Mingyue Mountain, Daming 5A-level Scenic Area, Daming National Scenic Area, Daming National Forest Park, Daming National Geopark, Daming National Natural Heritage, Daming National Tourist Resort, Daming Hot Spring Township.

In such a holy place, how can there be no trace of literati and inkmen.

Han Yu, Zheng Gu, Lu Xisheng, Zhang Shangying, Xin Qiji, Fan Chengda, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi, Xu Xiake, Yan Song and many other celebrities have left their footprints in Mingyue Mountain.

Han Yu even left a good sentence of "Don't take the spring far away, the country is more victorious".

The Dali scholar Zhu Xi left a poem in Mingyue Mountain, "I should go to the spring field, and look around Duoqi Mountain".

The average altitude of Mingyue Mountain is more than 1,000 meters, and the elevation of the main peak, Taiping Mountain, is as high as more than 1,700 meters.

Mo Qian led the four of them to climb all the way up the mountain road.

The reason why he hid on Mingyue Mountain, Mo Qian's main consideration was that Mingyue Mountain was accessible in all directions, and after reaching the mountain, it would be difficult for the officers and soldiers to pursue it.

Mingyue Mountain belongs to the Wugong Mountain Range, to the southwest to the Wugong Mountain, and there is only one road up the mountain, narrow and steep, even if there are many officers and soldiers, they can only climb up one by one, and the two of them can't climb side by side.

Mo Qian took a fancy to the unique terrain of Mingyue Mountain and concluded that the officers and soldiers would not go up the mountain to hunt them down.

Even if the officers and soldiers went up the mountain to pursue them, the five of them could completely drill into the mountains, so that the officers and soldiers could not even find a figure at all.

As for why he didn't go with Zhang San and them, Mo Qian had already thought about it in advance.

Zhang San's group of bandits were too heavy, he originally wanted to rely on them first to increase his strength, but after seeing Zhang San's atrocities last night, Mo Qian knew that staying with such a group of bandits would not only not help his rebellion, but would cause endless disasters.

The two groups of people divided their homes in the banquet mansion on the spot, and Mo Qian only needed twenty taels of gold and five hundred taels of silver for the three boxes of gold and silver, and the rest were all given to Zhang San.

Zhang San got food and gold and silver treasures, and he didn't keep Mo Qian and others much.

He chose to return to Wuyun Mountain with sixteen of his subordinates, preparing to recruit troops and expand his strength.

Robbing the landlord Yan Zhenchuan made Zhang San taste the sweetness, and he can't wait to find the next landlord now.

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Liu Shizhong led less than 300 soldiers and horses all the way, and after marching for two hours, the officers and soldiers finally arrived at Wentang Town, the place where the incident occurred.

When the officers and soldiers came to the Yanjia mansion, they saw that it was a mess inside, and the yard was sprinkled with rice and sundries.

Yan Wencai was full of revenge and returned home with the army.

When Yan Wencai saw his grandmother, mother and his two younger sisters who had hanged themselves at home, they were all directly frightened and fainted.

Fortunately, Liu Shizhong called someone to pinch him in time, which woke him up.

When he woke up, Yan Wencai cried first thing.

"Dad, mother, grandma, the baby is late!"

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Yan Zhenchuan's bones were finally found from the fire, and although they had been burned to ashes, the remnants of the bones were still found by the officers and soldiers.

Although Yan Zhenchuan's head was calcined by fire, the skull was well preserved.

Liu Shizhong left 20 officers and soldiers for Yan Wencai to collect the corpses at home, and he himself took the remaining officers and soldiers to search for traces of anti-thieves in the whole town.

Soon the whole town was driven out of their homes and gathered on the threshing floor in the town.

Liu Shizhong stood on the commanding heights of the threshing floor and said in a loud voice: "Last night, a group of thieves ransacked the mansion of the old man and mutilated the whole family of the old man. ”

After listening to Liu Shizhong's words, none of the people dared to squeak.

But the hearts of the people were muttering, and they said in their hearts: "It's only five buckets of rice, and there is not much food given by the thieves, this government is really stingy!" ”

The time of the half-pillar incense has passed, and still not a single person has stood up to speak.

Liu Shizhong suddenly felt a little anxious in his heart.

He called a general manager and asked, "Why hasn't anyone in the people stood up to answer the official's question?" ”

Mr. Qian replied: "My lord, I don't know! ”

Liu Shizhong said angrily: "What a bunch of waste, what are you doing with this official?" ”

Liu Shizhong kicked away Mr. Qian, and came to the people's homes alone, he randomly searched five households, and found the same problem.

That is, every household has several stones of rice in their homes, and some even have more than a dozen stones.

This is not normal!

Liu Shizhong immediately discovered the problem, because it was already early September, and it would take another four or five days for the rice in the field to be harvested, but now the people's homes have so much rice, which is obviously unreasonable.

Thinking of the ransacked granary of the Yan family, Liu Shizhong immediately realized that the granary of Yanfu had been robbed by this group of chaotic people.

He returned to the threshing floor angrily, pulled out the saber at his waist, and asked, "Who owns those houses in the village?" ”

When several villagers saw the direction Liu Shizhong was pointing, they couldn't help but start whispering.

