Hou Dagou sent scalpers to the meaning that he hoped to take Rong County as the boundary with Ding Yi, and asked the first division of the Ming Dynasty not to cross Rong County, Wuzhou Fucheng, Pingle Fucheng, and Guilin Fucheng. That is, from Lingui County in the north to Pingle County in the northeast, and then to Cangwu County in the east to Rong County in the south.

Why would the other party propose such a division to Ding? Because Hou Dagou did not have a very strict scale map, he thought that the part west of this line was under his control, but he didn't want to conflict with Ding Yi, so he divided Guangxi into three prefectures to Ding Yi, which was also regarded as giving Ding Yi face: "Brother Da Gou said that we will not cross this line if we wait for the righteous army." ”

Ding Yi smiled, and then filled the scalper with wine, but asked him, "What do you think of the cow?" ”

When he asked like this, the scalper did not prepare such an answer, he was a simple person, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, but he muttered: "Niu'er doesn't know, it's just that my brother should be careful, Da Goutun has soldiers, if my brother doesn't agree, he will come to Wuzhou to fight my brother, and then a large area outside the city, I'm afraid that it will all be burned out." ”

Hearing what the scalper said, Ding Yi asked him again: "Niu'er, I asked you to send a message to Brother Hou last time, I don't know if there will be a reply?" "The word is to ask Hou Dagou, that is, to lay down the country, how is Hou Dagou going to govern, and what kind of way is he going to manage his own territory? Because Ding Yizhen is unwilling to fight a civil war, if Hou Dagou's idea is not too excessive, then everyone can sit down and talk and have a consultation meeting to compromise, which is much better than fighting a war by his own people.

"Brother Da Gou said that the government is not good anyway, and we don't want the government to manage it. Be the emperor yourself, eat meat and drink wine in large bowls......" The more the scalper spoke, the quieter his voice became, all the way. He clearly saw the changes in the countryside under Ding Yi's control, which made Hou Dagou's words that sounded very reasonable and relieved when he was in Datengxia gradually became unreliable," ...... Brother Da Gou said that anyway, the official army is not enough for us to fight, and the government uses many reasons to harm people. We don't want those things......"

In fact, in the year of Chenghua, the rebels were still robbing. It didn't say that it would run a base or anything like that. Later, after the rebels were suppressed, they rebelled again, and the way for the court to accommodate the rebels was for merchant ships to pass through Datengxia and pay some money and food to the rebels. If the merchant ship does not pay. The rebels were directly smashed and sunk, which was simply the behavior of car bandits and road ragepers.

Ding Yi didn't say anything more, just asked the scalpers to eat and drink, and then called Du Ziteng over and asked him to take the scalpers to the Fucheng casually, including the dozen or so scalpers who were waiting outside the city, and also took them into the Fucheng, where the two field regiments were stationed in Wuzhou Fucheng. Even if it is a border army, it will not be able to cause any trouble by these dozen people.

After dusk, Ding Yi invited the scalper and the dozen or so subordinates to his house. Walking into the courtyard, someone under the scalper muttered: "Jing Xibo lives in Ganxiang's house?" Wait a minute, Liu Yiyi and Tianda of the cloth skirt and wood hairpin can get out, after Ding Yi introduced, the scalper bowed down and said, "Niu Er has seen two sisters-in-law!" A few of the men stood there stunned, in disbelief.

As soon as Ding Ding talked to the scalpers after eating, those subordinates couldn't help but ask: "Brother, the emperor treats his brother too thinly!" What does this mean? It's better to wait with me and go to Datengxia to join the eldest brother! Brother Hou will never treat his brother badly! ”

Others also said yes, and some people even said that Liu Yiyi looked like a ghost, if Ding Yi went to Datengxia, his brothers would help him rob women, as long as Ding Yi fancied the women of which family, how could the brothers rob people! The scalper was so ashamed that he couldn't do it, his face was really red and purple, and he couldn't wait for an orderly crack to get in.

"What is the rebellion for?" Ding Yi held down the scalper, but said to his subordinates, "It's to make the people's lives better." Before your sister-in-law married me, there was no shortage of Qiluo Jinyu, and she had a lot of shops in her house, but after passing the door, she set up a factory, built a medical center, and built a academy for me, and spent all the money, so I was sorry for her. I want to talk to everyone, how are the people of Wuzhou doing, or are the people of your brother Hou doing well? If the people on Brother Hou's side are doing better, I'll send some people to learn from Brother Hou......"

The scalper suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Brother, the cow is not leaving!" How can the people over there have a good life here? Brother Hou's brother himself is doing better than before, how the people lived before, and now they are living like that, what hope is there? The cow is in Huaiji, so it shouldn't go! ”

Helping this honest man up, Ding Yi didn't say anything, just taught them to stay for a few more days, and then talk about it after going around more.

