Chapter 54 The twenty-seventh chapter of the rule of law captures the fierce army and designs to kill chickens to scare monkeys

About a month ago, Yin Zhengmao moved the governor Xingyuan to Libo County, which is about 400 miles away from Qingyuan Street.This is the most northwest county of Qingyuan Prefecture, bordering Guizhou on three sides.There are thousands of mountains overlapping in the territory, with strange peaks piercing the sky everywhere, and the roads are as narrow as sheep's intestines.Tong, Yao, Miao, Liao and other local barbarians live here.After more than two months of encirclement and suppression, Wei Yinbao and Huang Chaomeng led tens of thousands of rebels to retreat to Shuiyan Mountain in Libo County.Yin Zhengmao intercepted layer by layer and advanced step by step, leading an army of 100,000 to encircle the rebel bandits.

Libo County is under the jurisdiction of Nandan Prefecture, which belongs to the kind of place where "the land is not three feet flat, and the sky is not sunny for three days".The county seat is on the edge of the misty Lixi River, surrounded by water and surrounded by mountains, with picturesque scenery.It's just that the place is too narrow, and the permanent population of the county is only about 3,000.Including the toilets and tea kiosks, there are not enough 1,000 houses.But the people who came here this time, not to mention the large army piled up with food and luggage, but the governor of Guangxi, the governor of Qingyuan Prefecture, the governor of Nandan Prefecture, the governor of Fuzhi Town, and the garrison of thousands of households, etc. came to the scene with the army. There are thousands of officials at all levels working together with their staff. Even if all the county residents are driven out, there are not enough houses.Yin Zhengmao didn't care much, but ordered all these local officials to live in the county seat, and placed his governor Xingyuan in the Guandi Temple three miles outside the city.

The Guandi Temple is on a hillside, with the clear and shallow Lixi River at the bottom, and the continuous hills on the other side of the river. Going further in, it is the official road into Shuiyan Mountain.This morning, just after Chen, Yin Zhengmao was discussing military affairs with several generals in Guandi Temple, when suddenly a soldier came in and reported: "I want to report to the Commander-in-Chief, the invited guests have arrived at the foot of the mountain." "Command, play music to welcome." After Yin Zhengmao finished speaking, he took several generals out to greet him.Since this is already the front line of confrontation between soldiers and bandits, the security of Governor Xingyuan is much tighter than that on Qingyuan Street.I saw sergeants with knives and guns everywhere, and they were heavily guarded.Don't talk about people, even an ant can't get in.When Yin Zhengmao walked to the gate of Xingyuan, he could only hear the great military music, two rows of soldiers of honor with bright armor and shining swords and guns stood on both sides, and Liu Dakui, a general of the Chinese army, led two groups of guests.Of these two groups of guests, the one on the left is local prefectures and counties wearing imperial uniforms headed by the prefect of Qingyuan Prefecture; The leader of various native barbarian tribes.Yin Zhengmao bowed his hands and led the two groups of guests to the temporarily enlarged playground in front of the Guandi Temple and sat down on the left and right.He himself sat on the grand master's chair in the middle, and a row of burly tiger warriors stood behind him.After passing the tea, Yin Zhengmao said:

"I invite all of you here today to discuss the matter of suppressing the bandits. The Commander-in-Chief has been in office for nearly four months. Thanks to the concerted efforts of all of you present, all the soldiers have fought the enemy bravely, and have achieved great success. There were more than a dozen battles in which the rebels were beheaded in three battles, Beiling Mountain in Tianhe County, Pingfeng Mountain in Hechi County, and Mengying Mountain in Nandan Prefecture. They have been retreating steadily, and now they are retreating in the mountains of Shuiyan, relying on danger. According to intelligence, although the rebels have suffered heavy losses repeatedly, they still have 30,000 people. The bandit leaders Wei Yinbao and Huang Chaomeng gathered the remnants in an attempt to resist. It has been more than a month Later, the government army has formed a siege to the rebels. There are three exits from Shuiyan Mountain. The northwest leads to Dushan, Guizhou. There is General Yu Dayou leading 30,000 soldiers and horses to garrison. The northeast can break through Maolan and enter the Jiuwan Mountain. , the newly promoted guard commander Huang Huomu led 30,000 soldiers and horses to garrison. The remaining 40,000 troops, led by the commander-in-chief himself, were stationed near Libo County, guarding the throat from the southwest of Shuiyan Mountain to Nandan Prefecture. Wei Yinbao , The remaining troops led by Huang Chaomeng have become turtles in the urn. The commander-in-chief has decided to launch a general attack on the rebels in the near future. Shuiyanshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is not suitable for large-scale operations. However, the commander-in-chief has already deployed the specific combat plan. You don’t have to worry too much. I invite you here today, there are two main things to discuss. One is the delivery of military rations, and the other is before the blockade of the rebels, the commander-in-chief wants to ask the ins and outs.”

