Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

Chapter 228: The Dream Overwhelms the Galaxy and Leads the Snake Out of the Cave (Please vote, please subscribe!)
"The first section in the northern part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is from Tongzhou to Tianjin, and then through Cangzhou is the boundary of Shandong. The second section is the Lu Canal, Dezhou, Linqing, Liaocheng, Xuzhou, Jining, and then Jiangning Huai'an Prefecture. After passing through the Huai'an Mansion, it is already regarded as the seat of Nanzhili, and it is not far from Jinling."

"Sister Yu'er and I have traveled twice, and Miss Qi has also traveled once. Along the canal, there are abundant things and scenery, and the boat trade is overwhelming. It is very lively and prosperous."

On the Tongzhou Canal, in order to pass the boring time, Jia Ying introduced the scenery on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal from the capital to Nanzhili for Tanchun. For these girls who have never left the government, the world is full of Novelty.

"Sister Bao, when you entered Beijing, did you also take the canal?" Xiangyun seemed to like Baochai very much, but he didn't get along very well with Daiyu. Whenever the two met, they would definitely quarrel, and this was not the first time.

Daiyu is eloquent and has sharp words, Xiangyun has a free and easy temperament, and doesn't care about some quarrels. Although they quarrel from time to time, the two are still the elder sister and the younger sister, and there is no quarrel because of this.

Along the way, it was all about bickering between the two to enliven the atmosphere.

Yingchun has the temperament of a wooden person, Xichun is still cold-spoken, Baochai is calm and always persuades from it, and she loses a bit of girlish nature. Qi Sixian and Xu Wenyu are older, and they are not funny. Primrose and Lvrong usually don't talk when they have something to do.

That fellow Baoyu, in the end, still failed to keep up as he wished.Although the old lady didn't want her precious grandson to leave her side, she would soften her heart if she couldn't bear to meet him. The main reason was that his mother didn't agree, um, and Jia Zheng.

Baochai said with a gentle smile: "When my mother and brother and I entered Beijing, it was winter, and the canal was frozen. We traveled by land, but we have never seen the bustling scene above the canal."

"Oh." Upon hearing that Sister Bao hadn't seen her before, but Sister Lin had seen her twice, Xiangyun felt that her beloved Sister Bao was suddenly compared in terms of vision, but turned around and left the matter behind. Looking at Jia Ying from the back of his head, he asked:
"Brother Ying, can we see it this time? I heard that there are dragon kings on the canal, and they worship dragon gods, trackers, and big treasure ships. I have never seen any of these."

Jia Ying smiled and shook her head, "I'm afraid I will disappoint you this time."

"Why?" Xiangyun asked, tilting his head.

"Let's not take the canal, but take the sea route instead. Board the ship from Tianjinwei, pass through Dengzhou Prefecture, and go south through Weihaiwei to Yangzhou."

"Isn't the imperial court banning the sea?" Xu Wenyu interrupted.

Jia Ying nodded, "It's just that merchants are prohibited from going to sea for trade, not navy ships. Let's go south on the Tianjin Wei Navy's ship."

This was also planned by Jia Ying in advance, and he made arrangements in advance. He also has many acquaintances in the navy, and these connections are all accumulated in the Ministry of War.

Although he has not been in the Ministry of War for a long time, it is not too short, and it will be a year in a few months.

It's been a year since I was young, and it's conceivable how many personnel have been transferred in the big army.

That's what the staff is in charge of. If someone brings connections to him, Jia Ying won't reject all of them. Instead, he picks a few good ones and complies with their request, which can be regarded as gaining some connections for himself.

Otherwise, it would be a pity to occupy such a good official position as the Secretary of the Ministry of War.

However, as far as he knew, apart from the Guangdong navy formed by Ye Baichuan, the other navy had not fought for a long time and had become decorations. It was hard to say how much combat power they had left.

But even so, the Dagan navy is the strongest in the nearby waters, because the range of Dagan's artillery is currently the farthest in the East China Sea.

The reason why they took the sea route was because they were afraid of accidents on the canal.

It has only been one year since he became an official, and he has killed quite a few people. Who knows if there is any remnant in it.

Also, a group of people were killed in Beijing a few years ago, so you have to be careful when you go out.

Not to mention, what he brought with him this time is all he cares about.

Jia Ying didn't explain to the girls why they changed to the sea route, but there were still some clever people who noticed the difference, but Jia Ying didn't say anything, so they didn't ask much.

