In the main hall of the Yamen, Zhang Jin, who had been promoted to a thousand households in brocade clothes, waited for a long time.

In two months, Zhang Jin took five hundred brocade clothes and Wei Ti to exterminate bandits everywhere in Beizhili, and because he picked a soft sieve, he won consecutive battles.

More than 30 groups of small and medium-sized bandits were exterminated before and after, and even if many of the bandits escaped when they were defeated, they still captured and killed more than 1,000 people, which made the Beijing division feel inspired.

Especially in the past, there were three major battalions with this humiliating fiasco as a comparison, and it was enough to make the Manchu Dynasty civil and military impressed, and Chongzhen Longyan was overjoyed, and Zhang was promoted to Ren Qianhu naturally without surprise.

Zhang Jin hesitated and said, "My lord, why should the suppression of bandits be stopped?" ”

Luo Chen glanced up at the other party and said, "This errand was originally for your promotion to make a difference, do you really want to be a bandit commander all the time?" ”

Zhang Jin lowered his head and smiled: "I don't care what I do, I just want the lord to tell me to let the lowly guard the gate of the yamen, and the lowly will never complain." ”

Luo Chen was very satisfied that the other party had not yet gotten carried away.

"The reason why you want to stop continuing to suppress the bandits is because you don't want to push them too quickly, if you finally let them unite because we pushed them too hard, we Jinyiwei may not be able to eat this little bit of strength now."

When Zhang Jin heard this, he nodded and said, "I understand my humble position." ”

Luo Chen said: "The matter of suppressing bandits is just for you to let go, not really to stop, you will hand over this matter to Meng Fan and Guan Tianhao later." Don't forget what I told you before, that's more important.

How many orphans have you found? ”

Zhang Jin naturally didn't dare to forget about this, even if he had been outside to suppress bandits, he continued to pay attention, and he told him truthfully: "If you go back to your lordship, you have found more than 1,000 people in the past two months, plus those people before, there are about 1,600 people." ”

Luo Chen nodded: "Find another 1,500 people to stop." Let them teach them to read, and then teach them the sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits when the time comes...... By the way, you've finished reading the evil sword spectrum, I'm curious if you can hold back or not practice? ”

He remembered that there was a description of the secret book of the sword book to ward off evil spirits, as long as it was a person who practiced martial arts, he wanted to see the second glance at the first glance, and finally his mind was obsessed and he couldn't extricate himself, as if there was a strange magic enough to make people give up the dignity of a man.

When Zhang Jin heard this, his face suddenly froze, and he didn't dare to raise his head to look directly at Luo Chen.

"Back... Back to my lordship, humble... Humble duty... The swordsmanship has been revised. ”

"Huh?"

Luo Chen was stunned, and then his eyes were subtle, and he didn't know what to say.

Zhang Jin covered it up very well, and he didn't even find out in the slightest.

He was thinking, shouldn't he have given the evil sword spectrum to Zhang Jin before?

If Zhang Ying knew about this, would she curse herself secretly?

"Ahem!" Luo Chen pretended that he didn't understand Zhang Jin's words, and continued with the previous question: "After these orphans cultivate the evil sword spectrum, they may be a peerless blade, but they must be controlled in their hands, otherwise they will hurt themselves before they hurt others.

I remember that the Jinyi Guard also had a special way to train the dead? ”

Zhang Jin forcibly covered up his unnaturalness and said, "Lord Hui, there is indeed this method, and the Beisi has indeed trained dead soldiers who are specially used for assassination in some periods. However, the training of this kind of dead soldier requires the combination of drugs to control the minds of the trainees, and the process is very costly, and the death and injury rate is extremely high! ”

What Zhang Jin didn't say was that after this kind of dead soldier was trained, he would generally only use it once, and he would only use it once in his life.

And to achieve this purpose, it is hard to imagine what kind of perverted brainwashing has been done.

"That's how to train them!"

Luo Chen's face was flat, and he looked at Zhang Jin: "No matter how much it costs, don't have scruples, you just have to take it from me." ”

First of all, more than 3,000 people underwent special training, which cost a lot.

Each of the more than 3,000 people cultivated the Sword Spectrum to ward off evil spirits, which required a lot of medicine and resources, which was unimaginably terrifying. Even if someone keeps dying in the whole process, it will still be astronomical in the end.

Even during the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury was dragged down.

If it weren't for Luo Chen getting the Jianwen treasure, he wouldn't dare to play like this.

"As for the casualty rate...... I'll give you a bottom line, as long as there are 300 people left in the end, no matter what means you use in the process, whatever you want! ”

Zhang Jin felt an inexplicable chill in his heart, and he also understood how determined Luo Chen was. If this matter is messed up, I am afraid that he will no longer be worthless in Luo Chen's eyes.

"Humble duty will never fail the trust of adults!"

Luo Chen nodded lightly and said, "Go down and hand over the errand of suppressing bandits to Meng Fan and them, and then concentrate on that matter." ”

"Obedience!"

Zhang Jin bowed and bowed and walked out of the main hall.

Luo Chen watched Zhang Jin's back disappear, remembered the matter of the evil sword spectrum, and glanced at Zhang Ying, who had been standing at the door of the main hall, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

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Although Zhang Jin took the brocade-clothed Wei Ti to ride the prestige of Beizhen Fusi once, it did not play much role in the current Beisi.

According to the news sent by Cao Huachun, Chongzhen did intend to restore some of Jinyiwei's power again. At least for now, Jin Yiwei seems to be more reliable than those rice buckets who only eat empty salaries and reach out for money.

