In the early winter morning, Jiyang County, Pingjiang Prefecture on the south bank of the Yangtze River, was shrouded in a layer of light mist, and the grass and wooden houses in Siye were faintly obscured. Leave the Yangtze River, enter the Donglai River waterway from the mouth of the river, more than ten miles to the south is Jiyang Lake, Jiyang County is located on the south bank of the lake, from a distance, the jagged city head and a few mulberry elm trees with only sparse leaves hanging on the branches and leaves are particularly thin in the fog.

The north shore of Jiyang Lake is the station of the water camp in Ninghai Town, half of the camp city and half of the water village, in the alley of the water village, dozens of warships of different sizes are quietly displayed, covered with a layer of hoarfrost, quietly in all directions, except for the occasional few bright rooster crows to pierce the loneliness of the early morning.

The imperial court did not attach much importance to the construction of the strength of the water division, and in the early years of the town army system, the only water division with border defense significance was the Penglai Town Water Army stationed in Dengzhou Capital, and the full strength was only four battalions and 2,000 sergeants. Ninghai Town originally only had infantry, in the past hundred years, the lake bandits and pirates have become increasingly rampant, Ninghai Town only in the Taihu Lake Yang Tianshun Water Village on the basis of the permanent water army, also six battalions. Over the years, the military discipline in various military towns has deteriorated, and the generals in the army have been repeatedly banned from eating empty salaries, and Ninghai Town is no exception, how many soldiers are still in the Sixth Battalion Water Division, and how many of these soldiers are still worthy of fighting, only Xiao Taoyuan, these generals of the Water Division, know in their hearts.

Xiao Taoyuan, deputy cavalry commander of Ninghai Town and commander of the water division of Ninghai Town, usually does not live in the camp city, he has a garden outside Jiyang County, which is also close to the camp city, and he usually lives in the garden.

Late in early winter, Xiao Taoyuan woke up and opened his eyes to see the green light coming in through the window, the fog was very heavy, and the two warm bodies that tossed his bones at night were almost falling apart, and the two warm flesh was slippery like nephrite, pressing his chest on the left and right, and he was sleeping soundly, and his slightly exposed shoulders were as white and tender as snow. Xiao Taoyuan's hand touched the woman's fat big ass on the left hand under the quilt, the woman squirmed in her sleep, the two big lumps of meat on her chest rubbed Xiao Taoyuan's ribs and screamed comfortably, and her slender legs also wrapped Xiao Taoyuan's hairy thighs tighter, Xiao Taoyuan came to be interested, hooked his fingers and squeezed and dug towards the woman's fat buttocks.

In the past month, the towns and cities along the river and the grass market in Pingjiang Prefecture alone have robbed the pirate river bandits four times, and as the general in charge of river defense and coastal defense in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the coastal areas of Pingjiang and Hailing, Xiao Taoyuan also had trouble sleeping. Hearing the sound of horses' hooves like the beat of drums in the early morning, Xiao Taoyuan's sexuality just now was like the first snow poured with hot water, and suddenly disappeared, he turned over and sat up, looking at the window vigilantly and blankly, not knowing what was happening again.

The two beautiful concubines also woke up, poked their heads out of the brocade quilt, and looked at Xiao Taoyuan suspiciously: "What happened?" ”

The people in the outer guard's room were also startled by the sound of horses' hooves, and they heard someone shouting from a distance: "Changshan Island urgent!" ”

What happened on Cheung Son Island? Xiao Taoyuan climbed out of bed, stood barefoot on the bed pedal, and ordered, "Quickly bring your clothes." ”

The two concubines saw Xiao Taoyuan's grim expression, they didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got out of bed to help him get the robe, they were naked and snow-white, and they didn't care about the cold, so they waited for Xiao Taoyuan to get dressed first.

Xiao Tao couldn't wait for the placket to be tied, so he went to the outer room in an open robe, and the two concubines dressed and dressed calmly. Everyone outside spoke in a suppressed voice, and after a while, they only saw a "clang" sound, I don't know who smashed the teacup on the brick floor and smashed it, the two concubines were startled, and their eyebrows were crooked, and then they heard Xiao Taoyuan so gloomy that people only shuddered in their hearts: "I can't see anyone in life, I can't see a corpse in death - which military situation are you investigating?" They all eat! Check it out for me, which pirate took the person away, and Chongzhou sent someone to keep an eye on it...... No, I'm not at ease with the others, Baiming, you go over in person, and the Ruize camp will bring you over, just say that you will strengthen the patrol along the river in Chongzhou...... What does he need to appoint at this time? When encountering a situation, kill it when you need to, don't hesitate to go to sea...... I know this in my heart, and I won't pay attention to anyone's summons at this time! I'll go back to the barracks. Qianhu, you go to the city to take Changze and Changhui to the barracks, and the others don't pay attention to it first! The two concubines looked at each other, thinking to themselves, who annoyed the master, and the next days will be difficult again! When he was stunned, the room was suddenly pushed open, Xiao Yuanyuan strode in, went to get the saber on the desk, and saw that the concubine sitting on the dressing table was looking at him in a panic, hesitated for a while, and said, "You guys quickly clean up, don't pay attention to those useless things...... Come with me to the barracks!"

