Two days later.

In the newly built Pizhou Lian General Mansion, Yang He was dressed in civilian clothes, a cadre in front of him was sitting with his henchmen, and Chen Qiuao led the ironclad guards to guard the door of the official residence.

At this time, he was discussing the affairs of Pizhou with everyone.

After receiving the wind and washing the dust, according to the rules, the specific official business should be discussed with him in detail after three days.

At this time, the pace is very slow, the parents and officials are very leisurely, their main task is to recite poetry and music, and most of the official affairs are handed over to the subordinate officials, or the staff master is busy.

This is the norm of officialdom at this time, just like Su Dongpo, if he is busy all day long, I am afraid there will be no "Nian Nujiao. Chibi Nostalgia" and other masterpieces have been handed down.

But Yang He was not idle.

Compared with Suining Lian General Office, Pizhou Lian General Government Office is much larger, with a construction area of nearly 3,000 square meters, with a lobby, two halls, a back hall, etc., a curtain hall in the flower hall, an upper room in the official residence, and an elegant back garden, the scenery is very good.

Sure enough, the treatment of the seventh-rank official is better than that of the nine-rank official.

After Yang He arrived, according to his official treatment, the state government also assigned him a pawn, two menzi, six soaps, two cooks, and one horseman.

However, Yang He looked at these people, they were not as "relatively simple" as Suining's side, and these people were all treacherous and slippery soap officials.

Yang He asked them all to stay in the second hall of the lobby, and his nearly 100 ironclad guards took turns to send half of them to stay in the Lian General Mansion Office, and the lobby, the second hall, and the back hall were all guarded by them to guard the gate and inspect the government office.

However, they are soldiers, not servants, and they can't be allowed to do miscellaneous tasks such as serving tea and pouring water, cleaning, etc. Fortunately, he also brought Deng Menzi, and he was placed in a wing room in the back hall, and usually did some things like pouring tea and cleaning, delivering letters and running errands.

Yang He can also serve as a follower when traveling, carrying worship boxes, cushions, clothing, etc.

The official residence is very large, and the courtyard is full of trees, and after Deng Menzi poured the tea, he cleverly withdrew from the hall.

Yang He always felt that he was promising, and his name was also good, Deng Jingshi.

On the Huanghuali official hat chair, Minister Yang, Han Guan'er, Luo Xianjue, Zhang Songtao, Zhang Chugong, Zeng Youyu, Qian Sanniang and others were sitting, each of them paying close attention, listening to Hu Chengyu, the director of the intelligence station in front of him, report some information from Pizhou.

Then there was a thin young man standing behind Hu Zhiyi, with a kind face and a smile on his face that was always warm and kind, but it was Liu Dayou.

After he joined the intelligence office a few months ago, his status has risen steadily, and now he can follow Hu Employment and enter this kind of core meeting place.

"Regarding the matter of Pizhou, the brothers of the intelligence institute have tried their best, and they have explored a lot in the past two months, and the key points are three, green skin, private teeth, bandits, ......"

Hu Cheng held a small notebook in his hand, and he was talking loudly.

"Speaking of which, there are a lot of people in Pizhou!" Hu Cheng said, "Compared with Xin'anzhuang and Suining County, Township Kaka, the Intelligence Institute estimates that there may be more than 100,000 people in Liancheng, Lianguanxiang, Pizhou. What is this...... 'gathering the city and chaos', there are more people, and there are more scoundrels. ”

Hu Cheng glanced at the small notebook, and he didn't know it when he spoke rudely.

Yang He glanced at him and nodded slightly, at the beginning of the country, Pizhou was forty-seven miles old, but after hundreds of years of reproduction, the population must have increased a lot, especially after the opening of the canal.

Although the documents in this area are not clear, there are traces to follow, such as the most recent statistics are the "Huai'an Mansion Chronicles. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, it was recorded that there were 9,977 households in Pizhou, with a population of 100,387.

I don't know if these are counted as hidden households, and if not, the population will be even more.

Although in the year of Chongzhen, there were many population losses due to various reasons such as war and famine, but the overall stability of Pizhou, coupled with the influx of foreign population, it is estimated that there are still about 100,000 people.

"To what extent is there so much green skin in Pizhou?" Hu Employment said loudly, "The locals say that it is like the Yellow River flooding, and the intelligence institute has conducted rough investigations, even in the city, and is closed on all sides, and there are hundreds of companies here, robbing, and swindling, as well as all kinds of evil beggars. ”

"These green skins have no long skills, no permanent production, no occupation, where there are people, there are them, they are in groups at every turn, playing fists and sticks, and the people suffer deeply."

