Although the officers and soldiers of the guard post were taken down to protect the people of Funing County, they could not let the people know that they had taken down the guard army, and if the people knew, they would definitely publicize it, and the secret would not be kept.

Zhang Fengqi did not hesitate, and immediately asked Yang He to send troops to disperse the onlookers.

The common people are very easy to fool, and when they saw a group of soldiers scolding them, they thought that they were part of the guards' army, so they naturally avoided them one after another.

Back at the county office, Zhang Fengqi immediately wrote several confessions, and then ordered Cai Yong and the 100 households in the guard to draw the general flag.

Seeing Yang He and his subordinates staring at each other, Cai Yong and the others dared not admit it, and obediently drew a charge on the confession one by one.

Subsequently, Yang He ordered a personal soldier to take a guard soldier to Yongping Guard with a confession and give it to Meng Qiaofang.

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Yongping Mansion is the border military important place of the Ming Dynasty, the east of the Shanhaiguan guards the passage of Liaodong into Beijing, and the north of Qian'an County has the important pass of the Great Wall.

Xifengkou was called Gulanjing in ancient times, Songting Pass was called Songting Pass in the Song Dynasty, it was a military key point since ancient times, Lu You, a famous patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, had the verse of "three more caress the pillow and shouted urgently, and won the Songting Pass in a dream", which shows the importance of its military status.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty set up a total of six guards within the jurisdiction of Yongping Mansion, namely:

Yongpingwei: Hongwu was set up in four years, and the station was in Lulong County, Yongping Prefecture, with 8,000 households.

Shanhaiwei: Hongwu was set up in the 14th year, stationed in Shanhaiguan City, with ten thousand households, and then transferred two thousand households into Liaodong.

Dongsheng Zuowei: set up in the first year of Yongle, stationed in the northeast of Lulong County, with five thousand households, and later merged into Yongpingwei.

Xingzhou Youtunwei: Yongle was relocated in three years, stationed in Qian'an County, with 5,000 households, and later merged into Yongpingwei.

Funingwei: Yongle was set up in three years, stationed in the east of Funing County, with 5,000 households, and later merged into Shanhaiwei.

Lu Longwei: Yongle was set up in four years, and the station was in the south of Yongping Wei, with 5,000 households, which were later merged into Yongpingwei.

A government actually set up six guards, a total of 38,000 households, a thousand households 1,120 people, six guards a total of more than 42,000 people, it can be seen how much attention the Ming Dynasty attaches to here.

Later, the external military threat of the Ming Dynasty gradually decreased, so the four guards were abolished and merged, and only Yongpingwei and Shanhaiwei were retained.

Yongpingwei has eight thousand households, which are stationed in various places, among which Meng Qiaofang's Zhonghou Station is located in the original Dongsheng Zuowei station, which is less than 20 miles away from Funing County.

Meng Qiaofang's thousands of households belong to the shadow position, his ancestors won the reward of the world's hundred households with their military merits, and when Meng Qiaofang's father Meng Guoyong was in this generation, he was promoted to the Ningxia General Army, and Meng Qiaofang was able to seal thousands of households.

Meng Guoyong served as the chief soldier in Ningxia, and wanted to transfer Meng Qiaofang to his side, but at that time, there were no vacancies in several important positions under Meng Guoyong, and Meng Qiaofang had no real power to do the rest of the position.

Meng Qiaofang is very talented, and people who know Meng Qiaofang once said that it is a pity that he is a hereditary military position and cannot participate in the imperial examination, otherwise, it would be easy to be a person in the imperial examination with his talent.

The Meng family is a secular officer, Meng Guoyong is the chief soldier of Ningxia, and Meng Qiaofang himself is a thousand households, so the family background will naturally not be bad, and it is said that he will not care too much about money, but Meng Qiaofang is very greedy for money, in order to collect money, it can be said that he is unscrupulous, and the people around the middle and queen can be said to be unscrupulous and blackmailed by him.

After squeezing out the wealth of the people around the station, he stretched out his hand to the people of the surrounding counties, so that the people of the surrounding counties were overwhelmed.

Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen withdrew their troops from outside the pass, and a large number of people fled into the pass, and Meng Qiaofang set his eyes on these refugees again.

Hearing that Meng Qiaofang wanted to get money from the refugees, the officers and soldiers under him were puzzled. How can there be money on refugees? Even if you squeeze their bones dry, I'm afraid you won't be able to squeeze out a few dollars, right?

Of course, Meng Qiaofang understood this, and his target would naturally not be those poor people, but the merchants and rich families who fled with the poor people.

Meng Qiaofang's father is a general soldier, and he is a middle-level military officer himself, so he knows very well what the imperial court is doing, what decrees are to be issued, and the situation in the country.

(Note: At this time, the transportation was inconvenient, the communication was blocked, and the ordinary people and ordinary soldiers did not know the movements of the imperial court at all, and some people did not even know what government decrees were in the county.) ）

Meng Qiaofang is naturally very clear about the situation in Liaodong, Meng Qiaofang knows that there are many merchants in Liaodong, and these merchants rely on the trade of Liaodong Horse Market to make a lot of money.

Although the cities of Liaodong fell one after another, the horse markets were closed one after another, and a large number of merchants fled back to the Guannai. But there were still many merchants in Liaodong, because the city of Quang Ninh had not yet fallen, and there were still several horse markets around the city that traded with the Mongol tribes.

