Chapter XVIII: Gangs

"Brothers, just for money, don't want to die, just be honest with the uncles, and ensure that you don't hurt your life, hello, I'm good, everyone!"

"The money belongs to the owner's family, and the life is his own, before you want to do it, you should first think about whether it is worth it."

The group of people who spoke, masked in black scarves, armed with steel knives, dressed as standard robbers, were none other than Xiao Tianlei and his group, and this was the first time that they had carried out raids in a regular manner, so that everyone could adapt to the atmosphere and clarify what they should do, and it was not difficult to choose a target.

Lingzhou is already a bit chaotic, these big families are very vigilant, and they also have a lot of defensive measures, but it is really not effective for martial artists with gangqi, not to mention, Xiao Tianlei and his gang are professionally trained, and they have also created flying claws and other equipment that can easily cross some obstacles such as high walls.

Yes, the process went even smoother than expected, and it was easy to sneak in, and a few characters who knew a little martial arts were subdued in a few clicks and were not killed.

If it is unnecessary, Xiao Tianlei will not kill indiscriminately, even if these people usually do bad things, they have nothing to do with Xiao Tianlei and his gang, they are not here to do chivalrous justice, since they are robbers, they must be professional and disciplined, as long as they don't resist desperately, they will follow what they say, and they will not hurt their lives. The so-called thieves also have a way, robbers will form this kind of concept, which has its own reason, want to do this business for a long time, also need a certain reputation, like advertising, with their own code of conduct, at least so that the future robbery object will not desperately resist, honest cooperation, too cruel will only backfire.

The first robbery, and no fame, had to rely on strength, as well as some robbery words.

The power of words, sometimes better than the sword, a few professional robbery words, can make most people give up the mind of resistance, honestly, the vast majority of people still do not have the courage to fight hard, simply put, the average person is more cowardly, especially when a large group, basically no one will be the first to come out.

Under the coercion of steel knives and the psychology of luck, the family chose to give in, and then, all of them were tied up with ropes and imprisoned in one house.

Completely controlled everyone, according to the division of labor during the drill, Xiao Tianlei and his partners began to loot and carry the booty, gold, silver and jewelry, cloth, grain, fine iron, and meat in the kitchen...... Anyway, everything that can be taken away will be taken away, and what can't be taken away will not be left for large households, and it is planned to distribute it to some local poor families on the spot, which is called robbing the rich and helping the poor. There is also a reason for this, in order not to arouse the disgust of most ordinary civilians, if these big families fool those civilians, it will not be easy to get the tactics of crowds when the time comes. Throw some things there, as for whether to take them or not, it is their problem, as long as they take these things and get benefits, these people's mentality is different, and maybe they can also promote the name of "benevolence and righteousness" of their own group. In Xiao Tianlei's previous life, this can probably be called mobilizing the masses, how effective it can be, Xiao Tianlei doesn't know, anyway, he did it.

The first robbery didn't take much effort to return with a full load, but after returning to Boar Ridge, everyone still discussed some of the gains and losses of the operation, learned lessons and learned before choosing the next target.

If you want to succeed in robbery, one of the most important points is to do a good job in intelligence work, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other side will win all battles, as a local, these local big families can feel the door, and the village women talk about gossip, and the trivial matters in these big families are also clear.

In fact, in this place of Lingzhou, as long as the fist is hard, even if it is a robber, swaggering on the road in broad daylight to transport looted things, generally no one dares to ask, even if he sees it, he should not see it. However, Xiao Tianlei is not the kind of arrogant person, even in the face of some big families who do not have much resistance, he still remains cautious, and every time he conducts a series of investigations on the target, figure out the situation of the target, and then formulate a corresponding robbery plan, every time he is masked, and he communicates with each other with gestures.

Xiao Tianlei did this, of course, to plan and then act, so as not to capsize in the gutter, but also to teach other brothers some ways to do things in the process. After all, Xiao Tianlei is alone, he can't be separated, there are too many things to do, as long as he teaches his brother the whole procedure, when the time comes, even if Xiao Tianlei is not there, they can operate it themselves.

