279 Second Spring Festival

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With Li Zixiao's establishment of checkpoints on the canal, although it caused countless merchants to protest, Li Zixiao only charged 'protection money' to those large merchant ships.

The other small merchant ships were all spared, and Li Zixiao did not charge much silver per ship, so a few taels of silver was really a small amount of money for these merchant ships.

But in this case, those big merchant ships still refused to come out, and did not hesitate to block the canal to make trouble, and were directly suppressed by Zhou Dazhu with troops.

Seeing that several large merchant ships were seized by Li Zixiao, those merchant ship bosses were not as arrogant as before, and their attitudes softened, wanting the White Dragon Army to release their merchant ships.

However, at this time, Zhou Dazhu had no intention of letting go of the first batch of people who took the lead in making trouble.

He just wants to kill chickens and monkeys once, otherwise how to deter the people behind him.

No matter how those businessmen cried and called their fathers and mothers, Zhou Dazhu was unmoved.

In the end, those businessmen did not hesitate to threaten, but they were beaten up and beaten away by Zhou Dazhu.

With this experience, all the merchant ships that came later obediently handed over a sum of silver, and then they were able to pass through the canal, which was regarded as spending money to avoid disaster.

However, not all merchant ships are like this, but all the fleets of Yangzhou Wanjia and Jinling Lu were all intercepted on the canal by Zhou Dazhu with the soldiers of the 'Pioneer Battalion'.

At the beginning, the people of the Wan family and the Lu family planned to resist, but Zhou Dazhu was furious and led people to attack the ship and killed many crew members of the two families.

In the face of the bloody butcher's knife, those crew members also obediently obeyed, and in just three days, Zhou Dazhu intercepted five large merchant ships of 10,000 families and six merchant ships of the Lu family on this section of the canal in Xuzhou.

The White Dragon Army was on the canal in this area of Xuzhou, and the news of the actions of the Wan and Lu families soon spread, so that the other merchant ships that came behind did not dare to continue north.

The two families of Yangzhou Wanjia and Jinling Lu Family, after learning the news, knew that this was Li Zixiao's outbreak against them, and they didn't expect Li Zixiao to take revenge on them in this way

Before, the two families were fortunate that one of them was in Yangzhou and the other was in Jinling, and they were far away from Li Zixiao.

Even if Li Zixiao has soldiers and horses in his hands, he can't pose a threat to them, obviously they are happy early.

In the face of Li Zixiao's hand, the first to soften was Wanjia, who contacted Chen Hu and asked him to be a lobbyist and go to Yongcheng White Snake Village with a batch of generous gifts.

Now that the Wanjia family has taken refuge in King De, Chen Hu has to help, because Li Zixiao's retaliatory move has also affected their illegal salt trafficking.

So, Chen Hu hurriedly went north to find Li Zixiao, and only saw Li Zixiao five days later.

In the face of Chen Hu's plea, Li Zixiao still had to sell face, and in the end he promised to forgive Wan Jia's last attack on him in Yangzhou.

But it is inevitable to blackmail fiercely, which Chen Hu and Wan have long thought of, and they are ready to hemorrhage.

It's just that to Chen Hu's surprise, this time Li Zixiao did not extort money like them, but asked them to search for a group of craftsmen who had worked in the Imperial Court Firearms Manufacturing Bureau for him in the Jiangnan area, at least fifty people.

With the energy of Wanjia in Yangzhou, it is not difficult to do this, Chen Hu readily agreed.

As for the Jinling Lu family, Li Zixiao didn't plan to let it go so easily.

Lu Yuanqing successively sent people to Li Zixiao to propose to exchange Zhao Zilong for his cousin Lu Yuantong, but Li Zixiao was not in a hurry, and slowly consumed it, and it was a month.

In this month, there were eight ships in the northward fleet of the Jinling Lu family, which were detained on the canal by Zhou Dazhu and others, and there were no more merchant ships that dared to go north.

This month alone is enough for the Lu family to lose tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the Lu family is rich and wealthy, and they can't withstand such consumption.

And because of the delay in the delivery of goods, some of their old customers in the north are very dissatisfied, causing them to lose a large number of customers.

In the end, the Lu family was finally willing to bow their heads and sent someone to negotiate with Li Zixiao.

Half a month later, Li Zixiao ordered someone to release the eight detained merchant ships, which also meant that the negotiations between him and the Lu family were completed.

The Lu family exchanged Zhao Zilong for Lu Yuantong, and paid Li Zixiao 80,000 taels of silver as compensation.

Zhao Zilong was taken back to the White Snake Village of the White Dragon Army by the White Dragon Army with the glory of 'hero'.

