After Li Yu finished speaking, he stood up and asked Mo Rige outside the door to prepare the horses, and then said to everyone with a wry smile: "I went to find the soldiers to apologize for the crime, and I can't help but bow my head when I get to someone's territory!" ”

Li Yu entered Zezhou City, dragged Zhang Daojun to see Wang Zhaosheng, Wang Zhaosheng has hated Li Yu so much in the past few days, a martial artist, and a northern captive, he dared to talk nonsense in front of him, and what was even more hateful was that he actually picked him up from the chair and threw him aside, if he didn't think he couldn't beat this guy, he would have fought hard with Li Yu at that time.

You wait, I won't give you a grain of rice, I'll be hungry for a few days to see if you are soft, Wang Zhaosheng thought so in his heart, Li Yu came to the door, Wang Zhaosheng decided to put on a good stand today and clean up this guy fiercely, but he was afraid that Li Yu would really beat him, so he specially found a few strong men from the township soldiers who were known as the best to fight and ambushed them around the lobby, and when he smashed the cup, they rushed out together and beat this kid, and the arrangement stopped, so he sat behind the bookcase slowly and methodically, and passed Li Yu in with tea.

"My lord, the last general has come to make amends to you!" Li Yu entered the lobby, shook off Zhang Daojun and rushed to Wang Zhaosheng, without waiting for Wang Zhaosheng to react, he hugged him, Wang Zhaosheng was startled, this guy still has a whip in his hand, he really wants to beat me! In a panic, the cup fell to the ground and shattered.

Hearing the sound of the teacup falling to the ground, seven or eight thugs immediately drilled out from everywhere, rushed into the lobby and hit Li Yu with sticks, Li Yu was taken aback, and shouted "My lord, there are thieves, I will protect you in the future", and then threw Wang Zhaosheng out, and kicked a man who rushed to him out when he raised his foot, and at the same time the long knife was unsheathed and held in his hand, and several thugs saw that the other party had a knife in their hands, and they were immediately deflated, they were here to beat people, but they were by no means here to play with their lives, and they couldn't help but shrink back when they felt weak, Li Yu held a knife and kicked and kicked several guys, and several guys screamed, Mo Rige, Chen Erzhu and Liu Shishi rushed in, and a few knives were pointed, and the thugs hurriedly threw away the sticks and squatted on the ground with their heads covered.

Li Yu put away the knife and said to Wang Zhaosheng proudly: "My lord, it's so dangerous!" Fortunately, the end will come in time to keep the adults safe and sound, please send these thieves down. ”

"Tell them all to get out!" Wang Zhaosheng got up from the ground, shouted angrily, and turned his head to leave.

"My lord, don't go, I have to make amends to you!" Li Yu grabbed Wang Zhaosheng and said with a bitter face, "I offended you a few days ago, it was all the fault of the last general, whether you beat or punish you, the last general has no complaints, the last general brought all the whips, you beat me first to relieve my anger." ”

The whip was forced into Wang Zhaosheng's hand, Wang Zhaosheng really wanted to pull it in Li Yu's face, but he was still weak and afraid, and he was a little helpless with the whip, Li Yu spoke again: "Adults may not know, the general's brain has been broken, and he often does some foolish things, and it often takes a few days to figure it out, the governor and Brother Zixuan both know about this, and the governor often scolds me for being stupid. ”

Li Yu opened his mouth and admitted that he was a fool, and Wang Zhaosheng was even more difficult to do, he turned his face to look at Zhang Daojun, just now there was a knife and a stick in the lobby, but this guy sat indifferently and watched the excitement, and he didn't say a word until now.

"Hermes-Epitek has a problem with his brain, so Lord Wang should not be like him," Zhang Daojun finally spoke, but he then added, "This guy has been outside the customs for a long time and does not learn etiquette, and he refuses to study hard, so Lord Wang should still give him some training." ”

"Bold and freakful, ignorant and fearless, as an official of the imperial court, but he looks like a northern captive, his mouth is unobstructed, his eyes are not respectful, if he goes on like this, it will be a big disaster for the court, and the official is eager to immediately push out and behead him to relieve the hatred in his heart......" Wang Zhaosheng pointed at Li Yu's nose and scolded, Li Yu listened very honestly and obediently, standing in place with his head down and not daring to move, Wang Zhaosheng scolded enough, and his heart was relaxed, so he took a sip of the teacup and said coldly, "The official looks at you as obedient, and you have something wrong with your brain, I won't bother with you, and I'll ask you again, are you going to kill the thief? ”

"Go, what are you doing here if you don't go to kill the thief in the future, please give me advice, how to kill the thief in the end?" Li Yu hurriedly raised his hand and replied.

