After Xing Honglang and his party left Gaojiacun, they headed east, passed Heyang County, secretly crossed the Yellow River on a private ferry, entered Shanxi Province, and then headed east quickly. It didn't take long to arrive in Pingyang. Mansion.
Pingyang Prefecture is now Linfen County, with six prefectures and twenty-eight counties. The mansion is connected to Shangdang in the east, Yellow River in the west, Bian and Luo in the south, and Jinyang in the north.
It is a place for many battles.
Pingyang Prefecture is prosperous and has many business travelers. Although it is not as good as Xi'an Prefecture, it is still an excellent place for shipments.
When Xing Honglang came to this place, of course he wanted to do something big. He immediately took out the good goods purchased from Gaojiacun and put them on sale. It didn't take long for the goods to be sold out, and he was filled with gold again. Silver and copper coins.
Now we have to go to Gaojiacun to purchase goods.
Xing Honglang took thirty or forty of his men out of Pingyang Mansion, and planned to return to Gaojia Village. He crossed the Yellow River back to Shaanxi Province, passed through Heyang County, and when he walked to a small village, he suddenly saw On the mountain road ahead, several ordinary people were running towards them in embarrassment.
Some people were running away and shouting: "Run, the thieves are coming, there are many thieves, run quickly..."
The residents of the small village immediately hid in their houses and closed the doors.
The village suddenly became quiet, and only Xing Honglang and her thirty or forty private salt dealers were left.
Xing Honglang: “Now it’s better, it’s become a conspicuous bag.
Before she could finish her self-deprecating sentence, hundreds of thieves rushed out from the front. They were dressed in a mess and looked like a temporary mob. At the head was a big man with a sinister face and a fierce look.
The big man saw the conspicuous Xing Honglang and his party at the first glance.
A woman was riding a horse, followed by thirty or forty men. She was not too poorly dressed, and she looked like someone with some wealth.
The big man grinned widely: "Brothers, come on! This vote will definitely make a lot of money."
Xing Honglang: "Fuck you, how dare you come and rob me.
The subordinate was sweating profusely: "Boss, the gender is wrong."
Xing Honglang glared at him.
The private salt dealers brushed their hands and drew their swords from their sheaths.
Xing Honglang also took out his sword and laughed: "I have been traveling around for many years.
This was the first time I met someone who came up to rob me without saying a word. There are not many good guys in the green forest now, they are just a bunch of bandits with no rules. Brothers, give it to me.
The private salt dealers roared angrily and attacked with swords.
The two sides fought ping-ping-pong until they reached the same point.
The combat effectiveness of the private salt dealers was not comparable to that of a group of improvised rioters. Although there was a slight disparity in the number of soldiers, Xing Honglang and his group had the upper hand. It didn't take long to defeat the rebels. , fled in panic.
"Tch, a bunch of rubbish." Xing Honglang made a contemptuous gesture towards the fleeing thieves, and suddenly discovered that the sleeve of his right hand was completely red, and blood was dripping down.
Huh? injured? When did you suffer it?
The first year of Chongzhen, mid-January.
The population of Gaojia Village has expanded a lot.
More and more refugees are coming to Gaojia Village to make a living.
Chengcheng County Magistrate Liang Shixian certainly knew about this, but he didn't care.
When Li Dao .
Liang Shixian was eager to save the people, so of course he would not stop such a good deed.
So, when a large number of refugees spread the news in the county town that Mr. Li's family in Gaojia Village gave out more porridge than the county town and could keep people full, Liang Shixian was not angry when he heard the news, but was quite relieved.
In the past few months, Liang Shixian has been exhausted from dealing with these refugees. Now that they take the initiative to go to Gaojia Village to eat, it can save Liang Shixian some energy. Why not?
Under such circumstances, it is strange that the number of villagers in Gaojia Village has not changed.
In particular, the number of day laborers in villages has increased dramatically.
Lee Do-hyun kept setting up small plastic houses.
Later, the bamboo forest in the southwest could no longer be placed, so Li Daoxuan had to place a house beside the official road in the southwest. In a blink of an eye, there was no room for it in the southwest either...
Unknowingly, a "satellite village" has formed around Gaojiabao. Gaojia Village, which originally had only 42 small people, has now become a large town with a population of more than a thousand.
Li Daoxuan's field of vision expanded a lot unknowingly. The "Zhongjia Village" where Zhong Guangdao rebelled was now also displayed on the outer shell of the box. There were also a few Zhangjiacun and Lijiacun, not so much. Familiar names appear on the casing as well.
As the population increases, more jobs need to be provided for them. This is a very troublesome thing.
Li Daoxuan did not have that many jobs to provide them. After much deliberation, he finally had only one solution: "Build roads! Use all the extra labor to build roads."
With Gaojia Village as the center, cement roads began to spread to all surrounding villages. Not to mention Zhengjia Village at the beginning, the cement road leading to Wangjia Village is almost ready for traffic, Zhongjia Village, Zhangjia Village, Lijia Village, etc. The construction of cement roads in villages began at the same time.
Within a radius of more than ten miles around Gaojia Village, there are busy construction sites everywhere.
Only then did Li Daoxuan understand why the road under his house had been under construction. Migrant workers needed to live.
There was a lot of cement needed now, and it was inconvenient for Li Daoxuan to go to the construction site to collect wool, so he bought a big bag of cement and took it home. As for the sand, he didn't need to worry about it. The little people could dig the river sand by themselves.
Try to let the little people do whatever they can do by themselves. This can also be regarded as a solution to the problem of workplace problems.
As the area became larger, Li Daoxuan couldn't see more places. His perspective was fixed on Gaojiabao for a long time. He only occasionally visited other places or cut to rain on farmland in other villages. Apart from this, Apart from the two times, he prefers to focus on Gaojiacun to watch.
If something happened occasionally where he couldn't see it, he wouldn't be able to take care of it.
Sometimes he had to lament that even gods could not take care of the common people, let alone that he was just a mortal.
In this case, the importance of vigilante groups becomes even higher. The militia group formed by Cheng Xu now has more than 100 people. The sixty newly recruited people are all from the day laborer village.
After young adults stay in Gaojia Village for a long time and gain trust in their character, they will be favored by Cheng Xu and join the militia. Once they join the militia, they no longer need to work. Not only will they have good food, but they will also receive generous wages. take.
It's just... training every day is quite tiring, and most people can't bear the hardship. After the training, you have to go to the Holy Lady to listen to her talk about some principles of life, and recite it a hundred times: "You are the children of the common people, and you cannot take advantage of the common people.
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