To the west of Lingzhou, in the inaccessible forest, an improvised road has been carved out, and the Brotherhood's road construction army is further building the road to make it a real road. Some soldiers and warriors patrolled the surrounding area www.biquge.info guarded against wild beasts that could jump out of the dense forest at any time, and every ten miles a wooded land was carved out as a camp for workers, some of which were under construction, and these places would later serve as post stations on this road.

The first batch of road construction workers of the Brotherhood's road construction army, many of them were some robbers and pirates, and now they have basically become foremen, and most of their subordinates are now some soldiers of Daxia, who were captured by the Brotherhood in several wars, and those generals and rich people are generally redeemed and returned, and those who are left are so poor that they can only stay for the Brotherhood to do hard labor.

The basic treatment of road construction workers is the same, such as the distribution of food and tools, clothing, however, it is still divided into many grades, different grades can receive different wages, the lowest level is basically no wages, but as long as they work hard and abide by the rules, they can generally quickly rise to an ordinary level and receive a decent salary. Compared with the members of the brotherhood, they are not high, and there are already a lot of them outside Lingzhou, and they are in charge of eating and drinking every day, and they don't spend money, and they can save a sum of money after a few years.

In fact, for many people from poor families, not to mention the wages or wages, they can eat a few pieces of meat almost every day, which is already a good life that they couldn't think of before, and it is nothing to be tired of work, so most workers work very hard and basically do not need to be supervised.

The banging of the bell echoed on the construction site, it was the cook of the food group knocking on the iron basin, but it was time to eat, the road construction workers stopped their work, returned to the camp to wash their hands briefly, wiped their faces, took their own rice bowls, and went to the food group to line up to eat, no one dared to cut in line or huddle together, if they did not obey the rules, not only may they not be able to eat, but they will also be punished, and their own level promotion will also be affected.

"Braised pork! Eat braised pork today! The workers at the front of the team shouted, their words revealing joy, and the workers in the back poked their heads out to look around, seeing the pots of red and bright, fragrant braised pork, thinking of the soft and glutinous feeling of a piece of fat biting into their mouths, and swallowed saliva one by one.

The workers who have eaten are in groups of three or five to find a place to sit down, chatting with each other, while eating in large gulps, and eating not quickly, anyway, the food group is full, and they can go to fight again after eating.

After eating, there was a period of rest, and the workers sat around and chatted, and this time some of the workers who built the road were soldiers of the Brotherhood, and in order to speed up the progress of the project, they were mobilized to participate in the construction, and the other workers gathered around the soldiers, asking this and that.

"Where is this road going to be built?"

"Of course, it's the west, our leader has taken a fancy to the territory over there and plans to grab it." The old god of the soldiers who spoke was there.

"Isn't that going to war? Will you drag us to fight? "Some people are a little worried, they used to be the lowest soldiers in the Great Xia Army, and they were basically cannon fodder, so if ordinary people didn't really have no choice, they wouldn't go to be soldiers, most of these former Great Xia soldiers couldn't live at home, in order to be able to eat a full meal.

"You want to be beautiful, this kind of good thing, the official soldiers may not be in the turn, which is your turn?" The soldier disdained the authenticity.

"A good thing?"

"Those small countries over there, none of them are as big as a county, also known as a country, and if our brotherhood wants to fight it, it will be easy. However, those small countries can have money and countless gold and silver, and after this battle, all the soldiers who participate in everything can make a lot of money! ”

"Oh!" Everyone was envious, and someone shouted, "How much can you rob then!" ”

"Rob?! Don't die, there are rules, all seizures have to be handed over, and then the top is distributed according to merit, whoever dares to hide it privately will have to do hard labor for at least a few years, besides, it will have to affect the family, and many benefits have to be canceled. ”

"What kind of treatment do the brothers have as soldiers?"

