The next morning, Chen Haoyuan and his group left without even having breakfast. Since they had already obtained the jewelry, it was not advisable to stay here for a long time. Chen Haoyuan and his group hurried back to Qingfeng Village with the jewelry.
Back in Qingfeng Village, Chen Haoyuan asked Fang Qi to take the jewelry down the mountain and exchange it for silver. Fang Qi took the jewelry to a nearby county, and then found a pawnshop in the city to pawn the jewelry for thousands of taels of silver.
In fact, these jewels were previously given to Li Yong by King Liu Jinrong of Wei, but now that the village needs money, Li Yong has contributed all of them, but Chen Haoyuan said that he will return them to Li Yong when the village becomes rich.
Qingfeng Village now has money. Chen Haoyuan asked Fang Qi to buy some food at the foot of the mountain and come back for the winter. He also bought 60 horses. With these horses, the cavalry team in Qingfeng Village increased to hundreds of people. Gu Ping often brought the cavalry with him. The team goes down the mountain for training.
Chen Haoyuan also organized a team of hundreds of archers. These archers are usually trained by Tang Fei, and Li Yong is responsible for the daily training of the rest.
As for Han Jie, Chen Bingsheng and Shi Lei, they are now Li Yong's deputies, and their main task is to assist Li Yong in completing training.
Spring has arrived, and people in Qingfeng Village are busy growing food again. There are now thousands of people in Qingfeng Village who consume a lot of food every day. In order to eat food, everyone has opened some land in the back mountains.
Now that several groups of bandits near Qingfeng Village have been eliminated, the Qingfeng Village family is the only one within a few hundred miles. Chen Haoyuan no longer wants to do the business of robbing families and homes.
In the past, there were several groups of bandits nearby. Even if you didn't rob a passing caravan, someone else would rob it. But now there is only one family left in Qingfeng Village nearby, so Chen Haoyuan, the village leader, has to say everything. Calculate.
Chen Haoyuan sent people to collect tolls at the foot of the mountain. The tolls collected in Qingfeng Village were relatively small each time. If they collected too much, they would be afraid that others would not dare to walk from here again. In Chen Haoyuan's words, this is called a long stream of water.
Chen Haoyuan gave Fang Qi some more money and asked him to open hotels around Qingfeng Village so that businessmen passing by could have a place to rest. In this way, they could not only make some money but also get some information. .
Not only that, Chen Haoyuan also asked Fang Qi to open a hotel in nearby Taihua County. As for the personnel arrangements in the hotel, Fang Qi selected them in the cottage.
Chen Haoyuan also imitated the Shuibo Liangshan in "Water Margin" and built a gathering hall in Qingfeng Village, and also raised the banner of doing justice for heaven. From now on, what Qingfeng Village will do is to rob the rich and give to the poor on behalf of heaven.
Now that the banner of justice for heaven has been raised, it is time to take action. Chen Haoyuan first asked people to go down the mountain to find out which of the landlords and wealthy people in the area was the most hateful. Chen Haoyuan first wanted to operate on the most hateful one. .
After a period of inquiring, Chen Haoyuan learned that among the wealthy landlords nearby, a rich man named Zhang was the most hateful. It was understood that this rich man named Zhang was a man of evil and bad deeds, and the people in the nearby villages were deeply worried about him. Suffer from it.
Chen Haoyuan also heard that the landlord surnamed Zhang is quite famous in the neighborhood. His family owns thousands of acres of fertile land. Most of these lands were snatched from nearby people. As for the Zhang family's property, they can still have it. Tens of thousands of people, Chen Haoyuan thought after understanding the situation, he would treat Lao Zhang first.
Mr. Zhang is now 40 years old and has about ten wives in his family, but men are always young.
No, today Rich Man Zhang forcibly married a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. The girl's father couldn't repay the loan he borrowed from Rich Man Zhang's family. Rich Man Zhang thought his daughter was pretty good-looking, so he forcibly married her. Returned home and paid off the debt.
It was another day for old cows to eat tender grass. Rich Man Zhang felt happy when he thought of this. At this time, Rich Man Zhang could not wait to come to the little girl's room. He saw the little girl sitting on the bed and crying, so he stepped forward. Coaxed.
The little girl was coaxed by the rich man Zhang to cry more and more. When the rich man saw this, he didn't care so much and directly hit the little girl hard. After struggling for a while, the little girl had no choice but to accept her fate. I can only blame myself for my bad fate.
At this time, the Zhang family's housekeeper suddenly knocked on the door. Mr. Zhang was in high spirits. He immediately became furious when he was interrupted by the housekeeper. Mr. Zhang shouted to the housekeeper outside the door, "What are you knocking on?" He didn't see me. Are you doing something? You don't even have any eyesight.
At this time, the housekeeper standing outside the door said loudly, "I'm sorry, sir, there are bandits coming." When Rich Man Zhang heard that bandits were coming, he immediately stopped what he was doing. Bandits coming is no joke. The rich man Zhang quickly put on his clothes and ran out of the house.
