Early the next morning, three hundred Liangshan troops went up the mountain under an apricot-yellow banner.
Dongma Village is located more than 60 miles southwest of Shuibo in Liangshan Mountain. The land is fertile. It stands to reason that the people in the village should have enough food and clothing to live and work in peace and contentment. But the scene in the village is not like this. Except for a large house at the head of the village, the rest are mostly thatched huts and earthen houses.
They were all very dilapidated.
Thousands of acres of fertile land in Dongma Village have been owned by the Li family, a big family in the village, for decades. Over the years, the Li family has accumulated countless amounts of money and food.
Li Huai was born in this wealthy family, but despite having enough food and clothing, he was even stingier than his parents, and he was not kind to the tenants in the village.
Most of them will become his slaves.
Li Huai, who is nearly fifty years old, looks at the tall houses around him with reluctance. This big house with three entrances and three exits took several generations of hard work to build. He has added a lot of furnishings over the years, and it has a radius of several hundred.
It is also a rare good house.
If he had no other choice, he would not leave this great house behind and move to the county. In recent years, the world has not been peaceful, and strongmen have appeared everywhere. In the past few years, there were hundreds of bandits in Liangshan, which is more than 60 miles away.
, plundering everywhere. In order to keep his family safe, he had to hire five martial arts masters and train twenty domestic slaves to guard the house. After making a huge promise to the tenants in the village, he could rest easy.
In the past, thousands of acres of fertile farmland in the village were harvested every year. Although it cost a lot to support many people, there was always more money coming in and less money coming out. In the past few months, after the public land management office took away all the land, Li Huai spent a few months and wasted money.
It hurts. This one can't get out. Even if you have millions of dollars, there will be times when they are all spent.
After restless nights, he finally decided to leave a few slaves to guard the courtyard and move his family to Yuncheng County. Then he would not have to worry about Liangshan thieves, nor would he have to spend money to hire martial artists to guard the courtyard, which would save money.
It costs a lot of money to go there. If you buy some shops in the city, you don’t have to worry about sitting back and having nothing.
Having made up his mind, Li Huai said to the housekeeper behind him: "Li Er, send someone to sort out the house in the county and settle the accounts. I will move to the county in a few days."
Li Erdao: "Do you want to stay here forever?"
Li Huai nodded and said: "Now that there are no fields in the countryside, the master lives here and has to support many people to guard against the Liangshan thieves, so he simply moved to the county and bought some properties to live on."
Li Er also grew up in Dongma Village. He was still a little afraid of the county town and asked, "What about this house?"
Li Huai reluctantly looked around the courtyard where he had spent a lot of effort, and said: "This is the ancestral home, so naturally it cannot be sold. Li Er, three generations of your family have served my family, and I feel most at ease with you in this courtyard. I'm going to
I asked you to take a few domestic slaves to stay and look after this yard, and you have to keep an eye on me. After a few years, when the government has wiped out the Liangshan bandits, I will come back."
Hearing this, Li Er also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Don't worry, sir. Even if I risk my life, I still take good care of the house."
With Li Huai gone, he, Li Er, has become the boss in this village. He is old and does not want to go to the county to work hard anymore. It would be best if he can stay and guard the yard. As long as the master moves away all the money and food, the Liangshan thieves will
Then I was no longer interested in Dongma Village.
While the two were talking, a house slave ran in in a panic and said: "Master, what's wrong, a group of people came from the east. They seem to be Liangshan bandits, less than five miles away from the village entrance."
Li Huai did not expect that just as he was about to move out, the Liangshan bandits came first. He quickly ordered people to summon the martial arts guards and domestic slaves to go to the entrance of the village to prepare to resist the bandits. At the same time, he had people banging wooden clappers. The tenants in the village had just returned from the fields.
, hearing the sound of bangles, regardless of their fatigue, they all brought sticks and went to the entrance of the village to resist the bandits.
Li Huai looked at the messy villagers behind him and felt guilty. If there were more bandits from Liangshan, he might not be able to defeat the enemy with just the dozens of domestic slaves armed by his own family and the villagers with hoes and poles. However,
With these hundreds of villagers, the Liangshan thieves would not dare to start a big fight. They would spend some money and food to send them away, and then move their families to the county town without fear of them coming to harass them again.
When the villagers of Dongma Village were blocking the village entrance and panicking, a large apricot-yellow flag had already appeared in the distance.
Outside the entrance of the village they arrived, a large apricot-yellow flag was posted, and three hundred minions were spread out. The first six people rode out into the battle, and the black horse in the middle was a rare horse. They were Chao Yong, Lin Chong, Liu Tang, and Ruan Xiaoqi.
Time Qian, Du Qian.
Chao Yong never thought about hiding his whereabouts. This first battle was to establish Liangshan's reputation as a "man of justice". It was a big fanfare all the way. He was not surprised to see the villagers from East Malaysia blocking the entrance to the village.
He came out of the battle and shouted: "Listen, people of Dongma Village, we Liangshan heroes are here just to do justice for heaven and eliminate harm for the people. Li Huai's family is rich and unkind, and harms the people as slaves. The Liangshan heroes are about to kill him for everyone."
The villagers are going to get rid of the harm. As long as the villagers are not our enemies in Liangshan, the people of Liangshan will definitely not harass the villagers."
Hearing this, Li Huai hurriedly said: "Don't listen to the thieves. Once the thieves enter the village, they will definitely clean up the village. By then it will be too late to resist. I am the Baozheng of this village, and most of you are rural soldiers. Let the thieves enter the village."
, can you afford the crime of killing Baozheng?"
