After gradually handing over the business to his youngest son, Jiang's father began to enjoy a semi-retired life.

Due to the fact that the eldest son Jiang Ming's official position is getting bigger and bigger, Jiang's father not only has a respected status in the Jiang clan and responds to every call, but also local officials at all levels, including the county magistrate, are even more courteous to this Jiang master, and often invite him to attend various banquets, wanting to please his son Jiang Daren.

Father Jiang really never dreamed that he would live such a glorious life in the second half of his life, all thanks to the appearance of his eldest son Jiang Ming.

Once, when he was passing through the street in a sedan chair, he suddenly saw a thin middle-aged man chasing a middle-aged woman who was covered in dirt.

The middle-aged woman was unwilling to be beaten and fought back, and the two sides fought inextricably.

While the woman fought back, she kept scolding the middle-aged man.

From the scolding between the two, you can roughly guess what is going on.

The middle-aged man was a peddler, and the woman was his wife, but she was addicted to gambling all day long, and often stole her husband's money to gamble.

When the man found his wife in the casino, she not only lost all her money, but also owed a lot of debt. The husband was so angry that he got into a fight with his wife in the street.

The woman who was beaten not only did not have the slightest remorse, but also scolded her husband for being useless and a wreck, and she couldn't even afford to support her wife. And all kinds of foul language are endless, which makes people look sideways.

Father Jiang felt that the woman's voice was a little familiar, and after carefully identifying it, he recognized that the woman was actually his vicious wife Cha Shi, who had been abandoned.

It seems that after she was released from prison, she married again, this time to a peddler.

Looking at the vulgar and vulgar middle-aged woman in front of him, it was really hard for Father Jiang to imagine that twenty years ago, this woman showed such a virtuous and weak appearance in front of him.

Maybe that's what she's really like.

Recalling the past, Father Jiang couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

In addition to the three main supporting roles of Zhou Haiqing, Jiang Bo, and Jiang's father, Chi Fei also wrote the stories of some other supporting characters with little pen and ink, which can be regarded as a general explanation.

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After explaining the situation of these supporting characters clearly, the second half of the volume is to write the last story of the protagonist Jiang Ming.

At this time, Jiang Ming was already the prefect of Xuyang Mansion, and he also had two lovely children.

In his early thirties, he was promoted to the prefect of the fourth grade, and such a promotion speed was too scary to be heard of.

The reason for this is that Jiang Ming made a rare great achievement after the Anti-Japanese War a few years ago: he exterminated several gangs of bandits who had been entrenched in Xuyang Mansion for many years, and eliminated the stubborn diseases that had been bred in the local area for many years.

It is said that the terrain in Xuyang Mansion is mainly hilly and mountainous, with very few plains, and it has always been an important place for soldiers.

Due to the dangerous terrain of Xuyang Mansion and the necessary place for many caravans to enter the south of the Yangtze River, it led to some outlaws who started to rob passing merchants here.

Although the local government and army have often sent troops to suppress bandits for many years, they have had little effect.

The main reason is that the bandits occupy a geographical advantage, and once they encounter a large number of officers and soldiers going up the mountain to encircle and suppress, they will immediately hide in the deep mountains and dense forests and flee.

After the officers and soldiers leave, they will start to do business again, so that the officers and soldiers of the local guard post have nothing to do.

Many higher-level officials such as the local prefect, Tongzhi, and Tongju have been collectively questioned and dismissed by the imperial court because of their ineffective suppression of bandits, so when Jiang Ming, who was the general judge, took office, he basically became the leader of the local civil officials.

Jiang Ming knew that the imperial court had taken a fancy to his precedent of success in resisting the Japanese, so he specially transferred him here, hoping that he would be able to eliminate the stubborn disease of bandits in Xuyang Mansion.

He knew that exterminating the bandits in his territory was his most important task, so he began to study countermeasures day and night.

