Chapter 27: Mixed Reactions
There was such a big thing on the boundary of Yangcheng, and the officials in the local county government who managed Yangcheng were not blind or deaf, and they soon learned the news.
After learning the news, Wang Jinsong, the magistrate of the county, was basically indifferent, the reason is very simple, since he went to Yangcheng to take office, he has not been able to actually control the southern part of Yangcheng County, although when he was a new official, he also burned three fires, organized the local townspeople, and invited a group of officers and soldiers from Zezhou, intending to wipe out Zhao Datong, Xiao Changshan and other giant thieves in the south of the county.
But the result was that after several battles, these thieves were not exterminated, but the officers and soldiers he sent out were beaten by these thieves and lost their armor and fled back to the county town after repeated defeats.
The several times of suppressing bandits, not only did not solve the problem of banditry, the officers and soldiers in charge of the suppression were no better than those giant thieves, and they also burned and looted the local people along the way, coupled with their frequent killing and risking achievements, so that the people's hearts were greatly disappointed, and the people who originally supported the government's suppression of bandits saw that the officials and soldiers acted like this, so they simply turned to help those thieves to ventilate and report the news, so that the government's bandits became more and more unfavorable, and they were ambushed by the pole several times, and they were beaten and fled back to the county seat.
Wang Zhixian, who suffered a big loss, first begged the governor of Shanxi to send more troops to suppress it, but because there are many poles in Shanxi, and every prefecture and county has such similar poles, the Shanxi political secretary can almost be said to be invincible in terms of the available troops, so he didn't pay attention to Wang Jinsong's request at all, but just replied to let him figure out his own way.
If he can't ask for a large number of officials and soldiers, Wang Jinsong will be honest, since these giant thieves have been entrenched here for a long time, why should he bother to exterminate them? If Xiang Yong and the officers and soldiers go out to do things and die, they need to be compensated, and after a few battles, he owes a lot of debts, so he has no interest in continuing to do this kind of thankless work.
Anyway, this situation exists in all places, and the terrain in Yangcheng County is even more complicated, and then the bandits are not sure, so Wang Jinsong simply turned a blind eye and let giant thieves like Zhao Datong and Xiao Butcher exist in the Yangcheng realm.
As long as these poles are okay and don't make too much noise, come to hit his Yangcheng County, then they can do whatever they want in the mountains!
This time, I heard that there was a pole in the south of the county and killed Zhao Datong and Xiao Butcher, Wang Jinsong only sneered a few times, and said a little vulgarly: "Let them fight!" It's good to hit the dog's brain! We don't care about the black and black things, as long as they don't come to disturb the county, they can do whatever they like! ”
With Wang Jinsong's tone, the inspection of the local armed forces in charge naturally did not intend to take care of this matter, and everyone looked at this problem with the intention of watching jokes, but Wang Jinsong finally thought about it, arranged the inspection of the local armed forces in charge, and sent someone to investigate the specific situation, and see the origin of the pole that killed Zhao Datong and Xiao Changshan on this road, so that he could know it in his heart, summarize the situation, and report it to the governor of Zezhou.
But when they sent people to inquire about the news came back, Wang Jinsong became a little nervous, because the people who were sent came back and said that the pole that killed Zhao Datong and Xiao Changshan on this road seemed to be a lot of people from Shaanxi, and it should be a homeless person from Shaanxi, with about 2,000 people, and they entered the Yangcheng territory in several ways.
"Shaanxi? How is this possible? We are thousands of miles away from Shaanxi, how could they cross the Yellow River and sneak in here quietly? What do the officials along the way eat? How could they have driven so far and run here? Wang Jinsong was confused, a little unable to believe that this was true, and after asking several times in a row, the detailed work sent out said that this matter could not be faked, and it was indeed a pole in Shaanxi.
Wang Jinsong believed it a little, so after thinking about it for a while, he immediately wrote a letter in person and sent someone to submit it to the governor of Zezhou, what to do, whether to send troops to suppress it, it was up to the governor of Zezhou to decide, anyway, with the strength of his Yangcheng, he couldn't deal with such a big pole.
In this way, it is tantamount to taking a resigned attitude towards the entry and occupation of Yangcheng County by the Xingtian Army, and after Wang Jinsong reported this matter to Zezhou, Zezhou Zhizhou did not believe it at all, this matter was true, and thought that Wang Jinsong, the governor of Yangcheng County, was sensational, and wanted him to send troops and horses to Yangcheng County to suppress bandits.
And a few times before, he listened to Wang Jinsong's words, and sent troops into Yangcheng County several times to suppress bandits, but they all ended up in failure, and now when he mentions Yangcheng County, he has a headache, so he simply put the document presented to him by Wang Jinsong on the desk, and did not pay attention to Wang Jinsong's report at all.
On the other hand, among the townships in the southern region of Yangcheng County outside the county seat, after the notice of the people of the Xingtian Army was posted, this wave of refugees eased, although the local people still did not believe that the new strongmen would act as they said, but think about it carefully, if it was just because of fear, they left their homeland for countless generations, and many people were still reluctant in their hearts, so they held the mind of walking and seeing, and the people began to settle down. They returned to their homes and waited to observe the actions of the strongmen.
Although nominally Xingtianjun has found a foothold in Yangcheng County, this is only the first step for Xiao Tianjian, everything is just the beginning, and the things he will face next can be said to be many.
After occupying the original control area of Zhao Datong and Xiao Butcher, in order to gain a foothold here as soon as possible, Xiao Tianjian did not dare to rest for a moment, and immediately sent his subordinates to conduct a census in the local area controlled by them.
A few days later, he finally figured out the situation in the area under their control, Yangcheng County is located in the Taihang Mountain West Branch, Zhongtiao Mountain Branch and Zhongtiao Mountain Branch where the three mountains converge, and the area they currently control is roughly concentrated in the area of the county's southern mountainous area, bounded by the Moze River, which is basically within the scope of their control, with an area of about hundreds of square kilometers, on the surface, it should be not small.
But because it is mostly mountainous, the main farmland is concentrated in the central and eastern regions, and the area controlled by the Xingtianjun is basically in the south of Yangcheng County, most of which are mountainous, and many places are not suitable for farming, so the people living in this area used to have a main livelihood for farming, and there are many people who are hunters and live by hunting, of course, there are also a considerable number of people who make a living by mining, in Yangcheng County, the most important thing is coal mines, in addition, it is the iron ore in the area of Dongye Town, There are also some people who rely on mining in these mines in exchange for survival resources, and the composition of the population can be said to be quite complex, and it is precisely because of the large number of hunters here that there are many local bandits.
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