"Big head, that's enough!" Chen Tong shouted in a low voice, "The messenger is still here, are you going to make us all follow you to disgrace?" Zhou Datou suddenly shrank his head, stuck out his tongue and grimaced.

"It's not that I'm any of the two cowardly, although there are a lot of more than a dozen of our families, but if we always quarrel like this, I can't say if we can beat the 'rabble' of others!"

Any two? Xie San'er remembered, isn't this the brother Song Gongming swore to? He pretended to be inadvertently glancing over there.

"Hmph, some people call others a rabble, but they don't know that they are actually similar!" Wei Daochang sneered.

"Old Bullnose, are you still finished?" Zhou Datou jumped up.

At the critical moment, Chen Yuanhai coughed: "What, do you want to compare and gesture in front of me?" After he finished speaking, he opened his eyes, and two grim eyes scanned down, forcing the two of them to sit back in their chairs again.

This is strength, what's the use of your martial arts skills? A hundred or two hundred people can't do ten times the opponent!

"Belly, where were you sent out?" Chen Tong asked.

"Mudtown." Yu Liang bowed down and replied, "The Governor of the Metropolitan said that the two roads of the Mid-Autumn Festival together will take down the two big chelas of Yugan, so that the brothers can have a good holiday, and it can be regarded as a good gift for Yugan County."

Chen Tong frowned and turned to his father: "Daddy, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not two days away, are we in time?"

Hearing the three words of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yuanhai was not angry. It's just this group of people, who have been squeezing and arguing with each other here for ten days, and there are still pickers who leave halfway.

Bringing such a guy out to the army is really heart-beating! But in terms of days, it is indeed difficult to delay any longer. Tatehanko sent these two people to say that they were in contact, but in fact, in his opinion, they were urging themselves to go on the road.

Thinking of the promise that Tatehuako had given him, he gritted his teeth and told Yu Liang with a pleasant face: "You two go back and tell the Metropolitan Governor, just say that I will send troops to Santang Town tomorrow morning, and I will give Yu Gan a big gift as he expects!"

"That little one wishes you fame in a fight and win the first merit of Santang Town!"

"You're a quick boy!" Chen Yuanhai laughed and asked someone to reward him with a piece of broken silver. Seeing that the goal was achieved, Yu Liang hurriedly took Xie San'er out of the Justice Hall.

"Daddy, are you really going to send troops tomorrow morning?" After arranging tomorrow morning's affairs, he came out and went down to his own boat Chen Tong asked.

"Alas, don't you see that the Metropolitan Governor is in a hurry?"

"But ......, this group of people is really like what Ren Er said, a rabble!" Don't look at Chen Tong's bad reputation, there are still people who should have eyesight.

His father and son have been busy kneading this and pacifying that these days, and the reason why they are delaying the army is also because this team is too reluctant.

Only his own family and Zhou Datou's two departments add up to about 1,500 people, and the rest are mostly about 100 people, such as Wei Daochang, who brought dozens or even a dozen people, what is the use of not even erecting a banner?

Originally, he bragged in front of Tatehuazi, Chen Yuanhai said that he could raise the 5,000 army in Huxi with a single shout, but now he is barely even half of it.

This navy army is not like Lu Zhai, you can add pots and reduce stoves, the sailors look at the number of sails and the depth of the draft, and the insiders can immediately judge your accurate strength, and they can't hide it at all.

But dragging it around, the ugly daughter-in-law always has to come out to see her in-laws, this is not to be urged, and it seems that it will not work if you don't send troops.

Chen Tong lowered his head unhappily, and heard Chen Yuanhai suddenly say, "Tong'er, you go back overnight tonight, and then transfer five hundred people from our village."

Chen Tong was taken aback, and raised his head suddenly: "Daddy, let's transfer people again, we only have a hundred brothers left to guard the village, and there is no space inside!" Besides...... Jiang family will send the bride over in the past few days, and if they see the truth ...... true."

"So you stay for now." Chen Yuanhai interrupted his son and told him not to listen to himself in a hurry: "You stay in the village to bluff, with your mother's help, I think you can deal with the Jiang family, and everyone in Huxi knows that you stay in the village and get rid of those bad thoughts."

You prepare the fast boat and fast horse in advance, and immediately go east after the cave house, and I will send my hand to wait for you in Rhino Bay

……。 Although the big head was a little crooked that week, it was a good one.

With 2,000 people in hand, this guy can deal with it. What matters is the county seat! The next time we meet, it's when we meet on the shores of Lake Biwa in Yugan, admiring the moon in the East Mountain."

"Why don't you wait for me to arrive and then attack Santang?" Chen Tong is still a little worried about his father.

