Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 238 Yang Menglong's Story of Suppressing Bandits 7
Wuyang Guard implements a division of labor responsibility system, and military households are only responsible for farming. As for fighting, leave it to Han Peng and the others.In Yang Menglong's view, it is difficult to find a system worse than the Weisuo system. It is simply a joke to let a group of military households who have more time to deal with swords and less time to deal with hoes go to war!He made a little modification and distinguished military households from military households. Military households are responsible for supporting soldiers, and soldiers are responsible for protecting military households. At present, two military households are basically supporting a soldier, and everyone relies on each other.

Zhi Duoxing and Man Tianxing were overjoyed when they heard that there was a house and land, and they almost started Yangko.Alas, if they knew that they would come to Nanyang to have a house and land, what would they do, they just surrendered!

In this way, tens of thousands of bandits were wiped out by Yang Menglong without bloodshed. This is truly zero casualties.The rogues happily put down their weapons and returned to their families. Wuyang Wei took out some dried meat to cook soup and shared it with everyone. The soldiers from Shaanxi simply took out their own dry food and distributed it to some hungry little child eating.Their friendly attitude and the Shaanxi dialect in their mouths made the refugees feel more at ease, and everyone quickly got along with each other.When Fang Yishang arrived out of breath, he happened to see Wuyangwei set up another mouthful. He wished he could smash a crumbling pot with a stone, put fried rice and chopped dried meat into it and cook until it was gurgling. There was a noise, and the fragrance was overflowing... Wu Yong, who was at the end of the line after he gave some laxatives and had diarrhea all the way, also rushed to see the scene of the soldiers and bandit family, dumbfounded: "Is this the end of the fight? Tens of thousands of rogues, just settled like this?"

A Jin Yiwei who arrived earlier said: "There was no fight at all! General Yang just let people shoot a few rounds of crossbow arrows, and then fired a few rounds with electric blunderbusses. Then everyone charged with steamed buns on the tip of their guns, and all the rogues surrendered immediately. !"

Wu Yong found it unbelievable: "Is it that simple?"

The Jin Yiwei said, "It's that simple!"

Wu Yong still didn't believe it: "Thousands of bandits were wiped out so easily?"

Jin Yiwei pointed at the bandits who were sniffing around the pot: "They're all here."

Wu Yong was stunned for a long time before he slapped his forehead and sighed: "This is too unbelievable! More than [-] people killed more than [-] rogues in just one meal, without any casualties for himself or the rogues." , How do we write this good news, alas!" That is a distress!
Several Jin Yiwei all curled their lips at the same time... Just pretend, who doesn't know that you are already happy in your heart?Think about that unlucky Yang He, who has been tossing for a whole year, and the rogues are getting more and more tossing. Compared with Yang He, you, the superintendent, are so happy!

At this time, the gate of the city was opened, and Zheng Jing, the magistrate of Xixia County, led the gentry of the county to come out with a gift, and saluted Fang Yizhi vigorously: "Master Futai personally leads the army to break the siege of Xixia, rescue The people of Xixia County are in the midst of water and fire, this kind of high righteousness is rare in the world, and I will thank the government and Taiwan for the people of the whole county!"

The country gentry saluted one after another: "Thank you, Mr. Futai, for personally leading the troops to help. I will never forget the grace of life!"

Fang Yizhi forced a smile and said: "Master Zheng, gentlemen, you don't have to be so polite. As a parent official of Nanyang, Fang has the responsibility to ensure peace in Nanyang. Bandits are raging, besieging the county, and extricating all the people from the overthrow of the county." , I am duty-bound. In fact, I just followed him for a trip. The one who really did the best was the commander of Wuyang Guard, Mr. Yang. If he hadn't led the army to march hundreds of miles a day to lead the troops to come to the rescue, the consequences would have been disastrous. !"

Zheng Jing bowed his hand to Yang Menglong again: "Thank you very much, Commander Yang, for coming to our aid for your righteousness. Thank you very much!"

Yang Menglong waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, this is what I should do. Since I have eaten Nanyang's food, I must keep Nanyang peaceful and owe nothing to anyone."

Zheng Jing said: "The lower officials have ordered the city to prepare a little bouillon to reward the two lords. Two lords, please do me a favor!"

Fang Yizhi has no appetite, he has already made Yang Menglong full.Yang Menglong originally wanted to agree, but suddenly remembered a very important thing, he slapped his head and said, "Well...Master Zheng, I still have very important things to do, just eat, you can borrow some from me first." You don’t need too much food and grass, it’s enough for these 1 rogues to eat until Wuyang, and I’ll pay you back twice as much in the future, I still have something to do, so let’s go first!”

Zheng Jing was taken aback: "Why is Commander Yang in such a hurry? It's hard enough for you to drive hundreds of miles in a few days. Why don't you go to the county town to have a meal and rest for a few days before returning to Wuyang?"

Yang Menglong said with a bitter face: "I would like to rest here for a few days. The problem is that the marriage is not concluded yet..."

