Wang Yannian talked to Niu Pingfu about something after that, everyone is not clear, it is said that after the two of them talked secretly for more than an hour, there was a serious quarrel. In the end, Wang Yannian called the family and drove Niu Pingfu out. It is said that when Niu Pingfu went out, Wang Yannian chased him to the door and shouted: "My Wang Yannian is deeply favored by the country, and he can't repay his death, and An can bend his knees to be a thief!" From now on, there will be no entanglement between you and me. If you dare to come to the door again, I will break your legs!" ”

It is said that at that time, Niu Pingfu was so shocked that his face was colorless, and he couldn't even speak, so he could only run away in embarrassment. At that time, the family admired Wang Yannian's courage and loyalty, but they were also worried about whether he would be retaliated against by the thieves. Wang Yannian recited two lines of poetry on the spot, saying: "Since ancient times, no one has died, leaving Dan to take care of his sweat." ”

However, maybe it was Niu Pingfu or Niu Pingfu's uncle Niu Juming who remembered the affection between the two families back then, so the "thief" did not come to take revenge on Wang Yannian, which made many people who were full of hope to see Wang Yannian's "righteousness and benevolence" quite disappointed.

After this incident, Wang Yannian acted as if nothing had happened, and how to live his life turned out to be quite calm.

It was also after Wang Yannian drove Niu Pingfu away, but a few days later, a newly emerged caravan found the Wang family. Since Huang Zide occupied the area from Xiangyang to Hankou, the entire grain market in Jokhang was in turmoil, and everyone could predict that because of this change, the grain production of Huguang, the most important grain producing area of the empire, would be seriously affected, which would inevitably lead to further food shortages. It is said that in Beijing, the price of one stone of rice has risen to two taels of silver, and in Liaodong, the price of grain has risen to four taels of silver for one stone of rice. But even so, there were very few caravans that dared to venture into the area controlled by the "thieves" to buy and sell grain. This caravan dares to come here at such a time, it can be regarded as a guts, but this is not unusual, as the so-called "people die for money, birds die for food", there are never many people who dare to take risks for getting rich, but it can really open up the joints of the "thief", but not everyone can do it.

Of course, talking about such a "lowly thing" as business, naturally Wang Yannian does not need to go out by himself, but he still asks his nephew to come forward. It is said that this time the two sides had a good conversation, and the deal was quickly completed.

After another month, all the grain in the Wang family's fields was harvested, and the caravan arrived on time, bringing a lot of silver and carrying away the Wang family's grain.

At the same time that this caravan was making a big deal in the "Occupied Zone", Romant also began to make some moves.

In the past month, Luo Mengde has been relatively peaceful, and has been honestly staying in Niu Shou to recuperate. But two days ago, he suddenly attacked a Zhuangzi with his team.

In the past, Luo Mengde was rarely willing to attack these Zhuangzi scattered in the countryside. This is mainly because the defense of these Zhuangzi is generally not bad, especially in these years, when the "Liukou" dominates the world, some rich people with a little money in their hands have strengthened the defense of their Zhuangzi. Most of their Zhuangzi have solid walls, and there are dozens or even hundreds of family members in them, which is very difficult to fight.

Of course, if you are willing to invest your strength to fight, such a Zhuangzi will still not be able to stop a large number of rogues. However, because of the lack of attacking skills, there are many acquaintances in this kind of Zhuangzi, and they can't play any tricks like pretending to be disaster victims to sneak into the city, and then opening the city inside and outside. And if you want to fight hard, it often takes a lot of work to fight down, and a lot of people die; After the fight, the income is often very limited. Therefore, most of the ordinary rogues are reluctant to fight such a Zhuangzi.

But Luo Mengde didn't take much trouble to defeat this Zhuangzi called Li Jiapu this time, because there were cannons in his team.

Generally speaking, a big reason why the "rogues" want to "flow" is because they cannot defeat the officers and soldiers, they cannot stand in any place, and they have to constantly move to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by officers and soldiers. Therefore, for the "Rogues", the ability to maneuver has become the most important ability of all abilities. Everything that slows down the march, whether it is a person or an object, will be abandoned by the "rogue". And all kinds of siege equipment, regardless of the variety, are all stupid and stupid, with these things, the "rogues" will not be able to run fast no matter what. However, if they can't defeat the official army and have their own base area, it is almost impossible for them to deal with the strong city with a long-term siege, so the "rogue bandits" have an extremely low ability to attack the city, and in addition to relying on the sneak attack that should be combined with the inside and outside, they can almost only use the ladder to climb up to attack the city.

This time, Rommond dragged out the cannon! The original thick walls of Li's shop immediately became fragile in front of the cannons. It took only a stick of incense for Romond's men to blast a large gap in the wall, and his men rushed into it.

