Chapter 107: Extortion

Soon several of the gentry of the Zhuangzi who participated in this matter received a letter that surprised them, the letter was shot into their Zhuangzi with a bow and arrow from outside the village in the middle of the night, and it was in the hands of these gentry before dawn.

After these people opened the letter in horror, they saw a content, which was roughly to tell them how unwise it was for them to take the initiative to provoke the Xingtian Army this time, and Xiao Da was very unhappy, and the consequences would be very serious! He also told them that now many of their Zhuang Ding Xiangyong are still locked up in Tianlong Village, so that they don't have delusions anymore, if they don't want Zhuangzi to be cleaned up by the Xingtian Army in the future, they still take care of their Zhuang Ding's life, so they quickly take out the money and grain and send it to Tianlong Village as compensation for Tianlong Village.

If these people are obsessed, then the lives of these Zhuang Ding will be over, and this account will be settled with them at any time, let them think about what to do, and each of them will be warned that they must not follow the old Wang Ba of Li Jiazhuang in the future, and listen to his call, otherwise they will bear the consequences!

At the same time, a reparation amount was also set for each family, and a list of grain, silver, iron, cloth, cotton, skins, pigs and sheep and other things was pulled for them, so that they had a base in their hearts, and they were limited to prepare within seven days, sent to Tianlong Village, handed over to the Xingtianjun, and expired, as for the result, think about it yourself!

After receiving this letter, these big families first breathed a long sigh of relief, and then they all died of pain, because the amount of these materials asked by the Xingtian Army was so large that they were a little unbearable, and some people were scolding, claiming that a big son would not give it to the Xingtian Army, and some people immediately began to calculate, arranging for people to prepare various materials according to the price set by the Xingtian Army, and preparing to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

These big families, can run such a big family business, no one is stupid, this reason is naturally clear, this time the ground in Shaanxi is not quiet, a large number of officials and soldiers are in the land of Shangluo to encircle and suppress a large number of chaotic people, there is no time to take care of their small strands in the Huangyang area, and they are now a few of the largest Zhuangzi, finally organized a team that has been suppressing bandits, but was disabled by the Xingtian Army at once, and wanted to organize forces to confront the Xingtian Army again, and there was no strength.

And now Xiao Yiaxe, the person in charge of the Xingtian Army, must have also seen this, knowing that they have no other way to choose except to obey, after this battle, the Xingtian Army will definitely be famous in this area, and there will be many defectors, it will not be long before the strength will soar, if they don't buy it, then what will happen next, I am afraid that the pig brain can figure it out.

Therefore, smart people have to do smart things, they have lived here for generations, and there is nowhere to go if they want to run away from their big family, so they can't abandon their huge family business and run away by themselves! Instead of waiting for the Xingtian Army to drive to their doorstep and level their Zhuangzi, when the time comes, the family will be ruined and the money will not be robbed by Na Xiao's axe, it is better to obediently obey now, according to the requirements of the Xingtian Army, although the flesh hurts to death, it is still honest to buy it, first buy a short-term peace, and then wait for the government to wipe out the big pole, and then ask the government to calm this Xingtian Army out of this evil breath!

Even the two big households who refused to bleed at the beginning, after figuring out the truth, had to give in, not to mention that many of their Zhuang Ding were either their tenants, or they were related to the family, if they didn't take money to ransom people, they would cold the hearts of the remaining Zhuang Ding in the future, and who would give them home care in the future! So no matter how painful it was, they could only knock out their teeth and swallow the blood into their stomachs! Who made them not open their eyes at the beginning, listened to the pleading of Li Lao Wangba, and followed the coaxing, now that retribution is coming, who can they complain about?

But these people can also see it, this time Xingtianjun and that Li Fengtian are dead, and they will definitely not spare that Li Fengtian, the Li family is afraid that a catastrophe is coming, and they can't hide from anything this time!

Because this incident was provoked by Li Fengtian, these families all suffered with him, and several families coincidentally wrapped up this matter, and no one told Li Fengtian about it, and he quietly began to arrange and prepare various materials to transport them to Tianlong Village.

After this battle, the Xingtian Army suddenly became the most eye-catching force in the Fengxiang Mansion area, and the large families within a radius of dozens of miles around it, after getting the news, they were shocked first, and the smart people immediately took action, and they also found some reasons for nothing, and took the initiative to prepare a gift, and sent someone to send it to Tianlong Village with a cart, so as to buy a peace first, and wait for the Xingtian Army to come to the door later.

And the big households that participated in the attack on Tianlong Village, after receiving the letter written to them by Xiao Tianjian, also began to load and transport various materials to Tianlong Village.

Originally, Tianlong Village is just a remote place, these few days later, several roads leading to Tianlong Village will gradually become lively, vehicles loaded with money and grain have converged in the direction of Tianlong Village, and there are a large number of displaced people, also walking towards Tianlong Village, there is no other reason, just because of the recent news released by Tianlong Village, to set up a porridge shed outside the village to help the victims, after hearing the news, these displaced people, in order to stutter to live, can not care about anything, have dragged sticks and began to run towards Tianlong Village.

