Pirate Song

Chapter 97: Advice

County Magistrate Liu was also troubled by this matter. He also understood that what Gao Huaiyuan said was indeed true. Lake pirates were rampant now. If they were allowed to continue like this, he, the county magistrate, would definitely offend the people and make the lake worse again.

After becoming a powerful thief, there is no guarantee that he will not be dealt with poorly, which will be a great disadvantage to his future career!

But if he wanted to suppress the bandits, he needed someone with money and food supplies. He had no place to solve this problem, which made him feel embarrassed. Now that Gao Huaiyuan had a solution, he quickly asked: "Gao County

If you have any clever ideas, please tell me quickly!"

"This matter is not difficult to handle! This kind of thing is not only a matter for us in Daye County, the Lake Pirates matter is also a matter for the prefect of Ezhou. And Ezhou is currently busy with pre-military matters, and it must not be able to spare any troops.

To encircle and suppress the lake bandits, all you have to do is report the matter to

The magistrate learned that, please ask the magistrate to send people to suppress it. If the state government can't send people, naturally we have to give you an explanation. You might as well ask the state government to provide some money and food, and we in Daye County will send people.

If we do this, wouldn't it be convenient to solve the problem of money and food?

As for the manpower, it is easy to say. There are many village warriors in the twelve townships. This time, only twenty people came from each township. Let each township send out dozens of village warriors, which will be enough to deal with the lake pirates. I am willing to

Stay in Maoshan Township and personally lead the troops to defeat the lake bandits. As for money and food,

I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you, sir! If that doesn't work, we can ask the big families in Maoshan Township to chip in some money and food this time to support the military. I guess this is what we did for them.

, they shouldn’t be stingy!

I wonder if your Majesty thinks this method is feasible?" Gao Huaiyuan then said his method.

Liu Zhixian was also a man who had been in the officialdom for a long time. After hearing this, he immediately understood what Gao Huaiyuan meant. After summing up, he immediately said: "After all, Gao County Lieutenant is young and promising. I didn't think of such a method."

, I think this is feasible, so I will do it according to your method first

Once this is done, I will leave this place to you. I will return to the county seat and send someone to report the matter to the magistrate Ming and ask him to make a decision! As for the matter of mobilizing manpower, you can handle it as you see fit. I would rather not do anything about marching and fighting.

You, it would be more appropriate for you to have full authority to handle this matter!"

Although Liu Zhixian is not an upright official, he still has self-awareness and knows what people should do what. At least when it comes to using swords and guns, he never tells Gao Huaiyuan. This can be regarded as Gao Huaiyuan's good luck.

Otherwise, if the county magistrate is a county magistrate who has to do everything he needs to do and doesn't know how to pretend to understand, his job as a county lieutenant will be difficult!

After the two decided on the matter, Liu Zhixian got up in his sedan chair and returned to the city, leaving all matters here to Gao Huaiyuan. Gao Zuo also completed the autopsy here, leaving detailed records, and then returned to the city to assist Liu Zhixian.

Reported to the Ezhou magistrate, and Gao Huaiyuan became the number one person in charge here.

However, Gao Huaiyuan still didn't have a good idea on how to deal with the lake pirates in Niangzi Lake, so he first arranged for archers and village warriors to help the people of Jinjia Village bury the bodies of the victims and assist them with funeral arrangements.

After these people entered the village and saw such a tragic scene, they were all filled with indignation. Many of them pointed at the lake in the distance and cursed, vowing not to let go of the lake thieves.

It took them two full days just to deal with the funeral affairs of these victims. During these two days, since they were not regular troops, they naturally did not have tents and other materials to use. Gao Huaiyuan could not let so many people lie down.

Leaving the world to sleep, so

We temporarily borrowed the houses of some people in Jinjia Village in the village to temporarily house these rural archers. We also sent people to recruit the local chiefs, elders and others in Maoshan Township to prepare food for these rural archers and solve the problem first.

Everyone’s eating problem.

