Chapter 125 Clearing the Water Bandits Song Yingxing came to visit

These bandit leaders knew that Li Jing was making fun of them, and now they hoped that the ship would sink, and you wouldn't be able to take it if we couldn't get the silver. How did they know that this boat was Fan Chengkun and them yesterday, sent divers down to the water, dug a big hole in advance, and plugged it with a wooden stopper. Just as Mu Yi's boat was close to the boat, another diver went down into the water and opened the wooden stopper. It's just that the water didn't go too fast, and the people on the boat didn't notice it. By the time they found out, it was too late. After Fan Chengkun and the others finished the battle to annihilate the water bandits, the first thing they did was to send people down to plug the loopholes. The silver in the cabin is not afraid of flooding, and it will be fine if the water in the warehouse is struck.

Li Jing didn't care about the silver now, he was more concerned about who asked them to kidnap Xiao Hongyu.

Li Jing asked the big leader, who had been shot in the leg, to the cabin of the warship, made him kneel on the ground and asked, "How did you come up with the idea of going to kidnap our people?" ”

"We just want to get some money." The leader still wants to fool the past. Li Jing knew that it was impossible for them to get such accurate information and rob Xiao Hongyu and them. Li Jing did not hesitate, took out a pistol and shot him again with a "snap" in his other leg.

The leader shouted "Wow Wow", sweating profusely, and shouted, "It's really for the silver!" ”

Li Jing thought that she was really hard, so she didn't speak. He pointed a gun at the man's stomach and said, "I'll do it again, you won't die right away, it will hurt." ”

"Don't! I say, I say. This man knew that he could not be fooled.

Li Jing said: "Don't! I just started admiring you, you better be a hero! ”

"I was wrong, I said!"

"It was a man named Wang Zhi who hired us to kidnap this little red jade. The information was all provided by them, and we only sent people and ships, and they promised to give us 300,000 taels of silver after the matter was completed. The chief said, "Later, our second boss felt that they had given less money, so he asked you for a million, and we did not expect you to agree." Heroes spare their lives! ”

"I'm going to ask the others about it, and if there's anything else to hide, I'll shoot you in the stomach. All right? Li Jing said.

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The leader was so frightened that he said, "Ah, there is! This was the same person a while ago, who hired us to kill Zhang Dongjia in the kiln gang, and said that he would give us 500,000 taels of silver after the deed was completed. We didn't say yes. ”

"That's right, what is this Wang Zhi doing?" Li Jing asked, "Where can we find this person?" ”

"Wang Zhi is now in our village, and many of the tickets we tied up in the past were ransomed through him. I know he's from Huai'an, but I don't know anything else. ”

"Oh well! You take us back to your cottage. I'm going to meet this Wang Zhi, and if it's really like you say, maybe I'll spare you from death. After Li Jing finished speaking, she shouted: "Come on, wrap his wounds." ”

Li Jing came to the deck of the ship and said to Li Mao and Fan Chengkun: "The person who hired them to kidnap is called Wang Zhi, a native of Huai'an. This man is now in their stockade. This person also hired them to kill Mr. Zhang. These people didn't dare to do it. ”

Li Mao said: "Great, it seems that if you catch this Wang Zhi, the truth will be revealed." I'm going to their cottage. ”

"There are more than 1,000 people in their cottage, we have to prepare well." Li Jing said, "Several leaders of their cottage are here with us, and we will take them directly to their lair." When you go to the cottage, there are those who are not satisfied and should be killed. ”

"There are 500 people from Wuluo Island, there are more than 100 marines, and Li Jing has 30 people, and it is rich to deal with 1,800 water bandits." Li Mao said.

Fan Chengkun commanded the warship and sailed directly towards the largest island of the bandits. There were several leaders of the cottage leading the way, and it was easy to open the gate of the village, and the people of the kiln gang took over the gate and took the water bandits guarding the village. Li Jing asked the owner of the big village whose legs were broken and carried up: "Where is Wang Zhi?" ”

"In the guest room." The owner replied.

Li Jing immediately led someone to the guest room and asked the water bandit in the guest room, "Where is Wang Zhi?" ”

The bandits said, "A few of them, they heard the sound of artillery outside. They all went out by boat, saying that they were going to help the big bosses. It's been a long time. ”

Li Jing came back and asked the owner of the big village again, and the big village said: "They are not willing to come out to help us in the battle, because they heard the sound of cannons and led people to run away." ”

Li Jing stomped her feet in anger when she heard this. Ordered the leader of the bandits, summoned the bandits to assemble, and then disarmed and imprisoned them separately.

