Chapter 30: Out of the Mountain
After figuring out the reason for the incident, Liu Feng immediately ordered Wang Ying and Zhou Yi to take a team of people to the cottage to solve the remaining personnel and transport everything back to Baijia Village.
As Baijia Village grows, there are fewer and fewer good things to get from these small cottages.
Every time a prisoner is caught, it is when the population of Baijia Village leaps forward. Although the convoy had only a hundred men, it captured more than a hundred prisoners, including the bandit leader. After persuasion, this bandit leader named Ma Cheng also joined Baijia Village and became the fourth junior general of Baijia Village. Within a few days, none of the more than 100 people surrendered. And after screening, the escort team of Baijia Village also has more people who have been tested by the war.
Perhaps the bandits around Mengjia Village are weaker than Ao Cottage, Liu Feng learned from Ma Cheng that his cottage of 200 people is not weak among them. Moreover, in addition to having more soldiers, this Ma Cheng doesn't even have any skills, and he is only a junior general, which shows that the strength of the bandits in this area is worse than that of Aoshan.
After finishing these things, Liu Feng thought about Aoshanzhai again. Qingfeng Village has been destroyed for so long, and Ao Shanzhai has not reacted until now, which makes Liu Feng a little puzzled.
It's not that Liu Feng has a tendency to be masochistic, he still has a little understanding of the system. The matter of the Aoshan bandits is definitely not over, there is no movement now, and the longer you wait, the bigger the problem.
Thinking of this, he was eager to immediately take a field trip himself. Aoshan blocks the way for Baijia Village to communicate with the outside world, if all the bandits entrenched on Aoshan are not cut off, Baijia Village can only be trapped in the belly of the mountain.
So he immediately sent a number of spies to scatter in the direction of Aoshanzhai. Even Yu Pu asked Liu Feng to send him out.
A few days later, I finally got the news. During this period of time, the bandits were hidden, and the people who went to carefully investigate did not encounter a single bandit, and there was no trace of the bandits even within the range of the bandits' patrols on weekdays.
Someone quietly approached a cottage and found that the bandits were closed, and they didn't know why.
After another two days, Yu Pu had new news. It turned out that he couldn't see a person all the way, and the thieves guarded the mountain gate and didn't know where they got the guts, so they actually touched the vicinity of Ao Cottage.
It didn't matter what he saw, it scared him away. It turned out that nearly a thousand people were densely gathered in the Black Wind Village, all of whom were busy, and I don't know what the reason was. And the patrols were much tighter than usual.
He didn't dare to look at it too much, for fear of being discovered, so he hurried back.
Liu Feng couldn't understand what happened in Aoshanzhai, and he didn't know why the bandits in Aoshan had gathered together. Could it be that the gangsters are gathering to re-elect the new godfather? Liu Feng couldn't help but say obscenely.
Although he didn't know how long this situation would last, Liu Feng had the idea of going out to have a look. And once this thought grows, it can no longer be contained.
Finally, Liu Feng made up his mind, ordered everyone to guard the village with peace of mind, arranged for spies to pay more attention to the information on Ao Mountain, took Zhou Yi, Yu Pu, and more than a dozen guards, found two batches of horses, pulled a cart of things, and went out of the mountain. And the reason why he took Zhou Yi was because among the several generals in Baijia Village, that is, he had "seen the world". Because according to Zhou Yi himself, he used to be a soldier in Aoshan City.
Looking at the villages that were getting farther and farther away, Liu Feng was a little excited: for nearly 3 months, he had been hiding in this mountain and dealing with bandits, which was really a little boring. Of course, it's not that the mountains are bad, it's just that I haven't been able to communicate with people, after all, it's not a good thing. You know, the fun of the game is the participation of many people, and now Liu Feng can't find a player, if even the interaction with the aborigines is limited to a small range, wouldn't it be very sad.
Along the way, it was really smooth, and the group was cautious, but on weekdays, the bandits were entrenched in the mountains and there was not even a shadow of a ghost. Until I walked out of Aoshan, I didn't meet a single figure - the effect of the thieves in Aoshan sealing the mountain was very obvious.
Out of the mountains is the plain, the road is much easier, and you can see floating people and villages. It's just that most of these villages are small villages, and they are completely systematically made to facilitate the development of bandits.
The first time they went out of the mountain, they moved very slowly, observing as they went. After a while, the number of villages began to multiply, and it was only a few miles to see them. Liu Feng's destination was Aoshan City, and they rarely stayed except to rest and eat along the way. He didn't dare, for fear that these people would see that he was from the mountains and then tell the bandits.
When Zhou Yi told Liu Feng that he was close to Aoshan Town and beyond the sphere of influence of the Aoshan bandits, Liu Feng was relieved. Seeing that it was getting late, he was ready to find a village to rest and leave the next day.
