In order to make room for me and Luo Rou, the two captains who were originally sitting at this table went to another table with their glasses.

Kang Yan got up and raised his glass and said: "Come, let's salute Wang Gongzi for a cup, don't say anything about the first merit, we are errand boys, take the court and die on the battlefield, it is also natural, but Wang Gongzi has never spent a penny in the court, but he is also willing to fight with us and others, for this pride, do it!" ”

Everyone stood up: "......"

I also stood up and drained the wine in my glass, but I was a little ashamed in my heart, because the reason why I was willing to work with them to exterminate Xiaoliangshan and other bandits was actually the biggest purpose was to avenge the master, of course, it didn't mean that I didn't want to do something for the people.

Get up and fill a cup for Kang Yan: "Lord Kang, you have made a great contribution this time, and I wish you a smooth career and a high step by step!" ”

Kang Yan smiled and said, "It's all thanks to your hard work!" Everyone's credit lies in the excerpts to the imperial court, and I should report them one by one! ”

……

What follows is the endless toasting, the endless toasting of others.

In the noisy atmosphere, I also knew intermittently about how they exterminated the Juying Alliance.

It turned out that Wu Jungang led people to the outside of the Juying League village, and ordered the bird gunners to keep shooting into the cottage, and the cavalry opened a posture and galloped back and forth in a circle outside the village.

In the dark night, the people of the Juying League thought that the army was coming to suppress it, and they dared to come out to meet the battle, so they immediately sent people out of the village to ask for reinforcements.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived on the Yellow River, they were rushed and killed by Kang Yan, who was waiting for work, and the Qinglong Gang, who was well versed in water warfare, helped from the side, and the bandit army collapsed in an instant, killing more than 300 people, drowning more than 100 people, more than 1,200 people were captured, and more than 100 people escaped by night.

Zhao Dayong led the troops that exterminated Xiaoliangshan to join Kang Yan and join the army, and Kang Yan immediately ordered the army to go to the Juying League.

When the heads of Lu Liangde, Pigeon Shi Chuanyu, Guan Yanke and other leaders were placed at the bottom of the mountain, hundreds of people came out of the village that night.

The next day, Lin Zi'an, who knew that the general situation was gone, left the cottage with a few of his henchmen and ran away secretly. But Kang Yan expected him to have such a move, and he had already planted an ambush in the important place, and he, his two women, and three cronies were all killed. When his head and Lu Liangde's head hung together, the people in the cottage no longer had the will to fight, and all abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Song Sangong and Lin Zi'an were killed, more than 3,000 people were captured, and a total of more than 450,000 taels of dirty silver, more than 300 catties of gold, and countless jewels were seized. The bandits, who had been rampant for decades, were all disintegrated in a matter of days, and the ground finally calmed down.

At the banquet, except for Luo Rou, everyone was drunk.

When I woke up in a guest room in the back office, it was already the next morning.

Luo Rou was sleeping on the small table, her slight snoring and a faint smile made me feel so happy and at ease.

I couldn't bear to wake her up, so I took a quilt from the bed and carefully draped it over for him, and then sat down across from her, quietly waiting for her to wake up, just as she had waited beside me.

"Goo...... ......After a while, his stomach cried out louder and louder, like a drum. Alas, yesterday I only cared about drinking, and I didn't eat much, and it's been more than half a day, and I'm already hungry and can't stand it.

Luo Rou was woken up by my deafening vocal music, and when she opened her eyes, my face appeared in front of her, which seemed to surprise her, her body trembled slightly, and she said happily: "Ah, you are awake!" ”

"Yes! I'm still hungry, are you hungry? I laughed.

"A little!" Luo Rou whispered, took off the quilt on her body, and put it on the bed.

"Then let's go get something to eat!"

Luo Rou nodded, and said in a mocking tone: "You are a rich man now, are you going to invite me to be so chic?" "She rarely talks to me like that now.

"What kind of rich man?" I asked, a little puzzled.

Luo Rou took out a handful of silver tickets from her body: "Look at it! It's 20,000 taels of silver! There are still twenty catties of gold leaves, and I have already deposited the silver number, well, this is a golden ticket. It's all given to us by Kang Yan! ”

I vaguely remembered that Kang Yan had come after returning to the house yesterday, and he had forced something into me, and it turned out that he had sent silver, and if he was sober at the time, he would definitely refuse. Now, the money has been collected, don't be in vain, and I will be disrespectful.

Although Kang Yan is a clean official, he did not report all the silver. He took out 50,000 taels to reward the whole army and compensate the casualties, and took out tens of thousands of taels to hand over to the county order to let him use it to help the people who have been persecuted by mountain bandits all these years. He himself also left tens of thousands of taels, and took out tens of thousands of taels of silver back to Beijing to make offerings, and the jewelry also asked the soldiers to pick a few pieces and take them back to their daughters-in-law. In the end, what was really handed over to the imperial court was only 200,000 taels of silver. Of course, it is understandable for him to do this, this is the way of being an official, even if he reports it without greed, there are still no slanderers in the court, it is better to take out some silver and block the mouths of the people, everyone is happy, and his official is also obedient.

