At noon, the thousand households of Luochuan received an order from Li Yuanhao, the deputy chief military officer of Yan'an Prefecture, ordering him to gather with the brigade of men and horses to encircle and suppress the thieves at the foot of the Black Tiger Village on the first day of the first month of March, and together they would exterminate the bandits.

In fact, when he received the direct edict from the governor before, this thousand households were full of bitterness, you say, what is the matter with a thief in a rich county who is in Luochuan? Besides, I know for myself, Luochuan's current guard house is long gone, most of the military households have fled or become tenants of officers, not only are there not enough personnel, but the remaining two or three hundred people are also old, weak, sick and disabled with nowhere to go, half dead of hunger, suffering for time, it is a blessing to be able to survive some façade, where do you need any training? Even the knives and guns were eaten by themselves or those soldiers in exchange for food, not to mention their clothes.

If a foreigner comes and sees the barracks overgrown with withered grass and those soldiers with withered faces, they will wonder if they have gone to the wrong place and arrived at a camp called Hanako, the only income to support their lives is to help the county officials go to the countryside when there are two taxes a year, and deal with those unarmed people. Forget it, it's Amitofu's business if the bandits don't come.

It doesn't matter what kind of deputy chief soldier Li Yuanhao is, but where does the governor dare to disobey if he has an order, it really annoys the governor, he is a small thousand warriors, it doesn't mean that he will kill him, don't report to the military department.

But he had no food, no weapons, and no soldiers, how to suppress the bandits, and when he was in distress, a wealthy merchant who had just been promoted to Yansui Town Fu Si suppressed Zhang Yuan, and brought a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance to himself, and relieved thousands of households of coal.

Seeing this unjust God of Wealth, the thousand households came to a lion and opened his mouth, telling what he thought was the maximum condition, of course, it was a lot of arrears over the years and clothes, bedding, grain, grass, ordnance, etc., I hope that this Zhang Yuan will retreat from the difficulty, put down the grain and grass and other things that have been brought and get out of the house quickly, and then report to the governor in a justifiable manner, because of the lack of pay and equipment, he can not send troops, and he continues to live a happy life of the landlord and old wealth.

But things often don't go according to people's wishes, that Zhang Yuan unequivocally agreed to all his requirements, and wrote a warrant for the transfer of silver on the spot, so that he could take this order, and he could go to the Zhangjia shop in Luochuan County at any time to withdraw silver, which made Zhang Yuan dare to be ashamed of the warrant to pay at sight, not for his disguised blackmail, but for his own small family, ashamed of not seeing the world, wouldn't it be better to have more at that time? But the words had already been spoken, and he couldn't regret it, so he had to take the silver to do something for that Zhang Yuan.

With the silver is easy to do, first deduct the share that belongs to you, and then according to the rule of deducting five salaries, the soldiers who are about to starve to death are repaid two years of arrears, just this dozen taels of silver will make those soldiers cry with emotion, after all, the family can live for a while.

He also gave rice grain to increase his physique, and also bought a big red cloth according to the Ming standard clothing, and made a big red mandarin duck jacket according to the Ming standard clothing, covering it outside the rags, just looking at the upper body has the touch of a soldier, of course, the lower body is still the original rags, and some are still showing their thighs in the winter.

took care of these military households, sent his housekeepers, that is, the original pro-soldiers, to recruit the military households of the guard, although there were a lot of escapes, after all, there were still tenants for themselves, it was the farmers who were idle, and the gentry did not keep them, after all, in the spring, thousands of households would still let them come back and continue to farm for themselves, so why not eat and drink this winter?

In previous years, the conscription was a thousand difficulties, and the conscripts were all like dead ashes and could escape, but today is different from the past, but it is enthusiastic and ruthless, the reason is that this time the barracks are in charge of food, and there are still a few points of silver, so as to avoid a family from freezing and starving to death, after all, after a busy year, there is no rice to put in the pot except for the one handed over to the owner, after all, there is still a little hope this time, isn't it?

The one who asked to be called up couldn't open the door, and the guard could be filled with places, but that was impossible, everyone still had three points of space to take, and then arranged for him to try his best to find the original official to come to his home for a meeting, and the barracks lobby was not to go to see it, it was the old nest of the city fox and the rats.

This day finally gathered everyone together, this day at noon to gather a group of original subordinates, in fact, the process is quite smooth, I don't know those deputy thousands of households and hundreds of small flags or something, all of them are good to come out of the soil like a baba to respond to the office, but look at them who have been accustomed to the landlord businessman, or the rogue role, when wearing the armor is really happy to spray the thousand households countless times, you see that the helmet of the thousand households is full of black rust, the knife is all out of scabbards, The armor on the hundred households is only the front half, although the armor of a calm is thought to be excellent maintenance, but the bright armor can no longer cover the high bulging belly, standing for a while and panting, don't expect him to get on the horse and kill the enemy.

