Although the weather at the end of October was sunny but did have a cool breeze, Li Yang was lying on the rocking chair under the gazebo with a book in his hand, humming a little song in his mouth while shaking his feet beautifully, he counted the days and time passed really fast, and he didn't realize that it had been a month since he forged weapons, and he happened to have time to go to the forging workshop to see the production progress today

So he rode the carriage all the way to the forge workshop, far away you could see the chimney of the workshop emitting bursts of white smoke, the silent col resounded with the sound of jingle - clanging knocking iron, and when he entered the workshop he glanced around, the craftsmen were busy in a tight and orderly manner, some were busy making steel, some were busy striking iron, and the high temperature emitted by the steelmaking furnace and the carbon fire made people sweat profusely, and the craftsmen did not let go of their hands because of his arrival

Li Yang walked around the workshop with his small hands on his back, when he saw that the craftsmen were casting knives, so he stopped and sold the nerds, they first poured the molten iron into the mold to make the steel bar needed for forging the knife, put it into the water to cool down, and then stuffed the steel bar into the carbon fire to burn it red, and then put the red steel bar on the forging table and folded it in half, after repeating it several times, the steel bar will gradually become the shape of the knife, and it is finished in several quenching and hammering, at this time the knife is still gray, and the autumn has to be polished before it will be cold and bright

Ouyang Xiu, who came out to inspect, walked over quickly as soon as he saw Li Yang selling a fool there: "The owner, you are here."

Li Yang: I have time to come and have a look today, I see that the craftsmen have already started to cast knives

Ouyang Xiu: According to the plan, the owner will cast 10,000 knives this month, and the 10,000 cross guns that were built before have been put into storage

Li Yang: Let's go

As soon as I entered the warehouse, I saw bundles of cross guns on the shelves, the handle of the gun was brown and red, the gun head was red, and the head of the gun was covered with a scabbard made of bamboo chips, Ouyang Xiu put his hand on a bundle of cross guns and introduced it to him: the owner of these cross guns has a total length of 6 feet and a total weight of 6 pounds, and the handle is made of thick wood, which is not easy to crack and is extremely tough, and it is not easy to deform, it is an excellent wood for making the handle of the gun, the gun tassel can prevent blood from splashing on the handle of the gun in the battle, and it can play an anti-slip role, and the head of the gun is made of stainless steel quenching and forging, which can be pierced and swept both offensive and defensive, Each bundle has ten handles, a total of 1,000 sheaves

Li Yang was very satisfied after hearing this: Senior Ouyang, you must take care of it, this batch of ordnance is related to the defense of the border pass, we must not be sloppy

Ouyang Xiu: Don't worry, although our people don't have any academic questions, but the rise and fall of the country is responsible, and everyone dare not be sloppy

Li Yang: Do you have any difficulties in the lives of Ouyang's predecessors in the workshops and craftsmen, if you are in a hurry to use money and lack of rice and meat, you can tell me

Ouyang Xiu: The difficulty is that the forging workshop is built in the suburbs, and the craftsmen have to walk back and forth for more than an hour to finish work, and it is inconvenient to do so, and the owner's workshop now stores so many ordnance, can you send some guards over, I haven't even slept peacefully during this time, for fear that something will go wrong

Li Yang: Senior Ouyang asked everyone to stick to it for a winter, and I plan to build a larger forging workshop in the county in the spring of next year

Ouyang Xiu: Dare to ask the owner what scale you want to build in the new forging workshop

Li Yang: 5,000 catties of iron are smelted every day, and 100 sets of weapons and armor are cast

Ouyang Xiu: It's so big, I really have to think about it

Li Yang: Seniors, you have to help me cultivate more talents, and I will rely on you in the future

Ouyang Xiu: I have really discovered a few talents recently, and I have not been here for a long time, and now I can get started on my own

Li Yang: How many seniors can we have now

Ouyang Xiu: The production process of the Dongjia crossbow is more complicated, and now there are 300 crossbows in the library - 10,000 crossbow arrows

Li Yang: Although our predecessors are rushing to make ordnance, we must not put aside the production of crossbows

Ouyang Xiu: I asked 6 teams to make the East's crossbow

Li Yang: Senior, I'll go back first, and I'll ask them to send someone over in the evening

