In the early morning of February 26, Xiangshan County Government Office.

The ancients had the tradition of "officials do not build yamen", and the yamen looked extremely dilapidated.

County Magistrate Ning Dengyun was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. He was fifty years old at this time. He was in poor health and only got up until the end of the silence. He was teasing birds in the yard behind the yamen. However, he saw a servant report to the inspector Wang Guangxing, the inspector of the Qumenguan Inspection Department, for advice.

The Inspection Department was an administrative agency subordinate to prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty, and was set up in passes and busy markets. Each "Inspectorate" was assigned to a member of the Nine-rank inspection officer, and there were also several archers ordered by the villagers, responsible for maintaining public orders in key places.

Qumen Pass is an important checkpoint on the official road from Xiangshan County to Guangzhou Prefecture. To get from Xiangshan County to Guangzhou Prefecture, you must pass through this Qumen Pass, and gradually a market was formed. Therefore, a patrol department was set up here.

The inspection here can blackmail the vendors who do business in the market, which can be said to be a fat man. The pedestrian vendors come and go from north to north, and the "inspector" here is also the most well-informed person in Xiangshan County.

Ning Dengyun didn't know what Wang Guangxing came to do at this time, so he returned to the Second Hall. Soon, Wang Guangxing walked into the Second Hall under the guidance of his servant.

Wang Guangxing was making money in the inspection position and did not give Ning Dengyun a little money. He often ran to the county magistrate's office to get close to him, so the two were quite familiar with each other. Ning Dengyun pointed casually and asked Wang Guangxing to sit down and have tea.

"Ming Gong, something big happened!"

Ning Dengyun was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?"

Wang Guangxing said, "The group of thieves on Chiyun Peak were wiped out by the villagers of Renhoufang!"

Hearing Wang Guangxing's words, Ning Dengyun's eyes widened.

Of course he knew that there were thieves on Chiyun Peak. He knew that these thieves blackmailed the people and even massacred Huangjia Village. But now in this stormy world, he could not control such robbers. The yamen runners in the county were no match for robbers. If they wanted to mobilize regular camp soldiers to suppress thieves, the guerillas would openly extort places in the garrisons.

The military garrison system was originally implemented in the Ming Dynasty, with military households and soldiers as the army. The identities of these military soldiers were fixed for generations. The children born in military households were still military households. They not only had to train military formations, but also had to farm military farms and pay more military fields than civilian households, and their status was low. In the late Ming Dynasty, these military households fled and resisted in large numbers and lost their combat effectiveness. In order to defend the country, the Ming court began to recruit soldiers who paid monthly military salaries in the late Ming Dynasty. The military soldiers were similar to the soldiers of the descendants, and paid monthly salaries. In the late Ming Dynasty, soldiers and soldiers of the military salaries existed at the same time, but soldiers were the only combat power that the Ming court truly relied on.

Guards and guerrillas are all official positions under the battalion.

Things were different in the end of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the dynasty, there were many ills. The combat effectiveness of the camp soldiers also became vulnerable, and the servants who could really fight were the servants of the generals.

The robbers are actually quite powerful and are defending on the top of the mountain. Even if the soldiers of the camp want to attack the mountain, it is not easy, and they will suffer many casualties. These robbers have been extorting local farmers, and they don’t expect that there will be much oil and water.

Xiangshan County is far away from the garrison and guerrilla camps. It is not worthwhile to gather people on a large scale. However, if elite troops attack the mountain, the robbers who run into Yunfeng will definitely guard the village gate. A warlike servant will have to be at least several years to raise combat power, and they will spend dozens of taels of silver every year. If you kill or injured dozens of people for one or two thousand taels of silver, it is really not worthwhile.

For this reason, the robbers who had run into Yunfeng were lawless in Renhoufang and no one cared about it.

However, now that the people from Qinjia Village have attacked the Yunfeng and robbed the village, things seem to be a little different.

Ning Dengyun asked with jealousy: "How much money has Qinjia Village seized? Whose pockets have they fallen into?"

