The first executioner knelt in front of Luo Hui, bursting into tears: "My lord, my lord's kindness and villain can't be repaid!" ”

Luo Hui helped him up: "You get up, now is the time to employ people, you don't want to live up to the expectations of your officials!" ”

Qiu Ming stood up, "If the adult has something to do, just give orders, the villain Qiu Ming will go up the knife mountain, go down to the sea of fire, and do everything!" ”

"Qiu Qianhu, this official doesn't need you to go to Dao Mountain, and he doesn't need you to go to the sea of fire" Luo Hui paused: "There are more than 100 bandits in Erlong Mountain, I am full tonight, have a good rest, and I will go with this official to suppress the bandits tomorrow!" ”

"Little obedience!" Qiu Ming bowed his head.

Luo Hui looked at these more than 100 people, plus dozens of servants, it should be enough to deal with those mountain bandits.

"That's right!" Luo Hui suddenly remembered something: "This is a thousand households, and now there are only more than 100 military households, who cultivated those farmlands?" ”

"Lord Hui, most of the fertile land has been sold to the gentry by thousands of households, all of them are tenants in Zhongdi, and the rest are some hard-to-cultivate wasteland, let me wait to cultivate, after the wasteland, if the thousands of households lack money, they will continue to sell!"

"It's hateful to send someone to raid the homes of the five of them!" Luo Hui's eyes were cold, these military attaches were no better than civilian officials. The difference is that civilian officials can squeeze people from one county and one government, while military attaches can only squeeze military households under their hands.

Therefore, the military households in the late Ming Dynasty were particularly miserable, and they were not even as good as tenants. Tenants also have personal freedom, military households are hereditary, ancestors are military households, and the younger generations are automatically reduced to military households and become domestic slaves of the officers of the guards!

It is no wonder that the military families risked their lives and fled one after another. It is not surprising that the former 1,000 houses have become the 100 houses today.

"Is there any tax paid on the fertile land that was bought?" Luo Hui thought of a very important question.

Qiu Ming shook his head: "The fertile land in the household is all tax-free, and I have never heard of them paying taxes!" ”

Luo Hui nodded, no wonder Daming's tax revenue was so small, only three or four million silver per year. It turned out that it was because there were so many tax-free fertile lands that were encroached upon by those gentry in this way.

As soon as he thought of this, Luo Hui was angry. If it weren't for the heavy responsibility of recruiting An, he would have been eager to return to the capital now and suggest that Emperor Chongzhen reform!

Now he can only sulk, and it is impossible for him to spend too much time on this kind of thing.

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The next day, Luo Hui set off with more than 100 people.

Now the faces of these military households are full of happy smiles, because half of the 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver they got from raiding their homes yesterday has been given to them, which is a huge amount of money for them who are poor and white. The rest of Luo Hui was handed over to Wan Bi to keep it, so that he would not gossip in the future!

After arriving in Qinghe County, he joined more than 30 officials of Wang Zhutou and rushed towards Erlong Mountain.

Wang Zhutou was a little worried: "My lord, are there fewer of our people, and the number of those mountain bandits is a little more than ours!" ”

Luo Hui disdainfully: "We are officials, they are bandits, and they are three points weaker in terms of momentum!" ”

"My lord, I also heard that the Erlong Village is steep, stationed on the cliff, there is only a narrow road to go up, where the mountain bandits have built a camp, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to break through!"

Luo Hui listened, but his heart moved: "You said that they are stationed on the cliff and there is only one way?" ”

Wang Zhutou looked at Luo Hui and didn't understand what he meant: "My lord, yes, the village is vulnerable to attack, and the previous magistrate once went to fight once, but he returned in vain!" ”

Luo Hui smiled: "Sometimes you only see the difficulty of attacking, but ignore another thing!" ”

"What's the matter?" Wang Zhutou was puzzled.

"If there is only one narrow road, it is indeed difficult to attack, but once we hold the intersection, won't they be able to get out?"

Wang Zhutou: "The meaning of the lord is to besiege but not attack?" ”

Luo Hui nodded: "As long as we block the exit, those bandits will have to stay in the stockade, do they have endless food?" ”

Wang Zhutou showed a flattering smile: "My lord is wise! But if they have more food, do we have to spend it with them all the time? ”

Luo Hui: "Food is only one of them, water is the key, one or two hundred people use a large amount of water every day, I don't believe that there is so much water stored on the cliff?" ”

"My lord is wise, it's just Zhuge in the world!"

Luo Hui said coldly: "Don't make a fool of yourself, after we block the intersection, the only thing we have to do is to prevent those mountain bandits from dying and breaking the net, and fighting for their lives!" ”

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Shuanglong cottage, Juyi Hall.

The big boss sits on the main seat, his head is bare and shiny, fat, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him a bald dragon. The second master wears an eye patch, thin, and fierce eyes, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him a one-eyed dragon!

They just grabbed a big ticket yesterday and are drinking to celebrate!

The bald dragon held a big bowl: "Come, come, I wish our Shuanglong Village more and more prosperous business!" ”

Big and small bosses raise their glasses together and drink them all.

A mountain bandit ran to the hall in a panic: "It's a big deal, it's a big deal!" ”

The vulture dragon was very angry, Shuanglong Village was originally very good, why is it not good.

He slammed the bowl: "Something to make clear to Lao Tzu, panicked like something!" ”

The man was already frightened, but now he was scolded by the big boss, and immediately knelt down.

"Big, big boss, there are officers and soldiers who have gone into the mountains to suppress bandits!"

"What?" The vulture dragon was taken aback, after all, he was a bandit, and he was still afraid of officers and soldiers.

"Let me be clear, how many officers and soldiers are there?"

The bandits wept and said, "There are one or two hundred! ”

When the vulture heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

sat down, pointed at the mountain bandits and scolded: "You fucking, useless thing, how can this person attack our Shuanglong Village!" ”

The one-eyed dragon reminded the bald dragon: "Big brother, let's go and have a look, don't underestimate the enemy!" ”

The bald dragon nodded: "Yes, Lao Tzu will go to meet him here, see which dog thing is not long-eyed, and this person will attack our cottage!" ”

The Vulture Dragon and the One-Eyed Dragon are two leaders with a group of leaders. Soon Juyitang trotted to the front of the stockade.

And the people stood on the camp, looked down, and counted a little, and there were indeed not two hundred.

Seeing this, the bald dragon was relieved, thinking that he had robbed the county master's relatives back then. The county magistrate gathered 500 officers and soldiers, but he couldn't help him. Now that there are no two hundred people, how can he take it to heart.

Bald Dragon: "You guys are so watching, once they come to attack, immediately call Lao Tzu back, damn it, it's endless!" ”

After the vulture finished speaking, he went back, he was anxious to see the maid of the big family that he robbed yesterday, although the girl was not a virgin, but she was quite smart.

One of the big bosses left, and the second boss rarely stayed, and it was the same thing that he didn't become an officer and soldier under the mountain.