The military camp outside Baishui County was originally empty because people went to the camp after the big parade, but it has been full of people recently.

"Lord Lang, the seizures of the thieves' nest warehouses have been counted."

The protégé Zhao Jingzhi walked into the big tent with two entourages and a large basket of books, and his expression was quite complacent: "Although a certain scribe has been checked, he is not yet half of the county clerk!" ”

Li Tai was also quite complacent when he heard this, Baishui County was governed in the county seat, and the combined work efficiency of the scribes of the county and county government offices was not as good as that of his subordinates, which showed that the general education in Zhuangzhong was also fruitful.

As early as when northern Shaanxi attacked Hu Bu, he deeply felt the pain of having to discard a large amount of loot due to the lack of digestion power, and this time he suppressed bandits in Guannei County, so he attached great importance to this aspect of the work, and recruited from Shangyuanzhuang School and transferred from various industries to form a team of more than 30 clerks, so as to check the efficiency and know the results in the shortest possible time.

Otherwise, when a battle ends, it will depend on the county envoys to count the spoils, and I don't know how much it will be desecrated. If all the officials of these counties and counties are morally noble and incorruptible, there will be no need for Daxingtai to engage in ideological education and construction such as the "Six Edicts."

The leader of the bandits exterminated this time is named Ma Jinshan, who served as the governor of Northern Yongzhou in the early years of Datong. During the battle of the river bridge in the fourth year of Datong, a rebellion broke out in Guanzhong, and his people encircled a group of villagers to help the rebellion, and fled to the mountains because they were familiar with the local conditions, avoiding being purged, and it has existed until now.

In fact, this year, the overlord has the idea of going west to the north of the Guanzhong Plain after the big parade, until Qizhou, if the field hunt can be held normally, this gang of bandits will also be eliminated by the way. It's a pity that the reading did not go well, and Daxingtai was forced to give up the plan of field hunting.

The madman has his own harvest, originally this bandit had flowed westward into Liupan Mountain after learning about the Baishui Dayue, but after learning that the Dayue was over, he returned to his hometown, and arrogantly sent a message to the county near the left to extort supplies, so he crashed into the hands of Li Tai, who was about to try his hand.

After a battle, the main force of the bandits was wiped out, and the bandit leader was also covered in the old lair in the mountains. A bandit that had been in trouble for several years was easily eliminated in this way, but it took more time to clean the battlefield and collect loot.

Although the combat effectiveness of this bandit is not high, it has accumulated quite a lot of reserves, and nearly 10,000 catties of gold, silver, copper, and iron have been seized alone. In addition to killing and wounding the fleeing bandits, there were also nearly 3,000 men and women who were captured.

However, the grain was only collected to a few thousand stones, and the cloth was less than a thousand horses, and compared to a large bandit department of several thousand people, such a grain and silk reserve was already very dangerous.

If Li Tai does not come to exterminate it, this bandit army will inevitably launch a large-scale raid this winter, otherwise it will not be able to survive the winter with this accumulation at all. If they had survived, there was no telling how many people in the county would have suffered.

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Among the various types of seizures, copper and iron accounted for the vast majority, and gold and silver were also considerable, as many as thousands of catties. It cannot be said from this that this bandit army has strong financial resources, and there must still be no suitable environment for selling stolen goods, so these materials that are not easy to sell stolen goods can only be accumulated for many years, and finally Li Tai is cheaper.

So even if you are a bandit, there is a way to steal, the mass base is not good, everyone is not willing to help you sell the stolen goods, no matter how precious these gold and silver are, can you gnaw on them to satisfy your hunger? Such a trophy structure also shows that at least there are no powerful and powerful people in Baishui County who are in cahoots with it.

In addition, there were also hundreds of cattle, horses and livestock, plus some other miscellaneous species, and this time the bandits were off to a good start.

According to Li Tai's agreement with the county government, these spoils of war will all belong to him. The materials are still down, Li Tai is not like those captives, even if he can't use them, he can have somewhere to cash in or replace them, but those captives are a little difficult to do.

Some of these people are relatives of thieves, but a significant number of them have been taken captive, and their relatives are still looking forward to being reunited.

The most convenient way to do this is to be taken into the ranks of the soldiers as a slave. But after this decision was made, I don't know how many families will continue to suffer from separation.

Li Tai asked himself if he was not a person of high morals, but if he caused many families to suffer more because of his temporary convenience, he was still a little uncomfortable.

After a little silence, he said: "Go and tell the county magistrate, and the county will allocate 500 soldiers, and send all the copper and iron materials to Baishuizhuang along the river, and the prisoners in the bandits' nest will be sent to the county." ”

When the subordinates informed the county government of the news, the county guard immediately nodded in agreement and personally rushed to the military camp outside the city to thank him.

This is not because Li Tai is brave and scared to obey, although this battle is beautiful, but Li Tai's power has not reached the level of making a county too shou to be low and small, the key is that this arrangement is also greatly beneficial to county politics.

For today's county officials, increasing the number of households and expanding the cultivated area are the most important achievements. But if you want to do it well, you can't just mark a wasteland and put people in it.

