Tens of thousands of villagers quickly cleaned up the battlefield and piled up all the loot. Money and possessions are piled together, weapons and armor are piled together, stripped clothes are piled together. After each villager puts down the loot, he will also deliberately shake the clothes on his body, which means that he has put down everything he has picked up.

The money on the thousands of Maitreya disciples is not much, it is estimated that there are several thousand taels at most. After all, most of these Maitreya sectarians are also local people in Yingtianfu, and they gathered together, and before they ransacked a few villages, they were led by Chen Shenxian to attack Mulan Village.

More than a dozen villager leaders were led by Xu Qing to see Yue Fei. Most of these village leaders are elderly people in their fifties. Hearing that the person standing in front of him was the training envoy of the Protector Legion, the leader of the villagers immediately knelt down and kowtowed. But before they could kneel, they were stopped by Yue Fei with a smile.

"Fathers and elders, I, the Protector Army, do not kneel. If I accept your kneeling, I have violated military law and will be beheaded. Hurry up, the Protector's greeting is like this. ”

Yue Fei gave a fist to the village leaders.

When the leader of the villagers heard that Yue Fei would not let them kneel, he immediately stopped kneeling. After all, at this time it was still the Great Song Dynasty, not the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the common people knelt down before they saw people and called themselves slaves. The people of the Emperor and Song Dynasty only knelt on five occasions, and the monarchs of heaven and earth were pro-teachers. On other occasions, a bow is sufficient.

As for the etiquette of holding fists, they are also familiar with it, don't the heroes and heroes mentioned in the book all salute like this?

More than a dozen villager leaders discussed in a whisper, and the oldest leader came out, hugged his fists to Yue Fei and said, "Little Lao'er Wang Er, as the land protector of the nearby Wang Village. A few days ago, we heard people from Ying Tianfu say that the Huang Governor's Mansion wanted to use the Lantian Township Covenant to regulate the township. Xiao Lao'er was also promoted by the villagers as one of the elders of Wangcun Village. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Er glanced at Yue Fei carefully, afraid that Yue Fei would blame him. After all, although Ying Tianfu said such a thing, the village elders elected by the villages have not yet reported to Ying Tianfu.

When Yue Fei heard Wang Er speak, he didn't talk about dividing the spoils, but instead talked about using Lantian Township to promote the villagers. immediately understood that Wang Er was testing him. If he was furious, then Wang Er would not mention the matter of dividing the spoils of war again. After all, hundreds of cavalry soldiers had knives in their hands and blood on their bodies. If he didn't get angry, Wang Er would definitely mention the loot next.

Yue Fei secretly sighed that the people of the Emperor Song Dynasty were more and more careful. If it was a peaceful and prosperous world, if there were not so many chaotic armies, Wang Er would directly ask for the spoils of war. After all, the sense of business was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Emperor Song Dynasty, and the sense of civil contract was extremely strong. On the contrary, the high-ranking officials of the emperor at the top are completely robber-minded, and there is no contract spirit at all.

Yue Fei said with a smile, "Governor Huang did come up with such a rule. It's just that there are a lot of things to do in the past few days, and the announcement has not yet been sent to the villages. You are not far from Ying Tianfu, you can go to the city to get the announcement by yourself. As for your election of village elders, that's your own business. I don't care. As a training envoy of the Protector Corps, I am only responsible for protecting the safety of each village and not interfering in the affairs of the village covenant. ”

When more than a dozen village leaders heard this, their faces immediately relaxed. Most of these village leaders are newly introduced village elders from various villages, for fear that Yue Fei will turn his face and arrest them on the charge of "relying on the village to stand on its own feet and trying to cause chaos".

Now that Yue Fei has recognized their names, he has a good impression of the Protector Army in his heart.

The wrinkles on Wang Er's face also relaxed, and he hurriedly gave Yue Fei a commentary paragraph he had just heard, saying that Yue Fei was a martial artist in the sky, and he was reincarnated in order to save the people of the Great Song Dynasty. After the filming, regardless of Yue Fei's face becoming ugly because of this sycophancy, Wang Er directly said about the loot.

