月1月2 During the Yongzheng period, the Tianjin scholar Zhou Chun was well-educated, but his family was poor and could not get enough money to go to Beijing to take the exam. At a loss, several gentry sent silver and said they wanted to fund him.
Zhou Chun was so grateful that he was very committed to his integrity, and did not disappoint everyone, and passed the exam. Subsequently, he was assigned to Echeng to serve as the magistrate.
In order to repay the squire, he took them to office together. In this way, the gentry got what they wanted. They "invested" Zhou Chun to wait for Zhou Chun to become an official and have the power to pretend to be a tiger's power and fish in the countryside.
The group walked to the ten-mile long pavilion and suddenly saw a beautiful woman coming to see her off. Zhou Chun was a little surprised: "Sister Qiuyi!"
The Qiuyi family and the Zhou family were originally neighbors. But it is poorer than the Zhou family, and the Zhou family often helps the Qiu family.
After being in his teens, Qiu Yi was sold to Prince Yi's mansion in Beijing as a maid, and a few years later, he was taken as a concubine by the prince.
This year, the prince was responsible for supervising the appointment of the Ministry of Personnel to the Jinshi list. Qiu Yi found out about Zhou Chun's departure date and remembered that he had been helped by the Zhou family in the past, so she came to see him off.
The two of them reminisced about the past, lamented that things had changed, drank a glass of farewell wine, and said goodbye with tears. Looking at Zhou Chun who was surrounded by the gentry, Qiu Yi's eyes broke off.
Zhou Chun and his party stayed all the way at night. On that day, when they arrived at the Vulture Mountain area, they suddenly rushed down from the mountain and stopped them.
Zhou Chun rode a black donkey. Seeing that something was wrong, he whipped the black donkey and ran back. At this time, a big eagle suddenly rushed down from the air, shook his wings, and forced the black donkey back.
The bandits shouted, "Don't panic, bosses, we are going down the mountain this time just to make money and not to harm our lives, don't move." As he said that, he started plundering.
However, there was not much silver left in the package, and they couldn't help but feel disappointed. When he saw the imperial plate, the body and the official seal, the leader of the bandit turned his eyes and thoughts.
He pulled Zhou Chun into the woods next to him, muttered quietly, and told everyone that the three brothers would follow Zhou Chun to take office, and that they could make money after taking office.
Zhou Chun looked helpless and dispersed all the remaining money to the gentry who followed him, asking them to go back. The gentry dared not refuse, so they fled in a panic after taking the money.
In this way, three people and one eagle followed Zhou Chun to Eicheng. On the way, Zhou Chun learned that the three of them were brothers, the eldest was called Zuo Wei, the second was called Xu Lei, and the third was called Wan Fei. They called the big eagle a "divine eagle".
After entering Goose City, I walked along the way and saw depression all over my eyes. Zuo Wei couldn't help but sigh and said, "It seems that Echeng is a poor county!"
Everyone settled in the county government office. In the evening, the gentry welcomed Zhou Zhixian County in "Food is the Sky".
At the banquet, when Zhou Chun asked why Eicun City was so deserted, a gentry said angrily: "It's not the bandits' cause!" The others also started talking.
It turned out that on the Tiger Roar Mountain more than 30 miles outside the city, a group of bandits gathered. The leader was named Peng Zhantian. Relying on the large number of people and powerful people, he blatantly went to Echeng to collect money and food. If he refused, the moon was dark and the wind was high, Peng Zhantian would lead his people to loot the family.
The government once sent garrisons from the provincial capital to the mountains to suppress bandits, but as soon as the official army arrived, Peng Zhantian dispersed his troops to hide in the mountains and forests. As soon as the official army retreated to the provincial capital, they emerged again and continued to occupy the mountains as kings.
The government army returned in vain again and again, without any results. Gradually, the people only paid the bandits' levy fees and did not pay the government's taxes. It can be said that in Echeng, the people have no government in their eyes, only bandits from Tiger Roaring Mountain.
When learning about the current situation in Echeng, Zhou Chun kept silent for a long time. Zuo Wei advised, "Sir, don't worry first. I will go to the village to inquire about the news tomorrow and see the actual situation."
