Although the cottage defeated the siege of the official army this time, Liu Gouwa was not complacent, knowing that he was just relying on the mountain situation of Hutou Mountain, and took advantage of the situation to keep the officials and troops at the bottom of the mountain, not by his own strength to defeat those officials and troops. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, after the official army returned to Xiao Song City, Liu Gouwa trained Zhang San and others more strictly, only when his own strength improved, in this era of cold weapons, it was safer and had more chance of survival, otherwise, next time who knows if the official army will sacrifice their lives to attack the mountain, and then he and others will die without a corpse.

When Liu Gouwa and others were training hard, the bandits on Hutou Mountain were ruffian, eating and drinking, gambling and fighting, playing with women, and doing all kinds of evil.

The bandits squandered uncontrollably, and the days became more difficult day by day, and the bandits decided to go down the mountain to block the road and rob, but Liu Gouwa did not agree with them to do it as before, so barbaric that it was outrageous, robbing all the past business travelers, and also hurting people and killing people from time to time, so that those business travelers were afraid of tigers.

As a result, Liu Gouwa, Wang Chang and others, because they continued to rob or collect toll protection fees, argued with each other in the cottage hall and did not give in to each other.

In the end, it was Liu Gouwa's compromise proposal, everyone was for the good of the cottage, so they set the day as a single and double day, a single day for Wang Chang and them to rob, and Liu Gouwa and they collected toll protection fees on both days, if Liu Gouwa received the same amount of money as the property grabbed in the previous month within a month, in the future, according to Liu Gouwa's method, put away the toll protection fee.

After Wang Chang and others reluctantly agreed, Liu Gouwa immediately found someone to make a wooden sign and wrote a notice in his own name, explaining that there are new regulations in Hutou Mountain, two-day crossing, no longer robbing the property of past business travelers, and also protecting the safety of past business travelers in the jurisdiction of Hutou Mountain, just charging a little toll and protection fee.

At the beginning, Liu Gouwa was on the official road between Xiao Song City and Song City, after setting up a notice, the official road was still cut off, and there were no traces, and the big robbery of Xiao Song City had frightened the nearby business travelers, and no one dared to take the official road of Hutou Mountain, and Hutou Mountain had become a forbidden place for everyone to talk about.

However, on the eighth day, there was a merchant in Xiao Song City, because he was in a hurry to deliver goods in Shangzhou City, and the time was urgent, and he heard that Hutou Mountain had set a new rule of not robbing, so he sent a man up the mountain with anxiety, and found Liu Gouwa in fear and asked whether it was true or false.

When Liu Gouwa confirmed and promised, the guy paid double the toll and protection fee on the spot according to the instructions of his proprietor, which is also Liu Gouwa's previous opening of a wine shop in Xiaosong City, and the popularity is not bad, although this merchant is worried, but in the end he still chooses to believe Liu Gouwa.

Liu Gouwa did not charge the guy double the toll and protection fee, but still charged according to the price stipulated in the transit of goods, not much, but also a lot, and finally the guy left with a thousand thanks.

In the afternoon of the same day, the merchant in Xiao Song City, under the gift of Liu Gouwa and others, safely crossed Hutou Mountain, and after handing over the goods in Song City, he also returned to Xiao Song City safely.

With the precedent of this merchant, the news of the new rules of Hutou Mountain's double day does not rob has spread far and wide, and the name of Liu Gouwa, the former county commander of Songcheng, has also spread all over Songzhou, and various rumors have also spread all over the sky.

Some people say that Liu Gouwa was persecuted by the state government and went up the mountain, and fell into the grass, some people say that Liu Gouwa colluded with mountain bandits, was pursued by the government, and had to flee to the mountain, and some people say that Liu Gouwa was willing to fall, and those mountain bandits who killed a thousand knives in Hutou Mountain, were embarrassed, and killed their neighbors, etc., there is no agreement, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and there are those who sympathize with and curse.

It is difficult to distinguish whether Liu Gouwa's various rumors are true or false, but Hutou Mountain has changed to collect toll protection fees, but it is indeed correct. Since then, the official road between Songcheng and Xiao Songcheng has gradually increased the number of business trips in the past, but they have all chosen to cross Hutou Mountain on double days, because only double days can ensure the safety of their crossing.

Wang Chang and others couldn't rob their property on the single number day, and when they saw the business travelers coming and going on the official road, a cart of goods, and the noisy sound of wheels, they couldn't help but be very greedy, itchy and undisturbed, and started the idea of robbing money and goods.

However, Liu Gouwa had already figured out their thoughts, and after some persuasion that they could not be blind, eager for quick success, killing chickens and taking eggs, etc., they gave up the usual idea of the mountain bandit.

In less than a month, Liu Gouwa received toll fees and protection fees far more than the silver money that the mountain bandits had looted on official roads before. Originally, their previous robbery was the practice of fishing with all their might, leaving no room for sparing, and scared away all the past merchants, how could there be anything to rob, and the silver money they robbed was also very small.

The cottage has a steady stream of money coming in, and Wang Chang and others can't say anything, so they simply let Liu Gouwa collect tolls and protection fees even on the day of the single number.

The bandits in the cottage also respect Liu Gouwa's way of making money, no need to fight and kill, so someone sends money in every day, and often praises Liu Gouwa behind his back, who used to be the proprietor of Liu Ji Liquor Workshop, and now he is the God of Wealth in the cottage.

Hutou Mountain blocked the road to collect the toll and protection fees of the passing merchants, and the officers and soldiers of Xiao Song City were not unaware, and soon sent the officers and soldiers to set up an ambush on the official road to suppress the bandits.

In accordance with Liu Gouwa's suggestion, the mountain bandits played a cat-and-mouse game with the officers and soldiers in the mountainous area, you chase me and run, you go and I disturb, and bite you from time to time, which makes these officers and soldiers very annoying, but they can't help it.

However, the officers and troops of Xiao Song City seemed to be iron-hearted, and they wanted to drive the mountain bandits of Hutou Mountain back to the mountain and die on the mountain, so they sent several groups of officers and soldiers one after another to encircle and suppress the mountain bandits who came down the mountain, Liu Gouwa and others, so they had to return to the mountain and live in the mountain.

At the foot of Hutou Mountain, there are often officials and soldiers patrolling the official road, cutting off the financial road of the cottage, Wang Chang and others did not have the consciousness of working hard and living within their means, and they had already exhausted the little grain stored in the cottage, and lived every day on the wild things picked by the waste refugees in the mountains. Wang Chang couldn't bear the hardship, so he scolded his mother every day, and his temper became bigger and bigger day by day.

Finally one day, Wang Chang couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to take a risk, went down the mountain again, and went to a township called Changmaoyuan to loot. Changmaoyuan, that is, the township where Liu Gouwa instructed Huang San's fool Zhang San and them to detour up the mountain in order to get rid of the chasing soldiers, is in the northwest of Hutou Mountain, not far from the foot of Hutou Mountain, separated from Xiao Song City by a few small hills, which is relatively remote.

Liu Gouwa really didn't dare to compliment Wang Chang and others for their looting methods, and before leaving, Liu Gouwa repeatedly agreed with them that they could not kill people again, and they could not repeat the atrocities of Xiao Song Cheng.

In order to attract and contain the officers and troops under Hutou Mountain, Liu Gouwa suggested leaving Zhao Qiu and the fool to lead most of the mountain bandits, guard the cottage, provoke and tease the officers and soldiers under the mountain every day, provoke and anger the officers and soldiers under the mountain, and leave the attention of the officers and soldiers on Hutou Mountain.