The name Tianjin Wei is not too old. It used to be called Jingu Village, but it was a Pepsi household, and later it became Jinyu Town, where a large army was stationed. Later, an emperor from the previous dynasty crossed Tianjin from here and aspired to become the king of the world. This place was renamed Tianjin, and Dagan set up a guard here. Later, with the prosperity of water transportation, it gradually developed into a county with a large scale.

At this time, the military location of Tianjin Wei was not too prominent, and the function of the port of the secondary school of river transportation was far more important than that of the naval port.

However, in the post-navigation era, the importance of this place will gradually become prominent.

The port of Tianjin Wei is not suitable for large ships to berth. This is the mouth of the Yellow River. A large amount of sediment was brought here from the Loess Plateau by the Yellow River, forming a delta, which is constantly expanding. Because the sea water is shallow, here The port of China will freeze in winter, which is one of the reasons why its navigation function has not been improved.

At this time, Tianjin Wei could not even compare to Qinhuangdao, which was far away from it. It was a natural deep-water ice-free port.

A group of boats docked at Tianjin Wharf, Jia Ying took everyone off the boat and boarded the carriage again.

"Take you to Tianjin city for a while."

Although it is not far from the capital city, it was the first time for Jia Ying to come here.

Entering Tianjin City, Jia Ying looked at the low-rise houses, and even the streets leading to the county government office were paved with loess, without a trace of the scene in his previous life memory.

Jia Ying originally wanted to try the authentic Goubuli steamed stuffed bun, but after asking someone about it, she found out that this delicacy hadn't been released yet.

Looking at the girls who had lost their novelty, Jia Ying didn't want to stay in Tianjin City any longer, so she turned to the guards and asked, "Is there anyone following?"

The personal guard shook his head: "It should be blocked on the pier."

They left on the front foot, and officers and soldiers sealed off the pier on the back foot.

"Let's go to the Tianjin Navy Guard." Jia Ying said lightly.

A group of horse-drawn carriages first drove into a spacious house, which was Yunji's cargo yard in Tianjin. Half an hour later, the same convoy drove out of the warehouse and returned to the pier to board the ship again.

At the same time, several carriages drove out from the back door of the warehouse, heading towards the Tianjin Navy Guard.

On the sea, two treasure ships with huge sails are rushing through the waves one after the other. On both sides of the treasure ships are rows of black hole muzzles. The endless blue seemed to be a little scared, and they huddled together, and they were willing to go onto the deck after several times of "coaxing" by Jia Ying.

"Don't worry, this is a shallow water area, and the waves are not too big. Are you still worried about falling off such a big treasure ship?"

"Xiangyun girl, don't you want to see the sea? Why are you still afraid?"

"Who's scared? I'm just a little unsteady." Xiang Yun pouted and said.

Jia Ying looked at the others again.

Qi Sixian was holding hands with Tanchun and the others, tugging back and forth.

"Don't hold hands, you can stand firm when your body relaxes."

After a long time, Jia Ying finally finished the difficult tutorial, and stood on the deck with all the girls, but everyone consciously stayed on the side of the ship, but Xiangyun and Tanchun were the most courageous, followed Jia Ying to the side of the ship, picked Leaning on the railing, looking down at the rest of the ocean.

"Brother Ying, look there are schools of fish below." Tanchun exclaimed.

Xiangyun also probed: "There are so many!"

Then he waved to Daiyu and the others: "Come and see."

Under the careful guidance of the two women, Daiyu, Qi Sixian, Xu Wenyu and the others finally walked to the side of the boat.

Daiyu only took one look, then retracted her body, and couldn't help moving her steps backwards.

Jia Ying comforted: "It's okay, the ship's side is so high, it can't fall."

"I feel dizzy." Daiyu said while holding her forehead.

"Is it seasick?" Jia Ying asked concerned.

Then I felt that it should not be. Although the canal boat is different from the sea, if it is seasick, it should have manifested when I went north from Yangzhou.

Daiyu shook her head, but couldn't speak.

Jia Ying guessed in her heart, probably because she was afraid of heights.

The navy warship they were on was the largest in Tianjin Wei. It was 13 meters long and six meters wide, and its sides were two or three meters above the sea.

Jia Ying immediately asked Baochun Lvrong to take Daiyu back to the middle of the deck.

"Why do fish schools follow us?" Xiangyun asked curiously.

Jia Ying thought for a while and said: "The big ship will squeeze the sea water when it passes by, and will bring up the plankton in the nearby sea area, and the fish will feed on it."