Kansai has been in turmoil for many years, and there are many dead households in the suburbs, so the government has expanded households for the long-term people to cultivate and pay taxes.

However, even if these deceased households have no roots and are granted land, they are not constrained by the grassroots township organization relationship, and once they encounter unbeautiful weather or turbulent military disasters, they will inevitably flee in groups. He didn't even have the idea of settling down, and deceived the farm tools and grain seeds issued by the government and turned around and left.

The official register was made, but as a result, the rent could not be collected, and then it would not only be useless, but also a serious crime.

Sometimes the local powerful will also use this method against the government, after the new official takes office, he will take the shade households under his command to create a register and grant land, and then gather the shade households back after the registration book is made, the result is that the number of households is gratifying, and the rent adjustment has been in deficit for many years, so can such an official do it for a long time?

Kansai has been in turmoil for many years, and the people are not willing to go, which will cause this phenomenon. In the face of this situation, local officials will also feel powerless, so they can only administer cautiously and dare not be greedy and rash.

The extermination of such a group of stubborn thieves is naturally a good opportunity to expand the production of land reclamation. And the villagers rescued by Li Tai from the thieves' nest have relatives and township relations, and they are the most suitable targets for expanding households and granting land.

As for those captives whose roots are unknown, even if they are in the prime of life, they do not dare to easily grant land and distribute the means of production, and can only be used as slavery.

In addition to thanking him, the county guard brought up the old matter again, hoping that Li Tai would set up the defense city in Baishui County.

After seeing the combat effectiveness of Li Tai's troops, the conditions offered by the county guard were even more generous, saying that as long as Li Tai nodded, then the county government would bear all the labor materials for defending the city, and would also give 1,000 people to serve every year and a part of the grain for the defense of the city.

In addition to the fixed annual rent and regular taxes and military service, the Kansai prefectures also had to bear a certain amount of military food, which was also a heavy burden.

However, if Li Tai is fortified here, the county government will have a reason to refuse the task of sending food to the boss, and Li Tai's troops have high combat effectiveness, strong mobility and strict military discipline, so it is naturally reassuring to be able to stay here for a long time.

Such conditions can also be said to be sincere, but Li Tai has already decided to fortify Chengcheng County on the east bank of Luoshui.

Because the county commander of Shibao County, which is subordinate to Chengcheng County, is full of rank this winter and will be dismissed, and the county guard promised to recommend the candidate provided by Li Tai to the Taiwan government, which is equivalent to putting the entire Shibao County into the sphere of influence of Fangcheng.

In contrast, Li Tai naturally cared more about the conditions of Chengcheng County, and he could only say sorry to Baishui County here.

However, he also assured that if there were any bandits in Whitewater County, his men would be able to cross the river at any time to suppress them. After all, he still has an industry in the territory of Baishui, and he also wants to set up an arsenal workshop in the territory of Baishui. Of course, the idea of adults is that I want them all, and I don't have to be limited to Luo Dong or Luo Xi.

As a result of the negotiations, Baishui County was responsible for raising a batch of coal and other materials for Li Tai every year, and Li Tai collected them according to the current price, which was regarded as saving the labor and freight costs purchased by all parties.

Li Tai is responsible for the quota of 1,000 people in Baishui County, and when the Taiwan government reassigns the Ministry of Food to the Prefecture, taking this situation into account, it will relieve some of the pressure on Baishui County.

To put it bluntly, Baishui County is now protected by Li Tai, and if these military leaders of the overlord want to fight the autumn wind and save face, you should not come. If you don't give face, then don't give it, if you want Li Tai to really come forward to expel it, you have to add money.

Li Tai's troops stayed outside the city of Baishui County for two more days, and after the inventory and distribution of the loot were clear, some of the easy to carry were taken away, and the other part was temporarily stored in the treasury of Baishui County, and they were asked to send people back one after another, and then Li Taicai led his troops to leave.

On the day of the march, Zhang Yuan in the South Baishui Realm was reached, and Lu Chuan and other pioneers who opened the way greeted him.

After the troops finished camping outside the manor, Li Tai entered the camp tent to rest for a while, and then brought in Lu Chuan and a few villagers, and asked, "What's the matter?" Let's talk about it. ”

Several villagers saw that Li Tai was so young and handsome, contrary to the image of the fierce general imagined in their minds, they were surprised and secretly relieved, and the old Zhang He of the clan entered the front to worship: "Xiaomin and others are guilty, and the old and the township tyrant Zhou clan have a feud, and now they are in power, every time the county hard labor envoy is sent to my family, in order to protect the children in the household, I can only pretend to be kidnapped by bandits......"

"Are you doing it yourself?"

When Li Tai heard this, he sneered, and then said in a deep voice: "I have also heard of the bandit name of the Shannan Flying Harrier. I'm willing to give you a chance today, and if you don't explain it honestly, then you don't need to say it anymore. ”

Zhang Shinu, the young man who followed the account, fell to his knees with a thud: "Dadu Governor Mingjian, Xiaomin is the Shannan Flying Harrier." In the old years, in order to live, he did some banditry, but this has nothing to do with the relatives and elders in the household. If the Metropolitan Governor needs to increase the punishment, the sinners will receive the ......"