At any rate, they were dealt with and stationed first. Within two days, Gao Huaiyuan sent the leaders of the bow and arrow societies in each township to return to their hometowns. He notified the village chiefs and heads of households in each township to organize the warriors of each bow and arrow society in the township. Today, he will mobilize

Past

Maoshan Township listened, and Liu Zhixian, who returned to Daye County at the same time, was pretty good. He sent someone to transfer a batch of grain from the county government warehouse to Maoshan Township for Gao Huaiyuan's use. Finally, Gao Huaiyuan's urgent need was temporarily relieved.

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While doing these things, Gao Huaiyuan also ordered Zhou Jun to send people from Crouching Tiger Village to transfer Zhao and other capable personnel. This time the suppression of the bandits was not easy. Just relying on the village warriors from the newly organized archery clubs in each township,

Gao Huaiyuan was not at ease. The only elites who could really be used were his men in Wohu Village, and the other fifty men under the county government Guo Liang.

The archers and the village warriors from the Gaojiazhuang Archery Club can serve as the main force. The remaining village warriors are not well trained and can only be used as auxiliary soldiers. In this way, a temporary team is first set up for the next step of launching a water campaign.

The bandit made some preparations in advance, and at the same time, it would be good for his subordinates in Wohu Village to receive the training of actual combat again.

It is impossible to operate completely secretly for such a movement, and since the Lake Pirates have been operating in this area all year round, there will definitely be many informants to find out information for them. Gao Huaiyuan simply started to spread the news with great fanfare. First, he could knock the mountain to shake the tiger, and first

Let these lake pirates restrain their behavior and stop committing crimes continuously. Secondly, let the local people see the government's determination this time and win over the people's support as much as possible to prepare for the next action.

But Gao Huaiyuan was still at a loss as to how to deal with the elusive lake pirates on Niangzi Lake. Speaking of which, Niangzi Lake is not too big, but if you calculate it, it is still quite big. Niangzi Lake stretches more than a hundred miles from east to west and from north to south.

It is tens of miles wide at its widest, and the lake has enough

Hundreds of thousands of acres, the entire basin area is thousands of miles, there are countless harbor branches along the coast, and there are many terrifying places for lake pirates to hide. If he only wants to control Niangzi Lake with this little power at his disposal,

Catching all the lake pirates in one swoop is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

What's even more difficult is that the lake pirates are very familiar with the terrain here, and they are good at using boats and can come and go freely on the lake. Although the village warriors under his command are also locals in Daye County, and everyone is familiar with the water, but most of them

People do not live in the Niangzi Lake area. Although they have the advantage of people and location, they are completely at a disadvantage in terms of geographical location.

After receiving Gao Huaiyuan's order, Zhou Hao quickly came over with a group of young villagers. Zhao Tong even brought a dozen well-trained big dogs to cooperate with Gao Huaiyuan's bandit suppression operation.

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Speaking of Zhao Tong's hound team, Gao Huaiyuan has spent a lot of money over the past year or so. He has invested huge sums of money and sent people to collect various fierce dogs from all directions and bring them back for training. At the same time, he also selected smart dogs from the original ones.

Fierce dogs were bred, and a batch of paparazzi were born before the Spring Festival last year. The batch of hounds brought by Zhao Tong this time were the selected good dogs, and these dogs were urinated and accepted the strict rules of Zhao Tong and others.

The training of dogs is no longer comparable to that of ordinary dogs. Although the ferocity is far less than that of Tibetan Mastiffs, the world's best fierce dogs, it is much more powerful than ordinary dogs, whether it is tracking, attacking, or lurking.

, they all have their own strengths in sneak attack and guarding, and they are really powerful. If ordinary people want to get close to them, they can't do it without some courage. Even Gao Huaiyuan felt a little scared when he saw a large group of these guys!

Speaking of these hounds, Zhao Tong took them into the mountains for training a few days ago, and they encountered a pack of wolves. As a result, a group of dogs was not at a disadvantage against a group of wolves. In the end, they drove away the wolves and won a great victory.

It really made Gao Huaiyuan happy.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan ordered Zhao Tong to bring a group of people to help in the suppression of bandits this time. It must have played a certain role. The arrival of these dogs was very new to the village heroes, and many people brought things to tease these dogs.

Dogs, it turns out that hounds simply turn a blind eye to things that are not given to them by their owners. They don't even look at them and only eat the food given by their owners, which makes many people wonder.

