Wu Xuexia motioned to Wu Sanfu, what do you do, you just do it.

Wu Sanfu nodded.

Everyone present was actually as excited as Wu Sanfu, no one thought that Tiandi and President Wei could develop so fast and develop to this level, how long would it take to enter the customs?

President Wei has already taken everyone to a meeting in such an important town as Jinan City, and the political envoy Si Yamen in Jinan City.

"We must focus on the overall situation in everything, and when we have no time to worry about small things, it is inevitable!" Wei Bao said angrily: "Come on, serve the wine!" ”

Immediately, a soldier brought a jar of wine and a large bowl.

Everyone poured their wine.

Wei Bao said: "It's all done!" ”

Everyone immediately dried up the big bowl of wine, even if they didn't know how to drink, they held their necks without the slightest hesitation, and when they could drink with the president, they might not have a few times in their lives, and they all felt their blood boiling!

Wu Xuexia didn't know why, and suddenly felt like crying.

Princess Zhenming looked at President Wei, who was handsome and dashing, much more precocious than the average fifteen-year-old, and a trace of admiration swelled in her heart, and she found that she didn't know when she fell in love with this man.

The movements of the Heaven and Earth Society were very fast, and they did what they said, and from the next day, the nominal supernumerary imperial historians sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate to various places were bound together with the stewards of Haiphong Qianzhuang.

The Heaven and Earth Association began to screen and assess the officials of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Denglai and all over Shandong, and those who met the requirements of the Heaven and Earth Society were retained, and those who did not meet the requirements of the Heaven and Earth Society were left!

The main thing is to look at the past performance of these people.

In addition, the inventory of acres of land in various places has also been started at the same time.

It is also necessary to examine and select officials, to check the acres of land, to conduct in-depth education among the landlords and the common people, and to publicize the land policy and taxation policy of the Yamen, the governor of Haiphong.

All of this requires manpower, and it is a huge and heavy job.

At this time, the power of the treasure army was revealed.

The Bao Army is an army with political beliefs, and in the last battle with the Shandong Army, more than 2,000 people died, and more than 7,000 people died.

These 7,000 people are literate, hyphenated and illiterate, and they can not only reform and educate the newly incorporated personnel and horses in the army, but also help the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the steward of the Haiphong Qian Village, mainly to help persuasion.

The military is much more powerful in persuasion than the officials.

Just the military uniforms on their bodies and the swords and guns in their hands make people dare not disobey them.

"Dad, Wei Bao's people have already started to test officials in Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai, and check the acres of land!" Li Linsun said worriedly to Li Jingbai.

Li Jingbai's eyes widened in fright, "So fast? Does Wei Bao really dare to check the acres? Isn't he afraid of forcing all parts of the country to rebel and force them to be ringing horses? ”

Shandong Xiangma is very famous, although it does not produce war horses, but Shandong has always produced Xiangma, that is, thieves, and it seems that it has not stopped since ancient times.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty, the records of horse thieves have been endless.

Shandong is rich in bandits, especially horse thieves, and this is the result of a combination of reasons.

First, the complex terrain of mountains and rivers is conducive to rebellion. There are many hills in Shandong Province, especially in central Shandong, where the hills are dense and continuous.

The Jiaodong Peninsula is the second, and Luxi is the least, with plains as the majority.

This terrain makes it easy for bandits and robbers to come and go.

The contour lines of the hills of Shandong are very sparse, and although the mountains are continuous, there are many traffic channels between the mountains.

If the officers and soldiers pursued the thieves with a large force, the thieves' ships would be able to make a small U-turn and quickly take advantage of the low hills to scatter and evade.

After all, the mountain is not high, and it takes 40-50 minutes to climb a mountain of five or six hundred meters.

If you are riding a horse, the mountain road is not steep, and you can escape quickly.

Take Jinyang Pass at the junction of Zhangqiu and Laiwu as an example, although the pass is known as the key to the southern border of Qi County, carefully inspect its place, the slope of Jinyang Pass is less than 20 °, the ridgeline is gentle, and the valley is wide and feasible.

If you cross the pass from the side of the mountain, you can even travel on horseback.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the thieves of Zhangqiu in Qi County, Wang Bo, Meng Rang, etc., who were originally entrenched in Changbai Mountain, Shandong Province, where they first entrenched in the uprising, were typical low hills.

The Changbai Mountain is located at the junction of Binzhou and Jinan in Shandong, and is only more than 120 miles away from Guqi County in the west.

Wang Bo led the righteous army to repeatedly attack and harass Qi County, Zhangqiu and other cities, and the official army was defeated several times.

The reason for this is that at the beginning of the uprising, the number of rebels was small, and if they could win, they would fight, and if they could not win, they would retreat, and they scattered into the hills and mountains, and it was extremely difficult for large troops to pursue them.

Even if it catches up with it and invisibly reduces the numerical advantage, it is difficult to win the killing.