Having said this, Yin Zhengmao's face suddenly darkened, he glanced at a row of officials sitting on the left, and asked: "Is Bo Wusili, the head of Libo County, here?" "The humble job is here." I saw an elderly official in the eighth-rank official uniform sitting in the last seat left the seat in response, walked up to Yin Zhengmao and kowtowed.Yin Zhengmao didn't call him to get up, but just stared at him firmly and asked: "How many years have you been the boss in Libo County?" "Twelve years." "I heard that you covered up private salt dealers and sold private salt for three years in cars and boats. When you were accused, you should have been punished. Thanks to your money from the provinces, prefectures and counties, the matter was settled. But after nine years of examinations, you can't be promoted. .Is it true?"

Yin Zhengmao's words not only exposed Wu Sili's scars, but also the officials present.Immediately, the faces of the officials suddenly changed suddenly. Wu Sili, who was kneeling on the muddy ground, was even more ashamed, hooked his head and said nothing.Yin Zhengmao looked serious, and then asked: "Tell me, is it true?" Wu Sili replied in a muffled voice: "Three years have passed since the incident, I know my mistakes in my humble job, and I have corrected it." "It's not a mistake, it's a crime! It's clearly stated in the Penal Code of the country that smuggling salt is punishable by death. Don't you know that you, the master of punishment?"At this time, Wu Sili was not allowed to argue, and he continued, "And you don't know your mistakes, and your greed has not changed. I will ask you again, why did one thousand shi become eight hundred shi for the grain that you escorted to Yu Dayou's barracks?"

After the questioning, Wu Sili's body trembled and his face became paler.There is a reason for Yin Zhengmao's questioning.But it is said that after the army entered Libo County, the food and grass for the three armies were mobilized from nearby counties and counties.For Yu Dayou's unit stationed in Shuikou Town, the food and grass were supervised by a grain transportation officer from the army and Wu Sili appointed by the Libo county magistrate.The grain transportation officials were responsible for the armed escort and unpacking and acceptance, and Wu Sili was responsible for collecting lost people and grain allocation.Four days ago, a thousand shi of grain was shipped from Libo County, and Yin Zhengmao ordered them to deliver it to the military camp in Shuikou Town within two days.There are two roads from Libo County to Shuikou Town. One is the official road, which is 140 miles long;Wu Sili considered that the people who were conscripted were all locals, and the horses carrying the food were also local pony ponies who were used to walking the mountain roads. In addition, this road was far away from the rebel lairs. Since the officials were stationed here for more than a month, , no passer-by was robbed.In order to gain time, he proposed to the grain transport officer to take the mountain road.The military situation was urgent, and the food transport officer agreed to his suggestion.

Unexpectedly, the grain transportation brigade walked halfway, but was ambushed by rebels.Although the hundreds of soldiers guarding the food fought bloody and desperately to resist, they were still robbed by the rebels of 200 shi of food, and the soldiers and civilians together injured dozens of people.When the former governor Li Yan was in office, this kind of thing happened frequently, and he never punished him, at most he called the person involved to Xingyuan to reprimand him.Therefore, after the food robbery incident, although Wu Sili was a little nervous, compared with the past, he thought it would be a big deal to be reprimanded.Seeing Yin Zhengmao's broom eyebrows raised high, and two fierce lights shooting out of his triangular eyes, he shuddered and argued in a low voice:

"The base intention was to take a shortcut and try to send the grain and grass to Shuikou Town in advance, but I didn't expect to be ambushed by the rebels." Yin Zhengmao sneered and forced to ask: "Leave a good official road and let thousands of people go deep into the mountains and old forests. Tell me, what are your intentions?" "Humble job really wants to take a shortcut..." "Fart!" Yin Zhengmao slapped the table heavily, stood up suddenly, pointed at Wu Sili's head with his sword finger, and shouted, "Thirty thousand rebels gathered in the mountains, every inch of land in Libo County is the front line , as an official of the imperial court, you may not even understand this bit of common sense? The commander-in-chief here sees that you are not looking good, so he concludes that you are not a good person, come on!"

