While the work of the saltworks team was in full swing, preparations for the hunting operation to eradicate the big farmers were also underway. Xi Yaya demanded that the sooner the better—there were still many people in the village who kept him in a private prison in Gou Jiazhuang. However, the Executive Committee is not in a hurry. Anyway, the people in Yanchang Village are not their relatives. Everything has to be investigated. After two or three days of investigation, the Executive Committee learned that this person was a person who was hated by everyone and hated by dogs. The title of local tyrant and inferior gentleman is really not too much to give him. Kill him, and the whole county will feel very satisfied. Although Gou Dahu did not provoke this group of space-time bandits, at most he just used their banners to deceive, but the traversers urgently needed to show their greatness and righteousness, and by the way, improve their food. So the fate of Gou Dahu was decided.

The immediate reason for the elimination of Gou Dahu was his attempt to control the salt works, but the Executive Committee did not directly hand over the task to the task force. Instead, a separate team was set up to take care of the matter. The person in charge is Comrade Wu De, who has been dealing with the locals for a long time.

Wu De's production team has come back with some bachelors, they have nothing to worry about, go back to clean up the rags, and the long-term workers will directly find the master to quit their jobs, and as for the wages, the old men dare not say that they will not give it - everyone knows that this group of poor barbarians is going to carry work for Shorthair, and if they put some eye medicine in front of Shorthair, no one will have to eat and walk around.

Wu De selected a few of these people, disguised as hawkers and day laborers, and went around to find out the movements of the big families and the county. He himself was not idle, got in the car, and went directly to the county seat.

At the south gate of the county, he met the Fu Inspector, the inspector of the Bopu Inspection Division, who became the only person dissatisfied with the status quo - his yamen was gone, which made him unable to explain anyway. So these days, I have been going in and out of Zhang Youfu's place, begging him to go to Bairentan to talk about it, return the yamen to him, and in the future, the gray income of the yamen of the inspection department will be increased by two and five.

Zhang Youfu is such a clever character, he is willing to mix with such things, and he has always said that he is not in good health and refuses to go. Fu couldn't use the inspection force, and stood guard at the gate of the county seat every day with a sad face -- this was a temporary job assigned to him by the Wu County Order.

Seeing the short-haired leader suddenly coming, Fu Inspector was taken aback, but fortunately he could deal with a few words of official words, and the two sides compared and drew up, and Fu Inspector knew that this was to see the county order.

The leader of the thieves wanted to see the county order, which surprised the Fu patrol. However, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly went to the county government to find Wu Daling to report. Scared Wu Mingjin so cold that his hands and feet were cold - these days he had already sent people to the provincial capital to seek a transfer, and before the matter was done, the thief came to the door, how should this be? See, there is inevitably a suspicion of banditry, no, the current state of the county is the same as a big girl without clothes. Not to mention the people in the city, even the officials went to the countryside to urge the autumn grain.

Hurry up and call the master, the master's idea is simple, it is inconvenient for the official to come forward, it is better for him, the personal representative, to meet and find out what the other party means. After all, the master is only a private employee of the county order, and his identity is better.

Wu De's request was simple: levy salt classes and run a group. This matter made Master Wang a little difficult, Yanchang Village wanted to set up a group, this is a trivial matter, and there are almost all villagers in the county. One more and one less is not a problem, and this submission was indeed written by the villagers of Yanchang Village. But the Gou family wouldn't be happy about it.

The county knows what the Gou family is doing clearly, but there is generally nothing the county order can do about such a local tyrant. What's more, in such a small border county, it would be good if the Gou family did not openly make trouble.

The collection of salt and the Yanchang village group, anyone who knows a little about the county can see that this group of short hairs is ready to grab the meat in the mouth of the Gou family.

The problem is that whether it is the Gou family or the short hair, the county can't afford to mess with it now. In comparison, it is still shorthair that is a little more unprovoked. After discussing with Wu County's order, Master Wang gave a lively reply:

At the beginning of November, the first day of the salt class is paid, and whoever pays it first is the one who will take it.

The implication of this is that you should play fairly, and the government will not interfere. Whoever is the champion will be rewarded for this salt class. As for the group, the county has no objection, just do it.

After reaching a tacit understanding on this issue, Wu De took his leave and went back and began preparations for the attack on Goujiazhuang.

When it comes to providing the most information about the Gou family, Zhang Xingjiao is the one who is a member of the Gou family. But the Executive Committee did not fully believe his information - those with enemies tended to exaggerate or minimize certain contents. The basic situation, Wu De still wants to know by himself

After sending people to investigate and inquire, Goujiazhuang is actually not called Goujiazhuang, its real name is Damei Village. This beautiful village is located in the high mountain range area northwest of Lingao. The Gou family is a foreigner in the village, but he is not a simple outsider, and he is a remnant of the rebellion in Zhejiang and Fujian after the Japanese rebellion was put down -- you should not think that the Gou family is a widow. The rebellion of the Ming Dynasty has always been the boss of the Chinese people, and the Japanese are just some workers, and they are not very high-level workers, basically belonging to the master who goes into battle to play the front and retreats as the palace army. The ancestors of the Gou family are also a leader, so they are not so unbearable. Not counting his family's escape, he also took many of his subordinates with him. When I arrived at this village, I found that although this place was close to the county seat, it was located in a mountainous area and was easy to defend. It's close to the seafront. simply settled down, killed the original landlord and drove him away, and became the landlord in a grand manner. Shili slowly expanded, and vaguely became a tyrant in the county, and Damei Village also became Goujiazhuang.

