The Wang family racked their brains and finally adopted the master's plan. They built several porridge sheds in the east of the city and moved out some grain to give porridge to the people.
The common people who had been hungry for several days, when they heard that there was food to eat, regardless of how late it was, rushed to the east of the city and lined up in a long line, waiting for a life-saving bowl of gruel.
All this was planned by the Wang family. Seeing that there was no one around outside the Wang's house, the Wang family's servants who had been prepared for a long time came out of the Wang's house one after another, pushing the carts carrying grain bags out of the house, and then Heading towards the northern suburbs of the city.
There is a manor a few miles north of the county. It is said that the owner of the manor has been away for a long time, and the manor has always been empty. Only two old servants are left to guard here every day.
But no one knows that this manor is actually the property of the Wang family, the largest family in Yuhe County. The reason why the Wang family quietly built a manor here is to hide some shady things here.
There are also many hidden cellars secretly dug in this manor. Even if someone enters the manor, it is not easy to find the entrances to these cellars. Therefore, these cellars became the best place for the Wang family to hide these official grains.
"These mud-legged guys, let me see what tricks you can do. Tomorrow I will order people to open all the Wang family's granaries and let you see if there is any food inside?" Seeing the last grain truck leave smoothly, Wang Daqi said proudly think.
At this moment, Wang Daqi seemed to have seen the desperate expressions of the common people when they saw the empty Wang family granary.
Wang Daqi also has some brains. Otherwise, a son from a second wife would not be able to become the head of the Wang family. Under the leadership of Wang Daqi, the Wang family has successfully established a relationship with the county magistrate. In recent years, the situation has been so prosperous that people in the second house can hold their heads high when walking around the Wang family.
But today, Wang Daqi thought he had done a good job, but in fact, it had already been planned by others. The Wang family was the praying mantis that wanted to catch the cicada, but they didn't know that there was already a yellow bird watching behind them.
The fact that the county magistrate colluded with the Wang family and embezzled grain and silver for disaster relief was deliberately revealed by Zhuge Ying to people from the Flying Eagle Society. Not only that, the Flying Eagle Society also let people mingle among the people, deliberately arousing the people's anger and leading them to inspect the Wang family's granary.
The people, who have been starving for a long time, can't bear it when they hear that the Wang family has food but they don't provide it, and the officials want to take the opportunity to make a fortune? They called their relatives and friends one after another and swarmed towards the Wang family.
Zhuge Ying had long thought that if the Wang family could not bear the pressure, they would move their food. Since there were so many people in the city, moving to the countryside was the wisest choice.
Therefore, the Flying Eagle Association had already sent people to set up ambushes at the four gates of Yuhe County. Once the Wang family left the city, they would follow them quietly to see where they would eventually hide the food.
Speaking of which, the people of the Wang family and the county magistrate were very concerned about this batch of food. After the food arrived at the manor in the northern suburbs of the city, not only did the Wang family send many servants to secretly hide it here, but even the county magistrate also sent some county soldiers to perform tasks. Stationed nearby for the name.
However, this is not too troublesome for the increasingly powerful Flying Eagle Club.
When these county soldiers and Wang family servants woke up, they found themselves and others surrounded. Faced with the sudden appearance of more than a thousand bandits, looking at their ferocious faces and gleaming steel knives, how could they dare to resist. They squatted on the spot one by one, not daring to move, for fear of angering these bandits and losing their lives.
Wang Daqi thought that the secret cellar did not cause trouble to the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society. In front of the shining steel knife, the Wang family's servants quickly revealed the location of the food.
These county soldiers and servants, who were originally here to guard the food, not only did not dare to show any resistance, but also helped the bandits to move the food onto one small car after another, watching the bandits helplessly. Go away with the food.
When Wang Daqi heard that the food had been robbed, he fainted. In addition to the official food given to him by the county magistrate, what was robbed this time was also the food that the Wang family had hoarded over the years.
Wang Daqi, who was finally rescued by his men, couldn't care less about how much the Wang family had lost this time? Instead, he immediately reported the news to the magistrate of Yuhe County. Once the most powerful person in Yuhe County became angry, the Wang family would not be able to bear it.
After the county magistrate heard about this incident, although he hated these bandits and Wang Daqi's incompetence, after all, this matter involved private relief of food, so he did not dare to make any public announcement.
Nowadays, the bandits in Yuhe County are so rampant that it is no longer possible to exterminate them just by relying on the county government officials and soldiers. In desperation, the county magistrate had no choice but to report to the court that bandits had robbed the disaster relief money and food, and hoped that the court would send troops to suppress the bandits.
Zhuge Ying had long expected the decision of the Yuhe County Magistrate. However, the Flying Eagle Club is not taking care of this matter now. According to the efficiency of the Daning court, it will be several months before sending troops here after coordinating everything.
Ye Ying and the leaders of the Feiying congregation still have a lot to do now. Only a small part of the food stolen from the Wang family's secret manor will be kept in the village, and the rest will be given to the people who are about to starve to death.
However, for some unknown reason, the news spread among the people. When they heard that the food used by the imperial court for disaster relief had been stolen by bandits, the people's first reaction was not to hate the bandits, but to curse the government for their actions. There is so much food, but they are not willing to give it to the people.