"arrive!" Immediately, several Chinese guards rushed forward.Yin Zhengmao ordered: "Tie up this dog official." A soldier stepped forward and picked up Wu Sili like a chicken, another soldier took out the hemp rope and was about to start, Yin Zhengmao said again: "Wait a minute, first peel off his official skin, and then tie him to the pillar over there." The soldier got the order, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he took off the black gauze hat from Wu Sili's head and threw it on the ground, and then began to tear off the official robe. Wu Sili clasped his arms tightly on his chest, and shouted loudly:

"Lord Yin, the lowly position is wronged. The official robe is the emperor's kindness to the lowly position. You can't be rude, Lord Yin." "Disrespectful?" Yin Zhengmao was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing, then suddenly stopped, and said with a frown, "You dog officer, not only lost two hundred shi of military rations, but also caused more than thirty lives to die. Innocent, but you say that the commander-in-chief is rude? Today, I will do this rude thing, sergeants, take off his official robes, cut them off with a knife." Yin Zhengmao was already furious, Wu Sili knew that if he continued to be stubborn, he would suffer in flesh and blood, so he let go, and let the soldiers strip him of his official body, and then let them tie him to a wooden post on the left side of the Xingyuan gate: It was too tight, Wu Sili was in unbearable pain and screamed, repeatedly saying "wrong".Yin Zhengmao thought he was noisy, so he told the sergeant beside him: "Go, tell him to shut up." The sergeant stepped forward, pulled off one sleeve of Wu Sili's sweat coat, and stuffed it into his mouth. Facing the scene in front of them, all the officials present dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.Ever since Yin Zhengmao took over as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially since he disemboweled a lunatic in the street, his reputation for cruelty has spread locally.People called him "Yin Yan Wang" behind his back, no matter who he was, from civil and military officials to Zaoli sergeants, as long as something happened to him, no one would be spared lightly.It is precisely because of his ruthlessness that Li Yan entrusted him with a disorganized and demoralized army of bandits that could be trained to be disciplined and high-spirited in such a short period of time: Moreover, this superintendent acted secretly, It is often the dragon that does not see the beginning and the end, which makes people unpredictable: for today's meeting, a notice was issued two days ago with the cover of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, stating that the main officials at all levels who came with the army, as well as the local indigenous people All the leaders had to participate, saying that they were discussing military affairs, but who knew that they were brought here just to watch him flaunt his prestige and arrest them. Besides, Yin Zhengmao, who had been pulling his throat for a long time, felt smoke coming out of his throat and drank two bowls of tea in one breath. His thirst was quenched, but the anger in his heart could not be calmed for a while.He glanced at the "guests" who had been invited, and saw that the officials were all drooping and frowning, while the chiefs of the indigenous tribes, some of them scratched their heads and scratched their heads, and some of them were yawning all over the place.Yin Zhengmao felt that today's second play should start, so he coughed and asked: "Is Pan Yaji, the master of Si Miao Cave, here?" As soon as Yin Zhengmao spoke, the entire playground immediately became silent, and everyone's eyes were directed at the chief's seat.After a while, I saw a middle-aged man sitting in the second seat with a colorful headband, a waist knife and an apron standing up, and replied in blunt Chinese: "Next is Panyaji." "Are you Pan Yaji?" Yin Zhengmao leaned forward, clapping his palms in praise, "As soon as I entered the gate, I thought you were brave. I heard that you were able to catch a living leopard with your hands. You are truly a hero!" "The commander-in-chief has won the prize." Pan Yaji grinned sullenly, and let go of the hand that had been holding the handle of the waist knife.These subtle performances of his did not escape Yin Zhengmao's eyes, and the commander-in-chief knew intuitively that the row of tiger warriors behind him were also waiting for orders with their swords wide open.He couldn't help laughing, pointing at Pan Yaji again and asking: "I heard that your sword skills are also very good, can you let the commander-in-chief see it?" "Why not?" As soon as Pan Yaji finished