If it weren't for the fact that in the end, the Lu family jumped over the wall in a bit of a hurry, trying to endanger Zhao Zilong's life, Li Zixiao would still be consuming them.

Not long after Li Zixiao returned to White Snake Village, the Guan family sent someone to send Guan Mingxi as well.

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At this time, the time has also entered the end of the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, and there are only a few days before the New Year.

In the past year, the strength of the White Dragon Army has grown rapidly, and the people in the territory have established more towns and villages under the management of Qian Guangyuan, and the population has skyrocketed, but there has been no famine.

By the time of the Chinese New Year's Eve, General Li Zixiao summoned all the generals of the White Dragon Army outside to prepare to celebrate this second New Year that he had crossed over.

And Li Zixiao returned to the White Snake Village, sent a large number of people, purchased dozens of fat pigs from other places, slaughtered them, and sent a little to the nearby people, each family.

Let them see the meat in this New Year's Festival, although this move is obviously suspected of buying people's hearts, but it is very effective.

All the ordinary people who received the pork had tears in their eyes, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the subordinates of the White Dragon Army again and again, thanking Dade to the extreme.

And after finishing this matter, it was already the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.

This New Year, there will be no more trouble for the officers and soldiers to come to them, Li Zixiao ordered the cottage to be everywhere, leaving only a small number of personnel on duty.

The rest of the people can have a hearty drink, eat a lot of good wine and meat, and celebrate the second Spring Festival that their White Dragon Army has passed since it became an army.

Now that they follow Li Zixiao, they have a place to live, food to eat, even wine to drink, and meat to eat, how can they not be full of emotion!

The soldiers of the White Dragon Army, holding wine bowls one by one, toasted Li Zixiao, who came to eat with them, to express their gratitude to Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao drank a little lightly, and smiled at these subordinates: "The big guy has been following me Li for a long time and a short time, but I, Li, also know it in my heart.

The reason why our White Dragon Army can have this day is actually inseparable from the efforts of the brothers.

If it weren't for the big guys twisted into a rope, how could there be the White Dragon Army today, this first bowl of wine, I would like to give it to those brothers who died on the battlefield for our White Dragon Army!

Let them also be under the Nine Springs, knowing that we people have not forgotten them! ”

After saying that, Li Zixiao raised his hand and spilled the bowl of wine on the ground, and then someone hurried over and poured another bowl of wine for Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao held the wine bowl, and then said to everyone: "This second bowl of wine, I will drink it first, and at the same time, I invite all brothers to drink this cup together."

I also wish that next year, our White Dragon Army will leap into the dragon gate, go one step further, and everyone will do it together. ”

After saying that, Li Zixiao picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in a thunderous cheer.

At the same time, in the back camp, in a small hall, there was a table of simple wine and food.

Guan Mingxi sat silently at the table, looking up at the door from time to time, waiting for Li Zixiao's return.

And Qiao Shi was sitting on the main seat, Lin Yuluo was pinching Qiao's shoulder, and from time to time he would glance at Guan Mingxi to figure out her psychology.

Lin Yuluo felt a strong sense of crisis about Guan Mingxi's appearance, at least Guan Mingxi had a reputation with Li Li Zixiao.

Even if Guan Mingxi is just Li Zixiao's concubine, she is much stronger than her, who has not even decided on the status of a concubine.

However, because Lin Yuluo has been serving Qiao's during this time, he has won Qiao's favor.

With Li Zixiao's respect for Qiao's family, Lin Yuluo's position as the main mother in the future is not daring to think, but like Guan Mingxi, the identity of a concubine should not be able to escape.

Guan Mingxi is also a smart person, of course he also wants this, so the two of them have gotten along quite well during this time.

For tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve, a family banquet was also proposed by Qiao's family.

Lin Yuluo smiled at Guan Mingxi and said, "Sister must be hungry."

Sister don't blame our general, the general is now in a hurry, it is rare to come back, and today is the thirtieth year of Chinese New Year's Eve.

With the general's temperament, he must still focus on his brothers, and he can only come back after greeting each other with his brothers.

So please Sister Guan don't be angry, wait a little longer, the general will definitely come back. ”

"Sister, don't mind, I'm not hungry at this time, it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer."

"The general is a person who does great things, my sister is just one of his maids, I can sit here and wait for the general to come back, it is already my sister's luck, how dare I complain about the general!"

Lin Yuluo replied obediently.

"As Xiao'er's woman, you have to think more about him, it's not easy for Xiao'er to support such a family business by herself, and ah, you two have to hurry up and let me hold my grandson."

