In these years, the transmission of information is slow, there is no Internet, there is no telephone. As soon as Dong Ping's chaos came out, Cheng Wanli wanted to report it. Chao Gai said: "Master Cheng, it is not appropriate to report at this time. ”

Cheng Wanli said: "What's wrong? ”

Chao Gai said: "Master Cheng has no backer in the capital, so he hastened to report Dong Ping's rebellion, this is to send a handle to some people, although it is Dong Ping who is making trouble, but Dong Ping is your subordinate, there is still a crime of dereliction of duty, and it is not good to dismiss the official and return to his hometown." ”

"The government is not afraid of dismissal." The old man had a strong temper.

Chao Gai said with a smile: "Lord Cheng is afraid of dismissal, but the people of Dongping Mansion are afraid." The promotion of new food crops such as Tianwang rice and peanuts has just achieved results, and the common people have just had some surplus grain at home. ”

"How do I report it?"

Chao Gai said: "Dongping Mansion is missing to Dong Ping, it's not that you can't make money, wait for half a month, everything will be handled properly, Dongping Mansion will be peaceful in the world, and then report to the court, saying that Shoushan thieves are bewitched, Dong Ping is in chaos, and he fled to the mountains to be a bandit, as for how to write, it all depends on the pen of Lord Cheng." ”

Cheng Wanli was a little noncommittal, and said: "Although Dong Ping and I don't get along, I don't believe that he will go to the bandits, after all, Dong Ping is a capable person, known as a merry and two-gun general." ”

Chao Gai smiled slightly: "Otherwise, Dong Ping is in trouble, and now he is now a wanted criminal in the imperial court, and even more so, his face is injured in this chaos, and he still has a numb face, if it is not bad, he will definitely go to Qingzhou Qingfeng Mountain to fall into the grass." ”

Cheng Zhifu nodded, it would be good if Dong Ping went to the grass.

In the next few days, Chao Gai completely mastered the 2,000 soldiers of Dongpyeongfu, and transferred another 1,000 reserve soldiers from Jeju, and mixed with the veterans to build the Dongpyeongfu army, which was still 3,000 people. Two thousand five hundred infantry, five hundred cavalry.

Governor Cheng accepted Chao Gai's suggestion and transferred Li Yun to take charge of the security of Dongping Mansion. As soon as Li Yun arrived, he transferred 400 arresters from Dongpyeong Province to the Jeju Prefecture Barracks for training on the pretext of training, and Li Yun led the 400 patrolmen transferred from Jeju to show their strength, openly and covertly investigated together, and cracked dozens of cases of cattle and sheep theft, more than 10 cases of human trafficking, and more than 10 cases of bullying and dominating the market.

Li Yun can be arrested, Cheng Wanli can try the case, Cheng Wanli's trial case is not in the yamen, directly at the entrance of the vegetable market, Cheng Wanli is very well-behaved, even if he is sentenced to death, he will report to the court and wait for processing. However, dozens of people spanked together every day at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the screams were repeated, and the teahouses and restaurants on both sides were lively, and they were full every day.

However, in more than ten days, more than 1,000 people were arrested by various thieves, and of course most of them were reprimanded by Cheng Wanli and put them back. There are more than 400 people who stay, and the prison is full. Almost instantaneously, the security of Dongping Mansion was doubled.

Cheng Wanli asked Li Yun to go to the government office to ask, and said: "Li Patrol, my original method is the same as yours, why is the law and order not improving, you can get started with law and order." ”

Li Yundao: "I have been doing it for more than ten years, and I know all kinds of things relatively clearly. Local thieves and thieves are closely related to the scum in the local fast catch, and some of them provide various covers for the thieves, and then sit on the ground to share the spoils. Now the old catcher is about to be transferred to training, so I am very handy at catching. ”

Governor Cheng sighed: "I hope you can maintain the law and order in Dongping Mansion, the people are too bitter, they can raise a cow to plow the land, but they don't dare to raise it." Ming ** took the tried cattle thieves to parade through the streets for three days, deterring the people and giving the people confidence. ”

"Yes, then I'm quitting."

