Chapter 55: Three Months Later
Three months later
All the personnel of the Fang family trained vigorously in the scorching heat for three months, and after three consecutive months of training, except for those maids and ordinary family members of the Fang family, as long as it was the armed forces of the Fang family, whether it was someone who had just entered the Fang family, or someone who had been working in the Fang family, they all participated in the training prescribed by Fang Mu.
In three months, Fang Mu not only trained those who had just entered the Fang family and the Fang family's original nursing home to look like soldiers. Moreover, as the training progressed, Fang Mu also took the first regiment of the Fang family's guards of more than 2,000 to suppress bandits everywhere in Lexian, and almost wiped out the bandits in Lexian.
It can only be said that almost. After all, Fang Mu didn't know if there was any fish that slipped through the net!
According to Fang Mu's statement, just training is a bird, and it must be pulled out to test the results of training. It is said that the battlefield is the best place to temper soldiers, but there is no place to fight in Lexian. Even if there is! It is impossible for Fang Mu to pull the Fang family's people to the battlefield, you must know that the Fang family's two thousand armed forces are illegal in the eyes of the imperial court, and the Fang family only has two hundred gun licenses, if the imperial court discovers the illegal armed forces of the Fang family's two thousand people, Fang Mu will definitely not be able to eat and walk around. Helpless, Fang Mu had no choice but to let the people of the Fang Family's First Guard Regiment train and suppress the bandits at the same time. Fortunately, Fang Mu's second uncle Fang Tianjing is the county commander of Le County, and Fang Mu's big moves in Le County were covered up by Fang Tianjing, otherwise, Fang Mu would be discovered by the Qing court sooner or later.
After all, even if it is to suppress bandits and ensure peace on the side, that is what the imperial court should do, you are a rich man in the countryside, and for no reason you have made more than 2,000 armed people with guns, even if the Qing court is stupid, it will find out that something is wrong. If your Fang family only had one or two hundred armed men, the Qing court wouldn't think anything about it, but if you got two thousand people, would it seem like they were protecting the territory and the people? Even a fool knows that there is a problem.
Fang Mu was happy to take his people to find trouble with bandits everywhere in Le County, but Fang Tianjing kept following Fang Mu and constantly wiping his ass for what Fang Mu was doing. caused Fang Tianjing to constantly curse that Fang Mu was the little king's eight calves, didn't he know that if Fang Mu was the little king's eight calves, what was he?
Suppressing bandits, Fang Mu hurt Fang Tianjing to wipe his ass for him, but it can be regarded as a good thing to eliminate harm for the people. Fang Mu's action, the bandits in Le County disappeared. The bandits in Lexian County, who usually haunt the mountains and forests, often plague their neighbors and are arrogant, but now they can't find a shadow in Lexian County. Either he was killed or captured by the First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards, or he was incognito from now on and never became a bandit again.
The bandits who were killed or incognito by the First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards were a little better, and the saddest ones were those who were captured by the First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards. Once the bandits were captured, Fang Mu didn't hurt their lives, he just captured them back to Fang's house and locked them up, together with the dozens of bandits who were captured from Liu Mazi's bandit village last time. Fang Mu didn't raise these bandits for nothing, but treated these bandits as free labor for the Fang family, once the Fang family had anything to build, these bandits would go to the top, Fang Mu was not afraid that these bandits would dare to rebel, more than a thousand rifles were put on the heads of those bandits, did those bandits dare not obey?
Those bandits who were arrested by Fang Mu did the hardest and most tiring work in the Fang family, and the food was also the worst, Fang Mu had no intention of improving the lives of these bandits at all, according to Fang Mu's concept, since these bandits chose the path of being bandits, whether they were willing or not, or they were forced to do so in their hometown, they must bear the consequences and bear the punishment they deserve.
By now, the Fang family had locked up nearly 1,500 bandits!!!
The Fang family needs to build accommodation for those people of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards', as for who will build it? Those bandits are on top! In this era, mining is a hard job, especially in the Manchu Dynasty, where the average level of industry is backward, it is a dangerous job, but someone must do it to dig coal, so who will take this dangerous job? Those bandits are the first to bear the brunt!
Thanks to Fang Mu's anti-bandit action, the people of Lexian County finally lived a life free of bandits
"Stand upright!"
"Take a break!"
On the newly built training ground of the Fang family, Fang Mu stood on the high platform and looked at the personnel of the First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards below, looking at the First Regiment of the Fang Family Guards who finally had some modern military appearances, Fang Mu's face couldn't help but show a hint of a smile.
Because, until now, Fang Mu felt that he had a little foundation in this era.
Soldiers! In all dynasties, it is a symbol of political power, there is no political power without military power, and only from the barrel of a gun can you get out of political power!
Why was the emperor of the Sui Dynasty's 'Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian' able to become the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty from a courtier of the Northern Zhou Dynasty? That's because Yang Jian held the military power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was able to mobilize the army of the whole country, and Yang Jian even stabilized his imperial position after destroying the Southern Chen. The reason why Zhao Kuangyin was able to succeed in the 'Chenqiao Mutiny' was also because he held the military power of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the generals were convinced of him, so he successfully staged a yellow robe.