Zheng Jing: "..."

Fang Yizhi said angrily: "The wedding date has passed long ago, and you still want to get married? Let's talk about it next year! Although the main force of the rogues has been recruited, there are still many rogues who are still raging. You just go back like this, in case the rogues resurface. What can I do!"

Yang Menglong asked helplessly: "Then what do you think we should do?"

Fang Yizhi said: "Stay here in Xixia County for a few days first, and strike while the iron is hot to wipe out the remaining rogues. At the same time, we will discuss it carefully and come up with a feasible idea on how to settle the rogues."

Yang Menglong shouted: "Do we still need to discuss this? Let them all join the military and then send them to Biyang! There is so much wasteland that can be reclaimed in Biyang that you can't even count it, and there is so much grain stored there. It's hard to digest this Thousands of people will have no problem at all..."

Fang Yizhi glared fiercely: "Are you smart? Send more than 1 people to Biyang. What if they cause rebellion?"

Yang Menglong snorted: "Rebellion? They're trying to make rebellion. If they don't beat them out of shit, I'll count them clean!"

Fang Yizhi almost beat someone up: "I'm not afraid of [-], I'm most afraid of an emergency. This matter must be discussed in the long term, and in the long run!" To put it bluntly, he still wanted to procrastinate, dragging down the war to suppress the bandits, and let the capital of Henan Province There is no chance to transfer Wu Yangwei to the west of Liaoning to die.

Zheng Jing seemed to understand something, and smiled and said to Yang Menglong: "Yes, Mr. Yang, this matter must be considered in the long term... Besides, I also want to ask you for advice on how to manage the place well and improve people's livelihood." .”

Everyone said so, in the spirit of helping people to the end and sending the Buddha to the West, Yang Menglong reluctantly agreed to stay. Zheng Jing was overjoyed, and made a "please" gesture towards the city gate, and said repeatedly "Please" invite Wuyangwei's generals, Fang Yizhi, Wu Yong and others into the city, arrange a big feast, and enjoy the banquet.The country gentry were also very generous, giving out money and food to reward all the officers and soldiers of the Wuyang Guard, and following Yang Menglong's instructions, they gathered a lot of food to make dry food and sent it to the camp, serving them attentively.They were so enthusiastic and wanted nothing else, they just asked Yang Menglong to get rid of the more than 1 rogues as soon as possible, and don't leave any of them in Xixia County. They don't even need the rogues to pay for the burned houses!
Fang Yizhi seriously discussed with Yang Menglong how to place the captives, and put forward many opinions.However, in Yang Menglong's view, our Master Fang is just delaying time, talking so much without any substantive things, and his opinions were rejected without exception, which made him impatient.On the contrary, Zheng Jing was very sincere in discussing with him how to develop the economy of Xixia County... Everyone knows that Yang Menglong has a lot of experience in making money. In just two years, he turned Wuyang, a poor place that is very poor, into a After leaving the rich land, military households as poor as beggars followed him, and their lives were more comfortable than small landlords. After finally catching this cunning treasure, of course, he had to take something out of his mouth.It's just that Xixia County has many mountains and little land, which is a typical remote mountain and remote area. The inherent conditions are not good, and Yang Menglong can't come up with any good solutions.In modern times, you can still raise pheasants, engage in original ecological tourism, etc., but this is the Ming Dynasty, and things like organic rice and free-range chickens are very rare in modern people, and people in this era are not rare at all. , they rarely have a full stomach, what do you ask him to do?In the end, he came up with an unsolvable solution: "Why don't you just burn charcoal in the future? You have so many forests here, so there is great potential for burning charcoal. Steelmaking in Wuyang requires a lot of charcoal. As long as you burn charcoal If you come out, you will be able to make money. But don’t keep chopping hard, just plant it back if you cut off a piece, try to cut down as much as possible, otherwise, after more than ten years, all the mountains will be pushed into bald heads, and you should cry By the way, you can also grow some fruits, such as dogwood, kiwi, etc., which can make money. In addition, don’t waste the wild medicinal materials on the mountain. Pick them to make pills and ointments, too. It can make money!"

Zheng Jing wrote down these one by one excitedly, as to how much of it will be put into practice, it is unknown.

The progress of exterminating the remaining rogue bandits went smoothly beyond Fang Yizhi's imagination. Yang Menglong just released some small rogue leaders and asked them to wander around the countryside with bags of steamed buns, and soon brought back groups of rogue bandits. , Two days later, I didn’t even need to bring these few bags of steamed buns. Those small groups of rogues scattered in Xixia County scrambled towards the county, and then happily put down their weapons and walked into the prison camp...a ​​total of more than [-] The celebrity gangsters were wiped out in one go, and they also shot a real zero casualties. The news spread, and Henan was shocked!
In fact, the group of rogues that Yang Menglong bumped into was considered lucky, but the group that ran into Shunde Mansion in Hebei was not so lucky.

(End of this chapter)