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At the beginning, Sheng Changbai's biggest purpose was to destroy the cottages and water villages of bandits and water bandits.

Rectify the law and order in Xuzhou, make Xuzhou more stable, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, open up trade routes, and prosper the economy.

I don't have such a strong will to catch the bandit leader or not.

But now that the state government is short of money, these bandits have no chance to go far away, change their appearance, hide their names, and go to other places to work as rural landlords in peace.

Sheng Changbai also interrogated some bandits during this period, although most of the bandits had more or less tragedies.

But after becoming a thief, all the evils he did were true.

It has reached the level of looting houses and business travel, and there are only a few people who still have justice and morality in their hearts.

After doing more bad things, the more the moral bottom line is broken, the lower it becomes.

After counting the three hundred archers, Sheng Changbai followed the guide who surrendered in the cottage and entered the mountain.

It's also because the bandits haven't been encircled and suppressed by the government for a long time, and they took advantage of inconvenient transportation, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Without a sense of crisis, the arrangement of the bandit sentry was not good enough, and they did not change their positions in response to the few secret sentries arranged.

The professionalism and vigilance of these bandits were worse than Sheng Changbai expected.

"Lu Dutou, take a group of people to block the back of the cottage, and make sure that no one can escape from the thieves."

"Sun Dutou, Wang Dutou, take the rest of the people and wait for the order. When the order is issued, you will lead people into the stronghold. Remember to surrender to avoid death. Kneel down and don't kill, but if there is resistance, life or death does not matter."

When archers were training, Sheng Changbai didn't use any complicated organization. Ten people make up a team, three teams make up a team, and three teams make up a capital.

The three capitals form the first battalion, and Sheng Changbai takes command temporarily.

In addition, Sheng Changbai personally led a team of 30 people as personal soldiers, a total of 300 people.

"kill!"

"Tong Juan led troops to suppress the bandits, wait for the bandits, quickly disarm and surrender, surrender to avoid death, kneel down and not kill!"

"I surrender."

"Forgive me."

"I don't want to die."

The start was quite smooth. After the sentries were settled, the status of the minions living on the outskirts of the cottage was not high.

Seeing that there are many people in the government, there is no strong sense of resistance.

After entering the inner circle of the cottage, the middle and high-level people lived in the cottage, and all the leaders also lived in this area, and many of them were gangsters for many years.

Every hand is stained with blood, knowing that he would not have a good life if he surrendered, so he would not choose to be captured without a fight.

"Brothers, kill with me,"

"Fight them."

"The bird-killing officer has to be recruited to be an official."

After a while, several bandits dressed in brocade clothes and with the appearance of leaders began to organize a manpower resistance.

"Liu Tao, fetch my bow."

After taking the bow, Sheng Changbai began to draw the bow and set the arrow, shooting and killing these clamoring "conspicuous bags."

After Sheng Changbai shot and killed the three loudest conspicuous bags.

The bandits couldn't organize any decent resistance and began to flee.

After defeating the enemy for 5 minutes and hunting for two hours, Sheng Changbai waited for an hour in the party hall of the cottage before the battle had a rough result.

"The verdict, this battle will be decided in the battle of Heifengzhai. All the bandits headed by 'Xiashanhu' will be punished. More than [-] enemies will be killed in this battle, and more than [-] people will be captured."

"There is no rush for the battle report, let's treat the wounded first."

A knockoff home for robbers is just a small part.

Most of the rest have no experience of banditry, and there are bandit family members among them.

There are women who were robbed by these people from the bottom of the mountain, refugees who defected for various reasons, and farmers who were captured by bandits.

These people are not on the front line of fighting and killing in the bandit village, but they also have their own positions.

Serving as maids and servants for bandit leaders, as coolies for cottages, transporting goods, chopping firewood, building houses, and farming.

Apart from not paying taxes to the imperial court, the structure of a cottage is similar to that of an ordinary village.

The chiefs in the cottage, like the landowners in the country, are oppressors.

Except for some bandit chieftains who had a better life, the lives of others were no better than those of the peasants at the foot of the mountain.

"Damn, do you want to treat these bandits too?"

"Forget about the leader. For the subordinates, try to cure them as much as possible. One more person can also work harder."

Still for the next big action, Sheng Changbai is going to do some big projects, build water conservancy, build dams and embankments.

When there is no modern telephone equipment, all that can be relied on is manpower.

Sheng Changbai's hands can be said to be short of manpower, and one more prisoner can save one corvee.

The biggest worry in Xuzhou is the flood, and Sheng Changbai will not fail to consider it.

I didn't take care of it before, because the past six months are busy with farming, and there is really not much manpower.

