Hua Chong looked at this handkerchief and took out another identical handkerchief from his arms, which was also embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon and an eagle and a dog. Jiang Ping www.biquge.info of Pen Fun Pavilion exclaimed: "Where did you come from?"

Hua Chong smiled bitterly: "It was left for me by Zhihua when he left, and I didn't understand what he meant by giving me this thing, I just thought it might be related to the Imperial City Division, and it was inconvenient for him to say it clearly." After seeing Shen Zhongyuan's piece, I realized that this must be a token of the Imperial City Division!"

Jiang Ping frowned and said, "Didn't Zhihua not reveal to you the affairs of the Imperial City Division?"

Hua Chong also felt strange: "He really didn't say it, even this handkerchief, he secretly gave it to me, saying that it was a souvenir, I asked him what this pattern meant, after all, this five-clawed golden dragon is not ordinary people, he said that I will naturally know in the future." ”

Jiang Ping was surprised: "Could it be that he already knew that Shen Zhongyuan was also a member of the Imperial City Division?"

Hua Chong touched his chin and pondered: "I think it must be! Seeing this handkerchief, I have a guess, did Shen Zhongyuan find out that we were eavesdropping a long time ago, or did he guess that we were in Taihu Lake, so he deliberately told us about King Xiangyang's plan?"

Li Zixiu was a little careful and a little timid, and asked Hua Chong for confirmation: "Could it be that he deliberately deceived us?"

Hua Chong nodded: "It's not impossible, this Shen Zhongyuan is thoughtful, it's hard to say whether he is an enemy or a friend." ”

Qiu Zhiyuan sneered: "This person is yin and yang, it is really elusive, just leave him alone, let's go to Hongze Lake according to the original idea!"

Xia Yuqi also said: "Even if he exposes our fraud, we have thousands of people, and we are not afraid of him Hongze Lake! If he is an internal response, there will be an additional layer of protection at that time!"

Hua Chong clutched his handkerchief, stared at the door of the hall, and sighed: "This person is unpredictable, I'm afraid we won't guess his thoughts until the last moment!"

Half a month later, Taihu Sanjian, who received a letter from Hongze Lake, drove away this huge car and ship, accompanied by twenty tiger-headed warships and three thousand minions. Qiu Zhiyuan and the others didn't know whether they deliberately showed favor or really followed Hua Chong, and the more than 1,000 people who stayed in Taihu Lake were handed over to Lu Fang. Li Zixiu said that Lu Fang is his own disciple, and he is also a person from Taihu, and the people and horses are handed over to him, and we can both rest assured.

Hua Chong also felt that with Lu Fang managing Taihu Lake, the rear was relatively stable, so he left Lu Fang in Taihu Lake and left the four catchers to Lu Fang, on the one hand, to help Lu Fang manage Taihu Lake, and on the other hand, for the sake of deception. According to their plan, in the future, they will use the ship as a grain ship, hide firearms, and burn Hongze Lake.

Although the Great Lakes are all water villages, but the camps are different, Dongting Lake takes Junshan as the center, and builds 64 water and drought camps, with tens of thousands of soldiers. Taihu Lake is built in the water, relying on Xia Yuqi's mechanism skills with the five elements, Bagua, Nine Palaces, Feng Shui and local water potential. Hongze Lake, however, is outside the construction of the Gaojiayan embankment! Hongze Lake has been plagued by floods since ancient times, and if the water village is set up in Hongze Lake, these water thieves are afraid that they will not need to be requisitioned by the army of bandits, and they will be swept away by the flood......

Gaojiayan is the largest embankment of Hongze Lake, there is a big embankment to block Hongze Lake, these water thieves are not flooded, they will camp in a mountain bend next to Gaojiayan, called Xixu Mountain, Chidi Bay under Xixu Mountain, is where Wu Ze moored ships, and Xixu Mountain is the place where the army is tun.

Whether it is a bandit or a water bandit, it is all a routine, that is, rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest. Most of the thieves are "fair kings" who grow their own crops and eat their own food and trade fairly, and their income is "tax-free"; as for robbing merchants and eunuchs, they are all side jobs, and they only collect "money to buy roads", not the kind of bandits in later generations who kill all men, rob women, and scatter money.

