Pu Demeng came in with a gloomy face, wearing the roughest cloth robe and disheveled hair. Pu Demeng was originally a very active young man, but now he looked like a different person.
The two guards followed closely behind. Feng Zongze sighed secretly. He had guessed Pu Demeng's intention.
He performed the traditional ceremony far away from Feng Zongze.
"Chief..."
"Pu Demeng, please get up."
"Yes, Chief." Pu Demeng stood up and said respectfully: "Sir... I have a request, please grant the Chief's approval."
"Say it."
"I was raised by my elder brother when I was a child. From the time I was sent thousands of miles away, until I settled in Jeju, it was my elder brother who took care of me..." Park Dehuan said the emotional part and burst into tears, "I know that my elder brother's crime is unforgivable and he has betrayed the commander-in-chief.
Trust. It's all his own fault." He wiped his tears with his sleeves. "The laws of the Song Dynasty are ruthless, and I will never dare to intercede for him. But once my brother is sent away, he may never return to Jeju. In this world,
There are only two brothers and I can no longer bear to be separated..."
As he said this, he wiped his tears again: "I am willing to follow my brother...and please give me your permission!"
Feng Zongze was silent for a long time, and then said: "In our Senate, the most important thing is to govern the country according to the law, and there is no such thing as involving relatives. Your brother is your brother, and you are you. It is unreasonable for you to ask for help, and it is also inconsistent with the law.
It doesn't match." He said and stood up and took a few steps, "I, the senate's servants, regardless of their origins or their level of education, as long as they are loyal, reliable and work hard, we can trust them and will never call you that.
There’s no end. Don’t doubt yourself.” He stood up and took a few steps, “Just do your thing well.”
Since the news of the failed arson and poisoning, and the arrest of Zhao Minggui and others, all the people gathered in the Kim family manor in Suwon-dong have become ants on the hot pot.
In the society of the Li Dynasty, where social classes were almost solidified, the second-grade Jin Wanyi was not only a rich man, but also a member of the Yangban class. He was almost the embodiment of power, wealth and status among the locals.
After Jeju's D-Day, he took advantage of the chaos and annexed a large number of official horse farms. He obtained tens of thousands of official horses and cattle, and even the official slaves and soldiers who guarded the horse farms were incorporated into his command. His wealth on the island was huge.
Various landowners and herdsmen in the interior had always looked up to him, and now they are following him closely, fearing that their loyalty is not enough in this "troubled time" in Jeju. Their land and wealth will be annexed by Lord Jin.
This group of people gathered in Mr. Kim’s Suwon-dong manor, always ready to follow Mr. Kim’s movements. In addition to ensuring the safety of their own wealth and lives, they could also make a profit in the chaos: although most of the official horse farms fell into the hands of Mr. Kim.
However, many people around the three cities were also taken away by the Japanese pirates. I heard that the Japanese pirates brought a lot of people, food and materials to the island. If we can kill the Japanese pirates in one go, although the big head will inevitably be taken by the officers and soldiers and Mr. Jin.
Let's go. We can still get some soup at home.
With this kind of thinking, after Huang Yunyu returned from the mainland and brought back a letter from Shin Kyung-yu, the Jeolla-do military envoy, Suwon-dong had already started to build up troops and prepare to recruit "rebels".
The first thing is to collect food and grass from all over the island. "Volunteers" are very cheap. They don't need to spend any military salary, not even the stamp money for collecting. They can come to fight for the masters after just giving orders from everywhere. But they are hungry.
After all, the stomach can't fight - to win the battle, you have to feed them.
The water temperature conditions in Jeju Island are actually not bad, but the soil is not suitable for growing rice, and most crops are grown. The yield is very low. Most of the inland areas are pastures, so the grain stocks of each manor are very limited. Although they try their best to mobilize grain and grass, they can't
They could only scrape together enough food for four thousand nominal soldiers for half a month.
Naturally, these actions cannot be hidden from the eyes of the special reconnaissance team. Since ancient times, collecting food has been a prelude to war. According to the self-study textbook "Important Things in the Formation 1632" issued by the General Staff not long ago: war mobilization in agricultural societies usually involves
It started with a large-scale collection of grain and grass. Once farmers' grain stocks fell below their survival needs, farmers could only choose between joining the township warriors, militia or rising up. When the ruling authority was not destroyed, farmers usually chose the former.
Although the official government of the Lee Dynasty on Jeju Island has been destroyed, the inland areas have been almost untouched, and most of the residents in the inland are official and private slaves and tenants with strong personal dependence. The master is their god, and they have to do whatever they are told.
.
The special reconnaissance team always keeps surveillance on them and pays attention to their movements.
After the 320 incident, the atmosphere near Suwon-dong suddenly became tense. Not only did a large number of volunteers gather here every day, but the special investigation team also discovered that some owners of smaller manors were "moving" to the Suwon-dong manor.
Transport family property and dependents.
The "flawless" plan originally planned turned out to be a complete failure. This caused the gentlemen in the interior to panic. Some people advocated concentrating their efforts on a few well-defended main manor houses, and at the same time sent envoys to report to Jeolla Province's envoy Shen Jingyu.
