The sky was light, even the hard-working peasants were still asleep, and in a large village less than ten miles away from Yidu County, several figures on horseback appeared, and a wild dog on the side of the road whined, and fled towards the grass with its tail between its legs. The knight on the horse, rushing out of the Zhuangzi, paused for a moment, looked around, made sure that no one had intercepted them, discerned the direction, and ran towards the official road.

When the sky was bright, Baiyunkong of Yidu Zhi County, who was woken up from the bed, got a news that he didn't want to hear, the Jianjiazhuang outside the city was robbed last night, fortunately the walls of the Qianjiazhuang were high and the ditch was deep, and the strong men were brave, so that the thieves had no chance to take advantage of it, and they couldn't enter the Zhuangzi, but the thieves were harassed until dawn, and when they left, they also threatened to visit the master of the Jian family in a few days, and thanked the master of the Jian family for his hospitality.

Bai Yunkong listened to the news brought by Zhuang Ding with a bitter face, and did not dare to slack off, so he immediately sent a catcher with a dozen or so officials to help the idle, and immediately rushed to Jianjiazhuang, and he had no intention of dealing with political affairs.

"Why is the master so worried, isn't it just a few strong people? Didn't the lord send a public servant? It was his favorite concubine Ruyi who spoke, and the little maid who had already had a quick mouth told her what happened in the front hall, and saw that his lord's interest was not very high, and he couldn't help but feel relieved softly.

"A few strongmen, if only a few strongmen!" Bai Yunkong shook his head and sighed: "The Jian family has a hundred Zhuang Ding, and they all look frightened, how can there only be a few strong men!" ”

"No matter how many there are, the strong people have already fled, they just came to the master to report for help, and the master also sent someone, even if it has anything to do with it, it has nothing to do with the master, why is the master still so worried?" Ruyi said.

"Women's Taoist family, what do you know, the head of this Jian family, but he was a governor to learn the Tao, and later because he was implicated in Zhishi, when the official took office, he also went to visit, you said, something happened to his family, if he sprinkled his resentment on my head, saying that I was not peaceful in governing the place, how could I have my good fruit to eat! No, I have to tell Lord Zhizhou about this matter immediately, lest I eat and hang up alone when the time comes! As if remembering something, the white clouds muttered to themselves.

This Yidu County is the first county in Qingzhou, and the Zhizhou Yamen is in this Yidu County, if the governance place is not quiet, the Zhizhou Yamen can also be pulled, with the Zhizhou Lord on top, even if this Jian family is about to make trouble, he will not have too much pressure, Bai Yunkong thought.

He was talking in the room, but he didn't expect that Zhuang Ding, the person who reported the news from the Jian family, was not the one who came to him, and at the same time that he received the message from the Jian family, the Zhizhou Yamen also got the news.

In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very strange phenomenon, such as the official who gave birth to the official or told the old man, returned to his hometown or was murdered by a strongman or robbed of his family property for no reason on the way. There is no other reason, the Ming Dynasty is a remote official system, they are officials, sooner or later there will be a day when they go home, if he ignores this kind of thing in office, then, if something happens to them themselves, how can they expect the local officials to help them out.

Therefore, once such a thing happens to a retired local official, in order to protect the interests of their entire bureaucracy, they will not sit idly by, even if there is no one in the court, they will not turn a blind eye. This is also the reason why the Jian family immediately sent people to this Yidu County for help as soon as it was dawn, and he knew that he would definitely be able to get the help of the government.

This Qingzhou Zhizhou is not a capable official, but he also knows that he must not ignore this kind of thing, if this kind of thing occurs under his rule, he doesn't care, as long as there is a trace of news leaked out, his future in the officialdom will be completely over. Therefore, as soon as he received the news from the Jian family, he immediately thought of sending someone to help, but since he can be the governor of a state, of course, there are some means to deal with things, before sending people, he must first understand the reality of these thieves! Just when he asked the Zhuang Ding who reported the news in detail, Bai Yunkong also came.

Since they are here, the two brothers will discuss what to do about this matter. Sent away Zhuang Ding, who reported the news, and the two discussed.

"My lord, the lower official has already sent a servant to the Jianjiazhuang to investigate, presumably there will be a response soon, and when the time comes, as soon as it corresponds to the words of the Jianjia family, this matter will probably be known!" Bai Yunkong said first.

"I don't doubt the truth of the matter!" Zhizhou Yao Xianfeng said: "The thieves are roaring, more than 100 people, but it is certain, the person who reported the news said that the thieves tried to attack Zhuangzi, but they were beaten back by the Zhuangding, but there were some dead and wounded, this matter, will definitely not stop there!" ”

"Recently, several counties have also reported banditry, could it be that these thieves who are wandering around my Qingzhou are doing it?" Yao Xianfeng seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to be asking Bai Yunkong.

