The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Song Dalin: "If we don't go to register, I will let them disperse right here."

Yu Qian frowned and said, "Our government has money and food to send out for the severance. If you don't come, how can we send it?"

"Just give it to me directly and I'll send it."

"No," Yu Qian refused. "Every penny of the government's money and grain must be recorded. If we don't register it, we will lose our heads. We must distribute it ourselves."

Yu Qian paused and said, "Well, if you don't want to go into the city, I can ask the clerk to come to the Ten-mile Pavilion to register, or you can go directly to Sanhu Village."

Song Dalin was tempted and was about to agree when Wang Xiaojing tugged at his sleeve.

Song Dalin came back to his senses instantly and immediately refused: "No, the money and grain from the government office should be used to help the villagers. We will disperse from where we are."

Yu Qian turned around and stared at Pan Yun expressionlessly.

Pan Jun looked back at him innocently.

Song Dalin saw this and became more determined: "Wait until the adults issue a notice and give us a letter of pardon, then we will immediately disperse and go home, and there will be no need for any relief money or grain."

At worst, we can find two more evil landlords tonight and rob them, so that the brothers will have money and food to go home.

Cai Sheng sneered, "Song Dalin, don't judge others by your own standards. Do you think the Imperial Envoy is collecting your names and hometowns so that he can deal with you later?"

Yu Qian: …

Pan Yun: …

Song Dalin sneered: "Isn't it?"

"Of course not!" Cai Sheng said loudly, "Your Excellency is kind-hearted and sincerely wants to give you relief money and food. I already know how many rebels there are among you, where they come from, and their names. Is there any need to beat around the bush?"

Song Dalin frowned slightly, but he chose to believe Pan Jun and Wang Xiaojing, and still refused to agree to be registered.

Seeing that they were arguing and about to break up, Yu Qian quickly stopped them and said, "Forget it, if you don't want to, forget it."

Yu Qian agreed with them on a time to disband.

"I want to see you disperse with my own eyes. Also, since we have decided to recruit you, from now on, you are good citizens. You must not rob or steal people's property anymore, no matter who they are."

Song Dalin's body stiffened slightly and he glanced at Pan Yun.

Pan Yun nodded slightly at him.

Song Dalin frowned and agreed: "Then two days later, tomorrow you post a notice and have each village chief spread the notice throughout the village. Then bring the letter of innocence, and I can disperse the crowd immediately."

Yu Qian agreed.

If the announcement spreads throughout the village, it will be difficult for the government to change it, otherwise it will be suspected of changing its orders every day.

Even Cai Sheng did not dare to go back on his word and destroy the court's credibility.

The next step was to discuss some details. Pan Yun sat on the stone bench bored, propping up his chin and looking at the soldiers lying in the woods. It was so pitiful. They had been lying there for an hour. In the July weather, in the airtight forest, it was hot and full of mosquitoes...

Pan Yun looked up at the sun, then turned to a yamen runner and said, "Go back to the Yiyuan and ask them to make two large buckets of sour plum soup and send them to the city gate."

Yamen runner: “Ah?”

Pan Yun: "Aren't you thirsty?"

The yamen runner immediately went to see Cai Sheng, and saw that Cai Sheng was arguing with Song Dalin about whether to hold the disbanding ceremony in Sanhu Village or at Shili Changting. The runner didn't even look at him, so Cai Sheng could only get up silently and leave.

Lu Yuan glanced at her and stood motionless behind Yu Qian.

In the end, Song Dalin won and managed to disband the gang in Sanhu Village. Sanhu Village is a good place with good farmland and fertile land.

Unlike the small fields in the east and west of Sanqing Mountain, the fields there are flat and full of crops at a glance, but they are rich in water resources and surrounded by three lakes.

Because it is so flat, anyone who gets close will be quickly discovered, and it is also easy for them to escape.

They prepared the boats and bamboo rafts early, and once they entered the river, they disappeared in an instant.

Yu Qian asked with a smile: "How could the Song leader have the courage to come to the Ten-mile Pavilion to negotiate if he was so worried about being ambushed?"

Song Dalin: "That's because I trust Taoist Pan!"

He paused and said, "Besides, I am not completely unprepared."

He glanced at the people he had brought with him.

Yu Qian nodded slightly: "What if we also set up an ambush of two or three hundred people in the forest?"

"Then I'm not afraid either!" Song Dalin stood up, walked outside the pavilion, and shouted in the direction he came from: "Brothers, say hello to Yu Qingtian!"

The sound hit the mountains, echoed, penetrated, and spread far away in an instant.

A deafening voice came from afar: "Hello - hello - Yu Qingtian is good - Yu Qingtian is good -"

Lu Yuan put his hand on the hilt of the knife, his whole body tense.

Yu Qian was stunned for a moment before he burst into laughter and nodded, saying, "Great! You are brave, resourceful and cherish your life. This is a good man!"

He patted Song Dalin on the shoulder and said, "You are very good. You know what is best for them. You did not expand the scope of the rebellion, nor did you take them to Fujian to seek refuge with Deng Maoqi."

Song Dalin was silent for a moment and then said, "To be honest, if it weren't for the relief efforts from the landlords and gentry in Yushan County, I would have attacked the county again, because they had people to rescue them and were able to survive. I knew that I would not be able to capture the city and recruit more soldiers if I attacked it again."

Yu Qian touched his shoulder and said, "Yes, as long as the people still have a way to survive, who would rebel?"

Song Dalin said, "That night, if Master Pan hadn't come to me, I would have wanted to rob two more evil landlords who refused to donate grain and took the opportunity to rob the villagers' fields and then led everyone to join Deng Maoqi. So if you want to thank someone, thank the conscientious young and old men who provided disaster relief this time, thank Master Pan."

Yu Qian turned around and said to Pan Yun with a smile: "We really have to thank Taoist Master Pan. Not only do I have to thank her, but Magistrate Cai has to thank her too. You should thank her even more for saving our lives."

Song Dalin was also not vague. He saluted by clasping his fists, and the people behind him followed suit.

The merit value is rising rapidly.

Pan Jun narrowed his eyes and smiled, touching Pan Xiaohei in his arms and said, "Be polite, be polite. It's all for the people, for the great principles of the world, for the king, for the country, for..."

"Okay, it's getting late. Now that we've agreed on everything, I'll take you down from Changting." Yu Qian turned around and said to Song Dalin.

Song Dalin, stunned by what he heard, nodded repeatedly and went down the pavilion with Yu Qian.

Cai Sheng was very depressed and realized that he was just a tool this time.

After Song Dalin and his men turned the corner and disappeared, Yu Qian put down his waving hand and turned to look at Cai Sheng expressionlessly: "What are you still standing there for? It's hot and humid in the forest, why don't you ask the soldiers to come out!"

Cai Sheng then remembered and hurriedly went to call the person out.

The soldiers who had been lying in ambush for two hours crawled out, immediately tore off their armor and took off their hats to breathe.

Miaohe and the others came in handy at this time. They grabbed their hands and patted and pinched them. The people who almost fainted from heatstroke felt better and were no longer so dizzy.

In the end, they walked back and gave the ox cart to a few soldiers who were more seriously injured.

Yu Qian kept scolding Cai Sheng all the way: "Luckily Song Dalin didn't find out, otherwise there would have been a conflict and all our efforts would have been in vain!" (End of this chapter)