In fact, the Lord of Qianhu knows that these officials can come, but they are only for the two-year military salary and the three-point vacancy that will be able to eat, and it is impossible to say that once the money is in hand, there will be all kinds of bizarre excuses to leave, but after all, there are still a lot of them, but looking left and right, they found that something was missing, and it took a while to remember that there seemed to be a lack of a deputy thousand households, and asked at the moment, and it took a long time to have a way that was familiar with the thousand households; "Lord Qi Qianhu, that Deputy Chen Qianhu died of illness two years ago, and he was still a small person to help with the funeral."

"And who is going to take his place now?" Senno-sama asked in surprise.

"Then the old lady Chen went up and walked around, and at that time, the commanders of the envoys (referred to as the capital divisions) all commanded the envoys to read Chen's deputy thousand households and worked hard, and according to the custom, his son took over the post of deputy thousand households."

"Then let's order today, but this Lord Chen won't come?" His face was expressionless, he picked up the tea bowl and drank it slowly, and his several years of landlord career also cultivated his wealth and grandeur, without the vulgarity of a martial artist, sometimes he forgot that he was still a martial artist. Originally, it doesn't matter if there is one more or less, I just ask casually.

The man said respectfully; "If you talk about adults, you can't come this time."

"Why?"

"That Deputy Chen Qianhu is only two years old now, and he is still nursing in his mother's arms, is it possible that he still needs a woman to show his face?"

Hearing this, Qianhu was choked on the hot tea at that time, and the housekeeper behind him was busy smoothing the breath of the east family, and the hall was full of laughter for a while, some said that it was okay, and it was fun to have a delicate little lady in a group of soldiers, and some said that they also let the thieves look at Mu Guiying in our guardhouse, and some said that ---- words became more and more unbearable later, and the yellow jokes and meat jokes went into battle together, and there was still a little bit of the atmosphere of the military camp tent? It's like going to the flower hall of the dark incense building to drink flower wine.

Seeing that everyone was talking more and more, the more unbearable it became, Lord Qianhu also smoothed his breath, panted and knocked on the table and said loudly; "Alright, alright, let's stop arguing, let's get down to business." It took a long time for everyone to slowly quiet down, waiting for the peak to speak.

"There are two things to summon everyone here, the first is that Zhang Yuan and other squires will help us make up for the arrears of two years in the health office, and also deliver some grain and grass, and also promise us to pay the future salary in full." Before the adults finished speaking, the hall was full of cheers, praising the emperor's grace and bright candles.

The thousand households suppressed everyone's continued sycophancy; "But don't be too happy, this silver is not so easy to get."

Everyone looked at Senhe-sama together, waiting for his next step.

"The silver grain and grass that was reissued to us this time was originally the salary of Zhang Yuan who was named the Fusi of Yansui Town by the emperor, and the military attache of the five products, that Zhang Yuan thanked the emperor for his grace and the rich households of the squire."

Everyone is confused, it is normal for a wealthy Zhang Yuan to donate an official, but it is all a car of money to honor the boss, where did he do this stupid thing of helping salaries? Could it be that the money burns out the brain? Someone asked the question.

A thousand households are afraid of the table; "Good question, the question is here, that Zhang Yuan is a rich businessman worth millions, but I don't know why he offended the thief who is in the sky, was destroyed, and killed the old father and only son, so he donated a lot of silver money to avenge the great revenge, hoping that the court will avenge him, the governor is making a big deal for the thief, so he agreed to this matter, no, he ordered Li Yuanhao, the deputy chief soldier of Yansui, to lead the soldiers, and we and Ganquan together to raise troops to encircle and suppress the thieves, and we will send troops at the beginning of this month."

The hall that was originally elated immediately became silent, and there was no more excitement to divide the silver.

Everyone knows that the thief is not a nameless little pole now, first broke through the county town and plundered countless money, food and soldiers, and then turned to fight thousands of miles, breaking through the 50,000 border troops to come to Fuxian, and now what is the rent reduction and interest reduction, forcing the big families to reduce the rent and interest of the poor stick and pay what protection fees, the slightest disobedience to the sword and soldiers, break the village and destroy the door, the strong Zhao family at the junction of Luochuan County is not relying on the powerful and wealthy male to obey the order, just one day was exterminated, became a blank land, There were even several times when the county order of Fu County went to the countryside to urge the apportionment, but the trouble was only seen to go out and not come back, so that the government order of Fu County did not go out of the city gate, which made the people everywhere cheer loudly. This makes this with the support of the poor sticks, and the faint thief has become the leader of the three county poles and the people, the savior of the poor sticks, and even his own Luochuan has been driven, and secretly the poor sticks are looking forward to the thieves coming to him.

There are also their own family members who are brave enough to pass in front of the Black Tiger Village, and they were apprehensive at first, afraid that the thieves would rob them, but the minions of the thieves saw that they were happy to not ask, and everyone was relieved to come and go, and this road was much safer than other roads. So many people chose to pass there, and they also saw the training of the thieves, which were really well-dressed and well-armed, and the spirit was different from other poles, let alone their own guards.

Let yourself be pitted against such a strong army, that is, there is no difference between going and not returning and looking for death, so the lobby fell into a dull place for a while.

(It's hard to irrigate, but it's even harder to compress 5,000 words into 3,000, I hope you enjoy reading it - 17k is the home of this book)