Seeing that there was no one around, Ye Mingsheng's heart moved, and he took Pei Zhixiu's small manyao into his arms, and pulled her into his arms. He felt the fragrance of the beauty in his arms, and faced Ye Mingsheng's sudden appearance without saying hello.

Pei Zhixiu was also a little surprised by the attack. He struggled twice symbolically and whispered:

"Don't be like this, there are others..."

Ye Mingsheng smiled and said:

"I've seen it all, now it's just you and me!"

"That's not allowed! In broad daylight, if you are not ashamed, I will be ashamed."

Pei Zhixiu said firmly. After speaking, she held Ye Mingsheng's hand to prevent Ye Mingsheng from going further.

After gently taking a sip on Pei Zhixiu's delicate cheeks, Ye Mingsheng continued:

"My good wife, since it's not possible in broad daylight, can it be done at night?"

Hearing Ye Mingsheng's words, Pei Zhixiu seemed to have thought of something and said calmly;

"Didn't you get a new pair of sisters? Isn't this the most exciting time for you, why are you tormenting me?"

Although Pei Zhixiu's tone was very calm, Ye Mingsheng could still feel the strong smell of jealousy in her words. He knew in his heart that he had neglected the beauty because of his recent official duties and neglected Pei Zhixiu, so he also coaxed:

"They are not as good as Jixiu. Only when they are with you can they truly blend together like a dream..."

Listening to her lover's words, Pei Zhixiu couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy in her cold eyes, but she still said reluctantly:

"Hmph! Who wants to be in harmony with you?"

After saying that, Pei Zhixiu flicked away, broke away from Ye Mingsheng's arms, and walked towards her courtyard with her medicine box on her back. Looking at Pei Zhixiu's graceful figure as she left, a faint look appeared on Ye Mingsheng's face.

Smile, although Bae Ji Soo said this, but being familiar with her character, I knew that I would have a night worth remembering!

After bidding farewell to Pei Zhixiu, Ye Mingsheng returned to his study. Although he was accompanied by a beauty, he could not relax on government affairs. Although Ye Mingsheng did not think that he was a famous king through the ages, he did not want to be one and be beaten by his subordinates.

A foolish king who deceives people at will.

Seeing Ye Mingsheng return to the study, Ye Cheng took another stack of official documents and put them on Ye Mingsheng's table and introduced:

"Sir, this is a document just sent by the Chief Secretary and the Coordination Office. It requires your decision and understanding of the situation!"

After saying that, Ye Cheng picked up the top document in the pile of official documents and handed it to Ye Mingsheng and said:

"This is an intelligence report about Hebei, Yu and Qilu sent by the Coordination Office. It was written by Director Huo himself. It is the second-level top secret information of the Coordination Office!"

Ye Mingsheng's expression became serious when he heard the words "Level 2 Top Secret Intelligence". In order to distinguish the important levels of intelligence, the Coordination Office divided the intelligence into two levels: confidential information and top secret information, and each level was divided into one, two and three.

, three levels, Level 1 is the highest and Level 3 is the lowest.

There is only one first-level top secret information in the Fengwu Army, and that is the overall strategy of the Fengwu Army. Now Huo San has classified this intelligence report as the second-level top secret information of the Fengwu Army, which is enough to show that this intelligence chief has no regard for this intelligence report.

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Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly when he heard this, and then took the document from Ye Cheng's hand. Seeing this, Ye Cheng also bowed and exited the study, leaving Ye Mingsheng a quiet environment. He opened the document and Ye Mingsheng read it carefully.

, the contents of the file.

After burning the incense, Ye Mingsheng carefully read every word in the document three times, put down the letter and fell into deep thought.

In this intelligence report, Huo San introduced to Ye Mingsheng in detail that due to the drought and insect plague some time ago, crops in Qilu, Hebei and Henan suffered great losses.

In this regard, although Gao Zongchang and Cao Changping are not good birds, their IQs must be on the average line for being able to get to this point. Therefore, they also know that the lives of the lower class are already hard enough.

Exploitation will trigger public anger and then peasant uprisings, so a series of tax reduction and disaster relief policies have been prepared.

It stands to reason that if these tax reduction and disaster relief measures are all implemented and the people can truly feel the benefits, then although they cannot change their fate of being cut off and exploited, they can almost survive this disaster year.