After Rich Man Zhang came out, he asked the housekeeper how many bandits had come? The housekeeper replied that there were five hundred people coming. When the rich man Zhang heard that five hundred people were coming, he immediately became panicked. When did there be so many bandits nearby?
In fact, bandits have come to harass the Zhang family before, but the number was not very large, only 200 at most. The rich man Zhang's family also kept 200 nursing homes in captivity. Seeing that they could not take advantage, the bandits left voluntarily. But this time the bandits came, and there were a total of five hundred people. How could this not make people panic?
At this time, the Zhang Family Courtyard was surrounded by bandits. These bandits were from Qingfeng Village. This time the leader of the village, Chen Haoyuan, also came in person. Along with Chen Haoyuan were Li Yong, Gu Ping, and Shi Lei. Tang Fei and Guo Huaiyi stayed in the village.
The rich man Zhang brought his housekeeper to the front yard. Two hundred nursing staff from the Zhang family were guarding the courtyard at this time. The captain of the nursing home, Wang Dasheng, and the deputy captain Liu Yong, saw the rich man Zhang coming and hurried forward to salute and say hello.
Rich man Zhang asked them how they were doing now. Captain Wang Dasheng replied that there were as many as 500 bandits outside. I'm afraid they can't defend themselves this time, so I'd better hurry up and pack up my things! Upon hearing this, Rich Man Zhang should have already made plans. Thinking of this, Rich Man Zhang quickly asked the housekeeper to notify others to pack their things.
At this time, the people of Qingfeng Village were ready. When Chen Haoyuan gave an order, the people of Qingfeng Village began to attack. The shield bearers rushed to the front to greet the rain of arrows shot from the opposite side. There were more than a dozen archers standing in the Zhang Family Courtyard. From a high place, he was shooting arrows at the people from Qingfeng Village who were rushing up from outside the courtyard wall.
I saw the people from Qingfeng Village rushing to the bottom of the courtyard wall, setting up a ladder on the courtyard wall, and then climbed up the ladder to the courtyard wall and started fighting with the guards inside the courtyard wall. In addition, there were about ten people holding a stick. Big logs kept hitting the gate of the courtyard wall, and more and more bandits rushed into the courtyard wall. The guards of the Zhang family could no longer withstand it.
At this time, Captain Wang Dasheng ran to the backyard and told Rich Man Zhang that there were too many bandits and the brothers could no longer bear it. Rich Man Zhang asked his family to quickly pack some valuable things and take them with him, and then ran away with his family members through the back door. Captain Wang Dasheng Then he ran away with him.
Just hearing a "bang", the door of the Zhang family was finally knocked open. Vice-captain Liu Yong saw that the situation was not good and was about to run away. The other nursing staff of the Zhang family were dead and injured, some fled and some surrendered. In the end, Yong failed to escape and was caught by the people from Qingfeng Village.
After Qingfeng Village captured Zhang's Mansion, they found that Rich Master Zhang and his family had already run away. Even if they wanted to chase him now, it would be too late. Shi Lei couldn't help but scolded the old guy for running very fast. Rich Master Zhang ran away in a hurry. Many treasures were not taken away in time, and the people of Qingfeng Village collected a lot of treasures from Zhang Mansion.
The people from Qingfeng Village also captured a few maids and servants in the Zhang Mansion who had not escaped, including the young daughter-in-law that Mr. Zhang had just married today. The people from Qingfeng Village did not make things difficult for them, and finally released them all.
After the little girl was freed, she hurried back home. When the little girl's mother saw her daughter coming back, she rushed forward and hugged her daughter and cried. The little girl's father asked him how he came back.
The little girl told her father what happened. After hearing this, his father sighed in his heart. Mr. Zhang has done many unethical things to the nearby villagers in recent years. Being robbed by bandits this time is retribution. The most important thing is It's time for the family to be reunited again.
There was a lot of grain piled up in the granary of Zhang Mansion. Chen Haoyuan ordered people to call all the people nearby and said that he wanted to distribute grain to them. When the people heard that the bandits wanted to distribute grain to them, they thought they had heard wrong.
But it's no wonder. I've only heard of bandits robbing the people of their food, but I've never heard of the bandits giving the people food. The people initially went there just to watch the fun.
Chen Haoyuan saw that all the people were almost here, and then asked someone to distribute one hundred kilograms of grain to each household. The people present could not believe their eyes after receiving the grain. The bandits really distributed grain to themselves today. , and each family received a hundred catties. After receiving the food, the people expressed their gratitude to Chen Haoyuan, the leader of the village.
After being captured, Liu Yong surrendered to Qingfeng Village in order to survive. However, according to Chen Haoyuan's understanding, Liu Yong's family usually relied on his identity as the deputy captain of the Zhangjia Nursing Home and preyed on the local people.
Qingfeng Village does not want all kinds of people in Shuibo Liangshan. For people like Liu Yong, Chen Haoyuan directly had people executed in front of the people, which attracted a round of applause from the people around him.
