Why is the government unwilling to make a desperate effort to clean it up?

Naturally, because of the interests involved, someone must have benefited from it, and there is no suspicion of collusion between officials and bandits!

Jin Chengyu listened and asked the shopkeeper,

"That'...... The shopkeeper knows who in this village is the eyeliner of the mountain bandits? ”

The shopkeeper said with a bitter face,

"Guest officer, we are good citizens, we don't dare to provoke those mountain bandits, how dare we inquire about these, aren't we afraid that they will lead people to raid their homes in the middle of the night!"

Jin Chengyu nodded when he heard this,

"That'...... And when did they come to the door to get the money? ”

The answer of the shopkeeper,

"I'm going to pick it up tomorrow, but it's hard to walk on the snowy road, and I don't know if it will be delayed!"

Jin Chengyu pondered for a moment and said,

"Shopkeeper, it's been snowing heavily these days and it's inconvenient to walk, so we'll live here with you, and I'll pay you double the store money every day!"

The shopkeeper listened with a thousand thanks,

"Thank you, officer! Thank you, guest! ”

At the moment, they were busy arranging rooms for everyone, these people were also tired, and even their clothes had to be taken off and fell asleep, only Wei Wu could still beat his spirits, and he played hot water to serve Wang Dahu's hot feet, and the master and apprentice lived in a room, Wang Dahu burned his feet while asking Wei Wu,

"What does Xiao Wu think of what the shopkeeper said today?"

Wei Wu thought for a moment and responded,

"Qingzhou is the boundary of Shandong, this place is fierce, mountain bandits are rampant, but the township militia is also very brave, no matter how wasteful the guards are, they will not have the slightest way to take these mountain bandits, I think there must be something strange in this!"

To exterminate this group of mountain bandits, no matter how poor the guards are, there are still militias that can cooperate with each other, how can they not take it, it must be because the Qingzhou government is not effective in suppressing bandits!

Wang Dahu nodded,

"Let you come out to experience is to let you see and think more, but old man, I think this matter is not so simple, but I am afraid that there are strange things in the middle!"

It is said that Jin Yiwei is doing things outside, and he easily does not interfere in local affairs, and Jin Chengyu thinks that he will want to meddle in this matter when he feels that there is something strange in the middle!

The master and apprentice burned their feet, lay on the bed and talked for a while, and then fell asleep with their heads covered.

On the second day, the weather was still gloomy, and the snowflakes with goose feathers in the sky were falling, covering the ground thick above the knees, and the road to Qingzhou had long been blocked, so the group stayed here.

This stay was two days, a few people while raising their spirits, while walking around the village, by the way to inquire about the mountain bandits, sure enough, as the shopkeeper said, the mountain bandits did not come and go without a trace, but there were officials and soldiers dispatched, immediately all disappeared, no trace can be found, and when the officers and soldiers left, they immediately appeared again.

Over time, the government will be less in charge, but they only harass the merchants, and do not rob the people, but there are those who hate the rich and call them thieves, as a good thing to kill the rich and help the poor!

Wei Wu sneered when he heard this,

"Killing the rich and helping the poor, these people are also unclear-minded, but there are people who kill the rich, where is this help to the poor? Have you ever heard of someone benefiting from this? ”

Wang Dahu Dao,

"The people are ignorant, and they spread falsehoods, and rumors are not scrutinized!"

In his opinion, most of the people behind him pushed their hands to pull a piece of cloth for this gang of mountain bandits to cover up their shame!

On the third day, when the weather cleared, the cashier came, and it was noon, and everyone sat in the lobby of the inn and gathered around a table to eat.

The curtain in the lobby was lifted, and a person could be seen coming in, dressed like an ordinary merchant, with an ordinary appearance and a fierce air between his eyebrows, who came in and looked at a table of people in the hall, and went straight to find the shopkeeper.

When the shopkeeper saw him, he nodded and bowed,

"You're here!"

The man asked,

"Shopkeeper, how good is business these days?"

The shopkeeper's wry smile,

"The snowy weather is the solar term again, and there are very few guest officers who go out!"

The man snorted,

"Hugh of the shopkeeper is going to call him poor, aren't you sitting in this hall?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, and no longer argued with him, but bowed his head and went to the cabinet to get the silver.

"A total of two hundred and fifty dollars, please order!"

The man only touched his hand and frowned,

"How's that?"

The answer of the shopkeeper,

"That's all I have to ...... these days"

The man's eyes narrowed when he heard this,

"Liu Lao'er, I'm afraid you don't want to open this store!"

The bitter way of the shopkeeper,

"Don't bother with it, I'm preparing to close the store after the New Year!"

When the man heard this, he became angry, and slapped it on the counter.

"Bang ......"

"Old man Liu, you don't want the silver, do you want your life?"

The shopkeeper's old face wrinkled, and he said bitterly,

"Little Lao'er has a cheap life, if it can be worth a few silver, just take it, just don't harm the family!"

