It was already dark, and Liu Mingsheng was holding a torch in his hand and patrolling the crowd with a few women who had already confessed. Liu Mingsheng has inquired clearly, in addition to Zhang Guangpei, the sixth master, and Li Fugui, the leader of the big boss, on the top of the mountain.

The six-boss Zhang Guangpei has no family members, but he usually likes to hook up with the daughter-in-law of the big boss. The old people in this romantic cottage know it, but no one dares to say it, especially in front of the big boss Zhang Guangzu. The eldest and the sixth are brothers, what if the big boss kills the whistleblower in order to cover up his ugliness? Zhang Guangpei and several daughters-in-law and children in charge of the family live in the mountains, so it is useless to use the trick of attacking the heart with family members. Liu Mingsheng wanted to find Li Fugui's mother-in-law and shake the determination of the entire main village through Li Fugui.

Man is a strange social animal, and a drastic change in social status can make a person's nature distorted beyond recognition in an instant. A quarter of an hour ago, he wept bitterly, begging for mercy; After a quarter of an hour, you can be proud to decide the life and death of others.

For example, this sister-in-law called Pan's mother. She was now excitedly following behind Liu Mingsheng, her eyes scanning the women's pile like a falcon, and seeing a sister she didn't usually like, with just a tap of her finger, two wolf-like soldiers rushed over and grabbed her, ignoring the woman's crying and making a fuss.

Pan's mother was also an old bandit, and he died in the line of duty in a robbery not long after he got married. When the father of the big boss saw her lonely and pitiful, he sent a message to leave her in the cottage and do some rough work of washing clothes and washing toilets, which belonged to the lowest status among the bandits.

Liu Mingsheng took Pan's mother and walked straight to the center of the crowd. Wherever he goes, he automatically gives way to it. The women retreated one after another, like a plague god descending.

Liu Mingsheng was silent about this. At this time, he heard Pan's mother's voice behind him: "Yo! Isn't this Li Fugui's eldest lady? Your man is still on the mountain, why did he throw you at the bottom of the mountain? You now know to hide, it's too late! Look, there are officers and soldiers all around, where can you hide? ”

A tall and strong mother-in-law rushed out of the pile of women silently, pushed Pan's mother, who betrayed her, to the ground with a slap, and rode up again, grabbed Pan's mother's hair, and dug her face with her nails.

"Ahh Kill! Pan's mother protected her face and screamed loudly.

Several soldiers who were accompanying them hurriedly rushed forward and grabbed the hands of the Li family's mother-in-law who was committing the murder. A soldier pointed at her neck and raised a broadsword in both hands.

"Don't kill him! Tie up and interrogate first. Liu Mingsheng hurriedly turned around to stop, "This mother-in-law is very useful!" ”

Pan's mother got up from the ground, her hair scattered, and her face was covered in blood. She pointed at this Li family's mother-in-law and shouted: "Official, her Li family also has a concubine and two babies!" Don't let it go! ”

Led by the Li family's mother-in-law and baby, dozens of women and mothers of bandits in the mountains were escorted to the Buddha's head and knelt in a row. They had already guessed their fate, and they were not willing to be killed like this. Forced by steel knives, they shouted the names of their relatives and told them to hurry down and surrender. Cries of despair drifted through the silent, dark air, reflected back and forth by the smooth, hard rock, and carried far away.

Hahahaha! With the crying sound under the mountain, Zhang Guangpei laughed wildly at the bandits: "Little ones, listen to it, your sixth master and my rescuers are here!" Let me go, I can speak for you in front of the official! Your mother-in-law and baby are still saved! If you don't let it go, hum...... Your mother-in-law and baby will be disemboweled and roasted by the officers and soldiers immediately! Sooner or later, you will die of hunger and thirst! Lao Tzu is in charge of the treasure of the cottage, let me go, and all of you have a share. Take the money and recruit Ann, you guys are still bandits! ”

Zhang Guangpei's words were quite lethal. The bandits on duty on the edge of the cliff looked at each other, and the knives and guns in their hands had already hung down. They are bandits, but they are just a means of survival. In the face of their own death, in front of the death of their families; In the face of money, in front of piles of money, no matter how strong the will will will be, and besides, they are just a group of bandits who have no ideals and beliefs.

"Fuck, you scream again, I'll cut your tongue!" Li Fugui's brother Li Facai saw that the situation was not good, and ran over with a knife, followed by a white little guy.

"Lao Tzu just likes to scream, what's wrong with you? There is a kind of tongue that you don't cut Lao Tzu, you cut Lao Tzu's eggs! Zhang Guangpei's mouth was bruised from the cold, and his body was trembling, but his mouth was not soft at all. He knew that if he was soft now, his last chance would be lost.

"You think I wouldn't dare?" Li Facai was really anxious, and when he came up, he pulled Zhang Guangpei's pants.

"Master, look at the officers and soldiers......" The little guy behind Li Facai suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a black tree shadow on the edge of the cliff. Li Facai turned his head to look in the direction of the little man's finger, and suddenly there was a pain in his waist, and his mouth screamed.

Li Sixian held a five-inch-long knife in his hand, stabbed Li Facai in the stomach and waist more than a dozen times, and scolded softly while stabbing him: "I'm not a fake woman, I'm a real eunuch!" ”

The screams of the brothers woke up Li Fugui, who had taken time to pretend to sleep. As he rushed out of the Hall with his knife in hand, several spears from the ambush at the gate pierced him in the chest. The bandits chose sides with their actions.

Before Li Facai died, he finally let out a loud shout. When Li Fugui died, he just widened his eyes, whined and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and then collapsed to the ground as soon as his body became weak.

