In Zhang Tianbo's opinion, Sun Dabiao's best strategy was to take advantage of Feng Haijiao's visit a few days ago, capture or kill him unprepared, and sacrifice him to the Australians. In the worst case, he could find a way out and live in peace. Rich man. Now that the opportunity has been lost, it would be a bad idea to attack Feng Haijiao again.
Sure enough, after listening to his words, Sun Dabiao's expression became less lively.
"Both sides will suffer losses, let alone talking about it. If Feng Haijiao is destroyed, the Australians will keep their word. What if they turn their backs and refuse to recognize us? At that time, your old men will have few soldiers and food. Isn't it easy for the Australians to destroy you?"
At this time, Sun Dabiao began to feel restless. He turned around a few times and said loudly: "This won't work, that won't work either. Could it be that our brothers are just waiting to die?!"
Zhang Tianbo rolled his eyes and said: "Now we can only 'step on two boats'..."
Sun Dabiao immediately became excited when he heard this: "How to step on it?"
Zhang Tianbo said: "Brother, please accept the Australian recruitment. This is the first ship. With this name, you are regarded as an Australian official. It is convenient for you to do anything in the county."
"Is this other ship the Daming?"
"Exactly." Zhang Tianbo nodded, "If Feng Haijiao is willing to go and invite Feng on behalf of the elder brother, there is no need to stop him. We ourselves have to send someone to connect with the people sent by Daming - otherwise it will be inconvenient to be separated by one layer."
"Okay," Sun Dabiao nodded repeatedly, then suddenly frowned and said, "It's easy to be in two boats, but how to deal with the two sides? It's okay for the Ming Dynasty. Xiong Wencan is high in the sky and the emperor is far away. It doesn't matter what we say. It's a big deal. Just get two heads to fool me, the Australians are here in the county! I have been recruited, what if he wants to urge me to fight Feng Haijiao? "
"If he wants to urge us, let's go and fight. Of course, we have to make an agreement with Brother Feng. Let's just make a show and fire off a few cannons. No matter where we cut off a few heads, it's considered a fight. No. It’s because we don’t have enough strength to fight this down. Please ask the Australians to allocate more food and wages..."
"Australians are not fools, so how can we do this?"
"Since he is reluctant to part with food and salary, we will naturally not be able to work hard."
"This method can delay for a while, but not forever." Sun Dabiao has been a bandit for generations and knows the government's tricks. "As time goes by, what if the Australian county magistrate will send the National Army to 'help the suppression', forcing us to take the lead?" ?”
Zhang Tianbo said: "Right now, the county is full of waste. The Ming Dynasty and the Yao people are a thorn in the side of the Australians. The county magistrate can only bring a few hundred people to take office. He can't take care of so many. We are dragging it out for a while. When things change, we will make plans. The only plan right now is to tightly hold Brother Feng. As long as he is here, we will have a basis for advancing and retreating. "
There is a second meaning in Zhang Tianbo's words. If the Ming Dynasty counterattacks or the Kun thieves are too weak to govern Yangshan, then the three of them together will be the largest force in the county, and they can do a lot; if The Kun thieves were strong and the Ming Dynasty had no hope of counterattack, so seizing the opportunity to suddenly capture and kill Feng Haijiao would provide the final retreat.
Sun Dabiao naturally understood what he meant. He thought to himself that Zhang Tianbo really deserves to be the leader of Kuaiban, he is really cruel and ruthless.
The two brothers made a good plan and sent someone to secretly agree with Feng Haijiao on the strategy of "fighting openly and secretly". Here Sun Dabiao fully agreed to the conditions, saying that as soon as he was "ready", he would immediately send troops to "painfully suppress" Feng Haijiao.
Sun Dabiao obtained grain and cloth, and also obtained the name of an Australian, so he openly set up a checkpoint in Dalangwei and collected the salt tax and commercial tax leading to Yao District. He had money and food, and his escaped minions, as well as all kinds of bandits that had been eliminated by the Australians and slipped through the net, all came to seek refuge. For a time, there was a smoky atmosphere in Dalangwei. However, the Yao people in Yonghua were filled with resentment and came to Wang Chuyi one after another to complain. The naturalized cadres were also very dissatisfied and opposed Wang Chuyi's plan of "killing three soldiers with two peaches" - Sun Dabiao did not attack Feng Haijiaolong at all, but instead used the banner of the Australians to dominate and exploit Yonghua. The Yao people are causing great dissatisfaction.
Now Wang Chuyi couldn't sit still, and immediately sent someone to ask Sun Dabiao when he would march to Qinglianwei.
"It's not that I'm shirking my humble position. It's actually that I'm humble. At present, there are only a few soldiers, and there is a shortage of food and pay. We must prepare enough before we can advance the army..." Sun Dabiao cried out as usual.
He only cried about poverty and delayed the army. Wang Chuyi also found it difficult, and his colleagues also had opinions, especially Luo Yiming. He reminded Wang Chuyi that if they continued like this, the Yonghua Yao people they had finally subdued would rise up in riots again, and the propaganda they had advertised not long ago had all turned out to be lies. In the future, work in the Yao District would be It will be extremely difficult.
"... What the Yonghua Yao people hate the most is the high price of salt. They rebelled with the Badai Yao, and the root cause is that Sun Dabiao of Dalangwei collected high transit salt taxes and monopolized the business. When we came to Yangshan, we kept saying He said that he wanted to hoe the Anliang people and make the Yao people and the Han people 'one body and equal', but in the end they still allowed Sun Dabiao to monopolize the salt business. Wouldn't it be a breach of trust for them?"