"What are plankton?"

Here comes three curious questions.

"Just treat it as food for fish schools." Jia Ying didn't know how to explain the concept of plankton.

"Look what's that? It's a big fish!" After the curious baby Xiangyun got used to the sea, he couldn't hold back and ran back and forth on the deck.

Everyone looked in the direction Xiang Yun pointed, and saw big fish jumping out of the water, arranged very regularly, like a marching army, chasing ships, but it looked more like they were playing, playing with sea ships. There was a swimming competition, but no matter how you looked at it, it looked like deliberate paddling, not doing your best.

"Is it a whale?"

"It's a dolphin, the most spiritual creature in the sea." Jia Ying said from the side.

They are indeed playing and playing, otherwise, at the speed of today's sea ships, they may not be able to compare with dolphins.

"Want to eat fish? How about we grill fish today?" Jia Ying suggested.

"Good, good!" Xiangyun was the first to agree.

Jia Ying had forgotten that Xiangyun's girl was also a first-class foodie in the Red Chamber, so it was Xiangyun's suggestion that "the fat and fragrant baby cut the fishy smell".

Immediately, Jia Ying ordered Xi'er to fetch fishing tools, and then called several soldiers to cast a net at the stern to catch fish.

By the time the setting sun was golden and spreading across the sea, the smell of meat was already coming from the deck.

There are all types of seafood in the net. Jia Ying also specially picked out some scallops and clams. These are all natural and without additives. If you eat them, there is nothing wrong with them except tonic.

It's a pity that the crayfish is still far away on the other side of the ocean, and there is one delicacy missing, but some prawns have been caught.

Jia Ying showed off her culinary skills in front of the girls. Spices are abundant these days, enough to satisfy human appetites. Before boarding the ship, Jia Ying specially ordered someone to prepare some.

Jia Ying first used salt and white wine to remove the fishy smell from the ingredients, and then marinated them with vinegar, onion, ginger and garlic, and then made a plate of stir-fried clams and scallops. Unfortunately, the girls seemed not very interested in these delicacies with shells. He showed a look of disgust.

Helpless, Jia Ying had no choice but to enjoy it all to herself.

The sea is no better than a canal. As long as the waterway is determined and the rocky areas are avoided, boats can be sailed at night, because after Tianjin City brought everyone a sense of drop, Jia Ying stopped thinking about docking in coastal towns. It is better to arrive sooner. Jiangnan.

Another reason why Jia Ying changed his mind was that, according to Baihu, the sailor who accompanied him this time, the period from late April to May is the calmest time on the sea, and after May, the sea breeze will calm down. Going ashore.

After May, it will be the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River. Hurricane and big waves are easy to encounter on the sea. Jia Ying is not an adventurer, let alone a group of female relatives, so safety must be the priority.

The sea breeze was cool, everyone looked at the stars on the deck for a while, and then returned to the cabin one after another.

"Song Baihu, are there many bandits on the sea near here?"

On the stern deck, Jia Ying and an armored soldier were sitting under the mast, holding a wine jar in each hand, and on the low table in front of them were some seafood that Jia Ying had prepared during the day.

Song Lun, one of the hundred households of the Tianjin Naval Guard, his elder brother is the commander of the Tianjin Naval Guard, a third-rank official, he came from Jia Ying's family back then, and worshiped under Yan Huasong's sect.

Even though he is a third-rank officer, the current third-rank commander of the Navy is no more than a thousand households in the Army Guard, Tianjin Navy Guard, soldiers and sailors combined, there are only more than a thousand people, there is a large warship, small Three warships.

Although the imperial court didn't pay much attention to the navy, even their food and salaries had to rely on connections to get them.

During Jia Ying's trip this time, it can be said that Song Lv took out two-fifths of his belongings in order to please him. There are people in the court who are easy to handle, not to mention that Jia Ying's official career controls the Ministry of War, which is as solid as gold.

"Returning to my lord, there are not many bandits near Tianjin, but after going south to Penglai and Weihai, there are more bandits. I heard that the most serious ones are the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. From the year when the dynasty was founded to now, There have never been any bandits at sea." Song Lun replied.

"Who are these bandits? Japanese slaves? Or Koreans?"

"All of them. There are many remnants of the Silla Baekje people on Jeju Island. They have been mixed with Japanese slaves. I can't tell exactly who is more or less. In fact, more people are from us. "

"Who are you?" Jia Ying asked curiously.