"These are still small characters, ordinary splashes, the most well-known in Pizhou are the four sticks, gambling sticks, litigation sticks, matchmakers, and funeral sticks!"

According to what he said, there are many casinos in Pizhou, and hundreds of people gather to gamble. Even if you gamble, the stick head often lures good people to be evil, and many people fall into it, bankrupt their families, and finally have to sell their wives and children, and their families are ruined.

Whenever they can't come up with the money, they will take action.

There are also lawsuits, which are not ordinary lawsuits, but false accusations and extortion.

There are strange people behind these lawsuits, and most of them are linked to robberies inside and outside the city.

Every time there is a murder case, if the lawsuit is a treasure, the robbery immediately comes to the door to identify the corpse, and then looks for a good and fearful family to start, thinking that it is a strange thing to live in.

These people take the clever ones as official witnesses, collude with the officials, are arrogant, and if they are not satisfied, they will gather many people, come to the door to rob, and again and again, I don't know how many people have been ruined.

Now it is more popular to go to the door to rob first, and then to go to court, saying that it is to ask for human life and repay blood debts.

In short, these litigants turn right and wrong upside down, become black and white, and the people are miserable, even if ordinary lawsuits are intervened by these people, the plaintiffs and defendants will often be ruined.

Matchmakers, not matchmakers, but widows and widows, abduction and trafficking of women. Most of these generations collude with swindlers and beggars, and often gather people to rob widows, and many widows are weak and often robbed, and in the end they don't know where the matchmakers go, let alone privately abduct women and young girls.

This is really a great harm to the customs and people's hearts, and the local people hate it to the core.

Finally, there is the funeral stick, that is, the local tyrant villain Qingpi is entangled in the gang, and there are also beaters who collude with each other, and every time they encounter a funeral, they will be buried and ask for property. If they are not satisfied, the dead cannot be buried, and many good people have been in homes for years.

This people can't afford to live and die, and they can't live in the ground, and the local people hate these burial sticks to the core.

"There are also tooth people, especially private teeth, which are extremely harmful to the common people!" Hu Cheng said indignantly. Because Yang He needed to pay more attention to the bottom when he gave the information, he also used his strength to lead the intelligence office, and he was indignant at this time, as if he had been blackmailed by the tooth people.

"These private teeth, using white lai green skin as thugs, are either showy or servants. It's not a gentry, it's a city stick. I'm in charge of the day, these people are rampant and domineering, and I think that the official teeth are evil enough, and compared to them, they are all one heaven and one earth. ”

He also cited a local woman, Gong Qigu, as an example, saying that under the exploitation and blackmail of these private teeth, the local ordinary people could not survive at all.

These people can also be counted among the green skins, and the foot walks are similar everywhere, they are all splashing skins as heads, and some porters are controlled with sticks.

In short, there are a lot of green skins in Pizhou, and the intelligence center roughly estimates that the number of active green skins alone is as high as thousands.

Everyone took a breath of cold air, and Luo Xianjue muttered, "So many? ”

He is a native of Yongcheng, Guide Prefecture, and there are also green-skinned ground sticks there, but obviously the number and variety are not as numerous as those in Pizhou, which sounds so shocking.

Minister Yang snorted: "Needless to say, just like in Suining, kill them all!" ”

Yang He said in a deep voice: "Has the intelligence institute analyzed the source of these green skins? Are they more locals, or are they more out-of-towners? ”

Hu Employment hurriedly flipped through it, but fortunately, there was a record in the small notebook that analyzed the information in this regard.

He said: "Speaking of Pizhou Qingpi, there are still many outsiders, but most of the leaders are locals. Their sources are mainly peasant households and people from all over the country, and Pizhou is the main road for Cao Yun, and there are many outsiders, and many people can't find work to do, so they become scoundrels. The local green skins are mostly broken and settled, and many of the children of gentry and businessmen have fallen and become evil. They are the backbone of many of the leaders who fight fraud. There are also many small merchants and hawkers, who can't survive at every turn, so they become green skins. ”

Everyone was surprised, it turned out that Qingpi came like this, and they thought they were born to be easy and hardworking.