Although the Hunan Army in the state can be said to be engineering soldiers, building cities and barriers, building roads and bridges, digging rivers and embankments, logistics and transportation are all the work of the Hunan Army.

But because the Hunan Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty was regarded as a conscript, it replaced a large part of the corvee in the previous dynasty.

The Hunan Army needs to do a lot of things, such as repairing plank roads, managing various post stations, escorting various objects, stationing various warehouses, gates, and so on.

In principle, Sheng Changbai could apply to the imperial court to mobilize the Xiang army to do the project.

But in fact, the Hunan Army actually has no idle manpower.

Even if a few hundred people are reluctantly transferred, it is just a drop in the bucket for water conservancy projects.

If you want more manpower, you still need to issue additional corvees from the peasants.

Summer and autumn are busy farming seasons, and it is not suitable to delay the farming season, so it is not suitable for recruiting manpower, so Sheng Changbai has always wanted to wait until after the autumn harvest before starting construction.

"Liu Tao, go and urge the archers to do things faster, and when they return to the state office, give them rewards." Sheng Changbai continued to order.

Soldiers are precious and fast. In order to prevent other bandits from knowing the news and making it more difficult to suppress the bandits, we should finish things as soon as possible.

Burn dead bodies, treat the wounded, and interrogate bandits to find money and belongings hidden by bandits.

Even if the process is streamlined as much as possible, there are still many things that must be dealt with after the village is broken.

But the result is still worth it. A cottage has hundreds of laborers and thousands of worth of goods.

If these bandits were known to be so rich, perhaps Sheng Changbai's predecessors would have destroyed these bandits long ago.

It took half a month for Sheng Changbai to destroy five cottages and water villages.

The difference between Shanzhai and Shuizhai is that the bottom of Shanzhai will be farmers, while the bottom of Shuizhai will be fishermen.

The labor of two thousand people was harvested, which is the result of removing women and children, and there are more than 1 guns of goods, which are also the remainder of the rewards given to the archers.

If someone has money, the project will have a foundation to move forward.

These people didn't surrender voluntarily, they were all bandit subordinates captured by Sheng Changbai after breaking through the bandit stronghold.

In any case, these people have contributed to the bandits.

Not to mention what crimes were imposed on these people, Sheng Changbai was not at all guilty of labor reform for a period of time.

With people and money in hand, Sheng Changbai did not continue to personally lead troops to suppress bandits.

The remaining few bandit villages have been explained, and they can be handed over to their subordinates.

These bandits were all mobs, and apart from allowing Sheng Changbai to experience some atmosphere and see blood, there was no practical training effect in terms of force.

With things busy, Sheng Changbai let go.

He began to lead people to survey waterways and repair water conservancy.

The first thing is to continue to call on the gentry and rich merchants to gather wool, and whoever contributes the most money and effort will build the section of the river first.

These people have the most land, and benefit the most after the renovation of water conservancy.

All of them are so rich that if they don't make a fortune, they will feel sorry for these people.

When Sheng Changbai was working hard as a supervisor at the river construction site, an unexpected person came to Xuzhou.

"Young Master, Second Young Master Gu is here." A servant from the family came over to let him know.

"Gu Er? Gu Tingye, why did this person suddenly come to Xuzhou?" Sheng Changbai asked suspiciously.

"It's the second son of Marquis Ningyuan. He said that he has some matters and he is looking for his help."

"Okay, I will go back after I explain here, you go back first, and help Mr. Gu settle down first."

Gu Tingye ran over, only Sheng Changbai was in Xuzhou in the Sheng family.

Don't worry about Gu Tingye thinking about his sister, Sheng Changbai also let Gu Tingye stay at home according to the etiquette.

When Sheng Changbai came home, he saw Gu Tingye who was still looking dusty after tidying up. He was sunburned a lot, and he knew that he had been running outside a lot, so he asked:
"Zhonghuai, what happened, why did you come to Xuzhou?"

"Oh, it's a long story to say." Gu Tingye became a lot frustrated, and sighed as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Don't worry, let's eat first, and then talk slowly after eating."

Sheng Changbai waved his hand to fit the maid, and began to set the meal.

"Is there any wine?"

"We are such a big Xuzhou, how could we not have your wine to eat?"

"Wine is fine."

After the wine was served, Gu Tingye drank three big bowls slowly.

"Slow down, you don't have to get drunk in such a hurry, what happened, just let me know?"

"Recently, a lot of things have happened to me in our family, and none of them went my way. My father went away, and I just had a few disputes with him. The whole Bianliang said that my father was mad at me. "Gu Tingye said with red eyes.

"When I left Beijing, Gu Hou was in good health, how could he be pregnant so suddenly, please mourn."