speaking, Yin Zhengmao grabbed the tea bowl on the table and threw it at Pan Yaji. It was too late to say that, and Pan Yaji quickly drew his knife, and then the cold light flashed, and the bowl was thrown by him. Split in half. "Okay, good!" Yin Zhengmao said with a smile, "Pan Yaji, would you like to compete with the guards under the commander-in-chief's account?" "Why not?" Pan Yaji said the same thing. "Good!" Yin Zhengmao shouted, "Niu Yong!" "The humble job is here." The first one standing in the row of tiger warriors stepped forward and knelt down in front of Yin Zhengmao.People who are familiar with him can tell at a glance that this person is the lunatic who was disembowelled by Yin Zhengmao in the street that day.However, on the night of the incident, Yin Zhengmao rushed to visit the madman's bed and instructed the doctor to save the madman no matter what.Firstly, the rescue was timely, and secondly, because the internal organs were not injured, the lunatic cow woke up the next day, and he was able to walk on the ground within half a month.During his convalescent period, Yin Zhengmao often came to visit him, and sometimes served the decoction himself.At the beginning, the lunatic Niu held grudges against Yin Zhengmao and refused to respond, but people's hearts are strong. As time went on, seeing that the powerful commander-in-chief of the three armies was so enthusiastic and patient with his own soldiers, he changed his mind, from full of hostility to tears of gratitude .Once in a good mood, coupled with good medicine and good food, Madman Niu recovered quickly, and after more than two months, he was a hero as strong as a cow again.Yin Zhengmao transferred him to his tent as a personal bodyguard, and rewarded him with the rank of a small school.Crazy Niu got a blessing in disguise, and Yin Zhengmao became the number one benefactor in Tianzi in his eyes, so he devoted himself to serving in front of the tent.Through contact, Yin Zhengmao also knew that Madman Niu not only had brute strength, but also good martial arts, so he valued him very much.This time, he was only asked to come out to try sword skills with Panya Jibi, which shows the depth of trust. "Niu Yong, do you dare to compete with Dongzhu Pan?" Yin Zhengmao asked. "Returning to Dushuai, I have grown up to be so humble, and I have never been afraid of people." "Don't brag, let's talk about it later." "Humble post obeys orders." After Niu Yong finished speaking, he turned around and walked to Pan Yaji's table, and made a gesture of invitation.Pan Yaji looked at him arrogantly and asked, "How do you compare?" Niu Yong replied: "It's up to Master Pandong." Pan Yaji said: "If you want to compare, you have to agree in advance, life and death are not responsible." "That's very good, please end Pan Dongzhu." After Niu Yong finished speaking, he drew his saber out of its sheath, took two steps and stood up.Pan Yaji was originally rebellious and unrefined, but when she saw Niu Yong put on some ostentation to show off, she immediately became angry, and as soon as she pressed the table, she jumped up flat, and ran to Niu Yong after somersaulting, and didn't talk to him , swiped the knife towards Niu Yong's throat.Niu Yong dodged the knife with a dodge, and then thrust the knife at Pan Yaji's waist. Pan Yaji crouched, and the blade passed through his armpit.As soon as the two sides played against each other, they both used deadly knife skills, and the audience on both sides of the table immediately raised their hearts to their throats. The two fought hand in hand, and in an instant, they were fighting like a dragon. The two knives danced like two dragons coming out of the water.After dozens of rounds of the battle, there was no winner.Panya Yoshimoto is a brave man who binds a tiger with bare hands, and it is not bad for ordinary people to catch him with more than a dozen moves. Now that he encounters an opponent for the first time, he cannot win for a long time, and he is unavoidably anxious.At the height of the fight, he suddenly roared and made a jumping gesture. Niu Yong was just about to jump up to receive the move, but he didn't know that Pan Yaji's move was a sham.In an instant, he was already on the ground, and as soon as he rolled, he came to Niu Yong, raised his knife and stabbed at his crotch.Niu Yong was startled, and it was too late to dodge, so he had to block with a knife, and there was a "whistle" sound, and the tip of Pan Yaji's knife pierced Niu Yong's blade.With one stab and one block, the two sides competed with each other, persisted for a while, but there was still no winner, so they jumped away again.After taking a breath, he rushed forward to fight again.After fighting for more than 100 