After such an analysis by the intelligence office, everyone also knew a lot about the origin of these green skins, and their eyes were shifted to a higher angle.

Yang He also sighed, in the past two days, he looked at the cityscape of Pizhou City, and generally felt that although Pizhou City was prosperous, the gap between the rich and the poor was too large, the rich were glamorous, the poor were poor, and it seemed that there was too little middle class.

This disparity between the rich and the poor will certainly cause many problems, especially the children of gentry and businessmen who go bankrupt and become members of the urban loafers, which is even more harmful.

Because they have a certain amount of knowledge and experience, just like a literati joining the ranks of the rogues, the danger of the rogues will increase.

Zhang Songtao snorted: "The local green skin is rampant, and the government has no control?" ”

Hu Cheng said: "Yes, I heard that Su Zhizhou issued a lot of notices prohibiting scoundrels, but it was useless." The local gentry also built a nursery hall, a tongshan hall, a habitat, etc., and it was useless to deter rogue extortion. ”

A sneer appeared on his face: "You must know that many thugs have raised many thugs to do something. Now these people are also unlucky, and they are bitten by vicious dogs. ”

Yang He sighed and stood up, in fact, he had long been concerned about the problem of scoundrel green skins in the towns in the late Ming Dynasty, and he also knew that the local government had taken various measures to curb the spread of this trend, but it was useless.

Because to put it bluntly, this is actually a problem of the system! It's not something that can be stifled if you want to.

Because they manage the affairs of the commercial society with the thinking of an agrarian society, they will naturally get twice the result with half the effort, or even no harvest at all.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many places were already prosperous, commerce was booming, and the scale of cities and towns in particular expanded rapidly.

But this expansion is not a good thing, because at this time the Ming Dynasty was still a small-scale peasant economy, and there was no independent, professional urban management system at all, or even that kind of thinking.

A large number of people have entered, but the management cannot keep up, and the resettlement of the urban population cannot keep up, and the population flowing into the cities and towns has difficulty making a living.

The wanderers who are indulgent and hardworking at heart become scoundrels, and they oppress the good people, causing some people to fall into adultery, and so on the vicious circle continues.

This is also one of the reasons why the past generations did not like merchants and suppressed them, because the rulers subconsciously did not like the commercial society, which was too far from their ability to rule.

The Ming Dynasty also suppressed merchants for nearly 200 years, until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the notes of the time also said that this period was the golden age of good customs in the Ming Dynasty, and was widely praised by literati and doctors.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the businessmen couldn't suppress it, because the gentry themselves became businessmen, but looking at the notes, the gentry themselves didn't like this era.

This is also the reason why everyone yearns for the rule of three generations, a pure and pure small-scale peasant economy, chickens and dogs smell each other, old and dead do not get along, how easy and convenient it is to manage.

And the tooth man.

Thinking about this, Yang He also sighed.

At first, it was meaningful for the tooth people, for example, at this time, the information was blocked, the goods were scattered, and it was inconvenient for some foreign merchants to buy and sell, so the intermediary of the tooth shop appeared, so that the two parties were convenient.

For the people, when you go to buy things, you are afraid of encountering shoddy profiteers, insufficient silver, and even fake silver and fake money.

Especially for some people, if there is a big transaction, such as buying cattle, horses, mules, etc., they are more afraid of encountering inferior goods, and they need tooth people more.

Even if the tooth man has the rule of "three into three and two", a commission of 3% from the buyer and 2% from the seller, many people are actually willing to pay this money.

For the government, they also need tooth people.

In this era, many prices were assessed by the tooth shop, and the merchants paid taxes, and the operation of forbidden items required the supervision of the tooth people.

It can be said that all aspects of society at this time are inseparable from tooth people.

But because of the monopoly, the tooth man has too much power and slowly detached himself from the intention of the intermediary.

Tooth people do not need capital, but they hold fish with bare hands, white wolves with empty gloves, deceive the market in a semi-official capacity, monopolize the market, deceive customers and goods, default on payments, etc., which have already formed a serious interference obstacle to market operation and must be changed.

As for the private teeth, they have long become a concentration of villains, and there is no meaning, just kill them.

……

Yang He asked Hu Employment to continue to talk about the bandits, and Hu Employment Intelligence did not know much about this. His intelligence office is only in the early stage of development, and it can only probe the bandits in Guanxiang and the suburbs, saying that the bandits are gathering as thieves, and half of them are unemployed.