Many dart bureaus, merchants, and passing officials, as long as they pay money, will never do any harm in their sphere of influence, and the packmen, porters who pull luggage, and boatmen hired by these merchants and officials are all "salesmen" who take "commissions" in various cottages, and are responsible for pulling guests into the influence of cottages in order to collect money. The so-called "car and ship shop foot teeth, innocent should be killed" is said to be this truth.

Among the five great lakes, Taihu Lake, Dongting Lake, and Penghu Lake are all the kings of the mountains who grow and eat by themselves, Taihu Lake is famous in the three days, Dongting Lake is the land of fish and rice, Penghu is rich in products, and it is a good place to eat by relying on the mountains and water.

Hongze Lake and Heishui Lake are different from the above-mentioned kings of justice. They are specifically relying on robbery to survive, and the owners of these two families are a pair of brothers, Zhenhu Jiao Wu Ze, and Hao Hu Jiao Wu Yuan. Wu Ze is fierce and domineering, crisscrossing the Hongze Lake area, there has never been a king's law, and his thousands of men and horses are all outlaws. This group of people is not the kind of bully gangsters like Bawangzhuang, they are all bandits who fight against the officials, soldiers, and sailors, and their combat effectiveness is first-class even if they look at the green forests of the world.

Halfway through, Hua Chong asked Pang Feiyan and Bai Yutang to leave the team, Bai Yutang was responsible for finding a place to stay, Pang Feiyan was responsible for contacting Pang Ji, and Hua Chong changed his original plan and chose to stay on the boat and blend into Hongze Lake with Jiang Ping and others. The mysterious Shen Zhongyuan aroused Hua Chong's interest, and he wanted to get close to this person, because whether it was friend or foe, this Shen Zhongyuan made Hua Chong unpredictable!

Everyone didn't dare to show their faces on the big boat, they all pretended to be ordinary minions on a small boat, and the people of Hongze Lake didn't suspect it, and let them into their own water village. After entering the water village, Xia Yuqi was responsible for finding a place in the water village and establishing a small camp, although it was to surrender, but he had to make a look of distrusting Wu Ze.

Fortunately, the people in Hongze Lake had already prepared and let Xia Yuqi choose a place to camp, while Qiu Zhiyuan and Li Zixiu went to meet Wu Ze. The Juyi Hall of Hongze Lake is located on the mountainside of Xixu Mountain, when Qiu Zhiyuan and Li Zixiu came, Wu Ze had already led people to wait here for a long time, more than ten people stood behind Wu Ze, Qiu and Li couldn't help but be secretly shocked when they saw the people behind them, those more than ten people were all the owners of a water village, they were all famous and well-known figures in the rivers and lakes, and they were all concentrated in Hongze Lake!

Wu Ze is a tall man, almost on par with Qiu Zhiyuan, who is also tall and mighty. At this moment, Wu Ze's upper body was ****, his face was slightly red, and he was obviously drunk. Wu Ze laughed loudly when he saw the two: "Two brothers, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are willing to come, I, Wu Ze, will never treat the two brothers badly!"

Qiu Zhiyuan's brows furrowed slightly when he heard this, as if the two of them had come to surrender! At the moment, he was displeased: "What does Lord Wu Zhai mean by this? Could it be that our brother is here to defect to you Hongze Lake?"

Wu Ze laughed and said: "I'm a rough and stupid person, our brothers from all walks of life have come, in order to seek wealth and seek a future, the king of Xiangyang has made his brother a naval governor, and all friends have come to cheer, and they will all be a general soldier or general in the future!"

Behind him, a white-faced thin man flashed out, and he arched his hand at the two of them and said: "Don't misunderstand, the two village owners, we are not here for a righteous word." The lord of Wu Zhai has a good thing, thinking about our brothers everywhere, Taihu Lake Sanjian saw the token at first sight, and rushed here, also for the sake of brotherly righteousness, let's still come inside, drink and chat!"

