Chapter 2824: Start to expand
In this way, a multi-pronged approach was taken, and the four finally accumulated Qingyun Village to 1,200 people.
The counterfeit village of this scale is already a huge force.
Because the soldiers stationed nearby in the imperial court, there were only 500 soldiers in one prefecture and ten counties, and there were only 500 soldiers in the first battalion.
And there was still a shortage of half, only 300 soldiers.
The others are young and strong who were temporarily gathered together.
But the good times didn't last long, the first test finally came.
Because the four people saw that the number of people grew and their strength was guaranteed, they finally reached their hands on the salt mine.
The mountain logistics, earthworm bases, and mushroom bases I have worked on before can only be used to maintain population and cannot be exchanged for weapons, armor, silver, or horses.
These food is a bulk material that is difficult to transport secretly for long distances.
But salt is different, it can be transported secretly.
Soon, the private salt business started to flourish.
They secretly sent people down the mountain and went deep into the villages and villages. The salt price was only one-tenth of that of the government. Even so, they still made a profit.
In particular, they can exchange other materials through "equivalents" such as salt to exchange for iron, cloth, coal, etc.
Salt is a very good equivalent in ancient times. First of all, it will not depreciate, and people always need to eat salt.
Secondly, it can be preserved for a long time, and it will be fine if it is preserved for hundreds of years.
In the end, it is small in size and not low in value.
There are these three points that it has surpassed most barter.
It’s just that ordinary people lack the source of salt, so they can’t do it. They usually barter, but they can only rely on common things such as grain and eggs.
A pound of salt, calculated by the official price, can be exchanged for hundreds of kilograms of grain.
The ancients used "salt introduction" very early, that is, the voucher for extracting salt from the official salt field as transaction vouchers and reward certificates.
This is the characteristic of general equivalents.
With the booming private salt business, it finally attracted covetousness.
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There is a big family at the foot of the mountain, whose surname is He and whose name is "Wu Qi". She is known for her generousness. She has made many friends in the martial arts world and is very famous in the county and countryside.
At this moment, seven or eight people were eating wine and meat at He's house.
They are discussing. "Boss, I heard that there is a group of thieves in the mountains nearby." Lao Ba said to He Wuqi. "I heard that it is said that it has attracted a lot of people and started a private salt business." He Wuqi said while eating pork ribs.
"Salt? Where did they get the salt?" The other people's eyes suddenly turned red.
Salt is snow-white silver!
They only know that they can sell the salt by taking it out.
There is no salt that cannot be sold, and it only means that the price is too high. "It is said that they discovered a salt mine in the mountains, and it was very good salt, comparable to the green salt from the east!" Lao Ba said happily. "Damn it, I don't even give the boss a filial piety on his territory. Is there any reason for it?" Lao Qi was immediately angry and embarrassed.
"Okay, okay, they are getting stronger now, much stronger than we were back then." He Wuqi's eyes turned sharply. "Brother, we can use a knife to kill people!" Lao Liu said. "Yes, we must kill them and snatch the salt mine. This is a business for generations!" the other brothers said one after another. "Let me think about it." He Wuqi rolled his eyes and soon had an idea.
He called the butler: "Please show me my post to Mr. Huang in the county and tell them that there are thieves gathering on the mountain and preparing to rebel."
Naturally, he didn't expect that his casual slander would hit the truth.
When someone slanders you "has something", you'd better really "have".
Wen Sheng and the others are really preparing to rebel.
The housekeeper did not go to see him off immediately, but sent someone to ask, and the more he asked, he became more and more shocked.
Then he told He Wuqi the information he had found, and He Wuqi couldn't help but be glad that he didn't do it himself.
But he didn't care much.
After all, more than a thousand bandits are terrible, but they are just terrible.
There are some soldiers in the court.
He hid in the county at most.
More than a thousand bandits can't capture the county town.
Even if he beat him down, he could still escape on a horse.
Soon the housekeeper took He Wuqi's post and entered the county town overnight, and then found Mr. Huang. "Master Huang, my master said there is a group of thieves on Qingyun Mountain." "There are many, and they obviously have extraordinary ambitions and will rebel sooner or later." "Haha, the bandits in the mountains cannot even eat, and they still want to rebel?" Master Huang leaned on the bed, looking at him disdainful.
