"What a arrogant bandit!"

Two days later, when You Wuxin was blindfolded and sent down the mountain to Qi County to report his experiences to Chang'an Jun, Zhao Kuo was also in the county temple, and the real lieutenant was angry on the spot.

Mingyue was not angry and continued to ask: "Didn't you tell Wei Yan about what I did in Qi County?"

"I said it." You Wuxin said helplessly: "I said that the prince is different from the previous orders, wei and magistrates. They love the people as much as their sons. I also heard that the thieves in Lishan did not offend the people, so I was willing to give the people who were forced to go up the mountain to be thieves because of their life, but Wei Yan replied..."

"What did he say?" Mingyue saw that You Wuxin was a little hesitant, and smiled and said, "Although I say it, I'm sorry you are innocent."

"Wei Yan said, Mo *** fox, Mo hailed bandits, most of the foxes in the world are red, and most of the crows in the world are black. The lords of the world, whether Qin, Zhao, Wei, or Han, are all greedy and unkind. In order to seize the will, they pay excessive taxes to the people. Whenever there is war, the road is full of hunger. When there is no war, the county magistrates ignore the annexation of the people's land in order to please the local tyrants, so the people are dispersed and cannot follow the business of farming and weaving. He felt that the young master loved the people as his son, just talked and deceived everyone... so he was unwilling to go down the mountain to surrender."

As soon as this said, Mingyue remained silent for a long time, while Cai Ze exclaimed: "Although Wei Jian was just a remnant of Wei, he had some knowledge."

That's right, because there are no wars all year round, the people of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period bear heavy taxes, and the land tax is no longer the eleventh, but the twelveth, and the thirteenth. Mencius sighed back then: "There are bans and bans for cloth, corn, and bans for force. A gentleman uses one and slows down the second. Use the second and the people will be killed; use the third and the father and son will be separated."

Take Zhao State for example. Every year, the cloth strands, corn, and labor force will never be reduced regardless of flood or drought. The court peels one layer, the local officials peels one layer, and the noble landlords peels another layer. This act of exhausting the people's financial resources has led to the scattering of the people and not being able to farm and weave. On the way to Qi State, Mingyue saw people who were delayed by the busy farming due to too much labor. On the barren land, the hunched backs of peasants, the children's thin limbs and huge heads due to hunger, and the pair of longing eyes have appeared before him again...

In addition, there are frequent wars and people are prone to death. They would rather escape into the mountains and forests than fill in the ravines. This is the reason why the thieves have joined forces.

To eliminate the thieves, this is just a symptom. Generally speaking, we should just treat the stigma like Ximen Bao treats Ye, lightly collecting tuitions, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and letting the people who are overwhelmed by heavy duty and taxes breathe a sigh of relief...

What is more fundamental is to completely end this chaotic world! Start a rule similar to the rest of the Han Dynasty and the people, rather than the Qin Dynasty, which followed the trajectory of the Warring States Period without making any changes, but instead added a few mountains to the people...

But that must be something that you consider after subduing two thieves.

Mingyue said cruelly: "Since she doesn't want to surrender, does Wei Jian want to fight against me to the end?"

You Wuxin said: "Wei Yan said that he is different from the Zhaoyu Qi Shui Pirates. He only robbed the noble family of the neighboring chief. He was unwilling to surrender to the young master, nor did he want to be enemies with the young master. He hoped that both sides could be safe."

"You are peaceful? Are you trying to avoid trauma with me?" Mingyue sneered: "What he thinks is beautiful."

The identity is determined by choosing, and officials and thieves are incompatible. The existence of Wei Yan alone is the biggest challenge to his Chang'an monarch's authority and will also become the biggest obstacle to the future governance of Qi County!

"Since it's useless to persuade surrender, then fight!"

Zhao Kuo had already been ready to go, and he asked for an order: "Chang'an Jun, the county soldiers have completed military preparations, and the soldiers from all families have been trained for more than a month and have little discipline. The soldiers of our county have been preparing for the longest time. As long as Chang'an Jun gives the order, I can lead the people to drive up the mountain!"

Mingyue was still a little hesitant. Judging from the fact that Wuxin's experience, those bandits led by Wei Yan were not ordinary mobs, not to mention that the mountains were dangerous and the forest was deep, it was not a good place to use troops.

"We need to continue to inquire about the information on the other side of the mountain. No matter the number of thieves, the roads to the mountain, or the location of the thieves' nest, you need to know slowly. If you continue to go back to Nanxiang, you must find out every possible way to check it out!"

