Chapter 127: Suppressing Bandits

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Ask for a commuter pass. (The soldiers stationed on Qingfeng Literature Network Reading Network always have to come out to inspect it, saying that they want to suppress bandits and quell chaos, but in fact, they are collecting New Year's goods from all over the country and having a good New Year, which is not much different from the nature of ordinary people coming out to buy New Year's goods.)

Local officials generally give a little money for this kind of blackmail, and the prefectures and counties in Shandong are still poor, who will serve you as big soldiers.

But this time the question is different, who is Li Meng, the governor of the county knows everything, and vaguely knows that there is a background of the eunuch of Jingshi Bingbi behind him, and Li Meng holds the position of the salt administration inspection, which can be regarded as one of the richest positions in Laizhou Mansion, and there are thousands of wolf-like soldiers under him.

When such a rich character comes out, he can't afford to offend, how much silver does it take to beat people, a group of people is really a headache.

Li Meng has already determined that the eighth day of the lunar month will send troops to suppress bandits, during this period, the magistrates in various places are in a hurry, while scolding in their hearts that they don't want to live in peace for even years, and on the other hand, they want to inquire about how much money is appropriate to give this time, Li Shoubei asked Zhou Juren to go to Jiaozhou Zhizhou Yamen to propose relatives The matter spread in Laizhou Mansion, and as a result, from late November to early December, the envoys of the Yamen of various prefectures and counties desperately ran towards the Jiaozhou Zhizhou Yamen.

Yan Zhizhou really couldn't cry or laugh, a group of people thought that since they had proposed, it was one thing to agree or not, and the relationship must be relatively close, so they all came to ask how much money or support was appropriate for the labor army, and also said that since it was such a close relationship. Can you persuade don't go out during the Chinese New Year.

If civilians or other people come to ask, no matter how good Yan Zhizhou's temper is, he will drive people out, but these are all colleagues in the same government, and there are many things to take care of each other, and it is not good to pull his face down, Yan Zhizhou will also do things, so he simply pushes it to Tongzhi. (Wu Tongzhi, a literary reading network Qingfeng Chinese network, also received a smile and swore that the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers were strictly disciplined.) We will never disturb the locality, and please rest assured that the prefectures and prefectures will be reassured.

Of course, no one would believe this.

Compared with the small fights here in Shandong, Henan can be described as magnificent, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong joint camp sixty miles, the conference in Longmen, Baisha. Fought with the official army and defeated Zu Kuanbu.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, except for the first few generations, were all confined to the city. Can't go out, although they are doing anything wrong in the city, but it is also very appropriate to say that they are locked up in a big prison, under such an environment, these royal relatives and nobles, on the one hand, receive a high level of education, on the other hand, personality, emotional intelligence, but they can't get any normal development in dealing with people, or they are very distorted and perverted. Or ignorance and fearlessness, of course, there are other explanations, this is called naivety.

Zhu Yunyao is similar to this, after knowing that her identity has been revealed. There was no panic or vigilance at all, but asked Li Meng, now that everything is understood, can you arrange a few people for her, the county lord wants to go to the beach to see the scenery. It's so big that you haven't seen the sea yet?

It is the season to use soldiers. The entire Yantian Salt Farm is on guard in Fengmeng Town, and of course such an important person as the county lord does not dare to let it out. Li Meng is also a little depressed, this girl is not afraid of herself at all.

In fact, there are dangers everywhere in the palace, every step is frightening, people who have grown up in this environment have more or less a grasp and intuition of the good and evil of people's hearts, Zhu Yunyao has long believed in her heart that Li Meng is impossible to harm her, and she is a little spoiled, this kind of spoiling, so you can do all kinds of things you want to do, of course, this kind of spoiling actually makes the county lord of Zhu Yunyao Zhou's palace quite uncomfortable, because this is similar to a kind of indulgence of a brother to his sister. (Literary Reading Network.)

Li Meng simply refused Zhu Yunyao's request to follow her to suppress the bandits and thieves, and ordered the family members of the Liaodong craftsman household to keep a strict watch on her and not to run around. (

Yan Zhizhou's side is annoying to ask the price, and Li Meng's side has another annoying scene, the official documents of the Jiaozhou battalion are only written between various states and counties, and this kind of military dispatch is also a confidential document, who would think that this official document will be sent out quickly within five days, and people from all over the country will come. Counting the people who came from all over the place, it happened to be the distance to return after the official document was delivered, and it was estimated that the news would stay overnight in the yamen for two days at most, and it would be directly delivered to other people's hands, no wonder some people said that "only the ship of the official government is leaking on it".

