Soil erosion is the cause of the most severe natural disasters in the northwest, rain can not be saved, fertile soil can not be accumulated, but also will cause landslides and mudslides, once drought, a short period of time will not be able to dry, such a place, in fact, is not very suitable for human habitation, but should relocate the people, plant shrubs and dwarf trees, maintain water and soil, and slowly recover their vitality.

Such a thing will be difficult to do in the future, let alone the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Liang Xing rode his horse over, pointed to a section of the mountain range on Zhang Han's right hand, and said in a deep voice: "Owner, that is the stockade of the Zhou brothers, less than ten miles away from here. ”

Zhang Han followed his gesture to look over, only vaguely saw a few villages built by the mountains, and there was no trace of people, this way, there were a lot of pedestrians on the official road, and there were also some people passing by in a carriage, seeing Zhang Han A group of people, they were all looking at it with curiosity, and many people recognized it as He Yusheng's dart master, most of the people walking back and forth on this road were businessmen, and people who didn't know and Yusheng were alive and dead, but they were also strange, why did the dart master dispatch so much today, but he didn't see the escort vehicle.

Zhang Han looked at the misty mountain range and muttered, "Can Zhou Wu and Zhou Bin come out?" ”

Liang Xing didn't have any bottom in his heart, and subconsciously replied: "We said in the morning that we would escort the proprietor to Zhangjiakou, and we also passed the word through Liu Dequan's people, just a little way apart, the Zhou brothers have always been worried about dealing with the proprietor, and they won't be without action." ”

Wang Changfu rushed over at this time, heard Liang Xing's words, nodded and said: "The proprietor, it is estimated that they will wait at the front of Fangjiatai, where the official roads are undulating, the mountains are crossed, there are no homes on both sides, and it is far away from the military fort, even if the officers and soldiers come out, they can't catch up, as long as these two brothers are not stupid to get home, they will definitely wait there." ”

Zhang Han was in high spirits when he heard this, to be honest, he led people to fight a lot in the group, and he was not afraid, today's matter is equivalent to a war, and he is very unfamiliar with the affairs of the army battle array, and his heart is relatively bottomless.

There may be people who can fight if they cross over, and Zhang Han feels that he is far from that piece of material.

"So what do we do?"

Wang Changfu glared and said: "It's still the same method as before, a few of us are in front, you can't look at people on the mountains around you, people can look at you, there are few of us, he dares to come out to set up an ambush, if he sees a lot of us from a distance, he may not dare to come over, then he wants to lead them out again, but it will take a lot of effort." ”

"Okay," Zhang Han gritted his teeth and said, "Just listen to you and move on." ”

Wang Changfu grinned and continued to return to the queue.

The nearly thirty people in front, half of them were from Lahu, half of them were from porters, most of them were from Liang Xing's subordinates, and those from porters were under the management of Wang Changfu, and the first seventy or so people were porters accounted for more than seventy percent, and Lahu only accounted for less than thirty percent, and Yang Qiu led people to the back.

Two groups of people, separated by several miles, galloped fast, but two quarters of an hour's work was enough.

If Zhou Wu's sentinels hadn't received enough military training, this trick would have been enough to coax them over.

……

Moving forward in time, not long after getting the news that Zhang Han was going to Zhangjiakou, Ning Yicheng sat in front of the window of his study and hurriedly wrote a short message.

He knew that although Zhou Wu and Zhou Bin were literate, their writing and ink were limited, and there could be no characters such as masters and staff in the bandit village, so this letter was written briefly and straightforwardly, just telling Zhou Wu that Zhang Han had decided to take people out, and there were not many of them, and they looked cautious, which was not surprising.

After writing the letter, Ning Yicheng handed it to a confidant family member and instructed: "Send it to Zhou Wu of Daliang Mountain immediately, ride a fast horse, don't spare the horsepower, be sure to deliver it in the shortest possible time." ”

After the family left, Ning Yicheng thought for a while, asked someone to bring the official robe, he was going to see Lai Tongxin, and at the same time he asked someone to inform Li Mingda to meet in the general's mansion together.

……

"Shi Zhai, this really makes me embarrassed."

Lai Tongxin and Ning Yicheng and Li Mingda sat opposite each other, in the past half a year, Lai Shenjiang has obviously gained some more fortune, his stomach is a little shy, and he is a little wheezing when he sits still, looking at the two people opposite, Lai Tongxin said: "Zhang Han's relationship is Deputy Envoy Zheng, and he is about to become Zheng Bingbei, if this matter is really big, how will Ben explain it?" If you don't do it well, it will be the end of losing your official position and resigning. ”

It doesn't matter if Lai Tongxin killed more than a dozen people, it has nothing to do with the grassroots of Houhou and Taiwan, it doesn't matter if he ordered Zhang Han's line last year, even if Zhang Han's whole family hangs him, it still doesn't matter, everything comes according to the rules, and no one can accuse him of anything.

