The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

quack!

Mao Chengshun led his soldiers to the back of the slope and saw a group of crows flying up in fright, circling overhead and screaming, refusing to leave for a while.

In front of him were some scattered fresh human bones, with a little bit of fresh meat remaining on them, which was a rare delicacy for crows.

Wu Commander Mao Chengguo got off his horse and went over to look at the human bones with his scabbard. He saw that there were bite marks from fangs on several leg bones. He turned around and said to Mao Cheng: "Inspection, the corpses have all been gnawed by wolves." Sharing food with wild dogs, nothing can be seen.”

Mao Chengshun is in his forties, of medium build, and looks smart and capable.

Looking away from the scattered human bones, he rode his horse to the top of the slope and looked around.

More than a dozen patrol officers and soldiers followed immediately.

"Chenggui and the others died at the place where they were supposed to rob the Tao. Chengguo, tell me, could the person who killed them be the fat sheep we were interested in?"

"No way?" Mao Chengguo frowned, "That foreigner named Liu came to Mao's house alone and took dozens of refugees with him. How could he kill Chenggui and a dozen others?"

Mao Cheng asked, "What if someone picks up someone named Liu?"

Mao Chengguo still felt that Mao Chengshun suspected the wrong person, "If there is someone named Liu, why come to Mao's market alone? It is not only safe to bring someone into the market, but you can also help him get things."

Mao Cheng responded: "If the group of people named Liu are thieves wanted by the government, they don't dare to show up in a group. Isn't it normal?"

"How could the inspection team identify Liu as the perpetrator?"

Mao Chengshun narrowed his eyes slightly, looked in the direction of Tianmu Mountain, and said: "First, intuition; second, most people in this world kill people for profit - Chenggui and the others are well ambush here, and even if they encounter someone, they will not hit them. idea.

Only when they start to rob the road will they get into conflict with others and be killed.

That day I asked them to rob someone named Liu. If this matter was not related to the person named Liu, who would it be related to? "

Hearing this, Mao Chengguo finally understood. Mao Chengshun probably didn't eat the fat sheep named Liu and lost a group of people. He was unwilling to do so, so he should be designated as the murderer.

Having said that, they currently have no clue about the deaths of Mao Chenggui and others. Instead of blindly searching for the murderer, it would be better to deal with the fat sheep named Liu and subsidize the previous losses.

Sure enough, Mao Cheng followed up and said: "Take two capable brothers and follow the ruts of this dirt road to see where Liu went with the refugees.

I think the guy surnamed Liu is probably a skilled practitioner. You have to be careful not to be noticed by him.

Once you find something, don't alert the enemy, come back and tell us, and we will make a decision after discussing it. "

"Yes!"

Mao Chenggui responded and immediately led two soldiers on horseback along the dirt road in the direction of Tianmu Mountain.

Mao Chengshun and the remaining soldiers from the inspection department frowned as they looked at the mountainous Tianmu Mountain.

As a leader among the young and strong Mao family in Maojiaji, he saw that the world was getting more and more chaotic, so he spent money to get the position of inspector of the Maodian Inspection Department.

Then he took advantage of his authority to earn money back, while secretly leading people to commit roadside robberies.

In less than a year, he not only recouped the cost of buying an inspection position, but also "earned" thousands of taels of silver, and equipped twenty archers with the Mao clan as their backbone and trained as servants. For excellent equipment and horses.

Since the beginning of spring, they have taken advantage of the refugee flow to recruit dozens of people as "white laborers" to do the work of robbing roads for them.

Seeing that the drought is getting worse and worse, and more and more refugees are coming from the north to the south, Mao Chengshun wants to take the opportunity to quickly expand his power and show off his great achievements, but unexpectedly he loses five soldiers and ten white servants. This makes Mao Chengshun How could he be willing to do so?

In order to make up for the losses, regardless of whether the thing was done by the person named Liu, he had to make amends from the person named Liu!

The only reason to blame is that the person surnamed Liu is a foreigner with no roots in the local area, and he still exposed his wealth in the Mao family.

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Compared to those in North America, Liu Sheng was more concerned about the construction of Liujiazhai.

Because he knew very well that Liujiazhai was more likely to encounter dangerous and powerful enemies.

Once Liujiazhai fell and he was trapped in a cave or even a villa, it meant that he lost the opportunity to obtain Ming's resources.

At that time, he will only be able to manage the North American side, but it will be difficult to quickly develop his power in North America with just the people he has recruited.

