Chapter 117: Parting Ways

Before Cheng Yanjin had time to catch his breath when he returned to Changbai Mountain, messengers sent by various forces came to visit one after another. There are those who listen to the tone, those who come up to tie up, and those who want to form alliances, etc., and so on.

Finally coaxed and deceived those guys with ghosts in their hearts, Cheng Yanjin was planning to arrange various important things of the Heroes Club in the past few days, and Zhaimen came to report, saying that there were many people who came to join the Heroes Club.

Cheng bit his eyes and knew that among these people who came to join, there were many other plotters, and if he took them in, he was afraid that he would suffer in the future. However, refusing to join these people is also extremely detrimental to the reputation and future development of the Hero Society. Thinking about it, Cheng Yanjin simply accepted all these people and took this opportunity to make a drastic adaptation of the Hero Club.

Cheng Yanjin selected 800 martial arts masters in the Heroes Club, led by the Tang brothers alone. Most of these people are originally members of the Salt Gang, and they are extremely loyal and reliable. Cheng Yanjin asked the Tang brothers to lead these horses back to their mansion and station, firstly, to protect the old lady nearby, and secondly, to separate this group of people in case of emergency.

Since Cheng Yanjin led the people and horses to fall into the grass in Changbai Mountain, there have been some martial arts masters in his home to guard, and Cheng Yanjin's order to these people is that once the government comes to the door, these martial arts masters will protect the old lady and escape, so as not to be beheaded like Dou Jiande.

Although he said that he knew that there was no official government now, he didn't dare to expect those officials who collected a large amount of gold and silver from him every year to keep a blind eye like this, and now that the old lady was too old to run around.

Just in case, Cheng Yanjin sent all these horses back, so that if the team of thousands of people in the local government dared to attack, he would definitely have no return. Unless the government launched tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack, it would be possible to break through the defenses of the Cheng Mansion.

However, if you want to come to the government, it is impossible to dispatch tens of thousands of soldiers and horses just for your wife. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the government dispatches tens of thousands of horses, Cheng Biting Jin is not afraid, Cheng Biting Jin has sent back all the fierce gods and evil spirits who originally belonged to the 'Sunset Return', with these god-killing skills, they can also kill a bloody way from tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and bring the old lady out safely.

With these loyal martial arts masters properly arranged, Cheng Yanjin's long-standing worries were also put down. The safety of the old lady is guaranteed, and he can also let go and do a big job outside. What's more, if you separate those loyal people from the Heroes' Society, you will have a lot less scruples when you act with these ulterior motives of the Heroes' Association in the future. To put it mildly, even if these guys were killed by officers and soldiers, Cheng Yanjin refused to shed a single tear.

Recruit all those people who came here, and Cheng Bitingjin's heroes will immediately grow a lot, and the number of people will break through the 30,000 mark. It's just that Cheng Yanjin knows very well in his heart that although these 30,000 people seem to be a lot, there is still a big gap compared to other forces that have fallen grass, not to mention, these people have not experienced the baptism of war, and it is still worth discussing how much combat power they can have.

Because most of the martial arts masters sent back by Cheng Yanjin were originally small leaders of the Heroes Association, as soon as these people left, the Heroes Association, which was originally in order, was a little messy. In order to solve this drawback and restore the team's combat effectiveness, Cheng Yanjin selected a group of soldiers from the team who performed well in the battle of Douzihang to serve as commanders at all levels.

At the same time, Cheng Yanjin also set the cavalry of the Wind Department as his own personal troops, in addition to the original manpower, Cheng Yanjin mobilized a group of martial arts masters from the other three tribes to enrich the Wind Department, and then selected a group of masters who stepped into the martial arts from the newly joined soldiers to replace those ordinary masters.

After this major adjustment, the number of people in the entire Wind Department has not only expanded to more than 1,500 people, but all of these people are martial arts masters, as for how many of them are sincere to take refuge, and how many have other purposes, it is unknown.

Just when Cheng Yanjin was busy reorganizing these horses under his hands, Du Fuwei found him. As soon as the two talked, Cheng Yanjin realized that Du Fuwei had nothing to do in the past two days, and he was extremely bored, occasionally walking around the cottage, and seeing that Cheng Yanjin was thriving and thriving here, his mind was active at the moment.

Cheng Yanjin originally wanted to keep Du Fuwei and Fu Gongqi for a while, and it was not too late for the two to go on the road after all the surrendered captives were reorganized. However, Du Fuwei saw that Cheng Biting Jin's huge foundation was really a little red in his heart, so he wanted to change places and was eager to try, and he also learned Cheng Biting Jin to call for wind and rain like this, smiling proudly in the rivers and lakes.

Seeing that Du Fuwei had made up his mind, Cheng Biting Jin had no choice but to recruit people for him. In this regard, Cheng Biting Jin's generosity made Nafu Gongqi a little frightened. Cheng Yanjin not only directly allocated 10,000 horses to Du Fuwei, but also gave a lot of grain and grass in his hands, military horses, etc. Not only that, but even the extremely valuable elixir, Cheng Yanjin was not stingy.

Although it is said that the last time he attacked Dou Zihang, among the pills prepared by Cheng Yanjin in advance, except for the one who had a copy of the Mighty King Kong Pill that was taken at the beginning of the battle, those Feng Shui Mixed Yuan Pills that treated injuries actually did not use much. Because Du Fuwei was in a hurry, Cheng Yanjin simply scavenged back the Feng Shui Mixed Yuan Dan that had been distributed to each soldier and let Du Fuwei take it with him.

