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After the new official took office as the governor of Dengzhou, Li Jing immediately began to burn his new official as the three fires.

The first fire was to order the Zhendong Army to be stationed in four counties. While taking over the defense of various places, it immediately launched an appeasement and suppression of bandits code-named Thunder. In addition to the Nutao Camp and the Heixiong Camp who were left and right, Li Jing was stationed in the Daxie Islands, and the left and right wings were stationed outside Qingni City and Beisha City in Liaodong, and twenty-three of the 25 battalions in front, middle and back three wings landed in Dengzhou. Then, the battalions with five back wings, including engineering, medical, logistics, auxiliary soldiers, and baggage, entered Dengzhou without participating in the bandit suppression. The remaining eighteen battalions, including the officer guard camps outside the army, also participated in the comprehensive bandit suppression operation here.

Nineteen battalions were dispatched at one time, with nearly 20,000 troops, and the action was as thunderous as thunder.

This was the result that Li Jing had already negotiated with Li Liang, Li Zhen, Guo Cheng'an, Lin Wei and others as soon as they entered Dengzhou. It was not only to wipe out the bandits, pirates, and pirates in Dengzhou, but also to a stable and peaceful environment in Dengzhou, but also to intimidate the families of wealthy families in Dengzhou.

Although the time I landed on Dengzhou Wharf before, it was a big shock, but this was not enough. Especially after the reconnaissance of the scouts of the Flying Eagle Camp and the investigation of Gongsun Lan of the Meihuamen, it was found that many pirates in Dengzhou were both merchants and thieves. They were often caravans, but they often played pirates once or twice. The situation of those thieves was similar, and many bandits colluded with some local tyrants to harm the local area.

Especially at present, although Dengzhou is rich, it is also famine. Xu Liumin has appeared. These bandits are already ready to take the opportunity to make trouble. This includes the greed of bandits and the temptations of the rich clans. Especially after Song Wen took the troops from all over the country, the situation is even more serious. At this time, Li Jing will never be ruthless. No matter who it is, as long as he dares to challenge his majesty, he will definitely be killed without mercy.

There are dozens of townships in the four counties of Dengzhou, with a population of more than 50,000 households. According to the imperial edict on March 17, the 18th year of Kaiyuan, the Tang Dynasty, "It is time for peace and long. The household registration is still high. It is better to have 40,000 households as Shangzhou. The 25,000 households as Zhongzhou. The less than 20,000 households as Xiazhou. The six heroes, ten Wangzhou and three servants, etc. The other imperial edicts are the governor of Shangzhou. The capital and the capital are the same as Shangzhou. The 30,000 households are the same as Shangzhou. The 20,000 households are the governor of Zhongzhou. The prince is also the governor of Xiazhou in Zhongzhou.

There are more than 50,000 households in Dengzhou, with a population of more than 300,000. The following four counties also meet the standards of the upper county. The four counties in Dengzhou, especially after the mid-Tang Dynasty, have always been at the leading level in the country. Not only are they commercially developed and agriculture is also very developed. The area of ​​arable land in Dengzhou reached 100,000 hectares, which is a full 10 million mu of land and more than 300,000 people, and the average per capita can reach 30 mu of land.

However, the land annexation in the late Tang Dynasty was serious, and the same was true for Dengzhou. The tens of millions of land occupied only a small part of ordinary self-cultivated farmers. Most of them were occupied by the big landlords.

Dengzhou has many landlords and powerful people, and many of them have thousands of acres of fertile land in their homes, and even hundreds of hectares of fertile land. Dengzhou also has many wealthy businessmen. Because Dengzhou has a long coastline, many ports, and Dengzhou Port. With the sea route into the Bohai Sea, the straight-line distance from Silla is only two or three days away, and it is located between Hebei and Jiangnan. Therefore, Dengzhou has many sea merchants, traveling to Silla Japan, going down the coast to Jiangnan, and going to Youzhou. They make a lot of money. Dengzhou has many wealthy businessmen, so there are many landlords and powerful people.

Although Li Jing has not established a reputation in Daxie Village for a year, for many wealthy families in Dengzhou, Li Jing is just a young man in his early twenties and is not from a noble family, so he cannot help but look down on him. This time, Li Jing wanted to use bandits to suppress the bandits and to use the heads of those bandits to shake these people. As long as these people are shocked, the next thing will be easier.

