Chapter 146: An Ren's Story (2)

In order to stop the increasingly serious trend of escaping, Qin An adopted various methods, but to no avail, and the bandits under his command were still decreasing day by day, which made him more and more decadent. On this day, Jiang Bao came to him and offered him a plan. Although Jiang Bao offered a lot of strategies to try to stop the escape during this time, but to no avail, Qin An still trusted him very much. It's just that Jiang Bao's words this time made his face extremely difficult to look at. It turned out that Jiang Bao suggested sending his henchmen to the Thunderbolt Army's cantonment to inquire about the situation, and instigated the people who plotted against the cantonment point to return the way of others, and the person who wanted to take the risk was Jiang Bao himself. In Qin An's opinion, this strategy was just Jiang Bao's golden cicada shell plan, but he still nodded after a long silence and said, "You go, you and my brother have a ......", seeing Jiang Bao trying to explain, he interrupted his words again and said, "No need to say more!" After saying that, he turned around and walked into the grass hut. Seeing this, Jiang Bao had to sigh and walk towards the Thunderbolt Army cantonment point.

Qin An didn't believe that Jiang Bao would betray him, or he didn't want to believe it deep down. Therefore, although he strongly disapproved of Jiang Bao going to Tunken to take risks, he still agreed, and he kept convincing himself in his heart that Jiang Bao would return soon. It's just that Jiang Bao didn't come back after three days, and Jiang Bao didn't come back after five days. On the seventh day, Jiang Bao still hadn't returned, which made him really desperate. After all, as long as Jiang Bao is willing to come back, it will only take half an hour. Unwillingly, he sent a few more henchmen, but these people were also meat buns and dogs - there was no return. It is said that not long after Jiang Bao arrived at the cantonment point, he understood why people kept fleeing - the situation on the two sides was completely different. In terms of dwelling, although the houses in the reclamation site are also made of reeds and straw, the sleeping ground is covered with thick straw in addition to dry ash to prevent moisture, which is much more comfortable than the dwelling in the swamp. As the second master, the conditions of the shack are much stronger than those of ordinary bandits, but they are also extremely narrow and damp, and the reed walls are always hung with water droplets; In terms of food, as long as the amount of labor can be completed, the cantonment point can eat enough, and if the amount of labor is in the forefront, you can still eat meat - although there are only a few slices, it is enough to envy people. If these conditions were not enough to attract the displaced people, then the Perak Army's policy of the uniform field system was a proper weapon of mass destruction. This policy stipulates that those who defect can become citizens after passing the examination, and each citizen can be granted 30 acres of wasteland, which will be privately owned after three years of cultivation. Seeds and agricultural tools are provided by the reclamation sites, and are deducted annually after the grain is harvested. You must know that this is the land of abundance, according to the normal year, each mu of land can harvest at least more than four or five hundred catties of rice and more than two hundred catties of wheat, thirty acres of land is more than 20,000 catties per year, which is a huge wealth. As for the conditions of the Thunderbolts, the surplus grain was sold to the officials at a parity price. This kind of previous dynasties and dynasties have no preferential conditions, which naturally makes the displaced people flock to it, and it also makes Jiang Bao very excited. Of course, this kind of heartbeat will naturally not be revealed when he instigates rebellion.

In order to instigate the rebellion and attract people to go to the swamp to become bandits, Jiang Bao also moved out the weapon of mass murder - the Mongols will come to retaliate, and the cantonment points will be left without tiles under burning and looting. For his remarks, the people in the reclamation point did not think so: at least they can eat enough in front of them, and it is the right thing to keep themselves from starving to death first, and as for the future, let's take one step at a time. Some people even joked that if the Mongolian army destroyed the reclamation site, the rat nest in the swamp would not be able to escape. In fact, the Thunderbolts were also very cautious about the selection of reclamation points, most of which were in places with convenient transportation such as waterways and swamps, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. In order to prevent a small group of Mongol cavalry from harassing them, in addition to being protected by earthen walls and several trenches, many criss-crossing ditches were dug around the perimeter of the village in conjunction with irrigation and water conservancy projects, and the next step would be to upgrade the earthen fence into a dual-use fortress. Jiang Bao also knew in his heart that the cantonment point equipped with firearms was definitely a difficult bone to gnaw, and it would make a small group of Mongolian cavalry take a detour.