Song Lun nodded: "That's right, in the southern coastal areas, because of the sea ban, many people have lost their livelihoods and have no land to live on, so they can only go to the sea against the ban, but once they go to the sea, they will be wanted by the government. Go ashore. Whether it is Goguryeo or Japanese slaves, how many people can there be in a small area, so among the bandits, there are still the most people."

"However, the naval divisions in several southern provinces mentioned Japanese slaves invading the border in their reports to the imperial court?" Jia Ying asked puzzled.

"My lord, if it were me, I would play like this. If the people under the rule of one party go out to sea for thieves, wouldn't those officials be unlucky? As for the navy, do they have a choice?"

Although Song Lun didn't elaborate on what Song Lun said, Jia Ying understood it.

Local officials do not hesitate to whitewash the peace for the sake of their official career. As for the navy, they have no independence, and are more like vassals of the local government. If they want to survive, they can only work together.

Song Lun seemed a little disappointed.

Jia Ying took a sip of strong wine, and said for no reason: "Song Baihu, the navy will not be silent. In the future, the importance of the navy may be greater than that of the frontier army."

After Song Lun heard this, his expression didn't fluctuate, he just thought it was Jia Ying comforting him.

Jia Ying doesn't care whether the other party believes it or not, time will tell everything, she just hopes that by then, everything will be in time.

After chatting with Song Lun, Jia Ying left and went back to the cabin.

The cabin has three floors, like a building on a canal. The bottom floor is the residence of the sailors. Without special permission, they are not allowed to go on the deck. Eating, drinking, and messing are all settled below. The conditions are poor. More than a star and a half.

There are passenger cabins in the middle and the upper floor, which can be used for people to live.

Jia Ying did not go back to her own cabin, but folded her body up to the second floor, standing on the side of the boat on the second floor, Jia Ying's eyes moved back and forth between several cabins, the one on the far side was where Baochun and Lvrong lived , the ones in the middle are Qi Sixian and Daiyu, and the row behind is Tanchun Baochai.

Jia Ying stepped forward and walked towards another hatch.

dong dong dong.

There was a gentle knock on the door, and soon after, Jia Ying squeezed into the cabin under Xu Wenyu's surprised, nervous and somewhat resistant eyes.

"People will hear it." Xu Wenyu suppressed his voice, his voice trembling.

"If you keep the voice down, you won't be able to hear it."

"Then, then you are not allowed to stay overnight."

"It's all up to you."

"No, I'll do it myself."

After being drunk, I don't know that the sky is on the water, and the boat is full of dreams and the galaxy.

This is full of spring, but on the other side, it is a sea of ​​flames.

Besides, although Jia Ying and the others changed their boats, the speed of the sea route is naturally faster, but because they have to go around a big bay, they are not much faster than the boats on the canal.

Jia Ying and the others have only entered Jiaozhou Bay now, and the boats on the canal on the other side sailed into the boundaries of Shandong without any haste. , the figures patrolling back and forth on the deck were faintly visible, as if they were guarding something.

After nightfall, the fleet sailed into the boundary of Linqing Prefecture. Because there were Caobang ships, civilian ships could not pass through Chaoguan after nightfall, and could only stay in Linqing for one night.

In the dense forest on the embankment that is far away from the pier, a group of black-clothed masked people are gathering together, staring at a large boat on the canal from a distance.

"Cuckoo, cluck."

A few nightingales' cries broke the silence in the forest.

"Cuckoo cuckoo!"

There was also a response from the opposite forest, and then, a burst of chaotic footsteps were heard.

"Brother Lang San."

"Is it Brother Feng who came?"

"It's me, little brother."

The two sides met in the dark.

"Third Brother, is anyone on the boat?" The two exchanged a few words, and then Brother Feng asked.

"I'm doing business, Brother Feng, just don't worry, my people are watching all the way. They got off the ship once in Tianjin City, but there is Yunji's warehouse there, so it's normal. Afterwards, I watched Jia Ying get on the ship with my own eyes. "

"Yunji?"

"It's the business of killing stars, and it's not a secret in Beijing." Speaking of Yunji, Lang Kun's eyes lit up, but he knew that Yunji Store now monopolizes most of the spice business in the capital. In business, the amount of money received every day is innumerable.

Now he has become a loner, he has saved half of his life's belongings, and Jia Ying confiscated most of them, so he is naturally not reconciled.

When the rightful owner is gone this time, no matter what, I will go to Yunji to make up for his shortfall, and then I will take my son away from the rivers and lakes, find a place to settle down, buy a real estate, buy a few acres of fertile land, If you marry a few more concubines, you will never be in the capital again.

