"Li Feiyu! If you leave then, don't expect me to defend you!"
Seeing Li Xia turn around, Fang Yankai suddenly stood up and called him.
Li Xia turned around and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I will return the Zhang family's fields, seal up Yan Yunyun's salt industry, and abandon the Qingfu Army's camp..."
"I will keep Liu Jinsuo. If you dare to act rashly, he will kill you."
"you!"
"If you scare me, I will scare you." Li Xia said, "I thought you were a smart person and could figure it out. I also thought that in your heart you actually agreed with everything I did."
"Huh? That's ridiculous. I agree with you?"
"Before I did anything, you, the landlord, always objected, saying that I violated this or that. But after it was done, I saw that you clearly enjoyed it."
"Stop talking nonsense!"
"Is the arrangement for spring plowing going smoothly this year? Zhang Daiyin lowered the land rent for the tenants and listened to the county's arrangements for renting cattle. I heard you lament this morning that 'the spring plowing people are out there, and the farm tools are already standing on the hills.' You seemed very happy.
After the salt industry was rectified, I heard that you made several trips abroad. Three days ago, at the entrance of Qingfu Street and Shimen Lane, you lamented again that "the livelihood of one people is important to the world, and a gentleman is patient and fights for the smallest cents."
Not to mention the formation of the Qingfu Army, the last time you accompanied me to Xuzhou already explained everything..."
"That's enough." Fang Fangkai shouted, stepped forward, and said in a low voice: "You want to go to Dali. This is really unseemly. If you lead troops out of the county without an order, the consequences will be very..."
"There are many county captains who led troops away from the county boundary. For example, in the sixth year of Emperor Shen's reign in Xining, the county captain Zang Jing converted to his faith. He patrolled the northern boundary of Baigou on horseback and shot Gude, the commander of Xiaoying Army in Zhuozhou."
Fang Yankai couldn't help but hesitated and said: "Stop making excuses. I don't want to fight with you, but you also can't threaten me to let you do whatever you want..."
Li Xia suddenly reached out and patted Fang Yankai on the shoulder.
He was taller and taller than Fang Yankai. With this shot, his aura completely overpowered Fang Yankai.
"If you insist on refusing to cooperate, you will only destroy Qingfu and yourself. Follow my arrangements. I will become Shu Commander in the future, and I may be able to help you realize your ambition."
…
For a long time, Fang Yankai stood there alone, and his mood seemed completely chaotic.
He found that there was really nothing he could do against Li Xia. Looking back, Li Xia was more polite when he first arrived at Qingfu, but now he is disrespectful.
"But, he is too young, and he is also a traitor..."
Qingfu military camp plate.
Xiong Shan sent his general Xu Tulao to escort Bai Nongchuan back to Dali, so he brought in twelve new people, transferred several old soldiers to reorganize, and assembled a hundred-man team.
"Hong Aliu, you are here to serve as general."
"Yes!" Hong Ahliu was overjoyed and asked again: "General Bai, if Xu Tuduo comes back from the south, what should I do?"
"When the time comes, choose one of you to serve as a guard for the county captain."
"Really?!" Hong Ah Liu was overjoyed.
Xiong Shan said: "Young mother is so startled in front of me, take your people with you."
Suddenly I heard someone shouting.
"Baijiang! I have something to say!"
Xiong Shan turned around and saw Yang Ben, standing upright without turning his head.
He frowned and said: "Hong Ah Liu, lead the team to practice... Yang Ben, come with me."
"Yes!" Yang Ben responded loudly, trotted up to Xiong Shan, looked directly into his eyes, and said, "I'm not convinced."
"You're not convinced." Xiong Shan snorted, "Just let it go."
"I have done more meritorious service than Mao Yi'er, so why was he promoted to a hundred generals, but I was not even a general?" Yang Ben said: "Xu Tulao and Hong Aliu are not as good as me in everything, so why can they be promoted to a general?"
"Who told you to disobey orders and make noise all day long?"
Yang Ben refused to accept it and stared at Xiong Shan.
He has a lot to say, and he thinks he knows the art of war and battle formations better than anyone else here, so he has nothing to say to these rough guys, and he can't defeat Xiong Shan.
"Why are you glaring at me? If you were asked to lead a group of people and start a war, you wouldn't be able to take them with you."