In the early morning of the next day, Du Ziteng and Xing Dahe came to look for the scalper, and the scalper followed Du Ziteng, and the others also followed Xing Dahe and the others separately. Du Xing and the others led them, as usual, to deal with all the affairs of Wuzhou and the factory. When he came back that night, the scalper's men couldn't stop complaining: "It's so unhappy! Brother Niu, are you crazy? Do you want to stay here and suffer? The elder brother of the Ding family is a big man, but these days are so boring! Tired to death again! ”

Three days later, the scalper finally did not stay, but the dozen or so people under his command no longer complained. Because in the past three days, they have seen the lives of many poor people, and under the rule of Ding Yi, they have become much better than before - they have three meals of white porridge to eat every day, which is naturally not a rich day, but the rebels are basically from poor people, and they know very well what kind of life the poor lived before.

In the past few days, they have also seen the people complain, the yamen is different from the past, at least they don't collect money, the county magistrate sits in the court, does not teach people to kneel and reply, does not beat people casually, says how to deal with the law, and asks the people called the jury on the side, and teaches them to vote......

"Guangxi is in the hands of the Ding family's elder brother, which is more realistic than in the hands of Brother Hou." This is not the words of the scalper, but his subordinates, after leaving Wuzhou, in the silent hurry, someone came out of a sentence, and this seems to arouse everyone's chat, and some people pick up, "I don't know if Lu Dao is specially acting for me to see...... "Look at your mother!" Sued the bitter master, I knew him before, I used to pee in the middle, and went to the Yi house to see, that was really the cow sentenced to him, asked him, he said that Wuzhou is now so decided! "Brother Ding is really a good man with ability! ”

The scalper frowned and shook his head, interrupting the words of these subordinates: "Okay, after you go back, remember not to say good things about the Ding family's brother, the dozens of old brothers who came back with me in Huaiji before just like to say good things about the Ding family's brother everywhere, except for the dozen or so people who followed me, the other thirty or so people are now gone, Brother Da Gou said that they were promoted to be the leader and sent to other places, I think, I'm afraid it's not." "He is just honest, not mentally retarded, otherwise he would not have been able to get this position in the rebel army.

When those subordinates heard this, they fell silent again, and when they walked to the riverside and stopped drinking, one of them said: "Brother Niu, otherwise, let's not go back, even if it is on the side of the Ding family's brother, get two acres of land to plant, I think it's good...... The people of Fucheng can eat enough...... I see that the construction site is paying wages, and a big bag of rice is carried back, and it is not a problem to feed the mother-in-law and children......"

"You know an egg!" But someone disagreed with his statement, and lowered his voice, as if there were Hou Dagou's spies around, "If you want to vote for Brother Ding, we have to pull out a vote, or really vote for farming?" Someone on the side said, "Didn't you listen to Brother Niu?" Those who say good things about the Ding family's brother are all gone! The rebel who proposed to pull the horses, "hehe" smiled, "Don't say it in the open, how to toss in secret, who cares?" Brother Niu, you said this is the reason, right? ”

The scalper didn't turn his face, nor did he say anything, just looked at the river silently, and after a long time, he nodded and said: "I want to vote for the Ding family's brother, but my brother said that most of our rebels have a conscience, let me bring you back, see what the brothers mean, according to me, just quietly tell my brother about the Wuzhou Mansion we saw, in short, don't the old brother of the Quading family, Brother Da Gou doesn't like to hear this tune, understand?" ”

These people are not fools, listening to the scalper's words, they all nodded fiercely, and someone asked: "If you vote for the Ding family's brother, I wonder if Lu Dao can mix that clothes to wear?" Looking majestic, it looks much better than the red jacket of the Ming army! What he said was Xing Dahe's military uniform, the style of modern military uniforms.

"We are not Lai Han who has no ability, others can mix that clothes, let's throw it over, with this ability, why can't we mix?" The scalper was a little angry when he heard this, he was still very confident in himself and the bravery of his subordinates, "Brother Ding, you have also seen it, that is a person who understands, can he treat you badly?" Others said yes.

But no one thought about it, or they deliberately didn't think about it, that they had already put themselves on the opposite side of Hou Dagou.

At this time, in the city of Wuzhou Mansion, Ding Yi summoned Du Ziteng, Xing Dahe, Ding Junyue, and they were gathered in front of the map, it seemed that Ding Yi was much more energetic than two months ago, his face was full of vitality, and his gestures were cool, he pointed to a point on the map, and said to others: "This battle must be fought, and it cannot be avoided." Instead of being under the city by Hou Dagou's soldiers, why don't we teach him a lesson first. ”

Killing people is something that Ding Yi is good at and familiar with, and he can let go of what he is familiar with and good at, and he is usually not too unhappy. (To be continued......)