With his proficient skill of disguise, those idiots in the government will never even try to find him.

"Where is Master Qing? Why didn't you see him coming?" Lang Kun looked around, but Lin Qing was nowhere to be seen.

Brother Feng responded vaguely: "We have made such a big commotion in Linqing tonight, so naturally we have to prepare for a way out. Master Qing has connections on the Baidao, so he can't come now."

Lang Kun's vigilance gradually eased, and he still said: "Brother Feng, Master Qing is our backbone, he is not here, I am always uneasy."

"Third Brother, don't worry, after Master Qing's affairs are settled, he will come. Why, can Brother Lang not trust Master Qing?"

Lang Kun smiled awkwardly and said: "Where is it, if there is no Master Qing, how can I avenge this revenge? Master Qing is my Lang Kun's reborn parents, and I will give my life to Master Qing from now on."

Empty words, who would not speak.

"The people contacted by the third brother have all arrived?"

"There are more than 30 players here, and some of them are not here."

Brother Feng frowned: "Not here anymore?"

"Brother Feng, don't forget what we do. Those who plan food in the water will not go ashore easily. How many people did Brother Feng bring?"

Brother Feng whistled into the forest, and immediately after that, a group of figures in black came out.

Lang Kun took a look, frowned and said: "Brother Feng, you and I have only a hundred people here, can we make things happen? Don't forget, there is also a hundred-household team there."

Brother Feng shook his head and said: "Third brother, our goal is to kill people. I brought more than 40 people, plus your manpower, it is not bad for that group of officers and soldiers. Aren't you still in the water?" What's more, Lord Qing sent another team to take care of us outside, if there are too many people, it will easily cause the government to notice."

Lang Kun was still a little worried. Although these people in the Jianghu were ruthless, they would be timid before fighting the officers and soldiers.

"Brother Feng, it's not that I'm careless. I also checked during the day. Those officers and soldiers are escorting salt and silver. The guys in their hands are serious. They have more than a dozen muskets."

Brother Feng laughed lightly and said, "Third brother, just see what I brought."

After that, he clapped his hands.

A dozen or so masked men came out carrying two large black wooden boxes.

Brother Feng ordered people to open the wooden boxes, one of which contained rows of bamboo tubes of equal length, and a long lead wire at the end, and the other long box was covered with hay, and it was unknowingly low. What.

It's just that after Lang Kun saw the bamboo tube, he exclaimed in a low voice with joy.

"Where do you get so much gunpowder?"

Brother Feng didn't say a word, he took a few steps forward, groped from another box covered in hay, and took out a musket.

"Look at this again."

"Good stuff." Lang Kun's eyes lit up, he took the musket and fiddled with it for a long time, but he didn't know how to use it, so he couldn't help laughing awkwardly.

"Brother Feng, we are the ones who use knives. I have never used this thing before, so I am laughing at you."

"Third brother, don't worry, my people will do it. It's just that this kind of thing is not easy to get. For this operation, Master Qing spent a lot of money, and he only got five guns. When the time comes, these five muskets will not be aimed. Otherwise, just stare at Jia Ying, even if he is a god, he will be wiped out."

"My people are equipped with more than a dozen light crossbows. Is Third Brother still worried?" Brother Feng let out a sinister laugh.

"After all, Lord Qing thought everything through, and this time it's done!" Lang Kun clapped his hands.

"When will we act?" Brother Feng asked.

Lang Kun looked at the moonlight, and said: "It's the first watch now, let's wait until the third watch when the guards are struggling, the fire is better, and there will be people on the water to help us drag the group of officers and soldiers behind us. "

"Okay, when the time comes, let's not care about anything else, just rush to the big boat in the middle, and evacuate immediately after we win. We will go five or six miles to the north, and our people will be there to meet us." Feng Geer said.

Lang Kun nodded in response, and then thought of something else.

"Brother Feng, tell your people, keep one of those girls first, and take them with you, it's the capital of our lives, isn't it, it won't be too late to kill them when we get to the place."

"Since the third brother has said it, there is nothing wrong with the brothers, but there is still something to say. It is said that a beauty is a disaster, and a beauty waist is a hero's grave. The third brother should not be fascinated by the beauty, and then the brother will be troubled." We." Brother Feng's voice was a bit serious.

Lang Kun smiled shyly and said, "I naturally understand this truth. Brother Feng, don't worry, nothing bad will happen."