There are still two islands of the water bandits in this cottage, and Li Jing brought people to take them over, and then imprisoned the water bandits on this big island.

Li Mao said: "We all occupy these islands. Let's go back and send a letter to Mr. Zhang first. Let him take care of these things together. ”

Fan Chengkun immediately sent the speedboat back.

Li Mao and the others interrogated these leaders again, but they did not ask for any other information about Wang Zhi. They just said that when something happened, it was this king who came straight to contact them.

Li Jing said very depressedly: "It will be difficult to catch Wang Zhi again." ”

After careful checking according to the list of cottages, more than 500 water bandits were killed on Hongze Lake this time. Now there are more than 900 bandits in the cottage, but many of them have local families. There is also a distinguishing sign on the brochure of the cottage. Because these local water bandits usually farm and fish at home, they can be water bandits when they go out, and they don't delay.

Li Jing and Fan Chengkun are too experienced in dealing with bandits, so they still let them report and expose each other, and distinguish those who have murdered and those who have raped women. After being exposed, several leaders and many big and small leaders in this cottage had blood debts and had also raped women. There were more than 200 water bandits with blood debts, and more than 300 women were raped.

After Li Jing and the others screened it, she said to those water bandits who wanted to live: "Give you a chance to live, these blood debts and those who have raped women will be executed, and if you are willing to carry them to death, please stand up and kill one, and you can live." ”

As a result, these bandits are willing to kill and live.

From the next day, there was a queue to kill. Li Mao felt that this was not good, and said, "Li Jing, are we waiting for Mr. Zhang and them to come." ”

Li Jing smiled and said: "Li Gongzi, slowly you will get used to it, we Yaogang people dealt with bandits at the beginning of such a rule. To those bandits who stayed, if we don't let them say it, do we dare to keep them? Besides, don't let Mr. Zhang see such dirty work. We'll do it for them! ”

It took a whole day to kill more than 500 people and wait in line.

Li Mao didn't care about the murder, he followed the housekeeper of the cottage and seized the silver and grain depots on the cottage. This cottage was not too wealthy, and only 30,000 taels of silver and 13,000 copper coins were seized. Five hundred taels of gold. However, there is a lot of food, 50,000 stones.

The whole cottage is also very well built, and the main large island has a complete city wall fortification. It's an easy place to defend and hard to attack.

After Li Mao sealed the entire cottage treasury and silver treasury, he handed them all over to Li Jing and said, "Now I must rush back to Yangzhou immediately, Mr. Zhang is there." After I went back and discussed the affairs of Yangzhou, I suggested that Mr. Zhang and them go back to Yaogang from here. ”

"Good! I'll stay here, clean up this bandit again, and keep what I can. Li Jing said.

"Although the matter of Little Hongyu is a troublesome matter, it also gives us a chance to develop our strength here. This is closer to Yangzhou than Wuluo Island, and if something happens, troops can be sent to support it quickly. After Li Mao finished speaking, Fan Chengkun sent a warship to escort more than a dozen leaders on the cottage and send Li Mao back together.

Zhang Zhimu and others, who were worried, returned to the Yangzhou branch after Li Mao and Li Jing left Yangzhou.

In fact, everyone doesn't say it, everyone knows that what Zhang Zhimu is worried about is that it is too dangerous for a girl like Xiao Hongyu to fall into the hands of water bandits. Zhang Zhimu blamed himself very much in his heart, Xiao Hongyu was no longer a small drama in the small drama team back then. He was so careless that he didn't take safety measures against her.

waited until Li Jing and they sent someone to send back the letter to say that Xiao Hongyu and they were safe and sound, and they were all rescued. Zhang Zhimu, they were relieved. When he returned to Yangzhou this time, Li Jing was not there, and Yang Jing really followed Zhang Zhimu step by step, for fear that something would happen to him again.

Hearing that Xiao Hongyu and they were back, Zhang Zhimu ran to the dock with Yan Boju, Lu Chengxiang, Lu Bingyi and others. Zhang Zhimu's imagination that the scene where Xiao Hongyu would cry bitterly did not appear. He saw that Little Ruby and the others were directing people to carry their luggage down.

