Li Yang rode a horse all the way and finally came to the city of Chuzhou, the people and the caravan lined up in front of the city gate for nearly half a kilometer, twenty officers and soldiers with iron armor and long knives guarded in front of the city gate, the people who entered the city would take the initiative to throw a copper coin into a box as a city entry fee, and the caravan was calculated according to 5 copper coins per horse

Seeing that the people in front of him had already entered the city, Li Yang took out 5 copper coins and threw them into the box, and then led the horse into the city, and came to the Yamen Gate of the Prefecture Mansion, in addition to a few soldiers and dozens of sturdy war horses, seeing that these were all high-grade war horses, he couldn't help but reach out and touch them

A soldier shouted softly: What are you doing outside?

Li Yang replied respectfully and said: "Thank you, let me know, the head of the Li family in Alan Village, Taizhou Prefecture, has something important to ask to see the general

The soldiers looked Li Yang up and down, glanced at him impatiently, and said: "Go to the general, and when the military affairs are busy, you can see it as a mountain villager."

Li Yang had a gloomy face: I served under the command of the general, and fought to the death several times to recover this Chuzhou city from the Fu army

When the soldier heard this, his attitude was much kinder: Then you wait here for a while, I will go in and report it

The soldier turned around and entered the palace and walked quickly to the public hall, the general Lei Cai was discussing the border defense with dozens of generals, and the soldier quietly came to Lei Cai's ear and whispered: The head of the Li family in Alan Village, Taizhou Prefecture, the general has something important to see

Lei Qi muttered to himself, "Why is he here", raised his hand and waved at the soldier, and said: You take him to the side room to wait first

The soldier came out of the palace: "General, please come in with me."

The soldier took Li Yang to a side room: The general is discussing with several generals, you can wait here for a while

Li Yang raised his hand to salute: It's so hard

An hour later, the general Lei Qi walked in wearing a set of light armor, and Li Yang stood up and bowed: His subordinates meet the general

Lei Qi nodded slightly, "Hmm" walked to the table and sat down: Sun Yuanwu, is he okay, I heard that you are now a guerrilla in Taizhou

Li Yang picked up the teapot with his right hand, and gently pushed the teacup in front of the general with his left hand to reach the cup of water: Lord Sun is fine, and his subordinates have served as the general of the Taizhou guerrilla battle

Lei Qi smiled slightly and picked up the teacup: What do you have to report to me?

Li Yang said softly: General, do you know the Maple Ridge bandits

Lei Qi thought for a while: I have heard that these bandits have already exterminated the three prefectures of Ningbo-Shaoxing-Taizhou

Li Yang coughed lightly: The general's subordinates came today to cry out for more than 1,000 people in Fengshu Village

Lei Qi: "Oh, then you can tell me."

Li Yang said respectfully: The general Fengshuzhai bandit leader Hengqi and thousands of bandits are all the people under the rule of Shaoxing Mansion, Shaoxing commander made Yuehu fill his own pockets and have collected war taxes in the name of privately increasing taxes and silver, if he can't pay all the taxes, the rest will forcibly occupy the land to offset it, Hengqi and other clansmen only because they are dissatisfied with the official family forced to collect taxes and the conflict with the errand servants, and beat one of the errand officers to death, and the Shaoxing commander has already rebelled and put them all on death row

Lei Qi pondered for a while: Yuehu has died in Chuzhou, if the bandits in Maple Village really have grievances, you should go to the prefect of Taizhou and Shaoxing, how could they come to me, the general

Li Yang looked at Lei Qi: General, please listen to what his subordinates have said, and a mysterious person, known as "Hua Ye", found them in the prison, and forced them to go to Fengshu Village as bandits by threatening the lives of their clansmen and their families, and went down the mountain to attack the village and plundered the property according to 6-4

The officials and soldiers of the three prefectures have already been plagued by bandits, and under the pretext of asking for "Baojing Silver" from the villages, the village officials and soldiers who refuse to hand over the Baojing Silver will even disguise themselves as bandits to attack the villages and loot money, and there are more and more homeless people who have no houses to live in and no land to cultivate, and they are desperate and finally go up the mountains one after another to become bandits, and the thousands of bandits in Maple Ridge are actually the private soldiers of "Hua Ye".

Until recently, Hengqi, the big boss of Maple Village, received an order from Hua Ye, ordering them to take advantage of the emptiness of the defenders of Taizhou City to capture Taizhou City

Lei Qi had a gloomy face: Why did they capture Taizhou City

Li Yang took a long breath: Go back to the general Taizhou by the sea, once an army lands in Taizhou by sea and land, you can directly lead troops to the national capital "Yufeng City", but this soldier is only known to the mysterious person Hua Ye

Lei Qi's eyes widened slightly after hearing this, and the teacup in his hand fell to the ground: Now most of the main forces of the Zhejiang army are arranged on the border of Fuzhou, if there is really such an army landing in Taizhou, and driving straight into Yufeng City, the capital of the country, then Zhejiang will be really dangerous, and the stakes are very high, you can have real evidence

Li Yang said softly: Hengqi and others in Taizhou Prison are all witnesses

Lei Qi asked unhurriedly: Then did you tell Sun Yuanwu, the prefect of Taizhou, about this matter?

