Chapter 43: Banditry

Early the next morning, many families invited the Ye family, wanting to ask Ye Chen to go out together again to put pressure on the government.

Taishou Mansion, Li Wei sat on the top, the officials below sat on both sides, and more than 30 families, including the Ye family, also sat aside.

Originally, there were only about 20 families, but this incident made more families feel the crisis, so more families participated.

"Hmph, Han Dong, Yan Cheng." Li Wei said angrily.

"The subordinates are here." Both of them had heard about last night's incident, and it must have been nothing good for Li Wei to call them at this time.

"It's been more than half a month since you were ordered to suppress the bandits, what is the situation, but there is a way to exterminate the bandits." Li Wei rebuked loudly.

"My lord, this bandit is cunning, we keep looking for it day and night, but they hide in the mountains and don't come out at all." Han Dong They just sent people to go, but they didn't go at all, and whatever the people below said was them, they couldn't help it, and they didn't dare to go.

"Alright. Now I announce that I will be dismissed from the post of Han Dong County Commander and Yan Cheng County Lieutenant, and I will report to the court before I am convicted. ”

At this time, many families watched and didn't say anything, although Li Wei was an outsider, and Han Dong and Yan Cheng were locals, but this threatened their survival, so they naturally stood aside with Li Wei.

At the beginning, Li Wei ordered the people below to suppress the bandits, but they all watched, but now they are completely coping with the matter, how come many days have passed, and not a single thief has been caught.

Han Dong and Yan Cheng knew that if they were planted this time, no one would help them intercede, and no one would dare, interceding with them at this juncture, which would offend the more than 30 families present.

However, he is not afraid of what he will be responsible for, the court will remove him from his official position at most, and he will still be an official of the court in another place, but it will definitely cost a lot of money.

At this time, who is the biggest, not the biggest court official, is the biggest in the family, if the official loses the support of the family, then don't think about doing anything. However, most of the officials in this period were from families, and few were from the grassroots.

"Zhu Ming, Huang Fei, how long will it take for you to exterminate the bandits, and now this bandit problem is getting more and more serious." Li Wei then shouted at Zhu Ming and Huang Fei.

Huang Fei knew in his heart that Li Wei was attacking his prestige, as long as he lost the support of the family, then he was just a long history, just an assistant to Taishou, and he didn't want to hold on to power again.

But Huang Fei can't help it, he doesn't have the ability to exterminate the bandits, and if he doesn't have the ability to exterminate him, he can't regain the support of the family, if nothing else is fine, but these bandits have threatened their survival.

"Yu Taishou, there are too many thieves here, and they live in the mountains, they really can't be exterminated, and no one can exterminate them. Now he can only play the imperial court and let the imperial court send troops to suppress bandits. If Huang Fei wants to exonerate, he must at least win over some families to support him, otherwise he won't even be able to go down this long history.

"Hmph, wait for the court to come to suppress the bandits, not to mention whether the court will send troops, no matter how long it will take to send troops back and forth. The home I'm waiting for may have been raided by the bandits. Ye Chen stood up and asked loudly.

At this time, the play has almost been played, and it is time to sing the leading role.

"yes, the daylilies are cold."

"If the court doesn't come, won't we dare to go out of the city and do business."

"Our Zhuangzi and fields are all outside the city."

......

A group of people began to make a commotion, and the officials present who were squirting all kinds of words were speechless and unable to refute.

"Okay, okay, don't be impatient, we will definitely exterminate the bandits and give everyone a peace." Li Wei saw that the scene might get out of control, so he spoke to stabilize the scene.

After all, Taishou is a feudal official, and everyone still has to give him face, and this thief still has to rely on him to exterminate it, so everyone calmed down.

"Zhu Ming, Huang Fei, how long will it take for you to exterminate the bandits." This Li Wei used the pressure of the family to further damage the prestige of the two of them.

"Lord Taishou, I'm afraid it will take a while." Zhu Ming really didn't have the confidence to suppress bandits, and he didn't have the ability, so he didn't know how to answer this question.

"My lord, this bandit has to rely on the imperial court, after all, our county soldiers are few, and we haven't trained for too long." Huang Fei was afraid that Taishou would let him suppress the bandits again, so he hurriedly found a reason to shirk it, but he didn't know that doing so would have a bigger blow to his prestige.

"Hmph, Lord Taishou, since the government is unable to suppress the bandits, I will send someone to suppress the bandits myself, and the revenge of my Ye family cannot be avenged." As the Ye family has suffered from the robbery of Qingfeng Village twice, it is reasonable for them to stand up at this time.

"Little Brother Ye, don't be impatient, don't be impatient, there will always be a solution."

"Brother Ye, you just said that your Ye family wants to send troops to suppress bandits by themselves? That's a good idea, or we'll all have some people and we'll all work together to wipe out the bandits. ”

Ye Chen followed the prestige, he was the head of the Wang family, and he had been in charge of the Ye family for a short time, so he was not very familiar with it.

"It turned out to be the head of the Wang family, that's right, my Ye family is afraid that the bandits will invade again, and they have trained three thousand family members, if this bandit dares to come again, they will definitely let them have no return." Ye Chen's righteous words were righteous, but the heads of the family who were present were all old foxes, and they all looked at Ye Chen with a smile.

