Inside the barracks, three young men in cotton clothes were being tied up with flowers, and the sound of whipping and screaming could be heard in the distance.

Zhao Yan frowned slightly after hearing the voice, and sped up and rushed over.

Immediately, I saw Zhao Yong holding a whip and constantly pumping it on the three people.

"Sir." When Zhao Yong saw Zhao Yan coming, he hurriedly stood up and made a military salute, Zhao Yan waved his hand and said, "Don't use the punishment first, ask clearly." ”

"These three boys are not honest, not to mention probing their brains outside the barracks, and they want to sneak in quietly. I asked them what they were doing, and they said they were here to visit relatives. Zhao Yongyan snorted coldly at the three of them.

When the three of them saw Zhao Yan coming, they knew that Zhao Yan was the head, and hurriedly cried and shouted: "Uncle is wronged!" The little ones are really here to visit relatives, you can't wronged the good people! ”

"Yes! Yes, wronged, ......"

Just as the three of them were shouting, Zhao Yan took the whip from Zhao Yong's hand and whipped it at the three of them. After more than a dozen lashes in a row, the three men broke their heads and bled out, and they screamed in pain.

Zhao Yan showed a sneer on his face, and the whip was gently patted on his hand, quietly watching the miserable situation of these three people.

The three men screamed for a while, as if they had no strength, and were tied to a wooden frame in a state of exhaustion, with their heads hanging and looking half-dead, their heads and faces covered with blood and bruises.

Zhao Yong was shocked to see on the side, he still pumped his body when he started, and the prince actually jerked directly on the head, at this time Zhang Buyun also rushed over, and when he saw the tragic situation of these three people, he was surprised and asked: "Lord, what is this?" ”

"The spy I just caught, hmph, his mouth is quite hard." Zhao Yan snorted and said to Zhang Buyun: "Wenlong, you take these three people down for interrogation separately, and the first one to leave him with his surname is killed, and the other two are directly slaughtered and fed to wild dogs in the mountains." ”

"Yes, my lord." Zhang Buyun responded, called a few soldiers, and pulled the frightened three people down.

Zhang Buyun didn't know so many interrogation skills, so after dragging the three people down, he was directly sentenced. For a while, the barracks also resounded with terrible screams.

"Recruited, I recruited." One of them couldn't stand it anymore and shouted loudly.

Zhang Buyun walked over and looked at the man, and asked lightly, "What do you want to recruit?" ”

"Uncle, you can let go of your small life! The little ones don't dare anymore, the little ones don't dare anymore. The man cried and said, "The small one is just that Ning Haizhou doesn't collect it at night, and he was ordered to come here to explore the scale of Zhao Jiayong." ”

"On orders? On whose orders? ”

"Wu Anbang, the chief soldier of the East Road."

"What?" Zhang Buyun was shocked and hurriedly ran to report to Zhao Yan.

"Wu Anbang, the chief soldier of the East Road?" Zhao Yan couldn't hear it clearly, so he didn't think of this person.

Wu Anbangyuan was the deputy commander-in-chief, and when he suppressed Kong Youde's rebellion, the commander-in-chief died, and he was later replaced. The imperial court just set up a headquarters town in Dengzhou in the first month, and this Wu Anbang is the chief soldier of the town. Zhang Buyun said.

As soon as he reminded him like this, Zhao Yan seemed to remember this person, and said with a smile: "It's just a straw bag." ”

"But he sent Ye Buhui to spy on him, and there must be some cats in it." Zhang Buyun thought about it, and Zhao Yan nodded, "Send people to Ninghaizhou to install more informants, and keep a close eye on the soldiers and horses in Wu Anbang's hands." ”

In contrast, the other two were much more stubborn if they didn't collect it at night, and even directly took out the identity of the official army to intimidate, Zhao Yan smiled lightly at Zhang Buyun and said: "Wenlong, your job is here again, drive these three spies to the quarry for labor reform!" ”

Zhang Buyun smiled helplessly, this good name labor reform is actually free labor.

……

After a few days, Zhaojiabao came to a Shandong businessman surnamed Lin, this businessman surnamed Lin is from Qingzhou, although there are not many things that can be sold at a good price in Dongsanfu, but this businessman surnamed Lin can become a huge rich man with these small and cheap things, which shows the ability of this person.

Lin Zongli came here and brought a batch of grain, enough to tens of thousands of stones, and was the first merchant to transport materials to Zhaojiabao. Zhao Yan was overjoyed, with food, he could recruit more displaced people, all of whom were laborers!

Lin Zongli replaced the two mirrors with the largest specifications, and the others were replaced with smaller mirrors, as well as some glassware that was not too expensive.

At present, the glassware produced by the Zhao family is not yet delicate, but it looks quite comfortable. The price is not too high, ranging from one tael to a dozen taels of silver.

"Zhao Gongzi, this road to Dengzhou is not easy to walk! Do you think you should take someone to fix it? Lin Zongli complained to Zhao Yan.

