Section 123: Gou Er and Hu Rotten Eyes

Section 122

In particular, the control of the population, without local converts, it is impossible to establish effective rule. Unless the foreign invaders can bring in enough immigrants, they will have to rely on the local people. The establishment of the political apparatus, the army and the police.

Liu Yichu immediately threw himself into his busy work, and he continued to meet and talk with people every day, especially the domestic servants and masters of the gentry and big families who came to the city from all over the country to test their tone. Because of their reputation in Lingao and Chengmai, no one dares to directly confront the Crossing Group now, and even those who adopt a soft confrontation of ignoring it do not exist. All the big players want to know is: How much do they have to pay to maintain the status quo?

The price is very high, but it is not unbearable, and according to the words of the traders who came to Lingao, Lingao is now living a very good life. Not only is the market good, but the ground is calm. The bandits were either captured and beheaded, or forced to build roads, and no one dared to make a mistake.

The big families feel that if this is the case, things such as levying Ding and levying grain are not impossible, as for "Zhangtian", although everyone mutters a little in their hearts, but everyone thinks that this is the royal law of the new dynasty, and they have to deal with it first, and they will naturally relax after a long time. I heard the elders say that when Emperor Hongwu ascended the throne, the greedy officials were killed like cutting leeks, and when the emperor drove the guests, the officials were still the same corrupt. As long as you can save your life now, you will be able to take care of the long term in the future.

In such an atmosphere, all the gentry and gentry in Danzhou and all the villages sent people to participate in the "First Danzhou Political Consultative Industry Association Meeting" held in Chaotian Palace.

At this meeting, the Danzhou Aftermath Bureau was established, Liu Yixiao was appointed as the general office of the Aftermath Bureau, and Yin Chengshi was appointed as the office. He also designated more than a dozen prestigious and meritorious gentry in Danzhou as committee members. It is also stipulated that each village and village should send liaison officers to come to the county regularly for meetings and accept orders from the county.

Liu Yixiao's work began quickly, and he didn't need to explore or discuss. He had a whole set of experience at his disposal, a variety of information provided by the reconnaissance network of the General Administration of Political Security, and the indigenous cadres he brought with him to give him a great boost - as people of this plane, they knew this time and space better than the elders.

Hu Rotten Eyes stretched out his arms, and the sound of rain outside gradually became quieter. He opened his eyelids, which had been festering from his childhood eye, and the smoke of the rain-soaked bonfire outside the shack was rising. A damp chill hit him, and he couldn't help but shiver.

“T***。” Hu Rotten Eyes cursed, scratching his body for a while. A dozen of his cronies were lying around, sleeping like dead pigs, snoring like thunder.

He stood up - this is a deep mountain and old forest, except for the nearby Li people, it is rare for hunters to come here, and the relationship between the Li people and him is not bad. Hu Rotyan never robbed and killed the Li people near his own territory, and the Li people were quite murderous once they retaliated. Maintaining a harmonious relationship with each other helped him to live peacefully in the area.

This is the branch of Baosheling, more than 20 kilometers northeast of the state city. More than 20 kilometers is less than half an hour's journey by car in modern times, but in this time and space, it is already an extremely remote place in the county. The mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there are Li people who are active, and there are very few Han people here, and most of them gather in groups.

This is where the old camp is located. When Lingao began to suppress the bandits, the bandit leader was originally unimpressed, but as the bandits were finished one by one, his subordinates defected to the bandits and scattered bandits more and more.

After Gou Xunli joined Luo Maoshan, he became a dog-headed military advisor with a rotten eye, he is a sworn brother with a rotten eye, and he has a belly of ghost ideas, and he can write and calculate, and he is definitely a talent in the gang, so he quickly climbed to the position of the second in command of the gang.

Gou Xunli thought about the mixed-race "* girl" coming to give him instructions, so as to ruthlessly clean up the "thief" to take revenge. However, months and months passed, and there was no news from Hao Jing Ao. Gou Xunli did not dare to go to the county seat or Dongmen City - he was too famous, and there were many people in the county who knew him. I had to live like this in the bandits' den, waiting for the day when I would be a "homecoming group".

The news that the thief was going to suppress the bandit had already made Gou Xunli secretly frightened in his heart, he knew the thief's energy better than others, and now Hu Rotten Eye offered to change places, of course, there was nothing wrong with it-as long as he could save his life, there was always the possibility of a comeback. But he knows the rules of bandits: don't look at a barren mountain range, but everywhere is someone else's territory. The arrival of foreign bandits inevitably involves fire.

