Ten days later, twenty miles west of the state capital, Tiger Roaring Creek.

Ye Zongliu arrived here early with more than a hundred state wanderers and bullies gathered and set up a simple camp on a hill by the stream.

Within a few days, Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, and Ye Xi rushed to the camp one after another with their men and money and food, and joined Ye Zongliu.

Everyone greeted each other as a courtesy, and Ye Zongliu also asked one by one.

I saw that Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, and Ye Xiba all brought all their net worth, people and horses over, and the three of them also looted a lot of villages on the way, and coerced more than 1,000 villagers here.

Canghuo said with a laugh; "Boss, these mud legs are just right for us!"

Ye Zongliu is not a good type, so naturally he will not sympathize with those villagers who cry and grab the land, but just ask Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, and Ye Xiba if they have left their tails, worried about luring the officials and soldiers over.

Zheng Xiangsi said with a smile: "Don't worry, boss, we are all picking remote villages, and we don't think we have alarmed the officials and soldiers!" ”

Canghuo Tou also said: "Even if the officials and soldiers were aware of it, we would have already gone away!" ”

When Ye Zongliu heard this, he didn't ask anything anymore.

As for Chen Gongshan and Chen Jianhu's homes, they were the closest, but they came the latest, all because they had the most houses and acres in their homes, and they couldn't sell them all for a while, so they delayed for a day and rushed over on the eleventh day.

In this regard, Ye Zongliu didn't say anything, after all, Chen Gongshan and Chen Jianhu were able to follow him desperately, which was already righteous enough, and he couldn't ask for anything else.

Compared with Chen Gongshan and Chen Jianhu, Wang Neng's house is the farthest away from here, but he was the first to arrive at Huxiao Creek.

Ye Zongliu inquired and found out that Wang Neng immediately gathered his men and horses when he returned home, and rushed over with money, grain, and baggage. As for the family's houses, acres and other assets, they were all discarded.

"As soon as the boss said, I burned all those fish, what are you keeping?"

Listening to Wang Neng's words, everyone was moved, and Ye Zongliu's eyes were slightly red, and his heart was full of emotion.

At this time, Ye Zongliu and Wang Neng and other six people gathered a total of 17,000 or 8,000 people and horses, the weight of grain and grass was not counted, and for a while, the entire temporary camp was overcrowded and full of people, everyone looked at it with boiling hearts, and there was also a fiery breath in their chests, as if they were about to achieve something earth-shattering!

Ye Zongliu understood in his heart that at this time, everyone gathered more than 10,000 people, and it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, so as not to be found out by the government, and then it would be troublesome.

So, Ye Zongliu said to Wang Neng, Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, Chen Jianhu, and Ye Xi: "Let the brothers eat and drink well tonight, and rest enough, and we will set off to the west early tomorrow morning and go to Xianxialing!" ”

Chen Jianhu next to him added: "Tomorrow, we must choose a remote and rugged road, we must not travel along the official road, and try to avoid villages, towns, and villagers, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble!" ”

Ye Zongliu nodded yes and said, "That's right! We must be cautious along the way, and all the villagers and villages we encounter on the road will be looted, coerced and taken away! It's good when we get to Xianxialing, there are people who dig silver mines privately, and they are taboo about the government, and they will never leak the news, and the people in the government will not go easily, our brothers just have great plans! ”

That night, the whole camp was full of laughter and laughter, 17,000 or 8,000 people were not happy to eat and drink, Ye Zongliu and others were also eating and drinking, and it was not until late that night that everyone dispersed.

On the morning of the next day, Ye Zongliu, Wang Neng and six others led the 17,000 or 8,000 men and horses to pull out.

Half a month later, Ye Zongliu led a large group of men and horses to the area of Xianxialing, and everyone did not rush directly to kill, but hid in the area of Xianxialing.

Subsequently, Ye Zongliu sent Wang Neng to set off with a thousand men and horses, and rushed to the vicinity of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain to loot, wanting to see how the strength of the private mine owners here was and see how everyone reacted.

A few days later, the entire Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain area of large and small private mine owners were all impacted by Wang Neng's department, and everyone did not compromise in the face of Wang Neng, who only had 1,000 people, and everyone chose to fight!

After all, the reason why these private mine owners are able to run rampant in the Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain areas is that even the government is unwilling to provoke them, and they all have a certain number of people in their hands, how can they choose to retreat because Wang Neng has only a thousand people in his hands?

So after several confrontations, Wang Neng did not have many men and horses in his hands after all, so he was forced to retreat to the area of Fengling south of Xianxia Ridge.

There are more than 20 large and small private mine owners in the Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain areas, and seeing that Wang Neng's gang of people and horses suddenly retreated, they gathered more than 8,000 people from all the people and horses to chase up, wanting to take down Wang Neng's men and horses and use them as mine slaves!

Not long after, the remnants of Wang Neng's hundreds of people were besieged in Fengshan, and all the private mine owners were overjoyed and commanded their men and horses to besiege, but due to the steep terrain around Fengshan, they couldn't attack for a long time!

At this moment, Ye Zong left his hand!

Ye Zongliu first sent Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, Chen Gongshan, and Chen Jianhu to lead 500 men and horses to attack more than a dozen silver mines in the area of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain, and all the miners on these silver mines were taken into custody, completely occupying all the silver mines in the area of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain.

At the same time, Ye Zongliu and Ye Xiba, together with Ye Xiba, led the remaining 15,000 main forces to kill Fengshan, and at the foot of Fengshan, they joined forces with Wang Neng's subordinates to strangle all the more than 20 private mine owners who were besieging Fengshan!

In the face of the people of Ye Zongliu's department, who rushed over like a rush, these more than 20 private mine owners didn't know until they died, who lost their lives!

And after losing more than 2,000 people, most of the more than 8,000 horses under the command of more than 20 private mine owners also surrendered, and all of them took refuge in Ye Zongliu!

At this time, Ye Zongliu not only completely occupied more than a dozen silver mines in the area of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain, had more than 3,000 miners, but also annexed more than 6,000 horses, and his momentum was greatly boosted for a while!

Subsequently, Ye Zongliu led the team to return to the area of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain, and spent more than ten days of effort to check around, and decided to shut down a few scarce silver mines and excavate the remaining few large silver mines with all his might!

October of the twelfth year of Orthodoxy.

After Ye Zongliu's rectification, two silver mines in Baofengchang and Shaotingkeng were re-established in the area of Xianxialing and Tongtang Mountain, as well as eight relatively small silver mines.

After some rectification, Ye Zongliu also ordered Wang Neng to lead 3,000 men and horses to garrison the Baofengchang silver mine, and Zheng Xiangsi, Canghuotou, and Ye Xiba each led 1,000 men and horses to guard the other eight relatively small silver mines.

And Ye Zongliu himself led 18,000 main forces with Chen Gongshan and Chen Jianhu to garrison the Shaotingkeng Silver Mine.

Just when Ye Zongliu was full of ambition and was ready to take a group of brothers to do a big job, there was a drought in the prefectures and counties around Xianxialing, and many victims were completely reduced to displaced people due to the lack of timely relief from the government.

Ye Zongliu was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately asked Chen Gongshan and Chen Jianhu to lead their men to recruit homeless people everywhere, and tens of thousands of homeless people gathered in the Xianxialing area in just one month!

Under the instruction of Ye Zongliu, Wang Neng gathered craftsmen everywhere, prepared an iron mine in the Baofengchang silver mine, and began to build armor for Ye Zongliu's subordinates.

For a time, Ye Zongliu's department became the largest force in the northwest of Zhejiang, and became a veritable hero!