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The new official arrived with three fires, and after Li Jing took over the Dengzhou assassination history, he immediately began to burn his new official three fires.

The first fire was to order the Zhendong Army to be stationed in four counties and take over the defense of various places, and at the same time, immediately launched an appeasement and bandit suppression operation codenamed Thunder. In addition to the Nutao Battalion and the Black Bear Battalion, which were left by Li Jing in the Daxie Islands, and the left and right compartments were stationed in Qingni City and Beisha City in Liaodong, twenty-three battalions of the twenty-five battalions in the front, middle and rear compartments landed in Dengzhou. Then, the five rear battalions of engineers, medical personnel, logistics, auxiliaries, and baggage were stationed in Dengzhou and did not participate in the suppression of bandits, and the remaining 18 battalions, including the battalion of officers and guards who were supernumerary, also participated in the all-round crackdown on bandits.

Nineteen battalions and nearly 20,000 horses were dispatched at one time, and the operation was like thunder.

This is the result of Li Jing's discussions with Li Liang, Li Zhen, Guo Chengan, Lin Wei and others as soon as they entered Dengzhou. It is not only to exterminate the big and small bandits, mountain thieves and pirates in Dengzhou, but also to create a stable and peaceful environment in Dengzhou, and also to deter the big and small wealthy families in Dengzhou.

The previous landing at Dengzhou Wharf was also a great shock, but it was not enough. In particular, after the reconnaissance of the scouts of the Flying Eagle Battalion and the investigation of Sun Lan, the prince of the Plum Blossom Gate, it was learned that many of the pirates in Dengzhou were also merchants and thieves, and they were often both caravans, but they often made cameos once or twice as pirates. The situation of those mountain bandits and thieves is similar, and many bandits have colluded with some local wealthy families to cause trouble for the locality.

Especially right now. Dengzhou is rich though. But the famine was severe. Xu Liumin appeared. These bandits are already on the move, trying to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. This is both the greed of the bandits and the temptation of the wealthy people. Especially after Song Wen left with soldiers and horses from all over the country, this situation was even more serious. At such a time, Li Jing will never be soft, no matter who it is, as long as he dares to challenge his majesty, it will definitely be unforgiving.

Dozens of townships in four counties of Dengzhou. With a population of more than 50,000 households, it was decreed on March 17, the 18th year of Tang Kaiyuan. "It's been a long time. The account is getting worse. It is advisable to take 40,000 households as Shangzhou. 25,000 households are Zhongzhou. Less than 20,000 households are in Xiazhou. Its six males, ten Wangzhou, three auxiliaries, etc. and the Governor of the same state. and Jinai Prefecture and Ibid. 30,000 households in the border state have been added to Shangzhou. 20,000 households have been added to Zhongzhou. His prince served as the assassin of Zhongzhou Xiazhou. Also upstate. ”

There are more than 50,000 households in Dengzhou, with a population of more than 300,000 people, and the following four counties have also reached the standard of Shangxian County. The four counties of Dengzhou, because of the Dengzhou Port, especially after the Zhongtang Dynasty, have been at the leading level in the country, not only developed commerce, but also developed agriculture. The cultivated area of Dengzhou has reached 100,000 hectares, that is, 10 million acres of land. More than 300,000 people, per capita can reach 30 acres of land.

However, the land annexation in the late Tang Dynasty was serious, and Dengzhou was the same. Of these tens of millions of land, only a small part is occupied by ordinary yeoman farmers, and the vast majority is occupied by large landowners.

There are many landlords in Dengzhou, and many of them have thousands of acres of fertile land at home, and even hundreds or thousands of hectares of fertile land. There are also many wealthy merchants in Dengju, because Dengju has a long coastline, many ports, and Dengju Port, plus the sea route into the Bohai Sea Silla, the straight-line distance from Silla is only two or three days away, and it is in the middle of Hebei and Jiangnan, therefore, Dengzhou has a large number of maritime merchants, running Silla Japan, going down to Jiangnan along the coast, and going to Youzhou, everything. There is also a lot of money to be made, and there are many wealthy businessmen in Dengzhou, so the landlords are very strong.

Although Li Jing has not been able to establish a reputation in Da Xie Yan for a year, for many wealthy families in Dengzhou, Li Jing is just a young man in his early twenties after all, and he is not from a family, so he can't help but despise him. This time, Li Jing wants to use the bandits, and the heads of those bandits to shock these people. As long as these people are shaken, the next thing will be easy to do.