Sure enough, there is no capital to buy and sell the fastest money, and after a few votes, you get a lot of money and materials.

I remember studying politics in middle school, and a sentence in "Capital" said that the primitive accumulation of capital is bloody and cruel, Xiao Tianlei thought it was true, and now he is doing it.

Looting in Lingzhou is not uncommon, Xiao Tianlei leads everyone to do a vote every once in a while, and the looting is some ordinary big households, which are not conspicuous.

However, Xiao Tianlei and his gang are still famous, but in another capacity.

The cause of the incident is that some of Xiao Tianlei's friends who played together when he was a child, and now this group of teenagers in Zhengjiazhuang is also quite famous, and they all know that this group of boys has good martial arts, and the challenges of the surrounding villages are all lost, and now it is said that Zheng Biao led a group of people to do business outside and earn some money.

As a result, those friends were bullied outside, or encountered some difficulties, and ran to ask for help, such as being sent to others as apprentices, not having enough to eat every day, and being beaten all over the body, suffering at home, starving and poor, or sisters being bullied by others.

For these trivial things, Xiao Tianlei didn't have time to pay attention to them, so he asked Zheng Biao to come forward to solve them. So, Zheng Biao led Qin Jincai, Jiang Kui, Ma Hu and others to deal with these things, their solution was also simple and rude, directly hit the door, and beat him if he didn't like it, anyway, those are just some ordinary people who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, as long as they are fierce, a group of boys beat them violently, and they immediately coaxed, fart and urine, cry bitterly, kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, one by one pretending to be pitiful.

In just over a month, Zheng Biao and his gang cleaned up a lot of ruffians, wicked women, drunkards, mean shopkeepers, etc., among which it is not easy to say whether it is right or wrong, in short, Zheng Biao and others rescued some friends from water and fire. Then, to settle these little friends, it is naturally impossible to get them directly to Wild Boar Ridge, they can't trust it yet, but they can do some peripheral things, now, Wild Boar Ridge needs to buy some materials from the outside world, plus the transfer of looted things, shots and other messy things, and the affairs are also complicated, and a group of peripheral personnel are indeed needed.

Gradually, Zheng Biao pulled up a group of people, and the young people in the villages around Zhengjiazhuang all looked to Zhengjiazhuang's group of people, and outsiders seemed to be headed by Zheng Biao, so Zheng Biao had the name of "Little Overlord".

When Xiao Tianlei learned of the development of this matter, he felt that he could use it to form a gang.

In a sense, the gang is a means for the lower class to fight the upper class, and a group of people together form a force, which will make people have some scruples, and fight against natural enemies with the life of some animal groups in nature. Even if each person's strength is limited, they can always play some role, and when reasonably combined, they can often play some unexpected roles. At present, Xiao Tianlei and others also need an external identity to do some things, and the identity of gang members is very good.

So, Xiao Tianlei and the others discussed it, and finally decided to establish a gang, which was called the Brotherhood. In order to make the Brotherhood a help, rather than a hindrance, Xiao Tianlei discussed with others and formulated some stricter rules.

After the Brotherhood was officially established, it quickly gained some reputation, but it was not a good reputation, most of them bullied men and women, ran rampant in the countryside, and oppressed the good. It's just that the members of the Brotherhood themselves don't see it that way, they are probably influenced by Xiao Tianlei's many opinions, they don't think there is anything wrong with what they do, and some of them can even be regarded as chivalrous, of course, the mouthpiece of the countryside is mainly in the hands of some big families and literati, and the Brotherhood is specifically looking for trouble for them, so naturally they don't have anything to say, they can say whatever they like!

However, many things are passed on by word of mouth, and it is not the literati and the big families who say what they say, and in particular, the world of adults is different from the world of young people, and their views are also different. Young people are just popular, they like to act chivalrous and righteous, happy and revenge, so, more and more teenagers want to join the brotherhood, relying on their kinship, the sphere of influence of the brotherhood has also expanded rapidly, these new teenagers are mixed, and they don't expect them to do anything, but they come from all walks of life, at least through them, they can grasp some information in the sphere of influence.