The place where they rested was a medium-sized village, a village of more than a hundred people, surrounded by a fence. It is clear that the village is safe and the villagers seem to be rich.
They played the role of itinerant merchants, carrying horse-drawn wagons loaded with mountain products, and when they found a family in the village who was willing to accept them, they began to sell them to the villagers. Of course, this is not the main purpose, their purpose is to find out information from the side.
When it was time to rest at night, Liu Feng had already learned a lot about the situation. This village is called Fang Village, and it is an intermediate village belonging to Aoshan Town, so it is generally safe. In general, it means that there is no large-scale bandit going down the mountain, if the bandits go down the mountain, Aoshan Town will be difficult to protect itself, not to mention this small village!
It is still more than ten miles away from Aoshan Town, and there are two villages in between, one of which is a large village. Aoshan Town is a medium-sized town, with tens of thousands of people and thousands of soldiers and horses, so it is not afraid of ordinary bandits, but has some spheres of influence to protect the villages in this range, and Fang Village is one of them.
"It seems that this Aoshan Town is not weak!" Getting this information, Liu Feng muttered. According to his understanding, the upper limit of the population of medium-sized towns is 20,000, and the strength of this Aoshan Town is at least two or three thousand, and if you consider that Aoshan Town is on the front line of defending against bandits, the number of troops is even more.
"It seems that it will be very difficult to attack here in the future!" Liu Feng thought about it, and then laughed at himself: "Now that I haven't even dealt with the bandits on Ao Mountain, I wonder if it's too early!" ”
Thinking about it, I couldn't help but fall asleep. Even if it's fresh for the first time, it's a day's worth of energy and a lot of physical energy, and anyone will feel tired.
Early the next morning, Liu Feng embarked on the road to Aoshan Town. For him, the medium-sized village was too small.
After traveling more than ten miles, passing through two villages on the way, Liu Feng and his party really saw a town.
The two-zhang high earthen wall looks much more majestic than Baijia Village, and it is much larger than the village.
Entering the town requires paying taxes, and although it is a payment, Liu Feng is also very excited - he has saved so much money, and he finally has a place to use.
The town is indeed much more prosperous than the village, although it is still early, but it is already full of people.
The facilities in the town are much better than in the village, with special markets, restaurants, inns and so on. Liu Feng found an inn to live in, asked the direction of the market, and took Zhou Yiyu Pu and a few others over.
Some of his mountain specialties were sold yesterday, and today they are just making a show, mainly to see what is in the market, to see the development of the town, and to inspect the future Baijia Village.
Blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, taverns, etc., he went around. The things inside are really good, better than Baijia Village, but Liu Feng has no desire to buy them. Even if he buys it and leaks money, he may not be able to go back safely. You know, these are troubled times.
While shopping at a grocery store, Liu Feng became interested. Other grocery stores are full of groceries, but there is something special in them. For example, the hemostatic powder produced by the doctor can quickly treat injuries, which is better than the pharmacist produced by Baijia Village, as well as all kinds of rare animal skins, animal tendons, waste products of Taoist alchemy, damaged weapons used by military generals, etc., which are completely in line with its identity as "groceries". It sells not only daily necessities, but also products from all walks of life.
Looking at it, Liu Feng was attracted by a drawing.
"Boss, how do you sell this?" Liu Feng asked the chubby and somewhat obscene middle-aged boss.
"Oh, town upgrade blueprints, the first time I came, I will give you a preferential price, and you can take 100 gold." The fat man said with a smile. The things in his store were a mess, and no one knew what he had here unless he turned it through it himself.
"100 gold, it's too expensive!" Liu Feng smacked his tongue a little. Although he hadn't spent money before, and he didn't know the price, he also knew from wandering around other places just now that a good weapon was only one gold, and this drawing actually cost 100 gold.
"100 gold is already a very discount, you know, this kind of thing is priceless. I don't know where this thing came from, so I might not have it next time. The fat boss said.
"I can buy more." Liu Feng also took a fancy to a few small things.
"The store operates in good faith, Tong Su is not bullied, and there is no counteroffer. Looking at the outfit of the little brother, he should be a big man, so why bother with these little money. ”
"Count you ruthless! But boss, you have to keep it a secret and don't leak it out. Liu Feng is also helpless to such a person.
"Of course, customer confidentiality is the first principle of our business."
I chose a few more things, paid the money, and Liu Feng walked out without looking back. After a few laps in the market, he returned to the inn, and he didn't believe in the professional ethics of the fat boss.
Town Upgrade Blueprint: A must-have item for upgrading a village to a town.
It's simple, just one sentence, but Liu Feng feels that it's worth it. If it hadn't been for this occasion, he wouldn't have known that upgrading to a town would require a special drawing.
What Liu Feng didn't know was that after he left, the fat boss behind the counter said to himself: "It's actually an alien lord." It's funny, there will be an alien in this place, and I don't know where he can go in the future. This hell place is really boring. ”