"Whew......"

The dense whistling sounded again, and for the bandits in the cottage, it was undoubtedly the howling of the devil. As soon as this sound was heard, a group of bandits scurried around the cottage like headless flies.

No one knew where the rocket would hit the next moment, so they could only run around the cottage aimlessly, with the bandit leader shrinking his head and yelling and directing the minions to fight the fire.

But although there is a water source in this cottage, it is a small spring, and although there is enough water for people and animals, it is not enough to fight the fire.

A series of explosions sounded in the cottage, almost all sides of the cottage were hit, and the fire was irreversibly burning.

Finally, they couldn't control it, and the bandits in the cottage hacked to death the bandits guarding the gate like a flood that discharged the gate, rushed down directly from the mountain road, and then knelt in front of the bandit army and kowtowed and begged to surrender.

Zhao Yong's soldiers were very skillful in controlling the captives, and Zhao Yong gave an order and rushed directly to the burning cottage, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the leader of this nest of bandits was beheaded.

Zhao Yong asked for the name and nickname of the bandit leader, and then asked people to send it to various states and counties as soon as possible, and finally sent it to Qixia to be placed on the pavilion beam.

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"Knock...... Dong ...... "I saw a fast horse rushing into Laiyang City, one carrying the head, and the other beating gongs and drums.

Hearing this voice, the people of Laiyang City immediately knew what was coming, and for a while, many people immediately gathered on both sides of the two cavalry to watch.

I saw a big man with a beard and a group of sturdy men, silently watching at the street corner.

"Which bandit this time?" The big man with the beard asked.

"King, that's Qi Xia's Tyrannosaurus, I didn't expect him to be cut down."

The man's face changed, and he sighed helplessly: "Hey, this time the official army is really moving, and in less than half a month, more than 40 nests of bandits have been killed, and it is estimated that it will soon be our Laiyang, we ...... Let's go and turn ourselves in! ”

Denglai Erfu has been particularly lively recently, and almost every day there are fast horses to pass the head, and every time the head is passed on, it often causes a crowd of onlookers.

Among them, Laizhou has the most bandits, and the dragoons of the cavalry battalion plus the second battalion are very fast, sometimes even fighting three battles a day.

The bloody human heads all indicate that this time is genuine. The bandits in Denglai and the two places were all worried and shocked in their hearts.

Some bandits finally couldn't bear the pressure and took the initiative to go to the government to turn themselves in. If you turn yourself in, you can at least get a good result, and you will have an upright identity in the future.

However, some bandits were accustomed to being carefree and were obviously unwilling to turn themselves in, but they were afraid of the attack of the Denglai guerrillas, and some fled into the mountains, while others fled out of Denglai and moved to Qingzhou.

The month-long crackdown on bandits soon came to an end. This time, more than 600 bandits were killed, and more than 4,000 were captured.

The few who resisted were also in vain, and several rows of muskets fired in a dense salvo, and most of them were routed on the spot.

The seized property was converted into more than 80,000 taels, and hundreds of horses, mules and horses.

More than 2,000 bandits went to the government to surrender themselves, and most of these bandits were minions who had nowhere to go, and those bandit leaders took their belongings and did not know where to go to hide.

There are also some bandit leaders who have been arrested by the government, so they can only go to the government to turn themselves in, so as to eliminate the criminal record.

There was a world of difference in treatment between the bandits who surrendered and those who were captured, and those who surrendered were directly arranged to be reclaimed on the plains of Huang County.

Those captured bandits will be arrested and sent to labor reform, and they will be re-educated through labor for two years.

After suppressing the bandits, Zhao Yan issued a reward in Denglai, and anyone who provided the location of the bandits could receive ten taels of silver after the extermination.

At this time, news came from Henan that the convoy of the trading house was attacked by bandits, but the escorted township soldiers were very brave, and the attack was not successful.

"There are a lot of bandits in Henan and Beizhili, and at present, the commercial banks have entered Henan and Beizhili, and they still need to send some soldiers and horses to escort them to be considered insurance." After Zhao Quan explained the situation, he said to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "Let the cavalry battalion each send three hundred people to escort it." ”

"It should be enough." Zhao Quan nodded.

So he immediately called Lin Yi over, Lin Yi gave a military salute, and then stood there straight. Zhao Quan explained the task to him, and Zhao Yan said: "Lin Yi, you don't have to go in person, you still have a task." ”

"Yes." Lin Yi knew what the task was.

The local tycoons who often make cameos as bandits have not yet been uprooted, and they were kept behind during the crackdown on bandits last month, and then cleaned them up last.

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The next day, Lin Yi took four hundred cavalry, took off the equipment that could obviously make people see their identity, and then dragged more than a dozen light artillery and Vulcan cannons developed by the laboratory and set off.

Those who make cameo appearances as bandits are different from ordinary bandits, some have forts, and some of the alleys of the villages where they live can turn left and right to turn people to the point of getting lost.

Suo surnamed used artillery and rockets to bombard, these artillery pieces have not yet been set the standard, so they are not equipped with troops, this is also the first time to use artillery!

Burned the village and blew up the wall, to see that they couldn't get out.

After Lin Yi set off, Zhao Yan reported to Zhu Dadian the results of last month's suppression of bandits. Zhu Dadian had been following Denglai's crackdown on bandits last month, and the news that more than 2,000 bandits had turned themselves in to the government had already been reported to the imperial court.

After receiving Zhao Yan's report this time, he immediately sent someone down to check it, and saw that the number of heads and prisoners was correct, so he was overjoyed and immediately wrote another letter to report to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Zhu Dadian's letter, the number of beheadings and the number of prisoners mentioned in it, and the Denglai government's distribution of agricultural materials to the bandits who surrendered.

Happy, Zhu Youzhen really rewarded the silver. The first level is thirty taels, and this time the bandits were cut down more than 600 levels, and they directly rewarded 20,000 taels of silver.

It's just 20,000 taels of silver, and it is unknown how much it can be in Zhao Yan's hands. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a rumor that 'military salaries do not leave the government', and under the layers of deductions, I don't know how much can be left.

Zhu Youzhen felt that Zhao Yan had just been cared for and made such a record, and he had to be rewarded according to the rules.

But what Zhu Youzhen didn't know was that Zhao Yan had already reached for his money bag.

During the suppression of bandits, the cavalry battalion focused on the banks of the Shahe River and the area around Laizhou Bay. Zhao Yan was behind, enclosing a large seaside tidal flat.

Laizhou Bay, in Zhao Yan's eyes, is definitely a place with treasures. Because Laizhou Bay is very suitable for drying salt.

Because the tidal flats in the Bohai Sea are all silt, the salt leakage is small. In addition, it is windy all year round and has a long time to shine, which is an excellent place to dry salt.

In later generations, Bohai Bay was the salt industry base with the highest salt production in the country. Among the four major salt-producing areas, Bohai Bay accounts for three, namely Liaodong Bay Salt Area, Tianjin Changlu Salt Area, and Laizhou Bay Salt Area.

Laizhou Bay is not only suitable for beach salting, but also has abundant brine hidden underground, and the salt concentration of these brine is 2~6 times that of seawater. In the 80s, Shandong relied on the development of the underground brine of Laizhou Bay, which quadrupled the salt production of the province. From 2 million tons, to 8 million tons.

The salt tax went into the emperor's small treasury, Zhao Yan's action was not to touch the emperor's money bag?

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