family manor in Alan Village, he took a long breath and finally went home, as soon as he entered the yard, he saw Song Shiting and Xiaozhuang Xiaozhou sisters holding embroidery over there talking and laughing, Li Yang shouted softly: Madam, I'm back

When Song Shiting heard this, she threw away the embroidery in her hand, got up and ran over, and plunged into my arms: Husband, you are finally back, have you been hurt by the bandits this time, people have been worried about you these days

Li Yang raised his hand and stroked Song Shiting's head: Madam, don't you see me in a good way

Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Zhou sisters covered their mouths with their hands and snickered: The young master is back

Li Yang said to the two sisters: Xiaozhuang Xiaozhou, you two go and prepare a few specialty dishes, and I want to have a drink with everyone at noon

Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Zhou laughed mischievously: Young master, let's go and prepare

Li Long coughed lightly: Young master, then I will go to the brick kiln and call Li Song and the Taoist of Guanshan back

Gao Yuan patted the dust on his clothes: Then let's go back and see the family first, freshen up and change clothes, and wait for noon when we come over

Li Yang sent Gao Yuan and the others to the door: Don't forget to bring your wife and children with you when you come at noon

Song Shiting said a little shyly: Husband, I'll go get you some water, and you can also freshen up and change into clean clothes

Li Yang returned to the room and took off his coat, went to the cabinet to find a clean coat, sat on the chair next to the table, picked up the teapot and got a cup of water, "Goo Dong-Gu Dong" Song Shiting's voice came from outside the house: Fu Jun water is ready

Li Yang put down the water cup and shouted softly: It's coming

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, he looked up at the sky and it was about to be noon, so he came to the hall and waited for everyone's arrival, Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou brought the dishes to the dining table, Da Niu and Er Niu took the two jars of aged wine found in the warehouse, and at noon, Gao Yuan and others came to the hall with their families

Li Songgang ran over as soon as he entered the house: Boss, you're back

Li Yang smiled and nodded: I've tired you in the past few days, why haven't you seen the mountain viewing leader

Guanshan walked in from the outside: Poor Dao just went to relieve himself

The two sisters, Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou, invited their mothers over, and Li Yang glanced at the fact that everyone had already arrived: everyone sitting here is their own family, so don't be restrained, it is the most fragrant to come and eat at home

After eating a few bites of food: Son, now you are also an official, in the past, our Li family was bullied by the Zhang family because there was no support in the official family, and my mother hopes that you will be a good official and not bully the villagers

Li Yang stood up and bowed: Mother, don't worry, the child must remember

Yuan Kui chewed on the vegetables in his mouth: Godmother, don't worry, our brothers will also look at him

The mother smiled with satisfaction: I'm full, you drink more today

Song Shiting helped her mother up: Mother, I showed off a chrysanthemum today, which is beautiful

Mother touched Song Shiting's head: Then you can take your mother to take a look, your mother also happens to have something to give you today

Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou also stood up: We are also full, let's go to find Sister Shiting

Li Yang smiled and said: Don't patronize your two sisters to play by yourself, take your sister-in-law and the children to the backyard to play

Li Song saw that they were all gone: the boss now that the brick kiln has begun to burn bricks, 100 craftsmen estimate that they can burn 1 million bricks per month, according to the market price of 1000 bricks and 1 silver coin, there are 1000 silver coins per month, in addition to the craftsmen's salary and daily expenses, there are about 600 silver coins left every month, and the taxes paid to the official family can be about 6,500 silver coins throughout the year

Gao Yuan, Yuan Kui and others applauded again and again after hearing this

Guanshan smiled slightly: the brick-burning workshop can be expanded in the future, and the firing of porcelain-tea-porcelain bowls can be sold at a good price in the market

Li Yang looked at Guanshan: Have you finished drawing the sketch of the Taoist town?

Guanshan said softly: Roughly the drawing has been completed, but some details still need to be changed, and it should be okay to give me two days

Li Yang sighed lightly: It is now the end of August, and winter is about to enter in more than two months, so we must build the houses before the winter and let all the villagers move in

Gao Yuan nodded and said: Yes, this has always been a stone in our hearts

Li Yang glanced at everyone: Now there is no bandit trouble in Taizhou, the next step is to go all out to build winter houses, tomorrow there will be the head of Laoguan Mountain and we will go to the site selection together, Li Song, the burden on your shoulders is not light, the 4,300 people in Alan Village will rely on you for the winter

Li Song stood up, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all: Boss, don't worry, I will do my best to burn the green bricks

Li Long looked at Li Yang: Did you tell the young master about the second lady?

Li Yang immediately raised his hand and put it in front of his mouth, "Shhhh

Li Song said: Ouyang's predecessors have all moved over, and they are adjusting the fire in the new workshop in the past two days, and when the fire is adjusted, they can start forging iron

Li Yang raised his glass: Brothers, I salute you, and we will not get drunk today

Gao Yuan and the others raised their wine glasses: Okay

drank until the evening before everyone left drunk, and the next day Li Yang didn't wake up the next day, Gao Yuan ran in in a panic and shouted: Oh no

Li Yangmimi's eyes were confused and said: What's wrong, what's wrong

Gao Yuan panted and said: Yuan Kui and I took two hundred-person teams to inspect the ten villages and encountered a caravan I heard that the Shaoxing Mansion and the Ningbo Mansion had beheaded all the 400 bandits escorted for public display

After Li Yang heard this, he sat up from the bed, kicked his shoes with both feet, reached out and grabbed his clothes, put them on, and ran towards the outside of the manor

Li Yangzong got on his horse: Gao Yuan borrowed your horse to use it, and I will go to Taizhou Mansion to see what is going on

