"This is some of Shaanxi's customs, please smile." A guy with a wrinkled face and a medium-sized mandarin duck jacket stood in front of Li Xiao and bowed.

Li Xiao looked left and right, how could he not associate this guy with the famous Zuo Liangyu. can be associated with the old man who watches the carport at the door, and Zuo Liangyu is only in his forties this year. I don't know how to get it, but it became like this.

The things brought with me were nothing to look at, nothing more than some fur and a few tiger whips. Guanzhong has passed through the scourge of Zhang Xianzhong, Huang Taiji, Dolgon, and Li Zicheng, and has been impoverished to the extreme. If it weren't for the sweet potato noodles in Shandong and Hebei, there would definitely be something like eating Yizi.

"Have you met Mr. Sun?" Li Xiao stared at Zuo Liangyu, and Zuo Liangyu didn't even dare to raise his head. The above is the famous commander of the Liao army, and now he is hiding from the lord who will tremble in the north of the Yangtze River.

"I met Mr. Sun in Jingshi, and my lord commanded. I must see the marshal to say hello, in order to show my respect for the marshal. Zuo Liangyu lowered his head even lower.

"Now that I've met Mr. Sun, I don't have anything to say. The imperial court has reallocated armaments to your Hongbing so that you can exterminate the bandits in Guanzhong, not to let you show off your might and bully the people. After you go back, study the three disciplines and eight points of attention.

In addition, it is necessary to exterminate the bandits in Guanzhong, including Li Zicheng, as soon as possible, and tell Hong Chengchou. If he can't, I'll send Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. The time is limited to the end of this year, and I want to meet Li Zicheng or his head. ”

"No!" Zuo Liangyu hurriedly bowed his head and promised.

Along the way, he opened his eyes, and many places in Hebei were also affected by the plague. But the situation is far better than Shanxi and Guanzhong, although it is not very rich now, but every family has food. Many peasant households have been given a share of the landlord's land, and they do not need to pay any taxes every year except for the official grain they have paid.

At the time of the Chinese New Year, the children have new clothes on them. People with better conditions can even weigh some white bread dumplings. Where it is like Guanzhong, the nest head of cornmeal is a good thing.

Hebei has already made Zuo Liangyu feel rich, and when he arrived in Shandong, Zuo Liangyu was even more shocked. As soon as you set foot on the boundary of Shandong, the road becomes a smooth and spacious cement pavement. The road is lined with farmland, and none of it is deserted.

The fields are full of peasants toiling. I didn't see a few soldiers, but the law and order was surprisingly good. I heard that Li Xiao appointed Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and he has already wiped out the bandits in Shandong. Now the two guys are red-eyed and looking for bandits all over Shandong. Nothing else, after the bandits are exterminated, the goods in the bandits' den can be opened with the official family.

The government took four, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming took six. There is money to exterminate bandits, and now as long as they hear that there are bandits, a group of people will have nothing to say about using knives.

After arriving in Jinan Mansion, Zuo Liangyu saw factories one after another. Countless workers shuttled from factory to factory, and in some cases there was a deafening roar. Zuo Liangyu saw a machine that could produce thousands of horses of fine fabric every day. That's enough for tens of thousands of women to work for a month!

The roads were crowded with horse-drawn wagons carrying goods, and the localities were still relatively poor. Grain, oil, cloth, cotton, and other things don't seem to be enough.

Along the way, Zuo Liangyu admired Hong Chengchou's foresight more and more. Taking Fan Wencheng to join the Liao army is simply a wise decision. In today's world, the Liao army has gradually gained an advantage in terms of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. Occupy Guanzhong, there is no way, and it is impossible to hold on for a long time.

"Sun Chuanting has returned to Beijing, and he is the newly promoted governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. Tell Hong Chengchou that in the future, if there is anything to report directly to Sun Chuanting. Your Hong soldiers have been poor for a long time, after exterminating the bandits in various parts of Shaanxi. I'll send you to some rich places, and there's nothing else to say. After observing for a while, Li Xiao found that this general Zuo was a kowtow worm. The enthusiasm for seeing the demeanor of famous generals has gradually cooled down!

"No! The end will be retired! Zuo Liangyu saw that Li Xiao had given an eviction order, and immediately bowed down and retreated. The whole process, I didn't look up. It seems that he is nervous when he sees the emperor!

I didn't expect that a generation of famous generals would be like this. Li Xiao felt very disappointed!

