Yang Qi and Li Mingwei asked for the land located in the Gaobai Mountains, between Suidezhou City and Muzhuang, and even Muzhuang was also divided into his defense area, because Yang Qi had been promoted to 100 households, so all the military households in this area were classified under his rule, according to the law, Yang Qi should not govern a big city of such a scale as Muzhuang, but Li Mingwei is his big brother? In fact, Li Mingwei is also selfish, Suide has a vast territory, and he also understands that relying on these cloves of garlic under his command alone is not enough to resist the power of the bandit army, let alone exterminate it.

The Ming Dynasty's guard system, the guards officers, not only had to rectify military affairs, but also took care of civil affairs, in fact, it was a military dictatorship, like a small-scale separatist force.

Yang Qi's yamen was placed in the middle of this area: the grange, and after allocating the grange, Yang Qi took a letter and led his 135 people straight to the grange.

"Report, more than 40 villagers were found in front, saying that they were from Tianzhuang, and they were here to welcome adults." Since Yang Qi was promoted to the rank of 100 households, Li Mingwei transferred 20 horses from the captured war horses and handed them over to Yang Qi for use, in addition to equipping each general flag with mounts, he also allocated 11 war horses to the newly established sentry cavalry troops, and the sentry cavalry small flag officer was served by Yang Yue, a subordinate of Shang Jingshi, a total of ten people.

"Got it." Yang Qi waved his hand and said, "See, I'm here." ”

"Your Excellency!" Wei Dayong said: "They are greeting us, how do you say that we are dismounted?" "Wei Dayong has rules now, and he can't find the shadow of the original at all.

"You don't understand that, do you?" Shang Jingshi is now good with Wei Dayong, and his level is also the general banner, so he speaks casually: "Before we arrived, they had already gone out ten miles to greet each other, what does this mean?" ”

"What?" Wei Dayong asked puzzled.

Yang Qi tilted his head to look at this without squeaking, waiting for Shang Jingshi's next words.

"They are telling us that they have eyes and hands, and what happened in Suide will soon be known to them, and they can also let the higher authorities know what happened in the Grange." Shang Jingshi said: "To put it bluntly, it is to tell us that there are people above them, who are respectful on the surface, but they don't necessarily think about us in their hearts." ”

"Is that so?" Wei Dayong doesn't believe in Shang Jingshi, he only believes in Yang Qi.

"Almost, in short, let's be careful, don't let them catch the handle, everyone restrain their subordinates, we haven't established ourselves yet, don't let others kick us out of the Grange." Yang Qi said noncommittally, in fact, there was still one thing he didn't say in his heart, that is, if anything happened to the Grange, they also had the ability to make it impossible for the outside world to know about it and completely lock it down.

"Grass people Ma Tingyin! Lead the stewards of the Grange, see Yang Baihu, congratulations on your ascension! Yang Qi soon met the villagers that the sentry rider was talking about.

"Oh? You're quite well-informed, and I haven't entered Zhuangzi yet, so you're waiting here? Yang Qi said, "Get up and speak." "Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling people, although I know that these people don't have any good intentions, but the surface work still has to be done enough, and people give face, and they can't let them kneel on the ground all the time.

"Thank you, sir! Adults and young heroes, their prestige has long been like thunder, so why ask? Ma Tingyin said with a smile, but he didn't expect his eyes to sweep to Shang Jingshi, the young owner of Muzhuang, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "The villain has seen the young owner." The young owner didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Hey, in front of my family, there is no young owner." Shang Jingshi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm just a general banner under my lord's hand now. ”

"Oh?" Ma Tingyin was slightly surprised when he heard this, and just now he was still wondering where the young owner of this wooden village was standing, and he faintly protected this young man in the main position, but he didn't expect that there was also this joint, it seems that this young man and a hundred households may not be as easy to deal with as he imagined.

"My lord, Ma Lao, don't talk patronizingly, there is a banquet in the Zhuangzi." A richly dressed gentleman beside Ma Tingyin said.

"Who is this...?" Yang Qi asked.

"Oh, you see, patronizing and talking. This is the highly respected Shi Cai Shi of the Grange, who is in charge of the education of the entire Grange. Ma Tingyin introduced: "The villain was not elected as the chief of the grange. ”

When Yang Qi heard this, he still understood, the administrative division of the Ming Dynasty, the government's power was only to the county or state, as for the administrative units below the county level, they all adopted the way of autonomy and extensive management, and the village usually set up three to ten oldest, virtuous and virtuous old people, responsible for the function of education, called "Li Lao", mainly including civil dispute mediation, petty theft, robber robbery, rape and adultery and other non-human life lawsuits. This system is commonly known as the "old age system".

The next subdivision is, every one hundred and ten households for a "li", with the ten households with the most grain as the long, a rotation every ten years, under the "first head" to ten households for a first, set up a chief, with five hundred and fifty households as a capital, set up a chief, this Ma Tingyin is the head of this grange, Shi Caiqi is the head of the old man's system, these two are the actual controllers of this grange, the rights of the two of them in this place are equivalent to the emperor of the soil, almost do whatever he wants, no, at this time should be to do whatever he wants, the light of imperial power can not shine here at all, Thinking of this, Yang Qi felt that the future was not so open, you can kill bandits, can you kill these village tyrants? It seems that the most fundamental thing of the Ming Dynasty's maladministration is here!

In fact, Yang Qi didn't know that when Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang Taizu Gao, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also realized the disadvantages of the "Dujia system", but until he died, he did not find a better way to replace it, and after the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the population plummeted, and the people urgently needed to recuperate, and then could not withstand any turmoil, which was more than two hundred years later.

The grange is under the rule of Suide, it can be said that for more than 200 years, there has been no court official to govern the place, and the villagers are self-governing, which also brings considerable resistance to Yang Qi going to the countryside.

Don't look at Yang Qi's current appearance is only about nineteen years old, but in his bones he has experienced many accidents in his thirties "There is a "one" young man, a large amount of information reading makes Yang Qi have a knowledge that surpasses the vast majority of people in the Ming Dynasty, and the way to deal with problems is naturally much superior, in fact, the treatment of Shi Caiqi and Ma Tingyin is nothing more than three methods, and the next policy says: Forced! Zhong Ce said: Gentle! The best policy: Assimilation!