The moon was sparse, and the old raven streaked across the night sky from time to time. In a blink of an eye, the second watch had passed. With the moonlight and the torches on the bow, one could vaguely see that the guards on the deck had begun to doze off against the side of the ship.

In the dense forest, with a whistle, dozens of masked men, under the cover of night, groped towards the middle of the building boat.

call out!call out!
This is the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air.

The two guards at the mouth of the boat gangway responded, and a masked man lit a torch and swung it into the depths of the canal, signaling to the water bandits guarding in the river.

Everything went surprisingly smoothly.

I don't know if it's because of his eagerness for revenge, or because he is greedy for the beauty on the boat, Lang Kun rushed to the front with the men he summoned, and Feng Geer led the men and horses behind him, and the two groups of men and horses passed smoothly. Cross the pier and go under the boat in the middle.

At the same time, on the river surface, a dozen or so small boats rowed silently towards the building boats behind. There were only two or three people on each small boat, and there was a row of sealed earthen pots in the cabin. use.

Dang, Dang.

Because the ship ladder was put away by the guards, Lang Kun and the others could only use the grapple to climb up, and then let people lower the ladder.

Perhaps it was too loud, which alarmed the guards on the ship.

"A thief boarded the boat!"

A cry alarmed the others, and immediately after that, there were shouts one after another on the deck, as well as the sound of walking back and forth, not because there were people going to the room under the ship.

At the same time, the Cao Gang ships in front and the official ships behind also noticed the movement here, and sent people out to check it out. Afterwards, the three large ships were all lit with torches, and there were people indistinct.

"There are thieves attacking Mr. Jia's boat, and there are people on the river, be careful!"

Clang!

The small boat in the river approached the big boat, and some thieves took the earthen jars and threw them on the deck.

"It's kerosene!"

Seeing that the guards had been alarmed, Lang Kun and the others stopped hiding their tracks.

"Use gunpowder and blow it up for me!"

There were explosions on the building, and the screams of the guards were heard from time to time.

It's just that the power of black powder is limited, at most it can injure people, but it can't blow through the ship's plank.

Finally, some bandits climbed onto the side of the ship.

thump!thump!
A few muffled groans and the sound of falling to the ground sounded, and the boat ladder was lowered.

Lang Kun pulled out his knife and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me to kill, and take Jia Ying's dog's life, everyone will be rewarded!"

"Kill!"

When everyone rushed to the deck, the people in front suddenly stopped.

"What are you doing in a daze? Kill!"

Lang Kun squeezed to the front from the crowd.

"Third brother, it's ours!" A companion said, pointing to the corpse that fell on the ground.

Lang Kun used a torch to shine a light on them, and saw that the fallen people were all masked in black, with ropes tied around their waists, and in the middle of their chests.

"It's a straw man! It's been tricked!" At this time, someone from another place exclaimed.

Lang Kun ran over in a hurry, the figure who fell down after being hit by a crossbow arrow, wasn't it just a straw man!
"I fuck you bitch!"

Lang Kun cursed angrily.

"Hugh is leaving, thief, surround me!"

There were noisy footsteps around the pier, and bundles of torches lined up in a long line, consisting of people from thousands of households in Linqing Prefecture.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
There was a messy gunshot, and the officers and soldiers on the official ship behind had already fired at the bandits in the water, and the sound of falling into the water sounded like dumplings being dropped.

On the tank boat in front, the sailors and boatmen took off their sackcloth one after another, revealing their flying fish suits.

"Chen Xiang from Qianhu of the Embroidered Clothes Guard is here, the thief will not be surrendered!"

The embroidery guards are here!
Didn't he intercept and kill a dog officer?Why did the embroidered clothes guard get involved.What I don't know is that the princess is traveling.

Brother Feng at the back saw that things were not going well, officers and soldiers surrounded him, he didn't care about his companions, he ran to the river with a few steps, jumped into the water with a plop.

A dead fellow Daoist is not a poor daoist. At this time, let's all live our lives.

If you want to blame it, blame Lang Kun, this trash, for staring at everything, not to mention getting himself into it, and implicating others.

The shitty Flying Kun, fucking Ye Niang's strange art.

Lang Kun's knowledge was not good, and he also jumped into the river from the deck. Most of the bandits he brought next to him were planing food in the water.

Poor Brother Feng brought most of the gang remnants in the capital after being suppressed by Jia Ying, all of them are landlubbers, called the sky does not work, the earth should not work, and the god of the river.
The river god seems to be opening his mouth wide, waiting for them to feed automatically.

