Chapter 75: The development of poisonous dragon
"Captain Xi, are you kidding? There are only two people here." Yang Liusheng on the side was also startled.
"The main force is at the back, and we are the two vanguards." Jin Bo on the side interjected while chewing horse meat.
When Yang Sansong heard from Jin Bo that there was still a large army, his expression improved a little, and he quickly asked: "When will the large army arrive?"
"The fastest, half a month!" Xi Xingchen said casually.
When Yang Sansong heard this, he paused and almost cried in anxiety: "It's really over now."
No wonder the old man Yang Sansong was so anxious, because in Yang Sansong's knowledge, the bandits in Huangfeng Village never did things overnight.
Six bandits died in Yangjia Village. If this news was sent back to Huangfeng Village, the bandits from Huangfeng Village would immediately come to massacre the village, without even considering whether the matter had anything to do with Yangjia Village.
Xi Xingchen said that the main force to suppress the bandits would not arrive for half a month. If by then, grass would have grown on the graves of the villagers in Yangjia Village.
Of course, the premise is if there is a grave.
When Yang Liusheng saw Xi Xingchen and Jin Bo looking nonchalant, he became anxious: "Captain Xi, do you know how many bandits there are in Huangfeng Village?"
"I don't know." Xi Xingchen's words almost choked Yang Liu to death.
Yang Liusheng stretched out two fingers and said excitedly: "Two thousand, there are two thousand bandits in Huangfeng Village."
"So what?" Xi Xingchen munched on the horse meat without even raising his eyelids.
"So what?" Yang Liusheng immediately became excited and spoke politely in a hurry: "Brother, there are only two of you, two of you can fight two thousand people. Do you think you are gods?"
"I didn't say we fought." Xi Xingchen said lightly.
"Then who will fight?" Xi Xingchen's words immediately confused Yang Liusheng.
Xi Xingchen finally stopped eating horse meat. He raised his head, looked at Yang Liusheng with a smile, and winked mischievously.
"You mean I..." Yang Liusheng's eyes were so wide open that he couldn't believe his eyes and ears.
"And them." Xi Xingchen pointed at the villagers of Yangjia Village who were happily eating horse meat.
"How is this possible?" Yang Liusheng and Yang Sansong both felt that Xi Xingchen was crazy.
Are you kidding? Everyone in Wan County knows that the government also suppressed bandits ten years ago. However, an army of several thousand people was defeated by the bandits in Huangfeng Village. As a result, the bandits were not suppressed, but instead increased their arrogance. .
From then on, the bandits in Huangfeng Village were no longer limited to Huangfeng Village, and their scope of activities gradually expanded to surrounding villages and towns. In the past two years, they have become even more arrogant, and they have blatantly traveled in and out of the county.
Even the officers and soldiers couldn't defeat the bandits in Huangfeng Village. Now Xi Xingchen wanted Yang Sansong and the others to fight the bandits themselves. It was obvious that they were going to die.
Xi Xingchen said with a serious expression: "It's really impossible! But Yang Lizheng, Brother Yang, I want to ask you something?"
"Say it!" Yang Sansong and Yang Liusheng said in unison.
"I just want to ask, if you don't fight the bandits, will the bandits let you go?" Xi Xingchen asked.
"No!" Yang Liusheng shook his head.
"If you don't fight the bandits, the bandits won't steal your food?" Xi Xingchen asked again.
"No!" Yang Liusheng shook his head again.
"Then let me ask you again, your parents, brothers, wives and children are about to starve to death. Will the bandits take care of you and give you food?"
"Of course not!" Yang Liusheng said without hesitation.
"That's it." Xi Xingchen spread his hands and said, "If you don't fight the bandits, the whole village will starve to death; if you fight the bandits, even if you can't defeat them, the worst is still death. Anyway, you will die, I can't figure it out. What reason do you have for not fighting the bandits?"
"Relying on us foreigners? To be honest, I'd rather run away."
"But you are different. Your ancestors have lived here for generations. This is your root. The bandits in Huangfeng Village not only want to steal your food, but also your lives and cut off your roots. You are still waiting for outsiders to save you. Do you think Does it fit?"
"Besides, both of us brothers are willing to fight the bandits with our lives, so you don't plan to help us, is that okay?"
Xi Xingchen's words struck in the minds and hearts of Yang Sansong and Yang Liusheng like a drum in the evening and a bell in the morning, deafening and enlightening.
After a moment of silence, Yang Liusheng slapped his thigh and said, "That's right, we're all going to die anyway. It's better to just listen to Xi's arrest and fight with the bandits."
Xi Xingchen looked at Yang Sansong, who let out a long sigh: "What else can we do? Six bandits died in our village. With the way the bandits in Huangfeng Village acted, they will definitely not let our village go. "
At this point, Yang Sansong, an old man who was always submissive in Xi Xingchen's impression, cursed uncharacteristically: "Fuck you! Fuck those sons of bitches in Huangfeng Village."
Yang Liusheng also said excitedly: "If a person dies, his eggs will fall into the sky. If he doesn't die for tens of millions of years, he will be done with it."
Seeing that Yang Sansong and Yang Liusheng had expressed their opinions, Xi Xingchen felt immediately reassured.
Yang Sansong is the leader of Yangjia Village and the clan leader. He has a very high say in the village. Xi Xingchen wants to do something in Yangjia Village. Without Yang Sansong's help, it will be impossible.
