Chapter 57: Black Clouds Dominate
Since ancient times, there have been five villages and three towns in Lexian County, that is to say, in addition to the county seat of Lexian County, there are five Zhuangzi and three towns.
Among the three towns, there is Wang Town, which is south of Baozhuang, covering an area of more than 100,000 acres, and the population of the town is tens of thousands! Not only the underground contains rich coal resources, the ground is dense forestry resources, by the mountains and water, resources and environment are among the best in Lexian County, Wang Town is well-deserved as the largest town in Lexian County.
To the north of Baozhuang is the second largest town in Le County, 'Fulin Town', which is the second largest town in Le County after Wang Town, and is the second largest town in Le County in terms of population, land area and economy.
As for the east of Baozhuang, it is the smallest town in Le County, 'Zhongxiang Town', which is too small compared to Wang Town. Even, the size of the entire town is only one-tenth of that of Wang Town, and even Baozhuang can't compare to it, and even Fang Mu can't be interested in this so-called Zhongxiang Town.
Among the three towns, except for Wang Town, which was ruled by Wang Youtong of the Wang family in a mode like a soil emperor, the other two towns are relatively good. Although the peasants under the jurisdiction of the other two towns are still not doing well, they are also better than living a life of no one and no ghost in Wang Town. This is also due to the fact that there are no characters like Wang Youtong in the other two towns, and the land under its jurisdiction has been divided by several or even more than a dozen landlords, not at all like Wang Town, where all the land is concentrated in the hands of Wang Youtong alone, resulting in a family-style model of ruling the town.
However, because there are too many landlords in these two towns, there is no one who shakes the scene, and the management is very chaotic. This also caused a battle between the landlords of the other two towns, today you don't obey me, tomorrow I don't obey you. Kind of similar to a situation like a warlord dogfight. It's just that, compared to the warlord melee, the armed forces of these two towns are too few! According to the report of the person sent by Liang Yingshi to inquire about the situation in these two towns, it is said that these two towns do not even have 50 foreign guns, and the reason is that because the landlords in these two towns are not convinced by everyone, no one is willing to pay for guns themselves. As a result, the defense strength of these two towns was simply far inferior compared to the Fang family, and now Fang Mu wanted to expand the Fang family's power to these two towns, it was simply effortless.
Of course, it wasn't that Fang Mu didn't want to expand his power to all the towns in Lexian County, but that after Fang Mu took people to destroy Wang Youtong in Wang Town last time, the impact was so great that even Fang Mu had to stop his expansion, let two pieces of fat meat be placed in front of his eyes, and he didn't dare to swallow these two pieces of fat. After all, after Fang Mu recklessly killed Wang Youtong in Wang Zhen last time, Fang Mu still didn't know what the relationship between Wang Youtong and Kui Jun was, although in the past three months, Kui Jun didn't even have a reaction after Wang Youtong was destroyed, but Fang Mu still didn't want to recruit people from these two towns, in case there were people in these two towns who were related to Kui Jun or other Sichuan Province bigwigs, Fang Mu didn't believe that he was so lucky every time, and no one came to trouble the Fang family.
The Fang family's current strength is too weak compared to those Sichuan Province bigwigs!!
'Luzhuang' is located in the south of Baozhuang, which is the second largest Zhuangzi among the five major Zhuangzi in Lexian County. Among them, the first Zhuangzi deserves to be Baozhuang, as for the other three Zhuangzi and Baozhuang compared with Luzhuang, they are not worth mentioning.
And the Fang family, the largest family in Baozhuang, is now not only the largest force in Baozhuang, but also the largest force in Lexian, and even the first force in Lexian County's largest town 'Wang Town' The Wang family was destroyed by the Fang family, and the Fang family is of course the largest force in Lexian. There are more than 2,000 armed men and more than 1,000 foreign guns, and the Mauser 1888 and Manlisha, which are still advanced firearms in this era, in addition to guns, the Fang family has two small German steel cannons!!
This is in Lexian, who else dares to provoke the Fang family? The other forces prayed that the Fang family would not provoke it!!