Li Song lived up to expectations, in less than two months, he sold 50,000 quintals of grain, not only stabilized the price of grain in Taizhou, but also returned the cash in time to get the silver in his hand, after having the silver, Li Yang could not be idle these days, he and Han Juzheng-Guanshan-and General Longchuan went to the coastal area of Xilan Village and Lanxi Village to inspect the terrain, and at the intersection of Xilan Village and Lanxi Village, there is a pincer-shaped coastal shallow

Long Chuan raised his hand and pointed to the shoal in front of him: This pincer-shaped shoal in front of my brother is a weakness in our north, once the Haikou lands from here in a big way, the northern part of Taizhou and the nearby villages will be in no danger to defend, if we can build a coastal fortress on these two shoals, we can rely on two fortresses that are horns of each other to flank the Haikou fleet, you don't look at the shallow water of the shoal, a few zhang to the right, the water is deep, suitable for large ships to enter and exit, and the whole shoal is like a jar, the mouth of the small belly, the big ship can only sail in the water area is 6-7 zhang wideThese two fortresses can also use iron chains to block the waterway at any time, and the recessed beach inside can be built into a port for docking ships, and after all are completed, it will be a large seaport for military, commercial and civilian purposes

Longchuan spoke too professionally, and we were stunned for three times, but one thing we understood was that this pincer shoal is a strategic place, and controlling this is equivalent to mastering the right to go to sea, which is very important for opening up maritime trade and developing fisheries

Li Yang: Why didn't the local officials pay attention to such an important matter?

Long Chuan sighed lightly: Brother, is it still because we are poor in Zhejiang, every year the taxes collected in Taizhou must be paid to the national capital, and I have mentioned it to Lord Sun before about building a fortress here, and my lord also agrees with this idea very much, but several times I have written to the national capital and the fold has been refuted

Li Yang put his hands behind his back and looked at the pincer-shaped beach in front of him, the oncoming sea breeze made his clothes flutter with the wind, and after thinking for a while, he made up his mind: Ju Zheng requisitioned this shoal, how the government needed to operate

Han Juzheng: Brother Li can start working on the construction of the harbor as long as the state government yamen approves it, but fortunately, no one owns this shoal, which saves a lot of trouble

Li Yang bowed to Longchuan and the Korean drama: Brother-there are two workers in the official mansion

Long Chuan: Brother, don't worry, I will fully support you in this matter, brother, but it will cost a lot of money to build a fortress and a port, can you afford it?

Li Yang: By the way, how much silver does my brother need?

Longchuan: About 50,000 taels of silver

Li Yang: Then let's start preparing

Guanshan: The owner doesn't have so much silver in our treasury right now

Li Yang: If the money is not enough, then we will build it in two years, and if it doesn't work in two years, then it will be divided into three years

Guanshan: In the next few months, we will prepare the necessary timber and stone, and then start building the fortress and the port in the spring of next year, and all the timber that was dismantled from the resettlement house will be used this time

Luo Tiancheng's tavern has become more and more prosperous since the improvement of the wine-making process, he has sold nearly 2,000 jars of wine in this month alone, and several taverns in the city have also begun to buy from him, and all this is thanks to Li Yang gave him a few suggestions, in order to express his gratitude Luo Tiancheng prepared a sumptuous banquet in the tavern, and I and Longchuan were invited to come and Qijia and Xiahoudun, as soon as people arrived at Qi Luo Tiancheng let the guys bring up the dishes

And as the host of the banquet, he gave us a few of us, and each of us got a glass of wine: Big brother - brothers, let's have a good drink today, don't get drunk, and don't go home

"Good"

Luo Tiancheng: I have to thank you, brother, thanks to you for pointing me out to my brother, my winery business can be so prosperous, brother, I toast you

Li Yang got up and held up the wine glass with both hands: Brother Luo, everyone is a brother, and they all deserve to help each other in difficulties, thanks to Brother Long, otherwise we will have a strong relationship

Luo Tiancheng: Brother, what you said is so right, come to this glass of wine big brother, our brothers will salute you together

Long Chuan raised his hand and patted me on the shoulder: Come on, brothers, let's do it

At this time, Qijia and Xiahoudun stood up with the wine jug: The deputy gang leader, our brothers are both rough people, and I hope you can have a lot of offended places before, Zhang Er Mazi has already been taught a lesson by us