Unless the foreign bandits are very strong, they will most likely lose in the fire and merger -- the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake. Hu was not worried about this, because he himself was from Danzhou, and more than half of his brothers were from Danzhou—to be exact, they were all fellow villagers from neighboring villages. Now that their bandits have contained the scattered bandits, it has swelled to more than 200 people, and with the local township party clan, it is not a problem to occupy this territory.

So he took the men and horses, grain and grass and fine soft to leave the cottage and set off for Danzhou. Along the way, he defeated a group of bandits who tried to block the road and rob property, killed the bandit leader, annexed his men, and absorbed many bandits who were scattered along the way, and when he arrived in Danzhou, there were more than 300 people. For a while, it was called a strong soldier.

With the large number of people and the liliang of the local township party and clan, Hu Yanyan quickly defeated and eliminated a group of bandits entrenched in Baosheling, and became the king and hegemon in the local area.

Although Hu Rotyan is strong and strong, there are many people and the cost is large. He asked some people who didn't want to work in the local area to go back to work as home bandits. That is to say: when there is an event, gather together to rob and share the spoils, and when there is no activity, you farm at home. He himself took more than a hundred core bandits to live in the mountains, and from time to time he found an opportunity to go down the mountain to do a vote.

But a few days ago, the spies sent the news: a group of thieves has taken over Danzhou City. This made Hu Rotten Eye very anxious. Australians are particularly vigorous in cracking down on bandits. If I had come to Danzhou like this, I would have had to run to Changhua - the place was full of sand, and the people were so poor that they couldn't even support their subordinates.

Hu Yanyan yawned, picked up a bamboo scoop, scooped up a spoonful of water in the rainwater tank outside the shed, drank it and rinsed it, and wiped it on his face. Kicked the "sentinel" who was sleeping soundly at the door of the shack:

"You, don't stand up for the corpse, invite Master Gou here"

Gou Xunli lived in another shack not far away, and he occupied a shack by himself, which was not only a special treatment, but also a practical need, and his shack was full of various ledgers and rosters from the gang.

Gou Xunli was closing his eyes at this time. He originally had some of his subordinates, but after escaping to Guangzhou, because things were not going well, the money gradually ran out, and the people left*. Now he's an out-and-out single. Although he always encouraged himself, his hope gradually faded after the officers and soldiers suffered a great defeat in Chengmai.

Gou Xunli's only hope now is that his son will be safe and sound—he has not had his son's whereabouts for a long time. He once sent someone to Qiongshan to inquire about his son's news, but the person came back to report that Gou Chengxuan had been away from there for a long time.

"Brother, tell me, what are we going to do?" Hu Yanyan took a boiled taro handed over by his subordinates, poured out some salt from the bamboo tube, and ate it in a big gulp.

"Now I can only suffer." Gou Xunli smiled bitterly, and also peeled off a taro and ate it, it was not a problem to eat enough in the mountains, and there was plenty of grain and salt extorted from the hands of the big families and farmers, and there was a lot of cloth, gold and silver, but it was difficult to eat something good, and it was necessary to rely on hunting to get some fresh meat.

"I'm afraid they'll come and kill me."

"The thief will not have a firm foothold and will not come to suppress the bandits." "We don't have to be afraid. As usual, the gang of thieves must first give some benefits to the local people, build roads, build markets, and train militia and village bravery. When all these are ready, they will come to suppress the bandits. To do this, it has to be half a year and a year. ”

"It's easy to say that half a year is a year, even if you don't open, you can get by without trading. What about the future? ”

Gou Xunli didn't know what to do next: a sense of despair hung over him. The thief's attempt is likely to sweep the island.

He sighed: "The officers and soldiers are too useless......"

When the officers and soldiers gathered in Qiongshan to prepare for the crusade against the thieves, he and Hu Rotyan were both excited for a while. Gou Xunli came up with the idea, and as soon as the official army arrived in Lingao, he would pull up five or six hundred people in Danzhou to go to Lingao to serve the official army. Loot along the way and make a fortune.

I didn't expect the officers and soldiers to be defeated so quickly and so badly. To this day, the two of them sighed when they mentioned it.

Gou Xunli thought and thought silently, and after a while, he said fiercely: "We can't hide for a while." According to the little brother, we have to be ruthless and let them know that we are powerful."

Hu Yanyan was surprised: "Brother, you haven't lost your heart, you know the power of this thief best." It's good luck that they don't come to us, and we have nothing to do with their tiger whiskers."

Besides, listening to the report of the spies, there were nearly 1,000 thieves and horses in Danzhou this time. The bandits of all walks of life on the border of Danzhou together do not have a thousand.

"Big brother," said Gou Xunli, "the thief has powerful firearms and exquisite tactics, and we are definitely no match for him when we face each other. However, the 1,000 of them could not get together all day long. When the time comes, it is inevitable that a small share will be divided to 'go to the countryside'. ”