Since a generation of famous generals is a little disappointed, let's meet two famous traitors.

Fan Wencheng was imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and his trial was just a procedure. Before the interrogation, the charges were drawn up. Traitor! This latest criminal law written into the "Da Ming Law" was set by Li Xiao himself. The highest punishment is stranglehold!

A typical person like Fan Wencheng naturally has to be punished.

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde walked in very politely, and knelt down without saying a word. The head is pestled on the ground, and you know kowtow without saying a word. The sound of his head hitting the floor tiles, Li Xiao listened to his teeth sore.

The way a martial artist expresses his loyalty is so simple and rude, Zuo Liangyu just now should be considered a more subtle type, or he has not practiced the Iron Head Gong.

"Get up! Having exterminated the bandits in the entire Shandong, the two of you can be regarded as indispensable. Li Xiao had to order Shunzi to help people up, these two guys were brute force, and they were afraid that they would not be able to move by themselves.

"But Lord Lu said that we killed too many people......!" Kong Youde was a little frightened.

No wonder these two guys kowtowed as soon as they entered the door, it turned out that Lu Xiangsheng had joined these two guys. These two guys did too much to exterminate the bandits in Yimeng Mountain in the end, and pulled out all the men in the bandits' den to ask about the whereabouts of the goods. I heard that Geng Zhongming set up a stove in the Juyi Hall, and as long as he pretended to be a tough guy, he would take off his waist and roast it.

The thing was done a little bit, and after the goods were forced, all the captured bandits were buried alive. The women in the bandits' den, whether they were meat tickets or real bandit families, were all put on grass labels and sold.

So far, in Yimeng Mountain, whoever is crying, just say that Geng Zhongming, who eats people, will arrest you. The child immediately stopped crying and stared at the door with big frightened eyes. Then bury your head in the quilt and don't dare to show your head!

When these two came to Jinan, they came to ask for sin in fear.

"You two are really too good at what you do. Among those women, there were more than a dozen of them who had been tied up on the mountain. It's a bit too much for you to sell to a soldier. Don't blame Lu Xiangsheng for participating in you! Li Xiao sat on the chair, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde stood with their hands tied to the side and lowered their heads.

"Back to the words of the handsome! It's not the last two who know the law and break the law, it's the women who begged us to do it. These women were all meat tickets tied up in the mountains, and they had been ruined by the bandits. They couldn't go back to their homes, and the soldiers rescued them. They are all willing by themselves, I don't believe that you sent someone to ask. One of them is forced, and they can all cut off our heads. Kong Youde hurriedly defended.

"Really?" Li Xiao can understand this kind of thing, and there is no woman in the bandit's den who can keep her chastity. There are few good people who can go up to the mountains to be bandits. Lin Chong, who was forced to go to Liangshan inside, is also a rare variety in this year.

"If we two brothers lie, let the handsome man fall."

"In that case, I'll go and make peace with Lu Xiangsheng. But you can't stay in Shandong anymore, Henan and Shanxi have just been pacified. In the past two years, the year has not been good, and natural disasters and man-made disasters have ruined these two places.

People have no choice, so they can only be bandits in the mountains. Rob some food, and you can still survive. So that the border between Henan and Shanxi is flooded with bandits, since you have nothing to do in Shandong. Then go to Henan and Shanxi to suppress bandits. The rules are still the same, and the accounts are divided between four and six. But you need to remember one thing, I don't care how cruel the bandits' methods are.

But if you really want to fish and flesh the people, especially rob the people, and take the people's heads to ask for credit. You two necklaces have human heads, but they can't grow steadily. ”

These two were born in the old army, and they did such things as killing good people and risking merit extremely smoothly. I didn't dare under the nose of Li Xiao in Shandong, but once I arrived in Shanxi, Henan. The emperor is far away, and it is inevitable that the old disease will recur. Before sending these two devils out, Li Xiao had to tell him first.

"No! Don't worry, Dashuai, just the goods in the bandits' den have already satisfied the big guy. Not to mention, you're never short of food. It is much better to do things with you than to do things with the court. In the past, when we were under Sun Yuanhua, our brothers couldn't even eat a chicken as guerrillas. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that. Now there is chaos on the ground in Henan and Shanxi, so you should hurry up. Damn, these bastards even dare to rob the imperial court's convoy. Li Xiao didn't let the brothers talk any more, and the mutiny caused by a chicken in Wuqiao has now become a laughing stock.

