Zhang Mengcun is a landlord family, the family has hundreds of acres of land, life is relatively rich, and invited Mr. private school to teach him to read since childhood, but this guy is born rebellious, the more he reads, the more he wants to rebel, look at the Ming Dynasty left and right is not pleasing to the eye, do not read the books of the imperial examination, hold the "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" all day long, and become more rampant in adulthood, and thieves and swordsmen are constantly in contact, the family is afraid, give some money and send him away, and ask the neighbors to testify and remove him from the clan.

Zhang Mengcun left home and became more courageous, coinciding with the outbreak of civil revolt in the northwest, he simply pulled up a gang of thieves and thieves to rebel, and became one of the Yansui giants, but this guy has ambitions, but he has no ability to rebel, and the official army has been defeated repeatedly, and several times he has relied on fraud to get by, after learning from the pain, he finally admitted that he is not the material to be a hero, he has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" many times before, it is useless, he is determined to find a person to take refuge in, Wang Jiayin recruited the heroes in the river meander, and he went immediately, But it soon turned out that Wang Jiayin, the big head soldier, was a wreck at all, and the leader of the 36th battalion was also a group of rotten thieves, he couldn't mix with this group of ambitious people without mud, and the opportunity to flee south to the Fen River finally came, and the lamplight, who had read a few books like him, came to the door, Zhang Mengcun carefully inquired about Li Yu's situation, and immediately felt that the future was bright, this person has territory, strength and can fight, and he is a fellow villager in Yulin, and it doesn't seem to be all the way with Daming, is there a more suitable person than this? So he left the pesky rotten thieves and went to Li Yu.

Zhang Mengcun is an ideal person, of course he is unwilling to leave the Guannei, and whispered to Li Yu: "My lord, Daming is a broken boat, can't withstand the wind and waves, such as today's chaos, all the heroes want to replace it, adults are talented, eloquent, and won the hearts of the people, who can compete for the world in the world, and adults have a fertile land outside the Saiwai, and there are more fierce Hu cavalry to help, just to compete for the Central Plains to fight for the world, today's plan should not retreat to the outside of the Saiwai, but should take the opportunity to enter Taiyuan, Taiyuan ancient Dragon City, adults are in the Dragon City, Ascend to the top of the call must be complied with by all the people, and then take Shanxi as the fundamental place, appease the Northwest Righteous Army to fill the king's division, enter the Beijing division to order the world, retreat can guard the danger of Taihang and the Yellow River, and respond to the changes of the world in an invincible position, and the big thing can be done. ”

After Zhang Mengcun finished speaking, he fell to the ground and kowtowed, still thinking about how these words compared to Longzhong, but Li Yu was startled, what nonsense is this guy talking about, isn't this inciting rebellion, I have a good life!

"Zhang Mengcun, you are so bold, do you think I am a den of thieves here, get out of my way!" Li Yu picked up Zhang Mengcun with a calm face, and said sharply, "What kind of thing is the emperor, just a poor worm, I won't do it if I give it to me, if you want to rebel, get out of Lao Tzu, the blood of the people of Fengzhou will not be shed for a broken throne." ”

Li Yu waved his hand to chase away the guests, Zhang Mengcun walked out of the door with a pale face, walked a few steps and then stopped and turned around and asked, "My lord, you won't hand me over to the government, right?" ”

"Don't worry, I'm not a slave of the Ming Emperor, you make him against me, if you are afraid, go to Fengzhou, there is lawlessness, as long as you don't come nonsense, I will let you live safely." Li Yu replied coldly.

Looking at Zhang Mengcun's lost soul, Li Yu felt funny in his heart, this guy must have something wrong with his brain, the emperor is an unlucky guy who locks himself in the Forbidden City all day long, I will find this guilt myself when I go crazy.

It seems that everything is going well with the displaced people out of the customs, and the Ming army at the head of the pass doesn't care at all, in fact, Song Tongyin doesn't give an order, they will turn a blind eye, in recent years, Fengzhou has done a lot of private goods trading, and the Ming army guarding the pass has also profited from it, and the two sides are almost wearing a pair of pants, and it is right to help each other. Zhang Miaoshou is also leaving, Li Yu specifically asked him to take all the homeless children out of the customs, and to send them to the Manhan Mountain camp to be handed over to Ulan Hatun - Ulan is a very kind and good mother, she will definitely give these children a home, Hadari and Richard Brother were also sent away, the two children were unwilling to go back, but Li Yu told them that the group of orphans was very pitiful and needed to be taken care of by their two eldest brothers, so they sent the two children out of the customs. Zhang Mengcun finally decided to get out of the customs, the hateful Ming must be overthrown, but he must save his life first.