'Luzhuang' is located near Zhuangzi in Baozhuang, and it is only half an hour's journey from Baozhuang to Luzhuang, and if you are faster, you can get to Luzhuang in about 20 minutes.
The speed of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' was even faster, and because Fang Mu ordered a rapid march, all the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' didn't even need twenty minutes before the group entered the territory of Luzhuang.
As the largest force in Luzhuang, the 'Wang family' is the same status of the Fang family in Luzhuang as the Fang family's status in Baozhuang. The status of Wang Papi, the head of the Wang family, in Luzhuang is equivalent to Fang Tianhao's status in Baozhuang. It's just that Wang Papi is not as loved as Fang Tianhao in Baozhuang in Luzhuang, but is scolded by others.
I don't know what the real name of 'Wang Papi' is, and even those tenant farmers in Luzhuang don't know, just because Wang Papi is very harsh on the tenant farmers, and the land rent collected is very high, and often makes the tenant farmers of the Wang family farm all year round for the Wang family's farming, and sometimes they can't even eat enough, and Wang Papi himself is not much different from Wang Youtong in Wang Town. Therefore, the tenant farmers who hated him privately gave him the nickname 'Wang Papi'. Of course, those tenant farmers can only call this nickname in private, on the surface, those tenant farmers don't look at the bold call Wang Papi, but respectfully call Wang Lao!
Fang Mu looked at the ancestral house of the Wang family, which was slightly smaller than the Fang family's mansion in front of him, and sighed helplessly. Originally, Fang Mu didn't care about Xiao Wang's skinning and killing the previous owner of his body. On the contrary, Fang Mu was also a little grateful to Xiao Wang for his actions, if he didn't kill the original Fang Mu with a stick, then how could it be the turn of the current Fang Mu to occupy this body? Originally, Fang Mu was in the mood of turning big things into small things and small things, and he didn't go to trouble the Wang family after crossing this era, but thinking about the days when he crossed the well water with the king of Luzhuang and didn't violate the river water.
Who knows, Fang Mu didn't want to cause trouble, but trouble came to provoke him, he really couldn't hide if he wanted to, because this Wang Pi actually colluded with the bandit Liu Mazi to kidnap himself on the way back to Baozhuang last time, the purpose was to see that his father was too rich, and wanted to blackmail his father with this.
Wang Peel's action really angered Fang Mu, he hadn't asked him to settle the old account of the stick, this Wang Peel actually paid attention to himself, this is really not a death, he will not die, as soon as he dies, he will die immediately, this Wang family father and son belong to the ranks of death. If it weren't for the fact that when he returned to Baozhuang last time, Fang Mu was delayed by Wang Youtong's matter, Fang Mu would have destroyed the Wang family a long time ago. Anyway, Liu Mazi and Wang Zhen's Wang family had already been wiped out by Fang Mu and others, and he didn't mind destroying one more family
"Huzi, Zhao Feng, order the troops to stop, rest in place for twenty minutes, and after twenty minutes, the two of you will rush into the Wang family with your respective troops and tie up all the people of the Wang family!"
Fang Mu instructed Huzi and Zhao Feng that Fang Mu did not intend to destroy the Wang family this time. In other words, Fang Mu did not intend to kill anyone from the Wang family, so Fang Mu ordered Huzi and Zhao Feng to rush into the Wang family, tied up all the people in the Wang family, and did not let them shoot indefinitely.
Fang Mu didn't want to kill the people of the Wang family, that was because Fang Mu felt that he had made too many moves in the past few months, first destroying people, and then suppressing bandits everywhere in Quanle County, so that the people in Quanle County didn't know about Young Master Mu of the Fang family in his treasure village! Fang Mu was too arrogant to do. Arrogant people don't live long, and some things are too much, if Fang Mu continues to do this, sooner or later he will be sent to the Qing court to be wrong. Therefore, Fang Mu also felt that he should be a little more restrained.
Of course, if the Wang family dared to resist to the death this time, Fang Mu would not mind destroying another family. Anyway, he is not a good person, his hands are also full of the blood of the dead, and he has stepped on the white bones under his feet!!!
At this moment, the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards' was stationed not far from the Wang family's house, and the evil aura formed by all the members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family' was invisibly enveloping the Wang family