Nineteen battalions attacked together, and it can be said that each of the four counties of Dengzhou assigned more than 20 capitals and four or five thousand men and horses. Under such a powerful offensive operation, the bandits in various mountains and villages were exterminated one after another. It was only at this time that they discovered the power of the Zhendong Army.

If you can't fight it, you want to stick to the mountains, which may be useful for the armies that suppressed bandits in the past. But for the Zhendong Army, it was useless at all. No matter what kind of dangerous terrain it is, with its numerical superiority, the Zhendong army can easily surround them, and then deal with them with heavy equipment such as throwing cannons and flying fire, as well as long-range high-power weapons. No matter how strong the walled gate is, it will be directly collapsed when it is shot by the crossbow gun with thick arms. No matter how strong the defense is, they will have to be broken under the attack of a burst of flying fire.

Li Zhen gave Li Jing a plan, that is, outside the city gate of Dengzhou, thousands of wooden stakes were erected, and a high platform was set up at the city gate.

After the Zhendong Army attacked, almost every day there were bandits' cottages that were breached, except for the bandits who were directly killed on the spot, all the bandits would be immediately escorted to Dengzhou City. Li Jing would sit on that high platform and publicly try these bandits in front of the people of Dengzhou. Moreover, this trial was all severe and severe, and according to Li Jing's words, this was a severe crackdown.

As long as it is a bandit, whether old or young, after the trial, they will be beheaded directly, and then the head will be thrown into the oil pan and fried, and then inserted on the sharp pile outside the city, and the corpse will be violent. The families of the bandits were all sent to labor reforms, and they were to be sent to labor reforms ranging from 10 years to 3 years in military hoarding forts.

On the first day of the public trial, thousands of people came to watch. The reason for such a sensation is that the person who was tried was one of the most legendary thieves in the history of Dengzhou. This thief is a woman, a woman in her forties but, and her charm is still there. But this beautiful-looking, even somewhat pitiful woman has been a legend in Dengzhou for twenty years.

Legend has it that her family was originally an official eunuch in Jingshi, and was later convicted for offending the powerful. No one in her family was spared, and she was the only one left. She was only six years old at the time, and after escaping, she made a living by begging, and later met a girl who became an apprentice, learned a mysterious skill, and then descended the mountain ten years later. After going down the mountain, he directly found the powerful man who harmed his family back then, and killed 364 members of the other party's family in one night, not only killed. And all of them were chopped off.

This caused a great sensation back then. Because the head of the family has already made a decision. But he was also a senior official of the imperial court before, so the imperial court sent six doors to hunt down. After a few years of pursuit, she killed dozens of secret agents, and was knocked down the mountain in the last pursuit, thinking she was dead. Unexpectedly, a year later, she appeared in Luoyang and became a thief. Specializing in robbing the rich and helping the poor. Six doors were found again, and then disappeared for more than a year.

I thought she would die this time, but who knew that when she appeared again, she had become a horse bandit leader in the Yanzhou area, and in a few years, she had grown to thousands of people. Then, after a few years, her horse thief was exterminated, she disappeared, and finally appeared in Dengzhou. Become a very famous female pirate in Dengzhou.

This time, when Li Jing suppressed the bandits, this woman named Red Lady was pounced on with her eight hundred pirates. After a battle, the pirates wanted to escape from Rushanpu. But Li Jing had already prepared, several detachments of the Nutao Battalion patrolled around the sea, and none of them escaped, even with this female devil who had not been caught in 30 years, and became the first person Li Jing to open the knife.

After Meghan heard about such a woman, she specially pleaded with Li Jing and wanted to keep this woman. However, after Li Jing saw this woman in person, he didn't plan to let her go. Although she had also robbed the rich and helped the poor, this woman's mind seemed to have been stimulated too much in her childhood, so that she had a bitter hatred for the rich and officials, and she could never get rid of it. Don't say that let her join the Zhenhai camp, just let her go, maybe you will have to come to Li Jing and Zhendong Army to take revenge when you turn around.

Such a legendary woman became the first object of public trial, which made Dengzhou a flood of spectators, and even nearby Laizhou and Qingzhou, as well as Xuzhou farther away, came to watch.

After some interrogation, the red lady was also stubborn and did not refuse to admit her crime. Li Jing waved his hand, the executioner lifted the big knife in his hand, and slashed it down, and suddenly a cavity of blood flew, this legend has been around for thirty years, so that many people have killed this person as a woman who can't tell the difference between gods and ghosts.

On the first day, he killed the Red Lady and his subordinate pirates. Then the next day, more than 300 bandits were killed. On the third day, the fourth day, watching the wooden stake outside the city quickly filled, not many people were willing to come to see the killing and beheading. For those wealthy clans in Dengzhou, Li Jing's killing of people was rolling, and it also made them lose face.

