Daming talker

Chapter 134 Immediately Wushan First Peak
Among the hundreds of people from the three halls and four families on the main wharf of Xujiang in Mudu Town, the most striking person is Yang Zhen, the head of the alliance of the three halls.

There was a strip of white cloth tied to Leader Yang's forehead, and there were four large characters written on the front that read "Blood Debt and Blood Repayment".

And beside Chief Leader Yang, there is a fine coffin, and inside the coffin is his late wife He Shi.

Three days ago, Leader Yang carried the coffin to the county government to accuse Lin Tailai of his evil deeds, which caused a sensation!
But today, facing a strong enemy, he carried the coffin to fight again, all he wanted was for the underdogs to win!
Although Chief Yang's appearance was a bit ridiculous, no one dared to laugh.

Because this coffin is the "righteousness" of their black and white coalition forces in Mudu Town, and it is so-called famous for its successors.

Wu Yingsong, the head of the Wu family, represented the four families of Wu, Xu, Shen and Yan in this town, and said to Yang Zhen:
"When it comes to fighting in the rivers and lakes, we are all inferior to you! Now I entrust you with the power to command the three halls and four families, so don't disappoint the villagers!"

In fact, Yang Zhen didn't quite understand why Lin Tailai committed such a crime, calling him regardless of his evil name.

When a normal person encounters this kind of thing, shouldn't he find a way to solve the case first, and then care about other things after clearing his grievances?
But things have developed to this point, and when he meets the crazy Lin Tailai, he, Chief Yang, has no choice but to fight.

Just after encouraging each other here, the sent outpost came back to report:
"I saw nearly twenty ships appearing on the river to the east, one after the other. The first ship was guided by a big flag. It must be the Eastern Army!"

Leader Yang immediately ordered: "At the intersection of Heiyubang, Xiashatang, etc., divide up [-] troops to take care of each other!

The rest of the soldiers and horses are still at the main wharf of Xujiang River, waiting for the enemy in formation! "

The leaders of the teams selected in advance shouted together: "The righteousness lies with me, and the Western Army will surely win!"

Earlier, someone from Mudu Town also proposed to board a boat and intercept the Eastern Army in the river, but it was rejected by Yang Zhen.

Because it is very difficult to take advantage of one's own number of people in a water battle on board, and it is more difficult to command if there are more people.

It is still easier to take advantage of the large number of people to defend on the shore.

Anyway, as long as the Eastern Army came to attack Mudu Town, they would definitely land and disembark, not afraid that the opponent would not disembark.

At this time, Lin Tailai's large boat gradually approached the main pier on the north bank, and the crowd on the pier was clearly visible.

At this time, on the Shenwei Lieshui, there was no other noise except for the music of the pipa and the wind from the river.

The main reason is that others don't know what Lin Tailai wants to do, and there is no way to make some suggestions.

Lin Tailai took the map and compared it carefully, then looked at the main pier on the north bank for a while, and finally gave an order:

"All the boats are heading to the south bank, find the river beach to park and disembark!"

To be honest, no one can understand this order.

The main town that needs to be attacked is on the north bank, the main force of the Western Army is also on the north bank, and the south bank is full of paddy field villages, so what's the point of landing on the south bank?
But this kind of security order that can avoid the superior enemy is still very fast for everyone to execute.

In a place like Suzhou where water transportation is well developed, there are river beaches everywhere on the river where ships can dock.

Not long after, all the Eastern Army led by Lin Tailai disembarked.

Originally, there were some idlers on the bank watching the excitement, but when they saw the Eastern Army landing here inexplicably, they immediately dispersed.

Next to the landing site, there is a small village living along the river, and it looks like there are twenty or thirty families.

Lin Tailai took the lead, and more than 200 people armed with sticks of various colors walked towards the small village aggressively.

The children playing at the entrance of the village were so frightened that they ran away in all directions, just wanting to go home and find their mother.

Only an old man in his 60s with a stick stood alone at the entrance of the village and asked, "What are you strong people doing!"