When the people were almost gone, a shocking news suddenly came, Zhao Ji sent someone to send an urgent report, the plague was found in Hequ, a bit like the "pimple disease" that appeared in Fengzhou that year, dozens of people have died, he has ordered the blockade of the affected area, please Li Yu also take corresponding measures, Li Yu was so frightened that his soul flew away, and the tragic scene two years ago appeared in front of his eyes.

"Stop the displaced people from going out of the customs, notify Urden to block the partial pass, the west post immediately enters full alert, Zhao Sheng, light the lamp, you also go to the camp of the displaced people to organize the people to immediately investigate, separate people from living and not coming and going at will, find out that the epidemic is immediately isolated, come to people, immediately report to Taiyuan, ask the governor for help, find out Fan Erxi for me, where is this guy dead, I want money, food, medicinal materials, what do you want!" Li Yu almost shouted hysterically, and the officials and attendants around him were thrown away.

Li Yu then moved outside the city, at this time he had to be with the people, and the plague to fight again, the new Baode Zhizhou arrived after the fifteenth day of the first month, suddenly encountered this kind of thing and dizzy, immediately ordered to close the city gate, but he quickly reacted, the city wall could not stop the plague, a smoke also rushed to Li Yu's camp, at this time it is safest to be with the army.

Zhang Ding and Ma Jinzhong suddenly ran back, and Li Yu was very dissatisfied: "Brother Zhang, Brother Ma, didn't you let you go out of the customs with the people, why did you come back at this time?" ”

"If you have such a big thing, you can't be left alone, the brothers have a share, you can tell if you have any work." Zhang Ding waved his hand and said.

"Brother Xiao Li, many of the homeless people here are our fellow villagers in Yansui, we can't just run by ourselves, and we also brought back 20,000 catties of yam eggs from outside the customs." Ma Jinzhong also echoed.

"Then ask the two brothers to take their men into the camp of the displaced people to be on duty, Zhao Sheng and they can't do this job." Li Yu gratefully glanced at Zhang Ding and Ma Jinzhong, and arranged errands for them - Zhao Sheng and Gu Keli were both left in the pass by Li Yu, and the two usually managed the camp of the displaced people in an orderly manner, but they were dizzy when they encountered major events.

The plague is still spreading, Baode and Hequ have died hundreds of people one after another, especially Hequ is the most serious - nearly 100 people died, the magistrate was also frightened, sent to urge the local gentry, landlords to give money and grain to help the people, the village chiefs, grain chiefs organized the people to strictly guard against death, prohibiting the people from fleeing, the Fengzhou army also sent troops to block all intersections, Baode and Hequ were almost isolated from the outside world - this era is helpless to diagnose and treat the plague, what can be done is to give the people a bite to eat, strictly prohibit them from flowing outward.

The barracks of the Fengzhou Army and the camp of the displaced people were even put on full alert, the barracks were divided into small pieces and isolated, the soldiers and people with weapons were closely checked, and the movement of personnel was forbidden at will, lime and sour vinegar were splashed everywhere, and a pungent smell could be smelled far away from the camp.

Li Yu also has no way to take the plague, what he can do is to check the epidemic prevention situation everywhere in the camp every day, and at the same time let the soldiers and people see him, and the rest is to wait for the epidemic to pass, at this time Li Huai and Du Hongtai came back, and Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Huai and Du Hongtai should have come back earlier, but something happened in the middle, although the governor of the three sides, Yang He, tried hard to appease him, but Shen Yiyuan and Shen Yikui did not accept his love, and returned to Yan'an Mansion from Qingyang Mansion, taking advantage of the westward transfer of the main force of the official army, they broke through Ningzhai Fort in one fell swoop, and copied Du Wenhuan's hometown, Du Wenhuan gritted his teeth with hatred, and urgently dispatched troops and horses from all over the country to Ningzhai, Li Huai and Du Hongtai were also anxious, there was also their hometown, the house and land were there, and the two accompanied Du Wenhuan to lead the official army to Ningzhai, In a big battle with Shen Yiyuan, he killed Shen Yiyuan and recaptured Ningzhai Fort, and Shen Yikui took Lu Xi and fled, so that Li Huai and Du Hongtai came back late.