This situation determined that the Shandong thieves relied more on horses in the mode of transportation to increase the speed of maneuvering.

The more horses there are, the greater the fame, and the deeper the impression left on the official and the people.

Therefore, although there are not many horses in Shandong, once the thieves collect the horses and develop into a horse team, it is very easy to create the illusion of rampant horses.

The topography of Luxi and the southwest is different. Southwest Shandong belongs to the Huanghuai Plain landform, the Yellow River enters Shandong from southwest Shandong, and the ancient Yellow River is often diverted or broken.

The climatic conditions in ancient times are not much different from those in modern times, and the technology of controlling yellow is even worse, and there are bound to be more breakthroughs.

In addition, in ancient times, there were many lakes and lakes in Luxi, Ze, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, a huge lake in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, this big lake was more than 300 miles from north to south, more than 100 miles from east to west, from the current Juye County to the north to the north of the current Liangshan County.

Five generations later, due to the impact of the Yellow River's repeated breaches, the lake surface was silted up, and gradually dried up from south to north, and now Juye, Yuncheng, Jiaxiang and the southern part of Liangshan have been silted into flat land, and the north has become Liangshanbo.

Although the Liangshan Juyi described in "Water Margin" has a lot of imaginative elements, it does reflect that the river network is intertwined and the lakes are dense, which is conducive to thieves to lurk and come to a certain extent.

The thieves of Shandong, in general, are less in Jiaodong, and more in Luzhong and Luxi.

Such differences within the province are mainly due to climatic and agricultural conditions.

The central and western parts of Shandong are traditional agricultural areas, and floods, waterlogging and drought disasters are frequent and severe.

In the 268 years of the Qing Dynasty, Shandong experienced 233 times of drought, 245 times of waterlogging, 127 times of Huangyun floods, and 45 years of tidal disasters.

What's worse is that southwest Lu is a traditional densely populated area.

Cao County, the first stop of the Yellow River into Lu, the hometown of Shan Xiongxin, the fierce general of the rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and Huang Chao at the end of the Tang Dynasty, are almost all disaster-stricken professional households, and every time there is a major disaster, there will be a large-scale famine.

There is a local saying that says: "One year is decided, two years are famine, and three or four years are not eaten." ”

As a result of frequent breaches, farmers in the Yellow Flood area were unable to live, either wandering or becoming thieves.

Because the southwest and northwest regions of Shandong are at the junction of many provinces, the control of the government is relatively weak.

The Shandong government pursued and suppressed, either fleeing into Henan, Jiangsu, or Hebei.

He came to suppress it from there, and then returned to Shandong, so it became a long-term cured disease.

In the 32nd year of Guangxu, in 1906, an official of the Qing Dynasty concluded that Shandong "thieves originated from Yunju, flourished in Hecao, returned to Germany in the south, went abundant in the east, and the northeast vines in Yanyi and Tai'an".

The thieves at the borders of the provinces also often colluded with each other, which was difficult to extinguish, so that Rucido thieves became commonplace.

To and from many provinces, there is no doubt to rely on horsepower. The needs of the situation forced the Shandong thieves to buy and loot horses everywhere for the purpose of wandering.

The rest, such as the bandits belonging to Yizhou, the bandits belonging to Wuding, bandits, and horse thieves, are everywhere. Horse thieves come and go like the wind, extremely difficult to pursue, come and go, bandits everywhere compete to follow suit, and the name of the horse gradually comes out.

Strong and refreshing folk customs and social conditions are also the key, the same is a large agricultural province, the same frequent disasters and famines, Hebei and Henan do not have a similar situation in Shandong.

Although there are many thieves in Shandong, it does not mean that the people of Shandong are born to be robbers.

The main reason why there are always ringing horses is that natural disasters and man-made disasters have forced people to not eat, so they get together to do business for thieves.

Therefore, the reason why Wei Zhongxian handed over such a big matter as the dismantling of the Shandong Army to Wei Bao was that he did not plan that Wei Bao could get any cheapness, and he definitely wanted to give Wei Bao a hard bone to gnaw.

In Wei Zhongxian's view, Wei Bao was given a pie that he could solve the Shandong problem well, cut 50,000 horses of the Shandong army, and then cut 50,000 horses of Jiliao before he could become the governor of Shanghai defense.

The Governor of Haiphong is a big cake, and the others are hard bones, in other words, Wei Zhongxian didn't think that Wei Bao could eat this big cake.

The Shandong Army, Jiliao, and Liaodong's soldiers and horses are not easy to dismantle!

Wei Bao was worried that the matter would be too big and too urgent, and it would turn Shandong into the Xiangma Kingdom, and Li Jingbai thought so too.

So when Li Jingbai heard his son say the news, he was first shocked.

Li Jingbai felt that with Wei Bao's superb skills, he shouldn't have done such a stupid thing.

"Dad, what now?" Li Hesun also asked worriedly.

