Captain Liang entered the city.

But just a simple sentence made people who were still panicked reassured.

The so-called "Captain Liang" is actually the captain of the Civil Defense Force. Wu Zhou is not as stable as it seems on the surface, let the natives give up their customs and habits, it is inevitable that they will be resisted, many natives hide in the mountains and forests and become bandits, although the official army has been cleared many times, but it is still difficult to eradicate bandits. The Akito's farm was often the first target for bandits, and when the officers and soldiers could not protect the farms from time to time, the Civil Defense Corps also came into being.

For many years, this civil defense team, with Ming people as officials and natives as soldiers, has been protecting the farm and protecting the safety of everyone's property.

When everyone heard that it was Team Liang's arrival, they immediately came to their senses. Zhao Guoliang hurriedly straightened his clothes and greeted everyone.

"Let's go, let's go to the door to greet Captain Liang together!"

So everyone walked to the door of the merchant house, and as soon as they went out, they saw a young man in military uniform jumping off his horse.

"I'm really sorry to keep you waiting."

Liang Huaming, who was holding a horsewhip, greeted everyone politely, although he was young, he looked extremely polite. Who would have thought that the fugitives back then would now become the captain of the civil defense team of Wu Zhou Ningde Mansion.

For the people of Wu Zhou Ningde Mansion, as early as ten years ago, they set up their own civil defense team, but it has not been very effective, although in the face of bandit attacks, for their own safety, some local farmers and wealthy businessmen have donated large sums of money to sponsor the civil defense team, but the effect has not been significant.

Although "money is easy to do", this team of more than 200 people has always had extremely limited combat effectiveness. Most of the Tuan Ding are the owners of the farm, the family members of the wealthy businessmen, most of them are young people with strong blood, and only a very small number of retired soldiers from the Central Plains have encountered those outlaws, although these children are also strong in blood. But he was never an opponent of bandits.

Liang Huaming, who fled to Wu Zhou a few years ago, settled in Ningde Mansion, and by chance, Zhao Guoliang knew that he had studied in a military school, so at his invitation, Liang Huali still accepted this mission after several resignations.

And the facts also proved that Zhao Guoliang did not look at the wrong person. Although Liang Huali was very young, he did graduate from the military school, and during his time at school, he was involved in many battles against the local bandits, and in terms of professionalism, he far surpassed those in the civil defense team.

After presiding over the civil defense team, Liang Huaming first conducted strict training on that group of three sects and nine streams, kicked out the unqualified people out of the team, and then recruited and educated natives from various families, with Ming people as officials and natives as soldiers, and trained the civil defense team into a quite combat team.

Not only did it keep the farm safe, but even the Pingsui Mansion was full of praise for this armed force, and even paid a lot of money to hire a civil defense team to help the government exterminate some fierce and stubborn bandits. In a sense, over the years, the local civil defense forces have been the reason why Wu Zhou's rule has been consolidated.

At this moment, seeing that Maxima came over for himself, Zhao Guoliang immediately stepped forward and waved his hand to greet him with a smug face.

"Captain Liang has worked hard all the way. The food and wine are ready, waiting for you and your brothers to take their seats. The guild hall specially invited a Huaiyang chef this time, the Liang family is from Gyeonggi Province, and what they eat is Huaiyang cuisine, you can taste this dish is not authentic. ”

As soon as he heard that he could eat hometown food, Liang Huaming immediately came to his senses. Although in the past, he didn't think it was a big deal to eat, but after fleeing to Wu Zhou, he did always worry about this matter, although Yahuan would cook a few dishes, but the craftsmanship was very ordinary, as for the food made by the Tianzhu slave maid at home, it was really difficult to compliment, in his opinion, even if that kind of food was eaten by livestock, the livestock might not be able to eat, especially those natives actually cleaned up directly with their hands after entering the toilet, so his principle was never to let the natives touch the food.

He has been missing his hometown for a long time, so Liang Huaming waved his hand to Zhao Guoliang.

