Bozhou is very small, and the city wall is less than two miles long and less than one and a half miles wide. Only the village walls are made of stones at the gate and corners, and other places are just earthen walls. But even such a small city wall, in the mountains between Zuojiang and Youjiang, is already a handful of large places.

Although the city is small, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If there are fewer people coming, this Tuzhai is extremely difficult to break. The hundreds of soldiers in the village are not good-looking. There are many people coming. As long as the walls are clear and the people in the small mountain dam where the village is located are retreated into the village, the attackers will starve to death first.

The mountains are not as good as plains. Food can be collected everywhere in the plains. There are not many families in this mountain within a radius of a hundred miles. Not to mention that when there is a harvest, the local officials will take away most of the remaining farming land. Even if the remaining farming land is not enough, there will be no surplus grain for outsiders.

It is precisely because of the barrenness that only a few local officials around here have been fighting and killing each other for many years. If they were not openly raising flags to rebel, the imperial army would not enter the mountain. When they come here once, the money and food they consumed cannot be scraped out of this place for many years.

The command of the village soldiers from Taiping can be said to be the first time. The imperial army did not enter the mountain to suppress the rebellion, but the dragon was not seen. The Li family in Bozhou was satisfied with the news and was always worried.

On the morning of that day, the magistrate Li Chengrui was talking about the current situation in Bozhou with his eldest son Li Dao. A servant ran in panic and reported: "The master's family, a large group of people from the mountains are coming out of the mountain and are rushing to us. I guess they will be outside the village at noon."

"What's going on? These mountain people don't stay in the mountains. When you come to Bozhou at this time, will you sincerely cause trouble for us?" Li Chengrui stood up and paced back and forth in the hall. "It's hateful. I've told my subordinates that those mountain people will die and let them die in the mountains! When we come to Bozhou, we have to take care of the grain. Now, according to the Kuoding method, we can't use them as slaves to help us raise them for our grandfather?"

Li Dao said in a deep voice: "Kuoding Fa did not come to Bozhou, so he cares about so much! Since he has come, he will put them all in our family! The people from the Nong family in Guangyuanzhou burned, killed and robbed them in Bozhou. When they finished their troubles and returned, they will inevitably have a lot of land, and they just happened to be used to plant them!"

"You, think about things so simply, how can I feel at ease to hand over Bozhou to you in the future?" Li Chengrui sighed, "I just thought that Bozhou is not capable of placing Ding Fa, but I don't think about why? The Nong family in Guangyuanzhou will not collapse. This is the place where we are lawless. When something happens to the Nong family, our good days will come to an end."

"Just getting this right! I don't believe that Xu Tong could still sanction Guangyuanzhou? He couldn't stay in Yongzhou for many days. When he left, I don't believe that the court could send another ruthless person! At this time, if he has the strength, he has to find Guangyuanzhou to mess with him. What can he do to us?"

"Oh, you just think it simple! He insisted on pacifying the Nong family before causing trouble for us? What's going on with so many people coming now? I don't even tell us how many people! As long as he succeeds this time, it will be useless for our Bozhou to keep it! It's useless, do you know! At this critical moment, you dare to take more servants. It's a cause for trouble for teasing him like this! If you can drive away the Nong family, he can capture our father and son to peace!"

Only then did Li Dao realize the seriousness of the matter and could no longer sit still. He stood up and pressed the table, gritted his teeth and said with a dark face: "Dad, let the government troops coming to Bozhou this time have no return!"

Li Chengrui glared at his son: "I think, can it be done? They are not in the edge of our Bozhou at all. Who has the courage to go to the mountains and forests to fight with them! If you are accidentally caught, don't forget what the outcome will be for going to Sizhou! Eliminate this idea as soon as possible!"

"Can you just watch the Xu surnamed take over our foundation?"

Li Chengrui sighed: "Now I just hope that the people of the Nong family will be able to fight for their breath. If the officers and soldiers suffer, we will have a more stable life. Otherwise, we should just learn from Huang Tianbiao as a rich man."

"What should I do if these people from outside the village do?"

"What can I do? Just spend some food to fill their stomachs and let them go back to the mountains."

"These people are all money. The fat sheep delivered to the door are always unwilling to accept it if they don't eat it!"

Just as the father and son sighed, the servant came to report again: "The master's family, the person who came was watching the court, and stopped three miles away from our city. A man came and said that he was a general in the official army and wanted to enter the village to meet the magistrate."

Li Chengrui stopped and said to the servant who reported the news: "Come to the official hall!"

When the servant went out, Li Chengrui said to his son: "Look, what am I saying! Fortunately, I didn't do anything randomly just now. If this hit the government army and Xu Ping was holding a grudge again, we would have caused a big trouble!"

Li Dao said coldly with a dark face: "I don't know what they are doing!"

Not long after, the servants led Linye to the official hall and just talked about the ceremony. Linye said: "A few days ago, we broke a nest of the thieves in Guangyuanzhou in the mountains and saved many mountain people. These people were all naked, and their families were looted and they could not survive in the mountains. They were willing to follow us back to Chongshan Village. However, we brought not much food and grass, which was not enough to be used on the road, so we came to the state to borrow some."

Li Chengrui said: "Ti Jie is polite. What's the matter with some small amount of food and grass? How much do you want? Just report a number and I'll send it to you later."