Although Li Yuanwai of the Li family shop also raised more than 100 family members, his family members and those family members raised by those generals are two different things after all. These family members, on weekdays, are just used to bully the surrounding villagers, rampant in the township or something, really encountered a thief, can lean against the wall to throw a little rolling wood, shoot some arrows is enough. The martial arts of these families are naturally not comparable to the families of generals like Zuo Liangyu, at most they are the level of ordinary soldiers. In addition, my Jokhang also has a lot of restrictions on civilian armed forces. If some equipment is possessed by the people, it can be regarded as rebellion. Some of these kinds of bans are easier to solve. For example, spears. The court forbade the people to have a spear for battle formations, but you only need to remove the head of the spear, attach it to the short handle, and make it a short spear no more than five feet long, and it will be in line with the rules of the court. Then prepare some long wooden sticks more than a foot long at home, as long as you don't usually attach the tip of the short gun to the long stick. When it really arrives at the thief village, just change the head of the gun to a stick.

However, there are some forbidden equipment that cannot be bypassed in this way, such as armor and crossbows. Therefore, these family members raised by Li Yuanwai are not wearing armor on their bodies. This makes it so that in battle, especially in the melee, they are not at all the opponents of the "thief army" under Zhang Bingzhong who are wearing armor, even if it is shoddy cotton armor. Once the wall was breached, the battle was quickly over.

According to the previous rules (whether it is the rogue, or the official army, the rules are the same. On the contrary, in the Tartars, the slaughter often turns into the plundering of the population), since the Li family shop resisted, and this resistance was easily crushed. Then the next step is naturally Tuzhuang. The entire Zhuangzi, regardless of men, women, old and young, were all killed. But this time, after breaking the Zhuangzi, Luo Mengde was extraordinarily restrained, he just beheaded Li Yuanwai's family, and moved the grain and silver of Li Yuanwai's family, and by the way, the family that Li Yuanwai originally raised, and now surrendered when he saw that the situation was not good, was incorporated into his team, and then withdrew from Li's shop.

After Luo Mengde withdrew from Li's shop, Huang Zide's people soon rushed to Li's shop. These people first collected the bodies of the dead, and then gathered all the people in Li's shop. A person who looked like a military general said something to them, to the effect that now that the Li family is dead, the Li family's fields will be temporarily ownerless. If within a month, the Li family does not have reliable relatives to go to the Marshal's Mansion in Xiangyang City to record, they can only distribute these fields to the old and young masters of the Li family's shop. Yes, you heard it right, these fields were not confiscated to the Marshal's Mansion, nor were they distributed to the homeless people, but directly to the people of the Li family shop according to the head—counting men and not women. As long as they promised to hand over one-fifteenth of the grain to the Marshal's Mansion every year in accordance with the rules.

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"These thieves are really vicious!" A gentleman-like man slapped his hand on a few cases, and said hatefully, "Li Yuanwai is nothing more than unwilling to bow to the thieves, and unwilling to let the thieves encroach on his own land, so he was mutilated by these thieves!" I only hate the incompetence of the officials and the army, and the lost place, but it can't be recovered!

Speaking of which, if the thieves want to rebel, Li Yuanwai must be loyal to the court, and now he is loyal to the court, and he can be regarded as a well-deserved death. It's just that the thief is vicious, but he is not killing people, but disposing of the property. The Li family's relatives may still have them, but how can they go to the thief's 'Marshal's Mansion' to report the property? Isn't that a sign that they are willing to recognize the thief as orthodox? If they don't report it, hehe, those thieves will distribute all these fields to those poor eggs in Li's shop...... Hehe, those poor ghosts, don't know etiquette, don't know shame. They don't know the truth that 'the people with lofty ideals do not drink the water of the stolen spring, and the incorruptible do not receive the food that comes from the mouth', so what is sent to the door, will they still not be able to push it outside? These shameless poor ghosts naturally accepted it happily. Hehe, they naturally know that the court will never recognize the land they have harvested in this way. As long as the officials and soldiers of the court come back, then naturally everything they take will be sent back, and everything they eat will be spit out. And who among them would like to send it back and spit it out? As the old saying goes, 'A man dies for wealth, but a bird dies for food.'" When the time comes, the officials and soldiers of the court will fight back, and these poor ghosts and lowly people will have to fight to the death to help Huang Zide, a thief, resist the court. If the imperial court can't come back in time, let Huang Zide, the thief, be entrenched for a while longer, I am afraid that the poor ghosts in the Xiangyang area will follow Huang Zide. At that time, the imperial court will be able to pacify Xiangyang, I am afraid that it will not be easy, if you want to completely seek peace, I am afraid that the stone will have to pass the knife, the thatch will have to go over the fire, and the people will have to change the species. Therefore, Huang Zide, a thief, is really vicious! ”

When several people around heard this person's words, they all frowned and said, "What Zhang Gong said is very true. It's just that Huang Zide used such a vicious method, how should we deal with it? ”