Chapter Forty-Six: Unintentional
Although it was crowded, it was the first time for the young people of the salt pole to live in such a good house, and if you listen carefully in this house late at night, you can hear a lot of whispers, all of which are excited and sleepy conversations of the salt poles.
The place where Li Meng lives is a separate house, naturally it is not so noisy, the house has been carefully cleaned up, new bedding, and pretending to be a good incense. Speaking of which, this place is the house where Li Meng's evil Mu patrol was inspected.
But it didn't have any impact on Li Meng, he just pondered how to practice these useless salt rods in the future, oh no, they are now real salt rods.
The inspection is a nine-grade official, and it is stationed to investigate smuggling salt, so there is no special yamen in Jiaozhou City, but the previous inspection will not treat themselves badly, and the courtyard adjacent to the house where Li Meng lives is the office space for inspection.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the literati who were officials did not understand practice, and were often deceived by the masters, clerks and other small officials, Li Meng seemed to have no need to worry about these, because the master's tents and the like who worked under Mu Patrol were also quite familiar with the local salt roads.
Since he was familiar with the local situation, he naturally knew what kind of people Li Meng and Yan Gongzi were, so after Li Meng's appointment, they all found excuses to leave, and all Li Meng saw was an empty courtyard.
Zhao Neng, who was following Li Meng, first happily walked around these houses, and then said to Li Meng worriedly:
"Master Li, we don't know the accounts, how do we start doing it?";
Since the farewell of the general flag, Zhao Neng's attitude is not as natural as before, after the appointment of the inspection, he is even more an adult, Li Meng is very awkward, and the stabbing wants to correct it is unsuccessful, and then seeing that Zhao Neng and these people are still kind to him, it is up to them.
Hearing Zhao Neng's words, Li Meng didn't have anything to worry about, he came here, there must be a road before the car reached the mountain, why think so much, stepped forward and took a rag in his hand, wiped it on the bookcase that was already a thin layer of dust, and heard the noise of the adjacent yard, and knew that it was the bustle of the one hundred and fifty salt lads.
Li Meng frowned, raised his head and said to Zhao Neng:
"Take out the money that you found yesterday in those thieves, and buy the courtyards on both sides of this house and the house where I live, and arrange the brothers first, and remember, don't deduct the money you give, and don't make it difficult for others!"
Zhao Neng nodded, turned around and was about to go out, Li Meng stopped Zhao Neng and said in a cold voice:
"What qualifications do these bastard boys have to be happy, ask Ma Gang to lead them out of the city to practice, increase the amount of practice, there will be no special things in the future, every day!"
Zhao Neng also nodded and agreed, and went out to Zhang Luo.
Hearing the report that the governor came back, the governor of Jiaozhou was also relieved, thinking that the Yanding Rossi who reported the news was exaggerating, this is how many people there are, only six were injured, maybe it was just a few bold thieves encountered on the way.
But early the next morning, there was a pleadings sent by the inspection side, which explained the case in detail, and there were some salt sellers in Jiaozhou Zhizhou, thinking that you had already taken office safely, and it was so endless. Do you want to learn from children to be coquettish, but think about the fact that you have repaid the money thanks to the other party's five hundred taels of silver, and along with the letter sent a meeting gift of one hundred taels, it is rare to have such a polite and courteous salt administration inspection, this face still has to be given.
At the moment, three people were sent to explore the site, the so-called horse is fast, the horse is fast, and the combat effectiveness is not at all, but the speed is faster.
Lord Zhizhou means that these arrests will go back quickly, and reply to the newly appointed inspector, and this matter will be over, the state lieutenant and the martial artists in Jiaozhou are quite contemptuous of this inspection, and they think that a little big thing will scare you like this, and in the future, see how you check and seize smuggled salt in various places.
The horses went out in the morning, and after lunch, they came back, but as soon as they saw the gate, they fell off their horses, and one of them vomited heavily, and another sat on the ground and could not say anything, and the other covered his face and cried, which startled the soldiers guarding the gate.
Everyone is familiar with these catches, and they hurriedly notified the yamen, and the officials of the yamen came over to help people back, and invited Lang Zhong from the pharmacy to come over for diagnosis, saying that they were frightened, and prescribed a decoction that calmed the spirits, and after decocting the medicine, poured it down on these three people.
The three of them slowly quieted down, sent out in the morning, but came back in the afternoon like madmen, the officials of the Zhizhou Yamen were all alarmed, and came to the back hall to see, at this time one of the horses quickly recovered some spirits, and stammered:
"Hundreds died, hundreds of salted died......"
I didn't ask for an accurate number after asking for a long time, but I was taken aback, and the matter of daring to besiege Yanding was true, but didn't Li Meng's subordinates only hurt three, why did those former Yanding die hundreds, and anyone knows that those people under the inspection of Mu can fight, it should be said that the people who inspect the salt administration everywhere in the Ming Dynasty are very capable of fighting, and in everyone's judgment, compared to those soldiers stationed outside the city, the combat effectiveness is stronger.
Li Meng is just a new hero, he has not yet recruited Yanding, his people are all brought out from the military households, but those children of military households are honest farmers, how can they have any combat effectiveness.
In the afternoon, some people began to report the case, saying that there were eighty-five corpses neatly placed on the edge of an official road, and some people recognized it as the salt Ding under the former inspector, and the body was all opened holes, and the death was very miserable.
Thinking of the spears carried by those people led by Li Meng yesterday, the short weapons they carried, and those blood stains, these were connected, and everyone finally judged what was going on, and it turned out that the thing that Yanding Rossi came to tell was true, that is, Li Meng used one hundred and fifty people to kill those outlaws, the siege of the ruffians, and killed more than eighty people at the cost of six minor injuries.
What kind of combat power is this, officials at all levels in Jiaozhou who want to understand this suddenly shuddered, who would have thought that young man with a smile and a gentle and humble attitude would actually be such a killing star!
The secrecy system in the officialdom has always been the same as a sieve, what happened in the yamen has not yet darkened, and the entire Jiaozhou City is almost aware, but as a result, the neighborhood of the house where Li Meng lives suddenly became deserted, and everyone would rather take a few more detours than walk in front of the door.
When the salt pole returned to the city after practicing outside the city, the soldiers guarding the city gate had a smile on their faces, and their waists were almost bent to the ground, and they walked down the street, and everyone dodged.