"General, this is an urgent document sent by the governor of Dongzhou." Wei Liangxu came to the study where Fan Jinyan worked with a stack of documents, and after putting it down, he picked up the most important one and handed it to Fan Jinyan, who was writing something.

Fan Jinyan took the envelope of Dongzhou Zhizhou, tore open the cover, took out a half-written letter from it, only read the first paragraph, and stood up.

Dongzhou is the new name of Wanzhou, the former capital of Qiongzhou, and the three neighboring counties after the merger.

It was written earlier: Bandits are rampant in Dongzhou, and I hope that the general will quickly send troops to crusade

At this time, Fan Jinyan suddenly remembered that when he and He Yi were fighting, Wanzhou's army failed to rush to the aid and disappeared.

Could it be that Qin Yuan again?

At that time, because there were too many things, I didn't have time to care about a few little thieves, but I didn't expect this gang of thieves to be so bold and dare to on their heads now.

Thinking of this, Fan Jinyan shouted at the door: "Go and find Captain Tang Fei of Qiongnan." ”

After unifying Qiongzhou, Fan Jinyan divided the army into two parts, and set up two captains in Qiongnan and Qiongbei respectively. Captain Tang Fei of Qiongnan was stationed in Nanzhou, mainly guarding the defense of Dongzhou and Nanzhou. Qiongbei Lieutenant Wei Dayou was stationed in Beizhou, mainly guarding the defense of Beizhou and Xizhou.

Soon, Tang Fei, who was training soldiers, came to the study, and as soon as he saw Fan Jinyan, he said eagerly: "General, can you fight?" ”

Looking like that, this kid has been suffocated during this time.

Fan Jinyan shook his head and said with a smile: "There is no war, there is a little thief in Dongzhou, tomorrow you will order two thousand soldiers and fight for the thief with this general." ”

Fan Jinyan also goes?

Suddenly, not only Tang Fei disagreed, but Wei Liangxu also strongly objected.

The reason is very simple: Fan Jinyan's safety is now related to the safety of millions of soldiers and civilians in Qiongzhou, so how can he easily take risks.

Do you think it's the bandit leader who once led a group of younger brothers to run around the mountains one day?

Fan Jinyan doesn't think so, now that the big forces don't dare to take risks, how will they compete for the world in the future? In addition, the name Qin Yuan has always made him both strange and familiar, and he will never rest assured that he will not meet this person in person.

Needless to say, it was obvious that his arms couldn't twist his thighs, and Fan Jinyan personally led the troops to the battle

The central part of Qiongzhou Island is mountainous, and the mountain road goes south, and there are many Li cottages in it, and the locals call them Shengli again.

Shengli refers to the Li people who live in the mountains all year round and have little contact with the outside world. On the contrary, there is a raw Li and there is a ripe Li. Shuli generally refers to the Li people who moved out of the mountains and had close contacts with the Han people.

There is no harmony between Shengli and Shuli, and there are frequent fights, which is also a headache for every local official.

And if there are really bandits in the mountains, there must be a close connection with the Li villages in the mountains. Even, these bandits who came down the mountain to loot were disguised by the Li villages on the mountain.

But this is just Fan Jinyan's speculation, if he rashly enters the mountains to encircle and suppress the Li cottage because of speculation, there will be only one result. The 50,000 Oli people hidden in the mountains will be a nightmare for the whole of Qiongzhou Island, and they will suddenly appear from anywhere you can't imagine and ransack the local towns. At that time, Fan Jinyan may really only have to cry.

Moreover, he didn't know that when facing the life and death of the Li people in the deep mountains, the more than 100,000 familiar Li people who had always had a bad relationship with them would stand by and watch, or would they rebel because of their relationship with the Li people?

There is only one way in front of Fan Jinyan, which is the Huairou policy, which slowly guides these Shengli people who are unwilling to contact with the outside world out of the mountains. As long as time passes, I believe that the Shengli people will gradually adapt to the outside world and integrate into the Han ethnic group just like the Shuli people.

It is not advisable to rush people into the mountains, and it will only increase the hostility of the Li people.

So, Fan Jinyan found a Li businessman who had a good relationship with the Shengli people in the mountains in the Dongzhou Mountain Range.

The Li businessman is called Huang Deying, not only black, with a fierce face, but also a burly figure and a Li black short linen shirt, no matter how you look at it, he is a fierce bandit. is different from his fierce appearance, but when he saw Fan Jinyan, he was unusually docile and well-behaved.

The huge contrast made Fan Jinyan a little unacceptable for a while, in his words, this Nima is not scientific!

It's really unscientific, as soon as Huang Deying opened his mouth, it made him even more depressed, and he actually stammered, "Small, villain, see, see, general." ”

Fan Jinyan suddenly cried and laughed, this courage is too small! It's a pity that God gave him that look.

On the surface, Fan Jinyan was still very enthusiastic and personally pulled up Huang Deying, who was kneeling on the ground, patted his broad shoulder, and said with a smile: "Relax, General Ben is not a man-eating tiger, I have something to ask for today!" ”

The more this is the case, Huang Deying stammered more and more, "General, general, general, have, have, what, command, small, people, this, this, this, go, do"

Fan Jinyan was speechless for a moment, and now he even wondered if the soldiers had found the wrong person, so stammering, could it be a businessman?

However, from the dumbfounded expressions on the faces of the soldiers who brought him, he probably guessed that this person was really afraid of seeing officials.

"Don't be in a hurry, talk slowly, let's talk while eating." Fan Jinyan said helplessly, and said to the soldiers next to him: "Go and prepare drinks and side dishes." ”

Fan Jinyan just had dinner, he was hungry! I want to give this guy a few glasses of wine to strengthen his courage.

Sure enough, after a few glasses of spirits, Huang Deying spoke a lot more neatly, "General, find, find the villain, yes, do you want to ask about Sheng Li's situation?" ”

"That's right." Fan Jinyan nodded, and after clinking glasses with him again, he said: "Recently, there have been bandits in Dongzhou from time to time, and General Ben just wants to know whether this group of thieves is the work of the Li people in the deep mountains, I heard that you often go into the mountains to do business with them, but what clues do you have?" Also, why is Sheng Li so hateful to the Han people? (To be continued.) )