In addition, Cheng Yanjin also lent Du Fuwei a part of the cavalry that he regarded as his life. Although he said that he was borrowing, whether it was Cheng Yanjin, Du Fuwei, or Fu Gongyi, they all clearly understood in their hearts that it was impossible for these cavalrymen to come back to the Heroes Club in the future. The reason why Cheng Yanjin said that was just to take care of Du Fuwei's emotions, lest he be embarrassed and refuse.

Preparing all the things that could be used, and giving thousands of instructions, Cheng Yanjin reluctantly let Du Fuwei go. Standing on the top of the mountain and watching the group of people and horses gradually moving away, Cheng Yanjin also felt some indescribable sadness in his heart. Du Fuwei is gone, but he will never give up until he makes a name for himself, and he doesn't know when and when the two will be able to see each other again.

The sadness in Cheng Yanjin's heart because of Du Fuwei's departure did not last long, and was diluted by a sudden good news. Because the heroes under the leadership of Cheng Yanjin will perform remarkably during this time, the heroes in the green forests on the rivers and lakes unanimously elected him as the leader of the East Road next year. When the news came out, heroes from all over the world came to congratulate one after another, which immediately made Cheng Yanjin grin happily.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, etc., from Xinshi, gathered in the green forest and mountains, to seven or eight thousand people, Wang Mang Tianfeng rose in four years, and called the Jiang soldiers. Since then, the green forest has become a special name for those bandits and robbers in the rivers and lakes who gather in groups to occupy the mountains and forests, resist the government, resist grain and rent, or rob property.

It's just that up to now, the word green forest has no derogatory meaning, just because although these heroes who occupy the mountains are the kings, they are robbing everywhere, but what they pay attention to is robbing the rich and helping the poor, punishing the evil and eliminating traitors, therefore, the heroes on the rivers and lakes talk about those green forest characters, and they all their thumbs and praise in unison.

Kyushu is vast, so the people in this green forest are also separated accordingly. The green forest in the world is divided into five roads, which are east, west, north, south, and middle. Each lane has a chieftain, and there is a capital leader on top of the five-way chieftain. These chieftains are responsible for mediating disputes between the people of the Greenwoods, and coordinating the Greenwoods heroes and dividing the spheres of influence.

Among the six chieftains, except for the one that is elected every ten years, the other five chieftains are changed every five years. This time, Cheng Yanjin was able to become the chief leader of the East Road Green Forest, and even he himself was very surprised. You know, although he led people to the mountains and grasses immediately, but he had no contact with other rebels, how could such a great good thing fall on his head inexplicably?

If there is chaos today, I don't know how many green forest heroes are kings in various places. Therefore, the identity of the leader of the green forest is extremely noble. In particular, the East Road Green Forest, which Cheng Yanjin was about to take over, not only commanded the rebel army in the entire Qingzhou, but also even the neighboring Gunzhou and Yangzhou had some areas under their jurisdiction.

Therefore, knowing that Cheng Yanjin has been selected by the green forest heroes as the general leader of the East Road next year, all the green forest heroes under his jurisdiction have sent their envoys or personally to Changbai Mountain to send Cheng Yanjin valuable gifts, so that the new chief leader will not be difficult for himself in the next few years.

Looking at these envoys who rushed to pay a visit, Cheng Yanjin became more and more suspicious in his heart. It wasn't until Wang Bo, an old acquaintance, came to congratulate him on behalf of the leader of the Green Forest and talked with him that Cheng Yanjin figured out that the reason why the other leaders agreed to let him be the chief leader of the East Road Green Forest was to get some salt out of his hands.

Since the uprising of the rebels a few years ago, the supply of official salt has almost been cut off, and those green forest heroes who occupy the mountains as kings can still go to the warehouses of various government offices to grab some emergencies at first, but with the emptying of those warehouses, these people's three meals a day immediately become light and tasteless.

Although these heroes had a lot of gold and silver treasures in their hands, they had no place to buy salt. So for a while, these descendants of Yan and Huang turned into 'descendants of salt panic'. The consequences of the lack of salt are fatal, and looking at their men with yellow muscles and thin muscles day by day, these green forest leaders are anxious one by one.

After many inquiries, these green forest leaders realized that the reason why salt-producing Qingzhou could not buy salt was because all the private salt was monopolized by Cheng Yanjin's salt gang, and all the boiled salt was transported to the south through the fleet of the Lingnan Song Dynasty.

Although these green forest heroes are known as lawless, but let them rob the fleet of the Lingnan Song Dynasty, they still don't have the guts, if they take people to rob the salt pond where Cheng bites gold, it will be even more impossible. The head of Liu Badao, who is the overlord of one party, has not yet been found, which one is impatient and dares to provoke this evil star!

In desperation, as soon as the leaders put it together, they made a decision, simply pull Cheng Yanjin in, as long as he became a member of the green forest and became a family, then the matter of Yanba would naturally be solved.

It's just that the ordinary position is only afraid that Cheng Yanjin can't look down on him, after all, he is also the leader of a gang, and he has a large number of people under him, and he has been in the limelight recently. So several leaders simply and generously gave up the position of the head of the East Road. Anyway, it's only been five years, as long as he can supply salt out, why not give it to him!

And Wang Bo came here on the order of the capital leader to explain this matter to Cheng Yanjin clearly, hoping that he could see that everyone is in the same vein, and let some private salt come out to the green forest heroes everywhere. Of course, everyone is definitely not asking for nothing, just buy and sell according to the price of the salt gang! Anyway, they are all heroes in the green forest, how can they lack gold and silver in their hands!

As Wang Bo expected, Cheng Yanjin happily agreed to this matter without much thought, after all, this is a mutually beneficial thing, and the benefits to Cheng Yanjin are greater, if he doesn't agree, then there will be a ghost.