Li Yang hurriedly replied: The general mysterious man "Hua Ye" used his private deeds in the official prison to force prisoners to go up the mountain to become bandits, and he could also release nearly 1,000 death row prisoners from the prison to Fengshu Village as bandits, and even the former Shaoxing commander Yue Hu and other party officials were sent at will, which shows the great power of this mysterious person

The subordinates felt that this matter was very important and related to the safety of Zhejiang, so in order not to leak the news, the subordinates did not tell Master Sun about it

Lei Qi looked at Li Yang's left hand and couldn't help but tap lightly on the table: Then you came to Chuzhou to report this matter to me, do you want to eradicate this mysterious person or do you want me to transfer troops to reinforce Taizhou City

Li Yang knelt down and put his hands together to salute: The general's subordinates have the courage to implore you to save the 1,000 surrendered bandits in Fengshu Village, they are all farmers and are forced to go up the mountain to become bandits

Lei Qi stopped with his left hand: Since there is a grievance, then you should go to Sun Yuanwu and ask him to go to the capital of the country to avenge them

With a "bang", Li Yang kowtowed: The general came to the capital of the country, ordering the Taizhou Mansion to kill all 1,000 surrendered bandits within three days, and Hengqi, the big boss of Fengshuzhai, led more than 1,000 bandits to surrender, but the official family did lose his word to behead them, so what faith did the official family have in the hearts of the people after that

Lei Qi pulled his face and said, "Presumptuous, I have never asked about the political affairs of Zhejiang, and the life or death of these 1,000 bandits has nothing to do with you, go back and be your guerrilla army, don't let down Lord Sun's hard work."

Li Yang's eyes were moist and he cried and said: The general, the second master of Maple Village, Heng Yan, is the second lady of his subordinates, and the big boss Heng Qi is the eldest brother of his subordinates

Lei Qi let out a smile and asked curiously: How could you marry the second master of Maple Village as his wife?

Li Yang twitched his nose and raised his hand to wipe his tears: The general is not a subordinate who married her, but she married me

Lei Qi's eyes lit up: There is such an interesting thing, you can tell me about it

Li Yang was a little embarrassed to fight with the bandits for the first time and captured Hengyan, the second master of Maple Village, because he was lightly attacked by Hengyan and tied up in Maple Village as a hostage to force the officials and soldiers under the mountain, and later Hengqi ordered people to tie up his subordinates and forcibly marry Hengyan in the church

Lei Qi raised his head and laughed when he heard this, "Ha-ha", I have only heard of someone robbing people's daughters, and I have never said that they robbed people's husbands

Li Yang kowtowed at this time: His subordinates implore the general to save them

Lei Qi looked at Li Yang and couldn't help but laugh: In the past few days, I have been worried about the matter of military salaries, and I have negotiated with several wealthy businessmen and villages and towns in Chuzhou City, but I didn't expect that they were not even willing to take out a penny in the face of the national disaster

Li Yang looked up at Lei Qi: When the general was in a national crisis, his subordinates were willing to donate 10,000 silver coins

Lei Qi stared at Li Yang and made a sound

Li Yang sweated and gritted his teeth: his subordinates are willing to donate 20,000 silver coins for military supplies, and more than 1,000 people from the Li family in Alan Village will always remember the great kindness of the general

20,000 silver coins is a month's salary for 20,000 officers and soldiers, Lei rode up and helped Li Yang up, raised his hand and patted me lightly on the shoulder: The Li family in Alan Village is really a loyal family, and these military salaries can go to the state city in a few days

Li Yang said softly: Within three days, 20,000 silver coins will be delivered to the state capital

Lei Qi said happily: I will leave for Yufeng City, the national capital

Li Yang Shili: Thank you, General

The two brothers Gao Yuan and Gao Lin took two hundred people, came to the junction of the state capital and the Wenzhou government Qingtian Pass to rest, here is the caravan and the people must pass through, the brothers took a few soldiers to a teahouse on the side of the road to drink tea, the plateau saw that there are many people in the teahouse who rest and drink tea and whispered to Gao Lin: Brother Fengshuzhai bandits were recruited by Taizhou have you heard

Gao Lin looked around: Of course I know that this matter is now known in Taizhou Mansion, what bandits are just some people who have no way out, there is a relative in my family who is on an errand in the yamen of the state capital, I heard him say that the government has recruited the bandits of Fengshuzhai and now they have changed their minds and want to kill them all

