In all fairness, Yang Tong ridiculed Liu Heimu This is actually the norm for the thieves, but later Yang Tong apologized to Liu Heimu, which is very rare among different bandits, which surprised the rest of the village owners present, and praised Yang Tong for his strength.

In addition to the praise, some people also asked Yang Tong about the purpose of inviting them today.

Yang informed that these people couldn't wait to share a part of the benefits from him, and he didn't delay, and said with a smile: "Recently, my Black Tiger Village has reached some tacit understanding with the caravans passing under the mountain, and I have agreed with them that as long as they are willing to give a part of the goods or convert it into money and rice every time they lead the caravan under the mountain, my Black Tiger Village will not rob them and let them pass...... During these days, more and more caravans accepted this condition, and my Black Tiger Village did not lose anyone, and I got a lot of things one after another, and I gained a lot......"

When the owners of the village heard this, their expressions were different.

Some of them knew about this and were full of envy, and some seemed to be surprised when they heard about it for the first time.

At this time, I listened to Yang Tong continue: "Today, I invite you to come to my Black Tiger Village, just to join hands with you to maintain the tacit understanding between my Black Tiger Village and the past caravans. As for the 'road money' offered by these merchants, we can share the benefits equally, I don't know what your ideas are? ”

Hearing this, Chu Jiao immediately stroked his beard and smiled: "Yang Zhai is righteous, Chu thinks this idea is excellent......

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by another village owner: "What a fart! Does this have anything to do with your Chu Jiao? ”

Hearing this, a young man sitting behind Chu Jiao immediately glared angrily, made a gesture, and scolded in his mouth: "Chen Zu, what are you talking about?!" You try it again?! ”

"How?" The owner of the village, who was called Chen Zu, glared at him, sneered and scolded: "It's not big or small, Chu Jiao, that's how you taught him?" ”

"Ah Yan! Sit down. Chu Jiao still had that honest smile, stretched out his hand to stop the young man behind him, immediately raised the wine bowl, smiled at the owner of the village called Chen Zu and said: "Young man, it is inevitable to be impetuous, there are many offends, Chen Zhai master, please look at my face, don't be surprised." …… I use this bowl of wine to make amends to the lord of Chen Zhai on behalf of my son. ”

Glancing at the young man behind Chu Jiao's body who was full of swerving face but didn't dare to attack, Chen Zu snorted coldly, noncommittal or not.

At this time, Zhao Yu glanced at the young man behind Chu Jiao's body, and asked Guo Dadao in a low voice, "Who is that?" Chu Jiao's son? ”

Guo Da said in a low voice: "It should be Chu Jiao's righteous son, called Chu Yan." It is said that this kid is quite fierce, when the Chu family cottage and another cottage were evil, this kid slaughtered more than a dozen thieves with a sharp blade, which is amazing. ”

Zhao Yu nodded slightly, and then asked: "Since there is such a brave righteous son, Chu Jiao's cottage should be very strong, right?" ”

Guo Da smiled and explained in a low voice: "It should be like this, but the location of their cottage is not good, although it is also located in Yingshan, but it is about sixty or seventy miles southwest of us, about seventy miles northwest of Kunyang County, about seventy miles, there are only a few small villages under the mountain over there, there are almost no passing caravans, and they can't grab many things." ”

"No wonder Chen Zu said that this matter has nothing to do with Chu Jiao's gang......

Suddenly realized, Zhao Yu glanced at Chu Jiao, and suddenly felt that this guy with a simple smile on his face was actually not as witty as he appeared.

At this time, Chu Jiao had also apologized to Chen Zu on behalf of his son Chu Yan, and immediately said to Yang Tong with a smile: "Lord Yang Zhai, Chu is happy to form an alliance with Guizhai. ”

Although Yang Tong also guessed that Chu Jiao had taken a fancy to that benefit, he was still very happy, not to mention that according to Zhao Yu's strategy, Chu Jiao and his gang would gradually rely on him in the future until they were finally recovered by him.

Seeing this, Yang Tong asked the rest of the village owners: "Brother Chu has agreed, what do you think?" ”

More than a dozen village owners glanced at each other a few times, and were about to express their position, when suddenly Chen Zu took the lead in interjecting: "Wait, before Chen Mou makes a statement, Chen Mou wants to ask, how will Yang Zhai master divide the benefits obtained under the mountain?" ”

As soon as they heard this, the owners of the village here pricked up their ears, after all, this issue is indeed extremely critical.

Under the gaze of everyone, Yang Tong said with a smile: "Of course, it is evenly divided, as long as it is willing to form an alliance with my Black Tiger Village, we will treat everyone equally, what is Chen Zhai's idea?" ”

These words surprised all the village owners present, none of them thought that Yang Tong was willing to share the interests equally, even Chen Zu, who was willing to stir up this matter, could not find fault with Yang Tong's words.

As much as Yang Tong gets, Chen Zu can still accept it, after all, the location of the Black Tiger Village is good, and it is just stuck at the intersection of [Runan-Kunyang] and [Xiangcheng-Kunyang], which is the best location among the cottages.

And Chen Zu's cottage is located in the north of the mountain range on the east side of Yingshan Mountain, and he can only grab guns to go back and forth with the caravan of Runan and Kunyang counties on weekdays.

In addition to Yang Tong, Liu Heimu Chen Zu can also accept it, after all, Liu Heimu's cottage is located less than twenty miles southwest of Black Tiger Village, and has the same geographical advantages as Black Tiger Village, but the rest of the village owners, such as Chu Jiao, Chen Zu can't accept it.