The next day, Zuo Wei and Xu Lei went out of the city together to learn about the situation in the village. An old farmer in his seventies who was not afraid of trouble told them angrily that the reason why bandits in Goose City are rampant was entirely because several wealthy families in the city colluded with bandits to secretly provide information.
Initially, they were just frightened by the bandits' tyranny and sought self-protection, but later they acted wholeheartedly as eyes and ears to convey messages to the bandits. It is precisely because of their betrayal that the first two magistrates were easily assassinated by bandits.
After returning to the county government office, Zuo Wei reported Zhou Chun to the information. Zhou Chun took a deep breath after hearing this. It seemed that it was not easy to be a county magistrate in Echeng!
The next morning, Zhou Chun opened the county government gate and found an dart inserted on the door, with the blood words "Congratulations to Lord Zhou for taking office" and signed "Peng Zhantian". As soon as he took office, the bandits from Hu Xiaoshan gave Zhou Chun a warning!
Zuo Wei looked at the flying knife and said, "Sir, if the bandits in Hu Xiaoshan are not eliminated, we will have no place to stand here."
Zuo Chun said worriedly, "If there is no one, if there is no money, how can we suppress the bandits?"
Zuo Wei said, "I have a way, but I need the cooperation of my lord." Zhou Chun immediately stated that as long as it is to eliminate harm for the people, I will not refuse!
Two days later, at Zuo Wei's suggestion, Zhou Chun gathered all the wealthy families in Echeng and announced his preparations to suppress the bandits, and asked each household to donate two donkeys and one hundred taels of silver.
The rich households silently, Zhou Chun slapped the table and scolded, "If you don't donate, you will be treated as a bandit and arrested in prison!"
At this time, the shopkeeper Cai of the Silk Satin Village in the south of the city stood up and said, "It is a good thing to suppress bandits. If you wipe out bandits, we have to pay a lot of less levies every year. I support the county magistrate."
He immediately pressed his handprint on the document and went home to drive the donkey with money. Some people took the lead, and others did as well.
In fact, shopkeeper Cai was a trustee who had agreed in advance by Zuo Wei. Two days ago, Zuo Wei found a farmer in his seventies in the countryside and asked him if he had any familiar merchants in the county town.
The old farmer said that Manager Cai was his relative, he was a decent person, had no collusion with bandits, and could be trusted. Zuo Wei secretly found Manager Cai to discuss and asked him to take the lead in donating. Manager Cai agreed immediately.
A little under two days, the rich families sent both donkeys and silver. Zuo Wei gathered more than 30 donkeys at the schoolyard and raised them in captivity.
And then, I bought a lot of iron blocks and some scrap iron tools, requisitioned the casting masters of two blacksmith shops, and went to the county government office to build furnaces and make weapons.
The blacksmith in the county government office is guarded by Xu Lei and Wan Fei, and Zuo Wei trains donkeys in the school every day.
He tied pieces of meat on each donkey and directed the divine eagle to prey on it. The god eagle snorted down, pecked the piece of flesh with its mouth, then slapped its wings, and returned to the air.
When the magic carving pecks at the meat, it will inevitably peck on the donkey, and sometimes it will even be torn off with the donkey's skin. Every time this comes, the donkeys will jump up and down in pain and keep screaming.
Repeatedly, after half a month, as long as the god eagle pounced down from the air, the donkeys would run forward in horror in order to avoid the god eagle. Those donkeys suffered all the hardships of the Divine Eagle, and naturally spared no effort when they ran.
Whenever the gods scare the donkey, the people will watch in the schoolyard. They really couldn't figure out what the scaring donkey had to do with suppressing bandits.
The school ground can be watched, but the blacksmith shop in the county government does not allow anyone to enter. It knocks and beats all day long, and it is jingling and clanging. I don’t know what weapons are being built.
However, no matter how powerful the weapon is, as long as you can't recruit the people who suppress the bandits, it will be useless. Indeed, the people are afraid of bandit revenge, and to this day, the county government has not even fully recruited the basic staffing of the yamen runners.
The bandits in Hu Xiaoshan had already received secret reports. After hearing the scared donkey, they laughed together. Although they could not guess the profound meaning of scaring donkey, they did not take it seriously.
Late that night, Manager Liu, who runs a grain store, directed the guys to drive several carriages, saying that he was going to the provincial capital to sell grain, so he had to rush to the road overnight.
