Luo Zhixue also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that the potential danger of the Earth-turning Dragon had been solved.
This earth-turning dragon is a potential threat. Who knows if he will attract other thieves after he escapes because he is unwilling to fail, or he will simply tip off the army.
Now that the earth-turning dragon is finished, Luo Zhixue is a little relieved.
However, Luo Zhixue still feels that he needs to keep a low profile as much as possible.
For this reason, he suggested to Sun Chengli: "In the short term, we should not send people to the surrounding villages, especially the villages on the edge of the mountains. This will easily expose our presence and attract the attention of the officers and soldiers." Advance and suppress!"
Sun Chengcheng said: "Brother Luo is still thoughtful. I will tell you to go down and let the brothers calm down!"
"As long as we don't run out of the mountains and cause trouble, I guess those officers and soldiers have no interest in running into the mountains."
Luo Zhixue said: "What the general said is true. Bandits are everywhere now, and most of the officers and soldiers can only defend the city. They can't even defeat the bandits outside, so naturally they won't go into the mountains to suppress the bandits."
Funiu Mountain is not an ordinary place. This place is actually deep in the mountains. Although there are not many people living inside the mountains, most of them are mountain people who have fled from the outside to seek for a living.
Even in the relatively gentle hilly areas on the edge of Funiu Mountain, near Lushan County and Nanzhao County, many villages actually have little contact with the outside world, and many of them are hidden households.
In this troubled time, the local administrative agencies of the Ming Dynasty simply did not have the ability to extend their tentacles to remote mountainous areas like Funiu Mountain.
In fact, their control over densely populated plain areas is very weak, and most of the time they can only huddle in county towns and other cities.
If the Ming Dynasty had not had weak control over the local area, it would not have been possible for so many bandits to escape.
The entire Funiu Mountain has few connections with the outside world, and Sanshui Village, located deep in the Funiu Mountain, is almost insulated from the outside world.
The connection between Sanshui Village and the outside world is nothing more than a rugged mountain road. As long as this mountain road is blocked, it is equivalent to completely blocking the connection between Sanshui Village and the outside world.
As long as Sanshui Village does not take the initiative to send people to contact the outside world, it is estimated that no one will cross the mountains and run to Sanshui Village in normal times. Even if there are, it will be the nearby mountain people who will die.
But the problem is that the surrounding mountain people already know that Sanshui Village has been occupied by a group of bandits before. Now it is too late to hide from Sanshui Village, so how can they come to Sanshui Village again.
Luo Zhixue estimated that based on the current situation, coupled with the local traffic level and contemporary communication level, as long as they keep a low profile, they should not attract the attention of the officers and soldiers outside the mountain.
To put it bluntly, even if the officers and soldiers knew that there were hundreds of bandits in Funiu Mountain, as long as these rebels like Luo Zhixue and others did not cause any big trouble, the officers and soldiers would not bother to pay attention to them.
This is the advantage of hiding in a remote place.
Low profile!
But since he talked about keeping a low profile, Sun Chengli was a little worried: "But Brother Luo, although our food is not good now, we can't just go out and get in. If there is no income, I'm afraid it won't be winter yet. We will have to run out of food."
Luo Zhixue said: "Don't worry, General. We can save some food and eat it until early winter. It will be no problem, and by that time our food will have already been harvested."
"I have made an inventory in the past two days. Although our Sanshui Village is not too big and the terrain in the valley is not too flat, it is irrigated by streams flowing from the mountains. The land here is not bad. Before The mountain people have reclaimed a lot of land, and Dilong and the others have not abandoned this land after they took over here. As long as we cultivate it properly, this land will be enough to supply our food rations."
But Sun Chengli was still worried: "That's just me. What I mean, Old Sun, is that we are cultivating here, and we need to recruit troops. If we recruit people later, we will need more food."
After hearing this, Luo Zhixue raised his head and glanced at Sun Chengli. Luo Zhixue did not expect that Sun Chengli had such ambitions. His thoughts on military expansion and rebellion were no less than his own.
Originally, he thought that after Sun Chengli came to Sanshui Village, he would want to enjoy it here. For this reason, Luo Zhixue had already made plans to let Sun Chengli enjoy it while he worked hard to expand his troops.
But I didn't expect that Sun Chengli was quite ambitious. They had just occupied Sanshui Village yesterday, and they were already considering recruiting troops and were worried about food shortages after recruiting troops.
After thinking for a while, Luo Zhixue said: "The general's foresight really impresses Zhixue. We will recruit troops later. If there are too many people to recruit troops, the current food reserves will naturally not be enough!"
"But in the future, we can also send people to the surrounding villages to collect grain and tax to solve the problem of food shortage."
There was no problem with what Luo Zhixue said before, but he could also understand the grain collection later, but the tax collection made Sun Chengli a little confused: "I know about the grain collection, Old Sun, but instead of going to those farms outside the mountains? Instead, we collected it from nearby villages. Tax?"
