The cavalry stopped beside the field road and dismounted, and ran quickly towards Han Xi's position. The horses lowered their heads and gnawed on the newly grown grass on the edge of the field.
"General, there is a group of hundreds of people coming this way. They will arrive in half an hour." The cavalryman bowed and reported.
Han Xi was a little surprised. It stands to reason that his reputation has spread throughout the surrounding villages and towns. Several poles around him have already left the original hills. It can be said that they are the only pole in this twenty-mile radius. He originally thought he could have a few days of leisure, but unexpectedly, another pole entered his territory.
"Let the cavalry team assemble, I want to see who the hero is." With that, Han Xi put down the rattan basket and hurried towards the village.
Two quarters of an hour later, more than a hundred cavalrymen jogged out from the village.
After arriving at the entrance of the village, another detective sentry came towards us.
"Report, General, that group of soldiers has gone to Anning Village!" the scout reported on his horse.
Hearing this, Han Xi waved his whip and the horse started to run quickly.
Anning Village is ten miles southeast of Chenjiagou, and you can reach it in a short time by a quick horse.
"Gada Gada~~"
The horses galloped down the dirt road, kicking up a cloud of dust.
It only took a short while to arrive at Anning Village.
Anning Village is a village larger than Chenjiagou. Even if the frost kills the crops this year, no one will leave the village.
Yes, Anning Village is one of the few places nearby where a village has been built into a stockade.
Moreover, Anning Village still had forty hectares of land, and they handed over fifty dan of grain when they joined Han Xi.
It is considered the wealthiest village nearby.
When Han Xi walked through the fields and approached the stockade, he saw a group of people holding knives wandering under the stockade.
Obviously, the ten-foot-high house wall is a problem for this guy who only has a short sword and a pole.
On the pole under the village, they soon noticed the arrival of the cavalry. One of the gangsters shouted: "King Sweeper, look at that. It seems to be the cavalry of the official army."
The gangster's words immediately stunned everyone.
"What a panic! There aren't many of them, brothers, don't be afraid." A burly man riding a short horse shouted.
This person is Gao Yingxiang, the King of Sweepers, who is coming to join Ansai.
In Ansai and Yan'an areas, the most famous person at this time was Gao Yingxiang.
Han Xi didn't understand what the reason was, and he didn't know how the thieves ranked themselves based on seniority. Anyway, the thieves were very particular about this.
Now there are thieves in Yan'an Prefecture, and the nominally recognized eldest brother is Wang Jiayin from Fugu County on the border of Yulinwei.
Han Xi looked at the poles gathered together and pressed Xiaojian wooden sticks against the outside, and knew that there were fleeing officers and soldiers in this group of poles. He didn't charge directly. The horse was pulled to a stop a hundred steps away. At this distance, the horse could rush over in an instant.
Han Xi looked at the people on horseback and said, "Which mountain top are you from? Don't you know this is my territory?"
The Sweeping King looked a little stunned when he heard that Han Xi spoke in a tone similar to that of his colleagues. Then he looked closely at the uniforms of the cavalry on the opposite side, looking a little confused.
"Aren't you officers and soldiers?" the sweeping king asked tentatively.
"Officers and soldiers? If they were officers and soldiers, would they still be talking nonsense with you?" Han Xi said expressionlessly. This was not the first time that they were mistaken for officers and soldiers. Who made them look so serious? Could it be that he wanted to destroy all the empires? Will the soldiers' clothes be replaced by rags?
"Hahaha! Sorry, I didn't know this was my brother's territory. We have run out of food, so we want to borrow some food to go to Yan'an." The sweeping king suddenly laughed and said with his hands.
"Borrow food? Hahaha! We don't have weapons yet! Do you want to borrow it or not?" Han Xi said with a smile.
When the sweeping king across from him saw this, his face instantly dropped. He knew that it was impossible to get it for nothing. He knew from the first glance that he was not easy to mess with.
"Hehehehe! I'm kidding. Weapons are just for food. I won't take advantage of you. There are some silver coins and jewelry here. Let's see how much food we can exchange for them." The Sweeper King waved his hand.
Suddenly a box was carried up.
The box was opened, and inside was a box full of silver, jewelry, and jewelry.
After just one glance, Han Xi lost interest. This thing was inedible. Could it be used to hit people?
"It's better to keep these things for yourself! If you want food, just trade it with horses." Han Xi said.
Although the horses under these poles are a little thinner.
However, it may not be enough to spend some money to feed it for a month to become a war horse, but it is enough to serve as an auxiliary horse.
When the Sweeping King heard this, he frowned. It took him a lot of effort to find these dozen horses.
"Have you thought about it? If you don't want to change, we won't force it. Just leave here quickly." Han Xi said again.
The Sweeping King was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Okay, but the food cannot be less than one hundred dan, and half of it must be wheat."
Han Xi shook his head and said with a smile: "Hahaha! You are just a horse, but you still want a hundred stones? At most fifty stones, I can give you all the wheat."
"Eighty stones, no less!" The horse that the Sweeping King finally got back will naturally not be sold at a low price.
Han Xi and the Sweeping King talked back and forth for a while, and finally exchanged seventy shi of grain for thirteen horses, about fifteen taels each.
The deal was settled and the atmosphere on the court relaxed a bit.
Han Xi approached the village and asked the people on the wall to open the gate.
"Old village leader, should we open it or not?" the young man approached an old man and asked.
The old man frowned deeply, sighed at last, waved and led a few people down to open the door, and at the same time told everyone not to relax their vigilance.
After a while, the old man went out to the village gate and saw Han Xi. He immediately said with a smile on his face: "I wonder what the general's instructions are?"
"Push fifty stones of wheat and twenty stones of miscellaneous grains." Han Xi said directly without any nonsense.
"This!" The old man felt a little bitter. It seemed that he could no longer keep the food that he had planned to pay taxes on.
There are 40 hectares of land in Anning Village, and one acre of land requires about one dou of grain.
Therefore, there were four hundred shi of food left in the village.
Because Han Xi was born out of nowhere, the old man had no choice but to pay fifty dan of food protection fee, and then asked the villagers to tighten their belts and collect fifty dan of food.
As for the four hundred shi of grain, they still have to be kept by the government!
I just don’t know why the government hasn’t come to collect taxes.
Now that the Han family needs another seventy shi of food, the old man is a little worried. He wonders how many old people will starve to death this year.
Seeing the sad look on old man Han Xi's face, he said coldly: "Why, there's no food for seventy shi?"
"Yes, yes, I'll have someone pull him out right now." The old man said hurriedly.
"Okay, pull it out quickly. If you don't take the money from your village for nothing, tomorrow you will take people to Chenjiagou to bring ten carts of cabbage back." Han Xi said.
When he heard about the ten carts of cabbage, the old man said quickly: "Thank you, General, for the reward. Thank you, General, for the reward."
Seeing this, Han Xi waved his hand, signaling the old man to have someone pull out the food.
the other side.
Several leaders of the bandits also gathered together, discussing something in low voices.
"King Sweeper, do we just need to give the horse to that group?"
