One hundred and forty-third chapters are pregnant with ghosts (2)
In Zhang Tianbo's opinion, Sun Dabiao's best strategy was to take advantage of Feng Haijiao's visit a few days ago, capture or kill him unprepared, and sacrifice him to the Australians. In the worst case, he could find a way out and live in peace.
The rich man. Now that the opportunity has been lost, it would be a bad idea to attack Feng Haijiao again.
Sure enough, after listening to his words, Sun Dabiao's expression became less lively.
"Both sides will suffer, let alone talking about it. If Feng Haijiao is destroyed, the Australians will just keep their word. What if they turn their backs and refuse to recognize us? At that time, your old men will be short of soldiers and food. Isn't it easy for the Australians to destroy you?"
At this time, Sun Dabiao began to feel restless. He turned around a few times and said loudly: "This won't work, that won't work either. Could it be that our brothers just wait to die?!"
Zhang Tianbo rolled his eyes and said: "Now we can only 'step on two boats'..."
Sun Dabiao immediately became excited when he heard this: "How to step on it?"
Zhang Tianbo said: "Brother, I will accept the recruitment of Australians. This is the first ship. With this name, it is regarded as an Australian official status. It is convenient for you to say and do anything in the county."
"Is this other ship the Ming Dynasty?"
"Exactly." Zhang Tianbo nodded, "Feng Haijiao is willing to go and invite Feng on behalf of the eldest brother, so there is no need to stop him. We ourselves have to send someone to pick up the people sent by Daming - otherwise, it will be inconvenient to be separated by one floor."
"Okay," Sun Dabiao nodded repeatedly, then suddenly frowned and said, "It's easy to be in two boats, but how will the two sides deal with it? It's okay for the Ming Dynasty to say that Xiong Wencan is high in the sky and the emperor is far away. It doesn't matter what we say. It's a big deal.
Just get two heads to fool me, the Australians are here in the county! I have been recruited, what if he wants to urge me to fight Feng Haijiao?"
"If he wants to urge us, let's go and 'fight' - of course, we have to make an agreement with Brother Feng. Let's just make a show and fire off a few cannons. It doesn't matter where we cut off as many heads as we can, and it's considered a fight. No.
It’s because we don’t have enough strength to fight this down. Please ask the Australians to allocate more food and wages..."
"Australians are not fools, so how can they be so willing?"
"Since he is reluctant to part with food and salary, naturally we will not be able to work hard."
"This method can delay for a while, but not for a lifetime." Sun Dabiao has been a bandit for generations and knows the government's tricks. "As time goes by, what if the Australian county magistrate will send the National Army to 'aid the suppression' and force us to take the lead?"
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Zhang Tianbo said: "Right now, the county is full of waste. The Ming Dynasty and the Yao people are a thorn in the side of the Australians. The county magistrate can only bring a few hundred people to take office. He can't take care of so many. We are dragging it out for a while.
We will make plans when things change. The only plan for now is to keep Brother Feng tightly in check. With him here, we will have a basis for advance and retreat."
There is a second meaning in Zhang Tianbo's words. If the Ming Dynasty counterattacks or the Kun thieves are too weak to govern Yangshan, then the three of them together will be the largest force in the county, and they can do a lot; if
The Kun thieves were strong and the Ming Dynasty had no hope of counterattack, so seizing the opportunity to suddenly capture and kill Feng Haijiao would provide the final retreat.
Sun Dabiao naturally understood what he meant. He thought to himself that Tianbo was indeed the leader of Kuaiban, he was really ruthless.
When the two brothers figured it out, they sent someone to secretly agree on a strategy of "fighting openly and peacefully" with Feng Haijiao. Sun Dabiao fully agreed to the conditions, saying that he would immediately send troops to "suppress Feng Haijiao" when he was "ready".
Sun Dabiao obtained grain and cloth, and also obtained the name of an Australian, so he openly set up a checkpoint in Dalangwei and collected the salt and commercial taxes leading to Yao District. With the money and grain, his escaped minions were wiped out by the Australians.
All kinds of bandits who had slipped through the net came to seek refuge one after another. For a time, Dawangwei was filled with smoky atmosphere. However, the Yao people in Yonghua were filled with resentment and came to Wang Chuyi one after another to complain. The naturalized cadres were also very dissatisfied with Wang Chuyi.
He expressed his opposition to the "two peaches and three soldiers" plan in the first year of junior high school - Sun Dabiao did not attack Feng Haijiaolong at all. Instead, he used the banner of the Australians to dominate and exploit the Yao people in Yonghua, causing public resentment to boil.
Now Wang Chuyi couldn't sit still, and immediately sent someone to ask Sun Dabiao when he would march to Qinglianwei.
"It's not that I'm shirking my humble position, it's actually that I'm humble because of the small number of soldiers and the lack of food and pay. I have to prepare enough before we can advance the army..." Sun Dabiao cried out as usual.
He only complained about poverty and delayed the invasion of troops. Wang Chuyi also found it difficult, and his colleagues also had opinions, especially Luo Yiming. He reminded Wang Chuyi that if he continued like this, the Yonghua Yao people they had finally convinced would have to do it again.
There has been a riot, and the propaganda not long ago has turned out to be lies. It will be extremely difficult to carry out work in Yao District in the future.
"... What the Yonghua Yao people hate the most is the high price of salt. They rebelled with the Badai Yao, and the root cause is that Sun Dabiao of Dalangwei collected high transit salt taxes and monopolized the business. When we came to Yangshan, we kept saying
He said that he wanted to eradicate Anliang and make the Yao and Han people 'one body and equal', but in the end he still allowed Sun Dabiao to monopolize salt affairs. Wouldn't it be a breach of trust for them?"
