At the end of September of the thirteenth year of Liyang

The news of the suspension of the bandit army finally reached Heifengling, and Luo Biao, who had not completely recovered from his injuries, was overjoyed, and the whole cottage held a banquet to celebrate the night.

The next day, with the aftermath of the wedding banquet, Luo Da's family held a cottage meeting again.

The Hall of Justice

Compared with more than a month ago, this time in the Heifengling meeting, there was one less white-clothed second-in-command Ye Yunfan, but there were seven or eight more leaders with new faces.

These people have only recently joined Heifengling, and they were all the leaders of the major bandits in Chongshan in Qingyuan before.........

Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with Yan Kui, before he suppressed bandits on the periphery of Chongshan in Qingyuan, and almost uprooted the bandits on the periphery.

The bandits who escaped by luck were all killed by him, and they did not dare to stand up on their own when they fled into the inner wall, but all took refuge under the command of Heifengling to seek protection.

Coincidentally, because Yan Kui's killing was too powerful, many small bandits in the inner enclosure were also timid, fearing that one day Yan Kui would kill himself at the door of his house and destroy himself, so they also dragged their families to Heifengling.

Since the beginning of the month, there are one or two groups of bandits who have thrown themselves into Heifengling, in less than a month, there are more than 200 bandits who have come to defect, Luo Biao's strength has increased greatly, although the overall is not as strong as before the battle of the rocky land, but it is not far behind.

Later, Luo Biao promoted several leaders from these bandits, and then promoted a leader from the previous cottage old man to the third leader.

Coupled with Chen Heizi, who had been promoted to the second leader before, the core layer of Heifengling was initially out of the trough through upgrading.

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Sitting on the tiger skin chair, Luo Biao looked around at the leaders and leaders sitting below, and his pride surged, sweeping aside the haze in his heart before, and said with a hideous face.

"Brothers, if the army of bandits is not coming, it is a good time for us to show our ambitions."

The second master, Chen Heizi, as a diehard loyalist of Luo Biao, immediately stood up for him as soon as possible: "If the big boss has any ideas, you might as well say it directly, and the brothers will obey your orders." ”

The rest of the leaders in the hall listened to this, and they all spoke in response, Luo Biao was happy to see this, and said: "Although the bandit army has suspended its mobilization this year, it is very likely that it will raise troops into the mountains again in the spring of next year.

So I thought, we now have to develop our strength as soon as possible in this rare gap of a few months, accumulate grain and grass, and repair the defense of the cottage, so as to resist the imperial court raising troops in the coming year. ”

An old man with gray hair and a scarf on his head heard the words and asked, "Does the big boss have a specific charter?" ”

Luo Biao glanced at this old leader, he was the second educated bandit in Heifengling after Ye Yunfan, of course, he was the first after Ye Yunfan's death.

This old man was an old boy before he fell into the grass, surnamed Zhuang, and no one knew the specific name, just because his personality was not slow, and his behavior was very different from that of the hot-tempered bandits, so the people in the cottage gave him the nickname of Lao Fu'er, and he was usually called Zhuang Lao Fu.

This Zhuang Laofu, who was originally in charge of writing letters to the kidnapped family in the cottage, and later served as the second leader of the military division, Ye Yunfan, died in battle, as a rare cultural person in the cottage, Zhuang Laofu became the military advisor of Heifengling.

Of course, now Zhuang Laofu, a military advisor, has not made an inch, and his status is still far from Ye Yunfan before.

However, Luo Biao still values Zhuang Laofu as a military advisor, he feels that Zhuang Laofu has a calm personality, is old, and has experienced a lot of things when he is old, so he can give himself advice to a certain extent.

Otherwise, just pointing at Chen Heizi's gang of fighting men, except for cutting people with knives, he has to take any idea himself.

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As a result, Luo Da was not angry because of the doubts in Zhuang Lao'er's tone, but said confidently.

"I already have a plan in mind about how to act this time."

After that, Luo Biao looked at the second master, Chen Heizi, and shouted loudly: "Heizi." ”

"The subordinates are here."

Like Luo Biao, Chen Heizi, who was born in the military, got up neatly and hugged his fists and waited for the order.

"I'll leave the matter of the cottage repair to you, remember, while there is still enough time now, double the scale according to the previous agreement, and the materials for defending the city such as fire oil, rolling wood, and stones must be prepared.

"My subordinates understand." Chen Heizi replied.

Luo Biao nodded, suddenly remembered something again, and ordered: "At the foot of the mountain and around the mountain road, you can lay some traps, although it is not of great use, it is good to disgust the officers and soldiers." ”

Chen Heizi responded again, and then Luo Biao waved his hand to let him go back and sit down, then turned his head to look at the other side, and shouted.

"Big thunder."

Shi Dalei, the newly promoted third master, jumped out directly in excitement when he heard this: "The subordinates are here." ”

Shi Dalei has just been promoted to the third leader of the cottage, his foothold is not stable, and he is most eager for merit to maintain his status, but now when he heard that Luo Biao had something to tell him, he naturally came out impatiently to perform.

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Luo Biao also roughly knew Shi Dalei's thoughts, but he was happy to see it happen.

After all, the more Shi Dalei wanted to prove himself, the more he had to work hard, and his subordinates were so active, Luo Biao naturally wouldn't stop it.

Master Luo smiled indifferently: "At present, most of the peers in Qingyuan territory, except for those who were exterminated by Yan Kui, have been thrown into our cottage, and there are only a few stubborn people left, who are still lucky and hiding in the dark."