"Little Brother Ye, this is true, do you really want to exterminate the bandits?" Li Wei deliberately asked Ye Chen with questioning words, and said that he did not call him Ye Xian's nephew in this public place.

"Of course, but there are a few conditions, and I hope that Lord Taishou can agree."

"Little Brother Ye, please speak."

"One, all the bandits seized by my Ye family belong to my Ye family; Second, according to the number of bandits suppressed by my Ye family, the government should appropriately give my Ye family a part of the subsidy, after all, the suppression of bandits will kill people, and the cost is huge. ”

"What Little Brother Ye said is reasonable, of course the seizure of this bandit belongs to the Ye family, and the government doesn't care about it, Little Brother Ye, but there are other questions."

"Nope"

"Okay, Ben Taishou ordered, everyone in my Liaodong can suppress bandits independently, all the income from the bandits belongs to the people who suppress the bandits, and the rest of the people are not allowed to interfere for any reason, and according to the number of bandits, the government will give a certain reward."

"Lord Xie Taishou."

"Ye Xian's nephew Gao Yi."

"Yes, I wish the Ye family a victory."

"It's still the Ye family's big business, and it's courageous."

......

After seeing that Ye Chen agreed, all the family heads came out to fight haha, they saw that Ye Chen was like a big fool, and he did such an obviously thankless thing as suppressing bandits.

Not to mention how many people will die and how much they will invest, it will not be able to bear the revenge of the bandits.

But they didn't know Ye Chen's plan, even if they didn't get anything out of the bandits, as long as they could take out the things of the Han family and the Chen family, it would be worth it.

This time, Taishou Li Wei benefited the most, the prestige of Huang Fei and others had been dealt a terrible blow, and Han Dong and Yan Cheng were directly taken down. And initially established his own prestige, in order to suppress the bandits, these big families will not turn against him.

Ye Chen went back and conspired with Li Wei, and both of them got what they wanted.

Then the next thing you need to do is arrange the things to suppress the bandits.

The next day after he went back, Ye Chen began to lead troops to suppress the bandits.

Li Ren was ordered to leave 50 people behind and continue to train recruits, and he took the rest of the people into the mountains to suppress the bandits.

"Second brother, there is a group of bandits in front of you, without a name, gathering 500 people to rob the passing caravans." Early in the morning, Ye Chen and the others had already touched one of the bandits' dens that had been detected before.

Ye Chen had already appointed Tai Shici as the commander of the guard battalion, so he commanded it.

"Okay, big brother, then let's sneak over and try not to let them find out so early, otherwise they are familiar with these places, and I'm afraid they will run away."

"Hmm"

Tai Shi Ci waved his spear, and the escort camp silently touched it.

"Who?"

"Kill!"

It was only when Ye Chen and the others touched the door of the cottage that they were discovered, this cottage was actually very simple, just using a simple wooden door as a cottage door.

Tai Shi Ci took the lead and kicked open the wooden door with one kick, Ye Chen followed closely and killed in, and the tiger head was guarding Ye Chen's left and right.

I saw that Tai Shi Ci's gun was like a dragon, one shot at a time, and a few of the little minions guarding the gate of the village fell four or five.

As soon as Ye Chen's spear probed, a bandit who couldn't dodge was stabbed and killed on the spot.

Seeing a bandit coming towards him, Ye Chen pulled out his spear and swung it at it, and the bandit hurriedly blocked it with the Pu knife in his hand.

Due to the lack of strength in the hurry of parrying, he was unable to hold the knife in his hand, and the knife was smashed by Ye Chen and flew out. In an instant, Ye Chen withdrew his spear and stabbed forward, and there was an extra transparent hole on the thief's body, and he couldn't die anymore.

At the moment when Ye Chen killed the two bandits, all the guard battalions had already entered the cottage.

At this time, most of the bandits hadn't gotten up yet, and when Ye Chen and the others went in, most of them were still sleeping, and they were not prepared at all.

Ye Chen didn't want to kill more, and most of these people were peasants who couldn't get by, so he yelled.

"Those who kneel on the ground will not be killed."

The spear in his hand did not stop, and there was no second word when he encountered resistance, or stabbed or smashed, and three or two strokes could solve one.

Ye Chen didn't have advanced martial arts, he used basic moves, but he ate well, trained hard, and had a lot of strength, and ordinary thieves couldn't parry it when he smashed it twice.

The escort battalion cleared all the way in, and from time to time someone knelt on the ground and surrendered, and those who did not surrender were immediately beheaded on the spot.

I saw that the guards were basically in groups of three, cooperating with each other, and the other party slashed over with one move, one soldier blocked, and the other two soldiers attacked, and it was solved immediately.

If there are many people on the other side, then the guard battalion will be five or six people to cooperate with each other, which is efficient and stable, and the bandits are suddenly attacked, chaotic, and have no combat effectiveness at all.

After a while, all the bandits were controlled, killing more than a hundred people in total, and the rest of the people saw this group of tigers and wolves, and they all obediently laid down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

In fact, this is almost a group of peasants, many of the weapons are hoes, hammers and so on, and there are only about 20 real bandits.

The first battle was successful, and there was not much when the harvest was cleaned up, just hundreds of thousands of gains, but there were no casualties on his own, and it was worth it.