Yonglin Town is built on the mountains, most of it is hilly terrain, only the northwest corner is an open flat land.
On this flat land, there is a green brick house covering several acres, which is incompatible with the surrounding dilapidated thatched huts.
This is the ancestral home of the Huang family.
More than a hundred years ago, there was a county magistrate in the ancestors of the Huang family. The son of the magistrate relied on his father's power and gradually became the overlord of Yonglin Town.
After more than a hundred years of development, the Huang family used various means to annex more than 70% of the land in Yonglin Town.
Especially in Huang Lingquan's generation, in order to further exploit the tenant farmers.
When I heard that the Zhongming Group was in Jingzhao Prefecture next door to allocate land to local tycoons, Huang Lingquan, the head of the Huang family, was almost scared to death.
He once asked someone to find a copy of the punishment standards announced by the trial conference.
He meets every one of the standards!
If the Zhongming Group comes, he will definitely not end well!
Fortunately for Huang Lingquan, after the Zhenyuan Escort captured Jingzhao Mansion, they went to the west and north and did not come to Hezhong Mansion in the east.
However, he did not take advantage of this opportunity to escape immediately. Instead, he directly brought the bandits who were secretly supporting him to the surface and exploited the people even more cruelly, hoping to squeeze out the last bit of wealth from the people of Yonglin before running away.
What the common people told Han Feng was not an exaggeration. Huang Lingquan ordered bandits to raid almost all the common people's homes.
When encountering common people who dare to resist, the bandits will kill them directly.
The people are in disarray without a leader, so where are the fierce and brutal bandit opponents? They can only endure silently.
While Huang Lingquan was colluding with bandits to exploit the people, he also kept an eye on the movements of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau.
If he finds out that the Zhenyuan Escort Agency is coming to the Hezhong Prefecture, he will immediately pack up his things and run away.
But Han Feng and the airborne company came here secretly to capture the killer. Not even their own people knew much about it, let alone Huang Lingquan?
He was currently sleeping soundly with his concubine in his arms.
Bang bang bang!
There was a rapid knock on the door from outside.
Huang Lingquan just got the concubine a few days ago. She has been in high spirits these days. She worked hard until midnight last night. She was sleeping soundly now. She turned over and ignored her and continued to sleep.
Just when the concubine was about to get up and take a look, the door of the room was kicked open with a bang.
The concubine who was getting dressed screamed in fright and pulled up the quilt to cover her body.
"Whoever doesn't want to live dares to kick in my door!"
The yellow collar man put on all his clothes and walked out of the back room.
A burly man with a sinewy face walked in, holding a bright machete in his hand.
Five or six bandits followed behind.
"Master Liang, you came to kick my door early in the morning. What's going on?"
Huang Lingquan asked with a frown.
This man is the bandit master who colluded with him.
The boss didn't answer, but kicked him in the chest.
Huang Ling was all kicked over and staggered back, sitting down on the ground.
"Search!"
After the boss gave the order, several bandits rushed directly into the back room to search.
The concubine was so frightened that she screamed and pulled up the quilt to cover herself.
But the next second, the bandit dragged her off the bed.
The bandits did not do anything to the concubine, but opened the bed.
"Liang Chong, why are you so fucking crazy?"
Huang Lingquan got up from the ground, glared at the bandit master and roared.
The boss ignored him and just put the machete on Huang Lingquan's neck.
Feeling the coldness on his neck, Huang Lingquan immediately stopped and his eyes kept moving, obviously analyzing the situation.
Bandits have always relied on local wealthy families to survive, otherwise they would be surrounded and suppressed by government soldiers.
For example, two of the three groups of bandits in Jinchuan County were backed by local gentry.
The backer of the bandits in Yonglin Town is Huang Lingquan.
Recently, there have been a lot of rumors about attacking local tyrants to divide their fields. Officials and soldiers from all over the river are panicking, and the bandits also realize that their doom is coming.
In some places, the bandits dispersed and hid in the mountains, preparing to come out after the Zhongming group arrived.
At that time, they will say that they are refugees hiding in the mountains, thus evading punishment, and maybe they can get land.
Dakang's household registration management work is extremely imperfect, and there are countless people who have fled into the mountains to avoid taxes. The Zhongming team has no way to screen them one by one. They can only adopt the principle of pleading guilty and treating them as refugees.
Therefore, many bandits relied on this trick to successfully escape the trial and punishment of the Zhongming Group, and even received land like normal people.
In fact, Jin Feng is also aware of this problem, but due to limited manpower, he can only put it on hold temporarily.
However, he told the Zhongming team to record the refugees and then conduct an investigation after they stabilize.
In fact, it is not difficult to investigate.
Didn’t you say you were a refugee? OK, which county and village did you live in before you became a refugee?
Then just send someone to verify it.
Therefore, the bandits can escape for a while, but they cannot escape forever.
Of course, only some of the bandits hid in the mountains, and some bandits jumped over the wall and became even more extreme and brutal than before.
In the past, they had to worry about the encirclement and suppression by the government soldiers, and they also had to consider the limit of squeezing the people, so as not to crush the people to death and no one would pay them the annual grain in the coming year.
But now the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is about to attack, and the bandits have no chance of coming, so they break into pieces and plunder the people like crazy.
The people in Yonglin Town were even worse. Landowner Huang Lingquan colluded with the bandits and launched a double plunder against them.
Fortunately, Zhenyuan Escort Agency is here!
Their hard days are finally over!
No, the bandits and the yellow collars started fighting first!
"Master, the search is over!"
The minions came out of the house and piled the things they found on the table.
Some broken silver of different sizes, a few strings of copper coins, two pairs of earrings...
"That's all?" The headmaster frowned slightly: "Have you searched them all?"
"I searched them all, and I pulled off all the earrings from the girls in the house!" the young man replied helplessly.
The boss took a glance and found that the earrings were still stained with blood.
"Huang, it seems you have a secret secret?"
The boss patted Huang Lingquan's face with the back of his knife: "Tell me, where are you hiding all your gold?"
"Master Liang, where do I have any gold?"
Huang Lingquan slapped his thighs and cried: "You don't know how much I spend to support a large family, and the harvest every year..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the boss's wrist raised.
Huang Lingquan felt a chill in his left ear, followed by a severe stinging pain.
One ear fell to the ground, and blood gurgled out, instantly dyeing Huang Qingquan's left shoulder red.
"My ears! My ears..."
Huang Lingquan looked horrified, shouting hysterically and trying to pick off his ears.
But just as he was about to bend down, the machete hit his chest.