But after leaving the city gate, the carriage turned onto Tiger Roaring Mountain. As soon as he turned around, he was blocked by the three brothers Zuo Wei and several new yamen runners.
It turns out that Zuo Wei had already found out that Zhanggui Liu is one of the wealthy families colluding with the bandits of Hu Xiaoshan. Liu Zhanggui's grain store is actually the bandits' granary. At the end of every month, Zhanggui Liu would quietly deliver the purchased grain to Hu Xiaoshan in the hands of the bandits.
The news that Manager Liu was arrested in prison reached Hu Xiaoshan. Peng Zhantian was furious and Hu Xiaoshan came out to settle the score with Zhou Chun.
Zuo Wei had already arranged a post on the city tower. After receiving the report from the post, he ordered the city gate to be closed and went up to the city tower himself.
Peng Zhantian's team was in a dark place, standing in front of the city gate, shouting: "Listen, the people on the city tower listen, tell the dog official quickly, quickly release the shopkeeper Liu and return the food, otherwise, you will step on the Goose City!"
Peng Zhantian's words are also true. The small Goose City, with Zuo Wei and a few yamen runners, can't stop them. Stepping on the Goose City is definitely not a bragging.
Asolutely, Zuo Wei on the city tower surrendered and said with a fist, "The boss Peng is so offending, I hope he can forgive me. You retreat and I will have someone return the food now."
Then, the city gate opened wide, and Xu Lei and Wan Fei each led a team of donkeys, lined up along the city wall.
Every donkey carries a bag on its back, and the bag is filled with bulging food.
Peng Zhantian was overjoyed. He could not have surrendered so easily in the official service. He was about to wave his hand to lead the donkey, but Zuo Wei whistled into the sky. In an instant, the divine eagle appeared and swept down towards the donkey team.
The donkeys were tortured by the divine eagle for more than half a month. When they saw the divine eagle rushing down, they reflexed and rushed forward like crazy. When the bandits saw the group of donkeys coming, they subconsciously dodged. The group of donkeys rushed into the bandits' team and rushed around the crowd.
Some donkeys were blocked by the crowd and raised their hooves and kicked them around. The bags on the donkey's back were all made ingeniously. The bottom was very thin and there were many cracks. They were connected by thin lines. The thin lines broke during the bumps and crowded, and began to fall caltrops on the ground.
These caltrops are weapons secretly created by blacksmiths. They are small and sharp, triangular, extremely sharp, and can pierce horse's hooves and pierce human feet. The man pushed the donkey and hit him. After a while, the ground was covered with caltrops, screaming in pain.
Zuo Wei and the other two took the yamen runners and stood in the distance and began to shoot arrows. There were caltrops blocking the road, and the bandits could not escape at all and all became targets of arrows.
The people hiding in the house saw that the yamen runners had the upper hand and came out to help. They took brooms and sticks to clean up the caltrops and tied up the bandits.
Peng Zhantian and most of the bandits were captured alive. Peng Zhantian was beheaded and displayed in public, while the bandits were thrown into prison, and the remaining remnants fled from Eicheng. Zuo Wei led the yamen runners to Hu Xiaoshan, burned the mountain village and destroyed the bandits' nest.
Abolishing the bandits, Zhou Chun started to manage Echeng. Gradually, government affairs improved, and there was a scene of peace and harmony between the people.
On this day, Zuo Wei, Xu Lei and Wan Fei bid farewell to Zhou Chun. Zhou Chun gave her wine and said before leaving: "Three kind brothers, thank you for your help, and say hello to Mrs. Qiuyi on my behalf!"
After Qiuyi and Zhou Chun's ten-mile long pavilion, she was so thoughtful that she saw the expressions of the gentry and was worried that Zhou Chun would be used by the villain, so she went home to report to the prince.
After the prince approved it, he sent three major guards from the royal palace to take tricks to drive away the village party and assist Zhou Chun. These three are brothers from the same school and are good at taming carvings, so they brought the magic carvings together. Unexpectedly, they accidentally broke the bandits in Tiger Roaring Mountain.
At the time, when Vulture Mountain was robbed, Zuo Wei quietly told Zhou Chun the truth. Otherwise, with Zhou Chun's noble personality, he would definitely not agree to the robbers' followers, let alone cooperate.
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