"There are bandits, then why don't you report to the official!" Fang Zheng pretended to be very shocked: "In Qingzhou City, there is a Qingzhou Mansion, and the imperial laws should have five thousand permanent troops!"

"Five thousand?" the middle-aged man sighed: "It's only five thousand, and there are more than 10,000 bandits!"

Hearing this number, Fang Zheng was also shocked, a bandit group has such a number, which is huge. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hey, there are more than ten villages near Qinglin Mountain, which one of them hasn't been robbed", the middle-aged man shook his head: "I reported to the official, and there is something available?" The village chief of Gushan Town, Li Xu, also united several villages to pool money to go to Longdu to ask someone to help......

"It's a pity that the bandits were not killed, but were discovered by them, and these villages were taken care of by the bandits, and the village chiefs of several villages died unexpectedly......" The middle-aged man sighed, then raised his hoe and continued to work.

"How many times has this Nanshan Town been visited by bandits?" Fang Zhengze asked as he looked at the young man.

The young man pulled out the weeds in the field and said without raising his head: "I have to come once a year, every time it is a disaster, and the last time was last year......

Speaking of this, the young man's hand holding the weeds trembled slightly.

"How many families do you have here?" asked Fang Zheng again.

......

In the evening, Fang Zheng traveled to two villages to inquire about the news, and returned to the agreed place on time, and the others also rushed back one after another, but there was one more person.

At this time, Li Yun followed behind Xiao Yao'er and also came here.

"Ah Zheng, let him tell you personally!" Xiao Yao'er asked Li Yun to step forward.

Li Yun was already eighteen years old, not much younger than Fang Zheng, and looked at him full of doubts, as if he was very distrustful. Fang Zheng smiled slightly, the cold jade sword was held in his hand, the thunder moved in the air, flew around the ground, and returned to his hand, the ground of the flight trajectory was already a chasm, and there was no grass......

Seeing this scene, Li Yun opened his mouth wide in shock, and then looked at Fang Zheng with a look of admiration: "Sister Xiao calls you Ah Zheng, I will call you Brother Zheng......

"Li Yun, what happened in this village?"

Li Yun nodded: "After my grandfather went to Longdu to invite people, a team of people claiming to be students of the Holy Martial Academy soon came, but they had a few face-to-face meetings with the bandits, but they were not opponents and left ......"

"After that, many people came, but they all failed and came back......"

"But, last time, five people came, not only failed, but were also captured by the bandits, and they betrayed their grandfather in order to save their lives......"

"When the bandits learned about it, they were very angry and killed their grandfather, not only that, but several village chiefs who were co-named with their grandfather were murdered......

"And our villages are also taken care of by the bandits, and they are miserable......"

"That's why Daddy has a grudge against you!"

"What about you?" Fang Zheng looked at Li Yun and asked with appreciation, "Why are you still willing to believe us?!"

"Because~" Li Yun's eyes flashed: "Hope ......"

"Grandpa, before you die, tell me not to give up hope...... If you survive like this for a long time, it is better to fight with that bandit and die a happy death!"

"You are more sensible than your father!" Guan Qiong said indifferently.

"Don't worry, this time, we will succeed!" Fang Zheng said confidently.

"Really?" Li Yun also smiled happily.

"Of course, because there is your hope!" Fang Zheng smiled slightly, and then looked at them: "How are you investigating?!"

"I'll talk ...... first" Guan Feng replied first: "There are four villages to the east......"

The six people all told the information they got, and they all mentioned that there were 10,000 people in this bandit group, and from Wu Yumeng's investigation, they learned that this number was that after they reported to the official, the government of Qingzhou City sent troops to investigate and learn, and informed the villagers that they were not enough manpower, and they needed to ask for reinforcements from above, so that they could wait with peace of mind.

"Have you ever asked about the number of farmers in each village and how many fields there are?" asked Fang Zheng at the end.

"This ......" Fang Zheng asked, and several people were speechless. Guan Qiong looked dissatisfied: "What are you doing here? We are here to exterminate the bandits, not to investigate the household registration!"

Fang Zheng smiled: "There are 10,000 bandits in the bandits, but in fact, it is just a statistic from the government, and no one has seen them 10,000 people go out to rob ......"

"According to the survey, the bandit group dispatches every year and robs villages indefinitely, but there is a rule, that is, every village will be robbed one by one every year......

"Then why don't many people in these villages, except for the backing towns that retaliated because of the thieves' revenge, actually not many people left?!"

"Maybe it's because of their hometown, they don't want to leave!" Tang Tang guessed: "Moreover, although the empire is large, it is not easy to find a place to stay, and in other places, there are no mountain thieves, there are horse thieves, thieves, and ......."

"There is a reason for this!" Fang Zheng nodded, but continued to analyze: "But, the more important reason is that this gang of bandits has not forced these villagers to death!"

"The bandits are not stupid, they are forced to death, who will feed them?" Guan Qiong didn't have a good temperament, he didn't understand that the other party was investigating this time, since he came to suppress the bandits, he had to go to Qinglin Mountain to investigate, if he could beat it, he would fight, and if he couldn't beat it, he would leave, it was simple!

"That's why I asked you how many households they have and how much land they have...... Fang Zheng said, looking at Li Yun and saying, "Do you know?"

"I know!" Li Yun immediately replied: "My grandfather is also highly respected in this area, and he used to take me everywhere to visit the village...... Listening to them, I know these ...... too."

"In this vicinity, there are fifteen villages, except for Gushan Town, the other villages are about nearly 300 households, with an average of one acre of land per household!"

Fang Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "According to the current planting technology of the empire, one mu of land has one thousand catties of grain, and a family is generally five people, with half a catty of grain per person per day, except for the elderly and children, the ration is less, and a household needs at least two catties of grain a day!"

"Seven hundred catties a year, and the remaining three hundred catties are just right to sell for oil and salt!"

"And, the thieves came to loot, each household snatched up to 300 catties, robbed too much, these villagers have to sell some grain for oil and salt, their own rations are not enough, they will starve to death, five years down, will inevitably go a lot of people!"

"What's the use of this?" For Fang Zheng's calculations, several people couldn't figure out his intentions!

Fang Zhengze continued: "There are fifteen villages around, about 5,000 households, and the bandits rob once a year, and the grain is only 1.5 million catties!"

As he spoke, Fang Zheng took out a letterhead: "This is a letter from Xia Hai investigating in the city!"

"Every year, the thieves will sell nearly 1.2 or 300 million catties of grain at a low price in a grain store called Huimin Grain Store in the city, help Huimin Grain Store fight a price war, defeat the remaining dozen grain stores in the past five years, and now monopolize the grain industry in Qingzhou City. ”

"The boss behind Huimin Grain Store is an elder of a sect in Qingzhou City. ”

"Are you saying that the leader of this group of bandits has colluded with the sect in Qingzhou City?" Guan Qiong understood what Fang Zheng meant. The rest of the people also took a deep breath: "The Imperial Sect actually did such a thing?!"

Fang Zhengze smiled: "You only see the superficial phenomenon, what I want to say is not this!" (To be continued.) )