Therefore, if he wants to make full use of the space gate to establish a strength spanning the Ming Dynasty and North America, he must defend Liujiazhai and even the entire Tianmu Mountain...

On the morning of April 28th.

Chen Sanpin and others, who had finished harvesting wheat in the West Fen Ridge, dragged their families to Liujiazhai.

Chen Sanpin and others were quite surprised to see the busy scene of Liujiazhai building a wall made of earth, stone and wood, as well as more wooden houses.

But they remembered that when they attacked here at night a few days ago, Liu Sheng had only a dozen men, most of whom were old, weak, women and children, and only four were young and strong.

But looking at it now, there are more than a dozen young men working, and the total number of people in various places must be forty or fifty!

"Chen Sanpin, Huang Gan." Liu Sheng brought Zhou Maohua to everyone in the West Fen Ridge and introduced: "This is Zhou Maohua, who is currently in charge of Liujiazhai. He will arrange for you to move in here."

Huang Gan was the long-faced man who questioned and tested Liu Sheng's thoughts in Xifengling.

Before Liu Sheng left that day, he appointed two people as temporary corps chiefs of ten households in the West Fen Ridge.

Seeing Liu Sheng, the two quickly bowed and greeted him.

"My boss, Manager Zhou."

Although Zhou Maohua was born as a farmer, he has learned the skills of making pottery and making bricks, which shows that he is a person who knows how to get in.

Although he has only been the manager of Liujiazhai for two days and his management skills are still very raw, he is not very weak when facing other people.

This matter was handed over with a smile, "Wuchang Chen, Wuchang Huang, you guys are here, our Liujiazhai is short of manpower."

Then, Liu Sheng personally told everyone to let everyone in the West Fenling Mountains participate in the construction of Liujiazhai and left it alone.

Seeing that it was past nine o'clock, he took a few things and went to patrol the surrounding mountains.

One is for hunting, and the other is to guard against being spied on by people with ulterior motives...

Mao Chengguo was a little surprised when he saw the busy construction scene ahead.

'The man surnamed Liu said that he went to the mountains to reclaim wasteland to escape the war, but chose to build a stronghold in a place where there was not much food to grow. He might really be a gangster. '

After observing for a while, Mao Chengguo prepared to retreat carefully. As soon as he got up, he heard a whooshing sound and a crossbow arrow was nailed to the tree trunk next to him.

At the same time, a rich male voice came.

"Don't move, or the next arrow will hit your head."

Mao Chengguo's hair stood on end and he was nervous, saying: "Don't act recklessly, I am the archer corpsman of the inspection department, and my clan brother is the inspection master of the Mao shop!"

"I knew it was you." Liu Sheng smiled and walked over with a crossbow.

Mao Chengguo immediately took the opportunity to slash the folding crossbow with his scabbard.

Liu Sheng dodged sideways as if he had expected it, and also swept his leg, causing Mao Chengguo to fall to the ground.

Before Mao Chengguo could get up, Liu Sheng stepped on him and aimed a crossbow arrow at his head.

"wanna die?"

"I don't want to."

After all, he did a lot of business without capital with Mao Chengshun. Although Mao Chengguo was also afraid of death, he was just breathing heavily at this time and was not trembling with fear.

"If you don't want to die, surrender me." Liu Sheng said, "Did Mao Chengshun send you here?"

"Yes."

"How did he know so quickly that I killed the person?" This was Liu Sheng's doubt.

Mao Chengguo was not prepared to lie, and said bluntly: "He just has doubts about you and is not sure that you did it. He sent me here because he didn't want to let go of you, a fat sheep."

"Fat sheep? Me? Hahaha..." Liu Sheng laughed, "I am indeed very fat, but I am not something that Mao Chengshun can eat. Well, tell me again, what will Mao Chengshun do if you three can't go back? ?”

Mao Chengguo was surprised when he heard this, "Did you kill them too?"

"Kill them? What a waste. I just knocked them out and tied them up."

Mao Chengguo was shocked and uncomfortable.

Before coming, Mao Chengshun told them that the man named Liu was a practitioner and told them to be careful.

He was indeed very careful - after finding Liu Jiazhai, he asked his two subordinates to observe secretly while looking at each other to avoid accidents.

Unexpectedly, without paying attention, two of his subordinates were killed by Liu Sheng first. Fortunately, he had tried to buy time before so that the two of them could rescue him or sneak back to fetch reinforcements.

Now it seems that if he wants to survive, he has no choice but to demote the man named Liu.

So, he thought about Mao Chengshun's work habits and said, "If we don't go back, Inspector Mao will probably bring all his men to kill us."