"There are so many heroes in Denglai, the thieves kill and fight for bravery, the Honghu is mighty with Dapeng, and the strong army in Shandong is out of Wendeng!"

After the will of the capital reached Shandong, the articles and poems of the literati flew into the people like snowflakes, and in their mouths, they simply praised the new chief soldier to the sky.

A young man in his twenties, outside the bustling Penglai City, pulled passers-by on the side of the road with great interest while farming, and said with spit flying:

"Do you know, in our small Dengzhou, there is a chief soldier who is being selected by the imperial court, what, you have heard about it a long time ago, it is to come to see the Dengzhou camp? No, you'll have to hear me say it again. ”

Passerby: "..."

After the appointment of the chief soldier, some people were happy and some were worried.

Most of the rejoicing are the military generals of the Dengzhou camp, as well as the refugees, the old and weak people, such a poor-born town is better than those vicious wolves who eat people and don't spit out bones.

The rest of the big families and the gentry are completely opposite, although the new Shandong general soldier Wang Zheng's means have not been tasted by themselves, but more or less have heard of it, Denglai and the landlords who do not cooperate with the big landlords, and now the ashes have been cold.

Let's talk about Liu Zeqing, how did he die, many people still have doubts, combined with the analysis of various rumors, many people vaguely think of one thing.

After thinking about it, I was even more afraid and afraid of Wang Zheng, this kind of ruthless method and careful thinking are simply rare in the world.

The scary thing is not the kind of military general Liu Zeqing, the officers and soldiers under these people are inseparable from the big households, they always take care of each other, and they even have to come to the door to beg them for some things, but the Dengzhou camp is different.

Their hometown is in Denglai, and they heard that the business has been done in Jiangnan, and there is no shortage of silver at all, and over the years, some things such as military salaries, weapons, and armor are almost self-sufficient.

I have never heard of any officer and soldier in the world who can do this, even the Tianxiong Army under the command of Lu Jiutai in the past relied on the money paid by the big families.

Without the means to threaten the officers and soldiers, these big families and the children of the gentry sadly found that they were simply fish and meat on the board without soldiers and power, waiting for someone to knead them.

But it's not okay to sit back and wait for death, they have long been looking forward to another person coming, this person was appointed together with Wang Zheng - Qiu Lei, deputy chief soldier of Shandong.

Speaking of this appointment, many people are skeptical, the emperor's mind is really elusive, let Wang Zheng be the deputy commander-in-chief, and let Qiu Lei move to Licheng, and give a title of commander of Shandong.

In contrast, although Wang Zheng, the chief soldier of Shandong, has been honored, in addition to the regular selection of the general soldier, he is only the title of the governor of the five armies and the governor of the five armies, and he is not even a right governor, so he can't compare with Qiu Lei in this regard.

If it is said that among the several generals with military power in Shandong now, the only one who is likely to compete with the king is Qiu Lei, who was promoted by the imperial court.

Many people are already secretly thinking about it, although Qiu Lei has made a lot of achievements against Henan Liukou in Wucheng, this credit is not enough to get him to where he is now.

It may be that the emperor does not trust Wang Zheng very much, so he let Qiu Lei check and balance, as soon as this idea came out, Qiu Lei became the object of competition among the gentry and big families in Shandong, the last straw.

On the day when the commander-in-chief was appointed, Wang Zheng had already sent spies from the Military Council Department to infiltrate the city of Jinan to investigate, and at the same time spent money to recruit a large number of people, preparing to grasp the land as soon as possible.

There were several thousand people in this group of people, plus all the 5,000 soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion were dispatched, and there were nearly 20,000 people, all the way to Licheng, where Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Liu Yunzhong, the superintendent of the army, were located, and they were called "going to work".

Shandong Licheng has a long history, because it is located at the foot of Lishan (also known as Thousand Buddha Mountain) has this name, from the archaeological remains found in modern times, more than 7,000 years ago, there have been primitive inhabitants to multiply and live.