Li Yun went back, and the next day, according to Cheng Wanli's wishes, he took dozens of cattle thieves to parade through the streets and traveled all over the county. This trick is indeed very powerful, which makes those who have this kind of thinking and have not yet acted frightened, where do they dare to move.

What's more, Li Yun's methods are not limited to this, setting up patrol and security points at key checkpoints, and patrolling 24 hours a day. At the same time, the arresters and heads who had sufficient evidence to act as a protective umbrella for the thieves were all arrested, and the ranks of the officials themselves were cleaned up. Although this move caused dissatisfaction among the county orders, it was not Li Yun who considered the matter, and even Cheng Wanli's dissatisfaction was not a matter for Li Yun to consider, Li Yun was just on duty according to Chao Gai's orders.

Within a few days, Duan Jing arrived, accompanied by Yang Lin and Shi Yong. This time, 500 prairie horses were transported, and the prairie horses, which are resistant to extensive use, will inevitably be a little emaciated in the spring. Usually Duan Jingzhu sends horses to Cangzhou Racecourse, but this time he sent Yuncheng mainly because he wanted to introduce Chao Gai to Yang Lin and Shi Yong.

Duan Jingzhu sent the horses to the horse farm for recuperation, and then transported 500 mares from the horse farm to Dongping Province for sale.

Chao Gai, Zhu Wu, and Luan Tingyu received Duan Jingzhu, Yang Lin, and Shi Yong in Chaojialou.

Yang Lin and Shi Yong visited Chao Gai, Chao Gai hurriedly supported him, and said: "I have heard the two names for a long time, but I didn't expect to see them today, I am really lucky, each of them gave a steel knife and a body of armor, I don't know if the two like it." ”

Immediately, Chao Gai asked people to bring two Yanling knives, and the Yanling knives as gifts were all made by Tang Long himself, with good steel mouths and extremely sharp. The armor is also well-made, has good defense, and does not look clumsy.

The two were delighted and accepted Chaogai's gift.

Chao Gai said: "The Tongda Mabang has just been established, and it is necessary for the three of you to work together, and I really hope that you can bring the Tongda Mabang together." From the coast of the East China Sea to the desert of the Western Regions, there are traces of Tongda Mabang. ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "The three of us are rough people, this time I hope that Brother Chao Gai can send us a master to help us deal with some things on recruiting franchisees, and strive to develop Tongda Malaysia Gang into a real Malaysia Gang this year." ”

Chao Gai said, "Okay, come, come, drink first." ”

The development model of Tongda Gang is the same as that of the express companies in later generations, the important places are the development of direct branch caravans, and the less important places are the development of franchise caravans. For example, you are quite powerful in Datong and have dozens of horses at home, so you pay a part of the deposit, and the freight in Datong will be handed over to you. Tongda caravan, the Datong branch was established, and then the branch recruited some people with cars and horses as the grassroots delivery people of the caravan.

Of course, this model has advantages, then it develops quickly, saves money, and also has disadvantages, that is, the control of joining the caravan is not strict, and it is easy to have various problems, and even some violent sorting and damage to goods often occur.

After the meal, Duan Jingzhu said: "We found a partner from Tianshui, Gansu, this person is called Han Kaijun, there are more than 50 camels, and for the first time, he gave him fifty camel tea, which made him earn a lot, and it didn't take long for the head to develop to a hundred camels, and he can be regarded as a well-known camel guest." There are also several teams of other cooperative camel riders, but they are about 30 camels. ”

Zhu Wudao: "The Western Regions have a vast area, many deserts, and many small countries, and the most inseparable thing to develop commodity trade is camels. ”

Luan Tingyu said: "If you want to transport materials in large quantities, hundreds of camels are obviously a drop in the bucket, and Duan Da has any good development ideas." ”

Duan Jingzhu scratched his head: "It's still according to my brother's idea, the first thing is to be a wholesaler, Tongda Mabang transports goods from the coast to Datong, there is our warehouse outside Datong City, and a large number of wholesalers are given to the camel team, so that the camel team can transport the goods to sell by itself." The second is to find a few reliable camel teams, let's invest money into them, first develop the camel team, and then think about making money. ”

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