There is a saying that every line is like a mountain, but this sentence has no effect on Ji Gang's men. The first transaction of these former imperial guards turned pirates was very beautiful! In less than a day, they robbed a dozen villages.
The town, loaded with stolen goods and women, returned triumphantly.
However, Youdao is a 'family of officials and bandits'. Seeing how familiar they are with each other, they are obviously traveling with the bandits, so the old saying can be said to be true.
Returning to Xugong Island, the brothers happily moved the looted things off the boat. Now they no longer had to worry about Governor Ji’s wedding! The soldiers wrapped the looted red silk, red cloth and even red quilts everywhere,
They also hung up red lanterns and pasted them with crooked 囍 characters. They also cleaned out Ji Gang’s room, installed red candles and silver curtains, put on brand-new dragon and phoenix quilts, and even moved in a chest of drawers, a large wardrobe, and a bedroom.
A decent new house is now decorated!
Looking at everything in the new house, Yuan Jiang was full of praise and said: "This thing is done well! Old Xu has made great progress!"
"Hehe, of course..." Xu Yingxian scratched his belly proudly.
"What's the matter?" Qian Hu, who went to rob with him next to him, said without mercy: "It's just that a family happened to have a wife, so he took the whole pot!"
"What I'm saying..." Yuan Jiang laughed loudly and said, "How can I get a bride if I take away all the wedding stuff?"
"What kind of bride do you want to marry?" Qianhu said with a strange smile: "He has already let him steal the bride to be his wife!"
"I'll do it for you, hehe..." When he thought of the cute little bride, Xu Yingxian felt like a fire was burning in his lower abdomen. He wished he could rush back and do something with that little girl!
While everyone was chatting and joking, suddenly a member of the household rushed in and reported with a frightened look on his face: "Sir, sir, it's not good, the officers and soldiers are chasing us!"
"What?!" Yuan Jiang and others were shocked. They didn't expect that the officers and soldiers would find this place! The three of them didn't care about anything else. They ran to the observation deck of the military camp and saw more than a dozen ships.
Large ships of the same style are sailing in with the wind! Such large and uniform ships are obviously government officials. Looking at their course, it is obvious that they are heading straight for Xugong Island! They will enter the harbor in a meal at most!
"Let brothers prepare for war quickly!" Yuan Jiang ordered loudly and personally sounded the alarm bell on the observation deck!
The sound of the alarm bell "ding, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong…" alarmed the officers and soldiers who were preparing for the wedding, and also disturbed the governor who was tailoring the wedding ceremony.
But when Xu Yingxian and the others looted the town, they also captured the tailor in the town and ordered him to cut red auspicious clothes for the bride and groom. At this moment, the tailor was tremblingly using a ruler to mark Ji Gang's body... Hearing the alarm bell
, Ji Gang's expression changed drastically, he pushed the tailor away and strode out!
Halfway up the mountain, Xu Gong Temple also heard the alarm bell. Wang Xingye stood up and looked out through the window lattice. Unfortunately, his view of the east side hall was blocked by the wall and he couldn't see anything...
Xu Miaojin, who was in the main hall, could see the sea through the open door. As soon as she saw the powerful fleet, her heart was filled with excitement... It was him! It must be him!
He came to save me! I knew he was my destiny!
Seeing Xu Miaojin holding the window lattice tightly with both hands and eyes filled with tears of excitement, Zheng Xiuer felt mixed emotions in her heart...
When Ji Gang arrived at the dock, the dock was already in chaos. The soldiers were running around like headless chickens. Some wanted to get on the ship, some wanted to go to the fort, and some didn't know what to do, so they just ran around in confusion.
If these infantrymen suddenly change careers and become sailors, chaos is inevitable. Therefore, the saying "every line is like a mountain separated us" is indeed correct.
Ji Gang frowned, ignored the subordinates running around, and went straight to the lookout. The fleet was getting closer! Standing on the lookout, you could clearly see the details of the ship, as well as the fluttering bow of the ship.
banner!
"Captain," Yuan Jiang reported hurriedly: "These ships don't look like warships." After all, he had never come into contact with the navy, so he couldn't tell the difference based on their outlines before. Until the ships got closer, it seemed that there were no forts on them and no rams.
After looking at the corner, I saw that it didn't seem to be a combat ship.
"Nonsense!" Ji Gang spat: "This is a fucking salt ship from the Salt Transportation Department!"
"My ancestors are really knowledgeable!" Xu Yingxian hurriedly flattered him.
"Fart!" The flattery hit the horse's hoof. Ji Gang said angrily: "Are you blind? Didn't you see the big flag hanging on the bow of the ship? What was written on it?"
Everyone really didn't look carefully, of course because they were far away and couldn't see clearly before. Now they took a closer look and saw a line of large black characters written on the big flag: "Liang Zhejiang Capital Transfer Salt Envoy Department", next to it.
There is also a slightly smaller flag erected with only a big word 'Yang' on it!
"Liang Zhejiang Salt Transport Envoy, isn't that Yang Wei?" A ferocious and obscene fat man appeared in front of Yuan Jiang's eyes!
"Who is he?" Ji Gang sneered and said, "He is a die-hard subordinate of the King of Han. It is fate that we can meet him here!"
"Old Ancestor," Xu Yingxian said with wide eyes, "You said he didn't come to beat us?"