He also said that the water in this area is very deep, and the intelligence center only knows that many powerful and powerful families raise bandits, or they themselves are bandits.

There are also big problems with the fast shift in charge of law and order, and some people themselves are the backstage of the gangs.

Farther away, it is necessary to see the cavalry and sentinels, especially the green bandits and local bandits.

Yang He looked at Qian Sanniang and Zeng You.

Qian Sanniang stood up, and Hu Employment hurriedly sat down.

"The green mountain thief's lair has long been locked, and it can be exterminated at any time!"

Qian Sanniang's voice was clear, like a clear spring snow lotus.

She wore a gray felt cloak, and her tall figure stood sassy and vigorous.

"Now the key is local banditry. The cavalry team sentry, there are indeed many bandits in Pizhou, not to mention the cottages, even almost every village has bandits. According to the division, it can be divided into bandits, soldiers, bandits, and bandits. ”

Qian Sanniang's eyes were bright, and she was much more confident than before. The speech is also logical and organized, which may be influenced by Yang He.

Every time he sees her, Yang He always feels pleasing to the eye, this is a woman who suits his aesthetics.

And because the ninth master went out to recruit troops and buy horses, Qian Likui stayed in Xin'anzhuang to prepare for the resumption of the Feiyun Dart Bureau, and the cavalry team was in charge of Qian Sanniang.

"Bandits are ordinary bandits, and many wanderers have become bandits when their livelihoods are not settled. If they have work, they become a people again. Or work when you are busy, and be a bandit in your spare time, many villages in Pizhou are like this, and in some villages, the people in the whole village are bandits. ”

"The soldiers and bandits are the scattered army, and there are more of them in Pizhou to the north."

"Righteous bandits, many people claim to kill the rich and help the poor, and do the right thing for heaven, but they are still bandits."

"The most evil thing is the bandits, these people have been bandits for generations, regardless of whether the family is rich or poor, they just like to do this business, and the locals also call them habitual bandits, world bandits. These people are very evil, robbery, burning, kidnapping and ransom are common. The cavalry outpost detected a local female bandit named 'Mama Ma', who seemed to be a bandit, but had not yet found out who Mama Ma was. ”

Zeng Youyu couldn't help but interject: "About bandits, the sentry team has also heard a lot, many bandits in Pizhou are bandits, they have robbed and become thieves for generations, but they are not ashamed." Some bandits even said, 'If you are born a robber, you are not wronged to be a ghost.' ''I'd rather be bullied than be bullied.'' ''Don't be a fool when you're young, but regret it late when you're old.'' Many of the bandit families' grandchildren, fathers and sons, uncles, brothers, sons and nephews are bandits, and they are passed on from generation to generation like opening a shop. ”

Zeng Youyu, like Hu Employment, has been wanting to perform more and more recently, and he can't help but interject at this time.

Compared with the cavalry, his sentry team has also been replenished earlier.

Li Ruwan brought the people of Huojiazhai, there were more than 200 of them, 25 of them were skilled in riding, and they could also chop and chop immediately, so they were used as elite horsemen and selected into the cavalry team. Twenty more men were not to be chopped, but they were skilled in horsemanship, and they were chosen to join the sentinel team.

The rest of the men, women, and children can actually ride horses skillfully, but they are not suitable for age, so they go to raise horses.

With these people joining, not to mention the more than 1,000 horses and mules in Xin'anzhuang, even another 1,000, there are enough people to take care of.

"The key now is that there are many bandits in Pizhou, and many of them live in the villages, mixed with the people. They didn't have the word bandit written on their faces, and the people were too timid and afraid to identify them. You can't tell which one is a bandit and which one is a citizen in the team, so it's impossible to kill them all, right? ”

Qian Sanniang continued, her voice was still cold and beautiful, but with a hint of worry.

Intermittently, her cavalry sentry sentry bandits also had a while, and the biggest problem she encountered was here.

If there are still few people like Song Ganlai, most of the people are timid and afraid, looking forward and backward, not to mention identifying the bandits, or a scoundrel glaring at him, he will be terrified for a long time.

This bandit can't be recognized, I don't know which one is the people, which one is the bandit, and the people and bandits live together, how can they be exterminated?

Could it be that if they can't all be killed, will there still be people in Pizhou?

Speaking of this, everyone in the hall also had a headache, and even Minister Yang didn't dare to say that they had all been killed.

