On the outskirts of Changle County, in the midst of a messy field that had been trampled on, a piece of ground was leveled and a few feet high with wooden planks, and a pergola with a silk curtain was erected on the spot, and elegant tea sets and exquisite household goods were placed.

And Zhao Ziri, the owner of the village from Zhaojiazhai, was watching the movement in the city.

He was a typical local gentry and the leader of this action; His ancestors have Yiren blood, and he was born with a strange appearance with a flat nose and concave eyes, but the most obvious thing is that he has a big forehead that is more prominent than others;

Therefore, at a very young age, he was ridiculed and disliked by his elders because of this appearance, and got the nickname "Kowtow Worm"; But when he grew a little older and began to take charge of the family business, no one dared to call him so secretly; Because the people who dared to gossip about him before, including his cousins, slaves, servants, and tenants, have all left their hometowns one after another, and have disappeared.

So everyone changed their name to "Zhao Ren (suspected) immortal". Because it is said that his protruding forehead and nose are similar to the "Hundred Immortals" painted by the former famous artist "Zheng Sanjue (Zheng Qian)" who spent a lot of money to buy without knowing the authenticity, the nodulous immortal is very similar, so that everyone can speak in unison about the blessing and immortal posture.

Because there was a brother of the same clan who was in the court and did the imperial history, he was given a false title of "Langguan", and the Zhao family also occupied a large number of fertile fields and mountains and forests that were not on the tax book for generations, and raised at least more than 1,000 villagers and tenants under his hands;

Among them, there are quite a few brave men, and there are outlaws and lawbreakers who have defected to hide among them, and in their daily lives, they have recklessly run rampant in the townships with taxes and total grains for their minions and ears, and they have also made some fierce and ruthless reputations in the arms fights of neighboring villages and villages fighting for water and land;

Later, he spent a lot of money to dredge up the cadres and obtained a batch of weapons from the passing officers and soldiers to "report losses by waves", which began to become a powerful force in ten miles and eight towns. A few years ago, the Son of Heaven ordered: "The villages of the world should be equipped with bows, knives, drums, and boards in case of thieves." Like those powerful clans, he has turned into a Tutuan soldier who "defends Sangzi and is commendable".

Then, with the chaos in the world of Bandang also spread to Lingnan, the opportunity he secretly expected to come out soon came, when those grass thieves crossed, his Zhaojiazhai because it was far away from the road, so he did not suffer much loss, but because of those powerful families who were more powerful than him, after the collapse and destruction of the family, he faintly became one of the few local tyrants and leaders of the wealthy clans.

In particular, after annexing and accepting the remnants of that big family, and the female dependents who had survived their lives, and fulfilling the long-cherished wish of the women who had been all over the township and touched the whole county, they swelled even more complacently; His next plan is to go to the state city as the first person to recover after destroying these grass thieves, and have a good taste of the wives and daughters of those officials who have fallen into subordinates.

Such a county lieutenant on the face of the public is no longer enough to reward him for his sky-breaking achievements, at least he is a respected governor Shi, Sima, and the top three of Don't Driver, so that he can be satisfied.

Originally, in his mind, whether it was the government or these thieves who had stolen the evidence for a while, they had nothing to do with him directly for the time being, and he would not provoke these thieves for the sake of the court, but he would not let people easily violate his own interests; Therefore, most of the time, just symbolize the last sum of money and food, and then buy and entertain the people sent by the county, you can deal with the past and not use the private wealth of the Zhao family at all, but have a reason to make a fortune in the township.

But what I never expected was that these grass thieves occupied those government-run mines and wanted to profit from them; However, it is a terrible thing that they immediately set up a tuntian in the local area in a decent manner, and by the way, they also began to clear the acres of land in the local area. But he still endured it, and instructed some local scoundrels to go down in private to cause trouble and sabotage.

But what happened later made him unbearable, because in order to collect labor, these grass thieves intercepted and collected those displaced people, and even began to take in the villagers who fled under his control. Even the leader of the grass thieves had sheltered a widow whom he had been involved with, and was going to take her to the city to live.

How can this be, you must know that every cent of the Zhao family's family business is earned (forcibly occupied and embezzled) by his grandfather and grandfather for generations, and these villagers have also been subjected to his Zhao family for generations, and have been able to make a living and survive; How could he easily invest in outsiders without the permission of him, the owner of the village.

This is related to the Zhao family's face and survival in the four miles and eight townships, or it is a matter of face and survival; There is really no room for concession and humiliation.

So after a banquet of inside and outside, those grass thieves who didn't know what to do were put down and chopped over, and then fed to the dogs. And the leader of the grass thieves who dared to touch him was slowly chopped by him in the cellar, and he didn't die for three days and three nights, until the woman he took away and captured, and swallowed his last breath in front of Zhao Ziri's subordinates, he was bored and gave the other party a pleasure.