"only!"

After You Wuxin received the order and left, Mingyue said to Zhao Kuo again: "This time I suppress the thieves, I decided to start with the easy and then the difficult. I will first take the water thieves from Zhao Yuqi in Xixiang. After all the water thieves are eliminated, I will take the opportunity to win the power of the great victory and take the old nest of the bandits in one fell swoop!"

Unlike the bandits who followed Wei Jian alone, the Zhaoyu Qi water thieves were much looser. Although there were quite a few people, they were divided into many stocks, which were not subordinate to each other. They even often formed a group due to uneven distribution of spoils. Send people to sneak into them to obtain information and buy small leaders. Compared to the dark eyes of Yelishan, Zhao Yu Qi's situation has been almost clear in the past month.

The bright moon asked someone to spread a map of Zhao Yuqi painted by Zhaobo on the desk, but the outline of the lake shore, the location of the trees, and the undercurrents of the gullies above were marked one by one, and even the approximate locations of the known thieves' nests were also pointed out with red pens.

These were all caused by Zhaobo and several local fishermen to risk their lives to inquire. Don’t underestimate the feelings of these people to take revenge.

Seeing this picture, Zhao Kuo felt like he had a treasure and carefully observed it.

Mingyue asked Zhao Kuo, "Brother Kuo, do you have any experience?"

Zhao Kuo's biggest progress over the past year is that he no longer pretends to be in the work. He said embarrassedly: "I only know a little about military tactics, but I have never actually commanded it."

Because his father became famous, the battle between Yan and him was a mountain battle. In fact, Zhao Kuo knew more about mountain battles. The training of these thousand county soldiers in Jinyang was either a flat battlefield or a hilly attack or defense. This was also because Zhao Kuo insisted on fighting for Lishan first.

Water War is called "Bird Clouds and Siege Soldiers" in the art of war. Zhao Kuo is not even familiar with water, so how could he understand such war?

"Since that's the case..." Mingyue decided to say: "Then when we eliminate the water thieves, we will use the newly recruited two or three hundred Xixiang youths as the vanguard to explore the way. The county soldiers followed closely behind with light equipment, and then transferred a thousand Dingzhuang to distribute along the coast to attack the thieves who came ashore..."

Zhao Kuo frowned: "There is still insufficient ships on the water. If the thief enters the water and escapes, we can only look at the lake and sigh."

He had a sudden inspiration and gave Mingyue an idea: "The place where the Fen River enters Zhaoyuqi is called Daling County. There are a small boat soldier stationed, with ten ships, led by a centurion. I can send someone to ask for assistance!"

Many years ago, King Wuling of Zhao's military reform not only included Hu Fu and Cavalry, but he said that year: "Now there is a river in the east of our country, and the water of Boluo is in the same way as Zhongshan, but there is no use of boats and oars... Therefore, I gather the use of boats and oars to seek the people who live in the water to guard the river and oars, and the water of Boluo."

Under the decree of King Wuling of Zhao, the rivers and rivers in Zhao were basically established, and the Fen River was no exception. However, the boat soldiers always guarded the Fen River waterway, regardless of the thieves in Zhaoyuqili.

"As long as the National Guard issues an order, how can it be unwilling?" Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "The empress dowager's edict can be made clear. It is necessary to ask Taiyuan County to cooperate with Chang'an Jun to eliminate all kinds of thieves in the territory. It only takes two days to go to Jinyang. If the boat soldiers from Daling County come quickly, they will arrive in five or six days!"

There are people in the court who are easy to do, and Mingyue has a deep understanding of this sentence. While the two were discussing the combat plan, someone came outside to report that Zhao Yuyi's Zhaobo was coming again!

"What happened?" Mingyue was a little surprised. Could it be that there was a problem with the new soldiers recruited by Dong Fang?

He quickly asked Zhaobo to enter, but saw that the fisherman had just entered the hall and bowed and said, "Congratulations to Chang'an Jun. The day before yesterday, a thief went ashore to rob Lilu again, and was defeated by Dong Fangshuai Qing and strong! He killed dozens of people and captured more than ten prisoners!"

"So it was a good news." Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, which was an unexpected surprise.

"besides."

Zhaobo raised his head and looked happy: "After interrogation, a thief caught said that he knew the nest of the largest thief in Zhaoyuqi!"
Chapter completed!