But it is a pity that today's officialdom of the Zhou Dynasty is rotten from the root. It is not corruption by a few people, but corruption in a collapsed way. In order to change this political atmosphere in Liaoyang, Ye Mingsheng made great efforts.

With courage and courage, he killed thirty-nine officials, big and small, and threw more than a hundred officials into prison, which barely stopped the corruption trend and made the power departments more efficient and clean...

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Gu Zhuan

Obviously, both Cao Changping and Gao Zongchang have close relations with the local local factions, and even the political power is based on the support of the local factions, so they cannot have the courage and courage like Ye Mingsheng to completely change the atmosphere of officialdom.

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Therefore, under such conditions, even if these two people now wake up and want to give the common people a way to survive so that they can continue to exploit them in the future, the people below them will not think so! These people will still bully them as they did in the past.

Hiding the tax from the top to the bottom, collecting money according to the past tax amount, and then dividing the part of the tax exemption among the top among the people privately.

As for those people who can't afford the money, they will first ransack their homes and then take away your land. Such greedy practices have left many small farming families who were already overwhelmed, with their families destroyed and their families displaced!

As for the relief grain, cloth and other materials sent to the disaster area from above, these moths will be collected privately and then sold on the market. At this stage, if you still have some conscience, you will take out a small part and buy some.

Moldy rice and tattered cloth are spread out for errands.

And those who are completely evil simply don’t even bother to show off, and just don’t care about anything, out of sight and out of mind, leaving the people to live in dire straits!

Under the double squeeze of such natural disasters and man-made disasters, the anger of the people finally broke out again. In just one month, according to the observation of the Coordination Office, in the past month, there have been many incidents in Qilu, Hebei and Henan.

There were several small-scale peasant uprisings.

The number of bandits, thieves and other organizations entrenched in various mountains is also expanding rapidly. Among them, the bandit Sanshan Hao in Daya Mountain in Hebei and Henan has developed the fastest. Now it has gathered thousands of troops and entrenched in Daya Mountain...

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According to the investigation by the Coordination Office, this bandit nicknamed Sanshan, his real name is Zhu Sanshan. In the early years of Anhe, he served as the head of the Luoan Huwei Forbidden Army. He fought against the Kipchaks many times and had rich experience.

However, in the sixth year of Anhe, he was ordered to be arrested because he drunkenly molested the female family members of a powerful person in Luo'an. However, this kid heard the news in advance and fled back to his hometown of Jiyu while lying in his birthday cake.

Although he escaped back to his hometown, because Luo'an issued an arrest warrant, Zhu Sanshan had nothing to do. He grew up brightly and walked in front of others. He could only hide in Tibet for fear of exposing his whereabouts. This state lasted for several days.

Months later, due to lack of livelihood, Zhu Sanshan had no choice but to go up the mountain and join Ma Jindao, a bandit in Dayashan at that time.

After all, Zhu Sanshan had served as the captain of the Forbidden Army. Not only was he excellent in martial arts, but his ability to lead troops in battle was also unparalleled among the bandits. He was soon appreciated by Ma Jindao and fought several battles in a row.

Da Huo was promoted to the second head of the family by Ma Jindao.

In this way, time came to the eighth year of Anhe. Ma Jindao was greedy for the tax money Yingcheng gave to Yujing, so he led a large number of bandits down the mountain to rob. However, it turned out that this was indeed a trap set by the army.

The war horse Jin Dao was captured, and the bandits in Dayashan also suffered heavy casualties.

However, just when everyone thought that Dayashan would be easily wiped out by the army under such circumstances, Zhu Sanshan led the remaining bandits and took advantage of the army's arrogance and underestimation of the enemy to sneak attack the army camp late at night.

Not only did he kill the officers and soldiers and return in defeat, he also rescued the bandit leader Ma Jindao...

In this battle, Zhu Sanshan completely showed his face in the green forests of Henan. Not only did his reputation increase, but he also won a reputation for loyalty for himself. Many bandits and thieves came to seek refuge in his name.