"Fortunately, the sister-in-law and the mother and son were brought to Yulin, or no accident was allowed, so it's okay, the house in the family has burned, the tenants have run away, and the sister-in-law has nothing to worry about, we can take the family to Fengzhou," Li Huai let out a sigh of relief, and asked Li Yu again, "How are you doing here?" How many people died? ”

"We're okay here, no one died, mainly because there are many dead people on the other side of the river, and there are also a few dead people in Baode countryside, I have blocked the surrounding roads and paths, but I'm still scared to death, there are too many people here, and it's all over if something happens." Li Yu replied with palpitations.

"That's good, there have been several plagues in Yansui, we have no choice but to defend strictly, what is the situation of the thieves?" Du Hongtai then asked.

"Zhang Chuanjie sent a letter, the thieves could not stand in Pingyang Mansion, and then crossed the Fenshui to enter Lu'an Mansion, under the suppression of our army and the Ming army, most of them have been dispersed, but this is more difficult to fight, the thieves are too ruthless, leaving behind the ordinary people and even their own families, and taking away all the elite bandits, Lu'an Mansion is located in the Taihang Mountains, the terrain is complex, the roads are rugged, the thieves are easy to hide, they gather and scatter, and there are local refugees in Shanxi vying to help the war, it is simply invincible, I don't know how this battle was fought?" Li Yu shook his head, and said with a wry smile, "Our troubles are getting bigger and bigger, the displaced people scattered on both sides of the Fen River have nowhere to go, and they have been trekking to Baode one after another, and more than 3,000 people have already entered my camp of displaced people to eat, and there must be more people behind, I only knew when I asked, it was all my soldiers' troubles, and when I saw my fellow villagers, I said that the officers and soldiers who played the Black Eagle Banner took in the displaced people, and now those scattered displaced people are coming to me, I can't figure out whether I am here to suppress thieves or to help the Ming court for disaster relief?" ”

"It's your own cocoon, it's not so easy to be a good person! Lord Song didn't urge you to go out and kill the thief? Li Huai sighed.

"Lord Song heard that I had a plague here, so he didn't care about me, and just told me to drive everyone to Hexi, how could I hurry! These outcasts will not leave until I kill them all. ”

Du Hongtai smiled: "Lord Song and Lord Hong are fighting, Lord Song asked Lord Hong to send troops to take the displaced people back to Yansui, Lord Hong just didn't do it, insisted that the displaced people in Shaanxi crossed the river and were the displaced people in Shanxi, and they could only be pacified by Shanxi, and the two of them fought with the two immortals, and as a result, the Han people suffered." ”

Li Yu said with a bitter face: "I'm poor and panicking now, you guys came just in time, just help me take over the homeless mess, I have already sent someone to Taiyuan, the 10,000 taels of silver given by Mr. Sun can last for a while, where is Fan Erxi, this bastard dead, why haven't you come yet?" ”

Fan Erxi finally came two days later, and when he saw Li Yu's face, he called aggrieved, not that he didn't know that Baode was in urgent need of money, but that the price of grain had risen too fast, and he used to sell five or six yuan and one stone of rice now for three taels of silver, so he went to the countryside to desperately buy grain, and then sold it at a high price in Taiyuan and Pingyang, and finally exchanged it for miscellaneous grains to send to Baode.

"Great Commander, I have done a great contribution for you, you gave me a lot of dilapidated military funds in Ningwuguan and can't sell much silver, and it's not enough to pay a few more months of military salary, it's not the same if I take the money and pour a few back and forth, it's enough for you to fight for a few months, I have already collected more than 10,000 stone grains for you, and I will send them one after another, although it is not delicious, but brown rice and beans can also be full, anyway, these people can stutter." Fan Erxi triumphantly showed his work.

"Okay, you're doing a good job, I think you can go up to 100 households." Li Yu nodded.

Fan Erxi shouted happily, then said goodbye to Li Yu, and hurriedly left Baode to busy his business.

Li Huai and Du Hongtai took over the camp of the displaced people, both of them are veterans of managing government affairs, and arranged everything in an orderly manner, even the new Baode Zhizhou and Hequ Zhixian also admired the five bodies, and simply entrusted the government affairs of Baode Prefecture and Hequ County to the two of them, and the two were not polite at this time, and they used their authority to take it in hand, and gathered the gentry and big households in the two places, forcing them to pay money, food, and people to resist the plague, and threatened them that the army had surrounded Baode and Hequ into iron buckets, and no one wanted to run out, Everyone is either alive or finished together, the gentry and big families were also frightened by them, and obediently listened to the two of them.