Gao Yuan nodded: Then you should be careful on the road

Li Yang galloped all the way to the Taizhou Mansion and came to the Taizhou Mansion without waiting for the official to report it, and came to the study Sun Yuanwu was reading the documents on the copy with a brush in his hand and asked: My subordinates have seen the adults, and the Ningbo Mansion and the Shaoxing Mansion have beheaded the surrendered bandits to show the public, what is going on

Sun Yuanwu glanced at Li Yang with a gloomy face and white eyes: I also just received an order from the national capital, ordering me to behead all the bandits in Maple Ridge within three days

Li Yang said softly: Since the bandits of Maple Ridge have been recruited by Taizhou, why would the national capital still issue such an order

Sun Yuanwu sighed lightly: I don't know much about this matter

Li Yang said: If the adults kill them all, what faith will the official family have in the eyes of the people?

Sun Yuanwu raised his hand and slapped the copywriter "presumptuous", do you still want me to disobey the order, Ningbo Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion killed the surrendered bandits first, but instead took my army

Li Yang said respectfully: The adults are reckless because of their subordinates, don't you have any way to save them, the bandits in Fengshuzhai are all farmers only because of the outbreak of the national war, and the Shaoxing Mansion forcibly occupied the people's land in the name of collecting war taxes, which forced them to go up the mountain to become bandits

Speaking of this, Li Yang remembered that Heng Qicheng had said to himself, they had a dispute with the official family because of this matter, and they were beaten to death by mistake, and later Shaoxing commanded Yue Hu to put them all on death row in the name of confronting the official army and attempting to rebel, and they were actually put on death row, why would they be bandits in Maple Village, and he never answered me when I asked Hengqi

Sun Yuanwu: "Oh, there is such a thing", "Hey", the suffering of the people is because of the lack of morality in the official family, you should step back first

Li Yang was a little unwilling: My lord

Sun Yuanwu said impatiently: Even if I want to save them, you have to let me think of a way

After coming out of the palace, Li Yang rode to the prison, and a cell leader shouted softly: Who is here to do something

Li Yang Shili: This brother I am a guerrilla army in Taizhou, and I would like to meet Hengqi who is being imprisoned in Li

After saying that, he took out 10 silver coins and quietly stuffed them into the cell leader's hand

The cell boss postponed a few times with some unconsciousness: Then you hurry up a little and don't embarrass us

Li Yang smiled slightly: It's hard work

When Li Yang saw Hengqi imprisoned in the prison, he told him about the Ningbo Mansion and the Shaoxing Mansion beheading the returning bandits

Hengqi sighed, "Brothers, it's me who is sorry for you."

Li Yang said embarrassedly: Uncle, I'm sorry for you, I didn't expect things to turn out like this

Hengqi's eyes closed: Then is Taizhou also ready to behead us all next?

Li Yang nodded slightly

Hengqi stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Yang's clothes and dragged it over: We people know that we will not escape death, this can't blame you Maple Village is breached sooner or later, I have already thought of this when I was surrendered by you, I thought that even if the official family turned his face in case of surrender, he would not be killed, so that there would be more brothers who could survive

How to write the official word brother up and down two mouths, after eating the top and eating the bottom, and people don't have a mouth, this is the so-called people do not fight with the officials, so far I still only ask you for one thing, which is to save my sister

Li Yang looked at Hengqi: Uncle, I will definitely do my best to find a way to save you out, even if I can't save them all, I will try to save one more and count one, brother, you told me before that you are all death row prisoners in Shaoxing Mansion, but as death row prisoners, how can you be a bandit in Maple Village

Hengqi sighed lightly: It doesn't hurt to tell you that when we were imprisoned in the prison, a mysterious person came, with a mask on his face and a black cloak embroidered with chrysanthemums, saying that the virtue of heaven is coming to us to show us a way to live

I asked, "What do we need to do?"

The mysterious man said: You go to Maple Ridge to be bandits, seize the money of the people in Ningbo-Shaoxing-Taizhou, and 6 percent of the property will be given to me and 4 percent will be left for you to distribute by yourself, and when the time is ripe, I will send someone to send you to escape from Zhejiang

As soon as I heard that going up to the mountain to be a bandit was a capital crime, I didn't agree to them at first

The mysterious man said, "If you don't promise to kill you all now."

For the next few days, the servants continued to do things to my people, tying them to stakes and whipping them until the skin was open and the flesh was blurred, and the screams echoed in my head, and I was often awakened from my sleep

They tied the people to wooden boards, and put the soaked paper on their faces one by one, and they would suffocate them to death, and then they would take the paper away

Put the funnel into the mouth of the clansman and keep pouring water, and the stomach is like a bucket, and he slams on the stomach of the clansman with his foot

In the end, they tied Hengyan to a stake and wanted... I thought that it would be a death anyway, and it was better to go out than to stay in this hell on earth and wait for death, and I could save my own people, so I agreed

Li Yang was a little surprised: What kind of person can have such great ability, the official prison is like a private house and can still release you death row prisoners

Hengqi looked around to make sure that no one whispered: If I guessed correctly, this mysterious person should be a certain official in the national capital

Li Yang looked at Hengqi: Do you have any basis for your eldest brother?

Hengqi: Shaoxing commander Yue Hu is a dignified three-grade officer who still has heavy troops in his hands, and when he sees the mysterious person, he is respectful and respectful, and he doesn't even dare to breathe, and the officials who can make Yue Hu so jealous are only available in the national capital "Yufeng City".

I heard Yue Hu shouting which mysterious person was "Hua Ye"

Li Yang muttered a sentence of "Hua Ye"