Yang Liusheng is the representative of the Young Zhuang Sect in Yangjiacun. Xi Xingchen can see from the fact that Yang Liusheng asked people to kill horses together and arranged for people to bury six bandits, that Yang Liusheng is very prestigious among the young people in Yangjiacun.
Now that both of them have expressed their intention to fight the bandits, half of the purpose of Xi Xingchen's trip has been achieved.
In fact, Xi Xingchen was thinking about a question when he was sent to Wan County by the Mo family elders to bring order to things.
The bandits in Huangfeng Village are so rampant. Is it really because the government has not done enough to suppress them?
Of course there are problems with the government. The common people pay the imperial grain and national taxes for the sake of peace. If the government does not exterminate the bandits in Huangfeng Village, it is dereliction of duty and incompetence.
But if all the responsibility is put on the government, don't the people of Wan County have no responsibility at all?
That's not necessarily the case.
As Yang Sansong said, when the bandits in Huangfeng Village first broke out, the government took the initiative to send troops to clear them out, but they failed.
Moreover, after the failure, they never suppressed the bandits again. This is not a normal phenomenon in itself.
Xi Xingchen is a man who has lived two lives. In his opinion, if the army and the people work together, they will not be able to wipe out even a few bandits, and Xi Xingchen will not believe them even if they kill him.
The reason why the bandits in Huangfeng Village are so rampant now is probably because when the officers and soldiers were suppressing the bandits, the people in Wan County either had the attitude of watching the fire from the other side, or some villagers were afraid of the bandits' revenge and even tipped off the bandits...
All this made the officers and soldiers completely heartbroken after the defeat.
You must know that the county magistrates of Dayan are floating officials, with a term of three years. At the end of the term, they will be promoted or transferred to other counties.
In other words, if the parents and magistrates of Wan County feel that the people of this county are difficult to educate, then those who are relevant will find ways to be promoted, and those who are not relevant will start to be trashed. At worst, they will stay for three years and change places, and they will still be their parents and officials, without any loss.
The situation in Wan County probably belongs to the latter.
It is precisely because of the bottomless connivance of the people of Wan County and the magistrate's mischief and even complicity that the bandits in Huangfeng Village were finally turned into poisonous dragons by them, and now they are finally starting to bite back.
Xi Xingchen was thinking at that time, who could be the person who could bring order to Wan County?
Is it him Xi Xingchen?
Absolutely not.
No matter what kind of onion he is, Xi Xingchen still has this bit of self-awareness.
He Xi Xingchen has no official position, no power, no money, no soldiers and horses, and no family name.
The only thing that counts is having martial arts.
With this martial arts, it might be possible to assassinate Guo Xiaotian, the leader of the bandits in Huangfeng Village, but the fundamental problem has not been solved. After Guo Xiaotian died, there were still Li Xiaotian, Wang Xiaotian, Zhang Xiaotian... He couldn't kill all the bandits.
Is he the new county magistrate?
K. Wu Zhiyuan was almost wiped out by the bandits of Huangfeng Village before he took office. Xi Xingchen could completely believe in Wu Zhiyuan's determination. Wu Zhiyuan spent his family wealth to recruit 500 government officials, which is the best proof.
But you can tell at a glance who the five hundred people are against the two thousand bandits. If the current situation continues, it is still unclear whether Wu Zhiyuan will be able to escape unscathed after he comes to Wan County to take up his post.
After thinking about it, Xi Xingchen felt that the only people who could really bring order to the chaos could only rely on the people of Wan County.
When Xi Xingchen arrived at Yangjia Village and saw the situation of the villagers in Yangjia Village, he became even more confident: he could save them for a while, but not for a lifetime. The only one who could save them was themselves.
The reason why Xi Xingchen asked Jin Bo to kill the six bandits with heavy blows was to force the villagers of Yangjia Village into a corner, and to make the people of Yangjia Village give up all illusions and let them understand: I am not Xi Xingchen who can save them. It’s not reinforcements that are far away, but yourselves.
Only when the people wake up and resist for their own destiny can the bandits in Huangfeng Village be wiped out, and Wan County can truly bring order to the chaos.
The first step to self-rescue is to arouse the people's desire to survive.
Xi Xingchen's method is quite simple and straightforward, just eat.
As long as people are full, they will find ways to survive, just like the current villagers of Yangjia Village.
Yang Liusheng said: "Captain Xi, what should we do next?"
Xi Xingchen said: "After eating the horse meat, you call a few people to go to the surrounding villages to spread the word that there is food in Yangjia Village."
"But we don't have food..." Yang Liusheng was startled when he heard this, and was dumbfounded.
"I will solve the food problem!" Xi Xingchen said. "You can go ahead and notify people and come to Yangjiacun as soon as possible. The more people who come, the better! Also, bandits are rampant in Wan County now. I urge the villagers to bring weapons for self-defense when they come."
"We are all farmers, how can we get weapons?" When Yang Liusheng heard this, his little eyebrows wrinkled again.
Xi Xingchen smiled, picked up a fire stick on the ground, and said, "We really don't have weapons, but we do have hoes for farming, axes for chopping wood, and poles for carrying water, right?"
"We have this! What we rural farmers are most in need of is this!" Yang Liusheng said immediately.
"Then go home and get it. If it doesn't work, you can just do like me and pick up a fire stick and use it as a weapon." Xi Xingchen said.