When Zhou Hao and others arrived, the affairs of Jinjia Village were basically settled. Gao Huaiyuan saw that the village here was too small and not suitable for garrisoning too many people, so he led his troops to move to a remote area south of Maoshan Township.

Inside the abandoned temple not far from the lake, here

It is said that it was a temple built in the Tang Dynasty, but after years of wars, its popularity gradually declined. In addition, most officials in the Song Dynasty advocated Taoism, so the temple was even less popular, so it was left unattended all year round.

It became an abandoned temple.

Fortunately, there were still some houses in the temple that had not collapsed and could still be temporarily occupied, so Gao Huaiyuan set up this place as the bandit suppression command headquarters and also used it as a barracks, which solved the problem of their residence and reduced the impact on the local people.

of harassment.

After finishing all these things, Gao Huaiyuan really had time to sit down and carefully consider how to suppress the bandits. He still trusted the people around him for this kind of thing, so he sent Zhou Hao, Jia Qi, Zhou Jun, Xing

The arrester, Guo Liang and others summoned him to his residence to discuss how to deal with the lake pirates.

"To be honest, sir, this matter is much more difficult than before. These lake pirates have existed in this area for a long time, but they have been unable to be completely eliminated. Five years ago, Ezhou Waterloo

The army also specially sent a battalion of navy troops to search and suppress them in Niangzi Lake, and finally

In the end, we were not able to completely eliminate them, but only suppressed their momentum. If we come to encircle and suppress these lake pirates, there is no good way for us!" Xing Baotou, as an old local snake in Daye County, first

He expressed his views on the matter, with a somewhat helpless tone in his words.

"Captain Xing, please don't weaken our morale first. You couldn't deal with those lake bandits before, and you may not be able to deal with them if you have the Gao County Lieutenant. With Gao County Lieutenant here, who should we fear?" Guo Liang immediately spoke up.

He retorted to Xing Baotou, as if he was trying to flatter Gao Huaiyuan.

"Guo Liang, don't say that! What Mr. Xing said makes sense. This matter is indeed very difficult. I don't have a good way to deal with those lake pirates at the moment, so I called you all over to discuss and find a good way.

Come and deal with them. Although it is not easy to do, we must do it. Otherwise, we will really feel sorry for those who were harmed by the lake pirates.

People! We can only let those lake pirates continue to be more unscrupulous in the future! Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, we cannot retreat this time. The solution is to be thought up by people. No matter how powerful they are, they are just a bunch of gangsters. The people's support is with us.

Standing here, I don't believe I can't deal with them!" Gao Huaiyuan stopped their argument and said to everyone.

"Sir...Sir! It seems that lake pirates are in the lake right now. It's not an option for us to stay on the shore like this. What we have to solve first is the problem of boats. Otherwise, we won't even have boats. Even if we stand on the shore, we won't even have boats.

If you see a lake pirate on the shore, there is nothing you can do about it! From a small perspective,

, it is better to raise ships now! Then go into the water to search for the lake pirates, and after finding their lair, send out troops to wipe them out in one fell swoop!" Zhou Hao standing aside said, out of habit he almost called Gao Huaiyuan his eldest brother in public,

Fortunately, I temporarily changed my words and changed my name to an adult.

Gao Huaiyuan nodded: "That's right. You can't deal with lake pirates without boats. Write this down first. Later I'll talk to Li Zheng and the elders here. There are many fishing villages nearby. Let's borrow some fishing boats first!"

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"I'm afraid it's not possible to have a fishing boat alone. Although most of the people we have on hand are good at water, driving a boat is another matter. Water battles are different from land battles. I'm afraid it won't be possible without good hand control of the boat! It's best.

We can still summon a large number of fishermen to come in boats to help, otherwise, we will still be no match for the water thieves in large numbers!" Judge on the side shook his head and said.

Gao Huaiyuan thought the same thing. If he wanted to come and go freely in the lake, it would not be possible to have a boat. Someone would have to drive the boat. Otherwise, it would be useless! So he wrote down the matter and prepared to postpone the solution for a later time.

"Boats and people are not a big problem. This time the lake pirates massacred the people of Jinjia Village. The news has spread in this area. The people can be said to hate their actions. The people's will is a big problem for us.