Qiu Zhiyuan recognized that the person who spoke was Yang Chun, the owner of Saturn Island, because he was very good at water, the best at floating water, and his tall and slender figure, he was called "willow leaf" Yang Chun. His Saturn Island also has hundreds of people, and although it is barely a big family among the water lords in various places, it cannot be compared with the Great Lakes, so when he speaks, he does not dare to offend both ends.

Qiu Zhiyuan wanted a step, after all, he turned his face when they first met, which was a little inappropriate, so he snorted and entered the hall with Wu Ze.

After entering the house, Wu Ze gave up the position of the head to Qiu Zhiyuan and Li Zixiu, next to the two of them was a bald man, the big village owner of Luoma Lake "underwater light" Yu Liang, his Luoma Lake is also hundreds of people and horses, similar to the strength of Saturn Island, and next to him sat Yang Chun, who was persuaded to fight just now. Opposite Qiu Zhiyuan, is Wu Ze's younger brother, another big bandit leader in the Great Lakes, Wu Yuan, the troublesome lake.

Wu Yuan got the news of his brother, handed over the matter of Heishui Lake to Wu Wanfeng, the master of Erzhai, and brought dozens of 3,000 horses and warships to Hongze Lake to help in the battle. Next to him is a big monk, Qiu Zhiyuan is a big man in the circle of water thieves, and he basically knows all the green forests of the mixed waterway. That monk is the Lotus Sect named "Excessive Meteor" Lingguang, although the head of the Lotus Sect Guo Dada is an old man, but his disciples are uneven, and there are many people who have committed crimes and become monks. This "Excessive Meteor" aura is such a monk. At the beginning, because he had done too much evil, he couldn't accommodate himself on the rivers and lakes, so he shaved his head and put on a robe. Next to the spiritual light, it is Su Zhenjiang, the owner of the second village of Hongze Lake, Su Zhenhai, the owner of the third village, who is called the "jade-faced water dividing beast", and there are many thieves on the hill below, but they are all thieves with more than 100 people.

Looking at this lineup, Qiu Zhiyuan was secretly surprised, basically everyone who could come came, except for Dongting Lake, which had surrendered, and Penghu, which was the farthest away, the other three were all here, and almost half of the small forces came. Counting the people, plus the 3,000 people in Taihu Lake, there are already more than 10,000 people here!

Just when Qiu Zhiyuan was thinking about this, a big man suddenly broke into the outside and said to Wu Ze: "Lord Dazhai, Deng Che is late." ”

Qiu Zhiyuan and Li Zixiu both knew Deng Che, and they also heard Hua Chong and others talk about his defection to the King of Xiangyang, so they both got up and said: "Master Deng Zhuang has always been good." ”

Deng Che looked at it and laughed: "I saw Xia Sanye just now, I heard that you are here, let's have a few more drinks in a while!"

Qiu Zhiyuan said: "Yes, drink a few more glasses, master of the village, why don't you prepare wine?" ”

Deng Che waved his hand: "Wait for the wine first, there is still something to do." ”

Wu Ze looked at Deng Che and smiled softly: "Found out?"

Deng Che nodded: "Yes, the county lord and Shen Junshi both know each other, that's right!"

Qiu Zhiyuan was shocked, could it be that he was discovered as soon as he came? Just as he was about to get up, Li Zixiu touched him lightly and said calmly: "Yes, Shen Junshi invited me to wait, why is he not here?"

Deng Che snorted coldly: "He's seeing the old man!"

Li Zixiu was also secretly frightened, but he was still very calm on the surface: "Old man, do you have any other friends? Why don't you invite you to meet together?"

Deng Che said with a calm face: "It's an old man, but it's not a friend! He saw an official from Kaifeng Mansion!"

Qiu Zhiyuan was startled, and stood up involuntarily, Li Zixiu was shocked when he saw that he couldn't hold his breath, and hurriedly got up, and said one step ahead of Qiu Zhiyuan: "How can there be an errand official?

Deng Che sneered: "The errand officer just came in with the ship!"

Li Zixiu pretended to be surprised: "Whose ship?"

Deng Che slowly stretched out a finger: "Yours!"