Li Yang hurriedly beckoned: Don't stand and sit fast, the two brothers will pass in the past, and in the future, we will all be blessed and shared by our own families

Luo Tiancheng: Brother said it well

Li Yang: Brother Luo, brother I am now the deputy leader of the Taizhou Gang, so I have to mention one thing

Luo Tiancheng: Brother, you say

Li Yang: Dare to ask Brother Luo if he has thought about what to do with these brothers in the gang in the future, now the brothers are still young, and they can rely on fighting to collect protection money - isn't it just stealing a money bag, but everyone has the day when they are old, what should the brothers live on at that time, and they can't fight with others all the time

Luo Tiancheng: Brother, what you said, brother didn't think about it, but there is no good way out at the moment, brothers can only take one step at a time, brother, if you have any good way out, you might as well talk about it

Li Yang: Brother Luo, isn't the Taizhou Gang known as the No. 1 gang in Taizhou, then unify all the gangsters in Taizhou, and work out an underground order, which is the so-called thief and there is a way, and in the future, all things that hurt the heavens and harm the pit and abduction are not allowed to be done by the Taizhou Gang

Luo Tiancheng: What should the brothers live on?

Li Yang: Brother Luo, you might as well imagine that with the strength of the Taizhou Gang, plus the relationship between the elder brother in the government and the financial resources of our Li family, the Taizhou Gang will be pushed to a new level, are you still afraid that the brothers will not be able to eat?

Luo Tiancheng: Although our Taizhou Gang is the largest gang in Taizhou, not all the gangsters can listen to us, as far as I know, there are at least five waves of hundreds of hooligans in Taizhou, these people occupy a lot of minerals and fields by fighting bravely, do you think they can listen to us honestly?

Li Yang: Brother Luo, which wave of spoily gangsters is the most ferocious and ruthless, let's clean up that first, and let them understand one thing, that is, follow the life and rebellion, and after killing them, those occupied minerals and fields will be seized by the government, and then we will spend money to buy them and set up factories, so won't the brothers have something to do?

Luo Tiancheng: Our Taizhou Gang has less than 200 brothers, but we don't have enough manpower to deal with several waves of people

Li Yang: Brother Luo, this is not a difficult brother, my militia has 6,000 disciples who can charge for Brother Luo

Xiahoudun: The gang leader turned out to be the deputy gang leader who said this, so let's let it go

Qijia: Let's do it to the gang leader, before you came back, these brothers were bullied

Luo Tiancheng: If everyone has this intention, then let's do it, as far as I know, the group of people who belong to the east of the city, Dadou Mountain, Woshan Ying, Cui Dayan, is the most ruthless and fierce, so we will clean them up first

Qijia: This Cui Dayan is a well-known bastard, I heard that once he was drunk and didn't even let his brother-in-law go, and then his brother-in-law was pregnant, and he shamelessly said that it was his own blood, and finally his brother-in-law committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and his brother has since left the country

Xiahoudun: The mines occupied by him in Da Doosan must not be killed by them in any year, and he is a well-known bully in Da Doosan in ten miles and eight towns

Luo Tiancheng: Qijia-Xiahoudun will take his brothers to clean up this Cui Dayan tomorrow

Li Yang: Brother Luo, this matter should not be too hasty, first let the brothers find the families of the deceased, let them go to the state capital yamen to report to the official, the bigger the trouble, the faster Cui Dayan will die, let the government come forward for us to clean up these waves of bullies, and the rest will be easy to do

Long Chuan: Tiancheng's brother is right, these donkeys and horses in Taizhou should be rectified, and I will go and talk to Master Sun about this matter tomorrow

Li Yang: Then brother, you have helped these brothers a lot, Brother Luo asked the brothers to inquire about the crimes of these bullies during this time, which can be regarded as a contribution to Taizhou

Qijia: There is no need to inquire about the evil deeds of the deputy gang leader, and the brothers on the road have heard about it somewhat

Li Yang: By the way, Brother Luo, there is another thing, we have to protect the families of these victims, and let people outside know that our brothers in Taizhou are all chivalrous and righteous people, not people who are brave and ruthless and bullies all day long

Luo Tiancheng shouted after hearing this: Brother said well, my original intention of establishing the Taizhou Gang was to punish evil, promote goodness and promote justice, and I was forced to connive at the brothers to do some out-of-the-ordinary things because of their livelihood