"If you go to fight a thief, do you want the official to teach you how to fight?" Of course, Wang Zhaosheng doesn't know how to suppress thieves, to be honest, everyone is now blind to thieves, and only knows that Wang Jiayin and his gang are probably in the mountains around Yangcheng and Qinshui.

"However, the last general is not familiar with the place, and he does not know where the thief is hiding, how to fight? Besides, the last general will have such a few people, and they will all go to suppress the thieves, who will guard Zezhou City? Li Yu shook his head.

This sentence stopped Wang Zhaosheng, the officials and soldiers of Shanxi Town are still lying in Lu'an Mansion, and Zezhou is Li Yu's soldiers, if he leaves, can those errands and people be able to defend Zezhou City? Zhang Daojun was impatient on the side, and said: "Li Hanmin, I know you have an idea in your heart, don't talk about it, you are the acting chief soldier of Shanxi, and you are the main thing about suppressing thieves." ”

"I'm the acting chief soldier is an empty title, few people listen to me, my lord should ask the governor to urge me, I have to transfer two or three thousand people to guard Zezhou City," Li Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly at Wang Zhaosheng, and then said solemnly, "My lord, our troops are insufficient, and it is not enough to defend the city, let alone suppress thieves, and most of the general's soldiers are cavalry, and they can only be beaten when they enter the mountains. Pull up the team and give them a name, and the crossroads and passes are also handed over to them to guard by the way, the fields and iron factories here are theirs, and they are the ones who are unlucky when the thieves come, and they also have to contribute to the suppression of the thieves. ”

Wang Zhaosheng hesitated, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the government can temporarily requisition the local people to organize the township soldiers in an emergency, but the people are not allowed to run their own group training, and they are not allowed to be equipped with armor, bows, crossbows, guns and other ordnance, so the temporary patchwork of the township soldiers is extremely poor, when Wang Zhaosheng exterminated the nine dragons in Shuiyu Village, Lingchuan, relying on the strength of the people and the township soldiers from Henan to help the war, he was able to get away with the nine dragons, but as soon as he fought with Wang Jiayin's thief elite, his original form was revealed, and he was defeated. Since Wang Zhaosheng took up his post in the southern Hebei military department in October last year, he has increasingly felt that this provision of the Ming Dynasty law is extremely out of date.

Li Yu continued: "The surplus swords, spears, guns and cannons in the army can also be sold to them, and we will provide teaching for those who want to train the regiment, so they don't need to fight tough battles, if there are few thieves, they will fight, and if there are many thieves, they will run, as long as they can give us a message, we must trap the thieves, not allow a grain of salt or rice to enter the mountain, all the property seized will belong to them, and the government will give rewards, there is no food and no salt in the mountains, and it is difficult to even get water, I see how long the thieves can last, and when they can't stand up the mountain, the last general will have a chance to exterminate them." ”

Wang Zhaosheng felt that his scalp was numb, Li Yu was instigating him to blatantly violate the law, and he set his eyes on Zhang Daojun - this person is also a local snake in the Zezhou area, and it is best for him to express his position.

"Is there any other way to do it, sir? Let's get rid of the thieves first. Zhang Daojun replied expressionlessly, now the world is too chaotic, who can take care of the law of the Ming Dynasty, the squires and big families in each village have money, in fact, they are all privately making ordnance and raising soldiers, he did this kind of thing in his hometown Douzhuang, but he didn't dare to do it blatantly.

"Then Zixuan will do this." Wang Zhaosheng took advantage of the situation and pushed the matter to Zhang Daojun.

Zhang Daojun was not stupid, and immediately asked Wang Zhaosheng to write an official document, Wang Zhaosheng immediately pushed Li Yu out again, and asked Li Yu to issue an official document in the name of the Shanxi General Military Office. Wang Zhaosheng was a little angry, the court was too much, and people couldn't be bullied like this if they were stupid, so they didn't need the big seal of the Shanxi General Army, and the seal of the deputy general of the aid and suppression was also OK, plus Li Yu's handprint could also be used, so a letter of the Shanxi General Military Mansion covered with Li Yu's handprint and the big seal of the deputy general of the aid and suppression came out, Zhang Daojun picked it up and left, and couldn't help laughing when he got to a place where there was no one.