"Yue Tuan Lian, I don't know if General Xu Qing has told you about the spoils of war. At that time, Yue Tuan's training envoy had not yet come. We helped General Xu Qing defeat these bandits, and General Xu Qing promised to give us half of the spoils. Of course, we also know that with the courage of General Xu Qing, without our help, these bandits are not opponents. But we also had some hard work after all. Recently, the villages have become even poorer, and there is still some time before the autumn harvest, and half of the families have run out of food. Just now we found General Xu, and General Xu said that he couldn't call the shots. I'm going to ask you. I don't know what Yue Tuan's envoy means? ”

This second king looked at the clothes on his body and his face, and he knew that he was not a rich person. It seems that the reason why he can be promoted to the village elder is because of this mouth. In just a few words, he not only said that he and Xu Qing had an agreement, but also said that the villages were extremely poor and needed these loot for emergency, and then he didn't say it directly, but listened to Yue Fei's meaning. The words were clear and clear, but they were not abrupt, even if Yue Fei didn't give them the loot, at least they wouldn't be angry because of it.

Yue Fei was not only looking at Wang Er, but also at the other dozen or so villager leaders, and found that only five of them were wearing silk and satin, their faces were oily, and they looked like rich and noble families. The other village leaders all had bitter faces and were dressed very simply. When Yue Fei saw this situation, he nodded secretly.

It seems that as Huang Zong said, not all the people who are elected as village elders are landlords and squires. Because some ordinary people are popular and have high prestige in the village, they are naturally elected as village elders by the whole village.

Yue Fei laughed and said, "Why should Elder Wang be so cautious. In the world, faith is the first. Our People's Protector Army does things one one, and two is two. When we eat the grain of Ying Tianfu, we must protect Ying Tian's father. We have promised to give you the spoils, and we will give you the spoils. ”

After saying this, Yue Fei walked up to the loot piled together and personally divided the loot piled on the ground into two halves. Evenly divided, no more, no less. Then he pointed to the loot on the ground and said to the villagers who were watching, "Okay, divide it." Come up and take half of yours first. ”

The villagers cheered. At this time, Wang Er walked up to Yue Fei again and whispered, "Yue Tuan is the training envoy, Xiao Lao'er has another request. ”

Yue Fei said, "Elder Wang Xiang doesn't need to be polite. If you have something to say, please say. ”

Wang Er said, "Yue Tuan Lian, can we take away a little less clothes, take a little more weapons, the four sides have not been peaceful recently, the villagers have a weapon or something, and they can resist when they encounter bandits." ”

Yue Fei looked at Wang Er's honest face, and said in his heart, why don't you take some gold, silver and jewelry.

However, since Wang Er made this request, Yue Fei decided to agree to Wang Er's request. He had just looked at the weapons in the hands of the villagers around him, and more than half of them were clubs, and some of the other farm tools such as hoes and sickles were accounted for, and there were only a few hundred weapons that could really be called weapons.

And although the weapons of the Maitreya followers are also rudimentary, there are always thousands of swords and guns that can be used. These knives and guns are naturally much worse than the weapons used by the Protectors, but they are still much better than the weapons in the hands of these villagers.

Anyway, Yue Fei had already planned to equip all villages and townships with weapons and bows and arrows, Wang Er was right, now that the Quartet is not peaceful, if you have weapons to defend yourself, the chances of survival will be much greater.

So Yue Fei directly told Wang Er, "Elder Wang, you can take all these weapons and armor and the like." Take away your clothes. Take it home and let the young people in each village train well, I hope we should have a few more warriors in Tianfu. ”

More than a dozen villagers were grateful for Yue Fei's generosity. After thanking him for his kindness, he took the spoils agreed upon by each village, led the young men of his village, and carried the casualties of each village, and prepared to return to his village.

In the process of besieging the Maitreya army, although these villagers beat the water dogs, they still inevitably suffered some casualties. Because their weapons are too rudimentary, and they have no armor on them.