Jiang Bao stayed at the reclamation point and did not worry about it, but had a feeling of "being happy here, not thinking about it". In fact, in the past few days, his secret co-optation and rebellion also made the management of the reclamation site feel abnormal, and he was interrogated many times, but he was prevaricated by his sharp teeth. There are many of his original accomplices in this reclamation point, but these people have the mentality of "the eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother", and Jiang Bao treats his subordinates very well, so no one reported him. He wanted to stay in the cantonment site for a few more days, eat a few more days and eat enough before going back, but this wish was shattered by the news that General Cao was about to come to Anren County to suppress bandits. During the few days he stayed at the cantonment site, Jiang Bao heard a lot of news, not only knowing the great achievements of the Perak army in resisting Mongolia, but also learning that the bandits in the neighboring counties of Yizheng and Dayi were wiped out one after another under the extermination of Cao Ergou. The bandits were either beheaded, kneeling and begging to surrender, and a few were far away. There are many bandits in Dayi's Heming Mountain, and they rely on the high mountains and dangerous roads, not only the court officials and soldiers are helpless, but even the Mongolian army has to buy some face, and they are also wiped out under the blows of the Thunderbolt army, and I heard that the heads of several bandit leaders are still hanging on the heads of Dayi City. He knew that as long as the Thunderbolt army attacked, the accomplices who were surrounded in the swamp had no choice but to die. To say that Jiang Bao is also a lover, he didn't want to watch Qin An and his brothers die in vain, so he secretly ran back at night and persuaded Qin An to surrender the Thunderbolt army.

When Jiang Bao returned to the bandits' den in the swamp, he found that there were only more than sixty people left, and the rest couldn't stand the hunger and secretly ran away. Qin An did not stop them from escaping, but gave these yellow-faced and thin-skinned men a way to live, which for him was like "it is going to rain, and my mother is going to marry" cannot be disobeyed. Deep down, he was tired of licking blood from the knife and being hungry. It's just that I heard that the Thunderbolt army is extremely heavy on the bandits, and I, as the leader of the bandits, may not be in a different place. Under the shadow of death, where did he dare to throw himself into the net. Jiang Bao's return made him overjoyed, and the brotherly relationship will never be abandoned. Jiang Bao gave a detailed description of the situation at the cantonment site, and analyzed the current situation and the policy of the Thunderbolt army to him, especially the policy of "confessing leniency and resisting strictly", he finally bit his heart and took the remaining bandits to the cantonment point with Jiang Bao to surrender. Because of the big matter, the person in charge of the Thunderbolt Army in the cantonment point did not dare to make his own decisions, and brought him and Jiang Bao to the person in charge of Anren City. Since Ouyang Xuan's official identity was still the Yongkang County Order, the officials of the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Thunderbolt Army could not be called by the imperial court, but only replaced by the person in charge. The person in charge of Anren County is called Yang San, that is, the inventor of the "Yang San Cultivation Method", who was previously the person in charge of agricultural technology at the Huaguoshan Reclamation Point, and was appointed as the person in charge of Anren County this time. He went from a poor man in Dayi City to the lord of a county in just over a year, in addition to his outstanding performance, it was also because Ouyang Xuan used this example to tell others that meritocracy in the Perak Army was meritocracy, regardless of origin.

Yang San ordered people to conduct a detailed investigation of the situation of Qin An, Jiang Bao and the swamp bandits. During the investigation, according to the principle of presumption of innocence, the two men were allowed to work and live normally in the cantonment site with their subordinates. After investigation, the swamp bandits also robbed on a large scale, but there were few bloodsheds and injuries, and they also killed Mongols and traitors. Qin An and Jiang Bao did not have any lives in their hands, nor did they order the killing of the people, and the lives of their subordinates were all done in private, and they had no direct relationship with the two. Yang San ordered the above situation to be reported to the Perak Military Department for review. The Thunderbolt Army did not have a well-established judicial system in its early days, and such criminal matters needed to be reported to the headquarters for decision.

A few days later, the Thunderbolt Army Headquarters replied: "Qin An and Jiang Bao were forced by life to resist the crime of robbery, and they surrendered, so they were sentenced to nine years and five years of hard labor respectively. Except for those who committed bloody crimes, the rest of the bandits will not be investigated...... "The ending of Qin An and Jiang Bao is just a microcosm of each gang. After a series of thunderous blows, by the end of September there were no more bandits under the Thunderbolts.