"It's not the Salt Transport Department's turn to fight." Ji Gang laughed loudly: "How can a bunch of shrimp soldiers and crab generals who transport salt fight us? Kill us with salt?"
"Haha, that's right..." Everyone laughed and felt mostly relieved. However, to be on the safe side, they still stayed on guard and vigilantly sent out clippers to contact the other party and inquire about their intentions.
After a meal, the clipper returned and brought back a salt transport manager. The manager saluted Ji Gang and said: "My family's transport envoy escorted the official salt to Beijing. There was a storm ahead, so he led everyone to take shelter."
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"Oh?" Ji Gang and others looked at each other, thinking that this was too coincidental. Yuan Jiang and others asked Ji Gang with their eyes. Ji Gang squinted and looked at the more than 5,000 brothers on the island, and then at the more than ten salt boats.
, grinned: "Well, your transshipment envoy and I are old friends, please just go to Hong Kong to take shelter."
"Thank you, sir!" The man happily thanked Ji Gang for the experience, then boarded the ship and went back to report the news.
Looking at the back of that experience, Yuan Jiang whispered: "Captain, what did you think about it?"
"This Yang Wei is Zhu Gaoxu's old subordinate. This time the King of Han falls, they and the hozens will definitely suffer." Ji Gang said slowly: "We are both fallen people from the end of the world, so there is no harm in making contact."
"Be careful of fraud!" Yuan Jiang said worriedly.
"Don't be afraid!" Ji Gang shook his head and said, "Since he said it was a salt ship, he has at most a few hundred people under his command. Brothers, please be careful. What kind of waves can he make with such a small number of people?" He said with a grin.
Said: "If you dare to mess around, I will kill you?! I will eat more than a dozen of his ship officers!"
"That's several million taels of silver!" Xu Yingxian drooled. He completely considered himself a pirate.
"Anyway, let's wait and see what happens." Looking at the salt ships slowly entering the harbor, Ji Gang tightened his cloak and said in a deep voice: "Let's welcome them!".
"Oh," when the ship arrived at the dock, a big fat man stood on the bow of the ship and gave Ji Gang an excited fist in the air: "It is indeed Brother Ji!"
"Brother Yang Xian!" Ji Gang returned the greeting with his fists clasped and said with a smile, "What kind of wind brings you here?"
"Typhoon." After the pedal was set up, the big fat man couldn't wait to run down. His heavy body pressed the pedal so loudly that it made people worry that he might fall into the sea.
Fortunately, the big fat man landed successfully, and he knelt down to Ji Gang and cried loudly: "Brother, I have found you!"
"Huh?" Ji Gang was startled when he heard the sound. He supported the big fat man named Yang Wei with both hands and asked tentatively: "Didn't my brother transport salt to Beijing and take shelter in the storm?"
"That's just rhetoric!" Yang Wei said with snot and tears: "Hey, the child is not as good as the mother. It's a long story..."
"Let's go back to the camp and talk." Ji Gang winked at Yuan Jiang and others, and turned sideways to let Yang Wei into the camp.
In the military camp, the soldiers lined up neatly. These were all genuine royal guards. Although they have fallen behind now, time is still short after all. They will still behave like the emperor's personal guards to that station! In order to suppress Yang Wei, Ji Gang sent everyone
They were all laid out, and the effect seemed to be good. The fat face of the man named Yang was full of awe that could not be concealed!
Ji Gang was slightly proud and let Yang Wei into the barracks. As soon as Yang Wei saw the lights, red and green hangings, and the characters "囍" posted everywhere, he couldn't help but laugh and asked: "Brother, who is getting married?"
"Haha..." Ji Gang smiled but said nothing.
"Ah!" Yang Wei suddenly said: "It must be my brother!" As he spoke, his fat face turned into a lotus smile, he bowed and congratulated: "Congratulations to brother, congratulations to brother, how could you say I'm lucky?
It’s time to drink my brother’s wedding wine.”
"Yes, yes." Ji Gang smiled and invited Yang Wei into the room, served tea, stepped back, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, tell me, which part of the song is this?"
"This song... is about the heroes of the world returning to Wagang." Yang Wei said with a bitter face: "Brother, I don't know. Last time, my prince suddenly sent a letter saying that he was going to start an uprising, and asked me to prepare to cooperate!"
"Yes." Ji Gang drank tea, nodded, and listened to what he said.
"Although I have worked as a salt official for more than ten years, my wealth and life were given by the prince, so I naturally have no shirking duty, so I gave all the official salt silver from the two Zhejiang provinces this year plus my savings over the years, a total of 30 million taels, to the prince."
Yang Wei said with a sad face: "I and a group of old brothers are actively recruiting troops. I really hope that if the prince gets into trouble, we will respond in Zhejiang."
"Oh," Ji Gang put down the tea cup and said, "What's the result?"
"The result..." Yang Wei said bitterly, as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis, "The prince suddenly sent another letter, saying that the emperor has been prepared for a long time, there is no chance, let us try to protect ourselves." As he said, he rubbed his head vigorously and said:
"I'm in trouble right now. There's a hole worth thirty million taels. How can I fix it?!" He looked pitifully at Ji Gang and said, "Later I heard that Brother Ji also rebelled and took his brothers from Shanghai County.
When I went to sea, I quickly took my brother with me and went out to join him in the name of transporting salt to the court!"