rounds, Niu Yong has a general understanding of Pan Yaji's sword technique. He is good at frontal attacks, mainly attacking the head, chest, and crotch.Therefore, we changed our strategy and attacked from both sides.I saw him moving erratically from left to right while jumping around.In this way, avoiding the truth is not enough, Pan Yaji struggled to respond, and fought for another 10 or 20 rounds. Seeing that Pan Yaji wanted to turn the situation around, he swung his knife and made an oolong to lure Niu Yong to attack.It should be known that there is also a murderous intent hidden in this move. If Niu Yong runs to the space on the right side deliberately left by Pan Yaji according to common sense, as long as he moves a step, Pan Yaji will jump up like a carp and chop from mid-air. With one blow, the attacker would be split in half by him.Niu Yong saw that this was a deadly move, but he was very skilled and daring. Jingzhen raised his knife and ran to the right side of Pan Yaji. He cut a knife, but who knows, he cut an empty space.It turned out that at the moment he jumped up, Niu Yong had already fallen to the ground and rolled away.As soon as Pan Yaji landed, Niu Yong stood up behind him. Before Pan Yaji could turn around, Niu Yong kicked him on the back fiercely.Pan Yaji was caught off guard, and immediately fell down and gnawed on the mud. Niu Yong took the opportunity to rush forward and stepped on his hand holding the knife. Pan Yaji let go of the pain, and Niu Yong took the knife away. down. Seeing Niu Yong's success, Yin Zhengmao, who was in a cold sweat from nervousness, immediately yelled: "superior!" A few Huben warriors rushed out of the line in response, and in two or three strokes, Pan Yaji, who hadn't recovered from his senses, cut behind his hands and tied them firmly. "Why did the commander-in-chief tie me up?" Pan Yaji asked. "Why did you tie you up? Don't you understand?" Yin Zhengmao wiped off the beads of cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and asked viciously, "Who sent someone to send salt to the rebels in Shuiyanshan five days ago?" Pan Yaji was startled, froze for a while, and replied, "I don't know." "I don't know, hum," Yin Zhengmao waved his hand back and ordered, "Bring someone up." Everyone's eyes moved to the gate of Guandi Temple, and saw two soldiers escorting a heavily tied man up, this man was dressed similarly to Pan Yaji, as soon as he came out, he saw Pan Yaji who was also tied up, and ran away Kneel down before the cave master. As soon as Pan Yaji saw that he was covered in bruises, he asked, "Did you recruit?" The visitor didn't answer, just nodded.Pan Yaji flew up and kicked the man in the chest, the man screamed and fell on his back, bleeding to death from his seven orifices. Yin Zhengmao raised his hand to let the dead body be dragged down, stared at Pan Yaji with a pair of triangular eyes, and asked, "Master Pan, why did you send someone to deliver salt to the rebels?" Pan Yaji stretched her neck and choked, "If you are a human, you have to eat salt." "But they are rebels." Yin Zhengmao roared. Not to be outdone, Pan Yaji retorted: "The rebels are human too." Then he cursed, "You dog official, what do you mean by plotting to take me down? If you have the guts, kill me! " "Relying on the fact that you have so many people in Si Miao Cave, the Commander-in-Chief wouldn't dare to kill you? Humph, what a fucking frog in a well. You have three thousand men in Si Miao Cave, even though all of them are heavenly soldiers and generals. Everyone is the reincarnation of Monkey King. Cleaning up your silk seedling hole is not the same as pinching a grasshopper. Niu Yong!" "exist." "Push him over and tie him up." "Follow the order." Niu Yong and the two guards in front of the tent pushed Pan Yaji to a wooden post on the right side of the gate and tied him up, making him a pair with Wu Sili who was tied up earlier.At this point, all the "guests" understood why these two pillars were erected in the Xingyuan Gate. Yin Zhengmao designed to make money from these two people, in order to shake the mountain and shake the tiger, and eliminate internal hidden dangers before launching a general attack.It can be said that this matter was handled cleanly and neatly. Seeing that the two were bound, Yin Zhengmao said again: "Of the two criminals, one caused heavy losses by delaying the military plane, and the other collaborated with the enemy. How should we be punished?" "Cut!" the sergeant Qi Qier shouted. "slow!" Suddenly someone shouted, Yin Zhengmao took a closer look and found that the person speaking was Xu Xinzhi, the prefect of Qingyuan Prefecture.I saw him leave the table slowly, walked up to Yin Zhengmao, performed the ceremony