When Xiao Hongyu saw Zhang Zhimu and them coming, she shouted happily: "Mr. Zhang, we are back!" ”

Xiao Hongyu's expression was very excited, and she couldn't tell that she had been kidnapped by the bandits, but that she had returned from a long trip. This made Zhang Zhimu feel an indescribable feeling in his heart, "You guys scared us to death." These days, we have saved a lot of food. Zhang Zhimu also tried hard to keep his emotions up to the beat of Xiao Hongyu.

"Are you worried about me?" Xiao Hongyu deliberately made a joke with Zhang Zhimu in front of the big guy.

"I'm worried! You are all like my relatives. They are also the treasures of our kiln. After speaking, Zhang Zhimu took Liu Banzhu's hand and said, "It's all my fault that I'm still careless." I thought that no one would dare to embarrass our kiln people. Frightened you. ”

"Mr. Zhang, except for the fact that I was worried about Xiao Hongyu's problems at the beginning, I really wasn't afraid of them. I know that as long as we don't die, you will save us. Xiao Hongyu kept saying, don't be afraid, Mr. Zhang, they will definitely save us. Mr. Zhang rest assured, these bandits really didn't dare to embarrass us, they all served us with delicious food and drink. They didn't dare to touch Xiao Hongyu. When Liu saw Zhang Zhimu, he looked even more excited than Xiao Hongyu.

"Mr. Zhang, you don't have to worry about me. Yulin gave me the trick to protect myself, but it really doesn't work, I will break it myself and will not be humiliated. "When Xiao Hongyu said this, it was like talking about someone else. Said lightly.

Yan Boju, who usually doesn't want to joke, said: "Zhimu, this incident is a great luck in misfortune. You should have a treat and a good drink. I'm a real glutton, and I've been burned out these days. ”

Yan Boju's suggestion was supported by everyone on the dock. Zhang Zhimu instructed, "Tonight, add food and vegetables to all employees." Let's find a better restaurant to surprise everyone. ”

Zhang Zhimu was most worried that something would not happen, that is, he was worried that Xiao Hongyu would be humiliated; The second worry is that Xiao Hongyu and a woman will suffer this catastrophe, which will leave a shadow psychologically, and it seems that the problem is not big.

At the banquet in the evening, Xiao Hongyu, who had gone through this ordeal, was even more bold, and frequently toasted Zhang Zhimu. There was no Yang Yulin present here, and Xiao Hongyu had no scruples. The people at the table knew Xiao Hongyu's awareness of Zhang Zhimu. Everyone knows that sooner or later Zhang Zhimu will have an unstoppable day. The biggest problem now is that I can't pass the level of Huang Yukun and Yang Yulin.

In his previous life, Zhang Zhimu was tested for a long time, and these things can be said to be handled freely, but now his identity is different, and the era he lives in is also different, so he must pay attention to his image and influence.

Lu Chengxiang has been happy again these days, and when he saw Zhang Zhimu, he couldn't close his happy mouth, "Mr. Zhang, this Yangzhou shopping mall is really too filmable." Many of the things we shipped were sold out. It's a shame that the counter is empty, and the trader is most afraid of it. It's like planting the land unevenly. ”

"Isn't it good to sell out? Shame on you? Zhang Zhimu also knew that Lu Chengxiang said this on purpose.

"If you sell the counter short, it means that your shopkeeper is unqualified, you don't know the market, and there are fewer goods. Let the proprietor earn less money. It's a shame. Lu Chengxiang explained.

"It seems that the disgrace of the shopkeeper Lu Da has been thrown home." Zhang Zhimu also joked.

"It looks like our boat is going to run back and forth, and it can't stop. I have told the branch staff that some goods can only be retailed and not wholesaled. When our ship arrives, we will wholesale. Lu Chengxiang talked about business and had a feeling of enjoyment.

Zhang Zhimu really didn't want to hear it, so he said: "I don't know what kind of people we recruited in Yangzhou?" ”

Before Lu Chengxiang could speak, Lu Bingyi hurriedly came in and said, "Mr. Zhang, the person you have always wanted to see will be here tomorrow." ”

"Someone I've always wanted to meet?" Zhang Zhimu didn't understand.

"Someone brought me a letter today, saying that Song Yingxing would come to Yangzhou to see me tomorrow. Let me wait for him at home anyway. Lu Bingyi said.