"Then it's going to be disturbing down there."

At this time, Zhao Guoliang noticed that there was a stranger by his side, and through the observation of this person's demeanor and demeanor, he could already conclude that this person was not small. But seeing that Liang Huaming did not make an introduction, although Zhao Guoliang had some doubts in his heart, he did not ask in person.

It was only when Liang Huaming and the others were introduced into the merchant hall that they cautiously whispered.

"Captain Liang, who is this son?"

Hearing Zhao Guoliang's question, Liang Huaming smiled at him.

"This son is a friend I made when I was in the royal city. Let's get inside and introduce it to everyone. ”

Seeing Liang Huaming answer like this, Zhao Guoliang had no choice but to suppress the curiosity in his heart. However, he still subconsciously sneaked a few glances at the mysterious guest. For some reason, he always felt that this person must have his purpose when he came here at this time, but he couldn't think of what kind of purpose he would have for a while.

Just as Zhao Guoliang was secretly thinking about it, a group of people had already passed through the corridor decorated with dozens of red lanterns and came to the hall of the merchant hall. I saw more than a dozen sumptuous banquets in the hall, when Zhao Guoliang and Liang Huaming walked into the hall. I saw that the guests present stood up without exception and respectfully greeted the arrival of Liang Huaming and the president.

"Captain Liang, the big guy has been waiting for you."

Hearing what President Zhao said, seeing this situation, Liang Huaming immediately clasped his fists and said to everyone present.

"Hua Ming is just a martial artist, and he is so enthusiastic by everyone, he is really ashamed. Only by redoubling our efforts in the future can we repay you for your love for Huaming. ”

Here, no one will look at him differently because of his background, the Liang family has long since declined, even if the Liang family of Guiguo still exists in Guiguo, but it has long since lost the prosperity of the year, as for him Liang Huaming, now he has taken root here, as the captain of the civil defense team, for him, the current life is quite comfortable.

"Oh, look at what Captain Liang said, Captain, you and all the brothers protect our family and home, we can't repay it, we can only prepare some wine and food to treat Captain Liang and our soldiers."

A person not far away got up and respectfully bowed to Liang Huaming. Everyone else followed him.

"That is, if there is no captain, how can there be the stability of Ningde now, not to mention anything else, even those river bandits are enough for us to have a headache......"

Located in the Ganges Delta, Ningde Province was once a desolate overgrown estuarine tidal flat, which was flooded every summer, and the floods also brought fertile silt, but because they were often swallowed up by floods, these lands have been extremely inhospitable for thousands of years, either overgrown with reeds, or overgrown with mangroves and trees.

It wasn't until more than a decade ago that with the arrival of a group of Ming people, damming, releasing water, and slash-and-burn cultivation finally turned this large area of estuary wasteland into fertile arable land. Correspondingly, the abundance here also attracts bandits, especially since the delta is full of small islands for bandits to hide.

The prevalence of river bandits was a headache for the farmers of Ningde Province, after all, they suffered heavy losses with each attack - many slaves were snatched and their houses burned. That is, in the past few years, the prevalent river bandits have been swept away under Liang Huaming's purge. Let the people here regain their quiet and peaceful life.

If it weren't for the fact that they were being targeted at the slaves on their farms this time, it is estimated that this quiet and peaceful sitting would have lasted forever.

"You're serious. Liang Huaming and others have only done a little bit of their best, and this is also the responsibility of the following, since you have taken out the money to establish a civil defense team, as the captain of the lower team, you should shovel your life for everyone, and besides, although we are overseas, it is also our duty to work together to protect ourselves! ”

Liang Huamingang's words immediately attracted a burst of praise from everyone present.

"But Captain Liang, now our good days are probably coming to an end, then Aurang Zebu Xing attacked Wu Zhou, saying that it was because we used slaves, saying that those slaves were their brothers, God is pitiful, those slaves were bought by us from the south, why didn't they go to the south, and they wanted to fight here?"