Yue Fei estimated that there were more than 200 dead and more than 600 injured among the villagers. However, these living villagers are not too sad, it seems that as Wang Er said, the people of each village are really struggling on the death line, barely better than the displaced people. It is precisely because of the difficulty of living that death does not seem so painful.

Yue Fei walked up to the casualties who had been put on the wooden shelves, looked at them carefully, and his face was a little heavy. The people who were not seriously injured knew that Yue Fei was a cultivator of the Protector Legion, and they all squeezed out a stiff smile at Yue Fei. I am afraid that I will lose respect for Yue Fei.

The idea of the villagers is extremely simple. Whoever is good to me, I will be good to whomever I am. Whoever respects me, I will respect him. In the past few days, the people's protectors have been suppressing the homeless people in Sixiang and driving away the homeless, and many villagers have seen it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts. Not to mention that only half of the spoils were divided, and the Yue Tuan Training Envoy actually gave them more than half.

Yue Fei had great respect for these casualties. These are the most courageous young men in the villages, and it is precisely because they are at the forefront that they will be killed and injured by the Maitreya Sect. Therefore, when Yue Fei met these injured people, he would always smile and nod his head, or ask, "How is the injury?" Does it hurt? ”

Seeing that Yue Fei cared so much about them, those injured people were all so excited that they burst into tears. Even if some people change color in pain, they still say, "The small ones don't hurt." Xie Yue Tuanlian cared. ”

Yue Fei insisted on looking at the injured people one by one, and then turned to the dozen or so villagers who followed him and said, "How are you going to compensate for these casualties?" ”

Wang Er hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Xiao Lao'er and the other villagers have agreed just now that the injured will be rewarded with one tael of silver and one bucket of grain." The deceased was given a small five taels of silver. If it is the pillar of the family, and the family is small and cannot start a family, the whole village will help. Yue Tuanlian reassured. We will not embarrass the families of these casualties. ”

Yue Fei nodded and said to Wang Er, "These villagers can be said to have been injured to protect the village, and the village should also be compensated. But it can also be said that these villagers were injured to protect Ying Tianfu, after all, you are fighting side by side with the Protector Army. It was our Protectors who failed to do their part. Wang Er, you and the village elders quickly count the list of casualties in each village, and then you can go to Fucheng to find the prefect to receive the pension. ”

A dozen village elders could barely believe their ears. What the! Yue Tuanlian not only distributed more than half of the spoils to us, but also gave pensions to these casualties. Oh my God, is there really such a good official in the world? Blessed are the people of Tianfu!

Now more than a dozen villagers didn't say a word, and they all knelt on the ground with a plop. Yue Fei hurriedly stretched out his hand and helped them up one by one. Wang Er said with tears in his eyes, "Yue Tuan Lian Envoy, our kneeling is not kneeling to your status as a general. We are kneeling for your heart. My Wang Er has lived for most of his life, going south and north, only Fufen has seen Master Li Ba, a great good man, who knows that before entering the earth, he saw a good person like General Yue. Blessed are my kings. ”

After these villagers got up, Yue Fei instructed Xu Qing to lead more than a dozen new army to protect the people, and count the list of casualties with these villagers. Xu Qing is only a rough understanding of literature and ink, after all, most of the culture of Yue Fei's class of senior brothers was learned from Zhou Dong. Zhou Tong himself is not a cultural person. Naturally, it is impossible to teach people who are proficient in writing and ink. But more than a dozen new soldiers who can write and count, and quickly counted the list of casualties.

This time, the villagers were not in a hurry to leave. Wang Er said sincerely, "Envoy Yue Tuan, your people's army is far away from the city, so let's hurry up." Our village was nearby and we could go back in the dark. We have to collect the bodies of these Maitreya followers and bury them, otherwise it will be hot and the plague will spread. ”

Yue Fan asked a little strangely, "Elder Wang, why were you in such a hurry to go back to the village just now?" ”

Wang Er scratched his gray hair and laughed a few times. Of course, he was embarrassed to say that he hadn't fully trusted Yue Fei at the beginning, for fear that Yue Fei would regret it and take back the loot that had been distributed to them.