"Is that the author of "Heavenly Creations"?" Zhang Zhimu's eyes also lit up.

"Yes, that's him. When I came back to Huai'an this time, I visited an old friend. He told me that when Song Yingxing heard that I had gone to Shanxi Yaogang, he was envious to death, and praised him a lot, and told him that he would definitely find a way to inform him when he saw me come back. I didn't expect him to actually bring the letter. Song Yingxing was afraid that I wouldn't be able to see me when I left, so he specially sent someone over first and told me. Song Yingxing is now the prefect of Bozhou. ”

"Great. Mr. Lu, you should have a good talk with him first. Let's talk about our situation with him. Then arrange for me to meet him. If possible, I'd like to invite him to the kiln. In this case, we can ask him to be the principal of our kiln gang college, and at the same time be responsible for the technical guidance of various industries. The most important thing is to combine the things he introduced in "Heavenly Creation" with our current technology, so that there can be a big development. To be honest, he went to our kiln and had too many things to learn. Zhang Zhimu said.

"That's what I mean. If he was able to go, he could use his influence to recruit all kinds of skilled craftsmen in various places. That's something I can't compare. Lu Bingyi said.

"If this person arrives at the kiln, you can also save a lot of worry." Zhang Zhimu said.

"Yes, yes. This time, I brought all my brothers who didn't go to the kiln last time and stayed at home. When we came back this time, they knew the difference between those who went to the kiln and came back from them, and they also knew that the little things they were fiddling with at home were what the children of the kiln gang learned in class. Lu Bingyi said: "This time, there are hundreds of disciples and their children that I brought back. It is said that Li Mao recruited a lot of talents, and many students went to Yaogang to take the examination. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I heard that many people from other places have come to the branch to sign up. It is estimated that there will be thousands of people who will go back to the kiln. ”

"The accommodation, food, and transportation of these people must be well arranged. But don't be wronged by everyone, since you want to go to the kiln, then you are your own person. Zhang Zhimu said.

After Li Mao came back, he told him the whole situation of how to exchange money for the water bandit cottage, and Zhang Zhimu said: "Great. We have been blessed with a curse. I think we'll send another regiment over and set up a foothold in Hongze Lake. It just so happened that the regimental commander we were about to send to Wuluo Island was with Li Jing and them. It's better to change it and let this regiment of their be stationed here. Now they are familiar with the situation. These bandit leaders were handed over to the prefect of Yangzhou, and he could also ask the imperial court for credit. We send another favor. ”

Yan Boju said: "I think it's okay, that kid is also our original veteran. He is also familiar with our way, and he is still clever. ”

"Look, Li Gongzi has something else going on here. After the arrangement, I wanted to take a look at Hongze Lake, and where to go to Wuluo Island to see. Zhang Zhimu said.

"We have recruited more than 1,000 students and students who are going to take the kiln exam. In addition, the people brought back by Lu Qi and Mr. Ouyang, Mr. Lu's disciples, there are almost more than 2,000 people, and there are also people from Quanzhou. I have arranged them all in Yangzhou and Huai'an. Just wait for our ship to slowly move back. My order is that those who want to take the test will go first. We can't delay them to take the exam, and the others are to arrange for people from other places to go first, and finally arrange for our local ones in Yangzhou. Li Mao said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "This is very good, after we go back this time, we will add a lot of strength." We are also much better off in the external environment now. When we meet Mr. Song Yingxing, we will leave. ”

Li Mao went out after reporting on the affairs of Hongze Lake, and Zhang Zhimu knew that Yangzhou had a lot of things waiting for him. But after a while, Li Mao came back and said, "Mr. Zhang, good news." Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, after picking up the 10,000 war horses we sent, left 20,000 more. Zuo Liangyu's men came back and said they needed 20,000 horses. In this way, Yangzhou sold 50,000 war horses. Kaifeng has already sold 10,000 horses, and then sent us 10,000 more horses to Yangzhou, and we will sell them slowly. I guess Tongguan must be sold less. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Great, otherwise, these horses will die if they eat every day." I see that this piece of the horse's heart disease will be fine. ”

"To be honest, trained war horses have always been in high demand. It's just that we seized too much at once. Li Mao said, "Otherwise, they will have to beg us to help them buy war horses." ”

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Five-line scores, oscillating circuits, caesarean sections. Guo Shoujing made alloy cannons, and Guan Hanqing created "Journey to the West". --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".