Chapter 127: Suppressing Bandits

Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, the soldiers stationed in various places always come out to inspect, saying that they want to suppress bandits and quell the rebellion. In fact, they are collecting New Year goods from all over the country and spending the New Year well is not much different from the nature of the common people buying New Year goods.

Local officials usually give some money to deal with this kind of blackmail. Shandong's prefectures and counties are still poor, so who will serve you big-headed soldiers?

But the problem this time is different. Who is Li Meng? The magistrate and the magistrate knows it. They vaguely know that behind him is the background of the eunuch in the capital. Moreover, Li Meng is the richest position in Laizhou Prefecture, and there are thousands of soldiers who are like wolves and tigers under his command.

If you have such a rich character, you can't afford to offend him. How much money does it take to get rid of someone? It's really a headache for a group of people.

Li Meng had already decided to send troops to suppress bandits on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. During this period, local officials in various places were anxious. While cursing in their hearts that they would not live a peaceful life for a year, they wanted to find out how much money they would pay for this time. The incident of Li Shoujiu asking Juren to go to the Jiaozhou Prefecture to propose marriage was rumored in Laizhou Prefecture. As a result, from late November to early December, envoys from various prefectures and counties ran towards the Jiaozhou Prefecture.

Yan Zhizhou was really amused and crying. The group of people thought that since they proposed marriage, it was the same thing whether they agreed or not. The relationship must be relatively close. They all came to ask how much money or support they had given to the army was appropriate. They also said that since it was such a close relationship, could they persuade them, and they should not go out during the Chinese New Year.

If civilians or others come to ask, no matter how good the temper is, Yan Zhizhou has to drive people out. However, these are all officials and colleagues in the government. They have many things to take care of each other, and it is difficult to put them down. Yan Zhizhou will do things, so he simply pushed them to Tongzhi. Wu Tongzhi also received a smile, and he swears that the soldiers in Jiaozhou camp have strict military disciplines and will never harass the local area. Please rest assured by all prefectures and counties.

Of course, no one will believe this.

Compared with the small fights in Shandong, Henan can be described as magnificent. Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong jointly camped for 60 miles, and met at Longmen and Baisha. He fought with the government army and defeated Zu Kuan's troops.

Except for the first few generations, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were all enclosed in the city and could not go out. Although they were doing bad things in the city, it was very appropriate to say that they were locked in a large prison. In such an environment, these royal relatives received high-level education on the one hand, while on the other hand, they did not have any normal development in their personality, emotional intelligence, and treatment of people and things, or were very distorted and perverted, or were ignorant and fearless. Of course, there are other explanations, which are called naiveness.

Zhu Yunyao is similar to this. After knowing that her identity was exposed, she was not panicked or alert. Instead, she asked Li Meng that since she understood everything, could she arrange a few people for her? The princess wanted to go to the beach to see the scenery. She hadn't seen the sea yet?

It is the time to use troops. Fengmeng Town, Yanchang, the entire Yantian, Yanchang, is on guard carefully. Of course, the princess is not afraid to let go such an important person. Li Meng is also a little depressed. This girl is not afraid of herself at all.

In fact, there are dangers everywhere in the palace and every step is terrifying. People who grew up in this environment have more or less a sense of grasp and intuition about the good and evil of people's hearts. Zhu Yunyao had long believed that Li Meng could not harm her, and she was a little doting. This kind of doting can do all kinds of things she wanted to do. Of course, this kind of doting actually made the princess of Zhu Yunyao's Zhou palace feel quite uncomfortable, because it is similar to the brother's indulgence on his sister.

Li Meng simply refused Zhu Yunyao's request to follow her to suppress the bandits and pacify the thieves, and ordered the families of Liaodong craftsmen to take her seriously and not be allowed to run around.

Yan Zhizhou was annoying to ask for the price, while Li Meng had another annoying scene. The official documents of Jiaozhou Camp were only written between various prefectures and counties. Such military operations were also classified documents. Who would have thought that the official documents were sent out within five days, and people from all over the country would come. Calculate the people coming from all over the country, which happened to be the way back after the official documents were delivered. This news was probably two days at most in the yamen, and it was delivered directly to others. No wonder some people said, "Only the ship of the government leaked water on it."

What's even more annoying is that these people know that Li Meng is not in Jiaozhou City or Yingtou at present, but in the Lijia Manor in Fengmeng Town.

Who are the people who come here? The gentry and powerful people from all over the country, the landlords and bullies in the local area, each of them has more or less thugs, as well as the strong men and families who can be pulled out to fight at critical moments, etc. They are all rich and powerful characters in the local area.

