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Li San is a pseudonym. He originally committed some crimes and became a knight errant. Later, he was recruited by Fu Ruwei to serve as the leader of the entourage.

Since Queshan County was occupied by rebels, it was an enemy-occupied area. It would be dangerous to investigate, so Fu Ruwei asked Li San to bring a few followers to do it.

Li San, who was lean but with piercing eyes, walked in, clasped his fists to Fu Ruwei and said, "Master Fu, those rebels in Tianmu Mountain are really amazing!"

Although Fu Ruwei knew something about Liu Sheng and others through letters sent from some gentry in Queshan County, he was still surprised when he heard Li San's words.

When Li San was a ranger, he traveled far and wide and gained a lot of experience. After he served in various places, he also gained a certain understanding of officialdom and court affairs.

It is not easy to get Li San to evaluate him as "amazing".

Li Sandao: "We disguised ourselves as refugees and arrived outside Queshan County, and found that the thieves were actually helping refugees.

This is not unusual. When rebels started to rebel, many rebels in the world would open warehouses to stockpile grain and use this to recruit troops.

But this group of rebels is very organized in helping refugees, stating that only those who join the rebels can receive relief.

Moreover, the hungry people were arranged in groups of ten households to line up around the city wall. I heard that they had rescued 20,000 refugees without causing any chaos.

After a few days of relief, the refugees will be taken south by their formation, saying that they will move to the mountains to cultivate wasteland and farm, so as to ensure that they will not starve to death. "

Seeing Fu Ruwei frowning, Li San stopped.

An aide on the side said: "This group of rebels came from Tianmu Mountain. They had previously brought thousands of people into the mountain, and now they are moving people into the mountain?

Tianmu Mountain is only so big, but I heard that there are many rocks and ravines in the mountain and the land is barren, so it is not suitable for reclamation at all. How could the rebels be so unwise? "

Fu Ruwei narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "This group of rebels moved more than a few thousand people - they captured the front of Queshan, and there were 10,000 to 20,000 hungry people outside the county. In the end, they all moved away."

"Ten thousand or twenty thousand?!" The staff was dumbfounded in shock.

Fu Ruwei pondered and said: "Either these rebels say they are moving to cultivate villages, but they are actually hiding in the mountains and using the stolen food to train troops.

Or they not only occupied Tianmu Mountain, but Tongshan Mountain in the west, Langshan Mountain, Dahu Mountain in the north, and even the northern part of Tongbai Mountain in the south, may have become the force of this bandit. "

The staff member said: "Other rebels, after capturing a county, will quickly become corrupted and fall apart.

Or in order to cope with the encirclement and suppression by the official army, they recruited troops on a large scale, or even coerced refugees and continued to attack other towns.

Why do the Tianmu Mountain rebels still want to develop into the mountains? Could it be that his leader just wants to be the king of the mountain? "

Fu Ruwei said: "If the bandit leader only wants to be the king of the mountain, why bother to move the people into the mountains?

I'm afraid that this bandit leader is a wise man. He is worried that if he shows up now, he will be surrounded and suppressed by the government's heavy troops, so he huddles in the mountains to cultivate troops and wait for the opportunity.

What is even more frightening is that after the bandit leader Liu Sheng entered Queshan County, he did not plunder wantonly, but maintained order.

In the end, he selected a few notorious wealthy households to confiscate their homes and exterminate their families, and threatened other wealthy households to donate money and food. At the end, I also wrote a thank you letter and asked the residents of the wealthy family to write a reply as a reference.

Since I came to the throne, rebels and thieves have risen and fallen in the world. I don’t know how many thieves have appeared, but this is the first time I have heard of such a scheming one.

If this son is not eliminated, I am afraid that he will be more troublesome than Li Chuang and the Eight Kings in the future, and he may become a serious problem for the imperial court! "

Having said this, Fu Ruwei looked at Li San and asked, "Can you find out how many soldiers and horses the rebels have? How many are deployed in Queshan County?"

Li Sandao: "The thieves do not allow refugees to enter the city, and my subordinates do not know the deployment of troops in the city.

