In the military camp, three young men wearing cotton coats were tied up. The sound of whips and screams constantly coming from the distance could be heard.

After hearing the sound, Zhao Yan frowned slightly and rushed over.

Immediately I saw Zhao Yong holding a whip and constantly whipping on the three people.

"Sir." Zhao Yong saw Zhao Yan coming, and quickly stood at the sight and gave a military salute. Zhao Yan waved his hand and said, "Don't be punished first, ask clearly before talking."

"These three boys are not honest. They are not talking about their heads outside the military camp, but they also want to sneak in. They ask what they are doing, and they also say they are here to visit relatives." Zhao Yongyan snorted coldly at the three of them.

When the three of them saw Zhao Yan coming, they knew that Zhao Yan was the head, and hurriedly cried and said, "You are wronged! The young man is really here to visit relatives. You can't wrongly accuse a good person!"

"Yes! Yes, it's unfair..."

Just as the three of them were screaming, Zhao Yan took the whip from Zhao Yong's hand and whipped it at the three of them head-on. After whipping for more than a dozen consecutive whips, the three of them were bleeding from their heads and screamed in pain.

Zhao Yan showed a sneer on his face, and patted his whip in his hand with a young and light look at the miserable situation of the three people.

The three of them screamed for a while, as if they had no strength left. They were strapped to the wooden stand in a listless manner, their heads drooped, and their heads and faces were covered with blood and bruises.

Zhao Yong was frightened by the side. When he started, he still thrust his body. The young master actually thrust his head hard. At this time, Zhang Buyun also rushed over. Seeing the tragic situation of the three people, he asked in surprise: "Master, is this?"

"The spy I just caught, huh, my mouth is quite hard." Zhao Yan snorted and said to Zhang Buyun: "Wenlong, take these three people down for interrogation separately. The ones who are recruited first will keep his surname, and the other two will be killed and thrown into the mountains to feed the wild dogs."

"Yes, lord." Zhang Buyun responded, called a few soldiers, and pulled down the three people with horror.

Zhang Buyun didn't know so many interrogation techniques. After dragging the three people down, he was directly sentenced. For a moment, the military camp also screamed again.

"I've called it, I've called it." One of them couldn't stand it first and shouted loudly.

Zhang Buyun walked over to look at the man and asked lightly: "What do you want to recruit?"

"Uncle, please let the young one have a way out! The young one will never dare, and the young one will never dare." The man cried and cried: "The young one is just Ning Haizhou's night, and he was ordered to come here to investigate the scale of Zhao Jiaxiang Yong."

"Appointed? Whose order?"

"The General of the East Road, Wu Anbang."

"What?" Zhang Buyun was shocked and hurriedly ran to report to Zhao Yan.

"Wu Anbang, the general of the East Road?" Zhao Yan was confused, so he didn't think of this person.

"Wu Anbangyuan was the deputy general. When suppressing Kong Youde's rebellion, the general died, and he later served as the general. The imperial court had just set up a general town in Dengzhou in the first month, and Wu Anbang was the general town." Zhang Buyun said.

After he reminded this, Zhao Yan seemed to remember this person and smiled and said, "Just a fool."

"But he sent Ye Busuo to spy on the scene, there must be something tricky about it." Zhang Buyun said thoughtfully, and Zhao Yan nodded, "Send people to Ninghaizhou to install more informants, so as to keep a close eye on the troops in Wu Anbang's hands."

In contrast, the other two Ye Bu Shuo was much more tough, and even directly took out the identity of the official army to intimidate him. Zhao Yan smiled at Zhang Buyun lightly and said, "Wenlong, your life is here again. Let's drive these three spies to the quarry for labor reform!"

Zhang Buyun smiled helplessly. This beautiful name labor transformation is actually a free labor force.

...

A few days later, a Shandong merchant named Lin came to Zhaojiabao. The merchant surnamed Lin was from Qingzhou. Although there were not many things that could be sold at a good price in the East Three Prefectures, the merchant surnamed Lin was able to become a wealthy person with these small and cheap things, which shows his ability.

Lin Zongli came here and transported a batch of grain, which was enough for tens of thousands of stones. He was the first merchant to transport supplies to Zhaojiabao. Zhao Yan was overjoyed. With the food, he could recruit more refugees, all of whom were laborers!

Lin Zongli changed to two largest mirrors, the others replaced with smaller mirrors, and some glassware that were not too expensive.

At present, the glassware produced by the Zhao family cannot be considered exquisite, but it looks quite comfortable. The price is not too high, it can range from one to ten taels of silver.

"Young Master Zhao, this road in Dengzhou is not easy to walk! Do you think you should take someone to practice it?" Lin Zongli complained to Zhao Yan.

"Yes, the slowest is only within the year. Zhao must repair the road." Zhao Yan replied with a smile. Although the transportation in the three east governments is inconvenient, the official roads can still be walked, but the roads in some rural areas are not good. However, the roads from more than 30 miles from Huangxian to Zhaojiabao are really not easy to walk, especially when it rains.

