Dominate the Country

ps: First update.

The sky gradually brightened.

The eastern sky showed a hint of white, and clouds gathered in the eastern sky like a market. The rays of light from the rising sun made them look like red brocade, revealing a faint crimson.

The moon, which had completely lost its luster, turned into a small crescent moon, hanging in the western sky like a small boat, blinking and peeping at the countless creatures in the lower world.

The world gradually revived.

The sun rose from the horizon, presenting the hazy blue sky to people's vision.

At this time in the past, Tumenji had already been full of chickens and dogs, and people were angry. But that was in the past. Now Tumenji has less than a hundred households left, and cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, geese, and all livestock and poultry have been "snatched" up the mountain by the Chen family. Even the Huang family of Tumenji eats noodles and sweet potatoes every day. The whole family of the first wife had already run to the county town, and they were bothering about the title deed of the house that Chang Rui had adopted from the Chen family. The remaining branches of the Huang family were short of food for their livelihood.

Yesterday, Li Zhao led the team to Tumenji with great difficulty, but Tumenji couldn't even get a decent meal. If there were no two fish on the table, Li Zhoutong would have to eat noodles with pickles. Yes, Tumenji not only had no meat, but also no wine.

Just these two fish, the people of Tumenji saw Li Zhoutong leading a large force to come: These are relatives, and finally someone has come to redress their grievances, so hurry up and catch two fish and show them filial piety. Then they rubbed their red eyes and blinked, and went back to their homes.

Li Zhao was so angry that he wanted to arrest all the remaining people in Tumenji, but they dragged on for too long, and Tumenji's "experience" had spread throughout Lushan and even throughout Ruzhou.

The remaining people in Tumenji are all good citizens of the court. Facing the vicious Chen family and the Chen family who were forcing them with knives, they were not afraid and resolutely resisted going up the mountain to become bandits, so that their belongings were looted by the Chen family. These are all great good citizens.

The government still needs to help them, how can they arrest people! ? !

They are a face of the government. The Chen family hired people with silver to make a big noise about their "scandal" of "forcing the village", just to let them avoid the government's liquidation and oppression.

Therefore, Li Zhao could only swallow his anger alone. He could delay for a year or two, and then deal with the Tumenji people, but now "public opinion" does not allow them to do so. Unless Li Zhao wants to completely ruin his reputation, unless Li Zhao is willing to take the risk of the Huang family and others jumping over the wall to poke the matter to Kaifeng, just like Chang Rui waits until next year or the year after, it is easy to deal with the Huang family and the Li family, but it is not suitable now.

What Li Zhao needs to do most now is to put out the resistance of the Chen family, and then calmly clean up the situation. If they can't put out the Chen family, they will have to tolerate the Huang family and others. Who made them define the Chen family's affairs as mobs!

Officials care about their future. If they are rated as poor in the annual performance evaluation, it will be very bad for the future career of a new official like Chang Rui.

What kind of war will Li Zhao fight? What kind of soldiers will Li Zhao lead? He is just an official, and he has nothing to do with military weapons. He is not even as good as Chen Ming, the well-informed "paper Zhao Kuo" on TV and the Internet. He was angry and shouted at the army to move forward the next day, and all he knew about the Funiu Mountain was a Phoenix Terrace and Xiaonangou. He didn't even know that the Chen family had a base in the mountains.

But this also shows Li Zhao's true level, doesn't it?

There are two Wu Xiucai in the Zhuxian militia, but what kind of "talent" is this Wu Xiucai?

The martial arts examination is held in the county and prefecture, and those who pass the examination are called martial arts scholars. The subjects only test two archery and sword, which are much less valuable than the joint examination that tests policy essays. Horseback archery is also reduced to two out of nine shots to pass.

So, except for those who are really ambitious, you can completely regard these martial arts scholars as martial artists.

The two martial arts scholars in front of Li Zhao are both middle-aged. One has a beard, wears a dark blue robe, and carries a broadsword; the other is white and beardless, about 40 years old, with a single sword and a bow on his waist.

The beard is Zheng Guanwei, and the white-faced middle-aged man is Wei Qing. The former is good at using a broadsword, and the latter is outstanding in archery.

Before the militia set off, Wei Qing made a suggestion to Li Zhao, and Li Zhao agreed after listening, and ordered the Yiyang County militia to lead the way, and the rest of the militia followed two or three miles behind.

Wei Qing's caution was in vain. The Yiyang County militia reached Fenghuangtai smoothly, and the large army following behind also reached Fenghuangtai smoothly. But they were dumbfounded by the following attack.

There was not a single decent sapling outside Fenghuangtai. The wall of the Fenghuangtai checkpoint built by the Chen family was 15 feet high, and it was raised by another 5 feet in the past few days. Before, they were afraid of taboos. How could a landlord build the outer wall of his property to 20 feet high? So the Chen family only built 15 feet high.

Now the 20-foot-high "city wall" blocked the militia, and Li Zhao was dumbfounded.

"Hahaha, hahaha..." Chen Ming laughed loudly on the top of the city, pointing his finger at the 800 militia below, and at Li Zhao and others in front of the battle. He really felt that this group of people was a bunch of useless snacks. Don't they even know a little common sense of fighting? Do they still think that Chen Ming will flee at the sight of the wind? ?

Chen Ming not only did not flee, but he also chopped down and burned the trees within a five-mile radius. Even if the militia wanted to make a stool, they had to run back five miles to find suitable wood. "A bunch of garbage. Living is a waste of food!"

Seeing the militia groups arriving in a chaotic buzz, rushing to the Phoenix stage regardless of their own fatigue, and unable to do anything but stare, Chen Ming felt that he had to lower his IQ by a notch, otherwise the Manchu and Qing dynasty would do nothing. The official's job is to send people to death.

Just like just now, if Chen Ming opens the door and lets Chen Erbao lead a team to kill the generals, despite the 800 people in the militia, they really can't withstand the hundreds of men wearing breastplates and recharging their energy.

"Dawei, go down and pick a few people, sneak up near the militia with a shotgun, and give me two shots."

As the saying goes, too much is never enough. Chen Ming felt that he still had to 'work harder', and in this situation, if the vigilante group exploded, it would be Chen Ming's fault.

This is not to say that the Chen family is very capable, but that Li Zhao is too incompetent.

Yesterday I walked from the county seat to Tumenji, and just rested for one night. Today I walked from Tumenji to Fenghuang Terrace again. Liang Zhiqiang really can't feel his legs anymore.

After being ridiculed by Chen Ming in the Phoenix stage, Li Zhou and Mr. Li decided to retreat because the team was too close to the bandits. Of course, there is another point that cannot be ignored - they have to retreat to find wood and build long ladders and other siege equipment.

Mr. Li also moved his tent further back.

Liang Zhiqiang held a red tassel gun in his hand, using it as a walking stick, and walked back step by step with difficulty. He's hungry again! During lunch, I was bullied by two gangsters, and one and a half of the two noodles were taken away...