For a few days after that, Shang Chengcheng has been staying in Dujiadian to deal with the aftermath. The purging of the remnants of the bandits lasted for three days, and the bandits who escaped were bravely searched out by the border army and township, and all of them were captured alive and returned to the village to be executed immediately after verification, and the villagers in the surrounding villages also sent six corpses of fugitives who had been beaten to pieces by pouting nails and raking stones. In the next few days, first the Beizheng Border Army Command Department supervised the routine work, and then the Beizheng County Order received the news and brought the Division to deal with the aftermath, and then the Yanshan Wei Mansion and the Border Military Mansion also sent people to verify the results. Shang Cheng had no administrative experience, originally thought that as soon as these people came, things would come to an end, and he would be able to relax, who knew that the more people there were, the more things would happen, and he greeted his colleagues on a business trip every day to respond to the consultation and settle down to comfort the soldiers, and he was so busy for a while that his feet did not touch the ground. Things are complicated and complicated, coupled with the cold weather and strong wind, in order to keep out the cold, the brazier is burning in each house during the day, the weather is dry and the charcoal is thick and the charcoal ash is boiling, his injured right eye is boiled red all day long, the fire is hot and itchy, and the problem of tears in the wind is getting worse day by day. Later, even the few cotton handkerchiefs he carried with him to wipe his tears were too late to change them, and the pain during the attack of eye disease made him scratch his heart unbearable, and in desperation, he had to ask someone to make an eye patch for himself, and although it was more unsightly to wear, it finally made his right eye, which had tormented him for a long time, and finally stopped his right eye for a long time.

This busyness is half a month, and it is not until the ninth day of November that all kinds of affairs are disposed of. In the meantime, the Yamen of the Beizheng County and the border army commanded the Yamen, thinking that Dujiadian is located in a remote and sparsely populated area, but it is a ditch and the traffic between the east and the west is smooth, and it is a good place to breed bandits and raise bandits. He resolutely opposes this short-sighted approach of looking at the present and ignoring the future. He thought that since the bandits could gather here, at least it meant that the water source here was not too scarce, and it might not work if there were more households, but it would definitely be no problem to accommodate three or five households; Moreover, because it is located in Chongchong, if the climate changes and the rain is abundant, it will inevitably return to the past scene, so Dujiadian not only cannot give up, but also should migrate people from nearby villages to operate. He is the direct commander of Xima, the head of the local military and government, and it is his duty to deal with this kind of thing, and it is not easy for the two yamen to argue with him, and if he speaks reasonably, others cannot argue with him. The three parties got together and went through the motions and discussed twice, and finally according to his idea, he found three voluntary bankrupt farmers from a neighboring village, distributed rations to grow grain and farm tools, and bought two large livestock from Guan Yao and distributed them. Seeing that the three families were settled and the grain, rice, oil, salt, and firewood for the winter and spring were rich, he left Dujiadian with Shi Baokan and a border army.

The news that the bandits in Dujiazhai were in a nest by the border army was like a wing, and it spread in the east and west rivers in a few days, and the villagers who were harassed by the bandits in the mountains and the horse thieves on the grassland were all happy. With the safe return of a few "meat tickets" that were plundered by the bandits, soon, even several states and counties in the west had rumors that the imperial court was determined to exterminate the bandits, and the evidence was that the guards who came from the south one after another did not send so many soldiers to suppress the bandits. Fighting the dogs is just a pretense, and curing the bandits is the purpose of the imperial court.

On the 10th day of November, Mazhi Dazhai concentrated 200 border troops to mobilize more than 340 villagers, and another guard army cooperated to set up an ambush in Shangma Zhichuan to annihilate a gang of horse thieves who had been operating on the border for a long time. More than 80 heads were cut off in the service, more than 100 people were taken prisoner, and more than 300 horses were captured.

Before Mazhi Dazhai's report of the victory army had reached Duanzhou from Beizheng, the entire Yanshanwei was stunned by the two great news that came one after another.

From the 5th of November to the 8th of November, the Left Army and the Chinese Army dispatched 11 battalions of nearly 7,000 guards to attack at the same time in Xiyan Mountain and Zhongyan Mountain, which were 600 miles apart, and in just four days, they laid down five bandit cottages, killed, wounded, and captured alive more than 1,300 bandits of all sizes. With the three major gangsters of Yanshan all subdued, the three major bandit gangs that had been rampant for more than ten years disappeared, and the remaining small bandits were even more panicked, either disbanding or fleeing into the grassland in groups. The banditry in Yanshan, which had lasted for hundreds of years since the Tang Dynasty, was finally curbed and intensified.

The arrest of the leopard and Fang Dayan is the biggest happy event in Yanshan in the past two years, and there are people from all over the country who pay for the temple fair to celebrate, and the scene is not worse than the Lantern Festival. The government also came to join in, and the Admiral's Office issued a proclamation that the curfew was lifted for three consecutive days from November 25 to 27, allowing people to set up a stage in the city to watch the fires and lanterns. As soon as the news came out, the military and civilians were excited, and the prices of wood, lamps, oil, cotton paper, and other festive objects on the market suddenly rose by 30%, and the red cloth and red silk were almost sold out.