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

"Along with that, Mr. Zhao, you said that the bandits near the official road would be wiped out within three months, but Lin met many bandits as he came over. However, most of them saw Lin's caravans with many guards and dared not move. A group of bandits stopped Lin on the way and gave him hundreds of stones of food before they could be released!" Lin Zongli continued to complain, "If the business road cannot be ensured smoothly, even if Mr. Zhao has this glass mirror, no one dares to come!"

"This matter will be as soon as possible." Zhao Yan nodded. It is necessary to clear the bandits in the business road. Now the two palaces of Denglai are almost becoming a bandit nest.

The remaining Kong Youde's rebellious soldiers and the refugees who could not survive were all lost. The strength of some bandits increased a lot. Last time, Zhao Yan encountered a group of thieves with tens of thousands of people, but such thieves were rare.

The bandits in Shandong generally do not have the awareness of attacking towns by hungry people. The only thing they will do is the White Lotus Sect, the evil spirits and the ecclesiastical organizations.

...

It was imperative to suppress bandit suppression. Zhao Yan summoned all his subordinates that night to discuss the matter of suppressing bandit suppression.

"Let's talk about the results of these days' spy!" Zhao Yan said out loud. Zhao Quan said first: "I have set up three commercial strongholds in Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou Prefectures. Six bandits were discovered within half a month, and sixteen bandits who had not found the den."

"The first battalion discovered eleven bandit dens in Dengzhou and nine bandit dens in Laizhou."

"The Second Battalion discovered the 18th Bandits' den in Dengzhou, and the sixth Bandits' I Invest in Laizhou."

"The cavalry battalion discovered fifteen bandit dens in Dengzhou and eleven bandit dens in Laizhou."

"Is there any repetition?" Zhao Yan asked Zhao Yong and the other three.

"The scouts in our three-person camp have coordinated, and the bandit dens that were discovered have not been repeated." Wang Wenyue said, Lin Yong nodded and said, "Together, there are 70 bandits investigated and dealt with in Denglai District. There are also bandits who have not found the den, which is probably not less than this number."

Not only did everyone take a deep breath, Zhang Buyun shook his head and said, "It's really a bandit's nest!"

"Young master, my subordinates also discovered that many local tyrants are also pretending to be bandits and robbing the road everywhere. There are more than a dozen of these 70 nests of bandits, which are composed of the children of local tyrants." Lin Yi said.

"This water is a bit messy. It seems that it takes some effort to completely wipe out these bandits, or should we wipe out the bandits around the official road first? How many bandits are around the official road?" Zhao Yan asked.

"I found sixteen dens, and there were some small-scale bandits, and there were no fixed strongholds."

"Then let's start the attack on these sixteen bandits and increase the spy efforts." Zhao Yan said, but who will go to suppress them? Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue looked at each other, and there must be a battalion left behind in Zhaojia Fort.

"Let's do it! The first and second battalions take turns to suppress bandits for a month and train for a month. The cavalry battalion sends half of its people to support each time." Zhao Yan said.

Everyone had no objection to this decision and soon began to prepare for the purpose of dispatching the bandits to suppress the bandits.

The first battalion was dispatched first. This time the first battalion dispatched the bandits to suppress the bandits, which can also be said to be a accumulation of training and experience, so the second battalion sent one to the first battalion and followed it out to learn experience.

The Education Commission of the First Battalion also confirmed that it was a child who had studied with Zhang Buyun for more than half a month, and basically memorized the textbooks written by Zhang Buyun.

The Education Commission also has a heavy burden when following the team. First of all, it must work with the battalion commander to restrain military discipline, and also remember the problems encountered during the march and the experience of suppressing bandits.

Zhao Yan confirmed that the responsibility of the Education Commission was to maintain military discipline and solve the problem of soldiers, but he did not have the power to decide military operations. He used literati to lead the army. There were lessons from the Song and Ming dynasties! Although some literati also emerged, this was only a few after all.

Before the troops move, food and grass will come first.

The bandit suppression required 600 ordinary soldiers, 500 spearmen and 100 longbowmen. As for the 250 musketeers, they stayed in Zhaojiabao to continue training, after all, they did not have weapons yet.

With the addition of the 150 cavalry battalion soldiers who assisted in the suppression of bandits, the number reached 750.

The supply system determined by Zhao Yan began to operate. The soldiers brought food for three days and the camp team brought food for ten days. With the logistics supply team, the number of people dispatched reached 1,000.

The target of the first battalion was bandits from the Dengzhou to Laizhou section, and they planned to set up a supply station in Zhaoyuan.

The reason why the Ming army rebelled a lot was mostly because they could not pay enough money during normal times and could not keep up with the logistics during wartime, mainly because some senior officials of the Ming court had no idea about these things. The army of the king had just arrived here and did not receive supplements, so they issued a transfer order to let the army go to the next site, but the next site was not supplied again...

The supply system is problematic and the sing of literary opera and martial arts is too serious, which proves that this dynasty is already corrupt.

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