While the work of the salt work team was being carried out with great vigor, preparations for the hunting operation to eradicate the large households were also in progress. [Read the latest chapter] Xi Yazhou requested that the sooner the better - there were still many people in the village who were imprisoned for him in Goujiazhuang's private prison. But the executive committee is in no hurry. Anyway, the people in Yanchang Village are not their relatives. Everything must be investigated clearly before talking about it. After two or three days of investigation, the Executive Committee found out that this person was a person whom everyone hated and dogs hated. It is not too much to call him a local tyrant and evil gentry. If we kill him, everyone in the county will be satisfied. Although the wealthy households did not provoke this group of time and space bandits, and at most they only used their banners to cheat, the time travelers urgently needed to show their greatness and integrity and improve their food. So the fate of Gou Dahu was decided.
The direct reason for killing Gou Dahu was his attempt to control the salt field, but the executive committee did not directly hand over the task to the work team. Instead, a separate group was set up to take charge of the matter. The person in charge is Comrade Wu De, who has been dealing with local people for a long time.
Wu De's production team has returned some bachelors. They have nothing to worry about. They go back to pack up their tattered belongings. The long-term workers just go to the masters to resign and that's it. As for the wages, the masters don't dare to say that they won't pay them - everyone knows This group of poor barbarians went to work for Shorthair. If some eye drops were given to Shorthair, no one would be able to take it.
Wu De selected a few of these people, pretended to be hawkers and part-time workers, and went around to inquire about the goings-on in Gou Dahu and the county. He himself was not idle, got in the car and went directly to the county seat.
At the south gate of the county, he met Inspector Fu. This inspector from the Bopu Inspection Department became the only person dissatisfied with the current situation - his yamen was gone, which he could not explain in any case. So these days I have been going in and out of Zhang Youfu's place, begging him to go to Bairentan to negotiate an agreement and return the yamen to him. From now on, the gray income of the inspection department's yamen will be increased to 50%.
Zhang Youfu is such a clever person. He is willing to get involved in such a thing, but he always refuses to go because he is not in good health. Inspector Fu couldn't use force, so he stood guard at the gate of the county town with a frown on his face every day - this was a temporary job assigned to him by Magistrate Wu.
Inspector Fu was shocked when he saw the short-haired leader suddenly arriving. Fortunately, he could handle a few words in official Chinese. After some gesticulations between the two parties, Inspector Fu realized that he was going to see the county magistrate.
The leader of the thief Kun wanted to see the county magistrate, which surprised Inspector Fu. However, he did not dare to neglect and quickly ran to the county government office to report to Wu Daling. Wu Mingjin was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold - these days, he has sent people to the provincial capital to seek transfer, but before the matter was completed, the thieves came to the door. What should we do? If you see her, you will be suspected of being a bandit. If you don't see her, the current state of the county is like that of a naked girl. Not to mention the people in the city are strong, even the government officials have gone to the countryside to collect autumn grain.
He quickly called the master. The master's idea was straightforward. It was not convenient for him to come forward officially. It was better for him to meet as his personal representative and find out what the other party meant. After all, the master is just a personal employee of the county magistrate, so his status is easier to deal with.
Wu De's request was simple: to collect salt lessons and organize tour groups on his behalf. This matter put Master Wang in a bit of trouble. Yanchang Village wanted to organize a group, which was a small matter. There were village heroes almost everywhere in the county. One more and one less is not a problem, and this report is indeed written by the villagers of Yanchang Village. But the Gou family would not be happy about this.
The county knew very well what the Gou family was doing, but the county magistrate generally had nothing to do with such rich people. What's more, in such a small border county, it would be nice if the Gou family didn't openly cause trouble.
Anyone who knows a little bit about the county's conditions can tell that these shorthairs are preparing to snatch the meat from the Gou family's mouth.
The problem is that the county cannot afford to offend either the Gou family or the short-haired ones. In comparison, short-haired dogs are less likely to be offended. After discussing with County Magistrate Wu, Master Wang gave a lively reply:
On the first day of November, the salt class and the silver are paid. Whoever pays the salt first will get it.
The implication is that you should compete fairly and our government will not interfere. Whoever is the champion will get the reward of this salt class. As for organizing the group, if the county has no objection, we can just do it.
After reaching a tacit understanding on this issue, Wu De said goodbye and went back to start preparations for attacking Goujiazhuang.
The person who provided the most information about the Gou family was undoubtedly Zhang Xingjiao, who himself was from Goujiazhuang. But the Executive Committee didn't entirely believe his intelligence - people with vengeance tended to exaggerate or reduce certain contents. Wu De still hopes to understand the basic situation by himself
After sending people around to investigate and inquire, it was found that Goujiazhuang was not actually called Goujiazhuang. Its real name was Damei Village. This Damei Village is located in the Gaoshan Ridge area northwest of Lingao. The Gou family is an outsider in the village, but he is not a simple outsider. He is a remnant after the Japanese rebellion was suppressed in Zhejiang and Fujian - you should not think that the Gou family is the descendant of the Japanese. During the Japanese rebellion in the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese were always the bosses. The Japanese were just wage earners, and they were not very high-level wage earners. They basically went into battle as the vanguard and retreated as the masters of the imperial army. The ancestors of the Gou family were considered leaders after all, so they were not in such a bad situation. His family just escaped, and they also brought many of their comrades with them. When I arrived at this village, I felt that although it was close to the county seat, it was located in a mountainous area and was easy to defend. And close to the seaside. Simply settle down, kill the original landlords and drive them away, and become a landlord in a majestic manner. His power slowly expanded, and he became a vague hegemon in the county, and Damei Village also became Goujiazhuang.
