Just after Ye Zheng and Wang Po discussed how to deal with the government, on the evening of the next day, Feifeng Village received messages from Fei Ge from various villages.
Li Shiqing, who was in charge of this matter, collected all the letters and personally delivered them to Ye Zheng's residence, where he opened and read them himself.
It took Ye Zheng nearly an hour. With Li Shiqing's explanation and translation, he finally figured out the contents of those letters. After learning about the letters sent from various copycats, he couldn't help but frown deeply and secretly
I feel troublesome.
It turns out that recently, all the major bandit forces in Cangliang Mountain have encountered the same trouble, which is that they have begun to run short of food and grass. As for why they are short of food and grass, the letter clearly states that in the past half month,
The brothers sent out by each village to buy grain and grass all encountered the same problem, that is, they were unable to buy a large amount of rice in the grain shops in all the towns near the desolate mountain range.
The reason is that recently, the government office of Linjiang City suddenly issued an order that all people who go to the Lianghangliangliang store to buy rice must have a household registration document that can prove their identity in order to successfully purchase rice.
What is even more confusing is that each household must not purchase more rice than they need for five days of daily life, otherwise, grain banks and grain stores can refuse to buy or sell.
At the same time, in order to ensure that this decree could be fully implemented, the government actually sent many public servants to seal down many grain banks and grain stores run by private grain merchants. As a result, almost all the people who did not have grain stores had to
You can go to those grain stores run by the government to buy rice. Therefore, in some towns near Cangliang Mountain, you can basically see a large number of people every day, crowding around the entrances of grain stores.
, there was a long queue waiting to buy rice grains.
Therefore, during this period of time, the brothers sent by the major bandit forces in Cangliang Mountain to buy grain and grass worked hard for several days, but only bought a little bit of rice grain back. And the meager rice grain they brought back was not enough for one person.
With the operation and expenses of the huge cottage, there were many bandit forces in Cangliang Mountain. They were in a situation of extreme lack of food and grass. For those cottages in a more miserable situation, their food and grass could only last for about seven days at most, and they were still frugal in food and clothing.
under circumstances.
In short, the current situation of the various mountain villages in Cangliang Mountain is very embarrassing. Although each village has a lot of gold and silver, they cannot buy enough food and grass. Suddenly, the bandit leaders began to panic and started to panic.
Send a message to the alliance leader Ye Zheng, hoping that he can help everyone solve this difficulty.
After Ye Zheng read these letters, he immediately ordered his men to reply to each village with flying pigeons, asking all their leaders to come to Fengming Ridge to discuss how to deal with the matter. At the same time, Ye Zheng also paid special attention to those who were missing.
The Shanzhai forces were severely short of food. He wrote in reply that if those small Shanzhai could no longer sustain themselves, he would immediately ask their village leader to lead all his men to Feifeng Village to tide over the difficulties.
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Because the last time Feifengzhai looted Zhoujiapu, many carts of grain and gold and silver money were snatched back. In addition, Chen Fu had always been prepared for a rainy day, so a month ago, he sent his men to
After arriving in the surrounding towns of Cangliang Mountain, we bought a large amount of grain, grass and rice oil. According to the living needs of Feifeng Village, there is no problem in maintaining it for half a year.
After he asked people to send out these carrier pigeons, he immediately summoned all the hall masters and leaders in the village and told everyone about this extremely important matter. At the same time, he also ordered Chen Fu to
He led his craftsmen and carpenters to build as many simple huts and wooden houses as possible, because in a few days, some villagers would come to their Fengming Ridge to rescue them. As the leader of the Desolate Alliance, Ye Zheng had the obligation to arrange and take care of them.
their diet and daily life.
After Chen Fu received Ye Zheng's order, he agreed on the spot without even thinking about it. He also promised that he would do everything ordered by the alliance leader.
After hearing this, Ye Zheng was very satisfied with his performance and praised him on the spot. Although there were more polite elements in it, Chen Fu still felt very happy after hearing this, and he was also positive when doing things.
Responsible for a lot.
After Ye Zheng arranged all the emergency matters, he stayed in the village and waited anxiously for the arrival of the leaders of the major bandit forces in Cangliang Mountain.
About the afternoon of the next day, leaders and troops of various cottage forces appeared one after another on the boundary of Qifeng Mountain. At this time, the patrolling horses from the Fourth Hall quickly rushed back to tell Ye Zheng.
After Ye Zheng learned about it, he immediately informed Chen Fu to prepare a banquet and wait for the arrival of the kings of the mountains.
In the Juyi Hall of Feifengzhai, the bandit leaders from the Nine Ridges and Twelve Peaks in Cangliang Mountain were seated one after another. However, their faces were not very good-looking at the moment. They must have been troubled by the lack of food recently.
Not light.
At this time, Ye Zheng was sitting on the tiger-skin chair on the stone platform, leaning down to look at the group of bandit leaders with poor expressions below, and listened carefully to their feedback to him on what had happened to each of the desolate mountain villages in the recent period.
All kinds of problems and troubles.
In fact, what everyone mentioned repeatedly was the lack of food.
At this time, the leader of a village suddenly stood up and said loudly and excitedly: "Alliance leader, the Linjiang City government's intention is to push us into a desperate situation. If I am not wrong, they will attack Desolation next."
We have used troops, Alliance Leader, what should we do now?"
Ye Zheng frowned and asked: "Since the towns near Cangliang Mountain can't buy food and grass, can't we go and grab it? Now that there are so many black-hearted businessmen and wealthy people in the world, I don't believe that they don't have food in their houses? If we, Green Forest, don't
What everyone is good at is the chivalrous deed of robbing the rich and giving to the poor."
When everyone heard this, they all shook their heads and smiled bitterly: "Leader, don't you think we are the same? In recent days, we have led the brothers in the village to rob some of the old property of the landlords in the desolate area, but the harvest was very little. Somehow, they
The grain in the granary of the house was suddenly purchased by the government, and what was left was just enough to maintain food and clothing in their house. Originally, we wanted to arrest the owner and torture him for questioning, but it turned out that everyone seemed to know that we were going, so he came early
Don’t know where to hide?”
"Is this happening?"
Hearing this, Ye Zheng was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, he seemed to realize that this matter was not simple. He pondered for a moment and then said: "With the current plan, most of the villages in Desolation have already fallen into a food shortage situation, so now
We must get food and grass as soon as possible to solve this problem. Do you have any good suggestions or opinions on this?"
When the bandit leaders heard this, they all said that they would gather more people from the villages and travel farther away to rob the boundaries of the prefectures and cities far away from Cangliang Mountain, because currently they heard that only Linjiang could do it.
The city's government issued an order restricting the purchase of grain. Some other prefectures and cities did not have such orders, so going to other prefectures and cities should be fruitful, but the distance is quite far, and transportation may be troublesome.
After Ye Zheng heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "Actually, it is not difficult to solve this problem. It is even very simple. We can go to rob food and grass, but there is no need to travel such a long distance."
When the bandit leaders heard this, they were shocked and asked hurriedly: "Then what should we do according to the leader's words?"
After hearing this, Ye Zheng pretended to be inscrutable, smiled and said: "Let me ask you a question, who do you think has the most food and grass in Linjiang City recently?"
When everyone heard this, they replied without thinking: "Of course it's the government!"
Ye Zheng suddenly burst into laughter and said something so arrogant that it shocked the whole audience. "If that's the case, then why don't we rob the official rations?"