However, the thieves have trained two thousand civilian warriors outside the city, and have recruited young and strong refugees as civilian servants. It is estimated that there will be no shortage of troops in the city. "

"Alas!" When Fu Ruwei heard this, he knew that it was really difficult to kill Liu Sheng and others, so he said, "This matter must be discussed with Zhu Tongpuan and the others."

Although he is the prefect of Runing, he is not the only official in Runing, and he cannot resist the pressure alone.

Wang Shizong, who happened to be on patrol in southern Henan Province, came to Ruyang a few days ago.

He invited this person and the government magistrate Zhu Guobao, Ruyang County Magistrate Wen Shiyi, and the two guerrillas Cui Zhen and Shen Wandeng who were currently in charge of the Fucheng camp to come to the government office to discuss matters.

After the five people arrived and the servants served tea, Fu Ruwei told them about the capture of Queshan County by Tianmu Mountain rebels and what Liu Sheng had done in Queshan.

After listening, except for the two generals, the other three civil servants frowned.

Wang Shizong spoke up first: "This beast is indeed dangerous. Once it gets big, it will be difficult to control."

Fu Ruwei immediately said: "I also feel that this beast is dangerous, and I want to kill it directly with heavy troops before it grows strong, so as to avoid future troubles.

However, Wang Yingtai was incompetent and sacrificed more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Tianmu Mountain. Now the government really cannot gather enough troops.

I wonder if Wang Qianshi can join me in submitting a report to Governor Li to explain the situation in Runing and ask the governor to send troops for support? "

Hearing this, Wang Shizong looked embarrassed.

"Brother Yu Xuan (named as Fu Ru) didn't know that Yang Sichang had previously taken many troops from Henan to Sichuan in order to encircle and suppress rogue bandits such as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

But this year, giant bandits have emerged in various places in Henan. There are Li Jiyu, Shen Jingbang, Ren Chen, and Zhang Ding in Henan Prefecture, Xiao Yingxun in Nanyang Prefecture, and dozens of groups of rebels such as Guo Huanglian and Zhang Changji in the east.

Those with strong power can follow tens of thousands; those with weak power can number hundreds or even thousands, but they are as numerous as ox hair and can be suppressed endlessly.

In addition, powerful landowners from various places also formed strongholds to resist taxes and refused to listen to tax calls. Li Futai only had 3,000 Futai around him, and he was already in dire straits.

It happened that a few days ago, another news came that Li Chuang appeared in the Lu family area of ​​Henan Prefecture.

Although the news has not yet been confirmed to be true or false, Li Futai did not dare to neglect at all - given the current situation in Henan, if Li Chuang is allowed to join many bandits, they may sweep across the land of Zhongzhou again.

Therefore, I came to Runing to recruit troops and food. Li Futai needs soldiers, horses, money and food even more. "

When Wang Shizong said these words, the hall suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

After a few breaths, Fu Ruwei asked in a solemn voice: "Didn't you say that Li Chuang was beaten the year before last and only a dozen of his riders were left and fled into Shangluo Mountain? How could he appear in Henan again?"

Ruyang County Magistrate Literary Yi also couldn't help but ask: "Could it be other thieves who used Li Chuang's name?"

Wang Shizong sighed, "The authenticity of this matter is indeed open to question, but it is true that Li Chuang broke out from Shangluo Mountain while the imperial army was encircling Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai."

Hearing this, Wen Shiyi said angrily: "We have an army of hundreds of thousands, and they have spent countless money and food in several years, but they can't wipe out Li Chuang? Even Zhang and Luo are still wreaking havoc in Sichuan. Yang Sichang is really incompetent!"

No one took Wen Shiyi's words.

The things here are very complicated, involving party strife in the imperial court, corruption from the central government to the local government, some generals who are afraid of war and greedy for merit, lack of cooperation at the local level, and many other issues.

Yang Sichang's incompetence in united front was only one aspect.

However, although Yang Sichang was not very good at suppressing bandits, he was a good hand at fighting in court. He had gained the trust of Emperor Chongzhen before and impeached anyone.

Therefore, until Yang Sichang falls out of favor, little fish and shrimps like him will not dare to criticize him casually.