At this time, Zhao Yu whispered quietly: "Let him share, let him be a villain." ”

Yang Tong immediately understood, and said with a smile: "That...... How does Chen Zhai feel that it should be divided? ”

After hearing this, Chen Zu glanced around at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "According to the location of each cottage, if everyone here forms an alliance, the lord of Yang Zhai and Chen can get two percent, Liu Heimu can get one percent, and the rest will be divided into fifty percent." ”

Zhao Yu glanced at Chen Zu when he heard this.

I thought that this Chen Zu would divide the land very exaggeratedly, but what I didn't expect was that this guy's land division was quite pertinent.

Zhao Yu thought about it and guessed the reason why Chen Zu was so divided

After all, among the total of fourteen cottages, including the Black Tiger Village, the cottages of Yang Tong, Chen Zu, and Liu Heimu are in the best location, and the remaining eleven cottages, the worst of which are like Chu Jiao's gang, they have not seen a caravan for several months, therefore, Yang Tong, Chen Zu, and Liu Heimu account for the majority, and the rest are divided into fifty percent, there is no problem - as for why Liu Heimu got one percent, it is probably because his cottage was broken by Kunyang officers and soldiers, and the manpower was greatly damaged.

Therefore, in general, Zhao Yu felt that this Chen Zu still made some sense to divide the land, but he was a little greedy.

Sure enough, as Zhao Yu expected, when Chen Zu finished saying that, the pavilion suddenly seemed to explode, and all the cottage owners accused and complained, including Liu Heimu.

And Chen Zu's explanation was exactly what Zhao Yu guessed, although the owners of the cottage were angry, they didn't know how to refute it.

The best mentality is none other than Chu Jiao, who accepted Chen Zu's statement with a smile on his face, and never complained from beginning to end.

Come to think of it, he has nothing to complain about.

In the end, everyone quarreled and came up with a decision: Yang Tong and Chen Zu each got one and a half, Liu Heimu got one percent, and the remaining eleven families divided the remaining sixty percent.

After deciding on this matter, the fourteen cottages formed an alliance for the first time.

By the way, the one that Liu Heimu got was Zhao Yu suggesting that Yang Tong spoke for him, otherwise, Liu Heimu, who suffered heavy losses due to Kunyang officers and soldiers a while ago, may only be on an equal footing with Chu Jiao and others.

In this regard, Liu Heimu was very affectionate, and when the rest of the cottage owners said goodbye one after another, Liu Heimu was the only one who stayed in Heihu Village for one night and drank wine with Yang Tong all night.

In late April, the fourteen bandits in the eastern mountain range of Yingshan reached an agreement and gradually began to change the way they looted the passing caravans, no longer plundering the passing caravans at will, but joined forces to ambush at the foot of the Black Tiger Village Mountain, and collected money from the passing caravans to buy roads.

The alliance of the fourteen cottages, although the benefits of the black tiger village were divided a lot, but the black tiger village's control over the road under the mountain was greatly enhanced, when the fourteen cottages moved three or four hundred thieves to kill together, those passing caravans did not dare to disobey at all, and could only honestly give up a part of the goods, or pay some money.

At Zhao Yu's suggestion, Yang Tong also strictly adhered to a rule: as long as the passing caravans paid the road purchase money, they would not do any harm.

During this period, there was a caravan of as many as fifty carriages and hundreds of guards, and it could only obey in front of these three or four hundred bandits.

Gradually, the reputation of 'Yingshan Tiger Yangtong' gradually spread throughout this area, and the locals gradually heard about this name, and learned that there was a big Kou called Yangtong on the east mountain of Yingshan, which could drive hundreds of bandits.

For a time, Yang Tong's reputation soared, and the local groups of small thieves, or desperate civilians, defected to the Black Tiger Village and took refuge in Yingshan Tiger Yang Tong.

In less than a month, the number of people in the Black Tiger Village has increased from less than 100 to 1670 at once, and there are still people who defect to the cottage every day.

What Zhao Yu said to Yang Tong at the beginning also verified, most of these admiring defectors came to Yang Tong, which made the number of Yang Tong's gang in the Black Tiger Village reach more than half for the first time, although Chen Mo's gang and Wang Qing's gang also felt the crisis and attracted those defectors who went up the mountain, but their number was still difficult to avoid being gradually distanced by Yang Tong's gang, as of early May, Chen Mo's gang and Wang Qing's gang combined, the number of people was not as large as Yang Tong's gang.

And at this moment, the notoriety of Yingshan Tiger Yang Tong also spread from those businessmen who complained and complained about their hardships to the ears of Liu Bi and Liu Zuozhi, the county commanders of Kunyang County.

This Liu county commander was shocked and angry, and ordered the county lieutenant Ma Gai to immediately organize men and go to the crusade.

Suffering from a shortage of manpower, Ma Gai visited Lu Kuang, the president of the Luye Freemasonry, and pleaded with the latter to help.

Considering that Daoying Mountain Tiger Yang Tong and his gang repeatedly looted the caravan of their own chamber of commerce, causing huge losses to many merchants in the chamber of commerce, Lu Kuang convened dozens of merchants to discuss, and finally decided to fund Kunyang County with 200,000 yuan and 1,000 stone of grain, on the condition that Kunyang County must eradicate the thieves on the east side of Yingshan Mountain.

With the help of this money and food, Ma Gai recruited hundreds of village warriors, soldiers and rangers, including the county soldiers of Kunyang County, and finally Ma Gai made up nearly 800 people and went to the Black Tiger Village.