This put Wang Chuyi in a dilemma. Although Yonghua Township was guarded by a squadron of the National Army, if an incident really happened, it would be easy to suppress it, but he would not be able to explain himself in front of Chief Huang. I had to come to Peng Shouan again for advice.
Peng Shou'an couldn't come up with any "good tips", so he could only say a few perfunctory words: "Let's appease the Yao people first and wait and see."
"The Yao people are making a big fuss now. They have been sending people to petition, saying that the price of salt is so high that everyone can no longer afford it, so they can only eat light food. This is not something that can be appeased by a few words." Wang Chuyi was very distressed.
Peng Shou'an racked his brains and thought about it, and suddenly came up with a clever plan: The Second Squadron of Yangshan County is currently stationed in Yonghua, and the county must deliver supplies to the squadron every month. There are two ways to go to Yonghua. One is to take Lianjiangshui Road to Libuwei, then turn to Zhaigang River and go south. After arrival, it will be transported manually. Not only is the journey long and the public security situation on the river is not good, but it also requires a considerable number of escort troops. For a force of less than a hundred people, the movement of supplies is too much. Therefore, the supply team usually takes the shorter and safer land routes. That is, enter Yonghua via Dalangwei. Although Sun Dabiao quickly reoccupied Dalangwei, he never dared to intercept the National Army's supply convoy.
Peng Shou'an's "ingenious plan" was to bring salt into the Yao District from the supply fleet, and then sell it to the Yao people at "affordable prices".
"...As a result, it will be unprofitable for Sun Dabiao to set up a salt tax in Dalangwei, and the Yonghua Yao people will also benefit from the price."
This clever plan was approved by Wang Chuyi. Unexpectedly, Luo Yiming objected again: "Since ancient times, it has been the power of the government to collect salt taxes. What qualifications does Sun Dabiao have to set up a card to collect taxes? The county should immediately order a ban. There is no use of entrainment. Delivering salt to the Yao people. Besides, once the salt is delivered, the army has to sell it! Doesn’t it violate the army’s ban on doing business?”
Wang Chuyi thought that this strategy was good, but now he was opposed to it. Thinking that his decision-making was constantly being questioned by the naturalized cadres, he had long suspected that Luo Yiming was secretly causing trouble. He yelled: "Comrade Luo Yiming! Please note that I am the county magistrate of Yangshan County! You are just the commander of the National Army in charge of public security and the chief of the Public Security Section! You can express your opinions according to the procedures, but you have no right to criticize my decision. If you feel that my decision is not right If appropriate, you can respond to your superiors. But you are never allowed to engage in small groups in private to oppose your superiors!"
The Senate attaches great importance to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and Luo Yiming naturally understands the stakes involved. He was scolded by Wang Chuyi in front of his face and had to swallow the rest of his words. He felt that what Wang Chuyi did was completely wrong and was purely a "conspiracy". He did not put Chief Huang's purpose of "mobilizing the masses" and "winning the majority" in the first place.
That's all. However, Luo Yiming's past experience shows that gangsters like Sun Dabiao are extremely suspicious and unpredictable. The so-called strategy may not work on him - even if it works, the impact will be very bad. At present, Yangshan County has a lot of complaints about the recruitment of Sun Dabiao and Zhang Tianbo. Even if they can be "caught in one fell swoop" in the end, this kind of loss in people's hearts will be difficult to make up for. What's more, Sun Dabiao is very likely to bite back and cause losses to Yangshan's military and political institutions...
"What should we do?" Luo Yiming returned to his residence and thought for a while before deciding not to delay. The situation should be reported to Chief Huang immediately. Thinking of this, he spread out the letter paper and began to write a letter to Huang Chao.
Just when there are undercurrents surging in all parties. Feng Haijiao's house in Qinglianwei is also filled with the smell of conspiracy.
Unlike Dawangwei, which is a peaceful scene of "singing and dancing," Qinglianwei is in a tense situation of "organizing the army and preparing for war." Feng Haijiao not only let all the bandits who were scattered around return to the village, but also recruited many desperadoes from other places. He also ordered the surrounding people to repair the village walls, forge weapons, and cast cannons every day.
On that day, the three of them placed an incense table in Sun Dabiao's house in Dawangwei, and vowed again to the Tianmeng to "never rebel against each other" and to "live and die together". They also agreed that he would "invite the seal" for Sun Dabiao, and everyone would "share the plan". Wealth". However, the news that Sun Dabiao accepted the recruitment of Kun Thief still made him nervous for several days - although Zhang Tianbo came to Qinglianwei not long after, and explained the "difficulties" and "last resort" of putting his brother's foot in two boats. After telling it once, he also gave a speech on the strategy of "fighting openly and peacefully". The two sides made a covenant not to attack each other but to help each other secretly. But Feng Haijiao is still worried - in his opinion, the Australians have few national soldiers, and they have just arrived to maintain security in the county and calm the Yao people. It is impossible for them to deal with him in the short term. The one who really deserves vigilance is his brother Sun Dabiao. He brought the Australians to attack him, and he was familiar with them - he knew all his own shortcomings and weaknesses. If you really want to use this weapon on your own head, the back of your neck will feel a little cold.
Next update: Volume 7 - Guangzhou Governance Chapter 417
