Uncle Guo

Lin Mingcheng took Yu Anyi to inspect the household registration in the name of making a medical visit. Lin Mingcheng had already looked through the household registration register recorded in the county government. He went to the county to check to find out how many bandits were on the mountain, which families had collusion with the bandits, and Which families have enmity with bandits.

Master Bai first stopped him, saying that the previous county magistrate had already checked it out, so he took another list and presented the names of the bandits in each mountain and village, their temperament, their proficiency in weapons, whether they had been recruited by the imperial court, etc. Lin Mingcheng looked.

Liang Xuanchen said: "This will get twice the result with half the effort, and I will visit the village tomorrow. If there are any bandits' wives and children who are still in the village, they will all be arrested and let them go down the mountain to claim them. The bandits in each village first killed each other. It is difficult to attack their own brothers. However, the villages are like dragons and tigers. Each side has a rift with each other. Otherwise, they would have united in one place. The wives and children allowed them to take them up the mountain. The eyeliner in this village will also be pulled out, and if there are officials in the yamen who are the eyeliner of the bandits, we will release the true and false news, and catch those who go up the mountain to inform us, so that we can get rid of these spies before we can deploy them properly How to suppress bandits."

Master Bai said to Lin Mingcheng: "It seems that you brought a master here yourself, and Bai is willing to bow down. It's just that if you touch other people's wives and children, they will also come to touch the county magistrate."

After all, the bones of the previous county magistrate are still alive.

Liang Xuanchen said: "As for Master Lin's safety, we can only stay together all the time, take care of each other more, and let the officials in the yamen be more vigilant."

Seeing Liang Xuanchen and Lin Mingcheng's hands clasped together, Master Bai knew it, so he didn't point it out.

On the second day, Lin Mingcheng took Yu Anyi, Di Kong, Shui Kong and others together to observe the sentiments of the people, and at the same time hung the pot to help the world. He had just treated the villagers before, but the officials in the yamen at the back would have people who were bandits on the mountain, no matter male or female. Young and old, they were all brought back and put in prison.After a few days, the notice will be posted, and the new official of Linzhi County will take office three times. He wants to control the banditry in Lingshan. Anyone who occupies the mountain as a king and loses the grass as a bandit will come to the court to accept the imperial court's call for security.This certificate was the first of the other bandits on the nearby mountain.

At this time, a lot of people were arrested, and the prison cells of the county government were ready-made, but how to support hundreds of people?The county grandpa's family doesn't have much food.

Liang Xuanchen said again: "The bandits don't plow the fields and don't weave cloth. They rely on robbery for food and clothing. Now the mountain has to harvest herbs and then plant a wave of late rice. It is expected that there is not much rice left on the mountain. It is time to go down the mountain. Let's Gather the food of the common people in one place first, and when they come to rob, set up an ambush and finish off a batch first, and the food collected is just right for the wives and children of these bandits, so there is no need to force them, just take these people together with the food from their families Just bring it here. If there are big households who are worried about being robbed at home, they can also bring the grain to the county government, and we will record it in the account book and keep it for us."

Lin Mingcheng said: "We only have this few people. Can we keep the food? There are officials in the county government colluding with the bandits. If there are too many bandits who come and steal the food, how will we explain to the people?" ?”

Liang Xuanchen said: "Besides the officials and bandits, there are still people who can rely on. Gather the people in the village. The hoes and rakes in the house are all weapons. A team of ten people and a team of a hundred people will monitor day and night. Those who have meritorious service will be rewarded heavily and those who are guilty will be punished heavily. Forget it, a group of ten people will all be dragged into the yamen to beat the board, for the purpose of sitting together."

Master Bai said: "Isn't this bad? I'm afraid Mr. Lin will be hated by others and follow in the footsteps of his predecessor."

Liang Xuanchen said: "Master, can there be a better way? It has always been the most difficult to deal with self-stealing, but let them restrain each other and monitor each other, wouldn't it save trouble and effort? After all, we only have this little manpower, and we don't rely on the people, and the people themselves don't care. Fighting, when will the banditry be eliminated? Don't worry, if you really find out that there are bandits colluding, they will punish you first without us doing it yourself."

Liang Xuanchen led Master Bai to go out in person, relying on tricks and abductions, he really collected all the food from the big households in the county into the county government, and organized the people into groups according to their household registrations. They patrolled in shifts day and night, always alert to bandits.A notice was also posted that those who colluded with the bandits in the cell will not be given food and drink until the bandit children on the mountain come to redeem them.

For a while, the bandits were gnashing their teeth with hatred, and they had no choice but to send someone to shout at the foot of the mountain every day, saying that someone's mother would be starved to death today, whose father would be starved to death tomorrow, and whoever's unworthy descendant would be so and so. It is unfilial to fail to hand over the name certificate.

A few days later, the bandit leader couldn't take it anymore, and sent someone to the opposite cottage to kill a few bandits to redeem him.

As soon as the head arrived, his wife, children, and parents immediately let him go and returned it to him, and he sent someone to lead him into the mountain to reunite with his father and son.

When other bandits, big and small, saw it, they immediately exploded. First they fought each other, and then there was a cunning and provocative hero who scolded Lin Mingcheng for being a sinister villain. A letter of challenge came, saying that they wanted to attack the county government.

It just so happened that they chose to come at night, which fell right into Liang Xuanchen's arms.

That night, the oil lamps were not lit for half the time inside and outside the county government office, and it was cloudy and rainy all day long, with no stars in the sky, it was so pitch black that you could hardly see your fingers.