In fact, there are not many fields in the mountain village, and the Gou family is only 100 acres of land, but the Gou family is powerful and powerful, although it has no fame, but it is forced to take effect outside the village, and gradually the land under the name has nearly 1,000 acres. In recent years, the taxes have become heavier and heavier, and many farmers have taken the initiative to serve in his name-even if they have been exploited, they can always eat hard.

The Gou family basically relied on these fields, collected a large amount of rent every year, and also lent usury, accumulating a considerable amount of property. There are more than 200 households in the village, the population of men, women and children is more than 1,000 people, the location of the village is on a small hillside, it is not precipitous, but there are many brave families in the village, and most of them are outlaws who fled from the mainland, homeless and unemployed bachelors. The village is well defended, the wall of the earthen fence has two layers, the outside is the general villagers, the villagers, the tenants live, and the inner layer is the mansion of more than a dozen families of the Gou family. It is guarded by a specially raised family, and no one who is not an acquaintance of the village can enter the inner village.

What's even better is that the Gou family still continues the pirate tradition of their ancestors, although they don't do it, they hook up with small bandits on the sea - they can't cling to the thighs of Liu Laoxiang and others, but there are many small groups of pirates at sea. Although the pirates were mixed at sea, they had to go ashore to get water, they had to sell the stolen goods on the shore, and they had to go ashore to recuperate if they were injured or sick - so no matter how big or small, the pirates had to have a home on the shore. The Gou family is such a nest family - but they are also principled: they never sell stolen goods in Lingao, first, the place is small and does not have such strong purchasing power, and second, they do not make a big fuss and get into trouble with the government. The whereabouts of the stolen goods, judging from the information we have, have all arrived in Qiongshan. The Gou family, a wealthy family, is very rare to buy and sell in Qiongshan. Commodity-conscious economy seems to be very strong.

Although Qiongshan is richer and more prosperous than Lingao, it is only the first county of Qiongzhou in the end. The Executive Committee's Intelligence and Information Unit deduced that the Gou family's trading in Qiongshan was merely a window for selling stolen goods to the mainland.

In order to find out the specific situation and defense situation of Goujiazhuang, Wu De asked that a professional reconnaissance team be sent to carry out a reconnaissance. Bei Wei is not in Bairen City, but the reconnaissance team he trained has begun to take shape. After Bei Wei's recommendation, Xue Ziliang led the team to carry out this reconnaissance mission -- the executive committee received protests from some people, saying that such a major military affairs should not be delegated to this ABC. Fortunately, he was recommended by a heavyweight military leader like Bei Wei, otherwise he would be indispensable for foreign countries and hats that worship foreign countries.

For Xue Ziliang, such a reconnaissance operation is purely at the level of pediatrics. However, his attitude is still very correct, after all, it is the first time in the organization that he is fully responsible, and he can only do it well and cannot make mistakes. Ye Mengyan finally got the first real mission, and he immediately put all kinds of private goods in his luggage all over his body: what jungle BDU, the US military individual equipment LC1, no matter whether it is a genuine civilian version, whether it is real or fake, it is all piled up. For people like Xue Ziliang who have been using genuine goods for a long time, this set of real and fake clothes is amateurish to the extreme. Plus an 80 helmet on his head and an SKS rifle in his hand, he looks like a South American guerrilla.

"Without so much equipment, our reconnaissance mission is very simple."

Although Xue Ziliang was very unpopular among the nationalists, he was very popular among the reconnaissance team in Beiwei -- people with ability and ability could stand out anywhere. He is different from Bei Wei. Although Bei Wei has a solid scout foundation, he has 0 actual combat experience, Xue Zihao has been mixed in the Middle East, and has carried out many missions with real knives and guns. In terms of combat experience, except for He Ming, who has beaten the Vietnamese devil, I really can't find a second one. The young man who loves military affairs is particularly good at this, and Xue Ziliang has been talking about his combat experience and various interesting anecdotes in the US army for a long time. He was sociable, grew up in the United States, and inherited the American tradition of chatter. The nightlife of Lingao was boring and boring, and listening to him talk about the mountains became the only entertainment of the scout team in the evening.

"So what to take?" Xiao Ye was unwilling, this equipment had no chance to show off, wouldn't it be brought in vain.

"Regular equipment is OK." Xue Ziliang knew that it didn't matter if everything else mattered, the key was to find a guide. Daemisaki is not found on a 21st century printed map.