of being an official, and said: "Yin Junmen, the lower officials have something to say, can you take a step to speak?" Yin Zhengmao knew that Xu Xinzhi had come to intercede, and was hesitating how to answer, when suddenly a small school ran in like a melon from outside the gate, holding a cowhide bag specially used for military messengers, and said loudly: "Report to the commander-in-chief, and report to the capital mansion to deliver it quickly." "Bring it here," Yin Zhengmao ordered.After receiving the cowhide bag, he said to Xu Xinzhi, "Master Xu, please be at ease, and I will talk to you after I have read the mansion report." Then he called out, "General Liu." "The end is here." Liu Dakui stepped forward. "You treat the guests well on behalf of me. It's already noon. Set up a banquet for everyone to drink to their heart's content." After Yin Zhengmao finished his confession, he walked into Guandi Temple, followed by Niu Yong carrying a cowhide bag. In the early years of the Kingdom of China, hundreds of courier shops were set up across the country following the official document delivery system of the Song Dynasty.There are three ways of delivery, one is human delivery, walking; the second is horse delivery, where the messenger rides a special horse to deliver the letter;This third kind of speed is the fastest, and the fastest one can travel 800 miles between day and night. The so-called 800-mile gallop refers to this kind.Yin Zhengmao was three thousand miles away from the capital, and he also took on the important task of suppressing bandits, so he used eight hundred miles to communicate with the capital.Even though this was the fastest express delivery, it took him four and a half days to receive a letter from the residence in Beijing. However, he said that in the cowhide bag sent by the courier today, in addition to the residence report of the Secretary of General Administration and the message of the Ministry of War, there was also a letter written by Zhang Juzheng. He first opened Zhang Juzheng's letter and read: Brother Shi Ting saw that the characters were as good as they were, and he taught them one after another, all of which were nailed and sealed. A few days ago, the servant once said to the Lord in person: "The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is recommended by the minister. He can serve the country loyally. The Lord should trust him. Don't listen to false rumors and make demands, so that he can't spread it." The Lord thought deeply. However, the reward said: "Mr. is loyal to the country, so it is not appropriate to employ people." Therefore, since the public has been in charge, although the words have been slandered every day, it is Ren Rijian, but the servant dares to disobey the public and ignore those who , I also rely on the Lord's trustworthiness.The master trusts the servant, so he also trusts the public. The letter said that the traitor had escaped to the west in the water and rocks of Libo, and his strength and wisdom were poor.However, although the chaotic valleys in the mountains are driven into the net, it is still difficult to capture them.Wan Li's instructions, I'm afraid it won't be too late, relying on the ears of the public trial map.The two thieves Wei and Huang, if they can be killed or captured alive, fortunately, they have secretly revealed it to comfort the Lord's suspense, so remember it. Another 200,000 silver bills were sent, but Pu Shensi still returned them to the Ministry of Households in the name of excessive military expenditures. If Li Yan bribed the government with silver, it would be a disaster for his predecessor.Now that Elder Xuan has returned to his hometown, let him enjoy his rest in peace.If it is trapped by the mechanism, it is not what the servant wants.I hope that the public will understand the difficulties in this, and I will make a postscript first, and I will make a decision later. After reading this letter, Yin Zhengmao realized at least four meanings: first, the "excessive demands" on him in the capital have never stopped, and even reflected to the emperor; But it belongs to Ren Rijian" and won the support of the emperor; third, Zhang Juzheng didn't want to take advantage of others' dangers to throw stones at Gao Gong; fourth, and most importantly, Zhang Juzheng hoped that he could capture and kill the two leaders of the thieves as soon as possible. , Squeeze bandits.Thinking of this, Yin Zhengmao on the one hand admired Zhang Juzheng's ability to master the overall situation; on the other hand, he felt that Zhang Juzheng's scheming was too deep and unpredictable.Let's just say that twenty days ago, when he read the Di Bao and knew that Gao Gong's old disciples were using Tong Liben's