"Gangsters of hundreds of people, adults, don't take it lightly, if you gather those ignorant people, it is not necessary to become a local disaster in an instant?" Bai Yunkong said.

"You mean to crack?" Yao Xianfeng stared at Baiyunkong, such a large number of thieves, relying on the courage of the government to exterminate them, it is obviously unrealistic, to exterminate these thieves, the only way to exterminate them is to invite officers and soldiers, but they are not unaware of the temperament of the officers and soldiers, those soldiers, the disaster is not necessarily greater than these thieves. Of course, the scourge is the scourge, he knows that the Lord of the State still doesn't pay much attention to these, the important thing, the exchange of official documents, invite the officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, then I don't know if it is to the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, if it is in the name of a private person, go and ask the officers and soldiers to go out, and no one will pay attention to you.

"Yes, these thieves are not strong enough to be appeased, according to the lower officials, they are nothing more than some ignorant villagers coerced by some rout bandits, and the officers and soldiers are the most worry-free to wipe them out!"

"Go to Jinan Mansion to ask for soldiers? We don't have a garrison in Qingzhou, so we have to get the Shandong General Soldier to write it! Yao Xianfeng frowned.

This Qingzhou is adjacent to Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion in the west, and Laizhou is in the east. Moreover, on the side of Dezhou, there is a battalion of soldiers under the command of the Shandong General Army, and it is not very troublesome to come to Qingzhou.

"Why, you're not the one who wants to exterminate it, why do you have such an expression?" Seeing Bai Yunkong's disapproving appearance, Yao Xianfeng said a little angrily.

"My lord, it's not that the lower officials don't believe in the soldiers of the imperial court, but although the soldiers and horses of Mr. Qiu are strong, they are all soldiers recruited from Liangguang Sichuan, this is not a native soldier, naturally there is no local affection, even if we beg my father to tell my grandmother to invite these soldiers, I am afraid that the mess after the bandits will be cleaned up for a long time, which is an obstacle to the official reputation of the adults!" Bai Yunkong said bluntly. If it was the lesser of two evils, he would rather not provoke these soldiers with bad military discipline.

"Huh?" Yao Xianfeng didn't answer his words, his two eyes stared at Bai Yunkong, this Bai Yunkong directly vetoed his idea, if he didn't come up with a charter, then he really wanted to loosen the other party's bones, so no responsibility, what use is it to speak without thinking?

"My lord, the Lingshan garrison also has the name of guarding our Qingzhou! Let's ask him to send troops, that's a matter of course, and the military horses garrisoned by this Lingshan are said to be all the sons of Denglai, and even many of them are my sons in Qingzhou, let's invite him to suppress the bandits, don't worry about the scourge of the place, come, even if the war against the bandits is unfavorable, it is also the responsibility of the Lingshan garrison, and it can't involve us in Qingzhou! Bai Yunkong said.

"This official will immediately send an official document, report to Shangfeng, and urge this Lingshan garrison to send troops to suppress bandits, this matter of contact and liaison between soldiers and horses over there, you arrange competent people to do it, and this official strongly supports it, but there is only one point, this matter of the Jian family, it must be solved quickly, even if the thieves take advantage of it temporarily, it will be no hindrance, and when the imperial army arrives, discipline them and spit it out with interest!"

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"My lord, this is an official document just sent by Jinan, and the envoy is here!" With the letter from the pro-soldiers at the door, Yu Feng showed a smile on his face, he had been waiting for a long time for this expected official document, and now it has finally arrived, as for the content of the official document, if nothing else, there is a chance that he will send troops to suppress the bandits.

When he opened the official document, the content was almost the same as he expected, he raised his hand, closed the official document, and said to the side: "Qiu Shi, send another five hundred taels of silver to the county of Yidu, and at the same time send a letter to the Zhou brothers in Ye County, telling them to stop for a while!" ”

"My lord, what is this luck, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away!" Qiu Shi flew in as soon as he hit the fart, but unfortunately, he didn't have much ink in his stomach, and this fart was really not very clever! Yu Feng obviously doesn't eat this kind of low-level sycophant.

"Forget it, don't send the letter, you go on your own, by the way, go to Ye County to see, among those green forest characters, are there any you can look at, if so, make up for your horse team first, and go to Mr. Mu to report when you come back!"

"Okay!" Qiu Shi grinned, this is a job that shows his face, whether those people can eat the official family meal or not, but it is all in his own thoughts!

"Don't worry about being happy, the person you picked, you have to be responsible for yourself, if something goes wrong, you can't run away, understand?" Yu Feng warned that he didn't want to bring a bunch of disobedient guys into his army.

"Don't worry, my lord, I promise not to lose your face, if there are people who don't know something, I promise to serve them ironing, definitely more obedient than those soldiers we newly recruited, this means is still lowly!"