For Zhu Lingjing, she is also a little tricky now.

At the beginning, Zhou Changfeng impressed her too deeply, and she really didn't want to miss it. So he used disgraceful means to cook the raw rice into rice, which now seems to be a bit hasty.

Although it is considered to have taken people into their pockets, they are not convinced, which is a side effect, which can be said to greatly reduce their trust in themselves.

Bold and shrewd, she knows that such a person is difficult to control, but if she succeeds, she can play a huge role far beyond ordinary mediocrity.

The right-hand man is naturally not expensive, and it is better to raise a group of people who are busy than a few wizards, Zhu Lingjing has always believed in this.

Therefore, during this time, when she was doing business, she was also thinking about how to make up for her previous mistakes in order to mend the relationship between the two parties, so as to end Zhou Changfeng's current state of "being in Cao Ying's heart in Han".

Sending money is just a simple temptation, because according to common sense, this kind of person is unlikely to be a money fan, and it is not easy to be bought by money, the best way is to give an ideal goal, but Zhu Lingjing has not yet tested what kind of lofty pursuit Zhou Changfeng has.

A complete hypocrisy of the constitution? Restore the prestige of the Celestial Empire? Make people's lives richer?

Which one is it?

At the time of the New Year's Festival, the domain of Kyushu is all celebrated, and it can be called a scene of singing and dancing.

There are no wars, no natural disasters, no disasters, and there are really not many pursuits of ordinary people, so just live a peaceful and stable life and have a head.

But will there be a time of complete peace in the world? There will always be people who are depressed and distressed, and even suffer calamity.

There is a joyous scene of the New Year inside and outside the city of Yiling Prefecture, and there are also red lanterns hanging on the tower of the city gate. This day is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, although the atmosphere of the New Year has gradually faded, and most people's work and life have returned to normal, but there are still some people who are still stringing relatives.

There were many hitchhikers on the trucks, and the same was true behind the smoky tractors.

But in this seemingly peaceful environment, a catastrophe struck.

"There are thieves!"

"The bandits are coming north!"

After a brief moment of consternation, the people on the dirt roads in the countryside fled in panic, but soon most of them chose to run to the city.

A group of bandits, dressed in disheveled clothes and looking vicious, came from the dirt road to the north.

The dozen or so men led by them rode horses, while the rest of the 200-odd men were on foot, carrying guns of different models and constantly shouting words such as "grab a pass" and "run away when you are done."

Although they are a rabble in terms of clothing, a closer look at their movements and actions can be described as decent.

Several townships outside the state city were swept by them, and after firing a few shots to disperse the people, they swept away the valuable goods.

The action was quite swift, very decisive, and unobtrusive, how could a handful of local patrolmen possibly resist it?

As a result, these more than 200 thieves entered a no-man's land, and even rushed to the markets and residential areas around the state city.

"Run! What else are you doing? Don't want to die?! ”

Some small traders were reluctant to make their own stalls and wanted to clean up a few more times, but they were dragged away by others.

"Bang! Bang! ”

More than a dozen bandits trying to loot a jewelry store exchanged fire with the security guards inside, and gunfire rang out from both sides.

However, the security guards, who were outnumbered by only four people, were currently too weak in rifles and light machine guns.

"Damn, are you very fat, dare to hurt Lao Tzu?"

"Let's disembowel these things, let Lao Tzu see if they have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall!"

A hideous-looking bandit kicked the dying security guard, who was lying in a pool of blood, and then reached out to greet him.

A few bandits who were smashing the counter and rummaging through the cabinets to fill the bags with gold, silver and jewels stopped what they were doing, pulled out their knives and walked over......

This was also happening in other markets and residential areas to the west of the state city, where gunshots, screams, and screams rang out one after another.

The house that was set on fire was on fire, and black smoke billowed into the sky.

The Yi'an army of Yiling Prefecture was stationed on the outskirts of the city in the east, more than ten miles away, and after a lengthy assembly, receiving ammunition, assigning tasks, and setting off, when a team of Yi'an troops arrived, this group of bandits had just converged and was about to leave.

The two sides immediately engaged in a fierce exchange of fire, and the dense gunfire was incessant, making the people in the city tremble.

The Yi'an Army, which is only equipped with light weapons, cannot be compared with regular field units in terms of firepower, let alone come in a hurry at the moment, without heavy machine guns and mortars.

Even because the vast majority of the Yi'an army are new recruits, they are completely incomparable with these "battle-hardened" bandits in terms of sophistication and trickery.

So in the short shooting, these more than 100 people couldn't suppress the bandits on the opposite side?

In this way, after holding each other for a quarter of an hour, the more than 200 bandits quickly withdrew and retreated towards the boundless mountains and mountains to the north.

Fearing that the bandits knew the terrain well, the Yi'an army gave up the pursuit - if they were ambushed deep into the mountains, it would be a shame.

The sudden attack by bandits in Yiling Prefecture was soon truthfully reported, and Zhizhou, who had only been in office for a few months, was very unlucky.

"It's ridiculous! Doesn't it mean that the Hubei bandits have already been swept away? Pay close attention to it, and submit it as soon as you have details. ”

Not only was the emperor furious, but also the officials of the court and the central government were extremely helpless, and this matter caused an uproar.

Why is this bandit always unclean? After each attack, it is reported that it has been extinguished, but after a year or two, a new bandit will appear, and it will really become "wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows again"?

The history of bandits is really long, and in the Ming Dynasty, this ancient profession that has existed for thousands of years is still practiced by some people today.

Without it, only the ear is happy!

And there's no chance to wash your hands.

In fact, many bandits in all dynasties were a hodgepodge, and the vast majority of them were peasants who were temporarily bandits because of their bad years and poor livelihoods.

In fact, only a few people are really determined to regard it as a lifelong career, but they are also the most difficult to deal with, the ancient government because of the limited control of the local government, often unable to exterminate the clean, some local counties and prefectures will even form a tacit understanding with them "you don't loot with much fanfare, I don't call troops to suppress".

In the later Ming Dynasty, the chaos of the decades before and after the turn of the century more or less increased the number of people engaged in this profession, but as everything stabilized, this once popular profession tended to be unpopular again.

Since ancient times, western Hubei and Xiangxi have been places where bandits are rampant, because of the high mountains and dense forests, the terrain is complex, it is difficult for the army to clear out, and the local people are often threatened not to reveal the bandits' traces, so it is even more difficult to suppress bandits.

From the beginning of the eighth year of Zhichang, the imperial court was determined to eliminate the bandits in the north and south of the river, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were successively put into the task of suppressing bandits, and the results were quite remarkable, and the banditry in most areas was solved in just a few years.

However, western Hubei and Xiangxi have been going back and forth, and they can't be cleaned up no matter how they are suppressed.

For more than 20 years, the bandits and the Ming army have fought wits and courage, advanced and retreated, and repeatedly tug-of-war, and the bandits have not been completely eradicated.

However, because the construction of the grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty tends to be complete and modernized, the scope of the bandits' activities has been greatly reduced, and they only dare to survive in the deep mountains and old forests, because it is easy to attract encirclement and suppression when they go out of the mountains.

In this way, the tenacity, ferocity, and tenacity of the bandits who have been able to persist so far can be imagined, and the attack on Yiling Prefecture is such a remnant of the bandits, which can be described as extremely experienced.

(End of chapter)