Li Yao looked at the officials who were silent, so he said: "You are not just one person, you also have a family, your wives and concubines are so beautiful, if you are robbed or something, it will be really bad, do you say!" ”

The officials were all angry when they heard Li Yao's naked threat, Li Yao looked at their angry expressions, and said flatly: "I'm already merciful, at least I'll let you live, is it possible that in your eyes, your money can be more important than your life?" You have to remember that there is no life, and it is useless to have more money! ”

After Li Yao finished speaking, he left, let them think for themselves! Li Yao believes that they will make the right choice, if someone makes the wrong choice, Li Yao doesn't mind that Su Feiguang, a bandit army, will do some private work!

After letting the soldiers change their outfits in a unified manner, now Li Yao's troops have one in hand, whether it is cold weapons or armor!

The combat strength of the city guards in the three northern counties is very average, originally the commerce of these three counties is underdeveloped, they belong to poor counties, the taxes can't keep up, and the officials are too greedy, so the corrupt officials can only start from the city guards, so Li Yao doesn't feel that it is difficult to take these three counties so easily!

Because there are too many city guards in Yu County, Li Yao is going to use two regiments of soldiers to guard this county this time, of which the second regiment is still mainly to guard prisoners, and the third regiment takes over the city guards of Su Feiguang's department!

Li Yao's main purpose of letting Su Feiguang take over the city guard every time was to prevent Su Feiguang from disturbing the people, because the training some time ago made Su Feiguang somewhat disciplined, so there were not many people who complained, but in order to appease Su Feiguang, Li Yao still decided to reward them with some money to motivate the army!

Calling the blind man, Li Yao said: "The officials of Yu County and Yiguang County are locked up in the Yu County prison, you go and raid their homes." And then let them spit out their private property, and now we have to save up money! ”

The blind man nodded and said, "I'll do it right away!" ”

The second and third regiments stayed in Yu County, and the rest of the troops rushed to the valley to set up an ambush!

The combat power of the city guards in the three northern counties is indeed low, but this does not indicate that the combat power of the army of Yiguo is low, and it must be the city guards of the national capital who came to collect this time. So Li Yao had to pay attention to it!

As the five regiments all entered the valley mouth defense area, Li Yao was relieved, the flying thunder cylinders were also set up, and to prevent rainy weather, each flying thunder cylinder was equipped with a tarpaulin and a water diversion trough, all of which were done to prevent the flying thunder cylinders from being damaged by water!

After arranging everything, Li Yao will concentrate on the defense of Gukou, which is directly related to the stability of the three northern counties, although now Li Yao has arranged 5,000 firearms troops in Gukou. Two of the regiments are equipped with bows and crossbows, and the others are also equipped with war knives, if it is really in rainy weather, the firearms troops can also be transformed into cold weapons troops to compete with them, after all, Li Yao is now the defender, and he has a great advantage over him! But in order to better increase his defensive strength, Li Yao is ready to set up several high platforms at the mouth of the valley!

These platforms are designed to allow the shells fired by the Thunder Barrel to fly farther. The Flying Thunder Barrel is a projectile, if on flat ground. You can only throw the explosives package two or three hundred steps away, but if you erect the flying thunder canister on a high platform of 20 zhang, you can extend the projectile distance to five or six hundred steps, and you can definitely hit the target more favorably!

It's just that in this case, the fuse will have to be redesigned, and at least the fuse will have to be doubled in order to detonate the explosive pack on time! This question is left to the craftsmen who accompany the army. Because firearms are vulnerable equipment, each regiment is equipped with a platoon of engineering platoons dedicated to repairing damaged thunder canisters!

In fact, these people were selected from the craftsmen and soldiers who knew about the flying thunder barrel, and handed over the task to the engineering platoon, and Li Yao became the master of the hand!

Although he did not have the materials to build a high platform. But there must be in the three northern counties, and as the three counties were taken over by Li Yao, Li Yao also opened the access to the three counties, and then recruited craftsmen in each county to build high platforms, and as for the materials, they were bought from rich merchants! Li Yao believes that rich businessmen will not sell it!

The businessman paid attention to profits, and Li Yao gave a high enough price to quickly purchase enough materials to build the high platform!

As for the craftsmen, Li Yao asked them to work in three shifts, day and night, and they must build only ten high platforms within three days!

This makes the craftsmen a little embarrassed, after all, it is indeed unrealistic to build a high platform of twenty zhang high in three days, fortunately, Li Yao explained that the high platform does not need to be too strong, but it must also be held for three months, which makes the craftsmen have the confidence to complete, and the money given by Li Yao is also very rich, so the craftsmen began to get busy!

The blind man reported on the income and expenditure of the past few days, and the three county towns had collected a total of more than 5 million taels of silver and 4.3 million taels of grain.

Li Yao calculated, there are less than 500,000 people in the three northern counties, and these grains can be used for these people for three years, and this is only food, plus silver, etc., these people have embezzled the taxes of these counties for several years, no wonder when the city is attacked, no one is willing to go to the city to serve!

Li Yao is ready to start buying the hearts of the people with this grain, since there is so much grain here, then there is no need to use it in vain! Distribute food to the people every day, Li Yao doesn't believe that he can't win the hearts of the people in this way!

Because the county magistrates have been arrested, all the institutions have been paralyzed, Li Yao has no talents in his hands, and there is no way to manage the paralyzed county town, so Li Yao plans to open a list to recruit officials!

Li Yao's requirements are very simple, if you are talented and capable, you can come to be an official, I don't look at your background, and I don't care about your identity, you will be treated equally!

As soon as this list was released, the three northern counties were boiling, even if they were people with no status, as long as they were talented, they could come to be officials, this temptation was really too great!

Because Gukou is very close to Qin County, Li Yao lived in the county government of Qin County, and there was an endless stream of people who came to Li Yao for a while.

Because there are too many talents, Li Yao is ready to take the exam in a unified manner, and then select people who answer well for interviews, and if the interview passes, he can be an official.

Li Yao was preparing for the exam questions, and the blind man ran over and said, "Big brother, the county lieutenant who ran into the deep forest has been arrested, and the family property has been confiscated, and now he is locked up in a prison, what should we do with those people?" Is it really all gone? ”

Li Yao asked, "Have you asked about all their private property?" ”

The blind man said, "Some people have confessed their private property, and some have not!" ”

Li Yao smiled: "Let them all go, and those who give in private property will each be given fifty taels of repatriation fees, and those who don't give in private property won't even give a steamed bun!" ”

The blind man nodded and said, "Big brother, I know, then do we need to kill them when we let them go down the mountain!" ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Let the bandits do the bandits, we don't know anything!" ”

The blind man asked, "Big brother, if you want to kill them, why do you want to give those people severance pay!" ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Those who have money want money, and those who don't have money want to die, isn't this the practice of bandits all along?" ”

However, it was only fifty taels of silver.

"Huh!" Li Yao smiled: "Fifty taels of silver is enough to buy their lives!" ”

(To be continued.) )