When Chen Xiang and the others saw the thief diving away, there was no trace of anxiety on their faces, but a sneer instead.

Not long after, a long line of torches lit up across the river bank.

At the same time, not far from the upstream and downstream of the river, officers and soldiers drove small boats and cast fishing nets in the river. The fishing nets were covered with barbs from iron hooks.

On the banks on both sides, there were also officers and soldiers holding long poles that were several feet long and sharpened, and poked them down into the water. Occasionally, they were lucky and happened to stab the bandits.

There were only a hundred and eighty bandits in total, but it was an army of thousands of people who surrounded and suppressed them. All the members of the Thousand Households Office of Linqing Prefecture were mobilized, as well as the Hundred Households Team escorting the salt and silver, and dozens of embroidery men who followed Chen Xiang. Yiwei.

The ending is doomed, it's ridiculous that Brother Feng made so many preparations, but his subordinates didn't fire a single shot, the muskets in their hands had been thrown somewhere, and there was still more than half of the box of bamboo gunpowder left, and the people had already scattered.

When the sky was bright, the bandits had already been strung together with ropes by the officers and soldiers, squatting on the pier with pale faces.

Lang Kun was also among them, but Brother Feng was nowhere to be seen.

Soon, some corpses were salvaged from the river, and one of them was Brother Feng.

At this moment, he had already lost his breath, and a big hole had been pierced in his chest. There was still blood on his face, and his face was swollen and swollen due to how much river water had been poured into it.

Chen Xiang walked over among the crowd of his subordinates, casually mentioned a bandit, and asked in a cold voice: "Do you know who we are?"

The bandit was fished out of the water, shivering, and said stammeringly: "I know, I know, Mr. Xiuyiwei."

"Now that you know, you should know what will happen if you fall into the hands of this official. Do you want to survive?"

"Think! Think! Think!" The bandit stopped stuttering.

"Who is the leader?"

The bandits turned their heads and patrolled the crowd back and forth, looking at one person, but their expressions were full of doubts.

Chen Xiang followed him and asked, "Is it him?"

The bandit nodded, then shook his head again.

Chen Xiang sneered and said: "If you dare to amuse me, come here!"

"Sir, spare your life, your lord, spare your life!"

"To be honest, I don't have time to wait for you."

"The young one was a fisherman from Juyeze. The one who summoned the young one was Lang Kun, nicknamed Fei Tiankun. Everyone called him Mr. Lang, but the adults didn't know, Mr. Lang, no, it was Lang. Kun, has a unique skill, no one in the Jianghu has seen his true face."

"That person just now." Chen Xiang glanced at the person the thief was looking at and asked.

"Lang Kun was acquainted with him when he was young. The figure and dress of the man just now resembled him, but his appearance was different."

Chen Xiang waved his hand, and the bandits were taken down.

"Bring that man here."

Lang Kun knew that he would not be able to escape this time when the bandit who killed him looked at him at the first sight, and as expected, Xiu Yiwei walked towards him.

"Your name is Lang Kun?" Chen Xiang asked.

"My lord, the younger one is called He Laizi. He used to beg for a living on Hongze Lake. He heard that someone offered rewards to invite heroes from all walks of life to come to Shandong to do a big business. The younger one came here. That Lang Kun is the younger one." My proprietor." Lang Kun tried his best to behave more naturally, he had been on the pier in his early years, and he knew what the people at the bottom of the rivers and lakes looked like.

Before Chen Xiang could open his mouth, an Xiuyi school captain next to him raised the Xiuchun knife in his hand, and slapped it with the blade.

Click!

Lang Kun's bridge of nose snapped.

"what!"

"Tell him to be quiet!" Chen Xiang waved his hands impatiently.

A school lieutenant drew out the short blade at his waist and pinched Lang Kun's chin, preventing him from closing it. The knife in his hand was about to be inserted into it.

But I heard Chen Xiang say to a subordinate next to him: "I heard that Lang Kun has a son, who is now in the Xishan carbon field, later you can go to Master Jia with my post to ask for him, and send him to the palace to pay respects." Go to the work room, a few days ago, Eunuch Chen in the palace told me that he is short of manpower."

The subordinate Wen Xian knew it, and said with a smile: "I heard that Lang Kun's son is only thirteen years old, and it is a good age to cut off the roots. If he is older, it will be difficult to do it. Don't worry, my lord, the younger one will do it when he goes back. "

In Lang Kun's eyes, the smile of Captain Xiuyi was so ferocious.