Through the investigation and study of several groups of local bandits, he found that the reason why the bandits have failed over the years is not only because the bandits have geographical advantages, but also because the officers and men are not familiar with the mountain roads and can easily be thrown off by the fleeing bandits.

Moreover, the number of officers and soldiers in the local guard post is limited, and it is unrealistic to enclose the entire mountain.

To put it simply, there is a lack of guides who are familiar with the mountain trails and a lack of manpower.

The problem of guides is relatively easy to solve, after all, there will always be people in the area who know how to go on the mountain.

But the problem of lack of personnel is not easy to handle, there are so many officers and soldiers in the local guard station, and as a civilian official, he naturally has no right to increase troops at will.

Xuyang Prefecture is different from Huainan County, which has been suffering from the Japanese for many years, and the local people are not able to make a living, breeding a large number of displaced people, as long as they are given a bowl of rice to eat, a large number of displaced people can be recruited as militia.

However, the bandits on the side of Xuyang Mansion usually only rob passing merchants, and rarely move the local people, so there are not a large number of displaced people in the local area, and it is difficult to recruit a large number of militia like Huainan County. Even if they were recruited, they wouldn't be able to support so many people.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower, Jiang Ming pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a way to use his strength.

He first invited all the merchants who would pass through Xuyang to do business in Jiangnan in his personal name, and then analyzed the pros and cons with these unprofitable businessmen, and encouraged them to contribute people and money to jointly suppress the bandits.

This offer really impressed these merchants, who had also suffered from these bandits for many years.

Every time you pass through this place, you have to hire a large number of bodyguards to escort you before you dare to pass through. Not only is it expensive, but it is also extremely cumbersome.

If you are unlucky and encounter a large number of bandits, even if you have bodyguards, it is useless, and most of them will end up with lost goods and deaths.

Although Jiang Ming is a civil official, he has the great reputation of being a famous anti-Japanese general, and those businessmen will come here.

Now seeing that Jiang Ming really wants to suppress the bandits, these businessmen who have suffered from the bandits for many years quickly reached a consensus and intend to fully support him in doing this.

Soon, these merchants began to raise huge sums of money to recruit a large number of young men from all over the country, forming a militia of 5,000 people.

Jiang Ming divided the seven thousand young men into multiple squads in groups of five, and then designed a simplified version of the Mandarin Duck Formation for each squad.

This so-called simplified version of the Mandarin Duck Formation is actually composed of the first three responsible for attacking the enemy with spears, and the latter two are responsible for covering their teammates with short knives and shields to prevent the enemy from getting close.

The advantage of this simplified version of the Mandarin Duck Formation is that it can attack the enemy on relatively narrow mountain roads, which can not only give full play to the advantages of the spear, but also use the short knife and shield as a match, which can be attacked and defended, killing two birds with one stone.

After a full year of training, Jiang Ming finally decided to start a war against the nearest group of bandits.

For this battle, he is well prepared.

Not only did he personally go to the school every day to train his troops, but he also managed to find a local person who was familiar with the mountain roads as a guide.

He first asked the commander of the local guard to cooperate with him in suppressing the bandits.

The commander of the local guard post was also afraid that he would be questioned by the imperial court for his ineffective suppression of bandits, so he naturally did not dare to slack off. So he obeyed Jiang Ming's order to gather all the officers and soldiers and set off for the bandit settlement.

Just when the officers and soldiers were preparing to attack from the front, Jiang Ming quietly led the 5,000 militiamen to the back mountain under the guidance of the guide and ambushed them.

When the officers and soldiers rushed up the hill as usual, the bandits immediately retreated back to the mountain. All along, they have escaped the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers in this way.

But this time they never expected that Houshan had long been surrounded by Jiang Ming's militia group, and their withdrawal was undoubtedly self-defeating.

Jiang Ming, who personally commanded two anti-Japanese wars, is experienced in dealing with thieves.