Li Yu and Wang Zhaosheng did not expect that they inadvertently dug the corner of the Ming Dynasty, and this nondescript official document that allowed the people to run their own group exercises eventually led to the expansion of local power in Zezhou, and even the three prefectures of Taiyuan, Pingyang and Lu'an defaulted on the imperial court taxes, and the four richest state capitals in Shanxi fell rapidly from paying 70% of the tax to only paying 50% of the tax in a few years, and then even 50% of the tax was reluctant to pay, and became the hardest hit area of the Ming Dynasty's tax arrears.

Li Yu and Wang Zhaosheng played a play of harmony, from that day on, Li Yu became more and more respectful to Wang Zhaosheng, and Wang Zhaosheng also looked at Li Yu more and more pleasing to the eye, and classified Li Yu into the list of generals who can be educated and transformed, and was happy in his heart, and was willing to let the Fengzhou soldiers eat enough, and successively allocated the money and food raised to Li Yu, but Li Yu does not seem to be short of money now, the heroes and powers in Zezhou need to train village soldiers and equip them with ordnance, Fan Erxi suddenly appeared in the Fengzhou military camp at this time- Li Yu felt that Fan Erxi was born to be a profiteer, as long as he made money, he would definitely come over at lightning speed, and this guy would go around soliciting business as soon as he arrived in Zezhou.

You always need elite soldiers to run a township, I will help you train, and I will definitely train a batch of fierce soldiers for you, and one person only charges ten taels of silver, which is not expensive at all.

If your iron factory makes ordnance is pursued by the imperial court, it will be troublesome, it doesn't matter, I can sell it to you, the battalion ordnance of a water, the price is absolutely fair.

Don't buy guns from the officers and soldiers, they don't dare to use them themselves, you just make them yourself, and when others ask, they say that we want it, but you also have to say it, we can't take risks in vain!

Zezhou has been doing business for hundreds of years, iron and glass are famous all over the world, and the heroes have deep family backgrounds and rich wealth, so they don't care about peddlers like Fan Erxi at all, especially this guy is still selling illicit salt by the way, can the gentry get involved with the smuggling salt dealers? However, Zhang Daojun told them that what the people of Zezhou have is money, and what they lack is that there are people to support and strengthen their courage, how much price he shouts, you just need to double the money, it will be regarded as the remuneration for the acting chief soldier to suppress the thief, and it is important to pull the acting chief soldier on the boat.

Fan Erxi's business is prosperous, the Fengzhou military camp is lively, seven or eight hundred township soldiers who participated in the training came at once, the military trumpets and passwords in the camp school field every day come and go, with the howl of being beaten, Fan Erxi's ordnance business is even more money, and the inventory in his hand was quickly robbed, this guy went around buying ordnance on a large scale, and the small traders under the banner of the Shanxi General Military Office continuously sent goods, armor, bows and crossbows, knives and spears and even horses, and a lot of silver rolled into the hands of the Fengzhou army, everyone was so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. However, Li Yu estimated that the officers and troops in the surrounding state capitals were likely to switch to wooden sticks.

In order to support the township soldiers, Li Yu personally led the Flying Tiger Battalion and the cavalry of Sun Shoufa and Sun Fuhu to inspect the Yangcheng and Qinshui areas of Zezhou along the official road, and at the same time showed them the strong strength of the iron cavalry, and then took the township soldiers to the mountain pass where the thieves were frequently active.

Zhang Daojun and a group of local strong township soldiers suddenly rampant, they used to hold back for too long, they had money in their hands but they could only cross in their own villages, and now they can finally raise their eyebrows, pull up the team and go out of the house to run rampant, all the mountain passes, intersections and dangerous places in Zezhou have been robbed by this gang of local tyrants and inferior gentry, and the local people have been ruthless, and the people who catch the thieves will be killed, and the seized property is in their pockets, and it is difficult for a grain of rice and a grain of salt to enter the mountain, and the township soldiers have become more courageous, When there are many people, they dare to fight with the thieves, and the thieves are so anxious that they shout, "The poor in the world are one family, and the poor do not beat the poor," while the township soldiers responded loudly, "The bandits are not poor, and if they do not fight the bandits, they will not be peaceful" -- this is Zhang Daojun's consistent propaganda to the township soldiers.

