Later, Wu Wei only hopes to get out of Henan Province as soon as possible, if the road ahead is like this, even if he has some net worth, I am afraid that if he goes on like this, he will not be able to reach the Beijing Division, and the river will have dried up and the sea has fallen!

And Henan folk customs have another general strangeness, unlike northern Shaanxi, where there are mostly bands of thieves, wandering around, the thieves here are more like the mountain kings who sit on the ground and share the spoils. The rogues in northern Shaanxi eat a line, and the bandits here eat a piece, and there is a taste of self-fattening.

It is no wonder that the Central Plains has been the place of four wars since ancient times, fleeing the people, defeating the soldiers, and having no way to go is to drill into the mountains, like the Taihang Mountain in northern Henan, the Funiu Mountain in western Henan, and the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains in the northwest.

The unique geographical environment has created a thousand years of bandits in Henan, Henan pole and Shandong Xiangma, Northeast Silk Silk, are all famous bandits in China. It has been inherited until the Republic of China, due to the warlord melee, the bandit force has grown explosively, and tens of thousands of soldiers like Wang Tianzong and Bai Lang have emerged, with their own political programs, and they have turned to attack Henan and surrounding provinces, which can be compared to the giant bandits who break into and dedicate themselves!

At the peak of the banditry, it was known as Tongyu Province with no less than 400,000 bandits! It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that large-scale encirclement and suppression of it were eradicated.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the bandits in Henan were not as strict as those in later generations, and the thieves in Shaanxi, who would have flowed into Henan, have now died down, so the local banditry is not very strong, and the biggest pole is only two or three thousand people, and there are no giants like the "two kings" in northern Shaanxi who gather tens of thousands of people at every turn. And generally make a living in the local area, the government, princes and nobles they dare not provoke, to the ordinary squire rich households on insurance, extortion of money and grain is their favorite, but also pay attention to the rabbit does not eat the nest grass rules, the poor people are not much harassment (the key is not much oil and water, and it is easy to ruin the reputation), the local rich households are also mostly knocking on the contact, so that they can ventilate the news, and the food is often done thirty miles away from the nest.

Of course. This is just a self-proclaimed hero of the green forest. The bandits who are entrenched on one side act in this way, and some of them are not well-known, and the small group of bandits who are wandering and begging cannot be judged in this way, although these bandits are small. But because it came from a foreign country. Unlike the local bandits, there are many tricks. There are no scruples in acting, but the destructive power is the greatest, and it is often this kind of bandits that the villagers hear about it.

Wu Wei's fleet was huge. Relief to the victims along the way, it was obvious that there was a lot of money and food, which naturally alarmed the heroes along the way. And the fleet does not seem to have the protection of the official army, and there are many women and children mixed in, such a situation in the eyes of the heroes of Yu Province is like a big fat sheep, it makes people's hearts itch and scratch, if no one makes up their minds, it is a strange thing!

It's just that Wu Wei's fleet is all about helping the poor and caring for the orphans, and he prides himself on doing the right thing for the sky, even if the heroes of the righteous Bo Yuntian are salivating, they really can't pull this face to start first, and they don't have to be despised by their peers. Of course, there are many cases of unknown boats approaching at night, and there have been several times when boats have been climbed onto the side of the ship!

This kind of harassment is just a minor disease of scabies, it does not hurt or itch, and there is no threat at all, and the whole fleet does not appear to be half panicked because of this, because there are many elites in the Ansai camp in the fleet, and they are scattered among the ships, all of them are tall and strong, skilled in martial arts, and well-armed, with neat bows and crossbows, and they practice every day, as if they are about to go into battle at any time. And the Ansai battalion has its own law, that is, in the sailing, the rules of standing guard and guarding are still the same as usual, if this is all successful, it is really a joke.

It's just that the sergeants came all the way by boat from Ansai, and most of them were trapped in the cabin every day, because of the constraints of military discipline, it was rare to go ashore and relax, and they were already idle to the bone. If it is just to repel the enemy, it is very simple, a random arrow shoots it into the water, the Yellow River is turbulent, there are many whirlpools, and there is no trace in a few breaths, but how can this reveal the means of the Ansai camp, not to be laughed at!

Now, if there is a policeman, the sentry patrol is silent, only in the dark to contact the companion with gestures, until the other party climbs the side of the ship, only to raise fire in all directions, illuminating the boat and the boat as day, more than a dozen big men appear together, all with sharp blades, at the same time the accomplices on the boat also suddenly found that their own has been pointed at the head by more than a dozen hard crossbows! At this time, the sneak attackers were all stunned, and then looked around, only to abandon the knife and kneel down to beg for mercy, everyone watched them tremble and tremble, embarrassed, all of them were elated, and laughed.

The captured bandits had their own special personnel to detain and interrogate, most of them were small groups of habitual bandits along the way, and they didn't have much oil and water, and the Ansai camp didn't bother to pay attention to them, and most of them followed Wu Wei's instructions and let them eat a full meal and let them go. This kind of scattered bandits, low combat power, poor and destitute, using the elite who once defeated the "two kings" of the giant to deal with them is too high-spirited, just the so-called killing chickens with a knife, it does not play any role in training, and it has not to delay the trip of the brigade!

There are also a few bandits, after being captured, they really ate two full meals, compared to the previous life is precarious, it is like heaven, and see that the master here (that is, Wu Wei) is kind-hearted, crying and shouting and unwilling to leave, and begging to take in, Wu Wei ordered Zhao Wenzhuo to deal with it together, depending on the situation, to absorb the peripheral personnel of the intelligence department, as a hidden pile buried in Henan, the left and right "Rishengchang" will always be opened to Henan in the future, and it is good to make it a news.

As the ship approached Kaifeng, it was seen that the population was gradually dense, and the number of displaced people was becoming fewer and fewer, which showed that the disaster here was lighter than in other places. Kaifeng is the fief of the king of Zhou of Taizu's domain, and the king of Zhou at this time is named Zhu Gongfang, who is the eleventh king of Zhou. This person was one of the few open-minded and courageous clans in the late Ming Dynasty. When Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng, he dared to be stubborn, personally went to the city with a knife to meet the enemy, and took out the money of the palace to reward the army, and explicitly ordered to kill a thief and reward fifty taels of gold!

In stark contrast, he is in Henan with the King of Zhou, the closest to the royal family, the widest fief, and the most money, which can be described as the rich king of the world. When Li Zicheng besieged Luoyang and his family was trapped in a lonely city, he was still hard to give up his wealth and refused to send a single grain of labor. The defenders of Luoyang were hungry and cold, indignant, and shouted: "The palace has millions of money, and it is full of meat, and my generation is a thief?" "They all defected in front of the battle, and attacked the palace with the thieves.

The result of loving money is that King Fu Ruoda's family property is cheaper than others, and his own family is inevitably eaten by a knife, and the legend has it that it was stewed into human broth and eaten by everyone!

The people's livelihood in Kaifeng is much stronger than that of Luoyang, and it is obvious that the king of Zhou is the same as recorded in the history books, he is a smart man, and he knows the truth that things must be opposed, and the exploitation of the small people is also relatively light, so that this place still retains a bit of vitality! (To be continued......)

PS: Thursday's update.