Cangwu County has always had robbers, regardless of whether it is true or not, in short, these robbers exist and they can't be wiped out no matter how they are suppressed, plus the sun and the moon are troubled, other seasons are fine, only winter is the worst.

In winter, everything is dormant, the snow is covered with heavy snow, nothing grows in the field, you can also gnaw a grass root bark in spring, summer and autumn, and there is not even these in winter, the villagers live in winter by the little grain they beat in autumn, and the rest of the tax is used to spend the winter.

It's not enough, but it's just to save food, and if the robbers come to rob it, there will be no grains left, and there will be cases of starvation to death.

Therefore, everyone in Cangwu County is grateful to Liu Zhezheng, because his family will build a porridge shed every winter to give porridge, as long as there is a stutter, they can survive this winter, survive the winter, and the family can live until the next winter.

Many villages have even organized their own resistance forces, setting up barricades and fences at the entrance of the villages, and sending young and middle-aged villagers to patrol day and night, but they are not as good as the well-trained robbers, so there is not much food at all.

Fortunately, the robbers did not kill people, but only took food, and the villagers were glad for this.

Fu Moyu considered all aspects of the situation and determined that this was Liu Zhe who was making trouble and snatching the grain, and the people could only eat the porridge and rice he gave alms, so they should be grateful to him and not hurt people's lives, because they were worried that there would be no soldiers under him to send them to death when he rebelled.

For Liu Zhezheng, Fu Moyu sneered at these little Jiujiu, and at the same time, he was also waiting for him, Liu Zhezheng was thoughtful and vicious, this kind of person was the most difficult to deal with.

There is a Yunxia Village under the jurisdiction of Cangwu County, the name is very good, but it is located in a remote area, in the deep mountains, it is precisely because of the deep mountains, the clouds on the mountain side in the morning are steaming, so it was renamed Yunxia Village by a rather romantic county order a few decades ago.

However, Yunxia Village only has a better name, and the others are useless, although it is located in the deep mountains, it can't change their fate of being plundered, just because the terrain on their side is not good enough, and the looted ones are lighter than the villages next to them.

The more this is the case, the more the villagers are like a great enemy, guarding the village like an iron bucket, and there are people on duty day and night, refusing to relax for a moment.

I thought that as the weather became colder and colder, and there was another snowfall, the mountain road became more and more difficult to walk, and the robbers would not come again, after all, the mountain road was slippery and not conducive to horseback riding, and the robbers came from afar, but the villagers were waiting for work at ease and familiar with the terrain, and the robbers could not take advantage of anything.

But this time it was different, for two days in a row, the villagers in charge of patrolling and guarding found that someone was patrolling and snooping at the entrance of the village, and the sneaky appearance was not a good person at first glance.

The whole village was very nervous.

This kind of looting, it is not good to report to the officials in advance, they have long since broken off their thoughts over the years, but what the government said is also reasonable, there are so many officers and soldiers, protect your village, so if other villages should be protected, the officers and soldiers are sent out to protect the village, who will protect the county government?

Liu Zhezheng once made a suggestion, that is, to cancel the establishment of the village level, and everyone lived in a centralized manner to facilitate protection, but the people in the village were reluctant to give up the ancestral inheritance, although it was a poor family, but it was also passed down by the ancestors, right? boundless

What the government said makes sense, and there are one or two people in each village who have studied and can settle accounts, so they will calculate this account to the villagers, "Think about it, we have so many villages, if Lord Liu sends troops to each village, how many soldiers will be needed, it is not enough at all, everyone is Lord Liu's people, he can't favor one over the other, right?" ”

The villagers don't have much culture, and they especially respect people who can read and write, and educated people say this, and everyone believes it.

No one complained that Liu Zhezheng, as a county guard, couldn't protect them, but they all thought about Liu Zhezheng and spoke for him, feeling that it was not easy for him, "Like us ordinary people, he doesn't have four eyes and two mouths, and he has to manage such a large area, we can't embarrass him." ”

Therefore, everyone is used to fighting the robbers by themselves, at most, they will send someone to tell the government when the robbers are gone, and then they will wait to drink the porridge and rice given by Liu Zhezheng, and they will be grateful to Liu Zhezheng, and feel that he is especially concerned about the poor people.

Of course, Yunxia Village is not exempt from vulgarity, hungry and afraid, in the face of robbers, the only thing they can do is to strengthen the defense force to the best of their ability.

The village chief raised his voice and shouted, "Folks, if you work harder, what we can do is to protect ourselves and do our best, and we must not let the bandits rob us of the food for the winter." ”

Everyone nodded their heads frequently and shouted together, "Yes, we must not let the bandits snatch our food for the winter." ”

Although it was a cold winter, the atmosphere was very warm, because of the work, many people simply took off their cotton clothes, deepened the trench with bare arms, and sharpened their bows and arrows.

Only one young man muttered quietly while reinforcing the fence, "Lord Liu is the highest governor in our local area, he should try to protect us, instead of waiting for the food to be robbed and then giving porridge and rice to the big guys." ”

As soon as the words fell, the back of the head had already been slapped by the village chief, and the village chief inspected here, and when he heard this, he immediately became angry, "What nonsense are you talking about, there are so many villages, so many people, and there is only one person in Lord Liu, how can you take care of it?" ”

The village chief was highly respected in the village, and the young people did not dare to speak up again, but they were still not convinced.

On the way home for dinner after finishing the work, I couldn't help but tell a few other young people what I thought, and someone persuaded me: "Forget it, the village chief in our village has the final say, and it's not good now, I have beaten the bandits back twice, and the county has rewarded us." ”

Yunxia Village is everyone is a soldier, regardless of men and women, all those who are over 10 years old and under 60 years old, everyone takes up arms to defend the village in shifts, as long as they see the shadow of the bandits in the distance, the whistle is blown, the villagers on duty immediately rush to the edge of the trench to release arrows, the bandits retreat quickly is good, they are shot and fall into the trench, the trench is buried with sharp wooden thorns, and if they are not shot to death, they will be pierced by the wooden thorns to the heart and lungs and die.

Yunxia Village was eager to promote its experience and let other villages follow suit, but one of Liu Zhezheng's masters said that this practice was also dangerous, and it would be bad if it attracted large-scale retaliation from the bandits.

This sounds very reasonable at first glance, but when I think about it, I don't think it's right, and I don't know where to refute it.