The news soon spread throughout the territory of Yanshan, and even in a small place like Zhizhong Village in Xima, there was a proclamation that the government had suspended the curfew on the outer wall of the command yamen.

Just when everyone was racking their brains about how to make a good fortune in the lantern watching, Shang Cheng was scratching his head about something that had nothing to do with him.

The border army rescued eleven "meat tickets" in Dujiadian, and his distress also came from these "meat tickets".

Among the eleven "meat tickets", there were three women who were exhausted, and he handed them over to Sun Zhongshan to dispose of. He originally thought that the soldiers would care about the identities and origins of these three women, but he knew that the result was completely unexpected, just like the old border soldiers who came from the village, they didn't care about this at all, in order to fight for these three women, several qualified border soldiers even fought against each other. Sun Zhongshan had no choice but to come up with a "lot" strategy, but the veteran who didn't touch the woman's side sprinkled all his anger and resentment on his head, and someone stood outside his house in the middle of the night every day, pinching his nose and calling him to get up and pee...... Six of the other eight women asked for their home addresses, each sent them a copy of the pack, and then found someone to take them home. Things are going well with these nine women, those who should be married, those who should be repatriated, and there are no mistakes in the middle. The remaining two women were more troublesome. said that it was two troublesome women, but in fact, it was just one of the troubles, that is, the daughter of the Jingguan Yang He Gongdu; As for the other woman, it can be completely skipped and left untitled, it is her maid. The trouble for this daughter is not only because she was born in an official family, but also because she is also the daughter-in-law of the second son of the Cheng family in Yanzhou. What's worse is that this woman who almost became the lady of the Tiancrushing Village is actually a girl who has just performed the ceremony, she looks like she is in her early fifteens at most, with a childish face on a baby face, and she has been frightened too much along the way, and she looks cowering and hesitating when she looks at everything. In order to prevent her from suffering more, and in order to prevent the future of her fathers, Shang Cheng thought about it for a long time before deciding to hand over this matter to Sun Zhongshan. Sun Zhongshan is cautious and thoughtful, and he is knowledgeable and reasonable, so he can deal with the Cheng family very well and pave a better road for this girl. However, he still repeatedly explained that Sun Zhongshan must keep this matter confidential, and he must never talk about it with anyone, not even mention it.

But now Sun Zhongshan, who he had high hopes for, stood in the room with a depressed expression. Yanzhou's errand was smashed by him. The Cheng family didn't recognize this family at all, insisting that Miss Yang had already died of a sudden illness on the way to Yanshan, and Sun Zhongshan was under the banner of sending people home, whether it was good intentions or trying to blackmail money, it was a blind man who lit the lamp in vain. They even took out a letter from Yang Gongdu from Shangjing as evidence. Yang Gongdu said in the letter that his daughter Fubo died in the middle of the road, and hoped that Cheng Qiao would not be too sad, and also let the second son of the Cheng family not be sad Even if his daughter went, he still recognized the Cheng family as a relative and the second son of the Cheng family as a son-in-law......

Shang Cheng was really disappointed in the border army sentry commander in front of him, who had just been promoted to Renyong's lieutenant. Quietly send a girl home, and then come back quietly, Sun Zhongshan can't do it; Not to mention that he couldn't do it, he couldn't make up his mind himself, and even pulled people back in the same car......

He moved the blindfold to his forehead and stared at Sun Zhongshan up and down with his two eyes. He really couldn't understand, what did Sun Zhongshan mean by pulling this girl back? The Cheng family doesn't take her in, doesn't her father want her? Yanzhou couldn't stay still, so he went to Beijing, do you still say that you are still afraid that I will not allow you to leave? You should be a publicly-funded tour, send the girl home, and then go to Beijing to see the plain mansion, and when you come back, you will return to your hometown by the way, and meet your parents and brothers and sisters as a benevolent lieutenant, and the family will be reunited, isn't it beautiful?

Sun Zhongshan met his gaze without flinching, and stood up frankly. But Shang Cheng always felt that his eyes didn't seem to be on him, but around himself and stayed behind him. He turned his head suspiciously to see that there was not a single fart behind him except for a wall that had not been evenly painted with white ash.

After a long time, Shang Cheng asked, "Do you think my life is too leisurely and want to find me something to do?" ”

"I don't dare."

Shang Cheng grinned and said, "Don't dare? So what do you mean by pulling people back for me? You can't help it, can I have a way? ”

"Adults are wise and wise, and there must be more ways than the job, and the methods they come up with must be better than the methods under the job." Sun Zhongshan said smoothly like an endorsement.

Shang Cheng stared at Sun Zhongshan with squinted eyes and didn't speak for a long time. It's so strange, now that even Jin Xi doesn't pat himself on the back, Sun Zhongshan actually came to take advantage of the cold stove, and his words are so straightforward, there is no subtlety and obscurity at all when a scholar flatters him...... Clearly, there is something wrong with this.

But what's the problem?