Wang Guangxing slapped his thigh and said in annoyance: "I heard that I have seized more than 1,000 taels of silver! I was divided overnight by the people from Qinjia Village!"

"The unruly people didn't even say hello to Ming Gong, and distributed more than a thousand taels of silver to the villagers' pockets. Every household in Qinjia Village had several taels of silver. Those strong men who worked hard got five taels of silver, and the few who were the leaders got hundreds of taels of silver."

Ning Dengyun took a breath and said, "The money has been distributed? What a pity."

Who is Ning Dengyun? He is called plucking his hair by geese, and he will never miss a desirable silver! Since Qinjia Village has obtained the spoils, he is now thinking about whether to order Qinjia Village to pay the spoils. It is just that the people in Qinjia Village will distribute the silver into the villagers' pockets and take out the silver from the pockets of the willful villagers.

But it's up to man.

Ning Dengyun was a little anxious and suddenly asked: "What force does Qinjia Village have? Why can it attack Chiyun Peak?"

Wang Guangxing said respectfully: "Ming Gong, I heard reliable news that the people in Qinjia Village, led by a young man called Qin Zhao, used more than fifty people to blow the robbers to death with gunpowder."

Ning Dengyun was stunned for a moment, stood up and walked a few steps, and asked in a deep voice: "Gunpowder? This villagers actually have gunpowder?"

Wang Guangxing nodded and said, "That's right, these villagers don't know where they got the gunpowder."

"How did you kill the robber?"

"I don't know this little."

A dark cloud appeared on Ning Dengyun's face, and he paced back and forth in the second hall. He walked for a while, walked back to the side of the tea table and picked up the teacup, but he was not in the mood to drink it, so he just grabbed the teacup and stood there.

"This is called Qin Zhao's good boy."

The county magistrate asked hatefully: "Where is Qin Zhao now?"

Wang Guangxing said, "Ming Gong, Qin Zhao is amazing. After he killed the thief, he occupied Chiyun Peak. He brought the strongest thirty men in the village to practice on Chiyun Peak Mountain every day, and he didn't know what he was thinking." After gritting his teeth, Wang Guangxing asked, "This turtle son occupied Chiyun Peak. He didn't want to do a banished deal like a robber, right?"

Hearing this, the county magistrate's hand trembled and almost threw the teacup on his hand to the ground.

The county magistrate's face was as dark as the cloudy clouds, and he had not spoken for a long time.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "Since he occupied the mountain, it seems that Qin Zhao is not a good person." He sat on the chair helplessly, Ning Dengyun let out a long sigh and said, "If we force Qin Zhao to hand over the spoils, I'm afraid Qin Zhao won't agree. He might not say that he would learn to be a thief like a tiger."

Who is afraid of this chaos in this world? County Magistrate Ning Dengyun also knew that since Qinjia Village had force to suppress thieves, it was naturally not easy to deal with. Since Qin Zhao led the villager to station on the Chiyun Peak, he probably had already decided to protect the spoils. If he tried to blackmail him, he would definitely arouse his resistance.

Ning Dengyun was really scared by the fact that he could blow up a group of robbers. If Qin Ning became a robber, it might be more harmful than a tiger? At that time, Xiangshan County would be even more chaotic, and Ning Dengyun would just steal chickens and lose rice, and his political achievements would be even more ugly.

Shaking his head, Ning Dengyun spat unhappily.

Wang Guangxing asked in a low voice: "Ming Gong, should I test Qin Zhao? Do you think he is afraid of the officials?"

Ning Dengyun cursed, "Test a ball! He has occupied the mountain, what else should I test?" After gritting his teeth, Ning Dengyun said, "Today I will send a memorial to the governor's office, and said that under the guidance of my official, our county has wiped out the elderly bandits in Chiyunfeng. This is the political achievement of this official, and we need to write a lot of books."

Covering his nose, Ning Dengyun said, "As for Qin Zhao, he has made merit! The county rewarded him with a good bow, so that he could rest well, and never be a bandit!"
Chapter completed!