This put Wang Chuyi in a dilemma. Although there was a squadron of the National Army guarding Yonghua Township, it would be easy to suppress an incident if it really happened. However, he could not explain himself in front of Chief Huang. He had to come again.
Peng Shouan asked for advice.
Peng Shou'an couldn't come up with any "good tips", so he could only say a few perfunctory words: "Let's appease the Yao people first and wait and see."
"The Yao people are in great trouble now. They have been sending people to petition, saying that the price of salt is so high that everyone can no longer afford it, so they can only eat light food. This is not something that can be appeased by a few words." Wang Chuyi was very distressed.
Peng Shouan racked his brains and thought about it, and suddenly came up with a clever plan: The Second Squadron of Yangshan County is currently stationed in Yonghua, and the county must transport supplies to the squadron every month. There are two roads to Yonghua, one
The method is to take the Lianjiang Waterway to Libuwei, then transfer to Zhaigang River and go south. After arriving, it will be transported by manpower. Not only is the distance long and the public security situation on the Lianjiang River is not good, but also a considerable number of escort troops are needed, which is just a small force for a mere person.
The movement of supplies was too much for a force of a hundred men. Therefore, the supply team took the shorter and safer land route. That is, it entered Yonghua via Dalangwei. Although Sun Dabiao quickly reoccupied Dalangwei,
They never dared to intercept the supply convoys of the National Army.
Peng Shou'an's "ingenious plan" was to bring salt into the Yao District from the supply convoy, and then sell it to the Yao people at a "fair price".
"...As a result, it will be unprofitable for Sun Dabiao to set up a salt tax in Dalangwei, and the Yao people of Yonghua will also benefit from the price."
This clever plan was approved by Wang Chuyi, but Luo Yiming unexpectedly objected: "Since ancient times, it has been the power of the government to levy salt tax. What qualifications does Sun Dabiao have to set up a card to collect tax? The county should immediately order a ban, there is no use of entrainment methods.
Delivering salt to the Yao people. Besides, once the salt is delivered, the army has to sell it! Doesn’t it violate the army’s ban on doing business?”
Wang Chuyi felt that this strategy was good, but now he was opposed to it. Thinking that his decision-making was constantly being questioned by the naturalized cadres, he had long suspected that Luo Yiming was secretly causing trouble. He yelled: "Comrade Luo Yiming!
Please note that I am the county magistrate of Yangshan County! You are just the captain of the National Army in charge of public security and the chief of the public security section! You can express your opinions according to the procedures, but you have no right to criticize my decision. If you feel that my decision is not right
If appropriate, you can respond to your superiors. But you are never allowed to engage in small groups in private to oppose your superiors!"
The Senate attaches great importance to the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Luo Yiming naturally understands the stakes here. When Wang Chuyi slapped him in the face, he had to swallow what he said later. He felt that Wang Chuyi's behavior was completely wrong and was purely for the purpose of
Playing a "conspiracy" completely failed to put Chief Huang's purpose of "mobilizing the masses to win the majority" in the first place.
That's all. However, Luo Yiming's past experience shows that gangsters like Sun Dabiao are extremely suspicious and unpredictable. The so-called strategy may not work on him - even if it works, the impact will be very bad. At present, Yangshan County is very concerned about recruiting security.
Sun Dabiao and Zhang Tianbo have already had a lot of complaints. Even if they can "catch them all in one fell swoop" in the end, this kind of loss in people's hearts will be difficult to make up for. What's more, Sun Dabiao is very likely to bite back and cause problems to Yangshan's military and political institutions.
loss……
"What should we do?" Luo Yiming returned to his residence and thought for a long time, and decided that it would be without further ado. He should report the situation to Chief Huang immediately. Thinking of this, he spread out the letter paper and began to write a letter to Huang Chao.
Just when undercurrents were surging from all sides, Feng Haijiao's house in Qinglianwei was also filled with the smell of conspiracy.
Unlike Dawangwei, which had a peaceful scene of "singing and dancing to bring peace," Qinglianwei was in a tense situation of "organizing the army and preparing for war." Feng Haijiao not only allowed all the home bandits who had been scattered around to return to the village, but also collected many
Desperadoes came from other places, and they also used the surrounding people to repair the village walls, forge weapons, and forge cannons every day.
On that day, the three of them set up an incense table in Sun Dabiao's house in Dawangwei, and vowed again to the Tianmeng to "never rebel against each other" and to "live and die together". They also agreed that he would "invite the seal" for Sun Dabiao, and everyone would "share the plan".
"Wealth and honor". However, the news that Sun Dabiao accepted the recruitment of the thief again made him nervous for several days - although Zhang Tianbo came to Qinglianwei not long after, and said that he had no choice but to put his brother's foot in two boats.
He told it all over again, and also gave a speech on the strategy of "fighting openly and secretly". The two sides made a covenant not to attack each other and to help each other secretly. But Feng Haijiao was still worried - in his opinion, the Australians
The national army is small, and they have just arrived to maintain public order in the county and to control the Yao people. It is impossible to deal with them in the short term. The real thing to be wary of is Dabiao, his brother and grandson. He brought the Australians to attack him, and he is a familiar person.
——He knows all his own shortcomings and weaknesses. If he really wants to use this weapon on his own head, the back of his neck will feel a little cold.
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