Chapter 17: Return to Anyi

After Liu Fan and Guan Yu closed the door where the belongings were hidden, they walked to the front yard. At this time, there were already about 100 soldiers gathered in the front yard. Moreover, the soldiers rescued more than 100 women and civilians.

These women and civilians were tortured here, and when they learned that the officers and soldiers had broken through the robbers' cottage, they wept with joy one by one. Liu Fan comforted them, and then sent someone to send them back to the house to rest. Tomorrow we will arrange for someone to send them back to their respective hometowns.

In addition to the people detained in the courtyard of Shouyang Tiger, the soldiers also rescued hundreds of civilians who had been captured by the robbers and taken up the mountain to be used as servants to make fires and cook. Their reaction was the same as the former, and Liu Fan couldn't help but comfort them and arranged for them to go to the house to rest.

In addition, the soldiers also found about hundreds of stones of grain in the granary that the robbers said, and Liu Fan was going to distribute the grain to the surrounding people. After everything was dealt with, it was already four watches. Cao Xiao had also dealt with what Liu Fan had ordered, and brought people to Liu Fan.

"Childe, there are more than a thousand robbers we have captured, and there are also the bodies of three hundred robbers. Only 20 of our people were killed in the battle, and more than 20 were wounded, and there was no danger to life. This time, the bandits won a complete victory. Cao Xiao happily reported to Liu Fan.

The robbers claimed that there were more than 2,000 people to frighten the local government, and even if they added up to more than 1,500 people.

"It's getting late today, so the soldiers are optimistic about this group of robbers and prisoners, and the rest of the soldiers will rest and count their battle exploits tomorrow." Liu Fan said to Cao Xiao. It is inevitable that there will be casualties before the battle, and some things are inevitable.

"No!" Cao Xiao clenched his fists and took his life.

Early in the morning, before the sun rose, Liu Fan had already gotten up. Since coming to this world, Liu Fan has been dreaming of sleeping at night, and he has become accustomed to it.

Standing at the top of the mountain, Liu Fan looked around. The mountains are like the sea, the dense forests are like waves, this place is really good.

The mountain is not high, and there is a fairy name. Liu Fan felt that it was best to use this sentence to describe Shouyang Mountain, the reason why Shouyang Mountain was famous all over the world was because the two benevolent saints Boya and Shuqi lived here at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

Boya and Shuqi were originally the princes of the Shang Dynasty's vassal state Guzhu, because the Shang Dynasty was replaced by the Zhou Dynasty, Boya Shuqi was loyal and did not eat Zhou Su, and fled all the way from the Guzhu Kingdom here, picking roses and eating until death. Thus leaving behind the famous Cai Wei song.

The first morning sun fell on Liu Fan, and also fell on this mountain peak, which is extremely beautiful, perhaps this is the origin of the name of Shouyang Mountain. Liu Fan stayed here quietly for more than an hour, relaxed his body and mind, and then walked back.

At this time, the soldiers had already gathered together, and Guan Yu and Cao Xiao led people to carry out all the gold, silver, and money hidden by Shouyang Tiger and put them in front of the soldiers.

"When I attacked the cottage last night, I said that if I beat the cottage, I would give you half of all the money of the robbers. I will never break my word, and the ten warriors who took the lead in attacking the walled gate with me yesterday will give five times as many as the brothers who died in battle, and five times as many as their families. Do you have any objections? Liu Fan walked to the front of the soldiers and said loudly.

The more you give, the more you get back. The soldiers below shouted words of thanks and no objections. Obviously very convinced of Liu Fan's reward.

"Childe is so clear in rewards and punishments, and keeps his word. How can we have any objections, I thank Gongzi on behalf of all the soldiers. Cao Xiao bowed, thinking that only such a commander was worthy of a strong man to serve him. It's a pity that he is the leader of Wang Yi's personal guards, otherwise he would definitely turn to Liu Fan's command.

After dividing the money evenly, the people took the captives and drove down the mountain with the rescued people. The bodies of the robbers were gathered by Liu Fan in the courtyard of Shouyang Hu and burned, while the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle were taken down the mountain and given to their families together with the money for the bereavement.

Of course, Liu Fan will not hand over the remaining half of the money to Taishou Wangyi, he wants to keep it to buy food to maintain many displaced people through this winter, even if Wangyi knows, it is not good to blame him, otherwise it will definitely cause public outrage.

After descending the mountain, the soldiers were ordered to make a big fanfare, and every village and pavilion would be publicized, so that the local people would know that the robbers in Shouyang Mountain had been eliminated, and they would also give them some food and money. When the rescued people were scattered, Liu Fan would also give them some money and food, so that some homeless people could make a living from the money. Liu Fan's good deeds even some soldiers were infected, and they all took out some reward money to distribute to the poor people, and even Cao Xiao gave all his rewards to the people of a village, you must know that Liu Fan's reward to Cao Xiao was no less than that of those ten warriors. Cao Xiao's move made Liu Fangao look at him for three points, but he didn't know what Cao Xiao's talent was. In this crackdown, he has never had a chance to perform.

The captured robbers beat their chests one by one, feeling annoyed that they had been robbers. Most people have repented, and if they can still be released, they must be good citizens.

It took only one day when I came, and when I returned, I was dragged down by the captives, and after a night in a township, I arrived at Anyi in the afternoon of another day.

After arriving in Anyi, Liu Fan gave the robbers a lesson in thinking, asking them to help the people to cultivate the land, take care of food and housing, and as long as they worked for three years, they could atone for their previous sins and give them houses and fields to live like ordinary people.

Many of the more than 1,000 robbers were young people, and after Liu Fan took a good ideological class, they were all high-spirited and full of longing for their future lives.

Liu Fan divided them into four parts and went to Tuntian, and temporarily arranged a hundred soldiers to supervise each part to prevent them from making trouble.

After Liu Fan took the robbers away, Cao Xiao took the remaining soldiers to say goodbye to Liu Fan and went back to report to Wang Yi.

Back at the Marquis of Western Qin's Mansion, Liu Fan asked Liu Yu to put the four carts of gold and silver money he brought back into the warehouse. The matter of relieving the displaced people has always been presided over by Liu Yu's father and son, and these gold and silver money are the most reassuring to Liu Yu and Liu Fan.