Lin Ziran, who was riding on a Nanzhou horse, was dressed in a military uniform, with a gold background and silver edge pinned to the collar, and a peony Shaoqing collar badge was carved on it.

Peony, in addition to the many symbols of the peony flower itself in the Daheng Dynasty, it is also the symbol of the Ji Dynasty.

Because the home of the Ji royal family is peony flowers, Lin Ziran has heard of the Ji family's palace in Beijing, which is surrounded by countless peony flowers.

At the same time, the peony is also the national flag of Daheng, the collar badge of senior generals, and the peony flower pattern is also used.

Many people, whether outsiders or insiders, sometimes refer to Daheng directly as the Peony Dynasty.

Lin Ziran, who was wearing a peony collar badge, put on a navy blue military uniform unique to senior generals, anyone who saw it knew that this was a senior general in the Daheng Dynasty.

It's just that many people don't know that Lin Ziran's Shaoqing military lord has not been recognized by the county guard's office, but is only the acting Shaoqing privately granted by the Third Division.

But this does not prevent Lin Ziran from dressing up as a Shaoqing and treating himself as a real Shaoqing.

Riding horses to the gate of Xinmu Town, the local town guard and several other officials and gentry were already waiting at the gate of the city.

At this time, Luo Mazi had already stepped forward first, and then sang aloud: "Commander of the Third Division Supplementary Brigade, Lin Shaoqing has arrived!" ”

In fact, Lin Ziran was just a few meters behind Luo Mazi, and this singing almost didn't scare Lin Ziran.

Lao Tzu is here, what are you yelling about?

At this time, the people of Xinmu Town also stepped forward and said, "Humble to meet Lord Lin!" ”

Lin Ziran was also too lazy to take care of Luo Mazi, and immediately took two steps forward: "You don't have to be polite, Lin Mou came to purely military affairs this time, and he didn't want to disturb you, I'm really sorry!" ”

However, having said that, Lin Ziran still rode on a Nanzhou horse that was a full one meter five or six, and he had no intention of getting off the horse.

It's just that he stretched out his hand and raised his white-gloved hand!

This deputy Shangguan's style made Luo Mazi see it, and it felt a bit like Jian Liangzhi at the beginning.

I remember that when Jian Liangzhi first came to Qingshan Town, he was like this when he met Lin Ziran, Luo Mazi and others, who seemed to be kind and polite, but he looked high.

After entering the city, Lin Ziran took a group of officers and the people of Xinmu Town to have lunch, which was a reception banquet for Xinmu Town.

In the afternoon, Lin Ziran called Shi Jinhao over.

"I'm here today, I've been angry with you before, I'm here to suppress bandits, and the bandits in the nearby area have been quite serious recently, so I have to guard against it!"

Listening to what Lin Ziran said about suppressing bandits, Shi Jinhao nodded and said yes, but in his heart, he was thinking, suppress bandits, who are you cheating, our Xinmu Town is so poor that even bandits don't want to come more.

Besides, our escort team in Xinmu Town is not vegetarian either.

Although there are only more than 100 people in their escort team in Xinmu Town, a few are a little less, and the equipment is a little worse, but it can be regarded as a militia group, with weapons and training, and there is no problem in dealing with bandits or anything in normal times.

Anyway, he Shi Jinhao had never heard of any bandits nearby, especially a large-scale bandit gang that required Lin Ziran to dispatch hundreds of troops to suppress the bandits.

But if you don't see through it, Lin Ziran has to say that he wants to suppress the bandits, and he can only go along with it.

Whoever let the timber merchants in the town have already made their attitudes clear and took refuge in Qingshan Town.

Lin Ziran came with a large army, and the timber merchants welcomed it very much, and even forced Shi Jinhao, who was guarding the town, to agree to let the army enter the city.

Lin Ziran continued at this time: "What is needed to suppress bandits is to encircle and suppress them from all sides, although the troops brought by this official are quite a lot, but they are not enough, so tomorrow you will let the guards in the town go with us to suppress the bandits." ”

"Let the convoy go to the bandits?" Shi Jinhao couldn't understand why Lin Ziran did this.

Not to mention that there are no bandits, even if there are really any, it will not be enough for the escort team to suppress the bandits, he Lin Ziran has a few hundred people.

Lin Ziran turned pale: "What, there is difficulty?" ”

Shi Jinhao hurriedly said: "No, no, when you turn around, let the escort team follow your department to suppress the bandits!" ”

Lin Ziran smiled again on his face at this time: "Well, good, very good, Lord Shi has this love for the people, and the official is very pleased!" ”

After coming out of Lin Ziran's side, Shi Jinhao was not in a very good mood on the way back to the town guard mansion.

The master on the side said: "My lord, what are they doing with the escort team, really going to suppress the bandits?" ”

Shi Jinhao said: "What kind of bandits, is this unclear plan to incorporate our escort team!" ”

The master said with uneasiness: "Just let them be co-opted?" ”

"Won't you give it?" Shi Jinhao said: "Let's not talk about the supplementary brigade first, let's just say that this escort team, can you and I completely control it?" ”

Without waiting for the master to answer, he said: "I can't control it, this escort is nominally the town's escort, but one of the officers in it is counted as one, and all of them are those gentry!" ”

"Now that those timber merchants have taken refuge in the past, it's useless for us to stop them, and we can't stop them!"

Hearing Shi Jinhao say this, the master also sighed: "It's not easy, I knew earlier, my lord, you shouldn't have spent so much money to buy back this town guard, it's been more than two years, and you haven't returned to your roots!" ”

When Shi Jinhao heard this, his expression froze, and after a pause for a few seconds, he sighed deeply: "Yes, I wouldn't have bought this official if I knew it." ”

On the other end, Xu Zhongshu, who came with him, was reporting to Lin Ziran: "My lord, I have already gone to see the lowly position of the escort team, there are a total of one hundred and sixty-five people, the quality of the soldiers is average, but they are all young and strong, and if the officers are officers, they are all non-professional officers." If you want to be recruited, I'm afraid you will have to put it into the new barracks and retrain! ”

Lin Ziran said: "Well, since that's the case, let's put them into the recruit camp for training!" ”

Xu Zhongshu said: "What about this escort team? ”

Lin Ziran said: "This is not simple, we will directly leave the ninth company and hang the name of the escort team!" ”

The Ninth Company is a newly formed infantry company, with dozens of veterans as the backbone, and the other nearly 100 people are recruits who have just completed their recruit training.

Lin Ziran brought them over this time, in fact, so that they could stay in Xinmu Town.

In this way, the subsequent unit with the name of the Shinki Town Guard, which is actually the Ninth Company, will live in Shinki Town and receive military expenses from Shinki Town as a local militia group.

According to Lin Ziran's plan, the action on the side of Xinmu Town is actually to incorporate the local militia and obtain military funds from Xinmu Town in the name of the local militia group.

Basically, it's similar to what Sanyang Town and Qingshan Town do, all of which are to let their troops be stationed in various places in the name of local militia groups, and then justifiably ask for military expenses.

In order to achieve the purpose of raising more troops with the help of these towns.

As for directly taking over the local town guards, or even directly collecting taxes, this kind of thing will definitely be done in the future, but not now!