Qiao Shi on the side said with a smile, which made Lin Yuluo and Guan Mingxi blush.

At that moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and as soon as the door opened, a cool breeze blew into the room.

Guan Mingxi and Lin Yuluo both knew that Li Zixiao was back, so Guan Mingxi quickly stood up and hurried to welcome Li Zixiao's arrival with Lin Yuluo.

Li Zixiao shook the cloak on his body to protect against the cold, Lin Yuluo quickly took it, took off the cloak for Li Zixiao, and hung it on the wall.

Li Zixiao saw that the two girls got along quite well, and he also smiled, he didn't want his harem to catch fire at this time, and it was not time for the fire to start.

"Mother, I've kept you waiting."

Li Zixiao walked up to Qiao Shi and said respectfully.

"Okay, sit down, let's have a good meal together as a family tonight."

Qiao's is very satisfied with her current life, especially when she sees that Li Zixiao is not only not dead, but also a general, and a large group of people under his command are under his control, and she is also proud to have such a son.

At this shield dinner, Li Zixiao and Qiao's ate very happily, which was also the first year that Li Zixiao knew that Qiao's was his biological mother.

Even, after the meal, Li Zixiao was ridiculous once, and hugged Guan Mingxi and Lin Yuluo into his room.

Li Zixiao also responded to his mother's request to him to hug his grandson as soon as possible.

This night is destined to be a night of passion.

After dawn, Li Zixiao had a rare lazy sleep, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he was the only one left in the bed.

And the traces of last night's madness are still on the bed, and there is still the leisurely body fragrance on the two little beauties in the quilt, which can't help but make Li Zixiao's heart flutter again.

Recalling last night's lewdness, Li Zixiao couldn't help but smile bitterly.

If you don't remind yourself from time to time, you really have the potential to become a faint monarch in the future.

It's no wonder that faint kings abound in history, it's really this kind of comfort, and the enjoyment of beauties is too ecstatic.

Lying hard in the quilt and stretching his body, Li Zixiao lifted the quilt and turned over and sat up.

Hearing the sound of Li Zixiao getting up, Lin Yuluo and Guan Mingxi, who had already gotten up, hurriedly walked into the bedroom, took a change of new clothes for Li Zixiao, and dressed Li Zixiao.

During this period, Li Zixiao was also indispensable to the two women, but the two of them did not have any opinions on this.

Just thinking back to Li Zixiao's madness last night, it really made the two girls a little ashamed, and they blushed all the time, not daring to look at Li Zixiao.

After a long period of busyness, Li Zixiao finally wore it neatly, along with his scale armor.

Although last night was a little ridiculous/excessive, Li Zixiao's spirit is still very full.

It is no wonder that yin and yang should be harmonized, sometimes people can't be too busy all the time, and a proper rest is also an excellent adjustment for the body and spirit.

Although this is the first day of the Lunar New Year, it should be a period of family gathering and rest, even the poorest people have to get together for a year.

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Jack Louis is really not very comfortable these days, and when the White Dragon Army arrived here, he began to work non-stop and was assigned to work.

Li Zixiao was entangled in affairs, and he forgot about him for a while.

For him, his status in the White Dragon Army is very embarrassing, and he is neither a prisoner nor a meat ticket.

But the White Dragon Army couldn't let him go, so they could only throw him into the baggage barracks and let a team general in the baggage barracks watch him.

This team will see that this guy is also tall and big, and he has a large amount of food, so it's a pity to provide him with white food like this.

He was simply sent to the stable, where he was given fodder for the cattle, and the guy in the province ate and drank for nothing.

So poor Jack became a glorious groom of the White Dragon Army, and began a life of forage for more than a month.

Every day at dawn, he would be called up by the white dragon sergeant, go to the stable and start crushing the hay, and live in the stable, and work like this for more than a month.

But this guy Jack is also a person who is happy with what happens, although the days of feeding the horses every day are very monotonous, but this guy also knows how to take pleasure in suffering.

Jack is just a talker, curious about everything, and can talk to anyone for a long time, but most of the White Dragon soldiers can't understand what he is saying.

But in the past month or so, his Chinese level has improved by leaps and bounds, and he is much more fluent than before.

And this guy is well-informed, can speak well, and can drink, and secretly drank several white dragon soldiers at one time, and was punished the next day.

For the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year, Jack doesn't have much feeling, after all, he is a Westerner.

But he still likes the White Dragon Army for the New Year, because during the New Year, they all have meat to eat, but this guy is very happy.

A big bowl of pork stewed vermicelli, this guy ate it in one go, and then licked the bottom of the bowl again.

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