The bandits came in the dark to attack the county government. In the darkness, they were first trapped, then ambushed, and finally reached the dark cell. Liang Xuanchen stood at the door with a sword in his hand. He hacked and killed dozens of people, and the grabbing hand was even more superb, and countless people were captured.Someone wanted to light a torch for illumination, but was immediately poured over with a bucket of water by the people lying in ambush, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness again.

The bandits fled back to the mountain weeping for their fathers and mothers. Master Lin's protector became famous in the first battle and got the nickname "Sura Night Ghost". Legend has it that he has a blue face and fangs, three heads and six arms, and holds a magic weapon in each hand. Shake the magic weapon, and the person dies instantly.Shura Yegui even carried a ten-foot-long knife on his back, and the man who passed the blade was cut into pieces like cutting tofu.

The first battle was won, and the officials of the county government and the local people cheered happily. They felt that the new county magistrate still had two talents. One was a guardian and the other was a genius doctor. There is an endless stream of medical inquiries and medicines.

Lin Mingcheng immediately issued another notice, asking the bandits on the mountain to accept the call for security, and urging everyone to come down the mountain to plant black jade staccato grass. After paying tribute every year, there will be surplus herbs, and they can ask the court to sell them on the market at a high price. Money and food are also available. Everyone will have a better life in the future.

Master Bai counted the amount of good herbs, the weather is good this year, there are still more than 100 catties of herbs left after drying, Liang Xuanchen took these herbs out of the mountain, and they got back more than 500 taels of silver.The annual salary of the magistrate of the county is only 16 taels of silver, and the 500 taels of silver almost blinded the eyes of officials and servants.

Part of the money was distributed to villagers who paid more herbs, part of it was offered as a reward to villagers who had contributed to the suppression of bandits, part of it was given to officials and jailers as a reward, and part of it was exchanged for food to help orphans and widows.

A villager who came to the county government office to thank him saw that Lin Mingcheng was still living in a dilapidated house in the back mountain. Except for his widowed mother, he couldn't even marry a wife. When he went back and said it, the county magistrate's address was changed from Mr. Lin to Lin Qingtian.

Liang Xuanchen was sitting under the forest playing the piano, eating the lychees that Lin Mingcheng peeled for him, and felt that 100 years of such a good life would not be too long.

Not long ago, there was a report letter written by a sinister villain. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi sent troops to Lingshan to arrest him, saying that the county magistrate Lin Mingcheng had committed the crime of beheading by secretly selling black jade staccato grass, a rare healing medicine, to the rebels.

When the governor's men came, Liang Xuanchen happened to be not at home. He was sitting beside the stone stream in the back mountain, practicing meditation and fishing. He is now training his hearing and hand feeling, so he can use the buoy. In the sound of the mountain spring, he can feel the fishing line pulling the fish Take the rod, then take up the line and lift the rod, and catch the fish.

The ground, the water, and the air were all amazed, and said that the third master's hearing was already superb, and his kung fu was even more perfect.

The bandits didn't come to arrest Lin Mingcheng, but the governor came to take him away.

Feng Qi ran out of breath to look for Liang Xuanchen, Liang Xuanchen stood up with a "huh", dropped the fishing rod, tapped the white jade and purple bamboo stick, and strode back.

"Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi? Who is the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi?"

Feng Qi said: "The official said that he was ordered by Mr. Pei."

"The ground is empty, the water is empty, you hurry up and stop the person."

Feng Qi said: "I can't stop it, if I take someone, I will take him away!"

Liang Xuanchen's lightness kung fu is very good, but he hates that he is blind and can't run rampant on the dangerous mountain road. He stabilized his mind and went to the county government with extreme restraint.Yu Anyi was rescuing Mother Lin who had passed out, everyone was in a hurry, and everyone looked at Liang Xuanchen and waited for him to make up his mind.

"Master Bai, please accompany me to the governor's yamen. I was the one who sold the herbal medicine, and I was the one who committed the crime. Mingcheng is at most a crime of negligence."

Master Bai said: "As I said, the herbal medicine cannot be sold, and if it is sold, there will always be jealous people who will report it."

"It doesn't matter. Shuikong, go to the study behind the courtroom and get a yellow official document. It's in the brocade box on the table."

Soon after the official documents in the brocade box were fetched, Master Bai looked at them and was shocked, "Is this a royal order?"

Liang Xuanchen said: "Yu Anyi came from the imperial hospital. He was entrusted to the people to find and test medicines. The black jade here was weeded intermittently and paid tribute to the imperial court. Yu's royal license was sold to the people by Imperial Physician Yu. They will all be handed over to the imperial court. We are not selling herbs privately, so hurry up and take this document to the governor's office to save people."

Master Bai said: "Why didn't you take it out earlier?"

"Several officials who came to pick up people don't know whether they can read or not. If they are torn up into a piece of paper, the emperor is far away from this mountain. Isn't it rare to cover the sky with one hand? It's impossible to ask the court for a document. At that time Mingcheng's head fell to the ground."

Master Bai said: "Third Master is very thoughtful!"

A few people made some preparations and set off immediately to catch up with the official who escorted Lin Mingcheng, but they really caught up halfway.

Liang Xuanchen stopped the officer and said, "I am the one who went out of Lingshan to sell herbal medicine. I am the first offender. Take me too."

After the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, they indeed detained Liang Xuanchen without saying a word.The two were arrested and thrown into the prison of the governor's yamen together. This time, the meritorious service of suppressing the bandits is not counted, because the smuggling of herbs and corruption will be punished.The number set by the Tai-Zu Emperor was 36 taels for decapitation and 360 taels for skinning. Liang Xuanchen and Lin Mingcheng's lives were hanging by a thread.