After several days, the inside story of the killing of Yang Shida and Guan Er has gradually spread.

It was accompanied by the incompetence of Li Kecheng of Qianhu...... Li Kecheng has become an out-and-out laughing stock.

Under the deliberate connivance of Min Qiande, the Min family went all out to publicize Li Kecheng's stupidity and cowardice, flattered and even flattered Yang Shida's incompetence and fear, and did not have the calmness and reserve of a military attache family, and could not even talk about the most basic official routines. And Min Yuanqi led the flag army to Shuiguan Hefang to rescue Wang Sanyi and the two small flag officers who were kidnapped by Yang Shida and his gang, this matter is already a sure fact, the two small flags and Wang Sanyi were tied up is something that many people know, and now they all appear in their respective homes with all their beards and tails, what is the truth, do you need to say more?

The magistrate of Huai'an Mansion symbolically sent a few messengers to the Yunti Pass to do an investigation, but no one paid attention to it at all, Li Kecheng was in the center of the storm, and he also knew that the government was doing an official article, and he didn't pay attention to this matter at all, Min Qiande even refused to see these people who handled the case, these people touched a nose of dust in the city of Yunti Pass, and then went to each hundred households to no avail, and the military households were extremely disgusted with these officials who usually could not protect themselves and dared to come to investigate the case when something happened. These people have no harvest at all where they go, white eyes or insults are very rewarding, if they change the place of the people's households, they are always a little afraid of the officials and errand servants of the government, Yunti Pass is a village formed by the Weisho Banner Army, and the social status of a single Weisho Banner Army is not as good as that of the people, at least in terms of income is far worse than the households, but when these banner armies form a whole, not to mention some officials who have not entered the stream, even if the official is afraid of the Yacha relatives, it is not good......

Moreover, the morale of the flag soldiers has been much higher recently.

Maybe outsiders don't quite understand what this means in front of them, but Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi, including the hundred households, the general banner, the small banner, and the ordinary flag army, as well as the big people in the city of Weisho, are quite clear and understanding.

Why did Li Kecheng wilt? Isn't it because Min Yuanqi's strength made his heart beat and he was terrified? In the past few days, the Li family's family members and servants have been trapped at home and are not allowed to go out, and dozens of people have closed the door during the day.

After Min Yuanqi eradicated this gang of villains, the news spread along both sides of the Huai River within a few days, Huai'an Fucheng, Shuyang, Shanyang, Guannan, Haizhou, Andong...... It is conceivable that the nearby prefectures, counties, market towns and villages will spread this matter, and then Min Yuanqi's name will also spread all over these places because of this incident, and he will become a well-known tyrannical person in the entire Dahewei and even Huai'an Mansion......

There is such a capable, resolute character, and a heroic man who dares to act in the local area, and such a person is of course quite legendary for ordinary flag soldiers, even if Li Guoding and Wang Sanyi are half a level higher than Min Yuanqi in terms of official positions, and they are still colleagues of the elders, the result of Min Yuanqi's rise and the current big things is only secretly appreciated and openly and secretly supported.

The road connecting the two hundred households is the village road, there are some shrubs and sparse woodland on the side of the road, this piece of offshore place can be regarded as a vast and sparsely populated area, but the sparse woodland is because most of the people in this era have not yet had the habit of planting trees on a large scale, and at the same time, there are few opportunities to use coking coal in ordinary times, and most of the fire-burning pots are mostly made of straw and trunk branches, plus large-scale frying salt requires reeds, withered grass and branches, and the result of continuous cutting is that the forest is becoming more and more sparse, and even the reed wetlands are occupied by the gentry. Xu Guangqi originally wanted to change frying to drying, the main reason was that the grassland around the Huaiyang Salt Farm was privately owned, and the stove households had to spend money to buy all the fire starters such as grass stalks, reeds, and branches from these people......

It's just that Xu Bachelor is a scholar, but he has never stepped through the threshold of human feelings, and his good student Sun Yuanhua is the same, talking about casting artillery and other technologies is a first-class good hand, the first person in the dynasty, but when he became the governor of the army, the measures were inappropriate, and he couldn't suppress the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who came from the Dongjiang River, and there was no way to reconcile and deal with the contradictions and conflicts between the guest soldiers and the local garrison, as well as the officials and gentry and the common people, which eventually led to an uncontrollable situation, in addition to making the state affairs bad, he was also sentenced to death......

The procession of more than a dozen people walked on the path, approaching the 300 households at noon, if it was the usual kind of agricultural slack, you could see the smoke rising from the east far outside the village, except for a few who went to the city or the nearby big market town or even the county town to pick up work, most of the military households stayed at home to fry salt, so as to make up for the loss of the poor farmland production in the day, and at the same time earn a few living money to collect, in case of extraordinary needs.

But now there is no smoke at all, even those half-grown children who are collecting dead branches on weekdays are nowhere to be seen, at most there are some dolls carrying dung baskets, and before the basket is high, they begin to pick up dung on the side of the village road, donkeys, horses, mule dung or chicken dung These things are considered a treasure, the dolls are sent out to do these things is nothing more than adults to find them something serious to do, most of them do not expect them to succeed, there is a seven or eight-year-old doll somehow found a large piece of donkey dung, is cheering and shouting, At a glance, I saw Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding, two people wearing official robes, and there were more than a dozen banner soldiers behind them pushing the cart to follow, the little doll shouted, and the rest of the little babies ran away with dung baskets, but Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding were both shocked.

Less than half a mile further, on the side of the stone bridge at the entrance of the village, there is an arrow tower more than three zhang high, and the flag army patrolling and guarding above has already found that it is two hundred household officials who have brought people to come, and they are waving the flag vigorously on the arrow tower......

"It's Yuan Zhong."