The soldier didn't hide it, he said some kinds of treatment of the soldiers of the Brotherhood, and everyone on the side listened to it breathlessly, divided the land and the room, a lot of money a month, and issued weapons and armor, each dressed like a general, as long as he was careful, he couldn't die easily, even if he was injured, the witch doctor who accompanied the army could treat him at any time, as long as it was not a burp on the spot or a too fatal injury, he could basically be saved, and if he was disabled, he would arrange things to do even if he quit the army, and receive a disability allowance every month.

"This is to be a soldier, this is to be an uncle!" Someone exclaimed.

The soldier also took out a few coins, silver shining silver coins and gold-red copper coins, weighed them, the coins struck, made a pleasant sound, and said: "See, my military salary this month is all new money, and I am reluctant to use it!" ”

The workers' eyes were fixed on the money in the soldier's hand, and they wanted to touch it, but the soldier hurriedly took it into his arms. Originally, the thoughts of these workers were to think that one day they could get the official treatment of workers, and as soon as they heard about the treatment of the soldiers of the Brotherhood, someone immediately asked: "Can we be soldiers of the Brotherhood?" ”

"You also want to be soldiers of the Brotherhood?"

"Such a good thing, a fool would not want to? Big brother, tell us, will the brothers accept us? ”

"Hmm...... You are prisoners, and if you want to be a soldier of the Brotherhood, you must first go to the night school of the engineering team to learn literacy and numeracy, as well as ideological education, and wait until the whole society and pass the exam, and then go to the recruiting office to recruit people, right? Even if you are recruited, you still have to pass the training assessment, and if you don't qualify, you will be brushed down. ”

The soldier said a lot, and many were dizzy, but many of them were going to give it a try, and go to the night school first.

"Here's the messenger!"

At this time, someone suddenly shouted, and everyone immediately looked in one direction, only to see a man dressed in green, leading a bantam horse, with large green bags on both sides, bulging.

The workers excitedly gathered around the man in green, and the man in green shouted with a cold face: "Don't make noise! I read the names and get the letters one by one! The workers had to be honest, not daring to speak out loud, but listened carefully to the names of the men in green, hoping to hear their names, and those whose names were read rejoiced to fetch the letters, which came from their homes. Although they were prisoners, the road construction team provided these people with the service of delivering letters, asking them to write letters to their families to report their safety or send some money home, and if they were illiterate, there were special personnel who wrote and read letters on their behalf, but they had to pay a fee.

When they received the letter from their families, many people were overjoyed, some of them even cried with joy when they received the letter for the first time, and some people were sad when they read the letter.

"What's wrong?" Others asked, shared suffering, these people have a good relationship with each other.

"The Zoroastrian rebellion over there has been a lot of death! I'm worried about my family! I want to go home, but ......."

"Even if you go back, what can you do, maybe you will be killed by the rebellion, or you will be captured as a soldier and die on the battlefield!"

"What's going on?"

"Wouldn't it be enough to let your parents and family come to Lingzhou?"

A lot of people's eyes lit up, right! Although they are in the road construction team, they also know that life in Lingzhou is good, and ordinary people live a stable and prosperous life.

"Will Lingzhou let my family come? I've heard that the Brotherhood is going to drive people out! ”

"Those who drive away are not abiding by the rules of the brotherhood, as long as they abide by the rules and are willing to endure hardships, they can live a good life! If you know how to do a craft, the salary is high! Ordinary soldiers can't compare. ”

"Then I'll write to my family to come to Lingzhou!"

As members of the road-building army, they know more about the power of the Brotherhood than outsiders, and even if they don't know the specifics, they also know the treatment of some members of the Brotherhood, and intuitively think that it is right to follow the Brotherhood. On the same day, when the work was over, some road construction workers flocked to the place where they wrote letters, and many of them had one more content in the letter, allowing their parents and brothers to come to Lingzhou to make a living, one by one, through the brotherhood, and then through the guild, sent to the homes of some road construction workers, the road construction workers looked forward to the reply of their families, or came to Lingzhou, and the roads they built gradually took shape at a very fast speed, although it was still early to complete the construction, but it was basically passable.

