Qingzhou in July became lively.

In the scorching summer, the people finish the day's work, eat dinner, come to the fields, listen to some knowledgeable people in the village nonsense, by the way, eliminate the fatigue of the day, it is also a refreshing thing, for thousands of years, their ancestors have been like this, for them, there is food and clothing at home, wives and children hot kang head, is the greatest happiness in their lives, the outside world is noisy and happy, as long as it is not tossed to them, then, they will listen to everything outside as a romance story, After listening, I went home, beat the children, tossed my wife and then continued the next day.

However, leaving the township, in the various counties of Qingzhou, in the streets and alleys, the most talked about is not those things that have been seen and heard in the north or the sea or the unreliable romance stories, and now everyone talks the most about them is the few things that happened around them recently and related to them.

First of all, the salt of the salt transportation inspection department, a team was stationed in this county, what kind of yamen is this salt transportation inspection, Shengdou Xiaomin still doesn't know very well, but there are some people who are so knowledgeable and easy to show off, and they are explaining on the side: This salt transportation inspection, and the salt envoy division of Jinan City is a yamen, and they are all for the emperor's old man to do business! Our Shandong is not richer and more prosperous than Jiangnan, and it is not possible to send the department out, and it is enough to have an inspection, don't look at the Lingshan inspector is not big, count, but he is in charge of half of Shandong's salt politics.

Of course, what these people are most interested in is the soldiers of the Inspection Division, one by one, they are amazed, such soldiers, with sharp guns, are enough to take out and suppress bandits, and they are used to investigate some smuggled salt, I'm afraid it's overkill! The knowledgeable person next to him spoke again: You gang of dirt sticks have no knowledge again, these people are not soldiers of the imperial court, what kind of bandits, these people, called Yanding, why are they called Yanding, you know no, it is the family of the old man who patrols the salt transportation department, and now the people who sell illegal salt are ruthless, if these salt Ding are not a little more ruthless than those illegal salt dealers, then who will arrest who is really not necessarily.

On the Qingzhou side, there is also a large area near the sea, and there is naturally a business of selling illicit salt, but there are not many people to manage it. Closer, according to the region, this side is under the management of Lingshan, however, Lingshan's inspection department has so many people, and there has never been much energy to take care of this side, besides, even if they look like this side, they are not familiar with the place, and they can't interfere here, so, basically, Qingzhou's side, the Lingshan inspection has always been ignored.

As soon as the salt ding of the Lingshan Inspection Division entered Qingzhou, it immediately became the topic of everyone's conversation, of course, for these people who came to Denglai, Qingzhou people did not have much good feelings, and even many people were saving up their energy, ready to see how these salt Ding went back.

Before the topic of salt ding had cooled down, I immediately heard that bandits were beginning to stir up in various places, and suddenly people's hearts began to panic again. Some of the salters are stationed in the city, some are stationed in the larger towns outside the city, or some of the main roads that must be passed, but no matter how fierce the bandits here and there are, they have never heard of a conflict between the bandits and the salters, and the people in those places where they are stationed are very simple-minded, they only say that these bandits do not come to harm, purely because of these salters with knives and guns. With this idea, the people's rejection of salt is not so obvious, the most obvious is that the salt Ding go to the market to buy things, and those vendors who shout prices one by one no longer raise the price, but honestly do business with them.

Fortunately, the imperial court was sympathetic to the people, and as soon as they heard that there were bandits in the local area, they immediately sent officers and soldiers out to suppress the bandits. The strange thing is that those officers and soldiers are not from the army from Jinan, or from Denglai, not that Denglai has been trampled by Kong Youde, how can they still send so many soldiers and horses? It is strange that the common people are strange, but no one dares to approach these officers and soldiers, and it is natural for officers and soldiers to suppress bandits, but if officers and soldiers fail to suppress bandits, it is not uncommon for them to kill good people and make meritorious deeds.

It was Zhao Gui's thousand households who were sent to Qingzhou to suppress bandits. More than 1,000 people, almost half of the Fengzi camp was emptied at once, and these people came out and drove directly to Yidu County, to be precise, they camped directly near Jianjiazhuang. For the arrival of these people, the people of the Jian family are both happy and worried, happy that these officers and soldiers are here, those bandits must be fleeing from the wind, and they must not dare to come again, worrying that although these officers and soldiers are allocated by the county, but they have heard of the domineering and arrogant arrogance of the officers and soldiers, in case they are eyeing the Jian family, pretending to be a thief in the middle of the night to wash the Zhuangzi, it is not necessarily impossible to do it.

Overnight, the daughter and young son of the family were sent to the state city, and the head of the Jian family, Jian Guodong, was slightly relieved, of course, he was also careful to serve these officers and soldiers, for fear of causing them unhappiness and causing trouble to himself.

