"Oh?" The man with a big chin froze, "You mean there's movement over there in Yulin Town?" Where did the news come from? ”

"A brother who doesn't accept the night came back from Gou Chi through Sanshan Pass, and found that the troops on Yansui's side seem to have increased a lot compared to half a year ago, and they are all elite ,......" Noticing that his brother's face changed slightly, Brother Chang asked suspiciously: "What's the matter, brother?" ”

"It's nothing, I didn't expect that there would be a troop transfer on the edge of Yansui Town (Yulin Town)." The man with the big chin looked at him calmly, as if he was thinking about something, "I'm afraid I won't be able to live this year,......"

"But if there is a little way, we will not be like this, but the chief soldier is penniless, only saying that the military department and the Governor's Mansion of the five armies have not been allocated, what can I do?" The thin man stood up and rubbed the sheathed long knife, "If we go on like this, sooner or later we will become the swords of the soldiers below." ”

If you can't mention the soldiers below to get enough food, then the soldiers below will not work for you, and under the intensification of conflicts, it is common for the officers below to use you as a scapegoat to take the blame.

In what year did these three sides and four towns not have a few mutinies of various sizes? The small ones were three or five, and the big ones were hundreds, but in recent years, because the Tatars outside the northern border wall and the border trade market inside the border wall were relatively stable, and the Tatars were also stable inside, so even the mutiny failed to cause a big incident.

"And what are you going to do?" The man with the big chin had a deep gaze, and his tone seemed to be a little cold.

"Big brother, if you don't do it endlessly, just like Wenxiu said, just go to the brothers of the Yi family, first borrow 20,000 taels of silver to appease the brothers below, and then find a way to pay it back slowly in the future." The shirtless man finally couldn't hold it anymore, and said angrily: "If the brothers of the Bi family are interested, then we are still brothers, if we are not interested, then the brothers have nothing to do." ”

"Hmph, if it's all like you, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get out of someone's yard." The thin man said contemptuously: "As long as you say that you go to find someone, how can the brothers of the Bi family not take precautions?" Do you think their family's thousands of gray-headed troops are vegetarians? ”

"Even if the brothers of the Bi family are willing to help, it is impossible to give you 20,000 taels of silver, 10,000 taels is the top of the sky, but so many brothers, one person and one tael of silver is not enough, how long can he be appeased?" The man with the big chin said leisurely: "Unless we can completely wash the Bi family in blood,......"

"Big brother, the Bi family is not so easy to get, Bi Bai eyeliner is all over the city, most of our troops are outside the city, but there are a thousand people in the Cangtou army who have been stationed in the city, and I don't know how the chief soldier can tolerate it? Isn't it the original rule that the Cangtou army cannot enter the city with more than five hundred people? The thin man's face became more and more grim, "I'm afraid that our soldiers haven't entered the city yet, and our heads can be hung on the city wall." ”

"Yes, the Bi family's troops are not weaker than ours, and they have more cavalry, if they are outside the city, I am afraid that we will suffer even more." The open-chested man obviously didn't agree with the man's suggestion either, "And even if we want to do it, will the chief soldier agree?" I am afraid that a hat that destroys the stability of the frontier and attracts the invasion of the Tatars in the Hetao will be fastened on our heads. ”

"It doesn't work this way, it doesn't work like that? Then who can conjure up silver for us? The man with the big chin spread his hands calmly, "Then you can only endure it yourself, and tell your brothers to endure it again." ”

"I'm afraid not, big brother, then we won't be able to play, Wenxiu, what about you?" The open-chested man shook his head again and again, "I can't do it here, if I drag it out any longer, maybe one day my head will be in the hands of the brothers below." ”

"Who is not the same, the few people below me would have been complaining a long time ago, if it weren't for the fact that I still have some prestige on weekdays, I would have made a fuss a long time ago, but this time I'm afraid I can't hold it back." The thin man Tu Wenxiu also said calmly: "Big brother, you have always had an idea, if you have anything to say, our brothers will listen to you, go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot, and the head will fall off that is, the bowl will have a big scar, and after eighteen years, he is a good man again, you can say something, I and Zichao will do it for you." ”

"Really?" The man with the big chin raised the big chin of Aomori slightly, and his eyes flickered.

Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu exchanged glances, and they both became solemn, "Big brother, what kind of character are our brothers, you still don't know?" How to do it, you just have to say. ”

"Good!" The man with the big chin rubbed his big chin vigorously and grinned: "Instead of going to fight the idea of the Bi family, let's not do it endlessly, fight Shi Guangjue's idea, I heard that he has made enough money in the past two years, and he wants to return to Beijing after turning over the New Year, in the cellar, to say the least, there are two hundred thousand taels of silver, and the one surnamed Jin from Shanxi alone gave him 30,000 taels before the end of the year!" ”

"Huh?!" Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao jumped up in shock, how long has this surnamed Shi been the chief soldier, and he actually made so much silver? And that's not even counting the ones that have already been sent away.

"Don't you believe it?" The man with the big chin smiled proudly and said: "This is the news revealed to me by the Tatars, the Jin family sold thousands of iron pots to the Hetao side in October last year, nominally iron pots, but what it is, God knows." ”

Tuwenxiu and Xu Chao were shaken, the iron pot imported into the grassland according to the current regulations is to be registered one by one, and the number of mutual markets is controlled every year, which often imports thousands of iron pots into the grassland, which is obviously not in line with common sense, if there is anything else, there is only one word, that is, the enemy.

"Did you do it?" Xu Chao, the open-chested man, couldn't help but ask.