Of course, after all, the Brotherhood is only a peripheral organization, and being a bandit is only to get some funds, and the focus is still on the development of Boar Ridge.

Most of the looted material wealth was invested in the construction of Wild Boar Ridge, thanks to the Shanyue people found by Jiang Wuyi, there are people engaged in various industries, although in the eyes of those upper-class people, these people are engaged in some cheap industries, Xiao Tianlei will definitely not think so.

After all, Xiao Tianlei comes from a scientific and technological society, although the martial arts in this world are quite powerful, Xiao Tianlei still believes in the power of science and the power of technology. His current strength is weak, not to mention anything else, it is not enough to deal with pirates, and he can only make up for the gap with some technology.

For example, to transform the sea ship, Xiao Tianlei organized some carpenters to try to make some modifications to the pirate ship that was stolen to make the ship run faster, but these are just ordinary carpenters after all. It is said that the craftsmen are also characters in some schools, roughly similar to the ancient Mohists in the previous life, these craftsmen have mastered machinery, smelting, casting and other technologies, but they are also secret, ordinary craftsmen can not learn, and the status of these craftsmen is far from that of ordinary craftsmen.

However, with his own knowledge and cognition, Xiao Tianlei still doesn't believe it, without those craftsmen, those technologies don't exist? The three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, and the technology has not been developed by people? As a result, Xiao Tianlei spent a lot of time mingling with the craftsmen in the Wild Boar Ridge, standardizing some manufacturing processes and the scale of tools, studying some process technologies, and making various new attempts.

Speaking of the transformation of the pirate ship alone, Xiao Tianlei originally thought of a paddle steamer, that is, adding impellers on both sides of the ship, but the transformation project is too large, but it is not necessarily feasible. Xiao Tianlei remembered the experimental methods of some sea boats in his previous life, so he asked people to dig a pond, make some small boat models, and then put them in the pond.

The paddle wheel's plan is not good, so you can only use a higher-end propeller, but there are also many problems to be solved in the development of propellers, and even if it is done, power is still a problem.

Technology is not achieved overnight, Xiao Tianlei is not in a hurry, let the craftsmen ponder slowly, try more, and it doesn't matter if they fail.

At the same time, Xiao Tianlei worked the ship's defense capabilities, such as installing some baffles to resist arrows, and setting up some mechanisms on the ship.

If you want to talk about the big killer weapon against pirates, Xiao Tianlei of course thought of gunpowder, the materials in this world are different from the material composition of the previous life, whether Xiao Tianlei can be or not, but now there is a group of people under his hands, and there is some money in hand, and there is no shortage of materials, but there is time to study with peace of mind.

In fact, if you have enough system gold, you may be able to buy a technology hero that uses gunpowder to try, maybe there will be a surprise, but unfortunately, he doesn't have enough gold at the moment.

In a short period of time, whether he can make gunpowder, Xiao Tianlei is not sure, whether he should find more helpers, the number of Xiao Tianlei and his friends is still less, even if they have practiced Gangqi, after all, a person's Gangqi is limited, how many people can be blocked. Therefore, some of the money he robbed, Xiao Tianlei handed it over to his grandfather Jiang Witch Doctor, ransomed more Shanyue people, in addition to craftsmen, and began to redeem some young and middle-aged men who were strong and had practiced martial arts, sent them to Wild Boar Ridge, and trained them. The specific thing is to be familiar with sea operations, so as not to get seasickness one by one at sea, and when the time comes, people will slash one by one, like killing chickens, then it will be a fart!

Occasionally, Xiao Tianlei will take a group of people to go to sea, train to sail, fish, and also enrich the food of Wild Boar Ridge, and now the demand for meat in Wild Boar Ridge is increasing day by day.