"Master Huang, these bandits are different from what we see on weekdays. They are not a day to eat." Butler He knelt on the ground and said, "They also know how to accumulate food and know that they can accumulate a lot of food and grass when doing business in the mountains." "If this continues, it will definitely be a disaster for the court." "Oh, in this way, there is indeed a problem." Mr. Huang was getting up, "Get up and talk." "Thank you." After Butler He got up, "For the court and for our comfortable life, we can't control these bandits, and they will definitely get up and cause trouble."
"I'm still selling private salt now, and I will rebel in the future."
"What I mean is that these hateful bandits do not become An An starving mantis, but also want to be a thriving mantis, which is simply hateful!" Mr. Huang was very angry.
A group of untouchables, who didn't starve to death, even dared to go into the mountains to seek survival.
It’s okay to ask for a living, but he still dares to sell private salt and intend to rebel?
Of course he knew that these were all lies.
The real reason is that the other party sells private salt and does not follow his path and does not offer him a confession. What's wrong? "Yes, they just want to rebel, we have to sue the county master." Butler He said quickly. "No, the magistrate cannot take charge of this matter, so he has to sue the governor." Mr. Huang obviously knows it. "Yes, report to the governor." Butler He nodded quickly.
Soon, Mr. Huang ordered someone to take Butler He to report to the Governor's Office.
The reason why Mr. Huang dared to do this is because he also had a cousin who served as the Minister of Rites in the court, a third-rank senior official behind him.
When the governor is outside, he is naturally afraid of the Beijing officials.
The shape is delivered in.
It says:
"Some people gathered to rebel on Qingyun Mountain, and wrote in detail about the scale of those people."
"It is divided into ten chairs, and the four in the front are the leaders."
"The six behind are minions."
"There are miscellaneous fish and errands behind."
"As the roar gathered in the mountains and forests, more and more bandits gathered, and disasters will surely occur in the future."
From the beginning to the end, there was no mention of private salt.
The governor saw the confession.
If it weren't for the person who submitted the letter, there was a minister behind him, he would have been beaten out long ago.
Who is it that messy things can also cause trouble for the master?
Aren't it just some bandits?
It is also worth letting him use the strobe to kill him?
Where does the money come from?
Besides, under his governance, there are so many bandits. Isn’t this embarrassing him?
After seeing it, he didn't care at all.
The direct complaint said: "It's just a group of mountain people who want to survive. When the emperor gets married, they will be pardoned and gone down the mountain."
In his eyes, he believed that these people were mountain people who evade taxes.
Rebellion is impossible.
He didn't take it seriously at all.
The court is not too late to provide disaster relief, so how can we have the time to fight the bandits?
It's just a bunch of bandits, so I don't have to worry about it.
Because it's useless to take care of it.
It appears again next time.
It is better to keep these bandits, as they will digest the hungry people themselves - the strong ones stay, the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled will be treated.
This is also the reason why the court did not kill bandits much - unless it was a mess.
As soon as there is a disaster, new bandits will appear.
This is normal.
…”The letter was submitted, but the governor only took a look and sent us back.”
Mr. Huang was very angry when he heard this.
"These bastards, letting those bandits not kill them, isn't this a problem of raising tigers?"
"What the master said is. A bandit of more than 2,000 people is a huge trouble." Butler He thought to himself, it's not because you and Mr. He don't want the governor to know about the salt mine.
Some people will say that when the governor wipes out the bandits, can he know?
Haha, it was too late at that time.
At this time, Mr. Huang, He Wuqi and others have colluded with local officials and divided them up.
And the governor is just a resigned official, just give one.
But if the governor knew in advance, there would be a lot of things he could do.
For example, sell this salt mine in advance.
They can't do it.
What Mr. Huang thought of was even more serious.
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If these bandits really want to rebel, once they go down the mountain, wouldn’t they steal all the things from Mr. Huang’s house?
Mr. Huang, however, after experiencing bandit rebellion, it is difficult for the county town to protect it.
When he thought of this, he was very angry.
But the problem is that it is useless for him to be angry.
The county magistrate is worse than to be in charge now.
His cousin is far away in the capital and cannot speak here.