After Liu Shizhong read it again, no one stood up to admit it, and he asked again: "Who owns those houses in the village?" ”

"It's my family!"

The three villagers walked out tremblingly.

The three are the owners of the three houses at the head of the village.

Liu Shizhong looked at the three ragged people in front of him, and couldn't help but feel disgusted in his heart.

He said to the three people: "The officer asks you, where did the rice in your house come from?" Where did the bandits go? ”

The three of them were taken aback when they heard this, one by one, you look at me, I look at you, and they didn't dare to answer Liu Shizhong's words.

As soon as Liu Shizhong looked at the expressions of the three of them, he knew that his conjecture was correct.

"Don't say? Then don't blame the official for being unkind! ”

As he spoke, Liu Shizhong raised the saber in his hand, and slashed at the person in front of him, and the person was directly killed by a knife.

"Ah~~~ Daddy, daddy!"

When a woman in the village team saw that her husband was dead, she immediately cried and ran out of the crowd sadly.

She was followed by a pair of children who could walk.

The child didn't seem to realize that his father had died tragically, but just saw his mother crying, so he couldn't help but cry along.

He shouted, "Daddy, Daddy! ”

When the officers came up, they killed people, and at this moment they stopped the people present.

When the other two villagers saw Liu Shizhong so brutal, they were immediately so frightened that they knelt down directly, and immediately confessed all their brains like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

"If you go back to your lordship, the bandits have already gone away."

"In which direction?"

"Northwest!"

"Northwest? How many of them are there? ”

"Less than twenty!"

"Less than twenty? Hmph, let me ask you, where does the rice come from at home? ”

"Back to adults, the rice is distributed to us by the bandits!"

"The bandits gave you? Why do they want to give you bread? Liu Shizhong asked puzzled.

"We don't know, anyway, when we saw the Yan family on fire last night, we heard the sound of shouting and killing in the banquet mansion, and in the morning, the group of thieves knocked on the door one by one and called us all out, saying that we should go to the banquet to distribute food."

"So, you went with your burdens?"

The two villagers couldn't help but bow their heads in embarrassment.

"Hmph, you people dare to join up with thieves to loot good people's homes, and they are guilty of rebellion, come here, take them all to me, and confiscate all the food in your home!"

Liu Shizhong's order caused a lot of commotion.

Food is the lifeblood of the people, and the grain that was finally distributed has to be taken away by the officers and soldiers, who willing?

Not long after, Yan Wencai, who heard the news, also rushed over, and he said to Liu Shizhong: "Uncle, these people have emptied our family's granary with the bandits, and my uncle wants to make the decision for me!" ”

Yan Wencai, as the eldest in the family, took over the class of his father Yan Zhenchuan after failing the imperial examination, and started a rice and grain business in the county.

After four generations of operation, the Yan family has become one of the top rice and grain farmers in Yichun County.

This time, the Yan family was looted, and all the 20,000 stone rice in the granary were looted.

Most of the rice was stolen by the people of the town and the surrounding villages.

Now that the officers and soldiers have come, and the losses at home are so huge, if the grain cannot be recovered, the Yan family will be in ruins.

At this time, Yanwen didn't have time to grieve and cry, even if his father and mother died, if the food was really gone, then the Yan family would be completely finished.

Liu Shizhong glanced at his nephew, but he had another calculation in his heart.

He said to Yan Wencai: "Nephew, don't worry, this matter is on me!" ”

Yan Wencai received Liu Shizhong's affirmative reply, and then went home satisfied and continued to handle the aftermath.

Seeing off Yan Wencai, Liu Shizhong said to the villagers standing on the threshing floor: "From now on, you go home immediately, hand over all the grain stolen from Yanfu's house to me, and give you an hour, an hour later, if anyone does not hand over the grain, the person in front of you will be your fate."

If anyone dares to hide their own food and pay less food, this person will also be your fate! ”

After speaking, Liu Shizhong sent troops to blast all the people away.

He called Chen Ping, the general manager of Qian, and instructed him: "This official will lead a hundred soldiers to pursue the bandits, Chen Qianzong, you are in the town, and when the people hand over the grain, it will be transported to the county seat." ”

"The last general understands, I wish you a victory!" Chen Ping arched his hand.

And he himself ordered a hundred soldiers, rode on the few tall horses, and chased them towards the northwest trail with two thousand generals.

Less than twenty bandits, in Liu Shizhong's opinion, are just a group of chickens and ducklings, and killing them is as simple as drinking water.

And when he was counting the banquet just now, Liu Shizhong did not find Yan Zhenchuan's family wealth.

The Yan family is a rich man, how can there be seven or eight thousand taels of silver at home, but he didn't see a tael of silver.

Obviously, the gold and silver treasures were looted and taken away by the bandits.

When the people returned home, they scolded and said: "What kind of dog official, even the bandits are not as good, the bandits didn't kill us when they came, he killed people when he came up as an official, and forced us to pay food, it's really unreasonable!" ”

"That's it, the dog officer deceives people too much!" Another villager chimed in.

The hearts of the people were full of anger, but they did not dare to do anything excessive, and now there was a corpse lying on the threshing floor, and if anyone dared to disobey at this time, he was afraid that he would become a cold corpse in the next moment.