The nineteen battalions attacked together, and it can be said that each of the four counties in Dengzhou had dispatched more than 20 capitals, four or five thousand troops. Under such a powerful offensive operation, the bandits from all mountains and villages were wiped out one after another. Only then did they discover the power of the Zhendong Army.

If you can't defeat it, you may be useful to the army that suppressed bandits in the past. But for the Zhendong Army, this is useless. No matter what kind of dangerous terrain it is, with the advantage of quantity, the Zhendong Army can easily surround them, and then use heavy equipment such as cannons, flying fires, and long-range powerful weapons to deal with them. No matter how strong the village gate is, it will be directly bombarded by a crossbow gun that is as thick as an arm. No matter how strong the defense is, they will be broken under the attack of a flying fire.

Li Zhen gave Li Jing a plan, which was to build thousands of wooden stakes outside the city gate of Dengzhou and set up a high platform at the city gate.

After the Zhendong Army launched an attack, the bandits' hamlets were broken almost every day. Except for the bandits who were directly killed on the spot, all the bandits would be taken out of Dengzhou City immediately. Li Jing would sit on that high platform and publicly judge these bandits in front of the people of Dengzhou. Moreover, this trial was serious and strict. In Li Jing's words, this was a severe crackdown.

As long as the bandits, young and old, they all beheaded after the trial, then threw the head into the oil pan and fryed it, and then inserted it on the picket stake outside the city to break the corpse. The families of the bandits will be sent to labor reform, and labor reform will be carried out in the military fort for more than ten years.

During the first day of trial, there were thousands of people watching. The reason for such a sensation was that the one who was judged was the most legendary thief in Dengzhou's history. This thief was a woman, a woman who was about forty years but still had charm. But this woman who looked very beautiful and even felt pity had a legend in Dengzhou for twenty years.

It is said that her family was originally a family of officials in the capital, but later she was convicted for offending the powerful and powerful. No one in her clan was spared, and she was the only one left. She was only six years old at that time. After escaping, she made a living by begging. Later, she met a dao nun as her apprentice and learned a mysterious skill. Then, ten years later, she went down the mountain. After going down the mountain, she directly found the powerful and powerful who harmed his family back then, and killed 364 people of the other clan overnight. Not only did she kill, but all of them were chopped off.

This caused a great sensation back then. Although the head of the family had retired, he was also a high-ranking official of the court, so the court sent Liushemen to pursue him. After several years of pursuit, she killed dozens of spies. During the last pursuit, she was killed down Shanya. She thought she was dead. Unexpectedly, a year later, she appeared in Luoyang and became a thief, specifically robbing the rich and helping the poor. Liushemen came again, and then disappeared for more than a year.

I thought she would die this time, but she appeared again. She had become a horse bandit leader in the Yanzhou area. In a few years, she once developed to more than a thousand people. Then, a few years later, her horse bandit was wiped out and she disappeared. Finally, she appeared in Dengzhou and became a very famous female pirate in Dengzhou.

When Li Jing suppressed the bandits this time, this woman named Hong Niangzi was rushed with her eight hundred pirates. After a battle, the pirates wanted to escape from Rushanpu. But Li Jing was prepared, and several squadrons of Nutao Camp patrol the sea, but no one escaped. Even this female devil who had not been caught in the past thirty years became the first person to Li Jing to establish his authority.

After Meghan heard of such a woman, she pleaded with Li Jing to leave her. However, after Li Jing met this woman in person, she did not intend to let her go. Although she had acted like robbing the rich and helping the poor, the woman's mind seemed to have been too stimulating in her childhood that she had a deep hatred for the rich and officials and could not be dissolved. Not to mention letting her join the Zhenhai camp, she would let her go. Maybe she would have to come to Li Jing and Zhendongjun to take revenge.

Such a legendary woman became the first target of public trial, which made the audience in Dengzhou very popular. Even people from nearby Laizhou and Qingzhou, as well as Xuzhou further away, came to watch it.

After some interrogation, Hong Niangzi was also tough and did not refuse to admit his crime. Li Jing waved his hand, and the executioner picked up the big knife in his hand and slashed it hard. A burst of blood suddenly flew up. This legend has been said for thirty years, so many people have regarded this person as a woman who cannot tell the difference between gods, ghosts and demons.

On the first day, he killed Hong Niangzi and his subordinates. Then on the second day, he killed more than 300 bandits. On the third day, on the fourth day, he saw the wooden stakes outside the city quickly filled up, and no one was willing to come and behead him. For those nobles and gentry in Dengzhou, Li Jing's killing of the people also made them lose face.