Forestry took out a piece of paper and handed it to Li Chengrui: "Just write it on the order. Remember to bring the order with you when delivering food and grass. I will detain you. I will take the order to the custody department in the future."

"Why is it so troublesome? Just take it away, and there is no need to bother the steward!"

Lin Ye smiled and said, "The magistrate has received the kindness, but the former military envoy has clearly explained that he must leave any written documents for the borrowed money and grain, otherwise the law will be done. The magistrate takes it well, but it is the money from the tutor, so you are welcome."

"Then I'll accept it." Li Chengrui laughed and took the order.

Forestry bowed: "If there is nothing else, I will say goodbye, and I will not be able to live without you outside."

"Why not sit down and have a cup of tea? Besides, although the village of Bozhou is small, hundreds of people can still tolerate it. Tixia might as well bring his people into the village. After resting, he will rush."

"Don't disturb us anymore. Military envoys are not allowed to disturb the local area. Military orders are hard to violate!"

After Linye finished speaking, he said goodbye and left.

Looking at Linye's back, Li Dao gritted his teeth and said, "It's hateful, this person is as careful! If he enters our city, they will be borne by them at night! The people outside are all arrested by Guangyuanzhou, and they must be strong men and young women, and they can be sold at a good price."

"Shut up your mouth, how can one or two hundred people not leak the news? I don't want to be chopped off like Huang Chengxiang. Be honest and prepare food and grass!"

Li Dao took the order and went there hatefully.

He had a big horse deal with Sugar Business. Li Dao learned to recognize words by learning Huang Kai. Although he couldn't read two pages of serious books, he knew them roughly. He was considered a rare knowledgeable person in Bozhou.

Outside the city, Sun Qilang sat down against a tree, touched the head of the yellow dog squatting beside him, looked at the Bozhou City Village not far away, and muttered: "The officials are too careful and don't let them in when they get outside the village. Don't believe that these local officials dare to eat so many of us?"

The woman sitting next to her said, "You don't know that these masters are really good at eating people. Be careful."

Sun Qilang looked at the woman and asked her: "You know again, can you have been here?"

The woman shook her head: "I am a mountain man, and I have no face to come out of the mountain to see him. Where can I get to such a big place? But my father was beaten to death by the master's family and fled to the mountain by himself."

Sun Qilang was obviously not interested in the woman's family history, and said to her happily: "It turns out that in your eyes, Bozhou is a big place? Then you must follow me back to Taiping County, where there are ten Bozhous as big as that! In terms of population, it is more than ten times more than here!"

The woman just smiled: "You don't have a credible word to speak. How could there be such a place in the world? So many people are together, what should I eat? I don't believe there are such a large field to grow food!"

"Oh, Taiping County is still a small place! Don't think that the world is the same as your mountain! If you arrive in the Central Plains, the land is flat and unobstructed! After riding a horse for a month, you will see all the flat ground, not even a small hill! There are only tens of thousands of hectares of land in our official village, which is more than Taiping County!"

"The more you talk, the less you are. You are just bullying me, the mountain people have no knowledge!"

"I won't bully you, but you really have no knowledge! Yongzhou, a remote small state, has no prosperous place, you would think it's amazing. If you arrive in Bianliang City, there are dozens of miles of city walls, and there are millions of people living there, and there are so many people on the road that you can't squeeze, you won't think you're in the sky!"

The woman just laughed and was too lazy to talk to Sun Qilang anymore.

In the afternoon, Li Dao brought people to bring food and grass. Forestry put a note on the order and said to Li Dao: "Yanei can collect the order. Then you can pay the money with the order sugar service!"

Li Dao looked at the people around him. They were all young and were indignant. The more than a hundred people sold them to Jiaozhi for thousands of guan, but they were gone in vain. After Forestry handed over the order, Li Dao took it and put it in his arms. The person was gone in vain. The food and supplies could not be given in vain.

Seeing Li Dao leave, Linye ordered everyone to camp and rest and send people to pick up firewood to cook.

Li Dao returned to the official hall of the village and saw that his father was still waiting there, he took out the order and said, "The team named Forestry will be banned on the order. I don't know if I can pay money from the Tijuan."

Li Chengrui didn't look at the order, leaned on the chair and narrowed his eyes: "Don't worry about these small money. Tell me, there are more than 100 people outside, how many people from Guangyuanzhou should be destroyed to save them?"

"It's possible that dozens of people are needed. They are so lucky!"

"Son, the more I think about this, the worse it is! They would rather camp outside than come into the village. This is not trusting our Li family, but they seem to be able to beat Guangyuanzhou in this situation!"

Speaking of this, Li Chengrui slapped the armrest of the chair, stood up and walked a few steps, and made up his mind: "Tomorrow, you go to Taiping County Tsingjusting Department. When you meet Xu Tong, you will use the excuse to repay what happened today and explore his words. What will happen to our Li family!"

Li Dao was confused: "Have you really reached this point?"

Li Chengrui said: "You must prepare for everything early, you will leave early tomorrow morning!"

Two days later, Li Dao rushed to Taiping and went to the Tijuan Yamen to see Xu Ping, but he didn't expect that Xu Ping had left and took Sang Yi and his accompanying soldiers to Pingxiangdong.
Chapter completed!