What happened next completely confirmed this incident and made the people of Yuhe County once again feel that the bandits were more humane than the government.
In the villages of Yuhe County, things like this have often happened in recent days. When the people woke up, they found that there were bags of grain at their doorsteps. Some of the bags even had the words "Daning Disaster Relief" on them. After the initial After being at a loss, the people quickly realized that it was the bandits who were distributing food to them.
After the news spread, people in almost every village in the county closed their doors as soon as it got dark and did not come out to look around even if there was any movement outside. They all expected bandits to release food for them.
However, the people in most villages were not disappointed, and food was secretly placed at the door of their homes. These bandits who put food away seemed to have a very clear understanding of the situation of each household. Those with more people in the family would have more food in difficulty.
In this way, the people of Yuhe County not only had food to survive the famine, but they were even able to store some and use it as seed for re-sowing.
There were bandits distributing food to the people. The news spread quickly in Yuhe County. When the county magistrate heard about it, he was furious and immediately sent soldiers and officers to each village to ask the people to hand over the food. Otherwise, he would be Gang discussion.
The people finally got the food that could save their lives, and now they asked to be handed over, but of course they refused, so conflicts broke out. People in many villages were taken away by the guards to protect the food, and some people even lost their lives in the conflict.
This kind of thing happened in many villages in Yuhe County. The impression of the imperial court in everyone's minds quickly declined. In the hearts of many ordinary people, the image of bandits and officers and soldiers completely changed their positions.
In the end, some large villages were even organized, and the villagers set up food protection teams. Once the officers and soldiers came near the village, the people would either eat all the food in the mountains to avoid being hunted by the officers and soldiers. Or simply confront the officers and soldiers with weapons and defend their life-saving food to the death.
Some radical villages even sent representatives directly to Fuhu Mountain, hoping that a bandit from the Flying Eagle Society would come forward to help them protect their food. Of course, the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society were happy with their success, and they also sent manpower to drive back the officers and soldiers who came to pay the grain several times back to the county seat.
This incident became more and more serious, and there was a tendency for the government to force the people to rebel. Many indignant people simply climbed up Fuhu Mountain and joined the Flying Eagle Society and became bandits.
Seeing that the situation had reached an uncontrollable point, the county magistrate had no choice but to withdraw the order to hand over the grain. They even shamelessly announced that the food was distributed by the government, but at this time their words had completely lost the trust of the people.
Yuhe is currently engaged in vigorous grain grabbing operations, and bandits are also frequently seen in the nearby Heishancaoping counties, making the officials in these two counties extremely nervous.
Under tremendous pressure, the magistrates of the two counties finally made a move to comply with the public sentiment and distributed the disaster relief food stored in the county to the people in the county. Although only a part of the disaster relief food was distributed, at least many people escaped from starvation. The fate of death.
Many people were well aware of the actions of the two county governments, and they began to thank the bandits who made trouble in Yuhe County. It was precisely because of the pressure they exerted that they had a chance to survive this famine.
After this incident, Fuhu Mountain's Flying Eagle Society became known as the "righteous bandits". More and more people who couldn't survive came to Fuhu Mountain and asked to go up the mountain to become bandits.
The Flying Eagle Society bandits went to the three counties to do business, and also received strong support from the people secretly. However, in this way, those wealthy households in these three counties who were rich and unkind would suffer. Which household made shady money, and even where the money and food were hidden, were all reported to the Flying Eagle Society by the common people.
The people of the Flying Eagle Society were not polite to these unkind guys. In addition to leaving some necessary food and belongings with them, most of them were moved to Fuhu Mountain.
Before that, did the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society still have any objections to the distribution of the food stolen from the Wang family to the people during the meeting? But with the actions of robbing the rich during this period, the bandits not only breathed a sigh of relief, but also increased the village's income a lot, and the grievances in their hearts disappeared completely.
After dealing with some unkind rich people today, Fei Ying will let people secretly spread the news, asking all grain merchants in the three counties to restore grain prices to the prices before the disaster, otherwise they will become the target of robbery.
As the news spread, although the grain merchants at the foot of the mountain did not know whether it was true or not, they now did not dare to compete with the Flying Eagle Society, which was in full swing, and they all suppressed grain prices.
After this series of events, in the three counties of Yuhe, Heishan, and Caoping, many fewer people died of starvation due to the disaster, and many families began to invest in post-disaster reconstruction.
However, in this matter, the Fuhu Mountain Flying Eagle Club, although its status in the hearts of the people was at its peak, became a thorn in the side of the three county officials. The magistrates of the three counties jointly submitted a letter saying that banditry was serious and hoped that the imperial court would quickly send troops to suppress the bandits.
In the past two years, the Northern Barbarians did not take the initiative to provoke war. The pressure on the imperial court in Daning was much less, so they began to free up their hands to capture the bandits scattered throughout Daning.
Emperor Liu Gou of the Ming Dynasty heard that bandits were seriously infested in Yuhe, Heishan, and Caoping Mountains, and even robbed the court of disaster relief grain and silver. He immediately issued an order to send troops to the three counties to suppress bandits. This was the biggest event since the establishment of the Flying Eagle Society. The crisis came just like that.
