Chapter 136
Feng Bock has faced several difficulties, but he is a very discerning person, seeing that bandits are already a sunset industry, so he changed his thinking, and started a security army that specializes in providing protection for the rich and villages. Coupled with the fact that his father-in-law was a wealthy local family and helped him clear contact, he became the leader of a village's security army.
At that time, many of the security forces were transformed from bandits like Feng Bock, most of them were bandits who were difficult to change, watching the scene in the village they covered, not only collecting protection money, but also eating and taking cards under various pretexts, and even molesting women, which made the local people very resentful, and there were some people who said that they helped the villagers in the village to fight the bandits, and when the bandits didn't come, the cowhide blew loudly, and when the bandits came, the group of goods ran faster than the rabbits, and they didn't take the lives of the villagers and rich families who gave them money and food seriously. Those villagers who spent money in vain and rich families hated them even more.
There are also playful security guards, who unite with the bandits, let the bandits come to rob them regularly, and then be driven away by themselves, so as to take the opportunity to increase the price of the villagers.
Those villagers and rich families hated such bandits, but they didn't dare to do anything to them, after all, they still needed their protection, in case they provoked this group of undisciplined hooligans, and they deliberately led a group of bandits to raid their homes, wouldn't it be worth the loss.
However, von Bock is not such a person, he is a very thoughtful person, to be precise, he is a very ambitious person, he understands that if he wants to develop and grow, it is absolutely impossible to rely on force alone, he must engage in relationships, pay attention to human feelings, and win people's hearts, especially the hearts of villagers and rich families who provide him with money and food support.
Therefore, since he founded the security army, he has not collected any other assessments except for the protection money that has been negotiated in advance, and he has to pay money for buying and selling things, and he has not only done this himself, but also demanded that all his subordinates do the same, and if anyone violates the ban and rubs the oil of the people in his jurisdiction, he will not be merciless. This earned him a good reputation.
Second, he is a real worker, unlike some security forces, who run away first when they see the bandits, but go up first to move reasonably, know them with affection, let the other party give his brother a face, don't make trouble in the brother's jurisdiction, if the other party just leaves, then he will give away good wine and meat, if the other party does not know the current affairs, and has to come hard, then he is absolutely not ambiguous, and he will fight with the other party when he picks up the guy, and will never let the money of the protected person be spent in vain.
In this way, after a long time, von Bock's reputation gradually wore out, originally he only covered one village, and later the nearby villages came to join his protective circle, and his territory gradually expanded to more than 20 villages, more money, more people, he used the money collected to recruit troops, and his strength soared.
Finally, one day, a huge pie fell on his head, not far from him in the market town, where the rich men heard of his prestige and wanted to rely on his men to protect him, and offered a price of fifty thousand silver dollars a month, such a large sum of money, which von Bock had never seen in his life, and his jaw almost fell with joy.
He agreed almost without thinking about it, no matter what, with these 50,000 silver dollars, he could recruit more soldiers and horses, and his strength would skyrocket.
Although Feng Boke knew that there was someone covering the market town before, and that person was also a bandit, and he was also very famous in the road, but he was the same as those people before, he always ate and took cards, and the local rich and residents of the fish and meat aroused great resentment among the local people, so he kicked him out and replaced him with his own work, if he took over this stall, it would definitely make the other party's flesh hurt, and when the time came, it would inevitably be a fire.
But he couldn't refuse the temptation of 50,000 silver dollars, which was much more than the place he had covered before, so he took the plunge and went on this field.
Sure enough, the previous one heard that von Bock occupied his place, and he was furious, and vowed to erase von Bock from this world, but he had also heard of von Bock's name and knew that this was a hard stubble, so he didn't dare to rashly turn his face with him, so he sent someone to negotiate with him first, which roughly means: "The two of us work together, my age and qualifications are older than you, I am the boss, you are the second, let's create a career together." ”
Feng Boke licked the blood on the head of the knife, and his life was explained several times, just thinking about being the boss, how could he be his deputy, no matter how good the deputy was, how could he be comfortable as the king, so he immediately refused.
Since we can't talk about it, we have to fight. The previous one didn't say a word, and launched an attack on von Bock with all his troops and horses, and von Bock naturally refused to show weakness and launched a counterattack in the market town, but in the end, because he was outnumbered, he was gradually defeated, and he was about to be unable to support it, or his sworn brother Mel heard the information and brought people to save him and defeated the previous one.
After this battle, von Bock had palpitations, and finally understood that his strength was still relatively weak, and if he wanted to develop and grow, he must absorb more strength, so he talked to Moore about the problem of annexation.
Mel finally joined him, not as written in some books, as soon as he saw von Bock, he decided that this man was extraordinary, and he didn't want anything, so he followed him with all his heart, and these accounts were all nonsense to fool people. Von Bock didn't have the words "will be a big deal" written on his face, how does Moore know what he will be like in the future? In fact, the reason why Melburn followed Von Bock was completely out of practical interests.
At that time, von Bock invited Mer, who came to the rescue, to drink, and asked half-seriously, half-seriously: "Brother, how is your business lately?" ”
Melmer looked sad at the time, took a sip of wine, and said sullenly: "What else? In the past few years, this line of work has become more and more difficult to do, brother, you have not done it, you are all hungry and full, how can you be so good, sit on the ground and collect rent, no matter the wind or rain, you are indispensable to eat and drink spicy food. ”
Von Bock poured him a glass of wine with a smile, looked up at him, and said tentatively, "Why don't you stay and do it for me?" I don't dare to say anything else, you are my brother, as long as there is a bite of me, there will be a bite of you, you can rest assured. ”