But now Zhang Han is no longer at the bottom, he has the relationship between the military preparation road and the chief military officer, and this year he also took the path of Xuanda and the two governors of the three sides, and he also has a friendship with the general army of Shanxi, and the two super generals have something to do with Zhang Han, such a person is no longer something he can handle at will.

Besides, Zhang Han has a variety of bonuses every month, and Lai Tongxin is happy to guard this God of Wealth, so how can he let people hurt him?

Ning Yicheng owes himself, his eyes are full of gloom, his interests are deeply connected with the Fan family, the Fan family has suffered losses one after another for a while, and even the benefits of Ning Yicheng are much less, this is just a trivial matter, and it is the most important thing to affect Fan Yongdou's layout in the future.

"My lord, Zhang Han's back and scenery are nothing more than his silver, as soon as he finishes, his business can be followed by the Fan family, which is nothing more than setting up a branch account bureau, hiring a dart master, and the capital of the Fan family is more trusted, and now Fan is waiting for such an opportunity to make a move. As soon as Zhang Han is finished, all the business Fan family will take down, and the important thing is that Zhang Han must not stay, even if he asks for help, we can't send troops...... Shopkeeper Li, it's up to you to make it clear to the generals. ”

Li Mingda's expression was a little nervous, he had been out of breath in the shadow of Zhang Han and He Yusheng recently, and the grain and various transactions were robbed by He Yusheng, and even Fan Yongdou had nothing to do, not to mention that he was a semicolon shopkeeper.

"Lord Lai, the proprietor of my family said that in the future, smuggling will make at least hundreds of thousands of profits every year, although it is necessary to make a point in various places, and the capital will be a lot, but here, my lord will get at least 10,000 yuan every year, and more than 20,000 or 30,000, the proprietor of my family knows that the general can get a few thousand silver every year in He Yusheng, and he asks your Excellency to rest assured, my Fan family will definitely be at least a few times more than Yusheng."

Fan Yongdou is really bloody this time, and the most important thing is to reconcile with Yusheng and Zhang Han.

Now Zhang Han has seriously affected the layout of Fan Yongdou, in Datong, the Fan family has been suppressed, Xinpingbao is the base camp of Heyusheng, up and down, Wen's martial arts, are all pressed by Heyusheng, Fan Yongdou's head is incomparable.

The most serious thing is that Zhang Han has already shown interest in Zhangjiakou, if Xuanfu East Road and West Road, plus Jizhen Liaodong is also opened up by this young proprietor, the layout of the Fan family in the past few decades will be in vain, and the future smuggling industry will appear as a strong enemy in vain, which Fan Yongdou will never be able to bear.

Lai Tongxin, the general and Yusheng's biggest help in Xinpingbao, this time the bandits were dispatched to intercept Zhang Han, if Lai Tongxin's elite family did not come to the rescue, the success rate of this matter would be greatly increased, in order to settle and Yusheng, Fan Yongdou also really invested heavily in it. A branch of the general, spend 10,000 or 20,000 silver a year to buy, this price is actually enough to buy five or six generals.

"So that the silver that Ben will give up in his hand, waiting for the silver promised by your Fan family?" Lai Tongxin hesitated for a moment or was still moved, but he was still dissatisfied in his mouth, he lazily called a personal soldier captain, and ordered: "Pull out all the cavalry of Jiading, Zhenning, Zhenkou, Zhenmen, walk from Wayaokou Fort, and patrol along each fort and come back." ”

"Yes, sir."

The captain of the pro-soldier said yes and turned to leave.

Yanghe Road Xinping Road has jurisdiction over many military forts, each fort has garrisons, and the most and most elite must be Lai Tongxin, the general and his family, Lai Tongxin has more than 200 Ding, in addition to his own martial arts and warriors accumulated over the years, there is also the force inherited by the family, these families are where he sits in the position of the general, the ordinary thousands of northern prisoners, it is enough for these hundreds of Dings to dispatch, these families go, and the location is to the west, even if he receives the warning of He Yusheng, Lai Tongxin sent battalions to fight on foot at most, and when they arrived, the daylilies were cold.

In this way, although it is not a blatant refusal to send troops and horses, the effect of the Fan family's request is also sufficient, and it is also a knife to cut tofu on both sides, and even He Yusheng did not offend to death, Lai Tongxin, the general, looked as stupid as a fat pig, in fact, his heart was clear, no wonder he could meet the source on both sides of the Fan family and the Zhang family, and infinitely magnify his benefits.

Li Mingda sighed in his heart, knowing that achieving such a point was the final result, he immediately got up and arched his hand, and said with a faint smile: "The villain is the proprietor of my family, thank you to the general." ”

Ning Yicheng also got up, and after Li Mingda and Lai Tongxin said a few words, he quietly said to Li Mingda: "You can rest assured that Zhang Han's kid is just the relationship between Lai Zu, his father Yu Yin and Puzhou, and he did something by luck, and his subordinates didn't obey him, so we could easily buy it and leak his secrets, which still shows that his foundation is unstable and he is lucky to be a villain." My generation has been plotting to do big things, and I have been secretly planning with the proprietor of your Fan family for many years, how can I do a big thing because of this villain! ”