Kai Fu Han

Chapter 113 Occupying Penglai 7
On April [-], in the open space in the north gate of Penglai City, people gathered around the notice board. A clerk was standing in front of the notice board, reading the contents of the notice every once in a while.

"Announcement No. [-] of the first year of Jingyan's reign in the Xinghan Alliance!"

In the announcement, in addition to the news that Dengzhou established the Xinghan League, implemented self-management, and recognized the State of Zhao but not the State of Qi.Finally, it was announced that gambling was completely banned within the jurisdiction of the Xinghan League. Starting from May [-], the first year of Jingyan, anyone who organizes gambling will be sentenced to more than five years of hard labor according to the size of the gambling capital, and more than one year of forced labor. , and confiscated all gambling money.

The number of people watching below has not decreased since the city gate opened in the morning. Every time the official reads the announcement, it causes a commotion below.

"Where does the Xinghan League take care of this?" someone asked the person next to him.

"Who knows?" the person in question replied.

"If you can post notices in Penglai County, I think Penglai County is within the jurisdiction." Someone speculated.

"Hey, the world is in chaos, ghosts, ghosts, and snakes have appeared."

……

"Leader, all the notices have been posted yesterday. Now they should have been posted in all towns and villages within Penglai County." Luo Chengxiang and Liu Xinqi replied.

Luo Gao stood next to Luo Cheng, his body shape had changed dramatically. Liu Xinqi used the last three-star card "Han Dang (Group)" on him yesterday.

"Have you arranged for someone to read the notice? There are not many literate people in Penglai County." Liu Xinqi asked.

"There is an arrangement. The officers and soldiers who go down to deliver the notices will recruit local literate people to take turns reading the notices." Luo Cheng replied.

"That's good. Let Brother Luo Gao learn to handle government affairs with you. There are still heavy responsibilities behind." Liu Xinqi said.

"Thank you, leader." Luo Cheng replied.

Liu Xinqi had previously corrected Luo Cheng's name for himself, but he said that he could not act independently and could only ignore it.

After watching Luo Cheng handle the government affairs within Penglai County for a while, Liu Xinqi went out to the port.

Yesterday, the ships seized by gentry merchants were selected, and three county-level (2000 stone) ships were added to Gao Yuan's second fleet and Li Cang's third fleet each. These six ships are more inclined to cargo ships. If It is not necessary and is usually used as a logistics vessel for the fleet.

A total of 31 cargo ships were seized by the gentry in this search. These cargo ships had some simple weapons, and the sailors were all old sailors.These sailors are the biggest gain. Yesterday, 1000 sailors were requisitioned from these sailors, finally fully replenishing the personnel of the Second and Third Fleets, and leaving some spare shifts.

"No unusual ships have been seen in the north in the past two days. The reconnaissance ships have been sent to the sea two hundred miles to the north. They are very close to Liaodong Bay. You can see the Iron Mountains of the Liaodong Peninsula. Anyone who comes out of Liaodong Bay during the day The ship can detect it immediately." Gao Yuan reported to Liu Xinqihui.

"Then what about the boat passing through Liaodong Bay at night?" Liu Xinqi asked
"There are second and third reconnaissance ships behind us located one hundred and fifty miles away. It is impossible for them to pass through all three reconnaissance lines at night. However, there are not enough carrier pigeons. Last time you only brought back six pairs from Yanwei Town, barely Enough for the first line of reconnaissance defense." Gao Yuan replied.

"Let's do our best with personnel. The port side must also be prepared. All ships and personnel must be on standby, train appropriately, maintain physical strength, and be ready to fight at any time." Liu Xinqi arranged.

"Yes! Alliance leader." Gao Yuan responded.

"I will leave the sea to you and Li Cang. I will do my best to deal with the follow-up matters in Penglai. If it goes well, I will soon be able to add a large number of 'immortal soldiers and generals' to the Xinghan League. By then, Jin Kingdom's water offensive will not be enough. I'm afraid." Liu Xinqi said. …

On April [-]th, I went to the government office of Dengzhou.

Xu Zhong reported to Liu Xinqihui:
"Based on the network of spies and informants I had when Luo Zhizhou was the county captain, I spent half a month increasing the number of people in 'Tingting' by 110 people, reaching a scale of 140 people. But this is only in Penglai County. I It’s only because I’m familiar with it that I can be so fast, but then it will be very slow outside, mainly because of the lack of manpower.”

The increase of 100 people in half a month is "rapid", and Liu Xinqi can't help but secretly lament that this era is really lacking in talents, like a desert.

"Take your time, manpower is more expensive than fines. However, have spies been sent out to Jinan and Jin Kingdom?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"We have found ten capable personnel, four from Jinan and six from Jin. Once there is news, we will rush back to report." Xu Zhong replied.

"That's good. We will continue to strengthen the investigation later. Ten people are still a bit small. How is the investigation of the gambling houses in Penglai County going?" Liu Xinqi asked again.

"The gambling houses with more than ten daily gamblers have been basically controlled. Since the announcement on April [-], half of the gambling houses have been temporarily closed before today. The backstage of these gambling houses are mostly gentry, Officials, so they are more knowledgeable. The remaining half of the gambling houses are still open for business. Affected by the closure of half of the gambling houses, the business of these gambling houses has been booming recently. "

"Grasshopper after the autumn, call your people to cooperate with Luo Zhizhou and start taking action tomorrow."

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On May 84st, [-] soldiers from four teams, [-] ethnic soldiers, [-] government officials and [-] reorganized militiamen were divided into [-] teams and set out from the barracks of the Dengzhou Infantry Battalion and headed to the city and township respectively. A gambling house that is still open.

There is a gambling house in the west of Penglai City. The name of the gambling house is Silver Hook Gambling House. There are two plaques on both sides of the entrance of the gambling house. On the plaques, there are two words: "Small gambling makes you happy" and "Big gambling hurts the body".It seems very humane, but people who know the history of this gambling house will despise it. These two plaques are the bitch's memorial arch.

The time has only reached 10 o'clock, and the gambling houses are already overcrowded. In the past half month, most of the gambling houses in the city have been closed. These gamblers have gathered in the few remaining gambling houses, making these usual gambling Gambling houses with slow business were full of customers, and the owners of the gambling houses were very happy. Some people openly laughed at the closed gambling houses for being timid and timid.

The person responsible for cleaning up this gambling house is Liu Xinang. This gambling house is the largest one still in operation in the city.

Seventy officers and soldiers were divided into three groups two streets away from the Silver Hook Gambling House. Under the leadership of the "Tingting" spies, they blocked the front, back and secret doors of the gambling house respectively.

Thirty officers and soldiers lined up and ran towards the main entrance of the casino. The younger brother at the gate scrambled and crawled into the casino, shouting as he ran, "The officers and soldiers are here! The officers and soldiers are here!"

Liu Xinang and the three soldiers ran a few steps quickly, beat the first gambler who ran out of the casino to the ground, and blocked all the gamblers who were about to escape from the main entrance back to the casino.

"Bold as hell, do you know who I am?"

A tall man close to six feet (one foot and 33 centimeters in this article), with a strong figure and big ears, shouted at the people who entered the door.

"Whoever you are." Liu Xin'ang didn't bother to talk to him, he just squeezed away from the crowd, walked up to the big man with a few steps, and punched him in the face.

(End of this chapter)