In the past few days, Yao Mai, the boss of Banqiao Town, has not been quiet, and he always keeps patrolling the places under his rule. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He has already received a letter from the owner of Zhang Guoan, and in just a few days, they will definitely come here!

Yao Mai had already taken advantage of the last pirate incident to organize the township soldiers, apparently to maintain local security, but in fact, he had arranged his own forces inside.

These township soldiers practice every day, using public funds, and their equipment is really not bad.

They've at least beaten some of the little bandits and the like who want to get a handful of them.

Therefore, with them, the businessmen are still more happy to see them.

In the early morning of this day, Yao Mai walked in the shop area with his back hand, so far, there are still too few merchants who have really moved out completely, and most of them have heard all kinds of rumors, but they just have a wait-and-see attitude, and they can endure it.

The people in the town really don't know that the industry in the Yao Mai clan is almost an empty shell.

Along the way, he kept saying hello to the early merchants, and everyone was too familiar with it.

After his inspection, when he was about to return to the city, a villager came running in a panic, saying that a group of merchant ships with black flags were sailing up the river!

And they came!

Yao Mai calmly ordered: "Let all the township soldiers gather in the city!" ”

The villager was a little stunned at the time, why don't you go to the dock to stop it?!

Yao Mai raised his leg and kicked him, what was he stunned?! Hurry up and inform!!

The township soldier came to his senses after being kicked, yes, this is what Lord Yao said!

He ran away in a puff of smoke.

Captain Bao Wei and Vice Captain Guo Beyu discussed, they just entered openly and directly, and they played the previous black skull flag------ they have to be more terrifying than evil!

So they openly went up the river with flags------ they were not hindered or alarmed along the way, and they were very calm, just like ordinary fleets that came to do business.

It's just that their ships are so neat that they look like they've been carved out of a mold.

When they stopped at Banqiao Pier, Yao Mai and his men were there to greet them.

In fact, it was Yao Mai's behavior, there was not the slightest confusion here, everyone thought, or the caravan that the city made Master Yao know came.

The Banqiao Pier was a little smaller, not enough for them to dock together, so by the time they all took turns to go ashore, it was already noon.

Throughout this period, the people on the Itabashi pier saw rows of soldiers in tight clothes coming ashore, all with knives at their waists and weapons behind their backs------ standing in large rows, silent, and only looking ahead, no one looking around.

A sense of pressure caused the bystanders to retreat frequently, and no one dared to speak loudly.

Many people suddenly remembered that a few years ago, it was the people under such banners who collected protection fees here!

Some people want to run, but when they see that most of them are still watching, they quietly stay and watch, but the body posture is the same, but if something is not good, they can turn around and run away at any time.

Captain Bao Wei and Deputy Captain Guo Beyu cordially met Yao Mai on the dock, and the three of them had no scruples until now, and they explained the whole situation of both sides with a smile.

Yao Mai's eyes flashed with excitement, this time there were tens of thousands of troops!

He was too confident in the combat capabilities of the Liuqiu Guards------ if he had defended the river, it was estimated that the Tatar bandit group would not be able to cross the river.

Captain Bao Wei and Deputy Captain Guo Beyu also knew that the armed forces within a radius of 100 miles were only the township soldiers here, and they were still listening to orders in the city.

The town of Banqiao in front of him is a little lamb.

But they still can't be rough------ the two of them let the Yao Mai family do the ideological work of those people, they don't want to be rude, and let them move out voluntarily.

The most important reason is that this is the main battlefield.

The Yao Mai family persuaded others according to the real situation------ in fact, too many people don't want to leave here, and they can make a lot of excuses.

But what the Yao family said is good, first of all, they don't leave here forever, after three or five years, when the war stops, they can come back again, and the houses and shops will not run away, even if the land outside the town is there.

Secondly, this is going to be a battlefield, where is there still business to do?

Why don't you go to the island of Liuqiu, where there are houses and shops, and there is much more business than here, if not, where do you get the goods from Liuqiu?

Third, there is nothing to collect except customs tariffs, which is better than paying a few percent of the taxes here, right?

Fourth, you see that the Yao family, the Zhang family, the Li family, and the Liu family have all moved away, where will there be business opportunities here in the future?

These arguments are very convincing, and they have moved away one after another.

The process of this relocation was very complicated, and there was no need to go into detail, until the Great Song Dynasty sent 8,000 van soldiers, and the progress was accelerated by borrowing their sea boats, and often dozens of sea ships and dozens of sea ships set off en masse.

As for the surrounding farmers, they also persuaded them not to feel sorry for the output of the land, and they could go to Liuqiu Island to give and exchange, and they could only give a lot more.

But there were not as many people who walked as the merchants, and they did not force those who did not leave.

Almost a month later, the town was mainly filled with Liuqiu guards and Great Song Xiang soldiers.

The ships that sent people away came back with the necessary armaments and supplies, and they did not sit idle, and began to build a large castle here, which would be their base camp in the future.

Yao Mai has been withholding the taxes that should be paid, until the Liuqiu guards came, and did not hand them over, which caused the dissatisfaction of the boss, and now all parts of the country are urging the payment of taxes, and the Yao Mai City Envoy, who was originally the fastest to pay, has exceeded twenty days this month!

I sent a small official to urge the payment, but there was no response.

It wasn't until a shrewd servant was sent to quietly go there that he found that the pirates had taken over the entire town and moved the merchants away, and I heard the crying on the dock day and night.

There are 10,000 pirates in the town!

The local governor of Jiaozhou hurriedly asked Mizhou for help, he couldn't even organize two thousand township soldiers here!

He had just sent out a helper when he heard a large group of pirates coming here!

Jiaozhou City is just a small city within a radius of four miles, and the city walls have long been dilapidated, and the Tatars still don't like to have city walls, so it's the same as nothing.

The Jiaozhou county commander panicked at that time, and immediately asked his subordinates to organize village soldiers, and it was easy to organize more than 1,000 people, but then it was rumored that there were 3,000 pirates, and they suddenly dispersed with a bang, and the number difference was so much, how could they fight? !

The Jiaozhou county commander led his family to Mizhou with the official seal, and his subordinates were not stupid, and they all ran away.

The entire Jiaozhou City was suddenly in chaos.

When Deputy Captain Guo Beyu arrived with a mixed army composed of Liuqiu Guards, mercenaries, and Great Song Xiang soldiers, there were still people hiding in Tibet.

The best way not to disturb the people is to ignore them, this group is trained, and anyone who does not obey orders is locked up in the town of Banqiao.

They ignored the people and went directly to the county office, and sure enough, there were still unpaid taxes in the warehouse. (To be continued.) )