In fact, there are not many fields in the mountain village, and the Gou family only has a hundred acres of land. However, the Gou family is powerful and powerful. Although they have no fame, they have been forced to take advantage of the land outside the village through both hard and soft tactics, and gradually they have nearly a thousand acres of land under their name. In recent years, taxes have become increasingly heavy, and many bankers have taken the initiative to work under his name. Although they are being exploited, they can still make a living.
Basically relying on these fields, the Gou family collected a large amount of rent every year and also made loan sharks at usury, thus accumulating a considerable amount of property. There are more than 200 households in the village, with a population of more than 1,000 men, women, old and young. The village is located on a hillside, which is not dangerous. However, there are many villagers and servants, and most of them are desperate people who have fled from the mainland. A disciple, a bachelor without a family or job. The village is tightly guarded, with a two-layer earthen wall. The outside is where ordinary villagers, villagers, and tenants live, and the inside is where more than a dozen families of the Gou family live. It is guarded by specially raised servants, and no one who is not an acquaintance of the village can enter the inner village.
What's even more awesome is that the Gou family still continues the tradition of pirates from their ancestors. Although they don't do it themselves, they collude with small groups of bandits at sea - they can't catch up with people like Liu Laoxiang, but small groups of pirates There are so many on the sea. Although pirates make a living at sea, they still have to go ashore to get water, steal stolen goods and sell them on the shore, and go ashore to recuperate when they are injured or sick - so no matter how big or small, pirates have to have a home on the shore. The Gou family is such a nest family - but they also have principles: they never sell stolen goods in Lingao. Firstly, the place is small and the purchasing power is not so strong. Secondly, it is to avoid causing trouble and attracting the government. The whereabouts of the stolen goods, according to the information available, all lead to Qiongshan. It is rare for the wealthy Gou family to have business in Qiongshan. The awareness of commodity economy seems to be very strong.
Although Qiongshan is richer and more prosperous than Lingao, it is still just a county in Qiongzhou Prefecture. The Intelligence and Information Group of the Executive Committee concluded that the Gou family's business in Qiongshan was just a window for selling stolen goods to the mainland.
In order to find out the specific situation and defense of Goujiazhuang, Wu De requested to send a professional reconnaissance team to conduct a reconnaissance. Bei Wei is not in Bairen City, but the reconnaissance team he trained has begun to take shape. After Bei Wei's recommendation, Xue Ziliang led the team to carry out this reconnaissance mission - the executive committee received protests from some people, saying that this abc should not be assigned to such a military and national event. Fortunately, he was recommended by a heavyweight military leader like Bei Wei, otherwise he would have been labeled as someone with foreign knowledge and admiration for foreign countries.
For Xue Ziliang, such reconnaissance operations are purely pediatric. However, his attitude is still very correct. After all, this is the first time that the organization has given him full responsibility. He can only do it well and not make mistakes. Ye Mengyan finally got his first real mission. He immediately covered himself with all kinds of personal belongings in his luggage: Jungle BDU, US military individual equipment LC1, genuine and civilian versions, real and fake, all of them were piled on him . For someone like Xue Ziliang, who has been using genuine products for a long time, this half-mixed outfit is amateurish to the extreme. With an 8o helmet on his head and an SKS rifle in his hand, he looks like a South American guerrilla.
"Without so much equipment, our reconnaissance mission is very simple."
Although Xue Ziliang is very unpopular among nationalists, he is very popular in Beiwei's reconnaissance team - capable and capable people can stand out everywhere. He is different from Bei Wei. Although Bei Wei has a solid foundation as a scout, his actual combat experience is zero. Xue Zihao has been around in the Middle East and has carried out many missions with real swords and guns. In terms of combat experience, apart from He Ming, who had fought against Vietnamese imps, I really couldn't find anyone else. Young men who were fond of military affairs were particularly fond of this, so Xue Ziliang would always indulge him and talk about his combat experience and all kinds of interesting anecdotes in the US military. He is sociable and grew up in the United States, so he inherited the American tradition of chattering. Lingao's nightlife was dull and boring, and listening to him talk about mountains and rivers became the only entertainment for the reconnaissance team at night.
"Then what should I bring?" Xiaoye was unwilling to give up. He didn't have a chance to show off this equipment, so why did he bring it in vain?
"Usual equipment is fine." Xue Ziliang knew that other things didn't matter, the key was to find a guide. Damei Village cannot be found on maps printed in the 21st century.