After doing this big thing, he waited for a long time, but he didn't see any grass thieves to check or inquire about his whereabouts, but the county officials who were once familiar with him came to the door with the so-called officials and soldiers, and the next thing was naturally logical.

And although those officials and soldiers have the reputation and righteousness of their laborers, after all, they are limited manpower or outsiders, and if they want to maneuver around these grass thieves and even get enough credit, they are completely inseparable from the assistance and support of these land-sitting households; Therefore, one has to borrow strength, and the other has to borrow momentum, and the two hit it off to create today's momentum and situation

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at the sincerity and statement of the official army, the cold-faced general who was sweeping the formation and commanding the camp was said to be the official cavalry of his family with the same surname;

This person is said to have been born in the garrison army of Beibian Annan with the famous Gao Linggong and Beibian Annan, and he has a clear eye and a lot of discipline in doing things, but some of the upright people are too stupid, and they are a little unaccustomed to many things, and they have become a person who is hated and tabooed among their colleagues;

So far, the official luck is not smooth and he is just a cavalry team, obviously the person who has contributed the most to the thief, but he was still excluded by those comrades who occupied the county town to be stationed in the stone pit field, but it also allowed him to escape the defeat of Changle City; This time, because there was no one to use, he was assigned to lead a remnant of the town defense army, which was said to have been scattered, to him, which was regarded as the staff officer of the marching battle formation and the force of the escort formation.

Although this guy has a lot of stinky problems, it is still quite worthy of relying on in basic matters, and there is no basket; Therefore, when Zhao Ziri thought about it, it was a big deal to get him drunk afterwards, and he was looking for a few used girls to make a genuine brother-in-law in the quilt, so I didn't believe that he could continue to be indifferent and reserved. Then take the opportunity to take a good look at it, so that he can turn to himself when he is forced to do his best.

Anyway, once you become an official in the state in the future, you must also have a character who can show your hands, right? For this attack on the back road of the grass thieves and the grain platform, he pulled out nearly 1,300 Ding Zhuang from the stockade, of which 400 were well-clothed battalions of his own family's disciples, and the other 700 were also experienced men who had seen blood in weapons and privateering, and the rest were all with swords in their hands, and not with hoes that were smoothed and sharpened, forks and straightened forks, or threshing sticks, as were the case with other Tutuan armies.

This also made him a firm grasp of the power of these Tutuan coalition forces. It can be said that except for the three hundred patchwork town guards brought by the cavalry Zheng Zhao Yinggong, there is basically nothing else that can be put in his eyes.

And this time, in order to attack the needs of the county seat, in addition to Zhao Ziri, who is the most powerful, he also promised benefits and conditions to pull in other large and small Tutuan troops from the thirteen townships and five villages, most of them hundreds, and as few as seventy or eighty people.

This is also the county town where they attacked the grass thieves again, it is said that it is full of the goods and grain that the grass thieves have plundered everywhere and is quite empty, everyone is counting on the good scenery and leisure after entering the city.

The only thing that is not beautiful is that the original appointment in the city is with Neiying and helpers, but there is no sign of activation, and they can only play this trick of defrauding the city under Zhao Yinggong's proposition, but the result is still a failure. But this frustration is not much more encouraging.

Next, it's time for these mud-legged people from the north to have a good understanding of the toughness and bravery of the Lingnan children. At least in the previous encounters, he found that these grass thieves only fought against a large number of people, and liked to win in one go; It can be said that except for a few leaders who are still well-behaved and strong, most of the soldiers are as shabby as beggars and flowers, although the initial battle is very resolute, but they have neither strength nor resistance, which is not at all comparable to the soldiers under his command who are dedicated to protecting the countryside.

Therefore, as long as the battle is a little longer, there will be weakness and chaos without fighting, and at this time, it can often be decided to invest in the relatively elite battalion and the officers and soldiers who help the war. Just like the grass thief reinforcements who were ambushed and defeated by them before, and captured most of them, this grass thief who stayed in the city would be much better than them.

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And outside the state city of Xunzhou, it is also a large area; I saw groups of ragged rebel soldiers, holding swords and guns, running and shuttling through the period. Although most of them are inevitably weak and yellow-skinned, they seem to have a good mental momentum, and there is also a trace of discipline and strictness experienced in the military camp between words and deeds, as well as a little ruthless atmosphere.

"These dog things that turn their faces and don't recognize people."

Looking at the heads of those who were deliberately piled up in dozens of piles in front of the city gate, they rode on the horse and said in a murderous voice.

"It seems that we still haven't killed enough, and we don't think our knives are enough for Riley."

"Sons and daughters, work hard, Lao Tzu wants to kill him to the bottom."

At this time, a messenger who came in a hurry brought a message that made his face change suddenly

"Damn, our back road has been copied."