Li Jing stood aside and was silent, she had been thinking about Liu Yang's affairs for the past few days, and she didn't know how Liu Yang'e was doing now.

Wei Bao released Liu Yangao from the cell, but Liu Yangao has been in the yamen of the political envoy, and the outside world does not know Liu Yang'o's current situation.

Li Jingbai rubbed his head and said, "I know, you guys calm down!" How old are you? You are all so much older than Wei Bao, think about it, Wei Bao is only fifteen years old, and he is already a member of the fourth rank of the imperial court, that kind of bearing, think about you again, I am worried when I encounter a little thing, as if the sky is about to fall! ”

Li Linsun and Li Hesun were reprimanded by their father and did not dare to say anything more.

Li Jingbai felt that he was talking a little heavier, and said in a calmer tone: "Let's wait and see, it's best for us not to cause more trouble during this time, it's best to wait for Wei Bao to leave, I went to Beijing last time to watch the attitude of Wei Gonggong, Wei Gonggong and Wei Bao may not be all the way, think about it, Shandong is not a place for Wei Bao to stay for a long time." ”

"What if Wei Bao succeeds?" Li Jing couldn't help but say, "Daddy, you can't help but make this plan." ”

Li Linsun and Li Hesun nodded yes together.

"Succeeded? If Wei Bao succeeds, we will find another place to go, with your father's qualifications and reputation, and with the relationship between your father and Wei's father-in-law, are you still worried that there is no place? Da Ming has a lot of positions, and there is no need to fight with Wei Bao. Li Jingbai sighed and said: "Your father is this age, he has already passed the age of being willful, you remember, when you encounter a strong person, don't touch it hard, you will suffer, everything is detoured, and if things are slow, you will never have to worry about going the wrong way." ”

"Then why didn't Daddy consider going down the same path with Wei Bao? Since Daddy can hand over Liu Yangwu to Wei Bao, he just wants to be good friends with Wei Bao, right? I don't understand, since my father wants to be friends with Wei Bao again, and he recognizes Wei Bao is very strong, why can't he cooperate with Wei Bao? Li Jing asked.

Although Li Linsun and Li Hesun didn't think about this problem, the two brothers shook their heads together and said at the same time: "Sister, you are wrong!" ”

"What did I do wrong?" Li Jing looked at the two brothers with a cold face.

"Dad doesn't care about Wei Bao, it doesn't mean cooperation! Dad doesn't want to touch it, he doesn't want Jinan City to be ruined, and he doesn't want to see the officials and soldiers killing each other! Wei Bao's men and horses wore the military uniform of the Beijing camp, and they were already strong! Regardless of care and cooperation, these are two different things! Dad has been an official for many years, as a second-class member of the imperial court, how can he cooperate with a fourth-grade official? Li Linsun said.

Li Jingbai heard his son say this, his face relaxed, showing a little approval, and he felt that it was very good for his son to think like this.

Li Hesun saw that his brother seemed to have received his father's approval, and hurriedly said: "Another point, is what Daddy just said, Grandpa Wei doesn't seem to have the same path as Wei Bao, so to speak, Wei Bao may have crossed Grandpa Wei and climbed into the royal relationship, and Wei Bao's participation in politics as the governor of Haiphong Yamen should be directly supported by the emperor." The Ming Dynasty is now the Duke of Wei, and under the unclear situation, it is better to stay away from this Wei Bao. ”

Li Jingbai laughed, nodded and said: "You two are right, you have made progress, I do mean this, so I said wait and see what happens." There is news that Wei Bao will go to Liaodong after a while, once he leaves, Shandong is still our world, why bother with Wei Bao, he wants to deal with the officials of the Yamen, just let Wei Bao fool around, after a while wait for Wei Bao to leave, and then support a group of people again, wouldn't it be better. The iron-clad yamen, the flowing officials. What I'm most afraid of is that Wei Bao has taken control of the army! ”

"Wei Bao already controls the army, right?" Li Jing said: "Now they are all Wei Bao's soldiers and horses, and he has almost eliminated all the hereditary soldiers, and the newly recruited people are all young and middle-aged among the displaced people, and these people must be loyal to Wei Bao." ”

"So you're still too tender! These are all superficial, as long as Wei Bao leaves, when the time comes, there will be a general soldier, and the food and salary allocated by the court will be distributed from the general soldier, and whoever controls the food and salary will control the army, and the army has always been a mother with milk. Li Jingbai said with a smile.

"Then what if Wei Bao even replaces the general soldier with his people?" Li Jing said.

"Hehe, Wei Bao is not so capable, this is to ask Father-in-law Wei and the Ministry of War to nod, now that the power is controlled by Father-in-law Wei, how can Father-in-law Wei let Wei Bao hold the military power of the Governor of Coastal Defense?" Li Linsun said with a smile.

"Yes, with Wei Bao's cleverness, he can definitely think of controlling the general army, but he doesn't have such great ability." Li Jingbai nodded.

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