The biggest advantage, but now our question is, how to

If we can find this gang of water thieves and catch them all in one fell swoop, we must at least kill almost all of them to be considered successful, lest they come back again as soon as we leave! The key issue is how to find them first!" Gao Huaiyuan said

This is what he has been thinking about these past few days.

After listening to the questions raised by Gao Huaiyuan, everyone immediately spoke to each other and put forward their ideas. Zhou Hao simply commandeered a large number of fishing boats and cast a net to search the lake until he found the water thieves' lair. Xing Captou shook his head in disagreement.

His approach was to offer a reward for people to reveal the location of the lake robbers, but Guo Liang proposed to send a group of people dressed as fishermen to go into the lake to find out the whereabouts of the robbers. In short, he said anything, and it was very lively.

Gao Huaiyuan sat there, frowning along with Jia Qi and listening to everyone discuss the matter. He frowned and sometimes nodded and shook his head. Finally, he interrupted everyone's discussion and said: "I think the best way to do this is to search the lake on a large scale first."

No way, we have limited manpower, and Niangzi Lake is very large. After hundreds of people get in, there will be no

It is nothing, and such a high-profile search, even if we encounter the thief, the thief has already been found, or is hiding, and will not confront us head-on. In the end, we can only work in vain and waste time.

With limited power, even during the Chinese New Year, it may not be possible to search the entire lake area, so this method will not work!

As for the reward that Xing Captou said, it is more feasible. There are many fishermen around the lake area. Maybe someone knows where the thief is hiding. With a heavy reward, you may gain something. This method is more feasible and it is worth trying later!

As for sending people to pretend to be fishermen to explore the lake, that is a solution, but it has a certain degree of danger. If you encounter lake pirates, if the people sent out do not respond in time, you will be in danger! It is feasible, but you must select the brave ones.

Careful people do this!

We have no better way at the moment, so we will do this for now. If we want to deal with these water thieves immediately in a short time, it may not be easy. Let’s stop here first!

Zhou Jun, please go to Maoshan Township on my behalf and find me all the residents, household heads, and elders in this area. Also, I'm asking if you can invite some of the elderly people in this area who are most familiar with the situation in the lake.

, find some too!

Mr. Xing, you and the police officer will write some reward notices together. I will first put out two hundred guan as a reward. Anyone who can provide the hiding place of the water thief and verify it is true will be given a heavy reward!

As for the manpower here now, first separate two teams. Guo Liang arranges for two people to lead one team each. Zhao and you will also cooperate and take a few hounds along the shore of Niangzi Lake to patrol the shore and inspect the shore as much as possible.

Let’s see if we can find some traces of water thieves!

Now we are in the light, the water thieves are in the dark, everyone should pay more attention to the situation and collect as much information about the thieves as possible, and then we will discuss how to deal with it!"

Gao Huaiyuan began to arrange the matter separately. Although he failed to discuss how to solve the lake pirates, he first asked his people to take action. Otherwise, sitting here and thinking of ways would not be the way to solve the problem. Pushing the problem first

Get up and talk!

After everyone listened to the order, they immediately began to go down and get busy. The people assigned by Gao Huaiyuan immediately began to leave the temple according to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions and started acting separately.

Gao Huaiyuan called together the leaders of the bow and arrow societies in each township and assigned them. Since Dong Qiang's performance was very outstanding this time, Gao Huaiyuan specifically named him and asked Dong Qiang to stay with him and Quan Qiang.

When used by his deputy, the heads of society in other townships obey Guo Liang's command at any time.

Guo Liang divided the archers into two groups, and Zhao Tong also arranged for the hunting dogs he brought this time to follow the two groups of archers, and they searched both sides along the lake shore. The entire bandit suppression operation was officially launched.

The remaining person, Gao Huaiyuan, took Guo Liang, Dong Qiang and other gang leaders to organize them together. Otherwise, with their current cooperation, they would probably suffer big losses if they encountered organized thieves.

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Dong Qiang suddenly found Gao Huaiyuan at night. He came in and clasped his fists at Gao Huaiyuan and said, "Lord County Captain! I'm not very talented, but I have some ideas to deal with those water thieves as soon as possible!..." dd

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