As for why the 'Wuxu Reform' failed, first of all, it violated the fundamental interests of the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty, but the most fundamental thing is that Emperor Guangxu has no power in his hands, and the most important thing is that he has no military power, so he can only verbally support Kang Youwei and let him go here to reform it, and reform it there, just like a buzzing mosquito, buzzing in the ears of those Manchu magnates all day long, annoying. Finally one day, those Manchu magnates couldn't stand Kang Youwei's annoying mosquito anymore, and they didn't care whether the emperor agreed or not, anyway, Cixi nodded, and those Manchu magnates directly slapped Kang Youwei and his reformers to death. Perhaps, at that time, Kang Youwei realized that 'reform requires bloodshed and sacrifice, and it needs a powerful backer', but it was too late!
Everyone in the first regiment of the Fang family's guards under the high platform was wearing the training clothes uniforms issued by the Fang family, and all of them were dark-skinned, strong, and full of energy. In the three months that he stayed in the Fang family, although Fang Mu was training this group of family members in a hellish way, the Fang family's food was also good! You can eat meat almost every day. If this was in the previous life of those people, it would be unimaginable, a year's cultivation is only enough to eat one of their own food, where can they still live a life of meat!
During the three months of hard training and suppression of bandits, some people died, and some people couldn't bear this high-intensity training and quit, and Fang Mu also followed the agreement. Those who quit were paid wages and travel expenses, those who died or were injured were also given pensions to their families, and those who had children were also taken care of by the Fang family.
Dead or injured people all appeared in the process of suppressing bandits, and this situation did not occur during the training process, Fang Mu's training was still very humane, as long as someone fainted during the training process because he couldn't stand it, Fang Mu would immediately ask someone to carry the fainting person down to rest, and then continue training after resting. And the death and casualty rate in the process of suppressing bandits is the largest, although those bandits are outdated, but they are very good at choosing places to entrench, generally entrenched in some mountain, causing the first regiment of the Fang family guards to exterminate them, most of the people were killed and injured before breaking through the bandit village
During this period, Fang Mu did not forget the king of Linzhuang Luzhuang, Wang Papi is the big landlord of Zhuangzi Luzhuang next door to Baozhuang, and has the same power in Luzhuang as the Fang family in Baozhuang, even the original owner of Fang Mu's body was beaten to death by Xiao Wang, the son of King Luzhuang. Not only that, even the last time Fang Mu and they came back from the county town, they encountered an ambush by Liang Yingshi on the road, it was all conspired by King Luzhuang and Liu Mazi to kidnap Fang Mu in order to ask Fang Tianhao for a high ransom, which completely angered Fang Mu. At that time, Fang Mu knew that the incident was done by King Luzhuang, and he couldn't wait to kill Wang Papi on the spot, but later there was a case of Wang Zhen and Wang Youtong, so he didn't go to Wang Papi as soon as he returned to Baozhuang.
However, not having the trouble of going to Wang Peeling on the spot does not mean that Fang Mu has forgotten about it!!!
When Fang Mu solved the matter of Wang Youtong in Wang Town, leaving fifty armed family members to garrison Wang Town, and because of the battle with Liu Mazi's bandits, dozens of family members were killed and wounded. At that time, the Fang family still had more than a hundred armed families, and their strength was really insufficient. Therefore, Fang Mu swallowed the evil breath in his heart, and did not go to King Luzhuang on the spot to make trouble.
Now, the Fang family has more than 2,000 personnel from the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards', and has obtained a lot of money through the suppression of bandits. The Fang family has become the number one force in Lexian County! It's time to settle the grudge between him and King Luzhuang!!
The members of the 'Fang Family's First Guards Regiment' were looking curiously at their young master, who was also their own regiment leader, wondering!
Supposedly, this time of day should be to suppress bandits! How did Fang Mu gather them here? So why don't you go to suppress the bandits?
The thought of suppressing the bandits, the eyes of these people flashed with excitement. From the beginning when Fang Mu forced them to fight bandits, at that time, everyone was afraid to fight bandits. Because it is possible to kill people to go to the bandits, and who wants to do something that is related to their own life? Even because of the bandits, some people left the Fang family at the beginning, but most of them stayed, praying that the bandits would not kill themselves, after all, the treatment of the Fang family was really good!
Now, there are not many of these people who go to fight bandits every day, and cracking down on bandits can not only make them addicted to bullying bandits, but also make money!
In the past, these members of the 'First Regiment of the Fang Family's Guards' were plagued by bandits when they were in their hometown, and whenever the bandits on the mountain came down to fight the autumn wind, they trembled and handed over their money to honor those bandit masters, but now the bandits trembled when they saw them.
As for saying that there is money to be made. That's because every time Fang Mu led someone to break through a bandit village, and the money seized from the bandit village, Fang Mu would give 10% to the members of the 'Fang Family Guards First Regiment' to implement his plan to win people's hearts with money.
'Two reasons' made these members of the 'Fang Family's First Guard Regiment' determined to follow Fang Mu and follow the Fang family.
As soon as Fang Mu looked at the eyes of the people below, he knew what this group of people were thinking. However, Fang Mu is not surprised, who doesn't like to make money every day, let alone the money of bandits. And this kind of money is obtained through a kind of robbery, which can be exciting to think about.
After three months of training, Fang Mu didn't be polite to this group of people, and directly scolded: "Fuck, what are you looking at me?" Aren't we going to suppress bandits today, besides, there are still bandits in Lexian County to exterminate us? However, we are all going to make money today, and by the way, we will take revenge and give Lao Tzu spiritual points! ”
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