Lin Tailai didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "What is the old man's name?"

The old man leaning on the stick scolded: "You thieves invaded my border, and you still don't know what my surname is? Of course my surname is Wu!"

"Oh!" Lin Tailai glanced at the map again, "Since the surname is Wu, it's correct!"

Then he threw the map to the guardian beside him, stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the old man with the stick, and shouted:

"Old man! I advise you to be sensible and call out all the people in your village, or I will send you to Xujiang to take a bath!"

"Bah!" said the old man with the cane upright and unyielding: "Is the little old man greedy for life and afraid of death? If you have the courage, you can rob your house in broad daylight!"

Lin Tailai threw the old man to the ground, and ordered his subordinates: "Tie it to a tree by the river for public display!"

Then he ordered: "Catch me all the people from the first family at the entrance of the village!"

The subordinates looked at each other in blank dismay, what the hell are you doing here today?The main force of the Western Army is in the town on the other side, but not in the village here!

They are all club thugs, not thugs, breaking into houses and robbing houses is a bit over the line.

But the order to sit in the hall cannot be violated. In a blink of an eye, the first family members at the entrance of the village were all pushed out by the thugs.

There is a farmer, a wife and a son, a typical small family of three.

Lin Tailai said unceremoniously to the farmer: "I am sitting in the Anle Hall, Lin Tailai, today I am destined to borrow something from you!"

The farmer's expression suddenly changed, he protected his wife, and shouted in panic:
"Dare the adulterer! If you want to commit adultery, kill me first!"

Lin Tailai: "."

The brothers of the Zhang family couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out and scolded: "What kind of eyes do we sit in the hall, how can we see such a rough appearance of your wife!"

Lin Tailai angrily threw two ingots of silver at the farmer's feet, and then ordered his subordinates: "Burn it for me! Burn his house!"

The farmer picked up two ingots of silver and took a few bites to make it seem real.

He couldn't help but fell into confusion again, which song is this singing?
So in this small village, mostly surnamed Wu, the first house at the entrance of the village burned.

I don't know if cow dung was added or what, the fire was raging, and the smoke rose, and even the other side could see the fire here.

At this time, dozens of angry men rushed out of the village!

If they were able to close their doors tightly just now, it would be impossible now.

These foreign thieves have started to set fire to the village, who can keep it at home?

There is no other way but to rush out and die.

But only anger is useless. The dozens of men holding farm tools are obviously not the opponents of more than 200 thugs plus one Lin Tailai.

"Continue to burn! Burn a few more!" Lin Zuoguan yelled frantically while throwing money!

At this moment, the main force of the Western Army in Bei'an Town looked at the other side, stunned.

They saw respectable old people tied to trees, raging fires in peaceful villages, and innocent villagers being brutally beaten.

These Dongjun people are not members of the society, they are simply bandits and bandits, what they have done is outrageous!
With such a lack of bottom line, aren't you afraid of the law of the king, aren't you afraid of thunder and lightning!

"No! No! No!" Feng Wu Yingsong, head of the Wu family, one of the four major families in Mudu Town, rushed to the riverside and howled towards the opposite bank.

Because the small village on the opposite side is the settlement of a branch of their Wu family!
Unexpectedly, the Eastern Army completely ignored the rules, broke through the bottom line, and directly started burning and killing ordinary villages.

Wu Yingsong turned his head, and eagerly called out to Yang Zhen, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Western Army: "Hurry up and send people across the river!"

Yang Zhen judged calmly and said: "This is the strategy of the Eastern Army to divert the tiger away from the mountain, so don't act rashly!"

Wu Yingsong pointed to the opposite bank and asked, "Should I just sit on the sidelines and watch?"

Yang Zhen replied: "The township is on the north bank, so can the Eastern Army be able to overthrow the south bank?

