And the people of the Dong family didn't know at this time that they had just arrived in this Zhuangzi today, and someone ran to the village office a few miles away that had just been established a few days ago, and told the thief arrester that a group of big families had come to their Zhuangzi today, and their whereabouts were strange.

The Tang Dynasty established administrative institutions at the town and village levels in order to strengthen its control over the vast rural areas, not only in taxes and soldiers, but also in law and order.

Once there are bandits, river and ocean thieves and the like in rural areas, the local robber officer will first take the arrest to arrest it, if it can't be taken, it will be reported to the town sheriff, and it will not take long before the soldiers of the robbery camp will appear.

And these forces to maintain law and order at the beginning were actually not to deal with bandits, Jiangyang thieves or anything, but to deal with those big households.

In the feudal era, there were a large number of landlords and gentry in the vast rural areas, and the foundation of these large households was in the countryside, relying on land, clans and other forces to control the vast rural areas, and these large families wanted money and grain, and there were also a large number of tenants and family members who depended on them.

If they were intent on resisting the rule of the Tang Dynasty, they would be able to pull out dozens of rebels, or hundreds of rebels.

The purpose of Li Xuan's two-level action organization of towns and villages is to prevent these big families from rebelling against the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the big families in any village are the key targets of the village robber arrest officers and town magistrates, and once there is an abnormality, they will immediately report the relevant situation to the robbery arrest camp and even the military.

And this is also an important reason why Li Xuan set up a regular armed force like a thief hunting camp on the ground.

Even Li Xuan planned that after the situation stabilized a little and there were enough retired soldiers in the local area, he would get out the militia troops, and everyone should do what they should do on weekdays, occasionally concentrate on training for a few days, and wait until the farm is slack for a month.

As soon as there is any local turmoil, then the militia can be pulled out to maintain the situation as soon as possible, and it can be used to relieve the pressure of the robbery battalion and even the regular army.

After all, according to the current financial resources of the Tang Dynasty, raising a robbery camp with a scale of three or four hundred people in a county is basically the limit, and it is unlikely that there will be more, and it will be easier to have militia as a supplement.

Now that a group of people from the Dong family came to this village secretly, they naturally attracted the attention of the robber arrester in the village for the first time.

Immediately, this robber arrester who retired from the military was conscientious, and immediately took seven or eight of his subordinates to Zhuangzi, who was about to settle down in Dong's house, to take a look at the situation.

He went to the Dong family's manor to investigate the situation, not that he believed that the Dong family was a gangster or anything, but as a robber arrester in a village, he had the responsibility to find out the situation of the people under the jurisdiction of the village, especially the situation of those large families.

If the Dong family is just an ordinary big family, then there is nothing, as long as the people of the Dong family keep to themselves, then they can continue to be their landlords, but if this Dong family is one of those recalcitrant families, then don't blame him for being polite.

When this robber arrester came to the Dong family manor with the fast catchers, he said: "Quickly open the door and check", several Dong family members who were guarding the door were directly frightened, thinking that the pseudo-Tang thief army had discovered them, so they came to arrest them.

Immediately, someone ran and climbed and reported the situation to Dong Songan!

After Dong Songan heard this, his face couldn't help but change greatly!

It didn't take long for Dong Laoweng, Dong Bode and others who got the news to come out, all looking nervous.

"What's going on? Did those pseudo-Tang thieves come to the door? Although Dong Laoweng's words were in a calm tone, anyone could hear his seemingly calm tone with fear.

Dong Songan said: "It should not be the puppet Tang Dynasty's thief army, but their servants!" ”

"Why did they come to our house all of a sudden?" Dong Bode said: "We have been so low-key along the way, and we haven't alarmed them all the way!" ”

Dong Songan shook his head!

Naturally, they didn't know that the robber officer outside the door came to check, it was just a routine inspection, but they had all kinds of misunderstandings.

Now what?

This question instantly came to the minds of the people of the Dong family, and at this time, the ladies in the back house also seemed to hear the rumors, and an old mother came out of the backyard and came to this group of Dong Songan and others: "Master, young master, the ladies let the little one come to the front and ask, what happened outside?" ”

Dong Laoweng waved his hand and said, "Go back and tell Madame, there is nothing serious, don't panic!" ”

After the old mother bowed down and retreated, another subordinate ran in, and as soon as she came in, she said, "Master, it's not good, they said that if they don't open the door for inspection, they will hit the door!" ”

"What? How dare they? Dong Bode immediately said sharply, and he was a little anxious when he spoke, so that he began to cough as soon as he finished speaking, but after coughing twice, he continued:

"Is there any royal law here, this is our Dong family's mansion, why did they say that they would come in to inspect it, and there are so many female dependents in our Zhuangzi, what if they come in and disturb the ladies and young ladies!"