, waiting for the officers and soldiers to come for reinforcements before responding.
Another group of people thought that since they had already broken up, they had to wait for the officers and soldiers to come - who knew whether the officers and soldiers would come. The only way was to recruit all the strong men to fight to the death while the Japanese pirates were not yet firmly established.
Although the Japanese pirates are powerful and have many firearms, some people believe that during the Miura Japanese Rebellion, hundreds of Jeju rebels beat the Japanese pirates and fled in panic. No matter how powerful these Japanese pirates of unknown origin were, they still had ten times the "righteousness"
"Soldiers", even if they can't annihilate them with one blow, they can still defeat the half-remnants of the Japanese. At the worst, they can make them fearful and dare not invade the inland. They can wait until the imperial soldiers arrive before making further calculations.
At the end of the discussion, everyone finally thought that we should be cautious - after all, the reputation of Japanese kings has also spread to the inland, and most people are still a little embarrassed. Moreover, everyone is familiar with the terrain when fighting in the inland, and it is easy to maintain the morale of the volunteers.
Save food and transportation capacity.
The volunteers who were recruited began to repair the fortifications on a large scale. While they were working in full swing, a special expedition team had quietly arrived at Suwon-dong.
Suwon-dong is the center of all resistance forces on the island. Knocking this place down and capturing Kim Man-il alive would be equivalent to "beheading" the remaining local forces of the Lee Dynasty on the island.
Therefore, this special advance team was organized into three four-person attack teams - other expeditionary teams only included one team to be used as guides, scouts and snipers.
The special advance expedition team has a platoon of Fubo Army as the core, and is reinforced with one company each of the Japanese security forces, the White Horse Team, and the National Army's Jeju Advance Column. In addition, it is reinforced with two 12-pound mountain howitzers as offensive weapons.
The elders always feel that using a fully-organized special reconnaissance team and modern weapons to fight a regular war is equivalent to playing a game with a cheating device. Using a special reconnaissance team in a place like Jeju Island, where the combat power is a joke, is simply playing a very retarded game.
If you cheat on the easy difficulty of the game, you will probably be ridiculed for the rest of your life. However, Xue Ziliang believes that this action is of great significance to strengthening the security of the entire island, and must be killed in one fell swoop like a tiger pounces on a sheep.
On a mountain in Suwon-dong, two people were trekking in the forest. Judging from their tattered clothes and tired faces, they were poor people here and had been on the mountain for a long time.
"Dad, you won't encounter Japanese pirates, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense and find a way!"
Jin Dawu and Jin Dawu, father and son, carried axes and freshly cut wood to find a way out of the mountain. The mountains were foggy these days. The two volunteers who followed the logging team into the mountain to cut trees seemed to have lost their way. They were afraid of encountering
The Japanese pirates did not dare to walk out of the woods easily, so they groped forward, unaware that it was almost dark.
People's names often place their family's expectations on them. Chinese poor people like to name Bao, rich, and noble. Rich people like to use Wen, Wu, and Chao. Officials' families use De, Cai, and Xian. Basically, they name whatever they lack.
. People share this sentiment, and so do the Koreans. Just by hearing their name, you can tell that this family is very poor. As a family of tenant farmers, they don’t even own the land of the house.
Last year's grain was not enough to eat after paying the rent, and there was a spring famine at the beginning of spring. As I was struggling with no choice, I heard that Japanese pirates were coming from the sea. The owner of the village borrowed two and a half measures of grain, on the condition that he would serve as a volunteer, and not only would he have enough to eat
, and also promised to waive half of this year’s rent.
Having enough food and being free of rent is certainly nice. But what the father and son care most about is that if they are really beheaded by Japanese pirates, the owner of the village will think that they have escaped, and their wives, brothers and sisters at home may not be able to survive this winter.
Already.
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of a gong, followed by the whining of a conch horn. The fourteen-year-old Jin Tao wanted to run away, but when he wanted to run, he suddenly felt that his legs were not working. The father in his thirties
Gritting his teeth, he dragged his son and stumbled out of the woods. Then there was a sound of bombardment from an iron cannon. Jin Dawu's legs stopped working, and then he felt like he was kicked hard and he rolled to the ground.
Yabei chased down the hill with three or four people holding a rifle. The injured father of the Jin family had already peeed out, and the blood stained his pants. This time, it was his son who was holding on to his father.
His arms were rolling and he was running forward, with tears and snot running down his face. In the blink of an eye, the Japanese pirates had caught up with them and kicked them to the ground. Yabei thought to himself, eating Australian rice and fish every day,
Sure enough, I had the strength. Back then, I was crawling like this in Tianwang Mountain to escape for my life, but my poor dad didn't escape.
If it weren't for this inexplicable distraction, the heads of the Jin family and his son would have been moved. Since the chief is not very interested in beheading people, there is no need to take credit. But Yabei, who comes from a samurai family, is always like a straight-up donkey.