Zhao Congfeng, who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain, received the message from Yang Qingyuan and Xiao Yang Guo, so he led people up the mountain to collect all the bandits' weapons, and tied the hands of the bandits together with ropes.
Because of the number of thieves, they almost didn't even have enough rope, so they also used the rope from Yinlong Village.
Yang Qingyuan handed over the handling of various affairs in the cottage, including the counting of grain and grass, to Zhao Congfeng, and asked Xiao Yang Guo to follow him to learn how to handle affairs. He immediately led people to interrogate several seriously injured leaders in the cottage.
Sure enough, Yang Qingyuan got the clue.
The robbery of grain and grass was not done by Yinlongshan Village. Yinlongshan could only be regarded as an accessory in this robbery, doing some work of cleaning up the remaining soldiers, cleaning the battlefield, and transporting grain.
It was a group of elite black-clad killers who actually defeated the Jizhou Preparatory Army in charge of transporting grain and grass.
The first two people, one of whom was so cold that his true energy was bone-chilling, seemed to have divine help in the heavy snow.
The other person is invulnerable to arrows and cannot be hurt by arrows, and he has reached the peak of his external skills.
They brought a total of thirty elite killers, all of whom were in the realm of Tongmai. Under the leadership of the two, they broke through the defensive formation of the Bei Cao Army and killed the school captain who was responsible for escorting the food and grass.
From the descriptions of these leaders, Yang Qingyuan found the shadow of acquaintances.
The mysterious organization that hides behind An Jia and cooperates with An Jia.
It's just that this organization also has someone who is good at practicing external skills, which is surprising.
This master who is invulnerable to bullets and arrows is very similar to the evil tiger that originally died in Ye Jianhan's hands. There are very few people in the world who can practice the hard skills of outsiders to this point, but their skills will only be higher.
Moreover, the fact that arrows are invulnerable sounds simple, but in fact it is extraordinary.
The dead evil tiger couldn't do this either.
Jizhou's military preparations also use the powerful crossbows of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Generally, the body-protecting aura formed by the explosion of true energy from Yuanhua realm warriors can be blocked thirty steps away.
But Yang Qingyuan has never seen anyone who can block a powerful crossbow with his body through external skills.
I have only heard of two people in rumors in the world. One is the third among the Seven Heroes of Calabash Mountain, and the other is Kong Jian, one of the four great contemporary monks of Shaolin.
Maybe there are one or two such Vajra Gates in the Western Region, but there are definitely not many like them.
After this group of mysterious people helped Tian Hu annihilate Jizhou Beicao's army, they left on their own and gave Tian Hu food worth ten thousand gold.
Yang Qingyuan could not figure out the purpose of this group of people at all. It seemed that they were just here to cause trouble for the court.
As for other detailed matters, no one in the village knew about it. The only person who might have known about it, Tian Hu, was also dead. Yang Qingyuan could only write down the matter and put it aside for the time being to investigate later.
The 150,000 stones of grain that had been looted were left untouched in the Yinlong Mountain stronghold.
In addition, Yang Qingyuan also found 8,000 dan of grain from the village, which was an unexpected surprise.
Let’s count it as the interest on the food during these days in Yinlong Mountain!
Two hours later, the people from Zhending County also arrived and transported 20,000 shi of grain back to Zhending.
The remaining grain was transported to various places in Pingshan County by civilians who followed from Pingshan County under the protection of the city defense army.
The biggest problem in the village is that there are more than 2,000 bandits on the mountain, 90% of them are ordinary minions. They have never killed anyone or done any evil. They are accomplices in group crimes.
Don't think that bandits are all vicious. In fact, this is not the case. Under the current situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Green Forest is not easy to mess with.
In the peaceful and prosperous times, if you were a mountain king obediently, most local officials would not bother to take care of you. If a powerful mountain stronghold went down the mountain to plunder, as long as the damage caused was not large, then the officials with insufficient defense might not come to encircle and suppress you.
After all, those who can be gangsters must be comfortable as gangsters. They will lose some money and food, and the government will levy fewer taxes. The risk of suppressing bandits is too great, and the benefits are too small.
But it is different when it comes to murder. Any murder case that occurs must be registered and filed with the Ministry of Punishment. Now this authority has been transferred to Dali Temple. If the murder case is not solved in time, it must be Report to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for filing.
So when it comes to killing, things go to another level.
In the current green forest, not everyone is qualified to kill. Killing is a symbol of the leader's glory.
Regarding this point, Yang Qingyuan has never understood why the leader would do it himself if others could do it. If that was the case, even if he was caught, he could still push back.
But according to the current rules of Green Forest, killing is an exclusive honor for high-level officials. Anyone who is wiped out will be executed by the leader of the village. It is estimated that none of them will be able to escape.
The situation in Yinlong Mountain is probably the same. Ordinary bandits are no different from the long-term servants of landlords. Everyone drinks porridge and eats wild vegetables every day.
Eating a lot of meat and drinking a lot of wine is the treatment of a leader.
Bandits cannot be beaten to death with a stick. Ordinary bandits are fined with one year of hard labor, and those who have injured or robbed others are fined with three to five years of hard labor.
When he was forced to surrender, Yang Qingyuan once said that he would avoid death by surrendering, but there were also many murderous leaders among those who surrendered.
But now that he has said it, he will not impose the death penalty on the surface. Yang Qingyuan will not do this kind of thing that affects the credibility of the court.
But there are still some explanations after the sentence. For example, the murderer was sentenced to hard labor for fifteen years, and then he was taken to dig mining or build a city wall in the north.
This is what serious criminals do. Not to mention a narrow escape from death, there are still some who are lucky enough to be in the 40s or 60s. They have been working in this kind of place for fifteen consecutive years...you can take a closer look.
Yang Qingyuan was still serving as the Prime Minister of Dali Temple at this time, so he immediately started a public trial in the Shanzhai and held a grievance meeting to denounce the behavior of the Shanzhai's senior officials.
This behavior actually won him the support of most of the lower-level bandits. If it were not for the difficulty of living, ordinary people would not want to be bandits.
Most of the bandits were only sentenced to one year of hard labor, and then those who were registered in their place of origin were sent back to their place of origin. Those who were not registered were registered on the spot. Within one year, they did not enjoy any preferential policies from the court.
Such a result made most of the bandits very happy.
As for those whose hands were stained with blood, Yang Qingyuan had people take them into custody first and bring them back to the county for trial slowly.
Even so, Yang Qingyuan spent two days.
Fortunately, before suppressing the bandits, Yang Qingyuan had already arranged the follow-up relief work. Now that the food is in place, Zhao Jianfeng's ability should not cause any problems.
After two consecutive days of busy work, Yang Qingyuan had time to continue paying attention to Liu Wangshu.
"What have Lady Liu been doing these past two days?"
The six-door detective on the side said, "Nvxia Liu has been outside a cave for the past two days. I wonder what she has been doing?"
"Cave!?"
Yang Qingyuan asked someone to call Li Dongming.
"Are there any strange or special caves here?"
Li Dongming seemed to have thought of something and immediately replied, "There is indeed one!"
"It's near the cliff at the back of Longyin Mountain. The sword on your waist was found in the cave by the previous generation."
Listening to Li Dongming's words, Yang Qingyuan slowly drew out the ancient sword from his waist.