I was embarrassed to let the people from the yamen make breakfast for us, so I took Luo Rou out of the yamen.

Yesterday's commotion has passed, and calm has returned to the outside of the yamen.

The people are naturally happy to exterminate the bandits, but after the happiness, life has to go on, they don't have too much time to waste, they still have to work hard for life.

found a steamed bun shop, asked for ten steamed buns, two bowls of porridge, and had breakfast with Luo Rou.

"We're going to Beijing in two days!" I said softly. At the banquet yesterday, Kang Yan said that he wanted to keep an official position for me and hoped that we would go to Beijing with him, which was in the arms of Luo Rou and me, so he responded without much hesitation.

"Hmmm! The future of the Sky Wolf Gang is coming! Luo Rou gritted her teeth and said hatefully.

"After we enter Beijing, we should not act rashly first, and wait for us to gain a firm foothold and then slowly clean them up, after all, the capital is different from other places." I said.

Luo Rou said knowingly: "I know, I won't mess around, so many years have passed, and I am not in a hurry to meet at this time." ”

"Listening to what Kang Yan said, there are still people behind Hou Hu, let's keep a low profile, in case we startle the snake, it will be even more difficult to find out who is behind the scenes."

Luo Rou said with some concern: "I also understand, but no matter how difficult it is, I have to avenge my father!" The last sentence was indescribably firm.

"I'll always help you!" I took Luo Rou's hand and said softly.

Luo Rou symbolically twitched her hand and said softly: "I know, you will always be with me, thank you!" ”

Gently squeezed Luo Rou's hand: "Do we still need to say thank you between us?" ”

Luo Rou's pretty face was slightly red, and she didn't say anything.

A warm breakfast.

After walking around the street, he and Luo Rou returned to the county office.

As soon as I arrived at the county office, I found that something was wrong, and the entire county government could be described as chickens flying and dogs jumping, and it seemed that everyone was packing up.

"Brother, the matter of returning to Beijing has to be slowed down!" Before I could sit down, Kang Yan said to me.

Luo Rou and I looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, but seeing everyone's hurried look, the matter must be not small.

"Oh! What's wrong? ”

Kang Yan shook his head and said: "There was a civil strife in Annan, the lord Chen Zhehan was killed by the father and son of the clan Li, and his young son fled under the desperate cover of his retainers, and went to the capital through Laos, asking the imperial court to raise troops to quell the rebellion. After the Li father and son won the country, they raised troops to invade our border. The defenders of Zhennan Pass were negligent and were broken through by the Annan people, and now the Annan people are using Zhennan Pass as a base to loot hundreds of miles nearby, and the southern border is full of wolf smoke, the people are displaced, and the whole country is angry. I have just received the order of Wan, ordering me to go to Guangxi immediately to crusade. ”

In ancient times, Annam was called Jiaozhi, and it is said that the first country of Annam was named Ouluo. Since Qin Shi Huang conquered Cochin, for more than 1,000 years, no matter how the imperial court of our country has changed, the country has always been a subject state of our country, and we need to pay tribute to our country every year. Of course, few people will do such a thing as paying tribute willingly, so for more than a thousand years, the people of Annam have rebelled. I know some of these general situations, and that's all I know, and the rest is for Kang Yan to explain to me, and under his detailed explanation, I finally understood the whole thing.

It turns out that although the current lord of Annam is hereditary of the Chen family, he needs to be canonized by the emperor of our country to be justified. Chen Zhehan, the then head of the country, was very old, his energy was greatly weakened, and he was unable to take care of state affairs anymore. Li Yide and Li Xiangrong of the Li clan of the Annan clan took the opportunity to rebel, killed more than 300 members of the Chen clan, and established themselves as the lords of the country. More than 30 people below the political envoy of the Ministry of Cochin Cheng Xuan in Thang Long were also killed. What's more, the Li family and his son also set up arson to invade our border, and wantonly plundered, raped, and killed our people in Guangxi. Almost at the same time that the emperor received the young lord of the Chen family, he also received an excerpt from the political envoy of Guangxi about Annan's border offense. Chen You's retainers obediently asked the emperor to "mourn the innocent people, raise the army of hanging, and exterminate the righteousness", and put down the chaos after he came out. Hu Yiming, the imperial historian, also wrote that "although the Chen family is incompetent, it is quite popular among the people, and its people cherish it. "I hope that the imperial court will help the Chen family to restore the country. The emperor then ordered troops to be sent to quell the rebellion.

Kang Yan was repeatedly recommended by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and Cheng Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to serve as the chief military officer, and was named the general of Zhengyi, leading the army to pacify Annan. In the will, he scolded the Li father and son for "being a clown, a heinous crime", and what can he say, "If this thief is not punished, what is the use of soldiers". It can be seen that the emperor is also angry, and the will also asked Kang Yan not to waste time on the bandits, and immediately go to Guangxi to take office. The emperor didn't know that all the bandits who had been rampant in Luxi for more than ten years had been suppressed, and the excerpts of the victory were already on their way to the capital.

At the same time that Kang Yan was ordered to go straight to the front line of Annam, a "Essay on Seeking Annam" from the imperial court was also sent to the provinces and prefectures with 800 li expedited.