"Yes, the slowest will be within the year, and Zhao will definitely repair the road." Zhao Yan replied with a smile, although the transportation in Dongsanfu is inconvenient, the official road can still be walked, but the roads in some rural places are not good. However, the road from Huangxian to Zhaojiabao is really not easy to walk, especially when it rains.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

"Besides, Zhao Gongzi, you said that the bandits near the official road will be cleared within three months, but Lin still encountered many bandits along the way, but most of them didn't dare to move when they saw Lin's caravan guards, and a group of bandits stopped Lin on the road and gave a few hundred stones of grain before letting them go!" Lin Zongli continued to complain, "If you can't ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, even if Zhao Gongzi has this glass mirror, no one will dare to come!" ”

"Zhao will do this as soon as possible." Zhao Yan nodded, it was already necessary to clear the bandits of the trade road, and now the second mansion of Denglai was almost a den of bandits.

The remnants of Kong Youde's rebellious soldiers, the homeless people who couldn't survive fell into the grass one after another, and the strength of some bandits increased a lot, and last time Zhao Yan encountered a group of tens of thousands of thieves, but this kind of thieves is relatively rare.

The bandits in Shandong generally do not have the consciousness to coerce the hungry people to attack the towns, and the only ones who can do so are the evil cults of the White Lotus Sect and the Wenxiang Sect.

……

It was imperative to suppress the bandits, and Zhao Yan gathered all his subordinates that night to discuss the suppression of bandits.

"Let's talk about the results of these spy on the ground first!" Zhao Yan said loudly. Zhao Quan took the lead and said: "The old slave has set up three trading strongholds in Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou, and has found six bandit dens in half a month, and 16 bandits have not found the dens. ”

"The first battalion has detected eleven bandit dens in Dengzhou and nine bandit dens in Laizhou."

"The second battalion has detected eighteen dens of bandits in Dengzhou, and I have found six bandits in Laizhou."

"The cavalry battalion has detected fifteen dens of bandits in Dengzhou and eleven bandits in Laizhou."

"Is there a repetition?" Zhao Yan asked Zhao Yong and the three of them.

"The scouts in our three-man camp have been coordinated, and there is no duplication of the bandit dens that have been discovered." Wang Wenyue said, Lin Yong nodded, and said: "Together, there are 70 bandits investigated and dealt with in Denglai, and there are no more bandits who have not yet found the den. ”

Not only did everyone gasp, Zhang Buyun shook his head and said, "It's really a bandit's nest!" ”

"Childe, my subordinates also found that many local wealthy families are also pretending to be bandits to rob the road, and more than a dozen of these 70 bandits are composed of the children of local wealthy families." Lin Yi said.

"This water is too mixed, it seems that it will take some effort to completely exterminate these bandits, or should we first exterminate the bandits around the official road, how many bandits are around the official road?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Sixteen dens have been discovered, and there are some small-scale bandits, and there is no fixed stronghold."

"Then let's open these sixteen bandits first, and then increase the intensity of spying." Zhao Yan said, but who will kill it? Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue glanced at each other, and there must be a battalion left in Zhaojiabao.

"So be it! The first and second battalions took turns to go out to suppress bandits for a month and train for a month. The cavalry battalion sent half of its men to respond at a time. Zhao Yan said.

Everyone had no objection to this decision, and soon began to prepare for the dispatch to suppress the bandits.

The first battalion was dispatched, and the first battalion dispatched to suppress bandits this time can also be said to be a kind of training and accumulation of experience, so the second battalion sent a platoon to the first battalion and followed it out to learn from experience.

The education committee of the first battalion also determined that it was a child who had studied with Zhang Buyun for more than half a month, and basically memorized the textbooks compiled by Zhang Buyun.

First of all, it had to work with the battalion commander to restrain military discipline, and it also had to remember the problems encountered in the marching army and the experience of suppressing bandits.

Zhao Yan confirmed the responsibility of the Education Commission to maintain military discipline and solve the problem of soldiers, but he did not have the power to decide on military operations. Although there are some literati who have come out, this is only a minority after all.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

The bandits needed to dispatch 600 ordinary soldiers, 500 pikemen, 100 longbowmen, and the 250 musketeers stayed in Zhaojiabao to continue training, after all, they did not have weapons yet.

Together with the 150 cavalry battalion soldiers who assisted in the suppression of the bandits, the number reached 750.

The supply system determined by Zhao Yan began to operate, with soldiers carrying three days' rations and battalion convoys carrying ten-day rations. With the addition of the logistics supply team, the number of sorties reached 1,000 people.

The target of the first battalion was the bandits on the section from Dengzhou to Laizhou, and it was planned to set up a supply depot in Zhaoyuan.

The reason why the Ming army rebelled a lot was mostly because the salary was not good in peacetime, and the logistics could not keep up in wartime, mainly because some high-ranking officials of the Ming court had no concept of these things......

There are problems with the supply system, and the literary opera and martial arts are too serious, all of which prove that this dynasty has decayed.

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There's one more chapter before 12 o'clock, and the ticket is coming!

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