These two women were originally prostitutes in Pingjiang Mansion, and they ransomed themselves as concubines for Xiao Taoyuan, not to be tolerated by Xiao Taoyuan's wife Xiao Chen, Xiao Taoyuan bought a garden outside Jiyang County and near the military camp to house them, which itself has violated military discipline, not to mention bringing the concubine directly into the military camp?

The two concubines were even more stunned when they heard Xiao Taoyuan's words: What happened, Xiao Taoyuan actually took his two sons and them to the barracks and prepared to run away?

Xiao Tao couldn't take care of the feelings of the two women, and he was also panicked. He robbed the meat ticket a month ago, in addition to coveting 30,000 taels of ransom silver, he also wanted to take the opportunity to secretly support his pirate power on Changshan Island. Where did you think that this plan would only lay the first chess piece and suffer such a setback? The fifteen elites and the thirty-one meat tickets sent to Changshan Island in advance disappeared from Changshan Island without a trace. If the matter leaks out, no matter which one of them is, it will be a catastrophe of killing and exterminating the clan, so how can Xiao Taoyuan not be frightened in his heart!

Xiao Taoyuan's first thought when he heard the news was to go to sea immediately, how far to escape, to calm down and think about it carefully, there was really not much chance of winning if he went to sea in such a hurry. In a hurry, Xiao Taoyuan was not confident at all that how many soldiers of the water battalion would go to sea with him as bandits, and could he pull out half of the people? Xiao Tao is also hanging when he thinks about it! Even if you can pull away half of the water camp and have nothing to prepare, how can you gain a foothold on the sea? The most important thing is that the luxury family and the imperial court have already negotiated the conditions for splitting the land and sealing the marquis, and the resentment between Ninghai Zhenshui Ying and the East Pirates is also deep, and neither the luxury family nor the East Pirates will allow him to gain a foothold in the East China Sea.

Be calm at this time! He is not the only one who has been bold and reckless in these years, Xiao Taoyuan is the only one. Although he Xiao Taoyuan did a bit too much this time, those generals who killed good people and risked merit, stole themselves, and harassed the place may not be able to be clean! Xiao Taoyuan thought to himself: The imperial court is only afraid and does not want to have another change in the southeast, and it is not known for the time being which force those people on Changshan Island have been robbed, and it is not possible that those merchants and rich people in Chongzhou have organized their own people to rescue them, maybe things will take a turn for the better, just make all preparations for the time being, and it would be too unwise to rush into the facts without thinking about anything!

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Starting from Qingjiangpu in Huai'an, Lin Jian and Zhou Pu first hired a carriage by land to send Su Mei, Xiaoman and the fourth lady Feng Peipei to the outside of Jiangning City. Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe and others first went to Xinpu County to pick up the injured Liumakou, and they had not yet gone south.

As Lin Jian expected in advance, the people of Changshan Island went to the island, Xiao Taoyuan did not take risks and rashly go to sea as a thief, but sent his cronies, Chen Baiming, the captain of the water camp in Ninghai Town, to lead the crowd to Chongzhou to inspect the situation, and the families of Chen Enze, Hu Qiaoguan and other meat ticket boys were indeed under the strict surveillance of the water camp in Ninghai Town. The water camp of Ninghai Town borrowed the river defense and coastal defense, and the warships poured into the Yangtze River waterway in front of Chongzhou County.

The young Chen Enze couldn't go back to his home, so he stood on the bow of the boat and burst into tears. Zhou Pu secretly sighed, for the young man who was still happy in front of his family before the tenth month, the encounter in the tenth month was very difficult, and now he has a home that he can't go back to, and he can't recognize his relatives, and he doesn't know how long it will last.

Looking at the turbid river and the sail shadow of the warship at the end of the sky, Lin Jian sighed in his heart: A dynasty has internal and external troubles to this extent, it can be regarded as a dull twilight! But in any case, this Yuan dynasty has lasted for more than two hundred years, and the imperial system has not collapsed, and the inherent inertia will push the huge empire forward, and Lin Jian does not know when this empire will drag on before it suddenly collapses.

Lin Jian thought that he borrowed the corpse to resurrect his soul and store it in this era, and he couldn't see the direction of the future clearly for a while.

"Let's go back to Dongyang first!" Lin Jian said, "I haven't been back these days, so it's inevitable that I'm a little strange. ”

"If you're a stranger to Dongyang, what should we do?" Zhou Pu said with a smile, he only joked with Lin Lian. He couldn't imagine that Lin Jian was just a nerd who stayed at home ten months ago, and he couldn't imagine borrowing a corpse to return his soul.