Even if the people were robbed, the government would usually settle the matter and release them after a few verbal orders and a few hungry meals. The county magistrate was afraid of angering the victims, so they surrounded the county government office.
With more examples like this, the appetite of the victims grew bigger and bigger, and eventually they even got to the point where they kidnapped people to demand money, called their souls to demand their lives, and used all kinds of dirty tricks to get money.
As soon as they came and went, the people of Jiangning were in danger, almost to the point where they dared not dress decently and go out. The bad behavior of these victims finally aroused the dissatisfaction of local martial arts gangs, and fights between the two sides triggered civil unrest in Jianghuai.
At its worst, refugees and civilians were thrown into the river at any time on the Jianghuai River. Their blood flowed thousands of miles across the Red River. The canal transport yamen where Yu De'an was located was occupied by others. Like many officials who depended on the canal transport, he was Forced into exile and fled.
In the past, he could still laugh and talk about the official meal, but now he has become a disheveled disaster victim. He can only go hungry twice in three days. Only then does he understand what it means for the people to live in poverty.
On the way to escape, many people were so hungry that they gnawed tree roots, ate weeds, and ate mice. If they couldn't bear the famine, they could only eat Guanyin soil and be bloated to death.
There is a cruel person who kills a child in the middle of the night and eats the meat. If he really doesn’t want to kill the child, he can only trade with his neighbor and exchange his child for food. If he hadn’t developed good skills in water transportation over the years, he would have been dead long ago. He was chopped to death and thrown into a pot!
The journey was difficult and the days were like years. He thought he would die, but he didn't expect to meet a noble man during his escape!
At this time, it happened that Chao Bingzhong, a son of the Changbai Mountain family, traveled to the country. His arrogance was appreciated by the young master Chao. The two met Sun Daqiao, the accountant of Jinling County Government. After that, the three of them began to support each other and travel around the world.
The three young people were promising and heroic. They felt the disaster in troubled times and could not bear the suffering of the victims. They decided to follow the example of Liu, Guan, and Zhang Taoyuan, and formed a group of refugees who had no enough food to eat. Jin Shuerhui made a living by digging graves, stealing and digging all the way from the south of the Yangtze River to outside the customs.
The previous government was busy pacifying the refugees and dealing with the remnant forces of the Taiping Kingdom, and had no time to worry about civilian tomb robbing. They took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
It's just that you always have to pay back when you go out to hang out.
Yu De'an knew that sooner or later, what they did would be noticed by the previous government. In order to leave a way out for themselves, every time they robbed the gold and silver treasures from the tomb, they would stuff a note with the message "Buddha was born, and the rat fairy gave gold." , distribute it to the nearby people, thereby reaching a tacit understanding with the nearby people.
Some people even suspected that there was an ancient tomb somewhere, and would use the code words that Jin Shuer knew to call Yu De'an and his party.
With their righteousness and wealth, in more than ten years, they have entangled a large number of poor people who believe in the Golden Rat Fairy.
Five years later, the last team of the Taiping Kingdom was wiped out. At this time, the former government finally freed up its hands to clean up the tomb robbing chaos among the people. The Golden Rat Club was the first to be accused, and they began to hunt down the members of the Golden Rat Club among the people.
Chao Bingzhong, Sun Daqiao and Yu De'an realized that the limelight was tightening, and they urgently disbanded their congregations. During the manhunt, they disguised themselves as disaster victims and came to the outside of the customs. They fled to Chaojiazhuang at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
The Chao family knew what the Golden Rat was and refused to let Sun Daqiao and Yu De'an settle here. The two had no choice but to run away from Chaojiazhuang and find another way out.
Before leaving, Chao Bingzhong set up a banquet to entertain the two of them. They were brothers who lived together through life and death, and their relationship was deeper than that of real brothers. Chao Bingzhong exchanged cups with each other without restraint, telling the history of the Chao family and saying There is a Sushen tribe deep in the mountains of the Daxinganling Mountains. The people in the tribe do not have contact with other people. They have been passed down for thousands of years and are still popular. It is said that they guard the treasures of unknown dynasties and generations.
These words, unintentional on the part of the speaker and intentional on the part of the listener, planted seeds in the hearts of Yu De'an and Sun Daqiao, laying the foundation for future trips to the witch coffin.
After the two came out, they found that they knew nothing but digging graves. In the past five years, they had been squandering and the money they had saved was only a bag of silver. It is impossible to build a tomb, and we can only continue to eat the capital accumulated in the past years.
The two of them wasted more than ten years, and even all their money was squandered. When they went out and told people that they were great gods of the Golden Rat Society, no one would believe them.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895, the former dynasty moved its defenses and chaos broke out outside the pass. Yu De'an and Sun Daqiao saw the number of bandits increasing, so they took their remaining money and invested it in the Jindazhai of the great bandit Tang Dianrong of the Guandong region. They officially became bandits in the Guandong region.
Because the two of them had been in the Golden Rat Society, within five years, they had already been appreciated by Tang Dianrong and became the head of the family.
Yu De'an and Sun Daqiao accidentally mentioned to Tang Dianrong the mysterious tribe deep in the Daxingan Mountains. Tang Dianrong felt itchy after hearing the two talk about the unknown treasures and ancestral lines of the previous dynasties, and decided to lead the bandits into the tribe to hunt for treasures.
They made extensive inquiries and relied on secret reports from bandits in the mountains and forests to search, and finally found the Wu Coffin Village deep in the Xing'an Mountains.
