Since Yang Tingjian issued several orders, he was not idle, and began to prepare to exterminate the water thieves in Gaoyou Lake. Since Chongzhen's accession to the throne, natural disasters have continued in the world, land annexation has become stricter, and there have been more displaced people.

Gaoyou Lake, which originally had only a few water thieves, has frantically absorbed displaced people in recent years, and soon gathered three water thieves with more than 10,000 people, and the officials and troops of Yangzhou Mansion have no choice but to watch the water thieves become bigger.

Gaoyou Lake, which is more than 700 square kilometers, provides a natural shelter for these water thieves, and the Ming official army, which is already extremely bad, does not dare to enter Gaoyou Lake to suppress the bandits, and the water thieves in Gaoyou Lake have reached the ability to attack the prefecture and county, or the three water thieves attack each other and want to annex each other, they have swept the ability of Yangzhou Mansion.

Yang Tingjian wanted to exterminate the water thieves, but he didn't have a water army in his hands, and the Tiger Ben Army was all northerners, and they were not used to water at all, so Yang Tingjian couldn't use them as a water army. There is no shortage of ships Yang Tingjian, and the two Huai salt transport envoys Yamen have more than 100 trough ships with about 500 materials, and Yang Tingshu also has more than 10 newly built warships with 500 and 1,500 materials.

The problem of the ship is easy to solve, but the navy is not easy to handle, and if the southern children are immediately recruited in Yangzhou to train as a navy, it will definitely be too late in time. Because Yang Tingjian had already guessed that it was impossible for those gentry to pay taxes honestly, and these gentry more or less colluded with the thieves around Yangzhou Mansion to do something, there was no doubt about it.

But the matter has not reached the point where it cannot be solved, there are four guards in Yangzhou Mansion, which are Gaoyou Guards, which are used to guard Gaoyou and guard against Gaoyou Lake thieves. Yangzhou Wei was used to protect Yangzhou, Taizhou Wei was originally used to prevent the Japanese from attacking Yangzhou, and the Haimen Guard was also used to guard against the Japanese invaders.

Gao Youwei, Yangzhou Wei, Haimen Guard. There are ships, and the sea guards are actually the naval guards, but their combat power is worrying, but fortunately, Yangzhou is rich, there are fewer natural disasters, and the military households in the guards can barely eat. And you can also go to do some part-time work, so the escape of military households in the guard station is not very strict.

Yang Tingjian plans to personally go to see these guards, and in the future, these guards will be built into a navy by Yang Tingjian. Yang Tingjian now has to expand the army at will, so that Chongzhen's suspicion will be even stricter, so far, Yang Tingjian has not done this.

At this time, everyone in the world was racking their brains for Yang Tingjian's song "Song of the Frog", but Yang Tingjian came directly to Yangzhou Wei, which was more than 20 miles away from Yangzhou City, with three hundred personal guards.

Yangzhou Wei is stationed in the area of Guazhou, located in Guazhou, at the confluence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yangtze River. It is one of the important passages of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal into the Yangtze River, and is "the main place of the north and south", "overlooking the mouth of Beijing, connecting Jiankang, Jicanghai, and the big river, millions of boats per year, floating in the river, and the people involved in the trade of Baizhou will be in a constant stream of people, and they will be anchored. It is for the benefit of the North and the South".

Guazhou is also an ancient town with a long history and rich cultural accumulation, and many cultural celebrities have left ink marks here. Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty famously "Docking Guazhou": "Jingkou Guazhou is a water, and Zhongshan is only separated by a few mountains. The spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River, when will the bright moon shine on me. "That's it.

The guard command post of Yangzhou Wei is in Guazhou Town, but the military households of the entire guard post are distributed within 30 miles east of Guazhou, and the land of these 30 miles belongs to the military field of the entire Yangzhou Wei. Needless to say. These fields have become the fields of officials, and ordinary military households have been completely reduced to tenants.

Guazhou is not far from Yangzhou, Yang Tingjian took three hundred personal guards, and it only took one hour to come to Yangzhou Guard Command Yamen. The arrival of Yang Tingjian scared the commander Chen Zheng half to death at that time.

Originally, the prefect was in charge of the local health office. What's more, Yang Tingjian also has Chongzhen's holy decree and the royal flag, to kill Chen Zheng is like pinching an ant to death, the military general is so despicable, this is the result of the Ming Dynasty's military service.

"The lowly Chen Zheng saw Lord Yang, and the lowly did not know that the adults came to inspect, and he did not welcome him from afar, and asked the adults to punish him."

"Command Chen, get up and speak! …… Your yamen is well cultivated, and it's still very magnificent. ”

Yangzhou Wei is stationed in Guazhou, a key point of north-south transportation, and Yangzhou Wei will set up a checkpoint at any time, and there will be a steady stream of silver in the account. Several officers kneeling on the ground, all of them had ruddy faces, fat heads and big ears, and it seemed that their little life was good.

Chen Zheng, the commander, hurriedly reported in a low voice:

"Lord Qiqi, the previous yamen has been very dilapidated and unusable, so I raised money to rebuild the command yamen the year before last, please punish it."

Self-raised silver taels, no need to elaborate to know where these silver came from, but Yang Tingjian didn't want to punish Chen Zheng for this matter, he now wanted to see what Chen Zheng's Weisuo army was like.

"Punishment can't be discussed, this official is here to review the army under Commander Chen's command, don't talk much, this official is waiting for you at the school, a stick of incense is limited, this official just wants to see the real Yangzhou Wei, don't try to deceive this official, otherwise the military law is ruthless."

"This ...... Adult ......"

Yang Tingjian didn't pay attention to Chen Zheng and the others, but directly paced to the overgrown school field next to Yangzhou Wei, waiting for Chen Zheng to beat the drum and gather the generals.

Yangzhou Wei School Field is next to the command envoy Yamen, a wall apart, the command makes the Yamen to be majestic and majestic, but the weeds on the school field are overgrown, if it is not for the original paving on the school field with gravel, this weed is afraid that there is already more than one person high.

Even so, the weeds in the school field are not short, almost one meter high, and such a school field has not been used for at least several years. Yang Tingjian turned a blind eye to these weeds, and walked in front himself, and when Yang Tingjian came to the school platform, the hem of his crimson official robe was already stained with all kinds of grass seeds.

The school platform is better, this is a five-meter-high platform built of stone, and there is a shed on it to shelter from the wind and rain, but the tiles on this shed, some have been broken, some have slipped down, the whole shed is full of holes, and the stone slabs on the school platform have been stained with moss.

Yang Tingjian still didn't speak, so he stepped onto the school platform alone, and then began to wait silently. Today, Yang Tingjian has already made up his mind in his heart that he must see with his own eyes how bad Yangzhou Wei is.

At this time, Chen Zheng, but like an ant on a hot pot, the situation of Yangzhou Wei, he is the commander is the most clear, originally the establishment of Yangzhou Wei is 5,600 soldiers, and now it is good to have 1,000 people, and there are more than 100 Chen Zheng's family members who can fight.

A guard, more than 5,000 soldiers, developed to the present, there are only more than 100 people who can go to war, and the guard of the Ming Dynasty is really erosive.

"What to do! Lord Chen? ……”

"I heard that this Yang Tingjian is murderous without blinking."

"That's the case, even more than 10,000 taels of Yellow Flag Tartars were killed by Yang Tingjian."

"My lord, this Yang Tingjian came today with three hundred murderous guards, is he here to cut off the heads of our waiters! ......" (To be continued......)