Jagged Warlord

Several soldiers from the mixed brigade approached and asked, "Brigade Commander, why don't you let them go like this? Why don't you beat the fuck up?"

"You bastards who can eat but can't cook, you've embarrassed me. If you want to fight, can you really beat others?" Wang Yuanyi said angrily.

After this incident, the soldiers of the mixed brigade settled down a lot.The merchants in Xuzhou City were very happy when they knew that it was Li Mohan who boosted their spirits.

Soon, Zhang Xiangchen, the boss of Hong Changshun, a rich man in Xuzhou City, sent a post asking Li Mohan and Ma Qian'an to have dinner at Liuweizhai.

Hongchangshun Company is located at No. 53, Mashi Street, at the northern foot of Hubu Mountain. It is a giant in Xuzhou's Nanhuo industry.The Zhang family originally lived in Huizhou and later moved to Suqian.Zhang Yuqing, Zhang Xiangchen's father, moved to Xuzhou in the late Qing Dynasty.At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Yu operated hardware, rice workshops and cloth shops. When his business was prosperous, he traveled across the country.Zhang Yuqing has four sons, Xiangchen is the second.When the family was separated, Zhang Xiangchen acquired Hong Changshun and began to focus on Nanhuo. At the same time, he operated the "Wuyunzhai" food store in Yuanshang Street and Qiming Road, and also set up a "Xiangji Paper Shop" in Mashi Street. The business was very prosperous.

As soon as Li Mohan and Ma Qian'an stepped into the door of Liuweizhai, the waiter came up to welcome him, "Hey, it's Adjutant Li and Staff Officer Ma. Boss Zhang has booked a private room upstairs. Please go upstairs." The upstairs shouted: "Two distinguished guests on the second floor." Li Mohan and Ma Qian'an went upstairs, and the waiter upstairs continued to lead them into the private room.

Zhang Xiangchen is in his forties this year. He wears a well-made silk shirt and a six-petal melon skin hat.When he saw Li Mohan and Ma Qian'an coming, he stood up, bowed and said, "You two coaches, be polite."

Li Mohan stepped forward to shake his hand with his right hand, and Ma Qian'an clasped his fists as a return.

Zhang Xiangchen casually said a few polite words, then cut to the point and said: "To tell you the truth, I go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. I have a batch of goods from Shandong, but they were detained in Hanzhuang. The one who started it was Weishan Lake." northwest wind."

Li Mohan took a sip of wine, picked up another chopsticks dish, and then said slowly: "Boss Zhang, the [-]th Mixed Brigade is only responsible for the stability of the city, and the suppression of bandits is a matter for the army. Xu Zhanfeng, the military chief, is not a brigade of soldiers and horses ?"

Zhang Xiangchen waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it. I asked Mr. Xu, and he asked for a "suppression salary" of [-] oceans. Adjutant Li, if you judge me, my batch of goods is only worth [-] to [-] oceans." , Do you think there are such exorbitant prices?"

Ma Qian'an said with a narrow smile: "He is a regular army, officers and soldiers~~" He picked up two pieces of stewed beef and put them in his mouth

"That's bullshit, if you want me to say it's just that the suppression of bandits is ineffective and disturbs the people a lot." Zhang Xiangchen said angrily

Li Mohan already had a bottom line in his heart, Zhang Xiangchen hit a wall with Xu Zhanfeng, and then came to try his luck with himself.Li Mohan said: "Boss Zhang, we do not speak dark words. You came to us because you wanted our Fourteenth Mixed Brigade to help you get back that batch of goods, right?"

Zhang Xiangchen nodded and said with a smile: "Adjutant Li is a straightforward person, so I won't go around the bush. When I get the goods back, I will give 2 oceans to the 2th Mixed Brigade, and the two coaches will each give another [-] oceans. How about it?"

Li Mohan filled himself a glass, as if talking to himself, and said, "Our 2th Mixed Brigade has a total of 2 men and guns. 10 oceans~[-] oceans per person, this life is too cheap."

Zhang Xiangchen seemed to have been prepared for a long time. He stretched out his finger and made a "two" character, "How about this number?"

Li Mohan said: "30 yuan per person, another 25 yuan for each injured person, and 200 yuan for each dead person."

Zhang Xiangchen frowned slightly, and secretly pinched his fingers under the table for a while, then smiled and said: "Okay, it's a deal."

Li Mohan smiled and greeted: "Come here~~ Let's eat vegetables."

There has been banditry in northern Jiangsu since ancient times, and it began to flourish again in the early years of the Republic of China, and it became more and more rampant. Some bandits began to kidnap people in their own villages, regardless of the feelings of fellow villagers.The officers and soldiers also suppressed the bandits, but the banditry could never be eradicated, just like weeds, which could not be killed one after another.The villagers donated money and people to buy various guns and ammunition for self-protection, and built some earthen dikes for defense.The pity made of poor soil is not absolutely safe. Once the bandits break through the polder, they will massacre.

Therefore, the small dikes were gradually abandoned, and farmers were forced to live in large dikes according to factors such as surname and clan, which were also called Ji in the local area.To this day, there are still many places named Ji, such as Liji, Wangji, Zhangji, Weiji, etc. Some professors do not understand the history, and often misunderstand that the commodity economy in small counties is very developed. Otherwise, why would there be so many markets? ?One of the ironies.

The local people also call working in the fields "going to the lake". Is it impossible to fish in the dry land?Based on this, a certain professor deduced that this place used to be the sea, which is both ironic and ironic.

The local people call their father "An" or "Ye", but a professor asserts that this is the name of foreigners and that the local people are descendants of Mongolians.

Weishan Lake is located in the confluence of 8 counties in Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. It is formed by the connection of Nanyang, Dushan, Zhaoyang and Weishan lakes. It is more than 4 miles long from northwest to southeast, covering an area of ​​300 square kilometers.There are Dushan in the north and Weishan in the middle.In addition, there are dozens of small islands such as Nanyang, Huangshan and Tongshan in the lake.There are seven to eighty large and small ferries around the lake, among which there are more than 1209 larger ones such as Hanzhuang, Xiazhen, Wuduan, Chengzimiao, Nanyang, and Luqiao.

In the former Qing Dynasty, there were lake bandits entrenched in Weishan Lake. It is said that they were the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.However, the Xuhai area in southern Shandong has always been a place full of bandits. No one knows whether these are the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or legends.

Li Mohan doesn't fight uncertain battles, so he did a lot of homework in advance.It is said that there are hundreds of lake bandits, large and small, occupying the Weishan Lake area.The most powerful is Renhetang. The head of the house is called Xibeifeng. It claims to have 500 guns and dares to attack Weizi or Jizi.

Xibeifeng was a talented scholar during the Guangxu period, and only joined the gang because he was threatened by rebels.And his subordinates are basically poor fishermen and farmers near Weishan Lake. They spend most of their time in Weishan Lake, fishing and farming for a living.Occasionally collecting road money from passing caravans or blackmailing nearby big households, usually only seeking money and not hurting others, it is not considered a lot of evil deeds.

Li Mohan decided to adopt the method of courtesy first and soldiers later, not because he was afraid of fighting with the northwest wind, but because he didn't want to increase unnecessary casualties.