Chapter 165: Bandits?

Gan Xin said: "I have a headache with this household registration, according to the requirements of adults, anyone who does not know a thousand words is not allowed to settle down, although there is a decrease and an increase every month." But it seems that everyone thinks of Yangping as a paradise, and black households abound. ”

"Nonsense, these thousands of acres of wasteland to be developed, what a job opportunity. I still have to build a house, and I can't get it down in a few years, and the salary here in Yangping is twice as high as in other places, and the children can also find opportunities to go to school, so naturally the whole family came. Ouyang said: "But don't worry, at present, Qinfeng Road also needs a large number of workers, and the construction of the triangle of Hangzhou, Yangzhou and Hongzhou also needs a large number of workers, and all localities are also learning to develop commerce." In another six months, the situation will be greatly improved. ”

Zong Ze, who had not spoken, said: "The old man just admires Lord Ou's bearing. Applaud for the good of his family. ”

"Master Zong, only the Yangping family is rich, and in less than five years, this place will definitely not be able to stand it." Everybody is coming, and it's a terrifying thing for a prefecture with a population larger than Tokyo. Ouyang Dao: "In fact, except for these thousand acres of land, Yangping is already close to saturation, and it is unable to accept excess population. There is no benefit to any further increase in the population. After this year's festival, I will leave for a month or two to go home to save my relatives, and I will trouble everyone and Master Zong. ”

Zong Ze politely bowed his hand and said, "You should do your best." ”

Although Ouyang is often absent from Yangping, Yangping is already operating as if he is on the rails. Each department performs its own duties, plus Gan Xin's article and Zhan Ming's supervision, in fact, there will be nothing to do. Either that he really has no ability after crossing is to be the boss, the boss does not have to have the ability, the key is that the younger brother has the ability.

Before leaving, Ouyang went to the military factory. The research of the military factory focuses on heavy artillery and artillery shells, and these two products have very high requirements for the iron casting process. At present, the military plant is capable of producing solid shells with a range of 1,500 meters and incendiary and primary flowering shells with a range of more than 1,000 meters. However, the cost is too high, and the cost of a 600-meter heavy gun is only a few tens of yuan, while if a 1,000-meter bomb is to be fired, the most basic cost is more than 300 yuan per gun. Even so, the quality of the gun body is not good enough, and it must be cooled after a few uses, otherwise it will blow up. A cannon that is not very practical and has a selling price of 1,000 guan, even Da Song is estimated to be not interested in purchasing.

And Ouyang's gun made a breakthrough, the bullet was produced, the range was 100 meters, and it took about 10 seconds to reload an ammunition. Although it has a prototype, it does not have much battlefield practicality. And the effective killing is lower. Ouyang has a good understanding of firearms, and guides the ideas of some modern guns, and lets the masters think about how to get them. In the Southern Song Dynasty, assault muskets appeared, with a range of 230 meters. Due to its very low practicality, it was finally abandoned by the imperial court. Ouyang has invested a lot of money, and has the concept of modern firearms, as long as the casting process keeps up and solves some key problems, firearms will take shape sooner or later.

The research institute and the production site are two worlds. In addition to Zhanming, Ouyang and several masters and apprentices, including Gan Xin, the research site cannot be entered. Zhan Ming was not in charge of the research site, and Zhao Yu sent five internal guards to take charge of the security of the research site while seeing the benefits of the new firearm. The guards inside are all forbidden soldiers drawn from Ouchi. On the one hand, it is to protect the place, and on the other hand, it is also used for a little surveillance. Soldiers, fierce also! Although Zhao Yu asked Ouyang to let go of the research, he didn't dare to fully trust such a dangerous place. You must know that a single drawing in this may make Jin or Liao a military power.

The research site was divided into two parts, firearms and ironware, and Song Iron produced eighty percent of the world's output at that time, but the manufacturing process did not keep up, and no one studied this aspect. Although there is also refined steel, the cost of production is terrifying. Otherwise, the cost of Ouyang Heavy Artillery would not have reached three hundred runs. This thing can't be mass-produced like a hand-throwing cannon, it takes a hundred refining to become steel, a heavy cannon is not only costly, but also requires labor and time that Ouyang is far from acceptable. As a traverser, Ouyang was ashamed, he knew that he should have understood what steel was at that time.

In addition, on the one hand, the study of iron tools is naturally to serve the military factory, and on the other hand, once there is a breakthrough, it will become a very sought-after commodity, and Ouyang does not want to hide this point.

After the Lantern Festival, Ouyang, Ou Ping, Liang Hongyu and two maids went on the road together. Liang Hongyu originally wanted to ride a horse like Ouyang, but later felt that it was not appropriate, so she hired a carriage from Yangping Logistics, one for her and one for two maids on the road. In addition to them, there are eight officials to follow, this is what Zhao Yu meant, saying that if Ouyang travels alone again, she will send internal guards to protect, Ouyang is right to think about it, the reporter in Jin received a rumor that the Jin people still want to attack Ouyang. And this rumor was discovered by Xue Shan, and the credibility of the information was quite high.

