If you kill this group, there will definitely be another group coming. It's better to intimidate these government officials so that they don't dare to come again.
Now there are no officers and soldiers from other places willing to go into the Huanglong Mountain area to suppress bandits. This is obviously a thankless task.
Only the local gentry and the government were fighting against those poles.
So as long as these people are frightened, Han Xi can be stable for a long time.
Han Xi left in a hurry because the spies who had just returned discovered that hundreds of officers and soldiers were fighting with the rebels twenty miles away, so he wanted to go over and see who the heroes were.
Half an hour later.
Han Xi and his party arrived at the battlefield and saw no fighting. They only saw a group of rebels in tattered clothes cleaning the battlefield.
Obviously, in this battle, the rebels repelled the official army, and at this time the rebels were collecting the spoils of war.
In the distance, Gao Yingxiang, who had just experienced a battle, was squatting on the roadside to rest. He suddenly saw hundreds of cavalry approaching and immediately became vigilant. When he saw the cavalry galloping from the opposite side in uniform uniforms and the tall horses.
This made Gao Yingxiang mistakenly think that the cavalry was an official army, so he shouted: "Quick, run to the mountain."
After saying that, Gao Yingxiang also rode towards the mountains on horseback.
As the cavalry approached, the rebels who were picking up their equipment also noticed it. When they heard the leader shouting, they all abandoned the equipment they picked up and ran towards the woods on the mountainside.
Han Xi, who was approaching quickly on horseback, was shocked when he saw the other person running away. However, he soon realized that his group of people were all dressed in cotton-padded jackets, and they were all tall and tall.
Perhaps there was some misunderstanding on the other side. When Han Xi and his party ran to the foot of the mountain, those people had already run into the woods on the mountainside.
Weapons were left all over the ground, which made Han Xi a little speechless. He originally wanted to see what kind of hero he was, but he didn't expect that he was a coward.
This immediately made Han Xi lose interest, but since they were all hanging out in Huanglong Mountain, they would meet each other sooner or later, so he did not catch up, but ordered: "Ten people will pick up all the weapons and vehicles on the ground, and the rest will Responsible for vigilance.”
In the distance, Gao Yingxiang and his party saw that the group of cavalry did not rush into the woods, but instead picked up their trophies there. They couldn't help but feel unlucky. These trophies were obtained by injuring hundreds of brothers.
"I have recorded this grudge against you, King Chuang. Let's go." Gao Yingxiang waved his hand, and the group of people walked sparsely deeper into the forest.
Han Xi and his party didn't see the hero, but they picked up more than a dozen carts of junk.
It was indeed scrap metal, many of the weapons had curled blades, and the spear shafts were still full of woodworms.
At this time, Han Xi was playing with a Ming Army birdgun in his hand. The birdgun was a little heavy to hold, estimated to weigh eight or nine kilograms. However, the barrel of the birdgun in his hand was somewhat deformed and even had knife marks. .
Han Xi thought to himself, these officers and soldiers would not use firecrackers as fire sticks!
The blunderbuss has been deformed and obviously cannot be used. Otherwise, it can be taken back to test the difference between Ming military firearms and imperial firearms.
With the harvest in hand, Han Xi and his party went straight back to Chenjiagou without wandering around.
Although we didn't find much food today, we captured so many weapons that we could equip the Imperial soldiers with some auxiliary weapons.
These imperial soldiers who were summoned came out with only one weapon, which was obviously not enough.
After a few battles, these sabers will probably be cut with curled blades.
Therefore, Han Xi eagerly opened the blacksmith shop, not only for farm tools and tools, but also to equip these imperial soldiers with more weapons.
In the next few decades, Han Xi continued to do business within a radius of twenty miles around Chenjiagou. The magistrate of Yichuan County also knew that a group of horse bandits had appeared in the area near Chenjiagou.
This made the county magistrate very distressed. There were two hundred hectares of cultivated land in that area and the autumn tax was confiscated.
And now if we send the government officials there, no one is willing to go. Even if the hardliners go, these government officials will definitely be careless, wander around, catch a few chickens and then run back.
This made the county magistrate very angry.
Two hundred hectares of cultivated land can collect thousands of taels of silver in taxes. This year, the county magistrate used the money to bribe officials to leave this place full of bandits and rebels.
"Summon all the prominent merchants and merchants in the city tomorrow." The magistrate sitting in the government hall told the chief clerk next to him.
A middle-aged chief clerk with some graying temples stepped forward and whispered: "Do you want these people to collect money to suppress the bandits?"
"Yes! That's indeed what I meant. How can I condone this group of gangsters who are so arrogantly wreaking havoc on the countryside?" the county magistrate said with dignity.
When the chief clerk heard this, he said with admiration on his face: "The county magistrate is righteous!"
Although the chief clerk said this, he was full of contempt in his heart. He probably thought that the taxes on the two hundred hectares of land could not be collected, so he planned to get it back from the wealthy gentry and wealthy households in the county.
But it's rare. When the time comes, he can make a fortune by putting his hands on it. Thinking of this, the chief clerk left the government office in a hurry.
the other side.
Han Xi rarely went out to hang out today. Instead, he rolled up his trousers and helped transplant cabbage. People here don't grow vegetables very much. They only dig wild vegetables for eating, so they don't know what to do with seedlings and transplanting.
There is a layer of cow dung on the cultivated land, which Han Xi made from stones, which can quickly promote the growth of cabbage seedlings.
Ready-made cow dung is not mature fertilizer, so it cannot be used.
Only half an acre was transplanted. Frequent bending and standing up gave Han Xi some backache, so he could only sit on the side of the field.
There were more than 300 people working in the field at this time.
These people were all the refugees who came here after Han Xi became famous during this period, and some farmers from the village who had fled to the next village came back.
Liangshan Village next door, Anning Village, Yangping and other places all came to Chenjiagou to express their willingness to attach themselves.
Han Xi was stunned when he saw the skilled operations of those people, but he quickly thought that in Huanglong Mountain where the ground was full of poles, how could he survive if he was not just a wallflower.
Han Xi accepted the dependence of these people angrily, and in this way, he became the local emperor of a nearby township.
After resting for a while, Han Xi returned with a basket of cabbage sprouts, ready to fry some.
The blacksmith shop is still almost finished, so Han Xi can only ask the carpenter to dig out a long wooden board and then convert it into an iron plate, which can also be used for cooking.
At this time, Han Xi rolled up his trousers and walked barefoot in the fields. He didn't look like a bandit master at all.
"The waterwheel is turning, the waterwheel is turning." A group of children shouted happily in the field.
The adults working in the fields stopped when they heard the sound, and saw the little baby running forward chasing the water in the ditch.
After becoming the local emperor of a township, Han Xi gathered the tools of the entire township and built a two-foot-tall water tanker. Today was the day to load the water tanker.
Seeing this scene, Han Xi smiled, which gave him the illusion of being far away from the troubled world, but this illusion was quickly broken by a horse galloping over.