Luo Tiancheng led the gang to finally find the families of the victims after many inquiries, and persuaded them to go to the government to report to the government on the premise of ensuring the personal safety of these family members, and these family members also wanted to seek justice for the dead family members

Under the mediation of Longchuan and Lord Sun, the government is ready to launch a clean-up operation against several evil bullies in Taizhou, and Zhong He, the chief of the Capture Division, and Yuan Ji, the general of Taizhou, are responsible for this operation

But what people didn't expect was that this Cui Dayan dared to lead people to attack the official army, Cui Dayan gathered a lot of outlaws under his hands, they used the terrain to hold the mountain pass, Zhong He and Yuan Ji led people to attack several times, but to no avail, and injured nearly 200 people, Sun Daren was so angry that he scolded the two for being incompetent, and he couldn't even clean up a bully, but if he wanted to send troops to Da Dou Shan on a large scale, it would damage the face of the official family, and it was true that more than 1,000 regular troops could not capture Da Dou Mountain, which was only more than 100 people

At this time, Sun Yuanwu remembered the militia under Li Yang, so he sent the cavalry of the state capital to the Li family manor to send a letter to Li Yang, and opened it to see that he wanted to take the militia to Da Dou Mountain to assist Zhong He and Yuan Ji to encircle and suppress the bullies, Li Yang did not delay, and immediately asked Li Zuo and Li You to gather two battalions of troops, a total of 1,000 people, and hurried to Da Doushan, and when he arrived in Taizhou City, he did not forget to bring Luo Tiancheng and the brothers in the gang

When they arrived at Da Doosan and Zhong He, they didn't know that Cui Dayan had built a pass at the mountain pass in the past few years when he was entrenched in Da Doosan, and he thought it was just a simple encirclement and suppression, but he didn't expect Cui Dayan's group to stick to the pass and resist stubbornly, and they didn't bring ladders and siege equipment this time, so they couldn't attack Da Doosan for a long time

Li Yang: General Yuan, how many people can participate in the battle on your side?

Yuanji: More than 800 people

Li Yang: I brought 1,200 people, including 200 crossbowmen, you see how we should fight this battle

Yuanji: In this way, you can lead people to feint head-on and use strong crossbowmen to suppress and win people on the pass, and I will ask people to cut down a big tree nearby to make a siege cone, and as soon as the gate is broken, we will lead people to kill it together

After everything was ready, Li Zuo took his brothers to lay a shield wall in front, and 200 crossbowmen followed closely behind the shield wall, just taking this opportunity to try the power of the crossbow, when the people who were stuck in the pass saw that the official army launched an attack again, they continued to release arrows on the pass, and the crossbowmen took the shield wall as a cover to shoot crossbow arrows at the pass at the right time, and soon the people who were stuck on the pass were suppressed by the crossbow arrows that were shot, and they could only hide behind the wall pier and did not dare to show their heads easily, at this time Yuan Ji led the city defense army to carry the siege cone and began to hit the city gate, the moment he broke through the city gate, Yuan Ji led the city defense army to attack the pass in one fell swoop

At this time, Cui Dayan and his outlaws had become fish and meat on the board and could only be slaughtered, Li Yang asked Luo Tiancheng to rush in with his brothers to assist Yuan Ji in capturing Cui Dayan, while Li Yang let the brothers of the militia stay where they were

53 bandits were killed in the battle of Da Doosan, and 69 of his bullies were arrested and brought to justice, and Taizhou Mansion was even more angry to eradicate more than a dozen evil bullies, confiscating 30,000 acres of land - one coal mine - two quarries - 2 logging yards - 31 acres of fish ponds - 211 houses - 25,000 taels of silver, and these bullies also paid the price for their crimes on weekdays and were sentenced to be executed, justice will also be late but will never be absent, not not to report the time has not arrived, The Taizhou Gang privately provided a lot of evidence to the government through some channels

The powerful bullies were cleaned up by the government, and the small shares in Taizhou were unified by the Taizhou gang by force, and for a time the Taizhou gang gathered nearly 1,000 people to become the first big gang in Taizhou, and since then the Taizhou gang has formulated an underground order, where gang members can not bully the weak - do not steal, do things that violate reason, brothers can not kill each other - Taizhou gang will be punished for evil, do good, promote the purpose of justice, change its appearance