In the coming year, we will fight against the army of bandits, and our cottage is the time to use people, so I plan to unify all my peers in Qingyuan, Da Lei, tomorrow you will order three hundred children to go down the mountain and visit all over the country.

If you want to fight side by side with us, please come to our cottage to join the gang, if you want to watch us fight against the official army, and he himself is fishing in the water, then you can directly take the sons and daughters to do it.

Let everyone see, in Qingyuan, it's not just him, Yan Kui who can kill people........."

Shi Dalei showed a cruel smile on his face: "Don't worry, Da Lei promises to make it beautiful for you." ”

Luo Biao smiled and nodded, and then looked at everyone: "As for the problem of accumulating food, I have found a way to deal with it, but out of secrecy, I will not tell you." ”

Luo Biao was ruthless just now, and everyone was still frightened in their hearts, how dare they say that half of them are not, they all shouted yes.

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Seeing this, Luo Biao didn't say much, waved his hand and let everyone leave, leaving only Zhuang Laofu and Chen Heizi.

Both of them are Luo Biao's confidants, so they don't say anything in the face of the two of them, and said bluntly: "There are currently two ways to solve the food problem, one is to buy, and the other is to rob." ”

"Grab food?"

Zhuang Laofu and Chen Heizi heard Luo Biao's words, their expressions were a little weird, Heifengling was not lightly planted because of the word "grabbing grain" before, and the big boss didn't have enough lessons?

When Luo Biao saw the application of the two, annoyance flashed in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, and continued to follow his previous words.

"I've already found a seller for the grain purchase, Lao Fu, you are responsible for this matter.

Remember, although this matter is a thread that I found a third party, the seller is likely to know our identity, so we must be careful when trading, and we must prevent the other party from doing it. ”

Zhuang Laofu nodded lightly, and said in a slow tone: "The subordinates will pay attention, but ........."

Luo Biao was puzzled and asked, "What?" ”

Zhuang Laofu's face was bitter, and he bowed to Luo Biao and replied: "My subordinates asked Lao Pizi (the leader in charge of money and grain in Heifengling) before, the cash in our cottage account has always been small, and because the brothers were demoralized when they came back from the mountain some time ago, you gave the brothers a lot of silver in order to revive the morale of the army.

That's another big deal, and now it's ......... I'm afraid that the money in the cottage account can't buy much food. ”

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Luo Biao didn't expect that there would be this layer, his face was a little unsightly, and he asked with a calm face: "According to your estimate, how much food can our cottage buy now." ”

Zhuang Lao stretched out his old hand tremblingly, quietly calculated for a moment, and replied to Luo Biao: "There are still a lot of places to use silver after the cottage, Nima wants to leave thirty percent of the silver for backup, and the remaining seventy percent of the silver, according to the current market price of rice and grain in the county, can probably buy 3,800 catties of grain." ”

"So little?"

Chen Heizi on the side was very surprised, you must know that an adult man needs at least two or three catties of food every day, and even if he saves a little two catties, these three thousand eight hundred catties of grain are enough for a few days of rations in the cottage.

Of course, Luo Biao will definitely not give those little minions such good food, and these 3,800 catties of grain will definitely be mixed with a large number of old grains and coarse grains, but even if it is calculated, it will only be enough for ten days at most.

As soon as this battle formation opened, there were several years of fighting, and it was only half a month, I am afraid that even the officers and troops had just surrounded the Black Wind Ridge, and in the protracted war after that, the sons and daughters couldn't fight hungry............

Zhuang Laofu looked at Luo Biao and the others with heavy faces, and stabbed them again: "My subordinates are actually worried about one thing, that is, if the seller knows our identity, will he take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, once this happens, I am afraid that we will not be able to buy 3,800 catties of grain in a row." ”

As soon as these words came out, the corners of Luo Biao's eyes twitched.

Yes, the person who can do business with bandits will definitely not be a good person, and people will honestly sell you grain at market prices at the risk of such a big crime as a bandit?

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Touching the beard under his chin anxiously, Luo Biao got up from the tiger skin chair, paced around the Juyi Hall a few times, and finally clapped his hands: "I have to go down the mountain to grab a few more votes." “

After that, Luo Biao raised his hand to stop Chen Heizi, who wanted to speak, and said with a wry smile: "Listen to me, I originally thought that the food in the cottage was mainly to be bought, supplemented by robbery, but now it seems that buying, I'm afraid it's not a good policy, if we want to save more food, we have to go down the mountain to grab it."

But that's fine, don't talk about taking your sons and daughters to see blood, if you can grab some gold and silver while grabbing food, we can also use both methods. ”

Chen Heizi saw that Luo Biao had made up his mind, and he no longer persuaded him, but he strongly asked himself to be responsible for this grain rush task on the grounds that Luo Biao had not recovered yet.

Luo Biao knew that Chen Heizi was afraid that he would repeat his mistakes, although he was unhappy in his heart, but he also knew that his old subordinate had good intentions, and he did have a little shadow in his heart about going down the mountain now, so Luo Da thought about it a little and agreed to Chen Heizi's request.

Immediately after that, the two discussed where to grab grain, and the experience of Bali Town last time told Luo Biao that the conditions for attacking the town were not yet ripe in Heifengling, and those large and wealthy villages were their best targets.

Luo Biao and Chen Heizi kept looking for wealthy villages on the map, but they didn't know that behind them, Zhuang Laofu squinted a pair of cloudy eyes and stared at their backs, and a hint of murder flashed in his eyes............