Sun Chengcheng couldn't help but be confused. He used to suppress bandits a lot when he was an officer and soldier. Now he has been a rebel bandit for several months. He has a lot of experience. He has also seen countless officers, soldiers and bandits going around collecting food, or Simply burning, killing and looting.
But he had never seen a group of rebels occupying a place and collecting taxes.
To be precise, I have never seen any successful examples!
Sun Chengli is well-informed. He naturally knows that in the past few years, many bandits have occupied a territory and tried to establish rule and collect taxes under various names.
But these people are basically surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers... and they are often killed very quickly.
Because for the officers and soldiers, it is difficult to fight the bandits running around, but if the thieves occupy a certain prefecture and become bandits, it is easy to deal with them. They can just mobilize the soldiers to kill them and that's it.
Therefore, the rebel thieves who are still alive and kicking these days, regardless of whether they are refugee thieves or rebel thieves such as rebels, their survival routines are actually the same.
That is to continuously attack farms and even cities where food is available, plunder the food and eat it for a period of time, and at the same time recruit troops and horses to increase strength.
Then attack the next farm or even the city.
Basically, it is a routine of attacking cities, grabbing food, and holding hostages, and it expands rapidly like a snowball.
Nowadays, the bandits in Shaanxi, Henan, Jinchu and other places, who can number tens of thousands at every turn, basically started like this.
Let’s not talk about other advantages or disadvantages, but their development model gives officers and soldiers a very headache, because these people are rogues and are in constant flow, and the core elite backbone among them is particularly powerful.
Even if officers and soldiers deploy a large number of troops to encircle and suppress, they often have little effect. At least it is very difficult to capture the elite backbone of the rebel army.
But, he has never seen someone who occupies a place and collects taxes and can withstand the encirclement and suppression by the army.
As an officer and soldier, he still understands the thoughts of those officers and soldiers, or senior officials.
Their attitude towards thieves is to turn a blind eye. As long as they drive away the thieves and stop wandering in their own jurisdiction, the officials usually don't bother to care about where these thieves end up.
But he would often be ruthless against the bandits under his nose, especially those who used grain and tax collection under some pretense.
Sun Chengcheng's original idea was to send people out to Lushan County or Nanzhao County to find a few large farms, rob them of food, and then leave.
Of course, several nearby villages will not let go when the time comes.
However, Luo Zhixue's words did not mean that the food from nearby villages would be collected directly at that time, but the term "grain collection and tax collection" was used.
Although Luo Zhixue didn't say it explicitly, Sun Chengli still understood that what Luo Zhixue meant was that he wanted to establish a foundation here and become a sitting bandit!
Instead of just grabbing a wave and leaving like before.
As a result, Sun Chengli was worried that officers and soldiers would come to his door.
Luo Zhixue also saw the worry shown by Sun Chengli, and immediately said: "No matter what, the food will definitely be collected by then, no matter in what name, as for attracting officers and soldiers to suppress, we will act according to the situation. If we just come, Just a few miscellaneous soldiers, just keep them out of the mountain. If the officers and soldiers come to attack in large numbers, we will just pack up our belongings and go west."
Hearing what Luo Zhixue said, Sun Chengli breathed a sigh of relief.
He thought that Mr. Luo, whom he valued a lot, was out of his mind and wanted to play the trick of sitting bandits.
It's not fun to sit on the bandits, at least not for now. If a large group of officers and soldiers really come to attack, these dozens of them will be dead sooner or later.
But now, he is relieved.
It seems that Mr. Luo is still a person who knows the importance of things and will go west when he knows that something cannot be done.
He immediately said: "Brother Luo, you can give this idea a try. Since we want to cultivate and recuperate here, we can't leave in ten days and a half. We have to wait at least until after the autumn harvest. During this period, we will keep a low profile. For some, wait until the grain is harvested after the autumn harvest and then we’ll see how things go.”
"If the reaction of the officers and soldiers is not big, then we will stay here for a while to see the limelight. If the officers and soldiers are attracted, then we will go directly westward."
"There is always a way for us to survive in this mountain."
Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue decided to keep a low profile for a while, so this group of people had no intention of going out to the mountains to plunder the plain terrain, and instead began to cultivate their health in the true sense.
While they were repairing the camp and building peripheral checkpoints, they also arranged for manpower to continue cultivating the original land, trying to continue to open up wasteland and grow more food.
At the same time, you need to repair weapons, armor and stomach, sew clothes, feed mules and horses, etc.
Most of these miscellaneous things actually fell on Luo Zhixue, who was the military advisor in charge of the camp's supplies and the only one in the group who could read and keep accounts.
Everything else was fine, but the repair of the weapon's stomach stumped Luo Zhixue!
Because there is no blacksmith in their group!