As soon as the bandits arrived, he immediately led the ambushed 5,000 militia to suddenly kill them from all directions, taking them by surprise.

Although in terms of personal combat power, the bandits who are accustomed to trading without capital are naturally much stronger than these young men who have only been trained for about a year, but at this time, this simplified version of the Mandarin Duck Formation designed by Jiang Ming quickly showed strong combat power.

When a team of five people faced three or less bandits, the combination of long guns and short knives almost from the beginning took a one-sided advantage, killing those bandits in a hurry.

In addition, the militia was originally more than twice as numerous as the bandits, so the bandits were quickly defeated by more and less.

Finally, with officers and soldiers in front and militia in the back, this gang of bandits who had been entrenched in the local area for many years suffered countless casualties and surrendered one after another.

In this way, Jiang Ming successfully won the first battle against bandits and successfully destroyed a den of bandits.

After this war, not only did Jiang Ming become famous, but the businessmen who supported him in suppressing bandits were greatly encouraged and sent him various congratulatory gifts.

Jiang Ming is also very good at being a man, and when he sent a war report to the imperial court, he deliberately exaggerated the military exploits of the commander of the local guard station, so that he also received a lot of military exploits.

The commander saw that Jiang Ming was so good at behaving, and he was even more convinced of him, as long as Jiang Ming asked him to do things in the future, he would do anything.

In this way, Jiang Ming and the commander of the guard made the two work together and began to launch one after another against other bandits******* according to the different characteristics of each group of bandits, Ming used various methods of persuasion, counter-attack, inducement of the enemy, sneak attack, encirclement and suppression, etc., to break them one by one, almost without missing a beat.

Jiang Ming's prestige is even more famous in the entire Xuyang Mansion and even the entire southwest region.

Many of the bandits were terrified almost as soon as they heard his name, and did not dare to make enemies of him.

In just a few years, Jiang Ming successfully eliminated all the bandits' nests in Xuyang Mansion and restored peace to the local area.

And Jiang Ming himself was also promoted to the position of the prefect of the fourth rank at a young age because of this outstanding military exploit.

At the end of the story, Jiang Ming, who was promoted to the prefect of Xuyang Mansion not long ago, accidentally fell asleep one day while working on official documents in the study at noon.

In his sleep, he seemed to see himself in his previous life.

It was still the appearance of the old beggar, dressed in tatters and homeless, and he was hobbling on the icy road.

When Jiang Ming fell asleep, he found that his face was already covered with tears.

He couldn't tell whether the previous life was a dream he had in this life, or whether this life was just another dream that he had not finished in the previous life.

At that moment, the sound of a child's laughter was heard outside the door, and soon the door to the study was pushed open. Two white and lovely children are sneaking in.

As soon as they saw Jiang Ming, they immediately ran over excitedly and hugged him and said, "Daddy, you've finally woken up." ”

Behind them, his wife Xu Ruomei was walking over to reprimand them with an angry face, "You guys are arguing with your father again, is your skin itchy again?" ”

The two children stuck out their tongues and quickly hid mischievously behind their father.

Xu Ruomei came to her husband and asked, "Husband, were you woken up by them?" ”

Looking at his wife, who was still very young in front of him, Jiang Ming, who had just woken up from that dream, hugged her with some excitement.

Xu Ruomei couldn't imagine that her husband would do this in front of her two children, and while she was shy, she couldn't help but feel sweetness in her heart.

The two children also looked at their father and mother hugging each other with great curiosity.

While feeling his wife's body temperature, Jiang Ming's heart gradually settled down.

He is no longer the pitiful and hateful fool of his previous life, he now not only has a smooth career, but also has a loving wife and two lovely children.

He's not alone anymore.

He once again sincerely thanked God for giving him a chance to do it all over again, and he would cherish his relatives and friends in this life and never let them down again.

At this point, the whole "Rebirth" ends here. The book consists of 12 volumes and more than 1.8 million words.