Zhang Jingxiu, with a pretty face and a bright red face, had blurry eyes. He stretched out his green-white finger and touched Shen Lie's forehead, and said softly: "You, you shouldn't presuppose the title of king before His Majesty."
Those are relatives of the emperor.
The most taboo thing for serving as a hawk for the emperor is to speak ill of the emperor's relatives.
Lying on her husband's chest, Zhang Jingxiu said softly: "After all...that's His Majesty's elder. His bones are broken but his tendons are still attached."
"You have no control over Prince Jin's affairs."
Shen Lie smiled and said softly: "I know."
"Go to sleep."
Finished speaking.
Shen Lie hugged his extremely sleepy wife and fell into a deep sleep.
In the bedroom.
There was only the sound of her even and pure breathing.
But Shen Lie opened his eyes wide and looked at the gauze curtain above his head.
Thought.
After tonight.
When the factory guard's strength is strengthened, he can flex his muscles.
He can't control the King of Jin now.
After you can...
In the night.
Shen Lie's eyes were shining.
But I don't know when the situation changed. With the sound of thunder, the cold wind poured in through the open window lattice, bringing a bit of coolness to this hot summer.
But it's really weird. It's windy and thundering, but the rain doesn't fall. It's like God is going against the Ming Dynasty.
And until early morning.
Shen Lie was still lying in bed with the beauty in his arms, but there was a rapid knock on the door of the house.
Shen Lie, who was awakened by the knock on the door, turned over and sat up, rubbed his sore forehead, then hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out of the bedroom.
"Who is it?"
Then the maid opened the door.
Not long after.
Then there was an old nursing home member from the Zhejiang Army who hurried over with a few villagers and said something in Shen Lie's ear: "Sir... Shen's village has been robbed."
In an instant.
A cold light flashed in Shen Lie's eyes.
"Walk!"
"Copy guy!"
While drinking lowly.
Shen Lie quickly rushed out of the house.
Feeling a little worried, he got on his horse and rushed to the Dongchang Yamen. He hurriedly gathered a cavalry team of about a hundred people and galloped towards Shenjiazhuang.
Two hours later.
outside the city.
Shenjiazhuang.
Shen Lie slowly reined in the reins and led hundreds of cavalrymen to stop outside the small gatehouse of Shenjiazhuang. Looking inside and outside the gate, there were traces of the fierce battle everywhere.
Look around.
The bodies of men and horses lay in a pool of blood.
More than ten horses were abandoned here.
The horses are strong and the men are very tough. The weapons they use are grassland long bows and ring-headed swords. They all cover their faces with black cloth and wear black night clothes.
And this group of people obviously underestimated the fighting power of Shenjiazhuang villagers, and wanted to take advantage of the dark moon and high winds to bloodbath the Dazhuangzi at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains.
But I never expected it.
Not only is this Zhuangzi's defense facilities very complete, but its villagers are also well-trained and well-equipped, and there is also a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Swedish Royal Guards who has been a pirate.
So after a fierce battle, the horse bandits were shot back by the villagers. Even the corpses of their accomplices were not dared to be collected, and the remnants of the bandits fled without a trace.
And in Zhuangzi.
The two villagers lying on the open ground, both covered with white cloth, were waiting to be buried. Both of them were shot in the face and died on the spot.
There were also several barns stacked in the open air that were set on fire by rockets fired by horse bandits, resulting in the loss of some grain.
Riding a horse.
Shen Lie entered the village and looked at the rockets on the ground, the burned-out barn, which was still emitting smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of burning grain and a faint smell of gunpowder smoke.
Soon I saw Victor sitting alone under the big mill again.
A night of bloody fighting.
Although Victor was a little embarrassed and had some injuries on his arm, he was still holding a cigar he got from somewhere and carrying a flintlock musket.
He was puffing away smoke.
"Senior!"
Shen Lie waved to him, then got off his horse and walked over quickly, giving the tough foreigner a bear hug.
Seeing that Victor was safe and sound, Zhuang Ding, whom he trained with his own hands, suffered little loss.
Shen Liecai breathed a long sigh of relief.
"so close!"
Just a little bit worse.
Shenjiazhuang, the self-sufficient model farm that he had worked so hard to run, with its massive sweet potatoes, potatoes, pepper seeds, and various vegetable greenhouses, was about to be burned down.
The loss is immeasurable.
With a bit of fear in his heart, Shen Lie patted Victor on the shoulder to show his appreciation, and then his expression darkened.
He strode towards the corpses of the horse bandits outside the village.
After a while.
The weapons of the horse bandits were collected by the gangsters, and the black scarves that covered their faces were also removed, revealing faces like dead fish.
What surprised Shen Lie was that this group of thieves were not Tatars.
But he has a standard Akito appearance.
After checking the body, Tian Hong hurried over and said softly: "It's a thieves. They suddenly rushed out of the mountains at night and caught our village man off guard. Fortunately..."
Fortunately!
Shenjiazhuang's defense is amazing.
Hear this.
Shen Lie was slightly shocked and said, "Are these all thieves?"
Do thieves have such well-equipped cavalry?
This equipment and horses are almost as elite as the frontier army.
Tian Hong touched his nose and responded: "Yes."
Shen Lie frowned.
Thief.
It has a long history.
Around the Eastern Han Dynasty, horse bandits hung bells all over their horses' necks. When the horse ran, the bells would ring loudly, so they called the horse bandits "thieves."
Since the large-scale invasion of Japanese pirates during the Jiajing period, the officers and soldiers were useless and were beaten to death by the Japanese pirates, so the people had to organize their own armed forces in order to protect themselves.
Against this background.
Models such as the Pingyao Escort Bureau were born, and many bandits were born. Mountain bandits, road bandits, bandits, and horse bandits were rampant.
The most ferocious among them is naturally the thieves.
They are all cavalry.
In addition to robbing escorts and caravans, these thieves also took on the revenge business of some wealthy people. In Shen Lie's view, the thieves of this period were actually the same as the Blackwater Company in later generations.
Even Wagner mercenaries are no different.
My heart is awe-inspiring.
Shen Lie raised his head.
Looking at the deep Yanshan Mountains not far away, he seemed to see Zhang Siwei's gloomy face, and he knew that this matter was not over yet.
This group of thieves who rushed out from the Yanshan Mountains must have been paid by Shanxi merchants to get rid of him, a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh.
In silence.
Tian Hong's eyes were dark and he said softly: "Brother, in this world you can only kill thieves thousands of miles away, but there is no reason to guard against thieves every day."
It's impossible to guard against it.
This group of thieves attacked Shenjiazhuang and killed so many people. They must be unwilling to give up.
Shen Lie nodded and held out one word through his teeth: "Check!"
The thieves were so arrogant that they even dared to rob Dongchang Jinyiwei.
Shen Lie was extremely angry.
First, he ordered Zhuang Ding to reward those who had meritorious service in battle, and left half of Dongchang's cavalry to assist Zhuang Ding in his defense. The irritated Shen Lie got on his horse.
Speeding towards the capital.
It's early morning again the next day.
Outside the west gate of the capital.
More than 30,000 disaster victims received a bag of rice, a bag of noodles, and two taels of silver, and then they helped the elderly and children on their way back to their hometowns.
It was a long journey through the Central Plains, across the Yellow River, and back to Shaanxi through Tongguan, and the young emperor also issued a decree, ordering the officials in various places along the way to deal with it well.
But no matter what.
The face of the Ming Dynasty was saved.
In the shade of trees beside the official road, a furious Shen Lie, with a sullen face, ordered to recruit young men and women from these victims to strengthen the strength of the factory guards.