On this day, a large group of men and horses of the Brotherhood followed this road all the way west, through the dense forest.

"I saw a rhinoceros just now, what do you think you are doing with a rhino to fight?" Qin Jincai asked the other brothers, since Xiao Tianlei had a steel mane, the other brothers were keen to find some special mounts.

There are also Zheng Biao, Xiao Tianbao, Ma Hu, Lin Xiao, Jiang Kui, Leng Lie and others, most of Xiao Tianlei's brothers are here, this time, their goal is to conquer those small countries in the west one by one, the road is a little difficult, but the interest of the brothers is quite high, along the way to watch some of the scenery and animals and plants in the dense forest.

After listening to Qin Jincai's whim, everyone imagined that the rhinoceros was huge, with rough skin and thick meat, and sharp horns on the bridge of its nose, riding a big rhinoceros to fight, and it was full of deterrence on the battlefield.

"It feels like it's okay! It's just that it won't be a little bulky. ”

"It's bulky or not, you have to try it to know that the steel mane looks quite bulky!"

"It's just that it's hard to find a rhinoceros at the level of a strange beast."

"The west side is so big, there must be one, let's look for it together, and ride a rhinoceros together when the time comes."

"I think the tiger is good!"

"What's so strange about tigers, if you want to ride them, you can ride a special one, the world is so big, there must be strange beasts in other places that we haven't seen."

"That's right!"

"How long will it take!"

"We're still young, and we have time."

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Two days later, the group reached the other side of the jungle and entered the territory of a small country. Except for one or two large countries in the west, the rest are not large, but they are numerous, and they often fight against each other, and they often change dynasties, and they have been in a relatively chaotic state, but the natural conditions here are superior, and they can obtain a rich harvest without much care, and the products and minerals are abundant, and many places are in an undeveloped state.

With the current strength of the Brotherhood, it is not difficult to attack these countries, these countries have an army of a few thousand people at most, and thousands of people can be regarded as a large army, and the battle depends more on personal bravery, after all, the generals here generally do not bring a few soldiers, because of geographical factors, the generals here are generally foot combat. Zheng Biao and the others rode a war horse of the alien beast level, and it was certainly not difficult to deal with these generals.

Zheng Biao and Qin Jincai didn't know much about this place, and they didn't understand the language, but they had a vote to lead the way, and these leading parties were some slaves purchased by the Brotherhood when they came here to trade by sea. These people have lived and worked in the Brotherhood for several years, and they are loyal to the Brotherhood, and these people have no sense of belonging to the country they come from, and they are even more excited about the Brotherhood's expedition than the Brotherhood's cadres.

Under the leadership of the Belt and Road Party, they easily captured a village, but in fact there was no resistance at all, and when they saw a group of people riding tall horses, wearing armor and holding weapons, the villagers here were so frightened that they cowered in their respective homes. The so-called home, the ordinary people live in low grass nests, not even as good as livestock sheds, most of them are in rags, and most of the children are naked and unkempt.

In these small countries in the west, there are basically no large-scale wars, mainly some palace battles, some people with martial arts, fighting back and forth, seizing power, and whoever wins comes to power. Under their rule, the towns and villages are generally controlled by some local tyrants, who are the kings will listen to whomever they want, pay taxes to whom, and there is no difference between them who is the king.

The Brotherhood will not conquer these countries in the same way, of course, but will really take the resources and population of these countries into control, so, starting from the first village, after the occupation, they will start to act according to the plan that has been made before. Originally, the local village chief also brought gold, silver, gifts, and beautiful women to curry favor with Yigan, etc., but unfortunately, no matter what he did, the result would not change, and all his property became the spoils of the brotherhood.