After half a month of killing, more than 100 squads of mountain bandits, horse pirates and pirates in Dengzhou were wiped out, and more than 1,000 people were killed after the public trial. This was because Li Jing saw that the deterrence effect had already been played, so he only killed some of the most famous bandit leaders, and the rest were sentenced to labor reform. The more than 100 squads were killed after the trial, and more than 1,000 people were killed after the trial, and two or three thousand people were killed on the spot during the bandit suppression. In addition, five or six thousand bandits were sentenced to be taken to the Tuan Fort for labor reform, and their families had a total of 20,000 to 30,000.

There are so many bandits, but there are very few property collected after the extermination, only a few hundred thousand yuan in money and food. Li Jing also understood that many bandits are not gangsters, and more than half are refugees who fled into Dengzhou after the famine last year, and eventually became bandits.

After destroying bandits of all sizes in the four counties of Dengzhou, these more than a thousand heads completely made Dengzhou recognize Li Jing's toughness and iron blood.

"Zhang Lushi, prepare for the announcement of Zhang Bang. From the next day, the four counties in Dengzhou will start opening warehouses and release grain to revive disasters." Li Jing told Zhang Hong, the steward of money and grain.

Zhang Hong was a little embarrassed: "Monk, there are more than 50,000 households and more than 300,000 people in Dengzhou. I'm afraid we can't stand it when opening the warehouse. Zhendongjun's warehouse still has a lot of grain, but these have been stored in the waste grain. The ones I used in normal times, including those I gave Song Wei last time, have never used the grain in those warehouses. In addition to those, there is also food in the warehouse, but not much, and it is impossible to supply more than 300,000 people.

"You send someone to inform the families of the four counties of Dengzhou. In addition, landlords with more than 1,000 mu of land will also invite them to come. Tomorrow I will hold a banquet to celebrate the success of the bandit suppression and invite them to the banquet." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Does the county marquis plan to make these people's ideas?"

Li Jing laughed: "What do you mean by making an idea? In the Tang Dynasty, all counties and townships have Yi Cang. In normal times, everyone paid grain. Now it is time for Yi Cang to work? Of course, there is not much grain in Yi Cang, so our town east army has to take out some of the grain, but these famous landlords in the four counties of Dengzhou and the townships must also play some examples at this time, helping the poor and helping the poor."

Zhang Hong was a little hesitant. In such a disaster year, if the big families borrowed food on behalf of the people, wasn’t this going to cut their meat? Who would agree?

Li Zhen said: "Job Zhang just goes, and the other county marquis have their own plans."

When Zhang Hong left, Li Zhen smiled and said to Li Jing: "The county marquis has done a beautiful job in these few moves. Suppressing bandits can stabilize the peace of Dengzhou, and it can also shock the whole country of Dengzhou, and even raise some money and food. Now, after suppressing bandits and killing them, they turn around and start to release grain to promote disasters. This is a combination of kindness and power. And now at this time, the county marquis proposes to borrow grain. I think no one in Dengzhou will deliberately refuse."

Li Jing shook his head: "Killing people is a last resort, but in the current situation, if we do not suppress and kill, the situation in Dengzhou will only be worse in the current famine situation. People-oriented, how can the people develop? It is even more necessary to revive disasters. Otherwise, if we kill this group today, there will probably be another group going up the mountain to serve bandits tomorrow. The key is to let the people have food first, even if they have a bowl of porridge first."

"But the famine is so serious right now. I am afraid that even if we open the warehouse to revive disaster, the grain in the warehouse will be almost used every year. Although we have some food, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the two cities of Dengzhou, Daxiodao and Qingni, and Beisha. No matter how much food is, it cannot withstand these six or seven hundred thousand mouths. The landlords will definitely be intimidated by the general's power and take out some food, but this will never be too much." Guo Cheng'an said with some concern. Not to mention that the military reserve grain cannot be moved, even if it can be moved, it will not last long.

"I have thought about this issue for a long time. The most important thing at the moment is to stabilize the situation in Dengzhou. We cannot cause chaos when we take the army away because of Song Wen. We cannot make the people of Dengzhou become refugees because of famine. Although the Zhendong Army is strong, if all the people of Dengzhou run away, then the Dengzhou we find a way to get will be of no value."
Chapter completed!