Dong Songan said at this time: "Grandpa, second uncle, I'll go out and have a look first!" ”

Dong Laoweng nodded slightly and said: "You go, talk well, give more tea and mercury, now it is the autumn of chaos, more is better than less!" ”

Dong Songan said: "An'er knows! ”

After that, Dong Songan just raised his feet and walked out!

At the same time, outside the Dong family's manor, Qu Guangtai frowned and looked at the closed door of the Dong family in front of him, thinking about countermeasures in his heart, this Dong family is a pseudo-Ming official family, otherwise, even if the ordinary gentry are dissatisfied with my Tang Dynasty, they will not be so afraid that they will not even dare to open the door.

If this is really a pseudo-civil official family, maybe there will be an armed confrontation, which is a bit tricky!

Qu Guangtai and all the magistrates under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the same as the robbers, are the Tang New Army retired soldiers, he was an ordinary villager on the edge of the mountain in his early years, the harvest of the rented field last year was not good, after paying the rent of the field, the family was not enough to eat, in order to save food, his old father ate grass roots and weeds, and finally starved to death, and the mother-in-law he just married was also because she couldn't stand it because of hunger, and secretly ran away with the strangers, leaving only him and his old mother and a hungry and blue-faced son.

In the first half of this year, when the family was poor and couldn't open the pot, and he wanted to take his family out to beg, it coincided with the large-scale recruitment of the Datang New Army, and in order to settle down and be able to eat, he joined the Datang New Army to become a spearman, fought for the Datang Dynasty for more than half a year, and was promoted from an ordinary cannon fodder soldier to a corporal.

But in the second Lanjiang Battle a month ago, he was injured in the wrist joint of his left hand in the battle, this injury is not big, it is not small, it is not heavy, it is not to the extent that the dead person, the limbs are disabled, and the life can not take care of himself, but if you want to say light, this wrist is already unbearable, not to mention lifting heavy objects, even fighting with a spear is not good, and the wounded soldiers of the military can only be forced to retire in the end after the wounded soldiers are well nourished!

However, the Datang New Army has always treated retired soldiers well, and in addition to distributing fields, as long as it does not affect normal work, they will arrange work.

Qu Guangtai turned into a thief arrester, and came to this village that the Tang Dynasty had just occupied, strictly speaking, he only came here for four or five days.

When a new official takes office, he naturally does not want to see any unstable factors appear in the village under his rule.

Seeing that the door of the Dong family was not opened, Qu Guangtai immediately said: "Get ready for battle, hit the door!" ”

After listening to Qu Guangtai's order, those young and strong catchers were still a little hesitant, but a few retired soldiers didn't say a word, they just started to prepare to hit the door.

And at this time, a small door opened on the side of the door of the Dong family, and before the door was opened, a man's voice came from inside: "Please slow!" ”

When Qu Guangtai saw this scene, he couldn't help but snort coldly, these big landlords are this virtue, when he first came to this place a few days ago, he conducted a thorough inspection of the big families in other villages, and at first he refused to open the door, but whenever he threatened to kill him, he shrank and opened the door obediently.

If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears!

After the side door on the side of the door of the Dong family was opened, first a small man with a melon skin hat came out, and then a young man wearing a cloth robe.

Although this young man was wearing a cloth robe, he knew at a glance that this man was definitely not a clay leg from the countryside, at least he was also a scholar, because his robe was Confucian.

I saw this person come out and said: "In Xia Dong Song'an, the owner of this place, I have seen this adult!" ”

Qu Guangtai watched this person speak, looked at him secretly, and then said, "Who are you?" Why did you come to our Guanghe Village? Open the door, we're going to go in and check! ”

When Qu Guangtai looked at this person, he also glanced inside along the open side door, just by looking at it, he knew that this family was not simple, and it was definitely not the ordinary rural landlords, because not only this young man looked extraordinary, but also through the side door, you could see that there were many people inside, old and young, masters and servants, just by looking at this scene, you can know that this family is extraordinary.

What is the origin of this Dong family, how could they suddenly come to the remote village of Guanghe Village, Guanmen, maybe they are a pseudo-civil official family?

If that's the case, we can't ignore it.