Gao Yuan asked Gao Lin: Grievances

Gao Lin took a sip of tea: I don't know anything about it

A soldier leaned over: I know something about this, these bandits in Fengshuzhai are all villagers of Shaoxing Mansion, they just refuse to honor the official army "Baojing Yin" was forcibly expropriated land, and there was a dispute with the official army and killed an official soldier, and was put on death row by Shaoxing Mansion in the name of rebellion, I heard that they were forced to go up the mountain as bandits by a person named Hua Ye, who used the lives of his family members as a threat

Gao Yuan was a little puzzled when he heard this: why did he force them to go up the mountain to be bandits

Gao Lin pretended to be mysterious: only when bandits were rampant and continued to raid homes and houses, the officials and soldiers had an excuse to ask the villages for the protection of the territory, and if they refused to pay, the village officials and soldiers would disguise themselves as bandits to attack the villages

Gao Yuan whispered: Aren't the bandits in this maple village a scapegoat?

Gao Lin looked at Gao Yuan: "You know why you killed them this time

Gao Yuan looked surprised: Could it be that he killed people

Gao Lin raised his hand and motioned for no further talk: It's not early, and I should be on my way

At this time, Gao Yuan found that the passers-by and merchants who were drinking tea and resting in the teahouse were listening to them attentively, and when he saw that they were leaving, a businessman stepped forward and took Gao Yuan's hand: Is what you just said true?

Gao Yuan shook his hand: we just said it casually

After leaving the teahouse, Gao Yuan divided 80 soldiers into 20 groups and arranged them along the way at the main road of Chuzhou Pass, and took the remaining 20 people to Chuzhou City to spread the news, while Gao Lin took 100 people to Wenzhou City to spread the news

Guanshan came to Yufeng City, the national capital, and saw that the people on the street were quite lively, so he found a relatively clean place on the side of the road and sat down, and took out the Bagua Astrolabe-Copper Coin-Bamboo Sign-Cinnabar-Dao Fu-Copper Bell from the cloth pocket and put it on the ground

shouted in his mouth: There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky - people have good fortune and misfortune - they are inexhaustible - they cannot enjoy all the blessings - divination can turn evil into good fortune

Stretched, "Ahh

A woman looked at Guanshan: "Daoist, I want to do a hexagram."

Guanshan closed his eyes and said lazy sheep: Poor divination is only regarded as a person who is destined, and the donor wants to count the hexagram elsewhere

The woman looked disgusted when she saw that Guanshan was so rude: What is the big deal?

After a while, a man came again: Dao Chang Xiaosheng, I fell in love with a woman, please count a hexagram for Xiaosheng to see if the two of us can succeed

Guanshan turned his body around: the poor Taoist divination is only regarded as a person who is destined

The man raised his hand to "cut"

At noon, several officers and soldiers came up on the street and shouted to the passers-by: Disperse-disperse-disperse, quickly disperse, and quickly get out of the way

After a while, a carriage pulled by four horses came from a distance, and the carriage was close to Guanshan, picked up the copper bell on the ground and shook it gently, "Jingling-Jingling": the sky has unpredictable storms - people have good fortune and misfortune - the potential is inexhaustible - the blessing is not exhausted - the divination can turn evil into good fortune

When the carriage arrived at Guanshan's side, a steady voice came from the carriage, "Stop"

The coachman pulled the rope back with both hands, and the carriage stopped

A middle-aged man stepped down from the carriage, he was wearing a black black silk crown, wearing a purple-blue silk robe, and a piece of round jade hanging from his waist, and his face exuded a trace of sorrow: Dao Chief, my wife and son have been sick for a long time, and they have seen a lot of Lang Zhong and taken a lot of medicine, but they are all endless, are they suffering from something unclean

Guanshan asked the middle-aged man to stretch out his left hand, took a closer look at his face, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh lightly: "Injustice-injustice, you planted the evil cause to suffer this evil result

One of the guards shouted "presumptuous", you dare to be rude to Lord Zuo Yushi Yu Tianlu

Yu Tianlu waved his hand and "retreated" and looked at Guanshan: Dao Chief, please forgive me not to be like him

Guan Shan smiled slightly, and his left hand began to pinch: If Poor Dao was not wrong, Mrs. Another's illness should have started a hundred days after giving birth, at first she just felt weak and was bedridden all day, and now she spits blood from time to time

Yu Tianlu was surprised when he heard it and said: Dao Chang is really a god

Guanshan raised his hand: When Ling Gongzi was born, was it raining rain from the sky, and the wind was full of thunder

Yu Tianlu nodded hurriedly: Exactly

Guanshan took a long breath: This is a storm of heaven

On the road to heaven, he stretched out his hands to support the mountain: The Taoist chief has a hard time, you can get in the car and follow me to the house to have a look

Guanshan followed Yu Tianlu to Yu's house, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, Guanshan put the five fingers of his right hand together, and waved it at the courtyard from left to right: the other son's five elements belong to the earth and the lady belongs to the water

Yu Tianlu asked respectfully: Does that Dao chief have a way to save him?