The thieves' movements were suddenly restricted, they had the money they had robbed, but the necessities such as food, salt, cloth, and medicinal herbs had to be transported in from outside the mountains, the thieves developed too fast, and a large number of Shanxi refugees defected to enhance their strength, but the daily consumption was also huge, and tens of thousands of people were blocked in the mountains, and their lives became more and more difficult, according to Li Yu's estimates, they held out for a month at most, and by the middle of May they had to go out of the mountains for activities.

Zhang Liwei, who was sent to the thieves by Sun Shoufa, replied, Wang Jiayin trusted this brother-in-law very much, and let him be a guard around him, Zhang Liwei said in the letter, Wang Jiayin's camp was stationed in Yangcheng Nanshan, and other bandit leaders were also stationed in various nearby mountains, this area is the remaining vein of Taihang Mountain, the mountain is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to enter from the outside, but he has already pulled Wang Jiayin's guard leader Wang Guozhong onto the boat, and the two of them have the intention to kill Wang Jiayin, and the official army should join forces to level Nanshan in one fell swoop, in addition, Zhang Liwei also reported, The thieves are trapped in the mountains and have a very hard time, the left and right prime ministers of the thieves, Wang Ziyong, and Bai Yuzhu seem to have the heart to accept Zhao'an, but the other thieves are not dead, Lao Huihui, Cao Cao, Nine Dragons and the Eight Kings and other thieves have planned to go out of the mountain to grab a handful, and the target is likely to be the most prosperous village in Yangcheng - Guo Yu.

"Zhang Liwei has a future life, and he will be rewarded well in the future." Sun Shoufa praised.

"There's no need for the future, from now on Zhang Liwei will be a thousand presidents, Wang Guozhong will also give a thousand presidents, and after coming back, he will add another level," Li Yu nodded, thought for a while and then said, "We are going to Yangcheng, you tell Zhang Liwei that you must not be greedy for merit and act rashly, and only by saving your life will you have a future." ”

Li Yu ran to Wang Zhaosheng again to report the thief situation from Zhang Liwei, and by the way, he was going to Lingchuan and cleaned up a few groups of thieves first, Wang Zhaosheng was a little unhappy, Song Tongyin had already transferred 2,000 officers and troops to garrison Zezhou City, since there was no worries, he urged Li Yu to go to Yangcheng and Qinshui several times, but Li Yu always pushed three and four, and now he actually ran farther away from Yangcheng.

"My lord, it is precisely because the last general is going to Yangcheng that he has not been there," Li Yu felt that his words were confused, and hurriedly explained, "Yangcheng is rich, and the thieves are definitely reluctant to leave, and the last general is to let them go out of the mountain with luck, and then suddenly appear to defeat it in one fell swoop, although the lord went out and said that the last general will go to Lingchuan." ”

"Hermes-Epitek's plan is very clever, and this official has long had this intention, so he allowed you to stay in Zezhou." Wang Zhaosheng stroked his beard and looked like he had already understood.

"However, after the last general leaves, you must be careful of Zezhou City, the last general always feels that the newly transferred officers and soldiers are a little unreliable."

"This official knows, you still have no end, why don't you go and do your own business quickly."

"The last general will leave immediately." Li Yu ran away as soon as he slipped away.

Li Yu returned to the camp, immediately pulled out the camp and set off for Lingchuan, and all the elite of the seven or eight hundred township soldiers trained by the Fengzhou Army were also taken away, these people are all local natives, and with their help, the Fengzhou Army will not be black-eyed, Li Yu attaches great importance to these people, and specially sent Hou Shijie and Ma Danian to bring a hundred veterans to train them, and now these people are also contaminated with some of the wildness of the Fengzhou soldiers.

The battle of Lingchuan was fought very easily, the situation of the other party was already under control, it was nothing more than some remnants of the nine dragons entrenched in a few villages to make waves, the Fengzhou army was also simple to deal with these small thieves, the township soldiers led the way, the cavalry surrounded, Ding Qiming's artillery team dozens of guns and birds opened a gap with a bang, and the infantry then rushed into the gap and slashed and killed, the whole battle was almost over, and the rest was to contain the prisoners, Li Yu was very strange that Wang Zhaosheng took so much effort to suppress the nine dragons, More than 1,000 Shanxi Minzhuang plus Henan Minzhuang 1,000 people, fought for five or six days to drive away the nine dragons, and laymen still can't do such a fine job as fighting!

Li Yu didn't have time to stay in Lingchuan, and after each battle, he drove the captives together, first threatened and lured, and then sent them home, Hou Shijie and Ma Danian took the opportunity to take the township soldiers with sticks and whips to beat the captives to howl wolves and run away.