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Chapter 465 Useless
Guangdong, Chaozhou Prefecture, Pingyuan County.

The county governor lives in the capital, and the county has only been established for more than ten years. There is no city wall. The northeast of the county is close to the boundary marker of Wuping County, Fujian Province. There is a mountain named Wuzhishi.

In the past, this place was deserted, but in the past six months, the Lin clan with a radius of [-] miles has sent their dolls here, because General Lin has studied social studies for the clan and called the village elders to establish rules.

From now on, all Lin clans in Pingyuan County can send their offspring to the society to study and learn martial arts. Clothing, food and lodging will all be provided by the clan in Duzhong. Literary and martial arts exams, travel expenses and banking will all be provided by the society.

Lin Manjue is indeed a general. Chaozhou Wei has no real shortage of Zhengqian households.

They were all Fujianese 12 years ago. Later, Pingyuan was established as a county, and they lived in Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province for two years. After that, Pingyuan County was transferred to Guangdong, and they became natives of Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province.

After all, it was the border of the three provinces. It was isolated and helpless near the mountains, and there were many iron mines in the area. From time to time, desperadoes hid in the mountains, and sometimes bandits rushed out to plunder. The county couldn't stop it, so it had to rely on the militia.

The common people are most afraid of bandits, but the bandits in Pingyuan are most afraid of militias, so in Pingyuan County, the most powerful ones are Lin Manjue and his hundreds of soldiers who have withdrawn from Guam.

When Lin Manjue left, there was no one living on Wuzhishi Mountain. When he returned with his subordinates to escort the coffin, there was already a thatched nunnery on the mountain. There was an old monk in the nunnery, who called himself Zen Master Wuyong. become a monk.

The thatched cottage is stuck in the stone forest, so it is called Stone Forest Temple.

The temple doesn't look like much, but the useless monk has a lot of money. He hired people to build a temple around stones, and was bombarded by Lin Manjue from the bottom of the mountain.

"Zeng Er led the troops to kill up the trail, Lin Xiao fired guns on the mountainside, don't let any of the stupid thieves leave!"

Carrying the three-foot bird gun on his shoulder, Lin Manjue was still holding the rusty old hand axe, and ordered dozens of banner troops to attack the temple on the mountain. Gather the militia army?"

It has to start in the morning.

The useless monk was robbed by thieves in the mountains. No one in the ten miles and eight villages didn’t know that he dug up the town house and went to the mountains to become a monk in a fit of anger because his five sons had no one to bring him food during the New Year. I know, the news got out and the bandits in the mountains were concerned about it.

Dozens of thieves broke into the temple, not only took his money, but also used Shilin Temple as a cottage.

Although the monk is over half a hundred years old, how arrogant is a person who can become a monk in a fit of anger?

The Zen Master came out of the wall still in a vigorous figure. He borrowed a horse from the newly built mansion at the foot of the mountain, that is, the family of General Lin Manjue of the Martial Arts Festival, and galloped for more than sixty miles to report to the county government.

A dozen or so robbers followed the old monk down the mountain, but were frightened by the short fort of the Lin family at the mountain pass. After detours, they could only see the Zen master riding Juechen. The two stone lions are majestic and powerful. It is expected that they must be wealthy households, with malicious intentions born from their hearts.

The house is called Lin Mansion, and the surname is nothing special. Half of Wuping County next to it is named Lin, and the other half is named Chen, which is a common surname in Fujian.

The concierge was an old man in his seventies, and he was easily restrained. Then he went inside and bypassed the screen wall carved with a picture of a giant ship going out to sea. There were more than ten northern horses tied in the stables, and the eyes of these bandits would jump out. Eye sockets, they know--this is really rich, they are rich!

It is indeed a big family, this forest is Lin Manjue's forest.

At that time, General Lin's house had just finished repairing the courtyard, and two new orange trees were planted, so he invited his friends to watch and drink tea.

Speaking of which, Lin Sanlao doesn't have many friends, but they are Lin Xiao, Deputy Qianhu Wulue General, Zeng Xishun, Captain Fu Zhaoxin of Chaozhou Wei Town, and others.

This group of people retreated from the battlefield, and the court spared no expense in rewarding them, and sold off the war profits, gold and silver, and earned a hundred years of salary.Although the Battle of Guam lasted only half a year, the intensity was far greater than in the past few years. At that time, returning home became the only obsession in the hearts of the fighters.

But after returning to the hometown, living a smooth life seems extremely boring.

When I was in a panic, I set up mansions, established social schools, built bridges and roads, and gathered together to drink tea.

They were talking about wanting to go back to the Nanyang Military Mansion and continue to fight against the Xiyi. Zeng Xishun’s friend in the capital of Guangdong wrote a letter a few days ago saying that the imperial court had negotiated peace with the Xiyi. .

Opening the door and looking over, the old Guam soldiers who were sitting or standing in the courtyard looked at the orange tree with astonished expressions. Under the tree, nine bandits knelt in a circle, and weapons fell on the ground.

Headed by Hei King Kong, more than a dozen overseas soldiers of the Lin family each wear tiger-head iron helmets, wear work-patterned chain mail, and hold Qi's knives, long-handled pumpkins and other weapons in their hands, and stare at them.

There were already three corpses beside Hei King Kong, one was decapitated by the Qi family knife, and the other two were smashed to pieces with pumpkins, and the ground was covered in red and white.

The rabbit has entered the wolf's den!
The result is self-evident, Zen Master Wuyong also had a bad nose when he went to the county government. In case of military incidents in the county, he would go to Wuzhishi to find Lin Manjue.

When the officials of the government brought the Zen master back to Wuzhishi, the battle was over, and only the ruins of the outer wall of the Stone Forest Temple remained, and there were no bandits left.

General Lin can be regarded as finding a job for himself. This time the bandits went down the mountain to give him a reason to call the militia. Four, hundreds of bandits were wiped out, and the junction of the three provinces was cleared.

When the soldiers and horses were gone, Lin Manjue often climbed up the Five Fingers Stone and sat in the courtyard of Shilin Temple, but he didn't talk to Zen Master Wuyong.

He just set his sights on the newly built grassy and wooden cottage temple, watching the old monk who had given birth to five unfilial sons pouring water and chopping firewood, and cooking with trembling fire all day long.

"The military government has a new transfer order. Chen Shuai sent a letter saying that a fleet is needed to cross Malacca and go west. I don't know where it will go, but the letter states that the land is as mountainous as forests, and its enemies are as numerous as forests. Chen Shuai Don't force me."

Still in Lin's mansion, still under the orange tree, still those people.

Lin Manjue glanced at his trusted clan brothers, and said: "If you go, Lin can be the commander-in-chief of the thousand-seven-hundred fleet."

This kind of troops is only a small regional army, and sometimes it is not as good as a guerrilla army, let alone the deputy commander in Guangdong, but the difference in this expeditionary title is that it can act alone.

"Everyone is willing to go to Nanyangwei with Lin, and add all the officials."

The young Lin Xiao sat upright and leaned back, letting out a long breath. He had already heard the meaning of Lin Manjue's words, and said, "Uncle is going again? The commander didn't force me to wait. The battle of Guam was won. My department will go from ten to six or seven, and this time the commander sent out such a mission again...Uncle?"

"I'm going."

Lin Manjue clenched his hand on the table, tapped twice on the table, nodded and answered solemnly.

He didn't tell Lin Xiao that in Shilin Temple, he seemed to see his old self in the useless monk.

He's old, but he can't make himself useless.

　The useless monk who built Shilin Temple did exist.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)