The public security situation in Henan and Shanxi is very tight, and these two murderous demons need to be cleared as soon as possible. I believe that with these two brothers, the public order in Shanxi, Henan will improve unprecedentedly. In fact, most of the bandits are people who can't survive, desperately trying to earn a life. If they find that being a bandit is not a matter of death, but of death, I believe that they will soon be good.

"No!" Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming immediately promised to retreat.

The brothers are already happy in their hearts, and the ground in Henan is poorer. But the local poor bandits are not necessarily poor, and it is not impossible to knock out some oil and water out of the bones. Shanxi is definitely a good place, the wine of Xinghua Village, the old vinegar of Taiyuan, and the coal all over the mountains.

Shanxi Lao Qian can save money, if he really goes to the boundary of Shanxi. I'm sure I'll make a lot of money!

Seeing that the ground is becoming more and more peaceful, the territory of the Liao army is getting bigger and bigger. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming both wanted to take advantage of the current opportunity to make more money, and it would be impossible to make money like this in the future.

"Sun Yuanhua!" Just now Kong Youde and the others mentioned the Wuqiao Mutiny, and Li Xiao immediately remembered the die-hard Sun Yuanhua.

"What is Sun Yuanhua doing?" Li Xiao looked at Zhang Huangyan, who was looking at the official document behind the desk, and asked.

"Sun Yuanhua ......! Oh, the governor of Denglai in the first place? Last time, I seemed to hear from the officials that it was good to be a county magistrate in Liaodong. Governing that county quite richly, I thought of promoting it as appropriate. But he was assigned to Liaodong by you, and no one dared to promote him. It is estimated that it is still a prefectural order. "Zhang Huangyan's brain is a fire official document, as long as he asks him, he will have an answer, which is more Baidu than Baidu.

"This is a bit excessive, since people are really talented, let him come out and be an official. Liaodong has a good foundation, but he can't show his ability. Find a state capital in Henan and let him be the governor. I want to see if he has the ability to manage the withered Henan well. ”

"Then I'll write to Mr. Sun now and let him dispose of it as appropriate." Zhang Huangyan agreed, and continued to review the official documents.

There are a lot of official documents that are transferred to Li Xiao every day, and most of these official documents are instructed by Zhang Huangyan and Li Xiao together. If Li Xiao is allowed to do it himself, Li Xiao will make his mind full of sparks.

If nothing else, it is because most of the official documents nowadays are written in classical Chinese. And there are many times in it that quote scriptures, and those who are poorly educated can't understand even if they listen to it. The official document written by a few ostentatious fellows is called an obscure one, as if it were not enough to show off his knowledge. Obviously scolded your ancestors for eighteen generations, and you should still read the praise letter, this can be regarded as a success.

For this reason, Li Xiao has dismissed several officials. It's a pity that there are only so many literate people in these years. You've got them all gone, and who's the fuck going to do the work for you? In desperation, Li Xiao came up with a model of the official document. Try to be as concise as possible, and the vernacular is the best. Although there was some resistance from officials, the situation was much better after taking out a few thorns, and the official document model is now being gradually implemented.

"I don't know what happened to Yangzhou, the last time I saw Cao Wenzhao's military report, it didn't seem to be going well." After disposing of the official document easily, it was already dark outside. The table of the Eight Immortals has been set up in the hall, and Tokugawa Chihime and her maids are surrounding the cloth vegetables.

"The old man in Yangzhou has been there, and the city defense can be said to be quite stable. I heard Lao Chen Fu say that the Jiangnan Forbidden Army transferred two divisions, plus the original soldiers of Yangzhou Garrison. Cao Wenzhao wanted to capture it, but it was not easy. Zhang Huangyan cleaned his hands while talking to Li Xiao.

"It's really not easy for Cao Wenzhao to be a teacher, but now let Ao Ye go...... Fear! "Li Xiao knows Ao Canghai's temper, and it will not be good to fight Cao Wenzhao on the front line.

"The captured Jiangnan Forbidden Army is a part of it, and they are all ordinary peasant children. It's better to break up now and form a recruit division to send to Cao Wenzhao. In this way, with the three divisions as the backbone, the establishment can be rapidly expanded.

This kind of method can also make Ao Ye and Yuan Chonghuan do this, and break up those Jiangnan forbidden troops into their ranks. In this way, the team can be quickly expanded, and it can also prevent the Jiangnan Forbidden Army from making trouble. ”

"You old fellow, that's a good idea."