"I want to work as a guard for the county captain." Yang Ben said.
"I don't care about this, go and practice."
Yang Ben was quite depressed. He held his neck and sulked for a while, and finally ran towards his group of people.
…
On this day, Yang Ben was sweating profusely on the school grounds again. At night, he went back to the dormitory to go to the toilet and stood in front of the pit to urinate.
A man in his fifties was transporting sewage with a dung bucket. He came over and said slowly: "You are a thief who joins the army, aren't you capable? I don't think Li Xia will use you seriously."
"Pretend to be your shit." Yang Ben said, "Stop spraying it in your mouth."
"Wu Yuan entered Shu at the end of the year, and Li Yong has probably come to find his son. If you can't find out the news, you can find someone else."
"I will be able to serve as a guard next to Li Xia right away. When I find Li Yong, I will tell you..."
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Li Xia went to Baiyan Miao Village to meet with Xiong Chun, the village boss.
Xiong Shan, wearing beautiful and majestic Baijiang armor, walked in front to lead the way.
Xiong Shan clearly had a day of rest today, and he was climbing a mountain. He shouldn't be wearing more than ten kilograms of armor, but he liked to wear it.
Walking to the mountainside, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one else around while resting, Xiong Shan asked in a low voice: "County Lieutenant, can I tell my father, County Lieutenant, is your wife the princess of Dali County?"
"Um?"
"I'm afraid that if my father doesn't know what's going on, he might be disrespectful to the county captain... Oh, I haven't told anyone about this."
From what Li Xia heard, it seemed that in the eyes of the Miao people, the honorable name of Dali was more useful than the county magistrate himself.
"Well, your father doesn't have to tell others."
"yes……"
In fact, putting this matter aside, the relationship between Li Xia and Xiong Chun is also good now.
Because Li Xia had previously raided the camp of Mongolian Deputy Qianhu Nige at night, Baiyan Miao Village and other villages went down the mountain and stole many Mongolian horses.
At that time, Xiong Chun had already made preparations for the county to forcefully recruit horses. In short, the Mongolian army was already in front of him, so he should do more if he could.
Li Xia kept his word and bought all the horses with money.
This money is more useful than anything else.
"I came here this time to buy some tea leaves from the village elder." Li Xia once again took a chopstick and placed it on the bowl of oil tea, saying: "Buy as much as you can, and ask the village elder for help, and buy from other villages as well."
Xiong Chun said: "In previous years, merchants collected tea and transported it westward to Tubo; southward to Dali, and then transported by Dali merchants to Tianzhu further west... In those days, tea could still be sold at a certain price. In recent years, Tubo and Dali have been destroyed by Mongolia.
It’s been beaten down, and the tea can no longer be sold.”
Li Xia nodded and said, "I heard there are still people smuggling?"
"Maybe there is, but I don't know about this. In the past two years, there have been merchants collecting tea, but the price was too low, so I asked my son to send it to Xuzhou to sell it. If Li County Lieutenant wants to smuggle, this is not a good route.
get through."
"Why?"
"Dali is under Mongolian rule, and there aren't many merchants there who can take advantage of it."
Li Xia understood what Xiong Chun meant.
Smuggling is not like trade, which requires a specific route. Wu Tong may have this route, but Li Xia kicked Wu Tong off the cliff without hesitation.
Li Xia planned to let Gao Changshou manage these things, pave the way for the business first, and accumulate capital to buy food and refine weapons, instead of always recruiting a bunch of native soldiers with nothing to die.
Whether it was a rebellion against the Song Dynasty or a rebellion against the Mongols, it required a long period of secret preparation.
This was also the reason why he wanted to bring goods south instead of just bringing some money to buy horses.
"I can contact people in Dali to purchase goods and try to reopen the tea and horse trade." Li Xia said.
"Since the county lieutenant said this, it is also a good thing for me, so I will definitely cooperate with you."
Xiong Chun said, looking up at Xiong Shan who was standing behind Li Xia wearing armor and looking at Zixiong. He sighed slightly in his heart, feeling as if he had sold his son to Li Xia.
He pondered for a moment and said: "The little old man will buy tea as soon as possible. Then let Xiong Aqi accompany the county captain..."