Speaking of which, one of the important reasons is that Jiang Wuyi sent a lot of Shanyue children, most of whom are growing up and eating too much, Xiao Tianlei did not refuse, and regarded these children as a reserve force for the future. In addition, there are some Shanyue women, Xiao Tianlei also took advantage of them. In order to pretend to be an overseas businessman, make some clothes, the style of the Arabs in the previous life, watch those women sew stitches and threads, the efficiency is too low, and there will be a chance to develop a sewing machine or something in the future, but I can't get it out for the time being, Xiao Tianlei can only write it down in the notebook, and draw a rough picture of the sewing machine in the previous life.

Although the preparations for the next trip to Yazhou are complicated and fragmented, they are finally carried out step by step, and the important thing is the production of tobacco, so far, it seems that the cultivated purple coriander is growing well. It's just that the first time I planted aster, I won't produce too much tobacco, and if I just sell tobacco, the commodity is too simple. Xiao Tianlei has known for a long time and has been working on the development of other products, some products that are simple to manufacture and have high added value.

For example, distilled spirits, distilled spirits are not difficult, build a set of stills, test a few times, you can make it, but the value of a single distilled liquor is not high, and it may also give people a clue, and it is not necessary to learn how to make it. Therefore, in order to improve the value of wine, Xiao Tianlei thought of concocting medicinal wine, but there was no shortage of medicinal materials, there were many kinds of herbs on the mountains around Wild Boar Ridge, and some recipes that Xiao Tianlei learned from Jiang Witch Doctor, those recipes used poisonous snakes and poisonous insects or something, which tasted quite disgusting, and it was suitable for concocting medicinal wine.

As a result, Xiao Tianlei developed several medicinal liquors, among which the best medicinal liquor was added to the potion developed by replicating life elixirs.

The imitation of the life elixir, Xiao Tianlei experienced many failures, and later found the Jiang witch doctor to prepare it together, and after many attempts, he finally made a red potion, the effect is far inferior to the life potion, but it is a kind of elixir like a panacea, any disease can have a certain curative effect, the Jiang witch doctor called it divine water.

Soak the medicinal materials used to make divine water into the wine, and get a red liquor, Xiao Tianlei called it dragon blood wine, and when you hear it, it is tall, and I am sorry for the name if you don't sell it at a high price.

With highly distilled spirits, it is easy to make perfumes, but the ratio of medicinal materials and flowers for the fragrance formula needs to be developed many times, and it is not difficult to fix the fragrance type.

It's just that if you want to sell perfume at a high price, you have to make some perfume bottles, glass is not a rare thing, most of them are colorful, Xiao Tianlei and the craftsman fired the glass together, and finally burned out the light green glass, tried the technique of blowing glass, and after many failures, blew out some beautiful long-necked perfume bottles.

Produced dragon blood wine, perfume and other products, Xiao Tianlei even wanted to go directly to Yazhou to sell, but now it is summer, the sea is stormy, with his current sailing skills, it is better not to take risks, or wait until the autumn purple coriander matures and makes tobacco, at that time the wind and waves are much smaller.

Now Xiao Tianlei is not short of money, the business of robbery is becoming more and more prosperous, the reason why it is so smooth, it is also because there are no masters in Lingzhou, after all, in the eyes of many people, Lingzhou is still a wild place, some of the ability, most of them will go to other rich states to make a living, those larger families, also desperately want to return to Middle-earth, even if there are some powerful people in the family, they will go to Middle-earth to mix.

Of course, there are still a lot of local tyrants in Lingzhou who are like local emperors, but these families themselves have some martial artists with strong martial arts, plus some warriors who are invited to raise some warriors, and the villages and towns where they are located have also been built into small cities-like Wu Forts, and their defensive power is far from being comparable to ordinary villages. Therefore, the difficulty of robbing these soil emperors is much higher than that of robbing those big families before. However, it is precisely because of this that Xiao Tianlei's friends are eager to try, practice the "robbery" technique for so long, and rob the average big family, which can no longer satisfy them.

Xiao Tianlei also wants to do a big deal, the wealth of these soil emperors' families has at least a hundred years of accumulation, just grab one, and you can eat a full meal at once.