Bandits are different from Qingpi, most of them have the word "I am a scoundrel" written on their faces, but many bandits look honest just like ordinary people, when they don't commit crimes, when they are caught, you don't know that he is a bandit.

Hu Employment also said that when the intelligence institute found out about the bandits around Pizhou, many people actually knew about the bandits, but they just didn't dare to say it.

Zhang Songtao said in a deep voice: "My subordinates have been walking in the city for the past two days, and I have no intention of listening to the people's discussions in the teahouse, saying that they have been transferred to Fucheng as a magistrate. Although the people know the thieves very well and have no responsibility to arrest them, and are afraid of the burden of false accusations, they often know that they are bandits and do not say anything, so it is quite difficult to inspect. ”

Yang He's heart moved: "Although the people know about the thief very well, they have no responsibility to arrest them, and they are afraid of being burdened by false accusations?" ”

……

Everyone in the hall argued, and now the situation has become clear, and in the near future, it is necessary to deal with the green mountain thieves, bandits, green skins, and traitors.

The green mountain thief is easy to say, just smash the yellow dragon.

It's easy to say that even if there are hidden characters behind them, and the people on the bright side are killed, they will also lose their minions.

And when the time comes, maybe the people behind it will jump out and kill together.

It's to hide bandits......

Minister Yang said that there should be a security bureau and a patrol and arrest bureau, and Zhang Songtao agreed, but said that it would take time, especially to operate in Pizhou for a long time.

For example, if you are now in Pizhou, do you have the manpower to manage it? Do you know the place?

Especially Pizhou is complicated, people often come and go, and now there is no statistics of the door number waist card, who knows whether the people who come and go are traitors or good?

For the time being, it is possible to set up patrol bureaus in Guanxiang and local areas, but I am afraid that there will be many current affairs, and the patrols will be exhausted.

In addition, if you want to set up patrol arrests, you must first get the right to patrol and arrest from the state government.

Minister Yang disagreed: "Where did you come from so forward-looking? Let's do it first! ”

Yang He paced slowly in the hall, he listened to everyone's arguments, but his mind drifted far away.

For half a year, at most half a year, he wants Pizhou to become his stable rear and develop and grow here with peace of mind.

Because he is running out of time, he will have to fight against the Qing army at the end of the year.

He had to prepare for war, build military fortifications at key points, repair armaments, and expand military strength.

It's very important to be particularly armed.

At present, he only has 1,000 firearms and more than 400 pairs of iron armor and cotton armor, how can this work?

You must know that his biggest imaginary enemy now is the Qing soldiers, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Just this year, the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners were basically formed, and according to the number of troops, they had about 310 cattle and 62,000 banners. Mengbaqi 118 cattle records, 23,600 banners. There are 164 cattle records in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and 32,000 banners.

The 24 banners of Manchu, Mongolia and Han have almost 120,000 bannermen.

The number of their armored soldiers is full of three and one armor, and there are about 20,000 armored soldiers. The Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Five Soldiers wore one armor, and there were about 5,000 soldiers in armor. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were dressed in one armor, and there were about 3,200 armor-worn soldiers.

The 24 banners of Manchu, Mongolia and Han are almost in armor, and the soldiers are about 30,000.

There are also Horqin Division, various foreign vassals, Mongolia, etc., about 100,000 bannermen, and 20,000 armored soldiers.

In this way, there were about 50,000 armored soldiers who could be used under the command of the Qing State.

In the future, if you want to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in the final battle, how can you say that the number of armored soldiers under your command will also reach fifty or sixty thousand.

But look at yourself, there are now more than 2,000 troops, including the captured Liukou cotton armor, there are only more than 400 pairs of iron armor and cotton armor, and the armor rate is only one-sixth.

And the importance of equipment cannot be ignored, there is no armor on the battlefield, and the world is far away.

Therefore, Yang He must quickly stabilize the place, produce with peace of mind, expand the force to three or four thousand by the end of the year, and strive to produce 3,000 breech Xin'an guns before the water power dries up, and connect the original fire guns, totaling 4,000 rods.

There is also armor, at least 1,800 pairs of iron armor of soldiers need to be produced, and the original iron armor is connected, reaching 2,000 pairs.

In this way, the subordinates can compete with the Qing soldiers who came to loot at the end of the year.

He must temper his ranks in blood and fire.

He had to fight hard!

Because if you don't work hard now, you may not even have the opportunity to work hard in the future.

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