But this is not something that Chongzhen can decide alone, the civil official group in the DPRK is the biggest obstacle, and they still don't want to loosen the shackles of Jinyiwei.

They would rather continue to waste silver to rebuild the three major battalions, and even proposed to let the imperial court pay more food and salary, and let the general soldiers from all over the country send more heavy troops to escort Caoyin grain, rather than let go of the slightest bit on the issue of Jinyiwei.

The shadow that Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs gave them was too serious.

If Luo Chen left aside the emperor and the civil official group and secretly grew up on his own, it would be unjustifiable, and it would be impossible to exercise the privileges of Jinyiwei.

There is no way to earn a lot of experience points by relying on Jinyiwei's Jin identity position.

Of course, Luo Chen is not a person who can be passively patient.

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Soon after, the entire Northern Zhili was once again shaken by bandits.

But this time it was not the emperor who had a headache, but the honorable relatives, wealthy businessmen, and bureaucrats.

Because of the incompetence of the three major battalions, and because they didn't want to let the expansion and recovery of the Jinyi Guard, which had the strongest attack on the bandits, but was limited to the scale and limited role, the imperial court could only order the general troops from all over the country to escort Caoyin, and send more troops and horses.

The effect is also obvious, although it is a waste of troops and food, but at least no blind bandit and giant thief dares to move his mind again.

However, in a short period of time, the number of looting cases against relatives, wealthy businessmen, and bureaucrats increased dramatically, and they often killed people. It seems that all the bandits have opened their mouths to these rich 'nobles' for a while.

One of the most famous is a gang of bandits called 'Wolves in the Mountains', which has only recently emerged, and the leader of this gang calls himself Xiao Shiyi.

No one has ever seen his true face, because he has always worn a mask, but those who have come into contact with him know that his Shaolin martial arts are extremely high, and he is invincible under the ring-breaking knife.

Not to mention the powerful and mysterious leader of this gang of bandits, the expansion speed of his subordinates is also amazingly fast, and the composition can be said to be bizarre.

Under the leadership of Meng Fan, the new Baihu of the Fusi of Beizhen, Jinyiwei once again killed the big and small bandits in Beizhili, and those bandits who escaped by luck always met Xiao Shiyi's rescue every time, and then were taken into account.

It seems that Xiao Shiyi deliberately followed the butt of the bandit Jinyiwei to pick up the leak, but the Jinyiwei seemed to ignore it and ignored it.

Therefore, in just one month, the scale of this bandit, known as the 'wolf in the mountains', has reached 500 people, and they have taken the lead in robbing the caravans and grain farms under the hands of rich merchants, nobles, and bureaucrats, robbing people, grain, and money, and are rampant.

Seeing that this newly emerged 'wolf in the mountains' was so bold that he was full of oil, the other bandit forces were naturally unwilling, and they followed suit and singled out these rich businessmen, relatives, landlords, and bureaucrats who really had money and food, but also had power.

Since the fiasco of the three major battalions, the last trace of reverence for the court of the Green Forest bandits has completely disappeared, and they didn't dare to do it before, but now they really don't pay attention to it.

Some of the bold ones went into the gentry's house to kill people and rob food and silver, and some of the cowardly only dared to dig up the ancestral graves of those people, hoping to dig up some good things.

In this way, it is naturally the civilian clique of the DPRK and China that is in a hurry.

Among these targets that were looted on a large scale, excluding the honorable relatives, the representatives of the landlords and wealthy merchants were not the civilian-bureaucratic groups. What's more, in these years, which bureaucrat has no other business to make money than land?

Whether the bandits would really vote for Li Chuang and threaten Jingshi before, they may not have cared. But when it comes to their own interests, they can't bear it.

However, the bandits lost their awe of the imperial court at this time, and naturally they would not be afraid of these people. As a result, I found that the civilian small traders who had robbed them before were simply refugees begging for food compared to these people.

In fact, the richest group in this year, in addition to the landlords and wealthy merchants in the south, is also the richest in the 'big masters' in Beijing.

At the time of the death of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng plundered more than 70 million taels of silver from Beijing, all of which were for the purpose of torturing wealthy merchants, relatives, bureaucrats, and eunuchs.

Ironically, in the last years of Chongzhen, the treasury and the inner treasury were empty and could run rats. Chongzhen didn't have any money, he saved and reduced his own food, ate less, wore poorly, and even sold the "gold and silver of wine and utensils" in the palace as military salaries.

According to Li Qing's "Sanyuan Notes", even the ginseng and other items stored in the palace were sold outside the palace to subsidize the state, how desolate.

Before the death of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen could not even pay the salaries of the soldiers who defended the city of Beijing. had to be cheeky again, disregarding even the dignity of the emperor, and asking for donations from his ministers, those nobles, and eunuchs.

As a result, only a few eunuchs each donated 50,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the bureaucrats were like iron roosters. Then Li Chuangyi came and scraped away 70 million taels of silver. I didn't expect that Jiannu would come later, and he would be able to scrape another layer.

Usually one can pretend to be poorer than the other, but the real oil and water is amazingly much.

When the bandit found this, he was like a wolf with a green glow in his eyes.

Today, these ministers, royal relatives and nobles who are in power in the imperial court, as long as they have family property and industry in Beizhili, they are all suffering.

At this time, their determination to exterminate the bandits was definitely greater than anyone else, and they remembered that the Jinyi Guards in the Jingshi who could really kill the bandits, could no longer care about being afraid, except for continuing to limit judicial power, asking for power to give power, and to give food.

More than anyone else, they urgently urged the Beizhen Fusi to expand their recruitment, and then hurried to kill all the bandits who robbed them of their money, their food, and their women!

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