Except for a pile of dirty blood and a pile of rotten meat, he didn't leave anything in the world.

Why did Li Sixian happen to appear next to Li Facai? The reason is actually quite simple. Li Sixian waits for people, that is a professional master. Li Sixian ran out of the yard for the savior, and it was Li Facai who ran head-on.

Li Sixian is white and clean, and his voice is shrill like a woman, a good prostitute. He is also proficient in all kinds of waiters. So after returning to the village, Li Facai was not willing to let him do rough work, but stayed by his side and became a personal servant.

Li Facai once asked Li Sixian how he looked like a girl, and Li Sixian replied that his father had rubbed his eggs since he was a child in order to let him enter the palace in the future. But when he grew up, he had no money to bribe the palace steward and eunuch, so he had to live in the village and become a handyman.

This situation mentioned by Li Sixian is not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty. There were tens of thousands of self-eunuchs in Jingshi, living in temples and ancestral halls everywhere, hoping to win a grand prize one day and be able to enter the palace on an errand. There is a folk legend that the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian during the Apocalypse was castrated into the palace. Chengdu has a royal mansion and also uses eunuchs, so there are many such self-emasculated people in Chengdu Mansion.

Li Sixian's explanation was reasonable and did not arouse any suspicion from Li Facai, a country bandit.

Niutouzhai was easily taken down by Zhu Pingjian. The battle at the foot of the stockade was even easier, and the 3rd and 6th companies faced the small number of women and elderly people left behind in the village, and almost effortlessly swept seven or eight villages at the foot of the stockade. On the mountain and down the mountain combined, the caravan team killed a total of two people, seriously injured one, and lightly injured seven, including Song Zhenzong.

Zhang Guangpei surrendered with 41 bandits, and more than 6,000 bandits were captured. Only more than 300 stone of grain were seized, but a great deal of gold, silver and jewelry were seized, equivalent to no less than 50,000 taels of silver. The savings of two generations of bandits in Niujiaozhai basically fell into Zhu Pingjin's pocket. The only regret in this battle was that Zhang Guangzu's wife and Zhang Guangpei's mistress were not saved. She died before the rope could be untied, frozen to death.

Among the more than 6,000 bandits, 100 people were elected as representatives, all of whom were the mothers and wives of bandit leaders at all levels, led by Liu Mingsheng, Zhang Guangpei, and the active Pan Ma, who followed Zhu Pingjin's army to continue the campaign. In the battle with the main force of the bandits, Zhu Pingjin expected that these people would have a strange effect.

The family members of Li Fugui and Li Facai were secretly cut down and eradicated by Zhu Pingjin, and the executor was Zhang Guangpei. The reason for the secret execution was only because Zhu Pingjin did not want his black side to be discovered by his wife and subordinates. The rest of the bandits were temporarily sent to Li Chongwen for custody. The busy farming season is about to begin, and there is a lot of farm work in the fields.

More than 1,000 exiles were screened, most of them single young women. If Zhu Pingjin came a few days late, their fate would inevitably be to marry bandits. Now they are faced with another choice, either take a few copper coins home or invest in the palace to work.

The suggestion of letting women enter the village was put forward by He Youyi. He said that in the future, these women could be matched to meritorious soldiers. When these soldiers have a home and keep a seed, they will be able to be loyal to the palace with all their hearts.

Women are also valuable human resources, but Zhu Pingjin is very hesitant to let women enter the village. On the one hand, these women and the elderly can only be regarded as half laborers, and they will occupy valuable arable land if they are included in Wangzhuang. The second is that he once read the Three Kingdoms and is familiar with the story of Guan Gong's defeat and defeat of Maicheng.

Guan Gong took the power of the flooded Seventh Army and took advantage of the situation to besiege Xiangyang and Fancheng, but was succeeded by Wuxia Ameng's sneak attack on Jiangling from behind. Guan Gong withdrew his troops to counterattack, but before the battle, tens of thousands of troops melted in the ice and snow on the march. Why? Without him, Jiangling is the main settlement of Liu Jun's family. Once Gangneung was lost, the army had no fighting spirit.

Zhu Pingjin worries that it is not in line with the principle of risk management to gather the family members of the caravan in one place. He whispered to his wife, and Luo Yuhong gave him an idea. She said that these women are good laborers who can be pooled to run a military food factory.

Now the caravans are out fighting, and the soldiers can only carry a maximum of 15 days of rice, plus a large group of baggage, they can only ensure a month's food supply. However, it would be much more convenient if the wheat abundant in Renshou and other places was ground into flour, roasted into a pot helmet, and then wrapped in oiled paper. First, there is no moisture, which greatly reduces the carrying weight; second, there is no need for field processing, and you can eat it with cold water; the third is standardized packaging, which is convenient for storage and distribution; Fourth, salt and various nutrients can be added to the pot helmet to ensure the health of soldiers.

As soon as Zhu Pingjin heard his wife's words, he knew that his wife had taken a fancy to the big order of military supplies.

He fully supported the monopoly of military goods. In wartime, the military industry is originally a highly planned economy, and a highly planned economy will inevitably bring about a high degree of monopoly.

He is more supportive of the fast-food use of military food. At present, the army has to start with chopping wood and digging stoves. By the time the meal was finished, an hour had passed. This kind of slow catering method cannot adapt to the high-intensity and fast-paced actual combat requirements in any case. In addition, cooking on a fire also has the disadvantage of easily exposing the target and being detected by the enemy.

Therefore, Zhu Pingjin readily agreed to his wife's suggestion and authorized her to organize the team by herself. Zhu Pingjin summed up a truth from the experience of the two living together for a long time:

Whatever is the wife's main thing, it's best not to interfere!