Chapter 14: The Moon is Dark and the Wind is High and the Night of Murder
The night is as cool as water.
Longyu Village has long fallen into a deep sleep, but in the "mansion" at the east end of the village, Li Baye is still planning his imperial hegemony.
On the boxy table of the Eight Immortals, there is a rough yellow paper map, which simply depicts the terrain and various transportation arteries within a radius of ten miles from Longyu Village.
This was sent to him by the village's know-it-all man nicknamed "Old Ghost", and of course Li Baye also paid him enough reward.
In addition, there is also a list of village households in Longyu Village, which records in detail the information of all the villagers in Longyu Village, the most colorful of which is the old village chief Tang Wannian, who has been entrenched in Longyu Village for nearly forty years, and is also the most feared person by Li Baye at present, even if he thinks back to the old village chief's gloomy eyes that night, he still feels a chill down his spine.
He quietly drew a circle with charcoal on Tang Wannian's name, although this person is a threat, but as long as he doesn't mess with him, he should be fine, not to mention that he now has the Fishing Tyrant Alliance, even if this old boy wants to be unfavorable to himself, he has to consider it.
He bought the household registration register with the old grandson who was in charge of household registration management in the village for a lot of money, as for who is the old grandson? It is the original owner of his yard, he sold almost all his properties in Longyu Village to Li Baye, this register was originally a copy he made before, and it was also a rotten box bottom to keep it, so he simply sold it to Li Baye, after all, it is the real power to have real money in his hands these years!
With the help of these materials, as well as conversations with the old grandson and the old ghost, Li Baye also gradually learned some basic information about the local area.
Eighteen counties in Yangzhou, Nanyang County, where Li Baye is located, is located in the southernmost and one of the poorest counties, the territory is mountainous and rocky jungle, the people are brave, and there are many bandits, because the central court is weak, this border land is naturally far away from the emperor of the sky, and it has already become a lawless place.
Nanyang County stretches for thousands of miles, with an area of more than 15 million square kilometers and a population of more than 100 million. It is almost equivalent to the sum of the land and sea area of the entire Chinese country on the earth in Li Baye's previous life, and this is only one county, and there are eighteen counties in Yangzhou, how big should it be?
Not to mention that there are other eight states and the distant Western world, which shows how vast and grand this world is, it is suffocating to think about!
The "Qingxing City" that Li Baye once talked to Wang Fu about is the county seat of Nanyang County, and it is also the largest port in the south of Yangzhou, with a population of more than 3 million.
Longyu Village is subordinate to Qingfeng Township, which is subordinate to Zhanglin County, which is only one of the seven counties under the jurisdiction of Surabaya City, the southernmost and most barren part of Nanyang County.
Longyu Village has more than 230 households and a population of more than 1,000, making it a relatively wealthy village of considerable scale.
That's because the village is next to Chihiro Bay, a bay famous for its abundant fishing, and the villagers make their fortune by fishing and digging shellfish.
When the village became rich, naturally some people coveted it, and every once in a while, robbers and robbers came to attack Longyu Village.
Fortunately, the old village chief has a way of governing the village, set up a fishing team of more than 100 people, selected the strongest adult men in the village, practice martial arts all the year round, swords, guns and arrows are the three techniques that must be learned, the fishing team is divided into three small teams, but where the whole village goes to sea, there must be a detachment to follow, on the one hand, it can help the villagers, on the other hand, it is also to prevent pirate attacks.
In the village, there are more than two small detachments stationed all the year round, fully armed, patrolling day and night, and the village police are also highly aware.
On the night of Li Baye's "corpse mutiny" the day before yesterday, the reason why he was so embarrassed also confirmed the combat effectiveness of the fishing team and the vigilance of the villagers.
Jia Sanpao, the current leader of the fishing team, served in the army in his early years, has a good martial arts, and the stick guys of the entire fishing team are trained by him, all of them are fierce and fierce, and their combat power is strong.
In such a village, it is not easy to quickly have the right to speak, after all, everywhere pays attention to seniority, especially in this world similar to the ancient Chinese country, the rules are passed down from generation to generation and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Take his one-night affair with Widow Zhang as an example, it was not discovered, if it was really discovered, it would be terrible, not only would he be expelled from the village as a hooligan with a broken leg, but even Widow Zhang would have to be whipped fifty, and if she was lucky enough not to die, she would have to be spurned by the whole village, and life was better than death.
Therefore, in order to make his sudden enlightenment reasonable, he made up an unwarranted master - Yunlong Zhenren, this name sounds quite popular, and in order to keep his wealth from being coveted by too many people, he took advantage of the situation and came up with the trick of the Fishing Tyrant Alliance, which seems to be widely distributed and benefits to the villagers, but in fact it has hidden ambitions, if it works well, he can even quickly improve his right to speak in a short period of time and grasp the initiative, even Tang Wannian and Jia Sanpao dare not move him easily!
That night, when Li Baye harvested the system, he thought that his life was going to usher in a brilliant counterattack, but he was suddenly tied up like a dog for interrogation, and he was forced to pretend to be crazy and stupid to win sympathy, which really stimulated his self-esteem, so this time back, he had already vowed to completely change the situation!
Even if it's a little risk, it's not a gamble!
Today's start of the Fishing Alliance is not bad, the whole village has caused heated discussions, I believe that more people will come to join the alliance tomorrow, and when most of the fishermen join the Fishing Alliance, he as the leader of the alliance, it will inevitably have enough authority, if you can bring everyone to make a fortune and bring substantial benefits, it will be better, every fisherman will sincerely support themselves!
And power will inevitably bring higher benefits to itself, and at that time, the rules will not be left to themselves?
After thinking about this plan, Li Baye's mind sank into the system, and the first main quest immediately jumped into his mind.
Main Story: Task 1 [Killing and Practicing Courage] Fearless of life and death, contempt for human life, is the most basic quality of a bully, young villain, are you ready to slaughter the common people?
Mission: Kill one person within three days. (Time remaining: 23 hours)
Success Reward: 200 XP, 100 Bullies.
Failure penalty: 100 bullies will be deducted, the task will be reopened, and if the bullies are negative, they will be wiped out.
Li Baye's face became solemn, there were still more than twenty hours left in the three-day deadline, and the time was getting tighter and tighter, but ...... After all, it's murder......
In the past two days, he also wanted to find someone in the county town to complete the task, and at first he planned to take the blind-eyed Ah Long and the monkey to open the knife, but he found that he couldn't do it, after all, these two goods also tried to deceive himself, and the crime was not to death.
On the way back, I didn't encounter any robbers and bandits, Xu is the prefect of Surabaya Mansion who had just taken office the year before last, and the whole Nanyang was in chaos to the most barren Surabaya Mansion, but it was like entering a peaceful harbor.
Therefore, Li Baye has never had a chance, and there is no suitable candidate, and now that he has returned to Longyu Village, he has naturally targeted Liu Maocai again.
Without further ado, as soon as he thought of it, Li Baye took out a set of black night clothes and a deer cutting short knife from the system space, finished changing, covered with a black cloth towel and walked out of the window.
After the transformation of the Shengsheng Creation Pill, his physique is good, and in the past two days, under his unceremonious large amount of meat supplementation, his spirit has become better and better, and after he has been trained in coordination, he has obviously a clearer grasp of the strength that has grown out.
walked silently all the way, successfully evaded several hidden sentinels, and came to Liu Maocai's house.