It is impossible to interfere with the governor in the area.
The governor is a local official.
The people who can restrain the governor are the inspector and the governor. The former is the imperial envoy, but the official position is low, while the latter is also the imperial envoy, and the official position is high.
The current situation is that the other party doesn't listen to him at all.
However, Mr. Huang was angry.
He had known for a long time that these people from the yamen would not do anything if they could not see the money.
He decided to determine the salt mine and join forces with more people.
So he sent people to the mountain to inquire about information.
The results are unavailable.
They were shocked.
It turns out that most of the thousands of bandits in this mountain were incorporated by the people from Qingyun Village.
This is obviously a large rebel gang.
It is very difficult to get them done.
Fortunately, the other party has a salt mine.
Then they joined forces with the leading figures from several nearby counties. After a quarrel, the two sides started a battle for interests.
It's just ridiculous. These landlords and gentry don't know what modern operation mode or modern organizational mode is.
When they revealed this clue, the relevant information was also passed to the ears of the four people.
After they briefly discussed, they sent dozens of special operation teams.
That night, the He family was stormed by horse bandits.
In the middle of the night, He Wuqi, along with the heads of the old men who were visiting, and the whole He family were arrested.
On the road, He Wuqi and the old man were killed.
Catch all the others on the mountain to do coolies mining.
It's not that they are soft-hearted.
But I don't want to set myself a sign of a brutal bandit from the beginning.
If you really become a bandit, without rules, and there are more and more similar situations, the group will lose cohesion.
Bandits are prone to civil strife.
However, the people they are trying to win are gradually approaching the upper limit.
In the end, it expanded to about 3,000 people.
With these 3,000 core backbones, it is said that they can rebel.
But the four decided to be stable and rebel until the next major disaster.
So they continued to dig deep into the holes and accumulate grain.
This accumulation has passed another three years.
The governor is very satisfied with this state.
Because he had made enough money, he was transferred.
This is how the flow tube is - they naturally have a fear and escape mentality for those difficult things.
I would rather cover it than reveal it.
Unless some people with very strong sense of fame and fortune want to be promoted quickly, they will do big things and difficult things.
But only one of these officials is among hundreds.
However, an accident finally happened to the four of them.
An accident is not a man-made disaster.
It's a natural disaster.
A common epidemic. Cold appeared.
For a moment, patients were everywhere in the village.
One hundred people, more than a dozen sick.
This ratio is very high.
There are two people in the core level who won the bid.
Luckily, their physical fitness has improved.
It was only two days after catching a cold.
But more than 30 people fell ill and more than 10 people died of illness.
Reality is so cruel.
Look at the princes in history, many of them died of illness in their thirties and seventeen or eighteen years old.
The living environment of adult princes is relatively safe, and medical treatment is relatively good.
The same is true for not only the princes, but also for the sons of ministers.
All people die in their thirties.
Otherwise, you should make achievements as soon as possible, because the later you are, the more likely you will die of illness.
Zhou Yu is so powerful that he died of illness in his thirties.
Zhuge Liang was 54 years old, but it was actually pretty good.
No. 1 said: "Damn it, this is the game system that turns us the reverse hang."
"Okay, you forgot that Li Zicheng also entered the city and suffered a plague."
"A large number of soldiers lost their combat effectiveness, which also had a great impact on the final result. Although it was not decisive, it cannot be said to be irrelevant." No. 2 shook his head.
Hearing this, everyone had nothing to say.
This natural disaster was finally overwhelmed.
The four people began to summarize.
Wen Sheng said to them at this time: "We must start expanding now." "If we don't expand, just wait like this, we will be killed." "Round after round of natural disasters, we won't wait for anyone." "Only a large enough base can we survive."
"That's right."
The crowd then stepped up their expansion.
If they don't expand, they will really be ruined.
Sometimes it is like this. Although you can be patient, you can't continue to endure it.
Because the time changes at all times.
Just like an epidemic, a fire, this is an uncontrollable factor.
Then they began to expand rapidly.
The first thing is to send someone down the mountain.
They want to build a new breeding farm at the foot of the mountain.
This requires collusion with big investors.
Only by obtaining the cover of the big business can we avoid the first strike from the government.
(This chapter ends)