Although it was not that unexpected, Sheng Changbai was still polite and expressed his regret for Gu Yankai's death.

Gu Yankai seems to be in good health, but after all, he is old and has a little cardiovascular disease, and heart disease is normal.Being annoyed or provoked by Gu Tingye, leading to illness, unable to be rescued, the person went straight away, is a common thing in this age.

The reason for the underdevelopment of medical care is that people in this day and age will die suddenly when they get sick. Sheng Changbai has already adapted to this situation.

Gu Yankai died suddenly, and Sheng Changbai couldn't figure out how Gu Tingye was feeling now.

Gu Tingye is not sad, Gu Tingye is quite depressed now.

Say that Gu Tingye is sorry for Gu Yan, Gu Tingye is not even willing to honor Gu Tingye.

It's time to eat meat and drink alcohol. Gu Tingye is not willing to do it for Gu Yankai during the filial piety period.

If you think about Gu Tingye in a positive way, it can be said that Gu Tingye is using wine to drown his sorrows and miss Gu Yankai.

After all, this person doesn't follow any rules, not to mention Gu Yankai who often beats and scolds him.

Even Gu Tingye, the grandfather who was only thinking of himself and left a large amount of property to himself, was unwilling to keep his filial piety.

When Sheng Changbai first passed through, he was having a banquet with Gu Tingye. At that time, Gu Tingye's grandfather, Mr. Bai, hadn't even been buried yet.

"It was"

After a few more bowls of wine, Gu Tingye slowly began to talk.

The conflict between Gu Yankai and Gu Tingye, even if it was a different time, was not because of other things.

The father and son still had a dispute over whether to enter the Marquis' residence because of Mannia.

Because of the disagreement between Gu Tingye and his wife, Concubine Rong called Gu Yankai to the palace to reprimand her, saying that the Gu family cheated people, and the Gu family made great efforts to marry Rong Feiyan into the family, but went to snub Rong Feiyan, why did they bother to ask for marriage.

After being humiliated by his in-laws and coming back, Gu Yankai must of course warn and teach Gu Tingye a lesson.

Gu Yankai hoped that since Gu Tingye married his regular wife, he would live a good life with Rong Feiyan.

Gu Tingye did not admit his mistake, but insisted on being stubborn.

When Gu Yan said to live a good life, Gu Tingye insisted on saying that he would let the outside room in.

This son is not only disobedient, but also insists on fighting against his father.

Gu Yankai was so angry that he vomited blood and passed out. Sheng Changbai was not there. He didn't know if Gu Yankai had a cerebral hemorrhage or a heart attack. Anyway, he couldn't be rescued, and he just died cold.

"In the whole capital city, it was rumored that I disobeyed my father, angered my father to death, and disobedience. At that time, I went to call the doctor, but no one believed me."

Gu Yankai's death must be inseparable from Gu Tingye, but it's not appropriate to put all the responsibility for Gu Tingye's death on Gu Tingye.

It was because Gu Yan was too open-minded and his health was not good enough to cause this consequence.

Once Gu Yankai died, Gu Tingye's stepmother, Xiao Qin, just wanted to see Gu Tingye directly, instead of pretending to be Gu Tingye's good stepmother.

Face to face with Gu Tingye's hand, Xiao Qin realized that Gu Tingye was fainting and vomiting blood, and things were not going well, so she took the opportunity to dismiss Gu Tingye and let him go to the imperial physician.

After Gu Tingye brought the imperial physician back, he stopped him outside the door again.

After Gu Yankai died, he pushed the responsibility to Gu Tingye.

Gu Tingye became the sinner of the whole family, and was kicked out under the accusations and abuse of all the elders of the Gu family.

"Since this is the case, it's better for you to leave Bianliang to avoid the limelight. Our Xuzhou, with beautiful mountains and rivers, is a good place for self-cultivation. You can live in Xuzhou steadily."

Gu Tingye's previous reputation was that he was ignorant, greedy for flowers, and lingering in Goulan cottages.

For a noble son, this is just a trivial matter. After others hear it, they can only say that Gu Tingye is not up to date.

Then there is the envy, jealousy and hatred towards Gu Tingye, who can enjoy this kind of life without his own efforts.

But the reputation of being angry with his father and being disobedient and unfilial is much more serious.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, when the country was ruled by filial piety, it was enough to cut off the official career directly, or even punish the crime directly.

Gu Tingye's name of unfilial piety is still on his head.

The stepmother Xiaoqin who is famous for her kindness to Gu Tingye in Bianliang, personally buckled Gu Tingye to death. It can be said that there is no room for turning around, and Gu Tingye really has no need to stay in Bianliang. (end of this chapter)