What's even more infuriating is that these people still know that Li Meng is not currently in Jiaozhou City or in Yingtou, but in the Li family manor in Fengmeng Town.

Who are the people who came, the gentry from all over the country, the landlords and bullies in the local area, everyone has more or less thugs in their hands, as well as strong households who can be pulled out to fight at critical times, etc., they are all rich and powerful characters in the local area.

The local tyrants and squires who originally obeyed Li Mengyan, that is, those who have a clear position in the private salt system, they profit in it, and they know the benefits and disadvantages of the salt land, so they are respectful and respectful, and they dare not have the slightest dissent.

The rest, such as Pingdu Prefecture and Gaomi, can't fight with Jiaozhou Eight Poles, I have heard of Li Erlang and the Yanding team, I know that I can't afford to offend, and I take a respectful attitude, but I don't have any respectful thoughts. These people are all in collusion with the yamen. When they heard the news that they were going to send troops to suppress bandits, they all thought it was a routine purchase of New Year's goods, and no one took it seriously, and some careful people went out to inquire.

It's okay not to inquire, but I was taken aback when I inquired, Xiazhuang beat horse thieves, and Jimo hit Sanqingguan, some of these news were controlled and not spread, and some of them had not spread, but they were all villagers, and they couldn't inquire about anything, and when they heard that Li Meng and the Jiaozhou battalion were so strong, and they were so ruthless. Everyone was panicked.

If you want to say that they are going to suppress bandits, what kind of panic are these people, the family of officials and bandits, and the family of soldiers and bandits are just a description, and what really colludes with those bandits is the powerful in these places.

In addition to the bandits from other places, those strongmen who opened a village and set up a cabinet in the local area, who are not locals, it is not realistic to rely on looting alone for the supplies in the village, and it is still necessary to rely on these big households to provide, as well as those horse bandits and horse gangs, although they come and go like the wind, but those horses also need stables, and people must also have a place to sleep, and it must not be a trip in the wilderness, and the stolen goods that need to be looted from the base must be sold and rely on the local strong distribution, and the two sides can be said to be very closely combined.

The local heroes have families and businesses, some things are not easy to do too blatantly, and they always need people to be knives, these Xiangma cottages are naturally the best choice, and the heroes see that the world is not good now, and they always have to make a plan and preparation for themselves, and let their children go to the mountains to set up a village.

There are many similar situations in the late Qing Dynasty, such as the twist army, most of these twists are not destitute peasants, but the landlords and landed classes in the Hebei region of Shandong, farming in the busy season, and forming twists in the village to fight and loot in the slack season. ”

It is precisely because of the collusion between the local tyrants and the bandits that as long as they send troops to exterminate them, these people who have many connections in the yamen always get the news as soon as possible, and they immediately scatter as birds and beasts, or they have become local virtuous family members.

The collusion between the upper and lower levels is so close, the more serious the disaster will be, and this is why since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the civil turmoil in Shandong, large and small, has never stopped.

However, these powerful representatives who came to the outside of the Li family manor in Fengmeng Town had an extremely humble attitude, and they all said that they had long admired the name of Lord Li's benevolence and righteousness, and now that the year was approaching, they came to visit the filial piety.

Li Meng didn't see any of these people, just mobilized soldiers and horses to raise food and grass, and watched a team of murderous and elite (in the eyes of these local tyrants) soldiers mobilize, and the representatives of those local tyrants waiting outside became more and more panicked.

The big and small merchants in Fengmeng Town all hope that Li Meng will never pay attention to these people, because the longer these outsiders stay in Fengmeng Town, the more money they will spend. The casino in Zhang's butcher's house is another one, and it is really a pleasure to do this business while collecting news about these people and selling them, and at the same time making their money.

The relationship between the powerful landlords is quite complicated, and there is always some relationship between the east and the west, and I don't know how some people inquire, and the two Wang Kong families, that is, the two shopkeepers of Wenru Commercial Bank stationed in Fengmeng Town, found a relationship, although the current identity of these two shopkeepers is far from Li Meng, but after all, there is the face of Wenru Commercial Bank, Li Meng's side is finally relieved, saying that he wants to see you on the third day of the lunar month.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, in the big courtyard adjacent to Fengmeng Town, the Li family manor really had the atmosphere of the New Year, although the cold wind was bone-chilling, there were still more than 100 people waiting there, all of them were very dignified, and they didn't even have the polite attitude of saying hello to each other.

They did not wait long, but after a while four soldiers trotted into the courtyard with their spears, and stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted:

"The Jiaozhou battalion garrison Lord Li has arrived!!" (89 Literature Network Literature)

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