After watching the honeycomb coal, Li Zhan went to see the coal furnace again. Like the honeycomb coal, the coal furnace is also producing better and better.

Everything was thriving, which made Li Zhan feel very satisfied. Recently, the Cui family's industry has been squeezed by Li Zhan so much that it is impossible to survive, although the Cui family's gambling house and restaurant also studied with Li Zhan's Qingfeng Tower and Qingfeng Casino.

For example, the Cui family’s gambling house has made many gambling tools like Li Zhan’s Qingfeng Casino, but it was only temporarily popular for a while, and the Cui family’s gambling house has become a place that some poor people love to go.

Because Li Zhan’s Qingfeng Casino has a bargaining chip at least 100 people, and the price is a bit expensive. If you don’t have money, you can only go to the Cui family’s gambling house. But interesting people, if these people win money, they will definitely go to Li Zhan’s Qingfeng Casino.

Li Zhan’s Qingfeng Casino is a high-end place, while Cui’s gambling house has become a low-end place.

Like a casino, the same is true for restaurants. Li Zhan’s Qingfeng Building is already the first floor of the famous Tang Dynasty, but Li Zhan did not suppress other restaurants in the Tang Dynasty.

Instead, everyone makes money. Li Zhan quickly cooperated with Jiang Fenglou, the first floor of the Tang Dynasty, to train several storytellers for Jiang Fenglou, and then moved Liang Zhu to Jiang Fenglou to perform.

Later, he became a strategic partner with Jiang Fenglou, and the VIPs on both sides are universal.

Li Zhan’s restaurant was not meant to defeat other restaurants. Li Zhan’s only enemy from beginning to end was the Cui family. Therefore, after Li Zhan’s series of operations, the restaurants in Chang’an were vigorously developed, except for the Cui family’s restaurants.

This is also the reason why the Cui family began to become more and more angry with Li Zhan.

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Above a Tang Dynasty official road, a group of hundreds of people was walking quietly.

The official roads of the Tang Dynasty are great. Although they are not as good as Li Zhan’s cement roads, the quality of the Tang Dynasty’s official roads is still very guaranteed in the construction of official roads, without traffic jams, and there are few traffic accidents. The roads of such roads are generally paved with bluestone slabs or pebbles, and the roads are very flat. The main function of the official roads is to transport grain, marching, and deliver documents. The official roads of the Tang Dynasty are somewhat similar to modern national highways.

Of course, in addition to the official roads, there was also a kind of private road in the Tang Dynasty. Most of these roads were built by local officials. The better ones were paved with stone slabs, and the worse ones were trampled out like naturally formed roads, which were a kind of dirt road.

"Uncle Zuo...where are you now?" Li Qing'an asked with his little head exposed from the carriage.

"Oh... I'm almost here in Qi Mingshan...!" Uncle Zuo replied with a smile on his horse.

"Qi Mingshan..." Li Qing'an reminded: "Uncle Zuo, there are bandits in Qi Mingshan, please remind everyone to be careful."

Uncle Zuo laughed and said, "Miss, don't worry... This is the official road. No matter how powerful the bandits in Qi Mingshan are, they dare not go to the official road to rob."

In fact, what Uncle Zuo said makes sense, because there are basically military patrols on the official road, and the official road is very mobile, so ordinary little thieves dare not come to the official road to rob.

Ordinary little thieves go privately, after all, it is convenient to escape.

But today this incident is about to make an exception, because the things Li Qing'an and the others transported are so valuable. The so-called "people die for money and birds die for food" are worth taking a million yuan.

So, in a small wood about three miles in front of Li Qing'an's carriage, nearly five hundred bandits were ambushed. Although these bandits were all clothed and had no inch of armor, these bandits were lying in the woods quietly.

You don’t need to look at it and know that these bandits are different from ordinary bandits. They are trained by military training.

This is also Zhu Jun’s power. Many people say that the Tang Dynasty’s military front is so powerful. In fact, in terms of the military front of the army, the Sui Dynasty was strong for an era, while the Tang Dynasty was only strong for an era.

In history, there were many elite troops, including the Iron Cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, the Yulin Army of the Han Dynasty, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of the Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms, and the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty. Each of these troops was famous.

However, the Great Sui Dynasty had an elite army. Although it was short-lived, its combat effectiveness was not weaker than any powerful army in history. However, because it did not have many achievements, it was not known to future generations. This army was the Xiaoguo Army.

Let’s talk about the origin of this army first. In order to expand his military strength, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Yang recruited a group of soldiers to form a new army in addition to the government army. (The government army is the people serving in the military, belonging to the conscript, while the new army is a profession and belonging to mercenaries). This group of new army is the Xiaoguo Army.

Xiaoguo is derived from the meaning of courage. This army is composed of Kansai people. There is also a saying that this group of soldiers is composed of death row prisoners. They are all tall and strong, with high martial arts skills. Because they are imperial guards, they are well-equipped.

Each person is equipped with a thousand-mile horse, equipped with a rifle and a sabre, wearing a bloody bright light armor, a red golden leopard helmet, and a blood eagle on his left arm, claiming to be 100,000.

Their job was to guard Yang Guang to protect his safety. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Yang Guang was trapped in Yangzhou in the south, while the Wagang army was in great power and was close to the eastern capital Luoyang. Yang Guang had no plans to return west and wanted to stay in the south.

However, most of the Xiaoguo Army were from Guanxi, and they were eager to stay in Yangzhou. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Yang Guang gave local women to them as their wives. But it was useless. Under Yu Wenji's planning, the Xiaoguo Army changed mutiny and they killed Yang Guang. Then Yu Wenji brought the Xiaoguo Army back home with him.

On the way home, you have to pass through Li Mi's territory, so it is inevitable that you will fight with Li Mi.

When Yu Wenhe took the Xiaoguo Army through Luoyang, the food and grass were almost gone, so he attacked Li Mi's Wagang Army to grab the grain.

Li Mi also played a trick, first saying that she would promise Yu Culture and food. After Yu Culture and food were finished, she turned against her and refused to admit it.

Then the two sides started a war in Tongshan.

The result was that the Xiaoguo Army, who wanted to go home, fought fiercely with the Wagang Army, which was known as the world's most powerful army at the time. The Wagang Army could hardly support it, and Li Mi was injured. If Qin Shubao had not rescued it in time, Li Mi would have become a prisoner.

Li Mi's Wagang army tried his best to resist the attack of the Xiaoguo army. However, because there was no food, it would be useless even if the Tongshan Battle was won.

Soon the Xiaoguo Army was divided into pieces and went their separate ways.

Zhu Jun is a general of the Xiaoguo Army... So he used the Xiaoguo Army's method to train his subordinates. Although he could not achieve the effect of the Xiaoguo Army, this bandit team that Zhu Jun devoted himself to training is definitely not that simple.

"The king...there is one hour left...the big fish is about to reach our designated location."

A person similar to a scout came to Zhu Jun to report.

After hearing the report, Zhu Jun smiled and said, "Okay... I inform you, prepare, as long as I issue an order, the Archery Team will immediately attack without distinction, and kill the opponent's vitality to the greatest extent.

After the three-wheeled arrow rain, the whole army charged forward, kill me whenever I see someone, don’t show mercy. By the way, I must not hurt the female family in the caravan. That person is a member of the Li family. The other party wants to use my knife to kill people. I will not be such a sucker. We are going to Jiangnan to enjoy our happiness. We must never make enemies with the Li family in Longyou."

"That's right... it's still the king who thought about it."

A flattery made Zhu Jun smile.
Chapter completed!