Ma Jindao was severely tortured by the army after being captured by the army and his vitality was damaged. Even though he was rescued by Zhu Sanshan, he died of his injuries after surviving for several months. After Ma Jindao died,

Later, Zhu Sanshan relied on his prestige and became the new bandit leader of Daya Mountain as he wished. Because he was generous and generous and very loyal, his friends in the green forest gave Zhu Sanshan the nickname "Sanshan Hao"

After becoming the bandit leader of Daya Mountain, Zhu Sanshan led the bandits on the mountain to commit several major crimes, robbed several landlords and their property, and killed several corrupt officials who oppressed the people.

Zhu Sanshan has unlimited glory, but it is also regarded as a thorn in the flesh by the Henan Army. The Henan Army has encircled and suppressed Daya Mountain several times, but Zhu Sanshan relied on Daya Mountain's dangerous terrain and flexible tactics, and was able to avert danger every time.

, giving Yu Jun a headache.

In this disaster year, perhaps feeling that the time had come, Zhu Sanshan chose to open the granary to recruit refugees. Under the temptation of food, tens of thousands of refugees flocked to Zhu Sanshan, and Zhu Sanshan

They also recruited young men and women among these refugees, and their strength increased very quickly. The original number of more than a thousand people has now expanded to thousands, and there is a faint momentum of becoming the first bandit in Heyu...

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In addition to Sanshanhao, other bandits and thieves in Jiyu and Qilu are also expanding rapidly in the environment where refugees are everywhere.

It was after observing this situation that Huo San had a bold idea, that is, the Fengwu Army was secretly giving some support to these bandits, thieves, and possible peasant uprisings in the future, in order to disrupt the local situation.

Consuming the strength of the Henan and Qi armies prepared for the Fengwu army's next move south.

After understanding this situation, Ye Mingsheng was also a little moved. According to the intelligence detected by the Coordination Office, because the Fengwu Army's firearms performed very well in the war, the Fengwu Army's surrounding areas such as the Yu Army, Qi Army, and Luo'an

The Forbidden Army, as well as Xu Zhaojie's Anqing Army, obtained the Fengwu Army's Polu guns and Weiyuan guns through various channels, and summoned firearms craftsmen to study and imitate them.

Ye Mingsheng had long expected their actions, and it was difficult to stop them. After all, both Weiyuan guns and Polu guns were mass-produced firearms, with tens of thousands produced.

, it is basically impossible to prevent the enemy from acquiring it on such a large scale.

The only thing Ye Mingsheng can do is to order the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau to speed up the research and development of a new generation of firecrackers and expand the scale of production to defeat the opponent in terms of quality and quantity. Currently, the research and development work of Fengwu Army's new generation of firecrackers is progressing smoothly.

It has entered the final test stage. As long as the test results go well, it can be put into mass production and installed in large quantities in the Fengwu Army...

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Although Ye Mingsheng already has a way to deal with it, the shrinking of Fengwu's weapons advantage is an indisputable fact. Therefore, Ye Mingsheng must invest more energy in the overall strategy to combine vertical and horizontal lines to ensure the strategic success of Fengwu Army.

Advantage.

And now Huo San's proposal is very consistent with Ye Mingsheng's ideas. The next general policy of the Fengwu Army is still to go south. Cao Changping of Qilu and Gao Zongchang of Hebei and Yu are the goals in Ye Mingsheng's eyes.

However, because it takes a certain amount of time to digest Youyan's territory, Ye Mingsheng cannot attack them in a short period of time, so using bandits and peasant rebels to consume the Qi army and the strength of the Henan army is a very good choice!

Although the idea is good now, but specifically who is the target of support, how to support it, and how to hide the identity of Fengwu Army. In addition, once discovered by Qi Army and Yu Army, they will face the accusations of Qi Army and Yu Army.

How to deal with it all requires more detailed control.

After all, the entire Zhou Dynasty is still controlled by these feudal nobles, and if they support the bandits, the peasant uprising army is equivalent to fighting against the entire ruling class. Once the matter is exposed, Ye Mingsheng and Fengwu Army will be in the public opinion of the world.

It will be criticized by thousands of people. This is not in line with Ye Mingsheng's policy of accumulating food and slowly becoming king.

Therefore, the whole matter still requires detailed planning and complete preventive measures. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng made important instructions in Huo San's report. He first affirmed Huo San's idea and praised Huo San for his good idea.
Chapter completed!