Li Huai and Du Hongtai took care of the interior, and immediately stretched out their hands outward, Taiyuan, Datong and even Yulin did not let go of any of them, they said that the epidemic in the Baode River Meander was extremely serious, and the local soldiers and civilians were extremely miserable, it seems that the surrounding bigwigs did not pull a hand, and tomorrow the plague would spread all over Shanxi, Datong and even Yansui in Hexi, this trick really worked, after receiving the letter, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Datong, immediately sent someone to send a thousand stones of grain and a batch of medicinal materials, and also warned Li Yu that if the plague spread into Datong, then he would not want to go home, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, was also afraid that the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry would faint from hunger, so he let the people out and ran around, and urgently raised some grain and cloth to send to Baode.

With Li Huai and Du Hongtai extorting money everywhere, Li Yu's life is much better, at least his camp of homeless people has not collapsed, what makes him upset is that there are still homeless people who are not afraid of death to defect, these people can't drive away, claiming that as long as they give a bowl of rice today, it doesn't matter if they die tomorrow, Li Yu had to take care of these people who only care about their stomachs and don't want their lives, but he put all the fire on Zhao Sheng, it was this guy who said everywhere that Baode had food to eat, so many people were provoked, Li Yu simply took charge, The distribution of money and food was handed over to Zhao Sheng, and he must be made to suffer a little, but Zhao Sheng was overjoyed, he thought that Li Yu was reusing him, and he was likely to make an official position after doing a good job.

The scale of the plague in the river meander is not large, it comes and goes quickly, only four or five hundred people died in the area of the river meander, and less than a hundred people died in Baode, Li Yu luckily escaped a disaster, the Fengzhou army and the displaced people did not die a single person, and the displaced people who should go out of the customs also came out of the customs one after another. However, the official army in the south did not go well to suppress the thieves, and the thieves seemed to be bigger than before, and they corrupted Lu'an Mansion and entered Zezhou.

After the thieves went south, Wang Jiayin and other thieves could not settle down in Pingyang Mansion, and most of the people were scattered, but the thieves preserved the backbone, and entered Lu'an Mansion by homeopathy, instigating the Shanxi refugees to follow them to rebel, Lu'an Mansion immediately fell into chaos, and the official army also entered the bullet to suppress the chaotic people, and the eldest son and the thieves mingled in Tunliu, but Lu'an Mansion is located in the Taihang Mountains, the terrain is complex and the roads are difficult, there are no roads at all in many places, people want to go in and have to rely on their hands and feet and climb to walk, the thieves hide in the mountains and defend the danger, Seeing the right time, he went out of the mountain to beat the officials and soldiers, and by the way, they wantonly looted property, and the officers and soldiers were not familiar with the place, but the military discipline was corrupt, and they repeatedly bullied and robbed the people, and the locals regarded it as an enemy, not only did not help the officials and soldiers to suppress the thieves, but instead reported to the thieves, as long as the officers and soldiers entered the mountain, they were beaten everywhere, and it was difficult to move an inch, and the Fengzhou army was even more troublesome, their advantage was the iron horse, Lu'an Mansion was not the place they should go to at all, Zhang Chuanjie led people into the mountains to suppress the thieves several times, either they pounced on the air or were ambushed, I didn't catch the thief, and I suffered a loss.

After Li Yu received the battle report, he was so angry that he scolded Zhang Chuanjie for being a loser, and he couldn't get military pay and lost two or three hundred lives, what else is this kind of battle to fight! He ordered Zhang Chuanjie and the generals of the Ming army to immediately change the way of playing, build camps at the junctions of key roads everywhere, and then cut off the connection of the thieves along the official road with iron horses, and the main force advanced to the mountains step by step, steadily and steadily, gradually encroaching on the scope of the thieves' activities, and then choosing the opportunity to exterminate them, this trick trapped the thieves to death, into April, the thieves finally couldn't hold on, as Wang Jiayin broke through into Zezhou, the big and small thieves also swarmed to follow, Lu'an Mansion gradually calmed down, The officials and soldiers who lacked food and wages and suffered a lot breathed a sigh of relief, and Lai refused to move his nest in Lu'an Mansion anymore, allowing Zezhou to be turned upside down by thieves, Song Tongyin was angry and hateful, and wrote angrily to reprimand Li Yu for fearing the enemy's cowardice, and ordered him to rush to Zezhou immediately, otherwise he would go back to Fengzhou.

Li Yu understood that he couldn't move any longer, and while ordering the Ming army in Lu'an Mansion to enter Zezhou to suppress thieves, he began to prepare to leave Baode.