The ugly child was walking in the courtyard with the tea in her hand, and the muffled sound in the study frightened her neck and quickly slipped away. Xue Rong didn't notice it, but Li Mao saw it, he walked to the window and closed the screen, and took advantage of the situation to look outside, the courtyard was full of grass and trees, and there was no one there.

Li Mao turned around and said: "I found someone to go to the camp of Moqishu to investigate, early this morning, Moqishu moved the women and children out of the city, and now only young and strong men are left in the camp. I speculate that the death of Da Yuehua was deliberately designed by them to blame the beggars and make trouble in the city. ”

Xue Rong muttered, "What are they doing this? ”

Li Mao said: "Coerce the government and give them the land next to the Iron Buddha Temple." ”

"Wishful thinking!" Xue Rong shot up again, snorting angrily.

He paced anxiously, turned around, and made up his mind: "I would rather lose my official position and join the army, I will never let them succeed in their tricks, what is really unreasonable!" ”

Li Mao took a sip of the tea bowl and said slowly: "If you let the Moqi people stay in the city, it will become a big disaster in the future." I have a plan to get rid of them, but ......"

Xue Rong clapped his hands and said: "Oh, Maohua, if you have anything to say, you can just say it, I have made up my mind, even if I lose my official position and resign from my post, I will confiscate the army for 3,000 miles, and I will never allow them to do anything wrong in Chengwu County." ”

Li Mao was inexplicably moved, got up and said: "If you don't pick or break the pus, if you want to go to the harm of the Moqi people, I am afraid that it will not help you to make a small fuss, so you have to make a big fuss about him and turn him upside down." After saying that, he told his plan and discernment, Xue Rong's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he shouted: "Okay, this is a big second!" ”

When Xue Rong applauded the case, the ugly child was holding the newly prepared tea, tiptoeing close to the study, eating his fright, a bowl of tea spilled on the ground again, the woman stuck out her tongue, shrunk her head and ran away.

After staying in Xue Rong's study for half an hour, Li Mao said goodbye and left the house, went out of the city from the west gate, and went straight to Gushan Town. He didn't go back to the construction site directly, but went to Su Xiaoduzhuang to meet a person - Jia Zhiyan, a staff officer of Yunzhou Jiedu.

In the afternoon of this day, the leader of the Moqi tribe led 300 people to the county government office to complain with a complaint letter. Every move of the Moqi people in the city attracted people's attention, and this move immediately attracted the attention of half of the city, and the onlookers made the street in front of the county yamen squeezed through the water. When the county lieutenant Cui Li received the report, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately came to see Xue Rong with the report.

Xue Rong was about to go out, heard the report, and said lightly: "There was a murder case, I should have stayed, but someone at the Chengdong River construction site embezzled grain money, which provoked a strike by river workers, and this river was blocked for a day, and the disaster in the eight townships in the east of the county could not be alleviated. ”

Cui Li asked: "The deceased's people are excited, can the suspect be detained first to avoid accidents?" ”

Xue Rong said with a smile: "You are more familiar with how to handle the case than me, you can deal with it on the spot, you don't have to ask me everything." ”

It was this sentence that Cui Li wanted, sending Xue Rong away, he returned to his duty room, immediately called two henchmen, and gave a low command, and then gave the order to ascend to the court.

Da Yuehua's body was found in a ditch south of Cross Street, where the beggars' gang lived. The Moqi people insisted that Da Yuehua was kidnapped and killed by the disciples of the beggar gang, and the beggar gang naturally did not admit that Da Yuehua's death was related to them.

The beggars are also difficult to mess with, but they are much easier to bully than the Moksan. In order to calm things down, Cui Li ordered Feng Bu to arrest Chen Daxi, the leader of the beggar gang, and several small leaders, and torture them. Feng Bu had doubts, but he had to send the arrow, so he had to arrest people.

The arrest angered the beggars, and after dark, hundreds of beggars surrounded the gate of the county government and knocked bamboo poles into the air. Feng Bu is not afraid of this situation at all, beggars, no matter how much he tosses, he will not dare to clash head-on with the government, and Feng Bu still has this point. Things did develop according to Feng Bu's prediction, the beggar gang was leaderless, although there were hundreds of people gathered in front of the county yamen, but none of them really dared to storm the county ya, not only that, they didn't even have the courage to block the road, except for the sound of knocking on bamboo poles slightly disturbing the people, on the whole, the beggars were quite regular.

The turning point of events occurred in the middle of the night, at the end of the watch, there was news that Chen Daxi had been tortured in prison, with eight ribs broken, the flesh on his calf scorched with a soldering iron, and he was unconscious. Chen Daxi had a very high prestige among the beggars, and when he heard this, the beggars could not tolerate it anymore, and the crowd made an uproar, which temporarily alarmed half of the city.

Feng Bu summoned the guards and soldiers to be ready for the unexpected. Chen Daxi's torture and coma soon proved to be a false thing, and the noisy beggar gradually quieted down.

After a day of disturbance, Feng Bu and the county yazhu were in great pain, and when the beggar gang was quiet, they gathered together to eat, and the rice bowl was just served, and a sudden change occurred: hundreds of strong men, with cloth towels around their faces and short sticks, poured out at the same time from the east and west ends of the street in front of the county yamen, attacking each other, and beating the beggars when they saw them.

It was already three watches at night, and many beggars had already fallen asleep, and they were suddenly attacked, only to be beaten, and the streets in front of the county government suddenly flew with blood, crying and shaking the sky. The brutality lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and it was only after the young beggars scattered at the intersections rushed back to reinforce them, and the beaters had miraculously disappeared as they had been when they first arrived.

Feng Bu and the others who rushed to hear the news, faced with hundreds of beggars who were bleeding from their heads and crying for their fathers and mothers, they only felt that their scalps were exploding, and even well-informed old officials like Feng Bu couldn't help but be worried and a little overwhelmed, so when Cui Li advocated asking the State Military Yuan to transfer united troops from outside the city into the city to disperse the beggars, Feng Bu chose to be silent.

Caozhou is a hundred miles away from Chengwu County, and it only takes an hour for the horse to go back and forth, and when he heard that the beggars in Chengwu County were in rebellion, the new assassin Shi Mi Rulong took the case, and immediately issued a downward order, so that the united soldiers stationed outside Chengwu County went out of the camp to pacify. Zheng Hu, the captain of the unified army, got the troop transfer order and convened several team leaders to discuss.

It was the height of summer, and most of the united soldiers were engaged in farming in the township, and there were only thirty or fifty people stationed in the camp. Zheng Hu gave an order, and several team leaders acted separately, some went to the dock guild outside the city, some went to the fish and horse market in the city, and some went to the gambling house to find the steward.

An hour later, Zheng Hudu led a hundred native soldiers into the city. One hundred native soldiers plus more than 50 catchers and servants can deal with a few hundred beggars, and it seems that it is a piece of cake for anyone.

Cui Li briefly discussed the strategy with Zheng Hu, Han Zi and others, and then issued an order to expel the beggar gang.

From the early morning of the same day to the noon of the second day, hundreds of beggars retreated miserably outside the city under the escort of the guns and sticks of the officers and soldiers. Cui Li's prediction was not wrong, the beggar gang did not dare to clash head-on with the government, and in the face of the guns and sticks of the official army, they just blindly fled. But Cui Li forgot one thing, everything must have a degree, and once this degree is exceeded, things will develop in the exact opposite direction.