In the early morning, it reaches the bottom of the mountain. The mountain wind blew by, the grass and trees swayed, and dewdrops, which were rare to see overnight, gathered on the leaves. As the wind danced, they disappeared on the long-drought earth.
A flat open space at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, a group of people were running in circles and shouting something.
When I got closer, I saw that it was Zhang Rui who was running with everyone. The bandits, who had never gotten up so early before, were still a little resentful about getting up, but when they saw Zhang Rui running with them, they instantly felt balanced and comfortable, and they didn't know where to throw their resentment.
Many people don’t understand the need to get up early to run. Zhang Rui explained this.
If you fight in the future, you will defeat the enemy. If they run away, you must catch up and capture them. But if you can't outrun others, then what's the point of taking prisoners? If the enemy is really strong and cannot be defeated, then he must at least be able to escape. This is an important skill to save his life.
Therefore, it is really important to practice running. This is an essential skill for traveling at home and killing people.
Everyone thinks this makes sense.
At this time, they were shouting in unison again: "One, one, one two one, walk together, be brothers, never abandon, never give up."
Excluding those who were on sentry duty at this time, the loud shouts of nearly a hundred people conveyed an exciting mood.
Hormones stimulated the rise of adrenaline. After the three-kilometer morning run, no one fell behind and no one complained of being tired. Some people are even bragging that I think I can run two more miles.
Then someone interrupted: "Two miles is nothing, I think I can run another four miles..."
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Running three kilometers in the morning, Zhang Rui remembers it as the most basic training that future recruits must receive in March. After the morning run, the organization sang the discipline song of the anti-bandit team.
This is really new for newcomers.
Each team separates and sings in unison, one team louder than the other.
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It was a bustling morning, and for the young man who was full of energy and enthusiasm, he didn't feel tired at all, but was just novel and fun.
No, it was just around eight o'clock. As soon as they felt hungry, Zhang Rui asked them to go back for breakfast.
Breakfast, they have never heard of this word. Being able to eat so early was something I couldn't even think about before. They eat morning food, usually after ten o'clock in the morning after finishing farm work, when they are very hungry they can eat the first of two meals a day.
Breakfast is a big pot of fragrant white rice porridge. Each person also gets two meat buns and pickles to accompany the porridge.
"The landlord has never had such a good breakfast like this!"
Someone looked at the breakfast and asked with some disbelief.
"Definitely not. When I went to help, the best thing I saw was just white flour steamed buns and porridge. How could you eat such oily meat buns so early in the morning?"
A team member who had just finished breakfast was eager to bite into the meat buns he had just been assigned. He was wiping the oil dripping from the corners of his mouth to show off his knowledge.
"Brother Six is really nice to us. Even my second elder is reluctant to feed me like this."
"It's true..."
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Many people were silent for a while
At this time, someone said: "I don't know much about this person, but I still understand who is good to me. As long as anyone dares to be unfavorable to Brother Six, I will fight him to the death..."
"Me too…"
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Many people echoed their sentiments
At this moment, someone was watching Liu Musiu, who was serving breakfast to his wife, as if he would go up and kill him without mercy if he dared to do anything unusual.
Liu Muchiu pretended not to care about their gazes, but listening to their chat, he was deeply shocked.
To say that Zhang Rui is here at this moment, one could also say that they are saying this to win Zhang Rui's favor, but Zhang Rui is not here at this moment.
"With such popularity, it seems that the first, second, and fourth masters have little chance of retaking Zhilian Mountain." Liu Muxiu thought in his mind, and then thought to himself.
"Give him some more time, and you won't be able to rebel at the first command. These blind and ignorant guys will rush forward without hesitation!"
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Zhang Rui doesn't know what happened here. He had just delivered breakfast to the team members who were on sentry duty, and also took a look at the specific situation at the sentry point.
In addition to setting up three open sentinels at the sentry points, Zhang Rui also added two additional moving hidden sentry points. If they hadn't known about it from the beginning, almost no one would have discovered the existence of the secret whistle. This adds another layer of protection to the security of the cottage.
After returning to the village, Zhang Rui asked everyone who had eaten to rest well and stop running around. Because the next step is to sort out the troops. Also let everyone consider what kind of arms they want to have.
According to Zhang Rui's classification, the troops are currently divided into sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, archers and scouts.
Currently, there is no compulsory requirement to enter the military branch. As long as the conditions are met, you can enter according to your own conditions.
Military branch, this is a matter that concerns you, so you must consider it seriously. As a result, everyone was thinking, and then discussed with people they knew around them to express their opinions.
While everyone was chatting in confusion, Zhang Rui took Du Mu to each of the family homes in front of Zhilian Mountain to look for money.
Although these bandits are good at robbing houses, their ability to hide money is really not that good.
In just half an hour, the two of them searched the residences of various heads and found banknotes with a face value of fifty thousand taels.
In addition, there are forty-eight gold bars and twenty taels each, with a total weight of 960 taels. There are three hundred and eighty-five silver ingots, weighing twenty taels and one ingot, totaling seven thousand seven hundred taels. The total amount of broken silver is probably more than 500 taels.
With so much money, Zhang Rui felt that his world view was too small. Some people can't believe it, can bandits really make money so easily? The value of this place alone is nearly 200,000 taels of silver, which would be 40 million yuan in RMB!
Du Mu smiled at Zhang Rui's emotion.
"Brother Six, you are so surprised. At first, like you, when I first joined the team, I thought that we commoners could only earn a few dozen taels a year. But in your eyes, these two hundred thousand taels of silver are nothing more than those big salt merchants and grain merchants. merchants, silk and porcelain merchants, profit from one business. Even more.”
"How do you say that?" Zhang Rui asked puzzledly.
"Let's put it this way! Not long after I came in, Li Ba kidnapped a young man from a salt merchant who came to play. He didn't know how much silver he wanted at that time, so he asked me, and I casually said it would be one hundred thousand. Two." Du Mu paused and continued.
"So, Li Ba did what he said. As a result, the salt merchant seemed to be relieved when he heard it. Within a few days, his family brought him a hundred thousand taels of silver notes to redeem him."
"It was at that time that I gained Li Ba's favor. When that young man stayed in the village, I chatted with him and found out that in our opinion, ten thousand taels of silver was a great thing, but they It’s just a matter of a few more cents per kilogram of salt.”
"So, don't these bandit leaders have more than this little money?" Zhang Rui asked.
"It must be more than that. Even a fool like Li Ba knows how to hide money outside, let alone other leaders." Du Mu said happily that a capable person like Zhang Rui still wanted to ask him for advice.
"Oh? You're still hiding money outside! How much is hidden?" Zhang Rui asked Du Mu again as if he didn't know.
"That's it, don't look at Li Ba...? He has... hidden... tens of thousands of taels, right?" Du Mu said and found something was wrong, but looking at Zhang Rui's eyes staring at him, he had to continue.
"It seems you know where Li Ba's money is?" Zhang Rui looked at Du Mu and said
"No...don't...know?" Du Mu said subconsciously, but when he saw Zhang Rui's eyes, he was scared.
"Know or don't know?"
"I know." Du Mu's face was scorched, and he was filled with regret, wishing he could slap himself in the mouth.
At this time, Zhang Rui's voice came again
"Take me to dig it out and give you 20%."
