Erwangzhai was very poor, and after Fang Nan sent people to count the seized materials and money, he found that the income of the People's Army in money was only a few dozen taels of silver.

Most of the silver was found in the house where Wang Long and Wang Hu lived, and a small amount of silver was found in the house where the little bandit leader lived, only Wang Long and Wang Hu's wives had one or two pieces of silver jewelry, and the rest were some worthless copper coins.

According to the original population of Erwangzhai, the grain reserves in Erwangzhai supported them for two months at most, and most of the grain was snatched back in the bandits' outing.

If you think about it carefully, the lowest level of thieves like Xiang Erwangzhai really doesn't have much wealth, and the targets of these thieves are also poor people who don't have much wealth, and it's a strange thing to be able to accumulate too much wealth.

The People's Army's encirclement and suppression of Erwangzhai was not a loss-making operation, and the income from money and food was relatively small, but many people were captured, including 73 adult male laborers and 81 adult female laborers.

The adult women in Erwangzhai do not have weak and powerless daughters, most of them are at the level of healthy women, and they can also be used as labor.

These more than 150 laborers were brought back to Hutou Village, unable to participate in other important links, and the hard work of mining and carrying heavy objects could still be handed over to them.

Moreover, the captive bandits are different from the laborers hired by Fang Nan from other villages, the hired laborers need to pay silver, and the daily working time is determined, so they will not let the laborers work desperately, and the captured bandits can be squeezed hard, even if they are tired to death, not many people will be pitied.

The People's Army rested overnight in Erwangzhai, and the next morning, after breakfast, escorted more than 200 prisoners and not much supplies to embark on the return journey.

The supplies seized from Erwangzhai were basically tied to the backs of adult male captives, who mainly walked with their children on their backs, and the main task of the KPA fighters was to watch over the captives and prevent anyone from escaping.

Fortunately, there are fewer elderly people in Erwangzhai, if there are more, there is really no way to arrange, the old man can't walk far, even if he brings it back to Hutou Village, he can't do any work, he can only waste food in vain, and he can't say that he will leave the elderly people in Erwangzhai and let them fend for themselves.

Adult men and adult women are both in the labor force, older children are also half of the labor force, and young children have not yet set a fixed worldview, and they can be re-educated, even if they cannot become talents, they can be ordinary people.

Because they are far away from Erwangzhai, the people who have been living in Erwangzhai, especially women and children, many of them shed tears, and the bandits behaved better, they knew that they didn't have to die, and they were relieved, but there were still people who wanted to escape and were always looking for an opportunity, and the soldiers of the People's Army would not give them this opportunity.

In addition, the bandits have always had doubts in their hearts, after such a long time, they have not been able to see the identity of the soldiers of the People's Army, not like the official army, nor like the bandits, and they don't know which side of the force took a fancy to the Erwangzhai, so that these bandits fell into bad luck, the two kings and most of the small leaders are dead, only they escaped with their lives, and it is expected that life will not be good in the future.

When the team of the People's Army came only half a day to Erwangzhai, when they went back, almost the sun was about to set, the team returned to Lijiazhai, and saw the People's Army escorting the bandits back, the people of Lijiazhai cried with joy, and the people of the whole village took action to cook for the People's Army.

Since the People's Army returned to Lijiazhai, the owner of the village has been saying all kinds of words of thanks to Fang Nan.

"Thanks to the Metropolitan Governor, thanks to the People's Army, from now on, Lijiazhai will not be oppressed by these bandits in Erwangzhai, and it can be regarded as a good life, alas, it has been too difficult for Lijiazhai in recent years."

Regarding the words of the village master, Fang Nan shook his head and replied:

"Where is this going, there is no Erwangzhai, maybe there will be other bandits in the future, and there are more bandits in the mountains than Erwangzhai, and our people's army will try its best to exterminate all the bandits in the mountains.

And we are all mountain people, no matter how good the life in the mountains is, it can't be compared with the outside world, one day our people's army will lead the poor people all over the world to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, so that the people can live a good life, and there will be no bandits at that time. ”

The owner of the village does not know whether the People's Army can overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and his contact with the People's Army is also short, but he feels that the People's Army is many times better than the government, if the People's Army can overthrow the Ming Dynasty, it is a good thing for Li Jiazhai, his age is not young, it is impossible to join the People's Army in person, and he can only wish the People's Army to successfully overthrow the Ming Dynasty in this mountain.

After that, Fang Nan asked the owner of Lijiazhai to take a few people to see the thieves captured by the People's Army, looking for any fish that had slipped through the net, and the owner of the village turned around, but he didn't find the few thieves who impressed him, they should all be dead.

The people of Lijiazhai looked at the bandits with very fierce eyes, and they really wanted to eat the flesh of the bandits and drink the blood of the bandits, or the people of Lijiazhai had this attitude towards all the people who oppressed them, including the landlords and the government, but it was a pity that Lijiazhai was too weak to resist the landlords and the government, so they could only flee into the mountains, unable to resist the bandits, and could only endure the oppression of the bandits.

The lives of ordinary people are too difficult.

The People's Army had a good night's rest in Lijiazhai, and continued to embark on the journey, walking from Hutou Village to Lijiazhai for three days when they came, and when they returned, the team expanded so much that they were afraid that they would have to walk for four or five days, and there were several nights to spend in the mountains and forests, and if they were not careful, there would be bandits who escaped.

"Listen, it's about to fall into the night, whoever dares to run away at night, finds it and kills it directly, even if you can run away, a person in this big mountain, be careful of being eaten by big insects, honestly go back with us, death will definitely not die, we will still take care of you to eat."

Before the arrival of the first night in the wilderness, Fang Nan instructed the soldiers to tell the bandits, if there were any more bandits who wanted to escape, there would be no way.

Soon, the night passed, perhaps those words had an effect, and there was no movement from the bandits at night, and the team continued to advance towards Hutou Village.

After all, it was just some low-level bandits who only dared to bully the poor people, afraid of death, and a few days later the team returned to Hutou Village, and none of the thieves dared to escape.

The population of Hutou Village has been increasing, and the People's Army has brought back more than 200 people, who can live in a squeeze, but new houses will soon be built.

The People's Army exterminated a group of bandits, and the matter spread throughout Hutou Village, and the prestige of the People's Army greatly increased in the hearts of everyone, and unconsciously, most people had a little more expectations for the goal of the People's Army overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.