hanging to make a big fuss, based on his intuition, he felt that these people wanted to take advantage of Zhang Juzheng's unstable foothold and incite officials from the two capitals to revolt. Attack him in order to drive him out of power.At this time, Zhang Juzheng sent a letter, hoping that he could take the overall situation into consideration and return a part of the 200,000 taels of silver military expenses allocated to him by Gao Gong to the Ministry of Households to relieve the urgent need. In fact, before Gao Gong resigned, he had spent all of the two hundred thousand taels of silver.One is to send people to Zhejiang to buy back 300 firecrackers and set up a firecracker battalion.At that time, the firecracker had just come out, and it was much more powerful than the spear and broadsword.The second is that he recruited thousands of Liao people from Guizhou and Guangxi provinces to form a healthy and brave battalion.The Liao people are Miao descendants of the ancient Central Plains. They migrated to Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou to live in the deep mountains. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the Yelang Kingdom.Most of the Liao people are short in stature, but they are as agile as apes. They are all strong and brave and good at dancing swords.Since then, Liaobing's reputation for being brave and good at fighting has been frequently seen in history books.It's just that the Liao people are violent and hard to control, and non-military talents dare not recruit them to form an army.Yin Zhengmao and the chief soldier Yu Dayou discussed many times, analyzed the habits of the bureaucrats, and believed that as long as they could follow the customs and nature, it would not be difficult to tie them up, so they boldly recruited.Today, the two battalions are successfully formed.The soldiers guarding Xingyuan today are all Liao soldiers.Although the 200,000 taels of silver was spent on military expenses, the 200,000 taels of silver that Li Yan bribed him remained unchanged.After thinking over and over again, Yin Zhengmao felt that this was an excellent opportunity to help his old friend, so he immediately sent him the 200,000 taels of silver notes that Li Yan had bribed him, and in the letter he briefly reported that Li Yan had bribed Gao Gongmen in large quantities. fact.He believes that as long as this matter is brought out, Gao Gong's "remnant party" will collapse without a fight.Unexpectedly, Zhang Juzheng didn't care about this "killer mace", and he actually described Li Yan's bribery and stealing as an excessive military expenditure.In this way, not only was he merciless, but he was "caught black" from it, so he was not at ease, and even regretted that he should not have sent this bank note. Anyway, Li Yan is dead and there is no way to trace him. The second person knows.But since the matter is done, it is useless to take regret medicine. "The 200,000 silver has arrived at the household department. Finally, I can help my uncle and elder brother overcome the current financial difficulties, and reciprocate the favor. As long as the official career is clear in the future, what is wrong with this move?" Read the letter carefully.When he saw the line "Wanli gave instructions, I'm afraid it won't be too late, Lai Gong's ear to examine the pictures", he was refreshed, put down the letter, and walked out of Guandi Temple quickly. At this time, the luncheon had already been set up, but because Wu Sili and Pan Yaji were still tied to the wooden posts, none of the participating officials and chiefs were in the mood to drink.Yin Zhengmao glanced at everyone at the table and asked: "Why are you so depressed? Is it because the food and drink are not good?" Xu Xinzhi, who was sitting in front, took the opportunity to stand up, bowed his hands to Yin Zhengmao, and begged cautiously: "Yin Junmen, I want to beg for mercy for the two who are tied up." "How to seek the Dharma?" Yin Zhengmao giggled. "Give them a life, and let them commit crimes and meritorious deeds." "Master Xu, the military law is like a mountain, and I, Yin Zhengmao, can't sell this favor." Yin Zhengmao said, suddenly raised his triangular eyes, and ordered loudly, "Behead these two criminals." It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, I saw the two knives and axes who had been on standby raised their knives and fell, and two heads fell to the ground like cutting melons. Yin Zhengmao looked at the bloody head rolling on the ground, and said viciously: "From now on, whoever dares to collude with bandits and delay the military plane will be killed without mercy!" Seeing this tragic scene, everyone at the table turned pale with fright and kept silent like a cicada.