Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 190 Recapturing Linzi
Zhongshan country.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Wang Xiu shrank his neck involuntarily.The winter in Jizhou is colder than the winter in Qingzhou!

Looking at the withered and yellow grass and trees around, there are a few sparrows flying to the bushes to look for food from time to time.Now it has entered winter, and in this season in the north, there are basically no animals in the wild.Wang Xiu is from Donglai, and he doesn't feel much discomfort in the northern winter.

"Master, the Sujiabao is ahead!" the servant said to Wang Xiu.

Wang Xiu nodded and said, "Speed ​​up, feel the Sujiabao as soon as possible!"

Sujiabao is the place where Su Shuang lives. It is said to be Sujiabao, but it is actually a small town. Sujiabao is in the horse business, so there is a large horse farm near Sujiabao.It is also because of this that Su Shuang often has some contacts with the ethnic minorities on the grassland.

However, Su Shuang was not an honest businessman. While buying some stallions from the grassland, he would also secretly transport some important materials such as salt tea, silk, and even ironware.You must know that the Han Dynasty had very strict monitoring of salt and iron, and smuggling was absolutely prohibited, especially to ethnic minorities such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei on the grasslands. Rare things are more expensive, so it is like salt and iron. The price of this kind of strategic material is very high on the grassland.On the grassland, Su Shuang can exchange a small bag of coarse salt for a war horse!
Of course, this kind of transaction is shady, but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, political corruption and official corruption became common, and it became even worse after the Yellow Turban Uprising, so Su Shuang spent a lot of money to bribe officials on the border patrol, so Su Shuang's voice It was unimpeded.

Illegal business is generally much more profitable than legal business, so Su Shuang has accumulated a lot of wealth in just a dozen years.As for Zhang Shiping, he is Su Shuang's partner. In terms of money, the sum of the two of them may not be much worse than the Zhen family of Jizhou's great family.

As for where Zhang De knew about Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, it all depended on the help of Yanyi. He and Zhang Shiping are horse sellers, so this time when Wang Xiu was on an envoy, Zhang De specially asked Wang Xiu to contact Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to discuss about buying horses.

Wang Xiu and his party were walking when they saw a group of people approaching from afar. This group of people were all big men with strong faces and strong arms, and all of them were wearing weapons.The leader saw Wang Xiu from a long distance away, so he shouted: "The one in front is Mr. Donglai Wang!"

Wang Xiu was shocked when he heard this, how could this person know him, besides this is Yuan Shao's territory, he is always not safe here, if someone recognizes him, he may be in trouble!
At this time, the servant next to him said: "My lord, I know the person in front, he is a hall master under Fang Dali of the Haisha gang, I met him when I was young in Donglai!"

Wang Xiu felt relieved, since the person in front was Fang Dali's subordinate, he must be selling private salt and passing by here.The person on the opposite side quickly walked up to Wang Xiu, and said respectfully: "Young Haisha, Fu Kai, I have met Mr. Wang! This place is Yuan Shao's territory, so it is inconvenient to speak. Just now, the villain called the adult 'Mr. Please forgive me, my lord!"

Wang Xiu nodded. This person is very alert. If this person called "Master" just now and someone listened to him on the road, it might really cause inconvenience.

Wang Xiu is now the lieutenant of Beihai Diannong School, with great power. He is in charge of Beihai's money, grain, salt and iron. Naturally, the Haisha Gang dare not offend him. Batch the goods in the past!"

The goods Fu Kai mentioned naturally refers to private salt, but Wang Xiu is not concerned about this. It seems that Fang Dali and Su Shuang still have business contacts. Well, someone came to the door, so Wang Xiu said: "Fu Kai, I am going to visit Su Shuang in Sujiabao, you can help me introduce one or two!"

"Little ones obey, adults please!"

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Strict government camp.

A soldier stumbled into Yan Zheng's big tent, knelt at Yan Zheng's feet, and said, "General, there is a man outside who claims to be from Jinan and wants to see you!"

"Bring it up!"

After a while, I saw a person brought by the small school. This person was dressed in rags and his body was covered with blood. When he saw Yan Zheng, he immediately cried bitterly: "General, it's not good, Jinan has been captured by Zang Ba!"

"What!" Yan Zheng was stunned, Jinan was captured, so he had no way out, it seemed that Chang Xi's defeat was only a matter of time, and he didn't want to follow Chang Xi to lose his life.But if the news is known to the soldiers, the camp may be blown up.

Thinking of this, Yan Zheng waved his hand and said: "Come here, this person is a spy, he came here specially to spread rumors, drag him down and behead him! Anyone in the army who spreads such rumors in the future will definitely be executed !"

After a while, Xiaoxiao came in with the head in his hand. Yan Zheng didn't care about this, so he waved his hands to let his subordinates go down, and then sat there thinking about it.

Now that Changxi's demise is a foregone conclusion, why bother to follow Changxi?It would be better to surrender to Zhang De now, but Zhang De has countless talented people under him, and he is a surrendered general, so he will definitely not be reused under Zhang De's subordinates.How to choose, it is really difficult to ruin the strict government.

In the end, Yan Zheng sighed. It is better to not be reused than to lose his head. Even if he surrendered, Zhang De would not treat him badly. It is not bad to be a rich man in Beihai, besides, he spent most of his life as a soldier. Yes, but since I joined Taipingdao, I have not been able to go smoothly. I have always been like a dog in mourning. I have really had enough of this kind of life. Maybe it would be more suitable for me to find a place to live a stable life!

In the winter of the second year of Chuping, Yan Zheng led five thousand soldiers to surrender to Zhang De.

Linzi city.

It was the dead of night at this time, both residents and soldiers in the city were hiding in bed, and on the tower, two soldiers were standing there trembling.

Yan Zheng led his men to escort the food and grass to the city of Linzi, and shouted: "Open the city gate quickly, I'm back!"

The soldiers on the top of the city saw that it was Yan Zheng, and wondered why this guy came back again, but thought about it, Yan Zheng was his own after all, so he ordered someone to open the city gate.But the guards at the city gate didn't notice that there were three thousand more cavalry inexplicably among Yan Zheng's subordinates.

The first thing Yan Zheng did after he brought people into the city was not to find a place to station, but to quickly occupy the city gate. At the same time, Yan Zheng led people straight to the original Qingzhou Governor's Mansion.

Linzi was guarded by an old brother of Chang Xi, who had followed Chang Xi for many years. When he heard that Yan Zheng was coming, he was very puzzled, thinking what happened to Yan Zheng, so he hurriedly dressed and went to see Yan Zheng.

"Brother Yan, what's the matter, didn't you escort the food and grass to Beihai, why did Xingye come here!"

Yan Zheng walked up to the man and said, "It's a long story, ah, what do you think it is?" Yan Zheng pointed at the man behind him, and the man hurriedly looked back, only to see nothing, and then turned back Turning his head, he saw that Yan Zheng's knife had already been cut in front of him...

(End of this chapter)