A knife in love

Chapter 2565
After listening to Xu Yingyang's words, Li Qiufeng thought to himself, although old thief Shi is not a loyal and chivalrous man, he is not a coward either, otherwise he would not be able to roam outside the pass for many years.If those guys from Beisi didn't use some vicious methods, how could old thief Shi confess so easily?Most likely it was because they revealed their identities as Jin Yiwei, and then displayed the instruments of torture, which frightened old thief Shi out of his wits, so he had to confess honestly.When Xu Yingyang caught Shi Gandang, in order to cut off Liu Shengliang's wings, and also to deter the robbers in the green forest, nine times out of ten he was ready to kill, no matter whether the old thief confessed or not, he would surely die.This kind of prompt and decisive heart is far inferior to Xu Yingyang's.Old thief Shi is cunning and despicable, and he has harmed countless people. To end up like this today is also a bad retribution, and he is not worthy of pity.

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, he suddenly heard a "squeak". He was startled, turned his head to look, and saw that the gate of the palace had been pushed open, and then a group of Jinyi guards came out in a file. Carrying a wooden box, a total of eight boxes were lifted out of the yard.Seeing Xu Yingyang and Li Qiufeng standing in front of the Wang's house, the Jinyi Guards hurriedly put the wooden box on the ground and stood respectfully with their hands down.The leading guard in Jin Yi walked quickly to Xu Yingyang, bowed his hands and saluted, and said: "I will see the Governor of the Fushi. I have ordered the Lord of the Zhenfu and Yu Baihu to take away the gold hidden in the house. All the silver and jewels have been found, and there are eight big boxes in full, please tell the Governor how to deal with these boxes."

Xu Yingyang nodded, thought for a moment, and then said to the leader of Jinyiwei: "Choose a few reliable brothers and send the two boxes back to the magistrate's yamen. There is a very secret place behind the right wing of the yamen's middle courtyard." The underground stone room is where the former county magistrate hid gold and silver. I have sent four people including Mu Zongqi to guard the stone room. You send the two boxes into the stone room and tell Mu Zongqi to guard it carefully. After the battle here is over, It is used as reward silver to reward brothers."

After hearing what Xu Yingyang had said, the leader of Jinyiwei hastily bowed his hands and agreed, with an unconcealable joy on his face.Xu Yingyang waved his hand, and the leader of Jinyiwei bowed and took three steps back, then turned around and walked back quickly, picked four Jinyiwei, each carried a box, and walked straight to Zhuangkou.

Xu Yingyang then turned his head to Li Qiufeng and said with a smile: "Master Li has been serving in Nansi for many years, and he knows that brothers hang their heads on their waists to contribute to the imperial court. But with only a few taels of silver in salary every month, life is too rough It’s poor. If you don’t give them some money, I’m afraid they won’t even be able to support their wives and children.”

Li Qiufeng cupped his hands and said: "Master Xu, you don't need to say too much. Li knows that Master Xu is for the sake of the brothers, not because he wants to embezzle the money for himself."

Xu Yingyang smiled slightly, and said in his mouth: "It would be a fool to say that Xu has no selfish intentions. Xu went from a small banner to the Fusi Township of Beizhen, all relying on the efforts of his brothers. Xu If XX doesn't give some benefits to the brothers, I'm afraid no one will do things for XX in the future."

When he said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "A few days ago when Xu was living in the royal residence, he accidentally found a lot of gold, silver and jewels buried under the study. Private wealth. The old thief Liusheng has been able to call the wind and rain outside the pass all these years and drive the green forest thieves to work for him. Let's use it to buy the green forest bandits and let them help us deal with the Japanese pirates. Master Li, you might as well show the head of this old thief Shi Gandang in front of these green forest thieves and tell them that Baoyang Village has been wiped out. Shi Gandang and Wu All the way is the backbone of the group of robbers in the green forest. Once these two guys die, the group of robbers must be terrified and will no longer think about serving Liu Shengliang. Master Li will put these six boxes of gold, silver and jewels in front of the group of robbers. The most important thing these green forest thieves value is money. Using these gold, silver and jewels as bait, we can’t help but they will not work for us. With the help of a few thousand or so green forest thieves, we have a new force in our hands, and we have a lot more to deal with Japanese pirates Very sure."

After hearing what Xu Yingyang had said, Li Qiufeng thought to himself that Xu Yingyang's arrival at Wangjiazhuang was definitely not as simple as he just said.I'm afraid that when he rushed back to the magistrate's office to discuss matters with him this morning, he had such a plan.Xu Yingyang's purpose in coming to Wangjiazhuang was to subdue the bandits in the green forest by means of coercion and lure.It's just that he didn't want to leave a clue, so as not to be said to be in collusion with the green forest thieves, so he asked me to come forward to deal with the green forest thieves.This man's city is extremely deep, he is worthy of being an old official who has been in the officialdom for many years.

When Li Qiufeng was thinking, Xu Yingyang continued to say: "If Master Li can subdue these green forest thieves, he can lead them to the Wangjiazhuang. When Liu Shengliang brings people into the village, first put this little thief together with the others Then they took Wangjiazhuang as a fortress and kept an eye on Dashuigou. Xu led the Jinyiwei back to the county and became horns with Wangjiazhuang. I have selected 180 brothers. The people selected [-] strong and strong men, and they are going to burn the boat in the Dashuigou with something to light the fire. If you see the fire, please lead a group of bandits to rob and kill the Japanese pirates who survived the fire on both sides of the Dashuigou."

After hearing what Xu Yingyang had said, Li Qiufeng cupped his hands and said, "Li will take the order. It's just that we burned the warships of the vanguard of the Fusang army, so we may not be able to defeat them. If the Japanese pirates go ashore and fight us despite their defeat, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist."

Xu Yingyang nodded, and said in his mouth: "If we talk about fighting alone or between gangs in the rivers and lakes, with the help of Master Li, we are naturally not afraid. But fighting with a large army is not what you and I are good at. Qi Jiu is from a military family , grew up in the Dengzhou Guards since he was a child, and he has some knowledge about using soldiers. But after all, he has never led soldiers to fight, it is nothing more than talking about soldiers on paper. If you think that he can lead more than a thousand righteous people to defeat Japanese pirates, it is a dream. Even worse than Zhao Kuo."

When Xu Yingyang said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "Fortunately, we have worked hard in Dongliao County, not to defeat the Fusang army, but to find a way to drag them to Dongliao County. The last moment was delayed by the next moment, so that the imperial court could be on guard and thwart the conspiracy of the Fusang army to attack the capital. Therefore, Xu believes that what we fear most is not that the Fusang army will attack us, but that they simply ignore the Eastern Liao army. The county town and Wangjiazhuang only sent a small group of soldiers to stare at us. After the main army replenished food, grass and armaments, they went straight to Tianjin Wei. We have to make a big show to lure the Fusang army to come to besiege. If we can severely damage the Fusang army Pioneers, the commander of the Fusang army will value us and mobilize heavy troops to attack Dongliao County and Wangjiazhuang."

(End of this chapter)