There was a rebellion in Guangning, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen abandoned Guangning without knowing the truth, and evacuated the people all the way.

Meng Qiaofang's target is these merchants and rich people, as for the looting of those poor people, it is just a rabbit to pick up grass and use it as a piggyback.

Meng Qiaofang dared to blatantly extort and blackmail, of course, these people had something to rely on.

A large number of refugees entered the customs, and the imperial court naturally wanted to check whether there were any Mongols and Jurchen spies among them.

Dongchang, Jinyiwei, Shanhaiguan garrison, and the guard post along the line from Shanhaiguan to Tianjin all received orders to arrest traitorous spies.

Yongpingwei shouldered the task of defending Xifengkou, and the imperial court was worried that the spies would spy on the military situation of the Xifengkou garrison, so they also gave Yongpingwei an order.

Meng Qiaofang is a thousand households under Yongpingwei, so he naturally received this order.

After receiving this order, Meng Qiaofang stretched out his hand outside the jurisdiction in a grand manner.

In those days, Meng Qiaofang personally led a team to Funing County to guard the passage to Tianjin Wei, and in a few days, more than 100 Mongolian and Jianjiao treacherous spies were arrested.

A few days later, the flow of refugees gradually subsided, and Meng Qiaofang left a few soldiers to continue the investigation, while he returned to the garrison with a large group of men.

A few days later, Meng Qiaofang suddenly received a report that a large number of refugees had fled back, and there were many large and small carts of these people, and the carts were loaded with food.

Meng Qiaofang was overjoyed when she heard this, and led the team to Funing County.

However, to his surprise, these people were directly placed in Funing County.

As soon as Meng Qiaofang inquired, these people turned out to be the family members of the garrison of Guangning City.

Then Meng Qiaofang learned that Luo Yiyi, the deputy commander of Xiping Fort, was resisting Jianyu with the remnants and the soldiers who had not had time to escape from Guangning City. These people were placed in Funing County in order to facilitate the soldiers to come back and look for their families.

Originally, Meng Qiaofang was still worried that these refugees were the families of the soldiers, but when she heard that those soldiers were resisting the Jianguo in Guangning, she was immediately relieved.

In Meng Qiaofang's mind, even Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen were defeated, and Luo has always been unable to stop the captives, as long as Guangning City is broken, these people will inevitably be wiped out.

Considering that there were people from the county government of Funing County present, Meng Qiaofang didn't want to do too much, just after a little investigation, he snatched some food from those refugees and returned to the station.

Meng Qiaofang planned to wait for the magistrate of Funing County to settle these people before coming back.

But local government affairs are very trivial, and the resettlement of refugees is even more troublesome.

It took several days to register and compile a register of those refugees, to divide the land for the refugees, and to prepare all the supplies and utensils for the refugees.

However, Meng Qiaofang is not in a hurry, anyway, these people are placed in Funing County, and he can bring troops over at any time.

But two days later, Meng Qiaofang received news that more than 100 soldiers had come to Funing County, saying that they had returned from Guangning City, were buying land in Funing County, and were preparing to relocate those refugees.

As soon as she heard the news, Meng Qiaofang almost made a big mistake.

How could these soldiers run back from Quang Ninh City? Did they repel the Jianyu?

Immediately, Meng Qiaofang knew that it was impossible, if these people had repelled Jianyu in Guangning City, then the news would have spread all over the world. There is only one possibility for these soldiers to come back: deserters.

Since they are deserters, even if they know that they are committing extortion in the name of arresting traitors and spies, they can only pinch their noses and admit it.

Thinking of this festival, Meng Qiaofang immediately ordered Cai Yong to take five hundred soldiers to Funing County.

Meng Qiaofang calculated very well, after all, when it came to the border soldiers, he couldn't come forward in person, so even if something happened, he still had room for maneuver, but if he couldn't, he could also put the blame on Cai Yong.

However, Meng Qiaofang never expected that he waited and waited, and waited for Funing County to send a few confessions.

Meng Qiaofang carefully read several confessions, and then pondered.

Meng Qiaofang knows very well that as long as Funing County reports these confessions, his dismissal and dismissal from office are small, and he will not be imprisoned and beheaded, even if he burns high incense.

Meng Qiaofang did not suspect that these confessions were false, and one of the people who sent the letter was a soldier from his own guard, who personally admitted that Cai Yong and the others were all arrested.

Meng Qiaofang didn't have the heart to think about how Cai Yong could arrest all of them now.

What he wants to think about now is what Funing County means by sending these confessions to himself?

After pondering for a long time, Meng Qiaofang said to the soldier who sent the letter: "The messenger went back to tell Zhang Zhixian that the official would go to Funing County in a while and thank Zhang Zhixian in person. ”

The soldier delivering the letter nodded and urged the horse to return to Funing County.

After the messenger left, Meng Qiaofang immediately ordered the soldiers to carry two boxes of silver to Funing County.

Meng Qiaofang had already figured out that it would not be beneficial to the officials of Funing County to take him, and even to those border troops, so they sent the confession, which meant that they would not report the confession.

When others let themselves go, they naturally can't help but reciprocate, and these two boxes of silver are the rewards for Zhang Fengqi.

When Meng Qiaofang and his entourage arrived in Funing County, they did not go to the county government first, but booked two tables of banquets in the largest restaurant in Funing County, and then came to the county office.

As soon as he entered the gate of the county office, Meng Qiaofang felt that the atmosphere was not right, how could there be a murderous atmosphere in the county office.

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