In the Ming Dynasty, the system of "three divisions" continued for more than 200 years.

Cheng announced that the political envoy department, the criminal envoy department and the Shandong command envoy department yamen are all located in the city, and they are in charge of the powers, and the rest should have the yamen, and the governor's yamen are also located inside and outside.

Licheng can be said to be the center of power in Shandong Province today, but such a place is a dilapidated city and few defenders.

Three days before Wang Zheng took office, Qiu Lei, the deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the capital stationed in Wucheng, had already led 3,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters into the city to take up his post.

After arriving in the city, the gentry went out for several miles to welcome Qiu Lei into the city, and competed with each other to reward the army, and the wine, fish, meat, grain, grass and ordnance were sent to the barracks almost day and night.

These big families who usually don't pull out a dime are so acquainted at this time, and even reduce their value, and greet each other with the etiquette of the general town, Qiu Lei naturally knows what is going on.

At first, Qiu Lei still shirked a few words, but it didn't take long for him to pretend that he couldn't take it anymore, so he turned around and ordered to accept all of them, and he also accepted the title of Qiu Zhentai.

When the news came out, the big families in Shandong settled down.

Qiu Bu's soldiers and horses took over the defense inside and outside the city before the Dengzhou battalion arrived, and Qiu Lei, the deputy commander-in-chief, used the authority of the commander to incorporate the original defenders in the city, and recruited some ruffians into the army in the line of fire, dragging the number to more than 6,000 people.

On June 22, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, a big banner slowly ushered in the distance of Licheng, and the first was not the strict queue of Dengzhou battalion soldiers, but some people wearing various colors of clothing.

These people were in a hurry, and they were not in a hurry to enter the city when they went outside the city, and they began to measure the acres of land outside the city as soon as they took a ruler and a plow, and all kinds of industries were also inquired about.

The big families in the city immediately panicked when they heard the news, these wastelands outside the city were all in their names, and the intention of the Dengzhou camp to send people to measure it so eagerly was already obvious.

If these Diao people are allowed to complete the measurement smoothly, then there will be nothing to do with them.

So the big families flocked to find Qiu Lei, the "head town", Qiu Lei hurried to the city to take a look, and saw the people working in the city, and he also laughed out loud.

"It seems that Wang Zheng is afraid, go, follow the town out to get rid of these Diao people!"

A pro-ding Ding immediately stepped forward flatteringly and smiled:

"The head town tiger is not even Liu Zeqing dare to touch it, this Wang Zheng, who jumped out of nowhere, was naturally intimidated by this dismount threat, and he didn't dare to meddle anymore."

The heavy gates of Licheng gradually opened, the drawbridge had been lowered, and the soldiers of the hill flocked out of the city with weapons and kept shouting and scolding and driving them away, trying to get these people out of the city.

"What are you doing?"

"This is the cow sent to our family by the head of the town, why did you take it!?"

"Don't touch her!!"

When these thousands of soldiers and horses arrived outside the city, it didn't take long for them to change from the initial drive to naked insults and oppression, and many of these people called officials and soldiers were scoundrels who roamed inside and outside a few days ago, not to mention any military regulations.

Many of these people are old and weak, and there are also refugees whose whole families come to earn money and land, and many soldiers and ruffians see the beautiful little lady, and they immediately have lustful thoughts, and frivolously come forward to surround and harass them.

"Yo, what's the matter, you're carrying a rake, do you want to compete with the knife in the uncle's hand, ah!?"

"You evil wolves, if you don't kill thieves and fight Tartars, you will know how to bully us ordinary people!" A woman spat and scolded.

The general of the hill immediately stepped forward in anger, and when he saw a man blocking in front of him, he took out his knife without thinking, and blood appeared at once.

"Kill, rebels kill!"

I don't know who shouted, and the surrounding people suddenly became chaotic, picking up all kinds of weapons and scuffling with the soldiers and horses of the hill who had just left the city.

Fang Cai still had an orderly and orderly clean-up work, but now it has become like hell, screaming constantly.