The local tyrants who had been obedient to Li Mengyan, that is, those who had a clear position in the private salt system, made profits in it and knew the interests of salt ding, so they respected and did not dare to have any unfair intentions. Recently, they began to be respectful to Li Meng. The powerful people in Jimo area of ​​Jiaozhou were also considered to be the most important village in the local area. They were easily wiped out. It was also very effective when people who had seen great people come back and promote them.

The rest, such as those in Pingduzhou and Gaomi, cannot fight with Jiaozhou Baganzi. I heard about Li Erlang and Yanding team, and knew that I could not afford to offend them, so I took it as a stay away from them, but I didn’t have any respect. These people have always colluded with the yamen. When they heard the news of sending troops to suppress bandits, they thought it was a routine purchase of New Year goods, and no one took it seriously, and some careful people went out to inquire.

It would be fine if I didn't ask, but I was shocked when I asked. Xiazhuang beat horse thieves and Jimo beat Sanqingguan. Some of these news were controlled and not spread, but some had not spread yet. However, they were all fellow villagers in the village and could not find out anything. When they heard that Li Meng and Jiaozhouying were so strong, and they were so cruel to take action. They were all panicked.

If you want to suppress the bandits, what a god is this group of people? The official bandits and the soldiers and bandits are just a description. The real collusion with the bandits and horses is the powerful people in these places.

In addition to the traitors from other places, those strong men who opened villages and set up cabinets in the local area are not locals, and it is not realistic to raise supplies in the villages by looting. They still have to rely on these big families to provide them. There are also those horse bandits and horse gangs. Although they come and go like the wind, those horses also need stables and people also need to have a place to sleep. They must not be in a wilderness. The stolen goods that need to be looted from the base must be sold and distributed by local powerful people. The two sides can be said to be very closely integrated.

The local tyrants have families and careers, and some things are too blatant to do, and they always need people to be knives. These Xiangma clans are naturally the best choice. The powerful people also have to make plans and preparations for themselves when they see that the world is not good now, and they also have to let their children go up the mountain to establish villages.

There were many similar situations in this kind of thing in the late Qing Dynasty. For example, the Nian Army. Most of these Nianzi were not extremely poor farmers, but landlords and land-owned classes in Shandong and Hebei. They farm during the busy farming season and formed Nianzi as units for battle and looting during the slack season. The so-called "when entering, they serve the people, and when they go out, they are Nian."

It is precisely because of the collusion between local tyrants and bandits that as long as the troops were sent to conquer and suppress them, these people who had many relationships in the yamen always received the news at the first time, and immediately scattered birds and beasts, or transformed into family members of local wise men. In this case, even if they were sincerely executed, there would be no results.

The collusion between the upper and lower levels is so close that the disaster will be even more and more serious. This is why the people in Shandong have never stopped since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the powerful representatives who came to Fengmeng Town outside the Lijia Manor were extremely humble. They said that they had long admired Lord Li's name of benevolence and righteousness. Now that the year is approaching, I will come to visit the filial piety.

Li Meng disappeared from these people, but just mobilized troops to raise food and grass. Seeing the murderous and elite soldiers (in the eyes of these tyrants), the local tyrant representatives waiting outside became more and more panicked.

Businesses of Fengmeng Town all hope that Li Meng will never pay attention to these people, because the longer these people stayed in Fengmeng Town, the more money they spent. These people failed to seek a meeting and always had to drink, prostitutes and gambling, which really made the local economy prosperous. Zhang Butuhu’s casino made another payment. Speaking of which, he found out that he had to buy news from these people and earned their money. This business was really happy.

The relationship between the powerful landlords is quite complicated, and they always have some relationships when they talk about it. I don’t know how some people inquire about it. They actually found a relationship with the two shopkeepers stationed in Fengmeng Town, Wang Kong’s family, Wenru Trading Company. Although the current identities of these two shopkeepers are far from Li Meng, after all, with Wenru Trading Company’s face, Li Meng finally felt relieved and said that he would meet you on the third day of the twelfth lunar month.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a New Year atmosphere in the large courtyard of Fengmeng Town next to Lijia Manor. Although the wind was so cold, more than a hundred people were waiting there. Everyone had a very solemn face, and they didn't even have the polite attitude of saying hello to each other.

They didn't wait too long. Soon four soldiers trot into the yard with spears, stood at the gate and shouted:
Chapter completed!