"It's okay, it's just a small dock fort in Santang Town." Chen Yuanhai patted his son's thick back affectionately:

"When you give the little lady of the Jiang family a good seed in her stomach and cook rice, the Jiang family will be helpless.

Let's have knotweed flowers on one side, finless porpoises on the other, change the stockade to Jinxi Lake, have Meixi and Ruihong, and control the Xinjiang waterway, hey!

At that time, maybe we can surpass Bai Lang and sit in the third place in this lake! Son, this is what Daddy dreamed of leaving for you, do you want to?"

"Yes!" Chen Tong was also happy.

"You have seventeen or eight cubs, and ask each of them to lead a fleet, do you think we can change the name of this lake to Chenjia Lake?" Hahaha......!"

On the night when Chen Yuanhai arranged for Chen Tong to go back to transfer troops, a small boat quietly rowed into a water village on the west side of Riyue Mountain. There was already another boat waiting inside, and after two wrong strokes, Xie San'er had already jumped into the other party's boat.

The man who supported the boat silently clicked with a bamboo pole, and the boat left very obediently and slipped towards the depths of the water village. In the innermost part of the room was a large official ship. The so-called official ship means that it is clearly visible in the moonlight, and it still has vermilion lacquer on its appearance.

Shapely, the ship is nearly seven zhang (twenty meters) long and one zhang and four feet wide (more than four meters), with two cabins in the front and rear, the rear cabin is slightly larger and taller, and it is not very clear to see at night, but it should be two floors.

The upper layer of the front and rear cabins is covered with a dome canopy, which is made of two layers of tarpaulin and mats, which can be pulled to provide good shelter in rainy days. I wonder from whom they took such a large ship of 200 materials (see note 1)?

Xie San'er was looking, Xiaozhou had already leaned firmly on the gang, and stretched out an arm from above to pull him up to the deck, and the man whispered in his ear, "Sir, please come in, the young master and the second master are waiting inside."

When I came to the door of the cabin where the lights were exposed, the curtains were opened left and right, and it turned out that two teenagers with knives were standing on either side.

"Thank you!" Xie San'er nodded and went down the two stairs into the front cabin, and when he looked left and right, the window panels were all down, and the cabin was a little stuffy.

Suddenly, a gust of wind came through the doorway, and two figures dangled out behind the screen in front of the corridor in the rear cabin, and the one in front was Ren Er, who expressed his opinions during the meeting, followed by a teenage boy with dark clothes and big black eyes.

"Is that you?" Ren Er's eyes widened in astonishment: "You, aren't you ......?"

"Humble position, Xie Rentang, the general banner of the Southern Regiment Training Town (Xie San'er really asked Mr. Han to give himself a big name before leaving), I have seen the young master and the second master Ren!" Xie San'er clenched his fists and reported his name.

"You're an officer? Are you from the Yamen?" Song Xiaoqiao looked curiously, it was probably the first time he was so close to the "enemy".

"Young master, I am a subordinate of Li Sanlang, the deputy envoy of Raozhou, and I belong to the Southern Regiment, and we are neither an official nor a member of the Yamen. We are training to protect the territory and the people, and we only fight for the people!" Xie San'er replied.

"Isn't that still going against us?" Ren Er said coldly.

"If Guizhai does not harm the people, the group training will naturally not be the enemy of Guizhai." Xie San'er smiled and said, "Not only is we not an enemy, but we can also reach out to help Guizhai when necessary."

"Nonsense, you belong to Raozhou Mansion, but our Botang Village is in Nanchang Mansion." Ren Er is not stupid, he immediately exposed the fault in the other party's words.

"I said that the regimental training is not an official army, so we don't care about their set of rules!" Xie San'er waved his hand.

His arrogant behavior won Song Xiaoqiao's favor, glanced at Ren Er, and then said vigorously:

"Lord Xie is so straightforward, admire! Please sit down, let's all sit down and talk." Everyone was in place, and Song Xiaoqiao immediately asked, "I heard that Li Sanlang and I are the same age, I don't know if it's true?"

"We are all inspecting and more than a year younger than the young master, so we should have met

I call you brother."

"Oh? He's younger than me?" Song Xiaoqiao turned his head to look at Ren Er in disbelief, and asked, "It is rumored outside that he is extremely powerful and can trap thunder in the ground, but is it true?"

"Brother Dan'er was born with divine power, but it is true that he once used his strength to bring down a frightened cow and save people's lives, so the city called him Xiao Yuanba. However, if you want to say that the method is false, Dan Ge'er designed to break the enemy, and the people don't know the details and miscommunicate."

Then Xie San'er told Li Dan's various deeds, such as making cars, making wine, catching flowers and arms, and breaking Yintuo.