Chao Yong shouted: "Now the leader of Liangshan has been replaced by the King of Tota of Dongxi Village, and the people of Liangshan are no longer plundering bandits, but heroes who act for heaven and eliminate harm for the people. This is the Tokyo 80
Lin Chong, the leopard leader of the Forbidden Army, can hit all over Tokyo with one spear and there are few opponents. Who of you can stop him? All the folks, listen to my words and step aside to avoid being accidentally injured. Chao Yong, my little overlord, promises that as long as everyone
If we don't resist, we Liangshan people will definitely not harm the people. Now that the court is unclear, traitors are in power, and the people are in dire straits, if all the fellow villagers are afraid of persecution by the court, you can follow me up the mountain. Drink a big bowl of wine and eat a big piece of meat. Wouldn't it be happy."
Dongma Village is only a few dozen miles away from Dongxi Village. Chao Gai, the Tota King, still has a good reputation in this countryside. In addition, Chao Yong, the little bully, won the sumo competition in Tai'an Prefecture and distributed all the loot to the poor people in the city.
The reputation of father and son became even better.
"I trust the words of King Chao Tian and his son. Last year, we also heard about Lin Chong, the leader of the 800,000-strong Forbidden Army in Liangshan. Who dares to go against him? Now we are farming for the imperial court. No matter whether the year is good or bad, we are all
There are so many rents and there is no way to make a living, so it is better to go up the mountain and follow King Chao Tian to be a good man." A village man said to his companions and retreated to the roadside.
When the people of Dongma Village saw that the Liangshan people had strong horses and strong weapons, and were armed with bright swords and guns, they were a little frightened at first. When they heard that the 800,000 imperial army commanders from Tokyo were coming, they lost all courage. When they saw someone taking the lead in retreating, they also
All were shaken.
Li Huai knew that if he asked the villagers to retreat, his life would be in danger today, and he did not want to flaunt his official prestige anymore. He hurriedly said: "Folks, you can't believe what the Liangshan thieves say. If you can help me stop the Liangshan thieves, wait until the thieves retreat.
I will give each person one stone of rice, no, two stones."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Your family's food was originally squeezed from the villagers, but now you use their food to make them sell their lives. Folks, listen, after our Liangshan troops defeated the Li family, we will give half of the money and food to everyone."
When the villagers heard what Chao Yong said, who would be willing to work for Li Huai, and the title of the instructor of the 800,000 Forbidden Army was really scary. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of villagers retreated to the roadside.
"Martial Master Wang, you took my monthly salary, how could you escape from the battle?"
However, a martial artist saw that there were many people in Liangshan and all the local soldiers had left, so he wanted to escape among the villagers.
"This is this month's money. I won't do this errand anymore."
When the martial artist saw Li Huai, he took out a silver coin from his arms and threw it to the ground, turned around and ran away.
Seeing that there was no resistance left, Chao Yong said: "Trouble Leader Du to lead people to capture Li Huai alive."
Du Qian was greatly impressed when he saw that Chao Yong made the Dongma village soldiers switch sides with just a few words. He waved his hand and said, "Children, follow me to capture Li Huai."
During the Xining period of the previous dynasty, Wang Anshi implemented the Baojia law in the countryside. Five families were elected as one Bao, and one person from the powerful head household was selected as the chief Bao. Fifty families were selected as one big Bao, one person was selected as the chief Bao, and the ten largest Bao were chosen as the capital.
Bao, choose the one who is obeyed by everyone to be the general Baozheng, and one person will be the deputy. If there are more than two people in the family, one person will be the Bao Ding. During the leisure time, the Bao Ding will be gathered for military training; at night, patrols will be carried out to maintain public order.
Later, it was slowly abolished, leaving only the form of Baojia. On weekdays, it just helped the court transport grain and grass and repair the city.
The Liangshan gangsters usually only rob passing merchants, and they did not dare to offend the village where there were a large number of Baoding. Now seeing the opportunity for prestige, they all rushed forward with a roar.
When the other four martial arts masters saw someone running away, and the Liangshan troops came again fiercely, they all turned around and fled.
When Li Huai saw this, he quickly asked several servants to protect him and fled back.
Although a few foolish and loyal slaves risked their lives to protect each other, they could not overcome the large number of minions in Liangshan. After running only a few steps, they all fell into a pool of blood. Li Huai was also captured alive by Du Qian.
"Fellows, don't leave yet. Now that Li Huai has been arrested, let's break down the Li family's house and capture the Li family alive, regardless of gender, age or child. If there are any charges, I, Liangshan, will definitely eliminate the harm for the people. I also ask all fellow villagers.
Come with us to the Li family, and then open the granary, and half of it will be returned to you."
The villagers heard about this good thing and were afraid that Liangshan's minions would kill people if they didn't comply, so they all followed him to the Li family's house.
Before the young and old of the Li family had time to escape, they were all caught in the trap.
After that, Chao Yong asked the people in the village and the slaves of the Li family to identify the crimes committed by the Li family. Once verified, he defended Tian on the spot. At first, no one dared to speak out, until someone who was ready to follow Chao Yong up the mountain started to speak out.
It was out of control, and there were countless crimes committed by the Li family. Chao Yong had the evildoers of the Li family beheaded on the spot, and the remaining women and children were only given some money to go to their relatives and friends.
After doing justice for the sky, the Li family's money and food were distributed to the people, and the rest was loaded into cars and moved up the mountain. Because the people of Dongma Village were afraid of being arrested by the government, under Chao Yong's instigation, more than half of them followed the Liangshan people to Liangshan.