"Hmph, how capable is the Bi family? The forts at this inter-city checkpoint are all the cronies of the chief soldier, and the Bi family still dares to forcibly break through the customs and deliver the goods? The man with the big chin smiled contemptuously, "These adults from the Beijing Division, where can they manage this, they just want to be the chief soldier for a few years to make a sum of money and leave, but like the general soldier Shi, I am afraid that the wall of Ningxia Town should be collapsed by him." ”

"Big brother, you said that it is not difficult to do Shi Guangjue, he is only that little bit of personal soldiers, even if he is fierce, just one hundred and ten people, we will consume all the lives of people, but what should we do after we do it?" Tu Wenxiu is much calmer: "Go out of the plug to take refuge in Su Nang or Bu Shitu?" Or run west? ”

It should be the safest move to go out of the plug and go to the Hetao, but now that Pull Lik is dead, the third lady is bedridden, Su Nang Taiji and Bu Shitu are facing each other, and both sides are pulling together all forces.

There are also a lot of Han people on the Hetao, especially since I answered the tribute, and handed over the leaders of the Bansheng White Lotus Sect, Li Zixin and Zhao Quan, to the Great Zhou, which also triggered a backlash from the White Lotus Sect on the Bansheng side, and a large number of White Lotus Cultists ran from the Bansheng side to the Hetao to reclaim the wasteland, and even many of them have become small and powerful characters, that is, the Tatars have to win them over.

Running to the west is also a road, but it is a little difficult, Gansu Town is not much better than Ningxia Town, as long as it attacks, it can make the large and small pine mountains of Guyuan Town completely erosive, entrenched in the large and small pine mountains can be attacked and retreated, and can be defended, if the Tatars in the north are united, it may not become a semi-independent kingdom.

"Why run?" The face of the man with the big chin suddenly turned cold, "How much strength does Da Zhou have left in the three sides and four towns now?" Hmph, if you don't allocate food and salary for a few years, the sergeant has long complained, except for Feng Tang in Yulin Town, who dared to ruthlessly confiscate a large household with an iron fist to barely fool the people below, and can he still hold it down, what about the other towns? Guyuan Town has long been a non-existent town, and Gansu Town is worse than our Ningxia Town, but the Mughal people who have caught up with the Achitu Department and the west have not been energetic in the past few years. The Achi Rabbit Department has long been eyeing each other, but Su Nang Taiji and Bu Shitu have always been unclear, so they don't dare to act. ”

The Achi Rabbit Department is the Tatars who were originally entrenched in the Big and Small Song Mountains, but they were expelled from the Big and Small Song Mountains more than ten years ago, and now they are guarded by Zhuang Langwei of Gansu Town and Jingyu Wei of Guyuan Town, and the Great Wall has also been renovated in the north.

Tu Wenxiu laughed, and his eyes narrowed, "Big brother, don't you have a relationship with Ah Chitu?" I said, why is Chitu so honest in the past two years? In previous years, I still had to come over from time to time to harass me, but last year, I didn't even see a shadow. ”

Xu Chao also understood, and laughed fiercely, "Big brother, where is the Bi family?" Why are you hiding it from our brothers, I said why has the eldest brother been standing still for the past few months, and he is confident, you are hiding us so tightly. ”

The man with the big chin, that is, the eldest brother in the mouths of Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao, Liu Dongyang, the deputy chief soldier of Ningxia Town, also laughed, "Do you think I am willing?" If it weren't for the fact that everyone couldn't get along, who would want to take this step? If you take a wrong step, you will die, do I dare to say it casually? ”

Xu Chao and Tu Wenxiu are both silent, if they are not forced to do so, who is willing to take this step? Stepping out, there is no way back, except for a pole to the end, it is a dead end.

After a long time, Xu Chaocai sighed: "Big brother, let's do it, what can I do if I don't do it?" Unless the imperial court immediately changes a general soldier, otherwise, if we don't starve to death, we will be chopped alive by the people below, what can we do? ”

"Big brother, what did the Bi family say?" Tu Wenxiu thought farther than Xu Chao, if the Yi family also joined, then this big drama may not really be a dead end.

"There should be no problem on the Bi family's side, they are also unbearable by Shi Guangjue's appetite." Liu Dongyang said indifferently: "Before the festival, Bi Bai took Bi Chengen, Bi Chengzhong, and Bi Yun to visit Shi Guangjue, and gave 5,000 taels of silver, Shi Guangjue made it clear that he would leave next year, and change to a general soldier, I was afraid that he would not be so good at talking, and Bi Bai probably felt that their good days were not long over, so he ......"

"Hmph, his good life won't last long, and we won't be able to live at all,...... Xu Chao said hatefully: "Mr. Shi really will favor one over the other." ”

"That's a good thing, too, otherwise how could we have come together?" Liu Dongyang said coldly: "Ah Chitu's side, I have already contacted it, we will take Jingtai and Songshan Fort first, and then the big and small Songshan will be handed over to them, and we only need Weifan Town, Liangzhou Wei and Yongchangwei to completely destroy the Gansu Town,......"

Tu Wenxiu and Xu Chao were both taken aback, "Big brother, you mean we go west?" Didn't you say we weren't leaving? ”

"If you don't smash the Gansu guards, are you waiting for the imperial court to attack from both sides?" Liu Dongyang's face was hideous, "Do you still expect to be good at this time?" Wenxiu, Xu Chao, let me tell you, together in this matter, either we will die and the clan will be wiped out, or the two towns of Gansu and Ningxia will never belong to the Great Zhou, only then will we live! There is no second way! ”