After half a month, more than 100 mountain bandits, horse thieves, and pirates in Dengzhou were all exterminated, and more than 1,000 people were killed after the public trial. This is still because Li Jing saw that the deterrent effect had been played, so he only killed some of the notorious bandit leaders, and the rest were sentenced to labor reform. More than 1,000 people were killed after the trial, and two or three thousand people were killed on the spot during the suppression of bandits. In addition, five or six thousand bandits were sentenced to various hoarding forts for labor camps, and their families together numbered as many as 20,000 or 30,000.

There are so many bandits, but the property seized after the extermination is very small, but hundreds of thousands of pieces of money and food. Li Jing also understands that in fact, many bandits are not bandits, and more than half of them are displaced people who fled to Dengzhou after the famine last year, and they eventually became bandits.

After exterminating the bandits and bandits of all sizes in the four counties of Dengzhou, these more than 1,000 heads completely made the people in Dengzhou realize Li Jing's toughness and iron blood.

"Zhang Lushi, get ready, make an announcement, from the day after tomorrow, the four counties of Dengzhou will begin to open warehouses to release grain to revitalize the disaster." Li Jing said to Zhang Hong, the big housekeeper of money and grain.

Zhang Hong was a little embarrassed: "County Marquis, there are more than 50,000 households in Dengzhou, with a population of more than 300,000. "There is still a lot of grain in the warehouse of the Zhendong Army, but this is all stored in the warehouse for a long time, and the ones that are usually used, including the ones given to Song Wei last time, have not used the grain in those warehouses. In addition to those, there was also grain in the warehouse, but there was not much of it, and it was impossible to supply more than 300,000 people.

"You first send someone to inform the wealthy families in the four counties of Dengzhou, and the landlords with more than 1,000 acres of land also invite them to come over, and tomorrow I will set up a banquet to celebrate the success of the bandits, and invite them to the banquet." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Is the marquis going to fight these people's ideas?"

Li Jing Ha Da smiled: "What is the idea of beating them, in addition to the official warehouse in my Datang, all counties and townships still have righteous warehouses." Usually, in good years, everyone pays grain, but now that it's this time, isn't it time for Yicang to come into play? Of course, there is not much grain in Yicang, so our Zhendong Army has to take some of the grain out, but these famous landlords in the four counties of Dengzhou and the townships also have to play some exemplary roles at this time, helping the poor and helping them. ”

Zhang Hong hesitated, in such a disaster year, borrowing grain from the big clans, isn't this going to cut their meat, who would be willing?

Li Zhen said: "Zhang Lushi can just go, and the other county marquis have their own plans." ”

When Zhang Hong left, Li Zhen said to Li Jing with a smile: "The county marquis has done a good job, and the suppression of bandits can not only stabilize the peace of Dengzhou, but also deter the whole of Dengzhou, and even raise a sum of money and food." And now after suppressing the bandits and killing the head, he turned around and began to release grain to relieve the disaster, which is a combination of grace and power. And now that the marquis of the county offers to borrow grain, I don't think anyone in Dengzhou will deliberately refuse again. ”

Li Jing shook his head: "Killing people is also a last resort, but in today's situation, if you don't suppress it, kill it." In the current famine situation, the situation in Dengzhou will only get worse. People-oriented, unsure of how the people can develop. Otherwise, if we kill this group today, it is estimated that another group will go up the mountain tomorrow to become bandits. The key is to let the people have food first, even if there is a bowl of porridge to drink first. ”

"But now that the famine is so serious, I'm afraid that even if we open a warehouse to shake the disaster, the grain in this warehouse will actually be used up almost every year. And although we have some food, in addition to Dengzhou, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Daxie Island, Qingni and Beisha cities, and no matter how much food we have, we can't withstand these six or seven hundred thousand mouths. The landlords will definitely be intimidated by the general's power and come up with some grain at the moment, but this will never be too much. Guo Chengan said with some concern. Not to mention that the military reserve grain can't be moved, and even if it can, it won't last long.

"I have thought about this issue for a long time, and the most important thing at the moment is to stabilize the situation in Dengzhou, and we can't cause chaos just because Song Wen took the army away and we took over the new takeover. Not to mention that because of famine, the people of Dengzhou should become displaced people. Although the Zhendong Army is strong, if all the people of Dengzhou run away, then the Dengzhou we managed to get will have no value. ”

First suppress the bandits, kill people, and then open a position to show grace, these have to come step by step. (To be continued......)