The more the Eastern Army died on the south bank, the more guilty they would be!We must be stable and cannot be transferred easily! "

"Poke your mother! Dare to feel that the other side is not your clansman!" Wu Yingsong was originally one of the main managers of the big Wu family, and his status was only higher than the leader of the society, so he scolded back directly in a hurry.

Their Wu family was more than 100 years ago, but there was Wu Kuan, the number one scholar in the Ministry of Rites!
Then Wu Yingsong shouted: "All of our Wu family come out and follow me across the river!"

As the head of a big family, if Wu Yingsong just watched a large number of his clansmen fall into the fire and ignored him, what face would he have to show others?
Immediately, 60 to [-] people came out and approached Wu Yingsong.

Yang Zhen hurriedly persuaded: "Master Wu, calm down! What can you do with fifty or sixty people passing by! There are more than 200 people in the Eastern Army on the opposite side!"

Wu Yingsong looked at the fire on the opposite side, and shouted again: "Who is willing to help my Wu family cross the river and save my fellow clansmen!"

The head of the Yan family, one of the four major families, stood up, "Our Yan family is willing to help!"

The two together can pull away more than 100 people.

As the commander-in-chief of the Western Army, Yang Zhen became impatient, and stopped Wu Yingsong: "Master Wu, don't act indiscriminately! We must unify orders, and we cannot fight on our own!"

Wu Yingsong replied, "That's good! All of us will dispatch and cross the river to attack the Eastern Army!"

Yang Zhen insisted: "This is the township, and it's the place we must defend! How can we mess ourselves up for the sake of some villages on the other side!"

However, Wu Yingsong's statement that the whole army crossed the river has aroused a lot of echoes.

More than 200 people from the Eastern Army are on the south bank, can they still fly over?What's the point of staying on the North Shore?
Seeing the Eastern Army burning, killing and looting on the other side, I can't justify staying on my side!

As long as you cross the river, relying on the strength of your numbers, won't you be able to defeat the Eastern Army?
Yang Zhen saw that the army was so motivated, so he could only shout: "The Eastern Army must have treacherous schemes!"

Wu Yingsong refused to listen, and took the people on board to cross the river.

Three small boats suddenly appeared on the river, blocking the pier.

On the two boats next to each other, the yamen servants held tall signs with words such as "Wuxian Zuotang" and "in charge of money and food".

On the boat in the middle, there is an official wearing a black hat.

The boats are very small, and it seems that just a little collision can cause an accident of capsizing and falling into the water.

So everyone on the shore immediately recognized it. The official on the small boat in the middle must be Guo Xiancheng, who is in charge of food!
Guo Xiancheng shouted at the Western Army on the north bank: "Don't fight!"

Everyone in the Western Army: "."

This county magistrate, did you come here to show off your cuteness?

Guo Xiancheng persuaded again: "I have worked so hard to come here just to persuade you to make peace!

You both east and west drink from the same river, peace is the most important thing! "

Everyone in the Western Army doesn't want to hear these nonsense, why don't you, Guo Xiancheng, tell the Eastern Army?

But the problem now is that if a large number of boats are dispatched together, and the county magistrate's boat blocks the river, it will easily be overturned by the collision.

The crime of blatantly killing an official is tantamount to rebellion!For no reason, no one wants to be the first bird and take this risk.

Wu Yingsong shouted from the shore: "The boat is not a place to talk! I will prepare a little tea, and I will invite Mr. Guo to go ashore and talk!"

Guo Xiancheng sat down on the boat and replied: "This official respects himself for being clean and honest, and I don't want to use the people's fat and people's anointing without authorization!"

Then he took out another handful of rice balls and continued, "So don't bother entertaining me! I will eat here!"

Everyone in the Western Army: "."

If they can't be dispatched to cross the river together, they can only bypass the county magistrate's boats one by one and then cross the river, and then get off the boat one by one. Wouldn't that be broken up into parts and delivered to the Eastern Army on the other side in turn?
Little did he know that Guo Xiancheng was also yelling in his heart, Lin Tailai arranged for him, what kind of broken script did he step on the horse!