"Yes, in the final analysis, isn't it because I didn't take advantage of it in the south, and seeing that we Wu Zhouguo had few small soldiers, I found such an excuse to come over!"

I don't know who in the crowd suddenly complained, which immediately attracted the unanimous echo of the others.

As we all know, although Wu Zhou claims to have a population of 10 million, but in fact, the Chinese people are only a few hundred thousand, even if they add native soldiers, the strength is only a few hundred thousand. After all, there are too many unstable factors within Wu Zhou, and the simplest factor, those natives whose beliefs have been converted, is very likely to become Aurangzeb's internal response.

It is precisely because of this that they have such worries, winning in the past does not mean that they will win now.

"Actually, in the final analysis, it's because now Aurangzeb knows that Wu Zhou is just a group of routs who escaped from the country, and the Ming Dynasty will not ask them whether they are alive or dead. As for us, although we are Ming people, but in Wu Zhou, the imperial court naturally protects us, and now they let us release all the slaves and maids with one mouth, and they haven't even given us a decent compensation. They dare to be so unreasonable, aren't they sure that the imperial court will not give us any protection because of their dissatisfaction with Wu Zhou! ”

Wu Zhou's background is not correct!

The founding monarch Wu Sangui was born a traitor, in the past many years, although Wu Zhou has tried to establish relations with the Ming Dynasty many times, but there has been no progress, although a large number of Ming people have come here over the years, and they are also enjoying the "super-national treatment" here, but the Ming Dynasty has still not changed its attitude towards Wu Zhou.

In the eyes of many, this is the reason why Aurangzeb dared to ask them to release their slaves without regard for their interests - because the Ming would not care about anything that happened here.

In fact, the reason why they came here back then was more because the privileges they enjoyed here were far more than in Nanyang, of course they also knew the particularity of this place, and they also knew that the imperial court could not give them much protection here, after all, Wu Zhou's background was really not on the table.

As soon as the words of this person fell, someone over there said with a sad face.

"If I knew this was the case, I wouldn't have come to this hellish place. Now it's better. We've earned most of our lives, and we can't afford this flutter. We can be regarded as moldy for eight lifetimes. I came to this place all of a sudden. It's good now. On the one hand, something happened, and the court would not take care of us. In such a place, how could the imperial court come and take care of us. ”

"Who said the court didn't care about us?"

At this moment, Liang Huaming's eyes swept away, and after that, he introduced the man behind him to everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you want the court to control us. Then we'll have to figure it out ourselves. This gentleman is the next cousin, and he has a way to save the big guy, but I don't know if everyone is willing to listen. ”

"He has a way? What's the solution? ”

People who were originally in despair immediately set their eyes on this stranger as soon as they heard that there was a way. Even if they had never seen this person, they clearly believed in Liang Hua.

Years of contact have led them to believe that Liang Huaming will never tell a lie. Since he now says that there is a way, then there must be his idea.

"Brother Liang, please speak up."

Zhao Guoliang looked at him and said.

"As long as the current crisis can be solved, there is absolutely nothing to say about any of the elder brother's orders."

There is no way to deal with the crisis in front of him, and the government can't count on it, so he will naturally not give up any hope when he is already desperate.

"Actually, it's easier said than done."

The middle-aged man, who had been silent, stood up and looked at everyone and said.

"If you just stand here and think that the heavens will ignore you, then one thing is for sure, it will not be the court that will not ignore you when the time comes. It's that you yourself have been sent to a desperate situation, and what's the use of just sitting here complaining about the heavens and the earth for you? ”

The middle-aged man looked at the farmers gathered here, and his face was full of sarcastic smiles.

"You're saying it easy. Then I said that if you have any way to let the court ask us about it, you won't look at what kind of place this is. ”

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately refuted.

"Where?"

The middle-aged man smiled. Then he looked at these people and said loudly.

"I don't know what kind of place this is, but I know who you are, you are all Ming people, since you are all Ming people, then why don't you write to the court to ask the court for protection?"

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