Good health can go all the way to Tianlong Village, get a mouthful of porridge to drink, people in poor health are directly starved to death on the side of the road, a large number of displaced people after hearing about this, even far away hundreds of miles away There are some displaced people rushed over.

And Xingtianjun did not break his word, set up several large porridge sheds outside Tianlong Village, took out a batch of grain every day, boiled it into porridge, and distributed it to the displaced people who rushed to it, for a time the vicinity of Tianlong Village almost became a downtown area, the crowd was crowded all over the mountains and fields, and there were a lot of homeless people sitting and lying down, and some people simply set up a shack, and lived near here, living by two meals of porridge a day every day, and digging some wild vegetables on the nearby mountains by the way, to make up for it, but they were not worried about starving to death in a short time.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian sent Master Jin to take Luo Yingjie to set up a reception office outside the cottage, specifically to accept all kinds of materials sent by those blackmailed households, and he didn't even let them enter the mountain gate at all, and after receiving things, he took out their captured Zhuang Ding from the cottage and handed them to take away.

Some Zhuang Ding was originally recruited from among the displaced people by these big households, after being captured in this war, some people were alone, thinking about going back to be a Zhuang Ding nursing home, there is no future, and this Xiao is very powerful, I don't know when I will repair these big households, and when the time comes, when I meet the Xingtian Army, it will be ugly to die, so these people don't want to go back, and simply under the instigation of the Xingtian Army, they directly chose to stay and join the gang, so a small number of these captives Xiangyong became a member of the Xingtian Army, but most of them didn't dare to wade into this troubled water because there were old and young people in the family who were still in the big Zhuangzi, so they still chose to leave and followed the people from their respective Zhuangzi.

Only those captured officers and soldiers and the people of Lijiazhuang lived a worrying life every day in Tianlong Village, watching the villagers of other villages all day long, and they were constantly taken away and let go, but they could only watch, not knowing what ending they could end up with.

The life of the officers and soldiers is quite okay, two meals a day, there is vegetable porridge and a mixed flour cake to eat, if you are not full, you are not too hungry, you can still wander around every day, according to the instructions of the soldiers who are guarding them in the Xingtian Army, do a little work, and the days can be dealt with, but the treatment of those prisoners in Lijiazhuang is far worse, one vegetable porridge a day, thin enough, not even a mixed flour cake to eat, but there is no need to do the work, but everyone is tied to the log and cannot move, eating, drinking, and sleeping are solved next to the log, It made them smell bad, and their hungry eyes turned green.

This is all because of the result of Li Jiazhuang's slaughter of the old camp of the Xingtian Army last time, and colluded with the government to suppress Tianlong Village, and the Xingtian Army hated the people of Li Jiazhuang to the core, so even if Xiao Tianjian did not order them to be treated like this, Jin Fuzi, who was in charge of logistics, was not in a good mood to serve them, and one meal of vegetable porridge a day was already calculated, according to the meaning of some people, they simply did not even give them vegetable porridge to eat, and starved them to death.

These dozens of Zhuang Ding of Lijiazhuang are desperate in their hearts! One by one, they all wondered that their master was full of food, so why did they have to provoke this surnamed Xiao! After a few days, the gang was tortured to the point that they had no human figure, and they collapsed on the ground one by one and cried without tears.

Xiao Tianjian stood on the top of the walled gate, looking at the busy scene everywhere, looking up to the sky and sighing, this day is really a little too full, it is difficult to take a breath!

Since this battle, Xingtianjun has become famous, and there is an endless stream of people who come to defect, and they have also brought a steady stream of news from the outside world here, so that he has obtained a lot of useful information, and the rest is easy to say, such as the news of the drought in Shanxi, Xiao Tianjian is not in the mood to pay attention to it for the time being, and he is most concerned about things like Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong.

Judging from the various news brought by outsiders, he can be sure that at present, the rebel troops from all walks of life have begun to return to Shaanxi in large numbers under the siege of the officials and troops mobilized by Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, and although they are not clear about their specific location at present, it can be roughly analyzed that they should basically be in the Shangluo area at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, and the official troops of the provinces are also mobilizing towards this area under the dispatch of Chen Qiyu.

Recalling the memory of this period of history in his mind, Xiao Tianjian is even more sure that the chaos in Shaanxi is in front of him, Chen Qiyu still can't solve Gao Yingxiang and them this time, as long as Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng rush out of the carriage gorge, then they will immediately go straight to the hinterland of Shaanxi, and then he is afraid that this kind of day will come to an end, but because of his limited memory, he can't remember when Gao Yingxiang got out of the carriage gorge, so now he must seize the time again to enrich his strength.