Song Xiaoqiao listened to it with relish, and even his two close servants and young men unconsciously gathered around to listen, and heard that Song Xiaoqiao was busy asking for two or three kinds of wine and food to be prepared in the back, and everyone chatted while drinking.

"Clear as water, mellow as fairy wine, I don't know what this jade clear stream tastes, but it's a pity that I can't taste it in a cup." Ren Erba chirped with a look of pity on his face.

"Second master, this is not difficult. The main task of the humble job this time is that San Lang asked me to ask Botang Village, are you interested in the distribution of this wine in Jinxian County?"

Song Xiaoqiao and Ren Er were stunned at the same time, looked at each other, and asked in unison, "You're not here to recruit An?"

"What kind of ann?" Xie San'er spread his hands: "Is there a rebellion in your village? Or have you ever killed an official or taken away food?"

"Nope!"

"What's not going on?"

"Uh, but, but the government thinks we're all grassy?"

"Well, it's fallen grass. If the seed of grass does not fall into the ground, how will it sprout?" Xie San'er made a joke, and then said, "There is nothing wrong with growing grain and clearing the wasteland, fishing and digging lotus roots, building houses and building camps by yourself."

"However, ......, many of us are runaways who can't afford to pay rent, and some of us have criminal records...... The government will not exempt us from fishing because we open up wasteland and fish?" Ren Er said anxiously.

Xie San'er laughed, looked at him, and nodded: "Well, the second master is at the root. It's not just some of you, it's the vast majority of you who have broken the law."

He looked at Ren Er and Song Xiaoqiao with uncomfortable faces, and said, "But compared to the rebellion of Tatehuazi and Chen Yuanhai, it is a trivial matter and a drizzle!"

The eyes of the two lit up, and after looking at each other, they immediately nodded like chickens pecking rice: "Yes, yes, we don't dare to get involved in that kind of thing." Although the village is small, we also know the severity, and rebellion will not only kill the head, but also exterminate the clan, so we will never do such a thing!"

"But you're here anyway?"

Ren Er smiled bitterly: "My lord is clear, there are only seven hundred people in the old and weak villages, and there are only more than four hundred young and strong, so they have no strength to fight against the Chen family, let alone a behemoth like Tatehuazi."

"Well, I've heard about it, so you old village owner thinks that more things are better than less things, so move the village to that small place in Botang, thinking that it would be good to avoid his father and son, right?" Xie San'er sighed:

"But you can hide from the first day of junior high school, but you can't hide from the fifteenth. In a word, don't you have to come over obediently and be pawns?

I'm sure that when he fights Santang, he will definitely push all the people of your small village to the front, and the Chen family won't care how many people you die. In the end, the people of Guizhai also lost, and the territory may not be saved!"

"Master Xie, it's not what you think!" Song Xiaoqiao was halfway through speaking, waved his hand to call the guards out, and then lowered his voice and said:

"My father didn't send troops because he was afraid of his family, it was that bastard Chen Yuanhai, he sent someone to say, either to join the alliance and go to war, or to marry my sister to him as a concubine!"

"What?" This time it was Xie San'er's turn to be surprised: "That old thing, he still wants to take a concubine?" Only then did he understand that the Song family's dispatch of troops was not entirely out of fear, but a choice of last resort.

"So, what are you going to do? Just follow him to rebel and ruin the hard-won peace of Botang Village?"

"Of course we don't want to, so when we hear that someone from the government is coming, don't we immediately agree to see it? Who knows that you still say that you are not from the official family, not even the official army!"

Ren Er said sadly, "But since you're here, let's make friends and have a drink together."

Okay, count me as a little bit of heart in Botang Village.

As for the sale of that wine, I dare not think about it, and it is not too late to mention it when we come back after saving our lives!"

"Tsk!" Xie San'er straightened up and looked at the two of them, shook his head and said, "Look at your cowardice, have you all broken your backbone from the Chen family? Okay, okay, even if I don't say anything about the wine, we'll have a date after this drink!"

His statement was a little embarrassing, Song Xiaoqiao was young and hot, and he was so excited that he slapped the table: "Xie Zongqi, I only drank with you in front of Li Sanlang, do you think I will toast to anyone?"

To tell you the truth, my father was so angry that he was bedridden, so I came here for him, are you idle as a young master, are you willing to see the stinky faces of the Chen family father and son every day?"

Ren Er was frightened, and hurriedly persuaded him to whisper, and then confessed to Xie San'er:

"My young master has this temper, don't take it to heart, he is holding back and has nowhere to vent, or how can I go to the meeting? I'm afraid he won't be able to hold back and fight with them face to face and suffer!"

"Note 1: The unit of volume of ancient ships was approximately equal to 0.24 tonnes of displacement per material."