Ou Ping saw that there were few people on this road and the mountain road was rugged, so he chatted with a servant, who introduced: "A few years ago, bandits in the southeast were very serious. Since the new emperor ascended the throne, the southeast has been greatly governed. The government of taking the co-optation of the bandits. Famous and unknown people were recruited one after another, some stayed in the army, and some went back to farming. Now the road is very peaceful. ”

"Most of these people are made by refugees, but after some of the benefits are reaped, they will not be willing to give up looting." Ouyang Dao: "Didn't the two states jointly suppress a group of bandits who had been entrenched for many years and had more than 100 people a year ago? ”

A few people were chatting, and suddenly a dozen or so people burst out of the grass on the side of the road, and the first one was seven feet two inches tall, with a beard on his face, and a big knife on his shoulder, and shouted: "I planted this tree, I drove this road, if you want to cross this road, leave the money to buy the road." ”

"Haha!" Ouyang couldn't help but laugh and said, "This line is really indiscriminate." Feed! I said, there are only twelve of you, and there are ten men on my side, why are you robbing our way? ”

A bandit said to the leader: "Big brother, he is not afraid of us. ”

"Nonsense, of course not afraid. We have eight knives, and you have one. Ou Ping was also happy, some of these bandits were still carrying wooden sticks, and some were even empty-handed. It seems that you have to have an eye for anything, and it is important for the subject to see clearly.

"Big brother, it seems that this group of people is not easy to mess with. Run! ”

"Run?" Ouyang shook his head: "Come with me to Luzhou, otherwise don't blame us for being polite." ”

"You...... Who are you? The leader asked, pointing at him.

"Yangping Xiaoxiao Zhixian, Ouyang!"

The leader exclaimed, "! The bandits fled immediately.

Ouyang waved his hand: "Catch, if you can, you won't kill it." ”

"Yes!" Two of the eight officials stayed, and the remaining six horses chased after them on all sides. These repressions can be regarded as Zhanming's apprentices, and it is not trivial to deal with those who don't even have weapons.

It's just that Ouyang was very puzzled and asked Ou Ping: "When did you rob the road and be afraid of Zhixian County?" ”

A servant said with a smile: "I don't know, I heard a little bit a few years ago, saying that the adult was holding a hundred and eight pounds of Fang Tian's painting halberd with a hundred elite cavalry guards, and directly took the iron harrier in the middle of the army. So it became Ouyang to break the iron harrier"

"Haha!" Ouyang smiled: "Actually, I haven't understood all along, you see the Three Kingdoms Commentary, Guan Yunchang is ugly." Could it be that so many soldiers are vegetarians? No matter how fast a horse is, it is enough for the opponent to shoot two rounds of arrows. ”

"Listen to it, and they believe it." The official smiled: "You can't say that the adult's money killed the iron harrier, right?" People don't like to hear it. Besides, adults are not bad, you listen to General Han and General Liu, that is the god descending to earth. ”

As he spoke, more than a dozen bandits were driven to the middle of the road by the officials, and it was obvious that there was no resistance at all. The leader grabbed the knife with both hands and looked nervously at everything in front of him. Ouyang asked, "How long have you been a robber?" ”

"The second time." The identity of these people was unexpected by Ouyang, who originally thought they were landless refugees, but they didn't expect to be a group of gangsters. They usually gather in the town to gamble, extort, and commit adultery. Then Luzhou's economy began to develop, and the government, at the request of the Yangping Chamber of Commerce, strengthened the crackdown on many of these people who undermined business. Last year, there were two businessmen's ladies who flirted with businessmen because they couldn't blackmail, and they touched their breasts a few times, and the businessman's lady hanged herself. The two were arrested and sentenced by the government. The Yangping Chamber of Commerce was furious when they heard the businessman crying, and paid to open up the government and behead the two. Kill all these people who often play with those two people. In addition, the private servants of the local merchants joined forces to beat and drive away the idle people, and finally they were forced to flee to other states or go up the mountains.

In modern times, only gangster merchants can't survive, but in ancient times it was the other way around. Ouyang couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this. In the era when the legal system was sound, good people were not protected, but in the era when there was no king's law, bad people suffered, and this case must have made those who study the law very helpless. Ouyang felt that it was necessary to temporarily stop what he was doing to make the list of basic rights of the people. Originally, he wanted to explain several basic rights of the people, but his role was to stop the emergence of mobs with a moderate attitude and alleviate class contradictions. These thugs are so arrogant because the law is too weak.

Ouyang was a police officer who knew that a gangster could affect the safety index of residents around a street. In order to crack down on *** criminals, the SAR has specially issued relevant laws and regulations, and anyone who dares to say that he is a *** member, or makes citizens misunderstand that he is a *** member, regardless of whether his words are true or not, can be sentenced to up to two years in prison. A physical altercation that results in minor injuries is punishable by up to five years' imprisonment. If there is intimidation, intimidation, or blackmail, it can reach up to ten years. This decree has only been promulgated in recent years, and it has carried out a large-scale slaughter of ***. At the end of last year, in a county-level city in Fujian Province, dozens of thugs were very arrogant and went to the most prosperous local street to collect protection money from each business.Chinese mainland The scene lasted for a long time, and afterwards a group of businessmen surrounded *** to ask the police for an explanation. But in the past four months, in the end, no one was arrested, the case was not solved, and it was not resolved. So much so that local primary and secondary school students are proud of themselves, take the ability to blackmail their classmates, and be proud of knowing the gangsters who participated in the collection of protection money. As Duan Yihong said, when good meets evil, good is always injured first, and if you want to do it, you will be a good and evil person.