Guanshan raised his hand to the middle of the courtyard: put a stone mountain there to suppress the soil with the momentum of the high mountain, and place eight orange trees in the eight directions of Qian-Kun-Zhen-Xun-Kan-Li-Gen-Dui to block the water with wood

As he spoke, he took out a few Dao talismans and a bronze sword from his cloth pocket and gave them to Yu Tianlu: press the Dao talisman under the stone mountain and post the others in Mrs. Zun's room, and this bronze sword will hang it on the highest place in the mansion to shock the demons and evils

Yu Tianlu's face turned pale when he heard this: Is it true that the illness of my wife and child is caused by demons, I don't know what happened to the Tiansha that the Taoist said just now

Guanshan's eyes were slightly slight: This Tiansha is because you planted an evil cause to suffer this evil result, Mrs. Zun rushed to Tiansha when she gave birth, and all the sons should have died, maybe God thought that you and Mrs. still have a trace of kindness in their hearts, so they refused to come to receive their mother and son

Yu Tianlu knelt on the ground anxiously, his eyes were full of tears, and he begged the Taoist to save my wife and children, how much does it cost, and the Taoist said

Guanshan smiled and helped Tianlu up: You put the Dao talisman on Mrs. Zun, and Poor Dao guarantees that she can get out of bed and move around at will within a day

Yu Tianlu was overjoyed when he heard this, turned around and ran into the house, and an hour later he ran out of the house excitedly: Dao Chief, you are really a god, it has only been an hour, my wife, she got out of bed, her face is much normal, and she is now noisy and hungry

"Wang San" went to the account room and took 500 silver coins to the Taoist chief

Jia Ding Wang San: It's the master

Guanshan shook his hand: No need, it is not me who saves Mrs. Zun, but yourself

Yu Tianlu asked suspiciously: Myself

Guanshan looked up at the sky: Poor Dao just used the Dao charm to temporarily suppress the evil qi, and if you want to save Mrs. Zun and Ling Gongzi, you have to do a great good thing within three days to completely eradicate the evil qi on Mrs. Zun and Ling Gongzi

Yu Tianlu Shili: Please also ask the Taoist chief to make it clear

Guanshan turned around and walked unhurriedly towards the outside of the mansion and shouted: The heavenly secret must not be leaked, remember to save people's lives is better than to create a seventh-level floating slaughter

Seeing Guanshan gradually moving away, Yu Tianlu said to himself in the courtyard: I didn't expect that unjust case would affect my wife and children, Wei's please raise your noble hand to let go of your wife and children, I was also forced to be helpless back then

Li Yang galloped all the way back to Alan Village overnight, and as soon as he returned to the manor, he dragged Li Song, who was still asleep, out of the bed

Li Song's eyes were confused: The boss is so late, what is the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow

Li Yang pulled Li Song to the table: the second child took out all the money and title deeds in the silver treasury

Li Song was frightened when he heard this: Boss, what are you doing with so much money

Li Yang hurriedly said: I will talk to you slowly in detail about the second child in the future, I will make up enough 20,000 silver coins in three days, you can help me calculate it quickly

Li Song sighed: The boss now has 7,000 silver coins left in the silver vault, and I can't think of a way to make up enough 20,000 silver coins, and now the soldiers-forging workshop-brick kiln are also about to pay their wages

Li Yang thought about it for a while: If the second child mortgages the land deed, how much silver can one mu of land be worth, and when the harvest is over, we will sell the grain and then redeem the land

Li Song was not very reluctant: an acre of land could be mortgaged with a silver coin

Li Yang nodded: "Second child, tomorrow, you will take 15,000 mu of land deeds with me to Taizhou City, mortgage land deeds are a big deal, and I can rest assured that you are here."

Li Song took a long breath helplessly: Okay

Li Yang raised his hand and patted Li Song's shoulder gently: Second brother, then you should go to bed early

After Li Yang left Li Song's room, he walked through the courtyard and gently returned to his room, seeing Song Shiting kicked the quilt to the side and fell asleep on all sides, Li Yang walked to the table with a relieved smile on his face, walked to the table and sat down, reached out and picked up the wine jug on the table and got a glass of wine, Madame, no matter how tired I am outside, as long as I see you, I feel a lot more relaxed

Picking up the wine glass and looking up at the full moon outside the window, there were only two days left