Jian Guodong was born as a scholar, and he was a member of the left senator under the political envoy, and he was a governor who learned the Tao, which was from the official position of the four products, and was placed in the locality, no matter where, it can be said that he was a high authority, and later because he was affected by the party struggle between the DPRK and China, he was forced to become a scholar, and then he returned to his hometown to study and raise his children.

It stands to reason that with his net worth and fame, even if he is a Zhishi, he can be a rich man in a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, and his wife can be a rich man peacefully, without having to return to his barren hometown. However, the literati of the Ming Dynasty were officials, unlike military attachés, military attachés were masturbated, that is, they were completely out of order, but even if the civil officials were pushed to the end, as long as the township party in the court recommended them in the same year, they could still "recover".

Jian Guodong is only in his forties this year, less than fifty, although there are twists and turns in his career, he still has no heart to give up, if he goes to Jiangnan, the township party in the court will naturally not pay more attention, you no longer live in Shandong, do you still expect you to rise up and speak for Shandong officials and scholars? Therefore, he still has to go back to his hometown to study behind closed doors in peace, so that he can have a chance to make a comeback.

A few days ago, the bandits attacked, which really made him panic for a while, and he even thought, is this a means used by his former political enemies to come to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots? However, after a period of panic, he also came back to his senses, but he was afraid that he was really just some blind bandits, even if his Zhuangzi couldn't resist it, he just avoided it. However, at that time, Zhuang Ding, the messenger of his letter, had already run where he should run, and, as he wished, the officers and soldiers were also summoned, and even if he wanted to get out of the matter, it was impossible. In this situation, he is a little worried.

If these bandits are not exterminated for a day, won't these officers and soldiers have to stay here, and when the time comes, the local government will not be able to afford the food and salary expenses of these officers and soldiers, and I am afraid that a large part of it will be counted on their own heads, after all, these officers and soldiers are not here to protect their Zhuangzi industry?

However, in the past few days of contact, he found that these officers and soldiers are still kind, the thousand generals who led the troops and the hundreds of households under his command are not any domineering people, although they should eat, drink and take, the other party is not polite at all, but in this way he is a lot more relieved, and now it can only be like this, feed these officers and soldiers, I just hope that they can collect money to do things, then thank God.

"My lord, this errand is really easy, isn't it that Mr. saw that we practiced hard and took special care of everyone!" In the camp tent, a hundred households smiled at Zhao Gui and said, Yu Feng's rules, if it is not necessary, the Fengzi camp is not allowed to enter the residential camp, so even if it is relying on the big village of Jianjiazhuang, it is also a camp built by themselves.

"I've been eating my belly for the past few days!" Zhao Gui scolded with a smile, it was not a military discussion at the moment, and the atmosphere was not very serious, it was nothing more than a few old brothers who were not on duty eating and drinking together.

"Fortunately, take advantage of the opportunity now, eat more, or you have to practice the dead again, the boys under my command are full of spirit, and if you practice less, I'm really afraid that you won't be able to do them!" The hundred households laughed.

"Eat and eat, don't get drunk and delay the business, I don't want to be emotional, I want to march the law!" Zhao Gui admonished, but his mind remembered this time two years ago, when he was still poor, and even selling some illicit salt had to borrow a wheelbarrow from the current hundred families, but now he is leading thousands of imperial court military horses to fight the chaos and thieves.

"Mo Ran, you said that two years ago, could we have thought of today?" Another hundred households said to their companions, they were the first group of people to sell illicit salt with Yu Feng, and now they are all officers of all sizes in Yu Feng's army.

"At that time, if we could have meat to eat, I felt that it was already beautiful, if it wasn't for Mr. with us, wouldn't we all still be boiling salt in our village?"

Everyone was nodding in their hearts, yes, if it weren't for Mr. Yu, the current garrison adult, where would we be poor now.

"By the way, Lord Qianhu, we've been here for a few days, none of the thieves who don't open their eyes are gone, and the little cubs under my command are all screaming, those people in the horse team, what are they eating, for so long, they can't even find the thieves' lair, doesn't this delay the matter of the garrison?"

"Don't worry, you have some hits!" Zhao Gui seemed to be comforting the other party, but his eyes were looking towards the door of the tent, Yu Feng's plan, he knew something, the thief, I am afraid that if he really hits, it will be a big flood that washes the Dragon King Temple. However, some people can be scared and frightened, and adults say that it doesn't hurt to even kill some people. The premise is that as long as they don't go against the adults, they can say anything, and at this moment, isn't it just to wait for the conclusive news from the salt under the adults? Without the guidance of the local salt ding, he didn't even know who he really wanted to deal with, how to start fighting!