When it came to business, Zhang Sancha looked serious and said: "The iron yard has not been peaceful recently. There are often sneaky people outside. Some miners know these people. They are all from other iron yards."
Jia Liu said calmly: "As long as they don't break into the iron yard, don't worry about it."
Hearing this, Zhang Sancha rolled his eyes. He had just said this to others, but in the blink of an eye it fell on him again.
"Brother Six, you're still hiding it from me." Zhang Sancha came over and said, "What happened?"
Jia Liu glanced at Zhang Sancha and said, "There is something wrong, but people at the level of squad leader are not qualified to know."
"This..." Zhang Sancha choked, feeling that he had been discriminated against. He came up to him shamelessly and said, "Brother Six, what is the relationship between us brothers? Do we need to hide it? Reveal it in advance, just a little."
While speaking, Zhang Sancha stretched out his thumb and index finger to make a gesture.
Jia Liu pushed Zhang Sancha away, who was approaching, and said: "If you don't know how to read well, you won't be qualified to know it in advance if you become a squadron leader. You don't need to come here to me for shameless clichés."
"Hey, I don't feel sleepy when I see the square characters, but I promise that I will learn to read carefully in the future." Zhang Sancha picked up the teapot and poured a cup of hot water into the big tea vat and handed it over.
Jia Liu took the tea vat and said in a solemn tone: "The government and the army are going to attack us. Those people outside the iron yard are here to make use of the coke in our iron yard to make iron."
"Is the news accurate?" Zhang Sancha was surprised.
He has been staying in the iron field and is unaware of many things outside.
Dongshan is self-contained. Although it is only ten miles away, news from the county will always take a long time to reach Dongshan. The same is true for the guards who suppressed bandits this time.
There are no secrets in the affairs of the government. The people in the county have long known through various channels that the garrison government is preparing to go out to suppress the bandits. But here in Dongshan, the miners don't know about it at all, otherwise the miners in Liu Heng's iron yard would have escaped long ago. No matter how hard it is, there are still furnaces being used to smelt iron every day.
Jia Liu nodded and said, "The news came from Chen Daqing himself."
"What did the boss say? If we were to defend the Iron Field, we would still be at Hutou Village." Zhang Sancha asked again.
Jia Liu said: "The officers and soldiers attacked the iron farm. The boss allowed us to destroy the furnace and take away Chen Hongtao and Huang Huai, as well as several miner leaders who were involved in setting up the furnace. If we cannot take them all away, we are allowed to kill them on the spot to ensure that these One cannot fall into the hands of other iron fields.”
"If you want to destroy the furnace, could it be that the border troops are coming?" Zhang Sancha frowned and said, "The officers and soldiers in Lingqiu cannot be the opponent of our camp on the mountain of Hutou Village. The only ones who can threaten the camp of Hutou Village are The border troops in Datong Town.”
Jia Liu said: "It's not the border troops, it's the soldiers from the Lingqiu garrison."
Zhang Sancha's frown melted away and he said with a smile: "Our Shanzhai camp has been training for so long and has no shortage of equipment and weapons. No matter how many times the soldiers in Lingqiu City are, they are no match for our Hutou Village camp."
Jia Liu said in a deep voice: "The boss is not worried about Hutou Village, but the iron field. Don't forget, the iron field only has one squadron from the camp, and the rest of the guards are recruited miners. If the official army comes to the iron field first, With the small number of people in our squadron, we can't hold it at all, and those miner guards may not have the courage to take action when facing the government."
"But once we leave, what will happen to the miners' guards?" Zhang Sancha said.
Many of the miners' guards were trained by him, and he was a bit reluctant to leave them behind. There were several good prospects among them that he valued. When he expands the iron yard guards in the future, these people are at least corps commanders or even Deputy squad leader.
Jia Liu sighed and said, "The boss said that if you are willing to come with us, take them with you. If you don't want to, we don't have to worry about them."
He was just as reluctant to give up.
The reason why he became the captain was because of the iron yard guard brigade. Without these miner guards, he, the captain, would have to become a squadron leader again.
"I'm going to arrange a few more patrol teams. At this time, we can't let people from other iron yards take advantage." At this time, the iron yard becomes more dangerous, and Zhang Sancha walked out of the house alone.
Jia Liu picked up the teapot and took a sip of hot water, looked outside and muttered to himself: "I hope that after this fight, I can really settle down."
As an old man from the bandit camp, he traveled all the way with the camp, often without enough to eat. Only when he came to Lingqiu did he realize how precious the stable days were.
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The first snowfall of winter came earlier than in previous years. It snowed heavily and the ground was covered with a thick layer of white snow.
"This snow is so fucking heavy." Wang Tong held a cup of tea in his hand and stood at the door looking at the thick snow in the yard.
Chen Yusheng said: "It seems that the day of going out to the city to suppress bandits will have to be postponed. It will be even colder after the snow."
"That's all." Wang Tong nodded.
With such heavy snow, the camp will not be able to move out until the snow melts. Now it is not a question of whether we want to suppress the bandits, but whether we can.
The Xu family's two thousand taels of silver had already been sent to the garrison mansion. As the thousand households in the garrison mansion, they were allocated two hundred taels. As for the suppression of bandits, they were delayed slowly, not without suppressing the bandits.
"Two adults, the county magistrate is here." A small flag ran over from the yard.
Chen Yusheng frowned and said, "What is the magistrate doing here at this time? Does he want us to send troops to Hutou Village to suppress the bandits?"
"Just go and take a look and you'll find out." Wang Tong said and walked out.
Chen Yusheng followed.
"I have met the magistrate." Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng knelt on one knee at the same time.
Both of them were from the sixth rank of the Qianhu family. Facing the eighth rank magistrate who was also a Jinshi, even though they were of higher rank, they claimed to be lower officials and knelt down to greet him.
Seeing the two Qianhu kneeling on the ground, Guo Binchang snorted coldly and asked, "Where is Li Huaixin?"
"Your Excellency, please take a seat in the back hall first. I will arrange for someone to invite Mr. Li." Wang Tong stood up and made a gesture of invitation.
Guo Binchang lifted his official robe and walked in front, followed by Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng, and then followed by Master Jia who came to the garrison mansion with Guo Binchang.
The four people came to the back hall and arranged for tea to be served. Wang Tong sent someone to the back hall to invite Li Huaixin.
After receiving the two thousand taels of silver from the Xu family, Li Huaixin took 800 taels by himself. He got up at night and found two kiln sisters, who worked hard until midnight before resting.
Li Huaixin, who looked tired, came to the back hall, took two steps, bowed and cupped his hands, and said: "I have met the magistrate."
As a guard of Lingqiu, although he claimed to be a lower official when facing Guo Binchang, the county magistrate, he would not kneel down to salute like Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng.
"Master Li, I'm so excited!" Guo Binchang said with a stern face.
As soon as Li Huaixin came closer, he smelled the smell of rouge and gouache. He could guess what Li Huaixin did last night without asking.
Thinking of this, Guo Binchang became more and more dissatisfied. He slapped the desk next to him and asked: "Li Huaixin, do you know your guilt?"