After that, a cadre and others began to distribute a part of the food in the village chief's house to the villagers, and let the leading party announce a series of policies, and then this is the territory of the brotherhood, and all the brotherhoods have the final say, the original lord or something is in the past tense, the field is no longer the lord's, and all people can rent and plant, etc.

However, those people are not happy or touched by these policies, even the oppressed class, their ancestors have been like this, they have been accustomed to such a system, the original system has been destroyed, they are more at a loss, do not know what to do, and even some resistance, but under the force of the brotherhood, they have to be honest.

Now is the season of farming, some of the staff of the brotherhood, with the assistance of those leading the way, arrange farming, in order to appease the people, the witch doctor with the army to treat some people, as for these people under the system of the brotherhood, what will change, for a while, can not be seen, the brotherhood can give these people only basic respect, as for the rest, it is impossible to give free of charge.

This village became a forward base for the Brotherhood here, and after setting up camps and facilities such as medical clinics, Zheng Biao and others began to attack this small country, village by village, town by town, gradually advancing, encountering those who resisted, either killed or sent to build roads. Even if they only attacked some villages and small towns, they still seized a large amount of gold and silver, strange gold, precious stones, and jewelry, and those big families and nobles became rich one by one.

As the Brotherhood's army continued to advance, the country finally reacted, and instead of sending an army, a monk was sent as an emissary to question why they were attacking their country for no reason?

Does conquest need a reason? If you have to give a reason, because the Brotherhood needs people to work, it needs territory, and it happens that they are near the Brotherhood's territory, and it happens that they are weaker than the Brotherhood, and that's it.

Of course, this monk envoy will never agree with this reason, and if he wants to talk to Zheng Biao and others about Buddhism, there is no common language at all, this monk chattered endlessly, and was beaten up and thrown back.

Zheng Biao and others continued to lead the army to attack, and after a few days, the country sent an army, and the general who led the army was dressed in jewels, and he saw that the eyes of the people of the Brotherhood were hot, thinking how powerful the other party was, as a result, Zheng Biao cleaned it up with one move, and the Brotherhood made a charge on the side, and the opposite side was directly defeated, and when Zheng Biao and others hit the capital of the country, the king, ministers, and generals of the country had already run away with their families, and they easily took the capital without encountering any resistance.

In this way, the Brotherhood took the first country, which was only the size of two counties, but it was a good start.

Zheng Biao and the others did not stop their footwork and continued to attack the neighboring countries, and at the same time, more Brotherhood personnel arrived and began to control the occupied area.

Except for some people within the Brotherhood, others didn't know that the Brotherhood had begun to expand, and many people thought that the Brotherhood was satisfied with the occupation of Lingzhou, and the Brotherhood didn't seem to care about the outside world, and did business ******** the place. In fact, according to the more unified views of the scribes gathered in Zhushan Academy, it is difficult for the Brotherhood to expand outward, its own population is not large, with Shanyue people as the main body, it is extremely xenophobic, and the people of other states cannot identify with the Brotherhood, and win the hearts of the people, and the various practices of the Brotherhood are obviously extremely unpopular with the people, even if the Brotherhood is prosperous now, I don't think that the Brotherhood can do much in the future, at most it will be trapped in a corner.

Nowadays, people are most concerned about Zoroastrianism, and the whole day is waiting to watch the imperial court mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress Zoroastrianism, and as a result, except for some troops that have just been mobilized, after that, the imperial court has not taken action.

In fact, the imperial court did not want to mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress Zoroastrianism, but it couldn't, the main reason was that the treasury was empty, and it couldn't come up with money and food. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the bad news from other aspects came one after another, Beiliang put on a posture of sending troops to recapture Bailuyuan, and the Rong people in Rongzhou were not stable, and they clashed with the officials stationed in Rongzhou in Daxia many times, on the other hand, Zoroastrianism has grown rapidly during this time, killing large households and distributing grain, and many people responded to join, becoming more and more intense, and it seems that it is about to completely occupy the land of several states. (To be continued.) )