Let an official like himself use his own safety as a bargaining chip to block the river in person. I don't know which heartless person can come up with the plot!
Also, what a shameful and broken line!
Wu Yingsong was very anxious, and saluted Guo Xiancheng: "If Mr. Guo really came here to persuade peace, why don't you go to persuade the other side!"

After finally waiting for this sentence, Guo Xiancheng hurriedly put down the hard-to-eat rice balls and responded:

"Maybe you bring ten people, do you dare to cross the river to meet Lin Tailai?
I, Guo, will guarantee your safety with my official position, and if the negotiation fails, I will send you back to the North Shore! "

Wu Yingsong gritted his teeth and said, "Why don't you dare!"

Others can "watch the fire from the other side", but he, the head of the Wu family, can't do it!Because the fire on the other side belongs to the Wu family!

Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the Western Army, was worried that he would fall into the trap and was unwilling to attack with the whole army. Hearing this, he immediately arranged a boat to send Master Wu across the river.

Guo Xiancheng personally escorted Wu Yingsong to the opposite bank, and Lin Tailai was already waiting on the bank.

Wu Yingsong pointed to the burning cottage, and angrily questioned Guo Xiancheng:
"In broad daylight, openly beating villagers and setting fire to houses, such vicious acts of bandits, the government ignores them?"

Lin Tailai laughed and said, "I open the Mudu port sub-pass according to the imperial edict. It is legal and reasonable to expropriate land here. How can I become a bandit?"

Although he had made many plans in his mind, Wu Yingsong did not expect this answer at all.

"Land acquisition?" Wu Yingsong was stunned for a moment, "The township and the wharf are on the north bank, but you, Lin Tailai, went to the south bank to acquire land, how unreasonable?"

Lin Tailai said contemptuously: "You are not young at this age, how can you be so childish?

Who said that Mudu Port must be located in Mudu Town?Must be at the main wharf of Mudu Town?
In my mind, the Mudu port branch can be on the south bank, or it can be two or three miles upstream, or two or three miles downstream!
No matter where the customs office is located, it is my decision!No matter where the site is selected, it will not have much impact on the establishment of card taxation!
At the same time, I can refuse people from the four major families in Mudu Town to make a living at the customs office!

I mean, do you understand? "

Wu Yingsong felt like falling into a cloud, vaguely feeling that the information was very important, but he didn't understand it.

At this moment, he suddenly saw an old man with a colorful robe and a ghostly face jumping out.

Then the old man hugged Lin Tailai's thigh, and exaggeratedly shouted:

"Tell me quickly! Where is the customs office at Mudu Port?
If I, Zhang Youyu, bought the nearby land in advance, wouldn’t I be rich! "

These few words struck Wu Yingsong's brain like lightning!

Mudu Town is prosperous because of commerce, and the four local Baidao families have benefited a lot from this. Not only can they become rich through business, but also the land value will increase!
But if a customs office is set up elsewhere nearby, and all passing ships have to stop at the customs office to pay taxes, then the commercial center will naturally transfer to the customs office in the future!

As for Mudu Town, which has lost its status as a cargo hub, commercial decline will be inevitable!
At the same time, a new town will be formed around the tax customs to replace the current Mudu Town!

And Lin Tailai also made it clear just now that he has the right to refuse people from the four major families of Wu, Shen, Xu, and Yan in Mudu Town to make a living at the location of the customs office!

Wu Yingsong didn't even dare to think about this consequence!

So what Lin Tailai really meant was that Mudu Town urgently needs Mudu Port Customs, not Mudu Port Customs needs Mudu Town!

Lin Tailai said faintly: "Have you, Wu Yingsong, ever figured it out?
It's a pity that there are bad guys in your town, and they even murdered their wives and planted them on me, but I'm too lazy to solve the case, what should I do? "

　Ask for a monthly ticket! ! ! !There are not enough words left for one chapter, let’s post the whole chapter tomorrow

　　
　
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