These dog legs who deserve to go to hell for a thousand dollars have done their best to make a living by destroying people's families, and they will be punished by heaven sooner or later.

"I am! I am Lang Kun!"

Chen Xiang smiled, waved his hand, and the embroidered school captain who was holding a knife to cut off the opponent's tongue let go of his hand.

"Whether you are Lang Kun or not is not important to me. You are just a gangster. I don't know how many people like you will be crushed to death in a year. Killing you is just a matter of a word from me. "

"Similarly, letting you or your son go is a matter of a word from the official, and it depends on whether you know people or not."

How can it be good if it falls into the hands of Xiu Yiwei?Lang Kun didn't believe Chen Xiang's words at all, but his son...
It's better to die well than to be a eunuch for a lifetime.

"go ahead."

"Where is Baiyang Taoist?"

He came here not to protect Jia Ying, but to track down the remnants of the Sanyang Sect.

Jia Ying scanned the capital and got a lot of useful things. The Embroidery Guards' investigation of the Sanyang Sect has never stopped.

Perhaps Dou Zhang sensed the emperor's disappointment and distrust of him, and was extremely eager to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. Otherwise, once he was dismissed from office, I don't know how many people would step on him.

The Commander of the Embroidered Clothes Guards seems to be in a good position, but very few people may have a good death, unless they can die of old age and take up the post.

Hongyang Daozi failed to assassinate the holy driver, Qingyang Daozi assisted Yang Huang in his rebellion and was defeated and killed. Only Baiyang Daozi's whereabouts are unknown.

This kind of criminal will never be dismissed unless he is caught one day.

It was not Jia Ying's duty to arrest the remnants of the Sanyang Sect. Originally, he wanted to report it to the heavens. Later, when Chen Xiang entered Beijing, Jia Ying sent him the news, in order to repay the kindness that Huguang had concealed for him.

Although Feng Hengshi has an extraordinary relationship with Chen Xiang, a teacher is a teacher and a student is a student.

No one can tell what will happen in the future, if Chen Xiang continues to stay in Nanjing, it will be fine, but now that he is in Beijing, Jia Ying does not want to owe the other party favors.

"Baiyang Taoist?"

Lang Kun wondered, "I don't know this person."

Lang Kun actually already had a guess in his heart, but he was unwilling to hook up with the rebel. He knew Lin Qing, but knowing the identity of the other party was another matter.

The camouflage, or to camouflage.

Although he was disheartened at this moment, if people could live, who would want to die?Give it a try, what if it works?He doesn't care anymore, but his son can live.

"Who is your accomplice?" Chen Xiang asked.

"I call him Lord Qing, and I don't know his real name, I only know that he is a master of hands and eyes."

"Where did your firearms come from?" Chen Xiang asked again.

"It was brought here by one of Lord Qing's subordinates, Brother Feng, and he is dead now."

"Where is the Lord Qing you are talking about now? Think clearly about the answer. You don't have many chances. If it is useless to me, you should know the result." Chen Xiang reminded.

Lang Kun was silent for a moment, then said: "His subordinates said that he is now in Linqing Prefecture, but I don't know where he is."

"I'm telling the truth. As an outsider, it's impossible for them to tell me their hiding place. But I know their stronghold in the capital, and I can take you there."

"Oh, by the way, they have two groups of people coming this time, and the other group is in the dense forest behind the pier, five or six miles north."

Lang Kun said everything he knew.

Chen Xiang winked at the subordinates next to him, and the subordinates left with a group of officers and soldiers.

"What else do you know?"

"Let my son go, as long as he is given a way to survive, he can do whatever he wants, just don't be a eunuch, and leave some incense for my Lang family." Lang Kun grasped the only bargaining chip in his hand.

"You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me."

Chen Xiang's voice was still cold, without any emotion.

"However, if you can help me catch that Lord Qing, I can consider letting him go. Even you have a chance of surviving. I am still very interested in your unique skills. .”

Chen Xiang no longer paid attention to Lang Kun, but said to his subordinates: "Take him and go back to Beijing."

"Also, send another letter to Master Jia."

"My lord, are you not arresting that 'Master Qing'?" the subordinate asked.

"If he was so easy to catch, he would have been caught long ago. With such a big movement here, he might have already run away." Chen Xiang shook his head.

"But it's okay, we're closer to him, aren't we?"

(End of this chapter)