The shopkeeper's posture of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water made the man lose his discipline for a while, and at the moment he had a gloomy face, took the money bag and checked it in his hand, and said fiercely,

"I spared you this time, and I will not spare you next time!"

After saying that, he turned around and left, Jin Chengyu glanced at the side, and immediately someone followed out.

When it got dark, Wang Dahu came into the house and called Wei Wu,

"Xiao Wu, follow over and take a look!"

Wang Dahu led Wei Wu out of the inn, and then walked outside the village, walked for about a mile, and saw Jin Chengyu and others who were already here in an abandoned farmhouse.

When Jin Chengyu saw him come in, he beckoned,

"Xiao Wu, come and see the methods of my brothers!"

Wei Wu went in to take a look, only to see that the man had been taken down, at this time he was hanging on the beam with his hands tied on the back, and a rag was blocked on his mouth, this man was obviously running around the rivers and lakes, and he knew this set very well, and he saw that everyone was watching around him, but he was not panicked, and there was a fierce color in his eyes.

Kim Sung-yu commanded,

"Let this kid talk!"

Someone next to him took the cloth from his mouth, the rag was found at random in this abandoned farmhouse, and I don't know what he had done before, the man relaxed his mouth and spat a few mouthfuls of spit,

"Bah, Bah, Bah......"

Shaking his head, his eyes swept over the faces of several people one by one, and said in a deep voice,

"A few brothers are the people along the way, dare to do business on the boundary of Qingzhou, and they don't inquire about whose territory this is!"

Jin Chengyu laughed when he heard this, and asked,

"Our brother really doesn't know whose territory this is when he first arrives, tell me, let's listen!"

The man sneered and said,

"Lin Jiuye, have you heard of Lin Tianbiao's name?"

A few people laughed when they heard this, pretending to look at each other,

"Have you heard of it?"

"No?"

"Have you heard of it?"

"No, no!"

A few people shook their heads like rattles, and the man saw that a few people were clearly playing with him, obviously Lin Tianbiao's name was not in his eyes, and when he saw this, he was also very single, and said in a deep voice,

"Brothers, don't make a show, how do you draw the next line!"

Jin Chengyu said with a smile,

"Good! It's a refreshing man......"

After a pause,

"That is the case, I will report the origin of your family Lin Jiuye, and then tell me how you collected the peace silver in the nearby villages and towns, where did you hand it over, and who is it above?"

The man was stunned when he heard this, he only thought that these people were looking at the money and robbing the road halfway, but he didn't expect to see this situation to come to explore the old bottom, and sneered at the moment,

"A few brothers can't help but ask too much! The origin of our Lin Jiuye is not something that anyone can inquire about! ”

After thinking about it,

"Everyone goes out but asks for money, brothers, I am willing to redeem myself, give the silver something, a few brothers make a price, take the silver and leave, don't ask anything, ask more...... Beware of your life! ”

Jin Chengyu laughed, reached out and patted him on the face,

"Boy, at this time, you still dare to threaten, I don't think you have tried our brother's methods......"

As he spoke, he waved back,

"Let's get a brother to open his eyes!"

Someone came over, took a long whip from his waist, shook it twice in his hand, smiled at the man, stepped forward and cut the man's clothes with a knife, and the crowd dispersed to see that he whipped the man.

This man is a tough man, he was whipped, and he scolded loudly, Jin Chengyu commanded,

"Wake him up again!"

This compartment was dragged outside into the ice and snow, and a bucket of ice water was poured on it, and the person was immediately frozen, and about a pillar of incense was frozen outside, and then the person was dragged in.

There was already a fire in the hearth of the stove, and the snow was burned in a broken clay pot, and the water was boiling and gushing there, and someone pressed the man's frozen red hand into the boiling water.

"Ah......h

The man could still grit his teeth hard when he was whipped in front of him, and now it was cold and hot, and the hand was unconscious at first, and then the whole hand was as painful as ten thousand ants drilling into the heart, and he saw that the skin on the back of his hand had turned red, and he immediately shouted,

"I ...... I...... I said it, you...... What will you ask...... Convenient...... Just ask! ”

Jin Chengyu sneered,

"I should be such a tough man, but this idea will not work!"

This question still asked something, this man is a little minions with a lower head, and he doesn't know much about it, only that Lin Tianbiao's subordinates have several big minions, and the boundaries near Qingzhou have been divided into several pieces, one for each big minions, and there are countless small minions below, in charge of various places, and then come out every few days to collect cash.

"How do you know the daily income of the merchants everywhere?"

The man answered,

"This ...... I don't know if it's small, but it'...... However, I heard the brothers say in private that the ninth master of our family is a business in partnership with others, and someone has to deliver the news......"

Jin Chengyu thought about it and asked,

"How do you distribute and use the money you collect?"

"Collect it every five days, pay it back every half a month, we take 20%, 80% to hand it over, the people above us draw 10%, and the rest is all to the ninth master, every ...... At the end of each month, someone comes to share the accounts with our ninth master......"

"Who is it?"

"This ...... I don't know about this either......"