The two hundred household officials walked to the arrow tower, Li Guoding frowned and looked at Min Yuanzhong who climbed down, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"This arrow tower was just repaired the day before yesterday." Min Yuanzhong smiled and saluted, and replied: "There is one in the east of the village and one in the north of the village, and everyone takes turns to be on duty. ”

"Very good, I'm afraid Yuan Qi will get carried away." Li Guoding is a straightforward person, and he has a very good relationship with Min Qianli, the former thousand households, and has worked together for many years, and is qualified to treat Min Yuanqi as a junior...... I couldn't see it before, when Min Qianhu only said that this kid was a military attaché, and wanted to send him to the Zhenwu camp in Nanjing to be a sentry officer, and slowly plan for a future, now it seems that Brother Min and I underestimated Yuan Qi back then. ”

The hundreds of households from outside praised their own brothers and hundreds of households, of course, Min Yuanzhong also had a light on his face, and at the moment he humbled Min Yuanqi a few words, that is, he led the two and the car convoy to the village.

In addition to the arrow tower, there are two sentry posts after crossing the stone bridge, but they have been notified before, and the sentry posts in the inner perimeter have not come out to check and block.

"We also bought food the day before yesterday." Min Yuanzhong said with a smile: "Yuan Qi took one hundred and ten taels of silver, and bought exactly one hundred stone of fine grain and more than two hundred stone of coarse grain, so mixed in this way, there are now more than one hundred and ten people in the trained banner army and Yu Ding, and four liters of grain per person per day is enough for dozens of days...... Almost everyone in the village now has something to do, the grain is sent out by the official hall, and the hearts of the people are stable when they have food...... It's easy to do. To put it mildly, the two hundred household officials are acquaintances, so light to come in, if you change the others, the first arrow tower found the first to drink, do not listen to the bow and arrow directly greet, in addition to practicing the skills of the array flag golden drum these days, the rest of the time is used to practice archery. ”

"It's not easy to be skilled with bows and arrows." Wang Sanyi was shocked by the strict atmosphere here in Min Yuanqi, and also shocked that Min Yuanqi easily gathered the hearts of the entire hundred households, and was also shocked by the orders and prohibitions here, and he just subconsciously said from another angle: "It's easy to learn, it's hard to master, it's difficult." I've been practicing bows and arrows for so many years, and I can't say I'm a good hand! ”

Min Yuanzhong arched his hand and said with a smile: "Wang Baihu's archery skills are the number one in our Yunti Pass, and there are more than 3,000 registered flag soldiers in the entire Dahewei, and there are more than 800 soldiers in the Banner Army, and the old Baihu is also the number one who can be ranked!" ”

Everyone talked and laughed and walked to the village, but after a few days, the weather in Baihu Village was very different from before.

The most noticeable change is that the garbage piled up and thrown along the street is gone.

Min Yuanzhong explained with a smile: "We have said that the weather will soon get hot, and each family must avoid the epidemic and dispose of the garbage quickly if they don't provoke the sick." You throw these things in front of my house, and I throw them on the side of your house, to put it bluntly, everyone is dirty, and no one can benefit from it. Attract a large number of flies, insects and mosquitoes, these things are dirty, when the weather is hot, there will be epidemics, these things spread, as long as one person gets sick, the whole hundred households are in danger...... We are here like around the 20th year of Wanli, the 47th year of Wanli, there have been two major epidemics, and there are dozens of dead people...... Adults say that it is much better to maintain good habits, such as not drinking raw water, not littering, and washing your face and hands before eating, than to spend money on treatment when you are sick. In this way, coupled with the fact that everyone is supporting the official food, everyone is very high-spirited, and in less than a day, they clean up the inside and outside of the village, and even clean their own homes. We say that no matter how poor you are, you can't be dirty, a person is not afraid of being poor, if you are dirty outside the house, it means that you have no heart to live, what can the poor have except for a heart? If the heart is gone, then it is useless to say anything, he doesn't take such a person to run for the future......"

Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding nodded frequently, at the beginning the two were shocked by the cleanliness and neatness of the village head, the littered dirty garbage was gone, the streets and the doors of each person, the yard was swept clean, and some low-lying places were newly padded with bricks or stones, along the road in the center of the village, although the houses on both sides were still low thatched houses, but they just gave people a bright feeling. But partiality is to be able to grasp some details, and it is quite certain.

"The garbage is all dug and buried outside the village." Min Yuanzhong said with a smile: "Our hundred households say that it is nothing more than some rags, which will melt in a few years when they are buried, and they will not pollute the underground water source if they are far away...... Now Baihu is talking very much, and I can't understand it anymore. ”

"If you don't understand, learn more." Li Guoding encouraged: "We are old, you hundreds of households have the ability, you juniors should follow closely, and learn from him to do a career." ”

"Well, we Baihu said that when Yanchi makes money, the first thing is to expand the army and train more elite soldiers to prevent foreign enemies. The second is to make weapons, armor, buy war horses, prepare bows and arrows, and strengthen yourself, so that you are not afraid of wolves to rob you...... Yuan Qi said that the world is afraid that there will be chaos, food is the top priority, military grain farming is fundamental, and then come down to talk about other things, such as building roads and bridges, and improving housing for each family......"

When he said these words, Min Yuanzhong's eyes lit up, and even the two foreign hundred-hundred- What kind of picture does it look like before their eyes? Training, sufficient food, sufficient equipment, and then let everyone live a good life, and do not worry about others, if this is done, will it not be restored to the situation when Emperor Taizu Gao was more than 200 years ago?

Of course, there is still a long way off, the land is in the hands of the senior officials of the guard, and everyone is still a military tenant farmer, but as long as they follow the right people, they can ensure food and clothing for a year, so many people can be regarded as content.